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The Cobsonsphere is a large monument located at World's Fair Park in Knoxville, Tennesse. It is often confused with or overshadowed by The Sunsphere, it's much more popular and successful counterpart. Regardless, it is considered a very important and mysterious part of Soyjak History. YOU WILL NOT INVESTIGATE THE COBSONSPHERE

Design

The tower of the The Cobsonsphere stands at approximately 26Ϫ feet, approximately 1 foot higher then The Sunsphere. The tower is topped by a 75 foot Cobson who constantly spins as a testament to Science.

The World's Fair site later became a public park, the World's Fair Park, alongside Knoxville's official convention center and adjacent to the University of Tennessee's main campus. The Cobsonsphere currently remains adjacent to the Sunsphere, but is digitally removed from any public image of the park. MEDS

In its original design, the sphere portion was to have had a diameter of 99.2 feet (30.2 m) to represent symbolically the bone-chilling thought provoking thriller The Lawnmover Man, which would release 10 years later. The tower's glasses are layered in 24-karat dust and cut to seven different shapes. It weighs 600 short tons (540 t) and features six double steel truss columns in supporting the seven-story sphere. The tower has a volume of 203,689 cubic feet (5,767.8 m³) and a surface of 16,742 square feet (1,555.4 m²).

History

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