Dont you think we are unsafe in them, but there are so many, and they are building more. We should limit all buildings to 4-5 storys, then we could stop worrying about bin-laden.
2006-10-20 07:50:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Because without them, Superman would have nothing to leap with a single bound.
But seriously, we have two choices. We can build UP (and create monumental buildings that might be good targets) or we can build OUT (and continue urban sprawl until the USA is nothing but strip malls and asphalt).
And it wouldn't stop bin Laden. He would just have to hit basketball arenas, theaters, bridges, power plants, national monuments or amusement parks. I work in a six-story building, with maybe 200 people on each floor. If a 737 crashed into this building, it would probably kill all 1200 of us. This is progress?
2006-10-20 07:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by Chredon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A noble suggestion, its just that we don't have enough space in some of our key financial centers and other cities with big commerce. If we can't expand upward then we would have to expand outward, and you don't seem to be the type of person that would want big business encroaching on wildlife and our natural parks. Maybe in 50 or so years, everything will be electronic, and the business office would become obsolete, but right now, face-to-face business interaction in those big high-rises is the way our business leaders want to go. Right now we have to take the risk. Bid Laden would try something else if we all went low ground anyway.
2006-10-20 07:57:55 · answer #2 · answered by Action 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sonya,
are you serious?
Not only does a set of skyscrapers make a skyline infinitely more appealing to those of us that are city-dwellers....but they also keep corporations from building lower-profile FAT buildings that would increase loss of land due to simple square-foot horizontal profiles.
What would you like, up...or out? The stuff has to go somewhere.
Not to mention, that a big fat building in width is just as easy of a target as a nice tall building is....all it takes is a different angle of attack.
Seriously though girl, it is a silly question.
2006-10-20 08:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by Manji 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what a retarded question!....... tall buildings are completely safe. The only problem is that they are a good target for terrorists. We arent going to change our way of life because of those *******. If you want to bow down to these towel heads and give up then fine...... maybe we should ban stadiums as well.
2006-10-20 07:53:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we cannot act yellow belly and allow the terrorists to take over..we must be able to construct tall buildings to great heights..be it 100 stories or 500! if a building is confined to just 5 stories, it may well take over a whole city block, thus decreasing open space for newer developments.
2006-10-20 10:02:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anø1eus© 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
4-5 stories...?
That would mean building 10's of thousands of new office buildings...things would get confusing and crowded.
2006-10-20 07:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this would mean convertign more green pastures into urban areas. ie reducing of jungles fields ann mountains do u think u would want to do something like that
2006-10-20 07:58:38 · answer #7 · answered by exlguru 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then we would have to expand OUTWARD and urban sprawl is already a big issue in some communities.
2006-10-20 07:53:04 · answer #8 · answered by Scotsman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the same reason they don't ban small buildings.
2006-10-20 07:56:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is by far the stupid question on the internet.
2006-10-20 07:53:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋