What If Earth’s Population Lived in the Same Skyscraper?

With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s make things a bit tighter by housing every single person on Earth in one giant skyscraper. Pack up your things, we're all moving in together. But a building big enough for all eight billion of us doesn't exist yet. We're going to have to build one from the ground up.

00:00 Living in the Same Skyscraper
00:58 Thanks Better Internet!
02:16 Iceland
02:54 Australia
03:27 United Kingdom
04:02 Philippines
04:36 Mexico
05:16 The U.S.
06:20 India
07:28 The Earth Tower

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[bykbs]

Bro I love you're videos so much! They are so interesting and idk I just love them keep it up! ❤💪

[potatomatop]

Next: 8 billion humans living in 1 can of sardines.

[MiloMurphysLaw]

The elevator would need to be a whole room with bathrooms and beds and food and everything else needed to survive for over a month.

[gokbole]

An idea for a future 'What If' video: What would the world look like if the world wars never happened?

[GrahamPointer]

The elevator would break and we'd have to use the stairs while waiting weeks for it to be repaired

[evaalcantara]

If a building like this reaches space, perhaps a spaceship is a better option.

[dejamike]

If buildings like these would exist, the penthouse would be on the first floor instead of the top floor.

[TheSidekickking]

We're growing in numbers I see. Last time I checked I thought it was 7 billion of us.

[locksquid]

I would like to see a movie based on this ngl

[evaalcantara]

Something like this could happen in Minecraft where you build a hotel with 1 room for each humans on Earth. I think it's a hotel that could stretch to the world border.

[filledwithvariousknowledge]

We’d actually allow the rainforests etc to restore to their glory. All the shops and vertical farms for growing, entertainment, hospitals etc would also need to be included so this would be one very wide ultra tall skyscraper

[Lord_OTD]

The view from the last floor must sure be nice, but I’m good living in the first 10 floors or so.

[Xeno_Bardock]

Skycrapers reaching the ionosphere and van allen belts will act like lightning rods and will cause short-circuit to ground generating massive electric current destroying skycrapers in the process. It will need a very good insulation to prevent that.

[sudhanedumpally]

imagine looking down from the balcony of the top floor-

[Simon-phnf]

amazon delivery driver just walks up to the building and puts a "we missed you card" on the door and walks away.

[TSierra]

This is one of the best channels out there. That’s all I have to say… lol

[trenaebowers]

Imagine climbing all those stairs to get to the top

[janelleeeeeeeee]

I’m happy to see the man behind that voice I’ve heard for years 🤣😇

[aryy]

Amazing videoo maybe try making the buildings wider instead of taller to avoid long elevator trips

[terrificm]

What if we could live both underwater and on land? Certainly there won't be any negatives if I'm not mistaken