How High Can We Build?
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What's the tallest THING we've ever built? How tall will we EVER be able to build? Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://www.Facebook.com/VsauceGaming music by: http://www.Soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow Links: see two sunrises/sunsets and calculate the Earth's Radius: http://www.darylscience.com/downloads/DblSunset.pdf also HERE: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns/teachersguide/MeasECAct.html Tallest Structures TIMELINE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_three_tallest_structures_in_the_world Tallest list incorporating building/structure distinction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_world falling person and terminal velocity: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00012.htm KWTV, first radio mast taller than the Empire State Building: http://www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site-040129.html radio mast collapse VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx4k9gXAZEM Dubai and Burj Khalifa in fog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo3pY_jmn2w Pictures of Burj Khalifa: http://www.owips.com/burj-khalifa/ Burj Khalifa and Ramadan: http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/burj-khalifa-residents-must-fast-a-little-longer-2011-08-07-1.411516 Shuttle / ISS height: http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/activities/botec_orbit.html Sunrise from orbit VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nF5RXQxDH4 XKCD Date Idea" http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/04/06/a-date-idea-analyzed/ Space elevator: http://www.spaceward.org/ (be sure to enjoy the Conan Space Pirate Toy .gif) http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator Another possible way to make a super-tall structure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
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He is Wrong, Cholula Piramid is higher than Giza
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The world trade centre looks like the tower destroyed in 9/11
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we need over 10 billion buildings and paint the planet silver and boom we just made cybertron 😃
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The Jeddah tower will be the the tallest building in the world once completed it will at 1008 meters high
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i'm not using Polish builders any more
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0:26 is that Gloucester
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7:42 he said centr i fitle force (emphasis on the i) but subtitles said centrifugal
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what if the space elevator fell how far would it fall?
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you give a lot and a lot of information i just want to know how high we can build?
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Please watch my videos and leave ideas!
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Thanks. Learnt something new today!
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Poland? I'm from Poland.
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0:25 Holy shit, that's where I live!
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i live in dubai burj khalifa is normal i see it everyday XD
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9:35 🎶Kiss me, beneath the milky double-twilight, swing me, out on the moonlit space elevator...🎶
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but wouldnt earth rotation destroy it if one end is attached to the moon end the other to earth?
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who skydives out at 29.5k?
normally we are around 13k when we just...
Talk about extremes. lol
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PLEASE TALK ABOUT BITCOIN
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That English cathedral is in Lincoln, i live in Lincolnshire near the city
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