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I wasn't looking forward to five minutes of chatter just to get a ten-second answer, but when he started getting into the presentation I became quite interested. Say interesting things and keep it moving, and time doesn't have to be painful.
I DONT NEED TO WATCH A SECOND TO ALREADY KNOW THE FINAL ANSWER AFTER A POINTLESS FIVE MINUTE VIDEO THAT COULD HAVE BEEN CUT TO 2 SECONDS BUT OF COURSE HE WANTS TO ACT LIKE WE NEED 5 MINUTES OF CONTENT TO EXPLAIN IT AND NOT BECAUSE THESE MORON RU-vidRS ONLY CARE ABOUT USING YOU PEOPLE NOT ON ADBLOCK OR ON YOUR PHONES TO WASTE YOUR TIME WITH ADS AND GET AD MONEY. JUST FUKING CUT TO THE CHASE AND SAY IT IN 2 SECONDS THATS ALL U NEED. AND OF COURSE I WATCHED IT AFTER I MADE A COMMENT AND FOUND OUT ITS NOT ANTIMATTER BUT STILL JUST FUKING ANSWER IN 2 SECONDS AND FUK AD REVENUE STOP USING COMMON MORON VIEWERS WHO WASTE THEIR TIME IN LIFE WATCHING ADS WHICH IS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED TO WATCH. EVEN WORSE THE MORONS WHO ACTUALLY PAY FOR STUPID RU-vidRS SHITTY GARBAGE UGLY "MERCH" AKA SHITTY STOCK SHIRTS WITH A SHITTY LOGO THAT IF ANYONE ASKED WHAT SHIRT IS THAT, THEY WOULD LAUGH IN THEIR FACE IF THEY SAID "OMG ITS THE RU-vidR WENDOVER WHO MAKES DUMMY VIDEOS ABOUT FACTS THAT HE FINDS ONLINE ON THE INTERNET"
I'd like to see this episode revisited with a 4th criteria: It has to be something that, if one had the money, they could actually buy. No one is selling the ISS.
At least it's possible to reproduce the ISS, as in building another one and sending it to space would result in the same value. But the mosque? You can't just copy it and have it be equally as valuable. Although I'm pretty sure you couldn't build an exact replica of it and stay alive for over a year either, but I diagress.
Came here to make this comment. by weight ink tends to be the most expensive common item people buy. On the serious side, Epson and canon both make reasonably priced printers now that use large ink tanks. Refill bottles cost less than normal cartridges and have about 10 times the ink. Have used both brands extensively in my business, and the canon is superior to the epson in every way, except that the refill ink is only available at Staples, and about 1 in 10 best buy stores. Probably not a big deal for a regular person where a single fill will last a year, but can get annoying if you are printing absurdly high volumes as I do. With both brands, the printers don't like long idle time between prints of more than a couple weeks.
it’s not how much he makes it’s his net worth. jeff only pays himself about 400k a year from his company, he doesn’t even touch his shares that makes up his net worth
@@thatdamncrow9197 Yeah, that's my point. People saying "oh he only pays himself 400k!" are ignoring the glaringly obvious fact that he makes boatloads of money from other places. The other person also says he doesn't touch his net-worth, obviously untrue since he bought a house worth FAR more than his "salary" could ever afford.
@@awesomelyshorticles lol? New to the internet in general?. RU-vidrs never made good money on adsense. 1 million views is like 2k dollars max...If a Commercial Tv station made that little they would die tommorow
I'm sitting in the lounge in the airport and started watching your video and I heard your voice but it wasn't through my headphone it was the man in front of me who was also watching a video of you 😂
A question about the International Space Station's cost - how much of that is the physical hardware of the space station, versus how much the cost of getting that all in space? How much would it cost to build an identical one sitting on the ground? (I would imagine there actually might be such a thing, or at least enough parts to build such, used for testing, design, and planning purposes.) Is it so expensive because of what it is, or because of where it is?
Most of the ISS cost comes from getting everything up into space. It would have cost far less money if NASA had gotten the space shuttle right (it cost more money to reuse parts of it than to just build new parts)
I just want to say kudos for answering this question the right way. Not because ISS is definitively the right answer but because it's such a wobbly question and it needed this kind of "evaluating all of the options and deciding on an answer that feels right" sort of video. It was entertaining and satisfying in a way that videos that try to answer such simple questions like this often are not. Kind of dumb to write this all out but it's feels good to see things done well.
Sorry to disappoint you but the Totenkopf isn't really a Nazi symbol any more than the letter S (as seen in the SS) is. Or the symbol of the lightning strike. (as seen in the SS) It actually has its origins in the skull and crossbones symbol/emblem which (as far as we know) dates back to the 12th century. Sure, one can argue that that one particular design is the same one used by the Nazi's but it really wasn't exclusively used by them. The same way the Swastika didn't first appear on the Nazi flag. If we are going to throw a fit over everything the Nazi's used or created then we should tear up larger portions of the Autobahn, dismantle the car manufacturer VolksWagen and send all of Germany back to pre-war unemployment levels and living standards. Among many many more things. Or we can just learn from our mistakes and simply not be as bad as the Nazi party was... We learn that adopting an "us vs them" stance is the breeding ground for hate, anger and suffering.
Good sidestep on antimatter. Antimatter also is as versatile a category as matter (theoretically there's anti-hypdrogen, anti-helium, etc.) so it would be an incredibly unsatisfying answer.
*YES!* That was my first thought! Logistically difficult and expensive to build. It's been expanded upon. It has high running costs so if you bought it you'd also have to spend a whole heap of money keeping it running
While Gerald R. Ford may have been born in Omaha, his hometown really is Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's where he went to school, played football, became an Eagle Scout, got married, represented in Congress, and was buried. Gerald R. Ford was from Grand Rapids.
Kevin Boros the Mac Pro is ironically the most fairly-priced Apple product. Specs worth around 35-40k, with of course the Apple sticker tax. It’s a professional workstation used by multi-billion dollar movie studio’s to create enormous renders in a reasonable time, and to produce the brightest colors. So yeah, it can do a little more than your gaming pc to justify its price.
Tutankhamun’s mask. 6000 years old, solid gold, world famous and 1 of 1. No doubt the world’s most expensive object, buildings and space stations are cheating!
Doubt it. The Sekhemka statue was sold in 2014 for 16 million GBP. Even the Tut mask is 1,000 times that, it’s still hardly 1/10 of the cost of the ISS.
When you consider the fact that the U.S military is given about $600 billion dollars a year, and the ISS is worth, in total 1/5 of that, speaks volumes about our countries efforts as a whole and what we could achieve if we worked together instead of fighting each other.
Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee sells 1 nanogram of the isotope Ac-225 for $1000. That makes it worth $1 Trillion per gram, and is by far the most expensive thing sold on earth. That isotope has effectively removed cancer in human trials, and the only reason it's not more widely used (for Targeted Alpha Therapy) is that we have no way to make it in large quantities anymore. There are also other isotopes used in making superheavy elements that are very expensive. Look up "Thorium Cow ORNL" for Ac-225, and "Super Heavy Elements Periodic Videos" for the specialty isotopes used in that work.
I suppose that’s correct but most of the cost comes from putting that thing in space. Also you really should do a follow up video figuring out what is the most expensive thing that an ordinary private citizen could buy assuming their only limitation is how much money they got. A private citizen can’t go out and buy a war ship or a stealth bomber.
You can look up when the ISS will pass over your location. It's fun to tell people it's coming and then tell them "That is the most expensive thing you will ever see."
Apparently the most expensive anything is a 400 guilder loan a smaller German town gave to Berlin about 450-460 years ago... (1 guilder is about 280,000 Euros today.) It had 6% interest, compounding over time. It seams Berlin never paid them back, and now thanks to the compounding interest the loan has a higher value than all the money on the Earth. (Heard it’s like 97 quintilllion Euros, but that may be a high estimate.)
Earth itself is the Most expensive thing in the World. With or without humans, trees, cities or animals. Just the Land of the particular countries is partially so expensive...
"Most expensive thing? Let me call up my buddy who's an expert in expensive things and I'd like to have him take a look at it, and we'll go from there."
We discount planets deliberately covered in gold by, say, a Kardashian. Also Vroomfondle VI which is just a giant diamond but nobody wants to live there. And finally we omit every planet that has fallen behind a black hole’s event horizon because we can only visit those on Christmas.
Actually, the ISS doesn’t orbit Earth from space... it’s still in the Thermosphere, which is a component of Earth’s atmosphere, which means that it’s technically still in the Earth system, which means it is “on Earth.”
Okay. The video has been up for more than a day, has 319,506 views and I'm the 1st to realise that HAI should be browsing more easily than browning more easily.
He grew up in Grand Rapids, though. It's where he became an Eagle Scout and graduated from high school, got married, the district he represented in Congress, and it's where he chose to be buried.
I imagine a room full of the presidents, prime ministers and finance ministers around the world who funded the ISS, smiling and congratulating themselves for $177bn well spent. "... it's in low earth orbit, it's subject to the earth's gravity, it'll fall back to earth eventually..." Wait... whut?
The B-2 doesn't cost $3 Billion each, that is what it costs when you amortize the R&D into each aircraft. The actual cost to build each aircraft is about $737M, which is probably the most expensive aircraft but it is a lot less than $3B.
Also, you were talking about Apple's price, but that price is constantly fluctuating, so while some product's price may vary, a company's price is more subject to devaluations or revaluations than a product
Did not realise the B2 was so expensive! The USS Ford looks positively cheap when you consider that one is a single plane and one is an entire aircraft carrier!