# rotating skyscraper
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 25, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589 "2008-06-25T12:57:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Bovice](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bovice)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/21 "2008-06-26T00:36:04Z")
:thankyou:
im here as the comic relief lol
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### Author:  [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/22 "2008-06-26T00:49:25Z")
> [@walter](#):
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> :sigh:
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> Its just a larger version of the 100 rotating eateries built atop skyscrapers in the 80s.
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> Only the outter ring of the building would rotate. Utilities, elevators etc will be stationary.
Its nothing like those.
Those have one or a few floors rotating with a full base structure beneath… not ALL the floors where the only support is the core.
This building is not cylindrical so there is no outer “ring”. The building is “Y” shaped. Even if there was a stationary core it would be very small in comparison to the rotating part. Either way you are talking about supporting huge loads with a proportionally small and weak core.
Still a MAJOR engineering challenge and not like current buildings with a massive core and where the outer part of a few floors rotates.
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### Author:  [@Bovice](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bovice)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/23 "2008-06-26T00:56:26Z")
> [@Violator](#):
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> supporting huge loads
lol…i dont know why i just thought that was so damn funny…:lol:
they explained how it “works” on that show i was watching…i dont really remember how it works exactly and even if i did im too lazy to type all of it…
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### Author:  [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/24 "2008-06-26T01:33:41Z")
lame.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/25 "2008-06-26T05:05:07Z")
> [@The\_Russian](#):
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> **Wonder how it holds up to airliners smashing into it.**
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> Or how the elevators work with everything spinning
As awful as that is, I lol’ed. :lol:
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/26 "2008-06-26T05:55:28Z")
> [@cky89](#):
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> lol people get paid tons and tons to figure this out, as per their job title, ENGINEER. they engineer shit. aka make it work.
> [@Bovice](#):
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> ^ lol…i mean fuck, i figured it out without even being an engineer…they could pay me tons of cash to do the same thing… “ok check it…we’re gonna make the outside of the building move, but…wait for it…keep the inside foundation stationary!!” BAM! wheres my cash!?
:fail: You guys are a couple of straight shooters with upper management written all over you.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/27 "2008-06-26T05:56:51Z")
> [@Fry](#):
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> You guys are a couple of straight shooters with upper management written all over you.
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### Author:  [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/28 "2008-06-26T06:52:23Z")
i’d like to see the core connections to the rotating areas. probably some pretty cool utility fittings.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/29 "2008-06-26T06:56:11Z")
It is clearly obvious that this structure is, and can only be, the work of Chuck Norris
Probably one or two days work at most.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/30 "2008-06-26T07:03:49Z")
Only because he stops ever 15 minutes to bang a bitch.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/31 "2008-06-26T07:11:20Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#):
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> I can’t read, does it actually spin or does it only rotate x degrees?
> Because that (spinning) would make things a lot more challenging.
anyone know the answer to this?
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### Author:  [@Eazy716](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eazy716)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/32 "2008-06-26T07:15:08Z")
from the way the article read, I think it just rotates a certain distance back and forth. Not in a full 360 rotation. Or at least thats the way I interpreted it. :gotme:
and for some reason [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) isnt loading for me right now
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### Author:  [@ineedacar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ineedacar)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/33 "2008-06-26T07:24:28Z")
i believe each section can rotate freely 360degrees from what i saw on TV about it yesterday… I could be wrong, though
either way, if they manage to pull off the construction, sweet… all utilities, sewage etc… even better… fill it with families of all sizes and weights, and still keep 100% functionality… mission accomplished. But I think it may just about go without saying, that theres quite a lot that can go wrong in the process.
edit: wait… josh (onyx) was this that super fucking pimp city in the UAE you were always telling me about?
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### Author:  [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rotating-skyscraper/50589/34 "2008-06-26T10:36:22Z")
I can not imagine the amount of extra maintenance involved, along with the millions of gallons of lube it will continually need.
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