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headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

When did we collectively decide that tall buildings don\u2019t touch the sky, or reach it, or climb it, but scrape it

architect: behold, the world\u2019s first skyscraper!

businessman: why is it called that

Architect: well\u2014

*from above, a long, horrible, metallic screeching noise can be distantly heard*

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Something to keep in mind is that at the time both balloons and heavier-than-air aircraft still had relatively low maximum ceilings, we had the idea of the sky as somewhere you could go but only so far, to limits they were scraping

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