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[Thormgrim]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2bPhLI/www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/earthscrapers-going-down-instead-greener-way-build.html/

Now they just need to fill these things with danger rooms, coinstars, magma and minecart cannons and we're good to go.   I'll see all of you in Bisbee.

[Drazinononda]

I think it's probably the other way around. The concept of underground 'buildings' is quite old. At least back to the tombs of the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt, though there are likely other contemporary or older examples of which I am unaware.

Now, the concept of a skyscraper being turned underground, that is recent... but only because towers of any sort have only been very practical for general use since the invention of the elevator, about 150 years ago.

[slothen]

heh, like building our own little Geofronts.  Nice.

[Loud Whispers]

Now, the concept of a skyscraper being turned underground, that is recent... but only because towers of any sort have only been very practical for general use since the invention of the elevator, about 150 years ago.

Plus people weren't very good at building constructions with very large distances away from the base until after the industrial revolution.