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I put together a composite of what Toronto would look like if it were home to the five world's tallest buildings. It's a bit crude, but it does give a fairly accurate depiction of scale.

I have never understood why some people are generally anti-immigration. My family emigrated from Europe to Toronto in the late 50's and it has been my experience that except for a very, very small percentage, immigrants have always been more willing to do anything required to move their lives...

The only person I know of that went to prison yesterday is Bernie Madoff, but I don't know this to be a Toronto street.

Great photos! Brought back a few childhood memories from when I lived in downtown Toronto. Just an aside, the Madison Avenue Pub is owned by the same couple whose villa I stayed at while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 2002. They are Dave and Isabel. They were great hosts. Their...

I'm sure they would. As far as I know, equipment has been set up to do just that--scan the heavens for any of several signal types whose transmissions even remotely resemble something other than random noise. No luck, yet, apparently. You'll know within minutes when they find something. If...

How far away can they be? They've had billions of years to arrive here. If there were as many civilizations in various stages of advancement out there as mainstream scientists believe, surely thousands of them would be capable of devising signals that even the most moronic forms of life, of...

You'd think so, wouldn't you? How do you reconcile the fact that we aren't being bombarded by intelligible communication signals from the countless advanced societies scattered all over the multiverse? Personally, I believe there is very little intelligent life beyond the outskirts of the GTA. ;)

Probably not, although it is interesting. We have the technology today to create a livable atmosphere on a planet not naturally conducive to sustaining human life. What we currently do not have is the means to (physically) venture far afoot into space should we find an earth-like planet. I...

You may be right. I believe that cities were necessary as a way of managing the costs of things like electricity, employment, etc. through the proximity of people, but I see the possibility of completely self-sustaining homes in the near future. Such homes can exist anywhere--as far from the...

I'm not commenting on the virtues or immorality of sprawl but on its unlimited possibility.

Have you seen any of the Hubble images?

I recently saw the aforementioned snippet of 30 Rock in the form of a TV ad. I liked the line so much, I dashed to my PC to google it and that's how I found this thread. My opinion is that we can't possibly know whether the writer meant to insult Toronto or praise it (or indeed New York). If I...