[Gonzo]

The CN Tower is the tallest building in the world. It's a fact. Then why does everyone call it the tallest "free standing" structure. It's a building. It was built. The guiness book of world records recognized it as the tallest building in the world. It bugs me when people, even Canadians, call it a free standing structre and not the tallest building. Canadians should be proud of their enormous phallic like structre that is the biggest in the world. I guess we're too humble.
I'm no fan of Toronto (because of the Leafs) but I like the CN Tower. It was built the year I was born. I think Victoria should build one 1 inch taller then the Toronto tower just to piss them off.

[Scape]

Bin Laden beat you to it.

[-Mario-]

CN tower-> height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building

if you type "world tallest buildings" and do the "If feeling lucky"
Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan 509m 1,670ft
Petronas Tower 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 452m 1,483ft

Nobody reconizes the CN tower. That Bin Laden project; is just a project...

I'm with Gonzo on that one, we have to tallest building in the world for past 30 years. It's a matter of education or propaganda depending on how you want to look at it..

[Zenfisher]

Isn't it because a tower is a different entity than a building?Therefore the CN Tower is the tallest struture.

[Gonzo]

A building has people working in it, and the CN Tower does. There is the revolving restaurant, gift shops, and security on all the levels of the building. I dont know if you've been to it but it is huge. You can see that thing from almost anyware in Toronto and when you're driving to Hamilton it's in your rear view mirror for a long time. Check the website at http://www.cntower.ca/

[sk1d]

The cock and balls of Canada

[DMP08]

-Mario- wrote:

CN tower-> height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building.

Using the physics I learned the past year in grade 11, if an object were to be dropped off the top, with very minimal wind resistance, it would reach a speed of:

mghi + ½mvi2 = mghf + ½mvf2
mghi + ½mvi2 = mghf + ½mvf2
ghi + ½vi2 = ghf + ½vf2
ghi + ½vi2 = ghf + ½vf2
(9.8m/s2)(533.33m) = (½vf2)
5226.634m2/s2 = (½vf2)
10453.268 m2/s2 = vf2
Vf = 102.24m/s
Vf = 368.064 k/h

Vf is final velocity, which falling from the CN Tower with no wind resistance an object would reach a speed of approximately 368.1k/h by the time the object hit the concrete below. Which is probably why you aren't supposed to drop a penny off the top eh?

[-Mario-]

Gonzo wrote:

A building has people working in it, and the CN Tower does. There is the revolving restaurant, gift shops, and security on all the levels of the building. I dont know if you've been to it but it is huge. You can see that thing from almost anyware in Toronto and when you're driving to Hamilton it's in your rear view mirror for a long time. Check the website at http://www.cntower.ca/

My first line said the CN tower "is the tallest building in the world" that was taken from the CN tower web site...

and DMP... in sky diving, they informed us that the maximum speed the human body on a free fall is around 270 kph. Is it true???

[Gonzo]

I was replying to Zenfisher when I posted the website.
Maybe they should drop a penny off and see how fast it goes. They've done all kinds of experiments, but I dont know if they ever did the penny drop. I heard things like if you drop a penny off the CN tower it would inbed itself in concrete.

[Robair]

Gonzo wrote:

I was replying to Zenfisher when I posted the website.
Maybe they should drop a penny off and see how fast it goes. They've done all kinds of experiments, but I dont know if they ever did the penny drop. I heard things like if you drop a penny off the CN tower it would inbed itself in concrete.

[EricVA]

as a matter of fact they say the penny would flutter down to the ground...you would be lucky if it just cut someone. However they say if you drop a pencil or pen...LOOK OUT!

[DMP08]

-Mario- wrote:

and DMP... in sky diving, they informed us that the maximum speed the human body on a free fall is around 270 kph. Is it true???

It is something like that. The way I did my calculations, I didn't take into account wind resistance or drag. If we had no atmosphere but still the same gravitational strength, the object would reach the speed I calculated. I know it is kinda impossible to fall without wind resistance on earth, but until this year when I take physics 12, I don't know how to factor in the right number.