"Most Expensive Mistakes in History" Part 1 | Reaction
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- Reviewing some of the most expensive mistakes in history, as explained by the Be Amazed channel. What was your most expensive mistake?
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From what I could find, the first skyscraper was invented in 1884/85 in Chicago.
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I love the fact that you don't edit things out of your videos, but you add captions. Keeps the authenticity. Don't change.
I too appreciate that bit. Kinda like "show your work". Which something like TV or Movies it was a Cardinal Sin to do so.
(Not saying this is like a TV program, but in the last 10yrs. Watching videos on YT has replaced TV for me)
True. And she pauses if she needs to address something or wants to. This is my favorite reaction channel at the moment just for the chill vibes and her keepin it real
@@kalen1702 Do you watch Lav Luka? He's great too. He's the first reactor I saw who actually does research to answer his questions while watching something. It makes it much more entertaining when you get questions answered while watching.
@@JosephRussellStapleton I haven’t for a while, thanks for reminding me! I remember that about him now, it’s also a great way to do it
There's this offhand joke I like in Jeeves and Wooster (great show):
"Jeeves, why do you think they make those buildings so tall?"
"Well, sir, partly because of the restricted size of Manhattan Island and also because the island is solid granite and, therefore, capable of supporting such structures."
"Oh... nothing about having the building plans sideways, then."
BER airport finally opened in October 2020. Pretty insane story overall, like for instance the fact that they had to switch out tons of equipment such as monitors simply because it had gone obsolete during the near decade of just sitting around.
Was there in 2022. Didn't look finished. The moving walkways didn't work. Probably because what you mentioned.
8:40 Correction: Rijkswaterstaat is not a company but a part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Its task is to manage all the water infrastructure in the country (rivers, canals, harbours, flood defence etc.)
The Vasa is a fun one. The ship was poorly designed with the lower gun deck too close to the waterline. When the ship left port the lower gun ports were open so they could fire a salute. As soon as the sails were set they caught a couple gusts of wind and water poured in through the lower gun ports. The ship capsized and sank almost immediately. Embarrassing and expensive lol
I think that the architect that made essentially two death rays is wild. The first time I can kinda excuse (only kinda tho, because he knew about it, so still a scumbag move), but no one checked his credintials the second time? And he basically did the exact same thing (with more knowledge of the results, even)? Outrageous. If there's such a thing as malicious incompetence, I think he fits.
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He is building up to design a Death Star.
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I knew about the Vasa, but the one which hit hardest for me, as an ex-programmer, it was the Mars explorer thing! The one which ground my ethics most was that ruddy architect and the solar furnaces he designed in the guise of buldings!
Yes. I worked for a company that was being bought by incompetent Lockheed Martin when the Mars Explorer bit the dust, left industry, returned to academia, and used that as an example in classes for years.
I worked on a project with a contractor for a major telco on a government project, and the telco and the agency called a meeting in N Va. for 100+ people from DC, MD, and Missouri to figure why statistics differed from two places. I asked my project manager what the meeting was about, and she didn't know, but I had to be there. Briefly after the introductions the suits were discussing what they were seeing. I was sitting next to an engineer from the telco, and we turned and said to each other "time zones." We were measuring # of calls per day in two cities in different time zones, and, of course, got different numbers. A call after midnight in one time zone might be before midnight in another. If someone had simply sent an email to the technical side of the house explaining the discrepancy, instead of calling everyone together for an expensive meeting, we could have just explained time zones to the suits.
After this I got a spec from my project manager saying all times should be eastern standard time. I had to explain to her that UTC would be good, but failing that just eastern time, not eastern *standard*, since different locales in the US handle daylight savings time differently.
Are we going to get No Protocol's Most Expensive Mistakes, or one that makes her smile?
That bridge collapse in S Korea reminded me of the I35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis over a decade ago. Over a dozen killed. In that case, the bridge was over 40yrs old and it took that long for a construction flaw to finally fail.
Not sure what the total for a couple years ago when that freighter got jammed cross-ways in the Suez Canal. The disruption to cargo traffic must have cost all involved a huge amount. I think the world stock markets were also affected.
Huge and costly mistakes going back in history older than a few 100 years would be a lot harder to account for. Records of what happened and the costs not survived, etc.
before I was born my parents decided to have a kid and let me tell you that was one expensive mistake right there
Self-burn, is the best kind of comedy
BER airport is in fact up and running now. As a german cictizen this whole fiasco was equally embarassing and hilarious. I am a young adult now and this airport was in a perpetual state of cunstruction for a major part of my life xD
I have to mention that german standards are really high and the painfully slow crawl of bureaucracy here doesnt help either but it is still ridiculous.
I didnt expect it to make an appearance here but it made me laugh so hard :D
...if it wasn't that sad, though ^^
I would love it if you did a podcast where people could sit and talk with you about various subjects.
That would be golden!
No Protocol meets Lex Fridman?
6:22 The Home Life Insurance Building, in Chicago, was the very first skyscraper and it was in 1885
As an old Union Ironworker myself, I agree. Hence the reason that Local Union #1 is based out of Chicago and was chartered in 1896.
Does make my mistakes seem pretty insignificant. But those mistakes are not relevant to my life.
My biggest mistake is not making more time for my father or grandparents before they died. It cost me zero financially, but emotionally the cost is still going up.
Love how you don't bore us with a long introduction like so many others do.
Great smile you have as well, its nice to see someone enjoying education and not rubbing their heads in confusion.
number 6 at 8:38 "Rijkswaterstaat" (realm-water-state) is not a company, it's a branch of The Dutch government that is responsible for maintaining roads and waterways. But ye, sinky boaties expensivo. We have had a few shipping container disasters last few years when cargo was lost at sea because of storms, then polluting our shorelines with it's contents like styrofoam.
Rijkswaterstaat translated to English would be Department of Waterways and Public Works.
There is a book "Humble Pi" by Matt Parker about the most funny and costly mathematical errors in history. In relation to that Vasa ship, one of the problems was that different teams used different units during construction of the ship. Some Swedish feet, while others Amsterdam feet. At the end because they used different units of length on the two sides of the vessel , the ship was wider and heavier on the port side :)
There is also a funny story about Laufenburg bridge, on the Switzerland German border. They built one side of the bridge according to the Mediterranean Sea level, while other side according to the North Sea level. They knew there is ~10 inch difference, but instead of "-" sign somebody wrote "+" at the end the difference was 20 inches:)
It's a great book. Matt also has some cool TH-cam videos about the subject.
You should look up that salt mine/drilling disaster, it’s amazing. I think there’s even footage of it just sucking in anything and everything.
A quick note to say I really enjoy your content and thoughtfulness about same (& the quick starts & lit referrals).
Good stuff.
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Hi, thank you for taking a moment to let me know (:
The Flatiron building in New York is generally ackowledged as the first skyskraper in US & A. In Canada, it was the Union Bank Building in Winnipeg.
Really interesting but grizzly fact about the Vasa. When the Vasa was re floated a sailors preserved skull was found inside one of the canons. Thanks to the cold water both the head and ship were preserved, however the skull was one of a kind as when the ship had rolled over and capsized, a bronze cannon fell onto the sailor covering his head with the barrel of the gun keeping it protected from fish, crabs and other sea creatures from scavenging it and aswell as saving it from erosion!
I feel bad, i don’t know your name! Thank you for your videos!
The barrel on those cannons are 14,5 cm (5,7 inches) in diameter. It would be weird if they recruited infants as sailors… even back then…
@@KentKarlsson-uk1ed This was the first time I heard of this as well... I think we can call the source "disreputable" at the very least...
@@KentKarlsson-uk1ed That's an interesting info but doesn't disprove anything. Even adults have small heads, especiall such a long time ago they did.
I’m in a ton of credit card debt right now. But after watching this video, I don’t feel as bad as I did before.
I worked for a company that leads the market in manufacturing linear accelerators. They use both metric and imperial systems. There was a master tech who was telling me that he was troubleshooting one of the newer machines that was passing through manufacturing. He found a flaw in the drawing of the schematic given to him of the board he was troubleshooting. When the engineers who signed off on the schematic were asked why they didn't catch the flaw, they said the reason they signed off on it was because this other engineer signed off on it. So much for redundancy.
They say on the Lake Peigneur disaster the real casualty was Texaco's pride, as though all that salty water didn't cause massive damage to flora and fauna, which apparently doesn't matter.
One the Mars probe disaster he concludes "I guess it pays to stick to one measurement system" rather than the obvious "it's long past time the USA abandoned the antiquated imperial system and caught up to the rest of the world. The US was going to switch around 1970, the time Australia did switch, however the US decided it cost too much and forced the rest of the world to deal with that old system as well as metric, so the US didn't have to. Many Americans still can't convert and expect those that use metric to convert for them, which is pretty arrogant considering they're the ones out of step.
Another great video, keep up the good work! The Geordies appreciate what you are doing :)
I hope you speak for all Geordies! Thank you Hugh (:
@@NoProtocol They are a friendly bunch so it seems likely :) Sadly lost my accent over many years living in the south of the country :(
Being swedish I'm "happy" the Vasa made it onto the list. Knew it was a crazy expensive failure at the time, didn't think it would come in at nr 2... Yikes.
I love your style. You're on a constant mission for furthering your understanding of the world and that's really appealing. Love watching your reactions and your thoughts about various world events. Great job!! :-)
suits is one of my favorite shows ever. seen it several times through
To add context to the Mars Climate Orbiter. If I remember correctly, the spacecraft sent back data in metric (Newton-seconds) while the programme reading the data was using Imperial (pound-seconds). This differs by a factor of over 4, so they went off course by a lot and burned up in Mars' atmosphere.
I agree, at that level using the metric system should be a requirement. Having worked with both SI units and English units in engineering school, metric is far easier to work with and makes more sense.
Has absolutely nothing at all to do with the measurements being used.
It was a result of sloppy work, likely on both ends. You don't turn in your elementary school assignment without proper measurement notations, more should be expected from those building rockets.
@@Anubis78250 I agree it was negligence, that doesn't take away from the fact that SI units are easier to work with. The idea is to work smarter not harder. It's best to keep things as simple as possible to reduce chances of error.
@@jasondrake2130 It is not easier to work with, just easier to learn. I would also argue that shunning one system because it takes more to learn isn't working smarter, or reducing chances of error, but rather breeds complacency and confusion. Had these entities not excluded one system by policy they may well have more readily noticed their mistake.
If you've ever heard of the Gimli Glider, it's a plane that had to make an emergency landing in Gimli when it ran out of fuel due to a metric/imperial conversion.
I haven’t but now I’ll look into it! I’m curious
I'm surprised they didn't talked about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. It is estimated that 4,9M barrels of oil were spilled in the gulf. Cleanup and recovery cost about $40G. BP also paid about $7,8G to the victims of the spill, they settle other legal issues for $4,5G. Later the Transocean agreed to a $1G penalty under the Clean Water act. They also paid an additional $400M for criminal violation of the Clean Water Act. Transocean then resolved other claim for $211,7M. Other criminal charges were brought for about $1,3G.
The Exxon Valdez was another that I was thinking about that happened in 1989. At the time, it was the biggest disaster of the kind until the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. The Supertanker lost approximately 11M gallons of crude oil. Exxon provided $2,1G of founding for the cleanup of the 1,300 miles (2092km) of polluted water and coastlines. Even if it wasn't the largest oil spill from a tanker (not even in the top 20 in terms of quantity of Crude Oil lost), the Exxon Valdez created a lot of ecological and economic damages. 9 years after the disaster, negative repercussion could still be felt in the marine bird and fish close to the area. Exxon has paid about another $532M in causes and legal battles.
Brandenburg airport is most definitely open now, I flew into and out of it last September. Slowest border control I’ve ever experienced.
This is good to know, thank you!
I wonder where the Hubble telescope falls in the list. It wasn’t completely lost, but it was mis-engineered and had to be retrofitted with “glasses” to work properly. That had to cost a pretty penny and several years of time.
I am swedish, and the sinking of the Vasa makes us laugh so much, judging by all of our scandinavian neighbors who have not made any original brands of cars and militray ships... Because they would have laughed too, predicting all of the funny failures we swedes would have in the future, just to produce something that is; "cool".
#10 Compensation. In 1988, the average annual salary in South Korea was around US$868; by 2000 it was about half the US, but I'm not sure where it was in 1994. Even today, though, the standard for death insurance is 120 days of daily average pay.
@6:30 The Empire State Building cost just under $41 million in 1931, which is over $600 million today.
the ryugyong hotel was a huge money-waster too.
kim il sung thought he would build a world-class hotel to make NK look like a paradise, but it turned into an unoccupied unfinished fiasco.
One of my past employers worked on the CityCenter Project in Las Vegas which included the Vdara. They told me the sun rays were so how they would melt the plastic on the chairs on the pool deck. As i recall, a special window film coating was used to tame those devil rays.
And the bridge collapse story reminded me of a former coworker use to drive/commute daily over the I35 bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minnesota. He missed the collapse be about 30 minutes.
Holy crap! Law and Order has been on 33 years! Now I feel old. Thanks No Protocol! lol
Alaska was also called "Seward's Folly" in the U.S. named after Secretary of State Seward - I bet the gold rush changed those people's opinions also...
My most expensive mishap was when I was 12 or 13 when I started playing Counterstrike over the summer holidays. At that time there was no DSL or Internet flat rates. After the holidays came a €250 bill. My mom didn't think it was funny at all...
More Be Amazed pls!
Thank you for enlightening me there. I didn’t know there was a word for the sunken cost fallacy that’s a new one. I know a lot of people who suffer with this 😂
id like to think that the sale of the yukon was probably the cheapest peace treaty america and russia have ever made. imagine the implications of russia owning that land up until now...
13:00 That’s why the lottery is the "Idiot Tax"
BER Airport is already open, quite nice and flexible considering just 2 main terminals(1&2)
On last February I was flying back home from there to Indonesia and back...
The Wikipedia entry for "S-80 Plus-class submarine" (your "Isaac Peril" chapter), in relation to its vast cost overruns, only says "due to problems with the design, it had to be extensively redesigned in the 2010s,..." ---It eventually came in at more than twice the original estimate, and why Spain needed to spend $1 billion Euros EACH on 4 submarines capable of carrying 8 combat troops apiece, is not discussed.
Clarification on the Walkie talkie building. I worked on the construction. The architect took his name off the building, his design had special glass for the concave face of the building which would have cost 18 million I think to remember. Putting traditional glass was way cheaper so they took the chance by knowing that if it did make the same problem as in Las Vegas the cost of repair would be 6 million... I believe the 12 million from the video is the total cost, so at the end they actually saved 6 millions from the original design...
I was only 1 yo at the time, but when I was older, my mom had told me she had a nightmare about a bridge collapsing. A few days later was when that bridge collapsed. She’s never been the type to make up stories or fabricate things for attention (honestly she’s generally pretty boring).
The twenty floor Flat Iron building was one NYC first skyscraper completed in 1902. It has the distinction of being the first steel skeleton structure which was visible to people as it was being built.
13:00 I travelled to Berlin in 2018 and I really wish the new airport was operational because they desperately need it. There are only 2 runways at Berlin's current main airport and it was packed with planes, passengers, and delays were rampant. Absolutely insane and a very rare German engineering failure lol
I've seen this video. Not this one but the one you're reacting to. Nice vid.
The Mars orbiter costly failure has become the main example in every metric vs. imperial video of why the 3 remaining countries that still use imperial (or at least the US) should fully adopt the metric system.
"So, what's the most expensive mistake you've ever made and how does it compare?"- What a dumb question to ask! 😂
As a german I can tell you that the BER airport is somewhat of a running gag. A painful one though.
I traveled to Berlin from Paris on New Year’s Day 2023 and it was up and running and very busy.
" i'm not a rocket scientist " remark ... Sweet.
A fun law series is “Boston Legal.” Five seasons, excellent cast. If you haven’t seen it, you may want to.
The sunken cost fallacy reminds me of when I stopped smoking back in 2005. I decided to put the money I would've spent on cigarettes in a savings account instead. That's 1 pack a day that goes into my bank account instead of my lungs. Win-win!
wasn't my mistake personally, but while working on military aircrafts one our crews replaced 3 burnt out radars on consecutive flights under the nose radome of the jet before they realized that the ram air scoop was mounted backwards. This kept it from being properly cooled which was why it kept burning out. With parts and labor hours I'm sure it was close to a million bucks.
I lvoe the "No Intro style"
One of the reasons why the Wasa went down can be attributed to the king himself. The way I heard it many moons ago was that he was not satisfied with its size. So he decided that an extra gundeck was to be added which in turn meant that it was top-heavy. So when she cast off it didn't take much wind to make her lean so much that water gushed in through the gun-ports on lower deck...
Im kinda offended that my ex gfs birth didn't make the list
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Saying that he knew it would happen is a confession of negligence, possibly wilful negligence...............
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the blockage of the suez canal by the ever given ended up settling for 550 million dollars but it was estimated the blockage itself caused 400 million an hour in lost revenue due to other vessels being unable to cross about 5.1 billion a day mind blowing
Rocket science is VERY simple , just throw a lot of stuff backward , but big rocket engineering is insane
My most expensive mistake was getting a roommate.
This list should also include my psycho girlfriend from my late teens, which cost me my sanity, pride, mental health, self esteem and trust in others. A mistake still being paid for today.
If you liked the story of the Mars Climate Orbiter disaster you should look up "The Gimli Glider". I won't go into details, and it wasn't expensive in the end, but it's a fascinating story of misused measurements.
A certain beer should be on the next updated video.
This video is making a good argument for why well trained AI should takeover some jobs.
I would have rioted if the Vasa wasn't mentioned. 14:17
Always click these right away. Dunno what it is, probably cos you dont harp on about liking and subscribing and notifications. So i just consider you a genuine person and more likely to give you the like and subscribe cos it doesn't feel like youre using me for that.. Also i love your wide range knowledge and your own personal insights that most channels just dont possess. Your format it is great and unique and i love that you give us literary recommendations. Keep doing what you do awesome as always. Im genuinely blown away by the wide variety of different topics you know about. Just all around impressive stuff
My most expensive mistake? Easy: Getting married.
Hahaha the first skyscraper was built by the Egyptians, so you'd have to ask them about the coat adjusted for inflation 😂
Berlin-Brandenburg Airport is finally open by now
Please do a review of the video "Is The Metric System Actually Better?" It is really worth paying attention to. Please like it so that she can see it. 😀
Compartmentalization of duties can lead to very costly errors as illustrated by the $500 million mission metric/imperial units mistakes...
Governments, militaries, etc are heavily compartmentalized
You should look at the millennium tower in San Francisco or the bay bridge, huge engineering mistakes.. or the flight computers on Boeing needed to be re program because it caused planes to wreck.
For the metric/imperial thing.
The problem is that if build in the US, the manufacturing side will be using imperial. Nasa still needs to deal with external businesses and said businesses need to be able to communicate with their manufacturing.
I dont know how the 500M pounds that Chelsea spent aren't on the list hehe (If you follow football you know)
Lmao definitely should be altho they did double their recent scoring output last night, shithouses.
definitely checking out the The Lake Peigneur Giant Sinkhole Disaster.
how do You choose wich creator to watch? :)
2:00 dont forget this is in the 90s, in the south korean context, and not adjusted to inflation.
It’s still not as much as I would have expected but as I mentioned, I have no clue how the South Korean judicial system plays out
Back when we used to lay out calendar dates manually, I may have shifted dates once or twice resulting in one complete print re-run, origination and all and one new set of origination (thankfully it hadn't gone to print!). Fun times 😅
Oh that happened to a lady here in The Netherlands just last week. She'd had 500 calendars made with cat photos to make money for her cat recovery center. Turns out some days were just missing from the calendar making them worthless.
There is a new bridge collapse than can be added to this list.
Bridges, plane, car, train, street train crashes are scary to watch if you're about to embark on a journey where you might come across these things. I legimatley never listend to News describing these things before using one of them. That I'm doing this now before my holiday vacay is unforunate coincendces bc I didn't thought of these things and was thinking, while it was still a ship and ish still happens more of like crimes and accidents around Titanic times.
Speaking of lawyer shows, have you seen Better Call Saul?
Silly me… I thought it was a bud light or Tucker video
I did some stupid things as a teen. Court was involved. 4, 700.
Bud Light is about to apply for a spot on this list.
Canadian here, still pissed we didn't take up the offer... even if just for the coastlines... the fact that Alaska is way over harvesting our endangered B.C. bourn salmon stocks is bad enough, let alone all the other reasons
Making shiny buildings should be a capital crime.
P.S. No way Lockheed and JPL made that mistake. But, you know how "official stories" go.
I don't understand why putting a pile of dirt next to the river bank caused it to drill under the building and collapse it. ❓
When do you get in trouble for not knowing what you should know? Like, how do you not know that you're bad at your job?
If i designed cars, that kept killing people.. I'd stop designing cars... Better yet WHO WOULD LET ME? Good ol' Rafael Vinoly though.. "Oh you make Hundred Million Dollar buildings that create small fires?!" WELL SURE ILL LET YOU DESIGN MY BUILDING!
If you want to know more about man made disasters, you should read a book written by Tom Philips titled "Humans: a breif history how we f**ked it all up" a really good book
my most expensive mistake was paying for uni when I could have gone to a trade school and made the same amount of money as I do now but without the fees
So my one was £200, peanuts compared to all these but at the time it was a lot of money for me. Still would be for me today, but basically I tried to start my own business and I was convinced it would be easy despite me not being a business minded person. Me not being a business minded person caused it to crash and burn, so yeah.
Beautiful and You have a very pleasant voice. Could be a TV star.
Humble Pi is a very good book by TH-camr & Standup-Mathematician Matt Parker. All about mistakes like the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Thank you for this recommendation Philippe!