As an engineer I can’t imagine the dopamine hit those engineers got watching the entire system flawlessly spring into action years after they finished building it.

@duckieduck8877

4 жыл бұрын

try to imagine their panic when they were told.. o that dam of 5km's yeah that one, it has to let the seawater pass so the marine life is undisturbed and keep the same lvl of protection. in an inlet with a pretty rough tidal current. how i'd love to hear their initial reaction on that message from the state

@Kelnor277

4 жыл бұрын

Duckie Duck been there on a much lower scale. Oh no we want the api to return something completely different now.

@duckieduck8877

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kelnor277 noooo. the simple questions people ask can be so hard to answer. But yeah they were pretty proud off their work, most of the people that worked on it. for an engineer the construction site of the pillars probably is a great place to visit if you are ever in these parts i would recommend it. It is called Neeltje Jans, in case you want to more about the construction of it . If not well then it just is extra info that will be occupying space in the brain sorry :-p

@barneymiller7894

4 жыл бұрын

Im just an engine builder and I still get pumped when I complete a project, these guys probably lost their freakin minds 🤣

@Kelnor277

4 жыл бұрын

Mesophyl not sure what that has to do with my comment. But ok buddy

Just realised that the Dutch equivalent for 'the straw that broke the camels back' is 'the drop that caused the bucket to overflow'. Quite telling of how deeply it's engrained in our society

@iridiumnext4126

Жыл бұрын

it's "the drop that caused the vase to overflow" in french, so I don't think this comes from the dutch issues with water

@BrianJ.

Жыл бұрын

@obimk1104 lol that's a bit of a stretch

@corneliusantonius3108

10 ай бұрын

@@iridiumnext4126 Non Tu es incorrect

@Snitsie

6 ай бұрын

Where the fuck did the English get the camels from?

At the artificial island Neeltje-Jans, at one end of the barrier, a plaque is installed with the words: "Hier gaan over het tij, de maan, de wind en wij" ("Here the tide is ruled by the moon, the wind and us (the Dutch)"). This is badass.

@TremereTT

4 жыл бұрын

In Germany the saying is "The Dutch and their archenemy, the sea." Meet you cheesebobs in Duinrell in October!

@mralderson5627

3 жыл бұрын

i stopped there on a road trip and it was quite imposing indeed

@jochembos3334

3 жыл бұрын

An old saying goes "God created the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands"

@TremereTT

3 жыл бұрын

@@jochembos3334 An old Frisian saying: God created the time. He never said anything about hurrying.

@donweatherwax9318

3 жыл бұрын

That's an almost Tolkien-esque line.

Germany here: On our yearly trip to Ouddorp we always have to cross parts of the Delta Works. Driving over that HUGE construction always reminds me how much work the Dutch had to put into it. This is literally a fight against mother nature. Extremely impressive!

@roteredamus

3 жыл бұрын

This comment makes up for the 600 eur fine I got for driving into the country and at the border getting pulled over for a 'random' drug test. Test proved I had smoked that month but not that day obv. I'm always sober when driving. Still hurts.

@tclanjtopsom4846

2 жыл бұрын

@@roteredamus its a daily occurrence in Australia, if you test positive you are driving under the influence. It doesn't matter if you smoked a month ago or 2 days ago and is ridiculous. I feel your pain as we know, its all about the money.

@caniblmolstr4503

2 жыл бұрын

A Question: Are Dutch swamp Germans or Germans hill Dutch

@janrobertbos

2 жыл бұрын

@@caniblmolstr4503 wir sind niederdeutschen; wij zijn nederduitsen.......................and now we`re friends again, fortunately..........

@SievertSchreiber

2 жыл бұрын

This comment aged badly knowing the 2021 flood

Fun little bit of additional info on how they did it: When the delta plan was initiated in the 1940s and 50s, it was impossible to simulate the complex hydrographic system of the Meuse-Scheldt-Rhine delta in software. However, the engineers still needed to model the effects of any change to the system accurately, as any dam does not just stop the sea from coming in but also the river from flowing out. So they built a custom computer (Deltar) which used electrical current as a analogue for water current, with resistors taking the place of sluices and weirs and capacitors as reservoirs. The computer was used until 1984, after which it was torn down.

@svenheilbron

4 жыл бұрын

There is also a park in Flevoland which housed many scale models. Since Flevoland was situated so low, there was a netural current going from the natural land towards flevoland, which is used in the models. This models are not in use anymore but you can still see some remnants when visiting the park.

@FailTorrent

4 жыл бұрын

@@svenheilbron Exactly, The Waterloopbos. As a Dutchie myself I never heard of it until Tom Scott visited it. I want there two weeks later. Worth it.

@bramvanduijn8086

4 жыл бұрын

@@FailTorrent Last time I was there, there were some very friendly squatters taking care of an old building there. They have a nice garden and a small swap-library.

@zethaabeee

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they found out that they had to keep the water level at stage as well.. Inmagtion what would happend with the contruction wooden poles in amsterdam

@martijnb5887

3 жыл бұрын

When the Afsluitdijk was created it was impossible to simulate the complex hydrograpic system of the Waddenzee in analogue electronic components. So the Dutch Noble price winner Lorentz devised a set of differential equations describing the water currents through all the channels. These equations were integrated using two class rooms of women performing the calculations while the results of both class rooms were cross checked frequently. Based on these calculations the bend in the eastern side of the Afsluitdijk was created to limit the increase of the water levels on the coast of Friesland. Hence the sluices on the east side are called the Lorentz sluices.

7:08 “as they say, this was the straw that broke the camels back.” Actually no, in the Netherlands we would say “that was the drop that overflowed the bucket.”

@counterfit5

4 жыл бұрын

Romano Böllermann ales sense that it’s water related

@Diadras

4 жыл бұрын

It was the drop that let the bucket overflow. :D

@bullie86

4 жыл бұрын

Diadras I know, I was just keeping the words in the order it would be if it was Dutch. 😅

@Diadras

4 жыл бұрын

@@bullie86 I know that you know, I just really wanted to say a dutch thing that doesn't make sense in english

@bullie86

4 жыл бұрын

Diadras eh, for this time I’ll see it through the fingers. 😂

13:54 Netherlands: Home of the largest joints in the world Sounds about right

@wade5761

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@Sarge80

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is so under appreciated 😂😂😂😂

@mjp3186

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@craftgames1882

3 жыл бұрын

lolllll

@nikosh6565

3 жыл бұрын

Dankje Kevin. Dank je

I'm a hydraulic engineer from the Netherlands, and I know they are currently planning to rework the entire area of the estuary of Zeeland to let more water in and out of the basin. Adding to that is that most new projects include the creation of dunes and other "soft" sea defenses (see the sand engine and Egmond aan zee) Just wanted to put that out there :)

@julieenslow5915

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Florida. I know that if climate change continues as predicted, much of Florida will be under water by 2100. Every time I think of that, I think of the Dutch people and their fight against the ocean. If no more work is done on the delta works, will it hold against the changes predicted by climate change?

@frisianmouve

2 жыл бұрын

@@julieenslow5915 Yeah I don't put much stock anymore in predictions like that, large swathes of coastal area would already be under water according to predictions in the 80's and 90's. It just always seems overestimation and fear-mongering. Like everytime there's a hurricane there it's supposedly because of climate change according to most media, but the record lack of US land-falling hurricanes from 2005 to 2016 wasn't.

@julieenslow5915

2 жыл бұрын

@@frisianmouve So happy you shared this, I am sure everyone was worried about you. But how does this effect the Netherlands - who have had an ongoing battle with water for a long time now?

@pietpuk2991

2 жыл бұрын

@@julieenslow5915 It will not. This is why every year a huge amount of money and effort is invested to improve on the already existing delta works.

@julieenslow5915

2 жыл бұрын

@@pietpuk2991 Thank you for the reply. I would say that even if climate change does not get as bad as predicted, it is all money well spent. No one wants to ever ever hear of a major water control disaster in the Netherlands. Or a minor one, for that matter.

Poseidon: I AM GOD OF THE SEA Holland: Fish please

@roddo1955

4 жыл бұрын

Oh snap!

@frostwing7308

4 жыл бұрын

@Sebastiaan Meyer met de zegen van Nehalennia

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Dutch list of things we're at war with looks kind of like: -Scilly Islands- -Germany- -Japan- -England- -France- -England- -France- -England- -France- -Spain- The Sea

@anoniem9379

4 жыл бұрын

@ WE are not at war with the sea, we colonised it.

@Tristanimator_

3 жыл бұрын

You just triggered us by saying holland instead of the netherlands

13:57 who would have thought the largest joints in the world are in Holland..

@yurizhivago4848

4 жыл бұрын

We have a lot of "grass" in Canada too. BC Bud and Tommy Chong are famous Canadian people and products.

@elwoodgizmo5382

4 жыл бұрын

Works for me. Except for Jamaican Red, Acapulco Gold, Maui Wowie, etc.

@rubberneck2855

4 жыл бұрын

Best observation, laughed

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

4 жыл бұрын

Haha. 👍

@joedufour8188

4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to go a different route than everyone else. The largest joint in the world occurs when I have to take a piss.

I've never heard of the delta works. Now that I have seen the video. All I can say is very impressive work. All countries should take note of this impressive work done by the Dutch.

@romanplays1

3 жыл бұрын

new orleans did get a plan from the dutch to get similar levels of flood protection. it was projected to cost 5 billion $. but it was declined.

@alfredorotondo

3 жыл бұрын

Venice tried a similar thing but every time that there's a storm the mayor doesn't close the gates because they simply don't work

@AndreSomers

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfredorotondo you don’t give that responsibility to a person. The maeslandkering closes off one of the busiest ports in the world. That is very expensive to do. So, the decision is made by the computer system controlling it, not by an engineer or a politician who may fear his career is on the line. It is only done manually for scheduled test runs.

@alfredorotondo

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreSomers lol I wish in Italy was done at the same way, but not, the weathermen tell if there is going to be an high water level and then the regional president decides to close it or not in Italy Obviously if you close the dams the tourist cruisers and the containers cannot arrive so this shithead will always try to keep it open Also sorry for my bad English

@cheekibreeki5183

2 жыл бұрын

Well i mean the dutch are the only warriors in the world paid to combat the water.

I believe that the damage caused by the flooding in New Jersey in 2019 was such that the Dutch engineers estimated that they could build a protection system for less than that.

@nickvanachthoven7252

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, we spend 5 bil on this delta works. and it already saved that amount several times over by preventing damages.

@ronrolfsen3977

3 жыл бұрын

Saw a documentary from 60 minutes a while back. They asked a dutch engineer about the cost. He simply replied, "150 billion dollars were lost in New Orleans. I do not think I need to say more". You would think that is all that needs to be said. Shamefully not true in the US.

@thijstimmermans183

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronrolfsen3977 link?

@emeraldelneon328

3 жыл бұрын

@@thijstimmermans183 kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6uN05eSo5fQe9o.html&ab_channel=60Minutes this is the summary version.

@hds66nl29

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronrolfsen3977 It was even better, the reporter said €500mln is a lot of money for something you barely use. His reply is what you wrote. It was an epic burn!

"The Netherlands, the alternative used for Holland". Erm, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around Simon.

@mw01720

4 жыл бұрын

When he started out the video by calling the whole of the Netherlands as “Holland” kinda made me cringe.

@Verschal

4 жыл бұрын

and are not the same

@witteroos

4 жыл бұрын

The Netherlands is actually the entire country, Holland is officially only two provences (one in the Golden Age)... The main reason Holland stuck is because the sailors mainly came from the provence of Holland and when asked where they were from that gave that as an answer, rather than saying they were from the Netherlands.

@Simonb1977

4 жыл бұрын

That's not true. Holland is only 2/12 part of the Netherlands.

@UmVtCg

4 жыл бұрын

@@witteroos The Netherlands did not exist in De Gouden Eeuw. The Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden however, did exist. Now you can see that "Republic of the Seven United Netherlands" does not quite roll of the tongue.

9:29 Lelystad is the Capital of the Flevoland Provence, Almere is het largest city with over 200'000 inhabitants.

@Ohmloud

4 жыл бұрын

200,000 People that cant afford to live in Amsterdan live in Almere. Nobody realy wants to live there.

@emmazijp6282

4 жыл бұрын

Ohmloud And with good reason

@Gandalfthefabulous

4 жыл бұрын

For a long time that hasn't been the case anymore tough. I know many people, including myself, who prefer Almere over Amsterdam. It's a city with beautifull nature and so much green and water. It is well managed, public transport and cycling is the best here. Whilst in Amsterdam you can't have a normal nights sleep without hearing sirens or tourists. You can't walk in the streets without getting pickpocketed or having a collision with a cyclist. Tourists are everywhere. And if you'd still miss the 'culture' from amsterdam you can be there in 20 min by train. People in cities like tokyo or New York would kill to be able to reach the city center in that time whilst living in a much opener and better payable area. Many people now it from seeing it by train, which in truth aren't the pretiest sights. However there are really good looking parts nowadays.

@cvb6089

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ohmloud i used to live in Amsterdam had no problem buying a house there. But moved to Almere very nice city lots of space and nature and much better housing. Idiots like you have either never been to Almere. Or are just plain idiotic. Well which are you?

@beu9245

4 жыл бұрын

Which seems kinda strange since we have Almere buiten, haven, poort etc but Lelystad is the capital

The Netherlands isn't an alternative name for Holland. The Netherlands IS the official name. Holland is really the two coast provinces North and South Holland.

@starbase218

2 жыл бұрын

Correct, calling The Netherlands "Holland" is like calling England Yorkshire.

@casper6405

2 жыл бұрын

@@starbase218 it's kind of our own fault aswell Holland was the richest of the provinces during the old days So someone would say they are from Holland instead of the Netherlands So it's kind of our own fault

@starbase218

2 жыл бұрын

@@casper6405 I’m not from Holland though, though I believe my grandmother was. Edit: Sorry, this probably comes across as adversarial. I get what you’re saying; the English never said to foreigners that they were from Yorkshire (unless that’s what they meant to say).

@iamlooktoyou

2 жыл бұрын

@@casper6405 I do not agree. That is something outsiders chose to call us. As most come for the Netherlands to Holland. I do not see many go elsewhere in the Netherlands. Atleast most vlogs and blogs take place in the holland region.

@gwaptiva

2 жыл бұрын

@@starbase218 Exactly right; it's naming the whole country after the only bits that are important :P

Though it's mandatory on dutch schools, the story remains fascinating. And bonus points for Simon attempting to speak Dutch.

"Hier gaan over het tij, de maan, de wind en wij" ("Here the tide is ruled by the moon, the wind and us (the Dutch)"

@thierrylei62

4 жыл бұрын

Hope this translation also captures the meaning of "Hier gaan over het tij, de maan, de wind en wij" The moon and the wind rule the tides of the sea but here on this spot so do we

@GundamReviver

4 жыл бұрын

Goeie vertaling Thierry! Het heeft dezelfde humor nu :p

@nicolaas1122

4 жыл бұрын

@@thierrylei62 Here the tide of the sea is ruled by the moon, the wind and we.

You don't have to apologize about your pronunciations. The first thing you'll learn about us Dutch is that we don't care about how you pronounce our words, we're grateful to be mentioned

@ImSNB

4 жыл бұрын

yall good at potatoes

@yurizhivago4848

4 жыл бұрын

As long as we call your Country : The Netherlands nobody seems to complain. Holland seems to be a very taboo word even though it has been used and taught in North America for a very long time. I have friends in Rotterdam and yeah being at sea level must be very scary. Being in the middle of Canada ( Manitoba ) very high and dry is nice. However with -40C/-40F Winters we have our share of problems too.

@michaelampe95

4 жыл бұрын

:-D

@Conservator.

4 жыл бұрын

ImSNB The Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter after the US. Not just potatoes

@c128stuff

4 жыл бұрын

@@yurizhivago4848 nothing scary about being below sea level.. :-) its a good inspiration to do something about the sea wanting to intrude on the country early on.

"The largest town in Flevoland is Lelystad with a population of 80 000" Almere (210 000): Am I a joke to you?

@freudsigmund72

3 жыл бұрын

probably

@letheas6175

3 жыл бұрын

@@freudsigmund72 True, i mean, Almere is kind of the joke of Flevoland (or even the Netherlands in general)

@Energy2win

3 жыл бұрын

@@letheas6175 Please explain Daniel.

@letheas6175

3 жыл бұрын

@@Energy2win It's a soulless city without any kind of identity. Even cities that have been ridiculed a lot, like Lelystad, have a better way of dealing with identity by specialising on a certain point. Almere isn't even the city with the most tourism in Flevoland. Basically, it could become something but it isn't at the moment. It's too much about prestige projects (that ultimately fail, such as the castle thingy, a failed ice skating hall and in the near future Floriade) in Almere.

@maxvandenberg955

3 жыл бұрын

Lelystad is a city not a town. City does not equal and cannot be interchangeably used.

15:05 when you said "it totally worked" it gave me a weird satisfaction lol. Incredible.

King Canute: You can't turn back the tide. Dutch: Hold my bier.

@deamon002

4 жыл бұрын

"Hier gaan over het tij, de maan, de wind en wij."

@remcoswenker667

4 жыл бұрын

Or as the dutch would say it: Hou me biertje even vast

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

I like that you spelled it bier.

@thoregries6899

4 жыл бұрын

@@remcoswenker667 houd mijn heineken even vast, wilt u.

@thatdutchguy2882

4 жыл бұрын

Heineken 🍺

Don't worry Simon, we know our language is a special kind of torture to try and pronounce for native speakers of most other languages. And we find it hilarious. >:-)

@hkbabel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you putting up with all the rest pf us! :-)

@monkeydank7842

4 жыл бұрын

And you are in most cases multilingual. Respect.

@elwoodgizmo5382

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from the US, essentially English speaking. I can't figure out why British can't pronounce a word ending with "a" without adding an R? Cuba becomes Cuber. Panda+pander. It's your language, people. What is the deal? I do understand that English is the hardest language on earth for a foreigner to learn, mainly because this tiny country of England was overrun by Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Normans, etc., and they all get mixed up together, but that was a long time ago. I'm not trying to give you a hard time; I really want to know.

@garyoa1

4 жыл бұрын

@@elwoodgizmo5382 That's mostly the New Yorkers and New Englanders who moved back to England. 😉

@elwoodgizmo5382

4 жыл бұрын

@@garyoa1 OK

As a general point of attention, mainly aimed at my salty countrymen: before we criticize foreigners on their use of Holland as the preferred toponym, we might want to consider making our own use of 'the Netherlands' more consistent. Dutch companies operating internationally, as well as the government and the tourist boards, are often employing 'Holland' in their communication simply because of its historical usage and broad international appeal. As long as they stick to it, we can hardly expect foreigners to switch to the more accurate name. And as a more specific point of critique: 9:26 While Lelystad houses the provincial government of Flevoland, Almere is far more populous with over 200.000 inhabitants. The first house was finished in 1976 and 44 years later it's the 8th most populous municipality in the country.

@LetalisLatrodectus

4 жыл бұрын

Not just that even dutch dictionaries list Holland as a synonym to the Netherlands.

@Shoikan

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I think it roughly matches how England and Great Brittain are used interchangeably. Though maybe not exactly correct in either case (referencing a part to indicate the whole) they are used widely enough that the difference becomes moot.

@skillaxxx

3 жыл бұрын

We even sing 'Hup Holland Hup' during football matches ourselves...

@Lillith.

3 жыл бұрын

I'll leave that to the westerners that use Holland. Please stop using it. I have never lived in nor will I ever willingly move to Holland or use that name to refer to the country I live in.

@yorampaar2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@skillaxxx Most people who go to the games are from Holland though. I always had kind of a weird feeling with that song

I never ever expected that I would hear Simon try to pronounce my home town. A for effort Simon! And a small note: Holland technically refers to the two most populated provinces in the Netherlands, not to the entire country. Interchanging the two is comparable to calling the USA 'New England'.

@nicosmind3

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but we do say America when refering to the US in English, and we dont mean the Americas. Just US. So we're weird like that in English. We know its wrong but we carry on anyway. It happens to the British too, as the odd time someone would say something like England when referring to Scotland or the UK. Or any other combination of wrongness when referring to the UK.

@martijnb5887

3 жыл бұрын

Or England to Great Britain. Don't try that in Scotland.

@yorampaar2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicosmind3 Yeah, I get kinda 'mad' when people call Great Britain/United Kingdom just 'England'. Probably because I don't like people calling The Netherlands 'Holland' either. I live in Gelderland for fucks sake, not Holland!

@brentterschegget235

6 ай бұрын

Or calling the USA Carolina

Your channels have been a godsend since this pandemic started. You've help get me through the last 3 months of unemployment!!! Keep 'em coming.

We went to the Netherlands on our honeymoon in 2006 and visited both Maeslantkering and Oosterscheldekering. Very impressive! Thank you for making a video about it!

@SievertSchreiber

2 жыл бұрын

Why u go there for your honeymoon? Are u or did u marry an engineer, or a water manager?

@Jonas-rq1mi

2 жыл бұрын

sad honeymoon

@visualdarkness

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great honeymoon!

@sarathor8226

2 жыл бұрын

@@visualdarkness Thanks! It sure was! 😃

When I was a kid, we got a schooltrip to see it´s beeing constructed (in 1981 ) still not finished for the next 16 years. But very impressive to see. Especially the huge machines that were used.

2:00 - Chapter 1 - Rising sea levels 5:05 - Chapter 2 - The zuiderze works 7:00 - Chapter 3 - The final straw 9:55 - Chapter 4 - The delta works 10:55 - Chapter 5 - Oosterscheldekering 12:40 - Chapter 6 - Maeslantkering 15:25 - Chapter 7 - The future - Chapter 8 -

I like that! - "Please forgive my pronunciation" Pronounces Zuiderzee almost correctly but spells it wrong!!

@willemthijssen5497

4 жыл бұрын

I was amazed that he pronounced "afsluitdijk" almost correctly.

@remco6816

4 жыл бұрын

Ook de Maaslandkering i wonder where he got the spelling from

@franselshof

4 жыл бұрын

@@remco6816 zijn spelling is gewoon goed: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering

@remco6816

4 жыл бұрын

@@franselshof hmm dat klopt, mijn fout vreemde manier van spellen eigenlijk.

@PleegWat

4 жыл бұрын

@Katlego Modise Precisely

Don't worry about the pronunciations. I as a Dutch young man, appreciate the fact that you at least tried, and I'm happy that you mentioned our Deltawerken. If you ever want to have a tour though the Netherlands, you can contact me, Simon. There are a lot more awesome feats of engineering in the whole of the Netherlands.

The Deltaworks protect us against the water of the sea, but we have also river floodings to deal with. In the previous 20 years, we had a project ‘room for the river’ that broadened the stream of rivers, build higher dams and made water basins to store water. Still that is not enough, like we saw in the floodings last week. The fight agains the water is ongoing forever…

Every country ; you can't control mother nature Netherlands ; hold my joint

@wolverine4716

4 жыл бұрын

neh let me take a good suck of my joint and it will be done hahahaha

@rikleferink

4 жыл бұрын

Were high as F I mean... Low

@briankristiansen821

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao 🤣😂

@BartvG88

4 жыл бұрын

Hey man, when your lands are low, you gotta get high

@TestTest-eb8jr

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I have a great idea for the next episode the belguim constitutional structure it's more of less a megaproject for lawyers.

@TheRocco96

4 жыл бұрын

Or a video on the completion of the highway around Antwerp. Actually those works haven't completed yet, it took more than 20 years of planning, and the application for the building permits contains 2200 documents for a total of 5.5 million pages.

@nathanvrugt6698

4 жыл бұрын

Well if we are making a video about Belgium. Why not make one on how to form a government. That seems to be a megaproject for them. Hahaha

@p3t3rtr33

4 жыл бұрын

@@nathanvrugt6698 one of the bigger factors of the difficulty to make a government in belguim is the constitutional structure imo. So he could do both making a government and constitutional structure in one vid. "twee vliegen in een klap"

@jordank5623

4 жыл бұрын

No

@p3t3rtr33

4 жыл бұрын

@@jordank5623 YEs

Fun fact, 'we' (being the Dutch) consult many other countries on flood protection, including New Orleans after the hurricane, but also Venice more recently. Our current king (Willem-Alexander) led a UN advisory board on water management as well. Ironically that advisory board has since been dissolved with nothing that I know of to take its place.

@maartenj.vermeulen900

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Bangladesh and Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.... Further a polder is being created in Singapore by the Dutch now as well!

@robertrijkers4923

4 жыл бұрын

@@maartenj.vermeulen900 too bad that the Jakarta solution isn't working...because they keep using the city as an open sewer and the sluice systems keep getting clogged up with junk

@alfredorotondo

3 жыл бұрын

Venice is so a meme for us in Italy They built this monstrous flood protection structure but when the flood arrives they almost never close it The funny thing is that is called the "MOSE" Moses but cannot protect a lagoon lol

@Rein_

2 жыл бұрын

the king Willem studied watermanagement

The Dutch language does exactly what the English language does: Every rule has more exceptions. ^_^ 8:40 Flevoland is an achievement. We used to have eleven provinces. Now we have twelve. :D

@beu9245

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! and i hate both of the languages because of it (even though i use both on a daily basis)

@tigervv6437

4 жыл бұрын

When it come to pronounciation however. Dutch is quite straight forward. English is not.

@jaspermay5813

3 жыл бұрын

@@beu9245 What natural living language does not have rules with exceptions? What language don't you hate?

@Ozymandias1

3 жыл бұрын

@@tigervv6437 English is a mix of several languages. Dutch is mostly a Germanic language.

@TheSuperappelflap

3 жыл бұрын

uhm dutch is way better than english in that regard. english is a mashup of at least 3 completely different language groups and spelling is massively inconsistent. dutch has consistent grammar and spelling, its just complicated. german is the best though.

The only reason that the Dutch pulled off these projects is because there is one topic that is not up for political faffing about: water management. It's just a matter of survival.

"I fear some of you might drop off"... we watched a 15min video about a very deep hole. Dutch flood barriers are a piece of cake

@TanaisNL

4 жыл бұрын

This is legit the first comment on this video that actually made me laugh, good job :')

@raypitts4880

2 жыл бұрын

we say that at a hole in the road (police are looking in to it) ie it takes a long time to get filled in.

Having lived in the Netherlands (in Rotterdam) for many years you cannot help but stand in awe of their bloody mindedness when it comes to protecting themselves against the ravages of the sea. A fascinating introduction to the Dutch technical inventiveness ...., and well done for your attempts at Dutch

2:55 Did you really just say "the northern region of Holland" while showing a map of the south of the Netherlands?

@Jognt

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, he did. Guess it gets hard with this being in Zeeland and South Holland being North of that. North of South Holland is the Southern Sea, and North Holland actually doesn't reach as far north as Friesland. *shrug*

A well known proverb is "God created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands."

@d3al3rplays68

3 жыл бұрын

The Dutch are better, they partially created their own country. God created nothing cause god does not excist.

@jansluis2509

3 жыл бұрын

Ja, nu weten we dat wel,

@svenNL

2 жыл бұрын

17-18% of the Netherlands is reclaimed land

Love that you did a video on this. My dad did a research tour to see the Dutch flood mitigation projects in the 80s. The stories and photos he came home with has meant this undertaking held my interest ever since.

Simon this is absolutely HILARIOUS, considering that i live in Rotterdam and am a dutch Caribbean citizen. you did your best chap lol

@brianbaas8650

4 жыл бұрын

Hoppa 010! 👊🏻

@cr4fty90

4 жыл бұрын

@spike spiegel can only come from an American

@William-Morey-Baker

4 жыл бұрын

@spike spiegel absolutely hilarious just how wrong you are.

@remcodenouden5019

4 жыл бұрын

@@cr4fty90 An American who never traveled outside of his own country that is

@cr4fty90

4 жыл бұрын

@@remcodenouden5019 ye but hey atleast they think they are the best ngl most of them are to simple minded

I'm a big fan of your channels and I always marvel at the accomplishments of others. I'm Dutch and never realized the size of the accomplishments done just around the corner from where I live. It's amazing you cover this in your serie and I take my hat of with a deep bow how you've presented this with al it's details. I think nobody realizes how many times the systems have been used to protect our small country. Thanks for all your research and effort for speaking Dutch.

My grandparents used to have a holiday home in Kamperland, cycling distance to the south end of the Oosterscheldekering. Troughout my childhood & youth, I have watched the builiding process. Absolutely awe-inspiring. Today we travel there every other year, my kids enjoy the Delta Expo and the beaches and I am still amazed by the Kering

I worked for 24 years in wastewater and stormwater pumping stations and have ALWAYS been fascinated by the Dutch people and their amazing systems of flood control. I wish I could have toured their facilities, I am sure it would be a great educational experience.

As a young man I had the pleasure of visiting one of the artificial islands where they were making the Oosterschelde Dam ,it convinced me to become an engineer. You left something important out when you where talking about the Oosterschelde Dam ,the 65 pillars you talked about where not build in place where they now stand. They were made in pits on 2 artificial islands ,after the pillars where finished the pit was flooded and a specially constructed ship called the “Ostrea” would lift the pillars (the size of a 10 storey building ) and move it to its place , if that is not impressive, then I don’t know what is.

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@ewoutvm1

4 жыл бұрын

That's why they contracted the Dutch, when they wanted the Kursk lifted from the ocean floor (the Dutch price was significantly HIGHER than that of their rivals, but they still got the contract), or when they had to move a giant structure into place in Chernobyl. During operations the spoken language was Dutch. These are the rare occasions that I'm really proud of being (partly) Dutch.

@skillaxxx

3 жыл бұрын

And they only had two 30 minute windows per day to place them, during tide transition.

@gfimadcat

3 жыл бұрын

My dad was an engineer on the project and we lived close by, I've spent summers sitting on Neeltje Jans watching the pillars being built, and was there when they started flooding the first pit. Seen the Ostrea come in to pick one up a few times as well, was pretty interesting stuff to see as a little kid.

@PyrusFlameborn

3 жыл бұрын

@@ewoutvm1 and the artificial islands at Dubai in the shape of a giant palm tree

The sea: *exists* The Dutch: G E K O L O N I S E E R D

@JWvdv

4 жыл бұрын

S P E C E R I J E N

@anglerfish61

4 жыл бұрын

Ik was op zoek naar ede eerste gekoloniseerd reactie haha

@Freddy65373

3 жыл бұрын

@@anglerfish61 Je wordt er een beetje treurig van

@LuchtLeiderNederland

3 жыл бұрын

I N G E P O L D E R D

@sebastiaanhoenderdos7458

3 жыл бұрын

GekoloniZEErd?

Je bent een schat. Je probeert en dat horen we allemaal. Je bent beter dan de meeste Engelstalige mensen die niet in Nederland gewoond hebben in je uitspraak en zelfs mensen die hier meer dan 20 jaar gewoond hebben. Translation: You're a treasure. You are trying and we can all hear it. You're a beter than most English speakers that haven't lived in the Netherlands and even some that have lived here for over 20 years.

Oh crap, literally yesterday I was thinking “I hope mega projects does a video on the delta works”

@archstanton6102

4 жыл бұрын

Can you think of next week's EuroMillions numbers?

@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88

4 жыл бұрын

@@archstanton6102 4, 11, 17, 32, 8

@jeffreyrose4240

4 жыл бұрын

Matrix:Confirmed

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

It was highly requested :)

@JJamahJamerson

4 жыл бұрын

Megaprojects oh course it was, the delta works are amazing (as shown in this video)

There's a monument on a small artifical island where the final leg of the construction was completed. On a spare concrete block are carved the words: "Hier gaan over het tij, de maan, de wind, en wij". Freely translated : "Here rule over the sea, the moon, the wind, and we".

nice one, I did my "werkstuk" in the 6th grade about the deltaworks I visited and got a 10 (A+) thats 24 years ago and still proud of it

I really like your show! Great presentations. My one comment is that I want more maps! You refer to a lot of places, and it would be great to see them in context. Love the work y'all are doing.

Comfortably commenting from my house at 4,5m below see level.

@Shadow81989

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully someone will read this on their tablet and answer, while comfortably floating on the dead sea at -428m! xD

@FreddyEnergizer

4 жыл бұрын

Lower then me i am at 3.2m but only 1 km from the sea

@2009heyhow

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreddyEnergizer Here we would have a nice new beach.

@roddo1955

4 жыл бұрын

Alexanderpolder. We have boats. I'm not worried.

@Conservator.

4 жыл бұрын

Freddy on the long Trail Well, if there’s ever going to be a flood at least you’ll be on an island 😉

This makes me better understand why in Randall Munroe's book What if? He says the Netherlands rule Mars.

@duckieduck8877

4 жыл бұрын

i just linked that one here lmao

I trust the Dutch most with climate research and predicting rising sea levels. They actually depend on accurate predictions.

@bdeheer

2 жыл бұрын

Because New York and New Orleans are....?

@bdeheer

2 жыл бұрын

@@steiner554 also their own local government. I know that they confered with Dutch storm surge protection specialists who adviced to protect against a storm that would occur once every 10000 years, which is what we do here. They all chose a storm that would occur every 100 years. Now that means that every year has a 1% chance of that occuring. 25 years.. 25%. And then hurricane Katrina hit...

When I saw this title I was curious what you'd make of our language here, let's just say I'm impressed. A few words actually got close and most were understandable! Decent quick overview of the large scope of the whole thing as well, hard to do that right. Either it digs too deep into the details and too many people get bored or you're accused of skipping over things. Even people who live here actively learning the language tend to need quite some time for certain words and sounds. So while "got close and most were understandable" might not seem like much it's certainly much better than I've seen in just about any video on the internet of someone who doesn't speak the language.

"God built the Earth, and the Dutch built Holland"

@MBeckers

4 жыл бұрын

God built the Earth, and the Dutch built the Netherlands

@Ries

4 жыл бұрын

😎👍🏼 (no "and" though or if you wish loose the "'," . But the first option is the correct one although they will mean the same..)

@Spiritus_Invictus

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ries it is not. Holland is a reference to two provinces of The Netherlands. "Noord Holland" and "Zuid Holland". The total of 12 provinces is called "The Netherlands". If you include the overseas islands you would call it "The kingdom of the Netherlands" /watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc

@themagicinfidel

4 жыл бұрын

Well put

@Ries

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spiritus_Invictus I know my friend, but it's a saying never the less. See my own comment stating the same as you just did here somewhere here in the comments.

I have legit been waiting for this one since you started. Easily a modern world wonder and a lifelong inspiration for me

@Rein_

2 жыл бұрын

it is one of the 7 wonders of the modern world

9:27 Almere is the biggest city in the polders with a population of 212.965

@jjakjjak5231

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but Lelystad is the capital city of that new province. Easy mistake to make

@therealdutchidiot

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjakjjak5231 Also, the rest of the Netherlands would like to forget about the country's worst bicycle city as well.

Simon this is al very accurate. You only make one big mistake. You talk about Holland. The name of our country is the Netherlands. We from under the big rivers Rhine and Meuse and every province east of South and North Holland are offended if you call our country Holland. It is The Netherlands. I don't think Scottish Wales and North Irish people also don't like to be called English.

@Controvi

2 жыл бұрын

lol don't worry Simon. 99% of the people in holland are not offended haha. I am dutch and call the country holland. and the national team is mainly cheered on as holland.

@martvan2015

2 жыл бұрын

@@Controvi . Then your not from the South probably and not aware of our own history. 80 years war repression of the Catholics in the south. I'm offended if my country is called Holland instead of the Netherlands. And Yes I aslo will sing Hup Holland Hup. But still I live in the Netherlands and not in Holland.

@Controvi

2 жыл бұрын

​@@martvan2015 well each their own then. I really don't care about it. and I still think just a very small portion of people here do.

@hobohobo6518

2 жыл бұрын

@@Controvi you really dont know the netherlands then a lot of dutchies dont like it when you say holland..

@Controvi

2 жыл бұрын

@@hobohobo6518 hehe well i never met anyone having issues with it and all my friends and colleagues and family do it themselves as well so yeah. I would just say calm down to the ones making an issue out of it. But hey I'm just a guy who doesn't get worked up about every word in the language and trying to find drama in it

"The Netherlands, the alternative used for Holland"... the moment i died a little inside

@Minifliek

4 жыл бұрын

He's not wrong though, Holland and the Netherlands are interchangeable in the English language. Just because you might not agree doesn't make you right.

@Minifliek

4 жыл бұрын

@Lucifer Uchiha No America is a continent the country is called the United States of America. See what i did there.......?

@Minifliek

4 жыл бұрын

@SigmaTauri2 you dont speak sarcasm do you

@RickBakker82

4 жыл бұрын

Holland, Netherlands.. I am getting a bit tired of the moaning about calling the Netherlands 'Holland' It has been used extensively since a long time, by our own government as well (www.holland.com?) also in Football (Hup Holland hup) I am from Gelderland myself but, although I try to use Netherlands, Holland just rolls easier of fthe tongue so I use it much more. and see no harm in using it. Stop taking offence of it

@Minifliek

4 жыл бұрын

@@RickBakker82 thank you.

thanks

As someone from Friesland, this was really great :D, don't worry about pronunciation, we generally aren't fussy people about such things, which multiple Dutchies have said already, and it's true! Another interesting thing is that large portions in the north and some areas of the Dutch land were used to make Peat, something we call Turf, which also lowered areas a lot as we burned our own rich soil. Oh, and try to pronounce "Hagelslag" which despite sounding like it's construction debris. Is actually chocolate sprinkles we put on bread, it is tasty! Thanks for an awesomely informative video!

@PanduPoluan

3 жыл бұрын

Hagelslag is also very popular in Indonesia. I'm sure you can guess why ;) Although for reasons we call them "meses" which was a bastardisation of _muisjes_ ... (which is itself a totally different thing, for those of you not familiar with Dutch ... uh, things put on bread)

@Zucadragon

3 жыл бұрын

​@@PanduPoluan Oh yeah, definitely remember eating those a lot. Cinnamon, sugary coated little things. We had crushed muisjes as well. And hah, that is very interesting, do you also have like, double baked bread, which we call "beschuit" but is called Rusk in other countries. Hagelslag and beschuit is a classic mix here. Is the Meses thrown a lot at festivities? I'm sorry to say my knowledge of Indonesia is quite lacking!

@PanduPoluan

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zucadragon Oh we do have double baked bread. For reasons that totally escape me, it's called "bagelen" (the "g" is hard "g" like in "goal"). Usually with roomboter spread on it before the second bake. (And rather than from flat round bread, we use something like miniature burger buns...) As I mentioned, we misnamed hagelslag as muisjes; actual muisjes is a rarity in Indonesia. But if something is edible, we don't ever throw it and use confetti instead :D

@TheB0sss

Жыл бұрын

@@PanduPoluan really, you have it in Indonesia? That's cool, never knew that. The reason is not so cool of course but yeah, still. Muisjes are indeed a different thing here but they're not eaten that much, mostly when a baby is born we eat them on "beschuit"

"destroying parts of historic Rotterdam" the entire city was bombed to the ground by the Germans on 14 May 1940... so I doubt that

@costeris35

3 жыл бұрын

Bad as is was they didn’t manage to destroy the entire city, there is a lot of historic rotterdam left, outside the old citycentre.

"It totally worked" Of course it did.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

4 жыл бұрын

Why would we build something that doesn't work? Doesn't make sense.

@yoeriw7099

4 жыл бұрын

That's why the only footage they have for a mayor flooding in the Netherlands stems from the 1950's

@Hensepens64

4 жыл бұрын

@@yoeriw7099 hmmmm we were "attacked" by the rivers in Brabant jn the 90's. But indeed . The Deltawork have delivered their values.

Simon, how about a Mega-Cyber-Project like Tor, Stuxnet or maybe DARPA that evolved into what we now call, the internet?

@Powertampa

4 жыл бұрын

The internet was born out of three independent research networks established to link researchers in Europe, the United States and Japan. These had plans to connect across the globe years prior to the first concept of what the internet could be.

@IlluminatiBG

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe not DARPA, but the idea of putting underwater cables between the Atlantic Ocean I think can be considered megaproject.

@monkeydank7842

4 жыл бұрын

Folding@home would be great. It’s global, it’s top up to date, it’s interdisciplinary, it just set several world records, and it would help all of us! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home?wprov=sfti1

@farmyardfab

4 жыл бұрын

Powertampa no Al gore Invented it right before discovering manbearpig

There's a big plaque on the Oosterscheldekering (the biggest part of the works) with an inscription that translates as: Here, the tide is ruled by the wind, the moon and us.

I know one person from the Netherland we met in Finland :) BUT I only ever new that the Netherland had tulips and windmills. as they say in Finland Kiitos (thank you) for enlightening me

@marcelimthorn9115

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

My son and I love this channel- keep up the good work!

@Leavemealone-

4 жыл бұрын

Where does he find all the time? I wonder how big of a team they have.

@Conservator.

4 жыл бұрын

Austin Stude See the end of the video. 3 people. Presenter, writer, editor. Rijkswaterstaat (responsible government department) will have been very happy to provide all the info they needed.

"What's your favorite KZread channel?" Me: Simon Whistler

@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88

4 жыл бұрын

LoL! Right!? 😆

@callabeth258

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@shaunsocha421

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Me: yall heard of simon whistler ?

@currykingwurst6393

4 жыл бұрын

His (inactive) vlog channel? :P

When you drive on the Oosterscheldekeering from Schouwen-Duiveland, you see a large stone that has inscribed the following words: Here the tide is ruled By the moon, the wind And us

Lelystad is not the largest city in Flevoland. It's the capital of the "new" province, but Almere is much bigger with 200.000 citizens. Almere has become somewhat of a massive suburb of Amsterdam.

"I'd like to take a long tour ... But i fear some of you may start dropping off" Simon, do you even know why i'm here. Gimme the deets

Trust the Dutch to build the biggest joints in the world...🤦‍♂️ On a serious note though, flood defences are going to become a serious consideration for many areas in the years ahead. I doubt that many politicians or populations out there have looked that far ahead yet.

@ruuddekoff1090

4 жыл бұрын

If everyone start to build their own flood-protection there soon will be a shortage of materials.

@SeanBZA

4 жыл бұрын

To most politicians long term planning is the next election. The rest of the planning they do is in the direction of lining their pockets as much as possible.

@ingmarhendriks8172

4 жыл бұрын

Pure capitalism does not work if you want to built something like this. You need to have a socialist government to do it. I.e. everyone pays for the protection... even those who live many meters above sea level. That is something the USA will never do. Those living in las Vegas are just not going to pay for flood protection in Louisiana. And those that live there will either have to pay a lot because there is no government to prevent companies from charging outrageous prices, or instead just buy insurance so they can get some money back after it flooded. Or even worse... being too poor to do anything. Those who live at a safe place will just say 'it is their personal responsibility to protect themselves from flooding' and let their fellow countrymen suffer. Conclusion... It's impossible for the USA to do a project like this. Yes they have send people to the moon but this I consider impossible for the USA with the way their politics work and the mindset in their culture.

@Ostalgie658

4 жыл бұрын

Well that will never happen, becoming socialists I mean, as comrade sanders has dropped out, so that just sucks for you commies who think it will solve all your problems. I suppose the best system, capitalism will just have to fix global warming or wait climate change? What is it called this week? Now I’m sure that flooding is an issue I live in Houston so I know what it’s like to have your house flooded and guess what, it’s called the rainy season not climate change. It rains every year and sometimes it floods because of incompetence, after all Florida is steal here, and how long until every pacific island is under water? Or will that never happen who knows

@d4mdcykey

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ostalgie658 ~ Ah, we found the quintessential barely literate ignorant American blowhard, that didn't take long. Sometimes you people cause the rest of us sane individuals a great deal of embarrassment here in the States. Carry on, wayward son.

Thank you for making this video! A few notes to clear up confusion: - Though Lelystad is the capital of the province of Flevoland, the biggest city is Almere, with 211 844 inhabitants as of January 2020. - Though the mentioned polders were created as part of the delta works, much of the land that was reclaimed earlier (as mentioned in the video) was also done through creating polders.

The Delta Works are one of the 7 wonders of the modern world, for a good reason. We're dam (get it?) proud of our flood defenses, here in The Netherlands.

Simon us Dutch people love it when non-natives have a go at our language, and we always have a hearthy laugh The way you pronounced afsluitdijk was gold!!!

@raypitts4880

2 жыл бұрын

here in the uk in the 60s american troops came over we had fun sending them to historic places with names they could not fatham peterbourgh came out as peter buuuur couldn't manage the gh, and Edinburgh was another favorite, also middlesburgh ho ho.

never really thought about how politically impressive this actually is.

@FrancisBehnen

4 жыл бұрын

I'd turn it around and say it's stupid this can't be accomplished anymore. When you literally see people dying due to a flood that scientists say will happen again, a government ought to do something about it. And that's precisely what our government is still doing. After the river floods in the '90s new projects started to prevent this type of floods. The remarkable thing imo is that the American government is unable to do something about their cities flooding.

@gerarduspoppel2831

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrancisBehnen .That is unfortunately true yes.

@edopronk1303

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrancisBehnen it took us, the Dutch, some centuries of political practice. We've got (one of the) worlds oldest political structure, de waterschappen (the watercommisions?) who's centuries of functioning was a practice for the cooperation for the Delta works. It's even a export product of the Netherlands, to create political support for projects. And there are still big (or bigger) projects like this. Around New Orleans, or Venice, or Jakarta. And most of the time, the Dutch are involved, one way or the other.

@FrancisBehnen

4 жыл бұрын

@@edopronk1303 Venice's project is rusting at the sea bottom afaik, but anyway yea, you're right, we do have more experience in this respect. Still, solving and preventing problems is the core duty of a government. Preventing floods sounds to me like a very important problem to prevent.

@wimpie031

4 жыл бұрын

In New Orleans prior to the flooding, Dutch water engineers visited the city and warned the city council that their water protection was in a very poor and dangerous state. Gave recommendations and everything. Sadly for some reason (politics?) they never did anything about it. The rest is history, so many lives lost needlessly.

Excellent video as usual! Thank you for your work!

Captain here: Some much needed notes: - 45% is under sea level in the Netherlands, not 20% - De Zuiderzee means Southern Sea and just existed after 1200s when a giant flood destroyed large parts of the original wetlands there. - The IJssel (Icel) is a river ending in the new created lake of IJsselmeer (Icel Lake). - Den Oever (The coast/the river bank) - Zeeland (Sealand) is the original directory of New Zealand. The Dutch discoverer Abel Tasman (also discovered Tasmania, called after him) named it so. - The Afsluitdijk (closing dike) was originally planned to have a railway on it. Now it's a highway and you can drive over it. - Flevoland is the newest province of the Netherlands, made of the new formed lands. Flevo is derived from the name of the region by the Romans. - Flevolands largest city is Almere, not Lelystad (although that's the capital city of the province). - Lelystad is called after Cornelis Lely, the chief engineer and politician that made the plans for the Afsluitdijk. - All places in Flevoland are called after historical place names before the flood in the 1200s. - The Delta works were marvellous engineering. Sadly it isn't enough to make the end of the century with it if climate change will keep on this way. - Holland ≠ Netherlands. Holland is just 2 provinces.

After the deltaworks you should talk about the dutch problem with river flooding. The Ruimte voor de rivieren project is working on that problem

Even as a Dutchie this was very informative and interesting to watch :D And I sincerely doubt anyone will give you a hard time for the pronunciations. Dutch is a REALLY difficult language to learn (just on pronunciation, grammar etc is reasonably easy). You did quite well ^^

if iam not mistaken, at 9:45 you convert 1025miles^2 to 1650km^2, which is fales by approx 40%. you used the one-dimeonsal approax (1 mile = 1,6km approx), but the unit is squared. 1025mi^2 is equvialent to 2654km^2 (1,025 * 1.6^2). When coverting between banana and metric, dont forget the dimesions!

Watching this while I’m in the bus on the Afsluitdijk! Love the episode

“Cafés where you’re not necessarily are looking for a cup of coffee” You mean a coffee shop. That’s where you get your cannabis. Cafes are for beers 🍺 and coffee ☕️

@mourlyvold7655

3 жыл бұрын

A tourist orders a glass of wine in a coffeeshop. The waiter tells her: "We don't sell hard drugs". True story...

@Conservator.

3 жыл бұрын

@@mourlyvold7655 Yes, some consider alcohol more dangerous than cannabis. I don’t agree but I can see their point.

@mourlyvold7655

3 жыл бұрын

@@Conservator. The effects of both are very personal in pleasure and potential risk...

Me as a dutchie watching this video:

A juxtaposition of a map that gives an idea of the geography would be such a nice addition to this amazing amazing video!

Given how nebulous Dutch pronunciation is for native English speakers you made me so very happy and proud that you went ahead and *did it* :) Well done, it's not easy but you did it.

You think other nations would learn from the Dutch when it comes to building flood barriers and prevent disasters.

@vietnammodeling

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of countries that need to be protected from the sea are also very poor. They will never be able to build anything like we have here in NL.

@ruuddekoff1090

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm....other countries are much larger than the Netherlands; that makes it much more difficult to protect and more expensive to build.

@vietnammodeling

4 жыл бұрын

@@ruuddekoff1090 Also true

@userofthetube2701

4 жыл бұрын

Actually this kind of technology is a major Dutch export. Among many other projects around the world Dutch companies have been strengthening the levies around New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and have built the palm islands in Dubai.

@jur4x

4 жыл бұрын

@@userofthetube2701 major export? But what about trance and other styles of electronic music?

"And it totally worked", he said with a surprised face.

@glenchapman3899

4 жыл бұрын

Well usually with such a large project, the first use finds all sorts of glitches errors etc. Pretty impressive for a government project nearly 100 years in the making to work flawlessly first time around

@mari9277

4 жыл бұрын

in italy similar projects are not working at all

@duckieduck8877

4 жыл бұрын

@@mari9277 mainly because they aren't finished when it comes out the mayor hired his brother to build it, in theory the idea for the protection of Venice was good. But only if they ever finish it you will find out it works or not... sorry had to poke a little fun at it, love the country, people, culture and food. damn can they cook over there. i start drooling when i only think of a piadine or a fiorentina...

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

4 жыл бұрын

Ofcourse it works. That is why we build it. Why would we build something that doesn't work? We aren't americans, we do things properly ;)

@barneymiller7894

4 жыл бұрын

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Ya we build bridges and dams meant to last thirty years and then ignore them for sixty. Its honestly a miracle there aren't more major accidents in the US

I just subscribed. Been watching your channel for a bit. I really appreciate you telling metric and standard measurements.

As a young student in the early 80's I watched the Oosterscheldekering being built a few times. Those enormous pillars standing there, the large special pupose vessels, it was a sight to behold...! All in a time when computers were not nearly as common as they are now.

"Wow, 5 billion euros does sound like a lot of money" _Looks up America's 2020 Military budget_ *718 billion dollars (636 billion euros)*

@lordgarion514

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but America literally generates 25% of the entire world's GDP with just 4.28% of the world's population.

@Pitwulf

4 жыл бұрын

@@lordgarion514 fair point. But yet they can't provide basic healthcare to their population or protect areas like New Orleans from regular catastrophic flooding.

@lordgarion514

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pitwulf What "regular" catastrophic flooding? And everyone gets healthcare if they want it. Might have to do the more expensive emergency room, but you really don't have to pay for it.....

@lordgarion514

4 жыл бұрын

@SigmaTauri2 Oh course that will happen........ Just like in the video he explained that their flood control system will have to be added on too as the sea-level rises.

@maartenj.vermeulen900

4 жыл бұрын

@@lordgarion514 Miami is in big danger already....

"Something in Dutch that I'm not even going to try" literally made me chuckle at your conviction of how bad you would butcher it, but you have done way better at pronouncing the words then I ever would

Love the video! Subscribed to the channel. Came here from Geographics that I also love. You’re not even doing that bad on the pronounciation by the way. Keep up the good work!

I’m proud to be living here in the Netherlands. Having come from England it seems to me that we English should be learning from our Dutch neighbours, not only in water management, but in traffic management. The engineering for the Dutch cycle network is also highly innovative and effective. That makes travelling in the Netherlands, much more pleasant and safe than in England.

"What a beautiful inlet, how's the water?" "Murderous.". 😄😄

Physics: Water travels to the lowest point. The Netherlands: Hold my joint.

@PyrusFlameborn

3 жыл бұрын

And this is why the pumps don't stop after the polder has been drained. All over the country hundreds of pumps are pumping 24 hours a day year round to make sure our land continues to be land.

@yorampaar2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@PyrusFlameborn Really? Didn't even know that lol

@raypitts4880

2 жыл бұрын

hence the use of al those wind mills if you noticed flat land = wind why not use it now pumps on diesel or mains electric are used.

Hawaii here: Aloha! Thank for educating me on this area I’m in love with! I wanna travel to Holland this year if Covid permits.

@throughthewindowpane

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome here, but at this moment we have a very high infectionrate of covid, so maybe next year would be better…

Bravo for my grandfather’s homeland. 👍🏻👍🏻 Ideas we can all take a lesson from 😎 It probably looks and sounds awesome when everything is flawlessly moving into action