Most Expensive Mistakes In All History - Part 3
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I worked NASA QA for 10 years in the ‘90’s, and I started on the telemetry boxes for COSTAR. I can honestly say that everyone was holding their breath until the first pics came back after HST was powered up during the 1st Servicing/Repair Mission. After the mirror fiasco and the ultimate success of COSTAR to correct the aberration, all subsequent devices on HST as well as other Space Telescopes launched since Hubble was put in high orbit (including JWST, which should be launched next year to the L2 Orbit point out past the Moon) have had COSTAR-like correction circuits installed to ensure there’s no repeat of HST’s first images. Looking back, while it might’ve seemed like an expensive screwup, it really wound up stimulating optics systems in every business, from hospital imaging to your cell phone. The technology would likely have been developed, but the mistake and the urgency to ensure everything was correct for the repair started that development much, much sooner. I
A little more about the kirsk sub: The 23 survivors only survived because they all broke protocol and opened their segments of the sub to get to the very back end of the sub. One of the people was a newlywed with his first child on the way and he had documented the entire thing in his journal that had been recovered off his body, a very hastily scrawled letter was the very last entry in the journal, the letter was to his wife telling her that the water had finally reached the back section of the sub and was rising fast and that she would have to raise their child without him because he knew there was no rescue team coming. The 23 men were plunged into darkness about an hour after the sub had hit the bottom of the sea, only one person had a flashlight on them. The 23 men were stranded in the sub for several days before the water ultimately flooded that final compartment of the sub.
The tragedy is that had the Russian federation accepted foreign help minder mind understanding is a lot of those sailors that survived would have been rescued. That is no way for a man to die
What's even sadder about it, is that there were teams who wanted to go down and help yet the help was declined.
@@mlafou 2 sides to every story. I have zero trust in most medias honesty or accuracy.
@Allen H I agree that yes two sides to every story. It was known at the time they did have teams from other countries and even very well know dive teams. However, because of Russia's lack of agreement to help get the trapped sub-divers out ultimately resulted in more death. Russia didn't want leaks out on their technology, I get that but they didn't even use their own countries' home teams to help. The notes were found very sad. More lives lost from inaction because they wanted to protect "secrets". Not surprising all countries have lost people due to similar reasons in a variety of ways. It's sad, it sucks and when it comes to rescuing human lives it needs to change.
Re: B2 Crash. In case anyone is wondering why the B2 didn't use standard pitot tubes for airspeed, it's because they would increase the radar crossection.
I was a mistake but not so expensive
Nah you were not
what he said 👆
ok.
I don't get it
Also I subbed to you because you deserved it
And just a couple weeks after this video was released, along comes a shipping boat in a canal and says "hold my beer".
Good joke, good joke
Costed billions
Super underrated comment
So who's got its beer then?
@@Nitebreed Biden
I used to live in Osaka and loved visiting Kobe because it was close and reminds me of Seattle. The owner of one of the private English conversation schools I worked for had moved after surviving that earthquake. She said a lot of the damage was actually due to fire because of all the natural gas lines that ruptured. I myself experienced the big one in 2011 (from several hundred miles away) that caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. I've been in several earthquakes and that one felt more like being on the deck of a ship in a storm than the usual shaking. The tsunami that the factor 9.0 earthquake had caused overcame the breakwater (that was built to stop tsunamis) and shorted out the generators (and backups) that were not made to function under water. Without power to the cooling pumps, the reactors overheated and some melted down. For a while after, planes weren't even allowed to fly in a large radius around the plant. They had to fly over Russia and approach from the West (coming into Kansai airport from North America anyway). When I first moved to Japan in 2004 I worked for one of the biggest conversation school chains called Nova. Right before I got there the CEO (Sahashi Nozomu) had roughly doubled the number of locations and teachers. The economy went into a recession and (to make a long story short) Nova had spread itself too thin and went bankrupt. Turns out the company hadn't paid the rent on employees' apartments for months, so there were mass evictions. Hundreds of foreign teachers were suddenly unemployed and homeless. Some embassies (like Australia) were even offering citizens emergency flights home. I survived it because the aforementioned Kobe earthquake survivor hired me and a friend of hers helped me take over the lease on my apartment, evicting Nova on paper and signed me on as the new renter. I ended up putting up a few other teachers while they got back on their feet or secured plane tickets home.
So theres hobos and crime everywhere?
It was later found out that Fukushima was designed to withstand any INDIVIDUAL major disaster. The earthquake/tsunami combo meant where one didn't get the plant, the other did. TEPCO was warned numerous times that the plant wasn't completely safe according to its designs and did nothing to update safely protocols and systems, which could have ultimately prevented the disaster in the first place, because scientists had discovered the walls weren't high enough for more recently measured wave heights, meaning the entire plant would basically drown and fail if those waves occured. And they did.. not long after that earthquake triggered the failsafe, dropping the control rods to stop the reactions.. and then, it was all downhill.
You can blame General Electric for what happened, otherwise known as Greed and Evil. The Fukushima reactors had no containment vessels, which would have prevented the release of radiation. Greed and Evil sold Tokyo Electric on this concept due to the cost savings. The outcome disgustingly illustrates how the influence of the buzzard vomit on Wall Street ultimately results in disastrous and costly consequences.
A small privately owned restaurant near my house had just reopened under new management. It had always offered standard fare, such as chicken fried steak, BBQ and other southern dishes. It did moderately well, but the new management decided to increase sales by offering an unlimited seafood buffet for lunch on Wednesdays. It was only $9.99 each and instantly was wildly popular! Their biggest moving item was the shrimp, which was fried, boiled, popcorn and shrimp etouffee. People were heaping nothing but shrimp on their plates and eating tons of it! The special was supposed to run for two months, but was cut short after just three weeks. Shortly thereafter the restaurant closed it's doors again and their new "manager" was out looking for a new job! Hopefully he found one that doesn't involve selling food!
In your piece about the Hubble Space Telescope I must defend the PerkinElmer company. In NASA’s investigation into the cause of the “astigmatism” that the telescope was displaying they found that the mirror was indeed the wrong shape for the collector and sensor units. But the PerkinElmer company wasn’t to blame as they had wanted to take several crucial quality control steps, including measurements to insure the correct curvature, but that would mean cleaning it, moving it to a different stand, and heating and cooling the material to get the correct measurements to proceed. The outside inspectors said “no”. Because they were running out of time to get the project built and on the stand before the launch date. The guys from PerkinElmer company voiced their concerns many times but the inspectors had them continue. Also, NASA did not come up with the plan to save the telescope. The guys at PerkinElmer came up with the “contact lens theory”. Plus, if they had screwed it up that bad, why would they let them build the fix for it? They said that the “fix lens” was three times more challenging than the mirror was. In the early days, right after the launch, they threw PerkinElmer under the bus so that somebody else could keep eating the jellybeans. I don’t know that they ever said, publicly, who’s job it was to oversee the overseers. Thought I’d throw that in there.
I was wondering why the mirror was not tested before being launched.
@@xonx209 Deadlines…..in order to test the mirror it would need to be disassembled, put in a vacuum chamber and cooled down to mimic orbital conditions. They claimed that they didn’t have enough time to make the deadline if testing was needed, so they scrapped it. Even after the company who was grinding it said that it was a crucial step……..
My Dad once met an X Nasa employee at a bar and he said they already knew about the Hubble mirror problem before the launch but sent it up anyway because they were already way over budget and past their delivery date of the project.
I can 100% see them doing this!
Nice
Just nice 😑😐😐
@@SaraKhan-ku7jb they had the solution then too! thats why it went up regardless.
Cap
19:59 Regarding the Kursk incident. Norway offered to rescue the remaining crew on board, but they were not allowed by the Russian authorities until it was too late. When they arrived, all the men on board had died.
What I heard about this car ship was, is someone left a side door open that they could have shut automatically from the bridge, they never shut it, so the ship was taking water from that open door which they couldn't fix it after it had taken on so much water so it started to tip until it was too late.
Actually. International rescue efforts did arrive in plenty of time. The Russian government stood in the way until everyone was dead
dead people cant sue you
That’s horrible. 😔
Russia would sacrifice their own sons instead of facing embarrassment
I think it's not about embarrassment, it's all about military secret i dunno, maybe US also reject international aid if their nuclear sub went down
15:43 Correction: The Ariane 5 rocket used part of the Ariane 4’s software, and a number generated within a 64-bit floating point was larger than the maximum capacity for the 16-bit singed integer caused the rocket to think it was 90 degrees off course, forcing ground crew to hit the self-destruct switch.
I was thinking it was probably an overflow error of some kind.
Uh… yeah me too. I was thinking these things too.
and it became the worlds most expensive firework maybe even the biggest
Ya I was thinking why they would make a self destruct switch on an unmanned rocket fully depending on the computer decision. Glad to know my doubt has been cleared up. Thanks
@@_v1nce130 its technically one of the worlds most expensive software bug to lol
In my personal experience I have encountered an expensive mistake too I live in Goa, India and on a famous tourist destination, Miramar Beach, A huge cruise ship ran aground a few metres from the shore and people were not allowed in the water. The ship was moved around a month later. It was tilting to its side while it was there
Seattle 1994 . Security Fence Co. Inc. My Forman and I had started a Security Fencing job at Boeing Field. Underground utilities aka call before you dig, had already paint marked all underground utilities. Giving us the go to layout our fence line. Staying a minimum of 3ft away from there markings. Great so we had to drill through the airstrip approx 1 1/2 ft of concrete + 4ft depth as needed for structural integrity for the fence post footing. A Hydronic Taxoma drill rig was used to do the job. Unfortunately on the 3rd hole the drill unit hit some underground obstruction. Witch had brought the project to a screaming hault. When 80% of Boeing Fields fiber optics had been drilled through. Costing a staggering $27,000,000 price tag blow to the utility Companys (Call before you dig. ) for a paint mark off by 19 inches. OUTCH! The Fence Co. Was not at fault. DOUG SMITH & DALE LEWALLEN.
A huge part of why Kobe was so devastated was due to how the houses were constructed, they were built with super heavy tiled roofs to endure the violent storms the region would get, but in cruel irony it meant while it could withstand massive winds it wasn't designed for the shaking of the foundation from earthquakes and almost all of the houses were completely flattened by the weight of the roofs, and it's what caused the death toll to reach such numbers as it did.
No. crule ironie iz not spaice. Crueol irony is steel, stainless for no rust. Why you no rust?
@@randomthings8247 what?
@@randomthings8247 huh?
@@queen-lilyorjiako268 well as for someone who has been working in the construction field I can say that the metal used for the wires in holding up the bridge in the first clip was the first mistake. When creating such a bridge you gotta use either galvanized steel wires or aluminium wires, for the exact reason that they cannot rust. And aluminum would be preferred here as it is both flexible, light doesn't rust and is very strong.
@@randomthings8247 Actually, aluminum oxydise way faster than iron But the oxyde is stronger than aluminum metal
9:00 The idea for Harry Potter actually came to her in 1990 while she was searching for a job, and the idea "just fell into her head". It wasn't until 1995 that she was able to finish the book, and in 1997 was able to publish it.
Just a youthful spin on "The Lord of the Rings". I've read both too many similarities to ignore.
50 million dollars is a cheap fix to an instrument costing 1.5 billion. The COSTAR fix was and is genius. What an amazing and demanding feat the Hubble telescope was!
Thank you for this series. Details for failure analysis are good to know. Of course, "government's money" actually means money taken from citizens via taxes and/or inflation. In addition, some of the comments have very interesting information/clarification. Thank you to those commenters, as well.
Yep it’s not hard for the government to blow other peoples money. They’ll just ask for more in taxes.
@@charliedallachie3539 so what happens when the government blows other peoples money?
@@charliedallachie3539 1131321131323311q1
Seriously, do you have a single original thought? You have posted this exact same comment on each of these videos.
Just imagine being the one person responsible for anyone of these mistakes.
I would cry for 30 years if I made any of that mistakes
Blame someone
@@pr1m3_d22 right if they'll know you did it
To be honest its NEVER one person's fault. Its a group effort.
@@joshuastoaac9572 They will not
I’d hate to be the guy who lost his hard drive of Bitcoin. And then to see my name on lists like this.
I still think he made it up!
I don’t. No one wants to be the Biggest Looser. I’ve thought about it helping him for a cut. Some dumps lay trash in a pattern by date. This is how police sometimes locate things. If he could figure out when it happened... Must be difficult 2 go on unscathed after that. Could u imagine?
@@mustangnawt1: He did ask folks who were knowledgeable about that dump's operations, and the team narrowed down the general area, based on the best info the guy could recall. However, they failed to find the HDD in the landfill, and the town eventually told them to stop because of health and safety concerns. Anyway, he had mined his 7500 BTC for practically nothing, and later threw away the HDD which holds it, when they were worth over $600. Seems he's back to his original state, with nothing to show for it, but grief and a sad story, like claiming to lose the winning Mega-Million or Powerball lottery ticket. It would be funny if, in the future, an archeologist finds the HDD, and a team of engineers reads out the data from the platter to recover the digital tokens. If BTC is still valid as a currency at that point in time, there'll be a lot of vulture lawyers coming in to feed.
Hard to believe no other way to verify his purchase/ownership ...it's a stretch to believe the story as told here.
@@stevewight1409 .. I think he made it up hoping for donations to start pouring in.
The Nanfang’ao bridge failure started at the top of one of the vertical cable near the center, not at the cable anchors at either end. The other cables should have been able to absorb the extra load but they too were corroded.
Why not stainless with nikel alloye? No rust, no death. Why death over rust?
this is why as a Nace inspector we sign an oath
I find something oddly endearing about the Hubble telescope needing glasses to see clearly.
When the government paid for something, that means, *WE PAID FOR IT.* emphasis on *WE!*
and who did the government pay? US! Lots of people's jobs come from the money the government (we) pay them (ourselves).
@@ionymous6733 tax dollars shall not go to the military no more
@@jeffjests2764 aight lets get invaded, sounds fun!
@@0yah0yah06 we don't need a military, it would be dumb to invade the us anyways
@@0yah0yah06 yall guys are so militaristic, just be pacifist
After hearing exactly how many eyewatering and jaw dropping copies I don't think my literary ideas could ever measure up quite as much!🤯
In addition to the information, my easily distracted mind absolutely treasures the animation in these series. Thanks for the giggles and thank you (and your team) so much for all you do!!
I watched a documentary on the B2 bomber accident. There was alot more miscommunication than that. Not even some of the techs at guam knew about it and there were also warning signs given by the plane after calibration that were disregarded. It was also a flaw in the programming as the plane systems were aware of the d9fferent sensor readings even after calibration but believed the false reading over the legitinate readings when doing it's autonated actions. The pilots literally were not able to stop it.
WW1 and WW2 were one of the most expensive mistakes of human history Unlike the above in this two almost the whole world suffered all at once
WE suffered da most D:
No mistake. Just evil at work.
Oil tanker: I can make it if I ju... Bridge: *I'm gonna end this guy's whole career*
Idk know if i should laugh
@@o_oqwertyuiop5680 I know I did 😂😂
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@@o_oqwertyuiop5680 Me to
I think it also end his whole life
I just caught onto this account in the last week and see this is a many part series. Did you ever cover the Atari *not* buying the conclusive rights to sell Nintendo product in the 1980s? They didn't like the deal, bailed on it, and the NES exploded between 1985-1989 and after, and well we know what happened to Atari. I'm sure they could have used those billions in revenue. :D
What's amazing is that BP had to pay for over 100 billion dollars in fines and cleanup but still is one of the biggest oil companies in the world.
At least the bridge lasted 20 years. The Tacoma Narrows bridge of 1940 only lasted 4 months.
Whoa whoa I'm from Tacoma cross the narrows all the time. 😂
Galloping Gertie is what they called it. Lol. Tacoma native here!
@@nharris4606 lol yes I'm aware of that . Tacoma native here myself .
I saw this (Galloping Gertie) on Encarta 🤣
But I saw the pictures of galloping girdy on the wall of the 'Span' as a youngster. What was the dog's name?
So, real story on the Deepwater Horizon, I've never worked for Halliburton, but I worked for their direct competitor for 7 years and there are many different facets to the story. The company that owned and operated the drilling rig was Transocean, which is a great company with an outstanding safety record, but they had been having trouble abandoning the Macondo well so that they could move on to the Kaskida well and the production rig was due to move onto Macondo behind them. The issue was that Halliburton had been researching a better concrete slurry to plug the well so that it could be properly abandoned until the production rig had their blow out preventer and casing tubing installed and could drill through the concrete plug and start oil production. Well Halliburton hadn't perfected the concrete mixture yet and on top of everything not enough centrilizers were used on the drill string due to BP and Halliburton decisions on cost cutting. Also, once the plug had been found to have been leaking from a negative pressure test the Manual Disconnect System had failed to shear the pipe in the BOP because of poor maintenance on the rig crew's part. I have somewhat of a connection to the BOP, but I cannot say how (for obvious reasons) although I can say that I have never seen or touched it. The major issue was that there was a breakdown in pressure applied by BP to the rig crew into believing false ideologies in an attempt to explain away the pressure leak, on Halliburton for not thoroughly testing their slurry concoction before implementing it, and also on the many safeguards that are taught to us as oilfield workers when we are first hired and throughout our careers as we advance to different positions. It's an unfortunate reality in the oilfield that when the budget is way overblown and the projected completion date of a project is passed and exceeded that the owners of the well will attempt to come up with well founded reasons for why something is wrong, but well experienced and trained oilfield employees know better, but they go with the flow because even though we were thoroughly trained to "stop the job" when we find something wrong, we can't stand up to company men. It's sad. It truly is.
I also have worked in the offshore oil field. You hit every nail perfectly on the head. There was a catastrophic failure at every level to cause this disaster. You cannot point the finger at just one company or one person. It required a conspiracy to cause this disaster.
So did the companies involved learned a lesson and changed for the better?
Netflix never would have been so successful if they mailed their DVDs in the old fashioned jewel cases. The paper mailers were ideal for NYC apartment building mailboxes.
Re Kursk - US rocket scientists experimented with H2O2 as rocket fuel. They never managed to stabilize it. It could be used in a torpedo, but the tanks should be left dry until you need to use it.
The Ariane 5 explosion looks a bit like the Challenger explosion but with more of a fireworks effect.
That's because they used the same shit they blew up the WTC and building 7 with...
Some more spacecraft accidents: The Mariner 1 crashed in 1962, also due to a software error. It's not exactly clear where the mistake was, as there are several theories to what caused the error. The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost again because of a software error. The programmers for one of the systems used imperial measurements for some reason, which caused the guidance systems to malfunction, as they interpreted the data as if the Orbiter was flying upside down and steered it straight towards the ground.
Back when Red Lobster had its $14.99 all you can eat promo, I as a teen sat there for 2 hours and ate 7 pounds of crab legs. Only left because my parents got tired of watching me eat.
Deserve the compqny
I’m pretty sure the most costly mistake is when you major in something you soon grow to hate.
Only if you treat your education as learning how to do a very specific thing rather than learning how to learn, adapt, and grow.
At least Red Lobster honored their side of the offer, unlike the dominos tattoo disaster. 😂😂
Or Pepsi reneging on their Harrier giveaway
Here in the UK vacuum cleaner manufacturer Electrolux offered a free open ended return flight to NYC for every machine sold but didn't print the usual "one per household" restriction on it, honouring the offer bankrupted them because people like a friend of mine bought 7 vacuums as they were about the fifth of the normal price of the flight and he got all his chrimbo, birthday and wedding prezzies sorted for a few years to boot too.
I saw a guy in a domminos uniform buying a load of cheap pizza's in Aldi (the 50p ones)- about 20- all that were there- the twat didn't even hide his uniform!
@Night Breed... I dont where that happened at lol. Cuz Dominoes pizza definitely doesnt taste like no Aldis pizza at all
@@natehill8069 they didn't renege. It was a joke and everyone knew it. Including the court, which is why they won the lawsuit.
I lost my wallet once, over $20 gone, just like that, it still hurts
I misplaced a wallet in my apartment and later found it again but not until I cancelled the cards in it. Annoying and expensive.
Its 500pesos in philippines
@@shangamingyt9327 Oo Mahal yun
@@michaelpettersson4919 should have just locked 🔐 the cards and then after if still not found then cancel. haha that's what I do. I just freeze or lock my card when I can't find it. And when I find it I unlock it. 🙌🏽☺️👌🏽
@@shangamingyt9327 more like 1,000
Your telling me a 20 yr old bridge collapsing cost 160k? The Titanic sank on it's maiden voyage, and costs 400 million to make in todays money.
$160,000 for the 6 dead people and 10 injured, but 20-something million to build a bridge. Shows how much life is worth.
Okay everyone let’s go search for that hard drive cut gets split evenly 😂
🤣🤣
The one person who already found it: no thanks
Ight ima join lolll
fail
Eh, if no one has found it by now, it's all gone anyway. The disks have probably corroded into slag by now.
You missed the best part The backup mirror, made by Kodak, was eventually tested to be the correct mirror despite not being chosen
8:20 - The electromagnetic waves would damage the hard drive rendering it useless & unable to recover the data needed to cash out ...
*Messed up fact related to the Kursk* : During a live press conference, the family members of victims that wouldn't keep quiet about how they were lied to were involuntarily injected with sedatives and carried out of the room. Everyone else just pretended it wasn't happening. It is incredibly eerie to watch. 👀
2:56 That's amazing. I had no idea about how the Hubble telescope's mirrors were made. Thank you for the update, Be Amazed..!!
I just remember how big a joke Hubble was back in the day. It's made up for it in spades since then. Some of the most recent images are mind-blowingly amazing. Not a joke anymore.
Except the videos were of Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, which didn’t make Hubble’s mirror.
feel bad for the guy who spilled his plate on his pants at the start :(
Brooklyn 99 The detective was trying to prove that his captain was wearing no pants the captain admitted it and well you know
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@@paulmartino7645 stoke? Lol
@Bryson Gamblin srtorke
@Bryson Gamblin sortke
Fun fact: BP makes $162 Billion dollars a year in profits. The total cost of Deep Water Horizon was recouped in about 40 days of operation.
Now Netflix is losing a ton of money because they cancel series after 1 or 2 seasons, increase the monthly fee, don’t have as many great shows or movies, and are trying to crack down on sharing passwords. A lot can change in a few years.
Oh man Mrbeast cant afford these
don't count your *beasts* before they *roar*
@@AttitudeforQA lmao
Thinking the same thing
@@BeastNutha 🤣🤣🤣
@@BeastNutha oh i hear mr beast roaring in the distance😲 i think his angry at us°~°
I feel terrible for the guy who threw out that hard drive. I honestly do. I don’t know how I would go on knowing I did that by accident.
It's just money. If having a lot of money will make you happy, then you're living life incorrectly.
@@lanthanumlanthanium6373 still, that amount of money being lost could've been avoided.
The kursk sub cost is nothing to how those 23 young men knew they were going to die and wrote their good bye letters to their families in the darkness. These letters are heart breaking .
I lived through the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake north of LA. And lived on the same street as the Olive Vista Hospital. I remember, as a 11-year-old, running out of our house when the second earthquake hit shortly after the first, and watched the elevator shafts fall to the ground with people in them. This needs to be talked about.
I think you got the Harry Potter story wrong. It was rejected by everyone, but it was first published by Scholastic. Scholastic normally published textbooks and published HP only on a lark, I think a child of an editor liked it. None of the "real" publishers wanted it. Scholastic then laughed all the way to the bank
Years ago,I used to work for "Weekly Reader" Scholastic was our mortal enemy!
Scholastic negotiated with Bloomsbury for the rights to publish all the American versions of the Harry Potter stories. Bloomsbury was the first publisher, in the UK, where it was written and first published. Scholastic is certainly not primarily a textbook publisher. It was famous for publishing beloved children’s literature long before the brilliant move of securing the American publication rights to the HP franchise. I’m American, but I also own the Bloomsbury, non-Americanized, versions of the HP books. I like the original British-isms and spellings better than the Americanized versions that Scholastic publishes. That being said, I do love Scholastic as a company, and especially their wonderful educational student magazines. I have used several of them extensively in my classroom and find them to be first rate.
the guy that was responsible for the kursk disaster probably got shot out of a torpedo tube and probably got sent to gulag if he survived the first punishment
yea. he is ded in gulag now :D
I believe that the situation with kursk sub isn't a problem of welding rather not being checked casually for routine inspections.Im not sure if they check those machines that much to be honest!
Alongside the publishers rejecting Harry Potter, any mention of United Artists and Universal Studios rejecting Star Wars before Fox picked it up? And even then Fox was a bit dubious about its success, letting Lucas keep ALL of the merchandising rights.
Those poor submariners, especially those that didn’t get killed by the first explosion. Can’t imagine anything worse.
When the rescue teams was on their way an explosion was heard at the sub. It later showed that the oxygen torches they used had got in contact with water and when they do they explode violently and killed them all.
THE WORST PART is that in EVERY case....it's the INNOCENT VICTIMS WHO PAY....while the lazy FUCK-UPS or Corrupt Suits GET AWAY EVERY TIME.
"can't imagine anything worse" *Sinking bismarck flashback* yeah.. Sinking Bismarck is just one example for a worse thing... also Yamato and Musashi.
Dying of mouth cancer, yeah thats worse. give me drowning any day
I can. Nerve agents
I remember the Kusk Submarine incident well. There were offers from foreign powers to help bring the still alive stranded crew to safety. But the Russian government turned every offer down on grounds of security. And it was even reported that you could hear the remaining crew tapping on the walls of the stricken submarine until one day they finally stopped. Hearing the news every day during this ordeal I felt frustrated and sickened knowing that slowly one by one the men in this sunken sardine can were going to die and did and all because of the yet again stubbornness of some big wigs decided that they will have the crew given a death sentence for what...
The men who survived the explosion died well within a day. There was nothing that could have been done to save them.
@@joebish6629 That’s not what I heard. I live in the UK and I remember almost round the clock reports about this incident. And even if the crew died within a day which I dispute but I’ll leave it to the history books I still remember the daunting feeling when I would hear from the BBC radio or elsewhere that people were still tapping on the inside of the sub clinging to the last of their hope. Unless of course they were all given a dose of Prussic Acid before retiring from life.
@@olgierdogden4742 I'm afraid you're misinformed. It's true that there were round the clock reports and the Russian government resisted offers of assistance for the first week. I worked a ship called the 'Subsea Mayo' which did all the preparation work for the recovery of the submarine and I can assure you that the 23 men that survived the explosion died within a day, probably just a few hours. No one heard any tapping because the men inside the sub were dead long before any rescue vessels got there.
Sad also were the goodbye notes they found.
@@kolasom I was never aware of that detail. Sad, terrible and could they have been saved.. I don’t know and haven’t bothered as I was much younger then and ditto. I thank you for the info, and whatever you do over this festive season have a good one even if you have a solo xmas day as I’ve proved to myself that there are many other ways to celebrate or at least treat yourself to a vibe whatever it may occur. Take care.
I remember the submarine thing so well because, one day I was talking to somebody and I said you know it'll be suck for people in the submarine to be stuck in the water and they won't be able to get to you. Just a random thought I was talking to a friend and I swear a week or two later that happened. And I felt weirded out that it actually happened so close after I thought about it. I never forget it
That's purely coincidence. You're aren't the only person that has had that thought, regarding submarines 🙄🤣
We had an Ice storm in Iowa. A high tension power line was hanging so low it was blocking travel on a hi-way. Instead of having trucks support the lines, the person in charge decided to cut the lines resulting in 25 miles of towers being pulled over.
There’s no price on life unfortunately ;( condolences to the people that have died to these mistakes
I disagree. Life is worth NOTHING. (ALL WE ARE is....ONE DUDE's JIZZ!!) Humans cost nothing to make, and couldn't be EASIER to accidentally create! Plus, there's a fate FAR worse than death: LIFE (on a planet of 7 billion fuckup humans!). ex: I'd rather have been CRUSHED TO DEATH in the Miami Condo Collapse....than survive by you lost EVERYTHING! (If you think it's easy to get new Photo IDs etc, it ain't. You can get your Birth Certificate, but that's not enough to replace ANY of your IDs etc! Not in Amerikkka!)
Can’t wait for the next one with the Suez Canal blockage 😂😂
Seen it last week already
some maths i see is about 300 billions between ship salvage, fines, assurances and world market slowed down, so imo top 1 over all
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I feel like they ignore the deaths and act like the worst part was the cost.
Idk if you have this in part 1 or 2 of this mini series but the Tenerife airport crash was really bad. Idk how much damages were but I'm sure it was a lot
Wow these mistakes make my life look like a smoothly paved asphalt road to $10,000,000
You are overestimating yourself
Olympic sized swimming pool is quite a favorite unit on this channel isn’t it?
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Odd choice of measures.The 1908 Olympic swimming pool was 100 meters long. Today's pools are 50 meters (long course) or 25 meters (short course). It is not a specific definition, as there is no official limit on the depth of an Olympic pool.
Olympic swimming pool is a decent-enough measurement to show scale (like foot-ball field), my parents pool takes about 1.5 standard tanker's to fill (only filled this way after it was finished, one truck of lake water got it about 2/3 full) Relatively, an Olympic pool sized amount/volume of liquid, is "a lot of liquid"
@@austinh1028 I have no idea what the size of an Olympic sized swimming poor nor an American football field are tho
@@Rashed1255 660,000 Gallons or 2.5 million Liters generally, according to google, inground pools are around 15,000-40,000 gallons (130,000L) Think he mainly uses the measurements because you can show them easily in video
And here’s big news. I was hired by BP to work as a drilling foreman for them working another transocean rig. This was like 3 years after deep water horizon. They were still doing the same shit. I argued about it and left one my second day of my first hitch with them and quit. I’m not going to jail for nobody.
What if the truck was the cause of the bridges collapse?😂😂😂😂😂😂 0:44
My friend works at a place that makes pharmaceuticals, they have giant mixing tanks, about a year ago they were transferring the product from one tank to another, but someone accidentally left a valve open, so six million dollars worth of the product went down the drain.
@Almighty Xavier Why is it great?
@@bigredc222 Fuck big pharma, that's why.
@@FerreTrip You think they'll just absorb that, they'll find a way to pass it on to the customer. It's never good for any company to lose money.
OMG 4 vials of insulin went down the drain ?!?
Yeah! Fuck big pharma! The next time I have a headache, I want to put on my cloak and wander around the countryside looking for roots and berries that I can then grind up with my mortar and pestle. By the time I get all that done, I'll either be dead or my headache will have gone away. Either way- WIN! If I get, let's say, diabetes, or high blood pressure...well, no body ever gets those, so who cares, right?
Correction: the largest oil spill in history was the intentional spilling of oil into the Persian Gulf by Saddam Hussein during Desert Storm in January 1991. Combined with the oil that was burned directly out of Kuwaiti wells, it was an absolutely insane environmental disaster. The Deepwater Horizon spill doesn’t come close, but it does possibly qualify as the largest *accidental* oil spill.
but it WASN'T "accidental". IT NEVER IS. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ACCIDENT. ONLY HUMAN NEGLIGENCE AND HUMAN CORRUPTION.
Wow, Lockheed seems to have a history with f-ing up priceless scientific space instruments ...
I'm surprised you didn't start a worldwide treasure hunt for that hard drive filled with Bitcoin lol
other than ransom money unless you know the password to access that bitcoin would just end up wasting it.
i'll give you a clue.. its in newport not far from cardiff lol
@@Mogani well if it were me I'd be happy enough to get it back to share with the finder.
Now since it's my idea I feel like I deserve a little bit of a fee for getting the right person with the ability to go find it the idea. lol
@@Mogani But you'd also be surprised to see the amount of people who write that information on something and then tape it to the hard drive. There's plenty of hard drives in my freezer with the information of what's on it and the login information taped to it well enough the paper is totally safe. (NO ONE ROB ME THEYRE PICTURES! THATS IT! FAMILY PHOTOS. One is solely every photo of my dead kid. These have zero worth to anyone else.)
Was Netflix really a big mistake to Blockbuster? Blockbuster showed they were late to the mail in rental game. If Netflix sold to them, would Blockbuster have even tried to move on to digital streaming like Netflix ended up doing? I'd argue that Blockbuster would have been more in the mail in rentals, but would still have lost to digital streaming services. I don't believe they would have made the change away from the old format. So I don't believe Blockbuster lost out on billions because they would have bought Netflix and not brought it to where it is today.
It's hard to tell what could have happened. But one thing we can all agree on; Netflix is a huge success under it's current direction. At the very least, Blockbuster would have bought more time by removing, what ended up being, their biggest threat.
@@SeverinSnake Blockbuster was already under mismanagement at the time of Netflix's inception. They were hemorrhaging money in bids based on rapid expansion of store locations. Hedging their bets on a growing game console game rentals. They didn't understand the market they were in, and were stuck in the early 90's. All of this is still evident by their last remaining store that closed this year. | Video Rentals were losing popularity because of single rental costs, and distribution. Not availibility. This is something blockbuster never understood as they were heavily fixated on there "Single-rental" philosophy. They simply never thought people would want to sit more than 1.5 hours in front of a TV, rather than go to a social event(Theatre). The final nail in their coffin is there strong ties to the MPAA. The MPAA /hates/ distribution models like DVD/Blu-Ray, and hates even more the Digital Distribution method favored today. Simply because its not profitable(for them) as their licensing favors theatre showings, and its the largest contributor to theatre operation costs as a result. The MPAA was having a long fight with at-home video playback in the 90's and 2000's. Blockbuster, hoping to soothe the raging boomer of a organization, invested heavily into making agreements with the agency. Resulting in higher rental costs, but at the same time, made it difficult for competing companies offering the same services due to favoritism by the influence. However, the MPAA couldn't pull the same stunt with Netflix. Their distribution method was treated less like rentals and more like time-shares purchases. MPAA not having fleshed out regulations favoring them, and their market manipulation tactics, resulted in Netflix both reducing overhead far below Blockbuster and being their own monopoly by being first through the gate. thus blockbusters ideas for monopoly by favoritism and manipulation was also their greatest undoing. If they would of fought the MPAA's greed, and fought competition with gimmicks they were already famous for, They would of remained profitable for a long time post-mail rental.
I know I was confused about that
Yep! Have a feeling if Blockbuster had bought Netflix back then, we'd not have anything close to what Netflix offers today.
If Blockbuster would have bought Netflix back then, we would be seeing Netflix on this list of most expensive mistakes for selling to Blockbuster and losing out on billions.
I was living in the town where the clip @:04 happened. They shut down the only East-West route through that part of the city. IT was closed for a month and they had an elaborate detour to get people who lived along that rode to work and back. The state and city film office were bombarded with calls, I don't know what the city got in compensation for that shoot, but the population who lived out there didn't think it was worth it.
You wouldn't expect such a small difference to make an entire image blurry, until you remember how big space really is and how far apart everything really is. Then you think it's a wonder we can see anything outside of our solar system to begin with
Corning Glass company in Elmira New York built the corrective lens for the Hubble. They actually had to make 2 of them as the first had a tiny microscopic defect and that was not good enough for Corning. So at their own cost they remaid the corrective lens. You can see the first lens and how big it actually is by visiting the Corning Museum of Glass in Elmira NY
Deep water horizon wasn’t a mistake. It was the greed of BP pushing rented equipment to the Max with minimal repair.
The equipment was not being rented by BP. It was owned and operated by Transocean. BP contracted with Transocean to drill and prepare the well. Drilling that well had been a series of one problem after another which put them three months behind schedule. Although BP was responsible for a poor design (they had been using the exact same well design for years) and their disaster response plan had been copied from copies, from copies for a decade. It was Transocean who screwed up. BP had also screwed up by allowing a contract clause that shifted liability for any oil spills from Transocean to BP. Additionally there was an element of arrogance on the part of Transocean and BP in that they believed that they were 'too good at their jobs' to have a drill rig disaster. Another issue was the top levels of safety management. If you want to get promoted you have to have some kind of achievement. And not having an oil rig blow up in the last year when it had been three decades since the last time it happened wasn't going to impress anybody. So the people responsible for safety were concentrating on 'slips, trips and falls' (the most common workplace accident) and not really paying attention to the oil rigs. Also the routine on the oil rig had been disrupted that day - in what was a cruel irony - when BP officials came out and gave the crew a safety award. Another factor was in the fact that the 'industry standard' blowout preventer had a design flaw in that the design had not been updated after the introduction of higher strength drill pipe. (Which was a problem that affected every blowout preventer in service at the time that nobody noticed because no drill pipes had to be cut in order to perform an emergency seal of a deep sea oil well.) And the cause of the accident was 100% mistakes made by the drill crew. The Haliburton team had indications that something went wrong with the cement work but ignored it because they had seen them before and nothing bad had happenned. The readings from the pressure test showed an anomaly that the people interpreting the results failed to look into. (And they didn't look into why the first two tests had failed they simply re-did the test until the got the result they needed. And in both of these cases - it was the people who did the work who didn't communicate the fact that they were getting 'odd' results to their supervisors. And the final failure was made by the supervisor for that shift on the drilling level itself. Industry SOP was to always have a person observing the flow of drill mud when it was being pumped into the holding tank (on a ship moored to the drill rig) but the person on the bridge if that ship never saw anybody doing this. The supervisor of the crew on the drill floor also failed to notify the ship that the pumps removing the mud from the well had been turned off. As a result - the fact that the mud was still coming out of the well after the pumps were turned off was not noticed by the person who was supposed to be observing it - and not reported by the person who saw the mud entering the tank on his ship but assumed that everything was OK because he hadn't been informed that the pumps had been turned off. The failures by the on-duty drill crew have been glossed over because they were the first ones to die in the explosion and nobody wanted a public perception of a cover-up by blaming the dead people for the disaster. This disaster was the result of a lot of assumptions, an institutional belief that attention to disaster response plans were not needed because they were "too good at their jobs to have a disaster in the first place," a failure of safety management to be prepared for 'blue swan' events, and a series of minor judgement errors by people actually doing the work. Of course when the disaster occurred BP public relations didn't shoot themselves in the foot. Instead they emptied the entire magazine into their foot, reloaded and did it again. And the US govrenment did a lot of questionable things. When BP gave the US govrenment $22 billion to pay damages to people impacted by the disaster. Less than half that money had been paid out when the fund ran out of money. The US govrenment demanded another $20 billion - and BP refused unless the US govrenment gave them an accounting of what happened to the rest of the money. And of course the US govrenment had a windfall of money from the disaster as a result of the fines and fees levied against BP - and the fact that the use govrenment earned a royalty of $12 off of each barrel of oil that left that well.
If they were being greedy, they would have not allowed it to happen. Greedy is just the wrong word since it cost them a lot of money. I think they made a mistake and trusted too much without proper checks and procedures in place. I didn't hear you commenting before the accident. Why? because it's easy in hindsight, to point out what went wrong, but health and safety is hard when people are involved. People do some dumb things if the incentives are wrong.
Their repair? Paint it... And send it back...
So basically, even though it was mostly the fault of an american rig company and an american foam-cement company, the us government rinsed bp for all it could get.
Having seen some of the absolutely breathtaking and amazing images Hubble has taken in recent years, the cost for having to create COSTAR due to the original issues is vastly worth it.
LOOK CLOSER. Too often I've seen "Hubble photos" that are incredible...and then the FINE PRINT says it's a DOCTORED photograph!! (Some are "artist's RENDITIONS"!!!!)
I find it quite endearing that the Hubble needed glasses. Like some little old man gazing wistfully up at the stars, wondering what there might be.
So after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP had to pay enough money to launch not one but two James Webb Space Telescopes. Dear god.
0:26 the date in which this event occurred was the same day that the Peoples Republic of China was celebrating National Day 2019, and this all happened in TAIWAN. Thats one huge coincidence.
Yeah, the Ariane 5 failure is probably the most costly interger overflow in history.
The worst and more expensive mistake (in my budget) was my marriage.
Ditto
Ditto Will never marry again going on 27 years was married for 14 years then divorced.
$160K in compensation? That is almost comical... No wonder no one takes care of it. It costs far less to ignore it.
Yes that's pathetic.... 160k compensation and repairs over 16mill.... so clear what a human life "over there" is worth. Don't know what i would do, if i would've been a relative of one of these victims.
That dude that lost all those bitcoins… that story makes me wanna cry every time I think about it. That guy probably hasn’t slept in years.
*one time I accidentally bought a bag of lays baked chips instead of the regular ones and it cost me good tasting chips*
I hope you are ok now.
Geez, hope you're ok
That is a seriously messed up mistake. I'd say most of the examples in this video are worse than that though.
totally worth bold for
When I was a kid I drank all my dad's brandy and paid the ultimate price ! £14.95 for a new bottle .
James Howells, the Bitcoin guy, is Welsh. Call him English, he'll fight you.
It would be funny if, in the future, an archeologist finds the HDD, and a team of engineers reads out the data from the platter to recover the digital tokens. If BTC is still valid as a currency at that point in time, there'll be a lot of vulture lawyers coming in to feed.
It’s fine if he fights me, it’s not like he’ll be able to cover the cost of his own bail since his dumb ass threw out a hard drive
btc a few months ago was at 50k
@@3a.m.284 You don’t purchase bail in the UK
Channel never ceases to amaze me... with narrators who pay absolutely no attention to the text they're reading. "...Ariane 5, which was a *predecessor* of the super successful Ariane 4"... nothing wrong with this phrase...
@15:44 As far as I can remember, the "glitch" in Ariane 5 was the use of U.S./U.K. imperial numbers instead of metric numbers, that caused the miscalculations.
The UK is fully metric. Almost all engineering in the US is metric down to the fasteners in Fords and Chevies. There is no problem with using Imperial measurements. The problem is mixing the two systems. That was at least the second time that happened. A planetary probe was lost because its navigation had a confusion of units.
My college Physics teacher would go to the Perkin Elmer factory in Norwalk CT to teacher the engineers how to build the Hubble Space Telescope.
I started crying for that dude with the Bitcoin hard drive
From nothing, he ended up with nothing. No big deal.
And if he took all the money he spent looking for the drive and just bought more coins he would be a multimillionaire by now.
Me, too.
No joke my son throw out 20k bitcoins in a hard drive in 2012 that would be worth over a Billion (Yes with a B) dollars.
@@joelesher7106: What was on the HDD that was valued at $20K? [One BitCoin is valued at about $45K at the moment.]
I mean the most costly is probably fukushima, the company had been told multiple times that the tsunami walls were not high enough for potential tsunamis and therefore the pump rooms could be flooded.
....because US money was involved up front. Building the station higher would involve permanent increased cooling water pump electricity requirements making the station less profitable.
I found recently that the USA had in fact imposed a blackout on the east coast early in 1942, but made it voluntary. I wonder what the consequent shipping losses cost.
Can you even imagine being the the poor guy who was ultimately to blame for any of these? The “ground zero” guy?
You teach me so much lol. I partially feel I could go out and work new jobs just from what you share
In reference to the expressway in Kobe collapsing, it was NOT because the structure was using outdated data. The expressway was in fact built factoring in earthquakes stronger than the 6.9 that hit. The issue was that the earthquake actually struck extremely close to the expressway along an as yet undiscovered fault line, resulting in far more severe ground movement . If it had hit further away, the express way would probably have survived.
The cause of the bridge collapse in the first segment seems to be identical to that of the Ponte Morandi bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy. It seems like a very bad idea to attempt to seal off cables in concrete, making them very hard - or impossible - to properly inspect.