10 Most Expensive Mistakes in All History
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Castle Bravo was also one of the impetuses for the creation of _Godzilla._
And SpongeBob SquarePants
Well done! Hence his burned appearance, coral shaped spines, that opening scene with the fishing boat... I wish more people could look past the outdated effects and understand how heavy that movie really is.
Gojiro.
Gojira might be the answer. He will defeat them
HOORAY FOR GODZILLA ALSO YES I AM CRAZY ABIUT HIM
My Ex should be on this list
😂😂
She is number 1 in "Top 10 idiots paying for my lifestlye" video
Accurate af
Pretty sure the treaty of Versailles was the most expensive mistake.
Now, that's the best definition so far. You have my vote.
That’s very accurate
Not allowing some certain someone into art school was a pretty expensive mistake
I don't know, where does the sale of Alaska fall into play. Russia sold it to us for 7.2 Mil...I think it's worth a little bit more than that LOL
@@rodneyjones8433 "Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain."
Yeah in hindsight they should have sold it to Great Britain to offset German designs 😂
PEPCON: I have friends that live there and were there when it happened. Those blasts broke most of the windows in all of the houses, casinos and other buildings in Las Vegas, Henderson and Bolder City. One of the people that died in the blast was a worker that was n a wheel chair. He told the others to run for safety because he knew he could not get out in time. He stayed behind and took care of equipment so that the blasts would not be even worse. He was a hero that no one ever hears about.
Гонтетпечи макулбу шакал
Sounds like bullshit
I thought one of the guys who died was in a wheel chair, another guy had had polio as a kid (not something you fully recover from). The evac plans and buildings weren't designed with limited mobility persons in mind.
One of the workers stopped the fire trucks to warn them that the place was going to blow up and to wait... I think the fire chief was injured when the windshield of his car was blown in by the blast as he was racing to the scene.
@@JosephKeenanisme It was just the one person in a wheelchair died and he volunteered to stay behind and try to control things so the others could get out.
I think honourable mentions should go to the Union Carbide disaster at Bhopal, (1984) almost 4,000 people died and 500,000 affected. Cost - $470 million (cheap compared to the number of deaths)
And the Exon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (1989). Cost - $7 billion.
It was cheap mostly because white people didnt suffer. Belive it, it hurt locals 10times harder than overglorified chernobyl.
Honorable mention the at least $200 billion Elon Musk has lost in acquiring twitter. (as of mid January 2023)
@@rRobertSmith 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm not sure "honorable" would be the right word.
Human lives are always worth $0 each when putting a price on a disaster.
Fukushima could have been on this list. The reactor designers in the US warned TEPCO to build the generators high above sea level and further from the plant and they put them in the basement below sea level anyway. Without this critical mistake, the meltdowns at Fukushima never would have happened.
TEOCO Ignored all suggestions, etc. From many years before the sunami after the horrible earthquake
Warned? They all but jumped up and down while frothing at the mouth. The original plans as purchased by TEPCO specified that NO part of the Diesel Generators or Emergency Switchgear would be located lower than the 2nd floor and would be inside Containment. TEPCO chose to change the plans to suit their own needs as they saw them.
At our local nuke plant, Design Basis assumes a breach of every dam on the Columbia River upstream of the plant...including Grand Coulee and the two huge earthen dams up in Canada. At the site of the plant, the Columbia River is 5 miles away and 400 feet in elevation lower. Engineers can calculate NO conceivable event which would cause flooding at the plant...even losing all of the dams upstream wouldn't do it. Diesels and switchboards are still on the 2nd floor, as designed. (Plant is functionally identical to Fukishima plants.)
Worst part of Fukishima is that there were passive systems in place which would have been quite capable of cooling the reactors during a total plant blackout...If the valves were properly aligned as they should have been with the plant online. Even worse, the operators did not know how to visually confirm that the passive systems were engaged and working.
Operation is quite simple. Pumps stop, convection begins routing the reactor cooling water through heat exchanges in huge tanks of water. Water in tanks boil, convection returns cooled coolant back to reactor. Since boiling water in a closed tank is a bad idea, the tanks were vented. If you look at the Reactor buildings, you will see two smallish rectangular vents about 3/4 of the way up the side of the buildings. Visual confirmation is as complicated as "YEP! there is a 30-40 foot plume of steam roaring out of those vents on the side of the building!"
@@kevincrosby1760 That is interesting context with a lot of things I didn't previously know, thank you for that.
Fukushima cost the lives of entire species! YES, it certainly should! The loss of plankton, the source of 70% of Earth's oxygen, due to the massive fallout, will certainly become more costly, as the reactors to this day still have no containment! No sarcophagus! This is why hydrogen power is being considered, we will need the oxygen to breathe!
@@richardmccann4815 Have you considered research and applying real science to a problem before you post on YT?
Start with "still have no containment". That statement alone is a bit off, like several meters of reinforced concrete off.
Reputable marine biologists cannot seem to find your massive plankton killoff. I can find several references to a decrease in plankton in certain areas, but all are related to natural variations in plankton density.
I'd really like to see your list of "entire species" which Fukishima killed. The ONE reference I could find was on a website which also blamed the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's on oil fracking in the Cascade Range.
0:29 MV Golden Ray, 8 Sept 2019, ship capsized in Georgia, $800M cost
3:00 Henderson, NV (near Las Vegas) 4 May 1988 chemical fire and explosions $100M damage
5:17 June 24, 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse, 98 dead $1.02B
7:00 1979 Three Mile Island partial meltdown $2B cost
8:47 2003 space shuttle Columbia left wing hit by foam on launch $400M + $2B shuttle
10:38 Beirut. 2013 ammonium nitrate sat, exploded 4 August 2020. $15B damage.
12:42 Ever Given, ship ran aground in Suez Canal 23 March 2021. $550M
14:33 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil well in Gulf of Mexico, exploded. 11 dead. $65B cost to BP.
16:34 Bikini Atoll. Castle Bravo test. 15 Megatons. fallout. radiation sickness. $1B
18:48. 1986 Chernobyl test & meltdown. $235B
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Thanks!👍🏻
Thanks, narrator sounds like a clown.
Thanks dawg. The world need people to do this stuff that the channel doesn’t
Fun Fact: in the 1988 PEPCON disaster, 2 people were killed with hundreds injured. The person who stayed behind to call the CCFD is a controller by the name of Roy Westerfield. A truly heroic act. Also, if I’m not mistaken, he was handicapped so there simply wasn’t enough time for him to burden others to help him evacuate.
I'm not sure I'd call that a fun fact but yes, that's important. If I remember the story right the other person that died was Bruce Halker, the plant manager.
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That sure sounds like fun!
Absolutely interesting info! Fun fact? Not so much 😅
Lol, I messed up with the “fun” fact, guys. I just wanted to share what I read.
*Most expensive mistakes in all history*
My dad: Not turning off the light when you leave the room
Dude, that Henderson explosion was just incredible. There're plenty of Beirut videos about the explosion (none shown here) and you should really add them up, they're worth watching as to understand the magnitude of the damage and human stupidity behind. The explosion is breathtaking and Henderson's look like it's baby sister. A real tragedy.
Funny enough, this video contains so much "bullshit footage", but there is no footage about the explosion in Beirut, only the aftermath. But I would say it's a quality "feature" of this channel, posting "random" footage that often has nothing to do with the topic the narrator is talking about.
That is about the same level of explosion that one could expect from a small tactical nuke of only a few hundred tons of yield.
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I wanna know what a marshmallow factory was doing next to a place they made rocket fuel haha
@@oblivion8819 Marshmallows are used in the making of rocket fuel. Everyone knows that. xD
Impressed that for the Miami building collapse and the Lebanon incident, real, spectacular, existing footage was not presented.
However, I appreciate that footage is not shown twice, one plain and then with commentary, as was the case with previous videos.
We could not show that footage. It is FAR too graphic for CZcams and would have definitely caused this video to be demonetized and/or age restricted
3-Mile Island. In addition, the valve "sensors" did not actually monitor the valve positions. They simply reported the last command sent to the mechanism, not the real status of the valves themselves. A major design error.
Different alarms with the same sound is especially hazardous in hospital ICUs. Sonalert makes a very good product, so hack engineers use them in every device. The problem is exacerbated by the low level of harmonics. The harmonics tell us which direction the sound is coming from.
thank you for pointing that out, Underworld got so much wrong on that explanation. i get for simplification they had to, but still
They also didn't diagnose the problem properly and let water out of the system when it wasn't full, and plant knew that it could be an issue as the PORV valve had failed before but was caught before it became a problem. It was just a complete failure
airplane cockpits as well.
The irony at TMI is if the engineers hadn't touched a single button, switch, knob, the reactor would have rescued itself. Though it would have a lot of water to scrub during evaporation clean up, which would have kept it down a while, the damage to the plant would have been very minimal, and the reactor up and running again.
5:19 I actually have my own theory on how the Champlain Towers collapsed. The pool deck was slowly sinking, slow enough that the eye couldn't see, probably because of the amount of weight on the pool deck. Once that first column had a "punch through" failure, there was no stopping the pool deck from collapsing. I'm pretty sure I heard someone on another channel that said "The pool deck damaged the main columns for the building when the failure occurred." And then 7 minutes later, half of the building came crashing down.
Not just your own theory but also Miami Herald's theory at 6:38 blamed cracking concrete and rusted rebar (rebar is metal that makes concrete structures stronger and rust makes the metal rebar weak over time as its a very old building) so you and the news probably aren't wrong!
Just a clarification of 3 Mile Island. The containment building held following the hydrogen explosion and did its purpose of containing all the radioactive materials. It wasn't like Chernobyl which did NOT have a containment building around the reactor. But yes those gases had to go somewhere and after calculations were made, they were slowly and purposefully released over the following 2 weeks.
The question is how huge the responsibility is of the USA government by allowing the mad scientists and military heads to keep playing with the lives of billions around the globe. They are re$possible even today for so much sickness and fear to nuclear war destruction of our species. Of all this is the corporate class the one behind profiting from this experiments product. Hanging over our heads with them as leadership is discouraging. Defense my behind. This is madness.
What was not mentioned is the corruption and attempts to cover the story, by the authorities. The only reason no deaths have been linked to the incident is because there was a political agenda to defend nuclear power technology and the US reputation.
Just a clarification of 3 Mile Island. There was no hydrogen explosion. The building was ventilated before the hydrogen could reach a concentration level which would detonate.
Got news for ya pumpkin, the sitting President at the time rolled up on that joint only to find out later that there was a MASSIVE cloud of radiation that was BARELY trapped in said dome. The calculations you describe were based on hypotheticals as THIS HAD NEVER HAPPENED before. It took so long to get this damn place online that technology was actually going obsolete ahead of it actually being actuated. They didn't have a clue only an educated guess, and that educated guess did not come from who you would think it would come from. Subsequent radiation that this video mentioned that leaked out into the communities came from this very dome so don't sit there and play that off like oh well we had it all together all along that was almost Chernobyl times five because that would have killed a sitting president, Jimmy Carter
The 1979 report concluded that there was a small hydrogen explosion. It did not contribute meaningfully to the accident. The evidence wasn't 100% certain of the small explosion. The damage was insignificant.
You forgot about my ex.....most costly mistake of my entire lifetime
No doubt brother, worst mistake of my life
Hahahaha boy ain't that no shit.
If I ever break something expensive at work, I'm sending this video to my boss
I just had working at restaurants flashbacks. DROPPIN' PLATES, I'M DROPPIN' PLATES!
RIP that Marshmellow factory lost during the Pepcon explosion. A terrible tragedy.
the largest smore in history.
Pustluio was an expensive mistake too.
8:32 the movie 'The China Syndrome' was a brilliant piece of work. Having been a resident of Philadelphia at the time, I remember seeing it right before the meltdown. It was hard not to feel for Jack Lemmon's character as he goes through the process of discovering the flaws in the "Ventana" nuclear plant (a made up location for the film) and how he is continually put off by the suits and not taken seriously. They eventually *do* take him seriously.
Saturday Night Live did a hilarious skit about it called 'The Nuclear Family,' with Gilda Radner. The premise was that they had the actors glowing in the dark (for the home audience. Those with tickets for the show in NYC had to watch it that way on the overhead monitors.
*Radner
@@Mrshoujo thank you. That was a typo which I've now corrected. And thanks also for not being a troll or grammar Nazi! You're a rare breed sir!
Also notice how the COVID crisis was ...- A man of science who warned of an impending disaster that could kill thousands of Americans & is put off by some suits who WON'T take it seriously...? hmmmm .... 🤔
SNL did a second parody of a nuclear disaster featuring a post-event tour by President Carter. In searching for the cause of the accident, Carter noticed the presence of a Pepsi can at one of the control panels, and questioned the tech. As was obvious even for Carter, the drink had been spilled into the control panel and resulted in the malfunction. Carter had known all along, it was the "Pepsi Syndrome."
@@arinerm1331 yup --- I saw that .... 😁
Part of what made that pepcon explosion worse was that since the shuttle disaster they were not using as much rocket fuel so it was being stored there
No one told the plant to reduce production so they kept producing the same amount as before Challenger and as you said just stored it.
Stored it in containers that were A: open to the air after collecting on the ground with other debris and B: the literal composition of the other additives to make rocket fuel! (Aluminum tote bins and glue from the plastic barrels if I recall correctly)
There were windows in Las Vegas that were shattered from the explosion. The 2 people who died were PEPCON employees (1 who was in a wheelchair if I remember correctly). They got everyone else out and called 911.
@@chinchilla6547 Plus, they had a gas line going under the plant. You can see the jet of its fire near the end of that video segment.
I was standing in my backyard in Vegas with my father-in-law looking out over the valley we were up in northwest Vegas when the plant blew it was insane two of the hugest blasts I have ever seen .....it was crazy !!!
I'm surprised that the Exxon Valdez wasn't in this list. That was a bigass deal back in the day.
My parents and I went to Gulf Shores months after the Deepwater Horizon event occurred. I found bits of gummed up oil balls on the beach, and accidentally stepped on one with my shoe. The smell was oil like, almost like kerosene and old motor oil. And the consistency reminded me of tar/asphalt. It was hard to remove from my shoe, but clean up crews were on the beach every morning making sure those oil balls were cleaned up for the tourists to still enjoy the beach scenery.
Almost 5000 barrels of oil seeps up from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico every day. That means that Horizon was about three years worth of natural seepage.
Just to put it in perpective.
Horizon was only about 50% larger than the 1979 Pemex oil spill near Yucatan.
I still have a few souvenir Deepwater Horizon Tar Balls for sale if anyone wants any. It comes in a globe with a decal plate with your name engraved on it for a low low cost of $49.99 (Shipping & Handling not included).
Usually when you see titles such as the one for this video, it's poorly produced, often filled with incorrect information, click bait. However, this one is surprisingly well done. Not sure why it was recommended to me, or what compelled me to give it a chance, but it was enjoyable, informative, and most importantly, accurate.
so uss
not do nothing
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I wouldn't say Columbia exploded in a huge fireball - it disintegrated at high speed. Challenger exploded in a huge fireball.
I'm sure the astronauts who were on board would appreciate the distinction.
I remember Deep Water Horizon. I also remember that BP delayed as much as they could on clean up and was insisting that the oil in the Gulf was not there because the environment was cleaning itself. A lot of it was on the Gulf floor so BP was like "Out of sight, out of mind.".
I remember a kid telling me nukes had finally gone off while BMXing, (He meant Chernobyl) and I had to run home as fast as possible. Shit on TV like When the Wind Blows just compounded the whole thing and made it seem possible. I remember Deep Water too was rough but nowhere even close to the shitshow of the early to mid Mid 80's
used to also skate the Ice Cream truck Back to the Future style so it wasnt all bad
@@bhedgepig9653 Hey now, if you didn't try that at least once in your life you just weren't living happy! LOL! Been there. Got some stitches once doing it when my dad took his truck to get some groceries one time. But as Deadpool once so beautifuly said: "Stupid. WORTH IT.".
So I Order a Take away, and the driver crashes on the way to deliver it. Is this My Fault???
@@wigglemd you ordered it fren. The take away wasnt going to crash sitting back in the kitchen.
Doesn't even show the Beirut explosion
BEGGERS CANT BE CHOOSERS MAN
My company does import/export mainly of food products. Well, when the Suez Canal shit happened, 8 of our containers were stuck waiting for the situation to get unfk'd. That's not the end of it. The importing port was then suddenly completely overwhelmed by the number of incoming ships and containers, further delaying the situation. 3 of those containers were refridgerated goods, and refridgerated goods have VERY short expiration period. We ended up having to throw away all the products in those 3 containers. Oh and yes, it costs money to throw those good away too.
When we finally started getting incoming goods, the incoming section had to work with the loads 5 times larger than the usual amount, just to throw a lot of these products away. We ended up losing a lot of employees during those times due to unreasonable work load (like literally impossible to achieve no matter how much you raise someone's wage because there are only 24 hrs in one day), physical damage due to sudden overload, and other reasons as such. I was a floor director back when this happened, and I myself ended up having to take over a year off due to an almost complete destruction of the spinal column.
Overall, the disaster affected everyone on every level from the manufacturer all the way down to private consumers.
Were the goods insured? If so that must have softened the blow (I hope).
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Thank the heavens, yes. Although we tried our best to mitigate the losses and make deals with our customers, it still would have been a crippling blow without some form of freight/cargo insurance.
But perhaps the most important thing I learned during that time is that no matter how committed you are to your work, your health should always be the number 1 priority.
Im Marshallese and back when I was in middle school in Enid, Oklahoma I’d ask my history teachers why they didn’t have the bomb testings on our islands in the history textbooks.
I'm sure you've seen it, but just in case. The Coming War On China, is mostly devoted to the bikini tests and how the people were (and are) treated afterwards. Netflix (maybe elsewhere?)
Off topic but Shout out from Enid 😃
Okay? What did they say to you
@@zackprice8688 They said, our lives matter, theirs don't.
@@youtubrone1411 didn’t ask you did I?
3:50 Here's the math: Explosion is heard 10 seconds after the event, and the speed of sound is 1100 ft/sec which means the explosion was 11,000 feet away or just over 2 miles.
10s x 1100ft/s = 11,000ft or just over 2 miles
@@kozmosis3486 Dunno how I could have messed up elementary arithmetic like that but I did. Thanks, now corrected.
Hahaha I was going to finish the vid then look that up. The hero I needed.
My brother is still in Ukraine fighting; one night he was standing guard behind some trenches (he said mainly you stand guard so Ukranian and pro-ukranian forces don't steal your shit, not actually for Russians bc no one attacks at night) and a HUGE explosion goes off, he said it was bright bluish white that illuminated the entire area like it was day time, and he'd never experienced an explosion like it.. He knew what all the other ordinance sound and feel like, and then a wave of wind passed him, his trench mate had woken up and was like wtf is going on? My brother said he shouted to him, I think we just got fucking nuked, and they quickly lit up a small joint they had been saving and just chilled in the trench to see if death was coming their way LOL.
Turned out it was natural gas depot not too far away from him.
# 7 is wrong !! I live in the 3 mile island area, and there to this day they hand out Quinine tablets to residents due to residual radiation. I was 10 when it happened and many people were told to leave the area till it was contained. There were practical ghost towns all over the area for weeks. Depending on who does the study cancer cases in the area are still well above normal. To this day it has affected generations . The other reactors were'nt "shut down " completely till just a year ago . But it is still guarded with armed security even today.
Quinine is for viruses like malaria, I think you mean potassium iodine tablets.
Not quinine. It's iodine. Keeping the body flush with regular iodine prevents absorption of iodine-131, which can cause cancer.
Contaminants have been monitored and inhabitants were only permitted to return when there was no danger. However, people who worry too much got funding for iodine treatment in a bill.
Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, which means it's all gone in less than a year. Continued treatment is essentially an anti-nuclear power propaganda outreach program.
Your tax dollars at work!
Quinine is for treating malaria. You might be thinking of Iodine tablets. Even handing those out in the TMI neighbourhood is totally unnecessary as the half life of Iodine 131 is 8 days. It will have reduced to background levels in a few months.
My hometown is Henderson Nevada and my uncle worked at a nearby industry about a quarter of a mile away from the Pepcon facility, he said the first blast knocked him off a fork lift that he was driving, he had time to take cover before the second blast was detonated, after the second blast he said it felt like a small nuclear bomb....I was stationed overseas when this occurred, btw: I arrived at my new duty station in Germany about 2 weeks after the Chernobyl incident.
@@patriciahartley8570 That's an interesting piece of info.
Why no explosion footage from Beirut? That one was awesome.
The ammonium nitrate itself wasn't a problem in Beirut. Ammonium nitrate is stable and not explosive or flammable. It is, however, a powerful oxidizer. Other highly flammable fuels were stored in that warehouse alongside it. The initial blast and ensuing fire presented an opportunity for the liquid fuels and ammonium nitrate to mix, producing an explosive material known as ANFO. Worse, these fuels were volatile, so flammable gasses were always present, and any spark could've started this situation. It's unlikely the fireworks were a problem. Many years prior to the incident, an extremely urgent e-mail was sent regarding the danger of this combination storage and it was ignored.
There was a hole in the Hanger 7 wall, and welders had been in there fixing it. The sparks started a fire which wasn't noticed or contained in time, and everyone started to evacuate.
If your gigantic car carrier vessel is able to be capsized by incorrectly inputting numbers into a stability computer then something is really wrong with your ship...
Something's wrong with your crew
They incorrectly calculated ballast requirements, but had no method of double checking the numbers. They left a door in the side of the ship open, and didn't close all watertight doors. They entered a turn, tilted over, and the water flooded in. Crew error and complacency. I think Casual Navigation has the video explaining it.
It started when they had to pump out ballast in order to navigate the shallow waters of the port. Things escalated afterward. Like an airliner, weight distribution is crucial.
@@felipecardoza9967 I was on an old (Launched 1968) US Navy ship, not a modern car carrier. That said, we generally calculated stability for the "worst-case" scenario anticipated. If any part of a trip included a situation which would compromise stability of the vessel, then we sat at the pier until that situation was resolved. Every ship has an optimal Center of Gravity and C.O.G limits which are not to be exceeded.
One of the MOST obvious things to check would be laden draft and channel depth. If you cannot re-distribute the load, shift ballast, shift fuel, etc. to achieve an acceptable laden draft AND maintain an appropriate C.O.G. then you are overloaded, regardless of what the nameplate says. In this case, they managed to achieve an unstable condition and STILL run aground, stop, and fall over sideways.
@@Mr.Robert1 I can distinctly remember from my US Navy days spending the last hour or so of every 0400-0800 in port DC Central watch I stood sitting there with draft readings, tank soundings, lading bill, etc. filling out the daily Draft, Lading and Stability Report...with a calculator and pencil.
Somebody else would fill out the exact same report independently. If they differed or something appeared off, readings and soundings would be repeated and the calcs done again. Rinse and repeat until everything matched up.
Remember, this was in port on a Replenishment Oiler during normal pierside routine. If we were taking on or moving cargo fuel or bulk stores, the new Stability numbers would be calculated beforehand and verified throughout the evolution.
I just can't fathom how you screw up the COG calcs enough to capsize a ship. Then again, I'm still trying to figure out how a US Warship can have sailors on sea watch, sailors on bridge watch, and sailors on Radar watch and STILL manage to plow into a container ship the size of an apartment complex and fully lit with floodlights....
But remember, South Park showed BP's incredibly genuine apology.
If you know or can see that an explosion is imminent, cover or plug your eardrums as well as closing your eyes. Most people forget about their eardrums getting popped.
The second explosion at Henderson was due to a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) These types of explosions are always quite spectacular.
Pretty much giant grenades.
Seeing propane tanks experience a BLEVE is crazy enough.
Luckily, PepCon was able to recoop some of their losses following the disaster by selling toasted marshmallows...
I remember feeling so hopeless watching the deep water horizon spill on TV. It went on so many days with no end on sight. Hopefully nothing like tht happens again.
I loved this video super detailed, interesting facts aswell :)
I've been alive for 6 of the ten disasters. The ones I remember most clearly, given I'm from Louisiana, is the Columbia and the Deepwater Horizon. I was in Summer School when Columbia exploded. We heard the noise and went outside to see what was going on but couldn't see anything.
For Deepwater Horizon, I was working at the local Raising Canes restaurant when news broke. One of my coworkers had a relative on board the rig, another had worked on rigs before, and one of the managers was from that area. All of them were quite shaken after we got more news of what had happened.
Gods, I remember Columbia!
Sort of.
Mom and I were mattress shopping and noticed that all the flags were at half-mast. She turned the car radio from Radio Disney (yes, I was a child who loved it) to one of the many news stations. I… was not paying attention until she told me to get her cell phone out and call Dad. I started paying attention when she said, “Turn on the news…. Any channel, they’ll all be reporting this. It’s like Challenger.” I remember just this… dread and grief in her voice. It was eerie to hear it.
And I followed the news from then. Both on tv and the papers, piecing together what happened.
I was the only one in class who chose that for my ‘Current Events’ report
Summer school? The Columbia disaster happened Feb 1st. And it didn't explode. It broke up on reentry.
@@jasonwebb5964 I say Summer School because it sounded better than Detention. All I know is that we heard something. May have been a sonic boom or something similar but there WAS a noise.
@@launcesmechanist9578 that makes sense. It could have very well been a sonic boom. I have no idea. I just know it didn't explode. I'm not sure if it can still make a sonic boom all broken up like that but I guess it's possible.
@@launcesmechanist9578 i was gonna question the summer school to, thanks for clarifying. I watched it happen live on tv at a curling bonspiel. And they don't have those in the summer lol.
4:43 a marshmallow factory next to a chemical plant sounds healthy
maybe that was the inspiration for marshmallow man in the original ghostbusters
I used to work at the port just north of Brunswick, in Savannah, GA. I would tell the crane operator where each container had to be loaded according to their destination and weight. If I loaded just a couple of containers in the wrong place, the ship could be doomed.
Yeah just as important as where each vehicle was secured to the decks in this case.
Sounds like you may have loaded a couple containers in the wrong place 😅🤣
so how many did u put in the wrong place? all of them?
So it was ur fault thrown it capsized ur saying lol 🤣🤣🤣
Well that would explain why Chernobyl was a major part of bringing down the Soviet Union. It wasn't just a loss of face both internal and abroad, but the sheer ungodly cost of the result. They where already struggling financially, and that would insure a long-term slide for the worst.
i’d panic so bad especially today if i was responsible for a mistake this big
Accidents happen, mistakes are made. Part of life. Whats important is that you learn from em, and take on that responsibility. That's what counts.
For the MV Golden Ray, they could have parbuckled it upright like they did for the Costa Concordia and floated it away. But no. They chose the most expensive method that caused untold additional damage to the environment. Absolutely criminal.
You know what still haunts me sometimes about the Surfside tragedy? The first stages of collapse would have woken up every soul in the building, and for the next ten-ish seconds those in that wing had all the time in the world to be fully awake, aware, and likely frightened before falling themselves.
20,000 years. Unfathomable amount of time
Curiosity?.., by those same unquestioned estimates, Hiroshima and immediate surroundings should have been to this day, uninhabitable?
@@blogengeezer4507 a nuclear reactor is way more radioative than a nuclear bomb. That's why hiroshima is ''better''
You forgot undercooking bats in Wuhan China, by far #1, at this point now over $15T
When you say “undercooking bats,” I assume you mean American NIH funded gain of function research that escaped the lab in Wuhan China.
Really well done and entertaining! Makes one (me) almost forget that the biggest disasters are not "single ones" /sensational occasions but accumulated ongoing. Much more boring and more or less known to the public but still -much more important to be aware of and fight (poverty, climate (who knows about the floods in Pakistan right now?). I mean one huge oil rig burning and spillning extreme amounts of oil for some days or all the cars in the world for a few seconds -same "disaster" but who wants to think like that when the go sit in their car.. much better just to choose a few sensational disasters and forget all troubles. Me accordingly..almost..
Say whhhat?
12:00..... when civil asset forfeiture completely backfires....ouch! Maybe you should have just let the ship through
My parents always said I was there most expensive fail...but these are definitely a little more expensive I feel...
you are not a failure - you're a successful mistake! xD
I hope you're joking lol
10:38 I have a friend in Lebanon and he told me if he had been at work that day of the explosion he would have died. He told me he had to clean up bodies, some of them his comrades. I can't imagine the pain he went through.
Why did your friend miss work that day? Was he drinking the night b4 and too hungover to come in?
@@SaveDaLastZombie our time zones are very different, I'll message him and ask, I forgot the exact reason.
@@SaveDaLastZombie I am just so thankful he wasn't there. But I feel bad for what he had to go through afterward.
Okay. Thank you. RIP to all the victims of that horrible tragedy.
@@SaveDaLastZombie he was off shift/not scheduled to work at that time. I thank God that he wasn't there but I feel so very bad for what he and his countrymen had to go through during and after the disaster
#9 There was a large gas main under the plant. The second blast was the gas main blowing up. A fire truck nearly 3 miles away that was responding to the fire was knocked off the road in the blast. The fire was caused by sparks from a welder drifting into the open storage containers, not a blowtorch and fiberglass. Fiberglass doesn't burn.
#1 People are living in the exclusion zone around the lenin powerplant now.
people are always wrong about nuclear fallout they A have no idea what it actually sticks to, and B. assume we cant do anything about it and C. Think that nukes make areas they are used in totally unliveable for thousands of years. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had double the population they had before the nukes about 1 year later because teh US payed for both of them to be rebuilt while also stabilizing the japanese economy with our own economy and rewriting their consititution and facilitating their currently mostly peaceful albeit perverted addition to teh worlds greatest countries.
In reality both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not only safe to live on the land and drink the well water there almost immediately, but most of the fallout goes into the upper atmosphere with cross winds when a nuke is airbursted OVER a target ( youd never drop it directly on a target cus then a ton of the energy distribution goes RIGHT into the ground and your not trying to make the place a crater, just set it on fire at 16,000 degrees :D. Literally both had double teh pop a year later during the US occupation.
AND beleive it or not the mission was cancelled due to a lack of crosswinds necessary to carry the fallout into the upper atmosphere SEVERAL times. And Kyoto was heavily considered as a first and second target but was sparred because Secretary of War Seward had honeymooned in Kyoto and loved it 20ish years prior. As a result of that - it is a part of the reason a lot of Japanese people from every other major city ( about 30ish) in the entire country hate Kyoto and people from Kyoto. LOL :3 there are other reasons tho :3
@@DekkarJr Kyoto is a beautiful and unique city. Nihon essence....to destroy it once you have seen it is unthinkable.
The second explosion is the AP stored aluminum containers i thought? The main ingredients in solid rocket fuel
@@jamwest3146 Secretary Seward thought so too.
@@DekkarJr Wow Russia is still doing bonehead dumbass things nowadays...like invading a neighboring country for no good reason.
Chernobyl = $235B
Bernard Arnault's Net Worth : NOPE I CAN'T AFFORD THAT
Really interesting, but I think the costs involved with these incidents don't begin to compare with the many financial and political budgetary mistakes that have been made over the years eg stock market crashes, sub prime mortgage crash, mini budget currency devaluation etc. Maybe do a video about them?
WW2 would technically be the biggest financial cripple the world had ever seen.
From what I heard of the P.E.P.C.O.N. plant explosion I think they said the explosion registered on seismographs it was that powerful of a blast at the time.
I used to do JIT truck loads to automobile assembly plants in North America. One night, my headlights failed and I was unable to continue. I called in, told them what happened. They were able to work around it, but it did slow one of the lines down for a day.
We know a family friend we knew who had a place in Champlain South Towers, in one of the wings that connected to the non-destroyed sections of the complex. As it would turn out on the night of the incident, she had suddenly gotten up from bed (whether to get water, heard the building begin to creak, whatever). She awoke from bed, and got up to check outside her condo unit.
Mere seconds after she did that, the South Towers began collapsing, along with the rest of the mentioned wings, with her bedroom buried/collapsed by the disaster.
She was untouched by the disaster because she left her unit in the middle of the night, and was in complete disbelief and shock.
Place came down right next to her because she had gotten up from bed. Thank goodness.
Thankful she was tugged out of that, even if by some miracle or accident. Unfortunate and tragic for those who were hurt/killed.
Ultimately, an unnecessary disaster that could've been avoided had they updated the infrastructure sooner.
Cheers. Be safe out there, folks.
I remember watching the challenger explosion on live tv in school.
"The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. There were no injuries or adverse health effects from the Three Mile Island accident.Apr 1, 2022"
the 3 mile island incident was used as an oil lobby talking point. while in fact it was safer than all oil, coal, and gas-burning power plants. The costs of "cleanup" were so high because they had to decommission 2 perfectly safe and healthy active reactors which included the costs of replacing their energy production, and fulfilling their lost income insurance. . had the political leverage against nuclear power not been out of greed 3 mile island would still be operating safely today.
tl;dr 3 mile island was a nuclear safety success. no one was hurt, the environment was not impacted, and the "cleanup costs" were actually the costs of building conventional power plants to replace the lost energy production. 3 Mile island unit 1 continued operation for 40 years until September 2019
Released gas from TMI was Iodine-131. Half-life of about 8 DAYS. Decay rate would have had in undetectable at Release + 80 DAYS.
Underworld : Nuclear power is human's greatest achievements.
Albert Einstein : Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.
3 Mile Island had a meltdown because the water cooling device confused the workers. When the light was on they thought "Oh no disaster is coming"! But when the light was on meant someone pushed the button to release water to the reactor.
The Suez canal LITERALLY makes the world go round? Interesting.
Silly me I thought it was gravity or some other science fiction
Surprised to see that Barings Bank collapse back in 1995, mostly at the hands of one person, is not on the list. A rogue trader in Singapore cost Barings £827 million ($1.0b) and collapsed the bank. This equates to a roughly £1.75 billion loss in 2022 dollars.
that wasnt a mistake. deliberate axtion
While Three Mile Island wasnt as bad as others it wasn't "normal" either. A lot was covered up during that whole event.
As for the amazon ship, I think Jeff can personally afford the delay and loss of income
And they had a marshmallow factory close to a chemical factory in Nevada??? 🤮
.... But... The impulse buys that I don't need....
Man I can't believe it's been 19 years since the loss of the Columbia and I remember seeing the story of what happened to it on the news and those videos taken of the break up was taken by people on the ground in Texas as it was said when the Columbia was going through reentry it was said it would be seen by people on the ground who sadly were outside recording the whole thing especially seeing the parts of the shuttle flying over they're heads.
I was one of those Texans, and was joined by several neighbors. We knew it was going to fly over us so of course we went out and looked up at the proper time. There were around 4-5 large flaming pieces with a few dozen smaller ones. We all knew what had happened immediately. Why it happened was simply heartbreaking.
My boss was so proud her college graduate engineers first job was on the deepwater horizon you make it a hundred grand a year right out of college. His contract was up in 6 months any left for good. He saw the danger.
BS on Three Mile Island. I worked as a contractor software engineer at Lawrence Livermore Labs (operated by the AEC and Univ of California) located in Livermore, CA in the SF Bay Area. Each week, they held a "skin Melanoma" meeting at the facility which was handling the post accident testing of the site. The area of Three Mile Island - located near Harrisburg, PA - was considered a lower economic area with a high percentage of "non privileged" Blacks. The results was complications with birth over a several year period plus the skin melanomas, and a variety of radiation by-product disorders. Kind of reminds me of "Bert the Turtle" who, in the 1950's, used to tell kids during the public school film propaganda showing, "If you see the flash, just duck." The U.S. governments response to an incoming atomic bomb.
The future cost of nuclear waste (Hanford, Fukushma, and EVERYWHERE) dwarfs anything imaginable.
*Except o'course the loss of polar icecaps* and the now irreversible planetary surface heating.
21:23 The Operators DID know about the graphite tips as it actually had a purpose that the plant made use of. The issue was that the control rods couldnt lower into the reactor fast enough, they went deep enough to speed up the reaction so much, that the water started boiling, which pushed the control rods back out. Now virtually stuck in place, it kept speeding up until it blew up.
Also there are still a handful of people living in Chernobyl and they are even of old age. But their living conditions are awful.
As in many other major accidents, numerous operating mistakes and design flaws/features interacted to contribute to the Chernobyl melt-down, and it is hard to point to a single cause. The scale of the tragedy was made much worse by the post-disaster management.
The unfortunate properties of RMBK control rods when a reactor was starting to run away were known from experience at another plant. But there was not a culture of information sharing, rather the opposite. A major mistake in the course of events was when the reactor manager overrode an instruction in the operating manual relating to how to cycle the reactor back from a reduction in power. He did this to reduce the delay to an experimental test procedure he was instructed to carry out from on high, which had already had some delays due to a series of operating problems. Junior operators objected, but did not know the exact reason for the instruction, or have enough reactor physics to be able to understand that carrying out the experimental test with the reactor in that condition would be disastrous. By the time there was an attempt to scram the reactor - drop in all the control rods to stop it - it was already too far out of control to be stopped with those control rods, or more accurately the speed they could be inserted. The attempt to use them sped up/intensified an accident that was in practice already unstoppable.
For a more complete technical explanation, the most detailed addressed to the "well-informed layman", see the book Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey. For the political errors that contributed to the melt-down and subsequent appalling mismanagement of the aftermath, see the book, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy, winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction writing.
It is the town of Pripyat closest to the reactor, and some other nearby small settlements, that were permanently evacuated and remain in a exclusion zone. The city of Chernobyl is about 16km from the plant, and was reopened, but not many people want to live there.
For the beirut explosion why didn't you show footage of the explosion? There's plenty out there.
My thoughts exactly! It is well documented...
Great informative video !
With the Pepcon explosion me and my boyfriend at the time we’re in a warehouse downtown Las Vegas when the plant exploded. It was like someone had hit the building with a bus, that’s what we at first thought until we went outside. No one was hurt in the warehouse just really shook up.
There's SOO MUCH info missed here but overall this video is good
Pretty sure that Netflix documentary about three mile island references some people getting cancer caused by radiation
I lived in Las Vegas in 1st grade when that chemical factory blew up. We definitely felt the shock wave. The ceiling fixtures came apart, felt like a bomb went off next to our school. Was crazy.
How in the hell did you cover the Beirut explosion without showing a very easily obtainable clip of it? There's plenty of footage of the blast floating around internetland, In fact its almost harder to find the footage of the aftermath than it is the blast itself! It's almost as if you went out of your way to NOT show it.. Too bad though, because its probably one of the most spectacular explosions ever caught on video!
Sure thing “Wyatt”
My quick google suggests some errors with the Henderson explosion info. Damages easily over 300 million at the day. Fire thought to be from a faulty batch dryer. You said fibre glass catching on fire... but it's made of glass...
Also fibreglass doesn’t catch on fire very easy
The glass fibers aren't normally combustible but the polyester resin burns like a champ
Last words spoken on the bridge of Ever Given:
"I bet you can't make a u-tur in the Suez!"
"Hold my bear!"
3 mile island caused the same false impressions of nuclear power that Jaws did for sharks. The horrible thing about Columbia was that the cockpit remained intact as the shuttle broke apart. they were alive for longer than we would have wanted them to be.
#1 “The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
"In the beginning there was nothing. Which exploded." - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
@@TomFynn The idea that what Lemaitre called "The Cosmic Egg" was nothing has two flaws. For one thing, it had the mass of the entire Universe. Let us call that the mass of one Godzillion neutrons. Because neutrons are about a thousand times more massive than electrons, the outer electron shell of an atom is thousands of times bigger than its nucleus. By the same reason, I deduce that the Big Bang started as a particle with a size one Godzillionth of the size of a neutron. That's unimaginably small, but it isn't zero.
Underworld: "The area around Chernobyl will remain uninhabited for at least 20k years!"
Me: "Something Putin wants to do to Western Nations."
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO, IT'S REALLY USEFUL
Watching the atomic bomb go off makes you think how could humans test such a powerful weapon on the only planet we have.
im surprised the 2015 Tianjin explosions isn't on this
Most of the financial fallout would have been covered up by the Chinese government. There's no way of knowing the extent of the financial burden or whatever even happened. Same goes with the Komsomolets 1989 incident where there is a Russian submarine laying on the ocean floor in the Norwegian sea leaking radiation ever since. It's to deep to do anything about it so it will sit there for eternity more then likely. But again much like china little is known publicly about the Russian submarine and how it's radiation is effecting the sea.
No, the Space Shuttle Columbia didn't "explode in a massive fireball". There wasn't enough oxygen at re-entry altitude to support a fireball. It broke up, piece by piece, upon contact with the atmosphere at 17,000 mph. But I suppose "explode" sounds more exciting.
Its crazy how that Pepcon was fully wiped off the map by a single small fire that was let growing
I remember this explosion of beirut, vividly, while I'm away like 40km from ground zero I felt it's the end of the world at that moment of the intensity of the blast, felt like literaly a small nuke where the shock wave fought me to stand on my feet.
Fun fact: there are actually people that are currently living inside Pripyat & Chernobyl respectively, mainly old people that want to go back to their homes, but there are young people there that are thrill seekers that take the photos of the zone
At least the Stay Pufft Marshmallow Man was obliterated at the marshmallow factory. Downtown Manhattan is much safer now. That explosion basically put the Ghostbusters out of business.
Arguably the Soviet N1 rocket program should be on this list.
How much did they spend on it, and REBUILDING their launch pad that the second launch destroyed, only to never to reach space with the rocket?
Also, the OTHER shuttle disaster - you know, the one that blew up during launch vs. the one that came apart while landing?
Launched when it was too cold, which proved to be a BAD mistake.
The people doing the Chernobyl was like
Worker 1: did you find anything wrong?
Worker 2: no, but i accidentlly created something wrong!
Chernobyl: **explodes**
I lived in Vegas at the time of the plant explosion school were put on lockdown and we had to put clothes or cloth under the door to lessen the chance of the gss getting in.
I wonder what happened to the people responsible for these mistakes, I used to deal with sales and my biggest fear is to mistakenly sell the wrong type of equipments and cost the company a lot of money
Youd lose your job, the boss would get a raise.
*The Companies Were Liable.* But nowadays . . .
Corporations enjoy immunity to grand-scale liability, and yet are granted full personal
rights to give unlimited political bribery money which is now protected as "free speech."
The bottom end workers were likely fired. A few sacrificial managers. CEO gets a golden parachutte for showing sympathy to the loss, and claiming the company will rebuild stronger than ever.
I tell you what. do you know the causes of the chernobyl desatser? ignorance, greed, selfishness, and blindly following orders. what has happend in chernobyl, does happen everyday in the world, on a smaller scale: ignorance, selfishness, greed, and following orders. chernobyl was only a wake up call that nobody wants to hear. the human race is damned to kill itself. which is the only good thing about that species. humans are a virus on planet earth.
@@keep_walking_on_grass *Corporate Rule.*
But it looks more like we'll kill everything else first.
Something you missed about the Pepcon explosion: the blasts blew a gas main that ran under the facility.
wow i love the effort that goes into these channel, how much work it would take to use A Text to speach AI to narrate the script is incredible
its crazy of how little things can make BIG mistakes
it's always the little things.
good or bad.
who said it was a mistake
Smart people make these, dumb people only get to watch...
@@rananyasharahla5887 bedcause they were, none of these had outcomes that anyone would deem deliberate
All it takes is a spark to make a wildfire.
Greetings from Beirut
From Atlanta down here in Savannah on my Journeyman Welder career. Got here in 2018 and quickly landed a Maintenance welder position with a local maritime transportation and salvage company . We got sent to Salem New Jersey working under the US CG outside the Hudson Bay. From finding bodies of people partying on temporary sand dunes that drowned to rigging up sinking ships with bodies in them. For months on a 6 on 6 off shift learning radars and escape drills, you also learn depth of surface to ground. Learned how to operate different vessels in a years span and i have to tell yall this. That captain that rolled the cargo ship outside St simons islands was an Dummy. If you can see beach goers waving at you, you're in bad territory! Sorry Cap!