What If You Built a Pipe to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?
What If You Built a Pipe to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?
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This is the longest underwater pipe on Earth. It stretches to the bottom of the deepest place on the planet, where only a few people have ever visited.
And we’re about to take you on an epic journey to construct it. What materials would be suitable for the task? What creatures would lurk around you? And at what point would constructing the pipe become unbearable?
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I think the reason why are they creating pipes at the bottom of the mariana trench is for the trash. Because of the pressure on the deepest part can shrink you lol
What if reality is just an illusion?
I thought one of the 3 questions at the start would be “why would we build this?” but no we are just left in the dark as to what the use would be. Kinda sucks
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You’ll be lucky to see a plastic bag at 4:30
I don’t like the approach in this. Is it really not possible to build the pipe at the surface and submerge it piece by piece?
Here is a idea What if there was multiverse theory Different versions of YOU from different universes?
What if we make 16 Psyche to hit Mars?
What if all anime characters came to our world.😂
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Humans are stupid!!!
What if humans could see ghost 🥺👻
maybe cthulhu would poke some holes in it & use it as a flute!!!
The real question here is what would be inside the pipe? Id assume either someone found a massive oil deposit at the bottom of the trench or it’s an oxygen pipe for an extremely advanced research habitat to study the trench
The Mariana trench is not the least explored place. It is the Earth’s core.
driving pipe as deep as you can seems worthy of effort
Imagine the other planets with water
The pipes will not be crushed if pressure is allowed to equalize.
I hate water..
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For the guys who are wondering why they are doing a video abt the topic which is a cmplt nonsence. It is answer to question of a video in what if ‘we dump all our waste in mariana treanch’. To do so we need a pipeline.
The face behind the voice
What if 100% of Human DNA was active?
No reason to built the pipe bruh😂
Wtf r robots made of?
What if every person on the planet start shouting at same time.
Who really thought about this what if i mean this is impossible 🙄
long straw
Anyone else hear music from Heroes : Might & Magic III?
What if we will lose our gravity?
No, seriously…. what’s the point?
If you had a pipe to the bottom of the trench, it could easily hold up against the pressure so long as the pipe had a fluid inside with the approximate same pressure or higher to counter balance the internal and external pressures. The problem with people going down that deep is we are essentially sacks of jelly filled donuts with hollow air sacs called lungs that have evolved to exist at the surface pressure of 1 atmosphere or 101 kilopascals. Those soft tissues with gases inside are sensitive to pressure changes (higher or lower). The same issue applies to submarines that have an internal space for humans filled with air, that is susceptible to compression from external pressure force. If you made a drone submarine with all solid parts and no internal air spaces, then it could go to the bottom without much issue.
Why would you want to do this
what the purpose of it tho…
*Marianas
Idea for an episode: what if dinosaurs and humans lived in the same era(sorry idk if this was done already)
another idea: what if the purge was a real thing
5% of the oceain is discoverd its not thr deepest
Keep water in the pipe and the only outer material (thickness of the steel) could easily withstand the pressure. As soon as you remove the water to air it would just collapse
Can anyone tell me purpose of this mission
meet arnold did this before
What if……
Why bother?
Do a video on What if the world was never colonised how would we live
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That was what I was wondering yesterday at 11:43am while walking to the bus stop 😂!
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what if we drank blood instead of water??????
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I wish I can get that book
What if the world was able to achieve world peace ?
Isn’t it weird that light can get as bright as it wants but darkness cant get any darker?
Sir please say the font name you use in your thumbnails sir please 🙏