Dubai, Constructing the Shard Mega Tower
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The Shard skyscraper in London is taller than the Eiffel Tower. The Shard imposes itself on the London skyline as a marvel of structural engineering. In order to construct this beastly building, engineers used a giant slipform rig. #ImpossibleEngineering Wednesdays 9/8 on Science http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/impossible-engineering/ Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Check out SCI2 for infinitely awesome science videos. Every day. http://bit.ly/SCI2YT Download the TestTube app: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq
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Interesting Fact: The highest occupiable floor in the London Shard is the 72nd floor observatory. There is no floor that can get a person higher. The rest of the tower beyond the 72nd floor is just architectural decoration that has no functioning aspects about it outside of just looking nice. It's all just non occupiable decoration. The 72nd floor rises to a height of 802 ft above ground. So yes that means the Shard's highest observatory can't get you to a thousand feet. In fact it falls 198 ft short of a thousand feet.
The highest pinnacle point of the building rises to 1,016 ft above ground. That makes it higher than the 984 ft tall Eiffel Tower. However the top floor observatory on the Eiffel Tower can get you up to 906 ft above ground. That's 104 ft higher than the London Shard's 72nd floor observatory.
What's weird to me? I live a very short drive outside of a city here in the US that has 5 buildings that are even taller than the London Shard. And no i'm not in New York. (About to have 6 buildings actually now that I think of it.) One is under construction. -
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Actually Warsaw builds the highest Skysraper of the EU
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scard is actually the shard the tallest tower in canary wharf, London
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It is utterly HIDEOUS: I much prefer the Eiffel Tower; in fact Paris is ten times more elegant and beautiful than rotten London!
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i live in an apartment at the shard
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Crap adverts
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I been there
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Watching this made me think of madden mobile because of the background music 😂😂
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how many homeless people can make use of this grande structure its just a big penis to show off how much money they have
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I'm sure some paranoid conspiracy theorist will claim this is an Illuminati building just because of its pyramidal shape.
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21st floor in 10 weeks? science channel need to study any asian skyscrappers! lolz
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Never heard of it before. Usually these mega talls buildings become famous.
But anyway, I'm here to criticize the name of the show: You guys are failing to understand the concept of impossibility as a concept. -
So a new terrorism target? Just what we needed.
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Yeah but what about cleaning it?
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How do sea shells work? Plz make a vid on it!
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Nothing impressive beauty-wise.
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Londistan.Mustafa,Muhamed,Khan should be proud.
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Churchill would be proud
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god built everything. no explanation needed. engineering is propaganda and bullshit.
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