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[@docthebiker]

The rock the Costa Concordia struck was charted, not "uncharted" and the captain never spotted it. He actually abandoned ship and left his passengers to fend for themselves. The problem was not the size of the ship, as there are bigger, but the quality of the crew.

[@SamsTopBarBees]

I feel like that is a universal statement (I don't mean bad, it's just interesting how so many things share the same problems), one could make about any organization, even governments.

[@mikefabbi5127]

​@@SamsTopBarBeesespecially goveri lol

[@Mephitinae]

The captain didn't even cause the accident itself. The helmsman was an unqualified Indonesian migrant who had lied about his credentials, and spoke neither English nor Italian fluently. Captain who abandons his ship is a much jucier story for the media though.

[@suhandatanker]

​@@MephitinaeBut still, quite a story i'd say, it shows that you really do need a good quality crew for such a complex vehicle, let alone the safety of thousands of passengers in your hands.

[@Mephitinae]

Yes, cruise ships always require multiple officers on the bridge who are qualified to pilot the vessel. A miscommunication happened that night due to a language barrier. Internet historian covered the accident in great detail in his video "The Cost of Concordia" @@suhandatanker

[@mattbosley3531]

Okay, the Costa Concordia wasn't useless. It just had the misfortune of having a useless captain. That wasn't the ship's fault.

[@GoodMusicManiac999]

True. He is our shame.

[@user-pv3kq8jg3w]

that is sad

[@davidlafleche1142]

You think Costa Concordia was bad? Look up the Oceanos. The captain and his crew abandoned ship FIRST, and didn't even tell the passengers that it was sinking!

[@NiiloPaasivirta]

It was built in Italy. Finland state railway bought Pendolino trains from Italy. They can't handle the Finnish winter nor even the Finnish summer!

[@Xian..]

@@davidlafleche114234 died on the Costa Concordia none died on the MTS Oceanos.

[@WizardOfOss]

About the Gundam, there are actually three life sized Gundam in Japan, the third one being in Fukuoka. Which also moves just a bit. But thing is, both that one and the "simple" one in Tokyo you can watch for free, and are basically a fancy billboard for the Gunpla shops inside the mall. The one in Yokohama, you have to pay for, at least to get a proper view. And pay a lot more if you want to get up close in that tower and get 20 seconds to have your picture taken right next to the head. And people are flocking to see it, and many end up buying quite a bit of merch and/or (often exclusive) Gunpla kits in the process. So pretty sure this thing is making money while looking cool...

[@jim-dianeautry2643]

One major fact that was omitted from your commentary on the Crazy Horse Memorial being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain is that this is a private, no-profit project. The Memorial Foundation refuses to accept any Federal funding.

[@masonaxenty4869]

I’ve taken the H3 and I would hardly consider it unused. It’s a super fast and efficient way to get to the north end of the island, and it can even get congested at times

[@Lewdacris916]

sounded better for the video, the narrator didnt do their homework lol

[@RaveN_EDM]

There’s also the Pali and likelike they’re all 4 lane highways, the H3 has a higher speed limit and leads directly to the base, the highway wasn’t really necessary it was mostly constructed for the military which is a reason why a lot of people didn’t like it along with all the native Hawaiian issues. But yeah it’s definitely not “unused” but it’s true that there are locals who rather take the other highways. You can also go north by taking H2 that’s how you’ll get to the north shore. H3 is to Kaneohe

[@dexta32084]

Agreed. And people forget the main purpose of the interstate system is national defense. I mean, it’s not Oahu has ever been attacked in a World War or anything.

[@dumdristig]

Yeah, I've driven it, too. Lots of traffic. I'm 3 projects in, and none of them are "useless." The highway is very used, the reservoir was definitely needed, just poorly built, and the narrator himself says people had already bought apartments, so clearly it wasn't useless, even if unused. smh...

[@Leanzazzy]

It's just a terribly obvious clickbait channel.

[@rsqrinsac]

I don't see the Challenger explosion as a useless megaproject, it fits more in the category of engineering disaster.

[@TheHaviocdarkmoon]

I agree it shouldn’t be on the list

[@rrho6701]

Starship shouldn't be on there either, FirstDarkAngel2001. It is a work in progress. Besides, Musk is having fun. All boys like to play with rockets. This is a billionaires version, and he's doing great, unless the aliens notice. Then we may need that Gundam mobile suit.

[@geoffreyconnolly7790]

Agreed. Challenger was completely different from a lot of the vanity projects listed.

[@RayvenTheNight]

No it was useless cause it could have easily prevented... carelessness and profit over safety is the blame.

[@nickloughren1919]

Update there was a cross wind on the day of the launch so on the day of the launch the wind also caused the segments to flex and separate mixed with the rings the end result was the explosion

[@alkalinekats8300]

I feel like the inclusion of Challenger at the end was a bit uncalled for, that was not a useless megaproject, and if anything the reason why it exploded was not due to it being useless, but rather carelessness.

[@gehtdianschasau8372]

Videos like this might have worked in the early years of KZbin, but nowadays there is actually also quality content available. People who do research and don't just upload because they hit a deadline.

[@lastotallyawesomebleach204]

Let's see how many subscribers you have, yeah that's what I thought. Either you should start making "quality content" yourself or STFU and stop criticizing better and more successful channels than your own.

[@liamburke4406]

Agreed. The cringey sense of humor doesn't help either.

[@kykk3365]

Yet the channel has nearly 13M subscribers. I'm definitely amazed.

[@valyshknee4203]

yeah he also gets the "chinese ghost city" wrong, they aren't useless at all, the whole reason china builds them in the first place is because they know they work, would you spend 100 bucks on something that didn't work for example? no you wouldn't, and its because these big empty cities are a housing market heaven for poorer people living in rural areas, they give rural people the chance to move into the city without having to spend a couple years saving up the scrap to buy a apartment in say beijing or guangxi for example, aswell as it being a investment as the price will skyrocket once the center you live gains demand, a chinese ghost city that top gear drove in, you might've seen it, if not, look it up, is now a buzzling busy city with hundreds of thousands of people living in it, it is the best proof i can provide for it actually working and not being worthless as is claimed, the guy doesn't research anything

[@thesmashingmonkeys]

We just went to see the Gundam when we visited Japan this month and really enjoyed it. We had fun and visited other areas of Yokohama, which we would not have done if it wasn't for visiting the Gundam. There were plenty of people there from Japan and other countries as well. We paid to go inside, where there is also a small museum and a gift shop, but you can actually view the Gundam from outside the facility for free

[@fierykitsune5416]

Ooh i would love to go see it 😫

[@MrJcTTK]

it's also temporary and will be town down in march 2024. It was actually supposed to be taken down years earlier but they left it up due to covid making it so people couldnt see it.

[@kathleenhelmstedt9469]

To me I couldn"t write about it as I haven"t seen it only in pictures ❤

[@David13ushey]

Also... no aliens... bad research.

[@brat_paq]

I wouldn't call a tourist attraction "useless". The author has a lose definition of useless.

[@RobKimbro1966]

The dirty little secret that the locals know is that since Crazy Horse is such a HUGE money maker that it will never be completed.

[@etorepugatti9196]

Look like the Segrada Familia in Barcelona, a never ending job as well.

[@booksteer7057]

The great physicist Richard Feynman was on the board of inquiry of the Challenger explosion. He was trying to get answers about the vulnerability of the rubber O-rings in freezing weather, but he wasn't getting a satisfactory answer. So, he took a small O-ring and dunked it in his glass of ice water for a few minutes, and when he took it out, it snapped when he applied stress to it. You gotta love a scientist who is grounded enough to do things so simply without a half a million dollar grant.

[@lightningstrife6605]

The life sized gundam isn't useless tho. It has an entrance fee and a viewing dock (which costs even higher). Not useless to the company if they earn from it

[@wyldkat82]

Also it was built for engineering purpose to better understand lager scale robot maneuver ability. It was more of a learning project than what most people think of it.

[@ganymedehedgehog371]

Yeah it’s an effective tourist attraction. It doesn’t have to actually be a mech to be “useful”.

[@SirAsdf]

May I recommend The Marble Arch Mound for Part 2? For anyone wondering what that is, basically, the Westminster City Council decided that their city needed a new tourist attraction to bring back the tourist revenue lost during the Covid pandemic. What did they come up with? An 82-foot tall pile of dirt right smack dab in the middle of London. No, seriously. Even worse, it was literally across the street from the titular Marble Arch, a prominent and beautiful piece of marble architecture that's been in London for almost 200 years. And they thought their little dirt tower was going to look good compared to that. And they originally wanted to charge people the equivalent of 10 US Dollars PER PERSON so they could have the "privilege" to climb this oversized eyesore. The whole thing was closed and demolished after being open for less than 5 months when they realized no tourist wanted to spend their time and money in London climbing a useless hill of dirt. And worst of all, this giant heap of mud somehow cost SEVEN MILLION BRITISH POUNDS to build and remove. Which was actually double what it was originally forecast for, but even that sounds way too high for what it ended up being. It was just a huge waste of time and money, and the whole thing was slammed by the press and the public.

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

I never personally saw it but oh my goodness I saw the news footage of it. What a collosal waste of money 😔

[@tobiaslumplecker7666]

I don't think it looks absolutely horrible it is just something i would expect from a town to be built to entertain kids not something that is a huge tourist attraction

[@BeAmazed]

this is a great point! what an absolute disaster

[@ollie20071ify]

As a British citizen I've never heard of that!

[@karenmorris288]

21:06 . Not anymore mr amazed, I think we’ve found a winner.

[@honpiudonnyyeung5446]

As a Chinese, the Hong Kong Macau Zhu hai bridge is used a lot. My dads a driver and he crosses it daily.

[@user-vf7ee9vc5b]

Yes true

[@user-vf7ee9vc5b]

I am a Hong Kong citizen

[@fisherjones118]

At crazy horse, most of the work lately has been done on the hand. I took a tour up to the top of the mountain about a month ago and I found out that they are putting cuticles on the fingers. Some of crazy horse's descendants are actually working with Zilkowskies descendants on carving the mountain and most of the donation go to carving the mountain. one of the reasons that the mountain doesn't quite look like the finished model is because the finished carving will be much larger than Mount Rushmore and carving a memorial that large takes a lot of time. The project has also never accepted any amount of government funding and doesn't plan to in the future. Crazy Horse Memorial even has its own college. The memorial celebrated its 75th birthday not too long ago.

[@JayCee33]

The H3 on Oahu is one of my all time favorite drives! The view when you pop out of the tunnel on the Kaneohe side is breathtakingly beautiful. It is used pretty frequently though…no doubt in my mind that a lot of Native Hawaiians avoid it because of of superstition and/or principle, but between the military community, tv/movie productions, and tourists, the highway sees its fair share of travelers ☺️

[@disciple68]

I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. I discovered the H3 by accident taking a wrong turn on my way to Tripler. I was irritated when I realized that there was no turn around, until I came out of that tunnel!

[@stephenodell9090]

So many people go to Hawaii but never arrive, never enjoy anything. Like the guy who came out only to eat the same thing he would at home.

[@RaveN_EDM]

There’s no point in building it except to serve the military which is why a lot of people dislike it and it’s construction. It was really expensive for something that wasn’t really needed. There’s the Pali and likelike which both takes you to the same place and they’re all 4 lane highways. It’s just convenient that the H3 ends directly to the marine base even tho the other 2 highways still end around Kaneohe. We didn’t need 3 highways to Kaneohe which wasn’t that big and congestion wasn’t that bad compared to the rest of Oahu. Look it up on google maps if you don’t believe me

[@kathw-fg1sr]

The H3 interstate is also my favorite drive on Oahu. It's breathtakingly beautiful no matter which way we go, to Kaneohe or to Honolulu. v

[@disciple68]

@RaveN._.EDM True, all of the Interstate system was designed to link military bases together in case of an invasion during the Cold War.

[@MjYosh]

H3 being labeled “unused” is very inaccurate. It’s very commonly used because it’s a quick way to get to the windward side. But yeah, sadly, it destroyed so much of the sacred parts of the land…

[@pratappudi2212]

Costa Concordia was an accident, caused by the stupidity of the Master. It can't be classified as a useless mega project.

[@CelticsIn5]

I don’t think your neighbors were “jumping on the bed”… they was def doing the dirty

[@Lagbeard]

Well Gundam is a bit more of a bigger deal in Japan... A more western comparison I guess would be if they put together the money to build a 1:1 scale of something like optimus prime from transformers that would be able to walk around.

[@christiansanchez8656]

your comment saves me from raging, the moment they called the gundam "useless", I know that they were about to piss off an entire mech anime fanbase.

[@Marveryn]

@@christiansanchez8656 not the fact that they said it was there to fight aliens? when there no aliens in gundam?

[@RayOfTruth]

@@Marveryn The Gundam 00 movie and Gundam Build Divers have aliens, but I still doubt they knew anything about Gundam.

[@Gladiamdammit]

Maaaaaajor problems in Horsing around 7:55. CrazyHorse did NOT lead the battle on our side, (Sioux and Cheyenne, American Indians.) Most of all, Crazyhorse was NOT killed at Little Bighorn. In fact, Crazy Horse wasn't killed in battle at all. He was murdered by a U.S. Army soldier after being betrayed by the Army Comandant at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

[@henry404x]

The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge is now opened for applying a direct permit to cross the bridge and be registered in both cities and the mainland.

[@grip3939]

Well to be fair, the Gundam in Yokohama is just ment as a tourist attraction. Doing its job perfectly at that so it is working as intended

[@marigeobrien]

One nice thing about watching all of these major debacles is, when I think of my own debacles (of which there have been many), I can take comfort that none of them were as bone-headed as these. So at least I'm not alone in making major mistakes. Yay.

[@richardhack9830]

Well, Marige Obrien, you will have learned a lot from making mistakes, just like any human being. However, the responsible people creating silly mega projects do not spend their own money on these projects. They either spend tax-payer's money or company's money. We won't discuss their learning curve... 😆

[@yehriot]

As a Malaysian, it's really sad to see the Forest City project ended up being such a fail

[@nizam4686]

Ask Mahathir why he blocked the sales of residential unit to foreigners.

[@nasrulfirdaus140]

Yup it sad how it damage johor wetlands, over 100B, that project meant for foreigners. China government also responsible on 18:44 . Lots of malaysian could not afford it, it beyond above our paycheck

[@guhapooinpatarsan2853]

Maybe Our New Incoming King from Johor may do something about lowering the Criteria for MMSH...

[@shasanmaz]

get the mm2h standards lowered to encourage more buyers to live there. current mm2h criteria are too stringent and skewed towards business people.

[@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264]

The Chalanger? Disaster yes and mistakes that shouldn't have been made most definitely. But useless engineering project nope.

[@stevenmanchester2104]

Just to clarify. The H3 is what is called an INTRAstate highway. That is a designation for an interstate that is only in one state for its entire length. I-4 down here is Florida is like that.

[@rickjensen2035]

I watched a documentary about the challenger disaster a while back and it basically said that the NASA people went ahead with the launch even though they were told straight up that the weather would have an affect on the o-rings on the rocket boosters by the people who built the boosters and that were adamantly against the launch in such cold weather.

[@woodencoasterfan]

Actually, the booster rockets are called SRBs which stand for Solid Rocket Boosters and their propellants are solid. What did happen is the pressure from the combustion process burned through one of the rubber o-rings which then burned through the external fuel tank next to the SRBs which sadly ignited the liquid fuel propellants in the external fuel tank.

[@ki5aok]

Well, one of the o-rings lost flexibility due to the cold weather in which the orbiter was launched, so it didn't seal correctly. Thiokol warned NASA not to use the SRBs in temperatures below 40 degrees F, yet NASA management green-lit the launch on a day where the SRB in question was registering a temperature of 8 degrees F. Once the seal was broken, the pressure then kept the seal opened and the heat eventually caused the o-ring to break down. It was a screw up that was only beaten by the foam insulation issue. Fun fact about that one: Atlantis was nearly destroyed 15 years earlier than Columbia because a foam strike occurred on the leading edge of the wing, close to the same spot that happened with Columbia in 2003. It happened as they were restarting the Shuttle launches after the Challenger explosion in 1988. A large foam piece hit the wing on takeoff, causing tile to be stripped off. The only reason it didn't break the wing like it did in Columbia's case was because it struck a cover for a high-gain antenna, which was a reinforced section of the wing. NASA knew it happened, yet didn't do anything about it. So, all in all, NASA never learned their lessons on anything.

[@markluhman8940]

Flying outside of specification is insanity, using defective foam because the freon and ozone hole myth cause by freon(which it not,) in simple negligence. Why no one went to jail for obvious man slaughter is beyond me. Somehow being a government employee gives you immunity.@@ki5aok

[@altond511]

@@ki5aok I remember at the time the rocket was supposed to launch the previous day, I believe, but the launch was cancelled because of predicted cold weather. But the weather proved to be warm enough. Then when they did launch this is what happened

[@srb4722]

3 rings, actually. 2 extra for redundancy. Unfortunately, their alignment was a massive engineering mistake.

[@reesejabs1895]

I've been to Crazy Horse memorial. It's not anything like it's represented on here. It's an impressive monument in the process of being built.

[@nathanluepke3727]

Yes it is, and it represents Native American heritage, the main problem with the project is trying to keep it privately funded rather than excepting government funds.

[@jamesgoode9246]

The Crazy Horse Memorial will never be completed. Have you heard the reports of cleavages in the rock? If the project ever gets close to completion, it will collapse.

[@mrjaratpon]

Actually many people cross the hzmb bridge. I've brought my family there on holiday. Although we can't drive across it, public buses operate regularly and it was really useful and convenient crossing the 3 cities using this bridge.

[@jerelull9629]

AND, there's no way it's the longest over-water span. IIRC, the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel is about that long (17.5 miles), and the The Overseas Highway down the Keys to Key west is MUCH longer, (113 miles a quick lookup tells me) and it takes HOURS of boring driving to traverse it, even though there weren't any traffic snarls the last time we did that trip, about 20 years ago The traffic just crawls because going faster doesn't seem quite right, not like the NJ Turnpike that commonly sees people exceeding 80 MPH. The HZMB bridge DOES seem to be a useless project, though.

[@audreyoak]

i went to naypyitaw once and the buildings were like a fantasy, the gardens were beautiful and there was a huge pool and you have personal chefs cooking your meals it was so fancy for someone in a poor country

[@christopherharvie8716]

Are you saying that crass luxury and wasted money in a country where people are oppressed by poverty is a good thing?

[@audreyoak]

@@christopherharvie8716 no when did i say that i just said its overly fancy and it was a cool experience 🧏‍♀️🧏‍♀️

[@presidentofmultinesia]

I suggest doing "Tallest Abandoned Skyscrapers in the World" next.

[@tyagawistara1173]

I mean yeah, thats the whole point of why they made it, its for the anniversary of gundam, it isnt even funded by governent, its by bandai and sunrise themself who just wanted to make a moving life size gundam statue, i mean its not their first one since theres already 3 before it

[@tyagawistara1173]

Also I don't know where you got that Gundam is supposed to be fighting aliens when the only ever instance of aliens is in 00, the RX-78-2 never fought any aliens, only other soldiers

[@phunweng962]

For people who want to see it, it's your last chance. that giant is going down soon...

[@paulslaughter2366]

While people are metaphorically running around waving their hands in the air over this, they're simultaneously forgetting that the interstate highway system was established with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. In Hawaii, this connects a U.S. Navy base in the west with a Marine Corps base in the east. Anybody remember about hearing what happened in the 1940s at the western terminus of this highway system? (Hint: the western terminus is at Pearl Harbor.)

[@PleitgenGikonyo]

the japanese attack

[@Borsia]

In the case of Challenger the engineer who designed the O-ring system told them just before launch, as well as many times before that, exactly what would, and did, happen if they went ahead with the launch when it was too cold.

[@user-wd6hz7pc7z]

If i come across any of the creators of these projects, I would tell them it was easier said than done

[@callejondorado]

I was in China with my wife and my daughter and we took the bus from Hong Kong to Macao over the bridge that crosses the sea and gets under water. Yes it being used by buses. I also was told that car need to register, but they can cross too. I feeling is that the bridge is in a pilot period for several year to make sure the variances can be managed before a full opening.

[@weternek]

The bridge was close during the pandemic but now it’s fully opened. However,Hong Kong and Macau are SAR,but Zhuhai is mainland China If you have a visa for mainland China you don’t need any permits for SAR.

[@davidemelia6296]

Look dude, if it's an American talking about anything in China, you know ahead of time that they're full of shit

[@kalaivarmapanadian8977]

I'm from Johor Malaysia. Just went to Forest City today. It's very true that the place is so abandoned. Only a few people go there to buy duty free liquors...

[@rogueascendant6611]

This USELESS WASTE OF MONEY by Chinese investors is just asking to be demolished bombing it all.

[@beachva757]

Your videos are usually pretty good. This one you have left out a lot of context and useful information on some of your examples.

[@Nobe_Oddy]

Sorry to tell you but the BOOSTERS on the CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE did NOT use Liquid HYDROGEN and OXYGEN like you said.... they are SOLID Rocket Boosters that use a SOLID FUEL that once lit, cannot be extinguished.... the BIG ORANGE TANK is where the HYDROGEN and OXYGEN are stored, and when the booster started shooting flames out of the joint the o-rings were supposed to seal, the flames burned right into the big orange tank cause it to explode :( - R.I.P. Shuttle Challenger Crew

[@shelleyrichards4487]

I'm surprised you didn't put some of the projects of Dubai in this. They had quite a few cool looking projects that were total busts!

[@travist.7279]

On the subject of failed megaprojects, let's not forget California's "High-Speed Rail"!

[@allanspence1347]

One is being constructed in England.

[@claytonpeterson468]

This will not be mentioned due to hurting the feelings of the Democratic party that wanted it for Propaganda purposes .

[@mom5catskyle596]

That Chinese bridge sounds impressive at 34 miles long - unless you realize that it crosses land. It does not cross water the entire length, leaving Louisiana 's Pontchartrain Causeway as the longest bridge continuesly over water in the world at just under 24 miles.

[@dosrios9517]

The highway connecting Hong Kong to Macau is longest. I’ve ridden both and both are impressive achievements, especially as when the Louisiana Highway ws built there was little computer modelling available..

[@888fatboy]

The HZMB Bridge is primarily used by public transportation buses to and from each of the three cities, Hong Kong, Zhuhai & Macao. Summer of 2023, I crossed the bridge three times. Thousands of passengers take the buses each day for a very reasonable price (US$23.38/HKD 180), less for seniors.

[@dosrios9517]

@@888fatboy It’s much more comfortable and less expensive than the Catamaran ferry service. Big improvement

[@Dani-wh2ul]

@@dosrios9517 I defintetly agree. As someone who lives in Macao it made transportation way easier since a lot of the people who work here actually live in either Zhuhai or Hong Kong so not having to take a ferry everyday really made their lives easier

[@dosrios9517]

I used to feel sick on old HK Macau ferry

[@Drvibe7]

Unfortunately even a casual observer can discern that rich people can often be needlessly reckless with money.

[@renadovesullivan6376]

I was a young boy who lived in America with the space shuttle It was an amazing machine with profound abilities I hardly think it should be mentioned in this article

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

☠️ *The Giant Pyramid of Death* ☠️ 👻😂😂 Fascinating yet horrifying compilation of the terrible ways governments and authorities have wasted millions on utterly useless ideas 😔 Brilliant video though as ever, thank you 😊

[@allanspence1347]

a very similar one was built on the site of the Battle of Waterloo

[@sallyshafey]

We know very little about you, but your dedication to constantly produce such great videos speaks volumes about you, guys. Truly aspiring. Keep it up and I hope your hard work always pays off well

[@chinasanjoku5068]

A committed person

[@pAcoAppu]

Really

[@52ponybike]

Inspiring is the word you meant.

[@-_Nifi_-]

You got liked by be amazed

[@kasen9487]

Jesus loves you

[@silverianjannvs5315]

Malaysia's forest city was blocked by the government because it's sold only to the foreigners, locals was barred buying properties in there

[@JFJLMOM]

Wow. Speechless 😂

[@zacfas]

It's hard to imagine how anyone could think some of these megaprojects were a good idea in the first place. It's a stark reminder that just because something is big doesn't necessarily mean it's better.

[@luluramirez3446]

Ohio be like

[@karatekidfahim3]

@@luluramirez3446 not just ohio, its the whole world 💀💀

[@Eviesg_furrytherian]

Yay so my thing works but it's... toootaly big... thx for that 😏

[@pAcoAppu]

No way

[@SHEEPLE21]

Bro what is that picture

[@darkstarnh]

OK folks. A happy hunting ground for fact checking.

[@jamesgoode9246]

Yeah, this video has many lies in it. Apparently, almost no research went into its production.

[@VickyShawcooksalot]

Took that highway pretty much the first 20 years of my life and then some to build. Going home to visit Hawaii with my kids was the first time I actually drove on it.

[@SamsTopBarBees]

Those side boosters are solid state rockets, so no cryo fuels. Hot gas spilled out not liquid H, but it did burn through the ET (big cryo tank) and the aft support attachment. This threw the stack out of alignment while it was travailing at mach 1.92 subsequently tearing the craft apart.

[@n7nja851]

Thanks. I wish they would correct themselves.

[@jamesgoode9246]

@@n7nja851 -- Correcting all of the errors in this video would probably take longer than making the video took.

[@stanislavbandur7355]

23:31 - in 1770 there were not steam engines capable of pulling mine carts (rail roads were used for horses driven "trains") - In 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, built a small-scale prototype of a steam road locomotive in Birmingham[10].[11] A full-scale rail steam locomotive was proposed by William Reynolds around 1787. James Watt made his improvement on Newcomens steam pump in 1763-65, but The new design was introduced commercially in 1776, with the first example sold to the Carron Company ironworks. Watt continued working to improve the engine, and in 1781 introduced a system using a sun and planet gear to turn the linear motion of the engines into rotary motion. Practically steam locomotives are here from 1800's

[@raw_000]

Just when I thought 'those are some impracticle units' missing any conversion to SI units, he pulls out the olympic swimming pools. So bad that it's entertaining again.

[@bigbeauf_____3167]

I visited the Crazy Horse Memorial in 2016. The staff told me that it will take 300 years to build!

[@DarthDragon007]

I call BS lol. Researchers have said the Great Sphinx would have taken 100 Egyptians only 3 years to complete with nothing more than stone hammers and chizels! If it'll take 300 years, it just means they don't want to finish it and decided to go as slow as possible.

[@donnakubiski5572]

I was there in the late 70's. I didn't realize until seeing this that it was never finished. Unbelievable!

[@anjanakundu2782]

Lmao

[@therealbikerman]

obviously they didn't watch the episode of dirty jobs with mike rowe on the crazy hirse monument.

[@waynemoon1699]

100 Egyptians great. How long would it take a famly of 8?

[@OregonUnleashed]

I lived in Hawaii for a couple years roughly about 9 years and at least 9 years ago I used to use the h3 all the time and it was a lot more busy than our freeways here in Oregon so I wouldn't say that it's a ghost town because it makes our local freeways here in Oregon look like a Ghost Town I'm sure it seems very unpopulated compared to some big cities with multiple freeways

[@TheDMChannelPerplexity]

“About 9 years ago” “at least 9 years ago” 💀

[@jamesgoode9246]

Each day, "at least 9 years ago" becomes farther in the past.

[@williamdenton5716]

The Mexican border wall example is COMPLETELY DECEIVING. I live on the border and the actual thing is 3-4 times as tall as the fence shown here, with spools of razor wire on top. It can be penetrated, anything can, but it's nowhere near as easy as this video would have folks believe

[@lynnkramer1211]

build the wall, jail Alejandro Mayorkas and FJB!

[@kyoakland]

Agreed

[@michaelbaker7938]

Amd the fact democrats fought tooth and nail to stop the building of the wall every step of the way. Why tf would Mexico pay for a project that was never finished? Hell Trump did everything he could to try and build that thing. It's crazy how oblivious people really are that live no where near any of it. I mean look at all the comments, almost everything in this video has people on the area of something saying that's not even close to true. Just goes to show the media tells you what they want to tell you and unless you see it with your own eyes, the naive ones believe it without a second thought.

[@russellconn]

The cruise ship wasn't a failure the captain was.

[@TheBlindGamerTV]

I don’t know many people who would appreciate joking around when it comes to the Challenger incident. With space exploration comes great risks. You could’ve also mentioned Columbia. However, given the success of the shuttle program and all the innovations that came from it, there’s plenty of good to take from the program. Unfortunately, we lost 14 of the bravest pilots and scientists this country has ever seen.

[@pbcash7788]

The video had a pretty big Anti America theme going. Not sure why that was necessary LOL

[@crusader0657]

Agree. The shuttle program was a tremendous success, with Challenger being the second shuttle to make it into space. It flew on ten successful missions before the incident. I would hardly call that "useless."

[@RayvenTheNight]

I would hardly call them the bravest... they weren't the first in space and things way more dangerous had been done long before then...

[@scubasteve3032]

The person doing this needs to do more research. That’s a nice way of saying he’s full of shite. And, apparently, he is drinking the leftist cool aide.

[@monicaluketich6913]

@RayvenTheNight You have no idea how complex shuttles were or the huge amount of training, not just the astronauts, but the flight controllers , the launch crew, the people who made the space suits, etc. had to go through. I worked there to certify the trainers and training materials writer for ISS. And each mission was different, the skills needed were different, and the tasks to be accomplished were different. No, the hard stuff hadn't already been done!

[@davidpietarila699]

How do you include the boarder wall, but not the DISASTROUS California High Speed Rail Project? Tens of billions of dollars over budget, decades behind schedule, and a rout that doesn’t include any stops anywhere near any major cities in California.

[@mandyjk4203]

That last isn't true. The project starts in San Francisco and goes to Anaheim. It passes through San Jose, Bakersfield and LA. They've also talked about extending it to San Diego.

[@jamesgoode9246]

@@mandyjk4203 -- So, how far behind schedule is construction ? And, what cities does it currently pass through ? And, how much more is it now projected to cost ?

[@mandyjk4203]

@@jamesgoode9246 The project isn't built, so I don't think that's a fair question, but it is a decade behind schedule and will be at least $100B over budget. If completed, it will connect the state's population centers. I would love to see the project completed, personally.

[@jamesgoode9246]

@@mandyjk4203 -- Way behind construction schedule -- check Cost is way above budget -- check Yup, it sounds like it belongs on a list of "Most Useless Megaprojects."

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I remember going outside and seeing the clouds of the space shuttle when we saw it explode on TV in science class we were watching coverage of it. We were stunned.

[@orion7763]

As for the first story about the H3 interstate - people using this road was never the first intention of the road builders. The road connects the Kaneohoe Marine Station to Pearl Harbor- the H3 was built first and foremost for military reasons.

[@ki5aok]

As for the rest of the Interstate highway system. People forget that the Interstate Highway System was not primarily built for the average citizen, but to get military assets and personnel quickly from all different points in the United States.

[@WalterWagner001]

The road bed is extra thick with extra re-bar, to accomodate tank traffic if necessary.

[@PhillyCh3zSt3ak]

The stretches that are strangely straight too can be used as runways for takeoff and landing if needed as well whether it be for supplies or for other assets. Strategically, it makes sense.

[@woundwortrx124tr6]

The Yokohama Gundam may seem pointless apart from being a tourist attraction, but it's just the first step towards a completed RX-78-2

[@savageratentertainment]

I remember reading about the Japan big robot. the scientist who made it and i quote said "they created it, because they could." it had no purpose, they just knew they could do it lol

[@ravendesiderio788]

you just have no idea how crazy the gundam fans are. Many Asian American friends travel all the way to watch that “steps” but then they also spent thousands to buy gundam figures. Not useless at all.

[@poboy251]

That Forest City in Malaysia still has a lot of potential. I’d love there. The prices are about the same as American apartments

[@duckbro8290]

The most useless megaproject in the world is nikocado avocado smh

[@XMANIAFLYYY]

Tru

[@syphonlo5112]

True true true

[@toma.1670]

I need to point out an issue on your fist item. The interstate system has two functions, 1) to connect tow or more different states. 2) to connect two Military bases inside of the same state. The use of the Autobahn in Germany was not lost on the American army. That is how we get the two definitions of the interstate system. It's just that the second one is not used much. QMC(SS) USN (Ret.)

[@vaska1999]

That bridge connecting Hong Kong and the mainland is anything but useless. Once it's opened to the public at large, it will quickly demonstrate its utility.

[@EpicGuest_Gamer]

24:13 gotta love the *GIANT PYRAMID OF DEATH*

[@coffeetime1001]

I don't think Gundam is a useless mega project. It's their anime God. To them it's worth every penny. Treat it like their version of Statue of Liberty. At least it's completed and functioning and unlike others that are unfinished, abandoned and crumbled.

[@akiira69]

I remember the Challenger Disaster. The day of the disaster recess was canceled so that everyone could watch the event. After the shuttle exploded the tv's were turned off and we were told to go out and play.

[@AyeCarumba221]

Ive visited Hawaii a number of times over the last 44 years. I can see how we’re trashing it, and making it just look like southern California. Sub divisions, fat roads, mini malls, big box stores. Will we ever learn?

[@tlspud]

The purpose of the "interstate system" was (and still is) to facilitate the movement of military vehicles for national defense. The fact civilians get to use them too is a bonus. 😉👍

[@GamerTalOfficial3100]

As you can see this wasnt useless idea to create this channel! I love Be Amazed videos!

[@lonely_7891]

2:24

[@BeAmazed]

thank you very much indeed!

[@GamerTalOfficial3100]

@@BeAmazed Its honor to have a reply from my favorite KZbinr!

[@craftermatt3609]

@@BeAmazed Be better, H-3 is heavily used.

[@kristoffer3000]

@@craftermatt3609 Nearly all of these are just filled with super obvious lies and falsehoods

[@jacobmanipon2011]

Everyone uses the H3 here in Hawaii. It’s very convenient. The haunted road you speak of is the Pali highway. Yes the h3 was heavily criticized but now it’s heavily used.

[@donnakubiski5572]

I guess they got their highways mixed up. I've been to Hawaii six times on vacation and we would always take a drive on the Pali Highway every time. One time it was sunny when we entered the tunnel and it was pouring rain on the other side when we came out.

[@Jolei33]

@@donnakubiski5572 wut

[@user-xx2ql3sf2t]

"a giant pyramid of death"😂 epic!

[@ingridakerblom7577]

Imagine if all that Wall money went towards affordable housing instead.

[@grishyroy9271]

? The Biden Admin halted the wall and diverted the funds. Check who you vote for. 20x the wall money has been diverted to Ukraine, failed “green” projects, housing illegal immigrants, supporting anti-parent rights advocates, etc. You want affordable housing, again, check who you vote for.

[@jamesgoode9246]

Yup, that would be a major waste of money. Just look at the tremendous waste and corruption of California's "affordable housing" efforts. Construction on the border wall was proceeding just fine until January, 2021, when newly inaugurated Let's Go Brandon stopped it and pushed the funding to other (inferior) projects.

[@leifnelson6244]

The H3 in Hawaii was plenty busy when I drove it.

[@yaboitrouble]

They wasn’t jumping on the bed🤣🤣 4:40

[@josephnoneofyourbeeswax8517]

The reason the highway in Hawaii was so expensive was in an effort to protect those trees. And on other vidoes there have been people in Hawaii who say it is frequently used.

[@dundonrl]

I've driven Likelike, the Pali and H3 numerous times. H3 is definitely the easiest and quickest way to get from the windward to the leeward side of Oahu.

[@Queina1]

I remember when the Challenger exploded. I was in art class in middle school and we were allowed to listen to the radio and they were broadcasting the launching. It was horrifying listening to what happened.

[@user-ln1ec9qr5y]

The main purpose interstates were built is to transport troops and equipment. Civilian usage is a bonus.

[@DMPB-fi2ir]

i think you need to do some research on a few of these useless megaprojects to O-rings ( 2 O-rings actually ) were a special high temperature silicone with ability to expand with heat but were not tested to perform and sub freezing temperatures as occurred the morning of the launch , the original seal at factory used a silica compound in the joints to seal but because the boosters had to disassembled to fit the ability to transport to the launch site instead of the silica compound on site it was decided to use special made O-rings. You make it sound like they were extremely small they are not there are standard tolerances stipulating cross section a diameter versus overall diameter and pressure amount to seal, the O-rings that morning had probably reach what is called glass transition temperature point ( point at which it looses all elastic properties and becomes brittle ) in the extreme cold from the night before . some of the things you enjoy todays with out thinking about came about from engineering advances directly from the building of the shuttle over 1800 spin offs and medical advances directly attributed to the shuttle program so i dont agree your reference as a useless mega project. as for the Costa Concordia that was the Captains blame and incompetency not a useless mega project. we could go on ... about a couple others you listed here but i make my point you judge without knowing the background or full potential or cause and affect.

[@dwightnorton3398]

Nice " Death Pyramid " voice 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@workingmothercatlover6699]

With Challenger, not only did it cost a lot of money, but because it was sending up the first teacher to space, school kids around the country watched it live at school. Talk about a way to traumatize an entire generation of school kids. I was one of those kids.

[@Queina1]

Me too, we were listening to it on the radio and when it exploded we all sat there in utter horror, crying as we listened to what was going on.

[@donnakubiski5572]

I was an adult when it happened and it was devastating to everyone. We heard about it at work and the eerie thing about it was that I knew I would be able to see it happen live when I got home from work. I used to videotape three hours of soap operas every day and knew I would have a recording of it. Also I knew someone who lived in Titusville, FL at the time who actually saw it happen since he and his family used to watch all the launches from their backyard.

[@cnweems1]

I remember it being a big deal that a teacher was going into space from our area, we watched the launch from my class... only to be horrified less than a minute and half later. To top it off, all we got was recess afterwards and it was back to school. We were in the teacher's home town and they were like "you kids get back to learning"!

[@Queina1]

@@cnweems1 OMG How cold! You witnessed something traumatic but oh hey no big deal.

[@obston2846]

@@Queina1 dont believe anything you read onthe internet pal

[@MegaPhill93]

That Gundam's is a masterpiece.

[@izumihikaru99]

“All I can say is-DAM” is sending me 😂😂😂😂

[@stephenwaldron2748]

Curious why no prefix was used in the metric conversion 3:25, it was quite a big number to look at. I do suppose writing 45 GL next to 12B "GAL" might have confused some, but let's admit "Giga Litres" just sounds cool.

[@etorepugatti9196]

"Giga Litres" are a dangerous stuf by the way

[@KonglomeratYT]

Judging by that entire section, make it seem "big" was the entire point.

[@metern]

OMG! I was on board Costa Concordia when it crashed. I me and my parents was not injured, thank god. But the trauma did make me afraid of going on board a ship again. Something of a problem when i live in Norway where i have to take a ferry every day to work 😢. Thank god for anti depression pills 😁.

[@swaynedc2bold933]

So sorry

[@johnm8224]

I'd hardly call the Shuttle Programme a "useless" megaproject...

[@twotailedavenger]

The Challenger disaster actually ended up sparking another disaster, too. In the three years that the Shuttle program was put on hold, their fuel supplier PEPCON had to store excess fuel at their plant. It blew up.

[@mrslyds8602]

H3 highway is not useless. It's a very busy highway. We use it every day. You were right about it being built on sacred grounds. There's Crazy stories on that.

[@traviepattie2]

7:53 they only built it to be longer than the lake Pontchartrain bridge in Louisiana

[@meredithortiz743]

And theirs is connected to different areas of land along the way as well as a tunnel, so it's not completely over water the whole way . Lake Pontchartrain is nothing but bridge that's connected to the lake bottom and it's completely over water, all the way.

[@jameslmorehead]

The Challenger disaster should never had happened. The SRB manufacturer specifically mandated that they were not to be used at temperatures below 45F. Launch day was much colder. The SRB engineers were pressured from the top to certify they were good to fly. Most refused, and were removed from the project shortly, but a couple folded and signed off on it. The initial hole in the SRB was only the size of a pencil. But that pencil sized hole was angled just perfect to let the burning stream of rocket fuel to turn into a cutting torch. The reason for pushing to launch? It was being televised directly into countless classrooms around the country as one of the crew was a teacher. The bureaucrats forced kids to watch this crew die. I was one of those kids. I knew one of the men in charge of training the crew, and have met many people directly tied to the crew. You know what really sucks? The crew did not die in the explosion. They died on impact with the ground. They were awake and aware of the situation, trying with every ounce of hope they had that they could find a solution to slow their decent. Unfortunately, the same bureaucrats that pushed for the launch also pushed to cut the crew capsule recovery module. It weighed 800 pounds, and at 1,000 dolars per pound to launch, that was an expensive piece of equipment. See, the shuttles, while looking like a raditional aircraft, were really just a crew capsule attached to the front of a payload bay and a couple of engines. The design was such that in the event of a failure at launch, the crew capsule could remove itself from the rest of the ship and float back to the ground with parachutes packed away in the crew recovery module. That module also contained the solid rockets to push the capsule away from the craft. So, removing the module saved nearly a million dollars per launch, but cost the Challenger crew their lives.

[@mikatomo]

Lmao I live in Hawaii and the H3 is used by a ton of people 🤣 I drove it daily for years with many many other people to get to and from work.

[@MrTricksterWins]

As a huge Gundam fan, I gotta say that it’s not useless. Give it 20 years and it’ll be a fully functional Gundam.

[@pwho405]

😂😂😂🤔🤔😂😂😂

[@Luftwaffles1]

I’ve been to the Yokohama Gundam Statue this January. I was travelling in the area and saw it. It was quite impressive but it really doesn’t have a point apart from being a tourist attraction. And compared to other tourist attractions in Japan, it doesn’t even get much tourists either!

[@chumlanthung1063]

It's cool :3

[@jasonblanchfield4780]

Also, since it is Japan, is it practice for the real thing?

[@thesmashingmonkeys]

We just went to see it this month and really enjoyed it. We had fun and visited other areas of Yokohama, which we would not have done if it wasn't for visiting the Gundham. There were plenty of people there from Japan and other countries as well. We paid to go inside, but you can actually view it from outside the facility for free

[@MrJcTTK]

it's also a temporary attraction