Dubai, How Tall Can Skyscrapers Get?
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Get an engineeer's-eye-view of the tallest buildings in the world, to learn what challenges they face as they reach for the sky and wonder, how tall can we build? ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://www.dvice.com/2013-10-25/whats-tallest-skyscraper-physics-would-allow-us-build http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/08/there-limit-how-tall-buildings-can-get/2963/ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131011-birth-of-the-mile-high-building http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/taller-how-future-skyscrapers-will-beat-the-burj-khalifa-8893983 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/better-faster-taller-how-big-can-buildings-really-get-27500726/?no-ist http://www.arabianbusiness.com/kingdom-tower-have-world-s-fastest-double-decker-lift-553366.html#.U5fc3vldVX8 http://gizmodo.com/how-the-worlds-next-tallest-building-will-be-built-1525129231 http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~krasny/math654_irwin.pdf http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/dec/02/naturaldisasters.climatechange https://www.bauer.de/en/career/newsletter/2012-10/kingdom_tower_lakhta_tower.html http://www.ctbuh.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Fdx2awLbk%2Fg%3D&tabid=1090&language=en-GB http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/rise-supertalls
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I am an engineering student and within the past year, we had one of the lead engineers for the Kingdom Tower come and do a seminar. It was amazing to hear him explain many of the issues brought up in the video, but in much greater detail. He showed us models and drawings to help explain. It has by far the most amazing seminar I have ever been to.
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I can feel the building I work in at the 60th floor.
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2:30 jet fuel can't melt steel beams
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I'm so conflicted on this channel. The information is always interesting, but the way he delivers it is so hokey and hard to listen to. I want to subscribe, but I just can't.
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Electromagnetic elevator ... what could go wrong :)
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But can jet beams melt those carbon fiber dreams?
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Carbon Fibre? FOOL, JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS!! STAY WOKE, AMERIKA!!
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I love skyscrapers, but only when it makes economic sense in a densely populated metro area with a full skyline.
These countries building random skyscrapers just to be the tallest are ridiculous. Having running water on the top floors is an impractical expense in itself. -
My dream is.......... Creating an 5km skyscrapper
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use the imperial system buffoons
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Make the base of the buildings SUPER wide & get progressively narrower as you go up...
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I have been on top of the Willis Tower in Chicago, IL. That was enough, and that was WAY shorter. I would panic, Cry and scream.
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so how high???
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With all due respect, the Burj Khalifa engineers did not come up with skylobbies; the twin towers, designed in the 1960s and built into the early 1970s, had them
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Who needs elevators, we just need to invent teleportation...
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Seems awesome but impractical
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Lol I live above a Starbucks
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what a gross inhuman scale....there are reasons why cities like Rome are so appealing, and it isn't because they have kilometre tall monstrosities
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... ??? Also, the higher you go, the greater the difference the speed the top of the building is traveling compared to the bottom caused by the Earth's rotation (provided the Earth doesn't turn out to be flat as so many seem to decry). Is that an issue? To me it seems wind drag will be a consideration. Also, the higher wind velocities and differing wind directions up there.
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Good video BUT can you do a pop-up or something for those of us in America who have no idea of the metric system. Thanks
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