Discover How 5 Megaprojects Are Destroying Our World

[@SamIAm10262]

I would have loved to hear what was being said about the oil and gas pipeline 😂

[@MosheMaserati]

But the music was groovy

[@danielreuben1058]

At first I thought the music was serving some kind of humorous purpose. But, now I'm not sure.

[@annemariefleming]

@@danielreuben1058 Obvious censorship.

[@fermat2112]

I spent five minutes going around my house trying to figure out what my headphones were connecting to!

[@lundden]

@@annemariefleming lol isnt it curiously coincidental? i love oil. QUICKLY! we must suck up the souls of the ancients from hell through a straw and ignite it into our breathable air to kill our ignorant grandchildren.

[@euchiron]

Mad respect to the lip readers. You got at least part of the message

[@eightcoins4401]

This is the 30th video with godawful mixing by this czhannel. Some other one the mic got fucked mid recording.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Mad respect to the blind. They say Ray Charles could read a braille Playboy, one handed.

[@dustinchriswell3586]

Sounds like the gas companies got to Simons editor

[@travisbarcus6226]

Deny deny deny

[@jakebull8874]

I thought his editor went on strike or something

[@martynraveybracey7202]

Allegedly.

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

If it’s not them one video, its RAND the other.

[@BlackHearthguard]

For those who can't get the subtitles to work and want to know what Simon is saying under the music in the pipeline section, I've typed out a transcript below: How difficult could it be? You produce oil and gas in places like Canada, Kazakhstan, Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico and you send that gas via pipeline to receiving facilities in Texas or Oklahoma or Germany to be refined and used for everything from heating homes to making plastics and industrial lubricants. It's just a pipeline, how complicated could it be? Currently there exists about three and a half million kilometers of oil and gas pipelines in the world, spanning 120 countries. A whopping 65% of those are in the United States, with Russia having about 8% for comparison. These long distance pipelines move all manner of important industrial products besides oil and gas: Including ammonia, alcohol, fuel and even beer and milk in some places, but the vast majority of the world's pipelines send oil and gas. Why so much pipeline, was partly due to the efforts of everyone's favourite corporation, Enron, who dominated the U.S pipeline business in the 80's and 90's, and popularized the use of pipelines as a cheap alternative to shipping materials by tankership or truck. This extensive pipeline network also helped Enron manipulate the international gas market, but that's probably for another Mega Projects video, but as you might expect from a network of metal pipes transporting volatile chemicals across the world, day in, day out, accidents can happen and they happen a lot. Oil and gas contains solvents, particularly if they're composed of volatile aromatics such as naphtha and benzene.

[@nutbastard]

It's been fixed as of 4:30AM PST

[@gordonbrinkmann]

@@nutbastard Still music for me right now.

[@nutbastard]

@@gordonbrinkmann Clear cache or do a hard refresh - ctrl-F5 - it's playing fine on my end.

[@Nasafalkas1]

Thanks!

[@Varizen87]

Simon, my man... Some of your editors are not doing so hot... What is the deal with cutting your audio for a section? Also, one of your editors is abusing a wavy distortion effect WAY too much some some videos lately and it's getting irritating and nauseating as it makes it hard to pay attention to the details even being talked about in the images used to illustrate a point. You need to have a word with the editors. This is the 2nd video this week where a whole section has music instead of your narration.

[@martynraveybracey7202]

Could be to cover up a mistake, or just to not ivite a lawsuit. Saw he did it on a Cas-Crim, I think it was, but thats because I think he has second thoughts about posting something a tad too graphic.

[@mitchk6168]

Yeah nah it’s just self censorship probably to avoid a lawsuit cause the company mentioned is shady as fuck, with cas crim it’s definitely cause the stuff mentioned is probably so graphic that KZbin would immediately remove the video from existence.

[@claytonberg721]

@@martynraveybracey7202 3/4's of the message was still there. He's probably paying his editors peanuts, they probably made an error and he's not bothering to quality check what he uploads.

[@kylarstern7627]

Man, That was Porn music.

[@themeanestkitten]

Ok good, it wasn't my tablet messing up again🤗

[@catrie9965]

What's with the random music in the middle? Did you have to hide talking about Enron?

[@RHCole]

Putin is standing just out of frame with one of those silent pistols the KGB used.

[@SamIAm10262]

I thought something started playing over my video for a minute! 😂

[@MicrobyteAlan]

That’s what I was wondering

[@macdietz]

@@RHCole the Parkinsonian who shits his pants suddenly? Suuuure.

[@RHCole]

The joke You:@@macdietz ...Any questions?

[@jodiecrosby7819]

Can we have this one remade and re-released please.

[@willmfrank]

I put the captions on at 12:05 so I could at least read what I couldn't hear. This is what it said: "You produce oil in places like Canada, Kazakhstan, Alaska, or the Gulf of Mexico [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] spills can occur for a variety of reasons..."

[@LuckyShelf3]

From 12:05 a nice piece of free music plays?

[@RHCole]

Simon doesn't want to accidentally fall off a roof 😆

[@MistahBryan]

I was wondering if was a Pop Up on my Browser ,but no: Editing Simon broke into song :)

[@fredrickbeondo8695]

@@RHCole Or out of a sixth floor window...or cutting off his head while shaving....😏

[@RHCole]

@@fredrickbeondo8695 Da, Whistleboi poisoned self while taking walk to store. Happens often.

[@Joetheenglishman]

Merry Christmas , I think there is an editing error with the audio. When talking about the oil pipelines some random music plays.

[@ianjohndean]

god dammit it, where's your tin foil hat FFS... hat not hate....

[@travisbarcus6226]

"Error"...

[@user-cl9zf9wj9i]

Not that I’m a conspiracy theorist but hmmmmmm me thinks a someone, somewhere didn’t like the commentary

[@Fortuna_Magica]

Maybe some russian hackers blocked out the audio X-D

[@Erkle64]

Yep. It absolutely has to be censoring. Because there's no possible way to just leave out a section of video. You absolutely have to censor it by putting music over it.

[@seli000]

Simon had second thoughts about some of the points in the oil pipeline section...

[@dansanger5340]

The problem with oil pipelines is that we're still using so much oil. As long as we're using oil, we'll need to transport it. If we don't transport it via pipeline, we'll have to transport it via trains or ships or trucks. Regardless of how we transport it, there will be spills. Pipelines might be the least harmful way to transport it. But the best solution is to transition to other, less polluting sources of energy.

[@thatguy4311]

Simon saying “I don’t normally comment this much” is hilarious. Dude, you literally rant about everything, that’s literally why I keep watching 😂

[@RomaInvicta202]

lol 😂 😂

[@xavilend]

Yeah but it'll be more often on script, he went off script at that point.

[@martinstallard2742]

1:07 cruise ships 3:52 satellite internet 6:24 salted nukes 8:25 the Soviet transformation of nature 11:54 oil and gas pipelines 13:19 music ends

[@demcomp]

Correction @11:54 - Simon's music video..

[@RHCole]

"Music ends" 😆

[@synistree]

Thank you :)

[@brett4264]

12:05 Music Starts.

[@benontko6938]

Best “ allegedly “ ever!

[@moonwolfv671]

What was with the music in the oil/gas pipelines section? I thought maybe the video had been edited/hijacked by someone else who didn't want you talking about such things.

[@atodaso1668]

You are welcome to stop using anything that involves oil and gas at any point. I hope you know how to live like a caveman.

[@mitchk6168]

Avoiding a lawsuit or removal by the KZbin gods most likely, Cleary some of the stuff mentioned could probably lead to one of those outcomes.

[@moonwolfv671]

@@mitchk6168 Makes sense. I'd probably take the same approach if it was me.

[@matthewlaberge]

Glad to hear I’m not going insane. I was in bed watching this video and all of a sudden the music starts and I’m wonder which of my other devices have taken over my AirPods, by the time I checked them all the music ended and I realized it was embedded into the video. Would have loved to hear what Simon said…

[@aftersexhighfives]

Same. Thought I was going crazy lol

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Tbh they've been doing it on casual criminalist some and I'm not sure if it's due to Simon losing mic or just something they're trying for dramatic effect, but I always see comments about it, and honestly it's starting to get old

[@emilymoore378]

Merry Christmas Simon & Basement crew

[@Kellen6795]

Would have loved to see the giant dams and water movement in China being mentioned. Considering that they caused so far massive drought there as well as literally changed how the entire planet moves, I think that would count

[@arthas640]

I was expecting that, especially since China is also causing droughts in other countries as they cut off rivers like the Mekong whenever there's a threat of a drought, making it so China is unaffected but other countries get a far worse drought. Seems stupd when he included Star Link as it's not that big of an impact on earth and its more of a threat of future impact on astronomy.

[@doop6769]

​@@arthas640 I think it was more of an attack on musk. Notice how they made sure to show his face?

[@arthas640]

@@doop6769 I'm not a fan of Musk's but at the same time i find the recent whiplash concerning opinions on him kind of hilarious. People borderline worshiped him and he was an icon on social media for awhile and he had fanboys all over the place, but recently it seems like people are starting to over correct and seem really overeager to trash him. I hear tons of criticism about Starlink with some being fairly legitimate but other times it's plain they're just looking for an excuse to complain and this seems like one of them. Like the complaints about space debris: it seems like a fairly minor issue with Space X and Starlink especially when compared to others like the PLA who created almost as much space debris in 1 (semi illegal) anti satellite missile test as the US has created across all private and government projects. The complaints about the cost are also rather stupid as many people are criticizing how expensive it is right now even though the program is so early that they just reached 1/4 of their initial goal of 12,000 satellites and it's still in beat; but much like any tech such as smart phones or computers the new tech always starts out prohibitively expensive and costs drop as economy of scale is achieved, initial investments get recouped, and infrastructure gets established (computers for example were too expensive for most people in the 1st world for 20-30 years and it took nearly 40 years to become affordable for many in the 3rd world, and Starlink is barely 3 years old).

[@doop6769]

@Arthas Menethil I think you're spot on there. I don't know your politics, but he's become the whipping boy of the left lately. Simon's channels are all starting to insert the left leaning ideology of whoever the script writers are. Every single subject has to have some political interjection, often unrelated, thrown in. Often it's some unnecessary comment about colonialism or climate change. The comment in the starling segment about people moving from the cities to the suburbs being bad, tells you where they're at. I've already unsubbed from a few channels because I watch this stuff for entertainment, not to be lectured about how bad the west is constantly. I'm done with this guy. He used to be entertaining.

[@arthas640]

@@doop6769 he has declined a lot in quality. I think part of it is a growing bias and part of it is spreading himself (and likely staff) too thin. He used to be much more humorous and fact focused in the past, he seems more proffesional now but at the same time he's allowing a politicial bias color his videos more and more even at the expense of quality. I'm not British but even I think his colonial rants and anti western rants get old, especially since most of his audience aren't British. I don't know what the UK calls it but in the US we call it "liberal guilt". At once he takes up a masochistic and repentant attitude to his cultures history but at the same time often setting himself aside as if critiquing an outside group. I've noticed more and more Simon going off on tangents to rant about something bad the US has done but at the same time he shows his bias because he rarely does the same to many European and non western states: if a non western country ans the US or UK commit similar transgressions he holds the US/UK to a different standard.

[@screwitletsbuildCo]

Wtf Simon, you are having more and more videos with jacked up audio overplayed on what we all came to hear. But still merry Christmas and happy holidays.

[@mitchk6168]

Avoiding a lawsuit or removal by the KZbin gods most likely, Cleary some of the stuff mentioned could probably lead to one of those outcomes.

[@myrodin1210]

12:05 - 13:20 Simon or Sam its decent elevator music, but can we have fact boi back?

[@philbert006]

This ain't the blaze. Sam don't work here.

[@Jeff_Raids]

Stumbled across this channel and instantly subscribed. The host is a riot 😄

[@SHPUDY]

That's what happens when you ask your editor to work the holidays lmao

[@Avigailmichal]

The editor had a bit too much to drink this christmas mornin

[@mitchk6168]

Avoiding a lawsuit or removal by the KZbin gods most likely, Cleary some of the stuff mentioned could probably lead to one of those outcomes.

[@208467]

As a scuba instructor I hate cruise ships, floating shit factories, they destroy everywhere they go. When a place becomes popular in the Caribbean if they have a dock then the crude[sic] ships come and ruin the thing they came for. It is a repeating pattern.

[@katb.6132]

Merry Christmas Simon, crew, and your families ☃️🎄🎉

[@CantankerousOB]

pipelines don't wear out NEARLY as fast from the "outside, in" as the inside out. Heavy oil has a high content of "sand", which is extremely abrasive and tears at the pipeline from the inside. If there was no wear from the inside, pipelines would last for decades if properly installed.

[@AntonyTCurtis]

In the developed world, Starlink is not a problem but it is a symptom of a problem. The real problem is that the incumbent telcos are not going to provide good service even after receiving billions in subsidies when what they're doing now is adequate and profitable, especially when they can overstate the costs and bag more money - it is a gravy train that they can enjoy for as long as there are underserved areas.

[@Raz.C]

Maybe that's the case in America, but the rest of the developed world doesn't embrace EXTREME capitalism the way the USA does. We have sensible laws and restrictions that regulate the corporate world, because we recognise that unrestricted capitalism just leads to the kind of crap that you're describing.

[@timothymine1135]

So true. There so many countries that have far better internet for far less than the US has. Not to mention that where i live i can't get fiber because ATT has a contract with Xfinity to not supply it to many parts of the city. Its a sad joke.

[@EvilGav]

You are aware that Starlink *also* receives huge subsidies from the US government?

[@HikuroMishiro]

The extreme irony of people hating 'extreme capitalism' while actually complaining about the communism they think they so desperately crave. Monopolies don't exist in a truly capitalist society.

[@animn7386]

Seems like playing the system is the name of the game

[@ragtowne]

I live in rural Montana, before Starlink I had 1 Mb/s (on a good day when it worked) DSL - it was USELESS for anything other than text based communications. The other option was Hughesnet, which cost a fortune and was USELESS for any interactive applications, such as zoom. Everybody in our area, now use Starlink and are finally able to use the Internet like fiber capable city dwellers.

[@RayLabs]

Right there with you, in SW Montana, except we had no internet before Starlink. Had to drive to a pass use Mobile Data (no Cell phone coverage in our valley). Last time I commented on how Starlink was a game changer I got flamed by a Wacko. Hope you do better (hit that turn off notifications if you do).

[@eightcoins4401]

I thought Germanys internet Infrastructure was really fragile, but I'm glad I atleast dont need to rely on something ran by Elon Musk

[@dbnathan5]

@@eightcoins4401 Germans are very fragile in most regards.

[@Vaeldarg]

@@eightcoins4401 Relies on Russia for energy. Looking like will rely on China for chip manufacturing. But relying on an American company that isn't likely to use Germany's reliance for military blackmail or industrial espionage? That's where you draw the line, good job. /s

[@joelkegel2081]

Montana resident here, Factcheck 👍 TRUE.

[@AleksworxFPV]

All of Enron was covered by poorly edited music over the VO. Let us know if this was intentional with a warning, or fix it.

[@matt_b...]

Lol damn the one time it WASN'T me. Simon's team is gonna be upset when they wake up tomorrow

[@fireforger9192]

Maybe it was the oil companies trying to block out bad news😂

[@london651]

Hey blaze boy what’s up with the music? Someone in the basement must be signaling to the outside world for help!

[@mitchk6168]

Avoiding a lawsuit or removal by the KZbin gods most likely, Cleary some of the stuff mentioned could probably lead to one of those outcomes.

[@rachelblake2350]

Simon, that's two separate channels you've done a video for claiming that the Soviets dumped the reactor of K19 in the Aral Sea, and that this reactor is now missing. This just doesn't seem to be true, as searching for "K19 Aral Sea" merely returns your Geographics video in the results. However, there's plenty of sources claiming it was dumped in the Kara sea, which would make sense since the K19 was serving in the Atlantic.

[@damianousley8833]

No nuclear ubmarines ever cruised the Aral sea, and more likely, the reactor was dumped in the Kara sea in the far north of Russia

[@rogaineablar5608]

One good thing about 30 seconds of unskippable ads is that it gives me time to refresh my beverage.

[@MariaRVT]

I just want to clarify about the Cruise ships. I work on one and yes it is true that most ships do generate a lot of bad to the eco system the newer ones are better. Any new ship being built use LNG fuel which is cleaner to the environment. More cruise ports are now making it possible for the ships to "plug in" while docked, just like a caravan/RV Park. Also about the dumping. All waste water from the ship goes through filters and all physical waste is either dissolved with chemicals or removed. No water that is realised contains raw waste or chemicals.

[@Bubbaist]

For the record, Uzbekistan no longer presses its citizens into the cotton harvest. President Karimov died in 2015, and his successor, Mirziyoyev, has made some impressive reforms. They have a long way to go, but things are a lot better now.

[@Im-just-Stardust]

Thank you for reporting about Starlink. So sad to look up the sky and realize it is full of trash already.

[@MyKharli]

Even musks so called success in ev`s is BS, its all oversize cars with too big batteries when what's needed are small ev`s and ebikes . Large ev`s are not at all sustainable . Go hyperloop !

[@SitInTheShayd]

Simon got censored for speaking the truth

[@ellisvener5337]

Thanks for fixing the audio in the pipeline segment. It clearly makes the best and most reasonable and conservative point of view argument against the Keystone XL pipeline, I’ve yet to hear.

[@moogle68]

I am assuming this video was re-uploaded somehow, because I am seeing endless comments about the music in the Pipeline section being so loud that Simon couldn't be heard, but I watched the whole video (including the Pipeline part) without ever noticing any particularly bad imbalance in the music/narration audio. I even re watched the Pipeline part to make sure I didn't space out and miss the moment everyone was talking about, but either my headphones are excellent at automatically balancing the audio (I suppose this might be possible since I'm using an Equalizer and have Dolby Atmos for Headphones running), but I really don't think those make enough of a difference to make something that is apparently inaudible to most listeners suddenly sound perfectly balanced.

[@CaptainKirk01]

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, as I know The Nord Stream is a hot topic being covered up as to who "actually" blew it up. I wonder if you were censored on that subject?

[@danielthompson6207]

I love you so much for starting this with cruise ships. Screw cruise ships and the companies that operate them.

[@hellsburp]

Someone redacted part of the pipeline segment.

[@TigerXGame]

How cruise ships haven't simply been banned yet is completely beyond me. Everyone is being pressured into living greener, yet these completely useless CO2 factories are allowed to keep on going? No. Just no.

[@godfree2canada]

music @12:04 WTF?

[@Kingmeri]

The section on pipelines is biased. Pipelines do leak, but what is the alternative? Railcars? Trucks? Ships? These leak at rates that are orders of magnitude higher than pipelines. Also, pipelines are regulated and routinely fixed. Similar regulation of other means of transport are not in effect. Part of the reason you hear so much about pipeline leakage is because they are inspected with pigs (look it up], planes, and other forms of of test that non-destructive testing that expose leaks.

[@rened.5998]

Well the sovjets realy had a habit of dumping old reactors into the next ocean they could find but drying that ocean up afterwords?!?! I see no problem with that comrades. Btw what ist actually happening with all these nuclear reactors from US- Subs, pal?

[@tisjester]

They store them in your moms basement.

[@berja3895]

Well, you were right Simon. Every mega -project you mentioned was a blipping disaster

[@davidhiatt1486]

Happy Holidays to Simon and crew!

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

Wow!! SW's giving us a music break midway thru the video. Very nice ..., keep it up, and Merry Christmas

[@Morganstein-Railroad]

Several Minutes of your video this time was interrrupted by some rock music, whilst the video image continued unabated. Don't know if you are aware of this, but if you play it back, you may be able to replace the original sound track and re-post.

[@stevenlauzon7031]

Rock music hey?

[@mitchk6168]

Avoiding a lawsuit or removal by the KZbin gods most likely, Cleary some of the stuff mentioned could probably lead to one of those outcomes.

[@Morganstein-Railroad]

@@stevenlauzon7031 Well it was really elevator music, but as it clearly fell into the Easy rock idiom, I used a generic term.

[@iteerrex8166]

Greed is the root of most evil.

[@kittty2005]

The love of currency is the root of ALL evil, not money itself just the love of it. That's why if there's something afoot that does not make sense, follow the money where it stops is the answer.

[@littleshopofelectrons4014]

Another terrible by-product of cruise ships is what they do to the cities that they visit. They cruise into a tourist hot-spot such as Venice and dump thousands of tourists all at once into the place. The result is a super-crowded mess that takes over everything for a few hours and then they all leave at once. These ships are destroying coastal cities that they visit.

[@greengoo3870]

So why is there music playing over the beginning of the oil pipeline stuff...... enron?

[@kc0eks]

Think you have an audio issue around 13 minutes.... Music and no voice .

[@leftyeh6495]

Pipelines don't rust. I've seen 80 year old lines that were still in great shape. Generally they get eroded from the INSIDE, because of bad operators and cavitation. They also don't really move from temp, as they're buried deep enough to stabilize the temp through the year. They take the lines very seriously. If you scratch a pipe, it has to be cut out, new pipe welded in, and x-ray checked. Of course, all the pipeline work I did was in the moving, wiring all the motors and sensors. It's fascinating, that a good company can see 20 gallons of oil missing over a few hundred miles, shut down and clear the line, and find and repair the leaks. They monitor flow and volume constantly, and it's all able to be done on site at the pump stations, or remotely over a private satellite connection.

[@JAMESWUERTELE]

I’d rather have a pipeline, than train cars full running around the country. Talk about a spill when we can’t keep the rail going with Buttjudge worried about skin color.

[@kyleellis1825]

You sure pipelines in places like Russia/China aren't left to rust?

[@mattmackewich9699]

Rename "Salted Nuke" to "Organic Sea Salt Caramel Nuke" and folks will love them.

[@tommunyon2874]

I recall that around 1969/70 the idea was floated about launching huge reflectors into orbit that would illuminate cities at night at 7 times the brightness of the full moon with reflected sunlight. The ecological implications were horrendous, but to a society that was OK with defoliating the Vietnamese jungle with Agent Orange it probably seemed a good idea at the time.

[@macnibs]

@Sideprojects Regarding the reading of the script for the StarLink segment: "Under-served communities", not "underserved communities". You make it sound like the communities don't deserve things.

[@ondrejmelich8927]

Well, thats second video lately, where its kinda fucked up with music which goes over commentary

[@TheEarl777]

When Simon starts on the oil and gas , utube has put music over top of Simons voice for approx 15-20 seconds

[@BlackHearthguard]

Likely that's there to protect them (Simon, et al) from being sued. Having read the closed captions he's mostly speaking about Enron and how they used pipelines to manipulate the gas market, as well as how 65% of pipelines are in the US. I can't actually see anything that would need to be covered by the music tbh, not unless there's an investigation into Enron that hasn't been concluded, or there's some controversy in shipping milk or beer by pipeline...

[@BlackHearthguard]

I've typed out a transcript below: How difficult could it be? You produce oil and gas in places like Canada, Kazakhstan, Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico and you send that gas via pipeline to receiving facilities in Texas or Oklahoma or Germany to be refined and used for everything from heating homes to making plastics and industrial lubricants. It's just a pipeline, how complicated could it be? Currently there exists about three and a half million kilometers of oil and gas pipelines in the world, spanning 120 countries. A whopping 65% of those are in the United States, with Russia having about 8% for comparison. These long distance pipelines move all manner of important industrial products besides oil and gas: Including ammonia, alcohol, fuel and even beer and milk in some places, but the vast majority of the world's pipelines send oil and gas. Why so much pipeline, was partly due to the efforts of everyone's favourite corporation, Enron, who dominated the U.S pipeline business in the 80's and 90's, and popularized the use of pipelines as a cheap alternative to shipping materials by tankership or truck. This extensive pipeline network also helped Enron manipulate the international gas market, but that's probably for another Mega Projects video, but as you might expect from a network of metal pipes transporting volatile chemicals across the world, day in, day out, accidents can happen and they happen a lot. Oil and gas contains solvents, particularly if they're composed of volatile aromatics such as naphtha and benzene.

[@magnion3535]

I’m guessing there was some content IDed audio and that’s why we had the weird music interrupting the pipeline segment? Would’ve been great to actually be able to hear that one.

[@AnthonyMackONE]

Big Oil: You can’t say that, Simon…

[@barlotardy]

Looks like big oil got to Simon!

[@toddelphick9965]

I'm still watching the video, but i just had to pause and comment at the biggest cruise ship roasting I've ever heard 🤣 I'm still laughing

[@Chuck-PK]

12:04 - 13:20 umm what? Is this Simon's version of Conway Twitty or do the Matrix be glitchin'?

[@Uncookednote]

I can’t post a screenshot here, but the cruise ship segment was followed, immediately, by a cruise ship ad for exactly the sort of voyage you described. Honestly, you should have just taken a sponsorship for it.

[@kurtisb100]

Re: sewage discharge from cruises. What does everyone think happens to sewage everywhere else? Victoria, BC dumps sewage straight into the pacific along the Vancouver-AK route. I’m fact, *most* coastal cities dump their sewage directly into the sea. Gross? Yeah, obviously. But you’re talking about an insanely minor portion of the issue resulting from cruises. Not that I’m defending cruises here. They’re dumb. But this ‘problem’ is a stupid thing to focus on.

[@RHCole]

Why does number 5 have music over it 😆 Blazeboi, what gives?

[@mitchk6168]

Avoiding a lawsuit or removal by the KZbin gods most likely, Cleary some of the stuff mentioned could probably lead to one of those outcomes.

[@talizorahnarrayya5916]

Just playing devil's advocate here. I work for a company that treats waste water from ships. Be it water contaminated by oil and fuel from oil tankers or "regular" waste water from cruise ships. I'm not saying every ship does that but still. Hell a couple years ago a cargo ship was abandoned just off the coast of Beauharnois, Québec and the company I work for was one of the companies that was contracted to decontaminate the ship so it could be safely dismantled. The name of the ship was "Kathryn Spirit".

[@michaelmoore7975]

There are places in the US that stay in drought conditions for years because we cant build a pipeline to get water there. But if it was a pipeline for oil, it would be built in 3 days.

[@kyleellis1825]

Sure, turn all of america into another dustbowl thatway.

[@bakamojojojo]

Your section on salted nukes is very misleading and inaccurate. Almost all fusion bombs are fission-fusion-fission bombs, with the majority of their power coming from the neutrons from the fusion stage, reacting with the third fission stage. You suggest that it is just 'salted nukes' that do this. You also seem to suggest that all hydrogen bombs, are in essence, neutron bombs. It's the presence of cobalt that makes a 'salted' bomb, not the presence of a third fission stage, which is pretty much ubiquitous outside of neutron bombs. Regular hydrogen bombs have plenty of fallout.

[@TheGillhicks]

Merry Christmas, can you do an episode on the water way from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

What is the environmental impact of not having a pipeline? Much of the oil is simply transported by rail. How many accidents and weeks are there that occur that way? How much extra energy is used to transport set oil and what is the environmental cost of that production?

[@garylove4289]

These people want to destroy oil and gas period. Once they stop the pipelines, their next objective is train and trucking. We will be forced back to the 17th century burning wood and coal for cooking and heating.

[@adammickelson7398]

WTF! Why even put it in the video if you are going to cover it up with music?

[@datman6266]

Wow, you have covered these topics from both sides now, I respect that..

[@datman6266]

I was previously a bit mad bout starlink coverage without the huge danger and cost/maintenace it has.. not anymore..

[@doclewis8927]

TO THE CHANNEL: A whole section of this video was not heard by a single viewer because someone played music over the gas & oil pipeline section. Not even the captions worked and you guys don't include the script for us to read in the description box. With no explanation as to why there was music & no warning for the loudness of the music, our only option is to believe that your editor is sabotaging your channel. If that segment was flagged by the system, you could've put a flash card saying so and apologized for needing to play music. Also, you could've given a heads up to headphone listeners to turn down the volumn with a flash card of "loud music incoming". Simple and courteous things to do for your listeners. Disappointing.

[@dhruvsapra]

thanks doc, some mess at production and proofing, simon has been informed, we will re-upload the updated one soon

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

Considering the number of videos this channel produces this one accident doesn't deserve the response noted. Yes, it was unexpected ..., and it was to us all, but it was a one-off; what sense is there in putting up a 'flash card'(??) when there wasn't supposed to have been music at that point. Grow up

[@kaseyboles30]

I doubt it's intentional. More likely a mistake as the team rushed a bit to finish up a video so they could enjoy the holiday with family. Cut them some slack. I'm sure they'll fix it, probably sooner that strictly necessary given it IS Christmas day.

[@markclawrie007]

God it was obviously just a mistake, what a mental overreaction. Go follow another channel

[@mitchk6168]

Bro you need to relax! Fuckin hell. It’s clearly just him covering himself from a lawsuit from the shady af oil company he was talking about. Pretty standard stuff.

[@bodegacoast]

How the hell did this get released to the public with that audio screwup?

[@daduzadude1547]

Uh oh - hope Simon doesn’t get oligarched! 🤣

[@SRW_]

Simons not THAT clumsy

[@daduzadude1547]

@@SRW_ nor were the oligarchs 🤣

[@murraywebster1228]

Isn’t there any quality control on your videos before being released?

[@SydNixon]

Actually, that Keystone oil is being shipped everyday. Even before the pipeline was nixed, it was shipped by rail and several derailments have already contaminated the aquafer.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people." -- George Harrison

[@woody4077]

" aperson is smart people are dumb" - tommy lee jones MIB films

[@rjspires]

The Cruise Ship ends and get an ad for Antarctic cruise. Perfect.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

Omg I'm so old... I remember when there actually WAS an Aral Sea still (thou I recall it specifically cause of the environmental disaster being evident in the early 2000s.)

[@neilkenyon6896]

You're not that old. I learnt about its shrinking circa 1990.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

@@neilkenyon6896 hehe thanks. Maybe I just feel old cause 10 years ago a doctor said I had the back of a 70YO. 🤣

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@Memento_Mori_Morals I've seen 70-year olds in great shape, so that was a dick thing for your doctor to say about somebody with a herniated disc...

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis at the time to be fair I was weak from the waste down and could only stand for a few seconds, also 8, 8 herniation from 5mm to 18mm. My spinal cord is pinched in a few places, but thankfully intact. I'm able to walk again now, but only a few hundred feet/day.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@Memento_Mori_Morals Yikes, that still sounds frigging atrocious. 😕 Hopefully you'll be okay.

[@simonpender8331]

Definitely one of your more entertaining videos. Thank you.

[@elliotsmith9812]

Ground based astronomy was always going to loose to the space age. Starlink may be the bullet, but the gun was loaded with the first landing of the Falcon 9.

[@edgarwalk5637]

However, a few simple calculations shows it won't make a profit, which is a feature of many useless businesses these days, like Twitter.

[@elliotsmith9812]

@@edgarwalk5637 There was talk the the arbitrage trading alone would pay for it.

[@DugganSean]

@@edgarwalk5637 simple calculations you fail to show though? I've used starlink at a friends place, definitely worked and he is incredibly happy with the service. Can't see him going back to fibre or mobile. I suspect spacex claims of it being only for low population places is a Trogan horse to get permission from governments to allow services in poorly served areas before it expands to serve towns and low rise cities.. And then all cities via improved base stations on skyscraper roof tops. Plus the service is proving very helpful here in New Zealand currently where a friend can only contact his daughter because she's in a cut off area but her neighbour has opened his WiFi/starlink to the neighbours. Tesla power walls holding it all up. Many people and businesses will after seeing that decide they too need reliable coms.. And there's only one real option.

[@oBseSsIoNPC]

My man, I just stopped by to comment on those thumbnails on your videos really putting that beard in a bad light. You would very much benefit from either trimming the beard into shape (shortening it will look much better with your bald head) or dying it one natural color. When ever I see recommended videos of yours I think you soiled your beard. It's not a good look, but of course, you do you. If you love it, no harm done! I just get triggered by it (mine to carry). I sometimes let mine grow longer and like it for a while, but as soon as I trim back and shape neat, I LOVE IT so much more.

[@bigbenisdaman]

Starlink is awesome, I can watch this vid in HD, something with my old dsl that would be impossible. Sadly enough, i'm 900ft from fiber but here in the states isp's are so territorial i'm SOL.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

Wow 900s ft.... that's the worst I've heard. I miss the days when you had a choice of different providers after dial but before cable became mainstream.

[@jackengineer4089]

I’ll drill you a line and splice it into the hub for say 110grand?

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

@@jackengineer4089 no offense but I bet you could rent the equipment and find someone to use it for less, or maybe I just have very handy friends and family?

[@bigbenisdaman]

@@Memento_Mori_Morals cant tap into an ISP’s line...and I tried working through to run my own fiber and have them charge me monthly and got no response.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

@@bigbenisdaman oof yeah I meant what I said as a joke tbh, but I've heard about this stuff before when my grandpa was trying to get decent internet in the 00s. He finally had to get satellite, thou that was way before Starlink.

[@plushpod988]

thanks for fixing the music video portion!

[@Zenocided]

Clearly. Oil and Gas companies got to Simon's video editor before the video could be reviewed. 🤣

[@goodeffects1503]

What’s a better alternative to pipelines? As far as I’ve seen, it’s still the safest way to transport oil, isn’t it?

[@jerrik-415]

Stop using oil? You make a good point, and I think the only better solution is to not need it.

[@goodeffects1503]

@@jerrik-415 I mean, that’s ideal but we don’t live in an ideal world. Oil products are deeply ingrained into our societies. Every time someone shuts down a pipeline, they just use trucks and boats. The oil is still going to sell, we’re just going to make a bigger mess and pay more.

[@djplong]

I don't know where you got your 500,000 subscribers figure. Starlink announced a few days ago that they, alone, had reached 1 million subscribers (an increase of 750,000 in about 8 months). I don't have figures for other providers. And, yes, astronomers complained - and Starlink immediately went about making their satellites far less reflective. In addition Starlink has been a literal country-saver when it comes to Ukraine, providing internet service that Russia has a hard time knocking out. As time goes on, it's very possible that Starlink could be instrumental in providing a way for citizens in countries under dictators to obtain news that is not from a propaganda machine. That being said, I'm glad that you mentioned the fact that they won't be contributing to space junk due to their orbits.

[@philbert006]

Perhaps it didn't occur to you that this video was written before today, possibly sat in a queue for some weeks, had to get so sponsor approval, recording, editing, so on and so forth. Simon don't pop in the office, record a script written this morning, then watch it to make sure he didn't screw up, and it's posted by quitting time. Kind of thing I think would be obvious. Guess not

[@djplong]

@@philbert006 - I've seen other videos where they've said it can take a couple of weeks to put things together. I didn't really have much of a problem with the subscriber count and just thought I'd provide an updated figure. The only 'beef'' I had was what seemed to me to be a bit of a one-sided characterization of Starlink - without mentioning what Starlink had done in response to the complaints that had been raised. It seemed to me to be a bit more one-sided than the usual quality I've seen from here before. If I came off as harsh (and, rereading my comment, I can see how that can be), I didn't mean to and, for that, I apologize.

[@jtcustomknives]

Never wanted to go on a cruise till now. Thank you

[@paigeharrison3909]

Can we get a transcript of the part Simon was saying during our musical interlude?

[@ravensdotter6843]

Humanity is truly insane.

[@JamesFromTexas]

Welp, there goes my next vacation idea

[@raykewin3608]

Shouldn't this be on Megapojects.

[@Lyanraw]

I love having to manually adjust the volume constantly throughout a video

[@dcsteve7869]

My home was less than 600m from a main fiber optic trunk and yet the dominant telco in our area refused to provide us with residential internet because "it would cost to much to service the area". Our government gave telco's like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and so on with billions of dollars specifically to develop internet in rural and semi rural regions like mine. They took the money and ran, they have delivered almost nothing to the people. Now Elon brings us Starlink, and it works. It does exactly what he promised and he delivered it in a fraction of the time .

[@artlucero6122]

Are you aware that during the part of the video that has the music overlay, what you're saying can still be seen by turning on the closed caption and reading it?