Posted January 13, 200817 yr funny, it looks like they put theirs in a cornfield just like the one outside cincinnati. i wonder why that is the fashion, seems like it could easily be built on a downtown brownfield site somewhere? from bldgblog: [images: Mitsubishi's new elevator testing tower in Japan]. Mitsubishi has opened a "test tower," built for experimental new elevator designs and technologies. It's "the world's tallest elevator testing tower" – and it's a functionalist monolith, standing at 567 feet. It's just one gigantic elevator shaft. The building will be used "to conduct research into high-speed elevators to serve the next generation of super-tall buildings," including stress tests on "new drives, gears, cables and other lift systems." I see at least one scene from Mission Impossible IV being filmed here – there's some sort of world-destroying nuclear device hidden above that vertical maze of moving platforms and our hero's got to find it... Or perhaps some future game world called Batman: Japan, in which the Caped Crusader lives and works entirely in various locations throughout the Japanese archipelago, burning incense and punching through Cor-Ten steel blocks in an underlit dōjō near the sea. One night he follows a lone criminal back to what looks like a vertical fortress... only it's not a fortress: it's this weird experimental elevator complex looming over him in the darkness. He enters. He hears machines. Hijinks ensue. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/elevator-tower.html
January 13, 200817 yr He's talking Fujitec (which is NOT in a cornfield lol). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 14, 200817 yr I didn't know the Fujitec tower was an elevator testing structure. I learn something everyday. ;-)
January 15, 200817 yr :-o looks like people started to get panicky at the 98th floor! He's talking Fujitec (which is NOT in a cornfield lol). cornfields, soybeans whats the difference? heh.
January 15, 200817 yr cornfields, soybeans whats the difference? heh. Try a strip mall, cheap gas station, and some forest. ;) "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 20, 200817 yr cornfields, soybeans whats the difference? heh. Try a strip mall, cheap gas station, and some forest. ;) You'd think that after 5,595 post, he'd know better. Amateurs. ;)
January 20, 200817 yr ^But he's from Lorain, which is cornfields and soybeans. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 21, 200817 yr Lorain? That's the most southern-sounding name in history ... Except for maybe Alabama? ;)
January 21, 200817 yr BANNED.....from lorain and ny! :lol: Lorain? That's the most southern-sounding name in history ... Except for maybe Alabama? ;) oh, but detroit is an ok sounding city name? pardon your french! :whip:
January 21, 200817 yr BANNED.....from lorain and ny! :lol: Lorain? That's the most southern-sounding name in history ... Except for maybe Alabama? ;) oh, but detroit is an ok sounding city name? pardon your french! :whip: TOO LATE! I'll be in tha NYC in June to watch the Reds man-handle the Yankees. Again. :-D Seriously, do you really think that Detroit sounds southern? I never thought that. With the south, since most are Indian names ... I think Indian names usually sound southern. i.e. Mississippi
January 21, 200817 yr BANNED.....from lorain and ny! :lol: Lorain? That's the most southern-sounding name in history ... Except for maybe Alabama? ;) oh, but detroit is an ok sounding city name? pardon your french! :whip: TOO LATE! I'll be in tha NYC in June to watch the Reds man-handle the Yankees. Again. :-D Seriously, do you really think that Detroit sounds southern? I never thought that. With the south, since most are Indian names ... I think Indian names usually sound southern. i.e. Mississippi no, nothing to do with the south. i was kidding because lorain and detroit are french named cities. congrats you are very lucky to get those yankee tickets. being the last season for the old yankee stadium they are going like hotcakes. if you havent been to yankee stadium before make sure you go to "stan's" before the game, it's thee yankee pre-game pub experience. wont be the same after next year.
January 21, 200817 yr BANNED.....from lorain and ny! :lol: Lorain? That's the most southern-sounding name in history ... Except for maybe Alabama? ;) oh, but detroit is an ok sounding city name? pardon your french! :whip: TOO LATE! I'll be in tha NYC in June to watch the Reds man-handle the Yankees. Again. :-D Seriously, do you really think that Detroit sounds southern? I never thought that. With the south, since most are Indian names ... I think Indian names usually sound southern. i.e. Mississippi no, nothing to do with the south. i was kidding because lorain and detroit are french named cities. congrats you are very lucky to get those yankee tickets. being the last season for the old yankee stadium they are going like hotcakes. if you havent been to yankee stadium before make sure you go to "stan's" before the game, it's thee yankee pre-game pub experience. wont be the same after next year. That's funny because Florence sounds southern to me too, but obviously it's Italian. My wife is a huge Yankee fan, has been for years ... and I'm a die-hard Reds fan. So this is something we just don't miss. When the Yanks came to Cincy, we spent about $100 for each ticket. The last time the Reds/Yanks played before that I think was in '77 when the Reds swept the Yanks in the world series.
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