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    Land yacht? Try Land Ocean Liner!



    Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9 Billion

    http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/google-nyc/

    So down, in fact, that the web search titan just dropped $1.9 billion to acquire one of the largest and most historic buildings in all of the Big Apple. At nearly 3 million square feet, 111 Eighth Avenue, the former Port Authority building, sits like a beached, red-brick cruise ship overlooking New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. The building is so big, in fact, that it has elevators large enough to accommodate 18-wheel semi-trucks.

    And yes, that’s a helicopter landing pad on the roof.

    It’s tough to describe how massive 111 Eighth Avenue is — you really have to stand in front of it. But suffice it to say that it takes about 20 minutes to walk once around the building, which encompasses one of those very long city blocks found on the West Side. The size is all the more striking because in a densely-packed city like New York, which is full of very tall buildings, it’s rare to find one that is so horizontally gigantic.

    (...)

    Needless to say, it’s quite an upgrade from Google’s first New York City office — a Starbucks on 86th Street.

    But 111 Eighth Avenue is no ordinary humongous building. As it happens, the structure sits almost directly on top of where the Hudson Street/Ninth Avenue fiber highway makes a dog-leg to the right before heading north-east toward the Upper West Side.

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    Truly impressive! Especially the elevators! I've seen large elevators before - ones large enough to handle a car or small van or two. Ones that large satellites ride on when under construction. Ones in radomes, that let the dish duck before a nuke blast... but one that will support a 18 wheel semi truck! - WOW, just WOW!

    -t
    Last edited by tangent4ronpaul; 12-23-2010 at 02:24 PM.



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    Land yachts?

    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Land yachts?

    Now that's an amphibious vehicle if I ever saw one! - Someone should call DARPA

    -t

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    I much prefer car-boats.



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