Do you think Veronica and Jennifer (editors) left it on purpose? 😂😂😂

Or did he shh don’t tell mao 😂

@@onepiecepedia absolutely they did

you too can buy the new button bottomless simon shirt now on share space orwhere is that other place

Hell, we're not even sure he has pants on!

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Yes this is an interesting topic that you could make a video on..A 126 year old dam(Mullaperiyar Dam) made of limestone built by the British in 1895 in India (Kerala) controlled by the neighbouring state Tamil nadu. Its 176 ft high and 1200 ft width threatening the lives of 4 million people downstream.The political parties of both states are ignoring this issue as they have their own vested interests.Every rainy season this issue keeps coming up like a wave and then recedes.

More of a flush than a flood

What do you want to say

Don't tell button!

Was thinking the exact same thing!

Love it!

reminds me of Ed Helms cat Chairman Meow!

All the videos from that day are the same - one button short.

He might have to buy the name from the History Channel. Maybe......Project Blaze? All the rants of Business Blaze, half the cocaine

Already been done!😆

No need, Plainly Difficult already does a wonderful job for that.

Possibly "Mega side geographic biography top ten disasters blaze"? :P

@@sashaburrow6186 too long a name. Need to keep it short for all the people that blazed before looking for the channel. MegaBlaze might be good though! All the fun of Business Blaze with Mega cocaine

It goes without saying, Hydro Electric Dams have killed far more people than Nuclear Power plants.

@@TheBelrick Sure, but there's far more HED's than nuke plants, just sayin. Even so, we need to start building Gen IV pressureless thorium molten salt reactors. Very safe and virtually fail proof. Much, much smaller carbon footprint than building 100's of thousands of windmills and solar cell plants for the same equivalence of power generated. Thorium is very difficult to weaponize too. Thorium also has a short half life compared to uranium and plutonium - a manageable 250-300 yrs VS 10,000 or even 100,000 yrs for the latter. Then there's 'Traveling Wave' reactors - that could eat up all the existing nuclear waste.

@@Three_Random_Words yep, but the anti nuke fervor is built upon emotion and so is my response to such advocates. a true fact that surely triggers them

@@TheBelrick Sometime ago I posted on some animal rescue vid where a 100 or so PETA types illegally raided a farm an hour's drive from San Fran. I just said, “Veal is my emotional support animal.” They called me an evil troll, I didn't think that was very fair.

@@Three_Random_Words Zealots and sycophants cannot handle humor anymore than they can handle being opposed.

LOL, Geographics, Simons Navel

He's so pasty white down there!

Now I can't unsee it! xD

I don't understand why he posted the video like this.

Blooper replay material for sure

@pyrotechnick - Underappreciated comment.

Not half million but 3 to 4 million.

@Eddie Hitler if wealth were measured by misinformation then social media would be a virtual diamond mine

The Internet.

@Eddie Hitler Who said anything about deaths?

Very true.

@@dyveira At least Twitter.

Or even a "Simon Says Don't Tell Mao."

" Don't Tell Simon About His Button"

@@Three_Random_Words It's not telling Simon about his button that worries me. It's if someone presses his buttons...

I would wear one! "Don't tell Mao" is a great statement that represents every foolish, unreasoned, irresponsible, unscientific, socially harmful political action ... golly, so applicable to the present Scamdemic and to Obiden's daily pile of presidential document signings.

Why hasn’t this shirt not been made already it is relevant and it is fitting for the current generalality

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one of the problems when one is trying to feed too many people. or too many social programs to prop up people with too many children. this is true in the us as well. there is little by way of infrastructure maintenance on everything beyond the bare minimum. and sometimes even that isn't done. I think the money they mete out when this is a disaster is a pittance against what it would take to fix the issue or replace the aging/faulty structure.

Our parties looks at the silver lining in the incidence of a dam collapse they will turn that into fortune through dark tourism.. 😂😢 I don't understand why they built this bloody dam there in the first place.

In Kerala (INDIA) one dam called mullaperiyar, that was in very poor condition its made by british government for 50 years use. but now its 126 old. we are carry a water bomb with the knowledge of our goverment. no one take action against this issue…. maybe after few months or years me and my peoples die on dam collapse.

No... it’s cell phones that cause cancer.

When you pave over farms; people starve, but don’t tell Mao.... or Xi

@Zack Smith Ahhh you're a ccp coward replying to everyone criticising your Poo Bear overlord xD No one is saying the USA is flawless or even a great example, but China is ran by a cruel and brutal regime that has no care for human life anywhere.

@Zack Smith death camps, concentration camps, 100 million deaths, authoritarian. Comitted some of the worst human rights violations. You are either a bad troll, an Antifa or BLM member, or one of those CCP online personas paid to make china look good on western social media.

@Zach Smith ..That's not what's being talked about?

@Zack Smith only idiot here is you CCP shill.

Yes my personal philosophy is anything that the red Chinese say, verified with at least five other sources before considering that it might be true.

Like NASSA = never a straight answer , aye !

Zack Smith Well that’s one way to make yourself look like even more of an idiot.

yeah something tells me it won’t stand the test.

Speaking as a Chinese I don't totally disagree... It's built way after cultural revolution, under a much more liberal and responsible administration. From what I've heard the engineering of the dam itself is great, but the geography study isn't well agreed upon. It's the most controversial proposal ever passed by the people's congress, only passing by a margin of ~10%. Considering how the congress usually just pass 99% for whatever it sees, you can imagine how huge it was back in the days... It's definitely generating a lot of power and still working fine, but a lot of folks are unhappy about flooding animal habitat and like, towns, and a lot of geologists are arguing that it caused the 2 huge earthquakes at Tangshan and Wenchuan. It's one of the acknowledged controversies that won't get censored much rn.

And China is building dams all over ... like in Africa. tik tik tik tik tik

@@SG-js2qn that's a good thing

@G Petro i realize that. I meant the dam failing would be a good thing.

CCP doesn't want you to know.

The CCP managed to keep it under wraps until the mid 90s

@@kenshin891 And many details including the death toll were state secrets until 2005.

The blue eye of Siberia

Do The Russians not think that Lakes thaw?

@@janicesullivan8942 They would laboriously lay down the tracks & then remove them each year. I would bet that they don't do that much anymore.....

@@ticnatz To thin the heard they were sending to the gulag. It served it true purpose.

The Russians did what???

The disaster has already happened. Just needs a little push.

I've been there several times, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen but engineers propose only minimal improvements presently. People downriver are aware of the possibility of a breach but are resolute optimists. Below the dam it's mostly swampy land already so loss of life would be relatively minor but disruption of the of Mississippi River traffic could cost billions. Don't understand why you think New Orleans and Baton Rouge would be damaged though. They're on the Mississippi River which would backfill from the Gulf of Mexico so water levels would stay about the same. The millions of gallons of floodwaters released if Atchafalaya failed would divert to the west over to Morgan City which would probably be under water. The backfill at New Orleans with salt water could wreak havoc on aquaculture though.

@@haroldwilkes6608 Well, I don't know exactly where NO gets it's fresh water from, but... If the ocean filled all the way back to Baton Rouge, you would never get the salt out of the place.

@@elliotsmith9812 Between the Atchafalaya and Morganza dams, about 1/3 to 2/5 of the floodwaters from the Mississippi are diverted over to Morgan City. In max flood, if either dam collapsed, that would probably actually benefit Baton Rouge and New Orleans by lessening the flooding there which would reduce the saltwater incursion. But understand, this is from a layman's point of view, I'm not an engineer. I'm repeating to the best of my memory what I was told by a man working at Atchafalaya dam. He was more worried about the residents below the dams and the continued barge traffic on the Mississippi. Plus the danger of shifting sand bars which the tows would encounter. It's a scary thought if it happens either way. If you're a boater, avoid floodwaters.

@@haroldwilkes6608 Check out McPhee's book..

@@elliotsmith9812 Will do, thanks.

Like the tubes at the bank tellers window?

@@alanhelton yeah pretty much.

@@canaan5337 And in several cases these were networks under a city. London, Paris, and many others had huge networks.

@Nathan Zhang I don't know costs. Early systems used steam engines to run the compressors. Later ones used electric motors. A web source is the Museum of Retro Technology: www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

Still used in the hospital I work in

Titanic Hindenburg Trump😂

Likewise

There is already a channel called 'plainly difficult' that does mini-documentaries/ narration on man-made disasters.

Since there are exactly zero incidents of unmodified code - and there was plenty - causing ANY problem... It counts as the greatest scam in history.

@@crhu319 That's a lie. Just from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Documented_errors There were plenty of smaller issues for private users and smaller companies. I bet the closest thing to development work you've done is write Hello World. Were you even out of diapers when y2k hit.

@@crhu319 I was told to include a Y2K clause in every contract including the supply of pencils.

@@taznz1 As someone who worked in IT at the time, it was a scam. Unless your code was written in the 60's, and even then, most of the compilers fixed the issue for the lazy ass coders anyway, it was never going to be an issue. Yes there were a few thousand pieces of old software that did have errors, but they acted like every computer on earth was going to fail, which was nothing short of complete and utter garbage. Countries such as Italy, Russia, and South Korea had done little to prepare for Y2K. They had no more technological problems than those countries, like the U.S., that spent millions of dollars to combat the problem. www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/

My old computer never failed after 2000. It definitely was a scam.

We literally may never know!

Last summer it got pretty bad for a while. Reports of the foundation shifting and months of flooding all over the area made it seem like a collapse was inevitable but it's still there. Hopefully that's as bad as it gets.

You'd probably secretly love it huh.

@@keyboarddancers7751 if it fails, there’s no way we won’t know. You can’t hide such things in the modern world. Satellites don’t care about propaganda or censorship

@@keyboarddancers7751 >>> Satellite imagery ALWAYS tells the truth.

Yeah, that sure sounds familiar these days. F**K SCIENCE! FREEDOM!

@@sschmidtevalue "There are more than two genders. F**K SCIENCE! DIVERSITY!"

@@mike7652 What are you talking about? For one thing, I was being sarcastic. For another, science understands about gender variability - there are various technical terms for creatures in different or morphing sexual states.

​@@sschmidtevalue You really don't get it do you? Nowhere, was ANYONE disputing gender transitional phasing to be in question. Literally every human to ever exist, started out in the earliest stages of their development as a female. This being before later stage internal development occurs in the womb, leading to a persons gender related assets being developed, thus cementing the persons gender. Welcome to biology. What WAS being highlighted is the fact that, NOWHERE, in the entirety of life as we know it, has there EVER ONCE been a third (or more) gender(s). You are either male, female, or in some traditional phase between the two. Even asexual life forms who don't need sex to reproduce, STILL have male and female genders to help mix up the genetic diversity of a particular individuals DNA strands to ensure that a gene mutation won't consequently wipe out an entire species. Social justice whiners who apparently lack any interest in factual knowledge want to conceptualize gender as an idea, when it's simply a physicality. So they try to spout off claiming that science is wrong and there are subsequently multiple genders as a result. It takes a special kind of foolishness for these people to believe their nonsense but they specialize in proving ignorance knows no limits. To anyone who wants to suggest that there is a third (or more) gender(s), please feel free to bring forth whatever species of life you've found that does in fact include a third gender, because I can assure you the scientific community wants to know about it. Especially considering how nowhere in the entirety of any and all scientific biological studies that have ever been performed, has any form of life as we know it, been of a third (or more) gender(s), nor ever so much as existed to begin with. So until the social justice whiners can corroborate their rhetoric and actually substantiate their claims of more than two genders existing, science wins. Period.

@@Henry5623 You're full of yourself. The one thing true scientists understand is that there's always something more to learn.

Dam it, I was beat to the joke.

Botta bum bum pishhh

Wow original how about “the dam thing broke “😂

@Абдул Вахид I ain’t gonna lie I like that ☝️

Joey R dang you beat me to it lol

he had tacos before the vid, needed to breath a bit ;)

Yep, I was poking the screen, saying "hootchie-koochie-koo".

Why?

@@Heyitsallgoodman One of his shirt buttons isn't buttoned.

"Smash that LIKE button!"

he had tacos before the vid, just had to breath a bit ;)

Simon( I got one for you) (Don't tell Mio, Don't tell Trump* No difference) neither of them, understood science. Only own political views for betterment of self. Never to help the people which was the real responsibility they promised to do in the first place.

Different Simon I want my pizza delivered in one of the thirteen something in blue with a signed title.

Really? Come on man🤣

Good one!

A canal was built and it overflowed and flowed into a low area, creating the "sea". Not really a megaproject, but perhaps a new channel for Simon. If Simon were good at remaining true to "branding" of his channels that he actually controls.

@@Markle2k tis is way I'm suggesting it on sideprojects channel ;)

The problem with your suggestion is that Salton Sea wasn’t (re)created as the intended result of a project, it was the consequence of major engineering stuff up

Dam... too slow

@@Ben111000111 lol

All of them, if politics get in the way.

I read a book about that; it really was badass.

SFOD-Delta and Spetznaz, too

@Maria Kelly CBS would probably censor him, because of course they would, lol

I agree. Its huge. Def a Mega Project.

@Zack Smith if you are actually comparing those two as if they are the same you are very unintelligent

Hahahaha it made a pretty epic tourist spot around my native town with an anecdote at least

I imagine the dam is safe. China does not want to be disgraced by failure. It is amazing though that so much water is impounded its weight distorts the earths crust

@@jimurrata6785 The Three Gorges Dam is Canadian engineering.

@@MultiCappie Hydro Quebec know quite a lot about dams! Though I think the problems with the Maoist dams were construction quality more than engineering.

@@jimurrata6785 Both, maybe. I'm no engineer, but Simon's point about the sluice gates being reduced from 12 to 5, and then about sediment buildup preventing the sluice gates from adequately relieving the pressure are pretty squarely about engineering too. I think engineers these days are pretty close with the construction processes which have qualitative results too.

@@MultiCappie As your southern neighbour I don't think China is the nation run by a paranoid and meglomaniacal dictator these days. 3 Gorges was an immense undertaking. A "Megaproject" if you will.... 😉 China has nuclear power and an active space programme. I wouldn't fault the ability of their own engineers.

Doubtful. Chinese got more experience and learned from the past. China has hundreds of dams built. The Three Gorge is well constructed in comparison due to its importance.

@@williamlee7672 5 points have been added to your social credit score we can SEE the cracks in the bloody thing right now, as well as the unending mountains of trash behind it no amount of shilling will fool someone with even basic intelligence

William Lee. Chinese person or defender who lives under a bridge not a dam.

@@williamlee7672 Tell that to the Trees of Heaven growing on the Dam.

I think he has it under a video on him indirectly under some related topic, but if not, definitely!

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Shhhh.... Don't tell Mao...

This is what American farmers are hoping for, as long as Trump not to fuck with it those farmers will get a big smile for the next 2 years as the Chinese big boss with their deep pocket surely willing to pay, for alot, I mean in their millions of tons.

Or, "'control flooding'?" Great would be the mirth!

If you have to build it for a megalomaniacs dictator syphon just enough of the budget to run the hell away.

Design-by-committee is bad enough, but when the committee isn't qualified in engineering... ?

Have you worked in China?

@@Original50 have you ever met a political/financial committee that had any engineers?

@@gregwarner3753 That's kind of the point. Pretty-much like the current COVID situation, where we have politicians dictating measures that are more focused on economics (because politicians - usually solicitors - need corporate safe-haven when they are sick of the voting game) than public health.