You May Live in Mega Pyramid City of the Future

the year is 2160 the place the pacific ocean off the coast of japan the ocean seems calm at least the surface does the ocean floor is cracking right now boom the earth opens up magma shoots out the crack in the ocean floor triggers an earthquake and a massive amount of energy shoots into the ocean and now for gravity to get involved it pulls the water down and makes it move faster and faster it's a tsunami a wave as high as a skyscraper plows toward tokyo at 500 miles per hour that's millions of tons of water it would be awesome to take a picture of it but there's no time to admire the power of nature the tsunami's about to hit tokyo bay the tsunami smashes ashore and starts attacking the largest structure on the planet the tokyo pyramid metropolis it's six thousand six hundred feet tall that's five times the height of the empire state building imagine if the entire population of denver colorado lived and worked in one building the tokyo pyramid metropolis tpm can handle 750 000 people at a time incredibly the structure withstands the impact and most of the tsunami's energy seems to have just disappeared this time engineering stands up to nature tpm was built by the shimizu corporation which was founded in 1804. the pyramid is the most stable structure around if you don't believe me go to egypt and see the great pyramid of giza it's lasted 4 500 years and it's still going strong the tpm is built on water and consists of 204 individual pyramids they look like bunches of grapes stacked on top of each other eight tears in all only in this case each grape is the size of a vegas casino the tpm's actually hollow that's how it defends itself against typhoons and tsunamis it doesn't meet the wind and waves head-on but lets all that energy just pass right through it robots and autonomous control systems run this place it runs on solar wind and wave energy the pyramids are connected by passages all in all about 85 miles worth they connect everything and are maintained by ai that always finds you the fastest way to get from pyramid a to pyramid b the tpa is obviously the city of the future but human tech isn't quite ready for it just yet originally engineers decided to install the pyramid on 36 columns all dug into the ocean bed if you build a pyramid that size out of steel and concrete you'd be looking at 50 million tons of load press in on itself the tpm would have collapsed under its own weight and imploded into the ocean they needed something a thousand times lighter than concrete and stronger than steel so what's this futuristic material look at this old guy it's the first car on the planet with an internal combustion engine it hit the road in 1885 and this is the first artificial satellite that humans launched into space it only took an evolutionary blip to go from the first horseless carriage to our first flight into space that tpm's not looking so ridiculous hey we can do anything the solution is carbon and it's everywhere it's the rod in your pencil and the diamond in your crown or ring or industrial drill but we don't just need ordinary carbon we need graphene it's a type of carbon we can make nanotubes out of they're thinner than a human hair but 400 times stronger than steel and most importantly they're light nanotubes aren't affected by chemicals oxygen or water perfect for the tpm that's just a fancy way of saying the thing's not gonna rust chimzoo has plans for a power station on the moon an underwater city transforming the sahara desert into a huge oasis and much more but they aren't the only ones changing the planet the netherlands is the size of two new jerseys and about 30 percent of it is below sea level to protect their country from water the dutch built dams lots of them but that's just defense in 1986 they decided to go on offense and take back some of the land from the sea the first dam was 19 miles long it basically turned a bay into a lake the second dam sealed the deal after 42 years of work the netherlands got itself a whole new province larger than los angeles humans have done the same thing all over the world like in hong kong the philippines italy hey take that water [Music] what about building stuff on land that's already land before nasa's missions to mars the most expensive project in history was the construction of the interstate highway system in the united states it took about 35 years to finish in today's money it cost about 530 billion dollars all that cash bought 46 000 miles of road that's almost two times around the globe there are over 270 million vehicles in the us more than japan brazil india and germany combined but in terms of sheer effort the roads of rome were way more impressive over two thousand years before the first automobile the romans built a huge network of roads fifty thousand miles long they connected ireland with egypt and turkey was spain the roads were pretty safe and travelers could stay in hotels dining cafes or mail a letter at the nearest post office [Music] only about 30 percent of the earth's surface is land the world's oceans rivers and lakes are full of life and it seemed like a ridiculous task to catalog everything living in there but 2 700 scientists from 80 countries decided to team up to do it the cost 650 million dollars those scientists spend 10 years searching for old and new species it was one of the biggest science projects ever attempted they even discovered about 6 000 new species of fish squid and algae the great wall of china is huge thirteen thousand miles of walls natural barriers and trenches that's about two times the distance from alaska to australia they built it over a period of 2 000 years with no trucks bulldozers electricity just raw people power modern china is not exactly dropping the ball in two years china used more concrete for construction than the u.s ever did i mean ever roads cities airports everything there is huge the three gorgeous dam is definitely the new great wall of china over 7 600 feet long and 600 feet high you're looking at three times more concrete and steel than the hoover dam it's the largest concrete structure in the world and cost about 37 billion dollars more than a million people had to pack up and move to make way for it switzerland has the longest and deepest railway tunnel on the planet under the snowy alps builders dug 35 miles of tunnels every day 200 freight and passenger trains pass through it the amount of rock they took out to make the tunnel is about the same as five great pyramids the whole thing cost about 12 billion dollars egypt's one of the oldest nations on the planet but now they're building one of the newest cities it's going to be about the size of singapore and filled with six million lucky people there's going to be apartments government buildings entertainment even an opera house oh and a park that'll make central park look like someone's backyard when it's finished it'll be egypt's new capital so why bother well by 2050 cairo is going to have about 40 million people in it looks like they'll need more than one new city the first flights to the moon cost about 280 billion dollars in today's money but spacex isn't letting price get in its way the company plans to build a colony on mars with a population of one million by twenty fifty they claim that once the program starts you'll be able to buy a ticket to mars for as little as one hundred thousand dollars but the biggest science project ever is definitely the international space station it weighs as much as two boeing 747s and zooms through space at the speed of seventeen thousand five hundred miles per hour that pencils out to be five miles per second the station orbits the earth 16 times per day and it doesn't come cheap luckily a whole bunch of countries share the bill but it's definitely the most expensive room service anywhere in the galaxy it costs ten thousand dollars to deliver a bottle of water from earth to the space station hey at that price 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Length: 9min 33sec (573 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 22 2021