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This is the first ever episode of Megaprojects. I hope everyone enjoys it.
I got to visit Chernobyl a couple of years ago and see this remarkable building in person, so I thought it would be interesting to learn more about it, and share that here :). I hope you enjoy.
It's a big one. And pretty controversial too.
I've wanted to make a video about these things since the 90s when I first saw Star Trek TNG episode Relics. I hope this video does them justice. Enjoy.
A video about a really deep hole. But it's actually interesting.
Delays, over budget, but when it's done it's going to be pretty darn cool.
And yes... It totally has a swimming pool on-board :D.
This episode is PART 1 of a two-parter, with what my editor, Jen, describes at "Concordski" (aka Soviet Concorde) coming early next week :).
AKA Concordski. It took everything for me to not just title the video that ;). Second of a two parter on these two commercial super sonic planes!
Yep, someone first wanted to do this in 1802. It only took two world wars to finally make it happen.
This is a cool plane. You might find it cool too.
The Delta Works are an incredible flood prevention system that we can all learn from. And will need to learn from.
This has been one of the most popular viewer suggestions, and I'm glad I finally made it.
Not what it wanted to be known by, but that's the title I went for.
Yep, taking a dump was pretty good, then it got really bad, then it became good again.
And so far it has made absolutely zero world destroying black holes!
I hope that its the former. Trains faster than planes sounds like a great way to get around.
That's a tongue twister of a title. And this is the most requested video ever. Hope you all enjoy. You legends
I'm pretty persistent, but I'd have given up for sure.
Note: The Trans-Siberian video actually came out before this one, so you can enjoy that already... or maybe you already have :).
Worth knowing about for the way it takes off and lands alone...
Or BFG.
Flying should really be like "flying". But the clickbait is less strong like that, so here we are.
Also what Elon Musk's kid is named after...
Almost as heavy as your mum.
And remained the worlds tallest building for decades. Incredible.
Spoiler alert: It fell down.
Well first they had to build the track that built America, but you probably get my meaning.
Cool building, but lots of bad things went down there.
Not as heavy as yer mum though.
More than just the Titanic, this is the incredible story of three ships, which served, and sank.
What should you do when all of your country's water is in the south, but all of your country's people are in the north?
In the 1930s, the Soviet government decided it wanted to build a perfect modern industrial city. Magnitogorsk would be a fully realized socialist utopia that could revolutionize the economy of the young USSR.
Pop quiz: which country spent USD 3 billion to build a railway on top of a massive permafrosted plateau?
Set your phasers to stun, and program your Xxcha GPS for Mecatol Rex. Today, we're not just talking about weapons... WE'RE TALKING SPACE CANNONS, BABY.
China's $62 billion economic development plan is a strategic expansion for Chinese interests and a huge boon to Pakistani infrastructure... well, until the bill comes due, anyway.
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Toronto's CN Tower was the world's tallest freestanding building for more than three decades, and Canadian witnessed a
In the early 1900s, airships were the next big thing, with wealthy Europeans crossing the Atlantic inside of a huge floating ball of gas.
An explosion that has become synonymous with failure changed all that... well, at least for the remainder of the 20th century.
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Amid the heat of the cold war, both the US and Russia experimented with several different types of advanced nuclear jets, including a variant that was actually powered by a nuclear reactor. The prototypes were mothballed long before the Reagan and Gorbachev could ever sit down for brunch together, leaving modern military historians to wonder if planes like the XB 70 were a success or a failure...
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Why travel over the Alps when you can just ride right
In the words of the wise philosopher Afroman, "Roll, roll, roll my joint | Pick out the seeds and stems | And send them to Svalbard"
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We're so excited to review the comment section for this video and discover exactly how much we love socialism.
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Do: use 10,000 pounds of amber to create a stunning golden room.
Do not: use amber (in any amount) to treat infantile teething.
I mean... we're not doctors, but this seems pretty obvious.
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And you thought going to the gym on Earth was hard.
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Last month, we told you about the highs and lows of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Today, we're zooming out to profile the entire Chinese global infrastructure development plan known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
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The Cold War is the conflict that keeps on giving -- especially for Mega Projects. In today's investigation of yet another ridiculous, horrifying tool of nuclear war, the Soviets decided ICBM's were SO 1955, so they invented a way to hang a nuke in space, where they could deorbit it at any moment and drop it directly onto the US.
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Not to be confused with Troll B Platform. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, AND THE NORWEGIANS WON'T LET US FORGET IT.
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June 6, 1944. Normandy. Omaha Beach. The 101st Airborne.
You know the date. You know the location. But do you know the insane planning and infrastructure that propped up the largest seaborne invasion in human history?
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The F-117 Nighthawk was a super-secret Lockheed project that stayed secret throughout the course of its secrecy so that the US could secretly execute air missions in secret.
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