In certain circles, the 3 Gorges Dam is known as the Taiwanese Independence Dam. As soon as China made the dam, they essentially made Taiwan a nuclear power, since most of Taiwan's Yun Feng missiles are said to be targeted on the dam, giving Taiwan the ability to destroy at least 3 major Chinese cities.
This doesn’t take into consideration the debris. As the flood water travels it picks up buildings, homes, power lines and poles, cars, etc. in time the water will look like a roiling mountain flowing through the valleys. Occasionally the debris will clog. And it will hold a few seconds, a minute... and that extra pressure will cause even more destruction
Yeah there are lots of considerations, they would also be dumping water from any reservoirs in the flood path creating extra reserve, it would also be hard to factor in the random construction of emergency berms and diversions and if the dam fails I doubt it would be all at once. I would have liked to have seen an overall view but very interesting for sure. The Japanese tsunami would be a good data resource for city inundation flow characteristics to model on.
That water is polluted and looks that there is so much derbies that it could stuck dams power production. They basically allow that happens and whole open inside, no sidewalls between turbines. And if those cracks on wall are true, this damn is going to be breaking news.. that whole structure is stupidly bad too many ways even known facts. And there could be many problems what not known. Earthquake is last thing for this. Water could go under that structure.
Yeah that happned during the horrible Tsunami in Japan. u had a huge amount of debri floating ontop of the Flood deluge. whole houses and such burning.
Fun fact: The decision to construct the three gorges dam was actually the closest "vote" in the Chinese Communist Party's history. Only 62% of voting members actually said yes, which given China's history of dictators is rather telling.
@@rookiebird9382 How about we for once in our lives don't try to change the subject to the US and make fun of them? How about we actually stay on the subject at hand not blame the US for everything because we're pro Chinese?
@Jam Lee You're either being dishonest or have a very poor understanding of English. He said A HISTORY OF DICTATORS, NOT THAT IT IS ONE. HISTORY meaning past tense. His implication is the cultural impact of the past on China's present, i.e. conformity being valued in Chinese society and therefore votes being often skewed to one side which is why this instance of a close call being an oddity.
@@johnbeavers9977 That might be it then. A few years ago bitcoin value was predicted to go up because the chinese were getting into it. That's probably enough reason for youtube to recommend this to you.
@@xingzhang904 Ahhahhah, that's hilarious. This is not a rumor, this is a prediciton of what might happen if the dam were to break. Get a dictionary, fool. As for whether the dam actually collarpses, nobody can know that for certain.
@@Niskirin Sure this guy does not understand the word simulation and does not know why we need simulation. I would assume this video was made before the dam was approved, since this is one of the evaluation metric.
@@Jinkuzu the Brits certainly didn't care, bombs away! Read up on operation chastise. The Brits purpose built a bouncing, spinning bomb to destroy German dams in an attempt to stall their manufacturing capability.
@@nevadataylor If this flood happens the CCP will blame the root cause on the United States of America. The United Nations will agree with China's findings.😷😟
@@nevadataylor I wouldn't trust a "documentary" produced by China. The Union Carbide accident was bad but India refused to take any responsibility for allowing people to live in the buffer zone surrounding the chemical plant. Union Carbide had repeatedly asked for the people to be removed. Accident was sad and avoidable.☹️😥😢
@@wms1650 Well just like it wasnt the Indian government doing the documentary regarding the tragedy in Bhopal, I dont think it will be China making a documentary either, in this case. "Accident was sad and avoidable."
@@nevadataylor Carlos Spicyweiner, your original post " They chose (and are choosing to) live there." You wrote concerning Chinese people. Would that be applicable to the squatters on Union Carbide's land in India? Capitalism has had disasters. Communist countries have had disasters. Both types of management are run by people doing their best. We can ask ourselves which type of management has created more improvement for the citizens. I think the capitalist system is better. But........ this is my opinion.
Killing millions of children and women isn't very heavenly. The collapse would kill the people, not the goverment officials. Hoping the dam collapses is disgusting. It would be the largest mass death ever.
Holy crap... that's basically an inland tsunami... I'm not a fan of Chinese government but I hope for the sake of the people who live there that this never happens.
If you look it up on Wikipedia, experts told them not to build it. There's a simulation video showing the expected damage. China's is so screwed on this one. It's already a catastrophe. They have to drain the dam. They are trying and it keeps filling up from the days of Noah like rain. I and many agree God is pouring out His wrath against what China has been doing there. There's a half million living below the dam. No one knows if China is evacuating them? When it fails the wall of water will slam into a nuclear power plant. That's not going to go well. It's said there are lots of labs in Wuhan like the one Covid 19 is to blame. Deadly viruses? Deadly chemicals? They have an Inevitable water catastrophe, unknown how bad an environmental catastrophe and unless they can move the stuff out of those labs, a biological catastrophe too. All we can do is pray China is evacuating everybody below the dam.
@@debistanley2791 lol if this is God's doing then he/she/it is pretty weak eh? Furthermore, why would such an all-powerful and all-knowing being go to extreme efforts just to show topple a mortal government? That being could have just killed the leaders and be done with it. As such, your assumptions are baseless and even your notion of such a God/Powerful being is ridiculous. Don't be fooled by religion and stop your backward thinking. God doesn't exist. And even if it exists, why should it care what is happening in a mortal world?
@@saaaahduuuuude1228 is the word wuMao the only thing in your vocabulary? Can't you compose a better argument? By resorting to ad hominem, you're only proving the argument of the opposing party. Now moving on, since you've put forward missiles, then let the topic be about war. In all aspects, be it military manpower, the nuclear arsenal, and the number of sophisticated armaments ---- Taiwan is not capable of being an enemy to the mainland. Without US imperial intervention back in the 20th century, neither KMT nor Taiwan would exist. By the way, did you know that the US played both sides in the Chinese civil war? They've supported the nationalist KMT and the communist Mao. The US ought they are all-powerful and considered China as its property. However, even though the US and the nationalists had better armaments and technology ---- they still lost horrendously to a bunch of peasants in the mountain
@@saaaahduuuuude1228 hahahhahaha what a troll! You should exercise your brain every once in a while. That same phrase of yours had been repeated innumerable times. Try to refute my claims, let's see how intelligent you are. If you don't have anything to contribute other than ad hominem, then I really feel sorry for your inability.
My father (jack scriven) was the president of the canadian company Teshmont Consulting Inc. They were the company tasked with allocating where all the electrical power the dam would produce would be sent to and how it was split up!! I remember as a child having dinner with chinese business executives and their CCP Handlers at our house in winnipeg, manitoba, canada where Teshmont Consulting was based. I even have a picture of me and my family and all the chinese staff at winnipeg airport when they left! great video, thanks for your work.
The simulation doesn't account for landslides and the mud dams formed by them up river as the reservoir drains. I've heard that the greatest devastation may be upstream of the 3 gorges dam due to this. What is for certain is that foresight has always been present, then ignored.
Not to mention since the 3 gorges Chinese pressure washer has been going on for a few weeks it probably also weakening the ground below besides mudslides if an earthquake or a shift happens because of the pressure redistribution it will be far worse
The Lahar of silt, mudslide chunks, and wreckage pile would be even more unreal than Japan in 2010... Which makes me wonder how the communists would blame the US for it...
I wish the best for all of the innocent people who would be affected by this. That being said, it would be an unspeakable tragedy if their government were to know that this was going to happen and do nothing.
They already release some water without warning the population downstream. Some people died in their sleep drowned or electrocuted because of electrical appliance under water
Yeah. Same shit happened in Italy in like 50s or 60s. Government were blaming comunists and defending corporations rather than caring about people. People just don't learn and doomed to repeat the same tragedies with even bigger scale time after time.
Its a simulation of what would happen if it collapse and I'm pretty sure the simulation was created to prevent unforeseen circumstances . Its just like a simulation of what would happen if a nuclear arsenal in the United States were to explode. It is the largest Dam in the world and the power produced by it has been recovered 7 years ago. The dam has also been vital in minimizing floods from heavy rainfalls. Those old 50-60 year old dams created during the Mao era had plenty of flaws and some had been demolished. These modern dams however, is completely different. Is there a chance of it collapsing? Yes but not like the one shown in the simulation where everyone is caught off guard and everyone dies to flood.
I traveled the river through the 3 gorges before the dam was started. it was amazing. Now those towns and deep chasms are filled in with water. I watched it being built over time as I traveled to Chengdu. It is monumental.
The problem with this simulation is that it has the entire length of the dam failing all at once. The most likely scenario, based on past dam failures, is that there would be an initial breach which would gradually be widened by the escaping water. It would still be catastrophic, but you would not suddenly have 39 billion cubic meters of water flowing downstream. Someone should look at a more realistic simulation.
Doesn't matter. The amount of water held is such enormous that the pressure exerted on remaining wall will force it to collapse. In both scenarios, this will be the deadliest flood the world will ever see. LET'S PRAY FOR THE BEST. HOPE THE DAM HOLDS UP.
with the amount of water, deformation and cracking of the dam, and the known substandard building practices, designs, and materials, odds are it would totally fail in under 2 minutes.
no we need to pray it falls. the people are already at wits end with the ccp with the current tiny floods. this might spell revolution. @@sarthsingh3271
I THINK YOUR WRONG ABOUT THAT ASSUMPTION BASED ON THE FACTS GIVEN SO FAR….THE DAM HAS BEEN WEEKEND ON THE DAMS FLANKS WHERE IT “WAS” ANCHORED. ALSO, THERE IS DEFORMATION ALONG ITS LENGTH THE CHINESE ARE FRANTICALLY TRYING TO REPAIR…SO….THE TYPHOONS HAVE DONE FAR MORE TO DEFORM THE DAM THAN TIWAN COULD INITIALLY DO. A FOLLOW UP BY TIWAN AT THIS STAGE BASED ON THE “FACTS” THAT DESCRIBE ITS CONDITION “WOULD” BE CATASTROPHIC AT THIS POINT.
The reservoir being held by the 3 Gorges Dam could fill Arizona’s Grand Canyon to the rim. Toss in some heavy rainfalls and you’ve got a serious problem.
Good movie idea. What an absolute cataclysm this would be. Part of me would love to see a more realistic video or simulation to truly observe the power of the dam breaking, including the devastating canyon it would carve, the mud slide, as another commenter explained. Truly horrific, I’d be terrified living in its path.
Dependending on the soil, it either digs the valley, or creates a water slide which further strenghtens the flood downstream. Either way, without the knowledge of the soil's composition downstream, the model can be taken somewhat seriously in an illustrative way of what will happen.
It reminds me of the guy that got struck by lightning 3 times and survived each time, then dies and his tombstone got struck. F*** that guy/F*** that city. Poor Wuhan; hopefully this is a scenario that we never see play out.
It is when one third of your country live downstream from the dam; including massive cities like Nanjing, Wuhan and Shanghai. In fact to put it into perspective more people live downstream from the three gorges dam than in the entirety of North America.
The thre gorges dam is a gravity dam. That means it is highly unlikely for all sections of the dam to collapse simultaneously. But the collapse of just one section would still be devastating
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Generally if you name them, the comment gets eaten by the site. I might even be shadowbanned, and you won't ever see my reply.
@@Jsay18 well, given that "boss ladys" paranoid comment is already nine months old, it has basically disproven itself, since the dam didn't break. Or did "they" change their mind?
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 That only happens if the first dam breaks, which it hasn't. If the first dam breaks, then all the water from there will go to the second dam and overwhelm it. The damd is only designed for so much water. Think of it as two full cups of water, if you pour one into the other, the one being poured into, overflows.
@@Jsay18 sure, but what does this have to do with the unproven - and, as I pointed out, effectively disproven by now - conspiracy allegation that "Boss lady" laid out in her comment?
I agree but if the previous generation engineers thought the same, you probably will be eating yesterday's hunted buffalo leg inside a dark cave with your smelly cousins....
@Johnston Steiner Be careful... Mother Nature is trying very hard to close the Panama Canal. Earthquakes and landslides are common in the area. Dredging operations go on daily to keep up. She'll get it back sooner or later. One really good quake, and the Hoover will be no more as well... Mother Nature does not play. :)
@@jimmurphy6095 and im fro holland and ill add that if we dont start making out water barricades higher in something like 10 years or so parts WILL start flooding again.. you are right people shouldnt mess with nature.. 3 gorges dam is one of the worst examples not just fro the danger but also the insane amount of damage done to the eco system
@@traficlight8680 so because you want the CCP to fail, you need to kill what from another comment I seen, whether it's TRUE or not i don't know, but an estimated 50,000,000 people will die from the flooding alone. And according to another comment in reply, that there are multiple nuclear power stations nearby. And who knows how many if they go bust
Much Worse than this mock video displayed..That amount of force,mixed with floating object,tree,house,sediment,would be utter quick destruction..I Pray CCP will be transparent to ALERT and not be selfish..
If the dam breaks the ccp's leaders will do it's darnest to cover it up. letting it go public will uncover the substandard materials and efforts of the dam's construction, show the incompetence and corruption of the ccp government and their instinctual response to a crisis by sweeping it under the rug and blaming someone else. some local authorities and civilians will organize their own individual evacuations. the peaks can only hold so much people in it. boats will be too risky in the first hours of the flood and china's air forceight get slowed down if not don't take off at all (I'll explain it below) the country's main police force might halt the evacuation, awaiting further orders from their government (why did i assume that they'll not help immediately? look at corona virus) i do hope they take the initiative to help since this is a tangible, immediate threat that cannot be controlled by killing witnesses like corona. china's air force may be slowed or ineffective/potentially in danger since they built theirs underground to conceal their weapons research and as a response to the cold war's nuclear threats the flooding will get in below and i pray for those unlucky enough to be buried inside. it's even worse if they stored their nuclear warheads inside; the radiation might leak and affect the neighboring countries if it gets out (like what happened to chernobyl's nuclear ash rain)
you should look at "fort peck dam, fort peck montana" worlds longest hydraulically earth filled dam (aka, they mixed water with mud.... pumped it 10 miles.... let the water drain off.... and the dirt stay) . she is 3.5 miles long....IIRC.... and has held firm sense 1937 even during the RECORD levels seen in 2011 . i live 2 miles from this dam
@@serpico1616 if you want to live, that's easy, the thing is that you never know when it will get you, not everyone has the income for avoiding something that may or may not happen, like renting a house and stay there for months
I remember watching this being built years ago and did a school report on it. And it was a big deal for China. Kinda sad to see, but then I didn't know how shoddy the construction was.
We knew, western engineers looked at the dam and said it was not structurally stable. China said they were racist and created their own report saying is could last 100 years.
I'm fairly sure that this dam (or any other) would not collapse in the manner shown in the video. Perhaps that would not ultimately matter because the water behind the dam would escape anyway. However, it may not flow out at the pace depicted here. Volume, yes. Flow, no.
By this scenario, the expected death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands. If this collapse was sudden and catastrophic, then the death toll, taken by surprise, could hit the million plus mark.
I read that 400 million people would be made homeless from the flooding if the dam collapsed. There is actually time to get many out of harm's way because of the distances involved but finding a place to put 400 million people would be a challenge, particularly if this happened in winter when people would need shelter from the cold. The question as to whether the dam could be destroyed by missiles, and some experts in Taiwan indicated that two missiles could do the job, while the designers indicated that the dam was designed to be able to survive a hit from a tactical nuclear weapon.
you're expecting the communist party to come up with an evacuation plan? I should remind you this is the same ideology that left the people of Pripyat in the city for 2 days after Chernobyl? Different country, same ideology. They'll respond pretty much the same way the soviets responded to Chernobyl, just watch.
Nanjing and Wuhan have a population over 10 million. This scale of evacuation is nearly impossible to be carried out in just a single day. Nearest city to the dam- Yichang has a population of 4.5 million. Rapid evacuation in yichang is also nearly impossible . In order to make sure everyone stays safe, an evacuation plan needs to be floated right now. LET'S PRAY THIS DAM HOLDS UP🙏
@@killman369547 how many serious radiaton acidents had happened before Chernobyl? Actually no one that had really serious consequences. Moreover soviet leaders were managers, not scientists and they gave a fuck for their opinion which already was quite late. Damb is a completely different thing and even the dumbest person understands the threat it brings so I would not have been so sceptical about that.
It's probably a PRC leak. CCP's pretty concerned about all these minor dam failures and wanted to see what a 3 gorges dam failure would look like so they can plan how to spin it and how much damage it will do, and presumably, what protocols to enact in case such a calamity happened.
fun fact, if a concrete structure is reinforced with steel, if failure occurs it will only be damaged or fail in one part, the other parts will work as they should. In the case of a dam of this size, if a failure occurs then what happens is a leak in the part of the dam where the water flows. will come out according to the size of the leak that occurs where the overflow of water is like the overflow of water when the spillways are opened, whereas in the simulation in this video the dam is destroyed from end to end as if it was bombed with a nuclear bomb and the possibility of this happening is very small.
It's a matter of time before it does and it's on lockdown so disaster is coming it could be Monday or Saturday the week after some other dams were released as well and those like Wu are sacrifices sadly
that dam may already be past the point of no return, the reservoir is filling faster then the spillways can empty it. it's only a matter of time with that kind of pressure
Dams rarely fail as completely as is simulated. If it were to fail, it would most probably fail in a specific spot due to earthquake damage new (new quake) or old (old quake that weakens structural piles). The spot failures would be 5 to 10% of the simulation- that's the good news. The bad news is that once the cork is out of the bottle those spot failures will grow larger but how fast or slow that happens is anybody's guess. It will be a rolling disaster that rapidly gets worse, peaks and then slows. The Chinese have some very good, smart engineers. They'll figure it out.
Actually the most likely cause of collapse will be too much water to hold back due to rain. If you look at other videos showing the dam during high water you can actually see it bending due to the pressure. That type of collapse will take out most of the dam.
Would it be possible to build one or more emergency dams just downstream from the main dam? To at least hold back the torrent? Slow it down? Before it fails?
If the dam fails, it is very unlikely that the whole length will go at the same time. A gap will open and rushing water will cut at it, making it bigger, and bigger. But some of the dam will remain in place, at least for a while, slowing the flow to some extent. As the water surges down stream, it will erode a lot of soil. The video showed the water being directed by the existing terrain, but in truth, the water will cut through a lot of ridges, especially those on the outside of bends in the river. That means that some water will jump into areas that this video did not show. And the mud, rock, and debris that the flow of water will carry will be a massive amount. That material alone will do a huge amount of damage. I have been skeptical that the dam will collapse simply because I don't believe that any of the builders involved in the most prestigious, most visible, most potentially dangerous construction project in China's history would fail to understand that they would be executed if they cut corners on the dam's construction, and the cause of a failure was traced back to their work. Chinese builders are notorious for shoddy work, and cutting corners to increase their profits, but in this case, who would dare do that? The premier of China has personally been involved with this project. You would have to be suicidal to mess with him.
Exactly. Why would china waste all that money to build a dam that fails on pourpose. Unless their building skills are that poor. I guess brand new apartment complexes are so cheaply built they are falling apart and collapsing after only a few years.
@@johnnymnemonic69 Builders who cheat on apartment buildings are common in China. Builders who cheat on a massive state run project that the communist party is intimately tied to, know that they will be killed if their work fails. I'm not saying that I know the dam was well made. I'm just saying that I think self preservation, and fear, may have motivated builders who normally cheat, to do that project right.
The initial failure will probably not be a full collapse of the entire dam. The initial failure will either involve a limited section of the structure where it has cracked and weakened or the water will begin to escape at either or both ends of the dam as it overtops. Erosion will widen and deepen the breach, and within hours the maximum dump rate will be observed. It will be horrible and huge, but not on the scale shown here.
I hope they get some good 4K drone footage if it lets go. That said, I'd give it a slim chance of going. It's designed for quite a bit more than it's currently holding back.
like mentioned in the video, discussing the 3 gorges dam is taboo, but that doesn't mean people don't talk about it. There have been concerns raised about the dam for decades now. People know that it isn't totally safe.
basically it was built by the 3rd rate company using 4th rate materials, building it 2x too fast, and not to the specifications of the engineers. corner cutters galore to put it nicely. to put it bluntly. it is through bred chinese.
@@francethemc9416 You heard right. So like a tire out of balance. Now picture that displaced water being released at about 100mph. All at once. The words "reel like a drunkard" come to mind. With the core already overheated and the plates already bound up, what happens? All that pressure with that shaking and vibration....I see it heading to the US from both sides, and along the way? Vesuvius, etna, la Palma. La Palma alone....from the west, Toba, that super volcano under the pacific, then the Cascadian & SA...all that meeting prettily at the New Madrid - within about a week...
@@mulle5784 dang ... so it could trigger the ring of fire. Basically cause global earthquakes and tsunamis.. sounds like the end to me.. I live in California in LA.. scary to think about the dam failing any day
@@mulle5784 The earth rotates at 1000 mph. I'm not sure it will be impressed with 100 mph. Human beings on this Earth are like fleas on an elephant. I'm not sure it even notices us.
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In certain circles, the 3 Gorges Dam is known as the Taiwanese Independence Dam. As soon as China made the dam, they essentially made Taiwan a nuclear power, since most of Taiwan's Yun Feng missiles are said to be targeted on the dam, giving Taiwan the ability to destroy at least 3 major Chinese cities.
well, I guess Nature is going to destroy it before anyone could
That is a very interesting bit of information.
That's how West Taiwan will be created.
@@shafwandito4724 people have been saying that from day 1, and people are still gonna say it after 100 years
You'd need actual nukes to blow up that dam. They can maybe shut down power production. They can't cause catastrophic flooding.
This doesn’t take into consideration the debris. As the flood water travels it picks up buildings, homes, power lines and poles, cars, etc. in time the water will look like a roiling mountain flowing through the valleys. Occasionally the debris will clog. And it will hold a few seconds, a minute... and that extra pressure will cause even more destruction
Yeah there are lots of considerations, they would also be dumping water from any reservoirs in the flood path creating extra reserve, it would also be hard to factor in the random construction of emergency berms and diversions and if the dam fails I doubt it would be all at once. I would have liked to have seen an overall view but very interesting for sure. The Japanese tsunami would be a good data resource for city inundation flow characteristics to model on.
Also this water is probably incredibly polluted.
That water is polluted and looks that there is so much derbies that it could stuck dams power production. They basically allow that happens and whole open inside, no sidewalls between turbines. And if those cracks on wall are true, this damn is going to be breaking news.. that whole structure is stupidly bad too many ways even known facts. And there could be many problems what not known. Earthquake is last thing for this. Water could go under that structure.
Yeah that happned during the horrible Tsunami in Japan. u had a huge amount of debri floating ontop of the Flood deluge. whole houses and such burning.
@@richardcox8409it would most definitely be apocalyptic af.
Fun fact: The decision to construct the three gorges dam was actually the closest "vote" in the Chinese Communist Party's history. Only 62% of voting members actually said yes, which given China's history of dictators is rather telling.
Interesting. Ty
Unfortunately, the went with ACME!
@@rookiebird9382 How about we for once in our lives don't try to change the subject to the US and make fun of them? How about we actually stay on the subject at hand not blame the US for everything because we're pro Chinese?
@Jam Lee You're either being dishonest or have a very poor understanding of English. He said A HISTORY OF DICTATORS, NOT THAT IT IS ONE. HISTORY meaning past tense. His implication is the cultural impact of the past on China's present, i.e. conformity being valued in Chinese society and therefore votes being often skewed to one side which is why this instance of a close call being an oddity.
@Jam Lee You do know they have elections in North Korea too, right? Do not call someone uneducated. Ruling by a single party is a dictatorship.
Me: TH-cam?
TH-cam: yes?
Me: why is this in my recommended?
TH-cam:...
TH-cam: You’ll see.
Lol. I know why it is recommended to me. I've been keeping an eye on china for a little over a year now.
EDIT: are you by any chance into stocks?
AnteConfig crypto’s, but nothing serious, what’s up?
Bought high, panic sold low
I love crypto
@@johnbeavers9977 That might be it then. A few years ago bitcoin value was predicted to go up because the chinese were getting into it.
That's probably enough reason for youtube to recommend this to you.
LMFAO
"It is not yet known who made the video."
Cause if it was known, whoever it was would then "disappear", I bet.
What rumors? Its just a video simulation.
@@xingzhang904 Keep saying something will never happen and Fate will want to prove you wrong.
@@xingzhang904 Ahhahhah, that's hilarious. This is not a rumor, this is a prediciton of what might happen if the dam were to break. Get a dictionary, fool. As for whether the dam actually collarpses, nobody can know that for certain.
@@Niskirin *Not yet*
@@Niskirin Sure this guy does not understand the word simulation and does not know why we need simulation. I would assume this video was made before the dam was approved, since this is one of the evaluation metric.
Note to self: 3 Gorges dam will be a prime target during rainy season when/if a nuclear war ever breaks out.
Doesn't really need nukes if its collapsing under the pressure of the water behind it, just hit it with a regular bomb or two.
It's a war crime to destroy infrastrucure like dams.
We're not destroying it, its already destroyed, we're just speeding up the process.
@@TH-camIsRetarded689 a normal torpedo is enough.
@@Jinkuzu the Brits certainly didn't care, bombs away!
Read up on operation chastise. The Brits purpose built a bouncing, spinning bomb to destroy German dams in an attempt to stall their manufacturing capability.
There's something like 400 million people living downstream of that dam. That is horrifying.
They chose (and are choosing) to live there.
@@nevadataylor If this flood happens the CCP will blame the root cause on the United States of America.
The United Nations will agree with China's findings.😷😟
@@nevadataylor I wouldn't trust a "documentary" produced by China.
The Union Carbide accident was bad but India refused to take any responsibility for allowing people to live in the buffer zone surrounding the chemical plant.
Union Carbide had repeatedly asked for the people to be removed.
Accident was sad and avoidable.☹️😥😢
@@wms1650 Well just like it wasnt the Indian government doing the documentary regarding the tragedy in Bhopal, I dont think it will be China making a documentary either, in this case.
"Accident was sad and avoidable."
@@nevadataylor Carlos Spicyweiner, your original post " They chose (and are choosing to) live there."
You wrote concerning Chinese people.
Would that be applicable to the squatters on Union Carbide's land in India?
Capitalism has had disasters.
Communist countries have had disasters.
Both types of management are run by people doing their best.
We can ask ourselves which type of management has created more improvement for the citizens.
I think the capitalist system is better.
But........ this is my opinion.
World War Z told us what to expect after this.
Coming up next in 2020
@@tytyguy1able Zombies roaming the streets coming to your local area
WorldNetExplorer do you think the Covid vaccine will turn ppl into zombies.
@@uponwrath4372 Read World War Z. Patient zero was exposed while scuba diving in the area flooded by the Three Gorges Dam.
Time to get a lobo then
Not a fan of China but i would never wish this disaster on those people. Hope this doesn't happen.
Generic Citizen no difference many of main land chinese people are supporting their regime.
@@TheT3MK4 ; So you hope it will happen,as soon as possible and as much as possible deadly victims.. ??
Kill em all.
@@KCTattooist101 That will take a long time.
Succes Jeremy
Corona payback moment
When you misclick in cities skylines.
The mandate from heaven will truly be over for the CCP if the dam collapses.
ah the mandate of heaven. not many of us round eyes know of this.
Like the CCP ever had a mandate in the first place.
Killing millions of children and women isn't very heavenly.
The collapse would kill the people, not the goverment officials. Hoping the dam collapses is disgusting. It would be the largest mass death ever.
@@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan try reading about it so you know what we are talking about
Hopefully soon
Holy crap... that's basically an inland tsunami... I'm not a fan of Chinese government but I hope for the sake of the people who live there that this never happens.
If you look it up on Wikipedia, experts told them not to build it. There's a simulation video showing the expected damage. China's is so screwed on this one. It's already a catastrophe. They have to drain the dam. They are trying and it keeps filling up from the days of Noah like rain. I and many agree God is pouring out His wrath against what China has been doing there. There's a half million living below the dam. No one knows if China is evacuating them? When it fails the wall of water will slam into a nuclear power plant. That's not going to go well. It's said there are lots of labs in Wuhan like the one Covid 19 is to blame. Deadly viruses? Deadly chemicals? They have an Inevitable water catastrophe, unknown how bad an environmental catastrophe and unless they can move the stuff out of those labs, a biological catastrophe too. All we can do is pray China is evacuating everybody below the dam.
@@debistanley2791 lol if this is God's doing then he/she/it is pretty weak eh? Furthermore, why would such an all-powerful and all-knowing being go to extreme efforts just to show topple a mortal government? That being could have just killed the leaders and be done with it.
As such, your assumptions are baseless and even your notion of such a God/Powerful being is ridiculous. Don't be fooled by religion and stop your backward thinking. God doesn't exist. And even if it exists, why should it care what is happening in a mortal world?
@@debistanley2791 half billion*
@@saaaahduuuuude1228 is the word wuMao the only thing in your vocabulary? Can't you compose a better argument? By resorting to ad hominem, you're only proving the argument of the opposing party.
Now moving on, since you've put forward missiles, then let the topic be about war.
In all aspects, be it military manpower, the nuclear arsenal, and the number of sophisticated armaments ---- Taiwan is not capable of being an enemy to the mainland.
Without US imperial intervention back in the 20th century, neither KMT nor Taiwan would exist. By the way, did you know that the US played both sides in the Chinese civil war? They've supported the nationalist KMT and the communist Mao.
The US ought they are all-powerful and considered China as its property. However, even though the US and the nationalists had better armaments and technology ---- they still lost horrendously to a bunch of peasants in the mountain
@@saaaahduuuuude1228 hahahhahaha what a troll! You should exercise your brain every once in a while. That same phrase of yours had been repeated innumerable times.
Try to refute my claims, let's see how intelligent you are. If you don't have anything to contribute other than ad hominem, then I really feel sorry for your inability.
"Hey ferb I know what we're going to do today!"
Blow the three gorges dam
My father (jack scriven) was the president of the canadian company
Teshmont Consulting Inc. They were the company tasked with allocating
where all the electrical power the dam would produce would be sent to
and how it was split up!! I remember as a child having dinner with
chinese business executives and their CCP Handlers at our house in
winnipeg, manitoba, canada where Teshmont Consulting was based. I even
have a picture of me and my family and all the chinese staff at winnipeg
airport when they left! great video, thanks for your work.
The simulation doesn't account for landslides and the mud dams formed by them up river as the reservoir drains.
I've heard that the greatest devastation may be upstream of the 3 gorges dam due to this.
What is for certain is that foresight has always been present, then ignored.
Not to mention since the 3 gorges Chinese pressure washer has been going on for a few weeks it probably also weakening the ground below besides mudslides if an earthquake or a shift happens because of the pressure redistribution it will be far worse
@KARMA One That's what I was thinking. Pray for the Chinese people.
Nor does it take into account that it would also cascade collapse all the dams down stream of it.
@KARMA One no nuke plants along the way anywhere
The Lahar of silt, mudslide chunks, and wreckage pile would be even more unreal than Japan in 2010... Which makes me wonder how the communists would blame the US for it...
I wish the best for all of the innocent people who would be affected by this. That being said, it would be an unspeakable tragedy if their government were to know that this was going to happen and do nothing.
The one and only silver lining from this is that it might be the last straw that breaks the CCP.
They already release some water without warning the population downstream. Some people died in their sleep drowned or electrocuted because of electrical appliance under water
Yeah. Same shit happened in Italy in like 50s or 60s. Government were blaming comunists and defending corporations rather than caring about people. People just don't learn and doomed to repeat the same tragedies with even bigger scale time after time.
Its a simulation of what would happen if it collapse and I'm pretty sure the simulation was created to prevent unforeseen circumstances . Its just like a simulation of what would happen if a nuclear arsenal in the United States were to explode. It is the largest Dam in the world and the power produced by it has been recovered 7 years ago. The dam has also been vital in minimizing floods from heavy rainfalls. Those old 50-60 year old dams created during the Mao era had plenty of flaws and some had been demolished. These modern dams however, is completely different. Is there a chance of it collapsing? Yes but not like the one shown in the simulation where everyone is caught off guard and everyone dies to flood.
Joshua they’ll try to pretend it didn’t happen, that wouldn’t surprise me
I traveled the river through the 3 gorges before the dam was started. it was amazing. Now those towns and deep chasms are filled in with water. I watched it being built over time as I traveled to Chengdu. It is monumental.
Hope a Lancaster doesn’t fly by
took me a while to get it( lancaster dam busters reference for those who didnt get it)
XD
Damnbusters
“Are you feeling ok?” “This is United States calling are we reaching...”
If we were in a conventional War China we would Target that dam
182m high??!! Damn! No pun intended
The problem with this simulation is that it has the entire length of the dam failing all at once. The most likely scenario, based on past dam failures, is that there would be an initial breach which would gradually be widened by the escaping water. It would still be catastrophic, but you would not suddenly have 39 billion cubic meters of water flowing downstream. Someone should look at a more realistic simulation.
Doesn't matter. The amount of water held is such enormous that the pressure exerted on remaining wall will force it to collapse.
In both scenarios, this will be the deadliest flood the world will ever see.
LET'S PRAY FOR THE BEST. HOPE THE DAM HOLDS UP.
I was just about to post this same thought and call it wishful thinking.
But I gave you a thumbs up instead.
with the amount of water, deformation and cracking of the dam, and the known substandard building practices, designs, and materials, odds are it would totally fail in under 2 minutes.
no we need to pray it falls. the people are already at wits end with the ccp with the current tiny floods. this might spell revolution.
@@sarthsingh3271
I THINK YOUR WRONG ABOUT THAT ASSUMPTION BASED ON THE FACTS GIVEN SO FAR….THE DAM HAS BEEN WEEKEND ON THE DAMS FLANKS WHERE IT “WAS” ANCHORED. ALSO, THERE IS DEFORMATION ALONG ITS LENGTH THE CHINESE ARE FRANTICALLY TRYING TO REPAIR…SO….THE TYPHOONS HAVE DONE FAR MORE TO DEFORM THE DAM THAN TIWAN COULD INITIALLY DO. A FOLLOW UP BY TIWAN AT THIS STAGE BASED ON THE “FACTS” THAT DESCRIBE ITS CONDITION “WOULD” BE CATASTROPHIC AT THIS POINT.
You can bet your britches the CCP is not happy with this video...
Why are Americans like this? Hahaha
Only narrow minded folks like you would think like this
Avro Lancaster: *watches video*
Avro Lancaster: Hold my cupou tea
DAM BUSTER.
Barns wallace would be proud . ;)
"Come on Taiwan, push the funni button. We all know you want to" - NCD
I knew I'd see a fellow degenerate here
River: I am free
Humans: weird drowning noises.
River: this must be the music of freedom.
I thought this was an ACE combat mission
Lmao!
I like your profile pic man
@@bogus69
Thanks mate
The B O Y O sweaty_Nerd
Me: What is this ace combat zero all over again
The world: yes yes it is
Ace Combat 2 feels lmao
2020: have you seen China get destroyed in your life time?
The world:no
2020:would you like to?
yes, yes I would.
Absolutely yes.
ＹＥＳ！！！
Again**
Yes
Thank you for sharing this. I saw a reference to it earlier, but really wanted to see what is showed. It is far worse than I feared.
The reservoir being held by the 3 Gorges Dam could fill Arizona’s Grand Canyon to the rim. Toss in some heavy rainfalls and you’ve got a serious problem.
Good movie idea. What an absolute cataclysm this would be. Part of me would love to see a more realistic video or simulation to truly observe the power of the dam breaking, including the devastating canyon it would carve, the mud slide, as another commenter explained. Truly horrific, I’d be terrified living in its path.
There is a movie. Hard Rain
Good "movie" idea...
few sticks of tnt would do it based off the warping and cracking lol
@@Vinzmannn
That is a serious amount of water and damage, too deal with!
What I learned today:
3 Gorges Dam is the only thing stopping the end of the world
Dependending on the soil, it either digs the valley, or creates a water slide which further strenghtens the flood downstream. Either way, without the knowledge of the soil's composition downstream, the model can be taken somewhat seriously in an illustrative way of what will happen.
At the very least, I believe the collapse of the dam would destroy a minimum of three cities.
r/NCD sends their regards. The dam collapse would be pretty based and funny.
"Come on Taiwan, push the funni button. We all know you want to"
Was searchinh for this comment. Let's do the funni together my friends
Get a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and use GBU-57B Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to destroy the dam
Taiwan is a real fucking threat, holy christ dude.
Because the deaths of millions of innocents is funny? Thanks for showing everyone that you're the kid with no IRL friends 😂
Me after beirut explosion, covid19 , nothing can suprise me
2020: do you hear about 3 Gorges Dam in China?
Beirut would be nothing but a fart compared to this bad boy
Wuhan!??That city is eternally screwed I think atleast for 2020.
It reminds me of the guy that got struck by lightning 3 times and survived each time, then dies and his tombstone got struck. F*** that guy/F*** that city. Poor Wuhan; hopefully this is a scenario that we never see play out.
Prob the famous city in China rn
Koushik Vijayakumar .4 months to go for 2020. We wait to see how your culture of hatred turn out.
FIRST STRIKE FIRST STRIKE, SKEWER THE BEAST!!!!!!!
I don't think safety has ever been the PRC's top priority.
only the idiot speak
It is when one third of your country live downstream from the dam; including massive cities like Nanjing, Wuhan and Shanghai. In fact to put it into perspective more people live downstream from the three gorges dam than in the entirety of North America.
The thre gorges dam is a gravity dam. That means it is highly unlikely for all sections of the dam to collapse simultaneously. But the collapse of just one section would still be devastating
thanks for providing more detailed explanation to the full video 🙏🏻
Well, we know how they like to do their "simulations" before the big event actually happens. It's almost like they're winking at us
who's they? 🤔
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Generally if you name them, the comment gets eaten by the site. I might even be shadowbanned, and you won't ever see my reply.
@@Jsay18 well, given that "boss ladys" paranoid comment is already nine months old, it has basically disproven itself, since the dam didn't break. Or did "they" change their mind?
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 That only happens if the first dam breaks, which it hasn't. If the first dam breaks, then all the water from there will go to the second dam and overwhelm it. The damd is only designed for so much water.
Think of it as two full cups of water, if you pour one into the other, the one being poured into, overflows.
@@Jsay18 sure, but what does this have to do with the unproven - and, as I pointed out, effectively disproven by now - conspiracy allegation that "Boss lady" laid out in her comment?
This would be devastating.
And make total sense in 2020.
It's been a bad year.
Nature always finds its way. Someone made a huge mistake by building that damn.
I agree but if the previous generation engineers thought the same, you probably will be eating yesterday's hunted buffalo leg inside a dark cave with your smelly cousins....
@Johnston Steiner Be careful... Mother Nature is trying very hard to close the Panama Canal. Earthquakes and landslides are common in the area. Dredging operations go on daily to keep up. She'll get it back sooner or later. One really good quake, and the Hoover will be no more as well... Mother Nature does not play. :)
@@dinil5566 someone's pissed that CCP is being criticized
@@youtubeshadowbannedme I'm not even Chinese bruh. Very much against CCP.
@@jimmurphy6095 and im fro holland and ill add that if we dont start making out water barricades higher in something like 10 years or so parts WILL start flooding again..
you are right people shouldnt mess with nature.. 3 gorges dam is one of the worst examples not just fro the danger but also the insane amount of damage done to the eco system
I really pray the Dam holds!!
I really pray that dam collapsed. Say me cruel but that the only way for chiness china people to realized or wake up from cruelty of ccp propanganda.
@@traficlight8680 Thousands of innocent people will be dead. The CCP will not blink an eye.
PRAY FOR THEM!
KARMA IS OUT THERE IT WILL TAKE CARE OF CCP. INNOCENT PEOPLE WON'T BE PAYING FOR CCP's ILL DEEDS.
DAM WILL HOLD UP
@@sarthsingh3271 never!
@@traficlight8680 so because you want the CCP to fail, you need to kill what from another comment I seen, whether it's TRUE or not i don't know, but an estimated 50,000,000 people will die from the flooding alone. And according to another comment in reply, that there are multiple nuclear power stations nearby. And who knows how many if they go bust
I was wondering what would happen if the dams broke.
Much Worse than this mock video displayed..That amount of force,mixed with floating object,tree,house,sediment,would be utter quick destruction..I Pray CCP will be transparent to ALERT and not be selfish..
If the dam breaks the ccp's leaders will do it's darnest to cover it up. letting it go public will uncover the substandard materials and efforts of the dam's construction, show the incompetence and corruption of the ccp government and their instinctual response to a crisis by sweeping it under the rug and blaming someone else.
some local authorities and civilians will organize their own individual evacuations. the peaks can only hold so much people in it. boats will be too risky in the first hours of the flood and china's air forceight get slowed down if not don't take off at all (I'll explain it below)
the country's main police force might halt the evacuation, awaiting further orders from their government (why did i assume that they'll not help immediately? look at corona virus) i do hope they take the initiative to help since this is a tangible, immediate threat that cannot be controlled by killing witnesses like corona.
china's air force may be slowed or ineffective/potentially in danger since they built theirs underground to conceal their weapons research and as a response to the cold war's nuclear threats
the flooding will get in below and i pray for those unlucky enough to be buried inside. it's even worse if they stored their nuclear warheads inside; the radiation might leak and affect the neighboring countries if it gets out (like what happened to chernobyl's nuclear ash rain)
You’ll soon find out 😒 it’s just another foreshadowing “simulation” that comes to pass by “coincidence”
Not sure why this was recommended but sure, I’ll give it a watch.
Edit: ohhh
Imagine that water crashing into another dam destroying it. No cgi just real raw power, would be an unbelievable sight
it already happened in the US this year so no need to imagine
bjorn1583 I’m talking about in person seeing it with your own two eye balls. Honestly would probably look fake it’d be so crazy
What a juicy target for our tomahawk missiles
@cooldudecs weren't you caught talking to a 12 year old? I have the chat logs of you saying some pretty inappropriate things to a minor
Evangelion music theme is playing when I saw this thumbnail
God bless you for saying this and for bring this to the attention of the world
Even more terrifying likely today,than a year ago.
Now thats alot of damage!
Im sorry
I CUT THIS COUNTRY IN HALF
Those words remind me of a certain "church"...
@@Naofumi-Iwatani whose leader you just killed using a bear trap ?
@@archise3191 yes
you should look at "fort peck dam, fort peck montana"
worlds longest hydraulically earth filled dam (aka, they mixed water with mud.... pumped it 10 miles.... let the water drain off.... and the dirt stay)
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she is 3.5 miles long....IIRC.... and has held firm sense 1937
even during the RECORD levels seen in 2011
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i live 2 miles from this dam
Hello fellow montanan
Check out the mica damn not too far north of you in canada.
Upstream, I hope. If not, move a bit?
so its built just like the 2 dams that have collapsed in the US this year
NCD salivating at this lmao
Interesting. Thank You
If it happens we wouldnt see it on the telly anyway, everything is okay folks.
Dang this is unreal. Looks like that tidal apocalypse movie. Praying this doesn’t happen 🙏
Jessica Bazanos 🙏 🙏.
@@buddhafollower What a follower of buddha you are. *facepalm*
No it needs to happen
I wish it doesn't happen. Why will innocent people of china pay for CCP's ill deeds?
@@buddhafollower Please change your username!!.
You don't deserve to even say his name.
Not for nothing but this is 2020! If I were them I’d move😞
How do you move when you have no money? As in where do they get the money to relocate? Your "plan" has a major flaw :p
Evan Devries you move to higher ground.
@@serpico1616 if you want to live, that's easy, the thing is that you never know when it will get you, not everyone has the income for avoiding something that may or may not happen, like renting a house and stay there for months
Wow cool thanks for sharing this “taboo” video! 😬
I remember watching this being built years ago and did a school report on it. And it was a big deal for China. Kinda sad to see, but then I didn't know how shoddy the construction was.
We knew, western engineers looked at the dam and said it was not structurally stable. China said they were racist and created their own report saying is could last 100 years.
@@xXx_Oshino_xXx Technically China is quite advanced.
@@The_mytuber yes but the quality control isn't there.
*Nope. Look at natural calamities occurring in Ch'ina due to poor planning.*
@@The_mytuber
@@The_mytuber In what regard?
All it takes isa couple bunker busters from a B2 Spirit
We’re all humans just trying to stay fed, start a family, and get on the closest wifi network. Don’t let their tyrants dehumanize them
Never underestimate the power of water.
Amen to that!
For the sake of the people living downstream i hope the dam holds, even though the CCP deserves such a disaster the people don't.
You are the first comment I have noted that differentiates the people from their government. Your comment is most appreciated. I agree.
I'm fairly sure that this dam (or any other) would not collapse in the manner shown in the video.
Perhaps that would not ultimately matter because the water behind the dam would escape anyway. However, it may not flow out at the pace depicted here. Volume, yes. Flow, no.
Let’s make this a reality 👏
By this scenario, the expected death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands. If this collapse was sudden and catastrophic, then the death toll, taken by surprise, could hit the million plus mark.
Ferb, I know what we’re going to do today
Oh my gosh!, praying for those affected 🙏😢
Fortunately, no one is affected yet (at least not at this level). It is a warning. It can be avoided.
I'm betting the CCP has the body organs of the architects who designed the dam, for sale on the organ market for this dam design.
kman 4443 I’m betting your wrong as this is only a simulation
@@deanhenthorn1890 I'm betting you don't understand China.
kman 4443 I’m betting now you don’t understand what a simulation is!
@@deanhenthorn1890 I'm betting you don't understand the point of OPs comment.
Who is OP
I read that 400 million people would be made homeless from the flooding if the dam collapsed. There is actually time to get many out of harm's way because of the distances involved but finding a place to put 400 million people would be a challenge, particularly if this happened in winter when people would need shelter from the cold.
The question as to whether the dam could be destroyed by missiles, and some experts in Taiwan indicated that two missiles could do the job, while the designers indicated that the dam was designed to be able to survive a hit from a tactical nuclear weapon.
biden would take the 400 million chinese and put them in sf china town. and give them voting cards and then say buh bye.
I really hope it happen in my lifetime. I want to see the Chinese arrogant government faces
This is the best thing I've seen
Is the yellow flashing in the video representing towns and cities?
What sort of evacuation plan is being developed ?
Yes, that and locations where people lives or mostly located.
you're expecting the communist party to come up with an evacuation plan? I should remind you this is the same ideology that left the people of Pripyat in the city for 2 days after Chernobyl? Different country, same ideology. They'll respond pretty much the same way the soviets responded to Chernobyl, just watch.
Nanjing and Wuhan have a population over 10 million.
This scale of evacuation is nearly impossible to be carried out in just a single day.
Nearest city to the dam- Yichang has a population of 4.5 million. Rapid evacuation in yichang is also nearly impossible .
In order to make sure everyone stays safe, an evacuation plan needs to be floated right now.
LET'S PRAY THIS DAM HOLDS UP🙏
@@killman369547 how many serious radiaton acidents had happened before Chernobyl? Actually no one that had really serious consequences. Moreover soviet leaders were managers, not scientists and they gave a fuck for their opinion which already was quite late. Damb is a completely different thing and even the dumbest person understands the threat it brings so I would not have been so sceptical about that.
It's probably a PRC leak. CCP's pretty concerned about all these minor dam failures and wanted to see what a 3 gorges dam failure would look like so they can plan how to spin it and how much damage it will do, and presumably, what protocols to enact in case such a calamity happened.
They will claim someone used the weather on them
You call it video simulation, I call it hope for the future of mankind.
you'll probably off yourself before the epic based reddit war against china lol
Go outside
@@williamlopez8754 project harder basement dweller
fun fact, if a concrete structure is reinforced with steel, if failure occurs it will only be damaged or fail in one part, the other parts will work as they should. In the case of a dam of this size, if a failure occurs then what happens is a leak in the part of the dam where the water flows. will come out according to the size of the leak that occurs where the overflow of water is like the overflow of water when the spillways are opened, whereas in the simulation in this video the dam is destroyed from end to end as if it was bombed with a nuclear bomb and the possibility of this happening is very small.
Wuhan will be screwed again.
Let's hope this doesn't happen.
It's a matter of time before it does and it's on lockdown so disaster is coming it could be Monday or Saturday the week after some other dams were released as well and those like Wu are sacrifices sadly
And probably without warning like most of the others
that dam may already be past the point of no return, the reservoir is filling faster then the spillways can empty it. it's only a matter of time with that kind of pressure
let's hope it happens.
Pray the people get out of the danger zone.They dont deserve this.
This scares me 😰😱😿 we need to hope the dam will hold.
no it won't sadly the ccp won't care about it's own people.
I look forward to the disaster documentary
CCP: this dam will last 1000 years.
Dam: [MADE IN CHINA]
CCP: Oh, f...oh!
Things made in China will explode, like Dongfeng 41
Harbor Freight dam. I mean, they're okay for screwdrivers and such....
It hold so far.
17 said "watch the water"
Dams rarely fail as completely as is simulated. If it were to fail, it would most probably fail in a specific spot due to earthquake damage new (new quake) or old (old quake that weakens structural piles). The spot failures would be 5 to 10% of the simulation- that's the good news. The bad news is that once the cork is out of the bottle those spot failures will grow larger but how fast or slow that happens is anybody's guess. It will be a rolling disaster that rapidly gets worse, peaks and then slows.
The Chinese have some very good, smart engineers. They'll figure it out.
Sure but this is not a figure it out situation once you built this cheap thing made of tofu
Actually the most likely cause of collapse will be too much water to hold back due to rain. If you look at other videos showing the dam during high water you can actually see it bending due to the pressure. That type of collapse will take out most of the dam.
One underneath dive can end that dam in 20 minutes
B21 raider foaming at the mouth rn
Anyone here used to play C&C Generals?
I used to play in C&C Red Alert, was that structure in Generals?
DeLvoy Yeah, but I forget which game. If I were to guess it’d be the first one.
Would it be possible to build one or more emergency dams just downstream from the main dam? To at least hold back the torrent? Slow it down? Before it fails?
We can all just hope this happens sooner rather than later. Shouts out to my Chinese handlers.
You may not like the Chinese government, but it's a terrible thing to wish for so many innocent people to be harmed by a disaster like this
@@thetangygnat4054 there are no innocents in the globalized military industrial world.
@@thetangygnat4054 We only hate the government, not the people! /s
Ah i remember this mission just let the GLA weapons do their job
If the dam fails, it is very unlikely that the whole length will go at the same time. A gap will open and rushing water will cut at it, making it bigger, and bigger. But some of the dam will remain in place, at least for a while, slowing the flow to some extent.
As the water surges down stream, it will erode a lot of soil. The video showed the water being directed by the existing terrain, but in truth, the water will cut through a lot of ridges, especially those on the outside of bends in the river. That means that some water will jump into areas that this video did not show.
And the mud, rock, and debris that the flow of water will carry will be a massive amount. That material alone will do a huge amount of damage.
I have been skeptical that the dam will collapse simply because I don't believe that any of the builders involved in the most prestigious, most visible, most potentially dangerous construction project in China's history would fail to understand that they would be executed if they cut corners on the dam's construction, and the cause of a failure was traced back to their work. Chinese builders are notorious for shoddy work, and cutting corners to increase their profits, but in this case, who would dare do that? The premier of China has personally been involved with this project. You would have to be suicidal to mess with him.
Exactly. Why would china waste all that money to build a dam that fails on pourpose. Unless their building skills are that poor. I guess brand new apartment complexes are so cheaply built they are falling apart and collapsing after only a few years.
@@johnnymnemonic69 Builders who cheat on apartment buildings are common in China. Builders who cheat on a massive state run project that the communist party is intimately tied to, know that they will be killed if their work fails.
I'm not saying that I know the dam was well made. I'm just saying that I think self preservation, and fear, may have motivated builders who normally cheat, to do that project right.
Buildings and bridges rarely fall over... but they do in China often.
@@OwenPrescott
You didn't read all of my comment.
Absolutely, it is a super cheapo simulation. Yeah it might drown the Covid virus though. Isn’t that a good enough reason to do it
lovely !
lol ,.smart person ,whomever decided to stay anonymous about this vidi,.
The initial failure will probably not be a full collapse of the entire dam. The initial failure will either involve a limited section of the structure where it has cracked and weakened or the water will begin to escape at either or both ends of the dam as it overtops. Erosion will widen and deepen the breach, and within hours the maximum dump rate will be observed. It will be horrible and huge, but not on the scale shown here.
Very excited seeing this simulation to happen
I hope they get some good 4K drone footage if it lets go. That said, I'd give it a slim chance of going. It's designed for quite a bit more than it's currently holding back.
God almighty, I hope this never happens.
Delete the "never" And we are good
The people who made this video know it is going to happen.
Can't wait till this happens
This would kill hundreds of millions.
Are the chinese citizen even aware about this danger and possible upcoming human disaster?
Not at all.
like mentioned in the video, discussing the 3 gorges dam is taboo, but that doesn't mean people don't talk about it. There have been concerns raised about the dam for decades now. People know that it isn't totally safe.
Winnie The Pooh says everything is fine.
So aside from the "sabotage / bomb" theories , what natural flooding, design flaws or maintenance issues could cause the dam collapse ?
it being built by the chinese. just that alone guarantees its failure. 100% of their dams fail or are failing when destroyed.
basically it was built by the 3rd rate company using 4th rate materials, building it 2x too fast, and not to the specifications of the engineers. corner cutters galore to put it nicely. to put it bluntly. it is through bred chinese.
You mean it STILL hasn't collapsed yet?
It’s 2021. Anything is possible.
Y'all realize that this displacement will literally rock the world right? And set off a chain reaction of calamities like we've never seen....
Please elevaborate... I heard the 3 gorges dam holds so much water in one place that it changed the earths daily rotation by a small bit
@@francethemc9416 You heard right. So like a tire out of balance. Now picture that displaced water being released at about 100mph. All at once.
The words "reel like a drunkard" come to mind. With the core already overheated and the plates already bound up, what happens? All that pressure with that shaking and vibration....I see it heading to the US from both sides, and along the way? Vesuvius, etna, la Palma. La Palma alone....from the west, Toba, that super volcano under the pacific, then the Cascadian & SA...all that meeting prettily at the New Madrid - within about a week...
@@mulle5784 dang
... so it could trigger the ring of fire. Basically cause global earthquakes and tsunamis.. sounds like the end to me.. I live in California in LA.. scary to think about the dam failing any day
@@mulle5784 take your meds
@@mulle5784 The earth rotates at 1000 mph. I'm not sure it will be impressed with 100 mph. Human beings on this Earth are like fleas on an elephant. I'm not sure it even notices us.