The Greatest Science Question Ever?
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Does building skyscrapers change the Earth's weight?
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Welcome back to the basement yard. You look very pensive over there, Frank. Yeah, I've had a a bit of a A tough thinking day. You ever have one of those? Three o'clock. You've never had one of those where like you're just like you can't crack like figuring something out and you're just like, fuck Is it just me emotionally or like a c like what do you mean? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know. No, I I was driving on my way in today and I was having a thought about science. Ha ha ha. That gotcha? It was true. I was I was driving and I was on uh I was having a thought about science. Well, I was I so I'm I'm driving do you ever when you drive in Manhattan or like you're in Manhattan, are you ever looking around just like, yo, what the fuck, dude?
In what regard? Just like the how the fuck is this even possible? Like the buildings? Yeah. Yeah, I look at buildings and I'm like, way too tall. Too too tall, too heavy.
Yeah.
Which like I didn't even think about like so first of all, it started with this. I had the realization where I was just like When they're making these skyscrapers, they need to account for the strength of the skyscraper, like how much weight it is just by itself putting on itself. And then once it's filled with shit.
Mm-hmm.
So like desks. Піпо Pencils. Shit like that. Right. That doesn't freak you out. Because they're like, how can they figure out how fucking how many people are gonna be in here? Is this the science question? No no no. The that's Oh, this is a different question. That was just that's where it started. Oh. And I was fucking confused. And then I was like, yo What as we build more shit on earth. Does the weight of the planet change? What the fuck is so funny? Does the weight of the planet Like does our how like let's imagine our planet is like a billion tons or something? Yeah. Okay. Hold on, there's a there's a good answer to this. Go ahead. What if fuck is so funny? Sorry, sorry, I g I'll go. But like Does our does the weight of our planet change?
Or when we concentrate our weight in one place more than others, does it fucking throw shit off? You mean like if everyone moved to the northern hemisphere? Correct. Is it g if you put all six billion or whatever it is now, eight billion or whatever amount of billion people it is, all in one Spot. I know one spot, but like if you had them all standing next to each other in a combined area. Yeah. Is the earth could just be like Um What's so Joe's got it. Joe's got it. Well, I was just gonna say that like how can the weight of the earth change if you're using things from the earth to make the building. I thought that too. Yeah. But what if there's materials that we are making ourselves? Which ones?
I mean
like it's it's not like we're making it from thin air, like we're Yeah. Like we're g all the materials and resources that we're using are like Well It's like ice is not gonna make the water. A actually, actually. Okay. You backing me up now? Giggles McGee is no longer laughing at me like I'm a fucking dumb fuck. It's a bad question. But if you think about it. We plant trees and like fruit and that's bingo and that's that starts and that gets weight. Bro, think about like uh let's say that Yeah, bro, bingo. The whole earth. Yeah, yeah. At the same time. I I just want you to know I'm not I don't have an answer. I'm just working this through with you. Okay, cool. The whole earth, every fucking apple orchard on the planet has a full blossom of bunch of apples at the same time.
Right. That's a lot of apples, brother. Okay. Is that fucking shit up? 'Cause like apples don't like They get made, dude. Like seemingly out of nothing. You didn't have a point and you're taking my point, but he is right. I mean no, my point was there. I was in the point.
Yeah, I mean I I think
that like um I I just think that the earth is probably so heavy that like It's minuscule. A a a ton of trees or something isn't gonna like I mean, bro, a lot of tr or or let's let's not even say so like I understand how like evaporation, condensation and rain and all that shit happens.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Does building skyscrapers change the Earth's weight?
0:00–11:08
2
Can human activities like deforestation or construction affect the planet’s mass?
11:08–20:33
3
What would happen if all humanity gathered in one spot and jumped together?
20:33–31:02
4
Is the universe infinite or does it have an end?
31:02–41:08
5
Are we alone in the cosmos or is intelligent life out there?
41:08–52:01
6
Which planet is the most “sexy” or interesting?
52:01–1:00:55
7
What is “nothing” and can it be observed?
1:00:55–1:10:22
8
How does DNA shape every living thing and why does it matter?
1:10:22–1:20:27