Extreme Engineering-Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid

[Ican]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfsoBAT2 ... 56&index=0

The Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid is a proposed project for construction of a massive pyramid over Tokyo Bay in Japan. The structure would be 12 times higher than the Great Pyramid at Giza, and would house 750,000 people. If built, it will be the largest man-made structure on Earth. The structure would be 2,004 meters (6,575 feet) high and would answer Tokyo's increasing lack of space.

The proposed structure is so large that it cannot be built with currently available materials, due to their weight. The design relies on the future availability of super-strong lightweight materials based on carbon nanotubes.

[Gatspy]

Very interesting indeed

[BABYGIRL123]

I watched it on the discovery channel it very Impressive & very Japanese lol.

[Ican]

somalida are having trouble with paved roads, and the japaneese are planning on building mega cities inside pyramids and making robots.

walle, we are far behind.

[gurey25]

Why does it have to be near the water.?

if they built the same structure underground, they would not need carbon nanotubes.

[Ghetto_Faarax]

why does it have to be near the water, as japan is usally hit by Typhoons and water tornados, and all these crazy hurricanes....
and has anyone noticed they recover so quick within like less than a year...

[gurey25]

becuase Tokyo has run out of land..

its latest suburb near Odaiba was reclaimed from the sea.

thier new airport will soon be built on new land from the sea.

[Ican]

even if built underground, this structure is really massive and once you take into account the population, the transit and the structure itself the only material that can be used to build is nanotubes(light and rigid) because of the shear weight of the structure.