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[@acornstorm6046]

NordVPN should be grateful, that’s the first sponsorship ad I haven’t skipped though in years

[@Spr1ditis]

That is a lot of thyme

[@Yell0wWave]

I tried to skip it but it was too fast for me to reach the buffer bar in time!

[@Nukestarmaster]

John Ward's ads are pretty great.

[@arbiterftw]

That shit was like hitting light speed

[@SnackBath]

Internet comment etiquette's ads are still the best I've ever seen 😂

[@averagedemographic8933]

I’m into structures. They just stand ‘n’ sh*t but they try to look good doing it. I want to follow in their footsteps.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

They have no footsteps, they don't move man, remember?

[@Re-ii4gb]

Average Demographic ‘n’ lol

[@AngeloXification]

"I love structure.. but sometimes I think I only crave the family structure"

[@Anon-cp6bm]

bro they dont walk

[@potatoakmalthefemscout]

If they ain’t walking then I ain’t walking

[@Miniman317]

I didn’t truly believe the sentence “An architects dream is an engineers nightmare” until you showed me the buildings that Frank Gehry made.

[@royalblanket]

Also the window washers nightmare

[@Misanthropolis]

@@royalblanket Imagine your first day as a window washer for one of Gehry's fever dreams. I would just quit. Fuck that.

[@hodb3906]

Yeah. That’s why I hate these type of architects, they are just art knowers. Engineers have to do 99% of the work to ensure these “architects” their dumb molten plastic designs are stable and safe.

[@VirgilSonofSparda]

@@Misanthropolis is pouty y😮 😮🎉y😮y🎉 yyty😢tyyytttxyy. A

[@moistcena648]

@@hodb3906 These Architects you hate are in fact creating a whole lotta jobs with their stupid looking buildings. I am not saying they are worth their money - All I am saying is they create jobs.

[@kasgrieve9741]

The pyramids were originally covered in polished limestone and had a golden capstone, which would’ve shone at night like a star, so tbf wouldn’t of looked too far off from a lot of modern buildings built today with their all white aesthetic

[@quinnholloway5400]

Still Modern architecture is fucking garbage

[@ekki1993]

Sure, it works out for the pyramids, but you don't want to know what the "all white" greek statues actually looked like when they had paint over.

[@danymend5797]

@@ekki1993 oh yeah, and the Eiffel Tower was red and the Statue of the liberty was brown(bronze actually) but he turned green

[@actualtrash3116]

Why did they take it all of the went through all that effort to put them up there

[@actualtrash3116]

@Epoxygleu no they weren’t that’s a different age

[@inthefade]

"Thanks we hate it" -NordVPN Well Nord, that is the first time I've watched one of your ads all the way through in months. So there is that.

[@Shiodiodia]

At least they give you freedom to make your own ad

[@thedumbdog1964]

Yeah I always contemplate getting it when I see his ads for it

[@asinussum]

Have you seen internet comment ettiquette's ads. They're quite somthing.

[@anon2234]

At this point we all know what it does. Isn't the point just product placement

[@alduinthetyrant5225]

@Sam pellergrino No, he is still doing them.

[@mcbadrobotvoice8155]

“You can’t just shoot a hole in the surface of Australia”-Samuel Haden

[@gabrieldiaz5274]

Why do I hear lizards playing at dooms gate

[@donovanjoseph737]

Is doomguy Nordvpn man?

[@pavelzabak5276]

"Would you like me to disable the safety protocols?"-VEGA

[@barnaclejim3119]

Last time I saw a comment this good was when the shadows first lengthened

[@panzhubnikaz7335]

*Australia - Eternal*

[@josha.8093]

I love how the editing implies that IH has a hot key that just immediately inserts a picture of a 5g tower

[@seaofbees783]

he would tbf

[@MozartOfficial]

You mean you don't have one like that?

[@brennur3731]

It's just a photoshop preset dw

[@whereamigoing777]

Swaghetti and meat balls killed me 😹

[@nikki-op4xj]

he does . all the pictures in his family album include 5g tower

[@bluepikmin6363]

Normal architects: building Frank Gehry: _building_

[@luispagano]

Underrated comment

[@monkebanana2506]

Defined underrated

[@jonathanbelman8693]

I read this in the historian voice lol Building BUILDING What iIIIIISSSSs a BUILDING

[@sneeu27]

His buildings are ugly as hell😂. Modern Architecture is ugly and some are not but aren't as beautiful as colonial and ancient ones

[@JFeaser187]

@@sneeu27his ugly buildings are not modern architecture.

[@charlieapples9373]

The architecture in Las Vegas legitimately looks like a Minecraft server. Just a bunch of bizarre buildings from different eras all packed together in the desert + LIGHTS EVERYWHERE

[@abs_nobody]

the best architects are the ones unbound by economics

[@your_son.]

as someone who lives i nevada this is all true

[@9k307]

Las Vegas is actually a minecraft creative plot server

[@T--xo2uq]

And then there's summerlin, all built by literally the same company. (the Howard Hughes company)

[@ithilweenshadowsong8151]

We architects know that as the "Robert Venturi's rant"

[@alistairjclark2433]

My current home is 120 years old.. my parents home is about 400 years old, I work for an American company and my boss freaked out when I explained the age of our homes in England

[@denseaf1582]

Yeah, that’s one of the big disconnects of old world / new world stuff. I’m looking forward to the White Tower being deemed ancient in my lifetime.

[@colonthree]

My flat was made when predreadnoughts sailed the sea. ;w;

[@aggy69420]

oh the brits!

[@-d-devil-3393]

How??

[@stonegiant4]

In America 100 years is a long time, in Europe 100 miles is a long distance.

[@irohsteacup]

these two do the opposite of the " yes and " approach , where they try to derail each other's improv . love it, kinda genius

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Swaghetti and memeballs was inspired X'D

[@ravensflockmate]

"No but"

[@irohsteacup]

@@ravensflockmate genius

[@dvdjhp]

I think they kinda ride the middle. Like "maybe or"

[@PawelSlab]

Apart from snobs and architects, nobody is pleased by modern architecture.

[@mixedtv7083]

you got heart pog

[@affif101]

I don't even think architects like modern architecture, they are probably self loathing

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

A lot of architects don't like it either, lol.

[@cyberklashnikov3062]

As someone who loves and studies architecture yeah modern sucks

[@GH-ov1lj]

Reject modernity Embrace tradition

[@BoxofCarrots]

Here's something about the pyramids that I think is pretty important when looking at them from an aesthetic point of view; back when they were built, they were made from polished white limestone, and tipped with shining gold. I dunno about you, but if I saw that shit in the desert, I'd be in awe.

[@aqsle]

Same

[@flclover4]

In awe at the size of the lad?

[@BoxofCarrots]

@@flclover4 In absolute a w e of their thiccness. You damn right.

[@pHeyoooo]

Look up graham hancock talking about the mathematics of the pyramids to have your mind blown.

[@laurasomebody]

In it's time, it wasn't desert.

[@parknplay8328]

The sad thing is that I have a nagging feeling that I need to download NordVPN now just to support this type of ad. Like if we all support things that allow this type of ad, we may get all ad companies to go batshit insane in the future

[@Zorro9129]

The market follows demand, except when you got woke writers running things.

[@matthegarty6235]

That's how they getcha.

[@richarddodgin5608]

What happens is all companies do it then you go fucking insane and want to die. Then the cycle repeats.

[@Kolbycortis]

me too i was hard thinking about it but i dont have the money right now probably will in the future

[@irispettson]

That ad was sort of amazing

[@noraneko8926]

Before human goes to Mars, I think they should test their equipment and theory of terraforming Mars in Australia first.

[@Femboy_Lover]

Love the femboy in your pfp

[@bootykingfaia]

i’m disliking this

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

With the exception that Australia probably already has a colony of giant roach men without needing terraforming.

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

They should use the nuke method

[@malikoniousjoe]

The idea that colonizing a barren shithole planet where our only option of travel is a one way trip is the dumbest shit in the world.

[@choccyraspberry5158]

There's no way all thirty thousand of those slaves are forklift certified

[@salvadorpalma8173]

"It's an Italian city called Pisa" Shows image of Florence.

[@12SPASTIC12]

Given the history of Tuscan cities, he probably started a war right there.

[@tommasoviani8949]

Yeah I've just noticed that too

[@Giogro]

The cities are quite close, i live in florence, we hate pisans

[@GamerGamer-ok6wu]

@@Giogro just, chill out then, no need to hate.

[@Giogro]

@@GamerGamer-ok6wu it's more of a meme

[@user-bx2sj4nz3m]

I'm starting to think he forgot the password to his main channel.

[@TheSuperQuail]

Nothing has happened on the internet the past year apparently EDIT: it was a joke you plums

[@RinkuStars]

SuperQuail Area 51 Raid?

[@pengoschwortz4734]

SuperQuail Tanacon???

[@ColinTheShark]

A LastPass sponsorship could've saved him xD

[@mathy9408]

@@TheSuperQuail More Fallout76 crap? C'mon, it is the gift that keeps on giving.

[@GranRey-0]

7:45 it would be a saline lake, so it wouldn't really make the bordering land super arable as plants don't usually do well with salt in the soil... It would start to evaporate and become more salty, but this would cause more rain to be created in the area (unsure whether it would fall there though) You do have an exit channel planned though which would allow salt to cycle out of the lake/sea...and this would be a massive shipping route as well, for both the centre of Australia and the coastal cities in the East.

[@thecanadiandane7262]

There actually used to be a massive sea inside of Europe and Asia. It housed several species of very small baleen whales that tragically and likely painfully went extinct as it dried up and became increasingly poisonous

[@andrewparker5096]

I would check to sea how deep the basin is the water would flood into. Over that large an area you'd be risking making a giant salt pan (too hot for marsh too shallow for lake). It could end up being even more uninhabitable than it is now.

[@roetheboat1]

There's also the question as to whether or not the land in that area would even be able to be arable even IF there was more rain. Additionally, just because both ends would connect to the ocean, that doesn't mean that the water would flow in from one end and out the other. You'd have to figure out some way to keep the water flowing to cycle through. Otherwise what might happen is that both ends would have the ocean flowing in towards a larger central lake/inner sea where the water evaporates and causes the salt to build up. You might be able to fix that by some sort of system of pumps, but that wouldn't be sustainable at all. You'd also have to make sure the river was both wide enough to actually cause a noticeable change to the surrounding geography through evaporation, deep enough that the water wouldn't evaporate over the hundreds (or even thousands) of miles in distance that it would cover, and also that the sides of the artificial river were structurally reinforced so you didn't have to worry about erosion blocking off stuff.

[@GranRey-0]

@@roetheboat1 Yeah... well hopefully one side is higher than the other, or there's gonna have to be some fancy engineering done to make it flow one way...or it'd just make South Western Austrailia an island with a straight in between.

[@MirunaNero]

you'd have to create it at a high elevation so you could run rivers through both to expand the livable area it would create, and to ensure the water actually flows and isn't stagnant. You'd also have to transport all the water up there to begin with, and probably continue to do so until the evaporation cycle ensures it stays filled and flowing

[@leaningtower201]

I have never seen a video where the ad break is the part that's the MOST REPLAYED. Absolutely beautiful.

[@crumplygremlin2144]

this whole "comically mentally inept internet historian" thing works.

[@charlieapples9373]

I’ve done the math and it checks out

[@dajosh42069]

@@charlieapples9373 "Remember to _show your work!"_

[@Ypog_UA]

It just works.

[@DeadKraken]

@@charlieapples9373 Yes but, have you done *all* of the maths? Have you looked into radiocarbon dating?

[@dajosh42069]

@@DeadKraken Psh... who would want to go out on a date with a radiocarbon?? That sounds awful.

[@L0calFishMan]

Another incredible feat by the speedrunning community.

[@aaroncsoka7294]

*speedrun* _/'spiːdrʌn/_ verb _gerund or present participle:_ *speedrunning* complete (a video game, or level of a game) as high on methamphetamine as possible. _"I used to be able to speedrun this game after snorting no less than 20 grams"_

[@echo4086]

Yeah when I heard the SummoningSalt theme I got really really excited

[@internetrules8522]

Slayer Kid Clash I actually fucking died when I heard the summoning salt theme

[@cavecade9162]

I don’t think I’m gonna get over that summoningsalt reference

[@auraguardianred4771]

MY FRIENDS IT JUST KEEPS HAPPENING

[@just1it1moko]

6:35 fun fact: when the dutch discovered Australia (then called New Holland) 100 years before the british colonized it. they didn't settle on it because it was just a wasteland with no resources to gain. If you look at maps drawn at the time you see that the east connects up to Papua-New Guinea. the dutch literally only discovered all Australia's coastline that were desert and literally just missed the big stretch of perfectly suitable land.

[@onionpeelplays6375]

You forgot to adjust for inflation for the estimated cost of the Australia canal. The price adjusted for inflation is about 400 billion and also the canal will have to go through places of very high elevation (300 meters above sea level at least) and the Panama Canal only goes up 26m. Also the Panama Canal uses a gate system meaning that is not just a free flowing canal. If you were to build the Australian Canal then you would either have to make it free flowing (extremely difficult considering the elevation of the areas it has to go through) or build a fuckton of gates. Basically the price would be in the trillions of usd at least.

[@diegoontour]

Just bring Goku and let him use Kamehameha to create a free flow canal. You can pay him in food later.

[@None-Trick_Pony]

They could probably file some FOIA requests from the US government and get those Operation Plowshare plans. That way we get 20-foot lizards and five-headed kangaroos along the canal. If they round up all the rabbits, they might have a chance of obliterating them. While it would create the world's largest nuclear exclusion zone, imagine the money that would come from tourists in a million years when it's safe again. Hell, I'd be down see dingos with hundreds of feet and maybe get an up and close look of a Killer Rabbit with whatever strange mutations humans will have evolved by then. It would basically pay for itself.

[@bouievard7386]

I wonder why all the new soil tastes salty and cant be used to grow shit, seaking of wich, the lake also tastes mighty salty, wonder why?

[@Blake_murray16]

I’m happy for my taxes to go towards fixing Australia, I wanna visit the middle without needing to hide underground

[@whtwolf100]

I mean, considering the incoming recession, building up a few trillion in nationsl debt now to grant construction jobs, not a bad plan. Another big issue though, is rising fuel costs, and the monumental ammount of diesel this will take.

[@theishiopian68]

I cant actually tell if he's sponsored by nordVPN or not.

[@grizzlymelon8376]

After this? Not anymore he`s not, lmao.

[@phiilo]

This is probably going to be the best youtube ad they they had in years...

[@stevendransfield3316]

not for long haha. what a legend !

[@GDNachoo]

idk about you but this ad makes me want to get some VPN

[@bungalo50]

no his sponso is sword vepeen

[@MaudeAshbee]

"geological disturbation" is my new indie trashcore band we have a cement truck with seven banjo players rolling inside

[@5bagsofpopcorn]

Fuck I giggled

[@km099]

Vinyl when?

[@sb-qv5oe]

Just to be clear, they are not tumbling about to and fro. The players have in fact consumed irresponsible amounts of mdma

[@zeta970]

I tried looking for it and couldn’t find your band, can you post a link?

[@deviantartguy0]

That's impressive.

[@tarik-]

As an architecture student I can say historian made some good points. Like finding entrance is a very important thing and architects like hadid doens't focus on that all they do is taking attention. "Form follows function" it's a common thing i mean just a ground rule but they dont follow these rules and other architects just applause, building a death ray is not important for them they just want aesthetic buildings.

[@blazednlovinit]

It's one of those things that I feel 99% of people wouldn't consciously acknowledge but I saw a video a little bit ago of an architect reviewing a spaceship luxury yacht thing on star citizen and I found it so interesting. Mentioning all the little things that architects have to consider, even down to the frequency of lighting used in different areas, like "oh, you want people to congregate in the corners away from the flow of traffic, so they have warm lighting to make them relaxed" and other such considerations. And with layout I guess you've got to be always asking "will this confuse dumb people?"

[@johnmcauliffe8824]

Back in 03' a SWAT team took hours to subdue an active shooter because of the Frank Gehry designed building's architecture giving them a lack of a clear shot

[@Styfalled]

Where did this happen? xD

[@johnmcauliffe8824]

@@Styfalled the Peter B. Lewis building at Case Western University

[@Audioworm]

That sounds insane, I'd love to read about it. Source?

[@malikoniousjoe]

That’s an actual fucking nightmare scenario. Imagine having to approach a modern day maze fortress with a gun toting psycho inside and no clear entries or exits to watch

[@roryhigsmit]

That’s jokes that he said Gehry’s building looks like crumpled up paper cause Gerhry has said in the past that’s what he uses to model ideas. Life imitates art, art imitates internet historian

[@DirectorBird]

That's why all of his buildings look like trash.

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

*internet historian imitates architect.

[@SvendleBerries]

Modern art in a nutshell: Emptying the paper pin out onto the floor and thinking,"Brilliant..."

[@Milk-jy1kn]

SvendleBerries le modern art bad, classical art good yeis national myth yeis

[@fernandovalencia5411]

Didn’t the Simpson’s make a joke like this?

[@ShamankingZuty]

Hey Internet Historian, did you know they used to close up the colosseum and flood it so they could have small ship battles in it?

[@semi-useful5178]

And that they could fit over 10,000 people in it

[@morganpriest7726]

Ah, a Sam o’nella fan I see. I like for you. Actually it’s at 69 likes. It’s good.

[@Bell-hj3zc]

And they had 4 vending machine per person

[@the-letter_s]

Here's another fun fact about the Colosseum: They used to close it up and flood it so they could have small ship battles.

[@watermelonsavage2914]

Pffff, that old thing, imagine the ship battles we could have in a flooded Met Stadium!

[@Whatlander]

The fun thing about the Washington Monument is that you can clearly see where they originally ran out of money/materials, and then the rest of it is a slightly different color above that point. Like, yeah, did you not check how many rocks you had before you decided to make a giant obelisk? No? Eh, we'll figure it out.

[@Gamernerd2626]

The monument actually had to change which quarry it was receiving limestone from mid-construction. The original quarry became unavailable when the state it was in seceded from the Union. A northern quarry was chosen and work continued throughout the civil war, however the limestone was a different hue, being sourced from a different location

[@quinnholloway5400]

I still don't know why it's a Obelisk Doesn't really fit Washington at all to me

[@Daniel-Rosa.]

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it- lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’? - Jesus of Nazareth (Gospel of Luke, ch. 14, v. 28-30)

[@FadeIn2Obscurity]

I can’t unsee it now

[@AbsentMinded619]

@Quinn Holloway it’s literally a giant phallic symbol, and Washington never had children and was probably sterile.

[@gyromurphy]

I live about 30 minutes from Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water and I have to say it's one of the coolest structures I've ever seen. There's a stream...that flows THROUGH the house! Is seriously amazing and it's just in the middle of nowhere

[@trianglemoebius]

That's not so cool! If I took a hammer to one of my bathroom pipes I could have a stream running through my house too! ( This is a joke )

[@strahinjastamenkovic4327]

"Its in an Italian city called Pisa" Proceeds to show a picture of Florence

[@lattemacchiatotiepido]

bah

[@LostShipMate]

close enough

[@danielolivier-cividino580]

jeez so many inaccuracies

[@LostShipMate]

@@danielolivier-cividino580 What does that have to do with Florence Italy?

[@additivent]

This video is the embodiment of locker room talk, I bet he's not proud of it.

[@StephenParlow]

As an actual architecture student, it pisses me off to no end when my professor demands every model painted pure white. I've considered taking the risk of tanking my project grade just to add a splash of color. "From Bauhaus to Our House" is a great comedic, short book about how architecture has backed itself into a corner of modern and post modern crap.

[@stygian8049]

Splash it with colors that your professor hates most

[@yesiamarussianbot3076]

Mine didn't like me, because I love classical architecture too much and he always wanted me to do the horrible modern stuff. I don't know if you ever heard of Dutch Rococo style.

[@Zorro9129]

It's annoying when professors are juice

[@StephenParlow]

@@yesiamarussianbot3076 I have, but can't picture it, but I'm sure I'd recognize it when I Google it. Personally I think classical is overused, but moreso I believe in creative freedom, so I agree that sucks. You ever take it up with department heads?

[@antonstandwerth]

Haha I am also an architecture student and 100% agree with you about the post modern crap bit xD

[@captainforrix956]

23:27 the absolutely brutal smash cut from the opera house-boat to a horribly over-stretched picture of the Rock just killed me

[@1faithchick7]

The funny thing is, my state made 3 pyramid buildings for offices. Except the angle was wrong so the windows kept shattering. Turnes out the Egyptians figured out the same thing ants did, there is only one truly stable angle for pyramid shapes or they fall appart. The pyramid office buildings are now mostly concrete (they removed 99% of all windows) and are constantly being fixed because they keep cracking. So yeah, modern people can make pyramids easily, but they don't always actually work lol

[@scientificbrony]

"why won't the voices in my head stop, who gave me this gun" caught me off guard entirely, laughed my ass off.

[@Luan2017]

Wich minute?

[@Dgero]

I kinda thought about it, but I was surprised nonetheless

[@albertomecanicaslocassergio]

My friend pedro in a nutshell

[@YeeticleesRC]

ALL. THIS. AND. MORE.

[@test1q7]

@@albertomecanicaslocassergio I wish I knew nothing about that game and thought you were talking about a real friend of your's, i would have laughed my ass off

[@thesovietkevin7275]

Start of the video: Weird buildings Later in the video: Digging a river through Australia

[@specs.weedle]

Even later: Speedrunning.

[@LechuZcechu]

Don't spoiler lol

[@LotharLive]

its not a river, it's a canal

[@ggtylerr]

oh hi gay man

[@thesovietkevin7275]

@@ggtylerr oh hi gay man

[@Joe___schmoe]

Fun fact: i have licked the Washington monument and it was a close second to the supreme court building taste wise

[@varogoth]

I appreciate you sharing this knowledge

[@malikoniousjoe]

Thank you Jesus

[@DjSunexx]

13:50 fun fact, the coliseum was able to fit ~50.000 people. It maybe didn't have a jumbotron, but therefor it had people fighting each other to the death. Hell Yeah!

[@trianglemoebius]

Ah yes but most of those 50,000 seats naturally wouldn't have a very good view of the fighting. Yes, fighting to the death is awesome, but it's far less awesome if you can't see shit, which is where a Jumbotron would be necessary.

[@missingindy]

Sorry to burst your bubble, friend, but they didn’t fight to the death, they fought to the mildly injured

[@skivvytv6229]

@@missingindyrry to burst your bubble, friend, but historians estimate between 10-20% of fights left one of the competitors dead, and of course sometimes the loser would be executed by the winner if the croud/organizers wished

[@missingindy]

@@skivvytv6229 oh

[@EMETRL]

"we're the same size as the continental US" "the project is comparable to the panama canal" something doesn't add up here

[@StrazdasLT]

He means it would be the same type of digging. he shows its 33 times longer.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

i mean, keepin everyone from overheating to death would prolly be hard, and panama is small so its easier to move shit around and logistically manage.

[@ilyaaaaaaaaaaaas]

Okay but hear me out, what if we let the water do most of the digging? It'll take thousands of years

[@Doctor_Badass_]

Also, seawater does not make for very good arable land. Might as well water your crops with brawndo the thirst mutilator.

[@kv4648]

And there was already a lake going half way in Panama. On top of that they will have unforseen costs and a dangerous environment. Looking at Australia's government I doubt they would divert so much machinery from the ore mining since it is less risky and very profitable to stick to mining

[@uzziya6392]

On the Australia canal: There's been a similar plan that comes up in Parliament every decade or so for real consideration. The water comes from the other end of the continent though. It's called the Bradfield Scheme and while the original turned out to be not viable modern versions of the scheme are promising and fix essentially all the issues with the original proposal from almost a century ago. It's mostly a series of dams, canals and pipes redirecting fresh water from the tropical North East through the interior to Lake Eyre. Depending on who's doing the CBA you're looking at something like $15-20 billion for the project so your "estimation" isn't that far off the real world cost estimates. It's just folks in charge would rather irrigate with fresh water from North Queensland where it's flooded all the time rather than salt water from the Indian Ocean. Environmental concerns have been raised but saving the lizards is a non-issue. The main problems with these inland canals in Australia face are evaporation and cost of construction. You need to buy and flood a lot of people's farms, build multiple, very large dams, dig canals big enough to fit a container ship in and even then the heat means that by the time you reach your destination the water's all evaporated anyway. There are workarounds with modern versions of the scheme (mostly involving making the canal bigger to carry more water) but because Queenslanders are the only people who want it they're probably never going to get the funding from Canberra.

[@_ikako_]

shut up, nerd

[@hunterrocconi5026]

@@_ikako_ smh I thought it was very interesting

[@josephmewett6489]

@@hunterrocconi5026 butherd nerd

[@lovablesnowman]

Could you not just like build a roof over the canal to stop the evaporation?

[@tinseltina]

@@lovablesnowman indoor waterslide? wouldn't that still be susceptible to heat but make it like a thermos instead of just evaporation?

[@asahearts1]

"14 Billion? I'll give the Taliban twice that in military equipment." ~ The US Government

[@darkslayer1161]

Actually it was at least 5 times.

[@officaldungeons]

Don’t forget the funding they gave the mujahideen before it became the Taliban

[@DoubLL]

The only issue is that the Panama Canal was build between 1881 and 1914. If you adjust for inflation the price goes up by something like 3000%, or like 400 Billion USD. Considering the Australian GDP is about 1.3 Billion USD that seems like a tall order. Edit: I was off by 4 orders of magnitude because of long/short scale conversion, woops. Anyways I think the point still stands since this would be an absolutely massive undertaking, but yeah, the numbers are wrong.

[@bacon.cheesecake]

@@DoubLL Not 1.3 billion, 1.3 trillion, they could do it if they really wanted to, and it would a lot cheaper for the reasons IH mentioned, could cost under a tenth of their gdp, if not less

[@tukkajumala]

@@bacon.cheesecake They could pay the loan over couple hundred years, since the structure is going to be pretty much permanent. Then the annual cost would not even be all that much.

[@inktoxicant]

Using Crash Bandicoot music as the backround for describing Australia is my favorite part

[@BentNeatly]

"Please stick to the script. We don't want any of that Shadowman stuff. It makes the brand look unprofessional."

[@rootbeerguy-bj3tz]

thing is he has the best ads out of any youtuber

[@thefog7308]

I'll watch any ad that has shadowman in it religiously

[@Leonx3]

This

[@goatwarrior3570]

Very unprofessional, you guys.

[@berfwellington2552]

At university I had to read an essay by some supposedly important architecture people and the essay LITERALLY said that removing walls from houses and replacing the walls with a clear plastic mesh so that the house would look like a bubble was the right thing to do because seeing the bubble exterior flow with the wind would remind us of how the campfires would flow with the wind when we were cavemen. By having the connection between the flowing house and the flowing fires, we would be reconnected to our cavemen selves. I hoped he was trolling but he was serious, so were my professors. The Architecture scene is like the modern art scene in many ways except in black and white and more edgy scarves.

[@chrislaezur730]

Wow Liberals are terrible

[@athrostrobilus4949]

Tbh that kind of house would kinda be cool tho lol

[@RyBrown]

Chris Laezur wow, he said nothing about politics.

[@JuanGarcia-gy8vl]

Who wants a stable house when you can feel like Cavemen?

[@freewilliam93]

Sunset though itll look like flames, but its really to remind you youre actually in hell....

[@edwardrecord5305]

As someone who just finished a degree in architecture, I can confirm that people attribute Minecraft to why they were initially interested in architecture.

[@mrbroskiiguess8828]

18:28 no joke when watching this i was literally walking towards the monument

[@mechwarrior13]

Holy shit, i just realized that Australia is like anti-Canada...

[@taneaydornay770]

Hot and everyone unintentionally rude

[@jekyll138.5]

@@taneaydornay770 sounds great

[@hannibalburgers477]

I screenshotted this and will steal it and use it in a tv show in 15 to 30 years

[@dragonofepics7324]

Hannibal Burgers HA, I’ll do it in 10!

[@yungamurai]

@@ajaxdossd948 Oh trust me mate, we have bogans in England, we just call them by a different name. If anything there are more cunts in England than Oz. We have the same sense of humor though that's for sure.

[@CatGeneralX]

Fun fact: there is a law in Washington D.C. that says that no building within a certain radius can be taller than the Washington Monument. They wanted to make sure that the Monument would always be the tallest thing in D.C.

[@iratepirate3896]

There are unwritten rules that say the same about the York Minster cathedral in York, England. Nobody has any proof that it exists anywhere, but it is known to be the case.

[@lemonman4626]

@ewan xl do spires count as a part of the building? If not, you can make a building slightly shorter than the Washington Monument and add the spire, making the building taller.

[@paulb8030]

Same thing with Madison, Wisconsin

[@gabdiamond1395]

Yep, as someone who lives in the district, you can see that thing all across town. There's also rules about what can be in the middle of it in the mall

[@ComputerBusterGamer]

Same in Paris, only it is across the whole city. I've been up the second tallest building in Paris because it's much cheaper than the Eiffel Tower!

[@jmjedi923]

So fun fact: the college I work at has the issue with the sun reflecting! It can start fires and everything

[@brettc3290]

"Someone killed Tutankhamun" " ... triangle."

[@DanielEarl]

NORD VPN: we're very lenient about our ads INTERNET HISTORIAN: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

[@RichardCox0]

I watched the ad like 4 times

[@RichardCox0]

Tristan Benson 11:13 & 11:39

[@efu2046]

If only every ads were like that

[@jameskilgour387]

@@MhDaMaster I was about to skip ahead but then I realised it was a internet historian ad

[@bruhsauce644]

it was an amazing ad but it gave me a heart attack

[@MylesMarrero]

“Someone killed Tutankhamen...” *T r i a n g l e*

[@joshuadarrow]

*_B I G T R I A N G L E_*

[@Matzkxmx]

@@joshuadarrow Electrical Fire!

[@chicken8664]

*s m o l t r i a n g l e*

[@Ryvaken]

Tutankhamun was after the pyramids. By a lot. I'm going to look this up. Tutboy was 1300s BC, 18th Dynasty. The Giza Pyramids were all 4th Dynasty, 2600-2500s BC. So 1300 years. Less than I thought, really.

[@TheStigification]

I love how Internet Historian is like Socrates of Irony talking to that girl about the colosseum

[@S85B50Engine]

21:12 Fun fact, in Europe, countries like Italy and Germany are actually way newer than the US. Germany became Germany in 1871 and so did Italy oddly enough.

[@dotty7789]

Yeah, and when Italy became united shortly after with industrialization they demanded all taxes be paid in cash by its citizens and that's why many Italians migrated to the US and western Europe.

[@hewhobattles8869]

Is that ironic or just funny?

[@trianglemoebius]

That somewhat depends on how you define it. While *modern* Germany, for example, has only been around since 1871, "Germany" existed as the Holy Roman Empire long before that. The question is, if a country collapses and then is rebuilt, especially given these periods were so close together that not much actually changed (from a cultural standpoint) is it a different country of the same one? Yes, I'm aware borders are different, but I don't think that matters. For example, did Russia not exist until 1991? The Russian SSR was rather different from modern Russia, as before that the Russian Empire.

[@winterwolf6910]

The ad read felt exactly like a pop up ad that’s riddled with viruses, which I guess was the point

[@Bruh-7]

Didnt it get hacked? Why are they still advertising

[@notcamer0n]

@@Bruh-7 Pretty sure it was a third party company they had a contract with in Finland which they terminated their contract with and it was a long expired key of some sort (TLS?) that was acquired and leaked. Iirc no data or traffic on the user end was compromised and people made a mountain out of a molehill. They're probably only ramping up sponsored ads again because they think people forgot, don't care anymore, or know that basically nothing happened and they're not (completely) at fault. If you wanna use them after that whole fiasco that's up to you tho

[@Mizu-AM]

this is why you have to get ExpressVPN

[@matthewbdemented]

If we ever straighten the Tower of Piza, we should all agree to call it “The Building Formerly Known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa”

[@Noperiety]

Maybe the straight tower or possibly even the heterosexual tower

[@callmepoki]

Pisa*

[@2headedtasman200]

@@callmepoki *Pizza

[@randomvideocommenter]

This comment got me for no good reason.

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

y e s

[@JabrinkTheStink]

Sumito is a fucking riot. Every video this dude is in kills me 😂

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

"I haven't seen Australia outside of Road Runner cartoons." They take place in desert areas of USA, actually.

[@michaelhuang614]

Why does he always have the most serious voice and talk about the stupidest things, like why is he not in history channel

[@josephstalin7353]

because he is an alien

[@markhaus]

He is the history channel, I N T E R N E T H I S T O R Y

[@dadoogie]

"history channel" I've learnt more from IH than i have from the history channel in years. Honestly, who wants to see some reality show about renovating tanks/cars/bikes/ufo's when it's always over dramatic yank stuff now. Also, there was some military historian from sandhurst, had glasses quite handsome, he's now a woman, if you watched the old tank stuff and military stuff you'll know who.

[@snitchbstudios]

@@dadoogie You can renovate a UFO?

[@gairisiuil]

if you're renovating a ufo, then by then it's gotta be identified, thereby disqualifying it as a ufo by definition

[@TheTuner92]

The Australian canal thing is one of the most ridiculously idiotic thing i've ever heard of. I like it.

[@alienkinkvr]

Found the lizard apologist

[@arcticmonke7661]

asdf I would work, we just need a lot of explosives

[@arcticmonke7661]

asdf look man I just want to blow shit up and if I’m getting payed for it then so be it

[@Wfftam]

"We want to make the center of Australia habitable, and we're pretty sure hydrating the land will achieve that. Know where there's a lot of water? The OCEAN. We're just gonna dig a big-ass channel and let all that delicious, cool, hydrating salt water run through the middle of the country and watch the greenery flourish!"

[@cybercidethefirst7457]

@@Wfftam look, we all know its a cover to end the emus.

[@ianwatson3238]

13:47 I’ve actually been in that stadium, and it’s pretty sweet. The Jumbotron is like a giant cylinder that sits below the top so everyone can see it no matter where they’re seated. The only problem is that it’s really high up and hurts to look at for a long period of time.

[@folonrng]

this is a true story: i met a girl from the north of germany. went to visit her and she was living in one of those traditionally fetch roofed houses. in the middle of the night we got woken up by weird sounds and lights and it turns out one of the neighbours houses with also the same traditional roofing caught on fire. actually it's quite dangerous since most houses in that area had this specific roofing and the cinder coming off of one house could light the others on fire as well. well anyways. firefighters showed up. things were taken care off. next day news came in. nobody was hurt. family owning the house was on vacation. electrical fire :^)

[@I_Keiji_I]

"Why are they called buildings when they're no longer in construction?" Alright, I can spare a few minutes.

[@trianglemoebius]

It comes from the ancient Germanic "botd", which itself means "To dwell". Botding would mean "dwelling", and has nothing to do with the construction process meaning of "Build", which comes from the ancient Germanic "Bold".

[@Vain737]

Building the Pyramid is easy when your slaves are forklift certified.

[@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062]

Crane certified too? they gotta be.

[@bartholomewdan]

And then an OSHA inspector comes along and makes sure everyone is following all the health & safety procedures.

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

The pyramids were actually built by egyptian citizens, usually farmers when there was no crops to work on.

[@salthesteamengine]

the pyramids were built by respected workers that were given luxuries like meat for their work

[@Vain737]

@@deanrazor9023 ACKTUALLY

[@davethetech]

gotta say it's been a LONG time since i've found a new comedy troupe that hits the gut and keeps me laughing in every episode, and thank god I found Incognito Mode. you 2 keep doing what you do. thanks for the laughs!

[@modelcitizenvlad]

Sydney: "Right, we built an opera house. Now all we need is for people to enjoy opera."

[@leradmuiel7634]

perfect

[@eXDax]

They knew it was a misnomer from the start. They just needed it to sound classy - "music house" just doesn't have the same ring.

[@jonsmustache7704]

eXDax Probably why they often call the music house a Symphony Hall, or a Center for the arts.

[@momon969]

@@eXDax 'concert hall' still sounds classy

[@jordannet5233]

Wait you're saying no one asked for it ?

[@patp.7110]

“What do you like?” *”Triangle.”* “Yeah but-“ *”B i g T r i a n g l e”*

[@Alex-ib6mh]

Did music make the Pharoah lose control?

[@joshuadarrow]

“Tutankhamen’s dead.” *_T r i a n g l e_*

[@randomlylegend]

Triangle pickachu chair

[@aMilling]

10:48 that is basically how architects start out their outline proposal.

[@imaloony8]

So they have actually done work on the Tower of Pisa to reduce the lean and keep it from leaning further. Evidently in the 90s they reduced the lean from 5.5 degrees to 3.97. And then in 2008 it was announced that the tower was stabilized for the first time in history, and for the next 200-ish years, the Tower's lean would not increase. Because while they don't want to remove the lean entirely, they do want to keep it from becoming The Fallen Tower of Pisa.

[@DrLegitimate]

It's me. I'm the guy who's out in the desert petting the lizards.

[@mission101]

Em D. Thank you for your service

[@jadenkarpoff9158]

I mean, there's blue tongued skinks in Australia right? i don't see how anyone could resist petting those.

[@kielbasamage]

It's australia, it might explode.

[@terrificTBO]

Basically the environment matters and having a cool building doesnt.

[@kielbasamage]

@Void Spam That's what the lizards want you to think...

[@rockerknight25]

"My favorite! Swaghetti and memeballs!" "It's... lasagna..."

[@Boretheory]

Release the SICILIANS THE AMERICANS NEED TO PAY!!

[@ProfessorWumbology]

@@Boretheory YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH

[@Defectum138]

@@Boretheory never cross a Sicilian when death is on the line!

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

i cooka da meataballa

[@__8120]

"explosion explosion Fredrick Knudsen explosion" I don't know why but that gets me every time

[@J2982able]

Fun fact: there is a 12 foot tall exact replica of the Washington monument in a small inground vault about 30 feet from the actual monument. It's called Benchmark A and is used by surveyors and the like.

[@MaddoScientist0]

"here's a town called pisa" >shows picture of florence every time

[@leonefoscolo]

Maremma maiala

[@sephikong8323]

Pisa and Sienna : Okay yes we are Tuscan cities but this doesn't mean that we are Florence okay ? We have our own history and we often were in conflict with Florence. Is that clear guys ? The rest of the world : ....... The rest of the world : Ok Florence Pisa and Sienna : REEEEEEEEE

[@97Xmm]

So lizards are running Australia and preventing the expansion of human civilization. . Interesting.

[@P3C0L4]

lizardians confirmed

[@michaelknox3715]

@ariannasv22 Mortal Kombat has the Shokhan inhabit Australia

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

The Shakarn had a foothold there for ages, yes.

[@campbell9825]

Can confirm, I lived in australia for months and still don't know what goes on in their government

[@coranbaker6401]

I mean, have you SEEN a thorny devil? I'M not gonna mess with one of those things!

[@PcGamerHero]

0:13 took me some time to realize this building was that weird block of glass that I used to pass by from the train station to my way to my old work. This is the ToHa towers in Tel Aviv, next to the train station. They are rather imposing when you walk next to them, just a huge bolder o steel and glass. It is most likely an HQ of some high tech company, all odd looking building in this area are.

[@raymxslappedyall3660]

i like subtlety like that,how the counsel looks.kudos

[@catman2157]

The ad itself is outright better then most content made by other KZbinrs

[@j4dedm4llard47]

Yeah remind s me of chrisrayguns ads, usually better than the actual videos he puts out.

[@Elphret101]

Ah, the "Artistic visions of an architect", the civil engineer's worst nightmare

[@prointernetuser]

"He wants to do *what*?"

[@datalistener]

@@prointernetuser They want me to go WHERE?

[@carlstott5309]

Oh no what ever will the civil engineer do when he must stray even the smallest bit from the building code... god forbid he actually innovate lmao

[@Elphret101]

@@carlstott5309 Things take a lot of time to build, extravagant designs = more time. There's also major cost factors if they intend to keep within budget to consider as well as basic physics when it comes to twisty fucky designs

[@toolongforyoutoread6]

@@carlstott5309 He will lose his license when the building collapses.

[@TechySpeaking]

As a resident Atlantan, it is my duty to inform you that the jumbotron is from "State Farm Arena", the basketball stadium, which is separate from "Mercedes-Benz Stadium", the football stadium. (though conveniently located right next door). I expected better from the man casually proposing a $14 billion canal through the Australian Outback.

[@unclecreepy4185]

I love in Superman 3 where he because jerk Superman he pushes the Leaning Tower of Pisa upright and the Italian guy selling leaning towers is f’ing pissed. But he makes a bunch of straight towers and Superman gets cured and “fixes” the tower. So the Italian guy is f’ing pissed again. (Which, btw, totally looks like it was all filmed on location).

[@burblingbarbacoa4944]

Checked with my dad, who is a geologist and geostatistician. Apparently there have been serious proposals to have a series of canals from the Kimberley to central Australia. Wild.

[@Deses]

IH is Australian so I bet he already knew that proposals have been made lol

[@burblingbarbacoa4944]

@@Deses I live in WA and I wasn't aware

[@greatleonus9842]

@@Deses my dude I live in SA (South Australia) and had no idea these ideas were put out, doubt IH did.

[@-_-brutus-_-]

BurblingBarbacoa tell your father to get a real job hippie

[@cogboy3587]

The Cob Monitor what is your definition of a ‘real job’.

[@matafannimE]

The history of Add Thyme: world record progression - presented by SummoningSalt

[@saxoman1]

With the music he uses xD

[@Dylan-hc2lu]

Thats hilarious

[@krullachief669]

Fredrick Knudson

[@Thisisausername556]

This

[@johnjstevenson]

Seriously, had to double-check what was going on .. & apparently I'm actually spending time to comment on KZbin how brilliant the ad was. Well done.

[@Matty002]

that pisa tower skit alone was amazing. liked and subbed

[@inconspicuousrobot2685]

The summoning salt bit with nord vpn is the absolute BEST sponsor plug I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing

[@HeavyhandedDame]

I love Historians way of creating believable rumors. I legit thought the opera house was setting shit on fire.

[@edim108]

I mean honestly, it wouldn't have surprised me one bit if that was true...

[@werh227]

Social media has made stupider rumors that get used as fake news... Like it's cool from the way he's doing it. But y'know the amount of fake news that circulate is quite telling 👉👈

[@BestTimes8812]

Okay but the Walkie Talkie did actually melt bits of cars. I cant believe they let this man design A SECOND BUILDING THAT HAS A DEATH RAY I just love how it has happened twice from the same dude

[@CThyran]

@@werh227 The story is true, there was a building that melted cars and blinded people but it wasn't the one he was talking about.

[@arthurballs7083]

@Evilmike42 no, it's in London. It's commonly referred to as the 'walkie talkie tower'

[@Bthakilla4rilla]

Internet Historian is probably the only person whose sponsor ads I actually watch

[@LeFaisDoDo]

F do you think he actually gets paid for them? lol

[@LeFaisDoDo]

kozmik__WZRD i understand english i was just curious if they actually pay him or if he’s trolling cause sponsors are so fucked

[@rogercruz1547]

That summoning salt reference hahaha and he added the splits on the top left, I died...

[@jole5468]

Ssethtzentach does some really good ones too

[@zachariahbarbour688]

The quality of in the field is better than most TV shows I know

[@djinsect]

That little Men at Work sting when you introduced the Sydney Opera House made me laugh until I broke a blood vessel in my eye and now I have to go to a job interview looking like a monster.

[@larrylentini5688]

I love this series of telling elaborate historical stories and then googling it and nope, turns out all of that was wrong.

[@trianglemoebius]

Not all wrong, just sometimes a bit of context is missing. For example, everything described in the first story here did happen, he just made it sound like it was unfixable (or at least unfixed) and that it was the first building to do this.

[@sumbuddy4088]

Only internet historian can make an ad that people don’t want to skip

[@blue4669]

Well, him and Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik.

[@pubscrublord3475]

@@blue4669 do you know when the sequel to nobbleberry is coming?

[@blue4669]

@@pubscrublord3475 unfortunately no

[@Lewisl4d2]

I disagree

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

Still skipped

[@fearsomewarengine8228]

21:23 - there's an amusement park in Denmark that is 200 years older than America. Was opened in 1583

[@afelias]

"We don't have to deal with corrupt foreign governments... we have all of them here..." I know he later clarifies it's the mining expertise but yeah I'm sure Australia has its own homegrown government corruption as well

[@HammerspaceCreature]

"14 Billion? That is so cheap." Wow I gotta get myself in the youtube game, get me somma that ad money.

[@MrMoon-hy6pn]

Well, it is kinda cheap especially considering our government spent 50 billion on internet infrastructure that is barely held together with duct tape and hope

[@LuminousLead]

14 Billion dollars to essentially buy liveable land the size of the continental united states of america? That is pretty cheap all things considered.

[@Nachtwandel]

@@MrMoon-hy6pn for one second I thought you were talking about Germany but then I remembered that even hope doesn't help us anymore

[@Mr_Original]

I know, right? Man, I look forward to growing my channel that much...

[@drthmik]

14 billion in 1914 value dollars today it would be more like 400 billion

[@Kreiser_VII]

I heard from a college mate studying architecture that if you make anything basic they instantly give you an F. I think that's the problem.

[@frds_skce]

In a world where "unique" is a common, a normal thing would be damp

[@CThyran]

You know what the majority of buildings are a variation of? A square or rectangle, you know why? Because it's easy to build and it's incredibly functional. Modern "architects" don't understand that.

[@frds_skce]

@@CThyran but these modern "architects" still use same element of construction *FUCKING. GLASS. AND STEEL.*

[@pwrocks5648]

@@CThyran I mean they do still use triangles (not so much squares, much better to just halve it into two triangles structurally in most cases). They just make weirder shapes out tons of the triangles.

[@Cambridge792]

@@frds_skce I personally love a particular style of Japanese design where the emphasis lies on subtlety, they have the saying: understanding the light from the shadows. Then at the same time I can appreciate lots of different styles, even ones I think look stupid, makes the world less of a serious place.

[@jeffery1855]

8:20 I know you guys were just joking, but just to be clear, Australia is incredibly huge compared to the Panama. Not only that, it's a wasteland, like you said, in the middle of Australia. The cost of setting up infrastructure just to dig up a country wide river would be enormous alone

[@simplesimp2276]

actually the panama would cost over 10b in today's currency. so that would be ard 380billion plus u would have to consider that a lot more material would need to be excavated but still fun to think abt although they did mess up the numbers in the video

[@trianglemoebius]

Yes but the question isn't would it cost so much, it's would it make the cost back and more. For example, the Panama Canal was deemed worth it because it made such a useful route between the Atlantic and Pacific that people had no issue paying the tolls, and the tolls have generated billions. So the question is: could they come up with some way to make this generate money? And if (and I'm aware this is an if, I haven't looked into it) it turned a lot of uninhabitable land habitable, stuff like property taxes would do that for them.

[@Max-if5zp]

@@trianglemoebius... *the lizards*

[@leinad.s]

The Colosseum capacity was closer to 65k actually a massive stadium. Truly impressive.

[@simple-human-being]

It actually WAS an issue with the Disney concert hall, if you visit the building there are sections they had to blast with sand to reduce the glare. It didn’t melt any cars, but it did make some people’s apartments unlivable (as they got way too hot). Source: studied architecture in LA with professors that work with Gehry

[@arhael3594]

In London there is a building with carved shape, it melted a few cars before they fixed it.

[@JonatasAdoM]

My house is still unlivable and we live in it. Bunch of amateurs!

[@booates]

now they should make it not look like garbage

[@_dorime20yearsagoedited39]

@@JonatasAdoM Well, if anyone's house was unlivable due to their neighbour's house or surrounding building(s), who wouldn't get mad lol My house is also quite unlivable for its low ceiling height and really cramped space, but on the other hand, the neighbourhood is really quiet and the neighbours are quite nice as well, so it somehow kinda made my unlivable house feel more livable

[@TheOtherChosenOnes]

Makes the house unliveable, but a great environment for growing weed