![]() It was unfinished even a thousand years in the future, and Frank Poole ( who was recovered and revived at this point) privately doubted that it ever could be finished. 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 in 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 was ejected from Jupiter in 2010). "Seriously tall" doesn't begin to describe it. Which means they're about 36 thousand kilometers tall - nearly three times the diameter of the planet itself - and several kilometers 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 kilometer 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 kilometer 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 kilometer 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!.Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: In Parallel Works 8, Earth was shown with conical drill-themed buildings that reached the stars during the first war between Lordgenome and the Anti-Spirals.Kirito and Eugeo are imprisoned in the basement, and are forced to fight their way to the top. The Alicization arc has Central Cathedral, which is 100 floors tall, and is easily the tallest structure in the Underworld.The anime also depicts a massive structure extending almost as far down, below the first floor. But then, that's not counting the fact that it all floats in the sky. Given that there are 100 floors, that makes it 10 kilometers high. The largest floor is 10 kilometers in diameter, and each one is 100 meters high. So big, it's essentially a world within a world (though it's actually the playable world of the fictional SAO game, it does get ported to Alfheim in the second arc). The tower is actually a metaphor of her lifespan as a magical girl, and the floor number is the number of days she survived - just a little above 7 years. According to the floor numbers, the building she's in is at least 2,611 stories tall. In the ending credits of the anime adaptation of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Yachiyo rides an elevator.Eureka Seven: Most people live near or in some very, very tall tower-cities.Korin's Tower is linked via the Power Pole to the even higher Kami's Lookout. This is part of the challenge that Korin himself sets to people that seek the Sacred Water: to climb to his residence at the pinnacle of the tower without falling off by accident or from exhaustion. Dragon Ball: Korin Tower is so tall that it takes days to get to the top, and not even aircraft can reach it.In the first episode of Cyber City Oedo 808, Sengoku and company must deal with a hostage situation in a building tall enough to reach into low Earth orbit. ![]()
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