Discover the dark side of ambitious megaprojects, from the sinking of artificial islands to the plumbing problems of the world’s tallest building. Explore the practical and safety concerns that have led to the failures of grand designs, including the questionable practicality of the hyperloop system and the tragic story of the Soviet disaster airliner, Tu-104. Join us as we delve into the world of ambitious projects gone wrong and the lessons we can learn from their failures.
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7 tonnes isn't a whole lot, and definitely wouldn't require a fleet of trucks. One semi trailer swapped out twice a week would probably cover that. Way cheaper than running pipes…in the short term.
I would ask you to compare the safety record of the Comet against other early jets and Ithink you'll find that it co pares more than favourably. Apart from a few crashes in the very early days of the Comet, due to lack of knowledge of the process of fatigue around the windows, the plane had great record for safety. The lessons learned from the Comet were used in aircraft constructed since then.
I've always believed Musk was/is a con artist even before Tesla, so WTF was this video when everyone and their mother was praising him as a god for the ridiculous 'Hyperloop' that anyone with GCSE physics could see wouldn't work?!
As someone who lives on the West Coast, the Hyperloop was always ridiculous to me because…earthquakes
Ppl don’t see the real genius of the hyperloop project
It’s listed under Elons Boring company famous for “not a flamethrower”. The company isn’t a double entendres, it’s a literal boring (drilling) company.
This is where the genius kicks in, unlike most drilling machines, this one doesn’t spit out waste dirt…it spit out bricks. Utilizing the massive pressure and weight of drilling it creates bricks that get sent off to be kilned.
Changing the expense of waste removal to revenue generation. But he’s not making a fortune selling bricks, he can make much more donating the bricks to charities for a fat tax deduction.
The neat part about having the tube out in the sunlight… The top of the tube would grow as it warmed, but the bottom would not. So you end up with the mother of all sun kinks in the middle of the desert. Oooops. Assuming you figure a way around that by reflecting light onto the bottom half of the tube…What happens in San Francisco if the end at LA is utterly immobilized? The station would have to move north 600 or more feet. You can see the issue here… Doors open and the station is 600-1000 feet from where you are. Then it is time to throw in the weeks and months needed to pull a vacuum on the line from LA to San Fran…. Will require a large number of pumping stations to make it less than 6 months. And as said: LOTS of power, that the state doesn't seem to have..
Musk is a business guy, why do people keep calling him an inventor? He hasn't invented SHIT! He's just taking credit for other people's inventions.
The Khalifa C city in Abu Dhabi sits up there too. Khalifa A was well developed and well built. Khalifa B (later Shakboot city) was okay. It took a while to really develop a feel and for shops etc to move in but at least there were villas… In-between them both is a massive desert. Just nothing there at all… well, not quite nothing. There are roads into the sand that end and are covered in sand. There are weird little poles or pipes sticking up all over. View it from the air and you discover an entire "city" is mapped out with the services and roads in place but they ran out of money before they could build anything. 15 years ago
That's silly. The hyperloop worked perfectly and exactly as intended. Spoiled brat Elon Musk managed to kill high speed rail for the cost of 53 pages of printed material and a few painted bits of tubing.
I think you meant to say aero flop😂😂😂
Isn't UAE one of the places "striving" to build a Hyperloop?
Elon sure made mistakes but he is by all means more hornest than Simon. Because anyone who gets promoted by youtube is a dishornest person who has made a deal with a dishornest media. Thats how things work now a days.
who beaten Simon?
Tu-104: I am the most useless soviet megaproject plane
Tu-144: Allow me to introduce myself
Wow you have succeeded in sense and sensible science! I can only hope for a generation willing to learn sense and sensibly.
Lebanon island is better than Lebanon itself 🇱🇧🇱🇧🤘
This was just awesome
10:20 The T104 sounds remarkably effective, at killing communists.
Calling it now. The CIA was involved 🙂
Bog standard!? Simon do you think the Ricains know that expression?
Yes, please, more of this.
Passenger service Hyperloop would be a great opportunity to experience a thrill of dying from cabin decompression at sea level, without the inconvenience of going into upper atmosphere or space. Each capsule would not only have to carry its own life support system, but in case of cabin integrity compromise the entire atmosphere would immediately evacuate into the vacuum of the surrounding tube – and unless the passengers managed to get into what would have to be for all intended and purposes a spacesuit, everyone's blood would quickly boil. And of course there would be no practical way of rescuing anyone for hours, if not days.
Just FYI, dutch roll isn't normally much of an issue when it comes to flight controls, and on most aircraft, it won't cause a rapid stall.
Many aircraft have dutch roll modes that can be aggravated , but that and the spiral modes are (should be?) some of the less difficult to damp out, I believe. This is because on most aircraft, dutch roll has a very long period of oscillation compared to pitching modes.
Hyperloop is for the moon and Mars not earth
If you want a deeper dive on the Tu 104 that killed 16 Soviet Admirals, look up Paper Skies, he has a great video on the subject. As with many things USSR, it's a tragicomedy.
This belonged in Brain Blaze…if only for the dank meme of the saudi dude overdubbed with "the people are fucking retarded"…which belonged anywhere in the Dubai section.
…allegendly.
hyperloop is a monument to Elon Musk's tremendous ignorance. and utter disregard for rationality and safety.. and yes, he admitted it was a ploy to hinder the development of the California High Speed railway.
"Hyperloop" is the NFT of mass transit.
Ill skip the hyper and go with just the loop (rail)
"Vacuum tube of death." Sound like a Heavy Metal Band…
I loved the Space Shuttle. Had a toy from a very young age, always admired it…but to have a worse safety record than IT, as an airliner…is shocking!
The snark was strong in this video.
If anyone can find a creative and novel way to crack that hyperloop nut, it's Elon. Remember when NASA scoffed at his auto-return boosters? Doesn't sound so crazy now though 😜
This why MagLev should be implemented plemented in North America. This discussion begs the question why MagLev hasn’t been used for Rail Tranpot of goods.
Check out the Lockheed Star Fighter..How many Germany bought and how many of those crashed…unreal.
does this make sense using the 10 trillion pictures per second camera and a computer to see the molecule more closely?
Nothing is crazy about looking into an old idea on occasion. Actually building it when all the problems are not yet solved would have been a bad idea.
Hyperloop is supposed to run on a "Mag-Lev" track within a tube to cut down on air resistance.
Is the airline stat correct? Thought a lady was sucked out of a southwest flight window a few years ago.
And Elon Musk zombie fans would defend Hyperloop to the death
"Double Star" is a novel (might have started as a short, afraid I don't know) about a down on his heels actor hired to portray a political candidate who was kidnapped by thugs hired by the opposition. Classically wonderful SF novel from his best writing.
Mustard did a really good video on the flaws of the Tu-104. They basically took a bomber and widened the fuselage. It's just insane. https://youtu.be/tqhtkG6glug
My view on the Hyperloop is that if air resistance was the big issue for trains, we'd see a lot more trains looking very, very streamlined with nose cones and tail cones tens of meters long for a tiny fraction of the Hyperloop's cost.
Mega. Projects. Means. Ultra. Improved. Projects. It's. Now. Essential. For. Any. Schemes.
Some of the objections to the Hyperloop are not valid. Gas pipelines are a thing working the opposite way. They don't leak and deal with thermal expansion. I don't think that the Hyperloop will work though
Fab . Best one ever you guys. Love the humour.
Interesting note re Hyperloop…. Upon Apollo 11 return to earth, the moon rocks were stored in a vacum. Even for NASA, with its the huge budget could not keep a 2 bedroom sized room at vacum.
The moon rocks were quickly rehomed in a pure nitrogen atmosphere!
If NSAS couldnt keep a 2 bedroom sized room, then i doubt its possible
Hang on you described Elon Musk as an inventor? He hasn't invented anything even the way he cons people is the same as done in the past. He was recently compared to lyle lanley the Monorail salesman from the Simpsons, probably the most accurate description of Musk to date. I'm not convinced about the conspiracy to stifle high-speed rail but the term "pump&dump" comes to mind when promising too-good-to-be-true results from outrageous claims. Anyway, I'm predicting this is going to be an interesting year for Mr Musk.
You missed the Dubai Autodrome endurance extension that was built in 2009 with the intent of giving formula one and wec an alternative extended layout.
F1 raced on it once (in 2010), and the drivers all hated it so much that plans to use the layout in 2011 were immediately scrapped.
WEC used it a couple of times and then abandoned it after the drivers complained to organizers, leading to them using the grand prix layout for their event there.