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Saudi Arabia Discovers It's Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Roofing is the most expensive and trickiest parts of a building, so let's take an enormous skyscraper and make one of the walls a roof. They probably plan for a team of flat roofing slaves working around the clock like window washers. When they get to one end they go back to the start in an ourorobus of roofing.

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