Should we live UNDERGROUND? (Geography Now!)
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2017
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Geography Now hey what if that was to Earth
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Geography Now It's pronounced Cooper Pee-Dee. Cheers.
Geography Now wait?! the video is released 8 minutes ago and this comment says 1 hour ago?! CZcams?! is my eyes playing tricks on me?!
Living in an underground city has always been a fantasy of mine.
Most gamers wouldn't even feel the difference.
yes
Dude, you should totally do a video about land reclamation.
I feel like that video would talk a lot about the Dutch.
+JaniKani good.
knowing Barby, he would cover the pacific nations the most, he prefers to talk about less known stuff. that's why I love his channel
Samovar maker good idea! my city beirut was largely built on former sea land
He sorta already did, check out his video about borders.
It will fix deforestation and gives space to farming land
but... where will the roots grow when we will be using that underground space?
maplecoin well we can't just build these facilities 1 meter deep, and also we have to build them in places in which they do not have negative effects on the environment, for example deserts, but then there is only one problem yet to solve; underground water supply... our choices are limited but the dream of building underground is possible, as we can't house 10.5 billion people in the future on land, even if we colonise the solar system. So we need a global land evaluation organisation to make a big campaign to evaluate areas around the globe !
We can totally house 10.5 billion on land even just on this planet.
The difficulty is the amount of food and other resources we'd need and the impact on the environment.
Space isn't really as much of an issue as you'd think, especially if we condense more into cities rather than suburbia.
ok
George Alamat Well, judging by the many low-density areas of the world, and technology that allows people to live basically anywhere, we could totally house a solid 14 billion before having to worry about where to put them. That's not the issue here
The sun s a veryimportant psychological aspect..stay in your house with sun gettingin for a week or dont see the sky dont feel the weather,(its especially especially the sun)and you ll feel weird you ll start geting crazy(that really happens in scadinavian countries sometimes)
Gennadios Christofi it would not be hard to have light tunnels and reflective surfaces that create ambient light similar to above ground. Also fake ceilings are pretty realistic
mental health would be heavily affected
@@prod.natejalo1122 the same is true for city urbanisation and yet more and more of the world live that way
Iordanne well that’s how it’s gonna be with massive population booms. There’s now way to sustain human society without urbanization at this point. It’s not a good thing but it’s a necessary thing
Week? Try two months in Utsjoki, Finland. No Sun between November 15 and January 16 so... Outside or inside. Then again, there will be non-stop sunlight in the summer for two months...
Do living under water next!!!
Yeah!
Or *on* water. We are already building artificial islands, but those are really expensive. But considering that the majority of our planet's surface is water, would there be a way to affordably build living spaces on water?
cody crank Let's build an underwater objectivist utopia :)
*sings* "I went to the year 3000. not much is changed but they live underwater, and your great great great granddaughter is doing fine, doing finee"
pfft, i know i'm a dork, but that damn song popped in my head as soon as i saw this, and now it's in yours :P
Colin Feezell
Yet
Someone remembers this song!
I came here from the Qitzikwaka video
Who else thought of district 13 while watching this
matrix and fallout
I'm really liking all of the recent filler episodes. Very interesting topics to think and discuss about. Great video!
Who remembers City of Ember
That was a good movie.
Joe Rizo Twas a book first.
Shanti Yantra I think that was one of the rare cases where I actually liked the movie better. Maybe it's cause I saw the movie first? Idk.
When it's 2:20 a.m. But gotta watch that geography now
Jordan Speaks 5:30 here :D
Jordan Speaks it's 10 am in my country i'm very lucky
In germany it is 11:30 am
Jordan Speaks Its 10:41 here in Ireland.
Jordan Speaks 11:43
Man these filler vIdeos are awesome and interesting. Your hard work is well appreciated. May you rule the CZcams for years to come.
I think this would especially work for what you mentioned in the last topic video about the arctic, if permafrost was not an issue. Especially avoiding blizzards and harsh temperatures through insulation (plus you barely ever get sun so who cares!)
I was just having a conversation about this a couple of weeks ago with my friends, but our idea of it was more like living inside a massive canyon so as to not feel that claustrophobic and never not see the sun again lmao. however we fell short because we realized it was probably a bad idea considering landslides and building near coasts. loved this ep
this is awesome and thought provoking! nice video man.
YOOOO, I loved the crap out of the Pendragon series when I was younger, and the underground city concept has stuck with me this whole time. Super pumped that it showed up in one of your videos!
this video inspired me to check out the full series. its good
These videos are AMAZING! :D
Dude, I love that you've read Pendragon too. One of my favourite book series.
Amazing animations ken!!!
Awesome video !
Thank you !!! I was waiting for this episode since ages ago !! You are so smart, thanks again ! And by the way please do Lebanon ...!
Pendragon was such a major part of my life growing up. I love those books so much!
Joshua Jenkins Same
Wow you blew my mind for the day!
What about all the insects and animals that live underground like they will find a way in easily
Not with good maintenance.
You could eat those. They are healthy.
I'm so hyped for my country coming next: IRELAND! Where you Irish geograpeeps at? :D
Feramersi 0 Right here mate 🇮🇪
Feramersi 0 hopefully he does the whole island
Fifaman1230 *ireland
Sup my paddy
Fifaman1230 He won't do the full island, it would piss too many people off.
Food for thought Douglass. Thanks.
OMG it made my day that he talked about Pendragon that’s literally my favorite series ever and no one ever knows about it 😭😭❤️
Jalyn Austin i know right?!?!
I completely forgot about the Pendragon Series. Thanks for the Nostalgia!
I really, really like the animations in these videos. They just look good :D
Can we live underground?
Artyom: sure,it is easy.
I love your videos so much
Everybody!! Next is the Ireland Episode!! If you know what that means is...
1 Clean your bunkers since that Macedonia and Greece episode
2 Shop for snacks
3 Your weapons (creative comments for butthurts)
4 Watch Ireland
5 Filler week
6 Israel!!
YEY ISRAEL
Kingdom of BonBon Macedonia is actually an ancient kingdom in Greece. The former Yugoslav republic stole the name of Macedonia pretty much to piss off the Greeks, they only are a country because they really wanted to leave Bulgaria and steal history or something.
Poison Virus Joe > butthurt greek
Ireland then Israel... Oh It's gonna be a fun week
Italian guy I am not butt hurt, I am just annoyed, also, search the Macedonian kingdom and it shows it was a GREEK kingdom, stop wi your propaganda.
Their are many ancient underground cities in Cappadocia. Among the underground cities worth seeing are Derinkuyu, Kaymakli, Gaziemir and Ozkonak. In Urgup, Goreme, Guzelyurt and Uchisar their are many cave houses that people can rent for the night or week.
I love that book series!
Another disadvantage: the radioactive gas Radon can accumulate in buildings, especially, due to its high density, in low areas such as basements and crawl spaces, so underground cities would be most exposed to it. It is easily inhaled and a health hazard.
The extensive ventilation systems you'd already need should take care of that.
@DynamicWorlds That would be good then for that point :) Still, it's an additional investment / thing to be taken care of compared to above ground living
Really good video Barby
Cool video! I love these hypothetical questions, maybe one day they will not be hypothetical anymore. Great work
That's the first time I heard anyone talk about the pendragon series. I love this series.
This is probably not gonna be a problem for me, since 50% of my day is just sitting in front of my PC playing games and binging on Barby's vids
Wow thabk you for bring this issue! I really curious about building underground due to lack of field and I really adore the idea about umberella researcher from residence evil😊
mindblown
YES, BEST GEO VIDS EVER!!!!
I imagine open underground cities (rather than individual structures like we have at the moment, these cities would look something like the nether in minecraft but with buildings in them) would be built in the shape of valleys, with huge storm drains in the middle of them and the buildings situated into the higher walls, connected with bridges or possibly just canals, like in Venice. The core of the storm drain would be some sort of water purification facility-come-pumping station, cleaning up the water then sending it back to the city for public use.
Yeah the Path system is super convenient for getting around downtown Toronto :P
You should do a video about living underwater, or on water (floating). Also, pros and cons of living in a desert and rainforest.
I wish you mentioned the proposed "Earthscraper" in Mexico City
The what in where?! Mexico City wants to have underground dwellings!
Yo you should definitely do the next one of these about possible solutions to the Pacific island problem.
5:04 that's Complex Desjardins in Montreal!
In the Dune universe, the entire planet of Ix is an underground society. They also are responsible for the construction of all interstellar spacecraft which they warp (fold-space) out of the underground factories since there aren't any openings large enough to fly them out. The surface of the planet is nearly all left to nature.
Also, coax is short for coaxial and is pronounced co-ax.
Thanks for this video. I love the subject of underground living.
That idea of making underground houses for farmers in the Midwest actually sounds great! I mean if no infrastructure is actually damage or minimally damaged but everyone is okay, I see that as a good thing to pursue and see how well we can do and technically speaking it would increase the land area that these people could use to farm; all they would have to really have is a porthole or some sort of doorway that leads to the underground.
It's plausible... Really enjoy all of your video. First look simply because Indonesia (my home country).
Simple fix for wifi just have everyone use ethernet cables for the Internet as it faster at does need satellites.
Sipping my coffee while a tornado is above ... ah man ... I need to get out there and see that tornado!!!
I use the gravel to drop into lava pits, and I use the dirt to create farms on the coastline where I plant wheat and beetroots. Also any cobblestone I use to create fortresses to protect from ghast fireballs.
I would like to apply this to cliffs. where you would still have the opportunity look into the distance and have a way to distribute natural sunlight. Yes you will need to strengthen the cliff to combat erosion, but you can have some of the benefits of isolation and independence of weather. biggest con is that there aren't many places with big cliffs that would be suitable and are in locations where a new city would work.
Good video
Not to mention if houses were partitioned with concrete it would help ground strength and residential noise. You could blast party music and probably would be able to hear past the concrete.
When you see Pendragon mentioned ...
Fable Reader I know right? I thought I was the only one who read them!
Im really curious about how the transport would work in this subtarranean city would there be subways or roads or some other tube system that can go vertical and horizontal like a roller coaster
I'm planning to STAY on this place we call earth for as long as possible so this is a really good idea to keep people here 😊
World: What to do with sand?
Netherlands: o i have an idea
I like it. I also have hopes to use it on other planets and moons.
How much dirt would it take to connect Hawaii islands and make 1 big island, for example? :)
Time to enlist in my... LOCAL VAULT!
Really hoping you get to the Turkey video soon!
Alexander Salazar Next year
You should read The Descent. It's a very interesting and yet horrifying view of what life underground could be like.
Those with Claustrophobia are gonna have one hell of a time lol
Its been 2 years still waiting for Turkey, seems like its gonna take a few more years
not even a question - much love from qitzi
A Video about floating cities in the future would be cool
Leaky coax ("co-Axe"). Great video, really got me thinking, humans would live like little minecraft people haha.
leaky coax, is simply coax cable with stripped insultator segments every so many meters.
Giving soil to island nations seems like such an amazing idea
Hey GN, could you do a video about how the continents will look in the future due to continental drift?
I imagine a lot of the time in urban environments where mines couldn't normally exist, contracters might "accidentally" dig into a precious metal vain to sell what they dig up there alongside the payment from the structures they are building.
SUGGESTION: you should do a video on lambay island in Ireland and talk about how this little island in the northern hemisphere got its population of wallabies
for a person who is not Kurdish or Arab or Persian, you explain this issue very well, good job!
What about living in or under water? Huge desalination plants built into complexes to get clean water, fishing systems and just have a big pipe to ventilate the whole thing.
If it were up to me, I'd see how well the cut and cover method for building tunnels would work being scaled up. Otherwise, I'd look for a giant hole that's already in the ground, like an old mine or a quarry.
geography now is best youtube channel
Any river valley with lime deposits is perfect for the manufacture of gravel for concrete leaving open spaces underground for long-term living quarters. With the advent of LED lighting living should be dramatically cheaper than living above ground. You could grow plants converting CO2 back into O2 year-round.
A big problem with be Vitamin B: we get it by sunlight hitting our skin, so unless you supply food/pill with doses of them, it will be a problem.
I think that undergroud living is the future, at least I want to believe cause I love the idea
An option for food could be multiple plant tissue culture chambers. Here the plants, fruits and vegetables will be able to grow underground. Will cost alot of energy to be fair, but it's a viable option for food.
Have you heard about the "lab-burger"? A hamburger grown with tissue culture technology, but it's really costly.
I think the question isn't whether we can but whether it is more efficient to build down instead if up.
I can see lots of advantages of living underground, we could plant stuff (food or forests) on the surface, the concrete area would be reduced reducing the area that absorbs light and turns it into heat, there are problems tough. As price, infrastructure, health, and waste.
Depending on the city what I would do is put a law in place so that buildings above a certain size need a certain amount of the building to be underground. Such tall buildings are already gonna be in a urban center, further the underground section would be a good aspect to add additional foundation to the building with careful regulation of materials and could be a good location for various essential building services. Further with some cities with rather in-depth underground infrastructure it might be possible to connect buildings to said infrastructure with a additional secondary entrance the building residents can utilize.
It would be a constant nightmare to me, not being able to see the sky... I'm not claustrophobic but damn.
Anyway, did you make those animations yourself? Cause they're great!
I was sitting in an underground floor at my school while watching this video :-)
Funny how I suggested underground living as a solution for colonizing the Arctic and it was the next week's subject of matter. I think I actually did a fair job of describing how... Here let me just paste it here too: "Well, I think in these extreme conditions, underground settlements would make sense. Since the surface ground is always shifting thanks to frost, we could build at depths where it wouldn't matter anymore. Agriculture could be done using light bulbs made for that and we could even raise livestock in large heated caves by getting them to graze moss instead of grass, which I believe should be possible. Water could be pumped from phreatic zones or collected from the condensation on heating, if this society would judge good to heat their steets, which they should. Power could be provided one of 2 way: if you're in a volcanic zone, Geothermy, if you're not, a Nuclear Reactor. Transportation would have to be entirely electric based, to avoid contaminating the air and massive ventilation shafts would have to go back to the surface to pump air in and throw out contaminant gasses. It could work." Here.
3:08 It's pronounced co-ax, short for coaxial, meaning an electric cable encased inside another electric cable so they both have the same axis.
maybe we can create such a big structure, that we don't even need wifi, we can just connect everything with lan? idk
Reminds me of awe me's epic how to
Very interesting perspectives. I would miss the sun.
Can you do one of these videos but on living underwater like in the Bioshock Games?
How about living in a space colony? Not an colony on another planets but something like and O'Neil cylinder?
One advantage of underground living would be that we would need much less of earth's surface area for living and businesses such that it would free area for agriculture, wild nature and parks. Additionally it could help with traffic problems because we could then travel in three dimensions, much more destinations could for example be within a distance we would walk.
my main concern is how this would effect the ground water system. thats where we get most of our fresh water.
In a place called Matera in Italy people lived underground in "Sassi" which means "stones." these were houses inside these stones, nowadays the Sassi di Matera is recognized by the UNESCO.
this makes me think of coober pedy south australia