Most Expensive Mistakes In All History - Part 3

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  • Coming up are some of the most expensive mistakes in history.
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    Part 2: • Most Expensive Mistake...
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  • @simecassimecas5092
    @simecassimecas5092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2621

    I was a mistake but not so expensive

    • @Sam-uh9uw
      @Sam-uh9uw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Nah you were not

    • @AttitudeforQA
      @AttitudeforQA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      what he said 👆

    • @dennysguerra3755
      @dennysguerra3755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      ok.

    • @horizon4669
      @horizon4669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I don't get it

    • @horizon4669
      @horizon4669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Also I subbed to you because you deserved it

  • @crub4906
    @crub4906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +780

    Evolution of TH-cam Ads.
    2010: No ads.
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    • @AttitudeforQA
      @AttitudeforQA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      2060: ads take over google
      2070: ads take over the internet
      2080: ads take over the world

    • @Eugene_Tan
      @Eugene_Tan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      2090: ads takes over Mars
      2100: ads takes over the whole Solar System

    • @beatsdontstop305
      @beatsdontstop305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🙃😩😭

    • @scrapfightergd
      @scrapfightergd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      3000: Ads take over the universe

    • @Eugene_Tan
      @Eugene_Tan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      4000: ads takes over the entire Multiverse

  • @hunterthewrestler367
    @hunterthewrestler367 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    A little more about the kirsk sub:
    The 23 survivors only survived because they all broke protocol and opened their segments of the sub to get to the very back end of the sub.
    One of the people was a newlywed with his first child on the way and he had documented the entire thing in his journal that had been recovered off his body, a very hastily scrawled letter was the very last entry in the journal, the letter was to his wife telling her that the water had finally reached the back section of the sub and was rising fast and that she would have to raise their child without him because he knew there was no rescue team coming.
    The 23 men were plunged into darkness about an hour after the sub had hit the bottom of the sea, only one person had a flashlight on them.
    The 23 men were stranded in the sub for several days before the water ultimately flooded that final compartment of the sub.

    • @johnhudson1545
      @johnhudson1545 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The tragedy is that had the Russian federation accepted foreign help minder mind understanding is a lot of those sailors that survived would have been rescued. That is no way for a man to die

    • @mlafou
      @mlafou ปีที่แล้ว +16

      What's even sadder about it, is that there were teams who wanted to go down and help yet the help was declined.

    • @allenh7835
      @allenh7835 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mlafou 2 sides to every story. I have zero trust in most medias honesty or accuracy.

    • @mlafou
      @mlafou ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Allen H I agree that yes two sides to every story. It was known at the time they did have teams from other countries and even very well know dive teams. However, because of Russia's lack of agreement to help get the trapped sub-divers out ultimately resulted in more death. Russia didn't want leaks out on their technology, I get that but they didn't even use their own countries' home teams to help. The notes were found very sad. More lives lost from inaction because they wanted to protect "secrets".
      Not surprising all countries have lost people due to similar reasons in a variety of ways. It's sad, it sucks and when it comes to rescuing human lives it needs to change.

  • @holl0918
    @holl0918 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Re: B2 Crash. In case anyone is wondering why the B2 didn't use standard pitot tubes for airspeed, it's because they would increase the radar crossection.

  • @johnjones5939
    @johnjones5939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I worked NASA QA for 10 years in the ‘90’s, and I started on the telemetry boxes for COSTAR. I can honestly say that everyone was holding their breath until the first pics came back after HST was powered up during the 1st Servicing/Repair Mission. After the mirror fiasco and the ultimate success of COSTAR to correct the aberration, all subsequent devices on HST as well as other Space Telescopes launched since Hubble was put in high orbit (including JWST, which should be launched next year to the L2 Orbit point out past the Moon) have had COSTAR-like correction circuits installed to ensure there’s no repeat of HST’s first images.
    Looking back, while it might’ve seemed like an expensive screwup, it really wound up stimulating optics systems in every business, from hospital imaging to your cell phone. The technology would likely have been developed, but the mistake and the urgency to ensure everything was correct for the repair started that development much, much sooner.
    I

  • @NinjaTyler
    @NinjaTyler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    A huge part of why Kobe was so devastated was due to how the houses were constructed, they were built with super heavy tiled roofs to endure the violent storms the region would get, but in cruel irony it meant while it could withstand massive winds it wasn't designed for the shaking of the foundation from earthquakes and almost all of the houses were completely flattened by the weight of the roofs, and it's what caused the death toll to reach such numbers as it did.

    • @randomthings8247
      @randomthings8247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No. crule ironie iz not spaice. Crueol irony is steel, stainless for no rust. Why you no rust?

    • @ItzBIULD
      @ItzBIULD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@randomthings8247 what?

    • @queen-lilyorjiako268
      @queen-lilyorjiako268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@randomthings8247 huh?

    • @randomthings8247
      @randomthings8247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@queen-lilyorjiako268 well as for someone who has been working in the construction field I can say that the metal used for the wires in holding up the bridge in the first clip was the first mistake. When creating such a bridge you gotta use either galvanized steel wires or aluminium wires, for the exact reason that they cannot rust. And aluminum would be preferred here as it is both flexible, light doesn't rust and is very strong.

    • @chrisb9143
      @chrisb9143 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@randomthings8247 Actually, aluminum oxydise way faster than iron
      But the oxyde is stronger than aluminum metal

  • @patrickomeagher9868
    @patrickomeagher9868 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I used to live in Osaka and loved visiting Kobe because it was close and reminds me of Seattle. The owner of one of the private English conversation schools I worked for had moved after surviving that earthquake. She said a lot of the damage was actually due to fire because of all the natural gas lines that ruptured. I myself experienced the big one in 2011 (from several hundred miles away) that caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. I've been in several earthquakes and that one felt more like being on the deck of a ship in a storm than the usual shaking. The tsunami that the factor 9.0 earthquake had caused overcame the breakwater (that was built to stop tsunamis) and shorted out the generators (and backups) that were not made to function under water. Without power to the cooling pumps, the reactors overheated and some melted down. For a while after, planes weren't even allowed to fly in a large radius around the plant. They had to fly over Russia and approach from the West (coming into Kansai airport from North America anyway).
    When I first moved to Japan in 2004 I worked for one of the biggest conversation school chains called Nova. Right before I got there the CEO (Sahashi Nozomu) had roughly doubled the number of locations and teachers. The economy went into a recession and (to make a long story short) Nova had spread itself too thin and went bankrupt. Turns out the company hadn't paid the rent on employees' apartments for months, so there were mass evictions. Hundreds of foreign teachers were suddenly unemployed and homeless. Some embassies (like Australia) were even offering citizens emergency flights home. I survived it because the aforementioned Kobe earthquake survivor hired me and a friend of hers helped me take over the lease on my apartment, evicting Nova on paper and signed me on as the new renter. I ended up putting up a few other teachers while they got back on their feet or secured plane tickets home.

    • @ASoberBear
      @ASoberBear ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So theres hobos and crime everywhere?

    • @tylerthompson5859
      @tylerthompson5859 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was later found out that Fukushima was designed to withstand any INDIVIDUAL major disaster. The earthquake/tsunami combo meant where one didn't get the plant, the other did. TEPCO was warned numerous times that the plant wasn't completely safe according to its designs and did nothing to update safely protocols and systems, which could have ultimately prevented the disaster in the first place, because scientists had discovered the walls weren't high enough for more recently measured wave heights, meaning the entire plant would basically drown and fail if those waves occured. And they did.. not long after that earthquake triggered the failsafe, dropping the control rods to stop the reactions.. and then, it was all downhill.

    • @donwise8767
      @donwise8767 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can blame General Electric for what happened, otherwise known as Greed and Evil.
      The Fukushima reactors had no containment vessels, which would have prevented the release of radiation. Greed and Evil sold Tokyo Electric on this concept due to the cost savings. The outcome disgustingly illustrates how the influence of the buzzard vomit on Wall Street ultimately results in disastrous and costly consequences.

  • @rickwhite4137
    @rickwhite4137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    19:59 Regarding the Kursk incident. Norway offered to rescue the remaining crew on board, but they were not allowed by the Russian authorities until it was too late. When they arrived, all the men on board had died.

  • @Dingomush
    @Dingomush 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    In your piece about the Hubble Space Telescope I must defend the PerkinElmer company. In NASA’s investigation into the cause of the “astigmatism” that the telescope was displaying they found that the mirror was indeed the wrong shape for the collector and sensor units. But the PerkinElmer company wasn’t to blame as they had wanted to take several crucial quality control steps, including measurements to insure the correct curvature, but that would mean cleaning it, moving it to a different stand, and heating and cooling the material to get the correct measurements to proceed. The outside inspectors said “no”. Because they were running out of time to get the project built and on the stand before the launch date. The guys from PerkinElmer company voiced their concerns many times but the inspectors had them continue. Also, NASA did not come up with the plan to save the telescope. The guys at PerkinElmer came up with the “contact lens theory”. Plus, if they had screwed it up that bad, why would they let them build the fix for it? They said that the “fix lens” was three times more challenging than the mirror was. In the early days, right after the launch, they threw PerkinElmer under the bus so that somebody else could keep eating the jellybeans. I don’t know that they ever said, publicly, who’s job it was to oversee the overseers. Thought I’d throw that in there.

    • @xonx209
      @xonx209 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was wondering why the mirror was not tested before being launched.

    • @Dingomush
      @Dingomush ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@xonx209 Deadlines…..in order to test the mirror it would need to be disassembled, put in a vacuum chamber and cooled down to mimic orbital conditions. They claimed that they didn’t have enough time to make the deadline if testing was needed, so they scrapped it. Even after the company who was grinding it said that it was a crucial step……..

  • @joneszen
    @joneszen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    My Dad once met an X Nasa employee at a bar and he said they already knew about the Hubble mirror problem before the launch but sent it up anyway because they were already way over budget and past their delivery date of the project.

    • @MrBkrndy
      @MrBkrndy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I can 100% see them doing this!

    • @SaraKhan-ku7jb
      @SaraKhan-ku7jb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nice

    • @SaraKhan-ku7jb
      @SaraKhan-ku7jb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just nice 😑😐😐

    • @Wtfinc
      @Wtfinc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SaraKhan-ku7jb they had the solution then too! thats why it went up regardless.

    • @unknown-ft9ik
      @unknown-ft9ik 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cap

  • @reelfishingtradition1655
    @reelfishingtradition1655 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    What I heard about this car ship was, is someone left a side door open that they could have shut automatically from the bridge, they never shut it, so the ship was taking water from that open door which they couldn't fix it after it had taken on so much water so it started to tip until it was too late.

  • @cellogang2768
    @cellogang2768 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In my personal experience I have encountered an expensive mistake too
    I live in Goa, India and on a famous tourist destination, Miramar Beach, A huge cruise ship ran aground a few metres from the shore and people were not allowed in the water. The ship was moved around a month later. It was tilting to its side while it was there

  • @tiankuohua5167
    @tiankuohua5167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    15:43 Correction: The Ariane 5 rocket used part of the Ariane 4’s software, and a number generated within a 64-bit floating point was larger than the maximum capacity for the 16-bit singed integer caused the rocket to think it was 90 degrees off course, forcing ground crew to hit the self-destruct switch.

    • @tomcorwine3091
      @tomcorwine3091 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was thinking it was probably an overflow error of some kind.

    • @soopahjj11
      @soopahjj11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Uh… yeah me too. I was thinking these things too.

    • @_v1nce130
      @_v1nce130 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and it became the worlds most expensive firework maybe even the biggest

    • @KingstonTiger
      @KingstonTiger ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ya I was thinking why they would make a self destruct switch on an unmanned rocket fully depending on the computer decision. Glad to know my doubt has been cleared up. Thanks

    • @Placeholder1225
      @Placeholder1225 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@_v1nce130 its technically one of the worlds most expensive software bug to lol

  • @indigowulf
    @indigowulf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    And just a couple weeks after this video was released, along comes a shipping boat in a canal and says "hold my beer".

  • @justdoingitjim7095
    @justdoingitjim7095 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A small privately owned restaurant near my house had just reopened under new management. It had always offered standard fare, such as chicken fried steak, BBQ and other southern dishes. It did moderately well, but the new management decided to increase sales by offering an unlimited seafood buffet for lunch on Wednesdays. It was only $9.99 each and instantly was wildly popular! Their biggest moving item was the shrimp, which was fried, boiled, popcorn and shrimp etouffee. People were heaping nothing but shrimp on their plates and eating tons of it! The special was supposed to run for two months, but was cut short after just three weeks. Shortly thereafter the restaurant closed it's doors again and their new "manager" was out looking for a new job! Hopefully he found one that doesn't involve selling food!

  • @douglassmith4317
    @douglassmith4317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seattle 1994 . Security Fence Co. Inc. My Forman and I had started a Security Fencing job at Boeing Field. Underground utilities aka call before you dig, had already paint marked all underground utilities. Giving us the go to layout our fence line. Staying a minimum of 3ft away from there markings. Great so we had to drill through the airstrip approx 1 1/2 ft of concrete + 4ft depth as needed for structural integrity for the fence post footing. A Hydronic Taxoma drill rig was used to do the job. Unfortunately on the 3rd hole the drill unit hit some underground obstruction. Witch had brought the project to a screaming hault. When 80% of Boeing Fields fiber optics had been drilled through. Costing a staggering $27,000,000 price tag blow to the utility Companys (Call before you dig. ) for a paint mark off by 19 inches. OUTCH! The Fence Co. Was not at fault. DOUG SMITH & DALE LEWALLEN.

  • @airbourne1266
    @airbourne1266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Actually. International rescue efforts did arrive in plenty of time. The Russian government stood in the way until everyone was dead

    • @Mirolp7
      @Mirolp7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      dead people cant sue you

    • @cgilbert210
      @cgilbert210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s horrible. 😔

    • @NorwegianBastard
      @NorwegianBastard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Russia would sacrifice their own sons instead of facing embarrassment

    • @rezawicaksono4753
      @rezawicaksono4753 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's not about embarrassment, it's all about military secret
      i dunno, maybe US also reject international aid if their nuclear sub went down

  • @towvalee2297
    @towvalee2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +685

    Just imagine being the one person responsible for anyone of these mistakes.

    • @razvanxd6088
      @razvanxd6088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I would cry for 30 years if I made any of that mistakes

    • @pr1m3_d22
      @pr1m3_d22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Blame someone

    • @joshuastoaac9572
      @joshuastoaac9572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pr1m3_d22 right if they'll know you did it

    • @midnightblues4667
      @midnightblues4667 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      To be honest its NEVER one person's fault. Its a group effort.

    • @pr1m3_d22
      @pr1m3_d22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joshuastoaac9572 They will not

  • @ElenaHaskins
    @ElenaHaskins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Thank you for this series. Details for failure analysis are good to know. Of course, "government's money" actually means money taken from citizens via taxes and/or inflation. In addition, some of the comments have very interesting information/clarification. Thank you to those commenters, as well.

    • @charliedallachie3539
      @charliedallachie3539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep it’s not hard for the government to blow other peoples money. They’ll just ask for more in taxes.

    • @maddmatter1811
      @maddmatter1811 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@charliedallachie3539 so what happens when the government blows other peoples money?

    • @rickberg2064
      @rickberg2064 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@charliedallachie3539 1131321131323311q1

    • @thedoctor7158
      @thedoctor7158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Seriously, do you have a single original thought? You have posted this exact same comment on each of these videos.

  • @greghanson5696
    @greghanson5696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Nanfang’ao bridge failure started at the top of one of the vertical cable near the center, not at the cable anchors at either end. The other cables should have been able to absorb the extra load but they too were corroded.

    • @randomthings8247
      @randomthings8247 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why not stainless with nikel alloye? No rust, no death. Why death over rust?

    • @devilsadvocate1441
      @devilsadvocate1441 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      this is why as a Nace inspector we sign an oath

  • @ScatteredCollector
    @ScatteredCollector 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    9:00 The idea for Harry Potter actually came to her in 1990 while she was searching for a job, and the idea "just fell into her head". It wasn't until 1995 that she was able to finish the book, and in 1997 was able to publish it.

    • @joycewills895
      @joycewills895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just a youthful spin on "The Lord of the Rings".
      I've read both too many similarities to ignore.

  • @danielfenton804
    @danielfenton804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    After hearing exactly how many eyewatering and jaw dropping copies I don't think my literary ideas could ever measure up quite as much!🤯

  • @HPS09
    @HPS09 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:20 - The electromagnetic waves would damage the hard drive rendering it useless & unable to recover the data needed to cash out ...

  • @HichigoShirosaki1
    @HichigoShirosaki1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I watched a documentary on the B2 bomber accident. There was alot more miscommunication than that. Not even some of the techs at guam knew about it and there were also warning signs given by the plane after calibration that were disregarded. It was also a flaw in the programming as the plane systems were aware of the d9fferent sensor readings even after calibration but believed the false reading over the legitinate readings when doing it's autonated actions. The pilots literally were not able to stop it.

  • @hexagonshorts2186
    @hexagonshorts2186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    WW1 and WW2 were one of the most expensive mistakes of human history
    Unlike the above in this two almost the whole world suffered all at once

    • @AnshuOP69
      @AnshuOP69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      WE suffered da most D:

    • @Ubique2927
      @Ubique2927 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No mistake. Just evil at work.

  • @133Nomad
    @133Nomad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    I’d hate to be the guy who lost his hard drive of Bitcoin. And then to see my name on lists like this.

    • @cindydott452
      @cindydott452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I still think he made it up!

    • @mustangnawt1
      @mustangnawt1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don’t. No one wants to be the Biggest Looser. I’ve thought about it helping him for a cut. Some dumps lay trash in a pattern by date. This is how police sometimes locate things. If he could figure out when it happened... Must be difficult 2 go on unscathed after that. Could u imagine?

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mustangnawt1: He did ask folks who were knowledgeable about that dump's operations, and the team narrowed down the general area, based on the best info the guy could recall. However, they failed to find the HDD in the landfill, and the town eventually told them to stop because of health and safety concerns.
      Anyway, he had mined his 7500 BTC for practically nothing, and later threw away the HDD which holds it, when they were worth over $600. Seems he's back to his original state, with nothing to show for it, but grief and a sad story, like claiming to lose the winning Mega-Million or Powerball lottery ticket.
      It would be funny if, in the future, an archeologist finds the HDD, and a team of engineers reads out the data from the platter to recover the digital tokens. If BTC is still valid as a currency at that point in time, there'll be a lot of vulture lawyers coming in to feed.

    • @stevewight1409
      @stevewight1409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hard to believe no other way to verify his purchase/ownership ...it's a stretch to believe the story as told here.

    • @cindydott452
      @cindydott452 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevewight1409 .. I think he made it up hoping for donations to start pouring in.

  • @missneah0215
    @missneah0215 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    In addition to the information, my easily distracted mind absolutely treasures the animation in these series. Thanks for the giggles and thank you (and your team) so much for all you do!!

  • @johnbergamini3567
    @johnbergamini3567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    50 million dollars is a cheap fix to an instrument costing 1.5 billion. The COSTAR fix was and is genius. What an amazing and demanding feat the Hubble telescope was!

  • @avrggamer69
    @avrggamer69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +315

    Oil tanker: I can make it if I ju...
    Bridge: *I'm gonna end this guy's whole career*

  • @Raymus42
    @Raymus42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Some more spacecraft accidents:
    The Mariner 1 crashed in 1962, also due to a software error. It's not exactly clear where the mistake was, as there are several theories to what caused the error.
    The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost again because of a software error. The programmers for one of the systems used imperial measurements for some reason, which caused the guidance systems to malfunction, as they interpreted the data as if the Orbiter was flying upside down and steered it straight towards the ground.

  • @russellstyles5381
    @russellstyles5381 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Re Kursk - US rocket scientists experimented with H2O2 as rocket fuel. They never managed to stabilize it. It could be used in a torpedo, but the tanks should be left dry until you need to use it.

  • @TwesomE
    @TwesomE 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I believe that the situation with kursk sub isn't a problem of welding rather not being checked casually for routine inspections.Im not sure if they check those machines that much to be honest!

  • @sphakamisozondi
    @sphakamisozondi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    When the government paid for something, that means, *WE PAID FOR IT.* emphasis on *WE!*

    • @ionymous6733
      @ionymous6733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      and who did the government pay? US! Lots of people's jobs come from the money the government (we) pay them (ourselves).

    • @jeffjests2764
      @jeffjests2764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ionymous6733 tax dollars shall not go to the military no more

    • @0yah0yah06
      @0yah0yah06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@jeffjests2764 aight lets get invaded, sounds fun!

    • @jeffjests2764
      @jeffjests2764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@0yah0yah06 we don't need a military, it would be dumb to invade the us anyways

    • @jeffjests2764
      @jeffjests2764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@0yah0yah06 yall guys are so militaristic, just be pacifist

  • @Brock_Landers
    @Brock_Landers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    So, real story on the Deepwater Horizon, I've never worked for Halliburton, but I worked for their direct competitor for 7 years and there are many different facets to the story. The company that owned and operated the drilling rig was Transocean, which is a great company with an outstanding safety record, but they had been having trouble abandoning the Macondo well so that they could move on to the Kaskida well and the production rig was due to move onto Macondo behind them. The issue was that Halliburton had been researching a better concrete slurry to plug the well so that it could be properly abandoned until the production rig had their blow out preventer and casing tubing installed and could drill through the concrete plug and start oil production. Well Halliburton hadn't perfected the concrete mixture yet and on top of everything not enough centrilizers were used on the drill string due to BP and Halliburton decisions on cost cutting. Also, once the plug had been found to have been leaking from a negative pressure test the Manual Disconnect System had failed to shear the pipe in the BOP because of poor maintenance on the rig crew's part. I have somewhat of a connection to the BOP, but I cannot say how (for obvious reasons) although I can say that I have never seen or touched it. The major issue was that there was a breakdown in pressure applied by BP to the rig crew into believing false ideologies in an attempt to explain away the pressure leak, on Halliburton for not thoroughly testing their slurry concoction before implementing it, and also on the many safeguards that are taught to us as oilfield workers when we are first hired and throughout our careers as we advance to different positions. It's an unfortunate reality in the oilfield that when the budget is way overblown and the projected completion date of a project is passed and exceeded that the owners of the well will attempt to come up with well founded reasons for why something is wrong, but well experienced and trained oilfield employees know better, but they go with the flow because even though we were thoroughly trained to "stop the job" when we find something wrong, we can't stand up to company men. It's sad. It truly is.

    • @dalefirmin5118
      @dalefirmin5118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I also have worked in the offshore oil field. You hit every nail perfectly on the head. There was a catastrophic failure at every level to cause this disaster. You cannot point the finger at just one company or one person. It required a conspiracy to cause this disaster.

    • @xonx209
      @xonx209 ปีที่แล้ว

      So did the companies involved learned a lesson and changed for the better?

  • @peytonmac1131
    @peytonmac1131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I find something oddly endearing about the Hubble telescope needing glasses to see clearly.

  • @edwardevans8979
    @edwardevans8979 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We had an Ice storm in Iowa. A high tension power line was hanging so low it was blocking travel on a hi-way. Instead of having trucks support the lines, the person in charge decided to cut the lines resulting in 25 miles of towers being pulled over.

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    At least the bridge lasted 20 years. The Tacoma Narrows bridge of 1940 only lasted 4 months.

    • @theurbanloner8879
      @theurbanloner8879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Whoa whoa I'm from Tacoma cross the narrows all the time. 😂

    • @nharris4606
      @nharris4606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Galloping Gertie is what they called it. Lol. Tacoma native here!

    • @theurbanloner8879
      @theurbanloner8879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nharris4606 lol yes I'm aware of that . Tacoma native here myself .

    • @sysrqstoic
      @sysrqstoic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw this (Galloping Gertie) on Encarta 🤣

    • @garyellison9615
      @garyellison9615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But I saw the pictures of galloping girdy on the wall of the 'Span' as a youngster. What was the dog's name?

  • @johnathanadams6378
    @johnathanadams6378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Correction: the largest oil spill in history was the intentional spilling of oil into the Persian Gulf by Saddam Hussein during Desert Storm in January 1991. Combined with the oil that was burned directly out of Kuwaiti wells, it was an absolutely insane environmental disaster. The Deepwater Horizon spill doesn’t come close, but it does possibly qualify as the largest *accidental* oil spill.

    • @dumpygoodness4086
      @dumpygoodness4086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      but it WASN'T "accidental".
      IT NEVER IS.
      THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ACCIDENT.
      ONLY HUMAN NEGLIGENCE AND HUMAN CORRUPTION.

  • @martymart1048
    @martymart1048 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember the submarine thing so well because, one day I was talking to somebody and I said you know it'll be suck for people in the submarine to be stuck in the water and they won't be able to get to you. Just a random thought I was talking to a friend and I swear a week or two later that happened. And I felt weirded out that it actually happened so close after I thought about it. I never forget it

    • @craigstoner2632
      @craigstoner2632 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's purely coincidence. You're aren't the only person that has had that thought, regarding submarines 🙄🤣

  • @TanookiSuit
    @TanookiSuit ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I just caught onto this account in the last week and see this is a many part series. Did you ever cover the Atari *not* buying the conclusive rights to sell Nintendo product in the 1980s? They didn't like the deal, bailed on it, and the NES exploded between 1985-1989 and after, and well we know what happened to Atari. I'm sure they could have used those billions in revenue. :D

  • @OnlyIfYouKnew_
    @OnlyIfYouKnew_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    At least Red Lobster
    honored their side of the offer, unlike the dominos tattoo disaster. 😂😂

    • @natehill8069
      @natehill8069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Or Pepsi reneging on their Harrier giveaway

    • @darthwiizius
      @darthwiizius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Here in the UK vacuum cleaner manufacturer Electrolux offered a free open ended return flight to NYC for every machine sold but didn't print the usual "one per household" restriction on it, honouring the offer bankrupted them because people like a friend of mine bought 7 vacuums as they were about the fifth of the normal price of the flight and he got all his chrimbo, birthday and wedding prezzies sorted for a few years to boot too.

    • @Nitebreed
      @Nitebreed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I saw a guy in a domminos uniform buying a load of cheap pizza's in Aldi (the 50p ones)- about 20- all that were there- the twat didn't even hide his uniform!

    • @generalbucknaked3080
      @generalbucknaked3080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Night Breed... I dont where that happened at lol. Cuz Dominoes pizza definitely doesnt taste like no Aldis pizza at all

    • @SrulDog
      @SrulDog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@natehill8069 they didn't renege. It was a joke and everyone knew it. Including the court, which is why they won the lawsuit.

  • @holdenleeb2312
    @holdenleeb2312 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You missed the best part
    The backup mirror, made by Kodak, was eventually tested to be the correct mirror despite not being chosen

  • @lad3523
    @lad3523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I’m pretty sure the most costly mistake is when you major in something you soon grow to hate.

    • @michaelmann8800
      @michaelmann8800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only if you treat your education as learning how to do a very specific thing rather than learning how to learn, adapt, and grow.

  • @claytonsmith5219
    @claytonsmith5219 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I lived through the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake north of LA. And lived on the same street as the Olive Vista Hospital. I remember, as a 11-year-old, running out of our house when the second earthquake hit shortly after the first, and watched the elevator shafts fall to the ground with people in them. This needs to be talked about.

  • @Ch33kySimp
    @Ch33kySimp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    There’s no price on life unfortunately ;( condolences to the people that have died to these mistakes

    • @dumpygoodness4086
      @dumpygoodness4086 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I disagree. Life is worth NOTHING. (ALL WE ARE is....ONE DUDE's JIZZ!!)
      Humans cost nothing to make, and couldn't be EASIER to accidentally create!
      Plus, there's a fate FAR worse than death:
      LIFE (on a planet of 7 billion fuckup humans!).
      ex:
      I'd rather have been CRUSHED TO DEATH in the Miami Condo Collapse....than survive by you lost EVERYTHING! (If you think it's easy to get new Photo IDs etc, it ain't. You can get your Birth Certificate, but that's not enough to replace ANY of your IDs etc! Not in Amerikkka!)

  • @kawh8719
    @kawh8719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was living in the town where the clip @:04 happened. They shut down the only East-West route through that part of the city. IT was closed for a month and they had an elaborate detour to get people who lived along that rode to work and back. The state and city film office were bombarded with calls, I don't know what the city got in compensation for that shoot, but the population who lived out there didn't think it was worth it.

  • @jeremypilot1015
    @jeremypilot1015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Corning Glass company in Elmira New York built the corrective lens for the Hubble. They actually had to make 2 of them as the first had a tiny microscopic defect and that was not good enough for Corning. So at their own cost they remaid the corrective lens. You can see the first lens and how big it actually is by visiting the Corning Museum of Glass in Elmira NY

  • @Matt-wf7ry
    @Matt-wf7ry หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What's amazing is that BP had to pay for over 100 billion dollars in fines and cleanup but still is one of the biggest oil companies in the world.

  • @montanosegaming7011
    @montanosegaming7011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Oh man
    Mrbeast cant afford these

    • @AttitudeforQA
      @AttitudeforQA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      don't count your *beasts* before they *roar*

    • @dinahk.7622
      @dinahk.7622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@AttitudeforQA lmao

    • @pr1m3_d22
      @pr1m3_d22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thinking the same thing

    • @AttitudeforQA
      @AttitudeforQA 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BeastNutha 🤣🤣🤣

    • @samuraiboi2735
      @samuraiboi2735 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BeastNutha oh i hear mr beast roaring in the distance😲 i think his angry at us°~°

  • @jenniferholden9397
    @jenniferholden9397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    Those poor submariners, especially those that didn’t get killed by the first explosion. Can’t imagine anything worse.

    • @dtiydr
      @dtiydr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      When the rescue teams was on their way an explosion was heard at the sub. It later showed that the oxygen torches they used had got in contact with water and when they do they explode violently and killed them all.

    • @dumpygoodness4086
      @dumpygoodness4086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      THE WORST PART is that in EVERY case....it's the INNOCENT VICTIMS WHO PAY....while the lazy FUCK-UPS or Corrupt Suits GET AWAY EVERY TIME.

    • @ottovonbismarck8913
      @ottovonbismarck8913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "can't imagine anything worse" *Sinking bismarck flashback* yeah.. Sinking Bismarck is just one example for a worse thing... also Yamato and Musashi.

    • @ericsmith6315
      @ericsmith6315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dying of mouth cancer, yeah thats worse. give me drowning any day

    • @josephgordon1269
      @josephgordon1269 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can. Nerve agents

  • @partickthompson1164
    @partickthompson1164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The kursk sub cost is nothing to how those 23 young men knew they were going to die and wrote their good bye letters to their families in the darkness. These letters are heart breaking .

  • @NoMoYOUsernames
    @NoMoYOUsernames ปีที่แล้ว

    The cause of the bridge collapse in the first segment seems to be identical to that of the Ponte Morandi bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy. It seems like a very bad idea to attempt to seal off cables in concrete, making them very hard - or impossible - to properly inspect.

  • @katerinapeklenk2016
    @katerinapeklenk2016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The Ariane 5 explosion looks a bit like the Challenger explosion but with more of a fireworks effect.

    • @getredytagetredy
      @getredytagetredy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's because they used the same shit they blew up the WTC and building 7 with...

  • @Zirkobi
    @Zirkobi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    well as for someone who has been working in the construction field I can say that the metal used for the wires in holding up the bridge in the first clip was the first mistake. When creating such a bridge you gotta use either galvanized steel wires or aluminium wires, for the exact reason that they cannot rust. And aluminum would be preferred here as it is both flexible, light doesn't rust and is very strong.

    • @georgesoros6415
      @georgesoros6415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Except for repetitive stress syndrome. That's why steel is better. Some use stainless now, as some alloys are very tough, the galvanizing can't rub off, and it is far stronger than aluminum, which also suffers from wear as loads are cyclic and movements although small, happen continuously.

  • @22Sparky
    @22Sparky 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    $160,000 for the 6 dead people and 10 injured, but 20-something million to build a bridge. Shows how much life is worth.

  • @lynnkayee1015
    @lynnkayee1015 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *Messed up fact related to the Kursk* : During a live press conference, the family members of victims that wouldn't keep quiet about how they were lied to were involuntarily injected with sedatives and carried out of the room. Everyone else just pretended it wasn't happening. It is incredibly eerie to watch. 👀

  • @KilledByThatTrain
    @KilledByThatTrain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    I lost my wallet once, over $20 gone, just like that, it still hurts

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I misplaced a wallet in my apartment and later found it again but not until I cancelled the cards in it. Annoying and expensive.

    • @shangamingyt9327
      @shangamingyt9327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its 500pesos in philippines

    • @KilledByThatTrain
      @KilledByThatTrain 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shangamingyt9327 Oo Mahal yun

    • @oolivegreen
      @oolivegreen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@michaelpettersson4919 should have just locked 🔐 the cards and then after if still not found then cancel. haha that's what I do. I just freeze or lock my card when I can't find it. And when I find it I unlock it. 🙌🏽☺️👌🏽

    • @sysrqstoic
      @sysrqstoic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@shangamingyt9327 more like 1,000

  • @sd906238
    @sd906238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My college Physics teacher would go to the Perkin Elmer factory in Norwalk CT to teacher the engineers how to build the Hubble Space Telescope.

  • @philipchesleyiii
    @philipchesleyiii ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Back when Red Lobster had its $14.99 all you can eat promo, I as a teen sat there for 2 hours and ate 7 pounds of crab legs. Only left because my parents got tired of watching me eat.

  • @MrStrikecentral
    @MrStrikecentral 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Alongside the publishers rejecting Harry Potter, any mention of United Artists and Universal Studios rejecting Star Wars before Fox picked it up? And even then Fox was a bit dubious about its success, letting Lucas keep ALL of the merchandising rights.

  • @jonathansantorelli4529
    @jonathansantorelli4529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Okay everyone let’s go search for that hard drive cut gets split evenly 😂

  • @thomasmathew13
    @thomasmathew13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Was Netflix really a big mistake to Blockbuster?
    Blockbuster showed they were late to the mail in rental game. If Netflix sold to them, would Blockbuster have even tried to move on to digital streaming like Netflix ended up doing? I'd argue that Blockbuster would have been more in the mail in rentals, but would still have lost to digital streaming services. I don't believe they would have made the change away from the old format. So I don't believe Blockbuster lost out on billions because they would have bought Netflix and not brought it to where it is today.

    • @SeverinSnake
      @SeverinSnake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's hard to tell what could have happened. But one thing we can all agree on; Netflix is a huge success under it's current direction. At the very least, Blockbuster would have bought more time by removing, what ended up being, their biggest threat.

    • @edenrose2374
      @edenrose2374 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SeverinSnake Blockbuster was already under mismanagement at the time of Netflix's inception. They were hemorrhaging money in bids based on rapid expansion of store locations. Hedging their bets on a growing game console game rentals. They didn't understand the market they were in, and were stuck in the early 90's.
      All of this is still evident by their last remaining store that closed this year. | Video Rentals were losing popularity because of single rental costs, and distribution. Not availibility. This is something blockbuster never understood as they were heavily fixated on there "Single-rental" philosophy. They simply never thought people would want to sit more than 1.5 hours in front of a TV, rather than go to a social event(Theatre).
      The final nail in their coffin is there strong ties to the MPAA. The MPAA /hates/ distribution models like DVD/Blu-Ray, and hates even more the Digital Distribution method favored today. Simply because its not profitable(for them) as their licensing favors theatre showings, and its the largest contributor to theatre operation costs as a result.
      The MPAA was having a long fight with at-home video playback in the 90's and 2000's. Blockbuster, hoping to soothe the raging boomer of a organization, invested heavily into making agreements with the agency. Resulting in higher rental costs, but at the same time, made it difficult for competing companies offering the same services due to favoritism by the influence.
      However, the MPAA couldn't pull the same stunt with Netflix. Their distribution method was treated less like rentals and more like time-shares purchases. MPAA not having fleshed out regulations favoring them, and their market manipulation tactics, resulted in Netflix both reducing overhead far below Blockbuster and being their own monopoly by being first through the gate. thus blockbusters ideas for monopoly by favoritism and manipulation was also their greatest undoing. If they would of fought the MPAA's greed, and fought competition with gimmicks they were already famous for, They would of remained profitable for a long time post-mail rental.

    • @lisabee8883
      @lisabee8883 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know I was confused about that

    • @wallyman292
      @wallyman292 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep! Have a feeling if Blockbuster had bought Netflix back then, we'd not have anything close to what Netflix offers today.

    • @thomasmathew13
      @thomasmathew13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If Blockbuster would have bought Netflix back then, we would be seeing Netflix on this list of most expensive mistakes for selling to Blockbuster and losing out on billions.

  • @rluv4evr
    @rluv4evr ปีที่แล้ว

    Netflix never would have been so successful if they mailed their DVDs in the old fashioned jewel cases. The paper mailers were ideal for NYC apartment building mailboxes.

  • @Kandy792
    @Kandy792 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Idk if you have this in part 1 or 2 of this mini series but the Tenerife airport crash was really bad. Idk how much damages were but I'm sure it was a lot

  • @lynettehyde905
    @lynettehyde905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    i lived very near the cider fires, I could see the flames less then two miles from our house. Was the scariest thing I have ever been through

    • @pauldavis9387
      @pauldavis9387 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If the eco freaks had let the forestry service do controlled burns, it never would have happened.

    • @wolfiemuse
      @wolfiemuse 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pauldavis9387

  • @BlenderStudy
    @BlenderStudy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2:56 That's amazing. I had no idea about how the Hubble telescope's mirrors were made. Thank you for the update, Be Amazed..!!

    • @Mochrie99
      @Mochrie99 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just remember how big a joke Hubble was back in the day. It's made up for it in spades since then. Some of the most recent images are mind-blowingly amazing. Not a joke anymore.

    • @gfopt
      @gfopt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except the videos were of Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, which didn’t make Hubble’s mirror.

  • @lamekid1237
    @lamekid1237 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The VB 10000 used to be docked in Amelia island Florida, it’s absolutely massive

  • @brianrosie1762
    @brianrosie1762 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You wouldn't expect such a small difference to make an entire image blurry, until you remember how big space really is and how far apart everything really is. Then you think it's a wonder we can see anything outside of our solar system to begin with

  • @olgierdogden4742
    @olgierdogden4742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I remember the Kusk Submarine incident well. There were offers from foreign powers to help bring the still alive stranded crew to safety. But the Russian government turned every offer down on grounds of security. And it was even reported that you could hear the remaining crew tapping on the walls of the stricken submarine until one day they finally stopped. Hearing the news every day during this ordeal I felt frustrated and sickened knowing that slowly one by one the men in this sunken sardine can were going to die and did and all because of the yet again stubbornness of some big wigs decided that they will have the crew given a death sentence for what...

    • @joebish6629
      @joebish6629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The men who survived the explosion died well within a day. There was nothing that could have been done to save them.

    • @olgierdogden4742
      @olgierdogden4742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@joebish6629
      That’s not what I heard. I live in the UK and I remember almost round the clock reports about this incident. And even if the crew died within a day which I dispute but I’ll leave it to the history books I still remember the daunting feeling when I would hear from the BBC radio or elsewhere that people were still tapping on the inside of the sub clinging to the last of their hope. Unless of course they were all given a dose of Prussic Acid before retiring from life.

    • @joebish6629
      @joebish6629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@olgierdogden4742 I'm afraid you're misinformed. It's true that there were round the clock reports and the Russian government resisted offers of assistance for the first week. I worked a ship called the 'Subsea Mayo' which did all the preparation work for the recovery of the submarine and I can assure you that the 23 men that survived the explosion died within a day, probably just a few hours. No one heard any tapping because the men inside the sub were dead long before any rescue vessels got there.

    • @kolasom
      @kolasom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sad also were the goodbye notes they found.

    • @olgierdogden4742
      @olgierdogden4742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kolasom
      I was never aware of that detail. Sad, terrible and could they have been saved.. I don’t know and haven’t bothered as I was much younger then and ditto. I thank you for the info, and whatever you do over this festive season have a good one even if you have a solo xmas day as I’ve proved to myself that there are many other ways to celebrate or at least treat yourself to a vibe whatever it may occur. Take care.

  • @that1guyyoukno
    @that1guyyoukno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember the 2003 fire. My family and I were evacuated to a couple towns over. The smoke was horrible smelling for months. Thankfully our house survived.

    • @flushoutheadgear1676
      @flushoutheadgear1676 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad your house survived both trips, the speedy sprint to the ocean and the slow march back to the mountains once the wind shifted.

    • @Lzrdman91
      @Lzrdman91 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember that fire the smoke was terrible.

  • @StarcatMkV
    @StarcatMkV ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to be a fly on the wall in regards to the people that are able to investigate scraps of shredded metal and put together these incredible stories of what happened.
    Not saying I don't believe it, there is always the chance, but I'd really just love to see how one thing leads to another in their findings, which determines what they believe happened.

  • @Grishrak
    @Grishrak ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now Netflix is losing a ton of money because they cancel series after 1 or 2 seasons, increase the monthly fee, don’t have as many great shows or movies, and are trying to crack down on sharing passwords. A lot can change in a few years.

  • @dannybonura3927
    @dannybonura3927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Can’t wait for the next one with the Suez Canal blockage 😂😂

  • @Wehrmacht_1944
    @Wehrmacht_1944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    the guy that was responsible for the kursk disaster probably got shot out of a torpedo tube and probably got sent to gulag if he survived the first punishment

    • @AnshuOP69
      @AnshuOP69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yea. he is ded in gulag now :D

  • @B127GD
    @B127GD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel like they ignore the deaths and act like the worst part was the cost.

  • @ondrejsedlak4935
    @ondrejsedlak4935 ปีที่แล้ว

    In reference to the expressway in Kobe collapsing, it was NOT because the structure was using outdated data.
    The expressway was in fact built factoring in earthquakes stronger than the 6.9 that hit. The issue was that the earthquake actually struck extremely close to the expressway along an as yet undiscovered fault line, resulting in far more severe ground movement .
    If it had hit further away, the express way would probably have survived.

  • @grdovwd1589
    @grdovwd1589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thanks A LOT for converting measurements in each video !! That's a thumb up you'll easily get from me !!

  • @Scratchingforcash
    @Scratchingforcash 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I feel terrible for the guy who threw out that hard drive. I honestly do. I don’t know how I would go on knowing I did that by accident.

    • @lanthanumlanthanium6373
      @lanthanumlanthanium6373 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's just money. If having a lot of money will make you happy, then you're living life incorrectly.

    • @anakinskywalker8859
      @anakinskywalker8859 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@lanthanumlanthanium6373 still, that amount of money being lost could've been avoided.

  • @matthiasknutzen6061
    @matthiasknutzen6061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I mean the most costly is probably fukushima, the company had been told multiple times that the tsunami walls were not high enough for potential tsunamis and therefore the pump rooms could be flooded.

    • @christurner6430
      @christurner6430 ปีที่แล้ว

      ....because US money was involved up front. Building the station higher would involve permanent increased cooling water pump electricity requirements making the station less profitable.

  • @Doge67856
    @Doge67856 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your telling me a 20 yr old bridge collapsing cost 160k? The Titanic sank on it's maiden voyage, and costs 400 million to make in todays money.

  • @Mochrie99
    @Mochrie99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Having seen some of the absolutely breathtaking and amazing images Hubble has taken in recent years, the cost for having to create COSTAR due to the original issues is vastly worth it.

    • @dumpygoodness4086
      @dumpygoodness4086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOOK CLOSER.
      Too often I've seen "Hubble photos" that are incredible...and then the FINE PRINT says it's a DOCTORED photograph!!
      (Some are "artist's RENDITIONS"!!!!)

    • @peytonmac1131
      @peytonmac1131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I find it quite endearing that the Hubble needed glasses. Like some little old man gazing wistfully up at the stars, wondering what there might be.

  • @OneZoNinja
    @OneZoNinja 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I once worked at a concrete plant where we made concrete pipes for drainage. My job was to "tip out the pipes"from the kiln once they were hardened. Well standing 8 feet tall I litteraly had to carefully tip the pipes down with a forklift and catch them on the end of my forks and lay them down to take them outside. Human error helped me to tip the pipes right into the row next to the one I was working on, and the whole floor went down like Dominos. Hundreds of them. Needless to say it was a massive clean-up with a time limit seeing the guys were to come in in just a few hours to make more. Shhh. Dont tell my boss. He never knew.....or did he? Cameras maybe?

    • @mewgaming6734
      @mewgaming6734 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you get fired?

    • @OneZoNinja
      @OneZoNinja 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, my buddy and I had just finished the cleanup when everyone come walking through the door the next morning. Some pipes were chipped at the ends. The "bell and the spigot". Some pipes didnt even fall all the way over most were leaning on the others which made it even more difficult to get the tippers on the end of the forks in. However it took so long to clean up there was some work we didnt get done. The boss used to say "What did you guys do last night"? You guys got to be sleeping. Since it was an overnight job and was just the 2 of us in the secluded building from 9p.m. to 6 a.m. lol good times.

    • @OneZoNinja
      @OneZoNinja 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well I no longer work there but not due to the "Domino Effect" lol

  • @bertmeinders6758
    @bertmeinders6758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Re: Kursk disaster: Firstly, the mine strike suggestion was always unlikely, as sea mines, unlike land mines, defuse themselves after 5 years. Secondly, hydrogen is not a fuel; it is an oxidising agent, to enable the torpedo to run without air.

  • @Alfiewobbel
    @Alfiewobbel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Layers and layers of irony using that scene of Ron puking 😂

  • @ondrejsedlak4935
    @ondrejsedlak4935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Slight misconception about Blockbuster being behind the 8-ball on streaming video. They were actually poised to overtake Netflix in terms of streaming as they had a platform ready and more than enough capital to sink Netflix ten times over. However some of the top executives (including one of the CEOs) were of the Kodak mindset (superior analogue film versus inferior digital imaging), thinking that physical media rental will never be replaced by digital streaming and so began their decline.
    Good news however, there is still ONE store left somehwere in the US. can't be bothered to look it up now.

  • @JOHNDAN5048
    @JOHNDAN5048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A strip of metal that fell off of a plane and left on the runway from a previous takeoff had doomed an entire fleet of British Concords and ultimately doomed the future of supersonic passenger jet travel. Even after the required upgrades, continuing the service of supersonic passenger jet flights would never regain the level of public trust as it initially had after that single takeoff that caught fire and then crashed with no survivors.

    • @jonandersonmd7994
      @jonandersonmd7994 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Excellent suggestion!

    • @zobokar
      @zobokar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, this is too simplified. The plane tanks were not immune to tyre bursts, which may happen anytime. This time burst was caused by metal strip, but next time it might be just tyre itself. Bad luck anyway.

  • @bertmeinders6758
    @bertmeinders6758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found recently that the USA had in fact imposed a blackout on the east coast early in 1942, but made it voluntary. I wonder what the consequent shipping losses cost.

  • @cooltime9806
    @cooltime9806 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I once did a broke a plate while loading the dishwasher but i didnt gave a submarine a faulty wiring making it practickly self destruct

  • @Rashed1255
    @Rashed1255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Olympic sized swimming pool is quite a favorite unit on this channel isn’t it?

    • @coldshadow_yt9708
      @coldshadow_yt9708 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      testing testing

    • @burneggroll
      @burneggroll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Odd choice of measures.The 1908 Olympic swimming pool was 100 meters long. Today's pools are 50 meters (long course) or 25 meters (short course). It is not a specific definition, as there is no official limit on the depth of an Olympic pool.

    • @austinh1028
      @austinh1028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Olympic swimming pool is a decent-enough measurement to show scale (like foot-ball field), my parents pool takes about 1.5 standard tanker's to fill (only filled this way after it was finished, one truck of lake water got it about 2/3 full)
      Relatively, an Olympic pool sized amount/volume of liquid, is "a lot of liquid"

    • @Rashed1255
      @Rashed1255 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@austinh1028 I have no idea what the size of an Olympic sized swimming poor nor an American football field are tho

    • @austinh1028
      @austinh1028 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rashed1255 660,000 Gallons or 2.5 million Liters generally, according to google, inground pools are around 15,000-40,000 gallons (130,000L)
      Think he mainly uses the measurements because you can show them easily in video

  • @riuyh73888
    @riuyh73888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    feel bad for the guy who spilled his plate on his pants at the start :(

    • @cmcofficial1964
      @cmcofficial1964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brooklyn 99
      The detective was trying to prove that his captain was wearing no pants the captain admitted it and well you know

    • @paulmartino7645
      @paulmartino7645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      D see eye to see byeuygcwvvuv given to reject ca swodc see CCswvees to see what txt VVCS call awfyotcw yy

    • @user-yk6yx4ym8q
      @user-yk6yx4ym8q 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulmartino7645 stoke? Lol

    • @user-yk6yx4ym8q
      @user-yk6yx4ym8q 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Bryson Gamblin srtorke

    • @user-yk6yx4ym8q
      @user-yk6yx4ym8q 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Bryson Gamblin sortke

  • @christians_ordinarylife6169
    @christians_ordinarylife6169 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:57 If you look closely, the cab of the tanker actually gets shaved clean off the chassis as the bridge collapsed.

  • @amanofmanyparts9120
    @amanofmanyparts9120 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My understanding of the Hubble Spae Telescope mirror, is that the project was delayed several years (politics!) while the mirror was stored on edge, rather than horizontally. This resulted in the glass 'flowing' downwards and distorting it.
    "Flowing", you ask? Glass is *always* classed as a supercold fluid, which will follow the pull of gravity!

  • @SlimothyJimothy621
    @SlimothyJimothy621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I started crying for that dude with the Bitcoin hard drive

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      From nothing, he ended up with nothing. No big deal.

    • @warrensteel9954
      @warrensteel9954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And if he took all the money he spent looking for the drive and just bought more coins he would be a multimillionaire by now.

    • @theodoremarakas9899
      @theodoremarakas9899 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me, too.

    • @joelesher7106
      @joelesher7106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No joke my son throw out 20k bitcoins in a hard drive in 2012 that would be worth over a Billion (Yes with a B) dollars.

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joelesher7106: What was on the HDD that was valued at $20K? [One BitCoin is valued at about $45K at the moment.]

  • @contrarian8870
    @contrarian8870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I think you got the Harry Potter story wrong. It was rejected by everyone, but it was first published by Scholastic. Scholastic normally published textbooks and published HP only on a lark, I think a child of an editor liked it. None of the "real" publishers wanted it. Scholastic then laughed all the way to the bank

    • @cindydott452
      @cindydott452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Years ago,I used to work for "Weekly Reader" Scholastic was our mortal enemy!

    • @janmcguire5268
      @janmcguire5268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Scholastic negotiated with Bloomsbury for the rights to publish all the American versions of the Harry Potter stories. Bloomsbury was the first publisher, in the UK, where it was written and first published. Scholastic is certainly not primarily a textbook publisher. It was famous for publishing beloved children’s literature long before the brilliant move of securing the American publication rights to the HP franchise. I’m American, but I also own the Bloomsbury, non-Americanized, versions of the HP books. I like the original British-isms and spellings better than the Americanized versions that Scholastic publishes. That being said, I do love Scholastic as a company, and especially their wonderful educational student magazines. I have used several of them extensively in my classroom and find them to be first rate.

  • @ZoonCrypticon
    @ZoonCrypticon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    @15:44 As far as I can remember, the "glitch" in Ariane 5 was the use of U.S./U.K. imperial numbers instead of metric numbers, that caused the miscalculations.

    • @markhorton3994
      @markhorton3994 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The UK is fully metric. Almost all engineering in the US is metric down to the fasteners in Fords and Chevies.
      There is no problem with using Imperial measurements. The problem is mixing the two systems. That was at least the second time that happened. A planetary probe was lost because its navigation had a confusion of units.

  • @SophiaAphrodite
    @SophiaAphrodite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun fact: BP makes $162 Billion dollars a year in profits. The total cost of Deep Water Horizon was recouped in about 40 days of operation.

  • @RealLifeZatoichi
    @RealLifeZatoichi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    You teach me so much lol. I partially feel I could go out and work new jobs just from what you share

  • @tardis5179
    @tardis5179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    *one time I accidentally bought a bag of lays baked chips instead of the regular ones and it cost me good tasting chips*

    • @davidh6300
      @davidh6300 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope you are ok now.

    • @therealthatcatstabe360
      @therealthatcatstabe360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Geez, hope you're ok

    • @JackF99
      @JackF99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is a seriously messed up mistake. I'd say most of the examples in this video are worse than that though.

    • @phutureproof
      @phutureproof 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      totally worth bold for

    • @ajwalou-nack2343
      @ajwalou-nack2343 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When I was a kid I drank all my dad's brandy and paid the ultimate price ! £14.95 for a new bottle .

  • @MoonshineDrone
    @MoonshineDrone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And here’s big news. I was hired by BP to work as a drilling foreman for them working another transocean rig. This was like 3 years after deep water horizon. They were still doing the same shit. I argued about it and left one my second day of my first hitch with them and quit. I’m not going to jail for nobody.

  • @theconfederacyofindependen7268
    @theconfederacyofindependen7268 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually for the 2008 B-2 crash took 1 life, the co-pilot which had passed out and away when the HE and the pilot ejected with 20 G's, 20X the force of gravity, to put to perspective, it takes 5 G's to make you pass out due to your blood moving from your head and vice-versa