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Hanging a building from an asteroid has to be the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard 😂

Looking forward to the sequel to this video in 20 years talking about the Line

No mention of the original, most outrageous never-built structure ever, the Tower of Babel, with a projected height of Heaven.

Build a skyscraper on a asteorid? What this is it? A real life Morrowind idea, filled with lots of skooma.

I wonder if it's less expensive to build in Dubai due to the sanctioned slavery.

I seem to remember a high school lecture about Frank Lloyd Wright, it was mentioned that he had designed a mile high sky scraper that would be a city onto itself. There was a brief photo of a blue print and a glimpse of a artist's rendering before moving along to his other more famous buildings that actually got built. That might be worth looking into.

How about the black Taj? It’s almost certainly a legend, but the story is that Shah Jahan was planning to build a second Taj Mahal across the river from the first, but made of black marble, with other colors being the opposite of the white Taj. Again, probably a legend, but incredible to imagine.

A video about "Space Elevators" would fit perfectly within the theme of this video. First proposed in 1895, NASA is still interested in the concept for use either on Earth and/or Mars. The concept was made famous to the masses by the 1979 Arthur C. Clarke's novel, The Fountains of Paradise.

The foundation of the palace of the soviets was turned into a swimming pool until the church was rebuilt on its original site.

With the upside down skyscrapper, I wonder how they planned to get people from the ground up to it every day

I thought for-sure Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Illinois would’ve made the list. A mile-high skyscraper in the 1950s

Though it has never gotten out of the 'concept phase', the idea of building a land-bridge running from Alaska to Siberia has been proposed more than once.

Dont forget that unfinished Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. Another vanity project that ran out of money.

No mention of the Netherlands, where for a number of years there were serious proposals for building an entire mountain? It would effectively be a huge building the shape and size of a mountain. It was cancelled because (among other reasons) the ground wouldn't be able to support it and it would push down the ground in a wide radius, taking the Netherlands even further down below sea level than it already is.

Geostationary orbit is above the equator, you can't just move the thing to New York. We could put it in geosynchronous orbit, but then it would fly north then south between two locations all the time. Otherwise good idea.

The Tokyo one makes me think "oh, fun, the Renraku Arcology."

I'm disappointed that the Illinois wasn't mentioned

Not forgetting that Fuji's great stability comes more from being made of 255 billion tonnes of solid rock. Just a tad more likely to survive an earthquake.

This is a really good idea. You should make this a series

Can’t we just have a GoFundMe to raise the money to build that asteroid tower, put all the billionaires in it, and then let it leave orbit?

Don’t forget about the mountain statue proposed for Alexander the Great by the architect Dinocrates. It would’ve had such a large scale, a whole city would rest in the palm of his hand!

Has anyone told them if they wanna hang that space tower over New York, they're gonna have to move New York?

The paper clip shaped tower on Billionaires Row shoukd be built. I think it is a fascinating concept

Empire: let's build a DEATH STAR. Advisor: No, these mega-projects never work out...

In the Control Room of Project Asteroid... "Sir! We've lost control of the asteroid! It's going to hit Earth!" "Oh no! Heaven help us! Do we know where it will hit?" "Checking now, Sir.... here it is... Canada." "Oh Thank God! Phew, that was close." .Control Room erupts in cheering, high-fiving and applause.

Gee I wonder why it's so (relatively) cheap to build a skyscraper in Dubai? Can't be at all because of the labor used...

I loved the straight to business approach!

I definitely wasn’t ready for the last one lol

Wait, Simon has only 4 keys for work? The man is on like 50 different channels, how does he only have 4 keys?! What!??

I saw Magic Spoon in one of my local Kroger grocery stores.

Astrophysicist: Errrr Gravity? The Stoner that came up that last Idea: That's why you go get an asteroid and bring it here, stupid... Duh... yeah man...and then you like build the skyscraper down towards the Earth so we can still like you know live in Earth's atmosphere.... Astrophysicist: GRAVITY?!?!? Stoner: You're not listening man, you have to get an asteroid bring it here and put it in our orbit... THEN build it on the asteroid.... It would work man... trust me man... think about it...

Some of these remind me of the Arcologies in the Sim City series.

I’m sure there’s a few warhammer fans but Leutin09 did a great video discussing hive cities which is an interesting follow up to massive structures.

Maybe not crazy enough for this list, but I've always liked Gaudi's proposal for a New York skyscraper, the Hotel Attraction. Makes you wonder how it'd have influenced skyscraper design if it'd happened.

We had a branch of Shimizu in Phoenix, Arzona. This was about 1987. They did some type of construction but I don't remember exactly what they were building. I just remember my company sold them a lot of office products.

Might as well add Neom to this list now. Future proof against the dumb idea

For the mega-tall pyramids: Burj Khalifa's "poop trucks" highlight the issue of sewerage! Piping in and out for water and waste would demand massive planning, material provision and cost.

Has anyone considered turning the ocean garbage patch into a floating island.

I remember seeing That Japanese mega city structure in a documentary several years ago. I thought It was a cool idea.

The analema tower could only exist over the equator, or it will be constantly moving. Unless that's why they named it analema, it's intended to move?

They tried to hang a building from space, something tells me the idea is still hanging around today. Lol

Simon..I've come across 4 of your channels..i think its time for an intervention and we need you to release your editors from your basement 😂

Re the last one, popping down the shops seems like it might be problematic, or at least getting back after

If the proposed death-sentence fulfilling rollercoaster isnt mentioned here...I *WILL* be disappointed!! 😅

🎉 another great video team Simon!

All of these buildings need to be built damn it.

The last one ... might get done along side the Dyson sphere...

Love these videos

And the asteroid skyscraper fits right in with the entire founding principle of capitalism... the idea that infinite growth in a finite system is not only possible, but perfectly reasonable.

I think you missed a couple of possible critiques of the Analemma Tower. It makes sense that the cost of capturing and moving an asteroid into geosynchronous orbit would be astronomical (no pun intended) Keep in mind that we do not currently have the equipment, perhaps even the technology, to accomplish this task. This means a great deal of R&D would have to be financed before actual 'construction' could be started. Perhaps the greatest difficulty is that geosynchronous orbit is about 22,250 mi. This means that you are then building a structure from an asteroid 22,250 mi away. (this is not even considering that the CG of the asterioid-structure needs to be at that orbital distance) Not even the Great Wall of China (at 13,171 mi) approaches that dimension. Next we must consider that the structure would be subject to variations in gravity, atmospheric effects and solar effects. The list of issues and difficulties is monumental. Power, water, waste, atmosphere, heating, cooling, transportation, shielding (radiation), emergency services, etc. etc. Of all the proposed projects discussed in this video, this one seem most like blue-sky thinking

Those are certainly something. Keep thinking big people!

That last one is a neat idea though. Something you'd expect to see on star trek.

0:50 - Chapter 1 - Mega mansions 3:00 - Mid roll ads 4:15 - Back to the video 6:55 - Chapter 2 - Ultra skyscrapers 10:30 - Chapter 3 - Out of this world

Re Analema Tower ... you might mention that geosynchronous orbit is 42,164 km from the earth's surface, so those are either gonna be some REALLY long cables are a REALLY "tall" building lol

Are we not going to talk about how Dubai is able to get the work done so cheaply?

One thing I don't understand, is why they don't do the building but… big a hole first! At the right spots and depths, you may even be able to dig tunnels to extend it, although I understand this part would more challenging that it looks, but digging a skyscraper shaped hole should be easy. Because you've always walls on the 4 sides, there's always plenty of support, so you can extend it as far as you want… I expect at least 5-10x the normal height.

On the Analemma Tower, for a very brief moment, I thought Simon was about to say “…to make the building affordable, it had to be built in Duplo…” Dubai, of course, makes much more sense?

I thought I'd see the space elevator here, but I guess the Analemma Tower fills a similar role.

the main reasons construction in Dubai is cheaper than in New York is the subsidides land and the use of slave labour. Lower building standard and cheaper (to bribe) local officials probably have something to do with it as well.

the Ultima Tower is one of the coolest looking buildings ever

Wouldn't that groundscraper need to have a way to adjust its orbital altitude to make up for the weight inside and climactic conditions? Not to mention that just the speed diffence between base and apex (it doesn't matter which is which) compounded with the shape would most likely cause it to break. Also, is it possible to set an asteroid in perfect geaostationary orbit above New York?

on the final project, a geosynchronous orbit, unless it is over the equator, is not geostationary. Geosynchronous orbits have a figure 8 ground path as they swing north and south of the equator to the limits of their inclination. Such a sky scraper over NYC would swing as far south as NYC is north moving at (i'm guessing) about a thousand miles an hour as it passes the equator.

the last one straight up sounds like something karl pilkington would come up with also, baar dau

Cold hard reality. Crushing the dreams of visionaries since, oh, the Dawn of time....

What about The Death Star? Seems reasonable...doesn't it?

The Analemma Tower could simply be attached to the ground and turned into a space elevator. Then it is more worth it

I propose a 3x3 m artificial island 2 m off the shore of a pond which houses a toolshed containing a shovel and a lawnmower.

4:55 The Bass Pro Shop Megachurch

"Cheaper in Dubai" Yeah, nearly slave labor and zero safety guidlines can get that for ya....

the Tokyo project was typical of the late 80s/early 90s obsession with arcologies.

That sky tower would probably work better hovering in the atmosphere of Venus.

I love that the planers for the hanging skyscraper didn't even do the most basic physic research before making this idea. Even IF we would be able to get an asteroid into geostationary orbit, somehow find a way to have it stable there while having future tech construction materials to hang anything from there so that it would reach the earth - it still could never be build in or hang over either Dubai or NY. The GEO is an orbit directly over Earth's equator. Something "hanging" from there could always only position around the world's equator. So, never in a city so far away from it as Dubai or New York. Even if everything else was possible, this earthscraper could only exist in such locations as Brazil, Congo or Indonesia.

That last one may well be the dumbest thing i ever have and/or will hear(d)

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the Atlantropa project now that was absolutely bat shit crazy

What the heck? That last one is beyond absurd. What??? Until tech gets a lot massively better and gravity is somehow lessened that one is going to be forever impossible and ludicrous.

Beyond the gazillion points why the Analemma Tower would be utterly impossible, impractical and pointless to build, just one aspect: plumbing - where would all the shit go? ;)

Side projects? I didn't know Simon had started a 2nd channel. Is it any good? How will he manage this and top 10s? Brave man. Good for him.

This video topic reminds me of a crazy plan to hide the entire Rebel fleet in a large sun ☀️ using high tech shields. The crazy scheme comes undone, not by the Empire. R2 C3PO save the ships! This was a Star Wars 1980s era comic.

I remember there being several proposed mega sized ship* that then millionaires, now likely billionaires could live on to avoid taxes and crime. There was one proposition that looked almost like it was to be constructed, but it never got anywhere - sadly, I truly feel for them, billionaires are going to have to continue paying taxes for educated people to work for them, roads/trains so they can get to work, police and fireman to protect their workers lives, etc. Poor billionaires I truly grieve for their situation. *I initially wrote sheep!

For the last tower, did anyone think about how those people would get down? You would need a plane to get people down to the main land...

Brain blaze meets Side Projects

Compilation of the ones that were build next?

Not that the asteroid building would be even remotly possible for many reasons, but what let's say they'd built it, how would they solve plumbing and waste disposal??

Anyone else see the thumbnail and immediately say to themselves “wait that’s in dog town” 😂

5:21: That one guy from Escape Velocity called escalators on crack.

I still want the Cenotaph for Newton to be built, but I'll settle with the Vegas Sphere.

I have to wonder at what point a skyscraper turns into a starscraper.

City planners are frankly quite quite bonkers.

Just a small question: I have an appointment in that hanging tower thingie; just how precisely do I get inside?

Why the hell do these designers constantly want to build on ridiculously active earthquake zones?

The asteroid building sounds hilariously stupid

Oh good. You talk about Japan. You could do an entire video on crazy ideas for what to with with Tokyo bay

The city hanging from an Asteroid would not work in other locations than Singapore since it would need to be close to the equator.

A tower on an astroid? Somebody was stoned.

You didn't include the Sky City 1000, a proposed skycraper for the Tokyo metropolitan area.

That's not the Colosseum in the intro. That's the Pula Amphitheatre.

Okay, so the pyramid sounds kind of utopic, but maybe NOT over the Tokyo bay! Even if you could safely suspend all of THAT over a body of water, could you really convince that many people to be chill with it? On top of that, ship traffic would likely be impacted, and an off course oceanic freighter isn't the kind of thing you want hitting your self contained city! Then of course, there's the whole issue that overpopulation was about to be much less of a concern for Japan.

There's also the Stade Olympique Lunar Internationale (SILO) a proposed 100,000 seat stadium that would have housed the first lunar Olympics. Wanna talk about out of this world, it was literally and figuratively that