How many Burj Khalifa towers stacked end-to-end would reach from Earth all the way to the Moon

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00:00How many bergs Khalifa Towers stacked and tuned would reach from Earth all the way to the moon?

00:05For all of human history, the moon has shone above us.

00:09A silver lantern in the night sky, forever, out of reach?

00:13But what if we tried something absurd?

00:15What if, instead of rockets and spaceships, we decided to climb there?

00:20Using skyscrapers!

00:23Not just any skyscraper, but the tallest ever built by humanity.

00:27The Burge Khalifa.

00:29A tower of glass and steel, rising 828 meters into the sky.

00:35So tall, it pierces the clouds!

00:38A needle of human ambition!

00:41Now imagine lining them up, one after another.

00:45Stacking these giants, floor upon floor, until their spires stretch not just above the clouds, not just into orbit.

00:54But all the way to the moon itself?

00:57The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of 384,000 kilometers.

01:02That is 384 million meters.

01:05The Burge Khalifa.

01:06828 meters.

01:08828 meters.

01:09Do the math.

01:11And the answer is staggering.

01:13To build a tower of Burge Khalifas all the way to the moon, you would need about 464,000 of them.

01:20464,000 skyscrapers laid one on top of the other.

01:26A ladder of steel and glass, reaching through the heavens.

01:30Picture it.

01:32The first Burge Khalifa, planted in the desert sands of Dubai.

01:37Then, another on top.

01:39And another.

01:40Soon, you have a tower piercing the stratosphere.

01:44Soon, it scrapes against orbit.

01:46And still, the moon is far, far away.

01:51Stack 10,000 Burge Khalifas, and you've barely left Earth behind.

01:57Stack 100,000, and you're still adrift in the void, halfway to nowhere.

02:02Only when you have nearly half a million of them does the spire finally touch the face of the moon.

02:07And yet, even then, the dream is impossible.

02:12No steel could withstand the pull of gravity at that height.

02:15No foundation could anchor such a tower.

02:18The first floors would be crushed under unimaginable weight,

02:21melted into dust before they ever reached the stars.

02:24But the numbers remind us of scale.

02:27The moon is not just up there.

02:29It is nearly 400,000 kilometers away.

02:33So far, that light itself, racing at 300,000 kilometers per second,

02:37takes more than one second to make the trip.

02:39And so, the thought experiment ends.

02:43Not with a tower.

02:44Not with a ladder.

02:45Not with half a million Burj Khalifas stretching into space.

02:48But with wonder.

02:49Wonder at how far the moon truly is.

02:53Wonder at the smallness of even our tallest creations.

02:57And wonder at the fact that, instead of building towers to reach it,

03:00we built rockets.

03:02And in 1969, humanity did not climb to the moon.

03:05We flew, answer, about 464,000 Burj Khalifas stacked end-to-end are needed to reach the moon.

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