Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works

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  • @bobidou23
    @bobidou23 ปีที่แล้ว +1020

    The way I’ve gotten used to American transit construction costs
    He said “it was supposed to cost €4.7b, but at the end it cost…”
    Me: What, twenty…
    Sam: “€8b!”
    Me: oh.

    • @D.S.handle
      @D.S.handle ปีที่แล้ว +106

      I was expecting at min €20b.

    • @iulioh
      @iulioh ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Barely an inconvenience

    • @AdventurerSmithy
      @AdventurerSmithy ปีที่แล้ว +140

      By the standards I'm used to that number is still basically on budget.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      I'm frankly shocked that they were able to fit in corruption with such a small budget, large infrastructure projects going around twice over their budget is basically to expected even without corruption. Honestly gotta give credit to how efficient they are about their corruption in Italy.

    • @maverick9708
      @maverick9708 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, honestly americas corruption and embezzlement puts all but the worst countries to shame. Veince thinks it can brag with just under 4billion € in couruption that equates to 50% of the project but America will see that and do it 4x harder for a 100billion project and we will all just expect it to happen

  • @rateeightx
    @rateeightx ปีที่แล้ว +479

    Since the Italian word for the sea, "Mare", is grammatically masculine, Whereas the Italian name of Venize, "Venezia", is grammatically feminine, I'd like to posit that the Sea is not Venice's wife, But in fact Venice's husband, With Venice being the wife.

    • @QemeH
      @QemeH ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Look at you and your traditional gender roles... ;P

    • @garion742
      @garion742 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      ... So Venice is a battered woman?😅 That tracks

    • @Blex_040
      @Blex_040 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Venice has to keep the people entertained and is getting washed up while the sea is getting hotter and comes back home high as fuck...
      jep, checks out 😂

    • @edrickmadeja1833
      @edrickmadeja1833 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂

  • @GlennHtx
    @GlennHtx ปีที่แล้ว +294

    Sam takes the "Americans will use anything but the metric system" meme VERY seriously

    • @OGrandomunknownperson
      @OGrandomunknownperson ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's from Texas though

    • @Blex_040
      @Blex_040 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ​@@OGrandomunknownperson He's born and raised in Washinton D.C., but does that matter? Aren't most americans, regardless of their home state, allergic to the metric system? xD

    • @OGrandomunknownperson
      @OGrandomunknownperson ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Blex_040 i had a Brian fart and thought Texas was a country when making that comment

    • @KuK137
      @KuK137 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Blex_040 The ones with IQ above 90 are not...

    • @Blex_040
      @Blex_040 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KuK137 So not most Americans ;P jk ^^

  • @jgr7487
    @jgr7487 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Huge props for Sam for both translating (in writing) & giving an interpretation (in audio) to acqua alta means. HAI unintentionally fixed a big issue translators have: either translating a term or explaining its concept.

  • @itsskip
    @itsskip ปีที่แล้ว +276

    You could name the island after Moses' wife, Zippora. Then they can show Venice and the Adriatic Sea what a good, co-dependent relationship looks like.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I propose... Batarang Island

    • @nicholasvinen
      @nicholasvinen ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Surely the obvious name to choose is Islandy McIsleface.

    • @PaarthGuptaYT
      @PaarthGuptaYT ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @itsskip This is genius!

    • @yitzakIr
      @yitzakIr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Plus it might squash the long standing beef between Italians and Jews

  • @yo.adrian
    @yo.adrian ปีที่แล้ว +558

    I love it when HAI compares measurements with everyday objects.

    • @steffenvongrabau7260
      @steffenvongrabau7260 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Just regular freedom units, nothing unusual

    • @obviousbear1289
      @obviousbear1289 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Really leaning into the "The US will use anything but meters as measurement" bit.

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I hate it so much 😭

    • @enterchannelname8981
      @enterchannelname8981 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@obviousbear1289 They hate meters so much they'll even use ... centimeters

    • @altarancho
      @altarancho ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As a Liberian, I’m very offended.

  • @keiyakins
    @keiyakins ปีที่แล้ว +543

    Venice hasnt been in the sea ever since they married, can you blame her for wanting to change that?

    • @easygoingdude9990
      @easygoingdude9990 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow

    • @cxzact9204
      @cxzact9204 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤯

    • @doge820
      @doge820 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      A ghe xe aqua alta par cento di ogni ano, no xe molto ma a mi me pare bàstanza vista la rotura de cojoni
      =100 days a year should be enough cmon 😅
      Google translator won't translate that correctly, it's the venetian dialetct.
      (i tried to write it as best as i could but it's a dying language that doesn't get taught in schools :/
      I learnt it from my grandparents but it's becoming less and less relevant, most people around here just use italian instead of the local dialetct)

    • @Frahamen
      @Frahamen ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're forgetting all the years they where dating unmarried 😳😳

    • @franchezvibritannia7320
      @franchezvibritannia7320 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes we can blame her. ☕️

  • @notlilyspears
    @notlilyspears ปีที่แล้ว +1452

    Venice is not only a cultural treasure but a big money-maker. I'm sure it's worth the investment to save. They should implement tourist taxes to help fund it.

    • @federicofabulli5030
      @federicofabulli5030 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      I am from Italy, and I own a small air b&b. We already have a tourist tax, you pay to the host of your air b&b, and then the host gives the money to the city. It varies from place to place, but if memory serves in Venice is 10€ per person per night. But I could be wrong, I work in Bologna, not in Venice. The prices are different

    • @deleted-something
      @deleted-something ปีที่แล้ว +6

      lol

    • @murilotheodoro5025
      @murilotheodoro5025 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Who's gonna pay to see a flooded city?
      ... Oh right, six geniuses just died paying millions to watch a flooded ship didn't they?

    • @Ben-co9hy
      @Ben-co9hy ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Yeah, I went to Venice this summer, there already is a tourist tax. We had to put a few euros in a paper wallet in the Airbnb, I imagine there’s a similar setup for hotels and stuff like that

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The problem is they’re doing it too well and suffering from overtourism.

  • @philsharp758
    @philsharp758 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I am torn between "Amy gets a rise" and "Brick" Island.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Amy gets a Brick?

    • @JimOHalloran
      @JimOHalloran ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I vote "Half As Island"!

  • @daves9172
    @daves9172 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    Congratulations to HAI for making the first accurate video about MOSE, everyone stops at the “lol overpriced project that doesn’t work, should’ve asked the dutch” while failing to understand the peculiarities about the venetian lagoon and the fact that MOSE was being developed as it was built.
    Really shows the difference between a channel that does his research and writes his own video and all the other chatgpt copy pasta.

    • @Welgeldiguniekalias
      @Welgeldiguniekalias ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I would say spending billions in public funds before you finish the design is a very telling part of the problems surrounding this project, most of which could have been avoided with proper planning and expertise.

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Considering it's only good for at most a hundred years, and we (the Dutch) have already been mentioned in this video as someone to copy a longer-term solution from, I'm going to say that they should've asked us in the first place.
      Just build an Oosterscheldekering-like barrier, add a few sluices for the ships, and you should be good for _at least_ an extra one to two hundred years beyond what MOSE is good for - although at some point, you may be limited to opening the barrier only during _low_ tide to avoid the water level in the lagoon rising too much (you'd open it to keep the lagoon clean). Of course, that also has a solution, namely letting water flow in at a slower pace and pumping it back out, however I imagine that may be expensive.
      On the other hand, that's a 2300 AD problem and by that point we _probably_ have nuclear fusion figured out so that should make things easier. Also, even failing that you could use tidal generators on the in-flowing water to produce the power required to pump the water back out. This won't cover the _entire_ energy consumption (efficiency is always less than 100%), but it will cover part of it, possibly a significant part.

    • @daves9172
      @daves9172 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@Welgeldiguniekalias it is not, the goal of mose wasn’t to protect the whole city, it was to allow for safe high tides (which are necessary to the lagoon) which also means flooding the lowest parts of the city, while allowing access to the port inside the lagoon, a special solution was necessary, it had never been built before, hence why it was developed along the building process, just like the first high speed rail lines

    • @daves9172
      @daves9172 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@Leyrann Venice needed a custom solution, a regular barrier was evaluated and scrapped, as this would have cut off traffic to the port (mose allows marine traffic during high tides), and completely shielded the lagoon during high tides, which is not what the goal was.

    • @alex9621
      @alex9621 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@LeyrannThat's a lot of talking for someone that knows nothing about the subject. Wish I had 10% of your confidence

  • @chrisn5956
    @chrisn5956 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Man those flood gates could have been really useful that one time I left the bath water running on accident

  • @haiironezumi
    @haiironezumi ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Honestly, the threshold of using MOSE being above what it takes to flood Piazza di San Marco makes sense - people *love* getting a shot of Venice underwater.

    • @8paolo96
      @8paolo96 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      well, just a few centimeters of water in a huge Piazza would not harm that much, but it's more important to keep water out of historical buildings

    • @MatthewWunderlich
      @MatthewWunderlich ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I guess it depends if we should prioritize people’s homes and businesses or tourists taking photos for Instagram

    • @KuK137
      @KuK137 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MatthewWunderlich Hey, clown, you realize these homes are already built with this in mind and flooding stops massive ecological damage and pollution?

  • @eichen97
    @eichen97 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:42 thanks for the real mesurements, some would appreciate imperial, but the ping pong tables just hit different.

  • @williandalsoto806
    @williandalsoto806 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Two HAI videos in less than 24 hours?! What a pleasant surprise!!!

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer ปีที่แล้ว +11

      soon Amy will demand her own clown based dental care plan. O and more money. (only she did not say what kind of money so it will be imaginary pesos)

    • @rundown132
      @rundown132 ปีที่แล้ว

      $$$$$$$$$$$

  • @pedrojpinto
    @pedrojpinto ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Il Mare is masculine, Venezia is feminine. So, it is a marriage where the Sea is the husband and the City is the wife. In old-school Catholic tradition, that meant the City was willingly "submitting" to the Sea, for better, for worse... That makes sense for a seafaring state.

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam ปีที่แล้ว +93

    4:30 if I had a nickel for everytime human actions had ecological consequences, I would be a billionaire

    • @xadielplasencia3674
      @xadielplasencia3674 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      That is how most billionaires are made

    • @kakahass8845
      @kakahass8845 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      If I had a nickel for every time human actions had ecological consequences I'd be the one causing those ecological consequences.

    • @stansman5461
      @stansman5461 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean, every animal action had ecological consequences. Beavers create dams, flood one side and dry up another 😂

    • @westrim
      @westrim ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I mean, you'd be a quintillionare, possibly more. Every human breath has an ecological consequence, every bite of food, every shit, and every step. "Ecological consequence" isn't even a value statement, just an acknowledgement that, good or ill, we all live on Earth.

    • @person8064
      @person8064 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@westrimwe're humans, not ChatGPT, we can understand connotations

  • @baylinkdashyt
    @baylinkdashyt ปีที่แล้ว +65

    What a hell of a job illustrating the "Americans will go to any lengths to avoid using the metric system" meme!

    • @GermansLikeBeer
      @GermansLikeBeer ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He literally used metric in this video

  • @TheRavenir
    @TheRavenir ปีที่แล้ว +51

    We should take Venice and push it somewhere else!

    • @thecoolbird13
      @thecoolbird13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      or we can just sink it, i always wanted atlantis to be real

    • @ChesterChi3
      @ChesterChi3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Put it at the bottom of the sea, problem solved.

  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas1015119 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Any megaproject will inevitably cost double its estimate. Considering the corruption involved thats honestly pretty good. Imo they should put the entire city on hydraulic stilts like in Oceans Twelve and just raise or lower it at will

  • @AbsolXGuardian
    @AbsolXGuardian ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Now I want a WTYP episode on this. You know it's a good half as interesting episode when you want a 3 hour version of it

    • @screwaccountnames
      @screwaccountnames ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just make the seawall more rigid!

    • @NadarCosainAmber
      @NadarCosainAmber ปีที่แล้ว

      More rigid, with much more soup-like homogenate

  • @brsyauqi
    @brsyauqi ปีที่แล้ว +10

    ok 3 HAI videos in 3 straight days, Sam is up to something

    • @zarinaromanets7290
      @zarinaromanets7290 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's up to his neck in bricks and plane parts, all this production is a direct result of the ecstasy he's experiencing!

  • @nikta8587
    @nikta8587 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    wish new york had a semi-working flood barrier on friday

    • @understAanding
      @understAanding ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The flooding didn't come from the bay/rivers here, it was an accumulation of rainwater that the storm drains couldn't clear quickly enough

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso ปีที่แล้ว

      @@understAanding Well, it hasn't come from the bay/river yet.

  • @DavidCowie2022
    @DavidCowie2022 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Mose: I'm going €4 billion over budget!
    HS2 rail link: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

  • @magiciangob
    @magiciangob ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for the reminder there at the end that I'm not watching on Nebula. I was like, hey wait a minute why hasn't this stopped? Love all the extra episodes this week.

  • @NINOGIANLUCA
    @NINOGIANLUCA ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:39 this island has a name: is "Isola Artificiale del Baccan di Sant'Erasmo"

    • @QemeH
      @QemeH ปีที่แล้ว

      That's like naming a child "female offspring" - that doesn't count...

    • @NINOGIANLUCA
      @NINOGIANLUCA ปีที่แล้ว

      @@QemeH is the real name...

    • @QemeH
      @QemeH ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NINOGIANLUCA I believe that it is named that on official chart or wherever you need to have a designation for it. But it's not a "name", really - it's more of a descriptor. It's like naming Manhatten "peninsula of the hudson estuary"...

  • @carolynthomas3938
    @carolynthomas3938 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Marco’s Vineyard is a great name. I vote that one!

  • @lastfire77
    @lastfire77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol, I love how editor missed that "spill a spritz" means the drink (like an aperol spritz), not a spritz like from a spray bottle

  • @joeym5243
    @joeym5243 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Just put a fish tank filter in the lagoon, that should keep it clean

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer ปีที่แล้ว +1

      maybe add some water plants to it. That will make it look more alive.

    • @Gamer3427
      @Gamer3427 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sirBrouwer Can't forget one of those little treasure chests that bubbles flow to to make the lid occasionally open. It'll attract divers and increase tourism.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Gamer3427 Only when we can add a little castle to it as well. Just a small one.

    • @profwaldone
      @profwaldone ปีที่แล้ว

      You joke but that is legit a solution worth looking into, though it needs to be lagoon scale.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer ปีที่แล้ว

      @@profwaldone That is how we survive in the Netherlands. we have huge pumping stations all over the country constantly working at keeping the water at the best level. they also indirectly filter a lot of trash out of said water.

  • @Nixplaystrombone
    @Nixplaystrombone ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2 HAI videos in one day? Sam, it's okay to sleep.

  • @EllaTheOctopus
    @EllaTheOctopus ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Three days, three HAI videos?

  • @xavimaroto
    @xavimaroto ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great video as usual, but a quick Google Maps Search shows the island as "Isola Artificiale del Baccan di Sant'Erasmo" or Artificial Island of Saint Erasmus Bacan. Not italian so not sure if the name is right.

  • @ananegg
    @ananegg ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Only one answer can be given by a true HAI viewer. Brick Island.

  • @infidellic
    @infidellic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fun fact: Sam's first 4 marriages failed because he was planning for and then away playing "Jet Lag: The Game" too much. His 5th, because he wouldn't stop talking about logistics and his 6th because of his owl fetish

  • @jomiar309
    @jomiar309 ปีที่แล้ว

    The use of anything but meters as a comparitive measurement was solid gold!

  • @Ryu-hx5yy
    @Ryu-hx5yy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the upload speed of HAI currently

  • @jonathankneller4316
    @jonathankneller4316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great use of that American math with tennis courts and ping pong tables 😂😂

  • @raelsadd
    @raelsadd ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A great name for the unnamed island is Dave

  • @xtobias2942
    @xtobias2942 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually the island is called: „Isola Artificiale del Baccan di Sant'Erasmo“ translates to „Artificial Island of the Baccan of Sant'Erasmo“

  • @hambone1991
    @hambone1991 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A third HAI video in three days???

  • @sebastianmoore4875
    @sebastianmoore4875 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Isola del bacio del mare seems like it'd be a fitting name for that little island

  • @ClementinesmWTF
    @ClementinesmWTF ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very strange seeing the Woodlands’ skyline in a video about Venice

  • @seanm7445
    @seanm7445 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dropping some Island name suggestions:
    FlashBlock Sanctuary
    Flood Lock Rock
    I don’t think MOSElini Isle would go down too well...

  • @exploshaun
    @exploshaun ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just build more buildings on top of the old ones. I heard that's how the citiy used to work.

  • @Americanbadashh
    @Americanbadashh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd call the nameless island, "The router", or the Italian equivalent. As it has a router like shape, and is involved with connecting systems together

  • @stylesrj
    @stylesrj ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:40
    All those writers and no one ever suggested "Island McIslandFace" as a name?

  • @manyfrom1
    @manyfrom1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that ping pong tables are a unit of measurement in this video

  • @kyledabearsfan
    @kyledabearsfan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that he uses our cherished American measurement system of "anything but metric" 😂😂

  • @HxTurtle
    @HxTurtle ปีที่แล้ว

    my attempt on naming the unnamed island:
    "who got the balls telling Sam the entirety of Venice is man-made?"-island

  • @FalconsEye58094
    @FalconsEye58094 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still feel like Venice does a better job handling regular floods than NYC does just once in a while

  • @CatsT.M
    @CatsT.M ปีที่แล้ว

    1:24
    Should have said:
    "When sea levels rise Venice dies".

  • @coolgeographyandstuff
    @coolgeographyandstuff ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Venice and the sea need some relationship counseling.
    Edit: Sam made the same joke my god lol

  • @guywithanegg5188
    @guywithanegg5188 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    if this is half as interesting im wondering what fully interesting is
    just the title peaked my interest

    • @D.S.handle
      @D.S.handle ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s Wendover Productions. I think he explained this somewhere.

  • @12kenbutsuri
    @12kenbutsuri ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sounds more like a divorce to me.

  • @MuchWhittering
    @MuchWhittering ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sam, calm down. Your ISP is gonna flag you for all these frequent uploads.

  • @amarnathswami1135
    @amarnathswami1135 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me increasing my Carbon Footprint deliberately so that Britain and Venice could sink quickly….

  • @Techischannel
    @Techischannel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why not just raise Venice ... just start lifing up the city gradually. Like replacing the foundation poles on which venice is built exept they get longer so venice stays above water even when the sea level rises. On some occasions you just add a few more longer solid poles over the decades, and then continue lifting.

  • @davidecasarin4953
    @davidecasarin4953 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Venice is the bride, sea is the groom.

  • @EviGL
    @EviGL ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wonder if Maldives will manage to build these gates all around them. Or are we better off long term if we start building Earth 2 now?

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe they already have a plan to simply buy some land from India and relocate the population there in the future.

  • @MabDarogan2
    @MabDarogan2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Moses is better described as fiction's greatest hydrologist

  • @enderboy1824
    @enderboy1824 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Daily HAI videos are fun

  • @nyarlathotep6493
    @nyarlathotep6493 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Honolulu Rail Project see's the 8 Billion price tag and simply says hold my Heineken

  • @HolographicSweater
    @HolographicSweater ปีที่แล้ว

    this video has the vibe of a pharmaceutical commercial

  • @Dan-cd6hm
    @Dan-cd6hm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Visited a flood defence barrier in the Netherlands, the tour guide spent most of the time complaining about how bad the Venice and Saint Petersburg flood defences were

    • @Alesxandros
      @Alesxandros 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tell the guide that mose is working fine and it's 100% italian....durch were barbarians when we lived in city of marble and gold

  • @EktoHunter
    @EktoHunter ปีที่แล้ว

    1:28 im pretty sure the dollar bills should be placed vertically to come out to 32cm, not horizontally

    • @EktoHunter
      @EktoHunter ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually, according to my Research just now a dollar bill is 15,7cm*6,6cm, so it's either roughly two dollar bills stacked vertically or five dollar bills stacker horizontally

  • @theofficialczex1708
    @theofficialczex1708 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:29 I don't know how you're lining up those dollar bills, but 10.7 cm is nowhere close to 6.6 cm nor 15.6 cm.

  • @lazios
    @lazios 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It doesn't work only partially, it works; it has already been made operative and has prevented the flooding of Venice (the "infamous" high water) more than 50 times.
    The problem is that the project (chosen to have no impact and be invisible, instead of simpler and less expensive projects) has cost a lot and costs also to maintain.
    It's still a price that anyone (in Italy and I hope in the rest of the world also) is willing to pay to save a city who is like no other.

  • @Palurien
    @Palurien ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wouldn't 32 cm be closer to the length of two, $1 bills or somewhere between 4 and 5 bills if shown as in the video?

    • @killerbee.13
      @killerbee.13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A dollar bill (and actually all other denominations of US bills) is approximately 6.6cm wide, and 15.5cm long. So basically, it depends which way you rotate it.
      Edit: oh I think I misread your comment, and also didn't bother to go and check the video again. I agree, the video is wrong when it says 3 dollar bills at 1:28.

    • @festerofest4374
      @festerofest4374 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@killerbee.13 Before I saw these comments I had been measuring a US bill to see for myself.

    • @killerbee.13
      @killerbee.13 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@festerofest4374 That's what I did too

  • @knightsljx
    @knightsljx ปีที่แล้ว +2

    at this point they should just turn venice into a poulder

  • @CyborgRowlet
    @CyborgRowlet ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Got the Data Time advert!

  • @AuraMaster7
    @AuraMaster7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They should just hire the Dutch to fix it for them

  • @houtsmaa
    @houtsmaa ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t understand why they didn’t just get help from the Dutch. They did the exact same thing on an even larger scale, and it works like a charm.

  • @mittensfastpaw
    @mittensfastpaw ปีที่แล้ว +8

    And cruise ships make it all worse as well. Yet the government refuses to ban them for short term gains. The cruise ship industry is a plague.

  • @Thomas_TdK
    @Thomas_TdK ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Call in the dutch engineers

  • @hasanx8066
    @hasanx8066 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    History's greatest hydrologist lol.

    • @stylesrj
      @stylesrj ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We all know he used a Beyblade to part the Red Sea.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stylesrj A hydrological technique lost to modern engineering.

  • @maruftim
    @maruftim ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ah yes, corruption, what's new?

  • @BobSmith1980.
    @BobSmith1980. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's always the wife. Never get married

  • @jamesmatheson9624
    @jamesmatheson9624 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From my understanding but this is only an assumption we can make a 6 km inflatable Mountain for 6 million dollars and from my assumption but this is only assumption because I haven't received an accurate figure from any designers yet that for 6 billion dollars we can make 1,000 6 km inflatable artificial mountains that we can spray an endless amount of water on top of which will turn into snow and ice because it is 6 km off of the ground and depending on how it freezes potentially we could make the ice go to 20 to 80 km off of the ground which would make another Arctic or we could put the inflatable artificial mountains beside the Arctic so that we try and keep the region Frozen because the danger is coming from inside of the water which is why it is making the ice melts

    • @jamesmatheson9624
      @jamesmatheson9624 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aside from the inflatable artificial mountains you could also potentially drill a hole in the ground that would reach potentially 2 km into the ground and let the water go there in potentially you might be able to continue allowing the water to go in there indefinitely which would drop the world's water level but I believe it still would make the water turn back into steam which would make it continuously rain and I truly believe that the inflatable artificial mountain is the only way that you were going to stop floods

  • @franzfanz
    @franzfanz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why don't we Parent Trap Venice and the sea?

  • @ianshepard8631
    @ianshepard8631 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:00 Why did you spell aqua wrong? You did it on purpose to annoy me and it worked.

    • @ianshepard8631
      @ianshepard8631 ปีที่แล้ว

      You did it again at 3:41 😒

    • @jarynn8156
      @jarynn8156 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ianshepard8631 Its an Italian term.

    • @ianshepard8631
      @ianshepard8631 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jarynn8156 Ah I learned Spanish not Italian. I know they are similar so I figured that the spelling would be too.

  • @uplink-on-yt
    @uplink-on-yt ปีที่แล้ว

    328K to lift the barrier? That's about the cost of a steak sold by the 100g in that place. Add a coffee, and it's all covered.

  • @aidanpeairs1967
    @aidanpeairs1967 ปีที่แล้ว

    You gotta do a video on the Crédit Mobilier scandal people have been embezzling for centuries

  • @BeastHighlightsOfficial
    @BeastHighlightsOfficial ปีที่แล้ว

    Captions please, I’m watching this at midnight in my time zone

  • @WeyounSix
    @WeyounSix ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rebuild everything individually on stilts or way higher foundations. It's gonna cost a lot and remove a lot of old buildings, but so will the overtaking of the sea... If you wanna keep living there forever, you're gonna have to do better than a wall.

    • @Gamer3427
      @Gamer3427 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not if you build a bigger wall and turn the city into a city on a lake instead of the sea. Sure you'll have to deal with finding a good way to clean and replace the water, but it is another option.

    • @WeyounSix
      @WeyounSix ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah but that option would destroy any natural sealife migration in and out and effectively kill the entire bay for all of the other locations in the area too. I think stilts is better because the majority of Venice is on the land not on an island and im sure they like their sea access and so does the wildlife. Its better for the environment. @@Gamer3427

    • @profwaldone
      @profwaldone ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah building a wall will work just fine, we have 70 yr old dykes that have had a constant hight difference of multiple meters for that entire time.
      It requires maintenance and care but it's definitely a solution. (gotta pump the water around tough)

    • @WeyounSix
      @WeyounSix ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@profwaldone considering it will completely block off the ports and sea access for the other towns AND destroy the ecosystem the cost of upkeep and reroutes of ALL shipping will be prohibitively expensive to keep up.

  • @fastfiddler1625
    @fastfiddler1625 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Didn't a suspiciously similar person just do a whole video about dams? That, coupled with very not similar people who built a Titanic should be enough of a lesson that humans can't and shouldn't try to outsmart water.

  • @pol9500
    @pol9500 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:23 im guessing the animator doesn’t know what a spritz is 😢

  • @Attaxalotl
    @Attaxalotl ปีที่แล้ว

    Un-sinking Venice is probably the best solution

  • @Graffititude
    @Graffititude ปีที่แล้ว

    “Malcom Island” …Because it’s in the middle!

  • @einstijn138
    @einstijn138 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Netherlands: half of our country is below see level, we have reclaimed an entire province from the sea, and we even built the Palm Jumeirah and World Islands for Dubai.
    Also, we had a super bad and deadly flood in 1953, so we learnt a lot and we made sure that flood will never happen again. So here is what we did.
    Italy: yeah, we're going to think of something ourselves, thank you very much.

    • @profwaldone
      @profwaldone ปีที่แล้ว

      We arnt much better today, the major infrastructure companies are already asking for the government to prepare for the next needed upgrades and nothing is being done to even attempt to save money for the future.
      We are definitely fucked aswell if we keep a short term minded cabinet next cycle.

    • @GiulioImparato
      @GiulioImparato ปีที่แล้ว

      Thing is we don't want to kill the lagoon...

  • @carpemkarzi
    @carpemkarzi ปีที่แล้ว

    That was extremely cool. I didn’t know the details .

  • @Tuepp
    @Tuepp ปีที่แล้ว

    In the subtitles it's all about Mo's here 😁

  • @tbonejk8279
    @tbonejk8279 ปีที่แล้ว

    i know this is nit-pickey but you but the three dollar bill graphic at 1:30 sideways, which is not 32 cms. just weird

  • @ryanharrigan3655
    @ryanharrigan3655 ปีที่แล้ว

    New York Islanders jumpscare in the suggested names for the island

  • @thefrub
    @thefrub ปีที่แล้ว

    It probably would have been cheaper to just jack up the whole city, one building at a time, then pull up the paving stones and rebuild the roads 2m higher

  • @hyseb2
    @hyseb2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:32 Venice is the wife, the sea is the husband, see Italian grammatical genders

  • @kartierglory
    @kartierglory ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sam used EVERYTHING but the metric system 😂

    • @davidguthary8147
      @davidguthary8147 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Correction: he used everything AND the metric system.

  • @markstevens9405
    @markstevens9405 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm not sure you got the ping pong table measurement comparison right. Are you using Imperial or Metric? Appreciate that Americans have difficulties with the latter. Possibly a "redo from start" situation.

  • @asherjobin9939
    @asherjobin9939 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ofcourse Venice and corruption name a more iconic dou

  • @T.h.w.T
    @T.h.w.T ปีที่แล้ว

    Classic Americans, using tennis courts as a unit of measurement.

  • @danielating1316
    @danielating1316 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait, did HAI literally fail in 6 marriages?

  • @LMacNeill
    @LMacNeill ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seriously -- no one came up with "Islandy McIslandface" for the name of the unnamed island? 😂