They also link up to a single ring structure at geostationary orbit that completely circles the world to form a massive spaceport. They also double as space elevators and people lived on every floor to create vertical communities. The engineering problem of actually making something that big and not collapsing under their own weight was solved by constructing them largely from diamond, which was harvested from space (huge amounts of it were ejected from Jupiter in 2010). "Seriously tall" doesn't begin to describe it. Which means they're about 36 thousand kilometres tall - nearly three times the diameter of the planet itself - and several kilometres in diameter. Clarke's 3001 contains four towers that reach from the earth to geostationary orbit. The peak of Coruscant's highest mountain, Umate, forms the centerpiece of a public plaza, not because it was lopped off and moved or anything but because it was simply enveloped by the city-planet's endless vertical growth. The most prominent is the galactic capital, Coruscant. The Star Wars galaxy has plenty of Ecumenopolis planets where seemingly every square kilometre of terrain is covered in kilometre-tall skyscrapers.Another such tower is simply placed on a high mountain. The protagonist flies his Future Copter from a Sky Tower located atop a 3000-foot spindle. note Supplemental material indicates that it's a kilometre and a half high. Arguably justified since it takes a literal divine being to keep it together and it promptly toppled over after he died. While its height is never mentioned, the model for Barad-dûr (Sauron's fortress) in The Lord of the Rings movies would be over a kilometre high if scaled up to full human scale.Ourus from Jupiter Ascending has buildings which extend into space.While there's no definitive height given for the buildings in Judge Dredd, the 2012 reboot Dredd places the height of the mega-structures dotting the landscape as over a kilometre tall.One scene shows a jet airliner passing by. The Clamp office building in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.Gods of Egypt: Set's obelisk is 2,220 cubits tall, which makes it even taller than the Burj Khalifa.Turns out there is a "bottom", but it's not connected to any kind of ground - and more, there's a "true bottom" which represents the edge of the world's reality. Part of Ruska's goal is figuring out what's at the bottom. The infinite tower where The Vertical World takes place stretches onwards in both directions with seemingly no end.Toriko: The Gourmet Tower, a massive tower filled with gourmet eateries, so big it has Airships to bring people to the higher floors of the tower!.For Americans, that's one-fifth of the way between New York and Los Angeles. For Europeans, that's more than double the distance between London and Paris. That's a distance of more than 800 kilometres as the crow flies. Built in Hokkaido, it is visible from Tokyo on a clear day.
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