There are times when something that has been rattling around in your head has to be released onto paper. This is one of those times. I am hoping that by putting this craziness out into the world that the borderline obsession with the subject will lessen.

Imagine a tall building that is rectangular in shape at its base. The building that has been in my head is the Republic Plaza building in downtown Denver. 54-stories and approximately 220 feet long and 110 feet wide with a height of 714 feet. This gives each floor an area of around 24,500 square feet. For our purposes, it is only the footprint of the building that really matters. We want to go one floor into the basement area. Now, imagine that all water, sewer, electrical, phone, data, HVAC connections are visible. These connections are the points where each of these utilities connects at this lower floor. Now, imagine that all non-supporting walls are gone, and you have a view of supporting walls and these connections. The next step is to disconnect each of these at a point where they are designed to connect and fit together. Cutting a cable to the point where it no longer works is not what is happening. Supporting walls/beams are marked at the point where they connect from the basement floor to the ground floor. This is where it gets weird. Imagine that at all these points things are disconnected, or in the case of supporting beams, cut cleanly. The cut would be made so that it could be re-connected at the exact same spot. At this point, the building is cut into two sections, everything below the cut, and the rest of the building to the roof above the cut. Now, the foundation area to the point where things were disconnected is photographed, scanned, analyzed, 3-D printed so that it could be rebuilt to exact specifications at a different location. For the purposes of this mind game that location is London, England. This is where the imagination comes into play. We want to go to a world where moving a huge object vast distances simply by it floating through the air is possible. The building will be lifted airborne and moved across thousands of miles to the spot in London where the footprint has been replicated. The building is set down, connections and welds are completed, and in the corner is a huge switch that is thrown and the entire building comes back online as if nothing ever happened.