It neves ceases to amaze what the spirit of man can accomplish, I crossed the English Channel in summer of 1990 while on vacation on a propeller hover craft, and now it's on my bucket list to visit again and experience the Euro Tunnel....Incredible accomplishment!
THE NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM at the Itsmus Of Tehuantepec in Mexico will be an alternative to move containers in about 8 hours from one side of the Pacific to the other side of the Atlantic. It will take loading and unloading. Much cheaper and without causing huge carbon impact or damage to the climate. If it doesn’t rain sufficient soon enough the PANAMA canal will continue reducing its traffic to huge vessels.
Wahabi terrorists are planned for because their sky fairy says learning is evil. They are like Amish...with shoulder-fired missile launchers and AR15s.
I am wondering what year these shows were made. When they were talking about the world trade centers and saying they would be able to withstand the impact of even the biggest airplane ever made kind of got me thinking that I wonder what the person saying that on the show was thinking on the day of the attack back in 2001. That is a day that I will never for get and I think just about everyone in the United States would say the same thing.
I watched a documentary on Discovery channel just weeks after 9-11 that interviewed the original architect who unequivocally stated it was designed to withstand an airplane collision...he used the Boeing 707 as an example 😮...then that show never acted again
@@steffenroy23 Yeah that is pretty crazy. Wonder what their thoughts would have been at the time. Makes sense they did not air it though I do not think that would have went over very well.
the calculations were correct and the bldg did indeed survive the impacts, however they never calculated if the bldg could survive the effects of the huge amounts of jet fuel burning and causing other burning materials for hours until the steel became weakened and eventually unable to support itself and collapsing in a scene that nobody who ever sees it can forget it. Horrific and so sad that men could do such things to other men out of a centuries old insane battles and wars over religion, with neither side being right and both locked into hate over fictions. Those of us who view BOTH sides as equally confused are sick of the killing and slaughter over who's god is bigger. It's time to stop the insanity and ban ALL mythical crap and those who spread it. Grow up and knock it off, we no longer die off at age 25 so face your life and live it and love it, then we cease to exist and others carry on. It's not so scary once you let go of the ridiculous fantasy and now scientifically understood truth. We're big kids now, lets act like it!
How did They know they had to kill the mosquitos? It was Cuban Doctor Carlos J. Finlay who discovered it after 20 years for research. Americans became acquainted with his work during the Spanish American war.
We did invade with our military to take out manwell moriega. However you spell his name , we did it in the ups to take his administration out because all the cocaine importers were putting all of their money in the bank of panama. It's s pretty crazy moment in history. But I'm old, almost 58, so I remember it well.
@@wadebradley7388 It is Manuel Noriega and by that time we had had a military presence in Panama for over 80 years. And I was an infantry squad leader that lived in Panama during that time. I was there for over two years.
@27:54 Granted that "Panama Canal Cross Section" is an artist's conception, wouldn't it have been a bit more proper to have drawn the second to topmost gates with their tops to the same as the topmosts?
In one of my lives I was an electrical fork lift mechanic for Dc electric, ev 100 controller system if I remember correctly it was a shunt controlled system if I am remembering ohms law correctly low voltage = high amperage I think this may be causing the diode to fail in the alternator, they used to have a tool called a handy man that would tests those gates in the diode to see if the gate held but that was twenty years and I sold mine years ago also my batter tester would test the alternator diode to see if the gate held on the diode
@@johnhause7150 5000 dead? Reagan did Grenada for a poll boost during election season like GHW did Iraq, and W did Iraq to get 2 SCOTUS seats-pro-life.
Worth mentioning Cuban Doctor Carlos J. Finlay who made possible the building of the canal and actually the de development of all the south of USA and the Caribbean.
Unfortunately the Panama Canal is undergoing some issues, due to global climate, weather and political changes. The Panama Ca nail was / is a true wonder of the modern world. The Canal made travel and shipping time shorter. The Panama Canal has an interesting story, history with engineering and global cooperation, please take time to study it, as it is worth your time and effort.
Climate lol. What happened when the ice age ended? Why was CO2 significantly higher in dinosaur age? It's cyclical and changes all the time.. climate change is an obvious thing if you look.
Columbia offered to help build the canal through their country but wanted 50%. US wanted 90% and 10% to Columbia. No deal so an insurrection and the Panamanians said USA could build it for 90/10 as long as Panama got its own country. Panama was part of Columbia, like Israel was part of British Palestine.
Hahahah, but also as the best president ever. Even many Dems liked Reagan. But we still had our bat shit crazy liberals in the 80s. But they believed in freedom of speech. Not indoctrinating children etc. Trump was using Reagans playbook, which it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make an economy thrive. If you think we're in tough times now, I remember under the Carter admin, waiting every other day for 3 gallons of gas. My mom's car was a 1973 mercury with a 460 big block. If you loosen all the regulations that Obama put in place to tax and prohibit growth, you get a stagnat economy like we had under Obama. Look how fast that turned around under Trump. I've heard a BUNCH of economists say that if we just went back to the 1960 regulations, and that's NOT getting rid of any safety or environmental regulations, that our economy could be 4 times larger than it is now! Instead, we made it profitable for companies to flee to Mexico and China! Just think, 4 times bigger, actually as bad as it is now, and when I heard this first 6 years ago, it would be 6 or 7 times as big as it is now! We ALL could be rich! In the ups, Reagan built our military back up, because it was in bad bad shape. So with his policies, in 1981 I took machine tool technology, {machine shop} in high school, 2 periods a day. And I got a job right out of high school at Boeing. By the age of 19 I had a 1977 trans am. Built. And a brand new 1987 Toyota truck! Lifted and tired and a roll bar. AND an apartment. With a live in girlfriend who didn't have to work! We could have that now! Instead we have presidents like Biden who is purposefully trying to break us, make us poorer. Well he's done that!
I sure wished we hadn't. But I believe it was in the contract when we built it. But I think it was a big big mistake. But should we have to. We could take it back by force if any nation should try to stop the flow through it.
@@wadebradley7388 there is no need to take the canal from Panama by Force, Panama is an ally, USA would protect it from evil doer's, in fact the United Nations would have a big hand in protecting it as well.
Actually the WTC did absorb the impact far above expectations since it was over 30 years later. What it didn’t account for was the massive heat from the fires from the aviation fuel and all the fire suppression systems being rendered useless after impact. Had they not been able to absorb the impacts and stand as long as they did the deaths would have been far higher in numbers. Especially on the ground and other buildings.
Do you know you left out one big important part of this whole thing at the people who live there that got displaced or thrown out of their own land so this thing could get built
White men build. It's in his DNA. It's what he does. ...and it is good. Can we get a "Hip Hip Hooray!" for the White man, and proclaim how much we love him, instead of demanding he is to be hated? Thx. 👍
07:50 i can't stop facepalming in both horror and shock at this horrific concept literally sleeping above the breeding ground of the thing that kills you
It's ironic, of course, that obstructing ant paths amounted to providing more breeding areas for mosquitoes, but mosquitoes can fly, and the addition of a few square centimeters of water surface is insignificant.
China is negotiating to build a second canal in Central America. Also the Panama canal is outdated in many ways including its size. The biggest ships have not been able to pass through for many many years.
FYI: Most of the construction workers were black workers from Trinidad and other west Indian islands and most of the casualties. NOT AMERICANS AS THIS DOCUMENTARY CLAIMS.
High rise building are really difficult to design to be safe. So why do they build them ?? The US has a huge amount of open space where it would be simpler, cheaper and safer to build low buildings. But of course it MUST be the biggest and tallest in the world.
RAG LLC Museum Of Science Educational I live in the middle of the canal Zone JOTC training operations forces of artilleryman. I received many inside your own armorer weapons and much more. Sincerely Professor Roger Anthony Gertz Sr.
Excuse me Mr and Mrs Panama. I don't think you quite see the value in what you have here. We will just take it from you then. Thank you very much. Merica!
I'm sorry but I istruggle to see Leslie Robertson @1:18:11 who was the structural engineer for the WTC Twin Towers, because no matter what everyone says, truth is they built the Twin Towers for shit: weak and wobbly, sacrificing safety for speed of construction and lower costs, focusing on maximizing open space for businesses, with interiors made of drywall and plaster; not just the towers didn't resist but they took with them thousands who couldn't escape after their emergency exists collapsed while most of their systems failed immediately (like water sprinklers or the PA); and on top of all, their aesthetic design was hideous.
Yeah but I think the times they were built should be included in that technicality debate. They didn’t have the same technology and knowledge of germ theory when they built the Panama canal
The channel tunnel was a bad idea and a total waste of money. Their prices are a rip-off it's much cheaper to fly so no wonder why hardly anyone uses it.
Oh yes..... let's go on vacation to a place with tropical diseases to see a whole in the ground.... And why do i think the wrong people died during those accidents (as in not responsible)?
Stockton Rush was both forgivable, unforgiveable, a smart man, and a blithering idiot at the same time... I do not know what else to say... may he rest in peace like tooth paste now.... and those went with him should have known better. I am still amazed that so few of my fellow engineers did not see that carbon fibers are strong in tinsel strength and like any wet noodles do not resist lateral forces....acting at that point only as a matrix for the epoxy.
And after all the engineering and manual U.S. labor and people dying while building the canal, Democrat president, Jimmy Carter sold the Panama canal for $1 dollar and walked away. Companies now pay millions per year to cross the canal.
A comment made by an american talking head about the Japanese launching of planes from a submarine was not true, the British had a sub called the M2 which could launch a plane in WW1 sadly it sank when the drunken skeleton crew showing off to their wives and girlfriends submerged with hangar doors open and it flooded.
