Impossible Megaprojects That Never Happened

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@MegaBuildsYT Ай бұрын

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@BrunoDias1234 Ай бұрын

-the hyperlooop -the autonomos subway for cars in las vegas -the transport of cargo by rockets -a car without steering wheel, pedals and no manual way to open a car door from the inside what does all that have in common?

@HxTurtle Ай бұрын

Elon Musk, @@BrunoDias1234

@AL-lh2ht Ай бұрын

It should be noted most of these are just thought experiments and neve actually meant to be done

@NoName-yq4wr Ай бұрын

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is drawn in the video to be partially in the wrong place.

@richardadams6988 Ай бұрын

@@MegaBuildsYT None !! I'm going to Disney ,Hahaha

@colliefields4637 Ай бұрын

One Idea I saw regarding an Atlantic tunnel was to instead of going point-to-point from Great Britain to the North-Eastern United States, connect the two continents via the northern countries of Iceland, Greenland and Canada where they could in theory sacrifice time and directness for a lot more potential stops and passengers and theoretically less riskier to build and use thanks to the shallower seas and use of existing lands. Essentially it would go along the lines of: - Brussels to London via the Channel Tunnel (Brussels being the new "heart" of Europe in regards to railway connections). - London to Glasgow/Edinburgh, with possible stops around Manchester and Sheffield-Doncaster/Leeds for those wanting to be closer to the middle of the country. - Shoot off north-east before delving into an under sea tunnel taking the passengers to the Faroe Islands, saving costs via using the land briefly over there before returning to the seas until you reached Iceland and it's capital Rekjavik. -Another large underwater tunnel connecting Iceland to Greenland via the more shallow shelf and cutting through the land directly from east to west until you get to ther capital, Nuuk. - Straight across to Northern Canada, making a direct line south-west for Ottawa before finally making a turn to the North Eastern United States where it makes one of two more stops before finaly reaching New York City. It's a lot slower than London to New York direct, but it would theoretically be easier and safer to build and would have the added benefit of multiple countries being able to make good use of it without having to travel to London or New York City exclusively.

@SlawcioD Ай бұрын

add on top of this cargo trains and project starts to be economically feasible

@LordSjef Ай бұрын

not alot of passengers up in canada greenland and iceland tho lol

@punbug4721 Ай бұрын

Hell, why not go from Britain to Iceland to Greenland to Canada to US?

@johnskowronski4906 Ай бұрын

😂😊

@turkey0165 Ай бұрын

Build a underwater Bering Sea Tunnel ! Like the English channel tunnel from Britain to France, but only from Alaska to Russia! The water is shallow! HIGH speed rail between the 2 countries would literally cut out shipping on seas and the time delay across the Pacific! 👍

@thearisen7301 Ай бұрын

The trans Atlantic tunnel would make more sense if it went Canada to Greenland to Iceland then England. The distances between land masses would be shorter and no underwater mountain range to deal with

@beowolf4337 28 күн бұрын

Well that and plus it would boost tourism and all ports of stop

@Krobra91 27 күн бұрын

@@beowolf4337 i agree, But the geographical problem still persists. the mid atlantic ridge is where the plats also star moving in different directions, they have some of the worst underwater volcanos and mudslides on the planet. You also have the issue of the snowpack that develops and needs to navigate

@koifren Ай бұрын

12:00 the geostationary orbit is about 36000km above the ground, not 36km

@HxTurtle Ай бұрын

exactly why I just paused the video. then he proceeds talking about weight; well, you can just build beyond that point and create enough "lift" to make it "weightless," lol. edit: I fully didn't expect him to say exactly this just a tiny bit later, lol.

@slurker3788 Ай бұрын

can we get the guy who made 2012 and moonfall to make a movie about a space elevator disaster next? when it snaps the "weight" starts spinning and the broken cable whips the earth each spin

@timbeaton5045 Ай бұрын

@@slurker3788 They did pretty much that in the Foundation TV series. Except that it wasn't located on Earth, and it was destroyed by terrorists. But the results were pretty much what would happen if this happened here on (above?) earth. Did a pretty good job of showing how catastrophic a failed Space Elevator would be.

@MarcioHuser Ай бұрын

Just paused the video to comment the same thing 🤣

@matthewjohnson3656 Ай бұрын

@@timbeaton5045remember the hundreds of millions dead on trantor because of the hubris that was the skybridge.

@HammerOn-bu7gx Ай бұрын

That cruise ship. Clearly, the designers have never lived aboard an aircraft carrier. An airport on top would keep everyone awake just from the landing gear impacts, let alone the engine noise. Hard pass.

@gabdraws7003 Ай бұрын

Clearly they should go for the superior 'Black Whale' design

@pgtmr2713 Ай бұрын

If they make them work all day, they'll sleep. What kind of ship was this? 😂

@Chicken-x6q6d Ай бұрын

Indeed, plus that luxury sell would probably equal a pass from many investors.

@pgtmr2713 Ай бұрын

@timbert4672 If they got launch jets..

@Minimal444 Ай бұрын

I don't think the planes will fly there constantly, maybe 1 flight a day.

@tdyerwestfield Ай бұрын

A far more plausible clean energy infrastructure project involving the Red Sea would be one similar to what was once proposed in the Severn Channel between England & Wales, a tidal dam where water is stored behind the dam at high tide and released at low tide to generate a modified form of hydroelectric power with a similar method.

@geoffstrickler 20 күн бұрын

Is tidal power actually safe? The tides are primarily due to the moon. Altering tidal flows will have some gravitational effect on the earth-moon system. Is it enough to have any real effect on the moon? I don’t know. Pretty sure it’s not enough to have any real material effect on the Sun (which is responsible for a smaller portion of the tides).

@arroe8386 11 күн бұрын

@@geoffstrickler I mean tidal power already exists, although with significantly less impact on the environment as in this proposal. Theoretically it makes a difference, but considering how microscopic this effect would be compared to the forces that slow down the moon already, I wouldn't think of this as anything predominant.

@geoffstrickler 11 күн бұрын

@ Yes, tidal power exists, but it’s on such a small scale that it has no measurable impact. There are 2 large installations operating with 240MW and 254MW capacities. There is a facility with 240MW-398MW currently being constructed. There are proposals for others, but nothing of consequence actually being built at this time. Next largest are 10MW, 6MW, & 4MW with all others under 2MW. Turns out it’s expensive to install and expensive to maintain. Wave and tidal combined produced just 127GWh in 2022. That’s less than 0.0005% of world electricity generation, and only 0.0035% of the estimated potential of tidal power. Way too little to measure its impact on anything but the local environment.

@tdyerwestfield 11 күн бұрын

@ they are expensive and with such a small sample size is unlikely to be risked, but my example of Severn Channel is different because it has the 3rd largest tidal range in the world of 12 metres. Imagine just how much water it takes to change the water level of a very large body of water by 12 metres.

@ToTheLeftOfBernie Ай бұрын

The space elevator is really not a crazy idea. We don't nearly have the materials technology we would need to build it, but I believe one day earth will have one.

@sanexpreso2944 Ай бұрын

Like in megaman

@StallionFernando Ай бұрын

The higher the object the less stable it becomes in the wind. Go stack 100 Legos and lightly tap it and see how easy it falls compared to 3 Legos stacked. It would have to be extremely wide, maybe wider than a stadium. I'm sure and engineer would be better at explaining it. The truth is that if we could have done it, we would have done it already. You're not as smart as you think you are.

@MrGoesBoom Ай бұрын

@@StallionFernando he literally says in his comment that we can't build it yet. Maybe get some better reading comprehension before you start questioning someone elses intelligence

@ToTheLeftOfBernie Ай бұрын

@@MrGoesBoom ty! 😂

@geofflepper3207 Ай бұрын

@StallionFernando So basically you're saying that there will never be another invention or new technological development because if it was possible we would have done it already? Didn't your great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather say that in 1824?

@erikmeltzer-rt7rh Ай бұрын

12:00 not 36 km, but 36,000 km for geostatonary. But what’s an order of magnitude or three among friends?

@JLAvey Ай бұрын

Details, details. My criticism is that a space elevator is on the same list as trying to drain a sea that's a major navigational route. Nothing ridiculous about a bridge made out of graphine or whatever composite that can't yet be mass produced.

@erikmeltzer-rt7rh Ай бұрын

I agree.

@weatherlou Ай бұрын

Embarrassing mistake…

@texasranger24 Ай бұрын

11:32 to skip the ad

@theWSt Ай бұрын

I always loved the transatlantic tunnel project since I first saw it in an episode of extreme engineering more than 20 years ago. This is the most fascinating project I've ever seen. 😍

@counterfit5 Ай бұрын

It's where Elon copied the Hyperloop from

@Wolfie66 Ай бұрын

The song "I.G.Y" by Donals Fagan talked of a "undersea train" that could go from N.Y. to Paris in 90 minutes. It was an interesting concept to think about sitting in front of my stereo listening to my headphones when I was 12.😃

@russellseilhamer4552 21 күн бұрын

When I saw this video the first thing that popped into my head was Fagens lyrics for IGY. Great song and a great concept album about American attitudes in the mid 20th century. New Frontier is another great one as well as Nightfly and Green Flower Street; finished second to Toto for album of the year in 1982

@DudeSqaudYT123 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@blackJJseventeen Ай бұрын

The Freedom Ship might be realistic. For the mega rich it might be tempting to live on international waters and not pay taxes anywhere.

@iwantgoat Ай бұрын

Rich still pay taxes on where they profit

@texasranger24 Ай бұрын

Not in it's current for maybe, but a scaled down version is both doable and attractive enough to the right people with the right kind of money...

@Libertaro-i2u Ай бұрын

Although under current international law, all vessels in international waters are required to fly the flag and be under the sovereignty of an existing nation-state, which means unless it can defend itself against powerful navies, Freedom Ship and other libertarian microstates are highly unlikely to actually be free.

@shockcat5988 Ай бұрын

I’ll just change my name to Blackbeard and call my ship the Queen Anne’s revenge, and then go crash the party

@scottcarter6623 Ай бұрын

It would be easier to find an unoccupied island and pay the country that owns it a pile of money to create your own country. Still way cheaper than the ship. Besides there are already dozen of countries that have almost no taxes or oversight for the super rich.

@johnnyboy55 Ай бұрын

Should have renamed this one Pipe Dreams.

@paulct91 Ай бұрын

Pipe Dreams, that was a fun trick heaven in SSX: Tricky, so many half-pipes to blast off of on your snowboard! 🏂

@hemigoleo Ай бұрын

huh

@mamdouh-Tawadros Ай бұрын

The red sea dam is hilarious!

@rtyrsson Ай бұрын

Yeah, especially where it is connected. Two unstable countries on one side (Eritrea and Djibouti) and a country on the other side run by terrorists (Yemen.)

@trevorhilyer Ай бұрын

A long time ago, I was a telephone installer. We were installing a PBX system in a very tall building and using a shaft to route the huge cable up through the shaft. We were lowering this huge cable filled with wire and then I noticed that the outside plastic sheathing was starting to stretch. I yelled up to the boss and told him to stop immediately. He came down to see why I had him stop. This was before cell phones BTW. We ended up driving anchors into the shaft and staggering the cable as it descended through the tie off straps to alleviate all that weight on any portion of the cable and then later on we tied it down. With the expanse of any structure from space, the weight along with earths gravity would make any structure unfeasible to do. You wouldn’t have any shaft to anchor the structure to it and I wouldn’t want to be on the ground when that shaft came crashing down from the sheer weight of the entire structure. Add into this Mother Nature with severe weather patterns, this thing would be a disaster waiting to happen. If you had structural problems in the areas where there is no air, how do you affect repairs? Even a space suit wouldn’t work.

@toomanymarys7355 Ай бұрын

Yes that's why it would have to taper and also why we need better carbon technology to make it work.

@Me__Myself__and__I Ай бұрын

NASA has already done the research, its feasible we just can't quite make the carbon ribbons required yet. We can make them, but we can't make them long enough yet. There are competitions held with grant money to encourage work on the problem. Its been documented, research it.

@Chicken-x6q6d Ай бұрын

Such a structure would interact with earths natural electromagnetic fields too. Think about it, why do we get cloud to ground lightning? Because a charge jumps between a buildup of negative energy in the lower troposphere and the positively charged ground. conversely you get lightning within the cloud between the negatively charged lower troposphere and the positively charged stratosphere. There are differences in charge like this all through the layers of the atmosphere right out into space, imagine what would happen if you ran wires between these differentials and the ground.

@Me__Myself__and__I Ай бұрын

@@Chicken-x6q6d I'm sure the expert scientists and researchers who have spent time on this including at NASA have taken that into account. Most likely nothing would happen. Lightning occurs because a massive differential is allowed to build up over time. Running a wire up there so that it could continuously discharge and equalize would prevent the differential from building up. People do this every day in fact, this is why people ground themselves when working on sensitive electronics. Same principal.

@Chicken-x6q6d Ай бұрын

If you ran a what is basically a giant metal pole between these charge differentials, you’d short circuit the entire planet. What the result would be I don’t know, but you know how powerful lightning is, hence me mentioning it. Perhaps steps could be taken to prevent it though, for example, encasing the structure in a non-conductive material. This is another example of why a moon based orbital tether would be easier, it wouldn’t have this issue.

@petermcguire8260 Ай бұрын

The problem with your Red Sea dam. Is once you evaporate the water away you will not have the surface area to evaporate water quickly. A stream running from the Red Sea down isn't going to evaporate the power you need you need that surface area.

@ShawnHCorey Ай бұрын

The Atlantic tunnel would follow the great arc, not the line shown on the map in the video.

@counterfit5 Ай бұрын

It seems to be a map projection issue.

@charlesderousseau1576 Ай бұрын

"Right now, the fastest train in the world, IS the Shanghai MAGLEV, with a top speed of 460km/h" Laughing in French TGV at 560km/h and Japanese Shinkansen at 610km/h

@Inyourbox-kr5uf Ай бұрын

The Red Sea dam would be blown up so quick

@gabrielbastos18 Ай бұрын

17:47 Did anybody else notice they got the location of Rio de Janeiro wrong?

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

This channel is filled with inaccuracies.

@TurboLingaLanguages Ай бұрын

The Freedom Ship concept appears to be DOA. I've been following that one for a long time, and the project's website hasn't updated anything significant for years. The video animations of the ship used in this video largely date from about 16 or 17 years ago (that's why the graphics look so poor). It was an intriguing idea, and one that I think might actually have had some potential, but unfortunately I don't think they ever got enough backing to establish a critical mass to put things into motion.

@goufr3540 Ай бұрын

I remember first hearing the Freedom Ship in like Discovery Channel or so decades ago. Its a novel concept but its far from practical and would likely never be able to sustain itself. At best, it would need nuclear power to power its massive powertrain and the over all systems on the ship. Even then, the logistics to keep the Freedom Ship running independently are overwhelming, its like The Line but at sea.

@TalesOfWar 16 күн бұрын

At least if it does happen and all the worlds richest people get on board, it'll be legal to sink the thing if they want to avoid flying any flag of a soverign state, which under international law you have to in order to be protected under said international law.

@HUSSAR-AOW3 Ай бұрын

Megabuilds never fails to make a good video, keep up the good work)

@rsolsjo Ай бұрын

While crazy, a Transatlantic tunnel still sounds like such a dream concept. I wouldn't want to be first onboard, but if we were ever able to achieve something like that we could kiss 12-14 hour plane rides goodbye.

@PhilipMarcYT 24 күн бұрын

It sounds amazing if they can make it happen.

@urbangorilla33 22 күн бұрын

NY to London is not 12-14 hours, more like 7 hours.

@MyKeeP81 18 күн бұрын

@@urbangorilla33 yeah its 7 hours

@TalesOfWar 16 күн бұрын

Or just you know, make faster planes for these super long trips like Concord, and put all those resoures of building a tunnel into proper high speed rail networks connecting the land side of things, so there's no need for a plane for domestic trips.

@wschmrdr Ай бұрын

0:42 Moses: Hold my beer.

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

Reed Sea*

@sidneydunavent Ай бұрын

The tunnel across the Atlantic Ocean is a bad dream for so many reasons.

@ClassicHarleyQuinn Ай бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond would have these built in no time. 😂

@jeffroussell Ай бұрын

How long would it take James to cross it if he was driving?

@ClassicHarleyQuinn Ай бұрын

@jeffroussell too long.

@jeffroussell Ай бұрын

@@ClassicHarleyQuinn many challenges (besides current political tensions) length, depth of the waters, ice flows, winds, etc. The Confederation Bridge between P.E.I and New Brunswick has been a good exercise in some of the issues.

@tarajoe07 Ай бұрын

The ship sounds like an absolute nightmare

@smjproductions7081 Ай бұрын

Who would want to live on the freedom ship

@iwantgoat Ай бұрын

A trump ship!

@CZpersi Ай бұрын

Libertarianism is great as long as you are young, rich, and healthy. If you do not fulfill one of these criteria, you are screwed in anarchocapitalist society.

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

Rich people, wealthy people, and well-off people.

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

@@CZpersiConflating two very different ideologies there.

@iwantgoat Ай бұрын

@@MeanBeanComedy I think rich people don't want to be on a ship for too long either. Nobody wants to live in prison for long, even if the prison is nice.

@eugeneeugenee8185 Ай бұрын

Instead of NextTokio, they need to build Tokio-3 )

@andrecoxa Ай бұрын

12:41 Amazing how the Earth rotates while the Space Elevator stands still, that way it could serve several different nations, not just one. /sarcasm

@Gallardo6669 Ай бұрын

"freedom ship" = biggest jail on planet. Pure Insanity

@kmlsikhi Ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more! Horror!

@htommyhomeboy Ай бұрын

Yeah, well, not a bad idea in regards to prison population.That depends on the inmates.

@jdmacd01 Ай бұрын

It sound like literal hell

@pockylovingranger 10 күн бұрын

The funny thing about this list is that two of the builds on this list have happened in anime! The Space Elevators are a key plot device in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 while the floating city can be seen in Little Garden from Hundred

@PhilipMurphy8 Ай бұрын

Megabuilds always makes a great video

@matthewcole4753 Ай бұрын

I'd be horrified the first time an accident happened on that supersonic train. The Concorde crashed, and accidents always happen before any issue is fixed. I believe in Chaos Theory.

@mycardbrokedown5699 Ай бұрын

How many accidents ever happened on maglev trains? It would be a maglev in a reduced pressure tube so that it can travel at 4000kmh...

@shao-yuwang1440 Ай бұрын

That’s not what chaos theory means…

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

@@shao-yuwang1440 Hey, watch it. OP saw Jurassic Park, so he knows what he's on about.

@crabtonia 22 күн бұрын

How absurd they all are...and great fun to think about...thank you for that and for managing to keep a straight face (almost) throughout...dgp/uk

@fraliexb Ай бұрын

Also Suez Canal would kill international shipping.

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

He said that

@joelressner9651 Ай бұрын

I vaguely remember that Arthur C. Clarke proposed space elevators back in the 1960's.

@Soundspeed55 19 күн бұрын

After OceanGate, I ain’t trusting shit in the water

@jameslyddall Ай бұрын

I remember when the discovery channel was massively popular on sky back in the 00s. The freedom ship was proposed on the show and remember I kept seeing it everywhere. Along with the bearing straight bridge and the millennium tower. Good old days before KZbin and you also had future weapons with mac if anyone remembers that.

@chrisking7603 Ай бұрын

Elevator on moon 15:20 through Earth-Moon Lagrange point would be oodles safer than a geostationary-Earth elevator. Latter vulnerable to missiles launched by naughty people, that might want kilometres of cable spaghetti on the ground.

@RyanJohnson-7878 Ай бұрын

I watched the Freedom Ship documentary about 20 years ago. It was about a group of billionaires that wanted to purchase and island for themselves and instead came up with the ship concept.

@aydendankworth Ай бұрын

"but what do you think?" uhu, because we as random internet experts really have some valuable opinions compared to all these scientists combined.

@rodh1404 Ай бұрын

Well, to be fair some of these are just thought experiments. And anyone who is "serious" about these concepts is more than likely a con artist. Or an idealist who has absolutely no idea about the practical realities of making these projects work.

@MuscleBandit 15 күн бұрын

We need the space elevator just to debunk the flat earthers 😂😂😂

@chaosreder2959 Ай бұрын

need part 2 😛

@cjvaye99 Ай бұрын

underwater train tunnel sounds incredible but id absolutely never got on that 😂

@ZebraFacts Ай бұрын

Only one of these projects makes since, and that is the Earth to space elevator. Most people don't understand the level of human advancements that comes from space and planetary exploration. The other projects will not advance human development nor effect most of humanity as an Earth to space elevator would.

@matthewjohnson3656 Ай бұрын

If a space elevator breaks and falls- that’s the end of multiple cities in a thousands mile path around the globe.

@Spermwhales93 Ай бұрын

I feel like the transatlantic tunnel could work if it went from northern Scotland to north eastern Canada via the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. It would save a lot of money because less actual tunnel would need to be constructed, the tunnel wouldn't have to be as deep in plenty of areas as the sea floor would be a lot higher and it could service more places than just London and New York, making it much more economically viable. The whole g-force acceleration problem could also be mitigated by making it fully automated and for cargo only, so no human passengers would be on any part of the train at any time. I was thinking a route that goes Thurso (UK - mainland) -> Kirkwall (UK - Orkney Islands) -> Lerwick (UK - Shetland Islands) -> Torshavn (Faroe Islands) -> Rekjavik (Iceland) -> Nuuk (Greenland) -> Somewhere on Baffin Island in Nunavut in Canada, and then maybe continuing on towards Montreal or Ottawa, with freight terminals at each location where cargo could be offloaded for local transportation. It would be a longer journey overall for any freight that would use it and potentially would require construction work in ecologically sensitive areas, but it could mean that we wouldn't have to do as much air freight and it would help make transatlantic freight transport a little more environmentally sustainable as you could run the entire system using renewable power. You could also potentially also build another one of these tunnels branching off from Lerwick to around where Bergen is in Norway, creating a link through the North Sea to the transatlantic system.

@twrampage Ай бұрын

That Tokyo Bay city idea is cool on so many levels. Like a modern-day Venice but far more awesome.

@Blazer02LS 4 күн бұрын

Until Godzilla shows up in his favorite bay.... LOL

@G74 Ай бұрын

One of craziest mega projects I've heard of so far was proposed sometime back in the 50s or 60s as part of project plowshare (this was the U.S government's attempt to find peaceful uses for atomic bombs)and was dubbed the PanAtomic Canal. This would've been a second Panama Canal dug using a chain of underground nuclear explosions.

@PuNicAdbo Ай бұрын

Placing the Atlantic tunnel to an island isn't a smart move at all. It should go to Portugal Spain

@Mystikan 28 күн бұрын

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a bigger problem than you've described. It's a spreading rift, widening the Atlantic Ocean by 2-5 cm (1-2 inches) per year. This will rapidly "stretch" the section of tunnel that crosses the rift zone. This would entail some kind of telescoping mechanism that would allow that part of the tunnel to expand with the rift, and making something like this that can withstand the ocean pressure would be a tremendous feat of engineering in itself.

@awabaziz7029 Ай бұрын

Why are these so random yet they KINDA make sense???💀🙏

@Beyond_theBlueprint Ай бұрын

Because someday we actually heading there.

@michanowak3001 Ай бұрын

1. Netherlands love to build dams on oceans and this is just XXXXXXXXL version of it. 2. There are some small fisherman villages fully on water on west pacific that are on water and people don't really needs to leave them. This is more modern version of it. 3. Human push for going as high and low as possible just leads up there. Once build we get simple way of going to our final border of earth. 4. Just a connection of aircraft carrier and luxury ships that don't really needs to stops in ports often. 5. Just another underwater tunnel like between France and UK. But XXXXXXXXL version of it.

@seanrodgers1839 Ай бұрын

I've always thought that we should flood the Caspian Sea to lower sea levels. Could generate power too. Much smaller and faster to implement.

@MeanBeanComedy Ай бұрын

How?

@jojothepro15 Ай бұрын

That Aral Sea story is really fucking depressing

@Thunderbolt_1000T 24 күн бұрын

you should see my thoughts, they’re worse than that

@wavydonjuan 18 күн бұрын

18:16 I kinda like this idea

@paulct91 Ай бұрын

23:33 - So... HyperLoop?

@itsa-itsagames 29 күн бұрын

The crossing of the red sea actually correlates more with the gulf of Aqaba(?)on the other side and in ancient times it was both considered part of the same sea. The gulf of Neuba(?) is the proposed crossing site and links up with Mt Sinai being in north west Saudi Arabia

@joshualiley Ай бұрын

I think a train to New York from London is not out of the question, because by adding only 800km, you can instead go via Glasgow/Edinburgh, Reykjavik, Nuuk and Montreal/Quebec, only requiring 3600km of underwater tracks instead of 5500km, making construction IMO significantly easier (as I believe the underwater sections will be much harder to construct), adding in more destinations making it more financially viable by utilising other country's GDPs to finance it and to make it more appealing to travellers who may not want to make the whole journey. It also means it can be operational before being fully constructed, eg. using a London to Reykjavik route while the North American portion is being built, which couldn't be done using a straight line across the Atlantic, helping it finance itself. Adding stops would significantly increase the journey time but using the other countries helps make it more viable

@Dr.Bong_ Ай бұрын

A tunnel to America would have been amazing.

@Byplasse Ай бұрын

Another crazy project ......an engineer proposed to dam between James Bay and Hudson Bay in Northern Canada. Half of Ontario's, and Quebec, fresh water flows into James Bay so the salt water will eventually get replaced by fresh water. Then they would pump huge quantity of water towards the west of Canada for irrigation, along the way there would be hydro plants for electricity and only a small part of it would be used for the pumps.

@jamiemichael6237 22 күн бұрын

Fun fact, there are two bridges that were ginormous, but ended up getting completed, these included Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, and China to [I forgot what it is, but it started with a M].

@raphaeldagamer Ай бұрын

I can't drive from Concord, NH to another state in 54 minutes. Even if we did have a train tunnel between the East coast of the United States and the United Kingdom, the trip would absolutely take longer than 54 minutes, simply because a trip spanning that distance would have at least some kind of delay.

@mercedesdior2758 4 күн бұрын

I love your voice🥰

@ImTheHeyGuy Ай бұрын

👋 hey 👋 megabuilds 😊

@RadiatUA Ай бұрын

Wouldn’t a space elevator just be the biggest tower in the world?

@adamredwine774 26 күн бұрын

The Red Sea is an awesome place to dive.

@markfinn0 15 күн бұрын

The lifeboat contract for the 100,000 passenger ship would be in the hundreds of millions. The underwater tunnel - with CARS? Will they be driverless, or will they have undersea hotels and gas/charging stations (at least) every few hundred km? At least trains would have on-board amenities. Emergency exits? What if a train breaks down or loses power (or if it's diesel, it would probably need to refuel during its passage).

@anatheistsopinion9974 27 күн бұрын

Imagine the Freedom Ship sinking. That would put the Titanic disaster to shame.

@kaesardb Ай бұрын

7:00 please stop the AI images.

@josieann5031 Ай бұрын

It's a shame Stockton Rush is gone. I'm sure he would have some great ideas to cut costs for The Transatlantic Tunnel.

@BABarracus6 Ай бұрын

350 years to start energy production on the dame should be a deal breaker. the infrastructure will rot before then

@robertnelson4460 18 күн бұрын

The transatlantic tunnel... a great idea until war breaks out or a terrorist attack blows it up.

@Fusion_4000 13 күн бұрын

I pity the country that attacks it. They would literally be glassed from orbit

@asomelord Ай бұрын

8:30 I'm pretty sure they already have that in Kamurocho Edit: I was just shitposting. I did not expect him to show Kabuchiko (the area Kamurocho is based off of in the Yakuza series). Is this legitimately the Millennium Tower?

@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 Ай бұрын

A tunnel from America to Europe would be most efficient to go through Canada Newfoundland to Greenland to Iceland and over to Norway

@stephengordon4081 Ай бұрын

Think of all the volcanoes one could enjoy.

@madb132 Ай бұрын

@@stephengordon4081 🤣 Yeah, no need for heating, eh.

@yueyangyu-m9l 2 күн бұрын

A Space Elevator, IMPOSSIBLE!

@grb454 Ай бұрын

The freedom ship the most realistic, we already build 300m floating hotel, just glue together 5 of them, and it's a 1500m ship, add more rows of 5 ships and you endup with a gigantic floating hotel, in theory.😁

@itzcaseykc Ай бұрын

A lot of pipe dreams for sure. There are too many perilous obstacles to overcome before we could ever build and use such things safely.

@BD-cm7xc Ай бұрын

The best mega project is to connect the Caspian Sea to the Arabian gulf through a channel. This channel will also be the new international border between Arabs and Persians thus stopping and halting the Iranian expansion and aggression through the Middle East.

@ristube3319 Ай бұрын

21:51 Tunnels are built through bedrock, and wouldn’t be subject to the crushing weight of the Atlantic

@aircraftandmore9775 Ай бұрын

21:12 this will not work, they have to deal with the mid Atlantic ridge, which is volcanically active and spreading with earthquakes too

@mycardbrokedown5699 Ай бұрын

Why? Why not go from coast of norway, faroe, iceland, groenland, canada ?

@madb132 Ай бұрын

@@mycardbrokedown5699 same thing applies. it won't ever happen as the earths crust is moving. the tunnel would'nt last long enough to connect .🤣

@mycardbrokedown5699 Ай бұрын

@madb132 take a look at a map vefore you talk...

@dylandgs Ай бұрын

we can't even build a train to and from LAX airport

@JDWhitehead-i4p 16 күн бұрын

I don’t think motion sickness would even exist on a ship of that size and stability

@AlistairKiwi Ай бұрын

I read about a large residential ship built in the '60s? '70s? The concept did not work & eventually it was scrapped. Worth remembering that the main use for large residential ships is as prison ships.

@Libertaro-i2u Ай бұрын

Yeah, ever since around the 1970s, certain libertarian types have been attempting to build and establish independent micronations in international waters. Lots of platforms have been proposed, including making existing cruise ships self sufficient in terms of food and power, floating artificial islands, oil-rig style structures, undersea habitats, etc. Fatal flaws of each of these proposals include the inability for the seastead proposals to handle the torture nature dishes out on the open ocean with the exception of the oil rig type ones, international law not allowing possible seasteads to be free to try libertarian governance systems (according to international law, all vessels in international waters are required to register with and follow the laws and taxes of an existing nation-state), and the problems attracting those rich enough to invest into such a project.

@Libertaro-i2u Ай бұрын

@kmlsikhi Ай бұрын

"Freedom Ship" I cannot imagine a worse living hell than being trapped on a floating petri dish with thousands of other people, captive animals and the toxic rich. Only someone who has forgotten COVID and the passengers floating off the coast, begging to disembark, would find this concept appealing. Anyone can easily envision such a floating cesspool of over entitled whiny humans if they have been within 20 feet of a cruise ship. A living hell.

@max5183 Ай бұрын

Who hurt you?

@madb132 Ай бұрын

@@max5183 The last cruise ship! 🤣🤣

@N0rthernLites Ай бұрын

Vacuum tube under outside pressure 😂 What could go wrong 😂

@ViceCoin Ай бұрын

It took 20 years and $billions in overruns to finish the Big Dig in Boston.

@sydhenderson6753 11 күн бұрын

So how long would a space elevator from the Moon have to be to be in lunar-synchronous orbit? Remember the center of gravity would take a month to orbit the Moon and be subject to perturbations from the Earth and Sun. The earthly version sounds more practical, but I'd go with railguns on the Moon. But then we could try one on Mars, as in "Red Mars."

@CSXIV Ай бұрын

The Red Sea dam is still less insane than the Mediterranean dam.

@jorisbonson386 Ай бұрын

Why is The Line not on this list...

@asomelord Ай бұрын

A tunnel between New York and London seems really inefficient. Theoretically I would have a train connecting New York and Toronto to Halifax, then going up Nova Scotia with a tunnel connecting to Newfoundland (presumably stopping at Saint Johns), then seeing about doing a tunnel into Western Ireland (Galway for example) then along the mainland to Dublin, across (or under) the Irish sea to Liverpool, then maybe hitting Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, and finally London. It would be significantly slower but dramatically cheaper if we went to the easternmost point of North America. It could also serve more areas this way, although I'm not sure how fond of this idea the Irish may be. I don't know if the topography would be good for Maglev with this idea either or the exact latitude of Newfoundland compared to the British Isles (although i believe they're similar), but to me, it just makes the most sense to reduce the underwater time

@josieann5031 Ай бұрын

Space Elevator: I'm sure nothing would go wrong.

@gregchavez1534 Ай бұрын

The common problem that all five of these projects have relates to warfare/terrorism and Mother Nature.

@langwasserkids Ай бұрын

Putting all the eggs in one basket is the thing that bothers me most. One single incident and everything comes to an hold. Travel to space blocked for half a year due to unplanned maintenance after a meteor strike? Transatlantic travel suspended for four years due to critical water leakages at multiple joints? I don‘t know…

@Tacko14 Ай бұрын

I always wonder how they build such big things and compensate. For temperature changes, subsidence, continental drift. A datacable, you can at least give it some extra length on a loop. The cable won't mind. But a tunnel? A bridge? A pipeline between countries? It can be done, because they do it. To me it's a mystery.