The Great Man-Made River: The Eighth Wonder of the World? 

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Simon we need DTU March 8 1994 Michigan Please make it happen

@@Jan12700 lol I always skip the first minute or two of all Simon's videos

Thanks Hillary!!!

We have here the same problem with the water supply of Crimea thru North Crimean Canal - 2014 Ukraine shut down the canal in 2014 soon after the Russian annexation of Crimea. Was ist not an act of terrorism to cut water supply for few millions people off?

He did a lot for Libya search on RU-vid what he did for the people

You knew Gadhafi enjoyed laying pipe

It's sad, the US wouldn't show us anything good about Libya because Gadhafi refused to sell his oil rights. He actually did good things but was painted as a villian.

Omg

Where I live, The local water supply is the constantly replenished watersheds formed by vast lakes in the Cascade Mountain range which is already damn near as pure as bottled water, but for varying amounts of brown silt picked up along the way, and calcium. I can't believe the amount of calcium! AKA, scale. One micron filters don't trap it.

Freaky! Does that mean that they had very hard water (ie- large concentration of group 1 and 2 ions), or was this an entirely different issue? I've seen some images of ancient Roman Aqueducts that were transporting such vast amounts of such hard water, that there was almost 1 meter of particulates built up, over the aqueduct lining!!

He’s not Russian haha

It seems like that 😂

I'm just imagining where to and it's not pretty.

But does the carpet match the drapes?? 😆

@@cthomas3782 "strategic redeployment" is a military term. Russia isn't the only nation with a military. Jokes tend to be funnier when they're well researched. They also work better when the premise actually aligns with reality. Stick to mowing lawns.

Always wondered why the Gaddafi hatred in the west. I'm in the US. Patriotic, vote all the time. But always do my reading of world events, and really Gaddafi accomplished a lot of things that genuinely promoted the well being of the Libyan people. He even aided western people who were trying to rescue their relatives from pirates, when our own government did nothing. So I don't know. Maybe the news we heard wasn't true, made up by senators with their own agenda. Maybe it was true and he was a dick. But it sure seems like Libya is in better shape now than it was before.

@@Hollylivengood Gaddafi was a monster, like most dictators. He was also a very shrewd politician and had an eye for the populist things to do, some of which were indeed very good for the people of Libya, he was willing to "bestow his largess" on the public. Much in the same style as Castro in Cuba. However, when things weren't going his way, that's when you saw his true character. And it was the same as every other dictator, a ruthless willingness to hold onto power at any cost to his people. No-one who supresses dissenting voices with violence and terror is a good person. Edit: The fact that he started to say "no" to the US certainly didn't help relations there either, and undoubtably played more of a part in the US deciding to stop ignoring his other behaviour. Unfortunately the west does have a tendency to ignore dictator's bad habits against their own population if they're "useful monsters".

@@Ylyrra Ahh, I wondered. Are you from Libya? Always wondered what the real story was there. But you can't get it unless you find someone who lives there. Hope things are better now.

@@Hollylivengood No, UK, but being outside the US and given the UK's... interesting relationship with Libya, we've historically had a mix of more nuanced reporting than just "Gaddafi bad" especially given the number of British contractors there were on the ground at various points, seeing the stuff being built. And certainly a more critical level of reporting on our county's complicity in various things that went on.

@@Hollylivengood As dictators go, Gaddafi was one of the best that ever existed. But he was still a dictator and he maintained his position by sowing discord among the various tribes and brutally repressing revolutionary forces. But that’s pretty normal African politics. Gaddafi became an enemy of the west because he directly meddled in regional and global politics, supported communist regimes, funded terrorism in Europe and the US, supported civil rights activists in the US and South Africa, destabilized the nuclear weapons balance of power, and, probably more than anything, was staunchly and militantly anti-Zionist. Everybody was afraid of him, and rightly so. He was absurdly wealthy, giving him the ability to act without the financial intervention of western powers and he was not concerned with how the world perceived him. Basically everything that western nations hate for anyone else to do and be.

And all it took us was less than 10 years to ruin everything.

Dude, leave the "get it" out next time. The joke was golden if you had. Don't cater to the lowest common denominator. If they need it explained, they aren't worth the wasted breath.

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@@florians9949 For all the hate Gaddafi got in the west he was probably the best dictator of the 20th century. Most would have stolen every penny for themselves instead of building projects like this and providing the Libyan people with the best standard of living in Africa. Hillary Clinton can be thanked for the current ruin of Libya, Gaddafi tried to normalise relations, stopped spending money on the military and got killed for his efforts.

@@danielreuben1058 nice. Intellectual humor is the best. You can suss out the blockheads with a witty comment like yours.

Well keeps is tested but it's and lists side effects. Losing your hair? Shave it, give up. Unless your Elon Musk, but that hair could have cost tens of millions he doesn't even mention being bald decades ago! PayPal looking like Al Bundy selling shoes.

Or corrupt governments. Mer’ca.

Or Superyachts, Villas and hookers.

He did all three. There were plenty of weapons and palaces too.

He wasn't as bad as many others.

It reminds me of the Aral Sea... the Soviets dried it up for cotton farming...

I'm sure they were smart enough to make this a reality but not smart enough to calculate water consumption correctly.

they are not irrigating anything. The civil war stirred up by west destroyed 4/5 of the water supply.

Draining a finite amount of water so you can water the desert is so laughably short sighted it would be hilarious if it weren't depressing. At least with oil you use most of what you dig up and 90% doesn't just evaporate without being utilized

@@bradsanders407 they almost certainly know, they just have zero reason to care. Politicians rarely look past the end of their term, for democracies that means the next election and for dictators it's the end of their life, but both are relatively short. If exploiting those resources gain them benefits for 10-20 years they're happy and if it crashes and burns after that they don't care because they got what they wanted.

You mean the ninth wonder of the world!

@@sydhenderson6753 😆👍yup!

There will be no sink hole. Instead a whole region will gradually sink over the course of several years

@@ranjusranjus143 yeah, I was more or less joking around, but technically, it would still be a sink whole........just on a massive scale!🤣👍Thanx for the reply!

@coolnegative yes...like that happening in Mexico City. The city has sunk about two inches over ? 2 decades

Failings? Gaddafi didn't fail - he succeeded. Under Gaddafi, Libya was literally the richest country in Africa. Gaddafi provided his citizens with free housing, healthcare and education, paid for by the country's energy wealth. Where other African leaders looted their country and sent it to Western bank accounts, Gaddafi wasn't corrupt. He vastly improved the lives of his people. In 2011, Libya's GDP per capita was almost equal to that of a Western country. After the civil war sponsored by NATO, and Gaddafi's murder, Libya's GDP per capita collapsed by 80%. The West destroyed a country, destroyed its infrastructure, and Libya may never be put together again.

The COLONIAL WEST cannot see the NON WHITE stand on their own feet

Failings? Lol you'd think exactly that if you were a brainwashed sheep who only gets information from billionaire funded mainstream media.

Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa

I see you are a writer for the Daily Show

The bad news is that the sand in Sahara Desert is pretty much useless but the good news is that there's plenty of it.

Here's a true fun fact! Mexico is so mountainous that it would cover Asia if ironed flat.

@@billwilson3609 It SEEMS like a "fun fact," but in reality, it poses more questions than it presents a satisfying answer. I mean, my first response would be - What if we ironed Asia flat? Surely the Himalaya region alone would 'flatten out' to reveal a vast area. And also - What if we ironed them both flat? How much area would Mexico NOW cover of both flat areas? And, of course, my next question HAS to be - On what calculations and/ or presumptions are such suppositions to be made? And so on and so forth... Anyway, that leads me to a tangential question next, which is "Is neurosis _Fun?_ If so, how much fun is it to be neurotic vs how neurotic do you have to be before finding it fun?

they should probably be informed about this, because several lines from this video were directly plagiarized from that one

Real Life Lore released one about 2 weeks ago, have noticed this happen before some of the creators seem to be borrowing ideas for videos from each other

I too was realy anoyed that megaprojects stopped to even try to hide, that they copy other people thoughts on topics, and even lines from other people videos

Libya had a better living standard of all of Africa until 2011.

@@elperrodelautumo7511 But at least the Libyans have a taste of freedom and democracy under a tattered and destabilised country run by warlords.

We’re going to be seeing more and more such wars.

It was destroyed by the US, NATO and UN

NATO bombed it in 2011. It’s operating at 10 % capacity

Its not always the case and that guy caused alot of damage in the past and bombed an airplane. He had it coming.

@@TheBooban Okay, name one country in the last 50 years that has ended up better off after western nations got involved? Iraq? worse off, Afghanistan? worse off, libya, Somalia? Syria? Every country where we in the west launch military operations just ends with the destruction of much of the country, the population worse off, and a government that is worse than what was ousted. he bombed a plane... so we destroyed the country and caused untold turmoil for decades.

@@TheBooban not always as in what country ?

Or you're racist.

Not as dark as western politicians..

Oh yeah. That whole Ghadaffi thing.

Where he sold oil for something other than Dollars

You mean, until the NATO and UN murdered him and his sons and completely destroyed prosperous Libya and turned it into a hellish nightmare with open slave trade. That Gaddafi thing, right?

Kinda. All of human civilization is a testament to a series of victory of man over Mother Nature, but she usually wins by default through our greed. The current war in Ukraine shows how easily new found resources lead to war. Ukraine found massive natural gas reserves along her southern coast and just west of the Dnipro river. The reserves were so large, and easily accessible, that they could take over 1/4th to 1/3rd of the EU’s entire needs. That would cost Moscow around *HALF* her oil/gas income (~$1Bil USD/day) and Norway about 1/4th their gas exports (~$100mil/day) to the EU and beyond. With *Everyone needing to* cut off gas use after 2035, it would basically ruin the current Norwegian & Russian long term plans to stop being PetroEconomies by then.

I used to worry about all the waste we produce hear on earth and still do for ourselves at least. After watching what a solar flare can do in the film Knowing, all this crap and pollution we make along with everything else can be recycled in a single moment.

Then how did we cross oceans and fly airplanes? How are we at the top of the food chain? Seems like there's some Ws in there.

How so? We have done nothing but constantly surpass our limitations for the last 200 years. And even most of our issues are of our own creation. Mother Nature is barely an afterthought these days.

@@bradsanders407 I love tha 'we' stuff, i used to say it too. Look at all the wonders 'we' discover on nature docs. look at all the innovations inventions and breakthroughs 'we' make in science and enginneering. One day i thought, ive never done any of these things never known anyone personally who has. We can take instructions to various levels to manage a shop. build a wall or upgrade some IT. ect ect. Basically implement what the cream of the crop does. I still enjoy watching things like Brian Cox, Mr attenborough and other awesome presenters. But the 'we' in me is gone.

S l K E

What “we”? Women got it. We got another one that I haven’t tried yet. I’ve tried horny goat weed though. Think it works?

So do most of us - but apparently not Simon - d'oh!

At times like this I'm reminded that Simon's reading a script and doesn't always know what he's talking about

I can never tell when if he's mispronouncing something, or if it's just the usual British insistence on adding hard vowel sounds where there isn't even a vowel.

@@bobkerolls13 or maybe he’s smart and he knows if he mispronounces just one word throughout the whole video it’ll spur massive engagement in the comment section 😂

I also feel the pain!

Salty much. Yankee!

Say aquifier one more time

They took out one gadaffi, they created millions of gadaffis.

This type of video is likely written weeks ago.

How much does desalinated water cost for 1000 gallons, vs the price for this fossil water for 1000 gallons? Plus what was the price per kiloWatt-hour, assuming it comes from Solar instead of on-location oil? Take into account the exchange rate for Libyan currency, not to mention United States and other nations not wanting to trade with Libya because Qaddafi was a dictator.

@@toddkes5890 Mirrors are far cheaper than photovoltaic panels. All needed is a plain water boiling plant

@@romanregman1469 So how much does it cost for 1 million gallons of desalinated water using your method? Compare that how much does it cost for 1 million gallons of fresh water from this fossil source.

Are you okay bro?

it was until he said he'd sell his Gas for Gold or Euro's instead of the Dollar, a month later he was dead and the country a hellscape.

@@mikesemus9773 the CIA when they hear about a third world country with a possibility of developing

@@idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472 Yeah, no kidding, US has no problem ruining the lives of people all around the world for money and power. This was particularly shocking as Gadhafi was renting his Libyan torture chambers to CIA to rendition "terror suspects" in clear violation of multiple international laws. Just goes to show even if you do everything the US wants, 1 decision they don't like and they will have you killed and your country destroyed. Coincidence that Libya was one of the major gas suppliers to the EU market and every other "Arab Spring" miraculously happened in countries that were supplying the EU or had pipelines for Countries that were? No, i was being sarcastic, ofc it wasn't coincidence, it's quite literally criminal on a gargantuan scale.

All Thanks To the United States that country doesn’t know any peace .. smh Obama

Because that would have a stream of salt water going into the country, which could affect the very small fertile regions of Libya. Out of all of Libya's area, only about 2% of it is considered habitable. Libya has effectively zero rivers going through its territory, meaning that if salt water gets into the land, the only way to get the salt out is to wait for a really long time. Now what you might try to do is set up concrete basins that are filled at high tide, some of the water evaporates, and at low tide the higher salt water gets washed out. Again, you have to make sure that the salt water doesn't get into your farming water.

Only half as stale-tasting as Aquafina.

There are no cities and few towns out where it is.

@@IvanDmitriev1 Not to mention no source of water to fill the lake.

No need for NATO to destroy it the Libyans did a very good job of that. I worked on the project for two years engineered built by Mann Ghh during the embargo. Project was late, in the end it feed the biggest evaporation ponds in the world. Lack of maintenance the-supporting plant feel into disrepair & I would doubt if it still functions. I worked on the turbine gas compressor which feed the power stations these in turn provided the power for the water lift pumps.

It works just fine. It only has problems because it wasn't completed due to the Nato invasion