They should build a memorial to honor the victims of the imminent dam disaster.

@scottanno8861

Жыл бұрын

The Onion predicted this

@martonbalazskajari5424

Жыл бұрын

"I wish there was a way to prevent this disaster..... that didn't require so much funding"

@Ass_of_Amalek

Жыл бұрын

might I suggest a memorial dam?

@randomperson6988

Жыл бұрын

I just watched that video lmaooooo

@verro9153

Жыл бұрын

The local engineer had this to say about the eminent dam disaster and his family’s proactive reservation of a grave, “It’s not going to matter since they won’t find my body.”

Just surround the city with a wall of lava, as it will create a giant cobblestone wall and prevent more water from getting through

@awsomemodels

Жыл бұрын

I wish 😂

@Bob_Smith19

Жыл бұрын

Minecraft mechanics don’t apply to the real world.

@TrollGarlic

Жыл бұрын

@@Bob_Smith19 then how come I built a nether portal in my basement last night? Checkmate.

@The_Copper_Element_Itself

Жыл бұрын

​@@Bob_Smith19 🤓

@xxjr8axx

Жыл бұрын

Hows about they create diversion canals and drain all the water into the desert?

The arrival of ISIS also had major consequences for the Mosul Dam. There was a period of time where ISIS fighters were occupying it and the grouting stopped, which led to greater damage than usual due to the lack of maintenance. They knew they could stay there safely because the U.S. wouldn't risk bombing the dam. Even after they had left, it took *months* for the work to resume. From a local engineer quoted in a 2016 TIME article: "Several new cracks form every day, some holes need 50 tons of cement.". Maintenance costs "only" about $4M a year…

@MarkWTK

Жыл бұрын

4mil is not that bad, considering it might potentially save thousands or millions of lives.

@desmond-hawkins

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkWTK Yes it's a tiny amount given the consequences of not maintaining the dam, and yet the Iraqi government is still relying on foreign aid to cover part of this expense. This reminds me of when the city of Flint, MI decided to save $100/day by not treating the Flint river water with orthophosphates, the cleanup ended up costing at least $600 million and tons of people were poisoned by lead. Here it's a government pressuring foreign countries to help since they don't want to incur a small expense, once again with no concern for the huge disaster looming.

@yammarques

Жыл бұрын

4mi a year is literally pocket change in regards to infrastructure maintenance

@ferrariguy8278

Жыл бұрын

@@desmond-hawkins Thanks for pointing out what the video failed to do. It also fails to credit the USA for spending a good deal of tax dollars in mitigating the immediacy of the problem saving many lives after the long siege to remove ISIS so that work could actually be done.

@desmond-hawkins

Жыл бұрын

@@ferrariguy8278 Yes! Thank you USA for spending tax dollars in continuation of an invasion triggered *under false pretenses* and the genius decision to dissolve Saddam's army, leaving hundreds of thousands of angry men with weapons and training disaffected (2/3 of the top ISIS commanders were previous Baʽathists). Thank you USA for spending tax dollars to bomb ISIS out of existence after literally creating the conditions needed for ISIS to appear in the first place. Thanks so much for the 800k to 1.3M deaths paid for by your "tax dollars", no doubt their families would want the American contribution to this expense duly credited, after all at $4M/year it comes to 0.0034% of the $118B/year on average spent from 2003 to 2020.

If there's one thing I've learned from binge-watching "Seconds from Disaster", it's that when your engineers tell you "this is going to fail and kill everyone", *don't* ignore them!

This was a dam good episode, it really did not hold back. It was bursting with interesting facts presented in a solid structure that broke open the topic into little pieces.

@rowen42069

Жыл бұрын

👏👏

@williamcox632

Жыл бұрын

🤣👏👏

@communitycancer8199

Жыл бұрын

Legend

@jacoblee8989

Жыл бұрын

Well said

@Peizxcv

Жыл бұрын

Ignore R 2 H's Islam spam, he linked a cooking video that's nothing to do with the topic

The Johnstown dam killed 2,208 people when it collapsed in 1889. It was considered the worst non-war disaster in US history, only surpassed by the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the Twin Towers. The Mosul Dam has 1.7 million people in the city behind it, according to the last confirmed population count.

@karlmel15

Жыл бұрын

@@strangelyukrainian7314 wow you’ve solved global politics!!

@legokingtm9462

Жыл бұрын

@@strangelyukrainian7314 sounds like Ukraine also can't cooperate with their neighbors to prevent war.

@rodneydsouza2454

Жыл бұрын

@@strangelyukrainian7314 they don't want to spend extra money because they don't have money, Iraq is still a warm torn country with a lot of water scarcity problems and cities sometimes getting sewage quality of water. Partnering with Turkey would make the water scarcity problems even worse.

@SuperSMT

Жыл бұрын

> 1.7 million people In mosul alone! To say nothing of the cities farther down...

@Deathnotefan97

Жыл бұрын

There was a dam in China that killed over 100,000 people, and is currently the biggest dam related disaster in history The Mosul dam is a f***ing powder keg Iraq has a population of just over 40 million, if the _lower_ estimates out the death toll at over 10 million, as Sam claimed, that’s a _quarter of the entire population_

For anyone who wants to know more about fluid mechanics in stuff similar to this dam, Practical Engineering has some amazing videos

@darksunrise957

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Great channel

@chrissmith3587

Жыл бұрын

Here’s the link for one of practical engineerings video that’s about this sort of dam failure kzread.info/dash/bejne/l32h1ruypbSpips.html

That there is a German-Italian engineering firm is the most unbelievable part of this story.

@bestname6669

Жыл бұрын

its believable that a German-Italian engineering firm exist (just look at ww2) BUT what is surprising is the fact that the italians did not mess up

@doomslayerobama

Жыл бұрын

@@bestname6669 -Associates former axis nations only with axis -Gets stereotype historically wrong -Proceeds to insult entirety of Italy -Refuses to explain

@bestname6669

Жыл бұрын

@@doomslayerobama sir, is a ww2 joke that bad

@kutterkoeter

Жыл бұрын

Hochtief is not a German Italian company, they copied that wrong from Wikipedia... There it says a German italian consortium of companies build it.

@zorohibiki

Жыл бұрын

we could make an axis joke if they hire japanese engineers

Once again, Half as Interesting proving to be the educational channel we all want to be!

@jackmiller1561

Жыл бұрын

Loved your video on Saddam Hussein bro!

@stevenarnold5151

Жыл бұрын

Two kings making two Iraq videos in two days!

@Michael_Chater

Жыл бұрын

I meet the best channel on the internet again

@AlamarFly

Жыл бұрын

But it's becoming more political)

@Peizxcv

Жыл бұрын

Ignore R 2 H's Islam spam, he linked a cooking video that's nothing to do with the topic

My grandpa used to work on this dam and he used to always say how bad of an idea this was... yet here we are listening to Sam about this 🙃

For those not counting there are 39 dams in this video (including the one at the beginning of the video in the word damage) but not including the possible last word(s) in the video which ended mid-syllable

@schmid1.079

Жыл бұрын

Damn

@stephenw5488

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I was looking for this comment and was about to rewatch and start counting 😂

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

Is that OCD? 😄

If this breaks it will be the most appropriate use of the phrase "Biblical scale flood" since Noah

@rayelgatubelo

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the flood of Noah is likely based on a local flood like this that occurred in the Babylonian plain, which is the origin of the Semitic peoples.

@Aereto

Жыл бұрын

Time to wash the land again, and this time, Noah's children aren't around, thus the Covenant shall still be honored.

@justbecause3187

Жыл бұрын

Surf's Up! Noah better get busy building that Arch.🌊

@geoffreyfoster8039

Жыл бұрын

@@justbecause3187 Why an arch? Please explain!

@justbecause3187

Жыл бұрын

@@geoffreyfoster8039 oops, I meant Ark.

I remember that during the war in Iraq the US military had a plan in their back pocket to take out the dam if deemed necessary. Nuclear grade destruction without having to use a nuke...very economical.

@TURBOMIKEIFY

Жыл бұрын

Talk about a genocide....

@kv4648

Жыл бұрын

Why did they take out the other thing anyway? Did it serve a purpose other than allow them this cheap nuke option?

@somethinglikethat2176

Жыл бұрын

@@TURBOMIKEIFY it's not genocide. War crime maybe but calling it genocide is just factually incorrect.

@tolazytothinkofanamd2351

Жыл бұрын

War crimes on a budget

@tolazytothinkofanamd2351

Жыл бұрын

@@kv4648 I just googled it. The area was being defended by elite Iraqi troops. The US saw it as a chance to demoralize troops by taking the troops out. This also let them show the civilians the power of the US and it's ability to destroy dams. This lead to a civilian uprising against the local government which the US wanted. Civilians demanded the locals surrender out of threat of being washed away.

there used to be western scientists who spent alot of time monitoring the dam, but after ISIS took over Mosul they just fled, no idea if they are still there, becasue ISIS flat out ignored it

@Ass_of_Amalek

Жыл бұрын

they have probably returned, since the ISIS threat is quite thoroughly eliminated and the iraqi authorities are stronger now.

@BrilliantDesignOnline

Жыл бұрын

ISIS: gets rid of infidel scientists. ISIS in deep torrent of water from dam burst: WHY?

You also have to remember that Mossul stayed a warzon only until a few years ago.

You know it's not an issue if Half as Interesting is making a video about it. If it was Sam from Wendover on the other hand you know this dam is about to collapse.

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

Жыл бұрын

The logistics of Armageddeon.

This is like watching the first half of a disaster documentary. I wonder when part two will be posted...

"lion share of the Tigris..." I see what you did there.

@MrGroganmeister

3 ай бұрын

Snerk snerk😊

This topic is worth a "full as interesting".

@mangleshp

Жыл бұрын

or, alternatively, just ‘as interesting’’

me, an Iraqi who lives by the river watching this: interesting

@user-go1zt9ib4p

Жыл бұрын

الله يعينك

I suspect that this video could age very, very badly indeed. Let's hope the dam doesn't fail and the video doesn't age as badly as I fear.

@dimanyak373

Жыл бұрын

but it will fail, eventually

@awsomemodels

Жыл бұрын

As an Iraqi i can just feel that this will happen

@OrangeC7

Жыл бұрын

*cough* flashbacks to HAI's video about the Queen's funeral *cough*

@alanli2404

Жыл бұрын

Why? Are they going to fix the dam?

@lukesellars7178

Жыл бұрын

You mean age quite well?

All these dam puns 😂

@marmot418

Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there (edit: I meant the original commenter

@Peizxcv

Жыл бұрын

Ignore R 2 H's Islam spam, he linked a cooking video that's nothing to do with the topic

When the dam does break, that will probably be the biggest "I told you so" moment in history

@geoffreyfoster8039

Жыл бұрын

CalemGalco ..... The huge dam in China will be bigger when it breaks

TLDR: The Mosul Dam doesn't hold water.

@net6406

Жыл бұрын

This video is only 6 minutes long, it can't be too long

@tessjuel

Жыл бұрын

@@net6406 Have you noticed the attention span of some people these days? But anyways, the video may be short but the dam is 3.4 km long! That's more than 37 398 pizza boxes stacked on top of each other!!!

@Rerbun

Жыл бұрын

Did I miss the memo about the new meaning of the acronym TLDR?

@tessjuel

Жыл бұрын

@@Rerbun Well, the memo was too long to read so that's understandable. But to sum it up: the TLDR limit is now 30 seconds.

@Avicerox

Жыл бұрын

@@tessjuel Sir this is a Wendy's

The Well There's Your Problem episode on this will be interesting for sure

This was dam interesting! But seriously, hopefully someone figures this out!

@TedPfau

Жыл бұрын

Here is one solution: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q56a1KyzlNuddKQ.html

@lukesellars7178

Жыл бұрын

A fine pun! And not to worry! This has been well figured already. The dam will collapse and lots of people will die. Remember everyone: It doesn't always pay to be stubborn!

@kv4648

Жыл бұрын

@@lukesellars7178 neither does it to have someone bomb your backup plan and use it to as a potential genocide switch

@engineeringvision9507

Жыл бұрын

@@lukesellars7178 Not a single instance of dam dangerous, it's daming, this could really spill over...

@absalomdraconis

Жыл бұрын

There is in fact a way to absolutely prevent the dam's failure, which is to cover the area with so much stuff that it _can't_ flood Mosul. If you think this is a _good_ idea, then I'd like to introduce you to another city in Iraq, by the name of Babylon, which _stopped_ being a city because it's kinda hard to survive if the river you depend on decides that it doesn't want to do "river" anywhere in your general area.

Here before the ‘aged like milk’ comments

formerly known as "Saddam dam". or, y'know, just "Sad-dam".

"a lion's share of water from the Tigris" A-tier pun Edit: and it's followed up almost immediately by "flip the bird to Turkey" However much the writers are paid isn't enough

Dam! That’s concerning.

@Manfred_Danfred

Жыл бұрын

it's Dam near insane!

2:50 missed opportunity to say "the whole dam point of a dam"

There's a similar situation up river from Fredericton New Brunswick. The rock that they use in the concrete of the dam is eroding the dam and it will need to be replaced soon

@OntarioTrafficMan

Жыл бұрын

Mactaquac dam?

"Dam," said the Mosul dam, "we gotta start flooding some stuff"

@willch.2259

Жыл бұрын

Good reference

I drove by it on a convoy back in 2007. All I remember was that the surrounding walls were huge and tallaf. Relatively clean.

This is the best dam channel on KZread.

@deeznuts3186

Жыл бұрын

well done 👏

@lbcntx9169

Жыл бұрын

That's dam good

What's the difference between a Lake and a Dam? Lake I give a Dam.

@PalmTree.

Жыл бұрын

Dam good joke

@heliofaros1344

Жыл бұрын

Them dam(n) beavers!

4:36 I think the fundamental problem is that the engineers responsible for designing and fixing the dam are looking at a house plan than the plan of the dam.

Please do a video on “the most watched damn in the United States” the Cumberland river damn (Wolfe creek damn). It’s one of the largest earth filled dams and it’s leaking.

@lonestarr1490

Жыл бұрын

You shouldn't swear so much in your messages. Your phone went on and switched all your dams to damns.

@mangleshp

Жыл бұрын

too many damn dams

@screwyourhandle

Жыл бұрын

Damn McDaniel

@proloycodes

Жыл бұрын

@@screwyourhandle lmaoooo

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

@@lonestarr1490 😂

"First most ranked city for names that sound like T Mobile." What about Mobile Alabama?

idk how to measure the half as interesting's content's interestingness rating at this point but this topic is very interesting and rather important contrary to most other subjects discussed here.

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

True... this one didn't fit the usual "quirk Wikipedia article" mould.

"hochtief aktiengesellschaft", while being a corporation's name, basically translates straight to "publicly traded structural and civic engineering corporation". ("hochtief" abbreviating "hoch- und tiefbau")

@Hauketal

Жыл бұрын

And no-one uses the full name. The last word is just AG.

2:19 It's always a pleasure when someone tries to pronounce german words and then doesn't even take the shortcut of abbreviating "Aktiengesellschaft" to "AG", like everyone in Germany does 😊

The sarcasm in this video cuts deeper than the dam does into its foundation.

I can't wait to watch Practical Engineering's video about the inevitable failure.

I hadn't heard that the death toll was going to be anywhere near that high, more like 500,000-1,000,000. But an interesting point to add, an extremist group did take control of the damn for a time and for months and months the concrete refilling wasn't happening for all this time

because it has no beans and all bones

Hehe your sense of humor = 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 I love the script. I also love learning new things on this channel because it makes me chuckle while my knowledge increases. Win win!

TreviGroup posted a video on KZread about the rehabilitation work undertaken to shore up the dam back in 2018, so I believe the government turned around right after the ISIS occupation and finally spent money on at least mitigating the worst case scenario.

Remember that time Half as Interesting made a video so they could say Damn a lot? That was awesome.

You think that's bad. You should see the Three Gorges Dam. Already crumbling and 400 million people in thr splash zone.

@Ass_of_Amalek

Жыл бұрын

it's not crumbling, it's flexing withing construction parameters... the party says so.

@BrilliantDesignOnline

Жыл бұрын

No, the Three Gorges Dam was build just as good as chinese products and electronics...oops

Damn expert is the most damn underrated profession in this damn world, I'm damn sure.

Hoch-Tief ("high-low") is actually just some german construction company, "Aktiengesellschaft" means that it's a joint-stock company. Not too hard to pronounce tbh

@renerpho

Жыл бұрын

Also, it's not German-Italian.

Thank you for making this dam video. Turns out I didn’t know a dam thing about any of this.

With all the problems with this dam, I'm actually impressed it hasn't collapsed yet, after all these years.

@RoseNZieg

Жыл бұрын

the $4 millions per year renovation might had something to do with it. only delaying the inevitable though.

0:37 A long time ago, actually, never, and also now, nothing was nowhere.

00:42 I think the dam word you were looking for is "interventionism".

Hochtief AG means actually not more than "High(rise)low(digging)" AG from the German words "Hochbau" for Overground construction and "Tiefbau" for Underground Construction.

0:05 Corrections video here: The captions spell T-Mobile correctly. However, the graphic shows T-Mobil

He did a damn fine job of putting the word dam in as many times as he could

You're cracking me up with all the damn quips! My little brother and I love "Welcome to the damn tour; I'll be your damn guide - If you have any damn questions, please wait till after the damn tour is over! Vegas Vacation! Did you know that every day since 1976, allegedly a damn is built in the "United States"?

This is an amazing channel, I only recently found out about, even though I knew Wendover. You guys are doing a great job with your content. But the main thing I wanted to say is that I listened to your pronouncuation of Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft about a dozen times, because it sounds so funny and amazing when a English speaker says it😂

Wow, HAI actually used self made diagrams instead of stock images, quality video here lol 😆

the dam puns tho 😂😂

Damn fine job, Sam, taking about the damn dam.

Can you do a video on lobotomies and their paralleled with science today?

actually Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft is pronounced like "Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft" hope this helps

36 Dam{s) by the 5 minute mark + 2 extra dam(s) in the advert. Nicely done my good sir!

your puns make me feel funny inside, and even sometimes a lil on the outside

If you think about it, this video is all about a giant brick wall.

0:34 what government?

Could I ask if you could post links to the background tracks? Love your videos!

Reminds me of my favorite clock hole video about building a memorial for a future flood

You vs the dam she tells you not to worry about

What did the fish say when it hit the wall? Dam. What did the other fish say to that fish when he hit the wall? Dumb Bass.

I thought this was a Wendover video😂 so when he started cracking jokes I was like WTF IS HAPPENING

The Sadam joke had me gasping

This happened in the USA in 1976. Google the Teton Dam failure. Fortunately the loss of life was limited. As opposed to what is expected in Iraq

I hope they do something to prevent this.

Dammit, this a freaking dam fine dam.

Time to bookmark this for when it happens

Bro... I can't even with these "jokes": The government refuses to listen to a DAM thing the Experts say. The joke is so bad, i'm laughing my ass off😂 that's the Bullshit i love this channel for

What's the difference between the Mosul Dam and Saddam Hussein ? Saddam Hussien is a Sad Dam!! 😂😂

Now, this was one dam fine episode.

I'd like to go on the Dam tour before its too late.

What if they pulled an unofficial reverse and started releasing the water bit by bit so it doesn't cause flooding. And then, individually remove each part of the dam and build a new one with the exact same materials like a km downstream. Then they don't have to worry abt it for another 5 years with essentially no extra cost

@harrypotter8262

Жыл бұрын

the materials isnt the problem, the amount of labour that would be required for that is.

@randomghost1080

Жыл бұрын

Did you mean uno reverse? Also nope, you can't reuse the materials. Concrete can't be just "melted down" and reused. Even if you remove it bit by bit, it's still impossible cause well, the control gates are mounted on the top and you can't remove those first. What *can* be done is releasing the water bit by bit and build a new dam, but that costs billions and won't happen before a few million die.

@psychopathetic5341

Жыл бұрын

... yall its is a joke I'm very cognisant of the fact that it's a stupid idea...

@alahiri2002

Жыл бұрын

@@psychopathetic5341 You are the first person I’ve ever seen use “y’all” and the British-origin variant of spelling of a word within the same sentence.

@psychopathetic5341

Жыл бұрын

@@alahiri2002 Fun fact: I'm neither American nor British 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

From mousl and wll i have say is: Haha am in danger. No but honestly we want to be from turkey i am Assyrian and am not baised with turkey but i and our people want to be part of turkey i even consider its turkish land

I feel like with most potential catastrophic events it’s always the same thing that is the reason, politicians favorite pass time, ignoring experts.

Sam had a dam good time making this one....

3:22 oh wait... isnt that a war crime? or so did some claim few months ago after certain other event... cool

@Jake-rs9nq

Жыл бұрын

Blowing up a dam is not a warcrime, unless the attack was meant to wipe out civilian population centers.

That’s pretty dam scary

"The lion's share of water from the Tigris." Nice.

It could be worse, you could plant your cantaloupe tree inside the house of Johnny the Cantaloupe Smasher.

2:20 "Aktiengesellschaft", or AG, literally just means "public limited company" in German

They need Evan Almighty to build an ark to save those people.

"Hochtief" is actually just the words "hoch" (high) and "tief" (deep) combined and the name of the company, while "Aktiengesellschaft" is just the kind of company it is, like "incorporated" or "limited" in english

when it eventually breaks, this is going to be a hell of a news lol 💀

I don't really follow along, my interest is the puns and the transition from the topic to the adverts super cool

At least we'll probably get a nice Plainly Difficult video about this dam.

Where is my Nebula upload, Sam from HAI and not Wendover?

The amount of times he makes the same “dam” pun though