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- 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...
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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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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
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 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
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
This doesn't feel 11 yrs old
such a genius, demonstrating earth is round without even trying...
We can only build up 256 blocks.... duh!
I know that website :P
I love this 😂
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha add a mod problem sloved
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Was about to comment that, thanks lol
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
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 th-cam.com/video/2hFUyRR_Kho/w-d-xo.html
Michael's videos are just timeless, they just can't get old.
*Or would they?*
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 ⛽
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...
This doesnt feel 11 years old
This video is 10years old and the sound and video quality is better than 90% of other videos these days with top tier content
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.
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
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
This video is a decade old, let that sink in
Jesus
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
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.
Why do Vsauce videos age so FUCKING GOOD
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
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...
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
1:50
Props to Michael for jumping off a tall building for a video
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
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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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
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😄
Bro, I swear, Michael's old videos doesn't feel "old" at all. They're so ahead of its time, ngl.
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it's b/c nothing's happened in the last 10 years (; _ ;)
3:12 When you extend the tape measure too long
stupidly accurate
Lol nice one
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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.
@@Cymes Its more fun to think about the possibilities if all buttons were pressed and there wasn't any cancel buttons though.
These vids from Michael catch you into watching the whole thing, wow.
Bruh all I can think of is the Tower of Babel 💀
Really tho
Lol me too
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?
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
it's amazing how much better his videos got once you get back to the older ones
My very first vsauce video that i watched right around 2012 too
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?
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
Finally answering the question
"can we get much higher"
Vsauce classics I watched when I was a kid are the only things that make me feel old now.
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 :(
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?*
“Can we get much higher?” - Vsause
The height limit for buldings is 256 blocks.
NO END THIS JOKE ITS NOT FUNNY
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Lmao
@@BeanMachine360 r/whooosh
SuperlaloGaming its not really "whoosh" they understood it was a joke.
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.
"Why build a Space elevator? 'Cause its awesome" Bro is spitting fax
TH-cam be like, you haven't watched this video in 11 years. Time to watch it again.
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
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.
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.
I'm still waiting for the sequel to this - How high can we get?
can we get much higher
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 😂🤣
Vsauce
Definition: the most excusable form of procrastination
I should be doing homework right now...
Benjamin Newlon same
Me 2
This doesn’t feel 10 years old.
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
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*
This feels like it just got released yesterday
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!
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.
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
vsauce is the best youtuber 2015-2021
Michael might be the one who built Pryramid
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
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
I remember watching this when it was pretty recently new. Crazy how I got recommended it again after so long
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
you can build 256 blocks
Indian Tech Support
That's in Minecraft, and the Eiffel Tower beat the Minecraft world height limit
SciBlast Official / New Videos No shit.
Ghostly
xDDDDDD
Do you think I didn’t get that joke?
I laughed at it when I first saw it
Aside from that...
I do want Minecraft to have a higher height limit so we can build in “space”
The End is a better fit for "Space" in Minecraft.
Indian Tech Support lol
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*
Fun fact: the cost per pound to Earth orbit has reduced nearly tenfold to just $1,200 per pound.
11 year anniversary for this video
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
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
"$11,000 to send a pound to space" That price today is ~$1200. I wonder what it will be 10 years from now?
I have no idea what your on about
Ayo 11 years
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.
6:09 Must be awkward for Flat-Earth theorists
*sweats in flat-earthers*
No they will probably just say the sun is an actor paid by the government
BREEEDAS obviously it is
Why would it? First all flat earthers believe earth is round. Just not a sphere.
Also if you only need your body size to see two sunsets that proves that it doesn't need to be a globe.
Two sun sets can be seen on a flat earth.
It's due to perspective not curvature.
This can be simulated on a flat surface
@@Scientists_dont_lie No, its due to the curvature
There is always an old Vsauce that we haven't watched. 😂
I knew you are gonna tell about the radio station in Poland. It's insane that country I live in built one of the tallest structures ever.
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.
8:55 Why build a space elevator? "Because it would be....AWESOME!" :) Best reason!
this really is a delightful time capsule
Still in my feed after a decade.
Why is it called "Building" if its already built?
An interesting query, though something I cannot answer.
because of the language rules of defination. (Language is limiting human intelligence).
Because english is sucks
no, its the general language i'm talking about. Because of this, i understand whats outside of the intelligence. Thats the formula to understand what's outside the end of the universe. @@IrKhoirudin
bruuuuuhhhhhh
"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
This is the first Vsauce video I ever saw, back around its release.
Micheal: explaining a soace elevator
Ace combat 7 years after: we dont think thats a smart idea
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
How about dropping a ladder from the International Space station.?
Edit: those people who took this comment seriously need serious help. smh
This is gold
See I’m conflicted here I want to say good joke but I also want to explain why that’s not possible aghh
@@anyonewantacheeseburgernos4608 don't ruin a good joke
did you know that Vsauce is pronaunced Viisaus in finnish and it means intelligence
I'd like to see how you try to hop on a ladder moving with about 8 kilometers per second (relative to ground).
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!
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
4:21 Fun fact: The ISS is so close to Earth that the astronauts inside are exposed to almost the same gravitational pull as we on Earth. They only float like in space because of the high orbiting speed which constantly sweeps away the floor below the astronauts while they are falling towards Earth.
Cool
That was entirely explained in a vsauce video.
That's how everything orbits.
thx but I knew it already
Yeah, and the moon only stays up in the sky above us like it does for the same exact reason. It’s high orbiting speed keeps it from falling onto the Earth, and Earth’s gravity keeps it from floating away, just like how everything else that orbits something does.
As of now, it's possible to build for about 256 blocks verrically in a typical world. That doesn't solve the questions yet as they are measured in blocks. 1 block in Minecraft measures 10m × 10m. So 1 block has 10m width when seen as in 2D. Therefore, using simple math, 256 × 10m, it is currently possible to build 2,560m or 2.56km vertically.
A block in Minecraft is ONE cubic meter; not 10, but still funny.
3:24 thought there was gonna be a huge crash… nope, just a limp noodle smacking the ground.
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.
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
This is the start of peak Vsauce!