Build The Tallest Spire!

[kahlzun]

Good evening Kerbals!

I am here to ask and answer one simple question: How big can you Spire?

Waaay back in the dusty realms of the forum, probably eaten during the Forumpocalype back in April, someone posted a series where the built the tallest tower possible. By memory, they got to around 200m before the whole thing collapsed.

Essentially, the goal here is to fly sections of a tower to another world, and assemble them to make a tower as high off the surface as possible.

Mechjeb is highly recommended for its ability to show "surface altitude".

OP example:

SCORING:

Nothing too complicated here: Tallest wins!

Minmus comes highly recommended for its low gravity, flat 'seas' and relative proximity.

Note that 'Spire' means a long, narrow structure, so you can't build any supports from the base to the central tower: it must stand on its own (dockingports are obviously required to do this correctly)

LEADERBOARD:

Kahlzun: 53m (Minmus)

[Ryu Gemini]

Oh no. I can already hear the roar of 1000 ton rocket masters sending up their massive strut and girder-filled monstrosities as they build some skyscraper at the limits of the game's rendering distance.

[SRV Ron]

Oh no. I can already hear the roar of 1000 ton rocket masters sending up their massive strut and girder-filled monstrosities as they build some skyscraper at the limits of the game's rendering distance.

There was talk about building a Space Elevator, but that is not possible both due to limited rendering distance and part count rendering.

[kahlzun]

There was talk about building a Space Elevator, but that is not possible both due to limited rendering distance and part count rendering.

Geostationary orbit on Minmus is only about 357 km: with the lower gravity, possibly attainable?

If needs be, you can try using Quantum Struts, if thats current in 0.23

[DaveofDefeat]

this is modded but there's a hard part limit before you ram crash.

[ihtoit]

that's going to need some serious amount of thrust to move in the right direction... probably best not to ask SM, his is long and thin (apparently) but there isn't much thrust there.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

/pic/

this is modded but there's a hard part limit before you ram crash.

this is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen

[KeithStone]

I think if you used some of the welding mods you might be able to reduce the part count drastically....