Wow! That last story was refreshingly admirable. I was waiting to hear "and William ignored her warning", but the fact that William listened to Diane was great to hear. Thanks for this one!!
Holy snapchat imagine building à skyscraper just for it to be threatened by your neighbor's because they chose formidable over function? Its à good thing he solved that issue, or else he would have been sued by thousands of people for billions of dollars, and thats not including damage costs: it would have been for loss of life and injuries ( doctors in the US aren't cheap)
Yeah it is an example made into textbooks. However, the root cause was those legs were supposedly be around corners instead of centers when it was designed. However, there was a building beneath it, so they move those legs to the center instead. However, moving them to center created the corner problem, as mentioned in the video.
Yes, I can confirm fireworks only need a small mistake to be dangerous. Back in July 2021, we were celebrating Fourth of July in our neighborhood. My family had only brought smaller fireworks, but one of our neighbors and his friends had lit a big rocket in their backyard. Just after lighting the rocket, they noticed the plastic wrapper on the rocket hadn’t been removed. So, one of them went to go take it off, and knocked it sideways. The rocket launched, and exploded right in the middle of the neighborhood. My family scattered. Everyone had a fireball less than half a foot from them, one of the fireballs landed on the neighbors’ Shelby GT350, but fortunately, no one was hurt. After watching this I can see how much worse that could’ve gone
here in germany, every new year's eve has massive semi-rioting crowds using big firecrackers and horizontally launched rockets as weapons against each other and the also always present riot police. it seems to not produce very many injuries, mostly because the vast majority of fireworks are legally purchased and regulated to only use black powder for the explosive charge, which explodes so softly that a firework has to be in direct contact with a body part to cause serious injuries. illegally imported flash powder firecrackers from poland or the czech republic are also poular though, and those have much more injury potential.
You gotta love William’s story. He didn’t ignore the situation or just tell them off for pointing it out. He realized his mistake and did everything he could to rectify it.
his facing several charges of gross negligence destroying buildings and the subsequent negligent homicide of thousands of people could have provided impetus.
15:54 it's actually surprising how much a single lit bud can cause a lot of trouble. In my previous job, we had a "big tool room" where a lot of people used to go for smoke breaks since it had large doors leading outside. One day i was left in our building to prepare tools and materials for a job , when I noticed smoke in the corridor. I looked through all the rooms only open the tool room and see it filled to the brim and fire somewhere. After telling others of the fire and putting it down, we realised that it was a trashcan someone dropped a still lit cigarette into it and things could have been much worse. Trashcan stood next to jerry cans filled with benzene and diesel as well as propane tanks and if it wasn't for the can melting away from jerry cans and us noticing fire fairly early, things could have gone much worse
@@amberkat8147 Yeah, similarly to burning oil, trying to extinguish those with water only makes it spread out faster as water literally boils and throws it everywhere in the process. Oil and benzene/petrol/gasoline you can only fight using powder filled extinguishers to create this hardened layer that suffocates fire.
@@makutamon I have luck in avoiding life threatening situations, but not in lottery or gambling. I can get through things that would normally end badly to others, but can't win a dime even if my life depended on it.
I made a mistake at work once. I was upset about it but my boss said, "If you do not make mistakes you are not doing anything worthwhile." I had a date that night and we went to PF Chang's. It was good food and delightful conversation. While we ate I told my GF about the mistake and what my boss had said. We laughed about it, with her commenting that with her job, mistakes tended to be a bit more catastrophic. She was a cardiac nurse. We got our fortune cookies and I cracked mine open, read it, said, "I don't believe this!" I showed her my fortune cookie and we both laughed. I even took the fortune to show my boss the following Monday. The fortune read, "If you do not make mistakes you are not doing anything worthwhile." He smiled and said, "Where do you think I got that?"
Props to the designer of the building for making sure that the building was safe and not assuming he was right. If more people looked into structural issues, many disasters could be avoided.
Yeah, one Korean fella 🇰🇷 in the 90s was negligent. Once he was convinced his department store was giving way, decided to leave without alerting customers and staff for fear of revenue loss, then hundreds died, and another over 1000 injured.
I'm really glad William LeMessurier actually listened to Diane and actually spent the time, money, and effort to correct his mistake. So many architects get too prideful of their work, and just ignore the warnings of others, and just let their work be.
A small change to the building plans for a pedestrian catwalk in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City led to its collapse during a party in the early 80's. There were something like 180 fatalities. It wasn't faulty materials, or improper methods. It was simply a small change made after the plans were completed. As a result of 1long bolt changing to 2 short bolts, the weight distribution went from being shared across multiple levels to being entirely put on one level. A high school student doing a small experiment could have determined the logic behind the change being catastrophic, but it was changed for 1 stupid reason. Its easier to carry 2 small ones than 1 big one.
I live in Kansas City and it was awful my grandparents told me that they were in Kansas City for dinner and this happened to be at the same night that the collapse happened and that it was so bad they had to do on the spot amputations with chainsaws when I heard this(I was about 10-12 years old at the time) it traumatized me I couldn’t get to sleep because of the images in my mind.
my father's wife at the time was a RN in far western KS. she drove there as a volunteer to help. when she came back she looked 10 years older, wouldn't talk about it.
I was absolutely livid when the El Dorado fire happened. I went home on leave while still serving the military after being away from family for almost 2 years. Literally the day after I arrived home, I woke up to tinted orange skies and was forced to cancel all plans I had the following few days due to all the smoke and restricted outings because of covid, forcing me to stay home until my flight back 10 days later. Stuff like this are the reasons why we can't have nice things.
I'm really sorry your RandR got screwed up. I know you were looking forward to it. And, sincerely, thank you for your service. Mine is an Air Force family, mother, father, and daughter.
@@ThisIsHunglo There is that, and hopefully enough people heard about it to realize how easy it is to do that crap and maybe won't. I'm not counting on that, there's a lot of idiots
As a resident of Japan I don't find fault with your information about the Hanshin earthquake but I do want to point out that at 23:33 you state that 1995 is remembered for a single catastrophic event. Actually it is ALSO remembered as the year the crazy cult, Aum Shirikyo released Sarin gas into the Tokyo subway system resulting in many deaths and thousands with serious physical effects.
A correction on the Comet airplane one- yes, those square corners may have been where it was always going to break, but planes broke so quickly because at the time they didn't have any experience with flying that high so the metal was just too thin. That thin metal flexed with every flight cycle- every cycle of depressurization and repressurization- and was bound to give out.
Agreed with all the comments. The issue wasn't the 'square' windows (they had rounded corners). Another factor was the way DH bonded the metal, it just wasn't strong enough, and lead to metal fatigue too, at the joins.
The first N1 explosion didn't cause the Soviets to lose the moon race either. They launched 4 of them and all of them failed only one due to a bolt coming loose and being sucked into the engines. It had many of the same problems the new spacex craft has like having a lot of engines that all have to work in sync. I think the N1 had a 30 different engines of 2 different types and most of them needed to work in sync to have a successful launch. They also couldn't test the rocket in a standing position like the USA could due to a smaller budget.
8:34 *The Comet disasters weren't specifically the passenger windows.* It was microcracks from the punch-type rivets. With each pressurization/depressurization the cracks lengthened. There are TH-cams videos about the Comet that can describe it in more detail.
The blackout in NYC in 77 also Happened in August 03... to the entire North East Coast. One of the power plants in Niagara falls around Ontario Canada went down and created a chain reaction. It lasted a few days.
I thought it occurred in a month when school was still happening. I remember that school was cancelled for the first day but was back the next. Or something. I was in early elementary school back then when the power went out for a few days. I asked my mom why the power was out and she said it was because of Cowboys and Indians. 🤷🏼♀️
I was on vacation in NYC from the UK and witnessed the blackout. My friend and I were very lucky - we’d just been on the subway and were minutes away from being in an elevator. We managed to grope our way up to our floor and escaped the mayhem on the streets.
The first story about the power outage was repeated in 2011 in San Diego, but without the riots, although with an even more stupid cause. An engineer was doing maintenance tests at a major power hub in Arizona and did some steps out of order. The result was the trunk line from AZ being shut off. Which left all the load for San Diego falling on the trunk line from Los Angeles, and that rapid spike caused it to shut down as well. The result was all of San Diego and surrounding areas to be in the dark for 11 hours, with some areas taking up to 36 hours to get restored.
I'm in Oklahoma and Saturday's storms have left us without power. Hinted return time is from tomorrow to the 24th. I know it's not the same, but I appreciate how not having power sucks.
@@SuisfoniaThere were no riots in the 2011 Southwest blackout. I was living in Southern California then, and Google searches (Wikipedia, San Diego Union Tribune, other sites) confirm my recollection.
23:07 That part explains why the Bible has similar stories to Greek/Roman mythology. Zeus banished Hades to the Underworld. God banished Satan to Hell. Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a demi-god. Similar to Heracles/Hercules, conceived by Zeus who took the form of Alcmene's husband: Amphitryon.
There's more to the Citicorp building story. If the building had been constructed as LeMessurier (pronounced "le-measure") had specified, it would likely have been adequate to resist "quartering winds", but an on-site change to the construction of the diagonal braces that directed load to the legs of the building - from through-welding to bolts - significantly weakened the structure. LeMessurier discovered that on his own, once he was prompted to start thinking about quartering winds. The timing as reported here is also very sloppy. It was only toward the very end of the refit of the building - which could be done at night, with minimal disruption - that the hurricane showed up, and it veered away from the city, in any case. LeMessurier took his time to mobilize the people, resources, and plans needed to carry out the refit responsibly. It's really a model of how professional engineers should behave. Also, fun fact: the building was one of the first to feature a tuned mass damper, a huge block of concrete on bearings at the top of the building, which served to reduce sway . . . but which would have increased damage to the surrounding area had the structure failed. Also also, at the time of the building's construction, New York City building code did not have any specifications regarding quartering winds, which just goes to show that building codes are often inadequate on their own.
Do to David Blair’s anger he managed to forget to hand over the key to the safe containing Fred fleet’s binoculars if Blair had handed the key the tragedy wouldn’t have happened in the first place 14:54
Omg that last one! Not only was William cool about having someone tell him his design had a flaw, he accepted it and worked on how to fix it, without causing panic amongst people unnecessarily. Good for him, he really stepped up. And good for the lady too, who notified him of the issue instead of just thinking “not my problem”
You're missing a huge part of the City Corp case... The building would've been strong enough if it was built how he designed it but the company building it decided to switch from bolted to welded joints on the metal beams the support the weight of the building. LeMessurier wasn't informed of the change when the building was being built. The student was the one who informed him, after which he re-calculated things and realized it wasn't strong enough
How did that lady know there was a problem then? The video makes it seem like it's just the nature of the shape and height of the building and the weird legs design
In the blackout story, you left off the fact that precisely nine months afterwards, all the maternity wards were overloaded because of the fornication that took place during the blackout.
The DeHavilland Comet window theory has been disproven. The issue was with the structural integrity of the airframe itself and the overestimation of the material resistance lifespan (i.e., how many pressurization cycles it could withstand before failing).
The real culprit was microcracks that formed because the structural pieces of the fuselage were riveted together instead of drilled and screwd. Seconds from disaster series does explain it quite well.
*New York has a blackout* *Everyone goes pandemonium and starts looting everywhere* That’s about the correct civilised response you can get from the people apparently. That will definitely resolve your power cut.
Story to tell. Apparently some workers were in the oil mine in the western part of kentucky. I was at home at the time when one of the workers threw down a cigarette and something caught fire. Once it caught fire it caused the whole mine to explode. When it exploded (over 10 miles from our home) we felt the shockwave and our house shook from the blast. I dont remember it exactly but they found their remains. So yea small mistakes, but deadly consequences.
Accidently setting off a fire suppression system at a remote Fuelling facility. Big mess! It was because of me losing my good multimeter. I had to run to a local hardware and buying a cheap one! Big MISTEAK! The releasing panel had a trouble fault on it, so I was using pos meter to test continuity on the circuits and when testing I touched the wrong terminal with the meter leads and heard a pop sound. It was the fire suppression system releasing! I was so pissed off at what I did I smashed that pos meter. I was coursing and screaming so loud that the workers at the facility heard me and were making sure I was ok! Damn! I was so pissed! I had to report back to my company what had happen and the said fix it whatever it takes. Well with in 24 hours we also had it back to normal. $5000.00 later, we also had to pay them another $1000.00 to have a professional cleaning company come in to clean up after we had everything cleaned up. Needless to say, a cheap multimeter and me are to blame. And yes, we lost the account! Got to love it!
Fred Fleet's binoculars were not the only "small mistake with huge consequences". The reason the Titanic is so memorable is not because of the number of lives lost or any other reason than the incredibly large number of "small mistakes with huge consequences". For example, it took the ship about two hours to sink giving the people plenty of time to save more people but small mistake after small mistake cost about three fourths of the passengers.
The Titanic had enough lifeboats for UP TO 1178 people. The ship had the legal MINIMUM amount of boats because they figured in the event of an accident, they’d have time to deliver passengers to other ships during rescue. Unfortunately, for the Titanic, the ships that had responded to her distress calls were nowhere near her vicinity at the time. The Carpathia was roughly 54 miles away and though the Olympic, Titanic’s sister, also picked up the distress signal, they were over 300 miles away. On top of these facts, the Titanic had NO lifeboat drill. One was scheduled the morning of the 14th, however, it ended up being canceled for unknown reasons (though sources claim it was due to Captain Smith wanting to conduct a final service before retiring as he was due to retire at the end of the Titanic’s voyage.) The cap to the whole thing however, is that most of the boats launched in the “earlier” phases of the sinking were not launched at capacity and this was due to quite a number of factors, but the two biggest being a severe lack of training and urgency, which resulted in passengers believing that there was no imminent danger. In fact, many passengers thought that the launching of boats during the sinking was merely for a drill. Was just a whole mess!
@@Th3On3Y0uW4nt Don't forget that the Californian was probably less than 20 miles away but miscommunication resulted in the Californian not even responding to the Titanic's distress call.
@@Th3On3Y0uW4nt They would also have had more lifeboats if seeing more lifeboats on the ship was not deemed 'unsightly' as the ship had to look 'nice' instead of practical. On top of that they had water proof bulkheads in the ship, but only up to E deck as it was again ugly to show such things on the decks that had upper class people. It was estimated that if the bulkheads were up through the whole ship it would not have sunk with the damage it got. So too few lifeboats, not putting the water protection through the whole ship, cruising at too high a speed because the captain was sure there was nothing there and it being night which makes ice very hard to see and you have the reason who no-one should say something stupid like 'not even god can sink this ship'. God clearly heard him. and decided to prove a point.
It also has to be taken into account that some passengers were afraid the lifeboats wouldn’t make it and the crew downplayed the severity of their circumstances. They fully believed a nearby ship would get to them before the titanic sank so it made more sense to them to stay put fully believing the ship either wouldn’t sink as it was “unsinkable” or another ship would be there. When most survivors recount their stories they talk about how calm everyone was and that it was so quiet as if they were in church. Just horrible most never had a chance.
Oh yes, fireworks can be very dangerous. One New Years Eve, I was outside with my dogs. It had been a very dry winter and I live in south Texas so there wasn't any snow. I watched my neighbors set their driveway on fire. Technically, all the dead, dry leaves but still the whole driveway was in flames that rapidly went above the 6 foot privacy fence. This was right next to their RV which had big fuel tanks. And the neighbor between us is a painting contractor who stores hundreds of gallons of paint and primer in his garage. Fortunately, they managed to put the fire out but I keep an eye on them now as I now know they're not the brightest bulbs.
I’ve got another reason why Hannibal’s campaign failed: because siege engines/machines in the ancient world were so bulky and hard to transport, Hannibal simply couldn’t bring them with him over the Alps, even when they were disassembled, so he simply left them behind. This led to one important rule in ancient warfare: you can’t lay cities “to siege” without siege machines.
Re the Comet disasters - much of what we know now about weak points, and especially what we know about the repeated pressurisation and depressurisation stresses and strains on the fuselage, comes from these tragedies. Not having computers to help them work out what was going on, they built a huge water tank and put a Comet in it. They put it through many pressure cycles and eventually they found the first "tear". From that they - using extremely powerful microscopes - saw and learned a lot about "creep", where a metal's atoms move in such a way as to weaken it (I know, this is a *very* basic comment, it's supposed to be). It wasn't just that the windows themselves were wrong, it was that _plus_ the constant pressure cycle. And given that Comet was the first ever jet-engined passenger aeroplane and travelled higher than any other plane, it's not surprising that they didn't think about that being a potential problem. When we look at the numerous later design problems of plane types that, in most cases, are still around (Boeing 737 Max, anyone?), we _should_ find it impossible to look back at every design fault, particularly with each development in technology (the Max's problem, from what I remember, was from a new tech item or system), and have a holier than thou attitude to it. I'm *not* accusing this narrator of it in this case, but I have heard, in so many videos, on so many channels, about so many preventable disasters or other problems (if you have 20:20 hindsight...) that I get a bit annoyed. It really does depend on the tone of voice. At least this guy speaks respectfully when there are innocent casualties from any accident or whatever. I appreciate that. As an aside, it is such a shame about Comet. Once they retrofitted the windows, she had a perfect record, but companies like Boeing were growing more rapidly than De Havilland could, especially given that they were still just recovering from war production and rationing (for the workers). She was a stunningly beautiful plane! For me it's a toss up between her and Concorde as to the most beautiful. I think Comet gets that, but Concorde gets the most awesome prize. Having watched her taking off in Heathrow (on the observation deck - the roof - that was there. No idea if any airports still have them) in the mid-70s, and watching the place come to a standstill - even staff who'd see her daily! - nothing in manned flight is a more awesome thing!
Your channel should be shown in all high schools, within History and Geography classes. I definitely would of gotten A+ instead of just passing as I found those classes really boring. But I may have become something important given all you have taught me! Thank you! I’m always AMAZED at your content! 💕💕💕
This makes me sad - this is an ENTERTAINMENT channel, NOT educational. You not realizing that means I believe you learned nothing in school and that's sad.
@@ross-carlson I learned plenty in school during the 70’s and 80’s I just found school hard. Yes it’s entertainment but it’s also educational. Sorry that’s just my opinion. And don’t feel sad for me. We can’t all be smart.
It should be noted that Citicorp Center was designed with "legs" not just for the sake of being unique, but because a church owned the corner of the site and refused to relocate. So the skyscraper's developers worked out an agreement where they'd put their building *above* the church, with columns to hold it up.
Wow just wow I mean I can understand not wanting to move your place of worship but this could've caused a huge failure that would've costed hundreds of lives if it wasn't for the quick thinking of engineers
@@ishmaelepling9115 The church had already moved once before, and at the time was sitting on one of the most valuable pieces of land in the world. Pretty sure they never intended to put others in danger either, most people don't.
There’s another mistake to the Titanic disaster that wasn’t in this video, but should have been: the tanks/hull divisions that should have prevented the Titanic’s sinking weren’t sealed at the tops, and they were designed so that any number less than or equal to four wouldn’t cause the ship to sink; however, any number greater than four would cause the ship to sink due to “water overflow”, as I call it.
I was expecting them to mention that although steel was used for the central sections of hull of the Titanic, the design called for iron rivets for bow and aft sections. Most of the cracks that opened after its collision with the iceberg were in the iron-riveted forward part of the hull. Apparently the shipyard was overwhelmed by the demands of building three ships at once and therefore directors were forced into compromising on quality, not only using sub-par iron but also hiring extra riveters of less certain talent.
A good video, well done, though I did spot an error in the Titanic section, so here's a quick correction from a Titanic enthusiast: In 1911, the Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic, collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, which damaged the ship a bit. The Titanic's construction was put on hold and the Titanic's maiden voyage was bumped back so White Star could make repairs on Olympic. The Titanic's first and chief officers were, before the incident, William Murdoch (demoted to first officer and died when the ship went down) and Charles Lightoller (demoted to second officer and survived the disaster). So the White Star executives had no choice but to transfer Henry Wilde onto the Titanic while repairs on Olympic were carried out, which bumped Murdoch and Lightoller down a rank and kicking Blair, the previous second officer, off the ship, which then lead to Blair taking the keys and the disaster.
Really well done to Diane for spotting it and well done to William for listening and fixing . Too many times pride gets in the way but cudos to these two
Regarding the collapse at 25:09: this is the Goffert Stadium in Nijmegen, not Vitesse. More even so, there is no city of Vitesse in The Netherlands. Vitesse is the name of the professional soccer team from Arnhem, just 10 miles to the north of Nijmegen. And even though the stadium was orignally built in 1939, it was completely rebuilt in 1999 (the old stadium was demolished) and reopened in 2000, so all wasn't caused by a lack of maintenance but faulty calculations in construction.
I know of two other small mistakes that caused big consequences. Well, the first one was a mistake while the other was a mishap despite watchful maintenance. 1. The Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986 was caused when a single o-ring came loose, causing the shuttle to break apart upon launching. This disaster was also caused by a lack of a good night’s sleep the day prior. 2. The Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003 was caused when a large piece of foam fell from the shuttle's external tank and breached the spacecraft wing upon launching sixteen days prior. When reentering Earth’s atmosphere, the shuttle disintegrated. RIP: Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, and Christine McAuliffe and Rick Husband, William McCool, Laurel Clark, David M. Brown, Kaplana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, and Ilan Ramon.
The reason for the Comet's demise had nothing to do with square windows ... that was an incorrect reporting by the British press. As the Wikipedia article states "Design and construction flaws, including improper riveting and dangerous concentrations of stress around square cut-outs for the ADF (automatic direction finder) antennas were ultimately identified." The real cause was metal fatigue caused by repeated pressurization and depressurization cycles, which was not well understood at the time.
It’s debated whether or not the lookout on Titanic would have been able to see the iceberg with the binoculars. Because it was a moonless night and the sea was a flat calm, the iceberg was all but invisible. The only reason he saw it at all was because it appeared as a black mass on the starry horizon. So the binoculars probably would have been useless.
Not to mention the fact that if they were that important the ship would have had multiple sets of binoculars or at least forced open the cabinet they were stored in.
@@emilypower9748 A lot of safety-related things on the Titanic (most famously, the lifeboats) were skimped or outright overlooked just because no one thought they'd ever be needed. The binoculars were no exception.
There’s a TH-cam channel called “Oceanliner Design”, and the host of that channel is very knowledgeable about ocean liners. He has done many videos about the Titanic, and in one video he explained the real reason Titanic had so few lifeboats. The reason was that lifeboats were actually more risky than one might expect. In choppy waters, lifeboats were prone to flipping over, and in many situations, were more responsible for loss of life than the ship sinking itself. This was the reason ships were being fitted with things like watertight compartments and all that, in order to turn ships into massive lifeboats in case of an emergency. Lifeboats were meant to simply transport passengers to rescue ships when they arrived on scene. In other words,the new technology made people overconfident, and this was realized in the Titanic disaster. This was why, after Titanic sank, Olympic and Britannic were given the proper number of lifeboats, along with other improvements to their safety features.
Check your facts on the dehavilland story… mentour now did a great video on it… the crashes were caused by metal fatigue because they were able to go really high, meaning that there is high cabin pressure which damaged an opening on top of the of fuselage, not the passenger or pilot windows. There were also other causes.
I'm from Minneapolis and grew up going to the Metrodome. It wasn't an oversight as much as it was just an old building in need of renovations and an unusually large snowfall that year. The building was already being planned to be either demolished for a new stadium to be built or have a huge overhaul. Not a mistake - just neglect 😊
Same here. Every game I went to at the Metrodome I kept looking at the ceiling thinking that at some point it would break down. It did when I was in my 20’s. The Metrodome was still active for small events like the Rollerdome. No games were held till Target Field was built and a new Vikings stadium was built after the dome was demolished. Good memories before that disaster happened.
The Comet did not crash because of it's windows. This is a common misunderstanding of the comet crashes so don't worry. The planes actually crashed because of tiny fatigue cracks which were created when the plane's bolts were made.
12:25 N-1 never launched manned missions, there were just first test missions. Shame the whole Soviet manned moon program and N-1 in particular was scrapped, it just needed more testing.
A correction is needed on the Soviet N-1 booster, designed to send a crew to the Moon. First, there were actually four test flights, all of which failed, before the Soviets shelved the entire project. However, there were no cosmonauts aboard any of those test flights, so no cosmonauts died aboard the N-1.
3:30 you could fill a whole video with gender reveal disasters, like the quarry explosion with tannerite that could be felt from neighboring towns, or the one in Iowa where they essentially created a pipe bomb resulting in the shrapnel killing a grandmother.
It's questionable as to whether binoculars would have been helpful for Frederick Fleet in spotting the iceberg that sank the Titanic. One thing that people in the crow's nest looked for at night was water breaking against icebergs. The splashing was easily identifiable against a dark background. But with a calm ocean that night, that was not as easy to spot. Also, with the cold temperature that night, it's possible that the binoculars would have justified fogged up.
The stadium collapse was caused by a resonance of the structure, much like the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. This concept wasn’t widely understood in all structural design. It’s understandable that a resonant excitation, people jumping in unison, in the design of a stadium structure, especially in the 1930’s. Not even an earthquake excitation would be expected to excite vertical vibration mode.
Thank God William was open minded enough and didn’t have an ego problem, so that he listened to Diane about the structural flaw of his NY building. In a different scenario, he could have ignored her and disaster may have followed. Good on both of them. 👍
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8:56 as an aviation enthusiast, as soon as I saw the plane right here the first thing I noticed was the square windows which then made me predict of there being a lot of crashes because of the square windows
It was not the square windows that caused the problem. It was badly made holes for the rivets combined with the skin being too thin and the lack of a way to prevent cracks spreading. Lazy journalists etc just repeat the same old stuff without checking facts.
@@iscmiscm the square windows caused pressure to build up at the corners making weak spots and the windows could snap and break at those weak points and those holes in the windows was made to equalize the pressure
@@paganini18 Sounds great, but the pressure testing after the crashes came to a different conclusion. Observation tells one what to expect, but testing tells the real truth. The points of failure in testing were the rivets joining the panels due to the way they were punched combined with the thickness and lack of means to prevent cracks spreading. Boeing were also able to use the hard earned knowledge on the 707. Sometimes being first is not the best plus we gave our knowledge for free.
You did point out a good flaw when it comes to the sinking of the Titanic and many lives have been lost, but there were others. Flaw 1: number of life boats. If the trade regulations were not out of date, then they were able to do 64 life boats instead of 16 which means many lives would have been saved. Flaw 2: coal fire. There was a coal fire in one of the coal bunkers that weakened the hull. They decided to put the fire out and continue on with their voyage instead of going back to Holland and Wolf for repairs. Flaw 3: ignoring ice warnings from other ships. The people in the telegraph room were so occupied with messages from passengers to Cape Race to family and friends that only 1 or 2 ice warnings went to the captian, not all of them.
Thanks for pointing this out because not much people know about how the titanic actually sank. Basically the coal workers were trying to get the coal out as fast as they can to put the fire out but this made the ship stay at high speeds through the iceberg zone and they just kept putting more coal into the engine so the ship never slowed down too avoid the iceberg
@@vexile1239 theres also the theory the titanic was secretly replaced with her sister ship before the voyage. the two being nearly identical. I don't remember all the details of the theory but it seemed very viable
The speed of the De Havilland Comet had nothing to do with the crashes. The issue is the pressurization and depressurization cycles causing metal fatigue.
If I remember correctly regarding City Corp, the architect first came to the conclusion that it would still be strong enough but did an inspection and found out that the beams, which according to the drawings should have been welded from the beginning, had been changed to be bolted together to save on cost with the reasoning that all other buildings was bolted, why add the cost of welding. But the design with the legs had the effect that unlike other buildings where the anchoring to the ground extended to the corners, meaning you always had compression forces stabilizing the buildings, in the city corp building, when wind was hitting the diagonal, you had not corner support and got stretching/pulling force instead, and while bolts worked well for compression, they only need to prevent the pieces sliding to the side, for pulling, the bolts carried the full force, and they where not even close to be enough for the hurricane that was to decent within days.
A similar situation to the cigarette scenario was at Bradford Stadium in 1985. During a football/soccer match, someone in the crowd tried exstinguishing a cigarette, but it slipped through the floorboards and ignited the litter below.
There's a game by Ambrosia Software called Deimos Rising. There are 12 sectors to secure and complete the game. The sector names have references to actual places, battles, or former empires. One called Neo Kowloon, which is a reference to Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. And another one called Greater Babylon, and the final sector is titled Carthage. 😉 21:27
Slight correction about Carthage. The famous phrase "Carthago Delenda Est " or the full phrase "Ceterum (autem) censeo Carthaginem esse delendam " was said after the 2nd Punic War and was said by the politician Cato the Elder trying to convince the Roman senate to intiate the 3rd Punic war, which he was eventually able to do.
I can tell a series of small mistakes leading to a disaster, actually....the wreckage ended up being myself. You see, I have a huge sweet tooth. I once had a very bad problem with binge-eating, especially sweets. I eventually broke this habit but instead became a "grazer". I'd grab a few candies here and there. I'd get a "reasonably portioned" dessert. I'd add a little extra sugar to my coffee. It wasn't until I became very obese and riddled with health problems and unable to look after my child that I realized what I'd been doing to myself. I'm not saying don't eat ANY sweets, but don't do like I did and grab a little every single time you pass it or crave it. All those little things definitely added up. Now I track my food carefully and pick my moments so I don't sabotage myself.
15:00 that's not true... As you can see it was very dark when the titanic was sailing across the Atlantic. And the binoculars would even help because it was dark and there was no light other than the stars so it couldn't have helped the guys in titanics birds nest to see if there were any icebergs ahead
I live in Colorado. Fire awareness and prevention is key. We had yhe Hayman fire when I was a teenager, it was just as bad as the one in this video. Many friends lost houses and family members. This is all because a forest service lady burnt a love note in a camp ring and forget to put it out properly. Any small spark can light shit up if its dry out. Be safe and fun camping!
I don't do fireworks because one nearly hit me in the face, a cat got spooked while I was holding it and clawed me up, and a small brush fire started because our neighbors decided our yard was OK to dump their large amount of sticks in our yard. (The pile was 4-6 feet wide and definitely 6 feet tall) all this happened in one night. I also hate loud sounds so this was just the final straw.
Actually, it was a series of errors that lead to the sinking of the Titanic, not any single one! A coal bunker fire leaving the bulkheads compromised and the ship listing (with visible signs on the hull if you look, you can clearly see where the metal had darkened from said fire STILL BURNING when the ship first set sail) and not to mention the order to pull full reverse and to turn hard, plus the First Class passengers leaving all their windows open - I am not making this up; these are genuine factors that contributed to why she sunk so damned fast!
@@reddwarf5133 There was a coal fire, the bulkheads were warped from it! It was raging well into her maiden voyage! She was well out into the Atlantic before they got it under control! You can clearly see a dark spot on her hull in the photos of her, bearing in mind she was listing as well! And I didn't say it caused more damage, it compromised the inner hull integrity, which did not help!
There were no cosmonauts on the N1 rocket when it failed and exploded because it was an unmanned test launch. This applies to all 4 of the launch attempts. There were, however, a lot of people killed from the ground support staff.
10:38 That wasn't the source of the pressure. The source was internal - the plane was flying in extremely thin, unbreathable air at around 40,000 feet but was pressurized internally to the equivalent of a breathable 8,000 feet. This substantial pressure difference, combined with the cyclic nature of its application due to landing between flights, caused the metal around the window corners to fatigue.
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Wow! That last story was refreshingly admirable. I was waiting to hear "and William ignored her warning", but the fact that William listened to Diane was great to hear. Thanks for this one!!
Amen to that! So many people wouldn't do so because of pride.
Holy snapchat imagine building à skyscraper just for it to be threatened by your neighbor's because they chose formidable over function?
Its à good thing he solved that issue, or else he would have been sued by thousands of people for billions of dollars, and thats not including damage costs: it would have been for loss of life and injuries ( doctors in the US aren't cheap)
Yeah it is an example made into textbooks. However, the root cause was those legs were supposedly be around corners instead of centers when it was designed. However, there was a building beneath it, so they move those legs to the center instead. However, moving them to center created the corner problem, as mentioned in the video.
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Yes, I can confirm fireworks only need a small mistake to be dangerous. Back in July 2021, we were celebrating Fourth of July in our neighborhood. My family had only brought smaller fireworks, but one of our neighbors and his friends had lit a big rocket in their backyard. Just after lighting the rocket, they noticed the plastic wrapper on the rocket hadn’t been removed. So, one of them went to go take it off, and knocked it sideways. The rocket launched, and exploded right in the middle of the neighborhood. My family scattered. Everyone had a fireball less than half a foot from them, one of the fireballs landed on the neighbors’ Shelby GT350, but fortunately, no one was hurt. After watching this I can see how much worse that could’ve gone
here in germany, every new year's eve has massive semi-rioting crowds using big firecrackers and horizontally launched rockets as weapons against each other and the also always present riot police. it seems to not produce very many injuries, mostly because the vast majority of fireworks are legally purchased and regulated to only use black powder for the explosive charge, which explodes so softly that a firework has to be in direct contact with a body part to cause serious injuries. illegally imported flash powder firecrackers from poland or the czech republic are also poular though, and those have much more injury potential.
I never read those long comments .
Poor GT350
@@pepperkilldevelopment9069 wait til you read the hello kitty case comments
@@zacharyarchbold4097 don’t worry, the GT350 was also unharmed
You gotta love William’s story. He didn’t ignore the situation or just tell them off for pointing it out.
He realized his mistake and did everything he could to rectify it.
everyone should be like that
his facing several charges of gross negligence destroying buildings and the subsequent negligent homicide of thousands of people could have provided impetus.
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He has done his job.
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15:54 it's actually surprising how much a single lit bud can cause a lot of trouble. In my previous job, we had a "big tool room" where a lot of people used to go for smoke breaks since it had large doors leading outside. One day i was left in our building to prepare tools and materials for a job , when I noticed smoke in the corridor. I looked through all the rooms only open the tool room and see it filled to the brim and fire somewhere.
After telling others of the fire and putting it down, we realised that it was a trashcan someone dropped a still lit cigarette into it and things could have been much worse. Trashcan stood next to jerry cans filled with benzene and diesel as well as propane tanks and if it wasn't for the can melting away from jerry cans and us noticing fire fairly early, things could have gone much worse
Boy, you sure dodged a bullet there! Did you buy a lottery ticket afterwards, from how lucky you were?
@@makutamon Not at the time for sure
Wow, that sure was lucky. I've heard benzene fires are hard to extinguish, and that you can't use water for it at all.
@@amberkat8147 Yeah, similarly to burning oil, trying to extinguish those with water only makes it spread out faster as water literally boils and throws it everywhere in the process.
Oil and benzene/petrol/gasoline you can only fight using powder filled extinguishers to create this hardened layer that suffocates fire.
@@makutamon I have luck in avoiding life threatening situations, but not in lottery or gambling.
I can get through things that would normally end badly to others, but can't win a dime even if my life depended on it.
I made a mistake at work once. I was upset about it but my boss said, "If you do not make mistakes you are not doing anything worthwhile."
I had a date that night and we went to PF Chang's.
It was good food and delightful conversation. While we ate I told my GF about the mistake and what my boss had said. We laughed about it, with her commenting that with her job, mistakes tended to be a bit more catastrophic. She was a cardiac nurse.
We got our fortune cookies and I cracked mine open, read it, said, "I don't believe this!"
I showed her my fortune cookie and we both laughed.
I even took the fortune to show my boss the following Monday. The fortune read, "If you do not make mistakes you are not doing anything worthwhile."
He smiled and said, "Where do you think I got that?"
Don’t worry,, I know how it feels did not get any likes. I almost never get any likes.
@@lyondoyle2396when did they mention likes?
Lmao. Boss obviously eats PF Changs a lot.
Props to the designer of the building for making sure that the building was safe and not assuming he was right. If more people looked into structural issues, many disasters could be avoided.
We need more like him
I totally agree. He was able to recognize he made a mistake and instead of making excuses he made changes
Yeah, one Korean fella 🇰🇷 in the 90s was negligent. Once he was convinced his department store was giving way, decided to leave without alerting customers and staff for fear of revenue loss, then hundreds died, and another over 1000 injured.
One of the rare times when an important man listened to a woman.
take surfside for example the question on that is less why did it
collapse but more how had did it ever stand
I'm really glad William LeMessurier actually listened to Diane and actually spent the time, money, and effort to correct his mistake. So many architects get too prideful of their work, and just ignore the warnings of others, and just let their work be.
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Bro you can't say first with that pfp nerd 💀
@@vidamaciulyte1206what? Dead emoji
How many architects do you know? It must be quite a lot, since you even studied their behavior.
@@gehtdianschasau8372 About 3 and a half. That fourth one got cut his left half cut off in a freak box fan accident. He's all right now
A small change to the building plans for a pedestrian catwalk in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City led to its collapse during a party in the early 80's. There were something like 180 fatalities. It wasn't faulty materials, or improper methods. It was simply a small change made after the plans were completed. As a result of 1long bolt changing to 2 short bolts, the weight distribution went from being shared across multiple levels to being entirely put on one level. A high school student doing a small experiment could have determined the logic behind the change being catastrophic, but it was changed for 1 stupid reason. Its easier to carry 2 small ones than 1 big one.
I live in Kansas City and it was awful my grandparents told me that they were in Kansas City for dinner and this happened to be at the same night that the collapse happened and that it was so bad they had to do on the spot amputations with chainsaws when I heard this(I was about 10-12 years old at the time) it traumatized me I couldn’t get to sleep because of the images in my mind.
my father's wife at the time was a RN in far western KS. she drove there as a volunteer to help. when she came back she looked 10 years older, wouldn't talk about it.
I was absolutely livid when the El Dorado fire happened. I went home on leave while still serving the military after being away from family for almost 2 years. Literally the day after I arrived home, I woke up to tinted orange skies and was forced to cancel all plans I had the following few days due to all the smoke and restricted outings because of covid, forcing me to stay home until my flight back 10 days later. Stuff like this are the reasons why we can't have nice things.
And all for something as ridiculous & pointless as a gender reveal party.
@@reddwarfer999 The memes about it were coming in real hot though
I'm really sorry your RandR got screwed up. I know you were looking forward to it. And, sincerely, thank you for your service. Mine is an Air Force family, mother, father, and daughter.
@@ThisIsHunglo There is that, and hopefully enough people heard about it to realize how easy it is to do that crap and maybe won't. I'm not counting on that, there's a lot of idiots
@DevinSummer-i7u It's from the sci-fi comedy show Red Dwarf.
As a resident of Japan I don't find fault with your information about the Hanshin earthquake but I do want to point out that at 23:33 you state that 1995 is remembered for a single catastrophic event. Actually it is ALSO remembered as the year the crazy cult, Aum Shirikyo released Sarin gas into the Tokyo subway system resulting in many deaths and thousands with serious physical effects.
Sorry to hear that happened. Condolences to the families affected. Maybe he'll do a video about this.
@@QueenRequishow do more people not know of this? Aum shinrikyo literally was doing stuff like this for YEARS before 1995.
A Priest : "My small mistake was saving a kid from drowning in a lake named Adolf Hitler."
What?
So the lake was named Adolf Hitler? Didn't know that existed
@kasoa.thourcans124 no, he meant the NAME of the kid was called Adolf Hitler. Either you didn't know or you were just joking, in that case, sorry.
The poster is illiterate. His post clearly indicates that there's a lake named Adolf Hitler. Dumb people shouldn't try to be funny.
hahahaha...a lake named adolf hitler--priceless.
A correction on the Comet airplane one- yes, those square corners may have been where it was always going to break, but planes broke so quickly because at the time they didn't have any experience with flying that high so the metal was just too thin. That thin metal flexed with every flight cycle- every cycle of depressurization and repressurization- and was bound to give out.
Also while the windows were squared they had round corners
The windows as the cause for the loss of the Comet airliners has been debunked so many times.
Agreed with all the comments. The issue wasn't the 'square' windows (they had rounded corners). Another factor was the way DH bonded the metal, it just wasn't strong enough, and lead to metal fatigue too, at the joins.
Correction on titanic, it was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship
The first N1 explosion didn't cause the Soviets to lose the moon race either. They launched 4 of them and all of them failed only one due to a bolt coming loose and being sucked into the engines. It had many of the same problems the new spacex craft has like having a lot of engines that all have to work in sync. I think the N1 had a 30 different engines of 2 different types and most of them needed to work in sync to have a successful launch. They also couldn't test the rocket in a standing position like the USA could due to a smaller budget.
8:34 *The Comet disasters weren't specifically the passenger windows.*
It was microcracks from the punch-type rivets. With each pressurization/depressurization the cracks lengthened.
There are TH-cams videos about the Comet that can describe it in more detail.
@@fantasynx4730What?
@@fantasynx4730he isn’t wrong
There were a number of factors including the windows, but it's not just the windows.
At last someone that checks facts.
After all these years rubbish is still being spewed out.
The blackout in NYC in 77 also Happened in August 03... to the entire North East Coast. One of the power plants in Niagara falls around Ontario Canada went down and created a chain reaction. It lasted a few days.
2003 blackout?? I remember that! Ofc it was on a really hot day of the summer too.. First time I ever saw the entire night sky :)
@traybern think we know that why u yellin 😶
@@bowechosqualler lmao pay him no mind
@@L.S.Stryke ahahahahhaha
I thought it occurred in a month when school was still happening. I remember that school was cancelled for the first day but was back the next. Or something. I was in early elementary school back then when the power went out for a few days. I asked my mom why the power was out and she said it was because of Cowboys and Indians. 🤷🏼♀️
I was on vacation in NYC from the UK and witnessed the blackout. My friend and I were very lucky - we’d just been on the subway and were minutes away from being in an elevator. We managed to grope our way up to our floor and escaped the mayhem on the streets.
if your apartment is in a high flour. how was this mayhem?
It's scary how easily people descend into savagery when order is disrupted, in this case, all it took was a power shortage.
@@carloscatarino7890 Not all countries descend into savagery when blackouts hit though.
@@nikoskonstantinidis4069 Our hotel wasn’t made of flour.
@@Pluggit1953 ok I accidentally said the ingredient flour instead of one of the floors of the hotel. my bad
The first story about the power outage was repeated in 2011 in San Diego, but without the riots, although with an even more stupid cause. An engineer was doing maintenance tests at a major power hub in Arizona and did some steps out of order. The result was the trunk line from AZ being shut off. Which left all the load for San Diego falling on the trunk line from Los Angeles, and that rapid spike caused it to shut down as well. The result was all of San Diego and surrounding areas to be in the dark for 11 hours, with some areas taking up to 36 hours to get restored.
I'm in Oklahoma and Saturday's storms have left us without power. Hinted return time is from tomorrow to the 24th. I know it's not the same, but I appreciate how not having power sucks.
Actually it still had riots.
I'm in Puerto Rico, a cat and an iguana caused two separate power outages that lasted hours
@@SuisfoniaThere were no riots in the 2011 Southwest blackout.
I was living in Southern California then, and Google searches (Wikipedia, San Diego Union Tribune, other sites) confirm my recollection.
@@alphabravo424 Puerto Rican iguanas are gigantic.
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That part explains why the Bible has similar stories to Greek/Roman mythology.
Zeus banished Hades to the Underworld. God banished Satan to Hell.
Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a demi-god. Similar to Heracles/Hercules, conceived by Zeus who took the form of Alcmene's husband: Amphitryon.
There's more to the Citicorp building story. If the building had been constructed as LeMessurier (pronounced "le-measure") had specified, it would likely have been adequate to resist "quartering winds", but an on-site change to the construction of the diagonal braces that directed load to the legs of the building - from through-welding to bolts - significantly weakened the structure. LeMessurier discovered that on his own, once he was prompted to start thinking about quartering winds.
The timing as reported here is also very sloppy. It was only toward the very end of the refit of the building - which could be done at night, with minimal disruption - that the hurricane showed up, and it veered away from the city, in any case. LeMessurier took his time to mobilize the people, resources, and plans needed to carry out the refit responsibly. It's really a model of how professional engineers should behave.
Also, fun fact: the building was one of the first to feature a tuned mass damper, a huge block of concrete on bearings at the top of the building, which served to reduce sway . . . but which would have increased damage to the surrounding area had the structure failed.
Also also, at the time of the building's construction, New York City building code did not have any specifications regarding quartering winds, which just goes to show that building codes are often inadequate on their own.
Kudos to the engineer who fixed the building. When watching disaster videos it seems many times the problems are ignored causing the disaster.
Do to David Blair’s anger he managed to forget to hand over the key to the safe containing Fred fleet’s binoculars if Blair had handed the key the tragedy wouldn’t have happened in the first place 14:54
Omg that last one! Not only was William cool about having someone tell him his design had a flaw, he accepted it and worked on how to fix it, without causing panic amongst people unnecessarily. Good for him, he really stepped up. And good for the lady too, who notified him of the issue instead of just thinking “not my problem”
Higher intelligence is displayed, when considering criticism, as practical, and a check on the work?
You're missing a huge part of the City Corp case... The building would've been strong enough if it was built how he designed it but the company building it decided to switch from bolted to welded joints on the metal beams the support the weight of the building. LeMessurier wasn't informed of the change when the building was being built. The student was the one who informed him, after which he re-calculated things and realized it wasn't strong enough
The builder bolted the joints instead of welding them. You got it swapped.
@@hedaron3787Who cares?
@@stellviahohenheimwell it clearly made a difference to the integrity of the building, so...
How did that lady know there was a problem then? The video makes it seem like it's just the nature of the shape and height of the building and the weird legs design
@@nthgth I believe she was reading some final report of how the building was built and comparing to LeMessurier's calculations
In the blackout story, you left off the fact that precisely nine months afterwards, all the maternity wards were overloaded because of the fornication that took place during the blackout.
Since it was due to riots, I'm sure an above average percentage of those were from.. unwanted fornication
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The DeHavilland Comet window theory has been disproven. The issue was with the structural integrity of the airframe itself and the overestimation of the material resistance lifespan (i.e., how many pressurization cycles it could withstand before failing).
True.
Just about to post the same thing
The real culprit was microcracks that formed because the structural pieces of the fuselage were riveted together instead of drilled and screwd. Seconds from disaster series does explain it quite well.
*New York has a blackout*
*Everyone goes pandemonium and starts looting everywhere*
That’s about the correct civilised response you can get from the people apparently. That will definitely resolve your power cut.
It makes me so mad for some reason when people keep blaming the windows
Story to tell. Apparently some workers were in the oil mine in the western part of kentucky. I was at home at the time when one of the workers threw down a cigarette and something caught fire. Once it caught fire it caused the whole mine to explode. When it exploded (over 10 miles from our home) we felt the shockwave and our house shook from the blast. I dont remember it exactly but they found their remains. So yea small mistakes, but deadly consequences.
Not small mistake that is what being cheap hiring idiots gets you save a little but then pay out big later
Accidently setting off a fire suppression system at a remote Fuelling facility. Big mess! It was because of me losing my good multimeter. I had to run to a local hardware and buying a cheap one! Big MISTEAK! The releasing panel had a trouble fault on it, so I was using pos meter to test continuity on the circuits and when testing I touched the wrong terminal with the meter leads and heard a pop sound. It was the fire suppression system releasing! I was so pissed off at what I did I smashed that pos meter. I was coursing and screaming so loud that the workers at the facility heard me and were making sure I was ok! Damn! I was so pissed! I had to report back to my company what had happen and the said fix it whatever it takes. Well with in 24 hours we also had it back to normal. $5000.00 later, we also had to pay them another $1000.00 to have a professional cleaning company come in to clean up after we had everything cleaned up. Needless to say, a cheap multimeter and me are to blame. And yes, we lost the account! Got to love it!
MISTEAK??? 😱😱😱
Fred Fleet's binoculars were not the only "small mistake with huge consequences". The reason the Titanic is so memorable is not because of the number of lives lost or any other reason than the incredibly large number of "small mistakes with huge consequences". For example, it took the ship about two hours to sink giving the people plenty of time to save more people but small mistake after small mistake cost about three fourths of the passengers.
The Titanic had enough lifeboats for UP TO 1178 people. The ship had the legal MINIMUM amount of boats because they figured in the event of an accident, they’d have time to deliver passengers to other ships during rescue. Unfortunately, for the Titanic, the ships that had responded to her distress calls were nowhere near her vicinity at the time. The Carpathia was roughly 54 miles away and though the Olympic, Titanic’s sister, also picked up the distress signal, they were over 300 miles away.
On top of these facts, the Titanic had NO lifeboat drill. One was scheduled the morning of the 14th, however, it ended up being canceled for unknown reasons (though sources claim it was due to Captain Smith wanting to conduct a final service before retiring as he was due to retire at the end of the Titanic’s voyage.)
The cap to the whole thing however, is that most of the boats launched in the “earlier” phases of the sinking were not launched at capacity and this was due to quite a number of factors, but the two biggest being a severe lack of training and urgency, which resulted in passengers believing that there was no imminent danger. In fact, many passengers thought that the launching of boats during the sinking was merely for a drill.
Was just a whole mess!
@@Th3On3Y0uW4nt Don't forget that the Californian was probably less than 20 miles away but miscommunication resulted in the Californian not even responding to the Titanic's distress call.
@@Th3On3Y0uW4nt They would also have had more lifeboats if seeing more lifeboats on the ship was not deemed 'unsightly' as the ship had to look 'nice' instead of practical.
On top of that they had water proof bulkheads in the ship, but only up to E deck as it was again ugly to show such things on the decks that had upper class people.
It was estimated that if the bulkheads were up through the whole ship it would not have sunk with the damage it got.
So too few lifeboats, not putting the water protection through the whole ship, cruising at too high a speed because the captain was sure there was nothing there and it being night which makes ice very hard to see and you have the reason who no-one should say something stupid like 'not even god can sink this ship'. God clearly heard him. and decided to prove a point.
It also has to be taken into account that some passengers were afraid the lifeboats wouldn’t make it and the crew downplayed the severity of their circumstances. They fully believed a nearby ship would get to them before the titanic sank so it made more sense to them to stay put fully believing the ship either wouldn’t sink as it was “unsinkable” or another ship would be there. When most survivors recount their stories they talk about how calm everyone was and that it was so quiet as if they were in church. Just horrible most never had a chance.
Another reason so many people died on the titanic was because the people constructing it didn’t include enough lifeboats for everyone on board
Oh yes, fireworks can be very dangerous. One New Years Eve, I was outside with my dogs. It had been a very dry winter and I live in south Texas so there wasn't any snow. I watched my neighbors set their driveway on fire. Technically, all the dead, dry leaves but still the whole driveway was in flames that rapidly went above the 6 foot privacy fence. This was right next to their RV which had big fuel tanks. And the neighbor between us is a painting contractor who stores hundreds of gallons of paint and primer in his garage. Fortunately, they managed to put the fire out but I keep an eye on them now as I now know they're not the brightest bulbs.
Anyone from 2024. (Ty for 574 👍 )
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Yea
I’m from 2030
@@LHYMABEIONYT oh too bad
@@LHYMABEIONYT no u ain’t
I’ve got another reason why Hannibal’s campaign failed: because siege engines/machines in the ancient world were so bulky and hard to transport, Hannibal simply couldn’t bring them with him over the Alps, even when they were disassembled, so he simply left them behind. This led to one important rule in ancient warfare: you can’t lay cities “to siege” without siege machines.
Should have just had his medivacs bring the siege tanks in, thats what jim raynor would do
Bro you’re so smart
The phrase 'carthage must be destroyed' was mostly used by Cato btw
Ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam - Cato the Elder
Nice to have a bit of a history lesson. Thank you.@@hromeise
@@makutamonInteresting 🤔
Shout out to our firefighters! They all face amazing dangers.
Amazing dangers that's very opposite
Blackout 77, was from a frequency converter messing up. How do I know I was the one who delivered it from Boston where it was sitting in a box
Re the Comet disasters - much of what we know now about weak points, and especially what we know about the repeated pressurisation and depressurisation stresses and strains on the fuselage, comes from these tragedies. Not having computers to help them work out what was going on, they built a huge water tank and put a Comet in it. They put it through many pressure cycles and eventually they found the first "tear". From that they - using extremely powerful microscopes - saw and learned a lot about "creep", where a metal's atoms move in such a way as to weaken it (I know, this is a *very* basic comment, it's supposed to be).
It wasn't just that the windows themselves were wrong, it was that _plus_ the constant pressure cycle. And given that Comet was the first ever jet-engined passenger aeroplane and travelled higher than any other plane, it's not surprising that they didn't think about that being a potential problem.
When we look at the numerous later design problems of plane types that, in most cases, are still around (Boeing 737 Max, anyone?), we _should_ find it impossible to look back at every design fault, particularly with each development in technology (the Max's problem, from what I remember, was from a new tech item or system), and have a holier than thou attitude to it.
I'm *not* accusing this narrator of it in this case, but I have heard, in so many videos, on so many channels, about so many preventable disasters or other problems (if you have 20:20 hindsight...) that I get a bit annoyed. It really does depend on the tone of voice. At least this guy speaks respectfully when there are innocent casualties from any accident or whatever. I appreciate that.
As an aside, it is such a shame about Comet. Once they retrofitted the windows, she had a perfect record, but companies like Boeing were growing more rapidly than De Havilland could, especially given that they were still just recovering from war production and rationing (for the workers). She was a stunningly beautiful plane! For me it's a toss up between her and Concorde as to the most beautiful. I think Comet gets that, but Concorde gets the most awesome prize. Having watched her taking off in Heathrow (on the observation deck - the roof - that was there. No idea if any airports still have them) in the mid-70s, and watching the place come to a standstill - even staff who'd see her daily! - nothing in manned flight is a more awesome thing!
Y did u write so much
Your channel should be shown in all high schools, within History and Geography classes. I definitely would of gotten A+ instead of just passing as I found those classes really boring. But I may have become something important given all you have taught me! Thank you! I’m always AMAZED at your content! 💕💕💕
This makes me sad - this is an ENTERTAINMENT channel, NOT educational. You not realizing that means I believe you learned nothing in school and that's sad.
@@ross-carlson I learned plenty in school during the 70’s and 80’s I just found school hard. Yes it’s entertainment but it’s also educational. Sorry that’s just my opinion. And don’t feel sad for me. We can’t all be smart.
@vujoleenanh Sorry but I disagree as this channel is filled with information and can teach people a variety of things about life.
My school did but for science
Apparently you didn't do too well in English either...
It's amazing how when people admit their mistakes and then work to fix them, people's lives can be saved without them even knowing it.
It should be noted that Citicorp Center was designed with "legs" not just for the sake of being unique, but because a church owned the corner of the site and refused to relocate. So the skyscraper's developers worked out an agreement where they'd put their building *above* the church, with columns to hold it up.
Wow just wow I mean I can understand not wanting to move your place of worship but this could've caused a huge failure that would've costed hundreds of lives if it wasn't for the quick thinking of engineers
Great Church, Why Care about OTHERS.
@@Dovah_Slayeroh I see
@@ishmaelepling9115 The church had already moved once before, and at the time was sitting on one of the most valuable pieces of land in the world. Pretty sure they never intended to put others in danger either, most people don't.
yup... religion is great
There’s another mistake to the Titanic disaster that wasn’t in this video, but should have been: the tanks/hull divisions that should have prevented the Titanic’s sinking weren’t sealed at the tops, and they were designed so that any number less than or equal to four wouldn’t cause the ship to sink; however, any number greater than four would cause the ship to sink due to “water overflow”, as I call it.
I was expecting them to mention that although steel was used for the central sections of hull of the Titanic, the design called for iron rivets for bow and aft sections. Most of the cracks that opened after its collision with the iceberg were in the iron-riveted forward part of the hull. Apparently the shipyard was overwhelmed by the demands of building three ships at once and therefore directors were forced into compromising on quality, not only using sub-par iron but also hiring extra riveters of less certain talent.
And one more there titanic have secretly have side burn
@@haonsanion8851 Nope, there was not a single coal fire or burn. Even if there was it wouldn't be enough to cause the Iceberg to "damage more"
That's not actually a mistake. That was perfectly normal for ships of the period why watertight doors.
Imo this is one of the best lists on TH-cam to ever exist.
A good video, well done, though I did spot an error in the Titanic section, so here's a quick correction from a Titanic enthusiast:
In 1911, the Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic, collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, which damaged the ship a bit. The Titanic's construction was put on hold and the Titanic's maiden voyage was bumped back so White Star could make repairs on Olympic. The Titanic's first and chief officers were, before the incident, William Murdoch (demoted to first officer and died when the ship went down) and Charles Lightoller (demoted to second officer and survived the disaster). So the White Star executives had no choice but to transfer Henry Wilde onto the Titanic while repairs on Olympic were carried out, which bumped Murdoch and Lightoller down a rank and kicking Blair, the previous second officer, off the ship, which then lead to Blair taking the keys and the disaster.
Really well done to Diane for spotting it and well done to William for listening and fixing . Too many times pride gets in the way but cudos to these two
first!
@@napoleonthe_real_one And? You're not getting an award for that.
@@napoleonthe_real_onenobody cares
24:45 that was the most hardworked animation on this channel good work man 👍
Regarding the collapse at 25:09: this is the Goffert Stadium in Nijmegen, not Vitesse. More even so, there is no city of Vitesse in The Netherlands. Vitesse is the name of the professional soccer team from Arnhem, just 10 miles to the north of Nijmegen. And even though the stadium was orignally built in 1939, it was completely rebuilt in 1999 (the old stadium was demolished) and reopened in 2000, so all wasn't caused by a lack of maintenance but faulty calculations in construction.
I know of two other small mistakes that caused big consequences. Well, the first one was a mistake while the other was a mishap despite watchful maintenance.
1. The Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986 was caused when a single o-ring came loose, causing the shuttle to break apart upon launching. This disaster was also caused by a lack of a good night’s sleep the day prior.
2. The Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003 was caused when a large piece of foam fell from the shuttle's external tank and breached the spacecraft wing upon launching sixteen days prior. When reentering Earth’s atmosphere, the shuttle disintegrated.
RIP:
Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, and Christine McAuliffe
and
Rick Husband, William McCool, Laurel Clark, David M. Brown, Kaplana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, and Ilan Ramon.
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The reason for the Comet's demise had nothing to do with square windows ... that was an incorrect reporting by the British press. As the Wikipedia article states "Design and construction flaws, including improper riveting and dangerous concentrations of stress around square cut-outs for the ADF (automatic direction finder) antennas were ultimately identified." The real cause was metal fatigue caused by repeated pressurization and depressurization cycles, which was not well understood at the time.
It’s debated whether or not the lookout on Titanic would have been able to see the iceberg with the binoculars. Because it was a moonless night and the sea was a flat calm, the iceberg was all but invisible. The only reason he saw it at all was because it appeared as a black mass on the starry horizon. So the binoculars probably would have been useless.
Not to mention the fact that if they were that important the ship would have had multiple sets of binoculars or at least forced open the cabinet they were stored in.
@@emilypower9748I thought that, too.
Fun fact there a TH-camr that does titanic videos called historic travels I think
@@emilypower9748 A lot of safety-related things on the Titanic (most famously, the lifeboats) were skimped or outright overlooked just because no one thought they'd ever be needed. The binoculars were no exception.
There’s a TH-cam channel called “Oceanliner Design”, and the host of that channel is very knowledgeable about ocean liners. He has done many videos about the Titanic, and in one video he explained the real reason Titanic had so few lifeboats.
The reason was that lifeboats were actually more risky than one might expect. In choppy waters, lifeboats were prone to flipping over, and in many situations, were more responsible for loss of life than the ship sinking itself. This was the reason ships were being fitted with things like watertight compartments and all that, in order to turn ships into massive lifeboats in case of an emergency. Lifeboats were meant to simply transport passengers to rescue ships when they arrived on scene. In other words,the new technology made people overconfident, and this was realized in the Titanic disaster. This was why, after Titanic sank, Olympic and Britannic were given the proper number of lifeboats, along with other improvements to their safety features.
2:55 I love how he selected every single state except for Louisiana😭😭😭😭
Fun fact: In rocket science, this is known as a 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly' or RUD for short.
As an explosion is the rapid disassembling of the weapon.
In normal flight you have a CFIT “Controlled Flight Into Terrain”
Check your facts on the dehavilland story… mentour now did a great video on it… the crashes were caused by metal fatigue because they were able to go really high, meaning that there is high cabin pressure which damaged an opening on top of the of fuselage, not the passenger or pilot windows. There were also other causes.
8:24 The guy who disapproved some guy trying to go to art school: bro are you sure? 💀🗿
I'm from Minneapolis and grew up going to the Metrodome. It wasn't an oversight as much as it was just an old building in need of renovations and an unusually large snowfall that year. The building was already being planned to be either demolished for a new stadium to be built or have a huge overhaul. Not a mistake - just neglect 😊
Same here. Every game I went to at the Metrodome I kept looking at the ceiling thinking that at some point it would break down. It did when I was in my 20’s. The Metrodome was still active for small events like the Rollerdome. No games were held till Target Field was built and a new Vikings stadium was built after the dome was demolished. Good memories before that disaster happened.
4:14 That’s not a mistake. That’s pure stupidity
it's not a ✨masterpiece✨ either
@@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2jellybean reference
As a Californian, this is just an average day for me
No, no. fireworks and dry forests in the summer do get along... like a house on fire! 😂
The Comet did not crash because of it's windows. This is a common misunderstanding of the comet crashes so don't worry.
The planes actually crashed because of tiny fatigue cracks which were created when the plane's bolts were made.
1:48 that’s the first time I’ve heard this guy laugh like that
12:25 N-1 never launched manned missions, there were just first test missions. Shame the whole Soviet manned moon program and N-1 in particular was scrapped, it just needed more testing.
Albert is the reason they handcuff the briefcases to their wrist now.
It's crazy to think that one loose screw changed history forever
A correction is needed on the Soviet N-1 booster, designed to send a crew to the Moon. First, there were actually four test flights, all of which failed, before the Soviets shelved the entire project. However, there were no cosmonauts aboard any of those test flights, so no cosmonauts died aboard the N-1.
4:45 At that point, the idiots should be arrested for negligible manslaughter.
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This was really useful, thank you
3:30 you could fill a whole video with gender reveal disasters, like the quarry explosion with tannerite that could be felt from neighboring towns, or the one in Iowa where they essentially created a pipe bomb resulting in the shrapnel killing a grandmother.
It's questionable as to whether binoculars would have been helpful for Frederick Fleet in spotting the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
One thing that people in the crow's nest looked for at night was water breaking against icebergs. The splashing was easily identifiable against a dark background. But with a calm ocean that night, that was not as easy to spot.
Also, with the cold temperature that night, it's possible that the binoculars would have justified fogged up.
The stadium collapse was caused by a resonance of the structure, much like the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. This concept wasn’t widely understood in all structural design. It’s understandable that a resonant excitation, people jumping in unison, in the design of a stadium structure, especially in the 1930’s. Not even an earthquake excitation would be expected to excite vertical vibration mode.
Hip hop has brought so much good to our country. What a great example they set for their peers.
Thank God William was open minded enough and didn’t have an ego problem, so that he listened to Diane about the structural flaw of his NY building. In a different scenario, he could have ignored her and disaster may have followed. Good on both of them. 👍
It's honestly amazing - because I'm a subscriber of yours I get recommended a whole lot of other 'interesting facts'-type channels, and after experiencing them can confidently say that you are far and away the best such content creator on YT. Your quality, intelligence and commitment to the personal touch is very much appreciated, Be Amazed team.
I'm in the same boat!
You may also want to give the infographics show a try if you haven't but yeah I agree Be amazed is the best.
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thank you so much! that really means a lot. We try our best 😄
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23:19 I remember that earthquake. Not only once, but twice. And the damage caused some of other buildings being on fire.
1:42 🤣🤣🤣If thats all it took, now i wonder what happen if the Wi-Fi goes down
Probably the same thing that happened
I mean, given that it was the power lines and not just a few houses, I'd understand
Power grid more of
8:56 as an aviation enthusiast, as soon as I saw the plane right here the first thing I noticed was the square windows which then made me predict of there being a lot of crashes because of the square windows
It was not the square windows that caused the problem.
It was badly made holes for the rivets combined with the skin being too thin and the lack of a way to prevent cracks spreading.
Lazy journalists etc just repeat the same old stuff without checking facts.
@@iscmiscm the square windows caused pressure to build up at the corners making weak spots and the windows could snap and break at those weak points and those holes in the windows was made to equalize the pressure
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Sounds great, but the pressure testing after the crashes came to a different conclusion.
Observation tells one what to expect, but testing tells the real truth.
The points of failure in testing were the rivets joining the panels due to the way they were punched combined with the thickness and lack of means to prevent cracks spreading.
Boeing were also able to use the hard earned knowledge on the 707.
Sometimes being first is not the best plus we gave our knowledge for free.
5:02 If it's a boy his name will be Bernie, and if it's a girl, her name will be Ashley 😆
You did point out a good flaw when it comes to the sinking of the Titanic and many lives have been lost, but there were others. Flaw 1: number of life boats. If the trade regulations were not out of date, then they were able to do 64 life boats instead of 16 which means many lives would have been saved. Flaw 2: coal fire. There was a coal fire in one of the coal bunkers that weakened the hull. They decided to put the fire out and continue on with their voyage instead of going back to Holland and Wolf for repairs. Flaw 3: ignoring ice warnings from other ships. The people in the telegraph room were so occupied with messages from passengers to Cape Race to family and friends that only 1 or 2 ice warnings went to the captian, not all of them.
Thanks for pointing this out because not much people know about how the titanic actually sank. Basically the coal workers were trying to get the coal out as fast as they can to put the fire out but this made the ship stay at high speeds through the iceberg zone and they just kept putting more coal into the engine so the ship never slowed down too avoid the iceberg
Wasn't there also a fire before it's launch as well
@@vexile1239 theres also the theory the titanic was secretly replaced with her sister ship before the voyage. the two being nearly identical. I don't remember all the details of the theory but it seemed very viable
Nope, there was not a single coal fire or burn. Even if there was it wouldn't be enough to cause the Iceberg to "damage more"
The speed of the De Havilland Comet had nothing to do with the crashes. The issue is the pressurization and depressurization cycles causing metal fatigue.
0:47 me too
What it just does a black screen
If I remember correctly regarding City Corp, the architect first came to the conclusion that it would still be strong enough but did an inspection and found out that the beams, which according to the drawings should have been welded from the beginning, had been changed to be bolted together to save on cost with the reasoning that all other buildings was bolted, why add the cost of welding.
But the design with the legs had the effect that unlike other buildings where the anchoring to the ground extended to the corners, meaning you always had compression forces stabilizing the buildings, in the city corp building, when wind was hitting the diagonal, you had not corner support and got stretching/pulling force instead, and while bolts worked well for compression, they only need to prevent the pieces sliding to the side, for pulling, the bolts carried the full force, and they where not even close to be enough for the hurricane that was to decent within days.
A similar situation to the cigarette scenario was at Bradford Stadium in 1985. During a football/soccer match, someone in the crowd tried exstinguishing a cigarette, but it slipped through the floorboards and ignited the litter below.
Nice channel, also the way you tell the stories is very nice, thank you sir
There's a game by Ambrosia Software called Deimos Rising. There are 12 sectors to secure and complete the game. The sector names have references to actual places, battles, or former empires. One called Neo Kowloon, which is a reference to Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. And another one called Greater Babylon, and the final sector is titled Carthage. 😉
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3:38 BOMBASTIC SIDE EYE 👁👁
CRIMINAL OFFENSE SIDE EYE
**Bombastic sound**
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Slight correction about Carthage. The famous phrase "Carthago Delenda Est " or the full phrase "Ceterum (autem) censeo Carthaginem esse delendam " was said after the 2nd Punic War and was said by the politician Cato the Elder trying to convince the Roman senate to intiate the 3rd Punic war, which he was eventually able to do.
6:04 love the animation man. i would love to see that in ur next vids
I can tell a series of small mistakes leading to a disaster, actually....the wreckage ended up being myself. You see, I have a huge sweet tooth. I once had a very bad problem with binge-eating, especially sweets. I eventually broke this habit but instead became a "grazer". I'd grab a few candies here and there. I'd get a "reasonably portioned" dessert. I'd add a little extra sugar to my coffee. It wasn't until I became very obese and riddled with health problems and unable to look after my child that I realized what I'd been doing to myself. I'm not saying don't eat ANY sweets, but don't do like I did and grab a little every single time you pass it or crave it. All those little things definitely added up. Now I track my food carefully and pick my moments so I don't sabotage myself.
15:00 that's not true... As you can see it was very dark when the titanic was sailing across the Atlantic. And the binoculars would even help because it was dark and there was no light other than the stars so it couldn't have helped the guys in titanics birds nest to see if there were any icebergs ahead
i feel so bad for the dog 11:50 cmon just look at that cute face
His death after month in space :(
They should have sent a consenting human instead
@@idontreadorreply yea
I live in Colorado. Fire awareness and prevention is key. We had yhe Hayman fire when I was a teenager, it was just as bad as the one in this video. Many friends lost houses and family members. This is all because a forest service lady burnt a love note in a camp ring and forget to put it out properly. Any small spark can light shit up if its dry out. Be safe and fun camping!
4:38 Mam. Allien Bibat (Don't bully her! If you bully her, you could get suspended, or possibly EXPELLED!)
I don't do fireworks because one nearly hit me in the face, a cat got spooked while I was holding it and clawed me up, and a small brush fire started because our neighbors decided our yard was OK to dump their large amount of sticks in our yard. (The pile was 4-6 feet wide and definitely 6 feet tall) all this happened in one night. I also hate loud sounds so this was just the final straw.
I hate loud sounds too
Actually, it was a series of errors that lead to the sinking of the Titanic, not any single one! A coal bunker fire leaving the bulkheads compromised and the ship listing (with visible signs on the hull if you look, you can clearly see where the metal had darkened from said fire STILL BURNING when the ship first set sail) and not to mention the order to pull full reverse and to turn hard, plus the First Class passengers leaving all their windows open - I am not making this up; these are genuine factors that contributed to why she sunk so damned fast!
Nope, there was not a single coal fire or burn. Even if there was it wouldn't be enough to cause the Iceberg to "damage more"
@@reddwarf5133 There was a coal fire, the bulkheads were warped from it! It was raging well into her maiden voyage! She was well out into the Atlantic before they got it under control! You can clearly see a dark spot on her hull in the photos of her, bearing in mind she was listing as well! And I didn't say it caused more damage, it compromised the inner hull integrity, which did not help!
3:00. Haven't you heard of the Alabama 3?
There were no cosmonauts on the N1 rocket when it failed and exploded because it was an unmanned test launch. This applies to all 4 of the launch attempts. There were, however, a lot of people killed from the ground support staff.
5:09 Well, you want to cause trouble. Well, fire works.
Anyways, this is why doing stuff like this is never a good idea.
26:22 It’s definitely something that happened to the thin roof of my childhood slide, so maybe there was too much snow stacking ontop.
15:49 I’ve seen those keys. They’re now on display at the museum Titanic Belfast. A MUST see for all historians of Titanic like me!
10:38 That wasn't the source of the pressure. The source was internal - the plane was flying in extremely thin, unbreathable air at around 40,000 feet but was pressurized internally to the equivalent of a breathable 8,000 feet. This substantial pressure difference, combined with the cyclic nature of its application due to landing between flights, caused the metal around the window corners to fatigue.
I love your use of the word "Bombastic" its so funny😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
0:16 now I’m curious, did you do that?
Probably not
He did, It was only up for about a minute
@@Bouncing_Block when?
Really?
@@eliknight1810 yeah I saw it
@ 10:40 about the SQUARE windows, why don't the square windows for the pilots cause a problem?
Small mistakes makes a huge mess , it definitely true in our world and I admit it , thanks for the content Be Amazed
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Ok, that is a legitimately awesome picture