Banqiao Dam Failure: The Worst Technological Disaster in History

[@williamchamberlain2263]

"In the affected area, few children under the age of ten survived. When the primary school in one of the villages reopened, there were only three children left from a class of 300."

[@sarath1812]

We the people of kerala are facing a fatal reality, the mullaperiyar dam which is 126 years old will collapse soon and about 3-5 million lifes will be lost in one single day. We are living under a ticking water bomb. So please support us and save kerala, India🇮🇳 #savekeralabrigade #decommission_mullaperiyar_dam #kerala #mullaperiyar #india

[@tylor2765]

Merch shirt saying "Don't Tell Mao" needed

[@MikeBaxterABC]

Don't tell button!

[@MrMcGreed]

Was thinking the exact same thing!

[@goatmealcookies7421]

Love it!

[@nikolaaswright6028]

reminds me of Ed Helms cat Chairman Meow!

[@leifnelson6244]

All the videos from that day are the same - one button short.

[@horselover121000]

You are great. Thanks much for your vid. I was a teenager lived in xianyang, Shanxi province,China in 1975. I now still remember my best buddy's mother told us about the mega flooding, saying so many local people got kilked. Most of them were swept away by the massive waves of the flooding while they were sleeping. A powerful and terrible flooding disaster in China ever. For quite months after the disaster in 1975, whenever trains passed by the disastrous area of Zhumadian, passengers were ordered to cover all windows. No cameras allowed ( not many people owned cameras those years anyway).

[@AntStephens13]

Simon is shooting so much new content, he forgot to button the bottom of his shirt. Absolute LEGEND!

[@onepiecepedia]

Do you think Veronica and Jennifer (editors) left it on purpose? 😂😂😂

[@chronosschiron]

you too can buy the new button bottomless simon shirt now on share space orwhere is that other place

[@ryanroberts1104]

Hell, we're not even sure he has pants on!

[@chronosschiron]

@@ryanroberts1104 yes yes save money wear no pants great youtube tip lol oh tip#2 always makre sure your only seen from waste up lol

[@chronosschiron]

@@ryanroberts1104 oh and the next big question is he wearing the same socks?

[@gokulgopan4397]

I would like to bring your attention to a similar topic. A potential disaster larger than banqiao disaster with almost 3.5 million deaths and a wipe out of half a state. A dam that is included in UN University's "to be immediately decommissioned" list. A dam situated in South India's State Kerala called 'Mullaperiyar Dam ' which is 126 years old as of now. This is a hot topic here since it is a matter of political issues and land dispute. Even our political leaders aren't addressing this issue. This topic should also be taken to international media so that more people gets aware of this and could join together to prevent this disaster.

[@midhunmidhu7606]

👍

[@Sarah-ut1mk]

💯💯

[@getfoodybyesmy9517]

Yes this is an interesting topic that you could make a video on..A 126 year old dam(Mullaperiyar Dam) made of limestone built by the British in 1895 in India (Kerala) controlled by the neighbouring state Tamil nadu. Its 176 ft high and 1200 ft width threatening the lives of 4 million people downstream.The political parties of both states are ignoring this issue as they have their own vested interests.Every rainy season this issue keeps coming up like a wave and then recedes.

[@jodd5534]

More of a flush than a flood

[@jagadishchowdhary8455]

What do you want to say

[@RAS_Squints]

Simon now thinks of a new channel, Mega Disasters!

[@14gears55]

He might have to buy the name from the History Channel. Maybe......Project Blaze? All the rants of Business Blaze, half the cocaine

[@annescholey6546]

Already been done!😆

[@MrBlueBurd0451]

No need, Plainly Difficult already does a wonderful job for that.

[@sashaburrow6186]

Possibly "Mega side geographic biography top ten disasters blaze"? :P

[@14gears55]

@@sashaburrow6186 too long a name. Need to keep it short for all the people that blazed before looking for the channel. MegaBlaze might be good though! All the fun of Business Blaze with Mega cocaine

[@deadfreightwest5956]

I forgot about Mao vs. the Sparrows. He probably thought windmills cause cancer, but don't tell Mao.

[@cpcattin]

No... it’s cell phones that cause cancer.

[@DouglasDavis]

When you pave over farms; people starve, but don’t tell Mao.... or Xi

[@ItsMonkeyNews]

@Zack Smith Ahhh you're a ccp coward replying to everyone criticising your Poo Bear overlord xD No one is saying the USA is flawless or even a great example, but China is ran by a cruel and brutal regime that has no care for human life anywhere.

[@themanwithnoname4385]

@Zack Smith death camps, concentration camps, 100 million deaths, authoritarian. Comitted some of the worst human rights violations. You are either a bad troll, an Antifa or BLM member, or one of those CCP online personas paid to make china look good on western social media.

[@celestehelton5452]

How about a vid on that canal built in the 6th century? It must have been a huge undertaking, maybe even big enough for the mega projects channel?

[@TheBelrick]

It goes without saying, Hydro Electric Dams have killed far more people than Nuclear Power plants.

[@Three_Random_Words]

@@TheBelrick Sure, but there's far more HED's than nuke plants, just sayin. Even so, we need to start building Gen IV pressureless thorium molten salt reactors. Very safe and virtually fail proof. Much, much smaller carbon footprint than building 100's of thousands of windmills and solar cell plants for the same equivalence of power generated. Thorium is very difficult to weaponize too. Thorium also has a short half life compared to uranium and plutonium - a manageable 250-300 yrs VS 10,000 or even 100,000 yrs for the latter. Then there's 'Traveling Wave' reactors - that could eat up all the existing nuclear waste.

[@TheBelrick]

@@Three_Random_Words yep, but the anti nuke fervor is built upon emotion and so is my response to such advocates. a true fact that surely triggers them

[@Three_Random_Words]

@@TheBelrick Sometime ago I posted on some animal rescue vid where a 100 or so PETA types illegally raided a farm an hour's drive from San Fran. I just said, “Veal is my emotional support animal.” They called me an evil troll, I didn't think that was very fair.

[@TheBelrick]

@@Three_Random_Words Zealots and sycophants cannot handle humor anymore than they can handle being opposed.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

Banqiao Dam Failure: The Worst Technological Disaster in History Three gorges dam: tik tok tik tok tik tok

[@sirbollocks5147]

yeah something tells me it won’t stand the test.

[@vandarkholme4745]

Speaking as a Chinese I don't totally disagree... It's built way after cultural revolution, under a much more liberal and responsible administration. From what I've heard the engineering of the dam itself is great, but the geography study isn't well agreed upon. It's the most controversial proposal ever passed by the people's congress, only passing by a margin of ~10%. Considering how the congress usually just pass 99% for whatever it sees, you can imagine how huge it was back in the days... It's definitely generating a lot of power and still working fine, but a lot of folks are unhappy about flooding animal habitat and like, towns, and a lot of geologists are arguing that it caused the 2 huge earthquakes at Tangshan and Wenchuan. It's one of the acknowledged controversies that won't get censored much rn.

[@SG-js2qn]

And China is building dams all over ... like in Africa. tik tik tik tik tik

[@Black-Sun_Kaiser]

@@SG-js2qn that's a good thing

[@Black-Sun_Kaiser]

@G Petro i realize that. I meant the dam failing would be a good thing.

[@dogphlap6749]

This is the first I've heard of this disaster. Amazing seeing as I was a school kid in 1951 when work started on this dam yet 24 years later when it failed and right up to today I was still in blissful ignorance of its existence.

[@Kynareth6]

CCP doesn't want you to know.

[@kenshin891]

The CCP managed to keep it under wraps until the mid 90s

[@randacnam7321]

@@kenshin891 And many details including the death toll were state secrets until 2005.

[@cementi4381]

I feel like one of these years Simon will be making a new video like this but about the 3 gorges dam.

[@jasonBGI]

The disaster has already happened. Just needs a little push.

[@tresgooch]

Don’t tell Simon he missed a button on his shirt.

[@thomasbolin7447]

LOL, Geographics, Simons Navel

[@ZacLowing]

He's so pasty white down there!

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Now I can't unsee it! xD

[@Radu93Z]

I don't understand why he posted the video like this.

[@Kevin_Kyle]

Blooper replay material for sure

[@pyrotechnick420]

This man talks so well his hair moved down from his head to his face so it can hear him better

[@Hiltok]

@pyrotechnick - Underappreciated comment.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

We definitely need a "Don't Tell Mao" t-shirt.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Or even a "Simon Says Don't Tell Mao."

[@Three_Random_Words]

" Don't Tell Simon About His Button"

[@1TakoyakiStore]

@@Three_Random_Words It's not telling Simon about his button that worries me. It's if someone presses his buttons...

[@lonnarheaj]

I would wear one! "Don't tell Mao" is a great statement that represents every foolish, unreasoned, irresponsible, unscientific, socially harmful political action ... golly, so applicable to the present Scamdemic and to Obiden's daily pile of presidential document signings.

[@jackthorton10]

Why hasn’t this shirt not been made already it is relevant and it is fitting for the current generalality

[@marshallfischer3667]

Getting an honest answer from the CCP is like the Central intelligence agency telling us the truth. Never gonna happen

[@manifestationsofasort]

@Zach Smith ..That's not what's being talked about?

[@01oo011]

@Zack Smith only idiot here is you CCP shill.

[@Shinzon23]

Yes my personal philosophy is anything that the red Chinese say, verified with at least five other sources before considering that it might be true.

[@thomasw.glasgow7449]

Like NASSA = never a straight answer , aye !

[@sirapple589]

Zack Smith Well that’s one way to make yourself look like even more of an idiot.

[@akshaydev5296]

Iam from Kerala, India we are also under a ticking bomb constructed in 1890's still in service "mullaperiyar dam" , there is 80+ dams in our small 600km long state don't know what will be our faith

[@sruthyts9446]

Next Mullaperiyar from Kerala...Next it will ...it will become world largest Dam Crash

[@ticnatz]

If you haven't done it already, how about the Russians laying down railroad tracks over frozen Lake Baikal in winter.

[@davyt0247]

The blue eye of Siberia

[@janicesullivan8942]

Do The Russians not think that Lakes thaw?

[@ticnatz]

@@janicesullivan8942 They would laboriously lay down the tracks & then remove them each year. I would bet that they don't do that much anymore.....

[@purselmer5931]

@@ticnatz To thin the heard they were sending to the gulag. It served it true purpose.

[@franklinanoliefo4757]

The Russians did what???

[@kmcc01]

Famous last words: "I'm sorry Chairman Mao, I cannot agree with you on this!"

[@cutbaithooks3376]

The worst technological disaster ever : Social media 🤨

[@cutbaithooks3376]

@Eddie Hitler if wealth were measured by misinformation then social media would be a virtual diamond mine

[@dyveira]

The Internet.

[@elconquistador98]

@Eddie Hitler Who said anything about deaths?

[@Rubbernecker]

Very true.

[@lynngraham2934]

@@dyveira At least Twitter.

[@taznz1]

You should do a video on fixing the Y2K bug, it cost hundreds of billions of dollars and tens if not hundreds of thousands of people worked on it world wide, yet it the most misunderstood and deride projects of all time.

[@crhu319]

Since there are exactly zero incidents of unmodified code - and there was plenty - causing ANY problem... It counts as the greatest scam in history.

[@taznz1]

@@crhu319 That's a lie. Just from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Documented_errors There were plenty of smaller issues for private users and smaller companies. I bet the closest thing to development work you've done is write Hello World. Were you even out of diapers when y2k hit.

[@paulelford1568]

@@crhu319 I was told to include a Y2K clause in every contract including the supply of pencils.

[@fudd666]

@@taznz1 As someone who worked in IT at the time, it was a scam. Unless your code was written in the 60's, and even then, most of the compilers fixed the issue for the lazy ass coders anyway, it was never going to be an issue. Yes there were a few thousand pieces of old software that did have errors, but they acted like every computer on earth was going to fail, which was nothing short of complete and utter garbage. Countries such as Italy, Russia, and South Korea had done little to prepare for Y2K. They had no more technological problems than those countries, like the U.S., that spent millions of dollars to combat the problem. www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/

[@sails3538]

My old computer never failed after 2000. It definitely was a scam.

[@delurkor]

Side or Mega-project: Pneumatic message systems, used in many forms for nearly a century.

[@alanhelton]

Like the tubes at the bank tellers window?

[@canaan5337]

@@alanhelton yeah pretty much.

[@delurkor]

@@canaan5337 And in several cases these were networks under a city. London, Paris, and many others had huge networks.

[@delurkor]

@Nathan Zhang I don't know costs. Early systems used steam engines to run the compressors. Later ones used electric motors. A web source is the Museum of Retro Technology: www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

[@A_p_T53040]

Still used in the hospital I work in

[@elliotsmith9812]

At the point where the Mississippi meets the Achafalaya, the Mississippi sits atop a hill of sediment. Every thousand years is is supposed to switch to the other side of Louisiana, but it can't do that any more and it is overdue. If it goes, the US looses New Orleans and Most of it's oil refineries in Baton Rouge. The Achafalaya drops 30 feet in just a couple miles. It's a time bomb in water and it's nearly gone off a couple times. Reference "Controlling Nature" by John McPhee

[@haroldwilkes6608]

I've been there several times, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen but engineers propose only minimal improvements presently. People downriver are aware of the possibility of a breach but are resolute optimists. Below the dam it's mostly swampy land already so loss of life would be relatively minor but disruption of the of Mississippi River traffic could cost billions. Don't understand why you think New Orleans and Baton Rouge would be damaged though. They're on the Mississippi River which would backfill from the Gulf of Mexico so water levels would stay about the same. The millions of gallons of floodwaters released if Atchafalaya failed would divert to the west over to Morgan City which would probably be under water. The backfill at New Orleans with salt water could wreak havoc on aquaculture though.

[@elliotsmith9812]

@@haroldwilkes6608 Well, I don't know exactly where NO gets it's fresh water from, but... If the ocean filled all the way back to Baton Rouge, you would never get the salt out of the place.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@elliotsmith9812 Between the Atchafalaya and Morganza dams, about 1/3 to 2/5 of the floodwaters from the Mississippi are diverted over to Morgan City. In max flood, if either dam collapsed, that would probably actually benefit Baton Rouge and New Orleans by lessening the flooding there which would reduce the saltwater incursion. But understand, this is from a layman's point of view, I'm not an engineer. I'm repeating to the best of my memory what I was told by a man working at Atchafalaya dam. He was more worried about the residents below the dams and the continued barge traffic on the Mississippi. Plus the danger of shifting sand bars which the tows would encounter. It's a scary thought if it happens either way. If you're a boater, avoid floodwaters.

[@elliotsmith9812]

@@haroldwilkes6608 Check out McPhee's book..

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@elliotsmith9812 Will do, thanks.

[@HeyItsHops]

I would love a Simon channel dedicated to disasters.

[@annescholey6546]

Titanic Hindenburg Trump😂

[@kwong7058]

There is already a channel called 'plainly difficult' that does mini-documentaries/ narration on man-made disasters.

[@ericolsen7687]

Like a bursting dam, Simon's shirt bursts open, unable to withold the power within...

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:40 - Chapter 1 - The floodlands 4:20 - Chapter 2 - Revolutionary engineering 8:40 - Chapter 3 - The perfect storm 11:25 - Chapter 4 - A textbook tragedy 13:30 - Chapter 5 - Lessons of history

[@dreamer9671]

in Kerala (INDIA ) one dam called mullaperiyar, that was in very poor condition its made by british government for 50 years use. but now its 126 old. we are carry a water bomb with the knowledge of our goverment. no one take action against this issue... maybe after few months or years me and my peoples die on dam collapse.... ☹️

[@gokulgoku4618]

😢😢

[@develyntwocentshenderson5739]

one of the problems when one is trying to feed too many people. or too many social programs to prop up people with too many children. this is true in the us as well. there is little by way of infrastructure maintenance on everything beyond the bare minimum. and sometimes even that isn't done. I think the money they mete out when this is a disaster is a pittance against what it would take to fix the issue or replace the aging/faulty structure.

[@gabrielmichel2521]

Our parties looks at the silver lining in the incidence of a dam collapse they will turn that into fortune through dark tourism.. 😂😢 I don't understand why they built this bloody dam there in the first place.

[@sharonjk1343]

In Kerala (INDIA) one dam called mullaperiyar, that was in very poor condition its made by british government for 50 years use. but now its 126 old. we are carry a water bomb with the knowledge of our goverment. no one take action against this issue…. maybe after few months or years me and my peoples die on dam collapse.

[@midlifeduck7040]

Lake Pleasant Dam arizona has a interesting story you may like for this channel. Isn't quite enough for a mega projects. But the resulting water works company is the largest privately owned water company in the USA for a number of years and may still hold that title. I also hear that they run an RV Resort on the shores of Lake Pleasant so that they can sell the water to the farmers at a loss, ( as they buy the water from someone as well ) to keep cost of local grown veggies down. I think it's worth a look. There is a gem to find in this story that I don't think you've covered in any of your Dam videos.

[@mosesruben4027]

Simon( I got one for you) (Don't tell Mio, Don't tell Trump* No difference) neither of them, understood science. Only own political views for betterment of self. Never to help the people which was the real responsibility they promised to do in the first place.

[@justinjohnson5262]

Different Simon I want my pizza delivered in one of the thirteen something in blue with a signed title.

[@MalluTalents]

Just not this name "MULLAPERIYAR DAM"💥

[@tyraqueen2001]

I'm so early, Simon isn't even dressed yet!

[@THEHYPOCRITESS]

can you do a video on The Mullaperiyar dam.

[@adventussaxonum448]

"Sometimes it's human error, sometimes it's nature.... " - sometimes it's a bouncing bomb...

[@groermaik]

Very informative. Professionally delivered. Thank you.

[@jshicke]

Listening to this video, I was reminded of the North Korean 'Arduous March' or the 'March of Suffering'. Perhaps a video that discusses the causes of that disaster, the amount of aid that poured into the country, and its aftermath?

[@sajithn202]

Next dam disaster will be in kerala's mullaperiyar dam

[@ocfos88]

I wonder if we'll see the CCP make a repeat of this with the Three Gorges, because it's been rumored it isn't doing too well of late.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

We literally may never know!

[@Hogscraper]

Last summer it got pretty bad for a while. Reports of the foundation shifting and months of flooding all over the area made it seem like a collapse was inevitable but it's still there. Hopefully that's as bad as it gets.

[@leviathan-supersystem]

You'd probably secretly love it huh.

[@SmackcrackIV]

@@keyboarddancers7751 if it fails, there’s no way we won’t know. You can’t hide such things in the modern world. Satellites don’t care about propaganda or censorship

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@@keyboarddancers7751 >>> Satellite imagery ALWAYS tells the truth.

[@silaschipman7870]

Love all the channels! Im curious if you could mention some documents or maybe an article here and there in episodes? Just curious where you get all your good info from!

[@mchldreuceify]

"Don't tell Simon," his belly button is on display.

[@marlbblack258]

he had tacos before the vid, needed to breath a bit ;)

[@andyharman3022]

Yep, I was poking the screen, saying "hootchie-koochie-koo".

[@MrInsertyn]

"But again... Don't tell mao" should become a t-shirt merch series. Goddamn, so much potential and I'm pretty sure you could walk around with that and most people wouldn't have a clue.

[@jeanamparan893]

Suggestion for side project : The Revolutionary Monument in Mexico. Originally planned by Porfirio Diaz as the Legislative Palace it ended up being unfinished due to the Mexican Revolution events.

[@muhammadrashid5927]

Next one's gonna be Mullaperiyar from India. We are afraid. If the dam breaks, half a million people will die

[@sarath1812]

Not half million but 3 to 4 million.

[@engineeronabicycle178]

some of the cables and pipes under the atlantic are pretty cool too the Siegfried Line highways Flevoland (province in NLD where there used to be a sea) the mass production of sherman tanks and other weapons of the 2nd world war that were mass produced Ford model T, VW Käfer, WV Golf

[@Gladiamdammit]

Mao: What we do with this river? Engineers: Oh flawed dam it!

[@chrissirvid5845]

I love this bloke. Very interesting and informative and very entertaining 👏

[@thedarkknight1971]

NEW T-Shirt Idea... "Don't Tell Mao" and below it... A button sewn on it (or a picture of a button sewn on) - it'll be an inside joke hahaha 🤣🤣😎

[@Mr1990hjc]

Great video, one of my favorite Mao stories is about the cultural revolution. He invited all of his party officials to honestly grade the cultural revolution, (which was universally hated), those who gave it bad grades were stripped of their titles, and party membership, and sent to reeducation camps ! Also why didn't you close that button ? Just asking, for a friend !!

[@dbatchison]

A side project video about the intracoastal waterway may be interesting, perhaps combined with some other examples of inland shipping routes. The intracoastal stretches 3000 miles from boston to brownsville tx and 14% of the US's domestic freight travels along it.

[@DarknetDude]

It seems that the construction of this dam really epitomizes a "feels before reals" ideology, something you can afford to do when engineering.

[@dianecheney4141]

I was 13 when this happened. The Chinese didn’t want to report the damage as they didn’t want criticism. But it was harder to hide the famine that came after

[@tonbopro]

History packs some hard painful lessons for those with access to it

[@crunoxff9034]

Next is mullaperiyar dam situated in kerala,india 😭

[@NAC_Exec]

Do a side projects on epic rescues like the one Ernest Shackleton pulled off, which btw was pretty badass for any given time period.

[@lisagd22]

I read a book about that; it really was badass.

[@jameskulevich8907]

Simon is having a “wardrobe malfunction!”

[@michaelszczekot8920]

This guy might be the best thing on you tube. I know he’s the host and has a whole team and they deserve credit too. I’m not sure what everyone’s role actually is and who thinks this stuff up. But it’s had my attention for like 2 days 🤣🤣

[@John-ih2bx]

As always, Simon, is a superb narrator. This video had no odd "side" notes/opinions in its script, with great information. Kudos to the scriptwriter(s).

[@macuss87]

Simon you seem to get good views on military stuff.... So why not the formation of different special operations groups? SEALs SAS etc. Anyone else have any ideas?

[@QuantumAscension1]

SFOD-Delta and Spetznaz, too

[@QuantumAscension1]

@Maria Kelly CBS would probably censor him, because of course they would, lol

[@stebro2738]

Simon, as usual the wealth of information coupled with your absolutely fun/ excited / totally interested approach is wonderful and engrossing!! Thank you for some of the best!! content on KZbin!!

[@lando35mm]

you might have just memed yourself in the USA. "It wasn't about safety, it wasn't science, it was about ideology"

[@sschmidtevalue]

Yeah, that sure sounds familiar these days. F**K SCIENCE! FREEDOM!

[@mike7652]

@@sschmidtevalue "There are more than two genders. F**K SCIENCE! DIVERSITY!"

[@sschmidtevalue]

@@mike7652 What are you talking about? For one thing, I was being sarcastic. For another, science understands about gender variability - there are various technical terms for creatures in different or morphing sexual states.

[@Henry5623]

​@@sschmidtevalue You really don't get it do you? Nowhere, was ANYONE disputing gender transitional phasing to be in question. Literally every human to ever exist, started out in the earliest stages of their development as a female. This being before later stage internal development occurs in the womb, leading to a persons gender related assets being developed, thus cementing the persons gender. Welcome to biology. What WAS being highlighted is the fact that, NOWHERE, in the entirety of life as we know it, has there EVER ONCE been a third (or more) gender(s). You are either male, female, or in some traditional phase between the two. Even asexual life forms who don't need sex to reproduce, STILL have male and female genders to help mix up the genetic diversity of a particular individuals DNA strands to ensure that a gene mutation won't consequently wipe out an entire species. Social justice whiners who apparently lack any interest in factual knowledge want to conceptualize gender as an idea, when it's simply a physicality. So they try to spout off claiming that science is wrong and there are subsequently multiple genders as a result. It takes a special kind of foolishness for these people to believe their nonsense but they specialize in proving ignorance knows no limits. To anyone who wants to suggest that there is a third (or more) gender(s), please feel free to bring forth whatever species of life you've found that does in fact include a third gender, because I can assure you the scientific community wants to know about it. Especially considering how nowhere in the entirety of any and all scientific biological studies that have ever been performed, has any form of life as we know it, been of a third (or more) gender(s), nor ever so much as existed to begin with. So until the social justice whiners can corroborate their rhetoric and actually substantiate their claims of more than two genders existing, science wins. Period.

[@sschmidtevalue]

@@Henry5623 You're full of yourself. The one thing true scientists understand is that there's always something more to learn.

[@andymanaus1077]

The real lessons of history: Whistleblowers are always despised and usually ignored. Governments will always make excuses for their failures. People's lives come second to ideologies.

[@seansopata5121]

When I heard about this, my first thought was "Well, dam...."

[@TheMagsterize]

Dam it, I was beat to the joke.

[@joeyr7294]

Botta bum bum pishhh

[@dlayman101]

Joey R dang you beat me to it lol

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

What did the fish say when he ran into the wall? "Dam!"🐟😉

[@pj02143]

@@IntrepidFraidyCat this dam things in my dam way.

[@lonihollenbeck4654]

nice touch at the 8:00+ mark of going into black and white video, nice way to emphasize a point.

[@mrdaydreamer3677]

Our Mullaperiyar dam having same issues like Banqiao dam.

[@markhughes7927]

Enjoy your videos much more these days - more mellow in presentation!

[@jaysdood]

I wonder if we will be watching an equivalent video of the 3 gorges dam sometime in the future.

[@rogerpattube]

Thanks for being our dam guide!

[@imouse3246]

Yet another wardrobe malfunction at 13:03. 😂 EDIT: I can now see that I'm not alone.

[@jackforshaw4439]

Love your content! Subject suggestion: Sci Fi becoming reality, what it means for humans, infrastructure nature and animals, pitfalls and benefits, risks and reward. I realise you could do a several month long series on everything from deep space exploration to AI and the ridiculous like the family guy episode where quagmire's watch told him he caught an STI and gave him a niquil cold, flu & AIDS so please take this as an idea only. Even a 20-minute video on AI would be really informative coming from you.

[@crhu319]

"The disaster is already there, it's just waiting for the big push. "

[@andyrbush]

Lots of detailed information there, thank you.

[@keerthykrishna8806]

Its a version of our mullaperiyar dam☹️if we still didn't take any action to decommission the dam this will happen

[@KOZMOuvBORG]

Maybe you should do some prep work for the (under construction) Site C Dam in NE British Columbia. They only just realized (after years of study) that it sits on mudstone (shale), which is the worst geology to build dams on, already had to fudge design for 'deficiencies'

[@deltavee2]

Canadian beaver - "Hold my beer."

[@milkyg5977]

Hey Simon, love you stuff mate

[@wild5398]

Next mullaperiyar dam disaster wait for it 126 year old water bomb

[@kultur-vultur]

A video about the warnings of 3 gorges dam and a few others of the like might be interesting.... pretty much any majorly failing/deteriorating infrastructure.

[@worsel2113]

Two fish swam down a waterway. They came to a concrete wall across the entire waterway, blocking their path, and the first fish bumped his nose into the concrete wall. He exclaimed, "Dam!"

[@latonyagreen-warner7402]

Really? Come on man🤣

[@Battleship009]

Good one!

[@matthewgauthier7251]

Thanks! Port Chicago munitions loading disaster , July 17th 1944. Not well known but was struck by circumstances leading up to it.

[@This1Person]

Request once: Salton Sea In california... I think this secret dirty history will be fascinating for people to learn.

[@Markle2k]

A canal was built and it overflowed and flowed into a low area, creating the "sea". Not really a megaproject, but perhaps a new channel for Simon. If Simon were good at remaining true to "branding" of his channels that he actually controls.

[@This1Person]

@@Markle2k tis is way I'm suggesting it on sideprojects channel ;)

[@Ben111000111]

The problem with your suggestion is that Salton Sea wasn’t (re)created as the intended result of a project, it was the consequence of major engineering stuff up

[@Ben111000111]

Dam... too slow

[@This1Person]

@@Ben111000111 lol

[@drivestowork]

A story on the Oahe dam would be interesting! Hear it was the largest impoundment in the world before Three Gorges.

[@gregwarner3753]

When designing the spillway capacity for a dam you start by studying the upstream climate and the river. After finding the greatest flood possible add at least 20%. Then the engineers and architects get on with the design. Then you tell the politicians the expected costs. You should have added 50% to your estimate. That way after the accounts and politicians cut your budget you might have enough left to build the thing. If you have to build it for megalomaniac dictators then you had better have away to escape when the boss gets offended. Then hope the political idiots operating the thing read the manual before they screw up completely.

[@maudglazbrooke1287]

If you have to build it for a megalomaniacs dictator syphon just enough of the budget to run the hell away.

[@Original50]

Design-by-committee is bad enough, but when the committee isn't qualified in engineering... ?

[@griffindance]

Have you worked in China?

[@gregwarner3753]

@@Original50 have you ever met a political/financial committee that had any engineers?

[@Original50]

@@gregwarner3753 That's kind of the point. Pretty-much like the current COVID situation, where we have politicians dictating measures that are more focused on economics (because politicians - usually solicitors - need corporate safe-haven when they are sick of the voting game) than public health.

[@granmahurt3397]

Love to hear you do one on the Golden Gate Bridge and the Sydney Opera House Simon. As an Aussie I remember all the problems surrounding the building of the Opera House especially.

[@chastitunatea7426]

Why don't u do one about lake Charles in Louisiana where they popped a salt mine and lost a whole lake in a day

[@AlfonsoPosada]

Thanks for this report, it shows how silliness is the major cause of disasters..

[@JefferyBlue]

Simon stripping on the sly now?

[@Heyitsallgoodman]

Why?

[@tyraqueen2001]

@@Heyitsallgoodman One of his shirt buttons isn't buttoned.

[@yes0r787]

"Smash that LIKE button!"

[@marlbblack258]

he had tacos before the vid, just had to breath a bit ;)

[@dannyjackson5883]

Simon videos are always really good 🇬🇧😁👍

[@accubond3004]

My new favorite saying...."Don't tell Mao."

[@accubond3004]

@Zack Smith if you are actually comparing those two as if they are the same you are very unintelligent

[@andyklebe5612]

Id love your take on this. Ripple rock explosion, Vancouver island British Columbia. One of largest controlled explosions or 1900s Mined under an ocean to blow up an island in one of most dangerous waterways of Pacific northwest.

[@pamelamays4186]

Not sure if this classifies as a Mega or a Side. The St. Louis Arch, located in, wait for it, St. Louis, Missouri.

[@shawnhughes7760]

I agree. Its huge. Def a Mega Project.

[@sebastianriemer1777]

Nice. Another of Simons channel for my collection.

[@grefarious6140]

Come on Simon, make playlists on these Chanel's to make it easier to watch.

[@vaultplayer3072]

Busiest man on KZbin keep up the good work and thank you

[@Sir.Leonardo.Scherer]

Suggestion for a biographics: Emperor Pedro I of Brazil

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

I think he has it under a video on him indirectly under some related topic, but if not, definitely!

[@camilojimenez6216]

Simon, hi. Why not have a look at that suspension bridge in Washington state that fell apart in a wind storm in the 1930s. It was captured on film. Great stuff. Keep it coming. Happy 2021

[@jakedee4117]

Here is a suggestion for Simon. The Yangshan quarry contains the remains of a colossal failure. It was going to be the largest standing engraved stone (stele) in history for the Yong Le Emperor in 1405 but was abandoned when 90% complete. Nobody had figured out how to shift it. You can still visit it today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangshan_Quarry

[@davfb8622]

Hahahaha it made a pretty epic tourist spot around my native town with an anecdote at least

[@superbatman3385]

Love your work

[@joseaby8168]

Pleased do an analysis on the Mullaperiyar earthen dam in kerala which is 125 years old

[@hasanchoudhury5401]

Excellent analysis discussions and insights to understanding the making of all man made disasters ! This confirms the coming many more disaster yet not thought of!

[@newbie_2023]

Can you compare this with Mullaperiyar Dam in Kerala ..!!!

[@ap9970]

Idea for a video, if not for his channel, I am sure it would work on one of them. "When, and why, did we stop building castles?", and what is the last 'real' castle to be built (excluding Neuschwanstein)