Stupid Underwater Living Concepts

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Concept buildings always interest me. There’s always a good chance that the best looking stuff will never get built, and the weirdest structures are rarely even intended to get built.
Whether it’s to attract attention, feature new tech, or just show off some creativity, I can appreciate good concept buildings.
And these are! Or they would be, if they weren’t underwater.
But they are.
So they never got built.

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[@jessetorres8738]

Legitimate question: Has there ever been a show or film with an underwater laboratory, military base, or hotel that wasn't destroyed by the end?

[@rocko7711]

😂🤣

[@ivang5874]

in architecture school when we were introduced to building science our teacher said on the topic of waterproofing that rule number one is “water always wins”. building on/under/close to water is generally just wasteful. also just unhealthy in so many ways.

[@CODDE117]

A friend took me on a ride on his boat. Before we took off, his little auto pump would piss out some water before we got on. My fiancée was wondering if his boat was broken, and he replied "all boats sink, good boats sink slowly."

[@rustymustard7798]

Meh, i'd expect Dubai to build an island, put a mile tall building on it with a giant tank of seawater at the top so like 10 billionaires can live underwater in the sky.

[@planescaped]

Live underwater in the sky for about 2 weeks each year that is.

[@TheJadeFist]

Underwater in the sky....? BRILLIANT!!! PRINT IT AND SHIP IT

[@shinsenshogun900]

Underwater Poop Submarines

[@lordfirebeard8569]

8:59 I will never take an environmental message seriously if they dont include nuclear as the primary source of power. It's the greenest source we have and it's perfect for underwater settlements. Constant source of coolant, plentiful shielding(water is legit one of the best shielding materials we have), and you dont even have to worry about refueling except for every other decade or so which simplifies that part of the logistics of the project.

[@poletooke4691]

Ok but like, just use the ocean currents that are already there and make a TOOOON of energy. And thermodynamic power is extremely excellent underwater thanks to the water coolant you mention. Why introduce potential explosions into a place that already could explode from depressurization? Lol

[@lordfirebeard8569]

@poletooke4691 Nobody builds RBMK reactors anymore, so explosions arent a worry. And nuclear is far more scalable and has a significantly lower footprint per kilowatt-hour than any other possible source of power, so why not use it as the backbone for the power grid? Include other sources to help with peaks, sure, but there's literally no reason not to slap a nuclear reactor in or near an underwater city to power it.

[@LitmusPapyrus]

@@poletooke4691 “depressurization from being underwater” Other way around, my guy.

[@Jakeobfreedman]

Biggest issue with nuclear is cost and long ROI. There are other renewable sources that are cheaper and continue to get cheaper each year

[@scottydu81]

@@lordfirebeard8569Wtf dude RBMK reactors don’t just “explode”! 😮

[@jessetorres8738]

Legitimate question: Has there ever been a show or film with an underwater laboratory, military base, or hotel that wasn't destroyed by the end?

[@TheDarkSatirist]

The 70s Hanna Barbara cartoon Sealab 2020 not to be confused with the early 2000s adult swim show similarly named Sealab 2021 which is a deranged parody of the original with a lot of episodes ending complete destruction

[@p00bix]

Bojack Horseman Season 3 Episode 4

[@tiberiusbrain]

I never played bioshock yet....

[@SSJ3Mewtwo]

Pretty much all of the buildings and entire society of Jabberjaw

[@Grimmtoof]

There was a kids show years ago called Ocean Odyssey (or Ocean Girl) set in a underwater facility. I think it was still standing by the end.

[@Ididitlikethis2079]

As a massive fan of Bioshock, I can completely agree that building an underwater city is a horrible idea.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Facts:* There was cancelled project from Nickelodeon where the underwater themepark was supposed to be built in Coron, Palawan back in 2017. However, said project ends up getting amount of backlash due to believing that the themepark might damaged ecosystem and Nickelodeon decided to abandon it (for a good reason.)

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

I reckon the closest thing we've gotten is a Dutch company that makes floating houses where the house floats on a hollow cast concrete pontoon that doubles as your basement space. These things are actually built and surprisingly functional, though the main intent is to inhabit the house built on top of the pontoon.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

Not sure I'd trust anyone but the Dutch on a job like that.

[@kugelblitz3154]

You should talk about absurdly tall skyscraper concepts

[@RakoonCD]

I've been thinking about disney theme parks and I think that an indoor water park themed to these underwater living concepts would be awesome.

[@Numptaloid]

"H2OME" is the worst attempt at a pun I have ever seen.

[@Pineapple8-Ball]

I want to live in a balloon house over a volcano just to keep me on my toes

[@dakunssd]

We need to petition the icelandic government to help you realize that dream. Having a pineapple 8-ball live in a ballon house over an active volcano is frankly the highest expression of human contemporary culture I can think of.

[@hashbrown777]

"the constant threat of depressurisation" I think you mean crushing over-pressurisation literally a hydraulic press

[@GeneraluStelaru]

Nobody wants to see a small water region depressurize for a few seconds while oxygen pours into it is what he meant, I'm sure.

[@KristovMars]

Yep, as demonstrated recently by a deeply arrogant (and now deeply smooshed and dead) billionaire. Only mercy with that story is that nobody would've had time to suffer.

[@TheJadeFist]

"Constant threat of de-pressurization" Correction: 'constant threat of Pressurization ', it's not a loss of pressure you're worried about as much as a sudden increase.

[@shinsenshogun900]

Why on water does humanity keeps on trying to commercialize underwater quarters into luxurious hotels? Why aren't we manifesting our destinies of underwater colonies and underwater nations? I demand a Magna Submarina Carta!

[@LateNightTableCo]

The original title of this video made me think of DUMB’s (Deep Underground Military Bases), so the idea of a DUMB underwater made me chuckle

[@MS-qx9uw]

it’s still a DUMB then, Deep Undersea Military Base

[@brandonfitzgerald8705]

5:28 sir depressurization would imply your atmosphere leaks outwards the correct phrasing would be “drowning like a rat in a cage”

[@TheJadeFist]

You may not live long enough to drown. An implosion is more dangerous than an explosion, because all the force is focused inwards. You would be technically safer with tnt strapped to your chest, depending how deep we're talking about going of course.

[@mathieuleader8601]

These underwater projects sounds like something the late Stockton Rush would invest in

[@TheJadeFist]

Only if he could insure that no qualified white men were involved, because people with 30 years of submariner experience in the navy don't inspire him.

[@kai_plays_khomus]

_Reality Barrier_ has to be one of my favourite expressions now. It's beautiful.

[@jamcalx]

This is the kind of stuff that Sea Quest DSV filled my preschool brain with. Some of these feel Frutiger Aero inspired.

[@nestcamo1181]

If you are curious how a variation in temperature would create electricity, look into thermostat coolers and the peltier effect. I recently came across one and it blew my mind. Fully flipped my world. I realized that was the first time in my life that I felt cold that didn't come from a compressed refrigerant. No moving parts, just ceramic plates, wires and semi conductors. Applying current causes one side to get hot and the other side to get cold. If the same device has a variation of temperature between the two sides, it will generate electricity. I know it doesn't even sound real. Like, current+ semiconductor+ ceramic plates= cold. When I first tried it, the cold side got to 50° f, while the other side reached about 90°f. When I later found out about how just temperature variation caused electricity to flow, I was even more baffled.

[@Termini_Man]

The thermoelectric effect is cool, but currently (pun intended) advanced heat engines have a higher efficiency, such as the ones used to generate power from heat created by nuclear fission and geothermal.

[@AzraelThanatos]

This reminds me of the absolute headache I ended up with the high school interior design class where we were allowed to design a dream house...and I decided to go with something partially underwater after there was a show on, I believe, Travel Channel about several places on the coast where houses were built with lower, submerged levels and minimal surface structure. The abject headache of finding everything and the teachers confusion when I started asking for the right symbols to use for things that he'd never thought of. I'm pretty sure that he was even more confused about the design in the end, but it was exceedingly unique and required a few pages of explanation for symbols involved in marking the partial blueprint design for things such as airlocks, a moonpool, some of the air purification and transmission, along with material notations. His TA for told me that I was the reason it took an extra week for him to go over the different projects...and he was not pleased with the class voting on most interesting project for actual concept work to be done for it. A few years ago, I'd found my copy of it and it still amuses me...

[@Numptaloid]

The Japanese underwater spiral city sounds like the death rate would be like 95%. Not for any logistical reasons of course, that would be crazy. The real reason is that the big space of nothing in the middle of the city just looks way too tempting and fun to not jump off the railing.

[@deadturret4049]

Nah they have a designated forest for doing that

[@zephyrna6249]

The problem is that there is just currently 0 point to wasting all the money and effort to make places to live down there. Especially luxury ones. The only situation i could envision in the future where there would be under water living spaces would if there would be some kind of high demand, permanent constant workforce on the sea floor like for mining or something. In which case it would be nice for the workers to just have a place to sleep down there instead of having to go through ascent and de-pressurization every day. But I doubt these would be the pretty glass pods in clear blue water, but more like utilitarian solid steel tubes in murky sandy dark water with some beds and a toilet.

[@Danferplus]

a global t-shirt gonna be expansive, makes sense

[@butchdeadlift10]

That last one reminded me of a job I had. I was a tollbooth guy at the public park system. I was stationed at Laguna Niguel Regional Park. As the tollbooth guy I was customer service, I had longer hours than the park rangers, I handled phonecalls and the police radio. Every thursday there was this man who would come by at 4:30 (when the ranger office closed at 4pm). The police would later tell me that this man was named Abdul Tarzi (I come from a Persian family myself, so this was a normal name to me) and the police asked me to keep tabs on this guy's movements when he was in the parks. Abdul................... mother fucking Abdul....................Here is what he did every week for 2 years. 1) He would come by with HAND WRITTEN copies of his manifesto written in sharpie on school lined paper. He had 3 hand written new manifesto's each week because he never had access to a copy machine. 2) He'd rant about how I was a government employee (I wasn't) and thus I had the ear of the government/whitehouse (of course not). And he would then talk about his "corporate connections" (which meant he was harrassing the drive through guys at McDonalds and the Taco Bell down the street). 3) Since I was customer service, I was required to treat him respectfully............so he had a habit of not fucking leaving. 4) His manifesto read as follows. --Everyone gets $2000 a day to live for free pay. (forget communism. Talk about mathematically impossible) ---Solve world hunger by growing corn on the moon. ---Outlaw all geese (this was a park with a lake in it) world wide to prevent the spread of diseases. (not sure of the geese shit on his lawn or he was crazy enough to try and eat the geese. But I wish I hated anything as much as he hated geese. Batman hates the joker less than that man hated geese) --Outlaw all dogs for all the geese reasons --He asks on the hand written manifesto to fill in 5 more ideas for world peace of my own. Nice and inviting, to be sure, but it was probably his dementia eating his imagination to the bone. 5) He'd walk off into the park and start screaming at women who were walking their dogs. Abdul Tarzi........................ what a fuck head. Kinda glad most of the park guests mistook him for a mexican, but I would always correct them saying his name............. and then diswage their islamaphobia with my own heritage. "He's not a terrorist. he is just batshit insane and sadder than Robert Zemeckez's career".

[@brickman409]

This is the funniest thing I have ready all week. Holy shit.

[@butchdeadlift10]

100% true. I promise. @@brickman409

[@whofuckingcares420]

Thanks for sharing this

[@planescaped]

Sounds like half the old people I'd deal with on the phone when i worked for an answering service. I tended to interact with two types of old people, sweet and kind... and batshit insane misanthropes, with very little in-between, lol.

[@butchdeadlift10]

@@planescaped I always said to the bad customers "Its called customer service, not customer servants, pal". (and now you know how I got fired)

[@Ben-tb5di]

I love these types of videos trying to *dive deeper* into these concepts! I'll be here all week.

[@kueller917]

The idea of "self-sustaining" in these kinds of concepts is so odd. Can you imagine proposing a new urban development and touting that it won't be connected to the power grid? For the 5,000 people one you could just propose to build a nuclear reactor in the nearest coastal city and then run a cable for the rich merpeople.

[@Bendilin]

Legitimately, it seems like the idea of people living underwater was exclusively thought up of as an underwater mining town variant of... above water mining towns.

[@dragon3dnet]

I honestly wonder if anyone would be able to actually _sleep_ in an underwater hotel.

[@galloe8933]

They did have the Chinese, I don't, that sounds weird.. I also don't have expensive T-shirt, and that really limits possibility of underwater life. I am saddens

[@darken2417]

Why not you know, build aquariums around hotel rooms? You can make it look as underwater as you want and you'd be able to make sure there are always fish swimming in viewing distance.

[@KristovMars]

This sounds like a pretty good approach. Then I thought about it for a moment and my mind just dredged up the image of living at SeaWorld or something. (to be clear, I'm not picking on your suggestion here, just overthinking!) Always damp, always smells like fish if you're lucky or mildew if you're not. Depending on the mainenance budget, your lovely suite "main viewing window" is grimy and covered in algae. This would be even worse for actual underwater hotels. I think Archer had an episode that made a pretty good case against long-term sub-marine living.

[@mill2712]

​@@KristovMars I also remember a German aquarium that had burst recently. It did a lot of damage.

[@darken2417]

@@KristovMars I couldn't imagine paying for an underwater hotel lol. I rarely ever look out the window of hotel rooms for the view.

[@Termini_Man]

you could probably build a fishtank in the window lmao.

[@creeperizak8971]

FYI Surf Shark isn't going to protect you from public wifi, don't go typing sensitive information while connected to a public wifi network regardless of whether you use a VPN or not.

[@ingaman]

4:55 UAE and other middle-eastern countries are well known for getting high-quality affordable plastic surgeries. It's actually a whole industry over there. People fly in from neighboring countries, get their nose jobs, hair transplants, etc; and rest up / recover in a nice hotel before coming home looking normal.

[@jaimeogas]

Tyler promotes Surfshark, but Cody promotes Nord VPN. Which one should I go with?

[@user-some_failure]

Both

[@IBAEhrmantraut]

Make the VPNs fight to the death and choose the winner

[@brianedwards7142]

Sounds like a perfect setup for a 70's disaster movie starring Charlton Heston and Charo.

[@pisacenere]

I love this kind of videos....

[@TBustah]

Futurama? Sealab? Are we still talking about living underwater, or did the conversation somehow shift to old school Adult Swim?

[@deathsyth8888]

"Sealab, underneath the water. Sealab, at the bottom of the sea." - Theme song for 'Sealab 2021'

[@playlistenthusiast]

Expectations: Underwater communism Reality: Capitalist underwater prison where a bottle of drinking water costs 20 dollars, there's always a couple inches of seawater on the bottom floor, and you can smell the mold.

[@scottydu81]

Communists get the wall. All of them.

[@jlev1028]

In other words, Rapture.

[@Vanq22114]

The Floating Seahorses aren't special, my basement is damp too

[@VerdeMorte]

4:39 Was it going to be built on Kamino?

[@StephenPickells-bi2ii]

I think the floating seahorses are a great idea

[@stackflow343]

Honestly it sounds kinda dope to have a house on the water with underwater rooms........till the first squall sinks your house. Or a shark decides to test your flimsy bedroom window out of curiosity lol

[@Wizard_Pepsi]

The best current underwater housing is just opd submarines that the military forgot about.

[@RotneybotOfficial]

They all sound pretty great and cool to work.

[@poletooke4691]

I like how NONE of these address the issue of, like.. Air? How are they going to be supplied with air lol what's the plan

[@TheJadeFist]

That part is easy enough, especially you have a surface connection. You'd of course want some back up systems to supply fresh O2 from tanks and CO2 scrubbers to turn on if that supply is ever interrupted.

[@Termini_Man]

The best approach would probably be CO2 Scrubbers, and possibly an umbilical buoy at the surface for air to be pumped in from. Or you could use electrolysis to create oxygen to backfill when the CO2 is removed. You could also use oxygen tanks to supply oxygen for a long time since only the CO2 is being removed. or perhaps at high depths, assuming the air in the base is at atmosphere pressure, you could perhaps circulate seawater into the base and when it is subjected to this lower pressure, the oxygen and other gasses would boil off, then the gas depleted water is just pumped out.

[@billyoui]

You think you can post on both channels within 15 minutes of one another, and no one would notice? Because I did. (Thank you this is the best Saturday ever)

[@thorakvideos2495]

You are not fooling me! That Dubai underwater hotel is just concept art for Kamino!

[@magster1046]

You mean to tell me no one's copied Andrew Ryan's design

[@kfcroc18]

4:40 That looks like something from Star Wars.

[@tootallforyou112]

You could also explore fictional examples like rapture from bioshock 1 and 2

[@dendostar5436]

Oh dude! Sweet!

[@lankinwelder4328]

4:51 a bioshock fan threw that one in there

[@CocoHutzpah]

Swimming around underwater for an hour or two sounds fun. Spending a whole weekend underwater at an expensive Hotel 6 sounds terrible.

[@Richforce1]

The more about plans for the future and their practicality the more I think that the present can be summed up by a line from the movie City Slickers. "This is the best I'm ever gonna look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever gonna be, and it ain't all that great."

[@andreworders7305]

Partially submerged houses would be cool

[@Monsuco]

I mean if they could get the prices down to Disney Resort levels of $300-$500 a night people might stay in them for the experience. Wouldn't need to be deep underwater, just looking out and seeing a reef with some fish would be impressive.

[@Chaosrunepownage]

Those seahorse houses have been built and are currently floating about for people to buy/rent in Dubai. No idea on their vacancy but they actually were built and exist out in the Persian Gulf.

[@Hamdad]

Only one was finished, last I checked. Has that changed?

[@Chaosrunepownage]

@@Hamdad I'm not sure! I looked on their website and they list multiple for sale, but not if they're built yet.

[@glasswhisperer]

The building looks like the Disney plastic house of the future from the 50's frfr

[@rackneh]

That chinese cocaine must be fucking wild

[@Yamikani]

That was an abrupt ending

[@GabrielOlivares123]

Interesting ideas.

[@EdiggityDog37]

Bump for the Al Gore rhythm 🥁

[@narrow_pepsi]

Hotel Atlantis looks like a 1970's swinger pad fireplace

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

This is all just fantasy art. The maintenance costs will always outstrip any money you could bring in with the novelty of an underwater hotel. Real life indigenous communities live on islands and coasts. They spend all their time fishing, farming seaweed, weaving baskets, repairing nets, fixing boats, diving for shellfish and trading to get other things they need such as clothes and rice.

[@homemademarmalade]

"I REJECTED those answers, instead I chose something differnet, I chose the impossible. I chose......... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."

[@bigspaghettio]

Said it on the last video, but now that we're in 2024, we're now officially 3 years overdue for a Sealab! (A true one, with happy cake ovens.)

[@Ryzard]

With dreams of underwater living, frutiger aero also died :( rip

[@sirloin869]

"Just a concept,don't take it too seriously": probably why they never happened...

[@kai_plays_khomus]

Does anybody remember the 90's australian kids series _Ocean Girl_ with its massive underwater research station _Orca 5_ (if I remember correctly)? I wanted to live at this place so badly.. 😅

[@freshmaggot]

4:40 That’s just Kamimo you can’t pull the wool over my eyes

[@Ryzard]

Well placed surfshark shout right after *"THE CHINESE"*

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

What person ever got the idea to try to live inside "instant death by pressure"... which is just the best case scenario.. more likely freeze in to death in water or drown..

[@nescius2]

Ola! I loled at 0:33 Spanish la and Czech chalupa for cottage house.

[@pari2.o]

That underwater hotel in Dubai is still a better idea than the world islands

[@Bendilin]

"I don't feel like diving too deep." Heh.

[@THNKKY]

Underwater building with a plastic surgery center? I’ve played that game!

[@Elomentoplayz]

2:14 If that prediction is for 2024, we better hurry up! Where's my unwater city?

[@asdfreii]

6:51 30k a week isn’t too steep for a certain type of person. A cheap super yacht charter for 4 will run you 200k a week

[@njalsand133]

Is there a future market for a diver with an algae scraper?

[@ricardobido7562]

Always with the China, IL vibes

[@njalsand133]

I just want an underwater hose connected to land with a solid tunnel

[@antagasugite35]

Aww I wanted Rapture IRL 😢

[@Junaan]

Conrad/Hilton has had an underwater restaurant for over a decade now, but that is on shallower waters compared to these projects.

[@NullnVoid.]

Outro song is so hard 😭💀❤️

[@jimllc]

Next video is about actual underwater hotels to exist.

[@bloody_bones5673]

“No gods or kings, only man.”

[@jeremy____5747]

Crazy as they were, we used to have futuristic dreams other than like Juicero

[@idriveastationwagon1534]

anyone living in that Japanese spiral building will just see pitch black water past a depth of 700 ft or so

[@salpertia]

Final Space reference in this video

[@sandran17]

Gonna start as a Vaporwave producer 'Ocean Communism'

[@richmanifesto1090]

We need Tyler's seasteading video

[@Fitzkrieg]

RIP Hampture 😔

[@YaBoiRexX]

I really want to buy that T-shirt

[@pappaslivery]

Hotel Atlantis looks like a snork's head

[@TheRocketLombax]

Bioshock IRL? sign me up (except for the bad stuff)

[@leafy_5]

Thank you for a good Saturday morning laugh😂🤣😂🤣🐠

[@Mvmrobots4030]

4:58 rapture had one maybe they got the idea from that

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Doesn't everyone's *_global_* program include the Chinese?