>From: "Brian Phillips" <deepbluehalo@earthlink.net>
>>Brian Williams wrote
>>Actually the Petronas towers held the title of worlds tallest for
>>less then a year. The same jackasses who somehow decided that it
>>was some how possible for an 82 story building to be "taller"
>>than 110 story buildings revised the factors that determine this.
>>Under the new 5 criterion the Sears tower has three, the World
>>Trade Center 1 and the Petronas towers 1.>
>Ok the "idiot" light just went on over my head. What does stories
>have to do with it? Just measure from the base to the roof, minus
>any radio antenna or any thin superstructures on the top that
>could dilute the meaning of an absolute height. What gives dude?
>There is surely an interesting/weird historical bit here I never
>learned in my reading..enlighten me please.
The Petronas towers are a couple of 80 something story tall
buildings with 30 plus story spikes on the top.
5 self appointed jackasses who call themselves the "council on tall
buildings" decided that these spikes count for overall height but
the structures on the Sears towers do not.
The simple fact is that from the observation deck of the Sears
tower you are looking more than 30 stories down onto the roof of
the Petronas towers, if they were side by side. If you looked
staright out you'd be looking at the top of the spikes.
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one of the Petronas towers Sears tower
It was pointed out to the 5 jackasses that the structures on top of
the Sears tower are not all antenna, but that the antenna rise off
pylons that are part of the original structure (they only look like
part of the antenna). giving the height of the Sears tower at
1518'.
When confronted with the obvious flaws in their decision they
revised the criterion and the Sears tower was reconfirmed as the
tallest by meeting 3 out of 5 criterion.
This happened in 1997 and the rest of the world hasn't picked up on
it since the media never did. There are web sites out there that
detail the whole story.
Brian
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