The worlds current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, has 163 floors….
Sooo… what if we built a sky scraper with urm…
10 billion floors.
LOL.
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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What if We Built a sky scraper with
10 billion floors.
Sure.
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has.
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OKAY A 10 Billion Storey building.
Well frankly it is ridiculous isn’t it.
The long and short of it is that it is impossible, but we never let a little impossibility get
in the way of answering a question have we?
In fact almost every day on this channel we delve into the realms of the improbable and
bring them to life in tantalizing and often scary ways!
And lets face it, a 10 billion storey building would be horrifying.
Roughly your average floor storey is around 12 – 14 feet.
That would male a 10 billions storey building 120 – 140 billion feet high.
If my mathematics serves me correctly that would make the building between 22 – 26
million miles high.
That is 549 times the circumference of the earth.
The blooming moon is only 238.8 thousand miles away … the moon as we know orbits the earth
so … well… we would have a moon smashing issue at some point….
Ignoring that a ten billion floor building would take us just under half way to mars
when it is at its closest to us.
Which would mean – roughly, using the speed of our fastest space crafts, getting to the
top of a 1 billion storey building would take around 150 days – sooo around 5 months.
Aint nobody got time for that.
Even if it was possible to build such a monstrosity if a building, can you imagine the elevator
wait time?
10 billion stops on what would be a 5 month journey if uninterrupted?
Why.
Why would we do this to ourselves?!
And like, who would live in this building?
The building could house the entire worlds population, with the building much longer
than the earth anyway, so really it would be like creating a super tall new earth annex…making
earth a little lollipop on a giant stick.
You could fit 1.3 billion people on each floor….
Which…I mean lets bear in mind The USA has 320 million people and is the third post populus
country in the world?!
Each floor would become like a new continent or super country… on your passport it would
have like…first floor or second floor… and maybe there would be a building Olympics
or something.
Honestly the thought of this gargantuan structure stresses me out so massively because I hate
a tall building!
So listen, there are many reasons that a 10 billion storey building is impossible.
We do not have enough construction material on EARTH available to build this structure
– and it just couldn’t happen anyway without making the entire earth its base.
Something so tall would need serious foundations and unless we dug deep into the mantle and
beyond, but that has never yet been achieved…and likely would melt a base anyway as it is so
darn hot down there.
Know where it wouldn’t be hot?
Urm…anywhere above the 200th floor.
A 100,000 storey building would be high enough to reach the earths magnosphere, where temperatures
average at around minus 90 degrees Celsius.
In the vacuum of space, it is even colder – around minus 270.45 degrees Celsius, or
minus 450 and change Fahrenheit.
Sooo we would need some serious insulation.
There would be no balconies, anyone who left the building would die if they weren’t in
a space suit, and even then, popping outside could lead to them floating away a la George
Clooney in Gravity.
How would we feed everyone living in a ten billion storey building?
Each floor would need to be self sustainable with a farming and harvesting system …fresh
running water… ways to travel.
The mind boggles.
This building would be a pretty huge target for terror – what would happen if a plane
was flown into it in the style of a 9/11 attack?
Well, likely it would be made of a durable substance like clear aluminium - although
like I said…
not enough resources!
But still… wouldn’t a structure like this be kind of vulnerable?
We talked about the moon smashing, but that wouldn’t be the only flying object at risk
of punching a hole or taking down the 10 billion story building – space junk would fly into
it all the time…and god forbid I met the sour end of an asteroid.
Realistically honey aint happening.
There isn’t enough money, resources, time, space and madness!
The Burj Khalifa - all 163 minuscule storeys of it, cost 1.5 billion dollars to make and
took 22 million man hours to construct.
I am not even going to fraction 163 storeys from 10 billion… my mind doesn’t work
that fast and…again… it will never happen.
Yes, there likely will be buildings that eclipse the Burj, but once breathable oxygen and inter
resources start becoming an issue, I am pretty sure we will stop well short of the magnosphere!
So that was What if We Built a Sky Scraper with 10 billion floors, frankly it is a ridiculous
concept and I would say better to focus on building a rocket that will get us to mars
faster, or working out how to survive on the red planet if we send a colony there!
What do you think the money would be better spent on?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
Also let me know what floor you live on or how many floors your building has!
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