Skip to main content

Featured

The Fastest Elevator in The World

Shangai Tower Today we’re talking about elevators. This is the Shanghai tower- the second tallest building in the world behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.  Now, building tall buildings is a bit of a…uhh… rooster measuring contest and nowhere likes flaunting their flightless birds more than China and the UAE.  The Shanghai Tower, which cost $2.5 billion to build, stretches to over 2,000 feet or 600 meters and has 127 stories. As a point of comparison, if you put eight 747’s on top of each other, the Shanghai Tower would still be taller mostly because, according to my engineering degree, that’s not a structurally sound building.  Also Read: What is the fastest object ever made? Now, part of the difficulty in having buildings this tall is that people, who mostly come from the ground, need to get to the top of the building quickly. If people can’t get to the top of the building easily and quickly, they won’t want to buy property in the building, which I’m told is a pretty imp...

DMCA


DMCA

If we Have added some content that belong to you or your organization by mistake, We are sorry for that. We apologize for that and assure you that this wont be repeated in future. If you are rightful owner of the content used in our Website, Please mail us with your Name, Organization Name, Contact Details, Copyright infringing URL and Copyright Proof (URL or Legal Document) at digitalexpress96@gmail.com

I assure you that, I will remove the infringing content Within 48 Hours.

Popular posts from this blog

The Fastest Elevator in The World

Shangai Tower Today we’re talking about elevators. This is the Shanghai tower- the second tallest building in the world behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.  Now, building tall buildings is a bit of a…uhh… rooster measuring contest and nowhere likes flaunting their flightless birds more than China and the UAE.  The Shanghai Tower, which cost $2.5 billion to build, stretches to over 2,000 feet or 600 meters and has 127 stories. As a point of comparison, if you put eight 747’s on top of each other, the Shanghai Tower would still be taller mostly because, according to my engineering degree, that’s not a structurally sound building.  Also Read: What is the fastest object ever made? Now, part of the difficulty in having buildings this tall is that people, who mostly come from the ground, need to get to the top of the building quickly. If people can’t get to the top of the building easily and quickly, they won’t want to buy property in the building, which I’m told is a pretty imp...
Read more

Most Expensive Thing You can't Buy

Alright, so here’s a question: What’s the most expensive thing in the world? Also, another question: what’s the point of finding out what the most expensive thing in the world is?  None, there’s no point, but hey, you’re the one who googled it, so maybe don’t be so judgemental; and to answer the first question, let’s set a few rules.  One , it has to be a single thing. This rule is a bit tricky to define, but it’s all about whether or not something intuitively feels like it’s a single item. For example, we would accept something like a pepperoni pizza, which is made up of multiple things—sauce, cheese, dough, pepperoni,cholesterol—but that all come together to make one, cohesive, delicious, item. But we would not accept something like, “New York City,” because New York City is made up of many disparate things—skyscrapers and bridges and subways that don’t work. Two , it has to really exist. It can’t be some theoretical thing that would be expensive if someone made it—like a go...
Read more

The US President for one day

Over the years, the US has had a lot of presidents: Democratic presidents, Republican presidents, Whig presidents, presidents that wear wigs, fat presidents, white presidents, black presidents—well, black president—the list goes on and on.  You’ve probably heard of most of these guys—if you were a good student, you may remember their faces from your high school history class; if you were a bad student, you may remember their faces from the money you used to buy exam keys.  Either way, though, you probably haven't heard of David Rice Atchison, the man who, from noon on March 4, 1849, to noon on March 5, 1849, might have been the 12th President of the United States.  These days, as prescribed in the 20th Amendment, US Presidents are always inaugurated at noon on January 20th, because inaugurations are outdoor events and January in Washington DC is notoriously temperate.  Also Read: Why The US President need Salary? Before 1937, though, US Presidents were traditionally...
Read more