Would you be ok with doing a top 5 biggest Green mega projects or green citys projects 🤔. I think it would be nice and important later on for how the world is changing. Thoughts.

Hey Simon, can you do a video about the ruins of Baalbek? It has multiple stones, whom are considered the biggest building blocks ever used! Some of them weigh as much as a 1000 ton.

Hello, just wanted to point out at 8:39 there is a error with the graphic. It displays the wrong height information. You state 60ft in height, but the graphic shows 450ft.

All about those facts, person.

I'm sure he is a very curious sort who feels being corrected leads him further on the road to knowledge. If only we could all be like that.

8:38 nice

Be glad he at least didn't sellout to the BCE/CE nonsense. It still means BC/AD, Our Western Gregorian Calendar is centered around the Life and Death of a Palestinian Jewish Man. Whether One likes or is "offended" by it or not. Sorry for your feelings, however, the Western Calender is centered around the Birth and Death of a Palestinian Jew. Please stop your anti Semetism Revisionists...

@@halicarnassus8235 he didn’t do it in THIS video, but he has done it in most other of his videos. In some vids he’ll use the B.C/A.D for one date, then a few minutes later, use the B.C/B.C.E for another date.

@@doomy_mcdoomerson I do not blame you, my sarcasm is way off apologies.

@@halicarnassus8235 I agreed with what you said. I was just saying he does use those date descriptors in other videos.

@@doomy_mcdoomerson Can we agree on one thing? Thank you stranger for being so awesome. Gn. It was a pleasure to aqauint. Gn Awesome.

Sounds very phyonesk.

"What, the curtains?"

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But mother, I don't want to marry Princess Lookie. I'd rather... I'd rather sing, sing! 🎶🎵

@@randomzen924 at least 3

Do you mean just before the christians took offence at someone else holding knowledge?

@ExplosiveMonkey One theory that I heard was that romans ( post christian conversion ) burnt down the library.

@@alanhilder1883 That's a popular myth, but the reality is much more believable -- and mundane. Continued support for such a large library and its vast collection costs a *lot* of money, and the governments of Ptolomey's Egypt -- and then Roman Egypt -- were expected to pay for it in a time when very few people could read, at all, and everything had to be copied, laboriously (and thus, expensively) by hand. So, yeah. The Great LIbrary of Alexandria wasn't destroyed in a spectacular fire (although it certainly experienced its share of blazes). It was destroyed by *budget cuts*. Just to get an idea of the scale, the U.S. Library of Congress has an annual budget that tops $800 million. Now, the U.S. enjoys an advanced, post-industrial economy, so nearly a billion dollars may not seem like all that much -- especially compared to the nation's grotesquely huge annual military expenditures. However, given that so few people perceive it as directly beneficial to their own lives -- and, in fact, a significant fraction of the U.S. population has demonstrated unceasing hostility to factual historical records, scientific discovery and any sort of rational world-views -- one could easily see how a big, expensive library could become the victim of budget cuts. And that's in the most advanced nation of the modern world. Compared to the modern U.S., Egypt during the decline and fall of the Roman Empire was increasingly filled with fearful, desperate people. Small wonder the governments of Egypt just let the place go.

@@thomashiggins9320 As My comment was "based" on Jay's comment about the burning down, I stuck to that for my comment, so you are in fact "correcting" Jay.

@@thomashiggins9320 Proofreading, is, a -- thing.

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

Had to make a play list

agreed. was in selcuk recently and sadly, there was only one lone pillar standing at the site. the clip shown wasnt the one in selcuk. i was told by the locals i met there that most significant pieces of the temple are now housed in the british museum. various sources say some of the marble of from it were also repurposed to build other buildings in the area. ah well.

Makes sense. A hunter would have a vested interest in making sure that they have something to hunt.

Back then hunting was for food and the animal was respected enough to dispatch as quickly and humanely as possible. Not like hunts now.......

@@craigstoner2632 you clearly have no knowledge of modern hunting. Little has changed, as the primary focus (would venture to say about 80-90%) of hunting is to provide food for themselves and their family.

People tends to confuse hunters with idiots. Hunters tend to have respect for nature. Idiots hunt to feel like they are in control. I've met both groups. They need to be seen as different types of people.

@@movingforward3030 I guess it's all the 30 packs of natural light that I see hunters pack with their guns that make me think they aren't the brightest bulbs in the box.

Would love to see a mega projects on that

He better do it quick before Biden shuts that one down aswell 🙄

Good to know that I'm not the only one whose skin crawled every time he mispronounced Ephesus.

As a Houston native, I second this suggestion!

I live in Houston and yeah I can attest to this.

Ha, you can't even get them to sign off on what they want for lunch hardly.

The Sagrada Familia of Barcelona has been under construction since the 1880s and it won't be finished until 2027 if I remember correctly

Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Sounds like most political promises to me, these usually go over budget and are abandoned as soon as the media can be distracted to something else.

@@nadwanrosetta2942 It won't be finished in 2027... Before that it will be postponed to 2032. And then 2037. And then... you get the idea by now. Several portions/sections have been rebuilt numerous times by now simply because the teeth of time keeps biting it at about the same rate as progress is made. By now it would be devastating to the tourism if it actually finished. The entire attraction is that it is NOT finished yet.....

yeah, the country isn't yours so why invest. an international economic zone doesn't belong to anyone. it will always be given away to the next wave of invasions.

Thank you :)

@@megaprojects9649 Maybe one day you can do a "Megaprojects" episode about the creation of the "Megaprojects" channel.

He'd have to start a new channel to do dat

Very interesting! But we're probably too few who know that it's an interesting tale to get the upvotes needed for Factboi to notice....

@@andersjjensen then keep requesting

Thats been debunked

it would make a great Megaproject

Temple of Baalbek and The Stone of the Pregnant Woman Restauration of the Acropolis in Athens. The Serapeum of Saqqara

You can see most of these on Isaac Arthur's SIA channel.

@@thomashiggins9320Great recommendation. I have already lready watched all his stuff. One of my top 5 channels easily. This channel reaches a very different veiwer group. Would be awsome to spread the knowlage that we are nowhere near civilizations potential.

@@alanweiman1521 Good answer, and I support the request. :)

You've given Simon enough material for the first two months of a new channel: "Space Blaze."

East of Cobourg it really needs a third lane. Like seriously, it’s almost bumper to bumper half the time

@@Kyle-qd2sy I can't comment on that but I know that area and north is just a mess. I live about an hour south of TO and to get from here to anywhere north on the line, bank 2 more hours. You aren't going anywhere.

Cuchullchubby belly.

Those things that you think would be "incredibly difficult" to construct today would be very easy. Don't exaggerate.

@@bobfg3130 How would you know?

@@HalfWarrior Because we know how build stuff now that the ancients wouldn't even dare to imagine. 😆

The only reason that it would be difficult to build today is that slaves are too expensive to risk killing off unlike in those days. Now days it is just removing some of those lazy, peasant employees from the gene pool. ( the way big corporations see the "under classes" )

@@alanhilder1883 No need for slaves. You have technology and engineering that they wouldn't dream of in the past.

Guess fact boy doesn't know that hunters do more for conservation than the granola humping hippies lol

@@kingjellybean9795 I think this is centuries before duck stamps fund conservation.

Thats what those atrocious Cadbury eggs are for.

@@seanbrazell6147 don't bash on the Cadbury eggs XD. they're like Ladas, so bad that they're awesome XD

That was exactly his point, hence the use of the the word irony and his laughter.

He's the Herodotus of our time

@@Thusal99 oh yes

i would expect it's just the light glistening of the innumerable amount of beard balm he applies for us the viewers.

The city the Vitruvian Man came from might be named after Vitruvius... But I'm just speculating here.

Because they have to to survive, humans don’t have to. We choose to. He was just pointing out the amusement of two seemingly initially contradictory things that are actually very connected. No wildlife = nothing for humans to hunt but especially in today’s society people who love and are activists for wildlife typically don’t hunt or eat meat. Someone i.e. a god being the advocate of both is a bit ironic on the surface level.

I thought it was flooding and earthquake that destroyed the library. Humans are scum, but nature fixes everything.

We'd have a few more religious texts and lots of ancient poetry. That was largely copied elsewhere yet still vanished because people were concerned about different things and lost interest in recopying them. We lose countless books every year as they go out of print and eventually private collections and public libraries purge their collections of old and low circulation books.

@@nonnayerbusiness7704 And would also be able to fill in a lot of blanks in our historical knowledge and understanding today, just as we would know more about the Founding of Rome had it not been for the Gallic sacking.

@@ajstevens1652 And we would know a lot more about Gaul and Iberia cultures (whose Celtic and Iberian designs the Romans gained their famed equipment from) if it wasn't for the fact that Rome deliberately obliterated Celtic settlements and overbuilt them with Roman ones.

@@nonnayerbusiness7704 Absolutely. The Romans themselves did the same thing.

Now you can die knowing your life is complete.

All 12 channels? Cool 😎