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@keithg7298

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info Hey I’ve been trying to get a message to you at different videos and your different channels. I think if you looked up the U.S.S. Rancocas you would find a great subject for one of your videos. It’s called the battleship in the field and it’s a navy ship mast built in a field in New Jersey along side Jersey turnpike and Rt 295 . I have personal experience as my step father worked here in the middle, late 80’s. I could give you info on the war games in middle of the night, the inside of building. Aegis radar, and Phalanx being designed and tested here.

@keithg7298

3 жыл бұрын

Simon Whistler trying to get in touch with you about video subject matter you could do. Tired of writing this over and over on different channels. Check out U.S.S. Rancocas. I have inside into

@noahz3429

3 жыл бұрын

tell me how many channels do you have???

@lcc8394

3 жыл бұрын

D day 6/6/1944 has to be a Megaproject

@khathaway414

3 жыл бұрын

Nemi Ships next please.

Sounds like quite a cruise liner/battleship hybrid. "And for those of our patrons either dining on our al fresco deck or simply taking the air...if you look to your right, you might notice that we are currently assaulting the island of Malta."

@andyginterblues2961

3 жыл бұрын

"Passengers interested in looting please queue up on the boarding platform at 0900."

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@xgford94

3 жыл бұрын

Omg just got a total Douglas Adam’s vibe of this comment, pure restaurant at the end of the universe stuff…even read it in my head in the BBC narrator voice. Well done totally enjoyed your comment

@MrDebauch

3 жыл бұрын

@@andyginterblues2961 that would have been Medieval Times on steroids

Syracusia: A functional battleship packed to the gunwales with art, marble and statuary. WH40K's Imperial Navy: *heavy breathing*

@gafrers

3 жыл бұрын

Comment of the day right there

@boofon6399

3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see him cover some of the stuff from 40k.

@edmundthespiffing2920

3 жыл бұрын

Put a giant fuck off statue in front of the ship. Gets destroyed after the first mission.

@john-paulsilke893

3 жыл бұрын

How many Servitors, Skitari and Tech-Priests?

@chrisfrenette4215

3 жыл бұрын

Omfg!!!!!! That's epic!!!!

Zeng He's fleet of "Chinese treasure ships" next? The story of their explorations are quite interesting and are great examples of ancient leviathans.

Is there anything that Archimedes wasn't involved in? He was a genius like no other!

@kettelbe

3 жыл бұрын

Leonardo da Vinci beg to differ. HE was a genius like no other

@Julthor

3 жыл бұрын

@@kettelbe Because he had giants of ancient times whom shoulders he stood on

@user-jw2yu7xm4p

Жыл бұрын

@@kettelbe Da Vinci did not contribute to science nearly as much as Archimedes. He was an artist, and he did conceptualize of inventions, but n ever MADE them. In fact he "came up" with solar power but Archimedes had MADE the first solar powered device that is STILL IN USE!!!! Learn you fucking facts mate.

Lead sheet was used as a protection against ship worm, in much the same way as copper was used in later years

@rickc2102

3 жыл бұрын

And copper was misconstrued as being primarily about ramming, too.

@YeeSoest

3 жыл бұрын

Aye!

@AsbestosMuffins

3 жыл бұрын

ya that wouldn't have done much against bronze or iron prowed warships

@alexlail7481

3 жыл бұрын

I think he said it a bit backwards.... Horse hair and pitch would have made something like a felt pad /cushion and the lead sheets would be more useful as 'anti-biofouling' measures.... lead being pretty much..

Here is more historical maritime megaprojects that deserve an episode: - Ming treasure voyages (largest fleet in the world at the time) - Vasa (e.g. Gustavus Adolphus biggest blunder) the one of the biggest and most powerful ships of the era that sunk on its maiden voyage due to piss poor engineering. - Wyoming (schooner)the largest wooden ship ever built sunk due to poor engineering.

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

Incorrect about Vasa.

@billdehappy1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oddball5.0 nope..however its has been less spoken of but would been a the time she was put to sea larges flag ship(just before line ship came)

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@billdehappy1 She was the most powerful ship, yes. It is incorrect, however, that the ship sank due to "piss poor engineering." There was no engineering as we conceive it today. The ship was built using traditional methods, and was not automatically doomed to be a failure. With better loading, the ship could have had a successful career. Fortunately for us, she didn't.

@billdehappy1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oddball5.0 it was a desgin fault as to high and to thin for the amount of guns which they knew before setting her to sea but couldent do anything about hench it was later decied it was a act of gods will and blame went to the ships master(which were long decead)... although i wouldent say it was the kings biggest blunder(lutzen was) as for the record... and dont worrie swedish navy aint really famous for winning since vikings haha thats why they needed us nomads for cavalery too haha

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@billdehappy1 Close. Yes it was known to be unstable in the configuration at the time of sailing. With proper loading, however, it could have been fine. My point is simply that it was not automatically doomed to failure as is often written (not by you, I know). It was actually the original shipwright who was blamed. He died in1627, the year before the sinking. Inconvenient for him, but useful to those looking for a scapegoat. Cheers!

This was an exceptional video. I had never heard of this ship before! And I consider myself a history buff. A tip of the hat to Simon & Team.

The ship reads like what someone who plays lottery would fantasize: all the types of wood... ohoh.. and marble. Gotta have marble.

Archemedes was so clever that he invented the archemedes screw 200 years before he was born.

@michaelgallagher3640

3 жыл бұрын

Wicked Smaht

@nathanj3114

3 жыл бұрын

And when Chuck Norris was born that screw staitened out in fear.

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

That legend.

@mr.joshua6818

3 жыл бұрын

He was just that good

@markmitchell450

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta hand him some credit for that then

Two unquantified prior statements: 01:20 "if we're talking about great monsters of the high seas ... we can only really start with one boat -- a vessel of astonishing dimensions which was built around 240 bc and which set sail only once widely regarded as the largest ship of antiquity" 02:25 "it was said to be the largest ship ever built at the time by some margin" Then quantified: 08:00 55 meters (180 feet) long 14 meters (46 feet) wide and 13 (42.6 feet) meters high Compare with Noah's ark. Built: ~2500 BC Size: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. As converted in Wikipedia's article on the ark: This would result in ark dimensions of 525-624 ft. x 87.5-104 ft. x 52.5-62.4 ft. So, the largest ship of antiquity was Noah's ark.

"Cuz this shit is crazy" I see blaze spreading out into his other channels!

@anarchyantz1564

3 жыл бұрын

Was expecting some OGBB!

To give a modern idea of the size of this wooden vessel it would be equivalent to HMS Victory in Pirates of the Carrabian or 2 Black Pearls.

@IrishMike22

3 жыл бұрын

So, really no example then. Thanks 👍

@13lochie

3 жыл бұрын

Presumably that's the same size as actual HMS victory? Not being a dick. Just curious as to whether or not they made it bigger for the film.

@JamesFromTexas

3 жыл бұрын

Cool. Glad you "modernized" that but how many USS Enterprises from Star Trek would that be to "futurize" it?

@cleverusername9369

3 жыл бұрын

HMS Victory didn't appear in Pirates of the Caribbean, but I believe the original poster was referring to the fictional HMS Dauntless from the movie, which as portrayed was a 100 gun first rate ship-of-the-line, so analogous to the Victory. Or, perhaps, the equally fictional East India Co 110 gun line-of-battle ship, HMS Endeavor, from the 3rd PoTC movie.

@sidguernsey1393

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesFromTexas Ahh, but which Enterprise? I might need a little help with Weight displacement equivalency for space too, lol.

not sure if you've covered this on your other channels, but a cool mega project you could cover is Operation Paperclip

@dominiccottrill2387

3 жыл бұрын

Checkout Mark Felton's channel

It's amazing they gave the ship size in meters but cargo in some obsolete system...

Thank u! one of most complete video about Syracusia i ve seen on KZread

That segue into the ad was so perfect. Well done, Simon.

Giant ship! Ptolemy III, Egypt...wow, I just woke up from a nap and you sent me incredible information for my novel! Thanks...great video.

That would be an amazing ship wreck to discover and explore.

Love these stories from the ancient world!

Hi John from WI. Thanks again for another great program !

Sweet! I absolutely love all these videos from all the different channels he has. Dude must drink a few pots worth of coffee just to keep up with all the different Channels he has!!

@davidryan5636

3 жыл бұрын

We *heart* Simon! www.reddit.com/r/SimonWhistler/

@demonprinces17

3 жыл бұрын

Little white pills

@James-co2nb

3 жыл бұрын

Na, no coffee.... Sacks and sacks of cocaine.

It is thought that out there in the land of antiquity was a warship so large that could never possibly fight. A ship dubbed “the super carrier of antiquity.” If your average Greek Trireme is a 3, and your Roman Quinquireme is a 5, the ship I speak of would be a 40. It’s called the Tessarakonteres. A video on it would be great.

The Second Punic War started when the King of Carthage asked Caesar's wife to show him her punic heir.

@SkunkApe407

3 жыл бұрын

AM I RIGHT PETER!?!

@ajantsmith6139

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@anarchyantz1564

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkunkApe407 NOT YOU ETA, PETER!

@andyginterblues2961

3 жыл бұрын

Idk, this theory seems kinda fuzzy.

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHSHSHSHHSHSHSHSHS

There are a few stories associated with this ship. One was that at a party a fairly drunk Archimedes proclaimed, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to put it and I can move the world." Heiron said, "Yeah, prove it. Launch my ship." Another story of this pair is that Heiron had commissioned a jeweler to make him a new gold crown. The jeweler was supposed to return the left over gold and be paid in much more common silver. Rumours reached Heiron that the jeweler has allowed the gold with a base metal (probably copper) and pocketed the change. Heiron asked Archimedes to prove his crown was pure gold or not. Some time latter Archimedes, who loved good food and good wine and it showed, got into a public bath and when he over flowed had a moment of insight about the principle of buoyancy. He then ran back home naked screaming, "Eureka" or I have it. The crown and an equal weight of water were submerged and when the crown displaced more water than the gold Archimedes proved the crown was not real gold. Less mentioned is that the jeweler was executed.

@charleshimes1634

Жыл бұрын

Eureka - Diogenes

Big fan of Biographics, this man is doing Gods work on KZreads

Good video 👍

Love your channel! Forgive me if I’ve overlooked this, but could you do an episode on the Concorde jets?

@thomas_dent

2 жыл бұрын

He has covered this on the channel already kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWeX2difmMynoNo.html Also the Russian one kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4iKto9upMW6pdY.html

Thank you

Wouldn't that be an awesome archaeological find!

Great video! Please do an episode on the doomed Swedish warship, Vasa!

Anyone else notice the intro (after 2:30) sounds like he could be talking about the USS Enterprise-D?

That might've been the best sponsor segue yet. Well done, sir. XD

Excellent 👍

I'm surprised you haven't done a video on the Ming Dynasty Treasure Ships on one of your several channels. Built around 1400 they were absolutely massive for the time. Accounts vary but they were somewhere between 250 to 500ft long. They sailed south from China, trading and giving gifts and made it at least all the way to the east coast of Africa.

This is cool because there is now a new cruis ship that is like twice the size of them one he mentions in the beginning of this video. It’s crazy to think cruise ships always get bigger and bigger every few years I wonder how big the biggest cruise ship is going to be in like 30 years they’re going to have a ship so big that it’s going to be unbelievable.

We NEED more videos, you need at least 3 more channels that post videos at least 3 times a week

Have you done a video on the Nemi ships? Even larger than this was and as luxurious as possible

1:50 - Chapter 1 - The original titanic 3:15 - Chapter 2 - Syracuse 4:55 - Chapter 3 - The 1st punic war 6:05 - Mid roll ads 7:15 - Chapter 4 - The ship 10:50 - Chapter 5 - Archimedes screw 11:35 - Chapter 6 - The greatest gift

I'm from Syracuse NY! Lol

Awesome boats! Yes....

It's stuff like this, I'd like to see rendered in Full VR! It would make a cool attraction!

What about doing floating american radar stations? A bit boaty, a bit shooty and it's bound to cost a fortune.

@YeeSoest

3 жыл бұрын

This man right here knows how to sell a KZread Video!

@StateOfMinds

3 жыл бұрын

Not an bad description of Australia either.

Still waiting for the video on the Essex Class Carriers lol 😁😁😁

Could you look into the large ships that were found in an Italian lake?

The Syracusia was in the show Primal in Episode 7

@fishin_da_hood5020

Жыл бұрын

I'm here from that

Hey Simon, Would you mind doing a video on the HMS Victory.

How on earth did you manage to squeeze out an entire 14 min video with only a single visual of the Syracusia??? Impressive!

could you do a video of the Colorado River Aqueduct?

A video about a hyper container ship would be interesting please

Wow, I had never heard of that ship before...

Someone below cited the Venice Arsenal, which would be a good topic by itself. Also Venice as a whole, from its foundations, if you're inclined to do a longer scope topic. Amazing use of a marshy island in a lagoon and still an engineering challenge today. I'm interested in ports and harbours in terms of their evolution in size, capacity, docking techniques from the days of beaching galleys to the great tidal docks to the container ports of today. There's not a lot looking at them as an evolving phenomenon. Maybe there's something there- ancient versus early modern vs today? British Royal Dockyards used as an example through the centuries? Could be material there. Have you already done Diocletian's Palace somewhere? I've seen many illustrations but if there's information on its scale and internal layout that could be interesting. The pictures always show huge barracks and temple but I've no idea how much was the emperor's space. The history of the Palatine Hill in Rome, from the republic's version of Belgravia to giant palace complex.

have you done a video about the Swedish ship The Vasa?

Idea / question : How do ancient battle strategy is relevant on modern battlefield??

Could you make a video over the Punic wars? A Roman naval war sounds rather interesting

Could you do a video on the Nemi ships.

I think you need to create a video on the long-lost great Chinese Treasure fleet. That was an ancient mega project.

@OutnBacker

3 жыл бұрын

That would be interesting, They had some massive ships, and they likely sailed well with the junk rigging.

Can u explain Lockheed martin's legion pod air superiorty upgrade?

Nice, I suggested this a while ago.

I can't believe the internet is so pedantic that Simon needs to explain himself on pronounciations. Hell I'd just let everyone bitch and argue in comments all they want = more interaction for the YT algorithm gods.

@joeyr7294

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! It's very annoying that someone always has something to bitch about or scrutinize on KZread....but in the long run your just helping Simon out! lol

@--_--IMP--_--

3 жыл бұрын

@@joeyr7294 Bitching on KZread about people who bitch on KZread is quite ironic.

@joeyr7294

3 жыл бұрын

@@--_--IMP--_-- lmao very true 🍻

@saspurillie

3 жыл бұрын

Have you been on the internet long?

@kingjellybean9795

3 жыл бұрын

@@--_--IMP--_-- thank you, someone had to point that put lol

do the Vasa! another ginormous ship that ALSO only made one voyage, though this one was considerably shorter. I don't think the Vasa ever made it out of her own harbor, I believe she was super top heavy and caught a freak gust of wind, then sank.

@davidioanhedges

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds similar to the Mary Rose ...

@helenafarkas4534

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidioanhedges the mary rose lasted LONGER than the vasa. shocking, but true

@davidioanhedges

3 жыл бұрын

@@helenafarkas4534 true but not much longer...

@Oddball5.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidioanhedges Not true. Mary Rose built in 1509, sank in 1545.

@davidioanhedges

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oddball5.0 Sorry I appear to have fallen victim to a modern myth : maryrose.org/blog/historical/museum-blogger/the-myth-of-the-maiden-voyage/

Should do the silver spade or the captain shovels...or maybe the big muskie dragline ?

After specifying all of the features upon it, I'm sure the chief builder said "Whatever floats your boat"... :P

Have you done the Domus Aurea?

A glimpse of Blaze Simon

Has anyone ever reconstructed those giant boat oars. Given there weight and the leverage ratio it feels improbable that a human could work one or put any power into one for even one stroke let alone a sea voyage.

@newon2014

3 жыл бұрын

It's called a lever, one of the simple machines. Due to the placement the amount of energy required to move the hull is low enough for a person to move.

@Dug6666666

3 жыл бұрын

​@@newon2014 Yes I know it is a lever hence my use of the word lever-age. Its not like it is a ratio that magnifies the effort put in by the oarsman to wield what look like incredibly heavy oars. It is a good ratio to use manageable oars to make a manageable boat go fast. Probably just another of inaccuracies mentioned about the drawing of the ship.

it reminded me of caligula's giant ships on lake nemi but i looked it up and while they were larger (about 73meters long) though maybe they didn't make the cut since the larger of them didn't seem to self propelled (so would it count as a real ship? :-))

speaking of ships, can u make one about the humongous sailing ships (the treasure ships) used by admiral zheng he during his vogage to africa?

Can you do the iowa class battleship

Make a video about Venice Arsenale (they used to build ships there), it was the largest industrial complex in Europe before the industrial revolution

@randomobserver8168

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent example.

It looks to me like a mansion/castle that just happened to float pretty well.

You should do the Sears (Willis) tower. Once was the tallest building in the world

@rickc2102

3 жыл бұрын

Watchu talkin bout Willis?

Nemi Ships next please.

Berlin airport BER next?

Can you do a video on the great Michael? The first carrack of its time.

Idk man Syracuse has basketball and Hoffman hotdogs,so there’s that .

....its strange to see the different levels of I guess.... formality, in which Simon expresses himself. This is like Middle formal, geographical is buttoned up formal. Then you have business blaze, which is Simon, wrap it up, it's time for some drinks.🖐✌👍

I wonder if Simon did a portrait of his mother would we call it Whistler's Mother?

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

I'd get a copyright strike.

Please do the Bagger 293 excavator!

That ship probably didn't last long. Given the technology of the era, it probably needed near-constant leak monitoring. It was likely parked in Alexandria, quickly flooded from leaks, and then swiftly dismantled for materials. It's not surprising that it doesn't appear again in history.

@OutnBacker

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. I think it probably never even set sail - or was put to oars. Just the wind alone would have made such a vessel uncontrollable, given the amount of sail and mast structure required to keep it on any given coarse. The hull and super structure would have created too much drift unless it had a keel of some 30feet depth and possibly up to 100 feet long. Probably more likely a floating casino or hotel complex. ; )

Mind-blowing! How long time ago was set " the golden standard " for ships of the Titanic "class".. *:)

Can you do a video on the Forty ship

Hey! I think you should do an episode about European explorers in the 1500s. I am reading a book about them and their voyages seem to be pretty "mega" as projects

1:15 The 'dress' museum? Should off course be the 'Drents' museum!

@christinebenson518

3 жыл бұрын

Should of course, you mean. If you're going to correct someone make sure your correction is spelled and grammatically correct.

Literally an ancient Carrack of the colonial era, what a sight it must have been to behold.

The Peloponnesian war lasted 27 years. I don‘t know what the longest war of antiquity was, but this fact alone makes it impossible for the 1st Punic war to have been the longest in antiquity

Just to clarify, ROme never controlled all of Italy. Strategic ports and roads yes but there were several inland citystates that they never bothered with conquering and which remained independent.

@randomobserver8168

3 жыл бұрын

True- they had however organized it into a complicated confederation of Rome, its territories, Roman colonia, and Socii- the allied cities that fought Rome in the Social War to be more integrated and have more rights and, defeated, were granted things like the citizenship of Rome. By the time of the Punic Wars everything south of the Rubicon, the Roman definition of Italy, was part of it and the 1st c BC Social War made it much more integrated. Hence the Romans idea of treating "Italy" as a concept in law as far as when and where a general could take his provincial army. Augustus further altered the constitution of the peninsula but it remained unique, distinct from the provinces, which had been more explicitly conquest lands and of which Sicily had been the first. But there are two caveats: 1. Even in the provinces the Roman governors and their staffs administered complicated arrangements that included allied cities with their own governments some of whose leaders were rewarded with Roman citizenship. 2. Eventually in the middle empire even Italy was organized into the provincial/diocesan administrations.

If I may, ideas for future videos: Missiles! Ship based....... Various iterations of the standard missile Harpoon Missile Tomahawk Missile Navel strike missile

Proposals for future Megaprojects Episodes... The Roman Nemi Ships...the Dienststelle Mariental(worlds largest Nuclear Shelter)

Can u do Operation opera?

I've pulled 800+lb boulders out of the ground in my backyard all by myself. Couches, major appliances, play structures. Thank you, Archimedes. What I want to know is: Did he call it the L-eh-ver or the L-EE-ver?

Good thing that that war was not pun-ic. Imagine dads in a competetive joke-off, that would be absolutely hilarious... 🤪😁😁😁

An idea for an episode could be the St. Louis Arch.

would you do videos on the Confederation Bridge and SNOLAB please?

How about a Mega Project on the US battleship class Iowa's, after all there was four of them.

Maybe make one about the east German wall.

“Moreover, I am of the opinion that Carthage should be destroyed”

Possibly dismantled for the resources. Wood was fairly scarce in Egypt

I'm starting to think that Simon is just showing off! Lol flex that brain!

What about the building of the Palmyran empire and it's quick rise and fall?