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user-inactivated  ·  3102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York Architects Want to Hitch a Skyscraper to an Asteroid and Hang It Over Our Cities

NYC is at 40° North. That skyscraper will be at a 40 degree angle to the tangent of the earth at that latitude if the rock is in a geostationary orbit.

Art students should not do engineering.





am_Unition  ·  3102 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, all the things you know? Forget them. Approximately two hours after two hits of LSD, do three whip-its, and then get back to me ASAP.

kleinbl00  ·  3102 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be fair, they misused the term "geostationary." They meant "geosynchronous" and called the project "analemma" without realizing that what they want it to do it is not going to do.