Talk:3058: Tall Structures

This is not actually possible, since a knit garment is not made from one long thread of yarn, but many interwoven threads.

This is actually wrong; knitting is a technique for entangling a single yarn with itself in such a way that it forms a fabric. (It's not to be confused with weaving, which does indeed use many, shorter threads.) In practice, a large, complex item like a sweater is made from multiple pieces sewn together, but it would have something like a single digit number of separate yarns.
Incidentally, a sweater contains on the order of a kilometer of yarn, which is also about the minimum safe distance for skydiving, so this scenario passes the Fermi estimate sniff test. 162.158.159.100 00:55, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Wouldn't the yarn snap at some point from acceleration due to gravity and the tightness of the weave pattern? TomtheBuilder (talk) 01:56, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Usually, the plane you are skydiving from won't remain circling above you ... -- Hkmaly (talk) 03:22, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

This is kinda random, but does this wiki have a page for xkcd.com/no and xkcd.com/yes?? I didn't see any and I think they at least deserve a page 172.69.23.94 (talk) 04:32, 4 March 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Huh that's cool, didn't know those pages existed. Do you know anything about why they exist? (also please sign your posts with ~~~~) TheTrainsKid (talk) 05:50, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Nice to see the UK officially represented, there, but it's not even the tallest tower in the UK (and that's not counting the seven or eight latticework masts that range from merely taller than The Shard to even taller than EMTS). I suspect similar absences feature in the rest of the list, which I note yet features other freestanding towers-but-not-buildings (plus the 'joker' neither-tower-nor-building that is the aerostat). 172.70.163.142 07:06, 4 March 2025 (UTC)