Would You Live in an Oceanscraper?

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@cedeelbe 6 жыл бұрын

Seascrapers would be a better name tho. It flows better and keeps the theme of the original.

@shoulders-of-giants 6 жыл бұрын

best comment

@planetfall5056 6 жыл бұрын

Aren't seas and oceans different things though? I thought seas where smaller than oceans

@planetfall5056 6 жыл бұрын

Ah here, The National Ocean Service says oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanorsea.html (I don't mean this as a stupid nitpick. The if the name was too be perfectly literarily and accurate Skyscrapers don't scrape the sky. :P I was actually cirius what the difference is.) Hmm since a lot of these concepts seem to be close to land, what about shoresrapers for shallow water and seasrapers for deep? (I feel like im misspelling scraper...)

@Electronic424 6 жыл бұрын

Or just waterscraper, since skyscraper scrape sky and ground scraper scrape the ground

@jzn10x10 5 жыл бұрын

I agree!!!

@yato3520 5 жыл бұрын

And then pollution can be seen everywhere. A way to spread awareness!

@sarbe6625 4 жыл бұрын

I like how you left out The Netherlands when mentioning land reclamation

@bgaseacra5092 4 жыл бұрын

They also left out the Northern part of Germany. There are probably too many to mention in such a short video.

@jody024 4 жыл бұрын

I find it odd how it was left out.

@eleethtahgra7182 4 жыл бұрын

After reading a manga titled 6000, nope, not gonna live there. I'll stay a land dweller.

@frederikvilms1281 4 жыл бұрын

@@OG_BiggusDickus you would need an explosion big enough to bring down a normal skyscraper anyway.. so why not jsut do that , underwater gon be poor people anyway

@samsaraslight8377 4 жыл бұрын

@@OG_BiggusDickus I mean you could say the same about any other land structure. A tactical bomb placed next to its foundations would send the whole thing crumbling to the ground.

@samsaraslight8377 4 жыл бұрын

@@OG_BiggusDickus " without knowing intimately how the building was constructed its probably nigh impossible" Wouldn't that also apply here ? why are you assuming that a structure would be more comprised if it's located under water ? wouldn't an architect already factor in flooding into the design ?

@samsaraslight8377 4 жыл бұрын

@@OG_BiggusDickus no, like those demolition successes, the ones where you see a whole building collapse from barely noticeable detonations. Yes, it can be very surgical.

@samsaraslight8377 4 жыл бұрын

@@OG_BiggusDickus No, that's not what i meant. Abandoning the structure isn't a viable solution to a problem that they may encounter periodically. What i meant is that they would have measures to seal off damaged areas and prevent further flooding, like a submarine would.

@Masood1810 6 жыл бұрын

What I liked the most about this concept is that they'll consume plastic waste from oceans. But I hope they also consider effects of 'light pollution' on marine life and excessive desalination. Thanks for introducing us to such a wonderful idea B1M!

@bodybalancer 6 жыл бұрын

Messy Boy absolutely! Agree 100%

@romanplays1 6 жыл бұрын

the glass would be reinforced one way glass. like they use in interrogation rooms. the glass would be thicker the deeper you go to not disturb the more light-sensitive ocean creatures. and the bottom would most likely be extremely reinforced. dont want a shark or sperm whale to break it.

@Masood1810 6 жыл бұрын

asura, being of wrath good one 👌🏼

@ryant 6 жыл бұрын

The brine produced from the desalination process to provide water for ~20,000 people (or even a small fraction of that population) would be a serious issue we'd need to resolve. I see no reason these structures would need to be completely independent of land resources, especially for electricity, food, and water. In a slightly less hostile world, compact nuclear fission reactors, such as a scaled up version of NASA's Kilopower would give these structures all the power they need with minimal impact on the surrounding environment. It's a fantastic idea, and perhaps some decent period of time after I became very comfortable trusting the structure not to crack and drown me in my sleep, I'd love a floor to ceiling window in my living room with whales and jellyfish roaming around.

@akselhansen304 5 жыл бұрын

dont see how desalination would ever be an issue take the removed salt and ad it to the cleaned waste water before pumping it back out or even better just keep recycling the waste water that way only a little desalination would be needed to top of the system

@ripwolfe 6 жыл бұрын

While I love the sci-fi-esque concept, we have more than enough room on land already for people to live - we just don't use it very well. What would be nice is to see a lot of the concepts proposed for these ocean scrapers (and earthscrapers too, for that matter) incorporated into skyscrapers. Alas, in the US at least every time we get hit by a hurricane, we simply rebuild the same weather-inadequate buildings in the same place. An oceanscraper would make so much more sense to replace beachfront properties.

@BassGuitarGuy128 6 жыл бұрын

Good point. Most of these people have probably never seen an area like North Dakota lol

@timmmahhhh 6 жыл бұрын

Location, location, location. People want to live where the action is. SanFran Bay I can see getting several of these.

@crzune 5 жыл бұрын

Greenland comes to mind

@monotonexylophone1623 4 жыл бұрын

You need to destroy trees and hills to make room on land but you don't need to destroy anything to make seascrapers

@karon8112 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, we have space on land to build, but I would be ecologically smarter if we started only living on ocean or deserts. Why?! On deserts we can't plant crops, and with government incentive we could slowly turn the deserts surrounding us into oasis and later on forests. I don't like that much the idea of living on the ocean... Floating... Imagine how a tornado could mess with a floating structure. But still, living on ocean and deserts would leave fertile soils both for plantations and forests to grow.

@acejohn3420 6 жыл бұрын

Engineers make the impossible, possible!

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

AMEN 👍👍

@benabbott3235 5 жыл бұрын

Then it isn’t impossible if they can do it

@user-uu1nw1bl9j 5 жыл бұрын

Engineers wouldn't know shit if it wasn't for technological scientists, who in turn wouldn't know shit without natural scientists. They then, rely on mathematicians. So calm down boy, for every building you see has already three groups of bigger geniuses behind it than the engineer who build it.

@blublutte 5 жыл бұрын

This work is just pure shit.

@zoir1779 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-uu1nw1bl9j Meanwhile every other school traces back to philosophy. Just wanted to add on to the pyramid hehe

@error404blah 6 жыл бұрын

Yesterday you posted a question asking for suggestions for future videos and I suggested exactly this! Now that's what you call timing, or being psychic👍

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

We’re that quick 😉

@paulthomas3105 5 жыл бұрын

The B1M no ur not

@frederikvilms1281 4 жыл бұрын

@@paulthomas3105 shut up thomas

@mrplanet2015 4 жыл бұрын

Answer:You are a Time TRAVEL!

@coffibnst6077 4 жыл бұрын

*Oh so now, we’re going to overpopulate the ocean after land* wow

@ryuvereignnolife3980 4 жыл бұрын

I dont think u can manage to do that honestly (to overpopulate the ocean)

@thebrookelauren 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, don’t worry! Human population won’t surpass 10-12 billion, and its supposed to level off at only 11 billion by 2100.

@SirKolass 4 жыл бұрын

@@thebrookelauren why

@chocotoasties2671 4 жыл бұрын

Overpopulation is only a problem for places of low income. It's waste and lack of education and healthcare that's the problem

@user-pe2yx9kt4e 4 жыл бұрын

They’re just dreams; I think the human population will level off, but people may transplant themselves to live in more densely packed areas

@heythere160 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful channel and amazing material. The number of subscribers keeps increasing - glad to see you are reaping the benefits of all the work you put in.

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! 👍🙂🙏🙏🙏

@everythingsalright1121 4 жыл бұрын

I have difficulty believing this would work...the ocean is fucking scary and powerful, and long term maintenance would be a nightmare. Rescuing people would be a nightmare. I for one would be too scared to live under the ocean, not only because it quickly gets real dark when you go down, but because of all the weird sea creatures, the sounds, the location...just...too many things that could go wrong IMO

@michaelyoung7171 6 жыл бұрын

this looks amazing it looks like something out of this world.

@Tjerk176197 6 жыл бұрын

I think the artists that made these images overestimated how much light passes through the ocean. It gets pretty dark pretty fast the deeper you go.

@joelyons886 6 жыл бұрын

amazing really enjoyed this yet again hitting the bulls eye B1M some interesting points, we have actually reached outward rather than looking inward when it comes to exploration. we seemed to have been so preoccupied on learning about other planets that we neglected the fact that 70+% of our own planet remains as much a mystery that the outer planets themselves! as population grows and the ever expanding need for habituation it's amazing how we are so lacking in our development of colonisation of our oceans/seas...

@dragonempire2253 6 жыл бұрын

Another video! Underrated channel I must say!

@calumbrooknicolson 5 жыл бұрын

This is amazing, I love your videos, I love the projects, at least I may still be alive when they are finished/opened.

@CurtisCT 2 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting concept, but I wish the video had addressed the obvious question regarding natural catastrophes, i.e. how well do these structures hold up to hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis? What about the lack of natural sunlight under the sea? Would living in such structures also mean having to live with artificial lighting for the rest of your life?

@veggieboyultimate 4 жыл бұрын

To be honest, I wouldn’t live in an oceanscaper. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t consider building it.

@chalkies 6 жыл бұрын

Sky, ground, earth, sea! With all of the scrapers combined I become Captain planet he's a hero. Gonna bring pollution down to zero ~

@blublutte 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah ! Spreading giants building all over the world and even in the dumbest places will save our planet from pollution ! No need to think about water treatment or natural resources or ecosystem ! Who cares ! This is future Captain ! We just have to say its will be ecologic and BOOOM it happens ! Zero polution with dumb physics !

@iti-nellevalgevali8453 4 жыл бұрын

This rhymes...

@jacktheflash8478 3 жыл бұрын

blublutte seriously?

@fahimhaque02 6 жыл бұрын

Bioshock much?

@strausszen1215 6 жыл бұрын

But Bioshock's cities were built on the ocean floor..

@Zer0C0re 4 жыл бұрын

Am waiting on the discovery of a certain sea slug and a dimension-hopping pair of very peculiar siblings...

@eduardo42897 6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wish I was immortal to be able to see the future of our architecture. Love this! Viva architecture!

@nsytr06 6 жыл бұрын

I love your videos. Always do such a good job.

@gohchungpin3800 5 жыл бұрын

Fred - your voice is the perfect voice to narrate each video. Thank you

@Andre-md1oh 5 жыл бұрын

Man I really like the idea of building with the plastic waste in ocean and at the same time using algea. Really cool

@citiesskyscrapers4561 6 жыл бұрын

First. Your channel is awesome, keep making videos!

@CitiesoftheFuture 6 жыл бұрын

So true! we love this channel too!

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

That means so much to us. Thanks guys! ✊️🙏🙂👍

@HouseJawn 6 жыл бұрын

This channel is exactly what was missing on youtube. Progressive design and architecture

@DRIVECLUBistimelessPS4 6 жыл бұрын

So cool, I wish this was on Trending, so more people could see this awesomeness and get inspired about the world!

@tarkineWild 6 жыл бұрын

Some interesting possibilities but also challenges ,including technical and engineering

@aurorajones8481 6 жыл бұрын

Great concept.

@thatdutchguy2882 6 жыл бұрын

Biggest land reclamation projects are in the Kingdom of the Netherlands,....Monaco and all other projects are micro in scale to that.

@SarlyAdreSarkum 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks B1M for the shout out

@drac124 4 жыл бұрын

2:43 The projects are amazing. A huge single glass with amazing view. In real life it will be several squares of glass with a lovely steel beam in the middle.

@xeroxquantum 6 жыл бұрын

Great commentary as always 😍

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! ✊️✊️

@marty34534 4 жыл бұрын

Brings a whole new meaning to a _leaky roof_

@magsy_bogues4673 3 жыл бұрын

The only concern I've noticed would be the desalination process, it can increase the salt level of the surrounding area causing the imbalance in the ecosystem.

@mavesteam8341 6 жыл бұрын

This channel just gets better and better.

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! ✊️✊️✊️

@rutherford5247 4 жыл бұрын

That oceanscrapers seem fragile to me...like one slap of big waves, something could go wrong

@jayparra8574 6 жыл бұрын

I'm dying for the 1st ocean scrapper

@divandissanayake9251 6 жыл бұрын

great yeah where the approved is standers for them bro

@jayparra8574 6 жыл бұрын

Divan Dissanayake ???

@danijellino1921 5 жыл бұрын

You mean you will die inside the first one.

@blublutte 5 жыл бұрын

So you die for a real dumb idea man ! 500 meters plastic building in the ocean and 20,000 dumb people stuck in it. If you're in it, you will die for sure. But for nitrogen nacrosis.

@edcm926 4 жыл бұрын

@@blublutte ???

@jackredmond5643 6 жыл бұрын

Great video as usual guys but Fred how did you manage to keep a straight face saying "floated" and "submerge" haha

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Haha, there were a lot of takes 😉

@beyondcompute 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is inspirational!

@bunnyfreakz 5 жыл бұрын

Those architect making a great design but technically impossible.

@Yetipfote 3 жыл бұрын

pyramids of egypt were impossible as well.... yet here they are since 1000s of years...

@peachezprogramming 6 жыл бұрын

I think this is a really interesting design concept. Let's keep our feet on the ground though, these aren't anywhere near being ready for prime time.

@Dante3214 4 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful. For anyone who liked this I highly recommend playing both Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero if you haven't already!

@CarFreeSegnitz 6 жыл бұрын

The economics for these are very likely not going to happen. Compare the price of yachts to decent homes on land, the yachts come in at 10x or 100x on a square-foot basis. Compare a pre-fab oceanscraper to a custom-built mansion still favors the mansion simply because the oceanscraper will need to be built more robustly against water corrosion and weather. Heating-cooling: water is a very potent conductor of heat and stores a tremendous amount of heat energy. Oceanscrapers will need to locate where the sea water remains fairly close to room temperature or wind up expending huge amounts of energy to keep its interior space at a liveable temperature. Not impossible, of course, but it reduces the potential real estate where these can be located.

@bm3350 4 жыл бұрын

A dystopian future where overpopulation becomes such a problem that the rich relocate to these sea-scrapers and isolate themselves from the poor mainland

@vincentpulizzijr 6 жыл бұрын

This is my new favorite channel on KZfaq

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Welcome - and THANK YOU!! ✊️✊️

@thecryinglennyface166 6 жыл бұрын

Man, this video was amazing.

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! ✊️✊️

@devilsslave1970 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds great, I hope the obscenely rich enjoy themselves

@maunster3414 5 жыл бұрын

Especially when they drown.

@beshinerondozai4185 4 жыл бұрын

At this rate we are going to have hell-scrappers

@MySavageDynasty 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is really great. I want to know more about this.

@sushantaryal3870 6 жыл бұрын

Great video

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍👍

@istormarts6078 6 жыл бұрын

I love everything about it!

@ReachAroundStudios 6 жыл бұрын

What service do you guys use for your stock videos?

@cerebralm 5 жыл бұрын

I really hope I live to see these... living in such an alien yet beautiful place probably does wonderful things to the mind.

@aethermass 5 жыл бұрын

Good job saying "... theoretical concepts for entire underwater communities known as oceanscapers have been floated" with a mostly straight face =)

@adrianoantoniomaldonado3771 5 жыл бұрын

This channel deserves 10 Million subscribers

@eliasgallegos3058 6 жыл бұрын

I love the idea! But it would be better if you build this in island countries like the Maldives or in the pacific, it would make more space for people, without having to destroy the islands geography!

@solanceDarkMOW 4 жыл бұрын

The klein bottles in that waterscraper concept art are gloriously superfluous

@AgentRikuOfficial 5 жыл бұрын

I definitely want to live on one of these before I die, it'd be amazing. And a 24/7 aquatic aquarium

@jacquescousteau4592 4 жыл бұрын

You should talk more about things like this. Building greater and greater concrete buildings is just going to intensify the stress put on the environment. Innovative new ideas are the way to go.

@coverup2034 4 жыл бұрын

It would be amazing with trees at the top and corals dotting the surface of the bottom part. Like coral rehabilitation farms😃

@clareswannell7161 3 жыл бұрын

Legit once they do this 10 years later they gonna call it OLD

@user-bx7me4bs8k 6 жыл бұрын

Can't see these becoming reality in my lifetime ://

@joaquincimas1707 6 жыл бұрын

anno 2070 reveal the future... :)

@MS-gt6zh 6 жыл бұрын

Why not? It's definitely easier than colonizing Mars.

@TheB1M 6 жыл бұрын

How old are you?

@devus9793 6 жыл бұрын

Commercial interstellar space travel, probably not in this lifetime, but this I can easily see happening in this lifetime. Does depend on age though.

@bennyboiart7781 5 жыл бұрын

Wan Xi-Un we're supposed to have flying cars now, so I'd have to agree.

@bossboss966 4 жыл бұрын

Wait, so they're planning on recyclying patches of plastics in ocean by making it into bigger floating plastics that's liveable? I dunno how to see this.

@thotmorgana 5 жыл бұрын

Tbh building it on this scale currently seems pretty unrealistic. Even smaller versions will mostly be luxurious projects for the ultra rich. Of course property at the water is worth a lot, being submerged and able to see the sea life is amazing. However, going down a 1000 meters, the water pressure will be extremely high. It will need much much more construction materials to withstand those pressures. Also large glass panels will only be possible higher up. Not to mention that it hasn't been tested for dangers of marine wildlife crashing into it, like birds fly into windows, imagine whales swimming into those glass panels or structures, or other large objects floating in sea, as well as storms, currents etc. Also harvesting fresh water from salt water is extremely difficult/inefficient. Nonetheless, building this on a much smaller scale on a hotel form, i'm sure the ultra rich are willing to pay for it. More as a gimmick though.

@jasonfischer8946 5 жыл бұрын

When I first saw the word "oceanscraper", I thought it was some sort of ocean cleaning machine.

@charleskesner1302 6 жыл бұрын

Love it. I'm in.

@2MeterLP 3 жыл бұрын

Problem is that anywhere below the euphotic zone its dark. Those 1000m oceanscrapers would be in eternal darkness.

@CrankyPantss 6 жыл бұрын

These would be awesome.

@chrisb4003 5 жыл бұрын

3:17, that's a pair of klein bottles floating in the water, a one sided shape that exists in four dimensions

@pastorcoreyadams 6 жыл бұрын

Finally we are seeing the vision of EPCOT's Horizon and their floating cities, becoming a reality.

@smokeywhitetail7720 6 жыл бұрын

Just one question what happen when a typhoon or hurricane comes and hit them or near by?

@MySavageDynasty 6 жыл бұрын

Can you guys do a video on planned sky scrappers in Japan? Or any new projects there?

@GoBlesstheSky 4 жыл бұрын

Great idea! What could possibly go wrong?

@sergeynajafov4422 4 жыл бұрын

Sea-scrapers just sounds so much better...

@noahbowie5985 6 жыл бұрын

These are cool and all but I'll be long gone by the time this happens

@blublutte 5 жыл бұрын

And that is a really good thing for you, trust me.

@mariebunny 5 жыл бұрын

Love the design, the idea, the fact that's it's made from algae and plastics aaah 😍 I wanna move there already!

@TheVigilantStewards 5 жыл бұрын

Incredible, would be a fun vacation if they provided stable green ways above water that were expansive and lots of grounding and water as clean as spring water.

@cosmicknight2171 4 жыл бұрын

How will we build it and get it in the water?

@alowais32 6 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video about masdar city?

@chava1303 6 жыл бұрын

Hey B1M, from your recent posts I get that you are after flashy-yet-interesting subjects to get the likes and subscriptions. But there are also other interesting subjects that are more relevant for the world and that do not focus only on the top 1% of the population who would be the only ones able to afford living in a super skinny skyscraper, an ocean scraper or in a man made beach in Monaco. Here are some suggestions: Architectural and engineering concepts to deal with the lack of housing for the displaced populations due to war, famine or natural disasters. Natural material construction, including rammed earth, adobe and bamboo & the self-constructed urban slums that are rapidly growing on the booming cities on the equator; how will cities develop the infrastructure needed to cope with the demand? I like your videos but I liked them more at the beginning when they were less fantasy and more rooted-yet-visionary.

@denyraw 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: me: 3:40 Klein bottles

@lennart-oimel9933 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts!;D

@MM-io6tb 5 жыл бұрын

Ya sure, just give me a sec to 3D print this entire elaborate underwater building system...

@evancurran6253 6 жыл бұрын

“not much has changed but they live underwater”

@ranchmantubularspacesausag5709 4 жыл бұрын

Anxiety off the charts already

@krassy258 4 жыл бұрын

Where can i find the intro music

@Alex2011410136 4 жыл бұрын

As beautiful as it is, unless we can find a material as advertised (3D printed material from algae and plastic and all that transparent material nonsense) that can withstand at the very least 200-500 tonnes/m2 of hydrostatic pressure and more from current, for now and maybe next couple decades it'll all be bulky concrete structures m8.... Or something similar to a submarine...

@EtherArch 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty renderings don’t mean anything. Technology development is the only thing that pushes us forward.

@Sadpersonsclub 4 жыл бұрын

This video: More ocean trash The Dolphins: ... Aqua man: ...

@samkidd5735 4 жыл бұрын

So Basically Andrew Ryan's Rapture will be an actual future that I get to live in. Nice!

@robertbahler9520 6 жыл бұрын

Its a fascinating idea but it requires two things to really work: cheap convenient transportation to the mainland, and an economic engine (not "research," but some kind of industry best suited to being in the sea)

@tuele4302 6 жыл бұрын

Ideas for "oceanscrapers" are being floated. Nice pun! Creating future wonders from plastic waste is a beautiful thing.

@Judith_Remkes 2 жыл бұрын

And skyscrapers on the rise, and submerge yourself...he's on a roll, lol!

@jolank 6 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you didn't address the underwater pressure issue. The pressures in such depths are enormous. You're talking about military submarines depths. The engineering of such structures would be ridiculous IMHO.

@benabbott3235 5 жыл бұрын

Jan Krizansky exactly the glass would be hella expensive for it to withstand such pressure

@blublutte 5 жыл бұрын

They don't adress anything here, they just read a advertising for a stupid project of a dumb designer that they found online. No reflexion at all on the feasibility or the impact or whatever.