I've been told that the "Martian breeze" is gale-force more often than Earth breezes are. And if you're going to use a crane, it'll have to be very tall ...
These aren't insurmountable, but figuring out how to surmount them will take a while. Then there's the fact that any mile-tall (or mile-long) structure is a megaproject that won't be completed in just one decade.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
These aren't insurmountable, but figuring out how to surmount them will take a while. Then there's the fact that any mile-tall (or mile-long) structure is a megaproject that won't be completed in just one decade.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012