{"id":35768,"date":"2017-03-31T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/firm-floats-plan-to-hang-colossal-skyscraper-from-an-asteroid"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:55","slug":"firm-floats-plan-to-hang-colossal-skyscraper-from-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/firm-floats-plan-to-hang-colossal-skyscraper-from-an-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"Firm floats plan to hang colossal skyscraper from an asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/firm-floats-plan-to-hang-colossal-skyscraper-from-an-asteroid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect it to go up anytime soon, but a New York City-based design firm has floated a mind-bending plan for the erection of a skyscraper it bills as \u201cthe world\u2019s tallest building ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Analemma, the fanciful tower wouldn\u2019t be built on the ground, but suspended in air by cables from an asteroid repositioned into geosynchronous Earth orbit just for the purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/space\/how-do-we-destroy-asteroid-it-destroys-earth-n704846\">NASA\u2019s Bold Plan to Save Earth From Killer Asteroids<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/space\/firm-floats-plan-hang-colossal-skyscraper-asteroid-n739601?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_mc\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/space\/firm-floats-plan-hang-colo...d_nn_fb_mc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t expect it to go up anytime soon, but a New York City-based design firm has floated a mind-bending plan for the erection of a skyscraper it bills as \u201cthe world\u2019s tallest building ever.\u201d Dubbed Analemma, the fanciful tower wouldn\u2019t be built on the ground, but suspended in air by cables from an asteroid repositioned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58233,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768\/revisions\/58233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}