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As of around the year 2000, I remember a figure of 11 miles as the height limit for a fairly conventionally built skyscraper. If we used lightweight truss construction, I suspect we could build a load bearing tower. If we used aerospace grade materials, we could do even better. (Yes, it would be quite expensive.)



Quite expensive like "a significant portion of the annual gross global product"


Most of the load could likely be mitigated by wings and buoyant structures.




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