What's The Single Largest Continuous Structure Ever Made? DEBUNKED
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What’s the structure that has used the most material, covers the widest area and contains the largest volume? Join us as we travel back through time to discover the Largest Single Structure Ever Made By Humankind? And guess what, it isn’t what you think it is!
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Great wall of china
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no dude stop bothering me and go away
youve been watching me for weeks now so do me a favor
You should be on the BBC rather than TH-cam. Superb videos. Thank you! All the best.
@@DFlemming thanks so much for that comment 😊
How can this channel not be famous with how good of a production it has
Thanks, that’s very kind 👍
Actually the animation style turned me off. The videos have cool ideas but I don't want to watch cartoons.
If you decide that the separate bits of the Great Wall of China are one structure, why not just lump all buildings and roads in Africa/Europe/Asia together? They're all sort of interconnected by roads aren't they?
tell me that roads are buildings/structures
@@HDTomo If you're counting landfills as structures a road network certainly qualifies.
Thats right. Someone please calculate the result!
I think the Great Wall of China is different. They also couldn't build where there were barriers. It has one name. Each road and some buildings have a different name. I think buildings and walls, especially country borders are different.
If you think all roads in a country are one then why did you stop at country? Why don't you think that for the whole world? That's your logic. It doesn't make sense, and sounded overreaching.
Why are you mad tho?
Forgot the true biggest human-made structure:
Every human-made structure in the world combined.
Since you're happy to combine other things into lump-sums, why not everything?
I don't think Debunked combined things. They couldn't make the Great Wall of China connected even if they wanted to. It has one name. It's a country border.
Love how you shattered my beliefs and made me happy for it. Thanks for another great video!
Humanities greatest structures:
The roads that connect us, the walls that protect us.... and the mountains of trash we throw away.
Overall a much more accurate picture of humanity than the skyscrapers we try to use as monuments to our civilization.
I think there's too many roads. What Not Just Bikes on the problem of too many roads.
ok but like, don't all the road networks across all of the old world continent count as 1 structure? And also places like New York, the entire city is connected with a concrete base, thus making it all 1 structure. So like, all of the cities all interconnected by road networks, and all the buildings connected to the roads as long as their bases are connected to the road by some man made thing.
i thought the same thing
I don't think so. Each road has a different name.
Roads have different names while the wall doesn't, the Chinese played the world yet again
Just imagine archeologists discovering that trashdump centuries from now.
I can’t believe he mentioned Benin wall great dude! 😁
Thanks! This video took soooooooooo much research and rewriting to get to a more definitive answer. Glad you enjoyed it!
I was expecting one of the great canals either Suez or Panama. I thought perhaps you would cover how much Earth had been excavated.
I thought so too
Please use the proper lowercase "m" for metre, it's the proper official symbol. You're already writing it in small caps, so just let it be the regular lowercase form. This is for example important for recognisability.
depends on country, in the UK it is M
@@SirZanZa International.
@@Lollaksyotuube M
@@SirZanZa is your shift key stuck?
Lol my phone's font is small caps and it made this comment funny.
Homer: Where are we going?
Barge driver: Garbage island.
Seems arbitrary to cut the road networks off at country borders.. the roads continue over borders
That’s why we covered the Pan-American and Asian Highway as single structure networks that cross multiple borders. Thanks for watching.
@@DebunkedOfficial yes but then you didn't continue the china paved road network into neighbouring countries and beyond (all of Afro-Eurasia..... Well, that's another topic, how many "continents" are there on earth...;) ) and as others have pointed out a lot of these "road structures" physically connect to other manmade structures in cities etc.... I normally like your vids, but this is a poor one unfortunately :(
2:04 "twenty-five times as big"
Shows a cube fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty-five times as big ...
It's actually accurate if you measure it. You can check by holding up a ruler to the screen and measuring the bottom edge of both cubes.
@@Operngeist1 They're comparing volumes. Cubes scale up in three dimensions. A cube with twenty-five times the volume has sides only 2.924 times as long.
Appreciate the effort 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
20:14 6.8 MILLION KILOMETRES!
The world’s Southernmost city is Puerto Williams, Chile, but otherwise, amazing video
🤯 Wow. Just wow.
@4:10 - Very good pronunciations of the Mandarin names of the Chinese states.
another banger!
20:12 looks like spyder's web
id guess its the chinese road network or something like that.
Can you tell us that if we measure it in real life ( cube that you animated )
How big it would be like
:- height , width?
Can biggest structure's volume reach space??
A very interesting question. Bear with us and we'll get those figures 👌
@@DebunkedOfficial thanks for replying
And you could also make videos on this
• what's the single most expensive man-made structure to ever built ,
• video on Alien life ?
• video on apple company ??
• video on what if human use brain at full potential?
• can anyone become genius?
(Like Einstein , Elon Musk , bill gates , Leonardo da vinci )
• how baba vanga and nostradamus predicted future with 70-80% comes true , they saw future ??
• video on meditation ( enlightenment, superpowers? )
• if we collect all trash on the planet and throw into volcano 🌋
• what if we collect all the trash in the world and mix it and make a cube ( how big would be that cube , i think it would be bigger than many city) weight of it and length of it?
•what if someone had iq of 1000 ?
Sorry for writing this many suggestions, but this is one in a life time that my fav. You tuber replied me
My math may be off, but I think the cube would be 170km on each edge. Space is generally recognized as 100km up meaning this cube would easily reach space. For a more easy to conceptualize reference Florida is around 200km wide.
Y’all just keep bringing the best content out there. Thank y’all for this, perfect late night vid
Awesome!
😊 thanks
The Great Wall of Benin is my favourite…I just learned a lot from this video…🤗
Thanks for watching and commenting! And we’re very happy that you learned some new things 👍
Keep grinding……one day it will pay off ❤
Hope so 🤔
Interesting stuff. Can you do largest building in foot print size
We have something along these lines on our production slate, just hoping this video takes off a bit more to make sure there's the appetite for it. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Probably the electric grid or road network
The perfect video to wake-up too
Good morning! Or maybe good afternoon now.
Actually, the 1000 li long wall, also known as the great wall of China, is actually over 20000 kilometres long.
Waited 21 minutes for the eurasian road network to be mentioned. Only a part of it was mentioned.
The top of the Great Wall of China is also a road for much of its length, meaning that if the Chinese road network connects at any point to the Great Wall, like, say, at a tourist destination with a parking lot and a paved walkway to a staircase up the wall, then you can combine both of them together into a single structure!
I guessed global internet network (Fiber and copper) depending on how "large" is measured! Would have been interesting to mention this. Obviously this wouldnt be the largest by volume, but I would say its the largest spanning structure (assuming the entire globe is interconnected).
Beautiful - Say and display base 10, display only Imperial.
Earthworks of Benin?
it's in there, but how does it match up?! Hope you enjoyed the video!
@@DebunkedOfficial Always enjoy your videos. I am now finishing watching it, I got waylaid earlier 2 minutes into it.
@@DebunkedOfficial yeah I think I'd still consider Benin to be the largest. Certainly the largest pre-industrial. But you're right it depends on what you consider a structure. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, keep up the good work mate
"unbiased"
Have you seen, visited, be on or in any of these?
no bruh
no
Ihave been in the pan american highway
the boeing everett plant is a building in washington state that is 472 million cubic feet
I'm guessing before watching. I'm gonna guess something like a warehouse or factory of really big thing or the sarcophagus in pripyat
Considering the citizens of china themselves decry their highways and bridges
as "Tofu Dregs", I don't think I'll consider their highway system particularly impressive.
Just started the video I'm guessing space station
You forgot about Lake Powell....... 30 billion m3.
Can you tell us that this cube that you animate would be big in real life measure ment
Like biggest structure volume would be 10 km height 10 km wide
??
A very interesting question. Bear with us and we'll get back to you with the figures 👌
@@DebunkedOfficial thanks for replying
And you could also make videos on this
• what's the single most expensive man-made structure to ever built ,
• video on Alien life ?
• video on apple company ??
• video on what if human use brain at full potential?
• can anyone become genius?
(Like Einstein , Elon Musk , bill gates , Leonardo da vinci )
• how baba vanga and nostradamus predicted future with 70-80% comes true , they saw future ??
• video on meditation ( enlightenment, superpowers? )
• if we collect all trash on the planet and throw into volcano 🌋
• what if we collect all the trash in the world and mix it and make a cube ( how big would be that cube , i think it would be bigger than many city) weight of it and length of it?
•what if someone had iq of 1000 ?
Sorry for writing this many suggestions, but this is one in a life time that my fav. You tuber replied me
Prob a city or something like that
*Single* largest
Amazing answer. Really well thought out
Urbanized contiguous proper city? Probably Beijing with 16000sqkm
At the end we'll back to a country ig
No mention of the oil sands tailing ponds? Until yu got into road networks, they were/are bigger than anything mentioned.
I suspect you are stretching the definition of structure to the breaking point to include an entire road network. They composed of things like bridges and overpasses which are also structures in the commonly used sense of the word for instance.
4:50 The great wall wasn't at the Korean peninsula! Please change.
That’s exactly what we’re pointing out, that there are disputes over the maps and what is actually even the Great Wall Of China. Thanks for watching
@@DebunkedOfficial OMG You watched mine! I was so astonished; thanks by the way;)
haven't watched yet. first thought: must be a power grid, right?
My top two guesses: either our road system or electric grid.
Nevermind, my guess is roads. I missed it was by volume.
So Chinese roads and a garbage fill. How inspiring lol
feels like the 22,000,000 hours to build fact is a little off, that's over 2500 years. must mean combined work hours
Decode how Indian Temples were constructed
22 million hours???
I like it 👌👍🏻☑️✅
Thanks!
what about the man made islands made in Dubai, the Palm Islands ?
Good call! We should have included this! At a very rough estimate (going by the square km and the figures for depth available from a very brief search) this would come in at around 80 million cubic meters, so it was definitely worthy of a mention. Thanks for watching!
@@DebunkedOfficial The Netherlands win if you count man made islands, we literally raised the entire province of Flevoland out of the water, that entire chunk of land would easily win anything on this list.
Let me guess.. roads or railway tracks?!
in my opinion, I don't think roads are structures
*DON'T GIVE UP! I KNOW WE CAN MAKE IT BIGGER! ♡*
_That’s what she said_
@@Killer_KT _-Oh so you're gonna pull on it?-_ *bruh noone says that anymore*
@@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Would too big and too tall become impractical? Like having to always take the elevator to the 100th floor. Would you want to live like that? People shouldn't waste money, time, materials, and space making something that most people won't use. Look at how too many buildings and towns are abandoned. They're called ghost towns. Then some people complain about overpopulation or homelessness when some people chose to build cities inefficiently.
how about the delta works in the netherlands?
What about Eurasia road system it's all connected
22 million hours to build?
i love numbers!
What about our electricity grid?
It's the electricity grid I'll take a guess
Keep guessing 😉
I may be making this comment a bit early but I assume largest man made structures would be roads? 🤷♂️
22 Million hours is 2511.4 years
Last I checked, roads don't generally end when they meet a country border.
Indeed, that’s why we covered the Pan-American and Asian Highway as single networks that cross multiple borders 👍
@@DebunkedOfficial Sorry I should have been more clear. What I was implying was that it would have been very interesting to see an estimation of the largest contiguous cross-country road network in the world.
4:13, how do these Chinese people used to come up with these sarcastic names?
The largest man made structure is the road system think about it they’re all connected
Nice video
#AnuragDas
1:03 22 million hours? Please explain.
That’s less than a year
Are you confusing billion with million? 22,000,000 seconds is less than a year
Unless you think a million is 1000000000
@@emilypurdy2097 the video said it took 22 millions HOURS. He didn’t say seconds. 22 millions hours is 2,511.416 years. That is impossible.
Is China the largest man made structure in the world?
How about tunnels and excavations....
I thought it gonna be the trash patch continent between Rusia and USA
What about cities or agglomerations? Aren't they considered structures as well?
I guess we should have added 'physical' 🤔
yes. and the roads that connect to other cities.
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Repeat after me: "The name of the country is Colombia, not Columbia" @16:53. There are no "u" in Colombia (the country).
even the wavy red underline is wrong
How did the Burj khalifa take 22 million hours to build? That's equivalent to 2,511 years. I'm I missing something? 🤔
man-hours! It's different.
If I spent 1 hour making concrete and Joe spends 1 hour transporting it. While jack stands on site waiting for the concrete that’s three hours of work that happens in only two hours. Now you expand that. One person work week 40 hours. 10 is 400. 1000 is 40000. And onwards.
Nicely explained 👌
Question :Static charge produces an electric field around itself. But how does a moving charge produces a magnetic field around itself?
Colombia *
Question:Everybody is balanced if its center of mass passes through its base.
But in the banking of the cycle, the cycle is ultimately balanced but its center of mass is not passing through its wheels. (base)
How does a banking cycle balance?
Lol. Who’s the guy who reads quotes. He sounds so uninterested by it. Sure the narrator could just read them, no?
You are really stretching the definition of SINGLE there a bit, aren't you?
burp
China Road Network has 19.6 billion square meters, and is 8000x bigger than the pyramids of giza and almost about a fraction of a fraction of a fraction............. of your moms weight. Which is quite astonishing as her weight is around 500 trigintillion times around of that estimate.
Ground News sadly not as advertised, far, far to much American news.
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I would have thought the Great Wall of China which is visible from space.
We did cover this but it ended up on the cutting room floor as the video is the largest we've ever made!
The great wall of china isnt visible from space
The Chinese 🇨🇳 are kinda experts in mass production since ancient times hahah 😂 Look at the terracotta army not just the Great Wall, oh yea funny enough they reproduce Chinese people a lot too, one of the largest populations in the world! no wonder they were a popular country for factories manufacturing products for a long time although now many companies are going to Vietnam, India or Bangladesh. Sadly, quality has deteriorated greatly since ancient times, now all some of the mass produced stuff are cheap and poor quality.
A Lake would be the largest if you are to include landfills.
Lake Kariba
you can't exactly count the water as part of the structure
igloos? lol
the word STRUCTURE isnt even properly defined.
You could argue that the cities, electrical grid and rails and roads of Afro-Eurasia are the biggest Man Made Structure. Why not connect it to the Americas through the TransAtlantic Underwater Communication Cables! Without defining the Word Structure this video is just a waste
Pls stop using ridiculous imperial measures
Why do you start every sentence with a DEEP voice and slowly go higher?
😋 P r o m o S M!!!
Wrong. All wrong. At least kinda bother to do some research. The worlds largest man made structure is 9 Km by 9km. Its a circular structure, diameter of almost 9 kms. Circumference of 27 km. Its the Large Hedron Collider in Europe built by CERN.
Please stop using the stupid word misinformation! It's so annoying hearing this word thrown around the last few years. Please be more intelligent and use words like inaccurate, misleading, false, or any other word to convey meaning. I clicked away and unsubscribed .
It ain’t that deep bro calma calma 😎
He isn't a grammer expert.
@@galaxy1234 indeed
Cant believe people unsubscribe because of this 😂😂