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What's The Single Largest Man-made Structure In The World? ua-cam.com/video/SihcUMXu-wA/v-deo.html
You missed a very important ancient structure that was taller than the Pyramids. That is the Tomb of Lars Porsena built in 500BC which is said to be close to 200m tall. It was destroyed by a Roman general named Sulla in 89BC.
Your false facts, missing facts.Tuned out at Eiffel
Let me guess if you decide the worlds tallest structure is a ship anchor, then the largest structure must be the road system of Eurasia?
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I think that -may be due to your typical americano-centric worldview- you forgot the elegant Ostaniino Tower in Moscow, (world record between 1968 and 1972 and more relevant rhan Warsaw one because it's self standing. Beware of HISTORICALLY rusophobic British documentarion sources!
@@bigfoot1861 true, counting the platforms that floats on water as tallest will be the same as a helium balloon "floating" on air held by a string on earth... does not count! (different category)
The problem with the Magnolia oil platform is not the word "height", it's the word "structure". The oil rig floats and the cables keep it tethered in place. It's the same principle as an anchored ship or a tethered balloon. With that in mind, according to Wikipedia the Tethered Aerostat Radar System can rise up to an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m) while tethered to the Earth making it by your logic, the tallest 'structure' I could find.
by the guiness world records logic, not this channels creators logic
What's weird is they even use the word "Freestanding".
Same thing I was thinking. The oil platforms are a huge reach
@@forget2bhuman993 These record entries are _literally_ bought, so they probably don't care much, as long as they get the thousands of dollars you need to pay them for their service and therefore being eligible for a record.
Why _wouldn't_ they define it in a way that *makes them money?*
@@forget2bhuman993 when you introduce the video by saying 'we've been reaching for the skies.'
Implies building on the ground reaching up, not a floating platform with a rigid anchor..
Could have done better to distinguish the differences and outline what the contenders would be
Then there was (is) the CN Tower. Part building, part tower, part radio mast, and part rotating restaurant.
I remember being so excited going up the CN tower, the glass floor was pretty freaky! Unfortunately the Warsaw tower was taller and built before the CN tower, so we only looked at heights that were achieved and then superseded. It is a great structure though. Thanks for your comment and watching.
@@DebunkedOfficial You need to do one on HYBRID buildings then. Thanks for all the great content.
@@DebunkedOfficial I would argue that a cable stayed structure is not free standing, so no radio towers do not count.
@@ryanjellema4682 Exactly!! To not include the CN Tower is an insult to the genius of building a freestanding structure that high with only a plumbob to make it straight and true. If you need guide cables to hold the thing up, it DOESN’T count. 🇨🇦
@@DebunkedOfficial There’s got to be enough CN Tower content for you to do a video on it alone. I’d watch that one.
Why was Toronto's CN Tower not mentioned? It was the world's tallest Free Standing structure for many years, and wasn't under water and didn't (and still doesn't) need guy wires to hold it up.
My thoughts exactly!
Likely due to inept or biased research.
Yeah bud tabernac what’s up with that eh?
32 years it held that record. Unfortunately, this goofy list didn't distinguish between free standing and ship with a long anchor chain, so there were radio towers taller than the CN Tower before it was even conceived.
I was coming here to say the same thing. This whole video is just full of misinformation.
The tallest man made structure is the library because it has so many stories
I hate myself for laughing at that
bruh
Unfortunately most of them are fiction.
Im slow it took me way too long to get this
If fancy ropes count, the "tallest manmade structure" was built in 1875 when they dropped a string into the Mariana Trench to measure it.
Imagine the diameter of that tape measure when it's all rolled up.
They just used radio waves I think they didn’t put anything down there
From Harbor Freight no doubt
@@slxpperyy9796 radio waves in 1875?
@@slxpperyy9796 they used a rope with a weight attached to it. It's called a sounding line, it keeps sinking until it hits the bottom, at which point the rope goes slack and you can measure it at the water's surface.
Under budget and ahead of schedule is an impossible feat today.
These mega projects are 25% designing and 75% praying to the Engineering Gods that *nothing will absolutely go wrong during construction*
the picture makes me scared beyond words
If I were to guess, I'd say it'd have to do with the timing. They had already procured the money before the Great Depression hit and not using it would have been a huge loss. Plenty of people looking for work and perhaps cheaper costs all due to the depression. Curious if anyone's written on the exact reasoning.
It will happen again if ankther great depression happens and people will be willing to work for peanuts.
@@OmikronTitan Exactly, it could happen today with a bit of luck and under the right circumstances
I'm glad You included man-made structures, not only buildings. I saw Polish Radio Tower as kid, absolutely massive. It was build to exact height (and not higher or lower) of half length of 227 khz radio wave. I don't know technicalities, but apparently it helped with getting good signal for that frequency.
Radio technicians call this type of antenna a "half-wave mast radiator". It resonates electromagnetically with the transmitted frequency corresponding to a wavelength equal to twice the height of the antenna. A half-wave mast radiator is significantly more effective than a quarter-wave mast radiator which is another type of antenna often used in AM broadcasting.
I don’t know that much about radio waves or it might be just dumb. But why do they make the towers a quarter or a half of the radio waves and not the whole length of the wave?
@@_R0h_think of a full size wave, laid out vertically on the tower. It would be pushing out both directions at the same time. A half wave would push ..left then right, or harmonically "oscillate".
Sine, not size! Damn autocorrect!
@@bapizoidV45 oh ok. Thanks man!
I've always found it remarkable after 4000 years, a building in a small, relatively insignificant (in modern times) city was the first to surpass the height of the Great Pyramid.
Hey less of the insignificant 🙂
Lincoln was the biggest Roman stronghold in England at the time, and it's a really amazing place to visit if you like historical buildings.
@@DjNikGnashers oh I absolutely agree, it is historically significant, and the castle and cathedral are testament to that. However, it does always amuse me to think that a city which most British people couldn’t point out on a map once had the tallest building in the world. I learnt how unknown the city is at university, when I saw the vacant expression on people’s faces when I told them where I was from.
@@redsfanwakey 🙂 Yes I understood what you meant, I was just being falsely shock for comedic purposes lol.
It's a really nice place to live or even visit.
@@michaelqu I'd disagree, while there are many cities that are larger, and quite a few significantly larger, in terms of ranking of every city in the world, Dubai is still a large city. Even so, while it may not be the largest, it has become a very significant city over the last 20 years.
Fun fact: The Burj khalifa is not connected to the city's sewer system and requires daily fleets of trucks to pump out the building's septic tanks.
Classy
The whole city of Dubai is a mess.
Since they wipe they ass with hands,migjtas well not be conected to the sewers
@@jangolub8240 👀
@@jangolub8240 WTF?! 😲
If Guinness is willing to say that oil platforms are the 'tallest' even though they go underwater, what if I got a two kilometer long string and tied a balloon to it, then tied the balloon to my house, is my house now the world's tallest structure?
Or use a long ass anchor.. Yea this video is just pure bs that grabs for attention harder than the average tiktok girl.
yes. congratulations on your feat.
Technically it is the tallest man made structure. Do you really think that a balloon and long string is a structure nah. Oil platform certainly aint really a building but its structure in my opinion. Burj khalifa more impressive tho cause it is built on ground and reached higher altitueds than oil platform
@@Real_MisterSir no need to be rude the video is still educational its not even that misleading it can be argueably said that oil platforms are structures
An oil rig IS a structure though. The legs weren't just cables anchored into the sea with a platform on top, that'd be way too unstable. I fail to see where you guys get that idea at all.
" I would love to see it built however I don't think I'll be alive when it happens" Is like the most depressing and anxious quote ever. Lifes so short.
I still think “buildings” should be measured to to highest occupied floor. Complete with elevator, bathroom, office/ housing. Masts, spires, antenna’s just seem like a cheat.
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Hope your wife doesn't find this comment! 🤣
Your wife after seeing your comment: Well someone gonna sleep outside tonight😁
Tonight’s dinner for you is Meat Loaf and tomorrow’s packed lunch Meat Loaf. Tomorrow’s dinner is leftover meatloaf with different side dishes.
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My mom with bread. I swear she can watch it burn.
That's how you do a sponsorship. Straight to the point. I skipped 30 seconds from habit and missed part of the video.
Luckily he said sponsorship not the whole video
@insidejob (8000BC-2022) read the goddamn title
**Tries To Build Higher**
*You Cannot Go Over The Build Limit.
Thank you for keeping everything somewhat proportional, takes a lot of work
Empire State Building being built in 400 days is actually crazy
ikr many people struggle to build houses in that time :P
I'm glad somebody else noticed that. Absolutely crazy
they probably discovered the mexician workers but don't want to tell anybody cuz everybody were too racist to go into building made by mexician
@@A.Martin no they dont it doesnt take a year to build a house it takes like 2 weeks facepalm
@@mstrungari6067 2 weeks is really damn fast, but then it is possible to build in a matter of a few days if you are really on to it with a big team.
No mention of the CN Tower in Toronto Canada??? It held the tallest free standing structure title in the world for over 3 decades! Pretty "tall" oversight...
It’s Canada no one cares about that place
@@Apex-kb4ec literally the majority of the free world disagrees with you
Ik I was waiting for that to
It’s not a very impressive structure tho I seen it in person it’s pretty tall but at the the end of the day it’s just a massive concrete pole with a room near the top for tourists
@@FlipzPlayz you’re straight lost bud.
I’m a little bummed you didn’t mention the kvly tower in North Dakota. The second tallest tv/radio tower to the Warsaw tower, but was the tallest structure prior to the Warsaw tower’s completion, and after its collapse until the construction of the Burj Khalifa, holding the title for a cumulative 28 years
Great video! I follow various top x buildings / structures around the world and few chosen cities by checking the standings every few months. This was worth watching!
So if a hot air balloon has a rope attached to it anchored to the ground and goes up 1+ mile into the sky it would be the "worlds tallest structure" ?
Technically it never left the ground sooo
Nope. It is not freestanding.
Build the fastest as well. Take the balloon above 12000 meters and it doesnt matter if they anchor up in the Mariana trench.
To conclude buildings exist on 100% compression force, if tensile force is larger than compression then it is NOT a building!
BASIC!
@@fridaybot lovely point! I never gave much thought to this aspect, thanks for this explanation!!! 😃
@@q12aw50 huh? How are you defining freestanding?
That is so well done and so interesting!! Thank you 🙏
It would have been nice to mention the structure that took the place as the tallest in the world after the collapse of the Warsaw radio tower… the KVLY-TV tower (previously KTHI-TV, the ‘HI’ in the call letters referring to the fact its tower stands at a staggering 2063 feet tall).
the analemma tower is literally impossible. It's designed, but unless we're able to make some extremely sturdy metal in extreme quantities, then that'll probably never happen. You'd be better off just making a giant spaceship.
Yep. The whole idea is so unbelievably retarded and has so many problems that I don't know where to even start. The people who came up with it must be lacking even the most basic understanding of physics.
@@xKuukkelix Cool story
@@Nyx_2142 not really a story but thanks
Analemma Tower wouldn't even fly in Sci-Fi; it's just too stupid.
It’s too tall, and too thin. Not to mention the weather.
The TV tower in Fargo, North Dakota was for a long time the tallest structure in the world (at 2,063 feet) until the Warsaw Radio Mast topped it at over 2,100 feet. When the mast fell the Fargo tower regained the lead until the Burj Khalifa was finished. The joke was that, after it fell, the Warsaw Radio Mast then became the world's longest tower...
It’s kinda crazy that it’s still the 4th tolltest structure and the 5th tallest structure is another tv mast just a couple miles southwest of the KVLY-TV Mast.
The first real issue is the definition of the word 'surface'. I imagine most people consider the ground that we stand on as a surface and sea level as the base point. Again, no one would expect any land above sea level to be added to the 'man-made' structure height, but most would think of anything in the ocean as being 'under' the surface and hence not qualify.
Furthermore, the category is usually qualified as 'free-standing'. Being held up by water immediately disqualifies the constructions mentioned.
Abandoning the normal definition of free-standing building also eliminated the impressive height of the sears tower for decades, tallest by a huge margin
A larger UA-camr called dark stole your comment
Radio/Television towers held by guide wire supports also do not qualify as "free standing structures".
never before have I been so thankful for the right arrow key to skip the ads. Just like fast forwarding on a VCR/DVR
Seems odd to omit the CN Tower in Toronto, which was the world's tallest freestanding structure for over 30 years until surpassed by the Burj Khalifa.
And the Sudbury super stack too
I was thinking the exact same thing
The video is “tallest man made structure to ever be built” - which at no point in time was the CN Tower.
If anything we should be bothered by the omission of pre-Giza structures (any number of which would have held the title for far far longer than 30 years).
theres like 100 other videos on this topic on youtube, most better than this one
british people hates canadians thats why
Most tallest buildings are normally not functioning and fully utilised like KLCC of those days.
why?
You should have included the CN Tower in Canada. It was the tallest freestanding structure for decades (1976 - 2010) when it was surpassed by the Burj Kalifa . . .
So I have a cool story when my parents were moving into there new house they were cleaning it out and we found the blue prints for the Cn tower idk were they are now but I know we got them.
I studied the world's tallest buildings for a school project, so I knew these but it was still cool.
Thanks 😊
Aren't the oil platforms technically just anchored boats?
No.
Yes, pretty much, they float and are anchored in place, unlike the first type the TLP are not supported from below at all.
Some are yes. But not all. Some are actual boats that use motors and GPS to keep them in place eg Deepwater Horizon
@@NovejSpeed3 Point but the types being discussed in this video are pretty much just a floating platform and fancy anchors with the centering effect provided by pulling down hard against boyency. Deepwater Horizon was a production platform, you can do that with a production platform but a drilling platform needs to not ride up and down with tides or waves.
@@NovejSpeed3 the oil platforms mentioned are not those
Honestly, for me, the sole thought of a "flying" structure is terrifying idk why tho
I would only hope they think of the titanic, and include enough escape pods, or however you would get down
You're not the only one my dude
yaaaa whats "essentially" a floating city dangling 50km above the earth's surface thats hanging onto an orbiting asteroid is pretty scary
Yeah what if something strikes the asteroid and forces it out of orbit?
@@babyboysmooth1353 if that happens either
1. the city will get dragged out into the the deep vaccum of space
2. the city will get ripped from the astroid and will plummet into the earth
neither of which are good scenarios
I would love to see an asteroid tower being made, however I don't think gravity would take to kind to it
Yep physics will likely be its downfall 🤔
@@DebunkedOfficial
besides that ...
pure logic will kill it in the first place. "builing a tower hanging down from an --> ASTEROID
10:49 reminds me of mauna kea being taller than mount everest and mount of olives combined!
Id argue, if it has cables that hold it up or the bottom of the ocean that it isn't a "free" standing structure like a building is. Should be a separate category for the suspended structures.
Make your own video, and do that then.
A radio tower with guy wires isn't free standing either, so the list left the "free standing structure" category at that point.
You really included floating platforms, cable tethered towers, and even a hypothetical future space city but you can't take 10 seconds to give an honorable mention to the CN Tower because of an arbitrary technicality? Could have easily had a combined timeline with freestanding vs supported structures.
i’m mad the Willis Tower in Chicago wasn’t mentioned when it was the tallest building in the word until 2010. this video sucked
1998*
lol lmao
Then they should also include the Kola super deep borehole at 12.2 km
@@azwanazmi1484 A hole? As in the literal opposite of a structure? Do they still have something IN the hole to act as a "structure"?
Abundantly informative.
8:48 "confuses the wind" ROFLOL 🤣
No one ever mentions the CN Tower in Toronto Canada.
Stands 553m / 1814 feet , it was the tallest structure from 1975 to 2007
There was a tv tower built in North Dakota in 1963 that was and still is 629m / 2,063 feet, making that the tallest structure till 2007
No, the CN Tower was never the tallest structure, unless you narrow the category by use of the word "freestanding".
@@notahotshot yeah because it is an actual building !! and not just a radio tower with guide vwires
@@notahotshot Canadians spent 32 years mentioning the CN Tower because Americans spent all that time ignoring its existence claiming the Sears Tower or World Trade Center (depending on personal opinion) was the tallest "building" in the world (because "Towers" didn't count).
CN tower 553m height in 1976. T was the Tallest "building" on earth untill the Burj was built 34 years later.
yea tallest building, but tallest structure was radio masts.
@@A.Martin no the WTC towers and the Willis were taller CN tower is not a building so it doesn’t count
Its name is Khalifa, “Burj” is the Arabic word for tower.
@@itsame2271 Khalifa is the name of a rapper, yet you clearly knew what I was talking about. We (Burj & I) are on a first name basis lol. And I'm guessing everyone else who reads this comment also knows what I'm talking about... but thank you anyways for the Arabic lesson.✌
@@markgriffin2087 CN is taller @ 553m than WTC @ 415m.
Also radio Masts are not buildings and if they fit the criteria, then so too does the CN Tower.
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The warsaw tower was just a metal rod pointed to the sky anchored down by wires. CN tower was a free standing building where people can stand at the top, a true architectual marvel for its time. A disgrace not to mention it.
Not architectural but engineering feat cause architecture is make a building look nice engineering is making a building stand
@@duskmoss Architectural engineering is a discipline in engineering so the CN Tower is an architectural marcel
No one cares hoser
@@cristianlugano2156 loser*
It is about tallest man-made structure, not tallest free standing building so I don't see a problem
BIG shout out to the CN Tower, you will always be the tallest in our hearts!
It was never the tallest.
@@joshrodrigues2330 No it wasn’t.
At no point in time was it “the tallest man made structure to ever be built on earth”
@@MJW238 Ma'am, I don't mean to be rude but can you read? If you indeed can, please re-read my comment. Don't be ignorant just for the sake of being ignorant. Have a nice day though!
@@serpico1616 I think my comment stands
@@MJW238 Ok maybe you are just a bit slow. So when I say it's still the tallest in our hearts, do you understand what that actually means? Just think about it for however long you need. You'll no doubt conclude that your retort is irrelevant.
Cry's in CN tower. The CN Tower held the record as the tallest building, tower, freestanding structure for over three decades. and not even a mention...
I’m afraid the Warsaw tower was taller and built before the CN tower, so we only looked at heights that were achieved and then superseded. It is a great structure though, the glass floor is pretty freaky! Thanks for your comment and watching.
FREE-STANDING structure but not tower. The Warsaw mast was taller and the same is true for the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota which was built in 1963. I think that the difference is that they are supported by steel wires anchored in the ground and the CN tower is completely free-standing.
@@DebunkedOfficial i agree with the comment and other two replies - CN should've been on this list as the tallest free standing tower for its time. It has also been in Guinness as the tallest free standing tower of its time.
@@neeonlight it was an obvious tower dude
@@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 Yes, I'm not stupid, I meant that it wasn't the highest tower.
I only count Living/useable space ceiling as the height of a building, this as any size "radio/TV" tower can be added to any building.
No one
Not a single soul
Me on the highest building
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Oil rigs getting "Highest Structure" records from Guinness is like the Michael Scott confused handshake meme
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Where is the tein towers?
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Wait a minute! Like Guiness says: a structure extends upwards from the Earth's surface.
But that "building" that's "suspended" from an orbiting asteroid and "floating" above. Will not be the tallest structure on Earth. First it's not "on" Earth, second it's floating above Earth and 3rd it's "suspended from an asteroid.
I liked and subed just because ik how much effort u put into this video
I could listen to your voice all day and night its so soothing
I mean at this point someone has to anchor a large floating foundation for a Skyscraper to the ocean floor. As Sea levels rise, the structure gains in height. Up to at maximum +69 Meters.
And once we get a space elevator its basicaly over, just extend a cable beyond the asteroid being held in place by the tether for even longer reach "Upwards" for some form of extremely powerful catapult thingy.
Nice
Nice
We will probably never have a space elevator they're just too vunrable.
@@fingmoron and basically imposible to build :)
@@letstalkaboutstupidstuff3707 impossible for now because of humanity being too behind on material science, I'd say we can overcome that but until then I'm sure we'll find another way beside space elevators to escape earth.
1) The limit to how far down we can build in the ocean is pressure. Otherwise it is only as far down as the lowest we can go.
2) The limit to how high we can build is structure strength and variable points, which would make the structure not move at the same speed as the earth causing it to warp/bend.
Other than that, we can build pretty high.
W E l G H T. foundation. Crushing forcez
The video, from a channel called "Debunked", starts off by saying the Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb of a Pharoah, despite the fact there has never been any tomb of a Pharoah found in the pyramid. Ironic??
The Warsaw Radio Mast was such a phenomenal piece of engineering... Too bad awful maintenance ruined such a magnificent feat.
These videos are very well made, thank you for all your hard work and efforts 👍
It's so amazing how Stu makes it impossible for you to know the winner of any contest before he says it!
I'm glad you didn't mange to guess the end 😊 Thank you for watch and commenting!
@@DebunkedOfficial thank you Stu. You're inspiring and very grounded!
😊 you make me blush. It's support from people like you that keep me making content!
You mean it’s not something reaching down into the ocean?
CONGRATS ON 600K
You ignored the CN Tower in Toronto, which held the record of the world's tallest free standing structure from 1975 until 2007. It remains the tallest free standing structure in the western hemisphere. It stands 553.3 meters or 1,815.3 feet tall.
The CN Tower was once classified as the World's Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land.
This was great. Nice progression through history. I learned quite a bit
Yeah good vid besides he has the pyramid story wrong
@@FlipzPlayz what was wrong
This reminds me of Wolfgang Von Goethe's famous quote: "There is nothing more frightening than stupidity in action."
"Where are you at?"
"Top of the Analemma."
"I'm at the bottom, wanna hang out..?"
"Sure. I'm heading for the elevator right now, see you in 5 hours!"
So folks, if you look in the pinned comment you’ll see why the ever popular CN Tower ISNT in the video.
The Warsaw Radio Mast was the tallest structure in the world already and the CN Tower didn’t break the record when it was built as the mast was still standing at the time.
BUT HE DOES ACKNOWLEDGE IT!
He even mentions that he’s been there, as have I. That’s actually the tallest structure I’ve visited in person.
Cn tower was the tallest freestanding structure at that time though. There was even a mast in the states thats 600m but they have cables to keep them up. So the cn tower is in a different category.
@@scotthoffman7071 the video is about tallest structures. Freestanding or not. The Polish mast was still the tallest at the time with that definition
A city hanging from and asteroid…. Orbiting the earth. I got loads of questions, how big is this asteroid? How heavy is the city? How fast is the orbit? how far down does it hang? Do the upper floors have gravity or oxygen?
The thing will never be built. A space elevator is far more likely to actually be constructed before something like a floating city, but even the space elevator idea has a lot of problems with practicality.
So not sure why he mentioned the hanging city thing because its not something that will ever realistically get built.
@@eragon78 It's probably some billionaire's pipe dream.
Yes and no. People pass out just hiking on the world tallest mountain. Without a working vegetation system, the tower would have to hang lower than mount Kilimanjaro for life support and the top being an antenna for broadcasting. Until you leave the atmosphere it would be gravity. In space its free game. You would still be close enough to feel the pull so needs testing.
Architects and Engineers are scratching their heads, I am sitting here scratching my balls.
Me too
Heyyyy, didn't expect my home state okietown to be on the list. Learn something new everyday!
They never found any riches in the great pyramid of giza. They never found Khufu. Thet found a piece of cedar wood in the pyramid which was carbon dated to be 500years older then khufu. There isnt any strong evidence to proof khufu built the pyramid.
to be fair, they never found riches in Giza because it was stolen by tomb raiders.
@@eragon78 Al Amun had to dig his way into the pyramid as the entrance was sealed and not visible. He was the first to enter the pyramid, and he found no riches. If there had been tomb raiders before, they would have left behind a tunnel which they used to enter. Also if you look at the graves of pharaos, they are full of hieroglyphs and decorations. There are none in the pyramids. There is also no mention in any writings of the dynastic egyptians about building the pyramids. They were likely built by a culture that predates the dynastic egyptians. Historians claim that the pyramids were built by a culture that only had copper tools. Try shaping granite with copper chisles. Cant be done.
@@lutcaah Ahh ok, you're one of the conspiracy theorist people im assuming based on your utter lack of knowledge.
well go ahead and believe what you want, I usually dont bother with these kinda discussions as theyre a waste of time.
@@eragon78 Im not a conspiracy theorist. All im stating is based on available evidence. Try creating polished granite surfaces with copper tools. Mark Lehner tried and couldnt, but still he claims thats how theyre done. Also its accepted by academics that Al Mamun was first to enter the "Khufus" pyramid, and he found no riches. Also look at the known graves found, and compare them to whats inside the pyramid. Khufu was supposed to be greatest of the Pharaos. His grave would've been highly decorated. Or you can shrug it all off by saying the magic word "conspiracy" and act all high and mighty.
@@lutcaah I agree.
Thank you for "debunking" my lack of knowledge of tall buildings. I will spend the rest of the day hanging my head in shame, reflecting upon my lack of knowledge. I used to not know what the tallest building was. Now I do, and I realise just how wrong I was when I lacked this knowledge. How stupid of me. I will think twice next time I decide to lack knowledge on a subject, because I do not want to be debunked again. In fact I better not ever walk out of my house again, lest I get debunked by new information that I do not currently posses.
wut?
Nah it’s okay man
Tf
Everybody possesses information that others don’t have, get the fuck out here with that.
You sound so stupid. Everybody’s wrong at a point even me, even our presidents or whatever.
Don’t expect to know everything. Just do you and enjoy life.
I wanted to torture the soul out of the guy for debunking me. But your methodology of circumventing the shame seems less punishable by the authorities.
I swear any channel that’s sponsored by Magellan are always informative, and entertaining
Fun fact: the World Trade Center (1900s - 2001) were the tallest buildings in the world until the sears tower in Chicago.
Curious where you found proof that Khufu had The Great Pyramid built and why we are calling it a tomb. No mummies have ever been found inside of a pyramid in Egypt. Places like The Valley of Kings are where Egyptians buried their Pharaohs.
The Valley of the Kings became the burial side of the Pharaos centuries after The Great Pyramid was build.
Pyramids: 27th to 24th and 20th to 18th century BC (and later when the Kings of Kush ruled over Egypt)
Valley of the Kings: 16th to 11th century BC
By the way. the Valley of the Kings is only a part of the Theban Necropolis, other burial sides for Pharaos are El-Tarif or El-Assasif.
@@mario27171 I was only using the Valley of Kings as an example of actual Egyptian tombs. I am aware the pyramids predate them and that there are other tombs located in Egypt. Not sure of the point of your response. Were you agreeing or disagreeing?
@@DMBlade4 The mummy of Pharao Djedkare Isesi (25th century BC) was found in the burial chamber of his pyramid, and some fragments of Pharao Neferefre's mummy were found in his unfinished pyramid, but after more then 4000 years of plundering and grave robbery there are no more remains of the other Pharaos of the Old Kingdom, the age of the pyramids.
Before the Old Kingdom Pharaos were buried in mastabas, but Pharao Djoser wanted something bigger.
Idk if working in zero gravity would be the most healthy or logical thing... but man, joining the "mile high club" in that building would be amazing haha
Fun fact: Washington Monument is actually a Obelisk shape (facts about obelisks: Their a long 4 cornered structure with a mini pyramid shape ontop)
A 1km tall building is insane.
A tower hung from an orbiting asteroid would be ripping thorough the apnosphere at 17,500 mph.
Good luck finding anyone insane enough to want to live in that.
Also air resistance will slow the astroid down it wont stay up there for 10 minutes
The whole idea is so retarded that anyone suggesting this with a straight face should be examined for brain damage.
@@stonegamessm1598 If its an orbiting asteroid its in orbit. I doubt there would be air resistance.
But for the building yeah that thing is long, still doubt they would put the building outside of space.
@@stonegamessm1598 Essentially you only have to worry about gravity pulling you down, so you gotta go fast enough perpendicular to the earth so that you will just keep missing it when you pulled by gravity. Its called orbital velocity, check it out. So It might be possible to make this anyways.
Asteroid would be in geosynchronous orbit meaning no ripping through the atmosphere. Still insanity as currently only carbon nanotubes have enough tensile strength to prevent the tether from breaking.
Fun fact: No treasures or mummies have ever been found in the great pyramids. It is only a theory that they are tombs based on Graffiti that is crudely carved in the walls.
Dude graffiti really
@@uptowndunker6346 Yes, i would call crudely carved words on a wall Graffiti. Especially in such an impressive structure that has no other writing inside it.
It’s a proven fact that no mummy has ever been found in ANY pyramid, and is a false narrative perpetuated by mainstream historians.
All mummies were found in “the valley of the kings” and other less impressively names places, none of which is in an area where a pyramid has been discovered
@@yesterdayschunda1760 oh boy!!
Warsaw Tower crash was not caused by strong wind, but strong incompetence during conservation works.
So it takes the council 7 years to finally put tarmac on the neighbourhood roads where I live and it took people just over a year to build the empire state building... isn't that just cool
The bore hole on the Kola Peninsula in Russia reached about 40,00 ft or 12km. The drill that dug it had to be at least that tall. The base became stuck in the earth, so at least for a while that was a tall structure.
Can't wait for space elevators to become their own class of "tall structures"
Hahaha! Im was about to post this!
Not only the Analemma tower would be founded as the "world's tallest building" but also be crowned "world's biggest flying structure"
Me:- Its Burj Khalifa
Him:- EVEN GETS FAAR AWAY
As a Canadian from Toronto, no love for the CN Tower
I’m afraid the Warsaw tower was taller and built before the CN tower, so we only looked at heights that were achieved and then superseded. It is a great structure though, the glass floor is pretty freaky! Thanks for your comment and watching.
@@DebunkedOfficial Uhm, Guiness World records certified The CN Tower as the worlds tallest free standing structure for over 30 years. Standing 1850.3 ft. The Warsaw Tower was taller, but was a radio mast, and collapsed in 1991. Not even mentioning in this video is laughable considering you have the Eiffel Tower, at barely 300 m tall. Debunked is your name? The Pyramids, seriously? and a few others you mention in video nowhere near the height of the CN Tower. Try harder. Next video will be about the largest bodies of water, yet the Atlantic Ocean will not be mentioned.
@@kylestoddart Lol no way I am also from Toronto, Ontario too, and the CN Tower is actually still the tallest structure in North America it beat the One World Trade Center by around 10 meters, and the Warsaw Tower collapsed in 1991 along with the Soviet Union
@@DebunkedOfficial you guys are a joke. Do some research.
12:49 Surely the building extending down into the atmosphere would encounter winds and air resistance? I don't understand the reasoning there. But as a fan of KSP, I like the general idea.
“down” into the atmosphere…?
@@therealmoopmoop.4321 Yes. As in "towards the earth".
In England there is a town called Black Pool and it has the largest tower in the world , at night it lights up so aircraft do not crash into it :-O
Whenever something on the land tries to be the tallest, the ocean always wins. The ocean has the tallest waterfall(near iceland), Mountain(mauna loa), and tallest stuctures
The Church of St. Olaf on Tallinn was taller than The Lincoln Cathedral. In its current format it is a bit lower.
there was no body and treasures in the great piramid of giza...
And no record of initial construction
10:48
Or... The Jeddah Tower and a Cherry on top 🤣
I don't think something held down should count as height.
Otherwise I could float a balloon up over a kilometre into the air with a length of string tying it to the ground, and bam. Guinness Record Tallest Structure for me!
well technically you can, with enough money and resources, you can, just make sure that your balloon is freestanding not being held by your hand
Buildings exist on 100% compression force, if tensile force is larger than compression then it is NOT a building!
The structures in water have an entirely different rulebook because they are held up by buoyancy. It's an entirely different category to anyone with a brain.
No corpse of any Egyptian pharaoh was ever discovered inside the great pyramid and was never staked with items ready for his after life. Scientists say it would have taken 100’s of years to build and he only reigned for 25. Current leading theory’s outside the mindless “tomb” narrative is it had something to do with frequency resonance etc.
Side note, when herodotus travelled from Greece he asked who built them and the Egyptians stated they were already here from a previous civilisation.
The pyramids were built thousands of years before herodotus showed up. It was built by the Egyptians in the era called the “old kingdom”.
7:18 The WRM collapsed when they tried to replace the supporting ropes, not by a wind. BTW great video :)
Now I must find a way to use the very cool term, “vortex shedding.”
Yeah, I call BS on the guinness books inclusion of floating platforms. Tallest man-made structure should only rank structures by their vertical distance from their supportive medium. Oil platforms and other such floating structures are anchored, not supported.
Reminds me how Hawaii’s ‘Mauna Kea’ mountain is the tallest mountain from the bottom of the ocean 🌊🐠, to the peak of the mountain 🏔
And what’s funny is if we consider the highest mountain to be the furthest from earths center, or actually wouldn’t be everest
@@q12aw50 we normally measure mountains by their height above sea level, But prominence is also a important measurement which is how high it is above the surrounding terrain.
Fun fact : Jeddah tower estimated cost to be 2 or 1 trillion dollars
Considering how orbital gravity works this is only possible if the building either never touches the ground or that the debris used as an orbital anchor is able to increase in size and distance from the earth as the building is constructed. Regardless a floating city is possible just with more effort than anything man has ever done, to include the moon landing.
The tower hanging from a meteor/asteroid isn't possible unless it doesn't hang into the atmosphere, you have to be travelling incredibly fast to stay in orbit and anything that gets in your way will slow you down and slowly point your prograde below the horizon. The air resistance would cause the tower to swing back and cause the object that it is hanging from to pull downwards and slow down rapidly, the entire structure would fall to Earth before it could even be finished. Also, the tower would rip itself to pieces due to air resistance as the speed it would need to be travelling to remain in orbit would cause massive stress on the structure, and even if the structure was designed to take this level of stress it would melt or be incinerated due to air friction.