How High Can We Build?
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2012
- What's the tallest THING we've ever built? How tall will we EVER be able to build?
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Links:
see two sunrises/sunsets and calculate the Earth's Radius: www.darylscience.com/downloads...
also HERE: www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns/t...
Tallest Structures TIMELINE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline...
Tallest list incorporating building/structure distinction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
falling person and terminal velocity: www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci...
KWTV, first radio mast taller than the Empire State Building: www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site...
radio mast collapse VIDEO: • Radio Tower Collapses ...
Dubai and Burj Khalifa in fog: • Video
Pictures of Burj Khalifa: www.owips.com/burj-khalifa/
Burj Khalifa and Ramadan: www.emirates247.com/news/emira...
Shuttle / ISS height: serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/...
Sunrise from orbit VIDEO: • Video
XKCD Date Idea" blog.xkcd.com/2009/04/06/a-dat...
Space elevator: www.spaceward.org/ (be sure to enjoy the Conan Space Pirate Toy .gif)
www.spaceelevatorblog.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_el...
Another possible way to make a super-tall structure: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fo... - Věda a technologie
I like to imagine Michael went to Egypt for the sole purpose of getting that shot and saying those 2 sentences.
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What?
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We can only build up 256 blocks.... duh!
I know that website :P
I love this 😂
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha add a mod problem sloved
asd
Was about to comment that, thanks lol
I will tell you:
The height limit is 319, according to the wiki of 1.19
used to be 128 a long time ago.
@@JustJory Havent heard this long before updates had a name
@@jakelolzhaha you are just simply wrong
@@jakelolzhaha they changed it to 319 in 1.18
@@eboone r/wooosh
As a younger person just recently discovering Vsauce, all of these videos hold up very well despite many being a decade old
wow good for you buddy
oh you're in for a treat, friend
Grow up little guy
@@op466_gaming9Imagine telling someone to grow up for complimenting someone's work
@op466_gaming9 shut up
This man went to Egypt just to say “and they stayed like that for 4,000 years”
Mans a legend
indeed
He does that a lot
Tru he is a legend
Or did he ?
Also to Nile river in Africa
3:12 When your seeing how high you can get a measuring tape and it collapses
True lol
Lol true
Yep. Been there, done that
Lol
so true, one time when i was about 3 years old i was seeing how high i could get a measuring tape and it got about 5 feet before collapsing on my head. if i look closely, i can still see a tiny scar there.
This doesn't feel 11 yrs old
Nothing is more impressive that Kingda Ka holding the heigh record for coasters for nearly two decades.
NPC
@@OClurzxy The fact you saying "NPC" is a more NPC thing to say than what he did lmao
@@trampbros3473 shut up
I somehow always find CZsWorld in the comments. W videos
it's finally here czcams.com/video/2hFUyRR_Kho/video.html
This was made 8 years ago and video quality hasn't dropped
it might've actually been better...
The Scary clown At first I also laughed and thought, “why would the video quality drop? Once it has been recorded it will stay the same!“ But I think they mean that as entertaining as his old stuff was, the entertainment quality has not dropped in his new videos even after all this time.
Holy moly! I didn't notice this video is 8 years old! That's insane.
@@nelser1160 he meant content quality ;D
highest we can build is 256 blocks
Vsauce: how high can we get?
Snoop dogg:
Snoop dogg;🌿🌿🌿
Gomey World marijuana 🍁
Ben Lee sky fukn high like fkn high high
420 likes LMAO
He got ⛽
This doesnt feel 11 years old
such a genius, demonstrating earth is round without even trying...
Michael, the kind of guy who goes to Egypt for a 10 seconds clip.
Lmao true
Angelo Cella ikr
*Second*
Yea.. that's definitely why he went there
@@Jesse-cw5pv it is a joke you idiot
As long as you have a water bucket, you’re free to jump off buildings
Skill?
But just DON’T dig straight down
not really. if the pool isn't 2 blocks deep you can sometimes still take damage
unfunny
Willow & Dominoes I think you mean straight.
Strait is a passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water or it can mean a difficult situation.
CZcams be like, you haven't watched this video in 11 years. Time to watch it again.
Michael's videos are just timeless, they just can't get old.
*Or would they?*
This doesn't feel 8 years old
@@worthyracket4354 Someone actually recognised it huh
@Eren Vaughn So all these years it was already the end of [THE WORLD]. Makes sense.
What does an 8 year old feel like?
@Eren Vaughn but that's only a Earth theory a theory
I know
5% of people: talking about the video
95% of people: *the limit is 256 blocks*
DJ WITHER FTW it’s the other way aroubd
@@Mayorfoxia82 nah
95% comments are from legends
@ZZ UP you're no fun lol
like lego blocks
This video is 10years old and the sound and video quality is better than 90% of other videos these days with top tier content
Why do people think 2012 was so long ago 😭
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
You're all ignoring the most obvious question
How high can we get?
***** high on weed bro
HsmileA 3 whole marijuana
Whole weed marijuana
you can take advantage of how hight you are. just get really high lying on your stomach and then quickly pop up into standing position and you'll feel loads higher
Lester James-Brooks You kinda missed the joke here buddy...
7:51 Props to Michael and his crew for spending all that time building a space elevator just for his viewers.
Ahahahah this is what I was looking for after all these egypt comments 😆
No its a picture
@@5ay72pyz7 you must be fun a parties
@@definitelynotamexicanskele6913 leave the child alone
@@5ay72pyz7 r/wooosh
Bruh all I can think of is the Tower of Babel 💀
Really tho
Lol me too
Everybody gangsta till someone build up 257 blocks.
Definitely will be a madlad
Cubic chunks mod
pistons? or am i dumb
So we back in the mines, got our pickaxes swinging from side to side, side side to side...
Colonial Pig this task a grueling one... hope we find some diamonds tonight night night, diamonds tonight...
Imagine being in the elevator.
“What floor are you going to?” “Floor 7,351” “oh me too”.
Sorry but im going to floor 3,091,457,404. And get back down to floor 63.
actually, i'm going to floor 26,863
JoshV 93 Sorry, Im going to floor 4.975 trillion.
That's an interesting prospect. It would give you some time to get to know whomever you're riding on the elevator with.
It must be more than 200 elevators for easier transportation
1:50
Props to Michael for jumping off a tall building for a video
The KVLYTV tower in North Dakota is super cool!! I fly around up here in ND and I immediately thought of it when Michael started talking about the tallest stuff, and I wondered if that thing even made the list. It’s awesome to know that it does😄
3:12 When you extend the tape measure too long
stupidly accurate
Lol nice one
100%🤣
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FOR REEEEAALL🤣👏
No matter how much time passes, it's always great to go back and watch old Vsauce videos :)
Hey i dont sub 2 you 😃
yes!
I see you're verified
Recent as heck
But its old. Or is it?
This doesn’t feel 10 years old.
These vids from Michael catch you into watching the whole thing, wow.
Yeah, it's over eight years later and we still don't have space elevators.
Yeee
itll take another decade for sure... space elevators provide engineers with a myriad of problems...
@@jonathandcc23 if we're lucky it would be in a century, no way in a decade. there's no plans for doing it nowadays even.
@@XANIBALXREMIXORS our Great Leader will do it. He is already doing Space Force
@@lukechandra6233 wait, what? hes doing space force? like, sexually?
Long answer: **watch the video**
Short answer: 256 blocks
@Ruari Dalgleish splish splash, your opinion is trash
718 minecraft feet
Unoriginal
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Why do Vsauce videos age so FUCKING GOOD
Just fold a paper 50 times you'll reach the sun
What?
@@nyalmcauley3398 haha ok
@@ProGaming-ll8mf
Well, it's a simple and stupid idea. Fold a paper, and it'll double in length. Keep doubling till you reach the sun.
Pretty sure Michael said it in a video.
I don't get it
Imagine getting one upped by a radio tower.
Radio towers are much easier to build higher because they don't have to be habitable. Its more incredible when a radio tower gets one upped by a building.
It's called a joke...
I just made a boomboom in my pants and it smells bad
@@savagewolfcubing386 *_Ayo hold up_*
who hurt u man :(
My very first vsauce video that i watched right around 2012 too
it's amazing how much better his videos got once you get back to the older ones
Can we just appreciate how this was made 8 years ago and when he barely had subs and this man's went all the way to Egypt just to say a few words.Mad respect to him
He had like 1 million subs
It's still expensive to go to Egypt and only say a few words.Nobody with a million subs would go Eygtpt to say few words
@@thisistheway8871 maybe he *wanted* to go to Egypt and saw this as an opportunity
@@f1shyspace Maybe he found it as an opportunity but if it was to say a few words it would be a waste of money
@@thisistheway8871 Tom Scott would lmao
Me: hey Vsauce, how are you?
Vsauce: interesting question, but first, what is you?
*starts looking at my own fingers, sweating profusely*
I'll do you one better, why is you?
Ill do you both better, HOW are you?
I'll do you one better, when is you?
*I'll do you one better, who are you?*
This video is a decade old, let that sink in
Jesus
i see 'that cathedral in england' every day and man i couldnt believe when i found out a few years ago that that was a world record building
Michael went to Egypt just to film a 5 seconds clip. This man is a legend.
*Tom Scott has entered the chat*
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BurritoV69420 epic gamer has entered the chat
@@GoofyGooberGoblin who the frick is epic gamer?
@@jonas9 lol 😂🤣
Imagine if an idiot kid presses all the buttons in the elevator of the Burj Khalifa with you in it
Oh fuck I have an idea
Oh no
he gon skrrt and hit the dab like burj khalifa
I'm fairly sure, that the newer elevator models have a "cancel" button, especially for such cases.
@@cymes82 Its more fun to think about the possibilities if all buttons were pressed and there wasn't any cancel buttons though.
Vsauce classics I watched when I was a kid are the only things that make me feel old now.
Bro, I swear, Michael's old videos doesn't feel "old" at all. They're so ahead of its time, ngl.
Fr
it's b/c nothing's happened in the last 10 years (; _ ;)
Vsauce
Definition: the most excusable form of procrastination
I should be doing homework right now...
Benjamin Newlon same
Me 2
Me, being Polish, seeing the Warsaw radio tower:
oh thats nice
Me 15 seconds later: yep thats about right
ah ci polacy zawsze coś zepsują
mikasa eren co nie
Same lol
@Mr. Hamster bruh
@Mr. Hamster No, its ok I know where the stereotype i coming from. Poland is not really a rich country, it's more like upper middle class. Besides even some poor countries have internet, depends on the region.
“Can we get much higher?” - Vsause
He just proved the earth is round as well.
Oh wow he did
Ummm no its not
Because my microwave has magical technologies that calculate that the earth is flat using walmart popcorn
Naw, the guy next door
donny youkhana you just got bamboozled
The height limit for buldings is 256 blocks.
NO END THIS JOKE ITS NOT FUNNY
M
Lmao
@@BeanMachine360 r/whooosh
SuperlaloGaming its not really "whoosh" they understood it was a joke.
Ayo 11 years
I remember watching this when it was pretty recently new. Crazy how I got recommended it again after so long
just jump and place bricks below you
3,000 subs with no videos then put a bounce pad
I doubt that it would work
deqnq _alt dats a woosh
Reddit is overrated
Zerg, you just got Woooshed in an attempt to wooosh someone else! He understood the joke.
6:20 Checkmate, flat earthers.
03:45 Ta da
FiSh EyE lEnSe
nO bEcAuSE iT's jUsT nAsA cHaNgiNG yOuR vIsIoN
@@wta1518 are u flat earth
Edit: ok now I know it's a joke STOP SPAMMING MY INBOXXXXX
@@subzero.cuber47 bruh it’s a joke
This doesn’t feel 11 Years old.
Finally answering the question
"can we get much higher"
Michael: “So, lay down on your stomach then quickly pop up into a standing position. You’ll see the last little bit of the sun again.”
People with iron deficiency: *stands up* “whoa- wha-?” *passes out*
dghi what
@dghi My dude, that was a Minecraft reference.
Pizza boi what no
This is the most retarded comment/thread I have ever read
@@pizzi5104 wait wtf
Girl: I just like you as a friend...
Michael: Or do you?
@Everything Is Here Lets start with the basics. What is a friend, and what is love? *music grows louder*
Where are your fingers
Girl: Yes?
Tyler Coates 😘😘
Bunnee Cellooo
Michael: where are my fingers? *while touching woman’s parts*
I love how this video about how high of a building can we possibly build quickly transformed about a guide on how you can watch two whole sunsets *in a row.*
ADHD moment probably.
everyone on this comment section is cringe
"Why build a Space elevator? 'Cause its awesome" Bro is spitting fax
5:12 aaaaand one more argument to debunk flat earthers
funny how you have a Lapis picture in a video about space elevators.
+tadhg ogorman why ?
+Contra hackers! ooooooh true I forgot
My thoughy exactly!
I somehow think they'd still come up with some bullshit about optical effects and light diffraction or something. They have all sorts of halfwit answers for everything.
Does this meen we need different time zones for height?
+Luke Colistra oh okay, thanks btw :)
though if you live on top of the mt. everest, it would be good for you to move your clock to compensate the height, just to be accurate with the time.
The time in your 'time zone' remains the same no matter how tall a building is. The people in the upper floors would experience sunrise and sunset at a different time than people on the ground, but they all still share the same "time zone".
BAI PATTU Yes, though theorically a tall enough building would experience the sunrise and set entirely different from the location of the base of the building, and therefore there could be timezones with height too.
+Fuckification Most time zones differ by 30 mins. People at the top of burj khalifa experience sunset 2 mins after people at the base. To experience the sunset 30 mins after the base the building would have to be 15 times its current height. It currently stands at 2722 ft. 15 times that would be 40,830 ft. Commercial airliners cruise at 36,000 ft. LOL
11 year anniversary for this video
Wow when I played halo (yes I know halo isn't the first to have space elevators but it is to me) I didn't think space elevators would even be close to possible but the thought of them being potentially feasible one day blows my mind and makes me excited for what the future has to bring!
Girls who are “5,2” will still say it’s not tall enough
Lol
*laughs in 159cm*
Lmfao
5'2 girl here, can deny
@@riceismyname5491 it's a joke, lmfao. The joke is about the unrealistic standards of short women wanting a really tall man
He went to Egypt for a 5 second clip!... What a legend
Gotta be baddass as Micheal
No he went to egypt to visit the monuments and the history and returned and made a video where he included a clip from his visit
@@singhal.keshav but still one of the reasons he went there was to say some of the script from his videos, what we mean is he knew and was working on this video from before he was there
@@Akhimed yeah thats really cool
@@singhal.keshav r/wooooosh
the background music / voices that start around @7:39 needs to go Vsauce - love love love this vid tho and can't wait to show my son two sunsets in one day next time we at the beach!
Even after 10yrs, this video is still quality
8:59 when my parents ask if I would jump off a cliff with my friends
dont do did
Tai Ketchum yeah, that’s me
Anton Abad wow you actually believe he would r/wooosh
What was the comment there?
You are lucky to even have friends.
How high can we get? Well it depends how much weed you have
+Mineman_200 pro (͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°)
+Mineman_200 pro (͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°)
+Mineman_200 pro *you just made my day*
+LeEgyptianReptilianRarePepe the illuminati Isreal
+LeEgyptianReptilianRarePepe ͜ 8つ
The laying down / standing up double sunset is handy if you're on the lookout for the Green Flashes - twice the chance of seeing them.
this really is a delightful time capsule
Did he REALLY just go to Egypt just to say a couple of words for a video? ...
yes
....of course, what do you expect.
I guess he was just visiting Egypt and decided to make a video there
That is why he takes 3 months for each video
My concern is that he says Egypt is in the middle east, the Nile is in Africa
Think how easy it would be to target and destroy a space elevator...
Yomama
Of course. With space buildings, space wars will also come
Who needs a space war? The good old usa vs russia stereotype will suffice if one of them builds a space elevator.
RθBORAVER but before space wars, there must first be STAR WARS
Nine Tailed Box
*plays scrolling text and George Lucas theme*
This is the start of peak Vsauce!
This is the first Vsauce video I ever saw, back around its release.
vsauce could make paint drying seem Interesting
But what is paint?
+RonBest It's an object,
Or is it?
He actually could though. Like-
HEY Vsauce, Micheal here and you caught me just painting my wall. Painting is fun, but it takes a long time to dry. So let's watch it dry shall we? Camera shot changes to use getting a good look at the wall from the side with Michael popping in from the left "Paint drying may seem boring, but there is actually alot of processes happening. yadayadayada idk anything about paint.
Watching paint drying is boring
Or is it? By the mathematical terms blabalbalblajandislsjsguosaidbwdljbdwljfbwdkjvbsdljbfourwi
But if I watched paint, would it ever dry? Lets find out.
Vsauce = Viisaus in finnish
Viisaus = Intelligence
Maybe he used that word cause he knew it means that
Iv a i mean, if thats not it, then what does it mean?
@@LazoGT but what if it does mean that,then as vsauce would say: or dosent it??😮
Hmmmm? Thats something
We will never know as these answers of the universe still are not completelly answerred...
How do you say "pipe dream" in Finnish?
viisaus= wisdom
Still a Vsauce banger 11 years later.
Michael might be the one who built Pryramid
3:37 Michael: This is the first time I've ever touched the Nile.
**crocodile happy noises**
Crocodile: my time has come
Sobek: You’ve fallen right into my trap
Micheal: adios
"Why build a space elevator? - Because it's awesome." Alright, you got me on board!
Also to launch rockets off of in order to use much less fuel
Shut up
@@dentano5317 how about you too?
Remind me if 1 Gundam series
199 likes let me fix that
Still in my feed after a decade.
vsauce is the best youtuber 2015-2021
How high can we build? We'll find out after the election this year.
Best comment of the year XD
i hate myself for finding that funny
XD lol
XD
How great will America be made again? We'll see after this election.
Wtf this went from building heights to sunsets
You must be new here.
Cockatiel That's Vsauce for ya
I don't care how high in real world we can build but we can build up to 256 blocks above bedrock in minecraft
I'll mark it on your map
This section is perfect 😂 besides there's a settlement up in space. I'll mark it on your map
The answer is simple. It used to be 256 in 1.17, but they changed it to 320 in 1.18 update
New patchnote soon
This feels like it just got released yesterday
* hits blunt *
to answer this question first we have to know how high we can get
*hits blunt again*
_NOT HIGH ENOUGH_
Lmaoooo im crying
*actually hits the blunt*
I CAN SEE THE CLOUDSSSS
We’ve done it boys!
*Hits blunt.*
*Cough cough.*
We’re higher than 256 blocks!
*Hits blunt.*
*Cough.*
We can’t stop here, we need to get higher!
*Consumes LSD.*
Michael: “So, lay down on your stomach then quickly pop up into a standing position. You’ll see the last little bit of the sun again.”
Flat Earthers: Wait... that's illegal!
wElL uM tHaTs BecAUse **insert word flat earthers dont even understand here**
@@arsyahr138 if i was a flat earther i wouldnt* understand a word that you were saying
TIMESTAMP
The one and only crab nebula wouldn’t*
@@cluelesss7369 6:09
the quality is so good for something from 2021
I'm still waiting for the sequel to this - How high can we get?
can we get much higher
8:55 Why build a space elevator? "Because it would be....AWESOME!" :) Best reason!
3:00 Imagine being the guy that accidentally ended up destroying the tallest building in the world
umm, acktchyually, it was a tower, not a building.
@@tonyf3431 imagine being the guy that accidentally ended up destroying the tallest tower in the world
@@coopercollier7167 perfection.
69th
imagine being the guy that took out the twin towers
There is always an old Vsauce that we haven't watched. 😂
The height limit is 256 blocks
Stolen
“This is the first time I’m touching the Nile” Nile crocodile: “and the last”
@Kadir Garip cancel crocodiles ?
I like to imagine there’s just one crocodile in the Nile River who’s been waiting all his life for Michael to go there and touch the Nile.
3:48 that would have been an insane *Flex* in 2012
flex? he didn't stretch, i can though.
@@Luffy-un5du dumb fuck
@@UNKNOWNUSER-fv6nk LOL
@@UNKNOWNUSER-fv6nk well said dead meme
@@acidtsunami2875 ligma
Amaazing video, as usual