Wall-E's Ridiculous Skyscrapers: A Design review
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- In this video, we’ll be reviewing the skyscrapers shown in Pixar’s Wall-E movie. As a piece of the built environment that is made of peoples trash, I thought it would be interesting to see if these could actually be built if humans just kept producing and collecting trash. And if they could, what principles of engineering mechanics might be holding it up. Either way, this was a fun video to research and make, thanks for watching, please like and subscribe!
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Music used includes Gamechops and WIT - Krátké a kreslené filmy
There's actually a lore reason for these towers.
The way the cleanup operation was supposed to go is that an army of Wall-Es constructs a bunch of trash towers in an area and then those towers get deconstructed again by some sort of bucket wheel excavator/incinerator hybrid.
The project was ultimately aborted because burning skyscraper-sized trash mountains made the already near-unbreathable atmosphere even more toxic. Somehow though the Wall-Es never got the memo so they just kept building trash spires until all of them (except one) broke down
Interesting, I hadn’t read that before. Wall-E was quite the determined little guy then.
@@onstructures You can actually see the incinerators rusted up in the background in a couple of shots
Another interesting point relating to the Wall-E units, they will cannibalize parts from their malfunctioning or dead units, considering we see a scene in which the protagonist unit swaps out his tracks off of another unit(presumably ran out of charge).
the extras on the dvd have some stuff about this and you're right, the plan was more or less to collect all the junk with wall-e and other units and burn it and blast the ash and smoke high into the atmosphere/stratosphere, not the best plan
@@onstructures another thing to conicder is how the tops of these towers Not warping out of shape . . if the blocks had as little as 1% iregularities would mean the tower tops would look like jumbled mess whitch emplies all the cubes must have nearly identical shape whitch is rather peculiar to say the least
could the weight of the tower also be crushing the blocks causing a form of interlocking, the blocks are compressed together for the lower areas adding stability that might not be there for wooden blocks
itd be interesting to account for the fact that the compressed material would, over time, flow into one another. however this action would also stop looking like towers and more like a regular pile. i think the phenomenon is called elephant foot where the column starts to splay out at the base
I had the same thought lol but if that's the case, what's stopping the base blocks from disintegrating all together. the moment the blocks starts to collapse it should occur from the base up. (Unless there's varing integrity in the blocks, then wouldn't that introduce weakpoint for the blocks to tip at those points) not an engineer just random thoughts here.
Don't forget that Wall-E would have to deal with uneven settling of the souls underneath the towers.
I think the issue is that it would fall over before enough material was stacked on top to cause the compressive interlocking.
@@christopherreynolds4506 we also can't forget that it's compressed mixed trash. At some point the weight will cause some of the blocks to start falling apart. Also, when the blocks fall the impacts will obviously cause some blocks to fall apart either partially or completely. These blocks aren't stable building materials.
Walle didnt build all those alone. There were once thousands identical robots and even giant ones.
I think his home is one of the deactivated giant unit? I may be misremembering the details tho
You can see 2 of those giant guys shining lights while WallE was trying to save Eve
It's like people never seen the movie or somthing
@@henrycooper3431 Nah, his home is where the other wall-e's lived at, the giant ones, for the most part, lived on the spaceships the humans left on.
@@henrycooper3431
Nah. WALL-E stands for “Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth class”
The giant ones are WALL-As; waste allocation load lifters - Axiom class
The big ones were made specifically for the Axiom space cruiser.
Wall-E’s home was just the designated storage unit for all Wall-Es. Complete with a bunch of rotating racks for them to fit into.
He killed then by locking them out in the sandstorm
"I am a monument to all your sins."
-Trash towers
Not a quote I expected to see here. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
True monuments of consumerism
Technically true
As someone that stacks lumber all day long, two unstable stacks put together can absolutely become more stable. If one stack leans to the left and one to the right, and you put them together what you get is more stable in the end
That’s good insight, your stacks are kind of like a pointed arch! I wonder if you do something like that with wallEs towers
Problem is this is probably not guaranteed to happen most of the time
I'd suggest that the taller towers of trash might be using still standing skyscrapers as some sort of base except BnL's original plan seems to have been to leave the cities intact so that people could go back to them once operation cleanup was finished. Also, we know that Wall-e has a cutting laser built into him. Although it's never seen, maybe he uses that to weld blocks together offscreen?
As far as the amount of trash available, BnL had kind of broken the world's economy. Everyone living under its governance (Which, considering that it owned all the countries on Earth, would make that, you know, -everyone-) had, at the very least, an upper-middle-class level of lifestyle. At it's height just about every manufacturing process was fully automated. BnL... Citizens? Employees? Shareholders? (They were kind of all three; every person on earth technically worked for BnL, and every employee had stock in BnL, so...) had what BnL called a 'Right to consume' which apparently amounted to a VERY hefty regular payment that people were encouraged/required to use to buy as much stuff as they could. And of course, BnL still subscribed to the idea of infinite growth; since they owned the whole planet, the only way for them to grow was to produce more stuff. I can absolutely believe this would lead to the situation seen in the movie.
Right! Welding would be a great benefit, which could be possible if he had the right material to use as a welding medium. I guess we just need to assume Wall-E moonlights as a welder, him or the cockroach
its entirely possible that after wall e achieved sentience he started looking for more effective ways to stack trash and just used buildings because nobody else was
@@onstructuresconsidering there are plastics and metals in the blocks he could theoretically stabilize it somewhat by welding. The plastics would obviously weld together before the metals will. The biggest problem I see is the density. These towers are denser than the skyscrapers meaning that they will sink into the soil and the soil is unevenly compacted. If the wind doesn't destabilize the tower then the soil movement will.
I can see two possible solutions to the stability problem.
First, the slightly irregular surface of the blocks would likely function as an effective key, holding them together in much the same way as a dry stacked stone wall. That would cause the stacks to behave more like a solid structure, rather than independent narrow towers.
Second, regarding minor angle inconsistencies. Humans are not good at detecting very minor differences in angle, but there’s no reason to assume that a robot designed specifically for the purpose of building trash towers would share that limitation. It seems likely that Wall-E would constantly monitor the accumulated error and adjust accordingly, thus maintaining perfect alignment within the error margin of the sensors onboard.
I totally agree, but I also want to add a little bit;
There's also some things to be said about how many WALL-Es have been doing this: if one WALL-E fails for some reason, its mistake will probably be picked up by one of the thousands of others. Plus, I feel as though the weight of the cubes would eventually make them (at least near the base) compress into one large mass similarly to what the WALL-Es themselves do the cubes.. and of course there's the possibility that they stack them like blocks for, say, 4 layers, and then interlock for another 4 layers when it tapers inward, which would mean they eventually get turned into giant blocks that just stack atop each other, which may mean they don't behave like wooden blocks in practice.
We also don't know if there's some method used for the towers that WALL-E is no longer capable of doing anymore, or if the WALL-Es select what materials they use for each level or part of the tower. We also never see if there's any underlying structure to these towers - it's possible that there is in some of the older ones, and WALL-E just isn't capable of constructing those himself anymore, so the one we see him start is just the best he can manage. Considering we don't know how long WALL-E has been working independently (it could've been anywhere from just a few months to hundreds of years before the movie's start), WALL-E could just be finishing off what exists.
probably repeating what others have said but:
Wall-E didnt act alone in the beginning, large blocks were made by larger robots, and its fair to assume other models had functions that could supplement that.
also, i think you VASTLY underestimated the utility gained by stacking blocks together side by side, or in a brick-style pattern. it mitigates the variances in flatness by a large amount, as well as increasing the amount of weight necessary to disturb the tower as a whole. you can experience this experimentally by just playing with some blocks. it doesnt require you to even consider which way the tower is bending as you place the blocks, the effect is strong enough to gain 2 or 3 extra blocks in height without any thought. with some thought, you can gain even more stability. imagine instead of blocks, that we are stacking rocks into a pile like hikers do when theyre bored. the chosen rocks are usually not flat at all, round rocks being easily the most popular, and the only consideration made to maintain the stability of the pile is weight distribution. yet these stacks can be surprisingly stable regardless. if you apply the same skills to multiple stacks of blocks which can lean on eachother, that would allow for much more stability than a single stack with no corrective actions taken by the builder, i would wager that you could correct the leaning almost entirely, given enough time to carefully arrange the blocks. and wall-e has certainly had time.
another mitigating factor to make the towers more viable is natural decay fusing the blocks together, in combination with the weight of the trash blocks on top of the lower levels further compressing them into eachother.
i was actually suprised when you brought up the weight of these towers that you hadn't mentioned soil compaction. the weight of our hollow, concrete and steel towers is enough to compact the soil beneath them already, leading to engineers and construction workers taking great pains to make sure the soil is pre-compressed before they begin construction. this would probably be even more necessary for wall-e's towers, which are solid waste, with no hollow spaces. i would expect that without the help of other machines to prepare the stacking sites, wall-e's towers might lean and fall over long before they reach heights unbelievable for the waste blocks, because the soil beneath them would compact unevenly and tilt the tower.
I assumed that the rain would dissolve some parts of the blocks and let them fuse together.
Hm interesting, I hadn’t considered that. If the dissolved material were like a rust, it could provide some help as a roughening surface to engage sliding friction, but rust has pretty poor mechanical properties otherwise. Thanks for the comment
@@onstructures Rust by itself would be weak but if you combined the strength of the entire solid structure it would definitely be able to hold itself up.
It's possible the towers have interlocking and the basic stacking we see Wall-E do is temporary storage while he compacts more trash to later move to the larger skyscrapers.
This dude just blew my mind with one sentence. I always thought it was mostly plastics, metals, glass, rubber. But he said that people on the east coast would tell you otherwise on metal and i was like "🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 i guess you're right. 20-40 years sitting in a yard completely destroyed most of the cars across from my uncle's. Most of those old cars were literally falling apart when getting tugged on, and some of the older ones would literally collapse under their own weight if you so much as pushed on them. There's no way they wouldn't rust away into tiny metal flakes in 700 years"
To draw a historical parallel, the physics described here are the exact reason that almost every ancient human culture built pyramids before they invented some kind of mortar, because straight vertical towers just couldn't support themselves without something to hold the blocks together. The Egyptians, for one, really pushed the limits of how steep their pyramids could be built; the iconic "bent pyramids" go from a steeper angle at the bottom to a shallower angle at the top likely because the builders discovered that the initial steeper angle couldn't stand at full height, and so had to adjust mid-project.
one very important thing of note is that the human population was somewhere around 100 billion by the time they started leaving earth, that plus the fact that every citizen/employee/customer of buy n large was entirely engaged with the rampant consumerism the company encouraged i could easily see the amount of trash produced on the whole to absolutely skyrocket
Oh wow, I didn’t know the population was supposed to be that big! Hopefully, it never gets like that irl
@@onstructures World population is slowing it's rate of increase, should peak at about 10 billion according to current estimates and then even start decreasing again from there. Well within this planet's capacity to support human life, the bigger problem is less overpopulation and more food distribution, welfare, managing the ecology so earth doesn't become a sweltering wasteland
I think Pixar is goated for creating believable worlds and not realistic ones. All of their worlds feel immersive enough, yet only after watching that we start to question its realism. Sometimes it’s just there for the narrative, doesn’t need to make sense and then they start building on it into a story, which i find pretty darn good execution.
Absolutely! WallE does a great job of creating realistic world just close enough to touch
Except Cars.
Maybe that they are built into/against preexisting structures would help? It's clearly visible that some of the trash towers have preexisting skyscrapers poking out the sides.
Yea! I think that the lateral stability of the existing towers would help if only because they should have a greater resistance to horizontal loads
trash sleeves
Add the unevenness and settling of the earth underneath the towers. If you add enough weight the soil will act like a fluid. The reason these towers were chosen over more realistic structures is because they look more impressive artistically.
5:20 there is still wood present, we see a pallet in there shot u showed just previously from the film
I mean obviously wood doesn't USSALY last 700 years, but in dry hot and aired climates wood doesn't really rot, and we can see that the world of WALL-E is a dry hot aired climate and so there is probably more wood then u estimated around. Ofc that is just my personal thought.
Could be treated wood. Wood treated with a mixture of Oil and Diesel can stay underwater for basically forever. I KNOW at least 70 years according to what my grandad showed me as a kid.
we see six oil tankers beached next to a port in one scene, so it's safe to say that the climate is very dry.
maybe the environment is simply. relatively/comparatively sterile?
@@OgKafrizel wood under rails for trains is also treated in a way that they practically last forever. The ones ive seen have probably outlived atleast one generation, easily 2 without any notable wear other than where the fastening of the screws and metal were.
What if...
Since they're often bigger than the buildings around them...
He's just stacking them along the outside of buildings, making it so the framework of the buildings themselves are keeping the towers standing?
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While I'm here, I wanted to add some of my own thoughts;
- WALL-E units are robots, so they may have much more precision in how they work with these blocks. Sure, we don't see them compressing them to the point of them being a solid, consistent mass, but I think this is more of an artistic liberty - realistically, that's probably what they would do, and that would change the strength of an individual block.
- We already see WALL-E make a substandard block in the movie and he doesn't end up using it for anything, so it's completely possible that the WALL-E units are capable of assessing them and deciding what blocks are good to use and which aren't. Similarly, this might mean they have some concept of what materials should go where in the tower, which would make sense considering these were made to be incinerated, and so they might be ordered for both greater strength and ease of disposal.
- We learn in the movie that there was thousands of WALL-Es in the past, so it's possible that the methods we see are different to how the other towers were built. For instance, in the past the WALL-Es may have constructed a frame to hold up this tower, but obviously a single WALL-E wouldn't be able to do that, so we see him omit that part of the process. We don't know how long he's been alone - it could've been for just a few months before the movie begins - so maybe he's just finishing off the team's job. Not to mention that laser between their 'eyes' could probably be used to weld this frame together.
- Under the immense weight of the tower, I feel like many of these blocks (especially near the middle) would compress themselves down into a much more consistent mass, which may change how they behave. And considering that it takes a seemingly very long time to build just one level of a tower, it's possible that they're artificially strengthened over time by just how long it takes to build them. The blocks under the most weight would compress and buckle the tower inward, and WALL-E may just adjust for this and continue along.
- It's possible that WALL-E just builds these towers in layers of, say, 4 blocks that're arranged normally and then offsets them by about, say, half a block for the level above. That could function similarly to interlocking, but would just be on a smaller scale.
- We do actually see it reflected in the movie that these towers are not particularly strong - multiple of them do get knocked over. So, they clearly aren't anything like the buildings around them in how stable they are, and even though we don't see it, they may get knocked over like this pretty frequently and the WALL-E units have had to fix them. Maybe the WALL-Es have built them with those sandstorms in mind, but those sandstorms are just a comparatively weak threat.
Firstly, i'd say that these are not "kids movies". Secondly I'd say that by the time B&L evacuated the earth, we were already a space-faring civilization. This means that we'd have been mining asteroids and such. This means more materiel on the earth. If you look at the size of the B&L superstore and then add another 8 or even 10 billion humans, that could easily amass the trash seen in the one area. It could also be that these trash towers are only in specific locations clustered together, and not just everywhere. This would make sense as collecting the trash for final disposal would be easier if they collected it into a few select areas, As for the "big landfill" idea, that misses the point, as the whole purpose of project cleanup was to /remove/ the trash, not just collect or hide it. Obviously the scenario here is a caricature and not supposed to be realistic in any way. It's a story just like any fairy tale or good work of fiction with exaggerations in some places and skipping over some details in others to make the story work. The only real issue i have with this movie is that i would have liked to have seen more of the earth and life as it was before the big evacuation. Perhaps a disney animated series could cover that?
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To me this has already exceeded my expectations, I’m stoked even a few thousand people have tuned in for these sorts of topics. I really appreciate the support and look forward to making more for y’all
you should do a video on aperture science from portal and its testing spheres/moving test chambers
Cool! Thanks for the suggestion
I think it's worth mentioning that sure, probably many of those towers have fallen over the years, but that just means they were picked back up bit by bit and rebuilt somewhere else in a different configuration, culling out the weak towers until only stable towers remained
That would make WallE quite the Sisyphus!
We will probably within the next 30 years move to reduce if not eliminate food and yard waste from landfills and instead compost these materials.
I sure hope so
Well we actually have historical president to suggest these towers aren't that unrealistic - the Freshkills Landfill in New York that reached over 200ft high in only a few decades; the Puente Hills landfill in LA was 500ft high, etc. Of course these piles weren't shaped like narrow towers but more like big, normal mounds, but consider that Wall-E could be compressing the trash to a greater degree than a normal compacter and stacking the cubes in an interlocking fashion similar to bricks, which could allow him to get a bit more verticality and utilize space more efficiently than a traditional dump truck can. At least in terms of trash quantity though, there's no reason to think 200 years of production couldn't result in the scale of the problem we see depicted.
It's also funny to suggest that we could simply bury all this trash. We could bury some trash, but there are reasons landfills are generally above ground and not beneath it. Excavating huge amounts of earth just to bury trash would be incredibly resource-intensive in of itself (and leave you with an equal amount of dirt to put somewhere else).
Now you might say "OK, but why would they put the landfill in the middle of the city like this," and the answer is, they didn't. They put it (perhaps foolishly) immediately next to the city to save on transportation costs and then it continued to expand until the city itself became unlivable and abandoned as a result.
There can also be a new bacteria that can eat the plastics too. Actually that would be devastating for the environment.
Yay, Wall-E analysis!
i didnt realize it was rotated untill he said it.
I would like to note that the towers are considerably frail, as we see one of them collapse when the Axium lands.
Was driving around today and i realized how eerily similar it felt to seeing those people in the spaceship being carted around by hoverchairs. HELP
Interesting
I hope your channel sees success, was a good watch 👌
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching
How was I so blind until now. We NEED a WALL-E prequel!
Thank you for alll your videos, they are very interesting! Also, is that a Dragon Roost Island remix i hear in the background 👀
Yes, it is! Thanks for the kind words
I think a noteworthy factor is the pliability of the material. Platics, rubber and some metals like aluminium and such have higher flexibility than more rigid things like pure glas, metal (although rusted metal can at time also be quite bendy/bendable). It would give, atleast to some small degree, some form of flex or sway in the tower, both to cope with the unevenness in the structure on its own, but also some sway to withstand the storms.
Theres also decayed plastic and rubber and their ability to melt in contact with heat or direct sunlight, which could form some sort of seal/mortar for the cubes to leak into the gaps between them. There is also bound to be produced some heat from the compression of the material whilst inside wall-e, which could prime them for leakage and therefore some type of glue/paste/mortar for the cubes.
Hmm, I hadn’t considered the effect of melted plastics! That’s the best explanation I’ve heard regarding binding the blocks together.
I would fr watch any video on one if the best movies ever made
War, War Never Changes
As a garbage man Wally is my hero. Only 2nd to R2D2, because R2 has a star map out of here if you can understand binary good enough to build a ship from his blueprints. Wally would help me clean up until I died from old age. Great company.
I feel that in the future. Our among of plastic trash will reduce due to the fact that petrol is not a renewable ressource and that we burn a part of it every year in our cars. Rarity will increase the prize and it will become more economical to use something else. Metal can rush but you can still melt it and get "fresh" metal out of it.
3:39 Actually made me jump :p
What film theory channel did you watch
Because I have watched some random one for several weeks before finding one started by Matpat, and I would want to find it
I think it was this one czcams.com/video/jlOM32b0FP8/video.htmlsi=JLAPspyLbg61xxD8
Maybe we can just assume that there's another phase of the construction that is never shown on screen. Maybe after a new layer is completed, or after a row of blocks is completed, the units come back and weld the individual blocks together with a powerful laser. Perhaps the Wall-E units have a very powerful downward pointing laser built into them. After a layer is laid down, they drive along the boundaries between the blocks with this laser activated. This melts the boundaries of the blocks by creating a narrow melt pool perhaps 1.5 layers deep. The whole tower is welded together in this manner. Effectively it is one big piece.
I know this is well beyond the abilities of current power sources, batteries, lasers, and electronics, but we can hand wand wave that away citing vague 22nd century technology.
Yay another civil engineer! Right, like you say there might be something offscreen to meld the materials we don’t see. Though, the more I observe architecture in fantasy the more I realize, creators probably lean into the fact that they don’t over explain the concept making it appear impossible as a means for creating a sense of wonder.
@@onstructures Yeah artistic license is always a thing. Ultimately showing more than what they did wouldn't really serve the plot of the movie much, which is why they don't go into too much detail. Poke to closely at the economic system of a fantasy RPG like DND and the whole thing will crumble like a house of cards. But such is fiction. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that.
I have to wonder if also the Wall-E is constructing the towers simultaneously, that could give time for weather to maybe cause the blocks to shift and interlock somewhat, and compress even further under the weight of the structure, given enough time maybe each tower as it's being constructed, voids filled with sand from dust storms, and more material piled on top, possibly making it stronger? Idk
Have you looked into what the angle of repose would be for that material mixture?
got me pondering fr
the towers are built in a pyramid like shape which adds stability
By the year the cruisers leave Earth multiple mines would have likely been completely mined of the ores they were digging, making for convenient dump sites
It's been so long since I heard that intro music
Meanwhile, Twinkies still (somewhat) fresh 700 years later. 🤣🤣
More skyscrapers should be wide bois with circular ramps - as a higher capacity transportation system than elevators.
we might have enough trash now but imagine in the future if we continued
Lets say the towers of trash were stable. Unlike skyscraper buildings where support gets built into the ground with a foundation and some sort of columns that even go into the bedrock deep beneath the soil these trash towers just sit on the surface. An earthquake or a gust of wind could knock them over. Idk, but maybe the soil slowly became more compacted over time as the thousands of Wall-Es *slowly* worked on these towers. However if the soil unevenly compacted/settled the towers may develop a tilt and eventually fall over similar to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The only reason the leaning tower hasn't fallen over is an active effort by engineers to maintain it. Maybe the Wall-Es choose where to shrinkage the towers on which sides to maintain a vertical tower? Also how do the Wall-Es determine at what height they should stop stacking the tower? Is it time to ascend to the top with the blocks? Or are they going by structural integrity? Or quite possibly just random chance?
Idk kinda just blabbering. I enjoyed the video.
Those are all good questions! Exactly why I like reviewing fantasy architecture! Glad you liked the video
assumption: the trash towers work because the Wall-E units where hyper intelligent and could tell just by a glance which trash cube should be placed where to make the trash towers stable.
One possibility: while we do see WALL-E building the base of a trash tower, we don't see the construction of the upper levels. So prehaps he staggers the blocks as the structure gets taller. We also see he is pretty meticulous about block placement. To me, this suggests that he notices if a block is too small or deformed to fit into a pattern, so he may set that one aside to fit somewhere else.
Hm, a staggered layout would be an interesting prospect, I’m unsure of how this would affect the structural integrity, but it certainly would help as it would engage more dead weight.
In the world of Wall-E the extreme dust storms would blow away most lighter materials, leaving primarily the denser, heavier materials behind.
Is it possible for the blocks to interlock from crushing weight? As you mention, the blocks aren't homogenous, so as the tower gets higher the strucutal integrity of individual blocks breakd down and pieces of trash gets pushed into the bottom block locking them in place. (But this theory kinda breaks down if the blocks doesnt hold it shape as the base could also give way and collapse the whole tower)
I love Wall-E so much that shit slapped so fucking hard
maybe Wall-e is not real life accurate but its still my favourite movie of all time
I’m more concerned about them falling over from those dust storms than their own static lack of stability
7:39 this is my city 🎉
The towers weren't built all at once, a WALL-E would have to repeatedly run over the top of every few layers, which could cause the trash to loosen and have a grout-like affect on the tower as a whole.
I'm pretty sure one of the towers *did* collapse when the shuttle carrying EVE landed, so it's possible.
Well, two arguments. First, Pixar is known for telling story by scene itself. That is acceptable licence, I think. Second, I think weight itself of the structures would cause some interlocking, crushing bottom layers into compact layer that can stick together. Also, it is likely that for example pieces of scrap would tangle to each other. Also, as seen in movie, relatively weak earthquake (made by space ship) was enough to crumble several of these structures. I think although exagurated, it is not exagurated that much. By the way, given the centuries that Wall-e had, he might have dosens of unsuccessful tries, before he mastered it.
Whatˋs the name of the song starting at 0:33 ?
That’s dragon roost island by GameChops, it’s on their legend of Zelda remixes
@@onstructures thanks!
For sustainability we need to bring back clay baked goods. If it was good enough for the romans etc.
Some youtuber: wall-e is a fictional character
The world: BLASPHEMY!
on the walle game u play inside da structure so they had rooms, that implies theres more math to be done
No way Wall-e was playing Minecraft all along.
I really hope attitudes on plastic waste stop getting psyoped cause id love a future where my kids can walk through a forest that feels alive
Wall-E wasn’t the only one of his species it’s just that he was the last one still in operation all the other ones died many years ago
I think it's a mistake to take the industrial/construction waste out of the equation especially since it's quite typical for corporations to try to push the blame and responsibility for change onto the population.
it's also possible in block stacking to put instabilities opposing the instabilities of another stack to form a mutual support (although I'm pretty sure the compressive forces of the scale would still throw all that out the window by totally destroying the integrity of the bottom blocks)
They had to leave earth because of the amount of trash, so how much trash would that have to be, and that's how much trash ull have to build x amount of towers
9:44
Im ashamed to admit i didn't notice
I had my iPad slightly tilted so it actually ended up flat lol
We’re going to eat our rubbish in the future
What about us semi-astute listeners?
I don’t know about you guys but my waist is trending upwards. I should start going to the gym
Wall-E is just built different
I was I'd see the clip of the Axiom landing and one of the towers collapsing.
WOW!!!
ve aktualy tried this! while admitedly ve vere using a far less optimised mashine htan WALL-E and it had more of a 3:3:1 ratio due to mostly aplying preashure from above ve rapidly found that the 2 most desiting factors in stakking "trash cubes" vere the weight of the cubes and the flatness/stabiety of the ground, also cubes started to deform realy early, in our example at around 7 cubes high our pyramid shapes started to squish at the bottom. a realy strange school project
that's awesome that you got to test the concept irl! seriously cool school project
I mean if we have trash islands and trash rivers, it just makes sense to get trash skyscrapers.
I think you should have put more emphasis on the fact we only recycle 9% of our plastic. Recycling plastic is a lie told by corporations.
When u realize Wall-E was playing Minecraft irl. 😲😲😲
What is the song name during 4:07 ?
That’s a kakariko village remix by gamechops. It’s from legend of Zelda!
@@onstructures thank you!
You could say its a TRASH tower
But I don't understand what happened to all the other Wally's and why is the main Wally still alive
I just think they are meant to easily topple down because Best Buy company doesn't want them to go back. Just that Wally is crack hood at it.
maybe they arent stable but when one falls they just get rebuilt
Poland mentioned 1:16 Polska Gurom!
towers of what.
Wait a minute is this Ekharts?
Why was WALL-E making buildings anyway?
2:27 *science fiction.
lego doesn’t have an S in it!
None of the waste in the movie is toxic.... Why is the planet unsurvivable again?
The space ships can contain human life for centuries. Why not keep them parked on earth instead of actually flying into space.
whyyyyy
Hm, that’s a good point I hadn’t considered. You’re right, it doesn’t seem to be toxic or poisonous, just harsh.
You think theres any bones in those cubes?
Oof, figuratively no, and literally… I hope not!
You didn’t mention waste like broken cars and broken robots.
Legos?
9:33 Who is funding block-stacking research?
How did they get this idea?
Why?
Haha fair question, iirc it was some phd students blog, and he tested it at home, but did analysis in free time
@@onstructures thank you for the closure
I just watched I guy who talk about absolute rubbish