A 20-mile long 'spacescraper' dangling from an asteroid: Could it work?

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A 20-mile long 'spacescraper' dangling from an asteroid: Could it work?

It’s a new approach to an old idea. While Jonathan Swift’s fantastical island city of Laputa stayed aloft via magnets, a New York City design firm envisions using an orbiting asteroid to hang a skyscraper above the Earth.

Clouds Architecture Office espouses a dream-big-or-go-home philosophy with its plan to construct the world’s "tallest building ever." The 20-mile high (or long) megastructure would dangle from an asteroid suspended by a cable system tens of thousands of miles long.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/20...-Could-it-work

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that's not a good idea there's smog up there