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.
Brian (Phillips)
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