Hows about a mega projects on the Atlantic wall during ww2? It was pretty impressive, turning the entire coastline of France into a fortress

Left wing news, right wing news, centre news. Didnt really know facts had political leanings. At least we have the choice of cancer i guess.

Please do Minas Tirith next. So far as mega projects go I think that one deserves some coverage.

How about the Manchester to Liverpool railway constructed by Robert Stephenson

Small correction: I believe "Gaelic" /ˈɡeɪlɪk/ which you pronounced (4:32), usually refers to the scottish or irish celts. "Gallic " /ˈɡalɪk/ would normally be used for the gauls of France. Both the celts and the gauls are essentially part of the same group (relating to Roman Gaul), but still probably best to call them differently, as most of continental western Europe, and most of Great Britain fit within Roman Gaul. Also, I don't think a Scot would like being called French?

That's pretty interesting. I'd like to look up more on that.

David Check out auto Didactic with Cambell or Jon Levi or Flat Earth British & you will get the run down on this plus. Will blow your mind

Thanks for this comment. It’s cool.

Bob Fedder what?

So... honestly when I have read the title I was so excited - I thought it will be video about Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center [a.k.a. Doom Mountain or NORAD HQ]. It is definitively another mega-project.

If you watched business blaze you'd know that the beard came to a very sad end at the hands of his wife's decision trumping his.

@@gamersrepublic6920 If that isn't pvssy-whipped I don't know what is. Why get married to a guy with a beard if you don't like beards?

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 she didn't make him shave it off, just made him trim it for family pictures

@@gamersrepublic6920 ALLEGEDLY

@@Absol152 ABUSE HE WAS FORCED IT WAS ABUSE

My mum watched it burn down she was 16 at the time.

That is insane!!!

@@Aasthakhanna27 Well if you go to either Alexander Palace or Primrose Hill about 6 miles to the north of london you can view the Norwood Heights that form part of Sydenham Hill area and see the pair of TV transmitters quite clearly ( about 6 miles to the South of London )

she was right it had its own light source but they won't tell us that........we have been lied to so much

@@joedarpa9566 Fire is it's "own light source", fool.

That's RAW

And definetally not from your profs quote😅

😂🤣

It was said by Shasi Tharoor in An Era Of Darkness: the British Empire in India

@@ronee1959 Indians have ample complaints, especially about economic exploitation, but considering the region's history as one of rise and fall of empires, with each new one rising by wiping out the successor states of collapsed predecessors, and many of them of foreign origin, the politics and war that produced the British empire there were pretty normal stuff. They just like over egging the pudding in recent years.

I did a double take when he said 1950. Was like are you sure about that.

Yeah, caught that too!!

silly simon

I rewound it to make sure. Yep.

Yes I think he meant 1850 we all had to rewind just to make sure

The floors were wooden right?

They lost their building in a boating accident...

It's like they say, fires can't melt steel beams.

Is this where I tell people about the german dude who had a fire ensurance on his cigar collection, wanted to cash the money once they "burned down slowly over several evenings", won the case but was then charged with arson and went to jail? No? Sorry

Bailey Green don’t let facts ruin your story. How is steel originally smelted and cast? Using fires.

Unfortunately it was not flexible steel, but brittle cast iron.

I'd also nominate blue wales, London buses and Nelson's column as meaningless measurement units.

@@spamcan61 While you may have meant "blue whales", the land area of Wales is another common unit of measurement too

Ironically, pitches also aren’t a standard size. They simply have to fall within certain dimensions.

You mean James Webb

@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv That's a near unequivocal neverending story.

@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Both were constructed, obviously.

@@SigEpBlue I honestly do like that reply.

@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Isn't "The James Webb Telescope" a science fiction story? I forget the author's name. Suggestion? ;-)))

Yeah wtf, I had to replay that, thinking maybe he said 1915 which would at least be closer, but still not right.

I checked it out on ground news. The left said 1750,the centre 1850 & the right 1950.

@@tinmachine693 What is 'ground news' and by 'left, center, right' are you talking about the parts of the building?

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Anna you beat me to it.

Then move out

Escargo ships.

Well, it sometimes takes weeks to months to make a video, particularly with the research that goes into documentaries, so have fun with that. It'll probably be quicker to do the research yourself instead of waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to you.

Stop asking Simon, ask EtA instead!

I will as well have a great day.

_I just heard echoes of haunting laughter followed by the phrase,_ _"Poo Faced Git".......{0.o}......I dunno._

Could easily be rebuilt, at a fraction of the time, today (probably not at a fraction of the cost, though). The trouble is, England doesn't want to do it anymore, and even the United States would struggle to get it even started, from the sheer scale of political opposition any party who proposed it would receive (If Trump proposed it, he'd probably ASSASSINATED the next day!)

Infomart in Dallas is a smaller, albeit quite large replica based on the Crystal Palaces' design, and has probably influenced many other buildings as well.

it does exist. its in dallas. i drive by it all the time. its owned by infomart now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart

@@shindari megaprojects aren't typically government enterprises here in the USA. It would be done by a wealthy enthusiast

@@gormauslander Which means that Trump will find some kind of "wealthy enthusiast" to build him that "Mexican Wall" he's been dreaming of for four years...

...and don't forget to mention that the entire enterprise in 1893 was lit and powered by -- (who else?) -- NIKOLA TESLA!!

@@david5372 As chief engineer for Westinghouse. Tesla's system was more efficient and vastly undercut the competing bid of Edison.

What the hell were coats made of back then? I know billiard balls sometimes exploded but what in a coat room would go BOOM?

@@WolvenSpectre collars were often made of cellulite (same as billiard balls, I believe), but fur, wool, cotton, waxed linen, etc. all delightfully flammable

but how that much glass and iron burned? what did the fire got so hot? or was there a lot of wood too?

My father always insisted that it was an insurance job too

@@WolvenSpectre I'm pretty sure the fire had a bit of help - after all, the place had been losing money for some time beforehand

Nah - just a bunch of tourists from Cardiff quarantined in Paris!

Yeah buddy. Fully paused the video there and replied it. It's Gallic Simon, gal-ik

This bugged me far more than it should have.

Mark Chippendale the Welsh aren’t Gaelic either 😂

Not the only error he made. He said construction started in 1951 not 1851 😂

Wait lmao I drive by this all the time I thought it WAS the Crystal Palace that he would be talking about

@@YaBoiAltair I drive by it all the time too. Ive always liked it because it’s distinctive looking.

I was there back in the 80s. Fascinating place. I'm sure it's not as big as the original, though I don't know the actual dimensions of either building.

I winced at that one as well :)

Because the Scots and Irish were poised to overcome the Welsh... really. Honest.

Built on boggy land and started to tilt if I remember correctly. So it would have been a cross between Eiffel and Pisa.

See Jago Hazzard on Watkins Tower. One vid to come too I think on the cemetary tower planned for north london

would have been epic

It was galling to hear this mispronunciation...

He also said 1950.

All your pfp is green :D

The Ferris Wheel alone was a megaproject.

Always been rather curious about the one in Queens, NY, too. As that was my home town, and I always saw the "remains" of that event, which took place before I was even a fetus. Only my parents could tell me what it was really like, and I'd love to hear a bit about that one... just on a personal level, mind you. I don't really care if it was truly amazing, or not.

Devil in the white city. This book has great descriptions of the Chicago worlds fair( along with the worst serial killer ever)

Interesting fact: The Great Stove was so large that Queen Victoria was able to ride around the inside using a horse and carriage during her visit in 1843. Sir Joseph Paxton really deserves his own video on Simon's other channel Biographics. He was an amazing horticulturist, landscape architect and engineer, as well as an author, journalist and board member of three different railway companies. At just 20 he was running an experimental arboretum for the Royal Horticultural Society, by 22 he was the head gardener at Chatsworth House, where he designed and installed the Emperor Fountain (able to reach 290m), built the Great Stove, won national prizes for the fruit he produced and became the world leading expert on the dahlia. Oh and there's a wonderful story about the head botanist at Kew asking Paxton to help him save an ailing specimen of an extremely rare lily......so Paxton designed and built a special hothouse and had the thing flowering within three months. Not bad for someone born into a poor farming family during the early 19th century.

@@Kethambelle not the type of reply I was expecting 7 months later, but I have been flush with joy since reading more about this guy. Simon, where the hell is our Biographics!?

@@mancavegamingandgardening9901 Hahaha sorry, I just got excited at the chance to go on a rant about Paxton, he was such an interesting guy.

so how would you describe it then

@@Jack-hg1hq "it's in the south" - Someone from the North

@@gottjager760 I'm very confused, so your from the north or south?

@@Jack-hg1hq I'm from Derby. Northerners tell me I'm Southern, and Southerners tell me I'm Northern.

@@gottjager760 ah, I live near stockport and have the same issue, people from newcastle think we are basically londoners, people from london think we are practically scottish, I say we are north west/ midlands depending where in derbyshire

Let him out!

I'd love to see the London Sewers as a Megaprojects video.

His excellency ETA will conquer every wall outlet in the known universe

He'll have an army of heating devices. Not only heaters but anything that conducts heat. Curlers, straighteners, hair dryers, etc. Theyll heat that room up so much that Simon will pass out. Then, they'll take over the video equipment and start posting videos on all of Simon's channels. The videos will be set up like an Anonymous video, ETA will in the forefront with his army behind him while he lays out his demands and commands for all the subscribers to take action on behalf of him. All of the sudden, there will be Fight-Club-style vandalism with the calling card being the Wilson face that's on the front of ETA so the authorities know exactly who's taking credit

@@ScottieD813 Maximum Overdrive 2020

Only if you refer to him as EtA, he prefers. But why do I assume he's a He?

Holly B Generalissima EtA? Generalissimx EtA?

We chose the logo and name and as an ode to the engineering background of our team. Our CEO worked on the New Horizons mission and our CTO used to work in R&D in the healthcare space. Always good to remember where you came from!

We have one in brazil too, in the city of Curitiba is a Botanical Garden, a classic tourist spot in the city, not nearly as big of course

Probably the exhibits. He said it started with an explosion in a cloakroom. Depending on what was in there, it could've got hot enough to melt even iron & glass.

Your wish was granted today!

Megamystery: no really, where did ze Germans hide that thing?

starting to get annoying to look at

@EmperorJuliusCaesar agreed.

Allegedly.... lol

I think he is fluffing it before shooting. He wants the ZZTop fans.

I was thinking its style was somewhat "Romanov"...

Such an amazing episode! One of my favorites. 🥰

I went once to a motobike racing weekend. The track became too small for the speeds being achieved by cars and bikes and places like Brands Hatch and Goodwood used instead.

@@highpath4776 They still hold racing meets around a smaller track today with mostly timed sprint races and classic cars.

Hell yeah. Have you been there? It's amazing.

Gaudi.

I was also wondering what was in the lady’s cloakroom that exploded. 🤭

linseed soaked cellulose? … and what about that 'small explosion in the ladies lavatory?'

@@bottomlands Whats the politically correct term for Jewish lightning?

@@jeffk464 Yiddish Figenzie

So.... Forty tons of glass, iron, and steel just burned, huh? Plausible- *IF* the framework were covered in aluminium, and the explosion were caused by magnesium powder... Kinda sounds *STAGED* to me...🤔

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Back in the day, when the news was broadcast without any commercials whatsoever... it did exactly that.

@Joe Horn 50's. When tv news was a radical idea. Public service. 6pm for 15 minutes a day. Yeah. I'm old.

@Joe Horn Yeah they did. But news started out as a public service. They said they would never have sponsored news. Then money reared it's ugly head.

Moustache goals in your profile pic.

@@xaquko9718 haha that ain't me in real life, but a moustache like it would be sweet as!

all i can think of is a cheap vodka

Ashtaroth Solemn Hypnotic it’s the only league that’s not a farmers league eh

Ashtaroth Solemn Hypnotic at least out of Europe’s top leagues

All I can think about is your mum!😘

Thankfully we had Wembley for the Empire Exhibition of 1924?

Chad Wilson That’s not really a megaproject. Yes it’s enormous right now, but it never started out like that.

@@j.a.weishaupt1748, because it is now may qualify it for Simon's attention. As an ongoing megaproject, it has had more influence on humanity that anything else, except maybe the wheel or the creation of the number zero.

Yeah, that would be interesting considering how vital it is to our lives today.

How exactly would the internet be a megaproject? It didn't have to be built, it was simply something we discovered and built infrastructure around it, much like radio because radio waves have always existed, we just simply discovered them and learned how to harness them to our benefit. He could however do an extensive video on Apple & Microsoft since they share most of their origins. 🤷‍♂️ Or a comical video on the ever growing Disney Empire and how they own half of the world's media enterprise. 😱😭

you forgot business blaze!

Business Blaze is just so good.

@@adarian definitely Simons best channel

Actually, I've gone off Business Blaze over the last month or so. Like the OP I came to Simon's channels through Biographics then Geographics. I really liked Megaprojects from when it started as well. I used to really like Business Blaze, to the extent it rivalled the others for first place, because I was learning interesting stuff about business (not an area I'm too familiar with), and it was hilarious. If the main story was the cake, Simon going off crazy was the icing and Sam's meme's were the cream. But recently it's almost just TopTenz, and basically all icing and cream, no cake. Sure, this is great once in a while, but I preferred it a few months previous. But it doesn't matter too much. There's still Megaprojects, Biographics, & Geographics for me to enjoy. This is just my opinion. I'm glad other people are still enjoying it.

Blazing while allegedly coked up playing an imaginary drum kit swearing like a Tourette’s riddled Rick Astley

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Newsvoice does something similar

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