Kilograms are not a measurement of weight🤓 Edit: Make fun of the imperial system all you want because it really does suck, but I guess you’d better stop making fun of Americans because apparently I’m better at metric than most of you. You can also all stop crying like five year olds whose grandma pretends to not believe they’re not four anymore; I made a stupid technicality joke with the nerd emoji at the end, it really doesn’t get much simpler. 😂
@@hazmat4629 The emoji (🤓) implies that it was just a joke, but again I get it, people like you may not have the intellect and understanding that I possess😎.
it's more of giving a perspective. Quantitative values don't create a picture in your head for reference but an animal/object you know and how much of it can help
China has cities with whole blocks underwater because they wanted showcase architecture but didn't want to spend the money to ensure adequate flood water handling. Even NYC has decaying buildings and thousands of outstanding inspection violations; an architect was recently killed by a piece of falling architecture. People on every continent are getting seduced by the short-term wow-factor cash grab and not thinking even a couple years into the future anymore. We used to build castles and cathedrals to last 1000 years. The Birj Khalifa is the kind of enduring monument Percy Bysshe Shelley had in mind.
@@sebastianpereyra1466 not when the weight difference between most competition bikes is smaller than the weight difference caused by whether or not the rider had a meal that day. And that isn’t applicable here anyway.
The electricity isnt for corrosion, it actually accelorates it, its used to creat static electrical force that turns the sand into stone while the electrons bounce about
I haven’t watched anything about how they do it but I work for the gas company and we use electricity to stop corrosion on the steel pipes in the ground. It’s called a rectifier we put electrical charge into the rectifier and then it converts into a negative charge on the pipe
As an American, i can grasp the weight of the building using elephants, as opposed to kilograms 🧐 I actually visualized 72000 elephants oriented into the shape of the building 😂
I do understand why they may have cheaped out. Spending money in other areas, and because of the technological challenge. Fair criticism though. I agree, except for the fact that I’m pretty sure it has now.
@@megawave79 Or you know, maybe not build a massive skyscraper in the bloody desert? Dubai has such a ridiculous government. Edit: I dont get it. Why are people trying so hard to defend the UAE, and attack me? I'm not even saying anything contraversial, and at least 99% of it is objective. I dont understand, what even are your arguments? That I shouldnt speak about bad decisions made by the UAE?
As much as I dislike Dubai for a host of humanitarian crimes, it must be a dream for architects to be given limitless funding and a goal to just push construction as far as you can. And man, I’ve gotta admit, despite not having any plumbing (lmao) the Burj Khalifa is really cool.
@@Awesomeguy7435YTit’s not hard at all, it’s just that the sheiks only care about flashy things, rather than the practical ones, since not even the city of dubai has sewage system, and many buildings have their poop disposed that way.
The most important thing you forgot to mention is that the structure's orientation and shape is calibrated such that it can counter wind forces at high altitude. It's upper structures are extremely calculated and carved so as to prevent vortex shedding and cutting through oncoming winds in a more streamline manner. Hence preventing the structure from falling under wind loads..
Its an older video he made so of course the information will also be. With the efficency of the UAE l, i could easily believe either regarding the worlds tallest skyscraper.
I’m in Dubai right now. I’ve been up the Burj Khalifa recently and I’ve been up the Shard in London. (The shard is considerably smaller) I remember the Shard swaying with the wind as if it were actually shaking… so much so it made me ill. However, I don’t think I felt the Burj Khalifa sway in the wind once, despite the desert wind being way strong at that altitude.
So staff at the top floors, have to take the elevators down, walk across a large street, then walk into another building to use the bathroom?! How are they supposed to keep their hands clean? Someone who works in such a place needs to clean their hands between cleaning rooms for example, that's so sick?! That could spread diseases. In Dubai, they say they are Muslims but they base their opinion of a humans worth on how much money they have. That's sick..
Fun fact, the main contractor for this massive project is Samsung C&T and now they are undergoing 2nd highest in Malaysia (118) but not for long because the next 2nd highest is on the planning and also in Malaysia (Petronas Podium). Meaning, Malaysia gonna have 2nd and 3rd highest skyscrapers in the world.
You forgot another big factor. The design is based on Hymenocallis flowers, common name “spider lily”. This shape design is to abolish the resonance from wind to the building. It deflects the wind around the structure and prevents it from forming an organized whirlpool of current, or vortices that would rock the tower from side to side and could even damage the building. Disrupting the organized flow of the wind around the building, so the flow pattern can’t organize itself.
The foundation pillars has to have a specific electrical current to fight corrosion . If the electric system went out for years the building could fall down .
@@Cosmo8Jbuilding this high is fundamentaly useless, not having to get the poop out by trucks is not useless, the primary quality of an engineer is to be able to proritise and here they have failed miserably, every rational engineer in the world is actively making fun of this trainwreck of a building that won't even stand for more than a 100years.
I do not trust this bending CONCRETE core that has been perforated with lifts and then sucks down all this electricity not to rust. How long will it really last? Will tbe concrete core give way long before the poles underground rust out?
I've been tired of shorts RUclipsrs going "continue in part 2" or things like that, this guy is actually trying to put as much information as possible in this single short and i highly respect that 💪
@@starfighter1043almost every building in the world uses the elevator system(Shear wall/elevator wall) for resisting earthquake/wind(lateral) pressure.
It does sound dumb at first, but the cores of tall buildings should always be hollow to a degree, to allow for the correct flexibility that it needs to absorb the energy of wind and its own weight. Since you need some hollow sections, the elevators are placed solving two problems in one!
As someone who lives in uae but not dubai, I recommend seeing the burj Khalifa on national day (December 2nd). There's always a firework show, and the building has a huge screen on it. There's always traffic jams and strangers spraying silly string at each other in Abu Dhabi, i can't imagine thr chaos with dubai's traffic
I was stationed near Dubai for almost a year. Whenever we visited the city, the traffic wasn't worse than American traffic with the exception that in the US, scooters don't weave through traffic at stoplights. That surprised everyone the first time. Saw the fountain show at the Burj Khalifa but I don't think I was in the city on national day.
A foundation that is only as deep as a 10 story building for that is terrifying. I've done piles 80-100' deep for a 5 story building. Drill shafts for interstate interchanges are like 120-160' deep and 7-10' in diameter. Maybe sand is much more stable, the region I'm in requires very deep foundations.
I do wonder why it is so shallow for such a structure. They might have increased the number of piers to decrease the overall depth, or maybe since sand is such a small aggregate it compacts very well and holds an impressive amount of lateral compression. Edit 1: The building also has an extremely big base but gets very thin as it goes up, that might also help since much of the weight is near the base, unlike the average skyscraper which has aproximately the same diameter going all the way up.
Did I miss something in my physics class, salt water is corrosive, however salt water with electricity is even more corrosive because it forces atoms off the metal.
I just think they could've built the pylons out of something that just didn't rust so they don't give to waste all this money dumping electricity into them
@@TheAuthenticBlueTheBudew I live in dubai and I've been to the top a few times. About 130 AED per person, which is stupid expensive just to go to the top of a really tall building. It was cool the first time around, but then idk, the novelty wore off. Pretty sure you can't even go to the "actual" top, just the highest floor that's allowed, the rest are reserved for the rich guys.
The layers on the side going up also creates alternate air ways that creates vacuums from the wind to help create an opposing force to stabilize the building.
That was the first week it was active while it was under construction ☠️☠️☠️ the notorious trucks u see were for moving the crap to a new sewer plant ☠️☠️
I appreciate that you're trying the shorts, but the talking, jump cuts and movements were just too fast to understand. It might have been better to split these facts over 2 or 3 shorts and have them run at normal speed with normal editing. Also the sound effect with each transition got annoying fast
Please watch the full video here - ruclips.net/video/VpJ4AjsYp4A/видео.html
Can we **vrooom** do without **shhoop** all of the **ssseewww** sound effects?
No. Also how am I supposed to visualize 70 thousand elephants??
The full video is really really good
Historically it's the Arab Gulf
WORLD PEACE PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭🕊🌍🇺🇳
"yo bro this skyscraper looks sick how tall it is?"
"4.3 million pencils"
"It's actually 40,150 pencils not 4.3million"
@@CheeseGMhow are pencils heavier than Elephants
@@Viii255 height.
@@titodiaz1184 what .
@@Viii255 it's measured in height not weight
The Indian Soap Opera Dramatic transitions got me 😂😂😂
i did not noticed that
😂🤣😂
This guy is from India so that makes sense
@@24LYFIs he really?
The Video Game music in the background as well!
If an architect/engineer tells me "we forgot the sewer connection, but the rest of the building is fine", I won't believe them.
It’s okay I still would.
@@shancunma6001nice pfp
Yep! For years they need hundred of poop trucks to pull out the shit!!!
The sewer of the building works fine, the sewer system of the city is too small however, that’s why they couldn’t connect it to the building
@@da4127 That's Good engineering!!! 😛
"yo we got a power outage, but that won't be a problem right?"
"Uhhhhhhhh"
"This building has an equivalent weight of 72 000 elephants"
Americans will really use everything but kilograms to measure weight.
Kilograms are not a measurement of weight🤓
Edit: Make fun of the imperial system all you want because it really does suck, but I guess you’d better stop making fun of Americans because apparently I’m better at metric than most of you. You can also all stop crying like five year olds whose grandma pretends to not believe they’re not four anymore; I made a stupid technicality joke with the nerd emoji at the end, it really doesn’t get much simpler. 😂
@@guydunn5354 do you give your weight in newtons if asked?
@@hazmat4629 The emoji (🤓) implies that it was just a joke, but again I get it, people like you may not have the intellect and understanding that I possess😎.
it's more of giving a perspective. Quantitative values don't create a picture in your head for reference but an animal/object you know and how much of it can help
@Nasir Ghaznawi lol, I didn't get it for a moment, until I saw your comment
Brought to you by 15 cups of coffee ☕️
😂😂😂😂😂
Wym
Fr, I swear dude 😭
Needs more sound effects
We prefer chai(tea) 😂
Me during APE (Annual Physical Examination)
Nurse: What’s your weight?
Me: 12 cats
So about 48-60kg?
12 cats are about 48-55 kg? What in the name of malnourishment
I believe cats are weightless (never carried one but they look like it)
@@Meso.Botamia kittens are like 500grams and adult cats up to 5kg
@@lenny9672so about 12 cats are 60 kg. Sounds about right!
All of that genius, and they still forgot to put in a proper sewer system lmao
China has cities with whole blocks underwater because they wanted showcase architecture but didn't want to spend the money to ensure adequate flood water handling. Even NYC has decaying buildings and thousands of outstanding inspection violations; an architect was recently killed by a piece of falling architecture.
People on every continent are getting seduced by the short-term wow-factor cash grab and not thinking even a couple years into the future anymore. We used to build castles and cathedrals to last 1000 years. The Birj Khalifa is the kind of enduring monument Percy Bysshe Shelley had in mind.
“yo i like your new bike how heavy is it”
“about 5 million ants”
“what?”
“Red ants or those little black guys that invade kitchens?”
yea almost as weird as asking how much a bicycle weighs. that's why the sarcasm with the replies started.
@@JoeOvercoatalmost thought you were being racist there
@@ImStormX1Well it isnt that rare of youre a cyclist, as weight is a factor for speed
@@sebastianpereyra1466 not when the weight difference between most competition bikes is smaller than the weight difference caused by whether or not the rider had a meal that day.
And that isn’t applicable here anyway.
"The building has a height of 1 million rice cookers and has a weight of 23 million refrigerators"
Lol
Yeah, Americans will measure with anything but the metric system
Muricans need those measurements because they don't have the cognitive abilities to understand big numbers.
underrated comment
@@jozefpastucha1133🦅🇺🇸
The electricity isnt for corrosion, it actually accelorates it, its used to creat static electrical force that turns the sand into stone while the electrons bounce about
I haven’t watched anything about how they do it but I work for the gas company and we use electricity to stop corrosion on the steel pipes in the ground. It’s called a rectifier we put electrical charge into the rectifier and then it converts into a negative charge on the pipe
@@Drewdayz2419one of the structural engineer who built Burj Khalifa, Bill Baker, worked in an oil company before he joined SOM.
Lets not jinx it “uncollapsable”
3 planes May 27th 2026
@@MANTUEFLIE2hey hey hey woah woah
@@MANTUEFLIE2that went dark real quick 💀
This time instead of an iceberg or plane, its both combined
@@MANTUEFLIE2AY AY CHILL BRO CHILL💀
This reminds me of when someone once said, "TITANIC is Unsinkable, absolutely Unsinkable" with all technical reasons.
It really was unsinkable, unless someone deliberately tried to sink it, which is exactly what happened
@@e.e9331deliberately? Are you Alex Jones or something?
Titanic enthusiast of 15 years here,all conspiracies about Titanic are absolute crap.
@@aidanm.2044 Watch the movie.. the ice was moving towards the titanic instead of the other way round.. fishy..
@@yusufbest4475 you are basing your skepticism off of a movie?? Bro...
The engineers really said "Screw gravity" with this one
well they definitely did not. they probably said. "F the architect!!"
@@Accept_Any_Bribe they most probably did
Samsung made it
@Mastertrey lol pedo arabs
@Mastertrey just noticed that💀
These comments are exactly what I was looking for 💀
If it only had a plumping system 🥺
Plumbing??💀💀
@@AuralPodsSA I hope he means plumbing...
@@AuralPodsSA Dubai's Burj Khalifa doesn't have a sewage system - so trucks pump out poo every day
@@Britshit Dubai's Burj Khalifa doesn't have a sewage system - so trucks pump out poo every day
@@enoslayuk7580 yeah I know
Weight of Burj Khalifa
500,000 Tonnes ❌
72,000 Elephants ✅
🇺🇸🇺🇸 'Murica fuck yeah
@@proraiderz6499he is Indian
The rest of the world:
this building weights 500,000 TONNES
americans: 72,000 elephants
Real
That’s more like 30.000 Americans.
@@Lee-One Bro you did NOT
@@Lee-One not funny didnt laugh
@@Lee-One LOL
As an American, i can grasp the weight of the building using elephants, as opposed to kilograms 🧐
I actually visualized 72000 elephants oriented into the shape of the building 😂
yep
"why it won't collapse?"
while showing it collapsed at least 3 times
😂😂
They were able to make such a great piece of architecture but forgot to install a drainage system
I heard from somewhere that they are still making the drainage system and that it will be ready in idk what year
How sure are you?
Multiple septic tanks that are pumped out every day. Still better than the system you use in your own home
@@honeybunny79ah they are full of shit
@@danielalbornoz9081 the person or the sewage system?
One fatal flaw of this building, "You have to carry your shit it has no sewage"
I do understand why they may have cheaped out. Spending money in other areas, and because of the technological challenge. Fair criticism though. I agree, except for the fact that I’m pretty sure it has now.
@@megawave79 Or you know, maybe not build a massive skyscraper in the bloody desert? Dubai has such a ridiculous government.
Edit: I dont get it. Why are people trying so hard to defend the UAE, and attack me? I'm not even saying anything contraversial, and at least 99% of it is objective. I dont understand, what even are your arguments? That I shouldnt speak about bad decisions made by the UAE?
@@kuratse205 where else would they build ot then?
@@itsve8632 What do you mean where else? Just dont build it. It isnt necessary by any means, and only provides a ridiculous expense for the country.
As far as I know, the No sewer connection claim has not be proven. Many sites/ posts but no real evidence
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“Yo that’s a nice truck you’ve got, it seems pretty big tho, how much does it weigh?”
“About 45 couches”
“Huh?”
😊
As much as I dislike Dubai for a host of humanitarian crimes, it must be a dream for architects to be given limitless funding and a goal to just push construction as far as you can.
And man, I’ve gotta admit, despite not having any plumbing (lmao) the Burj Khalifa is really cool.
It disposes poop in poop trucks bc it's probably hard for them to build a function8ng sewage system for such a tall building
@@Awesomeguy7435YTit’s not hard at all, it’s just that the sheiks only care about flashy things, rather than the practical ones, since not even the city of dubai has sewage system, and many buildings have their poop disposed that way.
@@Awesomeguy7435YTif they can build a building that tall with that much tech, it’s not gonna be hard to build a sewer
What humanitarian crimes
The most important thing you forgot to mention is that the structure's orientation and shape is calibrated such that it can counter wind forces at high altitude. It's upper structures are extremely calculated and carved so as to prevent vortex shedding and cutting through oncoming winds in a more streamline manner. Hence preventing the structure from falling under wind loads..
Damn the amount of buzz words used and no content
@@slmsshady building sharp. building cut wind. building no fall. building happy
@@slmsshady It's ok my guy both your braincells are fighting over third place.
@@slmsshady it’s ok my friend if your last two brain cells from watching too much tiktok don’t get it. ✌️😊
@@purachinachinchin btw are you Japanese?
If your building has no indoor plumbing, its a glorified tent.
It has now. Adamsomething likes to spout outdated information
Its an older video he made so of course the information will also be. With the efficency of the UAE l, i could easily believe either regarding the worlds tallest skyscraper.
@@HurairahGT1 u arab pet
@@calebecker1998 uae u mean slave trades
@@calebecker1998 Don't forget with a lot of slave they can achieve many things
Not the first time I’ve seen a strong core of tall building with elevators inside ✈️
9/11 Plane enters the chat:
It can handle a plane like the freedom tower
@@The_light_nightidk bout that one cuh. We gonna just have to put that to the test
UAE air forces:🗿
,,This building has a height of 16.790.000 bald eagles and a weight of 400.000.000 toasters”
Thank you, that's far more meaningful than elephants. Like, when was the last time you picked up an elephant? ;))
Thank you because I don’t know wtf a kilometer is 🦅
Yup. Europeans always cry and whine when they hear real measurements😎
Americans have always the weirdest measurements 😂😂😂
I think I might weight a little more than that… but thanks for the compliment!
This video editing went so fast I thought Max0r edited it.
💀
Its 3 AM I'm tired and I just got motion sickness from this video for a second
I was waiting for "This building's infrastructure is tougher than my will to live"
Needs more aggressive music 😂
@@gil_11 Lmao
How old is the elephant? Is it male or female? Diet? I need more information on this elephant to do the math on the weight of the building
It is transexual, vegan.
It’s called an impress current system/ cathodic protection. That’s doesn’t hold it together but it will stop corrosion in its tracks
It's also shaped in a way that deflects the wind which causes less force to be put on it
True
You mean like every round skyscraper?
@@stefannico it's shaped like a particular flower actually
Remember they forgot to put a “SEWAGE SYSTEM” 💀
🥱😂
And no stoves for cooking either
I sense jealousy
@@quakebox sense whatever you want. I am saying 🤷♂️
@@quakeboxI sense inefficient engineering
I’m in Dubai right now. I’ve been up the Burj Khalifa recently and I’ve been up the Shard in London. (The shard is considerably smaller)
I remember the Shard swaying with the wind as if it were actually shaking… so much so it made me ill. However, I don’t think I felt the Burj Khalifa sway in the wind once, despite the desert wind being way strong at that altitude.
Did you measure the wind speed? The speed of wind can be hard to know for sure
This is why hexagons are the bestagons.
Oh 72,000 elephants. I'm glad you didn't compare it rhinoceroses or giraffes. I would have been totally confused
Lol 😅😅😅… me to 🤡🤡🤡
"What's this plug do...?"
"TOUCH THAT AND WE GO DOWN--"
Huh? This pulg hehe ooops I tripped.
😅😅
But STAFF can't use the restroom. All that, but it has no septic. THEY MAKE THE STAFF WALK ACROSS THE STREET TO USE THE BATHROOM.
So staff at the top floors, have to take the elevators down, walk across a large street, then walk into another building to use the bathroom?! How are they supposed to keep their hands clean? Someone who works in such a place needs to clean their hands between cleaning rooms for example, that's so sick?! That could spread diseases.
In Dubai, they say they are Muslims but they base their opinion of a humans worth on how much money they have. That's sick..
Fun fact, the main contractor for this massive project is Samsung C&T and now they are undergoing 2nd highest in Malaysia (118) but not for long because the next 2nd highest is on the planning and also in Malaysia (Petronas Podium). Meaning, Malaysia gonna have 2nd and 3rd highest skyscrapers in the world.
Burj Khalifa:Has Hexagon core and wires underground
Also Burj Khalifa:No sewage system
I came to the comment section for this and nothing else. Thank you.
Just shit out the window
The sewage system would be destroyed if it was connected.
1 dump from the top floor = nuke of poop goes off at ground level
@@linuxtuxvolds5917 don't build a pipe straight down. Create a series of septic tanks on regular intervals connected to each other.
@@linuxtuxvolds5917 how does the poop get down then?
You forgot another big factor. The design is based on Hymenocallis flowers, common name “spider lily”. This shape design is to abolish the resonance from wind to the building. It deflects the wind around the structure and prevents it from forming an organized whirlpool of current, or vortices that would rock the tower from side to side and could even damage the building. Disrupting the organized flow of the wind around the building, so the flow pattern can’t organize itself.
Yesss exactly i was looking for this comment!
Thank you ! Hats off for such a an explanation
See the full video. This explained there
But blue spider lily is way better, only problem is you have to eat humans to survive.
Harigato gozamaista
The foundation pillars has to have a specific electrical current to fight corrosion . If the electric system went out for years the building could fall down .
Also the building has a cooling system where water is pressured to the top and flows back down. This building is an amazing engineering marvel!
I thought he was going to say
“Please like and share this video before the Burj Khalifah collapses”
💀
💀
Lol
“Why doesn’t the building blow over? Because of how it’s constructed!”
“Why doesn’t it tip over? Because it has a foundation!”
This is why stable foundations are a valid reason to keep buildings from getting destroyed unless demolition is initiated.
So if electricity shortage than the building falls
This summary is less informative ngl
In 2016, I have the chance to work on that building as a external façade maintenance. It took us 3months to finish it.
@@BULLYMAGUIRE. Nah I don’t think so unless in the end times and God Almighty wants it to fall
2 planes: I'm about to ruin this buildings whole career
makes it withstand desert storms, forgets to connect it to the sewers
They didnt forget its just much cheaper
Withstanding desert storms was necessary, building sewage systems was not, your just jealous that your engineers are bad
@@Cosmo8Jso u are proud of the poop tower ? lmao
@@Cosmo8Jlol do you even know which engineers went into designing the building
@@Cosmo8Jbuilding this high is fundamentaly useless, not having to get the poop out by trucks is not useless, the primary quality of an engineer is to be able to proritise and here they have failed miserably, every rational engineer in the world is actively making fun of this trainwreck of a building that won't even stand for more than a 100years.
“Alexa, what’s the weight of an elephant?” - “Which one? Asian Elephant? African Bush Elephant or Forest Elephant? Baby Elephant? Mûmakil?”
Your mom
Yea, but where's sewer pipes😂😂😂💀💀💀
Pipes in your back.
How to destroy the tower based on this video .
1: wait for an extremely windy day.
2:Hit it with an EMP on that windy day.
Don't let this distracted you from the fact that this building doesn't have sewage system
It does have a sewage system. Where did you get your information from???
15tonnes of sewage per day... watch for the orange convoy of poo trucks..lol
Yeah guys this building is really bad it doesn't have sewage so it's a shit building 🤡
@@kurukuru4120 a stupid little youtuber called adamsomething spouts such nonsense all the time.
Don't let not having sewage system distract you from the fact that this building's engineering is genius
As a student of civil engineer...
This completely blew my mind!!!
I do not trust this bending CONCRETE core that has been perforated with lifts and then sucks down all this electricity not to rust. How long will it really last? Will tbe concrete core give way long before the poles underground rust out?
Remember kids, Nature is the most powerful weapon.
The burj Khalifa truly is an engineering marvel
"Remember its in a desert"
Understandable have a nice day
On an unrelated note this is a pretty nice desert in here
can you talk a little bit faster, I had to turn on 2x playback speed
😂
Lmao 🤣 I
"Yo bro sick house how big is it?" "14 school busses"
"With a height of 166 giraffes" 💀💀💀
I loved the part when Dubai said "It's labourin' time" and built the Burj Khalifa. Truly the city in history.
Oh bro and then he laboured all over the place. I cri every tim
They laboured so hard they forgot to install a sewage system. Truly inspiring.
Everybody gangsta till the power goes out
There is this thing called generators.
@@Dark-iv3gmthere is this thing called mismanagement
The universe says not to build a house upon sand 😂
Something else to add, by giving it a rounded shape it makes it kore aerodynamic allowing it to take more forceful winds
I've been tired of shorts RUclipsrs going "continue in part 2" or things like that, this guy is actually trying to put as much information as possible in this single short and i highly respect that 💪
The people that design these buildings need more credit
and also the truck drivers who carry trucks full of shit every day from there.
It's just their job bro
@@_yurithat hasn't been the case for 15+ years lol
You'd think that people that design these buildings would design the sewage system as well...
@@D_oktor they're in the proccess of fixing it also would you be able to design something like that?
Even titanic the person who built it said it won't sink.
Sounds like how they described the titanic as unsinkable. 😂 that building is getting blown over lol
"We gave it a core so it doesn't collapse"
"We also carved the core for elevators"
I was thinking the same way the concrete core is literally hollow now 😂 😂
@@starfighter1043almost every building in the world uses the elevator system(Shear wall/elevator wall) for resisting earthquake/wind(lateral) pressure.
It does sound dumb at first, but the cores of tall buildings should always be hollow to a degree, to allow for the correct flexibility that it needs to absorb the energy of wind and its own weight. Since you need some hollow sections, the elevators are placed solving two problems in one!
Titanic : Once called "Unsinkable", sink 5 days after voyage
This guy : Why Burj Khalifa won’t collapse.
"There's no way humans built the pyramids!"
Also humans:
>uses kilometers for wind speed
>uses elephants for a unit of weight measurement
"WHAT THE HELL IS A KILOGRAM??????!!!!!" 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
As someone who lives in uae but not dubai, I recommend seeing the burj Khalifa on national day (December 2nd). There's always a firework show, and the building has a huge screen on it. There's always traffic jams and strangers spraying silly string at each other in Abu Dhabi, i can't imagine thr chaos with dubai's traffic
I was stationed near Dubai for almost a year.
Whenever we visited the city, the traffic wasn't worse than American traffic with the exception that in the US, scooters don't weave through traffic at stoplights. That surprised everyone the first time.
Saw the fountain show at the Burj Khalifa but I don't think I was in the city on national day.
That's why we need Architects and structural engineers
Everybody gangsta until the blackout happens
A foundation that is only as deep as a 10 story building for that is terrifying. I've done piles 80-100' deep for a 5 story building. Drill shafts for interstate interchanges are like 120-160' deep and 7-10' in diameter. Maybe sand is much more stable, the region I'm in requires very deep foundations.
I do wonder why it is so shallow for such a structure. They might have increased the number of piers to decrease the overall depth, or maybe since sand is such a small aggregate it compacts very well and holds an impressive amount of lateral compression.
Edit 1: The building also has an extremely big base but gets very thin as it goes up, that might also help since much of the weight is near the base, unlike the average skyscraper which has aproximately the same diameter going all the way up.
Another feat of this building is that it doesn't have a sewage system, trucks take away it's waste every day.
it's not a bug it's a feature
It does have a sewage system. Try again 🤡
@@eventusvantos1905 where does that go there are no rivers
@@anengineer152 Biogas plants..
It has
Did I miss something in my physics class, salt water is corrosive, however salt water with electricity is even more corrosive because it forces atoms off the metal.
Electrical emergency 💀
"You may be asking, but why isn't it sinking in the sand?" The answer is, that's because IT IS
How? I thought with so much pressure it would be really solid below
@@brunomarty5942it’s the density of water and the rise of water . I saw somewhere it said “ it sinks 1foot every 100 years
I just think they could've built the pylons out of something that just didn't rust so they don't give to waste all this money dumping electricity into them
Ok I'm never going into this building. Thanks for sharing.
😂😂😂
Why?
@@eventusvantos1905 the guy prob can't afford it
I'm not going either. Not because I'm scared, it's because I've poor
@@TheAuthenticBlueTheBudew I live in dubai and I've been to the top a few times. About 130 AED per person, which is stupid expensive just to go to the top of a really tall building. It was cool the first time around, but then idk, the novelty wore off. Pretty sure you can't even go to the "actual" top, just the highest floor that's allowed, the rest are reserved for the rich guys.
The layers on the side going up also creates alternate air ways that creates vacuums from the wind to help create an opposing force to stabilize the building.
What really keeps it from falling over is the septic tanks since it’s not connected to the sewage system
They engineered the foundation so much they forgor 💀 about plumbing
St***d
and? It's not a residential building either way
That was the first week it was active while it was under construction ☠️☠️☠️ the notorious trucks u see were for moving the crap to a new sewer plant ☠️☠️
Very cool! Didn’t think to add plumbing though?
this is doubly impressive for people who don’t even know how to do a proper sewage system
Good timing to get this recommended given what happened to Dubai recently
The editing and animation in this is... really something, I tell you what.
I appreciate that you're trying the shorts, but the talking, jump cuts and movements were just too fast to understand. It might have been better to split these facts over 2 or 3 shorts and have them run at normal speed with normal editing. Also the sound effect with each transition got annoying fast
There's a longer version of this video too. Check that out. It's in normal speed
@@go9565 I know his longer video, it's the only reason why I know what they were trying to present here
i couldnt even comprehend half the facts jeez
Noo
You forgot mention that : Steel used in Burj Khalifa is from TATA 💪
respect for the creator of the animation and thnks for telling such great knowledge ❤
no offense but while I enjoy your main videos I really detest this 2microsecond attention span style video. didn't even make it to the end.
Keep in mind it stays upright because of some 25m poles and friction
That really shows the power of friction
Should have drilled the piles inside the core horizontally. Or at least at an angle from the perimeter of the building
Netherlands: ahh a worthy opponent
It's also cool that it doesn't have plumbing
Power cut gonna go crazy
Hexagons are the bestagons
-CGP Grey
Someone: I wonder how the Burj khalifa still hasn't fallen
This video: *Explain*
Someone: Yea..