What are Some of the Tallest Structures on Earth?
The great of the tallest structures on Earth, as of April 2007, is the KVLY-TV mast, a 628.8m (2,063 ft) tower located in Blanchard, South Dakota, near the town of Fargo. It is a thin metal frame supported by guy wires. The Warsaw radio mast in Gąbin-Konstantynów, Poland, near Warsaw, used to be the tallest structure on earth at 646.4 m (2,120 ft), but it catastrophically catastrophically on 8 August 1991. There are dozens of other radio masts and television towers over 2,000ft (610 m) in height. There is some controversy as to whether or not these towers truly qualify as the tallest structures. The reason why is that these tallest structures are not self-supporting, but require wires to stay up. If we were to truly include all non-self-supporting structures, moored balloons would be the winner by far, with some of the longest extending up to 25,000ft (~5 miles) into the atmosphere. Moored balloons are high-altitude balloons kept in place by a tether that extends to the ground. As an
The great of the tallest structures on Earth, as of April 2007, is the KVLY-TV mast, a 628.8m (2,063 ft) tower located in Blanchard, South Dakota, near the town of Fargo. It is a thin metal frame supported by guy wires. The Warsaw radio mast in Gąbin-Konstantynów, Poland, near Warsaw, used to be the tallest structure on earth at 646.4 m (2,120 ft), but it catastrophically catastrophically on 8 August 1991. There are dozens of other radio masts and television towers over 2,000ft (610 m) in height. There is some controversy as to whether or not these towers truly qualify as the tallest structures. The reason why is that these tallest structures are not self-supporting, but require wires to stay up. If we were to truly include all non-self-supporting structures, moored balloons would be the winner by far, with some of the longest extending up to 25,000ft (~5 miles) into the atmosphere. Moored balloons are high-altitude balloons kept in place by a tether that extends to the ground. As an e
