The Great Man-Made River: The Eighth Wonder of the World?
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@@Jan12700 lol I always skip the first minute or two of all Simon's videos
Thanks Hillary!!!
We have here the same problem with the water supply of Crimea thru North Crimean Canal - 2014
Ukraine shut down the canal in 2014 soon after the Russian annexation of Crimea. Was ist not an act of terrorism to cut water supply for few millions people off?
Hey man, you didn't lose your hair, it just got strategically re deployed
He’s not Russian haha
It seems like that 😂
I'm just imagining where to and it's not pretty.
But does the carpet match the drapes?? 😆
@@cthomas3782 "strategic redeployment" is a military term. Russia isn't the only nation with a military.
Jokes tend to be funnier when they're well researched. They also work better when the premise actually aligns with reality. Stick to mowing lawns.
I went to Libya on business a number of times there was one big issue you missed and that was the water was so laden with minerals it stripped the concrete and caused major leaks they had to steel line the pipes to stop them degrading.
Omg
Where I live,
The local water supply is the constantly replenished watersheds formed by vast lakes in the Cascade Mountain range which is already damn near as pure as bottled water, but for varying amounts of brown silt picked up along the way, and calcium.
I can't believe the amount of calcium!
AKA, scale.
One micron filters don't trap it.
Freaky!
Does that mean that they had very hard water (ie- large concentration of group 1 and 2 ions), or was this an entirely different issue?
I've seen some images of ancient Roman Aqueducts that were transporting such vast amounts of such hard water, that there was almost 1 meter of particulates built up, over the aqueduct lining!!
Learning new things. 58 years old and never heard that story. Awesome! Thanks Megaprojects.
He did a lot for Libya search on UA-cam what he did for the people
You knew Gadhafi enjoyed laying pipe
It's sad, the US wouldn't show us anything good about Libya because Gadhafi refused to sell his oil rights. He actually did good things but was painted as a villian.
Thanks to you for remembering the contribution of Muambur Gaddafi on grate man made river.
This was way more interesting than I first thought! Thanks everyone!
Finally, been waiting for this to drop as I mentioned it long ago. Gaddafi was a smart man by making people capable of farming their own land and it annoyed characters in the West.
Always wondered why the Gaddafi hatred in the west. I'm in the US. Patriotic, vote all the time. But always do my reading of world events, and really Gaddafi accomplished a lot of things that genuinely promoted the well being of the Libyan people. He even aided western people who were trying to rescue their relatives from pirates, when our own government did nothing. So I don't know. Maybe the news we heard wasn't true, made up by senators with their own agenda. Maybe it was true and he was a dick. But it sure seems like Libya is in better shape now than it was before.
@@Hollylivengood Gaddafi was a monster, like most dictators. He was also a very shrewd politician and had an eye for the populist things to do, some of which were indeed very good for the people of Libya, he was willing to "bestow his largess" on the public. Much in the same style as Castro in Cuba.
However, when things weren't going his way, that's when you saw his true character. And it was the same as every other dictator, a ruthless willingness to hold onto power at any cost to his people. No-one who supresses dissenting voices with violence and terror is a good person.
Edit: The fact that he started to say "no" to the US certainly didn't help relations there either, and undoubtably played more of a part in the US deciding to stop ignoring his other behaviour. Unfortunately the west does have a tendency to ignore dictator's bad habits against their own population if they're "useful monsters".
@@Ylyrra Ahh, I wondered. Are you from Libya? Always wondered what the real story was there. But you can't get it unless you find someone who lives there. Hope things are better now.
@@Hollylivengood No, UK, but being outside the US and given the UK's... interesting relationship with Libya, we've historically had a mix of more nuanced reporting than just "Gaddafi bad" especially given the number of British contractors there were on the ground at various points, seeing the stuff being built. And certainly a more critical level of reporting on our county's complicity in various things that went on.
@@Hollylivengood As dictators go, Gaddafi was one of the best that ever existed. But he was still a dictator and he maintained his position by sowing discord among the various tribes and brutally repressing revolutionary forces. But that’s pretty normal African politics.
Gaddafi became an enemy of the west because he directly meddled in regional and global politics, supported communist regimes, funded terrorism in Europe and the US, supported civil rights activists in the US and South Africa, destabilized the nuclear weapons balance of power, and, probably more than anything, was staunchly and militantly anti-Zionist.
Everybody was afraid of him, and rightly so. He was absurdly wealthy, giving him the ability to act without the financial intervention of western powers and he was not concerned with how the world perceived him. Basically everything that western nations hate for anyone else to do and be.
What an amazing feat by humans. I can not fathom the amount of people coordinating different plans, and ideas, to build something of this magnitude.
And all it took us was less than 10 years to ruin everything.
Dude, leave the "get it" out next time. The joke was golden if you had. Don't cater to the lowest common denominator. If they need it explained, they aren't worth the wasted breath.
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@@florians9949 For all the hate Gaddafi got in the west he was probably the best dictator of the 20th century.
Most would have stolen every penny for themselves instead of building projects like this and providing the Libyan people with the best standard of living in Africa.
Hillary Clinton can be thanked for the current ruin of Libya, Gaddafi tried to normalise relations, stopped spending money on the military and got killed for his efforts.
@@danielreuben1058 nice. Intellectual humor is the best. You can suss out the blockheads with a witty comment like yours.
I live in the foothills of upstate South Carolina, and as such, the water is plentiful and naturally clean. I know, and am thankful, every day, that such is the case.
Despite all the failings of the Ghadafi government. They did get one thing right. They knew what was needed to create greater prosperity in the country, they planned it, they built it, and they actually used it to help their people
Failings? Gaddafi didn't fail - he succeeded. Under Gaddafi, Libya was literally the richest country in Africa. Gaddafi provided his citizens with free housing, healthcare and education, paid for by the country's energy wealth. Where other African leaders looted their country and sent it to Western bank accounts, Gaddafi wasn't corrupt. He vastly improved the lives of his people. In 2011, Libya's GDP per capita was almost equal to that of a Western country. After the civil war sponsored by NATO, and Gaddafi's murder, Libya's GDP per capita collapsed by 80%. The West destroyed a country, destroyed its infrastructure, and Libya may never be put together again.
The COLONIAL WEST cannot see the NON WHITE stand on their own feet
Failings? Lol you'd think exactly that if you were a brainwashed sheep who only gets information from billionaire funded mainstream media.
Do an episode on all the snake oils to keep your hair.
Well keeps is tested but it's and lists side effects. Losing your hair? Shave it, give up. Unless your Elon Musk, but that hair could have cost tens of millions he doesn't even mention being bald decades ago! PayPal looking like Al Bundy selling shoes.
It sounds like the water in the aquifer can migrate to the massive wells as that area is pumped out. There's a few aquifers in Texas that small cities and rural water districts will tap during the dry Summer months then switch over to obtaining water from local reservoirs during the wet months in the Fall thru the Spring while the aquifer levels rise from migrating water and being recharged by surface water percolating down into the formation.
thanks for finally covering this topic. Interesting tnhat the oil money was used to build useful infrastructure and not just palaces and weapons.
Or corrupt governments. Mer’ca.
Or Superyachts, Villas and hookers.
He did all three. There were plenty of weapons and palaces too.
He wasn't as bad as many others.
Libya before 'democracy'.
Rest in peace, great man 🟩🟩
Did you guys know...
There's so much sand in Northern Africa, that if you were to spread it all out, it would completely cover the Sahara Desert?!!?
Ps: That joke is now more than 30 years old (I heard it/ read it back inna 90s and never forgotten it), but it still makes me laugh every time I think of it. Not just smile, but laugh! Not just chuckle-laugh, but full, belly-laugh! Not just full, belly-laugh, but... Nope, I've got nothing else. But I still love that joke! So much sand...
Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa
I see you are a writer for the Daily Show
The bad news is that the sand in Sahara Desert is pretty much useless but the good news is that there's plenty of it.
Here's a true fun fact! Mexico is so mountainous that it would cover Asia if ironed flat.
@@billwilson3609
It SEEMS like a "fun fact," but in reality, it poses more questions than it presents a satisfying answer. I mean, my first response would be - What if we ironed Asia flat? Surely the Himalaya region alone would 'flatten out' to reveal a vast area. And also - What if we ironed them both flat? How much area would Mexico NOW cover of both flat areas? And, of course, my next question HAS to be - On what calculations and/ or presumptions are such suppositions to be made? And so on and so forth...
Anyway, that leads me to a tangential question next, which is "Is neurosis _Fun?_ If so, how much fun is it to be neurotic vs how neurotic do you have to be before finding it fun?
Just imagine the sinkhole that's gonna happen when that aquifer is finally emptied!
You mean the ninth wonder of the world!
@@sydhenderson6753 😆👍yup!
There will be no sink hole. Instead a whole region will gradually sink over the course of several years
@@ranjusranjus143 yeah, I was more or less joking around, but technically, it would still be a sink whole........just on a massive scale!🤣👍Thanx for the reply!
@coolnegative yes...like that happening in Mexico City. The city has sunk about two inches over ? 2 decades
When I read about the Great Man-Made River, I was thinking about the Yunhe River in China, built from Hangzhou to Beijing (1776km) around year 1000, but I guess the one in Libya could also apply...
If the original 4000 year estimates were based on water consumption data prior to the irrigation project when water was scarce, I would believe that the post water pipeline estimates for the lifespan of the aquifer might be less than 100 years and maybe even less than 60. If they're all of a sudden irrigating the desert for agriculture their water usage can easily increase 40x. (For those bad at math, 4000 years / 40 = 100)
It reminds me of the Aral Sea... the Soviets dried it up for cotton farming...
I'm sure they were smart enough to make this a reality but not smart enough to calculate water consumption correctly.
they are not irrigating anything. The civil war stirred up by west destroyed 4/5 of the water supply.
Draining a finite amount of water so you can water the desert is so laughably short sighted it would be hilarious if it weren't depressing. At least with oil you use most of what you dig up and 90% doesn't just evaporate without being utilized
@@bradsanders407 they almost certainly know, they just have zero reason to care. Politicians rarely look past the end of their term, for democracies that means the next election and for dictators it's the end of their life, but both are relatively short. If exploiting those resources gain them benefits for 10-20 years they're happy and if it crashes and burns after that they don't care because they got what they wanted.
Do a story about Libya's railway, work on which stopped early in 2011.
Libya had a better living standard of all of Africa until 2011.
@@elperrodelautumo7511 But at least the Libyans have a taste of freedom and democracy under a tattered and destabilised country run by warlords.
re - Area of Sahara Desert vs Area of USA
WOW!!! I had no idea that they were so close!! When you include Alaska, the USA covers more area than the Sahara. However, the Sahara Desert covers MORE area than the contiguous USA, making the size comparison VERY apt. Well done to the _Metaphors, Comparisons and 18th Century-French-Improv-Poetry_ section of the Scriptwriting team!!👌👌👍👍
Imagine wars being fought for a simple drink of water.
We’re going to be seeing more and more such wars.
Wendover made an awesome and informative video about this, also. Highly suggest all to watch when done with this video!
they should probably be informed about this, because several lines from this video were directly plagiarized from that one
Real Life Lore released one about 2 weeks ago, have noticed this happen before some of the creators seem to be borrowing ideas for videos from each other
I too was realy anoyed that megaprojects stopped to even try to hide, that they copy other people thoughts on topics, and even lines from other people videos
I was in Libya in 2009 for work. Whatever else Gaddafi might have been, the country was prosperous, the people seemed happy (for the most part) and he spent a lot of the country's wealth on it's people. It was sure as shit better than it is now.
"We came, we saw, he died. Hahahaha".
That was new information for me. Always something new around the corner that scares the hell out of me. Thanks, though!
Ghadaffi actually did a lot of good things and made Libya the best country in Africa. Then the west decided to remove him. Was it because he would not use the petrodollar? He had his dark sides as well.
Not as dark as western politicians..
Amazing HUGE project. I worked on it in 2010 until the Ghadaffi thing.
Oh yeah. That whole Ghadaffi thing.
Where he sold oil for something other than Dollars
You mean, until the NATO and UN murdered him and his sons and completely destroyed prosperous Libya and turned it into a hellish nightmare with open slave trade. That Gaddafi thing, right?
2:42 desert treasure
5:17 Gaddafi's great plan
10:16 the future of the oasis
"A victory of man over mother nature " always ends with mother nature winning.
Kinda. All of human civilization is a testament to a series of victory of man over Mother Nature, but she usually wins by default through our greed.
The current war in Ukraine shows how easily new found resources lead to war. Ukraine found massive natural gas reserves along her southern coast and just west of the Dnipro river. The reserves were so large, and easily accessible, that they could take over 1/4th to 1/3rd of the EU’s entire needs. That would cost Moscow around *HALF* her oil/gas income (~$1Bil USD/day) and Norway about 1/4th their gas exports (~$100mil/day) to the EU and beyond. With *Everyone needing to* cut off gas use after 2035, it would basically ruin the current Norwegian & Russian long term plans to stop being PetroEconomies by then.
I used to worry about all the waste we produce hear on earth and still do for ourselves at least. After watching what a solar flare can do in the film Knowing, all this crap and pollution we make along with everything else can be recycled in a single moment.
Then how did we cross oceans and fly airplanes? How are we at the top of the food chain? Seems like there's some Ws in there.
How so? We have done nothing but constantly surpass our limitations for the last 200 years. And even most of our issues are of our own creation. Mother Nature is barely an afterthought these days.
@@bradsanders407 I love tha 'we' stuff, i used to say it too. Look at all the wonders 'we' discover on nature docs. look at all the innovations inventions and breakthroughs 'we' make in science and enginneering.
One day i thought, ive never done any of these things never known anyone personally who has. We can take instructions to various levels to manage a shop. build a wall or upgrade some IT. ect ect. Basically implement what the cream of the crop does. I still enjoy watching things like Brian Cox, Mr attenborough and other awesome presenters. But the 'we' in me is gone.
This is super cool! Any idea if this super old water needs to be treated after being pumped, or is brought up clean enough to drink?
Hi that was a Amazing. Great work.
2:45 - Chapter 1 - Desert treasure
5:20 - Chapter 2 - Gaddafi's great plan
10:20 - Chapter 3 - The future of the oasis
Thanks
Fascinating presentation
The tube wells were dug by Brasilero and if I remember correctly the huge pipe were made by Dongwha.
Its always the case that when the west involves itself in national politics, the country always ends up worse off.
Whilst Gaddafi was a dictator, the country saw incredible growth and long-term projects that would be ignored by short term focused politicians.
However as soon as the west got involved the country went down hill, and has been in disarray and disrepair ever since due to a lack of unified governance and investment
Its not always the case and that guy caused alot of damage in the past and bombed an airplane. He had it coming.
@@TheBooban Okay, name one country in the last 50 years that has ended up better off after western nations got involved?
Iraq? worse off, Afghanistan? worse off, libya, Somalia? Syria?
Every country where we in the west launch military operations just ends with the destruction of much of the country, the population worse off, and a government that is worse than what was ousted.
he bombed a plane... so we destroyed the country and caused untold turmoil for decades.
@@TheBooban not always as in what country ?
Or you're racist.
You did a great job for the sponsor, Simon. But, I have to wonder about the thought process of their advertising department. "This product will stop and/or reverse hair loss. We'll make millions if we can sell it!" "I know, we'll get a bald guy that it absolutely CAN NOT HELP to talk about it!" 🤔
Lets not forget that Gadhafi was wanting to unite Africa, create the same style system as the EU but an african version.
He also wanted to kick out the West taking the resources out of Africa and for every country to Nationalize their resources, but ya know he needed some freedom dropped on him.
They took out one gadaffi, they created millions of gadaffis.
I think I saw a video about this just... a few weeks ago... ideas sure get circulated. :D
Now I really want to go see this thing. It sounds amazing.
It was destroyed by the US, NATO and UN
NATO bombed it in 2011. It’s operating at 10 % capacity
Wow. Libya must be a rich and peaceful country with all this fresh water.
it was until he said he'd sell his Gas for Gold or Euro's instead of the Dollar, a month later he was dead and the country a hellscape.
@@mikesemus9773 the CIA when they hear about a third world country with a possibility of developing
@@idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472 Yeah, no kidding, US has no problem ruining the lives of people all around the world for money and power. This was particularly shocking as Gadhafi was renting his Libyan torture chambers to CIA to rendition "terror suspects" in clear violation of multiple international laws. Just goes to show even if you do everything the US wants, 1 decision they don't like and they will have you killed and your country destroyed.
Coincidence that Libya was one of the major gas suppliers to the EU market and every other "Arab Spring" miraculously happened in countries that were supplying the EU or had pipelines for Countries that were? No, i was being sarcastic, ofc it wasn't coincidence, it's quite literally criminal on a gargantuan scale.
All Thanks To the United States that country doesn’t know any peace .. smh Obama
This is a marvel. Gaddafi did something good. It's worth saying that there's no 2nd Libyan civil war. It's the same civil war.
President Gaddafi was the man behind this mega project
I felt triggered and personally attacked every time you said “aquifire”
I can never tell when if he's mispronouncing something, or if it's just the usual British insistence on adding hard vowel sounds where there isn't even a vowel.
@@bobkerolls13 or maybe he’s smart and he knows if he mispronounces just one word throughout the whole video it’ll spur massive engagement in the comment section 😂
I also feel the pain!
My uncle actually worked there on the oil pumps. He is irish.
RIP Gaddafi
If they use all the water, would there be sinkholes? I mean that's a lot of stuff taken out.
So... Wut happens once the water is gone?
Gaddafi must have needed all that water to wash off the blood from his murders
Salty much. Yankee!
All of these problems are exacerbated by population. Please do a Megaprojects about birth control, the story of how we got The Pill.
What “we”? Women got it.
We got another one that I haven’t tried yet. I’ve tried horny goat weed though. Think it works?
This is interesting but the river project i can't wait to see is a proposal by China to build a man made rover that will go from the Himalayas to the western border of China as they try to turn western China into California. But in this project they need to connect the eastern and western systems further down south and they should actually have some of the water on the surface (heavily vegetated grounds under water) for the fishing/agriculture industry and real estate industry witch could bring many tourist to the deep desert..
S l K E
Do one on India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS VIKRANT.
There is an equally impressive water system that was originally started by the ancient sumerians or akkadians and was continued to be expanded to almost modern times. It didnt of course carry as much water, but was dug underground originally with bronze tools.
This is smelling a lot like a certain sea that is disappearing. You have done a video on it
Aquafire? Is that like fire water? A huuuuge underground liquor reservoir? Wicked!
Didnt Real life lore literally make this exact video last week????
This type of video is likely written weeks ago.
superb Simon. top of the docuz. solar and desalination will solve depletion of fossil water.
Water is a renewable resource if handled properly. I'd like to know what they are doing with all that wastewater? Treatment plants, then reinjecting it back into the aquifers? Purification plants to directly reuse? Or just dumping it on the ground after use?
And before you start grousing at me, I hold a class I Ohio EPA license (inactive due to disability)
Aquifer or aquifier? I think it’s the former.
So do most of us - but apparently not Simon - d'oh!
At times like this I'm reminded that Simon's reading a script and doesn't always know what he's talking about
when all people around me look dead,
it's nice to see a charming personality on youtube
The fact that they have seemingly unlimited solar power and access to the sea (with all those goodies dissolved in it) makes it absolutely bonkers that they'd use the fossil water for anything other than specialty mineral water bottling.
How much does desalinated water cost for 1000 gallons, vs the price for this fossil water for 1000 gallons?
Plus what was the price per kiloWatt-hour, assuming it comes from Solar instead of on-location oil? Take into account the exchange rate for Libyan currency, not to mention United States and other nations not wanting to trade with Libya because Qaddafi was a dictator.
@@toddkes5890 Mirrors are far cheaper than photovoltaic panels. All needed is a plain water boiling plant
@@romanregman1469 So how much does it cost for 1 million gallons of desalinated water using your method?
Compare that how much does it cost for 1 million gallons of fresh water from this fossil source.
A few ideas ...
Eifel Tower
Statue of Liberty
St Louis Arch
United States Constitution
... and I still want a deep dive into Operation Paperclip
Still no video on the unbuilt Russian/Soviet plan to re-direct two (west) Siberian rivers to the Aral Sea? Come on, it's a most awesome unbuilt river project ever :)
All that added inflow of water wouldn't just top up the Aral Sea to its old levels, it might even lift it so high that it gets an outflow (into the Caspian, thus raising that sea as well). I have yet to find any actual study on how much water would be redirected though, so the actual increased water for the Aral Sea seems to be unknown?
There is s small mistake, you changed the depth in ft but not in meters 160m both times. Loved the video anyways !
Everyone knows Babytron is the real 8th wonder.
In the middle of the Arizona desert, miles from anything but cacti and sand,
you'll find Chain link gates, with "No Fishing" signs on them.
Hey @Megaprojects rethink about largest lift irrigation river project. I guess it’s not great man made river. But Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project in Telangana India.
The best thing they did was not using canals but using pipes to prevent evaporation. Something the US has yet to do.
this puts fossil resources into a much better light, very interesting.
i wonder how this much water released into the oceans after use or to the atmosphere through drying up influences the climate, i also wonder how much fossil water is mined worldwide. assuming this last for longer than 100 years, this would be amazing for the future of northern africa, if not, it's still an amazing boon for the libyan people.
When you pump out these water supplies, it tends to destabilize the ground too.
“AquaFire” 😂 Sounds like a confused Pokémon.
Still love your work anyway mate 😝
Say aquifier one more time
The project was also superseded by the installation of costal desalinators. During my time on the project there were a lot of internal politics, corruption concerning progress & completion. The invasion of Libya was just stupid, the Mr G held the country together as any dictator would with fear, his removal inevitably resulted consequent country issues.
Thank you!
If this doesnt work out Nestle can always provide the water. For Only 100 times the price.
Suppressed its able to remain functioning during the civil war.
Didn't you do a video on this recently...or was it The InfoGraphics Show...or...RealLifeLore? Can't remember lol
Simon you have not lost your hair. I just fell down.
You should look at the FM diversion project.
Looks like you decided to use Keeps in negative X axis my friend LOL
Honestly if you have a beard the bald look is rather classy and hipster. You just don't have many other options if you want to look classy or hipster lol. I can't grow a beard so maybe we all envy what we don't have.
there are several lines in this video which are just directly plagiarized from Real Life Lore's video on this topic which was released a month ago
what is the significance of the door just behind his right shoulder being opened so it is exactly edge on and nearly reaches him? Is it an acoustic device, like a baffle somehow? Does it accentuate his already pyogenically creamy voice, like a resonant chamber?
I wonder if you could use the water to kick start a permanent ecosystem which would bind the sand make rain fall once more over the Sahara.
Can you talk about the biggest man made projects all across the world citys and there effects on the environment around them and inside them.
Bet there are some old starfishes down there
Arguably not the biggest irrigation project the Netherlands extended their coastline that's close, but the biggest and most ambitious project was by the Romans with their intricate system of aqueducts that are still partially in use to this day. This is not as impressive, not saying its not impressive I'd give it top 5 irrigation projects by humanity for sure haha
Are you okay bro?
Thats great and all. Much respect to the engineers and workers who made this possible. But as eluded to, its not going to last forever.
I refer you to a past case study: The Aral Sea. The Soviet Union managed to empty a whole sea in 40 years! Mainly due to mismanagement and greedy farmers, using it for the irrigation of crops. Its was plundered until it virtually disappeared and this was continually being fed into.
The Fossil water under Lybia is not being replenished (to our knowledge).
So its great now, but how long will this glut of water last?
And nato destroyed this 😅
No need for NATO to destroy it the Libyans did a very good job of that. I worked on the project for two years engineered built by Mann Ghh during the embargo. Project was late, in the end it feed the biggest evaporation ponds in the world. Lack of maintenance the-supporting plant feel into disrepair & I would doubt if it still functions. I worked on the turbine gas compressor which feed the power stations these in turn provided the power for the water lift pumps.
It works just fine.
It only has problems because it wasn't completed due to the Nato invasion
When I go surfing on the San Joaquin delta in California it’s easy to think that it might be the ninth wonder of the world
For all its political problems, Libya’s got a hell of a mega project. Hopefully they’ll figure something else out in case that reservoir runs out a little sooner
I suspect that the Australian Great Artesian Basin is larger.
Aquafire? Aquifer.
the sahara used to be a grassland, bigger than the United States but, that was back when Lebanon had giant cedar trees.
We really need to get over this idea of "man's triumph over nature". We ARE nature; a part of a living system. Imho
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I'm 52, thick full lush hair. Arthritis in both of my hands and elbows. A slipped disc. An occasional kidney stone. Quit crying, hair loss is no big deal. If you're going to get old you got to be tough. Toughen up tea drinker. Love your channel and narration by the way. Just kidding about the tea drinking. But seriously drink some damn coffee, and man up. 👍
We need a 50 year tunnel plan to bring the fresh water dumping into the ocean needs to be seriously tapped in so doing, reducing the possible threat of diluting the salinity of the globes heat redistribution elevator.
thanks
Fun thing about sucking water out of the ground, the voids it creates result in the ground above sinking down, so, the more they pull out, the sooner they'll create a nice depression in which a surface lake can form, in place of the cities and towns within it... :P
There are no cities and few towns out where it is.
@@IvanDmitriev1 Not to mention no source of water to fill the lake.
Nice
I remember when the Americans aka NATO bombed the pipe manufacturing facility. The intention was to cripple Libia. Glad it’s operating and it continues to be expanded. Incredible engineering!
From 10,000 to 1,000,000 years old 😂 I know fuck all about anything to do with this and could have come up with that 🤣
I miss the way UA-cam used to look, I don’t like change
THATS WHY THEY KILLED GADDAFI 😢