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Yes I was a mercenary during the French & Indian War - unspeakable tragedy. 1 week I would work for the French & get paid in francs, then the next week for the Indians & paid with wampum - so much difficulty ...
I wouldn’t exactly call Hitler’s invasion of Russia equally as devastating as Napoleon’s, considering Hitler’s invasion killed tens of millions of people. 🤣
“Do you remember where you were when you heard about these?” Well, when the Titanic sunk, I was in a past life as an Octopus in the North Atlantic and had my sleep interrupted by this giant steel hull bumping my head as it rushed downward.
If you're making a list of historic catastrophes caused by human error, you really need to include the Halifax Explosion. ~1,900 dead, over 9,000 injured from the largest man-made (albeit accidental) explosion of the pre-atomic age. Caused by a French munitions ship catching fire and eventually exploding after a collision with another ship. The force of the explosion was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT.
My 2x great grandparent's first home was destroyed in the explosion. They had moved from where Irving Shipbuilding is now to the other side of the Halifax Commons in 1916 (a year before the explosion)
I was on the playground of my elementary school when The Challenger exploded. I live in Tampa. When we looked to the East during shuttle launches, we could see them in the sky here. They were far enough away that you couldn't hear them. But, you could see them. I saw what happened to Challenger and told my teacher. She didn't believe me. Then the announcement came over the intercom a few minutes later. I actually witnessed it.
My grandparents used to live in Riverview and given what I could see from a successful launch years ago, I have no doubt you saw every horrifying minute. 😢
I was in middle school when the Challenger exploded. we were all in the library watching it on TV when it happened. I still remember it to this day. it was devastating. seven people lost their lives including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
I was in high school, and I remember how shocked we all were. I don't think folks nowadays realize how many of us felt a kinship with Christa. She was constantly on our televisions every day, leading up to the launch. It seemed like the experience of a lifetime, and we were all experiencing it through her. And then it was gone in a second. I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing.
I was in junior high at the time. Never heard a place as bustling as a school so utterly quiet outside of the news report and some light sobbing. And to think there are fools out there that think it was faked by Nasa and the government. 🙄
My ready answer to Challenger: I was in 6th grade, watching the launch from the second floor of my school. I live in Orlando, FL, where I could see the shuttle launches in real time.
The SRB manufacture even told NASA NOT to launch because they knew there was a high chance of O-ring failure. They were ignored in the end. The loss of the vehicle and crew were all on NASA.
@@satan5731no a bomb did actually go off in a flower boutique on Tenerife south airport. This caused the airport to be shut down due to a threat of there being multiple bombs Hence both the KLM flight and Pan-Am was diverted to Tenerife north and the first step towards this disaster was born
They were briefly successful, it wasn't until nations in western Europe noticed higher than normal background radiation levels that the USSR was forced to admit something was very wrong.
@@cryssie1309 it was IMHO one of the reasons for the fall. the Soviets love their secrets. so, they compartmentalized it so that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. add into the belief that everything can be brute forced
@@hans8377 It's business jargon. It basically means "profit". I was agreeing with you. "We get that it's unsafe but what about our profits???" Capitalism!
Many mistakes and bad decisions were made that led up to the Titanic disaster. As someone said "anything that could go wrong, did go wrong" for Titanic
@@JamesDavy2009 yes. Since many including J Bruce Ismay thought she was unsinkable, they didn't they would need extra lifeboats, do a drill or worry about icebergs in their path and didn't take iceberg warning seriously
@@JamesDavy2009 Another factor, to my knowledge, was that apparently a crew member was swapped out at the last moment, and that crew member that wasn't on the ship had taken home the key to the box that held the binoculars.
During the Civil War, West Virginia split from Virginia, siding with the Union while Virginia fought for the Confederacy. This internal conflict, often called the "Civil War within the Civil War," highlighted the stark divide between the two regions. Despite West Virginia's allegiance to the Union, in a curious twist of historical memory, the state has a statue of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in its capital. This has overshadowed its true ally and hero, Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, who led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Cemetery Hill, a key moment in securing West Virginia's statehood and loyalty to the Union.
West Virginia -- except for the Potomac and Wheeling regions -- has a strong Southern identity. Its brake off from Virginia was made possible by Virginia's secession, but it had almost nothing to do with the north-south split. It was the economic split between the colonial era elites versus the remote mountain settlers.
I remember the Challenger disaster very well. I was working for an electrical construction firm, was on my lunch break, and heard about the explosion that destroyed the shuttle, killing the crew
I was a self employed journalist in 1986, and went home from the newsroom where I had been working that morning. I had left the worksite before the launch and did not have any car radio on, and when I got home and casually flipped the TV on, I saw Donald Regan, the Reagan administration's chief of staff doing a live press conference. Uh, oh, I thought, must be some crisis that broke out somewhere. I head him mention NASA - but with his thick northeastern accent, it sounded like "Nassar," the name of the one time Egyptian president. I was instantly jolted by the fear that a war had broken out the Middle East - then, I came to my senses, realizing that Gamel Abdul Nassar had died 15 years earlier. Since networks didn't flash headlines on screen as CNN would soon start doing, it took a few minutes for it to become clear what the story was.
Another accident that featured human error was the Piper Alpha accident in July 1988. On July 6th 1988, the crew on the Occidental Petroleum oil platform, Piper Alpha, think they're on a routine day, when one of the Condensate Pumps tripped (stopped working). Despite repeated attempts to restart it, the crew cannot get it going. In desperation, they switch to an alternate pump that was signed off as not being in service, requiring maintenance. However, there was a problem. Unbeknownst to those trying to get the production of oil flowing again, although the pump's maintenance hadn't started, the same couldn't be said for its Safety Valve. Work on this valve had started during the day shift, but crucially wasn't finished when the day shift ended. Although a flat metal disc was placed over the hole, it was only loosely tightened, just finger tight. As a result, when the second pump was started, a major release of Condensate occurred, which led to the first explosion at 10PM. In the end, by the time the series of explosions and fires had largely died down, and the 20,000 Ton platform had all but completely collapsed and sunk to the bottom of the North Sea, 167 people, including 2 rescue workers, lost their lives
1. Crowdstrike 2024=I was at work and couldn't log into the app that tracked my work hours 2. Deepwater Horizon 2010=Just out of college and job hunting. 3. Cedar Fire 2003=Senior Year in High School 4. Chernobyl April 1986=I was a one year old but mom remembers same goes for the last entry 5. Challenger January 1986=I was not one yet. All other events, I wasn't even born yet.
It would be nice if you would balance the volume between your narrator and the clips. I had to turn it up to hear him, then the clip would blast me because it was too loud.
"Do you remember where you were when you heard about these?" Ah yes...I remember hearing of the Titanic's ill fated voyage. And here I stand, 142 years old (I was 31 during the disaster), with that moment embedded in my memory.
The Tenerife Disaster is one of the worst aviation disaster in history. I saw the documentary about it and it is very disturbing and sad. This could have been avoided if that terrorist attack hadn’t occurred and that the Dutch pilot didn’t added extra fuel into the plane which added weight when the plane was trying to take off, which caused the explosion.
The Tenerife accident happened by the KLM captain refusing to listen to the instructions he was given, he was demanded the best pilot in the world and very rarely flew as he’d train new recruits. He was very arrogant as well to everyone, 1 simple mistake cost him his life and the other 582 people.
at the time the culture was the captain was in charge of the plane and he give you suggestions. the copilot followed orders nuff said. also KLM doesn't pay overtime, and he wanted to get back before then
@@lueagle09AFAIK, it was the pressure to finish his flight within the time limit mandated by KLM's then regulations that caused the "go fever" that in turn led to the KLM pilot's fatal haste to take off.
On the night of 27 January 1986, I had overnight duty in Monterey CA. My Dad called and asked if I saw the news. I told him I didn't. I watched it as he waited on the telephone. I was shocked. He retired on the 26th from Rockwell International, one of the companies that worked on the Apollos and Shuttles. It was his computer that detected the issue but because of cutbacks, no one was actually watching the terminal. He was hired on as a sub-contractor after that to do the same job he did before but received contractor pay plus retirement pay.
Tenerife- I was in middle school. Scared the hell out me since I’d flown a lot, including international, since I was 3. Challenger- I’d just graduated with my teaching degree 6 weeks earlier. Our classes had closely followed Christa’s journey. Chernobyl- Yeah, same year. The nuclear fallout really fucked Europe for a long time. Exxon Valdez- That screwed up the Alaska coastal ecology for a long time. Deepwater Horizon- unless you were very young, you were seeing this in the news for over a year. Cedar Fire- Fortunately I didn’t have anyone living in SoCal that I knew of because I’d have been extra worried about them. I do have a rather roundabout relation to the German invasion of Russia. One of my students in the early 90s was a Russian immigrant from St. Petersburg. He and his mother had fled when he was only 5 years old. He was in my class when he was 10. The connection comes from his father. He was a newborn infant during the siege of Leningrad. Alex’s grandmother kept a detailed diary during the siege. A few years ago, he’d started translating it to turn it into a book. I told him that when he finishes it and it’s published, I want a signed copy.
Ah yes I remember where I was during Gettysburg. I was working at the telegraph station when the message came in that the rebs have been defeated. What a fine day that was.
I expected The Lahaina Inferno in Maui, Hawaii. I’m born and raised on Maui, and it is tragic this happened to Lahaina, so many memories obscured by empty ruins.
(This happened before before i was born) My dad used to work at the Nuclear powerplant in Doel, Belgium... one morning, they came in for their shift and the radiation alarms went off... They all had to be decontaminated by using the showers... they were looking for the origin of the radiation.. and it was from outside. Dad called home and ordered everybody inside and close the windows.. a couple of days later Chernobyl was on the news... Some time later, my dad and a frind of his were working somewhere, his frined works as a pipe inspector.. and because of that, he allways has a dosimeter with him.. it suddenly went off... it turned out that the milk from Germany was contaminated...
I grew up in Southern California and was on a camping trip with my Girl Scout troop in the Cuyamaca mountains when the cedar fire started. We had a bonfire at night and one of the girls in my troop, looked up at the mountain range and told our leaders that she saw fire out there and we can all see a small flame super far in the distance. I don’t think anyone thought much of it other than another bonfire, but when we woke up the next morning, the sky was black and it was raining ash around us. I was eight years old at the time and thought it was snowing because I had never seen snow growing up in California lol. Needless to say, we all got evacuated immediately and then the entirety of the area we were camping had burned up after. It’s crazy to remember how close I was when the fire started.
I'm surprised they mentioned Gettysburg! Cause Pickett's charge honestly shouldn't have happened to begin with, it was a suicide charge and the forces were too spread in other skirmishes in the area. And Lee lost his right hand Jackson 2 months earlier, and his calvary General Stewart got there late and Lee had NO IDEA of the forces he was against. And Handcock whooped everyone's butt lol Side note of Exxon Valdez, there's a really in depth explosion on Wonderly that explains how Exxon railroaded that Captain.
From what I read, it was supposed to coincide with a Confederate cavalry attack from the other direction. The problem was the Confederate cavalry was stopped by Union cavalry led by Custer.
hmmm yes i distinctly remember the news breaking about the titanic sinking. april 16th, it was, all over the morning papers. my partner and i were beside ourselves. it was unprecedented! unsinkable, we were told.
Crowdstrike - I got calls from friends who I hadn’t seen in years to pick them up from the airport (a major international hub for connections and layovers) because all flights were delayed or cancelled. It was crazy. I got two hours time off and took them to a city hotel where they waited for days before they could fly back out.
I was in elementary school when the Challenger exploded; I remember watching it on tv with the class and the teacher crying...I didn't register with me what happened though...I always remember that
Stalin did not want a war, when germany reached the outskirts of moscow stalin was nowhere to be found. After 3 days they finally reached him, but he had given up at that point. His staff talked to him and that he must fight. Then and only then did stalin go to war.
Stalin didn't expect war. he, of his own free will signed a non-aggregation pack with Hitler. Hitler did not just only break that promise, but he was also planning betrayal before the ink even dried. Germany at the time had a lot of bias at the time inclining a dislike of communist
Stalin wanted a war. Stalin and Hitler were allies from 1939 to 1941, and during that time Soviets took over parts on Poland and Lithuania, together with Germans, then took over Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Romania, and attacked Finland but failed. That is "not wanting a war" for you. Soviets were just as evil as Germany was. They too had their own gulaks where over a million people of different ethnic background were sent to work until death. Too bad at the end of the war, Soviets got more than they originally had planned to get in Molotov-Robbentrop pact.
I'll be honest, I didn't even know what they meant by the CrowdStrike incident even just watching this! Granted though, I was in the middle of the Pacific on a Navy warship, but now I do remember hearing about it lol. Affected my mom visiting my brother!
I was 10 years old during the Challenger disaster... My parents and I were moving that day. I lived only 2 blocks from my elementary school and I went to clean out my desk, say goodbye to everyone, and my teacher. I noticed they had a TV set in the classroom, getting ready to watch the Challenger. We had posters of Christa McAuliffe in the hallways of our school....I went home to help mom and dad finish packing and asked my mom if I can watch the Challenger. She said, "yes"...I sat on the living room floor and watched it explode...I yelled out to mom and dad about it. About 2 hours later, we were on the road going to our new home, in a new town, 2 hours away. I started my new school the next day... I can remember that particular day, to this day, like it was yesterday. I will never forget it. RIP, Christa McAuliffe and the other astronauts...🙁😭
The hull was damaged before they even set off, they shouldn't have boarded a single person. It was built to withstand hitting an iceberg, but not while it was already damaged previously.
Funny fact: it’s BECAUSE of the Titanic, that now all ships must have a mandatory safety drill so ALL Passengers can safely evacuate the boat. Also there were several other things that lead up to it. Infact, the owners wanted the Ship to leave on time despite one of the boilers being on fire.
I was a senior in high school when Challenger blew up. As far as the Titanic sinking I was -56 years old at the time. Which is ironic because I turned 56 this month.
It's a bit of a stretch to say Pickett's charge made 'the world' stand still. With methods of communication being what they were at the time, most of the world wouldn't have heard about it until weeks, even months later (if the news reached them at all). Even then it might only have been vaguely saddening to hear of such a loss of life in such a distant place.
I don't remember much about the deepwater horizon incident, but I will always remember the news coverage of the following oil spill. My parents followed the story closely, so I would often walk in on them watching news coverage on it. I also remember the IT outage. I got lucky that I had the day off from work, so I was not personally affected. However, my poor coworkers were. They couldn't run the registers due to the outage, and because of that they basically had to close the store and focus on other things to turn the store over for the next morning when everything was sorted out. I was alive for the Ceder fire, but I was only a toddler at the time so I don't have any memory of any news coverage from it.
I was cleaning my room, home from a snow day when the Challenger tragedy happened. I was home with my wife and kids when the planes flew into the towers on 9/11--I was supposed to be traveling, but had pinkeye, Barney was on, and my father in law called to check if I was OK--he told me to turn to any other channel besides Barney.
I was in Frankfurt, Germany, on the day the West heard about the Chernobyl disaster ... on my way to Moscow at the start of a three-week visit to the Soviet Union. We still flew in to Moscow that afternoon. Our trip continued as planned, although with significantly more drama.
Russia has a small Western border: but the territory very quickly flares outwards to both the north and the south. If you aren't able to spread your forces to cover all of that, you'll be flanked very quickly. Plus you need to have LONG supply lines to reach Moscow.
Plus the help of Americans. People tend to forget that part when the USSR depended on the West... I only thought it was omitted in my postcommunist country, apparently it is universal. “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.” - Stalin
Pretty sad and crazy. But, that’s what happens when people either don’t listen or they push themselves too far to wanting to get things done quickly without thinking about the consequences.
One of the lesser known facts about the titanic disaster is the contribution of a previous fire that had happened on board weakening the lower plates. They hid the evidence of the fire by pulling into port in such a way it couldn't be seen from shore maintaining the "illusion of perfection"
The early morning hours of the Cedar Fire I was biking to work around 5am and felt and saw light particles falling from the sky. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what it was. I happened upon a neighbor in their driveway unpacking their truck with what looked like camping gear and asked if they had any idea what was happening. They explained to me that is was ash from a large fire that he had to escape from and cut his camping trip short. Even with ash traveling miles to get to the metro area of San Diego did I even fathom it would get progressively worse and cause so much devastation.
Only numbers 10, 8, and 6 happened after I was born. I didn’t know about number 8 until just now, I remember hearing about number 6 when it happened, but as for the Crowdstrike incident, I started working at Midway Airport in Chicago just a month and a half before that occurred. When it happened, I thought my computer was affected as I thought Crowdstrike was part of a monthly Windows system update. Although I was relieved to know that my computer was okay and that Crowdstrike wasn’t even on my system to begin with, I was still expecting to witness the chaotic aftermath of the incident upon walking into Midway that late afternoon. To my surprise, things went as if nothing happened, and very few people at Midway were even talking about it.
I was particularly fascinated by the Bhopal, India, Union Carbide disaster of 1984. So many people were killed and injured due to people not following industry standards.
I think the biggest factors to the sinking of the Titanic all those years ago were among the following 3 factors. First, there was the Titanic moving at a speed so high she was just cruising under her maximum speed. Second, there was the rush of the former Second Officer who accidentally departed the ship at the last minute with the key to the locker in which binoculars were kept since Titanic was built before sonar systems were invented. And of course, the third and final nail to the coffin of this mistake, the lack of life boats due to laws that only allowed ships like Titanic to carry 20 life boats like she did.
i would also add in several other issues: 1) the design flaws of the propellers. Engineers knew she had too small a rudder for that big of a ship and not enough for the propeller blades to reverse or turn in time of an accident 2)greed: Ismay's need to get Titanic to break the blue ribbon as the titanics reason for being built was to directly compete with Cunard Lines Mauritania and Lusitania I can't really fault the lifeboats or the watertight compartments because these were the biggest ships being at the time, engineers didn't have any other comparisons to really ensure they were raised high enough or had enough lifeboats for that size. Let alone the exampsion join or the double skinned bottom which should have been a double skinned hull
@@Krobra911. The rudder was fine. The problem was the middle propeller was driven by a steam turbine, which could not go in reverse. When the bridge ordered the engines to go in reverse, the turbine simply stopped, reducing the water flowing past the propeller. That's why she couldn't turn in time. 2. The Titanic was not built for speed. Ismay and the crew knew this. Trying to break the speed record in the Titanic would be like trying to break the land speed record in a standard limo.
the Crowdstrike while a TOTAL shitshow was little funny mainly cause it happened during a furry con so ppl joked that all the ppl who can fix it were there XD
All the bad things i saw in the 80's? Oh yea i remember all of them and how sad it was. I saw those yrs of my life as hope for the future but ended in painful memories i can't un-see. I can only hope we don't repeat the mistakes of the past going forward.
I was toddler in Germany where my dad was stations. My poor mom had to keep two 2 yo's inside for 2 weeks. We still have our red "Chernobyl bumps" and my little sister who was barely conceived at the time also has a couple.
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Yes I was a mercenary during the French & Indian War - unspeakable tragedy. 1 week I would work for the French & get paid in francs, then the next week for the Indians & paid with wampum - so much difficulty ...
😂😂😂@@michauxbours
I wouldn’t exactly call Hitler’s invasion of Russia equally as devastating as Napoleon’s, considering Hitler’s invasion killed tens of millions of people. 🤣
“Do you remember where you were when you heard about these?” Well, when the Titanic sunk, I was in a past life as an Octopus in the North Atlantic and had my sleep interrupted by this giant steel hull bumping my head as it rushed downward.
I wonder if your comment will get 1k likes lol
Youngsters 😆 🤣 😂
I literally spit my drink out when I read this 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Funny you should say that. I was a fish, I got sucked into the hull of that damn ship and I remember this weird shudder. That must've been you!
@@leopold7562 Well, you know that the lobsters that were going to be cooked for the ship's next dinner had their lives saved by the iceberg.
The CrowdStrike incident is everything Y2K dreamed of being
2012 was supposed to be the end of the world yet we're still here what if the world did end and we're just living in a simulation like The matrix!
The casino where I worked at got hit and no one could do anything with atms
@@LunarSault23. I guess some would-be punters didn’t go home poorer that day.
Who's your daddy Y2K 😏
Crowdstrike is what Y2K could have been if people didn't spend months fixing the bugs beforehand.
My class and I were watching the Challenger launch live in school. It's a day I will never forget for as long as I live.
When ice forms on a launch pad in Florida, mother nature is telling you to reevaluate
For real! These people are smart enough to get a shuttle into space but not enough to take a hint from nature.
If you're making a list of historic catastrophes caused by human error, you really need to include the Halifax Explosion. ~1,900 dead, over 9,000 injured from the largest man-made (albeit accidental) explosion of the pre-atomic age. Caused by a French munitions ship catching fire and eventually exploding after a collision with another ship. The force of the explosion was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT.
My 2x great grandparent's first home was destroyed in the explosion. They had moved from where Irving Shipbuilding is now to the other side of the Halifax Commons in 1916 (a year before the explosion)
You can take that anorak off now
Or the Galveston one in Texas that happened for the same reason with similar effects.
Or the Galveston one in Texas that happened for the same reason with similar effects.
@@InquisMalleusor the New London Texas gas explosion at the elementary school. That tragedy is the reason why natural gas has a smell to it.
Clearly we don’t learn from history. Which explains why we’re constantly repeating it.
Yes! We keep going to War against one another over and over again thus constantly repeating that shows we do not learn from History.
when we don't repeat it, we make new mistakes
That’s more or less the point of learning. That’s what life is “Trial & Error.”
@rickfalcon5572: Or as the saying goes, "History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." Mark Twain
The Bhopal India disaster would be a good one to list on a list like this too.
As an Indian, I am disappointed it did not make the list.
@sureshmukhi2316 yeah, me too
Mexico City disaster that mirrored the Bhopal disaster .
It would overshadow the Chernobyl, showing America in a bad way.
@@shai-hulud_1693 yeah
I was on the playground of my elementary school when The Challenger exploded. I live in Tampa. When we looked to the East during shuttle launches, we could see them in the sky here. They were far enough away that you couldn't hear them. But, you could see them. I saw what happened to Challenger and told my teacher. She didn't believe me. Then the announcement came over the intercom a few minutes later. I actually witnessed it.
Good god.
I watched it live in my elementary school the day it happened
I was in bed with measles watching it 😢
My grandparents used to live in Riverview and given what I could see from a successful launch years ago, I have no doubt you saw every horrifying minute. 😢
i getting early out bed due mine parents yelling. they did watch live of it. and i still remember the rockets keep flying....
I was in middle school when the Challenger exploded. we were all in
the library watching it on TV when it happened. I still remember it to
this day. it was devastating. seven people lost their lives including
school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
I was in high school, and I remember how shocked we all were. I don't think folks nowadays realize how many of us felt a kinship with Christa. She was constantly on our televisions every day, leading up to the launch. It seemed like the experience of a lifetime, and we were all experiencing it through her. And then it was gone in a second. I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing.
I was in junior high at the time. Never heard a place as bustling as a school so utterly quiet outside of the news report and some light sobbing. And to think there are fools out there that think it was faked by Nasa and the government. 🙄
My ready answer to Challenger: I was in 6th grade, watching the launch from the second floor of my school. I live in Orlando, FL, where I could see the shuttle launches in real time.
Scrubbing the launch of the _Challenger_ to repair or replace the failed O-ring would likely mean such a tragic event would never have occurred.
The SRB manufacture even told NASA NOT to launch because they knew there was a high chance of O-ring failure. They were ignored in the end. The loss of the vehicle and crew were all on NASA.
True but they were over anxious to get this one off the ground. They previous mission had been delyed several times
They needed to redesign the O-ring system completely. But at the time, they just needed to wait for warmer weather.
Thanks, Captain Hindsight!
The Tenerife accident is probably the most terrifying thing on this list that isn't Chernobyl.
I agree. As the countdown was continuing to #1, I ventured the guess that it would be Tenerife. Oh well. Chernobyl is the costliest.
Narrator said it was a bomb that went off at the other airport but infact it was a scare/ hoax
@@satan5731no a bomb did actually go off in a flower boutique on Tenerife south airport.
This caused the airport to be shut down due to a threat of there being multiple bombs
Hence both the KLM flight and Pan-Am was diverted to Tenerife north and the first step towards this disaster was born
I absolutely agree.
The incompetence of humanity truly knows no bounds!!! 😡
The soviets tried and failed to cover up Chernobyl
Probably another why the soviet union fell
It's hard to cover up a radioactive cloud that has no respect for national borders.
They were briefly successful, it wasn't until nations in western Europe noticed higher than normal background radiation levels that the USSR was forced to admit something was very wrong.
@@cryssie1309 it was IMHO one of the reasons for the fall. the Soviets love their secrets. so, they compartmentalized it so that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. add into the belief that everything can be brute forced
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Engineers say no, management says yes... a problem as old as capitalism.
We get that it's unsafe but what about our bottom line????
@@briankarrick3658 what do you mean with bottom line?
@@hans8377 It's business jargon. It basically means "profit". I was agreeing with you. "We get that it's unsafe but what about our profits???" Capitalism!
Many mistakes and bad decisions were made that led up to the Titanic disaster. As someone said "anything that could go wrong, did go wrong" for Titanic
One factor was the hubris of thinking she was unsinkable.
@@JamesDavy2009 yes. Since many including J Bruce Ismay thought she was unsinkable, they didn't they would need extra lifeboats, do a drill or worry about icebergs in their path and didn't take iceberg warning seriously
@@JamesDavy2009 Another factor, to my knowledge, was that apparently a crew member was swapped out at the last moment, and that crew member that wasn't on the ship had taken home the key to the box that held the binoculars.
weather didnt help either, calm and smooth
@@JamesDavy2009She was never called unsinkable intill after she sank
“Do you remember where you were when these events happened?”
Hmm, I can’t remember much about where I was or what I was doing in 1912…. 😅
Or 1863...
I can't even remember what I had for breakfast. How am supposed to remember what I was doing that long ago?
yeah, over a 100 yo, memory starts going
Perfect video to watch for my lunch break
Enjoy!
Ikr!
Moral of the story: People are stupid
Stupid is as stupid does.
During the Civil War, West Virginia split from Virginia, siding with the Union while Virginia fought for the Confederacy. This internal conflict, often called the "Civil War within the Civil War," highlighted the stark divide between the two regions. Despite West Virginia's allegiance to the Union, in a curious twist of historical memory, the state has a statue of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in its capital. This has overshadowed its true ally and hero, Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, who led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Cemetery Hill, a key moment in securing West Virginia's statehood and loyalty to the Union.
And a direct result of this was John Denver singing "Country Roads" 😆
As in future president Rutherford B. Hayes?
West Virginia -- except for the Potomac and Wheeling regions -- has a strong Southern identity. Its brake off from Virginia was made possible by Virginia's secession, but it had almost nothing to do with the north-south split. It was the economic split between the colonial era elites versus the remote mountain settlers.
I remember the Challenger disaster very well. I was working for an electrical construction firm, was on my lunch break, and heard about the explosion that destroyed the shuttle, killing the crew
I was a self employed journalist in 1986, and went home from the newsroom where I had been working that morning. I had left the worksite before the launch and did not have any car radio on, and when I got home and casually flipped the TV on, I saw Donald Regan, the Reagan administration's chief of staff doing a live press conference. Uh, oh, I thought, must be some crisis that broke out somewhere. I head him mention NASA - but with his thick northeastern accent, it sounded like "Nassar," the name of the one time Egyptian president. I was instantly jolted by the fear that a war had broken out the Middle East - then, I came to my senses, realizing that Gamel Abdul Nassar had died 15 years earlier.
Since networks didn't flash headlines on screen as CNN would soon start doing, it took a few minutes for it to become clear what the story was.
Another accident that featured human error was the Piper Alpha accident in July 1988. On July 6th 1988, the crew on the Occidental Petroleum oil platform, Piper Alpha, think they're on a routine day, when one of the Condensate Pumps tripped (stopped working). Despite repeated attempts to restart it, the crew cannot get it going. In desperation, they switch to an alternate pump that was signed off as not being in service, requiring maintenance. However, there was a problem. Unbeknownst to those trying to get the production of oil flowing again, although the pump's maintenance hadn't started, the same couldn't be said for its Safety Valve. Work on this valve had started during the day shift, but crucially wasn't finished when the day shift ended. Although a flat metal disc was placed over the hole, it was only loosely tightened, just finger tight.
As a result, when the second pump was started, a major release of Condensate occurred, which led to the first explosion at 10PM. In the end, by the time the series of explosions and fires had largely died down, and the 20,000 Ton platform had all but completely collapsed and sunk to the bottom of the North Sea, 167 people, including 2 rescue workers, lost their lives
Surprised the Halifax disaster didn’t make this list.
1. Crowdstrike 2024=I was at work and couldn't log into the app that tracked my work hours
2. Deepwater Horizon 2010=Just out of college and job hunting.
3. Cedar Fire 2003=Senior Year in High School
4. Chernobyl April 1986=I was a one year old but mom remembers same goes for the last entry
5. Challenger January 1986=I was not one yet.
All other events, I wasn't even born yet.
It would be nice if you would balance the volume between your narrator and the clips. I had to turn it up to hear him, then the clip would blast me because it was too loud.
"Do you remember where you were when you heard about these?"
Ah yes...I remember hearing of the Titanic's ill fated voyage. And here I stand, 142 years old (I was 31 during the disaster), with that moment embedded in my memory.
The Tenerife Disaster is one of the worst aviation disaster in history.
I saw the documentary about it and it is very disturbing and sad.
This could have been avoided if that terrorist attack hadn’t occurred and that the Dutch pilot didn’t added extra fuel into the plane which added weight when the plane was trying to take off, which caused the explosion.
What's the name, I'd like to watch it as well
@@missaamane8580there’s a TV show called Air Crash Investigation (Mayday in the US). They did an episode on it.
It isn't one of the worst, it is the worst aviation accident in terms of lives lost, I guess aside from 911.
Fog, delays, stress, full planes, overcrowded airports and a Dutch captain who misheard the radio in his determination to get away.
@@condor7964 911 wasn't an Accident , it was a deliberate Terrorist Attack .
Bhopal gas tragedy - The Official Death toll is 3,598(expected to be much more) and the aftermath affected hundreds of thousands of people.
The Tenerife accident happened by the KLM captain refusing to listen to the instructions he was given, he was demanded the best pilot in the world and very rarely flew as he’d train new recruits. He was very arrogant as well to everyone, 1 simple mistake cost him his life and the other 582 people.
at the time the culture was the captain was in charge of the plane and he give you suggestions. the copilot followed orders nuff said. also KLM doesn't pay overtime, and he wanted to get back before then
@@vesper0721to piggyback on that, it was believed that the captain of KLM could have lost his pilot license for exceeding duty hours.
@@lueagle09AFAIK, it was the pressure to finish his flight within the time limit mandated by KLM's then regulations that caused the "go fever" that in turn led to the KLM pilot's fatal haste to take off.
@@seanbigay1042 Certain circles nowadays call it "get-there-itis". The disaster led to the development of crew resource management.
@@seanbigay1042 sadly "get-there-itis" is still a problem today, it contributed to the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant
On the night of 27 January 1986, I had overnight duty in Monterey CA. My Dad called and asked if I saw the news. I told him I didn't. I watched it as he waited on the telephone. I was shocked. He retired on the 26th from Rockwell International, one of the companies that worked on the Apollos and Shuttles. It was his computer that detected the issue but because of cutbacks, no one was actually watching the terminal. He was hired on as a sub-contractor after that to do the same job he did before but received contractor pay plus retirement pay.
I actually just finished rewatching Chernobyl a second time last night. What a mess. Craig Mazin wrote it well.
The Challenger disaster could’ve been avoided if they had listened to the engineers about the O-ring
Watched the Challenger disaster live when I was in elementary school. In the auditorium with all the students and staff. Teachers screamed and cried.
Tenerife- I was in middle school. Scared the hell out me since I’d flown a lot, including international, since I was 3.
Challenger- I’d just graduated with my teaching degree 6 weeks earlier. Our classes had closely followed Christa’s journey.
Chernobyl- Yeah, same year. The nuclear fallout really fucked Europe for a long time.
Exxon Valdez- That screwed up the Alaska coastal ecology for a long time.
Deepwater Horizon- unless you were very young, you were seeing this in the news for over a year.
Cedar Fire- Fortunately I didn’t have anyone living in SoCal that I knew of because I’d have been extra worried about them.
I do have a rather roundabout relation to the German invasion of Russia. One of my students in the early 90s was a Russian immigrant from St. Petersburg. He and his mother had fled when he was only 5 years old. He was in my class when he was 10. The connection comes from his father. He was a newborn infant during the siege of Leningrad. Alex’s grandmother kept a detailed diary during the siege. A few years ago, he’d started translating it to turn it into a book. I told him that when he finishes it and it’s published, I want a signed copy.
Ah yes I remember where I was during Gettysburg. I was working at the telegraph station when the message came in that the rebs have been defeated. What a fine day that was.
I expected The Lahaina Inferno in Maui, Hawaii. I’m born and raised on Maui, and it is tragic this happened to Lahaina, so many memories obscured by empty ruins.
The bhopal gas tragedy should have been on this list instead of the crowd strike incident
Hmmm, thousands of deaths versus a pain in the ass ...
@ exactly
The Hindenburg should be on this list
Not a great loss of life, 30+ people but very spectacular.
(This happened before before i was born) My dad used to work at the Nuclear powerplant in Doel, Belgium... one morning, they came in for their shift and the radiation alarms went off... They all had to be decontaminated by using the showers... they were looking for the origin of the radiation.. and it was from outside. Dad called home and ordered everybody inside and close the windows.. a couple of days later Chernobyl was on the news... Some time later, my dad and a frind of his were working somewhere, his frined works as a pipe inspector.. and because of that, he allways has a dosimeter with him.. it suddenly went off... it turned out that the milk from Germany was contaminated...
I grew up in Southern California and was on a camping trip with my Girl Scout troop in the Cuyamaca mountains when the cedar fire started. We had a bonfire at night and one of the girls in my troop, looked up at the mountain range and told our leaders that she saw fire out there and we can all see a small flame super far in the distance. I don’t think anyone thought much of it other than another bonfire, but when we woke up the next morning, the sky was black and it was raining ash around us. I was eight years old at the time and thought it was snowing because I had never seen snow growing up in California lol. Needless to say, we all got evacuated immediately and then the entirety of the area we were camping had burned up after. It’s crazy to remember how close I was when the fire started.
Bhopal?
I'm surprised they mentioned Gettysburg! Cause Pickett's charge honestly shouldn't have happened to begin with, it was a suicide charge and the forces were too spread in other skirmishes in the area. And Lee lost his right hand Jackson 2 months earlier, and his calvary General Stewart got there late and Lee had NO IDEA of the forces he was against.
And Handcock whooped everyone's butt lol
Side note of Exxon Valdez, there's a really in depth explosion on Wonderly that explains how Exxon railroaded that Captain.
From what I read, it was supposed to coincide with a Confederate cavalry attack from the other direction. The problem was the Confederate cavalry was stopped by Union cavalry led by Custer.
@@foxymetroid Was that his last stand, or an earlier battle?
@@JamesDavy2009 Years before his last stand. He was killed by natives, not Confederates.
#6 Proves that slow and steady, and obeying warning signs can unknowingly save lives.
Tell that to certain Yanks-they don't read signs.
All the technology we have and we still can't put out fires
Human beings like to think we’re invincible.
hmmm yes i distinctly remember the news breaking about the titanic sinking. april 16th, it was, all over the morning papers. my partner and i were beside ourselves. it was unprecedented! unsinkable, we were told.
Crowdstrike - I got calls from friends who I hadn’t seen in years to pick them up from the airport (a major international hub for connections and layovers) because all flights were delayed or cancelled. It was crazy. I got two hours time off and took them to a city hotel where they waited for days before they could fly back out.
Damnit! When will we ever learn?
Sadly, maybe never.
Never
Tomorrow, 14:38.
five years after we die?
“Those who don’t learn from History, are doomed to repeat it.”
I was in elementary school when the Challenger exploded; I remember watching it on tv with the class and the teacher crying...I didn't register with me what happened though...I always remember that
TENERIFE SHOULDVE BEEN #1
The MV Sewol ferry. the videos are more then haunting
My grandma called me while I was watching the news of the Challenger to tell me my father was dying. So, no. I will never forget
Where was I.. Well for several of them I'm pretty sure I didn't exist 😅
Stalin did not want a war, when germany reached the outskirts of moscow stalin was nowhere to be found. After 3 days they finally reached him, but he had given up at that point. His staff talked to him and that he must fight. Then and only then did stalin go to war.
Proof of this?
The Germans were able to rout the soviets for most of 1941 because the soviets were building up an attack position to invade in late 1942.
Stalin didn't expect war. he, of his own free will signed a non-aggregation pack with Hitler. Hitler did not just only break that promise, but he was also planning betrayal before the ink even dried. Germany at the time had a lot of bias at the time inclining a dislike of communist
@@worldofdoom995 The only thing that helped the soviets make it through the war (that they helped start) was American equipment and winter.
Stalin wanted a war. Stalin and Hitler were allies from 1939 to 1941, and during that time Soviets took over parts on Poland and Lithuania, together with Germans, then took over Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Romania, and attacked Finland but failed.
That is "not wanting a war" for you. Soviets were just as evil as Germany was. They too had their own gulaks where over a million people of different ethnic background were sent to work until death.
Too bad at the end of the war, Soviets got more than they originally had planned to get in Molotov-Robbentrop pact.
I'll be honest, I didn't even know what they meant by the CrowdStrike incident even just watching this! Granted though, I was in the middle of the Pacific on a Navy warship, but now I do remember hearing about it lol. Affected my mom visiting my brother!
I was 10 years old during the Challenger disaster...
My parents and I were moving that day. I lived only 2 blocks from my elementary school and I went to clean out my desk, say goodbye to everyone, and my teacher. I noticed they had a TV set in the classroom, getting ready to watch the Challenger. We had posters of Christa McAuliffe in the hallways of our school....I went home to help mom and dad finish packing and asked my mom if I can watch the Challenger. She said, "yes"...I sat on the living room floor and watched it explode...I yelled out to mom and dad about it. About 2 hours later, we were on the road going to our new home, in a new town, 2 hours away. I started my new school the next day...
I can remember that particular day, to this day, like it was yesterday. I will never forget it. RIP, Christa McAuliffe and the other astronauts...🙁😭
The Titanic may not have sunk, If only Captain Edward Smith took the ice berg warnings seriously...
All of the captain on those ships were arrogant bastards
The hull was damaged before they even set off, they shouldn't have boarded a single person. It was built to withstand hitting an iceberg, but not while it was already damaged previously.
Funny fact: it’s BECAUSE of the Titanic, that now all ships must have a mandatory safety drill so ALL Passengers can safely evacuate the boat.
Also there were several other things that lead up to it. Infact, the owners wanted the Ship to leave on time despite one of the boilers being on fire.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231when did they damage the ship pre-collision? It was the Titanic's maiden voyage, if I recall, and in mint shape.
Nope it wasn't. Read history aside from schoolbooks
How about piper Alpha??
I remember where I was when the Titanic sunk!
You must be old as dirt then. Did you come over on the Mayflower ?
Minus World?
I know where I was, not there! I wasn’t alive!
I was a senior in high school when Challenger blew up. As far as the Titanic sinking I was -56 years old at the time. Which is ironic because I turned 56 this month.
Well, where was I at the night of the sinking of the Titanic? 🤔😅
Still sleeping off Gettysburg, I guess?
Thank goodness I was born in that time and was not on the Titanic😅
Weird list, nr 10 Crowdstrike then nr 9 Pickets charge :D
It's a bit of a stretch to say Pickett's charge made 'the world' stand still. With methods of communication being what they were at the time, most of the world wouldn't have heard about it until weeks, even months later (if the news reached them at all). Even then it might only have been vaguely saddening to hear of such a loss of life in such a distant place.
Those who fail history are doomed to repeat it!
Ahh, Pickets Charge. I remember it like it was just yesterday.
I don't remember much about the deepwater horizon incident, but I will always remember the news coverage of the following oil spill. My parents followed the story closely, so I would often walk in on them watching news coverage on it. I also remember the IT outage. I got lucky that I had the day off from work, so I was not personally affected. However, my poor coworkers were. They couldn't run the registers due to the outage, and because of that they basically had to close the store and focus on other things to turn the store over for the next morning when everything was sorted out. I was alive for the Ceder fire, but I was only a toddler at the time so I don't have any memory of any news coverage from it.
I was cleaning my room, home from a snow day when the Challenger tragedy happened. I was home with my wife and kids when the planes flew into the towers on 9/11--I was supposed to be traveling, but had pinkeye, Barney was on, and my father in law called to check if I was OK--he told me to turn to any other channel besides Barney.
The Titanic should still be above the sea. 🎉
Thanks for so meaningful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
I do remember actually. I was trying to get some sleep but them boys at Gettysburg were causing quite the racket!
I wasn't even in the US when Challenger happened. I was in Grade 10 French class when Ms Lubinski made the announcement. This was in Southern Ontario.
1:09
As bad as Crowdstrike was, if the time and energy hadn't been put in to fix Y2K, Y2K would have made Crowdstrike be utterly insignificant.
Imagine going from no one.knowing you to everyone knowing you in one day, for all the wrong reasons
I was in Frankfurt, Germany, on the day the West heard about the Chernobyl disaster ... on my way to Moscow at the start of a three-week visit to the Soviet Union. We still flew in to Moscow that afternoon. Our trip continued as planned, although with significantly more drama.
Russia has a small Western border: but the territory very quickly flares outwards to both the north and the south. If you aren't able to spread your forces to cover all of that, you'll be flanked very quickly. Plus you need to have LONG supply lines to reach Moscow.
Plus the help of Americans. People tend to forget that part when the USSR depended on the West... I only thought it was omitted in my postcommunist country, apparently it is universal.
“The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.” - Stalin
History class, and the Movies.
#7 "Hitler never played RISK as a kid." -- Eddie Izzard --
Pretty sad and crazy. But, that’s what happens when people either don’t listen or they push themselves too far to wanting to get things done quickly without thinking about the consequences.
My dad and father in law both worked for Morton Thiokol when the shuttle exploded.
My whole small town worked there, it was a big deal around here.
I was in my high-school chapel watching the challenger explode and fall.
There's more world than USA. Just saying.
Was thinking the same
Facts I'm from NZ never heard of the first 2
Hitler losing and the Confederates losing cost the world dearly. Interesting take.
Why is the US civil war in a video about the world standing still?
Had the Confederacy won the Civil War, things would have been much different
Bc we run shit
I thought 9/11 would be on this list for sure
The list is about human mistakes.
@@Frazsier-lx1gr Well it was, in a sense, a mistake to let the terrorists on the planes.
Scary 🙏❤️ gonna be extra careful in this world
“Cedar Fire“? Seriously? How did that make the world stand still? No one outside of America has ever heard of it😂
Here I was thinking it was the fire that resulted from the idiot couple and their gender reveal fireworks.
The circumstances of the Challenger Incident just piss me off. Never question when an engineer has safety concerns
One of the lesser known facts about the titanic disaster is the contribution of a previous fire that had happened on board weakening the lower plates. They hid the evidence of the fire by pulling into port in such a way it couldn't be seen from shore maintaining the "illusion of perfection"
The early morning hours of the Cedar Fire I was biking to work around 5am and felt and saw light particles falling from the sky. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what it was. I happened upon a neighbor in their driveway unpacking their truck with what looked like camping gear and asked if they had any idea what was happening. They explained to me that is was ash from a large fire that he had to escape from and cut his camping trip short. Even with ash traveling miles to get to the metro area of San Diego did I even fathom it would get progressively worse and cause so much devastation.
I was a young woman on the Titanic when it sank.
My fiancee, Cal, called it "the ship of dreams".
And it was. It really was.
Pickett said of Lee: "That old man killed my men."
Deep Horizon: Haste makes waste.
Only numbers 10, 8, and 6 happened after I was born. I didn’t know about number 8 until just now, I remember hearing about number 6 when it happened, but as for the Crowdstrike incident, I started working at Midway Airport in Chicago just a month and a half before that occurred. When it happened, I thought my computer was affected as I thought Crowdstrike was part of a monthly Windows system update. Although I was relieved to know that my computer was okay and that Crowdstrike wasn’t even on my system to begin with, I was still expecting to witness the chaotic aftermath of the incident upon walking into Midway that late afternoon. To my surprise, things went as if nothing happened, and very few people at Midway were even talking about it.
I was particularly fascinated by the Bhopal, India, Union Carbide disaster of 1984. So many people were killed and injured due to people not following industry standards.
I think the biggest factors to the sinking of the Titanic all those years ago were among the following 3 factors.
First, there was the Titanic moving at a speed so high she was just cruising under her maximum speed. Second, there was the rush of the former Second Officer who accidentally departed the ship at the last minute with the key to the locker in which binoculars were kept since Titanic was built before sonar systems were invented. And of course, the third and final nail to the coffin of this mistake, the lack of life boats due to laws that only allowed ships like Titanic to carry 20 life boats like she did.
i would also add in several other issues:
1) the design flaws of the propellers. Engineers knew she had too small a rudder for that big of a ship and not enough for the propeller blades to reverse or turn in time of an accident
2)greed: Ismay's need to get Titanic to break the blue ribbon as the titanics reason for being built was to directly compete with Cunard Lines Mauritania and Lusitania
I can't really fault the lifeboats or the watertight compartments because these were the biggest ships being at the time, engineers didn't have any other comparisons to really ensure they were raised high enough or had enough lifeboats for that size. Let alone the exampsion join or the double skinned bottom which should have been a double skinned hull
@@Krobra911. The rudder was fine. The problem was the middle propeller was driven by a steam turbine, which could not go in reverse. When the bridge ordered the engines to go in reverse, the turbine simply stopped, reducing the water flowing past the propeller. That's why she couldn't turn in time.
2. The Titanic was not built for speed. Ismay and the crew knew this. Trying to break the speed record in the Titanic would be like trying to break the land speed record in a standard limo.
The binoculars wouldn't have helped. They were only used to get a better look at something already spotted.
Missed this
Well the guy that was lost, and started a 250,000 hectare fire to signal for help….. it worked! 😹
To be fair, one fire shouldn’t be able to get that massive… climate change is contributing to bigger wildfires, bigger storms
the Crowdstrike while a TOTAL shitshow was little funny mainly cause it happened during a furry con so ppl joked that all the ppl who can fix it were there XD
It shows just how vulnerable our society and civilization are when we depend so much on computers. We need to have "low tech" backups.
@@freyathewanderer6359 My people have gone all but cashless and Crowdstrike exposed its vulnerability.
Never heard of it I'm from new Zealand
@keanutaiaroa5808 short of it. A program for airlines went down hard. Caused a lot of backups delays and cancelations in flights.
Do I remember where I was when I heard about the Titanic sinking?? How old do you think I am???
At that time, I would say old enough to have still lived in Minus World.
So are you saying you still haven't heard about the sinking of Titanic? You didn't have to be alive then to have heard about it.
Funny that during the crowdstrike incident southwest airlines were unaffected because they were still using a super old system like Windows 3.1
All the bad things i saw in the 80's? Oh yea i remember all of them and how sad it was. I saw those yrs of my life as hope for the future but ended in painful memories i can't un-see. I can only hope we don't repeat the mistakes of the past going forward.
I was toddler in Germany where my dad was stations. My poor mom had to keep two 2 yo's inside for 2 weeks. We still have our red "Chernobyl bumps" and my little sister who was barely conceived at the time also has a couple.
I was out of the army, unemployed,and tired of mailing resumes so I taking a break and watching TV...as the Challenger exploded.