10-Kilometer Skyscrapers? How High Can We Really Build?

Subscribe -    / @titanfoldmedia   0:00 The 10-kilometer tower challenge 1:33 Jeddah Tower and the first kilometer 2:36 Gravity, shape, and structural strength 5:18 The elevator problem 7:52 Wind, sway, and tower design 12:01 Living at extreme altitude 16:22 Foundations, construction, and cost 22:08 What can we actually build? How high can a building really go before gravity, wind, elevators, and human biology take over? I climb from a real kilometer-high project to the thought experiment of a 10-kilometer tower. I examine Jeddah Tower, the Burj Khalifa, elevator limits, wind-induced motion, pressure, water systems, fire evacuation, foundations, construction logistics, and the shrinking usable space inside supertall buildings. At the top, I separate what we can build today from what might be possible with future technology—and explain why a 10-kilometer tower would be less like a skyscraper and more like an engineered mountain.