Who's with me?
Post your technical proposals here, then we move on step 2, funding, consulting, and planning.
Plan 1: Digory – Space elevator based, see Issac Author (or Greg Egan).
plan 2: Fergus – Wide base, go wide or go home.
plan 3: Alan (me):
Skeletal block – Take a metallic skeleton of a cube, let's say 10m by 10m by 10m, this forms a modular part of a larger building, these skeleton blocks are all the same size and fit together along their edges, like Minecraft blocks do.
Habitation block – A hollow cube slightly smaller than a skeletal block, fits inside a skeletal block and can be locked in place or unlocked and slid along to lock into an adjacent skeletal block instead. Habitation blocks are lined on the inside with dry-wall, windows and furnishings, or with ventilation infrastructure and machinery, or with storage space, or whatever is needed in that part of the building.
Divider – A sheet of solid material the width and height of a skeletal block, it can be installed on an edge of a skeletal block to isolate it from its neighbours. A divider between two skeletal blocks (so not on the edge of the building) borders both blocks, if installed then fluids and light cannot travel from one block to another across this edge.
Unattractive blocks – As the building grows space in the middle of the building becomes unattractive, therefore new skeletal blocks are added on the outside of the building, habitation blocks are slid around to get them all adjacent to or near the outside starting with the outermost ones, and the skeletal blocks in unattractive locations are retired.
Retiring skeletal blocks – To retire a skeletal block, install dividers on all sides needed (up to 6) to isolate it from all non-retired blocks, then fill it with concrete, make sure that the relevant concrete transport related habitation blocks neighbour it first.
The building is shaped like a stepped 4 sided pyramid, two tall to every 1 wide for extra height.
Before voting for a resolution, we need both more plans, and more details on the existing plans.
@NivlacM i represent a manifold-based venture capital firm with a branch that specializes in manifold real estate law. Our firm is interested and accepts mana (and only mana) as our medium of exchange.
@crowlsyong Sounds good, we need a negotiator mediator to manage this part of the negotiations, in-person meetings may be needed.
Required reading to join this topic:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51106419-atmosph-ra-incognita
> Atmosphæra Incognita is a beautifully detailed, high-tech rendering of a tale as old as the Biblical Tower of Babel. It is an account, scrupulously imagined, of the years-long construction of a twenty-kilometer-high tower that will bring the human enterprise, in all its complexity, to the threshold of outer space. It is a story of persistence, of visionary imaginings, of the ceaseless technological innovation needed to bring these imaginings to life.
It's not very long, you can finish the whole thing in a few hours.
I think you should add a bunch of terraces, and make it twist (such as the Shanghai Tower).
If at least a few people reply, I will show you all my design, that admittedly might be stupid :) but that's ok, I'll show you anyway.
@digory I have other plans, but this is not a bad proposal, a radio tower-like design is good.