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I thought this rotating house was impossible.

7.6M views· 273,635 likes· 7:31· Jul 10, 2023

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Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's that possible? ■ Al's site: https://rotatinghome.com ■ The real estate listing: http://navrealestate.co/4903-mount-helix-dr This is not an advert; I received no payment other than access and had full editorial control. Camera: Juan Gracia, Bream Velasquez Local production: @TwoBitDaVinci Graphics: Stijn Orlans 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: https://youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif

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I went to a hillside near San Diego, California to see something I genuinely assumed would be a gimmick: a house that rotates. Not a little turntable for a room — the main living space can slowly spin to follow the sun, change the view, or just because you feel like it. The bit that made me stop and go “hang on” wasn’t the motor or the bearings: it was the boring stuff. Electricity. Water. Gas. All the utilities you normally expect to be rigid, fixed, and absolutely not happy about being twisted around. This video is me poking at the practical engineering that makes it work: how you get services from the stationary part of the building into the rotating part without either (a) ripping cables out of walls or (b) building a terrifying tangle of hoses that eventually kinks. It’s a reminder that a lot of “impossible” ideas become possible once you stop thinking in straight lines and start borrowing solutions from other industries — the kind of clever, unglamorous mechanism that’s been quietly solving rotation problems for decades. And yes: it’s also a rotating house, which is still a very strange sentence to say out loud.

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