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Revolutionary Tower in Brazil
An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever thought about retiring in Brazil? If you have thought about doing so, this might be just the piece of real estate you were looking for. 'An unusual apartment building was inaugurated in Brazil, each of whose 11 storeys turns independently, giving lucky residents 360-degree views of the eco-friendly city of Curitiba.' Now, if they could only tilt it a little bit to look like Pisa's Tower..."
All you need is a counter rotating bed, and it'd be the perfect bachelor pad!
-superlime
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
will be remote-controlled
It's only revolutionary if the space I purchase rotates counter to the other rings.
I was wondering how I was going to screw in that lightbulb...
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
...next thing you know, they turn the RPMs up to about 60 and you're stuck to the outside wall.
But what about folks on the bottom of the stack? $300k seems a bit steep for a remote-controlled, revolving street-level apartment. ^_^ "hey look honey, it's the gas station again! ...there's the liquor store... yep.. alright! gas station again!"
I just want to live in a Darkology.
If the woman in the apartment across the street were to walk around naked, how fast would each level turn & focus on her?
I had a vision. A 6 storey rubic's cube with horizontal 360 scrolling.
I like to make them squirm - Bobby Fischer
from the article: The owner may also change the direction and speed of the revolutions. At low speed, each floor takes an hour to revolve.
lets overclock it...
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...
... that if a bunch of Marxists decided to hold one of their meetings in this place, they would be plotting Communist revolutions? (Ba-DUM)
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You think they'd build a revolving building like this and NOT have an elevator?
Wow. That place is beautiful. I didn't know that nice places like that exist in many parts of the world outside of US and especially in South America.
The Seattle Space Needle uses a one-horsepower motor to rotate its restaraunt once per hour. It can be done easily.
I'm sure with modern technology, we could design a much more powerful motor that would spin the restaurant at 15,000 rpm.
It redefines the meaning of fixed asset.
In a similar trend to Alek's Christmas Lights webcam, anonymous internet users will be able to adjust the direction and velocity of each floor with a click of a button.
In other news, researchers intrigued my innovative new earthquake simulation technologies, begun flocking to Curitiba in force.
Anyone younger than 20 probably has no idea what a record is.
Sure we do; it's that thing you use in COBOL...
But I admit, I have no idea why it should spin.
"More intelligent Mods, combatting this silly policy, sometimes mod funny posts Informative etc. so humorous posters are rewarded with Karma."
If the guy was posting for karma, he would have posted something informative.