The Great Alaska Pipeline 

TauTona and Mponeng gold mines in South Africa.. That's the deepest humans have ever been underground, a marvel of engineering and true megaprojects!

Scotland's network of "Old Military Roads". Built in the 1700s in an attempt to tame the Highlands, mostly used by hikers and mountain bikers these days but some routes are still used today as main roads.

The upcoming Landbased MEGA Telescopes, especially the Vera Rubin Observatory, or the Giant Magellan Telescope. upvotes fellow space nerds!!!

I was in High School while the Pipeline was being built. Many teachers quit to go and work on the pipeline. Someone working in the Laundry facility of one of the camps made more than they did teaching. Most workers were on 2 weeks on 2 weeks off shifts. So if you could you found someone with the opposite shift and the two of you got an apartment in Hawaii. There was a direct flight from Fairbanks to Honolulu at the time.

Do one on the British Antarctic station (the one on skis)

Could you cover the operation to capture Berlin in WW2? The logistics for that were insane.

The Rideau Canal system! I have gotten lots of up votes and you agreed multiple times!

A couple of suggestions: Gateway Arch (St. Louis), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

"Caribou" rhymes with "voodoo" not "meow".

Simon, if you see this. My man do us as favor and do a video on Erwin Rommel and his Atlantic Wall ✌

The Mackinaw Bridge in Michigan. Suspension bridge which joined two peninsula’s of the same state which, up until that time, were only reachable by ferry or driving around Lake Michigan.

Could you cover the RAFs Bouncing Bombs and their mission: Operation Chastise? Crazy specialized military hardware is right up your alley

The Soo Locks in Michigan is definitely a Megaproject.

you should make a video on the World Trade Center

It's Val "deez" and Cari "boo" - from a nitpicky Alaskan

Should make a video on the largest drag line excavator "Big Muskie"

Suggestion: Martin Mars Water Bombers. largest planes built for WWII. Still used today (occasionally) for forest fires.

Good job. I would liked to have seen a little more about how it was designed to meet various challenges. I was fascinated by seeing the pipeline when visiting Fairbanks and hearing about the design challenges related to permafrost (which you briefly mentioned), crossing mountain passes, and why certain designs were selected for certain sections.

You should do a mega project on spaceX landing the first reusable rockets

Suggestion: "The Kimberly Hole: Turning a Mountain into a Crater"

Had a friend who lived in Alaska during the building of the pipeline. The most common bumpersticker at the time was "Happiness is a Texan headed south with an Okie under each arm." Also the pipeline was built because it was calculated by shipping oil around S. Am. and having it refined in Boston. Most of the oil was originally sold to Japan.

Ok, so now we need a video on the Teapot Dome Scandal.

The 49/49 split was in the Senate, and the bill was then sent to the House of Representatives for approval. The house has 435 members.

The US Army had to deal with permafrost when they were building the Alcan.

One of the hysterias by the ecologists was the impact on the caribou. It turns out herds increased dramatically due to the warmth, as noted, the pipeline emits providing the herds with a source of heating during winter time.

An interesting follow up would be the cleanup of Exxon Valdez oil spill.

I feel like Simon's writers are the kind of people who nailed their high school research papers they had to write

I met an individual who was a welder on the pipeline after the project finished. he brought an unused piece of the pipe, shaped and gold plated to look like the state of Alaska.

I will not give up I will keep recommending it none of the aircraft you've done a video compare to the awesome power A-10 Thunderbolt II

Can you do one on the mining town in Northern Russia called Norilsk? Built by Gulag prisoners in the 30s & 40s

Whether on this channel or another, could you do a video on cities that never rebuild from natural disaster or war?

Roman Coliseum would be awesome 👌😎 keep up the great content one love

Sweet i asked for this like 3 times and you did it.

Mispronounced words: Valdez, caribou, Spiro, but you got Unipiaq right. Other mistakes: the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend was based on a 3-year moving average return of the fund, not the profits from the oil (it's a politcal football now). The oil profits either fund state government or go into the fund. The Permanent Fund currently has around $80b in it. There is no such thing as a 338 caliber rifle. It was probably a .338. ANCSA would make a interesting topic for this or another one of your shows. It's the only instance of creating corporations for indigenous people, rather than tribes and reservations. They have been amazingly successful.

You should do a video on the Little Big Inch Pipeline. It was built during WWII from Texas to New Jersey (over 1,200 miles) so that German U-boats would stop sinking American tankers transporting oil along the coast. It was the biggest pipeline constructed at the time. Not to mention it was built in less than a year.

How have we not had one about the saint Louis arch construction and it's recent renovation. Also a fun/controversial one would be Pruitt Igoe. There's even a great documentary about it.

The draining of ‘The Fens’. Helmed by the Dutch after they mastered the art of land reclamation. To bring the topic upto the present… The Future Fens flood risk management is a huge mega project expected to need 1.8 billion pounds invested over the next 100 years to sustain the current standard of service from the existing flood risk management assets. ‘The Fens’ hold a large percentage of the UK Grade 1 agricultural land. Without the investment the fens will likely suffer a catastrophic flood and uk fresh food supply would be damaged beyond recognition.

New MegaProject episode: Your beard.

“OMG Becky, look at that antenna…” I live near Jim Creek Naval Radio Station in Snohomish Co, WA. Would be a fascinating feat to see here.

FWIW: Even if not for fuel, we STILL need petroleum for petrochemicals.

Great vid was just in Fairbanks Alaska a few weeks ago. Episode suggestion: Florida overseas railway, highway 1 and the 7 mile bridge to Key West Florida.

The unwritten armrest law states - the middle seat gets both armrests, the outer seats forfeit the middle armrests by having access to either the window or aisle. Regular flyers quickly understand these rules.

Can you do one on the electrical grid and the plans for a 100% clean energy smart grid.

Simon: How about the amazing construction of the High Aswan Dam ????

Can you do 1 on the hunt for Bin Laden by Seal Team 6?

I started working in construction back in the late 70’s.. Every job I worked at had veterans of working on the pipeline. I ended up working in Pruhdoe Bay a few years later. Great job telling the story of the pipeline!

Can you make a video on the Norfolk and western j-class locomotives

Well fact boi, it seems that the blaze level of cocaine has started to creep one you’re other channels and I very much approve of this and hope to see the theranos mug appearing as an Easter egg about you’re ever growing channels. Love all the work you do but the blaze is by far the best...AM I RIGHT PPPPEEETTTTEEEERRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!!!

Yeahhh! ALASKA represent! my grandfather helped build this and was a vent/ PIG controller.

The F-15 and how it was able to fly with one wing, and one engine after a mid air collision

👏 been waiting for this

Might as well do ELON Musk's...."BORING COMPANY" and its big equipment n bricks...tunnels under LA!!💯💯👍🙌🙌🙌

How about the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere the Mackinaw Bridge

13:40 THEE HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT CALIBER?! WHAT THE FUCK?! That a naval cannon! I think you meant a .338 caliber.

10:45 You state footings are 700 to 1800 feet apart. Gut check: 1800 feet is over a third of a mile..... 120,000 thermosyphons used. 2 per footing. 800 mile long pipeline. Average spacing between footings is actually (800*5280) / 60,000 = 70 feet between footings.

Mesta 50, 1,000,000 pound hydraulic press made by the USAF Heavy Press Program. Makes every landing gear and bulkhead for every single commercial airliner...and every US Fighter.

Can you do an episode on plastics, their history, their production (being a bi-product of the oil industry) and the process of recycling , the potential pit falls and the enviormental impact for recycling plastics. eg lots of chemicals used in recycling and waste produced, the products crated and its lack of industrial adoption. Surely the GREATEST MEGA PROJECT EVER INVESTIGATED! Referencing the North Atlantic gargage patch This estimated to be hundreds of kilometers across , with a density of more than 200,000 pieces of per square kilometer (one piece per five square metres, on average)

*Anyone else here because of playing the Video Game "SnowRunner" & building the Oil Pipelines in Pedro Bay, which Simon talks about in this video? It's super dope to watch this while playing a game where you literally drive trucks & build the PIPELINE that this video is talking about... SnowRunner is one of the best off road truck games out there, even though that's NOT really saying much because there are BARELY ANY video games that are actual "Off Road Truck" games like "SnowRunner" & the other games that are made by the same company, like "MudRunner", which is their 2nd game... The OG game, "SpinTires", is their first game, which for some reason isn't sold anymore and its pretty much a collector's item now, that introduced everyone to a GREAT "Off Road" driving game where it had REALISTIC FEATURES, like the environment being torn up by always driving the same path, a decently realistic suspension system for the trucks & pretty decent physics, especially when you are hauling heavy loads & logs... It was more of a "Sandbox" type game where you just drive around the maps and move a few things... BUT "SnowRunner" added a really good "Mission &/or Quest System", where there would be "Task Givers" and big oil companies like Oil Companies that gives you "Contracts" to work for them & on the Alaskan Map, you work for a oil company that is building & fixing pipelines around Pedro Bay.*

Hey plane nerd, how about the Kalinin K-7? Aircraft, Soviets, massive size, first ending. This should produce views.

How about the Alaska highway, Norman Wells nwt and the canol pipeline. Ww2 supply road and panic build pipeline with wells sunk on islands built in the middle of the McKenzie River.

Simon please do the Italian road network and changing from right to left hand drive pls pls pls

During the 1970's the oil was needed in the midwest, not Valdez. It made much more sense to have the pipeline go though Canada and connect to existing pipelines that would take the oil where it was needed. Obviously, few wanted to have to cut Canada in on this financial and labor bonanza, so the oil went instead to Valdez, where a lot of it was shipped WEST to Asia. A guy who was in charge of the Wisconsin Energy Office, Charles J. Cicchetti, quit when this decision was made.

I’m fascinated by how it’s even possible to believe in something so implausible as believing that the global demand for oil is decreasing while global population growth continues to steadily increase.

In the Seventies, if you or someone you knew wasn't working on that project, you couldn't call yourself Working Class. Valdez is an amazing spot and the ferry ride to it, spectacular.

Have you done one on the Deep Tunnel project in Chicago? HUGE storm water system that can hold rainwater from almost the entire Chicago metro area. Billions of gallons and over a hundred miles to keep wastewater from flowing into Lake Michigan.

How about the road that they have wanted to build for over 100 years between Alaska and Siberia? Putin wants it, the reverend Sun One Moon wanted it, etc. there has been multiple studies completed on it. There are two islands in the path. One in Russia and one in the USA. Most of the way the water is only 150 feet deep.

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@9:22 Was that the same Spiro Agnew who resigned over a bribery scandal? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew?wprov=sfti1

Please make a video covering the Hawaiian Area Rapid Transit (HART) project! It is now and unfortunate disaster!

Since we are always picking on the United States - why not do a video on the conjoined two largest sea ports of the US - the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach - pretty interesting when you research the amount of volume that goes through and the percentage of imports... something like 71% of US imports nationwide come through these two ports. not to mention of Billions of $$$ in costs/profits

Hey, I have started watching the channel recently, and I don't really know, but, could you do a video about Itaipu dam in Brazil?

Up until about 6 months ago we "were" energy independent but now gas is up about 40%........ Thanks for posting another great video.....

I wonder how much energy and efficiency could be generated and other fuel sources saved by using Sterling engines at the Pump Stations.

Ok then, Appalachian Trail! Please vote cause I am gonna keep commenting until I get it. *insert the laughter of someone who is utterly mad*

Still waiting for the Newport News Shipyard Video, maybe pair that with the Norfolk Vanal Base and the ships that have been built there

Odd how every pipeline is called the solution to Americas energy needs by the builders. But when they're done nothing changes.

Suggestion for a Megaproject: Prora in Germany. Prora was a 5 Kilometer! long (Strengh through joy = Kraft furch Freude) Hotel- building near the coast of the Baltic sea. Build by the Naz*S used by the GDR.

I know it’s not a mega project but it’d definitely be interesting to see a video about the Teapot dome scandal

Please do a video on DEEZ NUTS!

Do one on the "Philadelphia Experiment" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment

How about doing one on the USS Constitution the worlds longest serving commissioned warship

What you mean about the armrest? The aisle seat gets legroom and the outer most armrest. Middle seat gets both armrests and window seat gets a window. You claim the damn armrest like an american finding oil.

Please can you do a video on Hinkley Point C the UK’s first new nuclear power station in 20 years

''PIMP'S On The Street'' sounds like a 90's Boyband.

Having been born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska; I can tell you not a single Alaskan calls it TAPS.

Simon please can you do a video on the JLR history including splitting from Ford Premier Automotive Group. 👌

For the Side Projects channel : do the Starfish Prime nuclear test in space.

4:44 That estimate for Prudhoe Bay to The North Pole is about double the actual distance.

Simon should make a video about the itaipu dam in the brazil-paraguay border

Building the first trans-atlantic cable network?

Interesting story..... a friend I met when he retired in Northeast Thailand made his money from the construction techniques for unstable surfaces he worked on developing for this project. Sadly he died about 20 years ago.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel must qualify as a Megaproject here in the US.

Too bad the new governor raided the savings fund and is sending the state economy in the shitter

338 caliber rifle? That's a small canon with a 3.38 inch bore.

The big bud 747 tractor the most powerful tractor made

Let’s see a video on Disney world! It’s absolutely massive.

I live in Fairbanks, I think you did a good job with this video. Pipeline is still running smoothly today. 1/2 the oil flow And I think only 5 pumping stations

No mention of the Exxon Valdez shipwreak?

The clean up after the Exxon Valdez tanker accident.

Dermot mega-projects on the Thameslink?