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February 23, 2012
Lujiazui is falling down
As the Shanghai Tower goes up, the ground underneath it is falling down. Central Shanghai is cracking under the weight of its skyscrapers.
Since 2003, Shanghai has been sinking under the weight of tons of concrete and steel at a rate of about 1.5 centimeters per year, prompting city officials to limit the construction of some skyscrapers.
Conceptually related: How much for that Death Star in the window?
If you're looking for a better wage then you might have to start embracing evil. Students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania worked out how much it would cost to build the Death Star and came up with a figure of $8,100,000,000,000,000 ($8.1 quadrillion!?), which is 13,000 times the world's GDP.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 23, 2012 08:48 AM