The rock the Costa Concordia struck was charted, not "uncharted" and the captain never spotted it. He actually abandoned ship and left his passengers to fend for themselves. The problem was not the size of the ship, as there are bigger, but the quality of the crew.
I feel like that is a universal statement (I don't mean bad, it's just interesting how so many things share the same problems), one could make about any organization, even governments.
The captain didn't even cause the accident itself. The helmsman was an unqualified Indonesian migrant who had lied about his credentials, and spoke neither English nor Italian fluently. Captain who abandons his ship is a much jucier story for the media though.
@@MephitinaeBut still, quite a story i'd say, it shows that you really do need a good quality crew for such a complex vehicle, let alone the safety of thousands of passengers in your hands.
Yes, cruise ships always require multiple officers on the bridge who are qualified to pilot the vessel. A miscommunication happened that night due to a language barrier. Internet historian covered the accident in great detail in his video "The Cost of Concordia" @@suhandatanker
You think Costa Concordia was bad? Look up the Oceanos. The captain and his crew abandoned ship FIRST, and didn't even tell the passengers that it was sinking!
I feel like the inclusion of Challenger at the end was a bit uncalled for, that was not a useless megaproject, and if anything the reason why it exploded was not due to it being useless, but rather carelessness.
The useless megapojects in the space industry could be an entire article. The value of the shuttle can be debated over cost and effectiveness but it wasn't "useless." USSR's Buran was, launching only once and never used for anything. Also their N1 rocket was more about pretty explosions than accomplishing anything.
The Challenger disaster was due to NASA administration which was too stuck on following a schedule instead of taking clues from the engineers and nature. Negligence was the issue. The administration of NASA , not being risk averse enough, was the price the crew had to pay, unfortunately for them.
The great physicist Richard Feynman was on the board of inquiry of the Challenger explosion. He was trying to get answers about the vulnerability of the rubber O-rings in freezing weather, but he wasn't getting a satisfactory answer. So, he took a small O-ring and dunked it in his glass of ice water for a few minutes, and when he took it out, it snapped when he applied stress to it. You gotta love a scientist who is grounded enough to do things so simply without a half a million dollar grant.
That's what most people lack unfortunately, either the ability or the foresight enough to test it for themselves. The thing about science is that you can repeat the experiment easily enough most of the time. You don't need sophisticated equipment in most cases, you just need to observe a thing.
I spent more time teaching engineering to people with engineering diplomas than most of them spent getting those pretty diplomas. Worse part of my job.
I’ve taken the H3 and I would hardly consider it unused. It’s a super fast and efficient way to get to the north end of the island, and it can even get congested at times
There’s also the Pali and likelike they’re all 4 lane highways, the H3 has a higher speed limit and leads directly to the base, the highway wasn’t really necessary it was mostly constructed for the military which is a reason why a lot of people didn’t like it along with all the native Hawaiian issues. But yeah it’s definitely not “unused” but it’s true that there are locals who rather take the other highways. You can also go north by taking H2 that’s how you’ll get to the north shore. H3 is to Kaneohe
Agreed. And people forget the main purpose of the interstate system is national defense. I mean, it’s not Oahu has ever been attacked in a World War or anything.
Yeah, I've driven it, too. Lots of traffic. I'm 3 projects in, and none of them are "useless." The highway is very used, the reservoir was definitely needed, just poorly built, and the narrator himself says people had already bought apartments, so clearly it wasn't useless, even if unused. smh...
Starship shouldn't be on there either, FirstDarkAngel2001. It is a work in progress. Besides, Musk is having fun. All boys like to play with rockets. This is a billionaires version, and he's doing great, unless the aliens notice. Then we may need that Gundam mobile suit.
Update there was a cross wind on the day of the launch so on the day of the launch the wind also caused the segments to flex and separate mixed with the rings the end result was the explosion
38:08 "spilling highly flammable liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen...", these were solid fuel boosters, there was no "liquid hydrogen or liquid oxygen" expelled. The liquid fuel was stored in the big orange tank between the boosters and was ignited by the flame shooting out from the O rings.
One major fact that was omitted from your commentary on the Crazy Horse Memorial being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain is that this is a private, no-profit project. The Memorial Foundation refuses to accept any Federal funding.
Yeah but... This racist is upset that a white family is building a monument for Indians. As he acts like he is mad because he is definitely not a racist and is mad at the white man... Lol
We just went to see the Gundam when we visited Japan this month and really enjoyed it. We had fun and visited other areas of Yokohama, which we would not have done if it wasn't for visiting the Gundam. There were plenty of people there from Japan and other countries as well. We paid to go inside, where there is also a small museum and a gift shop, but you can actually view the Gundam from outside the facility for free
it's also temporary and will be town down in march 2024. It was actually supposed to be taken down years earlier but they left it up due to covid making it so people couldnt see it.
May I recommend The Marble Arch Mound for Part 2? For anyone wondering what that is, basically, the Westminster City Council decided that their city needed a new tourist attraction to bring back the tourist revenue lost during the Covid pandemic. What did they come up with? An 82-foot tall pile of dirt right smack dab in the middle of London. No, seriously. Even worse, it was literally across the street from the titular Marble Arch, a prominent and beautiful piece of marble architecture that's been in London for almost 200 years. And they thought their little dirt tower was going to look good compared to that. And they originally wanted to charge people the equivalent of 10 US Dollars PER PERSON so they could have the "privilege" to climb this oversized eyesore. The whole thing was closed and demolished after being open for less than 5 months when they realized no tourist wanted to spend their time and money in London climbing a useless hill of dirt. And worst of all, this giant heap of mud somehow cost SEVEN MILLION BRITISH POUNDS to build and remove. Which was actually double what it was originally forecast for, but even that sounds way too high for what it ended up being. It was just a huge waste of time and money, and the whole thing was slammed by the press and the public.
I don't think it looks absolutely horrible it is just something i would expect from a town to be built to entertain kids not something that is a huge tourist attraction
H3 being labeled “unused” is very inaccurate. It’s very commonly used because it’s a quick way to get to the windward side. But yeah, sadly, it destroyed so much of the sacred parts of the land…
The Challenger disaster should never had happened. The SRB manufacturer specifically mandated that they were not to be used at temperatures below 45F. Launch day was much colder. The SRB engineers were pressured from the top to certify they were good to fly. Most refused, and were removed from the project shortly, but a couple folded and signed off on it. The initial hole in the SRB was only the size of a pencil. But that pencil sized hole was angled just perfect to let the burning stream of rocket fuel to turn into a cutting torch. The reason for pushing to launch? It was being televised directly into countless classrooms around the country as one of the crew was a teacher. The bureaucrats forced kids to watch this crew die. I was one of those kids. I knew one of the men in charge of training the crew, and have met many people directly tied to the crew. You know what really sucks? The crew did not die in the explosion. They died on impact with the ground. They were awake and aware of the situation, trying with every ounce of hope they had that they could find a solution to slow their decent. Unfortunately, the same bureaucrats that pushed for the launch also pushed to cut the crew capsule recovery module. It weighed 800 pounds, and at 1,000 dolars per pound to launch, that was an expensive piece of equipment. See, the shuttles, while looking like a raditional aircraft, were really just a crew capsule attached to the front of a payload bay and a couple of engines. The design was such that in the event of a failure at launch, the crew capsule could remove itself from the rest of the ship and float back to the ground with parachutes packed away in the crew recovery module. That module also contained the solid rockets to push the capsule away from the craft. So, removing the module saved nearly a million dollars per launch, but cost the Challenger crew their lives.
Oh... At this angle of the disaster the top and cheap bureaucrats are totally up to blame, kids watching them die is bad already but the crew was still awake and died on impact whats worse the. Cheap bureaucrats removed the module so even with all of their hope they still died. Man Challengers launch day was forced and that's just wrong..... I feel so bad for the crew, but the past is the past. Still that's terrible. Human lives are not worth any money, i cant believe how forced and absolutely uncaring about the lives of the crew. Sadly these things happen and we can't do much.
The life sized gundam isn't useless tho. It has an entrance fee and a viewing dock (which costs even higher). Not useless to the company if they earn from it
Also it was built for engineering purpose to better understand lager scale robot maneuver ability. It was more of a learning project than what most people think of it.
Yeah, I was waiting for the useless factor of it. Is a tourist attraction, it has educational aspect on movement in big scale and probably recoups its cost in tourism. It didn't damage anything, doesn't seem useless if only ding on is that is based on Gundam O_o
About the Gundam, there are actually three life sized Gundam in Japan, the third one being in Fukuoka. Which also moves just a bit. But thing is, both that one and the "simple" one in Tokyo you can watch for free, and are basically a fancy billboard for the Gunpla shops inside the mall. The one in Yokohama, you have to pay for, at least to get a proper view. And pay a lot more if you want to get up close in that tower and get 20 seconds to have your picture taken right next to the head. And people are flocking to see it, and many end up buying quite a bit of merch and/or (often exclusive) Gunpla kits in the process. So pretty sure this thing is making money while looking cool...
The H3 on Oahu is one of my all time favorite drives! The view when you pop out of the tunnel on the Kaneohe side is breathtakingly beautiful. It is used pretty frequently though…no doubt in my mind that a lot of Native Hawaiians avoid it because of of superstition and/or principle, but between the military community, tv/movie productions, and tourists, the highway sees its fair share of travelers ☺️
I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. I discovered the H3 by accident taking a wrong turn on my way to Tripler. I was irritated when I realized that there was no turn around, until I came out of that tunnel!
There’s no point in building it except to serve the military which is why a lot of people dislike it and it’s construction. It was really expensive for something that wasn’t really needed. There’s the Pali and likelike which both takes you to the same place and they’re all 4 lane highways. It’s just convenient that the H3 ends directly to the marine base even tho the other 2 highways still end around Kaneohe. We didn’t need 3 highways to Kaneohe which wasn’t that big and congestion wasn’t that bad compared to the rest of Oahu. Look it up on google maps if you don’t believe me
I like how most of these aren’t useless, it’s just that they either failed because of simple errors and carelessness that are overcome in future projects (e.g. Challenger) or are just exaggerated for clickbait (e.g. H3, Gundam) Also, I like how H3 is described as “not even interstate but only within the state” as if that’s a bad thing. Like, yeah… yeah, most interstates do that… H3 isn’t special…
For the curious, illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers at least $151b per year as measured in 2022 (nevermind the fentanyl and human trafficking crises that the open border fuels). The numbers for the wall used in this video are far on the high side of estimates, but even the $30b one-time plus $28b annual (which is absurd) presented would be a bargain compared to this.
Where it has been completed, the Border Wall is a major success. Construction on the Border Wall was going just fine until January, 2021, when Let's Go Brandon stopped it & diverted the funding to his projects. He decided that he wanted illegal migrants, not a Wall. Where the Wall has been completed, border crossings are now greatly reduced.
@@jpmtlhead39 Not specifically, no. I vaguely recall reading from a respected source that inmates cost an average of around $43k per year per person, which would come out to around $77.4b. A quick search of uncertain credibility suggests a national yearly cost of $38.8b, and some estimates much higher (up to $108k per inmate per year in, of course, California). Alarming sums for sure. I'm not quite seeing what connection you're making or how a border wall impacts that, though. If you're implying we'd imprison illegal immigrants, I'd counter with deportation. Allowing them to stay is a slap in the face to every immigrant who made the efforts to do it the right way. I refuse to feel guilt for holding this opinion. We can't afford to save everyone, and unfortunately life isn't always fair.
@@omgcool7206 life isn't always fair but people should and must be fair even to themselfes because each one of us deserves a second chance in life. It's a question of Conscience.
Yup it sad how it damage johor wetlands, over 100B, that project meant for foreigners. China government also responsible on 18:44 . Lots of malaysian could not afford it, it beyond above our paycheck
One nice thing about watching all of these major debacles is, when I think of my own debacles (of which there have been many), I can take comfort that none of them were as bone-headed as these. So at least I'm not alone in making major mistakes. Yay.
Well, Marige Obrien, you will have learned a lot from making mistakes, just like any human being. However, the responsible people creating silly mega projects do not spend their own money on these projects. They either spend tax-payer's money or company's money. We won't discuss their learning curve... 😆
Challenger WAS NOT a useless megaproject ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! the Challenger mission, designated STS-51-L, was the tenth flight for the orbiter and the twenty-fifth flight of the Space Shuttle fleet. The crew was scheduled to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley's Comet -- the unfortunate failure of the O-rings on this one mission does NOT make Challenger/SpaceShuttle a useless projgect -- it was far from useless
Actually, the booster rockets are called SRBs which stand for Solid Rocket Boosters and their propellants are solid. What did happen is the pressure from the combustion process burned through one of the rubber o-rings which then burned through the external fuel tank next to the SRBs which sadly ignited the liquid fuel propellants in the external fuel tank.
Well, one of the o-rings lost flexibility due to the cold weather in which the orbiter was launched, so it didn't seal correctly. Thiokol warned NASA not to use the SRBs in temperatures below 40 degrees F, yet NASA management green-lit the launch on a day where the SRB in question was registering a temperature of 8 degrees F. Once the seal was broken, the pressure then kept the seal opened and the heat eventually caused the o-ring to break down. It was a screw up that was only beaten by the foam insulation issue. Fun fact about that one: Atlantis was nearly destroyed 15 years earlier than Columbia because a foam strike occurred on the leading edge of the wing, close to the same spot that happened with Columbia in 2003. It happened as they were restarting the Shuttle launches after the Challenger explosion in 1988. A large foam piece hit the wing on takeoff, causing tile to be stripped off. The only reason it didn't break the wing like it did in Columbia's case was because it struck a cover for a high-gain antenna, which was a reinforced section of the wing. NASA knew it happened, yet didn't do anything about it. So, all in all, NASA never learned their lessons on anything.
Flying outside of specification is insanity, using defective foam because the freon and ozone hole myth cause by freon(which it not,) in simple negligence. Why no one went to jail for obvious man slaughter is beyond me. Somehow being a government employee gives you immunity.@@ki5aok
@@ki5aok I remember at the time the rocket was supposed to launch the previous day, I believe, but the launch was cancelled because of predicted cold weather. But the weather proved to be warm enough. Then when they did launch this is what happened
While people are metaphorically running around waving their hands in the air over this, they're simultaneously forgetting that the interstate highway system was established with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. In Hawaii, this connects a U.S. Navy base in the west with a Marine Corps base in the east. Anybody remember about hearing what happened in the 1940s at the western terminus of this highway system? (Hint: the western terminus is at Pearl Harbor.)
I watched a documentary about the challenger disaster a while back and it basically said that the NASA people went ahead with the launch even though they were told straight up that the weather would have an affect on the o-rings on the rocket boosters by the people who built the boosters and that were adamantly against the launch in such cold weather.
i went to naypyitaw once and the buildings were like a fantasy, the gardens were beautiful and there was a huge pool and you have personal chefs cooking your meals it was so fancy for someone in a poor country
I don’t know many people who would appreciate joking around when it comes to the Challenger incident. With space exploration comes great risks. You could’ve also mentioned Columbia. However, given the success of the shuttle program and all the innovations that came from it, there’s plenty of good to take from the program. Unfortunately, we lost 14 of the bravest pilots and scientists this country has ever seen.
Agree. The shuttle program was a tremendous success, with Challenger being the second shuttle to make it into space. It flew on ten successful missions before the incident. I would hardly call that "useless."
The person doing this needs to do more research. That’s a nice way of saying he’s full of shite. And, apparently, he is drinking the leftist cool aide.
@RayvenTheNight You have no idea how complex shuttles were or the huge amount of training, not just the astronauts, but the flight controllers , the launch crew, the people who made the space suits, etc. had to go through. I worked there to certify the trainers and training materials writer for ISS. And each mission was different, the skills needed were different, and the tasks to be accomplished were different. No, the hard stuff hadn't already been done!
DISINFORMATION. I’m from Honolulu. What made you think IH3 is useless? We used it. Windward will be disconnected to us without IH3. Hawaii is a tourist destination and this road is a very busy road. We even hope they make another route as this is NOT enough because of traffic 🤣 Windward & Leeward are haven of military bases.🤣
a man rubs an Arabian oil lamp, and out pops the genie with 3 wishes. the man chooses wealth and health for his first 2. for his third he chooses a road bridge to the usa (as he hated flying) the genie complains that is a lot of work in constructing it, so the man alters his wish to 'knowing how a woman's mind works' the genie says 'is there any lights on this bridge?'
☠️ *The Giant Pyramid of Death* ☠️ 👻😂😂 Fascinating yet horrifying compilation of the terrible ways governments and authorities have wasted millions on utterly useless ideas 😔 Brilliant video though as ever, thank you 😊
I'm from Johor Malaysia. Just went to Forest City today. It's very true that the place is so abandoned. Only a few people go there to buy duty free liquors...
23:31 - in 1770 there were not steam engines capable of pulling mine carts (rail roads were used for horses driven "trains") - In 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, built a small-scale prototype of a steam road locomotive in Birmingham[10].[11] A full-scale rail steam locomotive was proposed by William Reynolds around 1787. James Watt made his improvement on Newcomens steam pump in 1763-65, but The new design was introduced commercially in 1776, with the first example sold to the Carron Company ironworks. Watt continued working to improve the engine, and in 1781 introduced a system using a sun and planet gear to turn the linear motion of the engines into rotary motion. Practically steam locomotives are here from 1800's
Actually many people cross the hzmb bridge. I've brought my family there on holiday. Although we can't drive across it, public buses operate regularly and it was really useful and convenient crossing the 3 cities using this bridge.
AND, there's no way it's the longest over-water span. IIRC, the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel is about that long (17.5 miles), and the The Overseas Highway down the Keys to Key west is MUCH longer, (113 miles a quick lookup tells me) and it takes HOURS of boring driving to traverse it, even though there weren't any traffic snarls the last time we did that trip, about 20 years ago The traffic just crawls because going faster doesn't seem quite right, not like the NJ Turnpike that commonly sees people exceeding 80 MPH. The HZMB bridge DOES seem to be a useless project, though.
Maaaaaajor problems in Horsing around 7:55. CrazyHorse did NOT lead the battle on our side, (Sioux and Cheyenne, American Indians.) Most of all, Crazyhorse was NOT killed at Little Bighorn. In fact, Crazy Horse wasn't killed in battle at all. He was murdered by a U.S. Army soldier after being betrayed by the Army Comandant at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
I call BS lol. Researchers have said the Great Sphinx would have taken 100 Egyptians only 3 years to complete with nothing more than stone hammers and chizels! If it'll take 300 years, it just means they don't want to finish it and decided to go as slow as possible.
That Chinese bridge sounds impressive at 34 miles long - unless you realize that it crosses land. It does not cross water the entire length, leaving Louisiana 's Pontchartrain Causeway as the longest bridge continuesly over water in the world at just under 24 miles.
The highway connecting Hong Kong to Macau is longest. I’ve ridden both and both are impressive achievements, especially as when the Louisiana Highway ws built there was little computer modelling available..
The HZMB Bridge is primarily used by public transportation buses to and from each of the three cities, Hong Kong, Zhuhai & Macao. Summer of 2023, I crossed the bridge three times. Thousands of passengers take the buses each day for a very reasonable price (US$23.38/HKD 180), less for seniors.
@@dosrios9517 I defintetly agree. As someone who lives in Macao it made transportation way easier since a lot of the people who work here actually live in either Zhuhai or Hong Kong so not having to take a ferry everyday really made their lives easier
At crazy horse, most of the work lately has been done on the hand. I took a tour up to the top of the mountain about a month ago and I found out that they are putting cuticles on the fingers. Some of crazy horse's descendants are actually working with Zilkowskies descendants on carving the mountain and most of the donation go to carving the mountain. one of the reasons that the mountain doesn't quite look like the finished model is because the finished carving will be much larger than Mount Rushmore and carving a memorial that large takes a lot of time. The project has also never accepted any amount of government funding and doesn't plan to in the future. Crazy Horse Memorial even has its own college. The memorial celebrated its 75th birthday not too long ago.
Well Gundam is a bit more of a bigger deal in Japan... A more western comparison I guess would be if they put together the money to build a 1:1 scale of something like optimus prime from transformers that would be able to walk around.
Ive visited Hawaii a number of times over the last 44 years. I can see how we’re trashing it, and making it just look like southern California. Sub divisions, fat roads, mini malls, big box stores. Will we ever learn?
In the case of Challenger the engineer who designed the O-ring system told them just before launch, as well as many times before that, exactly what would, and did, happen if they went ahead with the launch when it was too cold.
I was in China with my wife and my daughter and we took the bus from Hong Kong to Macao over the bridge that crosses the sea and gets under water. Yes it being used by buses. I also was told that car need to register, but they can cross too. I feeling is that the bridge is in a pilot period for several year to make sure the variances can be managed before a full opening.
The bridge was close during the pandemic but now it’s fully opened. However,Hong Kong and Macau are SAR,but Zhuhai is mainland China If you have a visa for mainland China you don’t need any permits for SAR.
Crazy horse has actually been having a lot of updates lately, they're working on the pointing hand. He's actually pointing at Mount Rushmore, basically calling out all the president's in that monument for stealing his land. I find it actually quite cool and follow updates 🙃
I mean yeah, thats the whole point of why they made it, its for the anniversary of gundam, it isnt even funded by governent, its by bandai and sunrise themself who just wanted to make a moving life size gundam statue, i mean its not their first one since theres already 3 before it
Also I don't know where you got that Gundam is supposed to be fighting aliens when the only ever instance of aliens is in 00, the RX-78-2 never fought any aliens, only other soldiers
As for the first story about the H3 interstate - people using this road was never the first intention of the road builders. The road connects the Kaneohoe Marine Station to Pearl Harbor- the H3 was built first and foremost for military reasons.
As for the rest of the Interstate highway system. People forget that the Interstate Highway System was not primarily built for the average citizen, but to get military assets and personnel quickly from all different points in the United States.
The stretches that are strangely straight too can be used as runways for takeoff and landing if needed as well whether it be for supplies or for other assets. Strategically, it makes sense.
Everyone uses the H3 here in Hawaii. It’s very convenient. The haunted road you speak of is the Pali highway. Yes the h3 was heavily criticized but now it’s heavily used.
I guess they got their highways mixed up. I've been to Hawaii six times on vacation and we would always take a drive on the Pali Highway every time. One time it was sunny when we entered the tunnel and it was pouring rain on the other side when we came out.
We were taking a group trip and a local main bridge was being redone because the original design/schematic had been off a foot. One of us commented "who is the idiot who did that?" A kid in the back quietly said "...my dad."
With Challenger, not only did it cost a lot of money, but because it was sending up the first teacher to space, school kids around the country watched it live at school. Talk about a way to traumatize an entire generation of school kids. I was one of those kids.
I was an adult when it happened and it was devastating to everyone. We heard about it at work and the eerie thing about it was that I knew I would be able to see it happen live when I got home from work. I used to videotape three hours of soap operas every day and knew I would have a recording of it. Also I knew someone who lived in Titusville, FL at the time who actually saw it happen since he and his family used to watch all the launches from their backyard.
I remember it being a big deal that a teacher was going into space from our area, we watched the launch from my class... only to be horrified less than a minute and half later. To top it off, all we got was recess afterwards and it was back to school. We were in the teacher's home town and they were like "you kids get back to learning"!
The Mexican border wall example is COMPLETELY DECEIVING. I live on the border and the actual thing is 3-4 times as tall as the fence shown here, with spools of razor wire on top. It can be penetrated, anything can, but it's nowhere near as easy as this video would have folks believe
Amd the fact democrats fought tooth and nail to stop the building of the wall every step of the way. Why tf would Mexico pay for a project that was never finished? Hell Trump did everything he could to try and build that thing. It's crazy how oblivious people really are that live no where near any of it. I mean look at all the comments, almost everything in this video has people on the area of something saying that's not even close to true. Just goes to show the media tells you what they want to tell you and unless you see it with your own eyes, the naive ones believe it without a second thought.
Not to mention the work on the border wall was going great until a certain dementia patient got put into office and started signing executive orders without actually reading them
H3 highway is not useless. It's a very busy highway. We use it every day. You were right about it being built on sacred grounds. There's Crazy stories on that.
Those side boosters are solid state rockets, so no cryo fuels. Hot gas spilled out not liquid H, but it did burn through the ET (big cryo tank) and the aft support attachment. This threw the stack out of alignment while it was travailing at mach 1.92 subsequently tearing the craft apart.
I remember watching the Challenger launch live on tv back in elementary school. I’m pretty sure every classroom at my school was watching it. After the explosion we all got sent home. Did anyone else have a similar experience at your school?
I don't think Gundam is a useless mega project. It's their anime God. To them it's worth every penny. Treat it like their version of Statue of Liberty. At least it's completed and functioning and unlike others that are unfinished, abandoned and crumbled.
I need to point out an issue on your fist item. The interstate system has two functions, 1) to connect tow or more different states. 2) to connect two Military bases inside of the same state. The use of the Autobahn in Germany was not lost on the American army. That is how we get the two definitions of the interstate system. It's just that the second one is not used much. QMC(SS) USN (Ret.)
IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ! You seem to know very little about the Crazy Horse project, let me fill you all in a little. I visited Crazy Horse two years ago, and yes, that project is taking a really long time. But here is why: it is a non-profit project set up by the native Americans who refuse to receive government funding. Further more the crazy horse project isn't just the statue, there is a whole Native American museum which is also on the property. The museum is huge for a non-profit, and does a great job of preserving Native American culture. That museum alone probably cost millions to maintain every year, from the building itself to preserving the artifacts. The project refuses to accept government funding because they want to show that they can achieve this without the U.S. government, the same government that killed them and took their lands. It stands in defiance of the tyranny and cruelty the Native American population has suffered ever since 1776. Careful what you say about the Crazy Horse Monument. Please.
I was a young boy who lived in America with the space shuttle It was an amazing machine with profound abilities I hardly think it should be mentioned in this article
I've driven Likelike, the Pali and H3 numerous times. H3 is definitely the easiest and quickest way to get from the windward to the leeward side of Oahu.
I lived in Hawaii for a couple years roughly about 9 years and at least 9 years ago I used to use the h3 all the time and it was a lot more busy than our freeways here in Oregon so I wouldn't say that it's a ghost town because it makes our local freeways here in Oregon look like a Ghost Town I'm sure it seems very unpopulated compared to some big cities with multiple freeways
Which I am sure only those with the fat wallet can apply for, and still reserve for the Chinese armed forces in case some of those people decide to take some liberties that the Chinese dictator doesn't like.
@@DenisR-tt1oeWhere did you read that? It is opened for anyone to apply and many people have already use the bridge. Now during Holidays and weekend, the borders are packed and connecting road to the bridges are congested. On April, months before your comment, there were 19000 vehicles using the bridge daily. In additional, from day one, there are tons of shuttle buses service serving people cross the bridge. Many people used to travelling to Macau by ferry now are taking shuttle buses.
As a Chinese, I absolutely agree that this bridge is almost useless because border permits and procedures make driving very inconvenient. If the bridge were slightly aligned to the north to include Shen Zhen city, the traffic would be a 100 fold more than it is now.
Took that highway pretty much the first 20 years of my life and then some to build. Going home to visit Hawaii with my kids was the first time I actually drove on it.
@@chickenmaster615 -- Well, of course, I haven't watched the others. I have watched this video. It contains lies and mis-statements throughout. I invite you to read the many comments under the video to start to understand the issues involved.
It’s obvious not a lot of research goes into some of them. This one is full of errors. Put quality over quantity instead of given us a half baked cake!
One is a useless project that forms part of our inhumane treatment of immigrants, one is supporting a people who have been unjustly invaded while also keeping a major US adversary at bay for insanely cheap (3-5% of the defense budget).
you just have no idea how crazy the gundam fans are. Many Asian American friends travel all the way to watch that “steps” but then they also spent thousands to buy gundam figures. Not useless at all.
The reason the highway in Hawaii was so expensive was in an effort to protect those trees. And on other vidoes there have been people in Hawaii who say it is frequently used.
Add Governor Brown's train to Nowhere in California. The liberal's here voted on a $33 billion bond. The project is now at $100 billion and no track has been laid.
And theirs is connected to different areas of land along the way as well as a tunnel, so it's not completely over water the whole way . Lake Pontchartrain is nothing but bridge that's connected to the lake bottom and it's completely over water, all the way.
OMG! I was on board Costa Concordia when it crashed. I me and my parents was not injured, thank god. But the trauma did make me afraid of going on board a ship again. Something of a problem when i live in Norway where i have to take a ferry every day to work 😢. Thank god for anti depression pills 😁.
The rock the Costa Concordia struck was charted, not "uncharted" and the captain never spotted it. He actually abandoned ship and left his passengers to fend for themselves.
The problem was not the size of the ship, as there are bigger, but the quality of the crew.
I feel like that is a universal statement (I don't mean bad, it's just interesting how so many things share the same problems), one could make about any organization, even governments.
@@SamsTopBarBeesespecially goveri lol
The captain didn't even cause the accident itself. The helmsman was an unqualified Indonesian migrant who had lied about his credentials, and spoke neither English nor Italian fluently. Captain who abandons his ship is a much jucier story for the media though.
@@MephitinaeBut still, quite a story i'd say, it shows that you really do need a good quality crew for such a complex vehicle, let alone the safety of thousands of passengers in your hands.
Yes, cruise ships always require multiple officers on the bridge who are qualified to pilot the vessel. A miscommunication happened that night due to a language barrier. Internet historian covered the accident in great detail in his video "The Cost of Concordia" @@suhandatanker
Okay, the Costa Concordia wasn't useless. It just had the misfortune of having a useless captain. That wasn't the ship's fault.
True. He is our shame.
You think Costa Concordia was bad? Look up the Oceanos. The captain and his crew abandoned ship FIRST, and didn't even tell the passengers that it was sinking!
It was built in Italy. Finland state railway bought Pendolino trains from Italy. They can't handle the Finnish winter nor even the Finnish summer!
@@davidlafleche114234 died on the Costa Concordia none died on the MTS Oceanos.
@@Xian.. By that I meant the incompetence of the crew.
I feel like the inclusion of Challenger at the end was a bit uncalled for, that was not a useless megaproject, and if anything the reason why it exploded was not due to it being useless, but rather carelessness.
The useless megapojects in the space industry could be an entire article. The value of the shuttle can be debated over cost and effectiveness but it wasn't "useless." USSR's Buran was, launching only once and never used for anything. Also their N1 rocket was more about pretty explosions than accomplishing anything.
The Challenger disaster was due to NASA administration which was too stuck on following a schedule instead of taking clues from the engineers and nature. Negligence was the issue. The administration of NASA , not being risk averse enough, was the price the crew had to pay, unfortunately for them.
It’s still hilarious 😂😂 the teachers students and parents watched her go out with a BANG
That person crossing the border left his bag behind
Unlike all the others, he´s going back where he came from.
I don’t know how you do it with the family
The great physicist Richard Feynman was on the board of inquiry of the Challenger explosion. He was trying to get answers about the vulnerability of the rubber O-rings in freezing weather, but he wasn't getting a satisfactory answer. So, he took a small O-ring and dunked it in his glass of ice water for a few minutes, and when he took it out, it snapped when he applied stress to it. You gotta love a scientist who is grounded enough to do things so simply without a half a million dollar grant.
That's what most people lack unfortunately, either the ability or the foresight enough to test it for themselves. The thing about science is that you can repeat the experiment easily enough most of the time. You don't need sophisticated equipment in most cases, you just need to observe a thing.
I spent more time teaching engineering to people with engineering diplomas than most of them spent getting those pretty diplomas. Worse part of my job.
Richard Feynman was already dead for 25 years before the Challenger disaster. Duh...
I’ve taken the H3 and I would hardly consider it unused. It’s a super fast and efficient way to get to the north end of the island, and it can even get congested at times
sounded better for the video, the narrator didnt do their homework lol
There’s also the Pali and likelike they’re all 4 lane highways, the H3 has a higher speed limit and leads directly to the base, the highway wasn’t really necessary it was mostly constructed for the military which is a reason why a lot of people didn’t like it along with all the native Hawaiian issues. But yeah it’s definitely not “unused” but it’s true that there are locals who rather take the other highways. You can also go north by taking H2 that’s how you’ll get to the north shore. H3 is to Kaneohe
Agreed. And people forget the main purpose of the interstate system is national defense. I mean, it’s not Oahu has ever been attacked in a World War or anything.
Yeah, I've driven it, too. Lots of traffic. I'm 3 projects in, and none of them are "useless." The highway is very used, the reservoir was definitely needed, just poorly built, and the narrator himself says people had already bought apartments, so clearly it wasn't useless, even if unused. smh...
It's just a terribly obvious clickbait channel.
I don't see the Challenger explosion as a useless megaproject, it fits more in the category of engineering disaster.
I agree it shouldn’t be on the list
Starship shouldn't be on there either, FirstDarkAngel2001. It is a work in progress. Besides, Musk is having fun. All boys like to play with rockets. This is a billionaires version, and he's doing great, unless the aliens notice. Then we may need that Gundam mobile suit.
Agreed. Challenger was completely different from a lot of the vanity projects listed.
No it was useless cause it could have easily prevented... carelessness and profit over safety is the blame.
Update there was a cross wind on the day of the launch so on the day of the launch the wind also caused the segments to flex and separate mixed with the rings the end result was the explosion
38:08 "spilling highly flammable liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen...", these were solid fuel boosters, there was no "liquid hydrogen or liquid oxygen" expelled. The liquid fuel was stored in the big orange tank between the boosters and was ignited by the flame shooting out from the O rings.
One major fact that was omitted from your commentary on the Crazy Horse Memorial being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain is that this is a private, no-profit project. The Memorial Foundation refuses to accept any Federal funding.
Yeah but... This racist is upset that a white family is building a monument for Indians. As he acts like he is mad because he is definitely not a racist and is mad at the white man... Lol
I don’t think your neighbors were “jumping on the bed”… they was def doing the dirty
We just went to see the Gundam when we visited Japan this month and really enjoyed it. We had fun and visited other areas of Yokohama, which we would not have done if it wasn't for visiting the Gundam. There were plenty of people there from Japan and other countries as well. We paid to go inside, where there is also a small museum and a gift shop, but you can actually view the Gundam from outside the facility for free
Ooh i would love to go see it 😫
it's also temporary and will be town down in march 2024. It was actually supposed to be taken down years earlier but they left it up due to covid making it so people couldnt see it.
To me I couldn"t write about it as I haven"t seen it only in pictures ❤
Also... no aliens... bad research.
I wouldn't call a tourist attraction "useless". The author has a lose definition of useless.
May I recommend The Marble Arch Mound for Part 2?
For anyone wondering what that is, basically, the Westminster City Council decided that their city needed a new tourist attraction to bring back the tourist revenue lost during the Covid pandemic.
What did they come up with?
An 82-foot tall pile of dirt right smack dab in the middle of London. No, seriously.
Even worse, it was literally across the street from the titular Marble Arch, a prominent and beautiful piece of marble architecture that's been in London for almost 200 years. And they thought their little dirt tower was going to look good compared to that.
And they originally wanted to charge people the equivalent of 10 US Dollars PER PERSON so they could have the "privilege" to climb this oversized eyesore.
The whole thing was closed and demolished after being open for less than 5 months when they realized no tourist wanted to spend their time and money in London climbing a useless hill of dirt.
And worst of all, this giant heap of mud somehow cost SEVEN MILLION BRITISH POUNDS to build and remove. Which was actually double what it was originally forecast for, but even that sounds way too high for what it ended up being.
It was just a huge waste of time and money, and the whole thing was slammed by the press and the public.
I never personally saw it but oh my goodness I saw the news footage of it. What a collosal waste of money 😔
I don't think it looks absolutely horrible it is just something i would expect from a town to be built to entertain kids not something that is a huge tourist attraction
this is a great point! what an absolute disaster
As a British citizen I've never heard of that!
21:06 . Not anymore mr amazed, I think we’ve found a winner.
H3 being labeled “unused” is very inaccurate. It’s very commonly used because it’s a quick way to get to the windward side. But yeah, sadly, it destroyed so much of the sacred parts of the land…
The Challenger disaster should never had happened. The SRB manufacturer specifically mandated that they were not to be used at temperatures below 45F. Launch day was much colder. The SRB engineers were pressured from the top to certify they were good to fly. Most refused, and were removed from the project shortly, but a couple folded and signed off on it. The initial hole in the SRB was only the size of a pencil. But that pencil sized hole was angled just perfect to let the burning stream of rocket fuel to turn into a cutting torch. The reason for pushing to launch? It was being televised directly into countless classrooms around the country as one of the crew was a teacher. The bureaucrats forced kids to watch this crew die. I was one of those kids. I knew one of the men in charge of training the crew, and have met many people directly tied to the crew.
You know what really sucks? The crew did not die in the explosion. They died on impact with the ground. They were awake and aware of the situation, trying with every ounce of hope they had that they could find a solution to slow their decent. Unfortunately, the same bureaucrats that pushed for the launch also pushed to cut the crew capsule recovery module. It weighed 800 pounds, and at 1,000 dolars per pound to launch, that was an expensive piece of equipment. See, the shuttles, while looking like a raditional aircraft, were really just a crew capsule attached to the front of a payload bay and a couple of engines. The design was such that in the event of a failure at launch, the crew capsule could remove itself from the rest of the ship and float back to the ground with parachutes packed away in the crew recovery module. That module also contained the solid rockets to push the capsule away from the craft. So, removing the module saved nearly a million dollars per launch, but cost the Challenger crew their lives.
Oh... At this angle of the disaster the top and cheap bureaucrats are totally up to blame, kids watching them die is bad already but the crew was still awake and died on impact whats worse the. Cheap bureaucrats removed the module so even with all of their hope they still died. Man Challengers launch day was forced and that's just wrong..... I feel so bad for the crew, but the past is the past. Still that's terrible. Human lives are not worth any money, i cant believe how forced and absolutely uncaring about the lives of the crew. Sadly these things happen and we can't do much.
The life sized gundam isn't useless tho. It has an entrance fee and a viewing dock (which costs even higher). Not useless to the company if they earn from it
Also it was built for engineering purpose to better understand lager scale robot maneuver ability. It was more of a learning project than what most people think of it.
Yeah it’s an effective tourist attraction. It doesn’t have to actually be a mech to be “useful”.
Heck I just go see it for the tourist Factor even if it didn't move
Yeah, I was waiting for the useless factor of it. Is a tourist attraction, it has educational aspect on movement in big scale and probably recoups its cost in tourism. It didn't damage anything, doesn't seem useless if only ding on is that is based on Gundam O_o
About the Gundam, there are actually three life sized Gundam in Japan, the third one being in Fukuoka. Which also moves just a bit. But thing is, both that one and the "simple" one in Tokyo you can watch for free, and are basically a fancy billboard for the Gunpla shops inside the mall. The one in Yokohama, you have to pay for, at least to get a proper view. And pay a lot more if you want to get up close in that tower and get 20 seconds to have your picture taken right next to the head. And people are flocking to see it, and many end up buying quite a bit of merch and/or (often exclusive) Gunpla kits in the process. So pretty sure this thing is making money while looking cool...
The H3 on Oahu is one of my all time favorite drives! The view when you pop out of the tunnel on the Kaneohe side is breathtakingly beautiful. It is used pretty frequently though…no doubt in my mind that a lot of Native Hawaiians avoid it because of of superstition and/or principle, but between the military community, tv/movie productions, and tourists, the highway sees its fair share of travelers ☺️
I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. I discovered the H3 by accident taking a wrong turn on my way to Tripler. I was irritated when I realized that there was no turn around, until I came out of that tunnel!
So many people go to Hawaii but never arrive, never enjoy anything. Like the guy who came out only to eat the same thing he would at home.
There’s no point in building it except to serve the military which is why a lot of people dislike it and it’s construction. It was really expensive for something that wasn’t really needed. There’s the Pali and likelike which both takes you to the same place and they’re all 4 lane highways. It’s just convenient that the H3 ends directly to the marine base even tho the other 2 highways still end around Kaneohe. We didn’t need 3 highways to Kaneohe which wasn’t that big and congestion wasn’t that bad compared to the rest of Oahu. Look it up on google maps if you don’t believe me
The H3 interstate is also my favorite drive on Oahu. It's breathtakingly beautiful no matter which way we go, to Kaneohe or to Honolulu. v
@RaveN._.EDM True, all of the Interstate system was designed to link military bases together in case of an invasion during the Cold War.
I like how most of these aren’t useless, it’s just that they either failed because of simple errors and carelessness that are overcome in future projects (e.g. Challenger) or are just exaggerated for clickbait (e.g. H3, Gundam)
Also, I like how H3 is described as “not even interstate but only within the state” as if that’s a bad thing. Like, yeah… yeah, most interstates do that… H3 isn’t special…
For the curious, illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers at least $151b per year as measured in 2022 (nevermind the fentanyl and human trafficking crises that the open border fuels). The numbers for the wall used in this video are far on the high side of estimates, but even the $30b one-time plus $28b annual (which is absurd) presented would be a bargain compared to this.
Where it has been completed, the Border Wall is a major success.
Construction on the Border Wall was going just fine until January, 2021,
when Let's Go Brandon stopped it & diverted the funding to his projects.
He decided that he wanted illegal migrants, not a Wall.
Where the Wall has been completed, border crossings are now greatly reduced.
And do you know how much it costs to have 1.8 Million people incarcerated in the Us...???
@@jpmtlhead39 Not specifically, no. I vaguely recall reading from a respected source that inmates cost an average of around $43k per year per person, which would come out to around $77.4b. A quick search of uncertain credibility suggests a national yearly cost of $38.8b, and some estimates much higher (up to $108k per inmate per year in, of course, California). Alarming sums for sure. I'm not quite seeing what connection you're making or how a border wall impacts that, though. If you're implying we'd imprison illegal immigrants, I'd counter with deportation. Allowing them to stay is a slap in the face to every immigrant who made the efforts to do it the right way. I refuse to feel guilt for holding this opinion. We can't afford to save everyone, and unfortunately life isn't always fair.
@@omgcool7206 life isn't always fair but people should and must be fair even to themselfes because each one of us deserves a second chance in life.
It's a question of Conscience.
Man shut up
As a Malaysian, it's really sad to see the Forest City project ended up being such a fail
Ask Mahathir why he blocked the sales of residential unit to foreigners.
Yup it sad how it damage johor wetlands, over 100B, that project meant for foreigners. China government also responsible on 18:44 . Lots of malaysian could not afford it, it beyond above our paycheck
Maybe Our New Incoming King from Johor may do something about lowering the Criteria for MMSH...
get the mm2h standards lowered to encourage more buyers to live there. current mm2h criteria are too stringent and skewed towards business people.
One nice thing about watching all of these major debacles is, when I think of my own debacles (of which there have been many), I can take comfort that none of them were as bone-headed as these. So at least I'm not alone in making major mistakes. Yay.
Well, Marige Obrien, you will have learned a lot from making mistakes, just like any human being. However, the responsible people creating silly mega projects do not spend their own money on these projects. They either spend tax-payer's money or company's money. We won't discuss their learning curve... 😆
Your videos are usually pretty good. This one you have left out a lot of context and useful information on some of your examples.
Challenger WAS NOT a useless megaproject ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
the Challenger mission, designated STS-51-L, was the tenth flight for the orbiter and the twenty-fifth flight of the Space Shuttle fleet. The crew was scheduled to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley's Comet --
the unfortunate failure of the O-rings on this one mission does NOT make Challenger/SpaceShuttle
a useless projgect -- it was far from useless
Actually, the booster rockets are called SRBs which stand for Solid Rocket Boosters and their propellants are solid. What did happen is the pressure from the combustion process burned through one of the rubber o-rings which then burned through the external fuel tank next to the SRBs which sadly ignited the liquid fuel propellants in the external fuel tank.
Well, one of the o-rings lost flexibility due to the cold weather in which the orbiter was launched, so it didn't seal correctly. Thiokol warned NASA not to use the SRBs in temperatures below 40 degrees F, yet NASA management green-lit the launch on a day where the SRB in question was registering a temperature of 8 degrees F. Once the seal was broken, the pressure then kept the seal opened and the heat eventually caused the o-ring to break down. It was a screw up that was only beaten by the foam insulation issue.
Fun fact about that one: Atlantis was nearly destroyed 15 years earlier than Columbia because a foam strike occurred on the leading edge of the wing, close to the same spot that happened with Columbia in 2003. It happened as they were restarting the Shuttle launches after the Challenger explosion in 1988. A large foam piece hit the wing on takeoff, causing tile to be stripped off. The only reason it didn't break the wing like it did in Columbia's case was because it struck a cover for a high-gain antenna, which was a reinforced section of the wing. NASA knew it happened, yet didn't do anything about it.
So, all in all, NASA never learned their lessons on anything.
Flying outside of specification is insanity, using defective foam because the freon and ozone hole myth cause by freon(which it not,) in simple negligence. Why no one went to jail for obvious man slaughter is beyond me. Somehow being a government employee gives you immunity.@@ki5aok
@@ki5aok I remember at the time the rocket was supposed to launch the previous day, I believe, but the launch was cancelled because of predicted cold weather. But the weather proved to be warm enough. Then when they did launch this is what happened
3 rings, actually. 2 extra for redundancy. Unfortunately, their alignment was a massive engineering mistake.
I suggest doing "Tallest Abandoned Skyscrapers in the World" next.
While people are metaphorically running around waving their hands in the air over this, they're simultaneously forgetting that the interstate highway system was established with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. In Hawaii, this connects a U.S. Navy base in the west with a Marine Corps base in the east. Anybody remember about hearing what happened in the 1940s at the western terminus of this highway system? (Hint: the western terminus is at Pearl Harbor.)
the japanese attack
I'd hardly call the Shuttle Programme a "useless" megaproject...
As a Chinese, the Hong Kong Macau Zhu hai bridge is used a lot. My dads a driver and he crosses it daily.
Yes true
I am a Hong Kong citizen
I watched a documentary about the challenger disaster a while back and it basically said that the NASA people went ahead with the launch even though they were told straight up that the weather would have an affect on the o-rings on the rocket boosters by the people who built the boosters and that were adamantly against the launch in such cold weather.
As you can see this wasnt useless idea to create this channel! I love Be Amazed videos!
2:24
thank you very much indeed!
@@BeAmazed Its honor to have a reply from my favorite TH-camr!
@@BeAmazed Be better, H-3 is heavily used.
@@craftermatt3609 Nearly all of these are just filled with super obvious lies and falsehoods
i went to naypyitaw once and the buildings were like a fantasy, the gardens were beautiful and there was a huge pool and you have personal chefs cooking your meals it was so fancy for someone in a poor country
Are you saying that crass luxury and wasted money in a country where people are oppressed by poverty is a good thing?
@@christopherharvie8716 no when did i say that i just said its overly fancy and it was a cool experience 🧏♀️🧏♀️
I believe Crazy Horse died on a reservation being stabbed by a soldier, not in battle.
Yep, this video contains lots of lies like that one.
Unfortunately even a casual observer can discern that rich people can often be needlessly reckless with money.
The Chalanger? Disaster yes and mistakes that shouldn't have been made most definitely.
But useless engineering project nope.
The dirty little secret that the locals know is that since Crazy Horse is such a HUGE money maker that it will never be completed.
Look like the Segrada Familia in Barcelona, a never ending job as well.
But it is being worked on to get it completed
I don’t know many people who would appreciate joking around when it comes to the Challenger incident. With space exploration comes great risks. You could’ve also mentioned Columbia. However, given the success of the shuttle program and all the innovations that came from it, there’s plenty of good to take from the program. Unfortunately, we lost 14 of the bravest pilots and scientists this country has ever seen.
The video had a pretty big Anti America theme going. Not sure why that was necessary LOL
Agree. The shuttle program was a tremendous success, with Challenger being the second shuttle to make it into space. It flew on ten successful missions before the incident. I would hardly call that "useless."
I would hardly call them the bravest... they weren't the first in space and things way more dangerous had been done long before then...
The person doing this needs to do more research. That’s a nice way of saying he’s full of shite. And, apparently, he is drinking the leftist cool aide.
@RayvenTheNight You have no idea how complex shuttles were or the huge amount of training, not just the astronauts, but the flight controllers , the launch crew, the people who made the space suits, etc. had to go through. I worked there to certify the trainers and training materials writer for ISS. And each mission was different, the skills needed were different, and the tasks to be accomplished were different. No, the hard stuff hadn't already been done!
DISINFORMATION. I’m from Honolulu. What made you think IH3 is useless? We used it. Windward will be disconnected to us without IH3. Hawaii is a tourist destination and this road is a very busy road. We even hope they make another route as this is NOT enough because of traffic 🤣
Windward & Leeward are haven of military bases.🤣
a man rubs an Arabian oil lamp, and out pops the genie with 3 wishes. the man chooses wealth and health for his first 2. for his third he chooses a road bridge to the usa (as he hated flying) the genie complains that is a lot of work in constructing it, so the man alters his wish to 'knowing how a woman's mind works' the genie says 'is there any lights on this bridge?'
Well to be fair, the Gundam in Yokohama is just ment as a tourist attraction. Doing its job perfectly at that so it is working as intended
☠️ *The Giant Pyramid of Death* ☠️ 👻😂😂 Fascinating yet horrifying compilation of the terrible ways governments and authorities have wasted millions on utterly useless ideas 😔 Brilliant video though as ever, thank you 😊
a very similar one was built on the site of the Battle of Waterloo
I'm from Johor Malaysia. Just went to Forest City today. It's very true that the place is so abandoned. Only a few people go there to buy duty free liquors...
This USELESS WASTE OF MONEY by Chinese investors is just asking to be demolished bombing it all.
23:31 - in 1770 there were not steam engines capable of pulling mine carts (rail roads were used for horses driven "trains") - In 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, built a small-scale prototype of a steam road locomotive in Birmingham[10].[11] A full-scale rail steam locomotive was proposed by William Reynolds around 1787.
James Watt made his improvement on Newcomens steam pump in 1763-65, but The new design was introduced commercially in 1776, with the first example sold to the Carron Company ironworks. Watt continued working to improve the engine, and in 1781 introduced a system using a sun and planet gear to turn the linear motion of the engines into rotary motion.
Practically steam locomotives are here from 1800's
Actually many people cross the hzmb bridge. I've brought my family there on holiday. Although we can't drive across it, public buses operate regularly and it was really useful and convenient crossing the 3 cities using this bridge.
AND, there's no way it's the longest over-water span. IIRC, the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel is about that long (17.5 miles), and the The Overseas Highway down the Keys to Key west is MUCH longer, (113 miles a quick lookup tells me) and it takes HOURS of boring driving to traverse it, even though there weren't any traffic snarls the last time we did that trip, about 20 years ago The traffic just crawls because going faster doesn't seem quite right, not like the NJ Turnpike that commonly sees people exceeding 80 MPH.
The HZMB bridge DOES seem to be a useless project, though.
Maaaaaajor problems in Horsing around 7:55. CrazyHorse did NOT lead the battle on our side, (Sioux and Cheyenne, American Indians.) Most of all, Crazyhorse was NOT killed at Little Bighorn. In fact, Crazy Horse wasn't killed in battle at all. He was murdered by a U.S. Army soldier after being betrayed by the Army Comandant at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
I visited the Crazy Horse Memorial in 2016. The staff told me that it will take 300 years to build!
I call BS lol. Researchers have said the Great Sphinx would have taken 100 Egyptians only 3 years to complete with nothing more than stone hammers and chizels!
If it'll take 300 years, it just means they don't want to finish it and decided to go as slow as possible.
I was there in the late 70's. I didn't realize until seeing this that it was never finished. Unbelievable!
Lmao
obviously they didn't watch the episode of dirty jobs with mike rowe on the crazy hirse monument.
100 Egyptians great. How long would it take a famly of 8?
That Chinese bridge sounds impressive at 34 miles long - unless you realize that it crosses land. It does not cross water the entire length, leaving Louisiana 's Pontchartrain Causeway as the longest bridge continuesly over water in the world at just under 24 miles.
The highway connecting Hong Kong to Macau is longest. I’ve ridden both and both are impressive achievements, especially as when the Louisiana Highway ws built there was little computer modelling available..
The HZMB Bridge is primarily used by public transportation buses to and from each of the three cities, Hong Kong, Zhuhai & Macao. Summer of 2023, I crossed the bridge three times. Thousands of passengers take the buses each day for a very reasonable price (US$23.38/HKD 180), less for seniors.
@@888fatboy It’s much more comfortable and less expensive than the Catamaran ferry service. Big improvement
@@dosrios9517 I defintetly agree. As someone who lives in Macao it made transportation way easier since a lot of the people who work here actually live in either Zhuhai or Hong Kong so not having to take a ferry everyday really made their lives easier
I used to feel sick on old HK Macau ferry
So where was the bridge show in the thumbnail
At crazy horse, most of the work lately has been done on the hand. I took a tour up to the top of the mountain about a month ago and I found out that they are putting cuticles on the fingers. Some of crazy horse's descendants are actually working with Zilkowskies descendants on carving the mountain and most of the donation go to carving the mountain. one of the reasons that the mountain doesn't quite look like the finished model is because the finished carving will be much larger than Mount Rushmore and carving a memorial that large takes a lot of time. The project has also never accepted any amount of government funding and doesn't plan to in the future. Crazy Horse Memorial even has its own college. The memorial celebrated its 75th birthday not too long ago.
They also have a Facebook page with all the work going on
Well Gundam is a bit more of a bigger deal in Japan... A more western comparison I guess would be if they put together the money to build a 1:1 scale of something like optimus prime from transformers that would be able to walk around.
your comment saves me from raging, the moment they called the gundam "useless", I know that they were about to piss off an entire mech anime fanbase.
@@christiansanchez8656 not the fact that they said it was there to fight aliens? when there no aliens in gundam?
@@Marveryn The Gundam 00 movie and Gundam Build Divers have aliens, but I still doubt they knew anything about Gundam.
Ive visited Hawaii a number of times over the last 44 years. I can see how we’re trashing it, and making it just look like southern California. Sub divisions, fat roads, mini malls, big box stores. Will we ever learn?
They wasn’t jumping on the bed🤣🤣 4:40
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@yaboitrouble bro wtf man you weird
@@Matt211g
no dude they're for real they're having a rave there
In the case of Challenger the engineer who designed the O-ring system told them just before launch, as well as many times before that, exactly what would, and did, happen if they went ahead with the launch when it was too cold.
I was in China with my wife and my daughter and we took the bus from Hong Kong to Macao over the bridge that crosses the sea and gets under water. Yes it being used by buses. I also was told that car need to register, but they can cross too. I feeling is that the bridge is in a pilot period for several year to make sure the variances can be managed before a full opening.
The bridge was close during the pandemic but now it’s fully opened.
However,Hong Kong and Macau are SAR,but Zhuhai is mainland China
If you have a visa for mainland China you don’t need any permits for SAR.
Look dude, if it's an American talking about anything in China, you know ahead of time that they're full of shit
Crazy horse has actually been having a lot of updates lately, they're working on the pointing hand. He's actually pointing at Mount Rushmore, basically calling out all the president's in that monument for stealing his land. I find it actually quite cool and follow updates 🙃
I mean yeah, thats the whole point of why they made it, its for the anniversary of gundam, it isnt even funded by governent, its by bandai and sunrise themself who just wanted to make a moving life size gundam statue, i mean its not their first one since theres already 3 before it
Also I don't know where you got that Gundam is supposed to be fighting aliens when the only ever instance of aliens is in 00, the RX-78-2 never fought any aliens, only other soldiers
For people who want to see it, it's your last chance. that giant is going down soon...
As for the first story about the H3 interstate - people using this road was never the first intention of the road builders. The road connects the Kaneohoe Marine Station to Pearl Harbor- the H3 was built first and foremost for military reasons.
As for the rest of the Interstate highway system. People forget that the Interstate Highway System was not primarily built for the average citizen, but to get military assets and personnel quickly from all different points in the United States.
The road bed is extra thick with extra re-bar, to accomodate tank traffic if necessary.
The stretches that are strangely straight too can be used as runways for takeoff and landing if needed as well whether it be for supplies or for other assets. Strategically, it makes sense.
Everyone uses the H3 here in Hawaii. It’s very convenient. The haunted road you speak of is the Pali highway. Yes the h3 was heavily criticized but now it’s heavily used.
I guess they got their highways mixed up. I've been to Hawaii six times on vacation and we would always take a drive on the Pali Highway every time. One time it was sunny when we entered the tunnel and it was pouring rain on the other side when we came out.
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If i come across any of the creators of these projects, I would tell them it was easier said than done
We were taking a group trip and a local main bridge was being redone because the original design/schematic had been off a foot. One of us commented "who is the idiot who did that?" A kid in the back quietly said "...my dad."
The cruise ship wasn't a failure the captain was.
With Challenger, not only did it cost a lot of money, but because it was sending up the first teacher to space, school kids around the country watched it live at school. Talk about a way to traumatize an entire generation of school kids. I was one of those kids.
Me too, we were listening to it on the radio and when it exploded we all sat there in utter horror, crying as we listened to what was going on.
I was an adult when it happened and it was devastating to everyone. We heard about it at work and the eerie thing about it was that I knew I would be able to see it happen live when I got home from work. I used to videotape three hours of soap operas every day and knew I would have a recording of it. Also I knew someone who lived in Titusville, FL at the time who actually saw it happen since he and his family used to watch all the launches from their backyard.
I remember it being a big deal that a teacher was going into space from our area, we watched the launch from my class... only to be horrified less than a minute and half later. To top it off, all we got was recess afterwards and it was back to school. We were in the teacher's home town and they were like "you kids get back to learning"!
@@cnweems1 OMG How cold! You witnessed something traumatic but oh hey no big deal.
@@Queina1 dont believe anything you read onthe internet pal
The Yokohama Gundam may seem pointless apart from being a tourist attraction, but it's just the first step towards a completed RX-78-2
The Mexican border wall example is COMPLETELY DECEIVING. I live on the border and the actual thing is 3-4 times as tall as the fence shown here, with spools of razor wire on top. It can be penetrated, anything can, but it's nowhere near as easy as this video would have folks believe
build the wall, jail Alejandro Mayorkas and FJB!
Agreed
Amd the fact democrats fought tooth and nail to stop the building of the wall every step of the way. Why tf would Mexico pay for a project that was never finished? Hell Trump did everything he could to try and build that thing. It's crazy how oblivious people really are that live no where near any of it. I mean look at all the comments, almost everything in this video has people on the area of something saying that's not even close to true. Just goes to show the media tells you what they want to tell you and unless you see it with your own eyes, the naive ones believe it without a second thought.
Yea.. in highly populated areas.. sure.
Not to mention the work on the border wall was going great until a certain dementia patient got put into office and started signing executive orders without actually reading them
Some of these projects were not useless, just done poorly.
Some of these projects have been useful,
but this video makes false reports about them.
I am always AMAZED whenever there's a video from BE AMAZED 👏
H3 highway is not useless. It's a very busy highway. We use it every day. You were right about it being built on sacred grounds. There's Crazy stories on that.
Those side boosters are solid state rockets, so no cryo fuels. Hot gas spilled out not liquid H, but it did burn through the ET (big cryo tank) and the aft support attachment. This threw the stack out of alignment while it was travailing at mach 1.92 subsequently tearing the craft apart.
Thanks. I wish they would correct themselves.
@@n7nja851 -- Correcting all of the errors in this video
would probably take longer than making the video took.
I remember watching the Challenger launch live on tv back in elementary school. I’m pretty sure every classroom at my school was watching it. After the explosion we all got sent home. Did anyone else have a similar experience at your school?
The bridge to Hong Kong is for military purposes.
Yup the Chinese communist regime like to keep their citizen on a tight leash. Be careful what you wish and elect in the USA.
Costa Concordia was an accident, caused by the stupidity of the Master. It can't be classified as a useless mega project.
The most useless megaproject in the world is nikocado avocado smh
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True true true
I don't think Gundam is a useless mega project. It's their anime God. To them it's worth every penny. Treat it like their version of Statue of Liberty. At least it's completed and functioning and unlike others that are unfinished, abandoned and crumbled.
I need to point out an issue on your fist item.
The interstate system has two functions, 1) to connect tow or more different states. 2) to connect two Military bases inside of the same state.
The use of the Autobahn in Germany was not lost on the American army. That is how we get the two definitions of the interstate system. It's just that the second one is not used much.
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The bridge is so long and under engineered that they're not sure how much weight it can actually hold so the limitations are trial until error.
As a huge Gundam fan, I gotta say that it’s not useless. Give it 20 years and it’ll be a fully functional Gundam.
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You seem to know very little about the Crazy Horse project, let me fill you all in a little. I visited Crazy Horse two years ago, and yes, that project is taking a really long time. But here is why: it is a non-profit project set up by the native Americans who refuse to receive government funding. Further more the crazy horse project isn't just the statue, there is a whole Native American museum which is also on the property. The museum is huge for a non-profit, and does a great job of preserving Native American culture. That museum alone probably cost millions to maintain every year, from the building itself to preserving the artifacts. The project refuses to accept government funding because they want to show that they can achieve this without the U.S. government, the same government that killed them and took their lands. It stands in defiance of the tyranny and cruelty the Native American population has suffered ever since 1776. Careful what you say about the Crazy Horse Monument. Please.
I was a young boy who lived in America with the space shuttle
It was an amazing machine with profound abilities
I hardly think it should be mentioned in this article
Glad to see the comments filled with people correcting this m*ron. Some projects aren’t useless. You don’t know the meaning of useless.
Yup, this video was produced for entertainment, not for truth.
24:13 gotta love the *GIANT PYRAMID OF DEATH*
I've driven Likelike, the Pali and H3 numerous times. H3 is definitely the easiest and quickest way to get from the windward to the leeward side of Oahu.
I lived in Hawaii for a couple years roughly about 9 years and at least 9 years ago I used to use the h3 all the time and it was a lot more busy than our freeways here in Oregon so I wouldn't say that it's a ghost town because it makes our local freeways here in Oregon look like a Ghost Town I'm sure it seems very unpopulated compared to some big cities with multiple freeways
“About 9 years ago” “at least 9 years ago” 💀
Each day, "at least 9 years ago" becomes farther in the past.
Great video. You’ve earned a new subscriber 😍
The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge is now opened for applying a direct permit to cross the bridge and be registered in both cities and the mainland.
Which I am sure only those with the fat wallet can apply for, and still reserve for the Chinese armed forces in case some of those people decide to take some liberties that the Chinese dictator doesn't like.
@@DenisR-tt1oeWhere did you read that? It is opened for anyone to apply and many people have already use the bridge. Now during Holidays and weekend, the borders are packed and connecting road to the bridges are congested. On April, months before your comment, there were 19000 vehicles using the bridge daily. In additional, from day one, there are tons of shuttle buses service serving people cross the bridge. Many people used to travelling to Macau by ferry now are taking shuttle buses.
Nice " Death Pyramid " voice 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That Forest City in Malaysia still has a lot of potential. I’d love there. The prices are about the same as American apartments
As a Chinese, I absolutely agree that this bridge is almost useless because border permits and procedures make driving very inconvenient. If the bridge were slightly aligned to the north to include Shen Zhen city, the traffic would be a 100 fold more than it is now.
13:00 "But hey! The fans seem happy so who am I to judge?"
"Most Useless Megaprojects in The World"
Took that highway pretty much the first 20 years of my life and then some to build. Going home to visit Hawaii with my kids was the first time I actually drove on it.
I am surprised that you manage to make a half hour video every day…
If they are all as poorly researched as this one,
then I'm not surprised.
@@jamesgoode9246 i thought they were all rwal and based on 100percebt true facts
@@chickenmaster615 -- Well, of course, I haven't watched the others.
I have watched this video. It contains lies and mis-statements throughout.
I invite you to read the many comments under the video to start to understand the issues involved.
@@jamesgoode9246 thanks
It’s obvious not a lot of research goes into some of them. This one is full of errors. Put quality over quantity instead of given us a half baked cake!
14:37 I'd rather have the US spend $18 billion on the wall and more to finish it, than the US sending over $75 billion to Ukraine.
One is a useless project that forms part of our inhumane treatment of immigrants, one is supporting a people who have been unjustly invaded while also keeping a major US adversary at bay for insanely cheap (3-5% of the defense budget).
DAMM, 75 BILLION!?
Construction on the Border Wall was going just fine until January, 2021,
when Let's Go Brandon stopped it & diverted the funding to his projects.
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I am a construction engineer. As a child I used to break things. I learned. Do not read too much books and believe. Test.
you just have no idea how crazy the gundam fans are. Many Asian American friends travel all the way to watch that “steps” but then they also spent thousands to buy gundam figures. Not useless at all.
The H3 in Hawaii was plenty busy when I drove it.
With the state of our country right now , the border wall is right on par for the times I hate to say . 😢
Construction of the Border Wall was proceeding just fine
until January, 2021, when Let's Go Brandon stopped it & diverted the funding to his projects.
On the subject of failed megaprojects, let's not forget California's "High-Speed Rail"!
One is being constructed in England.
This will not be mentioned due to hurting the feelings of the Democratic party that wanted it for Propaganda purposes .
Japan: We tried to build a power plant to provide energy.
China: We tried to build a bridge to connect important cities.
US: We tried to build a wall.
The reason the highway in Hawaii was so expensive was in an effort to protect those trees. And on other vidoes there have been people in Hawaii who say it is frequently used.
Add Governor Brown's train to Nowhere in California. The liberal's here voted on a $33 billion bond. The project is now at $100 billion and no track has been laid.
7:53 they only built it to be longer than the lake Pontchartrain bridge in Louisiana
And theirs is connected to different areas of land along the way as well as a tunnel, so it's not completely over water the whole way . Lake Pontchartrain is nothing but bridge that's connected to the lake bottom and it's completely over water, all the way.
OMG! I was on board Costa Concordia when it crashed. I me and my parents was not injured, thank god. But the trauma did make me afraid of going on board a ship again. Something of a problem when i live in Norway where i have to take a ferry every day to work 😢. Thank god for anti depression pills 😁.
So sorry