Talking of CERN and just in science fiction theory - if we had a space elevator enabling this madness, would there be an advantage in building a particle accelerator around the equator of the moon? Less gravity, lots of space and no plate tectonics could be helpful, couldn't they?
2:08 Hi, I am unsure if you will see this, but during the Palace of the Parliament section of the video (marked above), the caption and wordage are not the same. The caption says “5 million”, and the narrator says “4 million”. Hope you guys can figure this out :)
How about "let's build a 2 km high mountain in the Netherlands without regard for how much subsidence such a weight would cause in an already low-lying country"? It was quite popular a few years ago...
Did you see that they quietly reduced the amount they say will be completed by 2030? Originally the entire thing was going to be fully complete by then, now they reduced it to 2 km 🤣 I think it's kind of a cool idea, but also kind of dystopian at the same time.
@@Leyrann You talk like *(A)* It was going to be a solid structure, and *(B)* Dutch engineers would not have taken its foundation into account. Clue: they would have. They are smarter than you.
@@AlbertaGeekso are the engineers behind The Line. As always the problem is that investors have more money than common sense and that’s not on the specialists making a quick buck over some oligarch’s inflated ego.
@ The mountain idea originated in a tongue-in-cheek newspaper column. The engineering studies that were done on it were more intellectual exercises than anything serious. That idiot "Line" idea, OTOH, like you say has far more money than brains behind it.
Half as interesting makes a video at the end of each year showcasing all the errors he made in all his videos that year. I think it would be cool if scishow did that too, because this is far from the first error.
11:24 - We actually used to have compact particle accelerators on everybody's computer desk and living room! Old-school CRT monitors and televisions were, in fact, compact particle accelerators, emitting and accelerating electrons at a phosphorescent screen to create computer displays before we had today's flat panel LCDs. They were also vitally important in early scientific research, and an extremely primitive version (Crookes Tube) helped us discover the electron.
I feel like including the LHC and the national power grid begs the question how much do cities weigh. Mexico City and Tokyo probably weigh more than even that oil platform, but we're no longer talking about a single structure.
Being executed as a single project which was planned and overseen from start to finish seems like a decent criterion which would (sort-of) include the LHC and power grid but not cities. It's not perfectly precise, but most things aren't when you look at them closely enough.
if we talk about collectives / connected things, then we might as well talk about the weight of all built structures combined? maybe separated by continents. but otherwise, roads/pavement, power lines, water/gas lines, sewers, etc... basically link all human structures. the combined weight of all that concrete should really scare us, since producing and curing concrete all generate CO2.
One of the biggest thing we have produced is landfills. Mining waste piles totalling billion tonnes, billions of cubic meters, but they are seldom counted in mass
If you include interconnected networks of structures like the power grid, might as well also include road networks? All the interconnected pavement/concrete/bridges across Europe+Asia+Africa must weigh quite a lot.
I would consider those modular rather than a single structure. The oil rig is purpose built, while a city or roads are added onto as needed while cities develop.
@@jasonharrison25 it's an opinion. The video is not an authority that decides anything either. The entire point is about what you would consider the largest thing built.
„The Line“ is one of the most stupid ideas ever convinced. Traveling to places will take forever because everything is always the farthest possible distance away. 170km in length? Good luck going ANYWHERE that is not within a few KM of your residence.
Supposedly the idea to mitigate this is to be using ultra high speed rail that can travel the distance quickly. Of course the massive obvious failing here is that it means there's a huge breakdown of infrastructure that you can't get around if something render literally any part of that rail line inoperable. And it'd still be better to just build a radial network with strategically positioned stations
@@Aaronrules380 Seriously. The Line's shape seems pretty inefficient for a city. For a road connecting two distant places? Sure, a line makes sense, but I don't think that's the point of The Line. Why not just build a circular city with concentric transit lines? Throw in a few crossover points and then the light rail cars can navigate around potential issues. (yes, this is an oversimplification)
The line is planned to have everything a person could need within 2-5km. Also it may seem dumb to us, but where the line is to be built would connect Saudi Arabia's 2 most prosperous cities, essentially creating a trade route between the two via "the line" and this is important because if Saudi arabia were to just build a regular city halfway it would be in a barren wasteland of desert, completely void of any financial or even food security. Saudi arabia has a crisis of population growth which makes it necessary for them to expand housing and the cities they already have can't afford to do so, but their govt can afford to build new cities and the line is the most effective example of how they can do this on paper. Whether it turns out to be true is to be seen, they need to first build the thing before we can seriously judge it. Currently we can only say "hey dude that don't sound like it could work" but do we have any real validation for this sentiment beyond our personal biases?
Mass, not weight. Atoms are mostly empty space. That calculation assumes you could compile that many electrons together with no empty space. The force needed to do that approaches that of a blackhole.
I was surprised to not see the Great Wall of China in here since it's the heaviest continuous structure humans have ever built, weighin about 50 million tons, almost 10 times that of the Great Pyramid.
Great Wall of China isn’t a continuous structure to be fair. It’s several walls by several dynasties of varying material and quality (some was just mud). So it’s probably hard to calculate it’s true size and weight, and it depends on which bits you’re talking about.
"What if you could fit an entire city into a single building?" My dad described flying out to a mining company he contracted for once as "The entire town lives inside essentially one really big mall." Being in northern Canada, it just worked best to make a settlement for all the employees and their families that includes everything you could ever need during long winters when you just can't leave. Offices, shops, housing, schools, anything you need. Literally an entire town in one large building. Obviously not on this scale, but the concept does work!
I know it was a passing joke, but I honestly love the idea of y'all getting a host in their 70s or 80s that is super enthusiastic about whatever topic it is they're presenting. New guest host idea anybody? Have y'all tried Billy Nye lmao
was this video about big energy or big weight? surely we could have discussed giant roadways, space vehicle transporters, the great wall, Ogenesson, ASPCA commercials during christmas.
9:52 electrons don't really move the way photons do, so this could be a bit confusing. Electrons wiggle back and forth, it's the energy that that wiggle is imparting on the next that moves and is the electricity we use.
I take issue with including the line. It's...not built. And holy hell there are a lot of problems that will probably bankrupt the project before it's anywhere near this list. Not even counting the ethical or ecological ones.
"Some of the plans . . . would probably definitely be bad for animals. . ."!? And: if Africa is an island because the Suez Canal finished surrounding it by water, then all the rest of the (former) continents should also be called islands?
It made no assumption like that. The video is about big things. The USA has a large electrical grid. The host happens to live in the USA, so said "we."
30 seconds in, and there’s already tension between “heaviest” in the title, “biggest” in the first couple of phrases, and “most massive” at the end of the Intro. Not a promising start for internal consistency.
Does anyone know a channel that explains stuff in a historic and social context? What I am looking for is pretty complicated, but instead of getting bits and pieces from everywhere it's kinda this: I was talking with someone about prison and the things that make me understand more of what and why it is and what makes it intresting and it's kinda these questions: 1. What was it like before? + context why/how/where/when did it start? In multiple places independently or was it copied? 2. What has changed in the system since? + context why/how/where/when did those changes happen or not happen? It seems things don't change unless the problem is big enough... And sometimes you need technology before something is possible. 3. What diffrent ways do we see around the world? + context why/how/where/when and do we still see specifik pros or cons when comparing them? 4. Are there any conclusions for the future? What would need to happen before any next step and what is in the way of that happening? All these questions for everything. Why public transport, healthcare, pensions, renting cars and homes, stores, restaurants, community, hobby's, old people homes, nail polish, smoking, bedrooms and kitchens blabla Why are some crimes punished more then others? why can those who are in power ignore some stuff and why would they? Why are things a popularity contest? is everything a popularity contest?
I wonder whether there's enough content to make a list of densest things interesting, bc I immediately assumed the Elephant's Foot was gonna be in this video, ngl. Not sure there's anything else, though.
I don't know enough to make the connection, but I recently played Spec Ops: The Line, which takes place in Dubai. Coincidence??? ...probably, but I find it amusing.
I like how a "heaviest things humans have ever built" includes a thing that isn't the heaviest and that humans haven't built. I guess titles don't mean anything on this channel anymore either.
It completely seperates the landmasses of Eurasia and Africa on the surface. Same for the Panama Canal and the Americas.... It's just tongue-in-cheek anyway.
I enjoy a nice cold case of Megalophobia. Places/Objects like these are my worst nightmare. But really, things have to be like Dyson Sphere sized and up for it to get really uncomfortable for me. Yuck.
Some feedback: I don’t think that it’s very productive to start the video off with the cynical and probably anachronistic take that the pyramids of Giza and other great monuments of ancient history were “vanity projects” akin to Jeff Bezos and his funny shaped rocket. It is impossible to know what these diverse and far-removed people who built and died in these monuments thought about what they were doing. Nothing against the host, she did great. I just want to make sure that we are careful about how we communicate about cultures we know very little about, and to not over-interpret data based on our modern sensibilities.
What makes the continent of Africa more of an island than Eurasia? When humans made the Suez Canal, wouldn’t Eurasia then become the bigger of the two islands?
The Line shouldn't be mentioned in 2025 going forward without an asterisk about the tens of thousands of workers that have already died, or the summary executions of those who resisted eviction. People are still getting hung up on how stupid the concept is and missing the absolute inhumanity of its execution.
The line is stupid and bad. It is a bad thing made by slaves controlled by horrible people with too much wealth. They do slaves and suppress women. Disrespect to those people and their dumb building.
Even if the great wall of China isn't one continuous building, I suspect even more than one part of it, considered separate entities are big enough to deserve a spot on that list. When the definition of "built" is wide enough to include networks, I would have assumed many road networks would have more mass than the networks mentioned. And when going even further, beyond what's made by humans to mentioning changes in distribution of mass that are caused by human activity, our current atmosphere comes to mind, Even if you just count fossil CO2 emissions, we emit almost the same mass as the capacity of the three Gorges dam reservoir in a single year, which means we emit as much CO2 as the capacity of the Bratsk reservoir in less than five years. Even if you only count the fossil carbon, excluding the oxygen in CO2 you still end up with a much bigger number of fossil carbon that we have moved to the atmosphere, already, and fossil carbon emissions still shows an increasing trend.
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@@DarkElfDiva Your speaking babble.
Talking of CERN and just in science fiction theory - if we had a space elevator enabling this madness, would there be an advantage in building a particle accelerator around the equator of the moon? Less gravity, lots of space and no plate tectonics could be helpful, couldn't they?
2:08
Hi, I am unsure if you will see this, but during the Palace of the Parliament section of the video (marked above), the caption and wordage are not the same. The caption says “5 million”, and the narrator says “4 million”. Hope you guys can figure this out :)
"You can't embarrass yourself in front of an algorithm"
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'The Line' takes the cake for the single stupidest engineering idea I have ever seen in my entire life.
How about "let's build a 2 km high mountain in the Netherlands without regard for how much subsidence such a weight would cause in an already low-lying country"? It was quite popular a few years ago...
Did you see that they quietly reduced the amount they say will be completed by 2030? Originally the entire thing was going to be fully complete by then, now they reduced it to 2 km 🤣 I think it's kind of a cool idea, but also kind of dystopian at the same time.
@@Leyrann You talk like *(A)* It was going to be a solid structure, and *(B)* Dutch engineers would not have taken its foundation into account.
Clue: they would have. They are smarter than you.
@@AlbertaGeekso are the engineers behind The Line. As always the problem is that investors have more money than common sense and that’s not on the specialists making a quick buck over some oligarch’s inflated ego.
@ The mountain idea originated in a tongue-in-cheek newspaper column. The engineering studies that were done on it were more intellectual exercises than anything serious. That idiot "Line" idea, OTOH, like you say has far more money than brains behind it.
Your forgot the earth sandwich, made by someone in UK and Australia.
Did they actually find the antipodes and put a slice of bread on them? 😂
It was actually Spain and New Zealand which are exactly antipodal
@@impaler331 yes
You know what's heavier than the earth sandwich? Your Mum
You forgot our collective, ever-growing sense of existential dread.
That is an irrational number, unable to be expressed. It exceeds the collective computational power of all supercomputers.
There is no number that could ever fully express such a vastness, lol
Elona Muskova's ego
Or sense of irony maybe.
That's heavy
2:08 “Nearly 4 million metric tons”
5 million metric tons is displayed on screen at the same time
Half as interesting makes a video at the end of each year showcasing all the errors he made in all his videos that year. I think it would be cool if scishow did that too, because this is far from the first error.
Well 5 is near 4 I guess
11:24 - We actually used to have compact particle accelerators on everybody's computer desk and living room! Old-school CRT monitors and televisions were, in fact, compact particle accelerators, emitting and accelerating electrons at a phosphorescent screen to create computer displays before we had today's flat panel LCDs.
They were also vitally important in early scientific research, and an extremely primitive version (Crookes Tube) helped us discover the electron.
I feel like including the LHC and the national power grid begs the question how much do cities weigh. Mexico City and Tokyo probably weigh more than even that oil platform, but we're no longer talking about a single structure.
I thought for sure LHC would be on the list
Interesting question
The oil platform is the heaviest *movable* man-made object.
Being executed as a single project which was planned and overseen from start to finish seems like a decent criterion which would (sort-of) include the LHC and power grid but not cities. It's not perfectly precise, but most things aren't when you look at them closely enough.
if we talk about collectives / connected things, then we might as well talk about the weight of all built structures combined? maybe separated by continents. but otherwise, roads/pavement, power lines, water/gas lines, sewers, etc... basically link all human structures.
the combined weight of all that concrete should really scare us, since producing and curing concrete all generate CO2.
One of the biggest thing we have produced is landfills. Mining waste piles totalling billion tonnes, billions of cubic meters, but they are seldom counted in mass
If you include interconnected networks of structures like the power grid, might as well also include road networks? All the interconnected pavement/concrete/bridges across Europe+Asia+Africa must weigh quite a lot.
I would consider those modular rather than a single structure. The oil rig is purpose built, while a city or roads are added onto as needed while cities develop.
@@AceofSpades0725Then the electric grid shouldn't count. Yet it was talked about in this video
@@jasonharrison25 it's an opinion. The video is not an authority that decides anything either. The entire point is about what you would consider the largest thing built.
With how outlandish some of the things they considered a single "thing" in this video I'm surprised they didn't say like "the subway system"
No way. Subway helps you LOSE weight.
im romanian and i miss romania so badly since i m both in exam season and study abroad. the bucharest bit was so unexpected and it made my day
„The Line“ is one of the most stupid ideas ever convinced. Traveling to places will take forever because everything is always the farthest possible distance away. 170km in length? Good luck going ANYWHERE that is not within a few KM of your residence.
Supposedly the idea to mitigate this is to be using ultra high speed rail that can travel the distance quickly. Of course the massive obvious failing here is that it means there's a huge breakdown of infrastructure that you can't get around if something render literally any part of that rail line inoperable. And it'd still be better to just build a radial network with strategically positioned stations
I've heard that it isn't expected to ever be built, it's just a large scale money laundering scheme
@@Aaronrules380 Seriously. The Line's shape seems pretty inefficient for a city. For a road connecting two distant places? Sure, a line makes sense, but I don't think that's the point of The Line.
Why not just build a circular city with concentric transit lines? Throw in a few crossover points and then the light rail cars can navigate around potential issues. (yes, this is an oversimplification)
The line is planned to have everything a person could need within 2-5km. Also it may seem dumb to us, but where the line is to be built would connect Saudi Arabia's 2 most prosperous cities, essentially creating a trade route between the two via "the line" and this is important because if Saudi arabia were to just build a regular city halfway it would be in a barren wasteland of desert, completely void of any financial or even food security. Saudi arabia has a crisis of population growth which makes it necessary for them to expand housing and the cities they already have can't afford to do so, but their govt can afford to build new cities and the line is the most effective example of how they can do this on paper. Whether it turns out to be true is to be seen, they need to first build the thing before we can seriously judge it. Currently we can only say "hey dude that don't sound like it could work" but do we have any real validation for this sentiment beyond our personal biases?
Most idea's start as "dumb" but in the end, the only "dumb" one, is the one who sat back and watched.
The weight of the electrons storing data is the same as a strawberry! 😱 my mind is officially blown!
Mass, not weight. Atoms are mostly empty space. That calculation assumes you could compile that many electrons together with no empty space. The force needed to do that approaches that of a blackhole.
I was surprised to not see the Great Wall of China in here since it's the heaviest continuous structure humans have ever built, weighin about 50 million tons, almost 10 times that of the Great Pyramid.
That's because aliens built the great wall of china; this list is just things that HUMANS have built. Duh.
Great Wall of China isn’t a continuous structure to be fair. It’s several walls by several dynasties of varying material and quality (some was just mud).
So it’s probably hard to calculate it’s true size and weight, and it depends on which bits you’re talking about.
Because China sucks and they shouldn’t be recognized for anything. The Lame wall of China more like.
It's not continuous, but does deserve the list
"What if you could fit an entire city into a single building?"
My dad described flying out to a mining company he contracted for once as "The entire town lives inside essentially one really big mall." Being in northern Canada, it just worked best to make a settlement for all the employees and their families that includes everything you could ever need during long winters when you just can't leave. Offices, shops, housing, schools, anything you need. Literally an entire town in one large building. Obviously not on this scale, but the concept does work!
A big shout-out to the Practical Engineering YT channel by Grady Hilhouse!
Technically, mass and weight are different things. As every physicist knows, mass is measured in grams, while weight is measured in yo’mommas.
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For the Romanian Parliament building, our host says 4 million metric tons, while the graphic says 5 million.
2:00 Audio says 4mil, the note on screen says 5mil - Which is it?
Over 5 mil, according to the source provided in the description.
Are you planning to lift it ?
It's big
I find it fascinating that, when people are talking about the Great Pyramid, they often mistakenly show it's smaller brethren, the pyramid of Khafre
40 year old science construction project is beyond ambitious
I know it was a passing joke, but I honestly love the idea of y'all getting a host in their 70s or 80s that is super enthusiastic about whatever topic it is they're presenting. New guest host idea anybody? Have y'all tried Billy Nye lmao
Big things
Wow, are you Ernest Hemingway?
@@idontwantahandlethough extensive vocabulary, never used
I always find the windmill love hilarious, the amount of other problems they cause seem to outweigh the benefits to me.
Hey vsauce, Michael here
was this video about big energy or big weight? surely we could have discussed giant roadways, space vehicle transporters, the great wall, Ogenesson, ASPCA commercials during christmas.
Lorge
9:52 electrons don't really move the way photons do, so this could be a bit confusing. Electrons wiggle back and forth, it's the energy that that wiggle is imparting on the next that moves and is the electricity we use.
Yes I was surprised by this inaccuracy in the video too!
I take issue with including the line. It's...not built. And holy hell there are a lot of problems that will probably bankrupt the project before it's anywhere near this list. Not even counting the ethical or ecological ones.
"Some of the plans . . . would probably definitely be bad for animals. . ."!? And: if Africa is an island because the Suez Canal finished surrounding it by water, then all the rest of the (former) continents should also be called islands?
Yes, but Africa is the largest landmass that was previously part of a significantly bigger one, so "the largest island we've made".
... The bit about Africa was obviously a joke, though
Cool information. Giorgio cameo at 1:00 was funny.
I don’t think you can say “probably definitely.”
Possibly certainly?
Absolute possibility?
equivocally indubitably?
8:37 I never love it when the script assumes we all live in the USA
It's specifically noted the USA electrical grid, though?
It made no assumption like that. The video is about big things. The USA has a large electrical grid. The host happens to live in the USA, so said "we."
Irish here - Crannóg is pronounced (cran-oh-g)
Excellent. Thank you 💙🌻💙
There's a yo mama joke somewhere here
She was just so big and obvious it didn't bear mentioning.
Gen X definitely throwing a “Your mom”
How can you include the line and leave out the death star?
the ancient farm islands are so cool
You are the first foreign person that says Bucureşti the right way! Not Bucharest or Buckarest...
I saw this thumbnail and thought it was about Sealand at first.
30 seconds in, and there’s already tension between “heaviest” in the title, “biggest” in the first couple of phrases, and “most massive” at the end of the Intro. Not a promising start for internal consistency.
That Babbel ad read came in like a new Star Wars character. Dunka babbel!
7:23 "You can't embarrass yourself in front of an algorithm": Challenge accepted, i can do that!
Did anybody else catch the conflicting weights on #2 where what was said differs from what was on the screen?
SciShow comments never disappoint! I'm giggling!
Does anyone know a channel that explains stuff in a historic and social context?
What I am looking for is pretty complicated, but instead of getting bits and pieces from everywhere it's kinda this:
I was talking with someone about prison and the things that make me understand more of what and why it is and what makes it intresting and it's kinda these questions:
1. What was it like before? + context why/how/where/when did it start? In multiple places independently or was it copied?
2. What has changed in the system since? + context why/how/where/when did those changes happen or not happen? It seems things don't change unless the problem is big enough... And sometimes you need technology before something is possible.
3. What diffrent ways do we see around the world? + context why/how/where/when and do we still see specifik pros or cons when comparing them?
4. Are there any conclusions for the future? What would need to happen before any next step and what is in the way of that happening?
All these questions for everything.
Why public transport, healthcare, pensions, renting cars and homes, stores, restaurants, community, hobby's, old people homes, nail polish, smoking, bedrooms and kitchens blabla
Why are some crimes punished more then others? why can those who are in power ignore some stuff and why would they? Why are things a popularity contest? is everything a popularity contest?
Looking forward to your video in 50 years!
If we’re considering things like cables - likely the most massive construction is connected roadways (ex - the interstate system in the US).
The Begich Towers in Whittier Alaska US is like this in a smaller scale. All under one roof.
That wall project is never going to happen lol
this presenter is one of your best ❤
I’m thankful for a healthy looking and normally adjusted host as well! Quite refreshing 😎
Maybe I'm just overthinking it but "probably definitely" short circuited my brain. 3:48
I wonder whether there's enough content to make a list of densest things interesting, bc I immediately assumed the Elephant's Foot was gonna be in this video, ngl. Not sure there's anything else, though.
Well, if building the Suez Canal is enough to determine us creating an island, wouldn’t the largest island we’ve created be Eurasia? 🤓
What sort of foundation does the Great Pyramid have to support that weight on SAND? Is it shifting like the Parliament building?
Narration: "… making a place more liveable …"
Footage: *showing how to create a non-liveable place*
My Mom!
I don't know enough to make the connection, but I recently played Spec Ops: The Line, which takes place in Dubai. Coincidence??? ...probably, but I find it amusing.
What about that huge Fungus colony, I bet humans can claim it somehow
What about the great wall? Not as heavy as great pyramid? What about that city in China that is a whole city piled in layers?
I'm disappointed this wasn't a setup for a "your mom" joke
the line already got reduced in scope to like 50 or 5km i thought
I wonder what ancient Egyptians would think about our mega structures...
I like how a "heaviest things humans have ever built" includes a thing that isn't the heaviest and that humans haven't built. I guess titles don't mean anything on this channel anymore either.
I've got my doubts we're gonna make it to 2070, but I appreciate the spirit.
Lakes created by dams are heavier than all these combined
Very interesting.
According to my closest friends you forgot my mother
It's so stupid Futurism has come back
Just a pronunciation tip. Crannógs are pronounced crann like cranberry and óg as in (r)ogue. Thanks
I remember watching a documentary about the troll platform back in the 90s, IIRC they placed it within 20cm of the target location.
6:04 No, the largest island we ever built was Eurasia
Your fact check system failed again, the presenter says 4 million tons and the graphic says 5 million tons about the palace in Romania
11:25 Technically nothing, we used to use desk sized particle accelerators as televisions and computer monitors.
5 schould be flevoland instead 😢
How much does the interstate Highway system weigh in the United States?
How did the Suez Canal make the African continent?
It completely seperates the landmasses of Eurasia and Africa on the surface. Same for the Panama Canal and the Americas.... It's just tongue-in-cheek anyway.
what about the Great Pyramid of Cholula in the state of Puebla, Mexico? 4.45 million cubic meters compared to the 2.59 of Khufu
How much does the great wall of china weigh?
I missed the Walls of Benin, wasn't that the biggest thing mankind has ever made?
I enjoy a nice cold case of Megalophobia. Places/Objects like these are my worst nightmare. But really, things have to be like Dyson Sphere sized and up for it to get really uncomfortable for me. Yuck.
Isn't it that guitar solo in Hallowed be thy Name by Iron Maiden?
wait does the parliament building weigh 4 or 5 million tons? she says 4, the text says 5?
You're forgetting the 1:1 scale aluminium statue of my mum.
3:00 they have canceled that building mostly. Now it's going to be less than 20 km.
You know what else is massive?
Some feedback:
I don’t think that it’s very productive to start the video off with the cynical and probably anachronistic take that the pyramids of Giza and other great monuments of ancient history were “vanity projects” akin to Jeff Bezos and his funny shaped rocket. It is impossible to know what these diverse and far-removed people who built and died in these monuments thought about what they were doing.
Nothing against the host, she did great. I just want to make sure that we are careful about how we communicate about cultures we know very little about, and to not over-interpret data based on our modern sensibilities.
You just have to move it beyond the environment
What makes the continent of Africa more of an island than Eurasia? When humans made the Suez Canal, wouldn’t Eurasia then become the bigger of the two islands?
I wonder how the interstate highway system compares
5:53 G E K O L O N I S E E R D
I feel like this entire presentation would’ve been better shown from the head up of the presenter.
Nice 👌
The Line shouldn't be mentioned in 2025 going forward without an asterisk about the tens of thousands of workers that have already died, or the summary executions of those who resisted eviction. People are still getting hung up on how stupid the concept is and missing the absolute inhumanity of its execution.
The line is stupid and bad. It is a bad thing made by slaves controlled by horrible people with too much wealth. They do slaves and suppress women. Disrespect to those people and their dumb building.
The pyramids? Were primarily paid workers.
What about the Great Wall of China?
Pyramids are NOT tombs
Been like that for thousands of years.
I really like her voice ! :)
Even if the great wall of China isn't one continuous building, I suspect even more than one part of it, considered separate entities are big enough to deserve a spot on that list.
When the definition of "built" is wide enough to include networks, I would have assumed many road networks would have more mass than the networks mentioned.
And when going even further, beyond what's made by humans to mentioning changes in distribution of mass that are caused by human activity, our current atmosphere comes to mind, Even if you just count fossil CO2 emissions, we emit almost the same mass as the capacity of the three Gorges dam reservoir in a single year, which means we emit as much CO2 as the capacity of the Bratsk reservoir in less than five years. Even if you only count the fossil carbon, excluding the oxygen in CO2 you still end up with a much bigger number of fossil carbon that we have moved to the atmosphere, already, and fossil carbon emissions still shows an increasing trend.
You forgot the eurasian railway network.
And the Eurasian road network obviously.