What about instead of tall you build wide? You still get that "wow" effect, but the building would be mostly hollow and thus more practical to populate. Something like this:

20 km? IMO not high enough, 40 km would be nice.

I just rememberd this video of a father explaining death to a child:

It's an unknown thing ;)

True Detective article was above yours, and for a second I thought this was the new Lestat.

I don't know...

It looks like letters but they are Cyrilic numerals:

Maybe when they build the full size statue and put it in much brighter (white) room it will look much better.

I like this guy's explanation on possible meaning of Job's Statue:

I have a feeling this might be a future design element on some other phone :)

How about a video of russian rocket porn :) ?

x2 on Blade Runner movie sequel. I love that movie, even though i believe it's not fully completed yet.

Apple should buy Iridium. You go to a Apple store anywhere in the world, buy a iPhone, unbox it and just start using it. No more f...ing around with carriers.

Thanks for the explanation IKAIYOO

But why is then NSA spying on foreign citizens and leaders of other countries? Isn't that CIA territory?

NSA this, NSA that..... what happened to CIA?

"Mass production" maybe? This could be used to make something else, not just humans. Synthetic life forms come to mind : http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/201…

Great, now make a wireless keyboard doesn't need a battery.

Maybe they could put a roof over the cycle highway, a solar panel covered roof. With 220km long and 15 m wide (at most) you could get a huge area for solar power production and you could use existing railway's electrical network to transfer that power. That way, in the long run, you would get your money back from…

What about when it snows, how are they gonna clean that?