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@warmon6

3 жыл бұрын

Got some audio sync issue in the last 3rd of the video.

@michaelmayhem350

3 жыл бұрын

Please do a video on the internet and/or TOR (two separate videos not one)

@jwenting

3 жыл бұрын

Skillshare, teaching people grandiose and impossible to implement ideas, and illegally claiming that only the first 1000 respondents will get a free trial.

@aceman67

3 жыл бұрын

@@jwenting The phrase says "First 1000 to use the link will get a free trial", it doesn't say that anyone after 1000 won't get a free trial.

@wmarkwitherspoon

3 жыл бұрын

Starting at about 11:01 your sound and video don't match...

The last few minutes is like watching an overdubbed kung fu flick.

@jhfdhgvnbjm75

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just my conection, glad I'm not alone :)

@TitusLeung

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it is not just last few minutes, but two third of the video: the sound and the image are not in sync.

@trisarahtops3749

3 жыл бұрын

came here for this, I thought my internet was shot lol

@itarry4

3 жыл бұрын

Yhep. Guess they decided if the Soviets couldn't finish their tower they'd fail to finish the video properly. Some sort of symbol of solidarity comrade! 😉🙄

@tncorgi92

3 жыл бұрын

I'm no lip reader but something was definitely off...

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

@tistedmentality3715

3 жыл бұрын

Megaprojects here's a saying you might have heard at least once. Measure twice, cut once.

@KonradTheWizzard

3 жыл бұрын

@@tistedmentality3715 ...or in this case the corollary: measure once, cut twice.;)

@Ethan7s

3 жыл бұрын

If you only took those skillshare classes.

@Manuel-gu9ls

3 жыл бұрын

@@tistedmentality3715 rectify the mistake before it becomes worse

@jessetaylor4142

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ethan7s lol

Architect: how big do you want your building Soviets: da

@ColKorn1965

3 жыл бұрын

Да

Megaproject: Palace of Simon's KZread Takeover

@spritemon98

3 жыл бұрын

I'd approve of that

@laszlogman2545

3 жыл бұрын

All hail Simon!

@petarpilipovic3456

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2hnz8yxmdOWps4.html Here is a suggestion for a future Megaproject..The clip is in English you can have a look.Its about Yugoslavia’s space project and how Tito secretly sold it to Kennedy.The Americans hoped it would help them get dominance in the space race...In the end it turned out to be a piece of shit 😂😂😂

@tacostuesday7530

3 жыл бұрын

He's good at what he does. Boy with the blaze.

@orioneverett128

3 жыл бұрын

I'd watch that.

A fitting counterpart for this would be a video about Welthauptstadt Germania, the planed capital of nazi Germany. There were some truly massive buildings like the Ruhmeshalle, a dome with a planed hight of 320m.

@badluck5647

3 жыл бұрын

I think that was done on a Today I Found Out

@serduncan6933

3 жыл бұрын

@@badluck5647 Really? He has so many videos on different channels that's hard to keep track of what has already been covered

@rexcorvorum4262

3 жыл бұрын

I would love this on mega projects though

@Razgar_Voxel

3 жыл бұрын

There is a movie that Rutger Hauer was in called Fatherland that that fictional city was in.

@RedXlV

3 жыл бұрын

It turns out that even in an alt-history where Germany had won the war, "Welthauptstadt Germania" would've been impossible. The soil of Berlin simply isn't capable of supporting such massive structures.

How high was that in Michael Jordans?

@Wppk765

3 жыл бұрын

Milan Donic number one comment! ☝️

@jccmuir

3 жыл бұрын

At least 2!

@bladudemovies

3 жыл бұрын

209.54 Michael Jordans Total height 1,362 ft % Michael Jordan height 6.5 ft = 209.54 Michael Jordans

@CornPopsDood

2 жыл бұрын

@@bladudemovies God damn 🤣. We got a winner guys.

Video/Audio desynch after "Requisitioning" around 10:34. Megaprojects video on how you keep having editing errors, eh Simon? XD

@macuss87

3 жыл бұрын

Simon needs to get Sam on it!

@niklaslazar3194

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, i thought i had a stroke or something.

@nisx91

3 жыл бұрын

Skill Share... Probably not the best place to learn video editing after all.

@kwad3d10

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it might of just been me. Sam is slacking a little LOL. Give him a raise Simon

@jacobmcglaughlin2165

3 жыл бұрын

Gonna put him in the basement...

Russian hackers definitely edited the audio for this video.

@Josh-tx8sj

3 жыл бұрын

They might be too busy with the American Election

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

@claycountybrian5645

3 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 PLEASE quit SPAMMING @Megap oh wait nm Carry on 5679 thumbs up!

12:18 me reminds of a joke. In early fifties in Moscow, a man on his way to work, took a look at front page of Pravda a the same newsstand every morning but never bought the newspaper. This went on for a quite a long time until the person running the newsstand asked: "What are you hoping the see in the front page?" The man replied: "I'm looking for an obituary." The person running the kiosk said that: "But obituaries aren't published in the front page." To which the man replied: "This one will be!"

Audio seems desynced at the end for me.

@miscellaneous_man756

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@JaelaOrdo

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@logankleinman7758

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@jammerzz

3 жыл бұрын

yep. seriously messed with my head for a min

@ameybirulkar7503

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Mega Project Suggestion : The Berlin Airport that just finally opened up.

@vonfaustien3957

3 жыл бұрын

I think he might have covered that on geographics

@RhelrahneTheIdiot

3 жыл бұрын

German efficiency boys! German efficiency at it's finest!.

@spritemon98

3 жыл бұрын

Wait really?

@menselv7142

3 жыл бұрын

It was too small for all the time it was being built and now that it’s open it’s too big because of Covid-19

@sayujraphael

3 жыл бұрын

Wait it's actually open now?

I think a good idea is the largest container ship in production. Like it is so hard to think of how big it is. I can't remember the name.

@AdamIsUrqed

3 жыл бұрын

The CGM Brazil recently visited us in Savannah. It was HUUUUGE. If there's some bigger than that, they must engulf the sea and sky.

@davidjohansson8739

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamIsUrqed There are bigger ones. Brazil is 366x51m and the biggest ones are 400x60m IIRC. The problem with making a video of them is that which one do you pick? The top dog changes like month and There are ~30-40 ships in 6-8 different classes that are all around 400x60m

@RedXlV

3 жыл бұрын

That would be the Maersk Triple E-class container ships.

'The Palace of the Soviets' - only the communists could ignore the hypocrisy in this.

@EthanMKim

3 жыл бұрын

*OUR* Palace

@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869

3 жыл бұрын

Some animals are more equal than others

@kimjongun6746

3 жыл бұрын

It is not the palace, it is our palace🏰🏯

@borntoclimb7116

3 жыл бұрын

where is the food...

@kimjongun6746

3 жыл бұрын

@@borntoclimb7116 🥩🥣🥢🥦🥡🥥🥧 hope it is enough

This video got so out of sync, it became comical.

@BitchinSpectre

3 жыл бұрын

it's like they learned editing on skill share.

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

@95PurpleHaze

3 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 oh it was still a great video. I actually started laughing the closer it got to the end. Keep up the great content! Love the channel(s) lol

@Chilly_Billy

3 жыл бұрын

Almost as comical as the idea of this building.

The interesting fact is that the internal structure of the Palace resembled that of a classical Russian church/temple designs, resembling parts of the temple that was there(now rebuild). So it was a Temple to some degree.

The Palace of the Soviets was not built, but instead the Seven Sisters were, a bunch of Stalinist/Classicist skyscrapers, including the main building of Lomonosov University. This style later became a model for other buildings, including the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, and the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, the latter which is unfinished to this day. There were plans for something in this style in Budapest as well, but that never materialized.

This building is in Red Alert 3, and i have always wondered what it actually was Great video

Great shows! And there are 79 of them on your site, and they all are always timely! I look forward to all of them. Thank-you!

Hey could you do one on the Forth road and rail bridges in Scotland please? They are 3 large bridges very close to each other and showcase three different styles of great bridges.

@l-b01josefandres44

3 жыл бұрын

lol it's not grand enough and won't guarantee views

Always good, great research David and great hilarious presentation Simon. Best channel on KZread 👌

Thanks for all your hard work. I have watched most of them and enjoyed them.

I am surprised that Stalin didn't want his own statue as well...

Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?

@edhorton3775

3 жыл бұрын

Speaking of deep holes, wonder how my ex is doing 🤔

@LTCAproductions

3 жыл бұрын

@@edhorton3775 she called me on Halloween again, I think it might become a tradition of hers

My girlfriend looks upon her childhood in Moscow with fondness. She told me of visiting the big pool. I said, " You can't swim...." She said," I just hung out with my friends." 🤔

@chrissiek8706

3 жыл бұрын

In photos it looked like middle sized pond... Do they let boats in there maybe? 😅

Maybe do a vid on the Statue of Liberty? The US folks might know all about it, but as a European I recently did some superficial reading on it and it looks like it has an interesting history. Also a lot of construction-y-engineer-y stuff that suits this channel.

@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly

3 жыл бұрын

Thank France for that lovely lady.

Thank you for another fun, informative video! However, with all of Simon Whistler's KZread channels I realized I hear his voice far more than I do my family's. I find this both amazing and saddening... Peace!

Next time The Palace of Parlament from Romania? Or transfagarasan?

@TwentyNinerR

3 жыл бұрын

Romania's Parliament Palace has been covered in Geographics, if I'm not mistaken

Do one on the Detroit masonic temple. It's an incredible building, and still standing. Largest masonic temple in the world. It was designed such that you could have two ballrooms simultaneously occupied underneath a theater and a drill Hall on top of the theater and you wouldn't be able to hear many of the other goings on from any of those rooms.

the boy with the best channels on youtube, and the blaze!

Hey Simon, can you offer a podcast version of your shows?? I love listening to them over and over and it would make it super simple to listen on the go!

Excellent video as always! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

Thank you for your videos!!! Love them!!

The famed "Stalin's wedding cake" school of architechture.

@arthas640

3 жыл бұрын

It fits communist ideology and stalin perfectly. Flashy, pointless, riddled with problems and exaggerations, built using foreign experience, and claiming to be designed by commitie but actually being designed by some egotist behind the scenes. If this was built by Mao they would have just stolen the Empire State Building and slapped a red flag on top.

@ColKorn1965

3 жыл бұрын

The school of polished turds.

@user-pf3kv4bv5s

3 жыл бұрын

​@@arthas640 By your logic the New York architecture is "flashy, pointless, riddled with problems and exaggerations"

Love your channels, could you do a video on the Iowa class battleship?

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Congress of the soviets 2:35 - Chapter 2 - The contests & destruction 5:00 - Chapter 3 - We have finally a winner 6:30 - Chapter 4 - Changes in design 8:10 - Mid roll ads 9:35 - Chapter 5 - Construction 10:25 - Chapter 6 - Requisitionning 11:10 - Chapter 7 - A glorious triumph 12:00 - Chapter 8 - An abandonned dream 13:15 - Chapter 9 - Full circle 14:05 - Chapter 10 - The end

Mad respect for you clearly speaking another language having it edited to fit English just the same

Dude, I watch you religiously! Awesome content!

I have visited that cathedral. Thanks for filling in the history of the site.

Great video!

Love all of these videos!! Have you thought about doing the Royal Albert Hall??? :)

Hey Simon, I have a really good idea for. It is actually about New Delhi. So the New Delhi as we know it never existed till the time of British Raj in 1911 when During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V, then Emperor of India, along with Queen Mary, his consort, made the announcement that the capital of the Raj was to be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 on 15 December 1911. Architect Herbert Baker and Edward Lutyens were commissioned. It's a great mega-project which everyone would love to know more about due to the value New Delhi holds up in eyes of global community. We as Indians would just be as happy.🙂

@darthsorosious3985

2 жыл бұрын

New dehli looks as ugly as shit.

Next do the Nazi "Valkshalle" dome? (If we're doing structures that were never built that is.)

@vodafoneuser1690

3 жыл бұрын

L2german

@serkorz3823

3 жыл бұрын

The NAZI City of "Germania" designed by Hitler was to be built after WW 2 , was never started .

A smaller monument to Stalin was actually built - in 1956 in Prague: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Monument_(Prague) Just 15 meters high and 22 meters long, yet a coat button was as big as a bread loaf! Also keeping with the theme, while the monument was built, it was removed with about 800 kg of explosives just 6 years later as part of de-Stalinization efforts in 1962.

I like how Simon's personality is seeping through in this video

The pool was actually a great idea. It didn't serve any king of ideology (unlike Palace of Soviets and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour) so it was great thing for everyone. They should have kept it but russia in 90s did lot of mistakes in order to delete everything that was just a little bit soviet looking or liked by people in soviet era.

@TigOriMish

2 жыл бұрын

Orthodox priests who, after the civil war in Russia, fled to the west, contributed to the demolition of the pool, and returned after the collapse of the USSR.

Soviets: Can it be done? Architect: Da Soviets: On time and under budget, or even at all? Architect: Nyet

Comrade Simon, your editing comrade needs to be threatened with a trip to the gulag for their failure to sync audio to video

Megaproject idea: megalomania is wonderful to look at. Not only did the Nazis love giant guns and tanks and airplanes and architecture (Germania!) but there were plans for the Breitspurbahn, a wide gauge (3 metre!) rail system connecting all the new territories of the New Germany. Trains would have double decker cars and included amenities such as ballrooms, saunas, barbershops and swimming pools. Huge steam locomotives were planned (although they would not be able to enter train stations as everyone would choke from the soot and steam). However, as World War II went on and New Germany got smaller and smaller, the ambitions for the Breitspurbahn were scaled back but the planning office for the project continued in Berlin until almost the final days of the war.

Hi Simon love you and all your channels. Question have you/could you possible do a video on the ITER (international thermal experimental reactor) / history of nuclear fusion reactors for MegaProjects? Also if you look up the location of the ITER facility on Google Maps the whole area is blurred out which i found interesting. Keep up the amazing work :)

I was just watching that video here about the Crystal Palace. Good links. The grandeur of the respective empires.

You should look into the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Constructed between 1949 and 1974, there are 16 dams, 9 power stations and something like 220km of tunnels. Its the largest construction project in Australia and employed over 100,000 people.

Can you do one on Tatlin's Tower (officially the "Monument for the Third International"), the Palace of the Soviets' equally unbuilt big brother?

Nice Segway to Skill Share, Simon, you Absolute Legend.

That was a trip Simon, I feel kinda weird now, might go to bed a little early, enough internet for today.

Simons segways to the sponsors are always on point... :)

Wow. I suddenly feel nostalgia for those old, dubbed, Jackie Chan movies.

DUDE who you trying to "out beard"? 😅love your channels keep up the good work

I've heard of this palace but never knew they stopped building it because of blitzkrieg. Nice that the church was rebuilt, should have fairly sound foundations...

I see that the curious lack of sound synchronization has been mentioned often enough so far! When I studied in Moscow in the Soviet Union in the 1970s it was great to go for a swim in that swimming pool in the Winter with -20° outside but +25° or more in the water. You swam through a tunnel from the changing rooms into the open air pool and a curtain of steam hung over the whole pool. More than one old lady would comment to me when I was looking at the swimmers in the pool that it was like looking into the pit of hell with the steam representing the smoke from the fires and the swimmers bring the poor souls trapped forever below. As Simon had pointed out that this is where the Temple to Christ the Saviour had stood before being destroyed by the Communists, the comparison was, in their minds, fully justified.

megaproject suggestion: the eradication of smallpox

How many commercials does this channel need for Simon's heat, hot water and lights!?

Wow. Love that time-lag.

After so many references to the Eifel Tower, I'm guessing that it will be one of your next Mega Project.

These sponsor transitions are the best!!

"Make it taller! I want to slap God in the face!" - Stalin

Watching the end makes me realize half of Simon's talking is mostly visual. It's like english plus sign language at the same time!

Hey Simon, I'm tired so I'll be brief: You should do a video on Denver International Airport. It's very interesting because of it's history, location, and national/world standing as a large and busy place. Okay, GN.

Hi Simon! Please do a video on the Duomo of Milan!

Whew that was close, I almost started bashing my computer until I realised it was the video out of sync, Simon should of watched the whole video at Skillshare on pro video editing . Hehe, sorry couldn't help myself. But yes I did enjoy the content.

The video sync at mid to end is interesting

some interesting editing in this one :)

Loved that Ziggurat or Tower of Babel appeal.

Good video 👍

@songsantov

3 жыл бұрын

At most. You only watch for 2 minutes. How you know? Loll

If we're doing megaprojects that (as of yet, who knows...) just plans, can we get an episode on the Dutch proposal to 'Deltawork'/dam the entire north sea?

Recommend doing a video on the worlds largest Oil Supertanker ship, the largest ever made is the Seawise Giant previously named Jahre Viking.

I don’t know if it is sad or not that I first heard of this building from The Saga of Tanya the Evil movie because it was one of the buildings she blew up.

That audio and video sync is way off at the end, simon... Time for heads to roll....

@stephenramos2824

3 жыл бұрын

Missed opportunity...to the gulag with them

Love the video as always, one question tho, you said at the end "you couldn't possibly build such a building in the modern era", why not?

@user-pf3kv4bv5s

2 жыл бұрын

Because capitalism cannot handle projects like this

Yet another interesting project, a pity that when I watched the video there was an issue with the lipsink.

Might want to check out the post-war "7 Sisters" in Moscow. Similar to the Palace in design (and more of them). Many call them the Ugly Sisters.

I'll tell you who else is buckling under the pressure, your editor!

Good video but toward the end isn't the soundtrack slightly offset from the video stream?

Hey Simon, would you consider a Megaprojects videos about ITER, the experimental fusion reactor in France? I don't think it's one you've done before though it can be a bit hard to keep track...

I suspect that the reason the project was abandoned after WW2 is that Stalin didnt really need it anymore. Initially, it had been started as a way to legitimize Stalin as a succesor to Lenin, and to prove to the Soviet peoples that the USSR was capable of feats of engineering and mobilization equal to those of capitalist nations. But then victory against the German war machine accomplished all of that, and the project became redundant.

@user-pf3kv4bv5s

2 жыл бұрын

It was not abandoned after WWII. Only under Khrushchev this project was canceled.

Whoa Simon, you need to fix your video. You lose sync right after "Operation Barbarossa" and it's like that for the rest of the video.

I am sure Skillshare are thrilled to be associated with a high school production quality level video where the speaker is dubbed over.

Hey Simon, great vid as always but the production quality wasn't there. The audio looked like it was dubbed. Hope this is a one off.

Idea for a video on the channel, the detection system for earthquakes and or Tsunamis

I think a good megaprojects would be Denver airport. Lots of curious history and conspiracy in it to. Can't forget to add the demon horse sculpture in there to that killed its own creator. Super interesting.

How about a video about the river control structures along the Mississippi River done by the army core of engineers to prevent flooding like that of the great 1927 flood. Especially structures like the Morganza Spillway.

Also, I wish the out of sync would happen on Business Blaze...would be the funniest thing ever!

Simon, will you be covering Thrust SSC, the (currently) only supersonic car in the world?

some of the audio is out of sync with the video. btw love your new kung fu video...though there was no fighting in it. lol

Have you done a video on Operation Barbarrossa, or the Battles for Stalingrad and Leningrad?

The process and delays of building the denver international airport in Denver, Colorado, USA

Great video, maybe just my device but the audio is off pace with the video

Next the Great Hall please =) If this is perhaps not enough for a complete Video then Germania (the transforming of Berlin)

I think there were concerns that the soil the foundation was sitting on was not suitable for a building of such proportions.

The Golden Gate Bridge would be interesting.