• ValiantDust@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Interesting question. Are we talking about the volume or the floor area? For volume maybe a church? Then St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City would be the largest. I don’t know the layout though, but I assume a large portion of it is the main “room”.

    Or do stadium with a roof count? Then maybe one of these?

    Edit: I don’t think I really thought this through. I was thinking too much of more roomy rooms. Most convention centers probably have larger exhibition halls.

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      2 months ago

      Probably volume altho i suppose I’m probably taking it for granted that a volumetrically massive room would also have massive floor space

      Stadium with a roof doesnt count

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    You could say the Veryovkina Cave in Georgia is the biggest room in the world, if you define a room as a single continuous enclosure not impeded by any barriers or gates. It’s referred to as the Mount Everest of caves and has six points of entry once thought to be unrelated. My best friends are cave hobbyists (my body isn’t ready as they say, though to be fair neither are theirs for different reasons), seeing/capturing never before things all the time, and are probably evading the law that far below our overworld right now.

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      2 months ago

      Boeing Everett Factory

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      Volume: 13.3 million m³

      That being said, I don’t know if it is internally divided.

      There’s a really large cave in Southeast Asia somewhere.

      kagis

      The Sơn Đoòng cave in Vietnam:

      Formed in Carboniferous/Permian limestone, the main Sơn Đoòng cave passage is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume – 3.84×10⁷ m³ (1.36×10⁹ cu ft), according to BCRA expedition leader Howard Limbert. It is more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long, 200 metres (660 ft) high and 150 metres (490 ft) wide.

      So that’d be nearly triple the volume of the Everett Factory. Though the cave has two holes in its roof, and I don’t know exactly how you define “room” here.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOH4gbW18Ts

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVpk7LQML8g

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        They had to change their venting and airflow system for that building after it formed a cloud and rained inside. When your room can have weather systems, I feel you’ve entered a whole new category of ‘room’ by definition.

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          Thats crazy! Fascinating! Could one engineer a climate system such that it always rained? Can lightning and thunder occur as well?