All Humans in One Building — Transcript

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1. 0:00what if all people lived in one building
2. 0:02a building of this size could already
3. 0:04house all 8.4 million residents of New
4. 0:06York City it would have 16680 floors and
5. 0:09be seven times taller than the Burge
6. 0:11Khalifa we could use turbines to harvest
7. 0:13the strong winds at those Heights or we
8. 0:15could just build a cube like this to
9. 0:16reduce the height but let's go even
10. 0:18bigger a skyscraper for all 7.9 billion
11. 0:21people on Earth would have 1.7 million
12. 0:24floors and reach outer space people on
13. 0:26the middle floors would watch the
14. 0:27International Space Station fly past
15. 0:29their window even the fastest elevators
16. 0:31would take days to reach the pen houses
17. 0:34this sounds impractical so let's build a
18. 0:36cube for all of humanity for that we
19. 0:38need 945 New York City cubes which would
20. 0:40make it 11 km long in each Dimension
21. 0:43this isn't even that big and would
22. 0:45almost fit in New York's biggest park
23. 0:47would you like to live in such a
24. 0:48building