10 Most Expensive Mistakes in All History 

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 I wish more people could look past the outdated effects and understand how heavy that movie really is.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

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She is number 1 in "Top 10 idiots paying for my lifestlye" video

Accurate af

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 😂

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

No doubt brother, worst mistake of my life

Hahahaha boy ain't that no shit.

We could not show that footage. It is FAR too graphic for RU-vid and would have definitely caused this video to be demonetized and/or age restricted

I just had working at restaurants flashbacks. DROPPIN' PLATES, I'M DROPPIN' PLATES!

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

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).

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.

BEGGERS CANT BE CHOOSERS MAN

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'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?

Love u

Ty :)

Thanks!👍🏻

Thanks, narrator sounds like a clown.

Thanks dawg. The world need people to do this stuff that the channel doesn’t

*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 .... 😁

@@patriciahartley8570 That's an interesting piece of info.

the largest smore in history.

Pustluio was an expensive mistake too.

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.

When you say “undercooking bats,” I assume you mean American NIH funded gain of function research that escaped the lab in Wuhan China.

I'm sure the astronauts who were on board would appreciate the distinction.

so uss not do nothing

lol

WW2 would technically be the biggest financial cripple the world had ever seen.

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.

Say whhhat?

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.

maybe that was the inspiration for marshmallow man in the original ghostbusters

Pretty much giant grenades. Seeing propane tanks experience a BLEVE is crazy enough.

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.

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.

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.

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.

you are not a failure - you're a successful mistake! xD

I hope you're joking lol

And they had a marshmallow factory close to a chemical factory in Nevada??? 🤮

.... But... The impulse buys that I don't need....

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.

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.

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 🤣🤣🤣

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....

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''

that wasnt a mistake. deliberate axtion

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.

Silly me I thought it was gravity or some other science fiction

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

Released gas from TMI was Iodine-131. Half-life of about 8 DAYS. Decay rate would have had in undetectable at Release + 80 DAYS.

Sure thing “Wyatt”

"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.

My thoughts exactly! It is well documented...

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.