258. skyscrapers

actually, very high skyscrapers aren't feasible. what happens if there's a fire or an earthquake. you can't take an elevator in those situation, so you will have to run down the stairs, and unfortunately if you're on the top floor, you will have to run for don't know how long.

burj dubai is 162 floors and 818m tall. if there's a fire, the person on the top floor, walking vertical down also need to travel 818m. somemore stairs isn't vertical, so he would need to travel over 1km to get to the ground floor. so you would take like over 5 min to escape, not counting those countless people from the other 161 floors blocking you, so in the end you would take like maybe over 15 min to escape, hopefully not being engulfed going through the fire and flames.

it's not like you can really flush yourself down the toilet bowl or anything, so the top floors seem hopeless in such situations. or maybe they can put some air cushions around the building and pray that those at the top floor dare to jump down from 818m high. i would rather be dead than jump down from that height.

so unless they have a great escape plan, they should really stop building extremely tall buildings.

posted by datf @ 8/02/2009 09:28:00 pm