How High could we Build?

Which of these towers did you like the most? 🤔👇

Imagine you have to buy a warm jacket in the summer just to visit a friend on the 4562 floor of the X-Seed!

In elementary school, I drew a rollercoaster that went to the moon and back. I could redraw the concept for your next video if you like.

Very interesting video and concepts, but considering that I generally don't like going higher than the 4th floor, I think I'll pass on going into any of these structural contraptions if they're ever built.

Or just build environmental friendly Forest-cities ;)

I like how, according to your video, architects are the ones designing wildly complex buildings, not civil engineers.

Imagine standing in front of the X-Seed 4000 😲

I know it doesn't make much sense to build these insanely large skyscrapers, but I'd love to see one finished in my lifetime. For some reason I just love the idea of megastructures.

Now here I thought you where going to do a material analysis to see what we theoretically could build, not report on impossible structures people have designed.

Can you imagine how terrifying life would be in times of war? Or even during typhoons, or tornados?

Burj Kalifa: Cool apartment building
X-Seed: Dystopian nightmare waiting to happen
Japan Tower of Babel: Even bigger dystopian nightmare waiting to happen
Space Loop: I don't even know how tf you would build this
Space elevator: How is this not easily destroyed by stray space debris?

I like how this guy says everything like they will be made and arent just ridiculous concepts

The problem with buildings as high as they reach in space would be the atmosphere. There would be a point in the building that would be in set of permanent heat- like when comets pass the stratossphere start burning- so would as well do our structure as well. In order to compensate this there has to be a permanent super cooling system to take down temperature drastically! It could work but what about the costs? What would happpen if it collapses? Wich part of the buliding would disapear in space forever? What if people where inside when this happens? What would happen to earth when tons of burning metal come down on earth? These are all questions wich have to be answered frirst.
What if they would build it in 2 parts? 1 Part from the ground to as high as possible before atmossphere would roast it and the second part is built at for example the moon? And if you wanna go to moon, the end of the earth part is a rocket elevator launch platform that shoots the "Elevatorrocket" to the highes point from the moon part to enter the 2nd part of the building and then land on moon savely? Or land on whatever floor of the moon part of the building you wanna land? Anyone can follow me?

7:47 loving how 30.000km is literally longer than the earth's diametre by more than 2 times but it's represented like if it was like 1/4 of it 💀

Something like the launch loop would probably work best in places like russia or northern canada, where's it's very cold. That way if superconductors are required, there's less cooling required to reach the necessary temperature for proper functionality.

Looking so much forward to the space elevator. Must be horrific to know that the 36.000 km long thread could snap and collaps while wrapping around the entire planet. Where to hide? No thank you!

I'm planning to build a tower that reaches outside of the solar system. I feel like you should add it to this list. pm me for details.

This is so fasanating and shocking! Oh, and yes, I do want to go up the space elevator!

Imagine if the Citadel from Half-Life 2 was real... It would be taller than all the buildings in this video!!!

The Japanese ones are fascinating and terrifying at the same time, i like the idea which people live in a HUGE closed environment but from what Kow Loong City had taught us is that, you'll see outlaws cramped in a community where some part of it is inaccessible to law enforcement. Also, you'll have rich people living in the higher areas dictating the lives of poorer people living in the lower areas.

I love how Tower of Babel makes Burj Khalifa look like a needle in comparison 😂

"the max building Hight is 256 blocks"
Edit: I don’t care it’s 320 blocks now, I never play 1.18, it’s not Minecraft, I prefer older versions.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to... i don't know for sure, as i'm not an engineer or anything, but could it be possible that buildings of that magnitude, could throw earth's balance and rotation pattern out of sync?

X-Seed will truly be like a 90s Japanese Sci Fi masterpiece, especially when the concept came out around that time too.. I would rather see ourselves building unrealistic and ridiculous skyscrapers like these than all being forced into cuckerberg's metaverse virtual gulag

I literally love this channel!!, it has every single information about buildings

If the cable of the Space Elevator broke, what sort of damage could it to as it fell to earth? That would be a very long, very heavy cable.

The question shouldn’t be “how high can we build?” but “how high should we build?”
These mega city building sound dystopian at best.

Whenever a person challenges something, someone laughs. The future is always beyond everyone's imagination.
When did everyone become that realistic ...

Now I am fearing that where will the planes fly if we keep building higher and higher and more and more tall skyscrapers.

I'm just a frozen, caveman lawyer. I have a primitive brain, and I get frightened easily by your ways and machines, but for the launch loop and the space elevator, how would either structure be able to take the heat of the atmosphere consistently 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

30 million people housed, never having to leave,. Sounds like a luxurious prison, or a grand social experiment. Reminds me of the space ship on Wall-E.

With the new update Mojang increased the height build limit so yeah we can build a lil bit higher now

We can't maintain what we have now, this is exactly what we need.

The absurdity is do we have enough energy and raw materials to build something that ridiculous?

I think the launch loop could be the only thing to succeed in this race for super tall stuff.

very interesting how the taller the building, the earlier its idea was constructed. Almost like we know as time goes on how unrealistic (and mostly pointless) these projects are.

"before the loop can become a reality, there are still some things scientists need to work out"...right ok.

Space elevator in the opening few seconds tells me everything: materials don't exist yet. Welcome to How High can we Sci Fi?

I like the idea of the space elevator because I can just go on the elevator and I can reach the ISS without using a rocket!

The definition of a skyscraper: While the height is the most apparent qualification for a skyscraper, there is more to a skyscraper than its impressive stature. To be considered a true skyscraper, the building must be self-supporting and contain at least 50% habitable floor space.
Calling an space elevator a skyscraper is wrong u goomba

What do you mean the Japanese economy crashed and the building never saw the light of day?
For a 10 km tall building, the damn foundations alone would take decades to prepare.
By the time the building was finished, the foundations and lower floors would be beyond obsolete. Going up that building would literally be a time travel through evolution.
Can you imagine? Floor 200, 8K holograms. Floor 400, ran by a super AI. Floor 600? Pocket teleportation pad.

i've heard people debate the true height of the original Tower of Babel. it took a man a year to climb to the top. it's been argued the Tower of Babel may have been many miles high with an intended height of possibly 60 to 100 miles high

So cool
Love new space age technologies

Well If the X-Seed 4000 Exists, I would Probably Travel to Tokyo, Japan And Go To This Gigantic Megatall Skyscraper ;)

Earth's radius is only 6300km. At what point do these structures start to affect our orbit you gotta wonder? Some of these seem a bit over the top. No pun intended! haha

The 10 kilometer high building would have to be hermetically sealed and supplied with oxygen because at that height there simply isn't enough oxygen in the air to sustain life.

That orbital elevator is an awesome idea but that x-seed looks most realistic to me. I mean in far feature highly possible

I think the space elevator first item at 35000 km above surface is difficult to build.

10 Billion for a space elevator? That seems remarkably affordable! A good size waste water treatment plant is 10+ billion and cities can afford to build those.

Imagine if something goes wrong and the X-seed will crash
How much damage will it deal?

It's always a battle between "can" and "should".

Imagine how earth will rotate with space elevator 😳

Imagine the elevator wait time to get into your apartment at the top, then take into consideration if you want to leave and there's elevator maintenance or it's out of order and you have to take the stairs, as well as anything like furniture, shopping, deliveries, takeaway, etc. And the constant heating you would need to keep it warm. And the amount of sway your apartment would experience. No thankyou.

I have tons of ideas for mega skyscrapers.
Here are the heights of a few:
5,544 meters
6 kilometres
8,040 meters
10 kilometres
15 kilometres
15.2 kilometres
18 kilometres
25-28 kilometres
33 kilometres
36 kilometres
42 kilometres
52 kilometres
64 kilometres
66 kilometres
76 kilometres
85 kilometres

The taller the building, the more you have to wonder about sadists who just like destroying things.
Before building further up, let's build over and physically connect all land. That's more realistic and cost effective. The only points we have to agree on are on what terms and for what purpose it will all be built.

Why do people think naming their project, "tower of babel" is a good idea? Did they not read the story to figure out how that one ended up?

"Let us know in the comments below, how high YOU think we can build."
Hmm, I think, 319 blocks

bro theres no way i'd ride that elevator to space lmao with my fear of heights

4:17 Well, Eiffel tower isn't made of Steel, but made out of Iron, that's why they have to repaint it regularely, because it would urst if they didnt.

I would love to see the Xseed become a reality.

To be honest, the ones beyond X-Seed 4000 is most likely impossible, since they're definitely gonna require a lot of resources in man power, finance, and resources. So the most realistic one that's not really a thing yet will be X-seed, but I doubt it'll be build on Japan soil, since Japan is quite populated and mountainous, and also the fact that there is more tsunamis and earthquakes to consider.

I can see a use for the last 2 as energy efficient ways to get an object into space. The super tall residential skyscrapers are just wasteful vanity projects.

Everything Is Possible In this Beautiful World 🌍

The Japanese really like their extreme architectural projects, don't they?

if Rscreamroad's half-life citadel calculations of "being 27,580 feet or 8,406 meters, 860 meters wide and went 230 meters underground" are correct... i wonder how much of an impact it would have if it fell over like a domino.
edit: forgot to put "if" on the start

The better title for this video, " How High will we never Build?"

'Before the loop becomes a reality, there are still some things scientists need to work on'

Alternate title: Things that will never get build but we can imagine :')

If you show flat earthers the view from the space elevator, they would still not believe it somehow

Eventually, the ISS would become so big that no earthly tower would be able to surpass it in height. Even then, residents would still need to ride spaceships to get there and back to earth.

Lmao taller than Mount Everest imagine ur on a high floor and u want to open a window but can’t because the air to thin to breathe

You forgot about the orbital ring; It would go all the way around the Earth and would have an inner and outer sleeve with the outer sleeve being stationary and tethered to the Earth while the inner sleeve spins fast enough to maintain low earth orbit. This is a more accessible design than the space elevator and believe it or not would use a similar amount of material as the space elevator. People don't understand how much distance is necessary for the geostationary orbit that a space elevator would have to reach; it's a few times the diameter of the Earth. The artist renderings are wildly inaccurate.

As for anything thinking it will travers from ground level to space through a conductive medium... hope you can isolate the electron charges of the upper atmosphere as to not ground out our ionosphere and eliminate the earths breathable atmosphere...

Can you imagine a big fire broke out on one of these buildings . I'll leave the imagination to you.

Even if they could build the launch loop, how do they expect people to survive the g-forces?

Imagine the space elevating getting stuck mid-way up the tower.

Imagine the Nightmare for the cleaning business companies.😱
Also, the reason why Japanese have made these concepts was to accommodate ever growing population of Japan because they're living on an Island and they are running out of living space; many Japanese are living in bedroom sized apartments so...
Even today, these buildings are popular in Japan and would be extremely useful for overcrowded countries.
Selam Aleikum

Even the X-seed 4,000 could mess up the weather.

i WOULD like to ride the space elevator! !!!

How High could we Build?
hmm ok lets see how high can we build
in the year 2050 there might be a space elevator

What happens when for what ever reason they have to pull them down in the heart of a city?

5:40 Yeah no really, the global GDP was $85T in 2019 and they want to almost quadruple that price for one project 🙄

The X-Seed 4000 could be used as a slide

Top Luxury: "Incredible 10 Billion dollar price tag"
Jeff Bezos: "I'll take 15"

"The Japanese economy crashed so it never saw the light of day" "it would cost $306 trillion dollars" LMAOO the entire japanese gdp per year is 5 trillion.

wouldn't travelling at 14km/sec basically turn people into goo from all the g-forces?

Imagine having to leave your house one day for a walk only to be met with a snapped cable hurdling it’s way towards you.

Imagine how long you’ll wait in the Elevator 😂 you’ll die before you reach your destination

Imagine living in the top floor of the building lol

*Imagine the elevator broke and all people in side just flew away 🤣*

Some architects don't have much to do.
It would be a lot more practical to terraform desert areas on the Earth and build new cities with conventional technology.
By the time we run out of land completely, there may be new technology that will make kilometer tall buildings feasible.

We have to wait for the new technology of how we can break gravity this is the next step

Summary of this video:
1. Look at this cool but impractical concept
2. It's so hard to build 😩
3. Scientists are sciencing hard tho

Imagine living in those buildings and the elevator being down and you have to use the stairs to get to floor 5000 xD

I think, before they go on something like X-Seed 4000, they should maybe try the idea of Sky City 1000 for the start or maybe even smaller to see if an arcology like this can really be build and work.
I mean, i totally like this idea, especially for huge cities like Tokyo, New York or similar cities of this size, but we really shouldnt got too big with this before we know if it is possible or not with our actuall technology.
The idea of Cky City 1000 is more than 30 years old and still the future, but its not sure if we have reached this future already.

$10billion for a space elavator That must have been the original 1895 price tag.

Space elevator target: 2050
5 years old me playing with Legos: "Hold my beer!"

Didn’t you guys ever read the Battle Angel Alita manga? Humans built a tower that ended up becoming detached at its base and it orbited Earth. They had to use giant cables to stabilize it. It was pretty cool.

theoretically as high as you want, I think a more interesting question is how high will we build, because active support really does mean there are no theoretical limits even if there are practice limits.

Actually I would like to be the FIRST passenger on that space lift!!!