Thank you. A video on the original would have been good, with one minute on "...they built a "look at me, I'm rich!" imitation". Either the original didn't live up to the hype, or the new one was a scam, money-laundering and tourist -trap (considering I have yet to find a decent photo that shows any similarity, I think it's the scam.) A lot of this is straight from Wikipedia...pictures and word for word descriptions. That's kind of interesting...in a litigious kind of way.
I'm glad I stumbled on Simon Whistler's UA-cam channel or shal I say channels. I have yet to find a person on this level. His content is awesome, very informative, quality is great, and he has a natural voice for this type of work. Idk how he's able to run so many channels especially when he's the person always narrating. Keep up the awesome work, love your content
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Nanjing 4:40 - Chapter 2 - Construction 6:45 - Chapter 3 - The original porcelain tower 8:55 - Chapter 4 - The destruction of the tower 10:50 - Chapter 5 - The new tower 12:35 - Chapter 6 - The tower that rose twice PS: Biographics has a video on the "Taiping Rebellion"
Medieval architecture was pretty impressive all over the world. Massive European cathedrals, Mesoamerican Pyramids, and of course these amazing pagodas all come to mind.
Right?! Castles were mostly meant for defence and at least until the 17th century certainly not sophisticated. But the churches! The gothic, even romanesque prior to that. Such beautiful ornamented structures. Simon's comment was not on point.
There I was, old, decrepit, dead, burned up and piled unceremoniously into a box carried by a large man who smelled of spoiled milk and gasoline. Where we were going I had no idea, though I could see a massive steel barrel and the smell of gunpowder started to rival the petrol and milk combo gigantor here ate for breakfast and I began to get excited....
@@spddiesel I wanted to do something, anything, but I was closer to being mistaken for the contents of an ashtray than any sort of capable being. Besides, I doubt this skyscraper on legs carrying me came with ears, anyhow. Backhair to rival a mountain yak, sure, but ears I'm having some trouble finding. I had one chance to act before the drugs started taking over and really making the situation confusing--which reminds me; if you see a bat asking around for me tell him you haven't seen me. Don't let him sweet talk you either, he's craftier than he looks. Smart, too, I didn't think he'd make it all the way here driving the way he was but like I said he's very smart....
We need an episode on Jesus's brother lol. You can't just gloss over that with a giggle and not expect me not to turn my head. The jokes Simon is gonna say will be amazing.
I'm waiting for the changes made by King James to the bible in order to keep the much larger lower class "peaceful and busy" so they don't overthrow the controlling minority.
Kind of boring, plus it is the cowardly choice, dumping on Christianity while every other religion is treated gently and with great care. Then again, this channel is Left-wing so no surprises there.
@@owenshebbeare2999 I was dumping on Jehovah's witnesses, the odd Muslim, and Christianity...oh right, also, as I stated every religious belief structure. I'm not talking about faith, just the religion used to harness and control it. Even the multiple god and single power systems share majority of their structure frameworks, when angels and demons are accounted for. There's only so many types of good or evil deeds any mortal is capable of being judged for or wars fought about.
Look Simon. I knew you existed. I liked your videos. I didn't watch for like 2 years. Now I'm binging everything, I've finished your new podcast channel and explored is next. I'm just watching every new video you make as well.
Great video Simon! Nanjing is my home city and I really appreciate seeing someone recognizes its beauty. Btw you are showing a lot of footage of Nanjing Road, which is located in Shanghai lol
As time has gone on, its been fun to see how Simon will plug any one of the thousands of videos he's done ...."And if you're interested in.....the we happened to make a video on......some channel. Maybe i'll link it" You've got alot going on Simon good on ya!
Just stumbled across your channel Simon and find it quite interesting. One thought...about a third of the time I can't hear what you're saying. I know it is just the way you converse, which I enjoy, but perhaps in editing you can have the volume boosted a bit during these times. Never the less, nice job and I look forward to consuming much more of your content.
Nicely done!! I also enjoyed the humor in here, the imagined conversation between the fellow and his dad was hilarious! Would like to say in regards to the closing - the castles of Europe weren't exactly the same as this tower, so really they never were meant to be graceful or beautiful, they were military installations and generally designed around defense first... Maybe it would be a closer comparison if we're talking about churches? Structures meant to impress, to awe the viewer. And also built to be the tallest thing for miles and miles...
I`d love to see you highlight the cross Florida barge canal. Its one of the USA`s largest failed public works projects and hardly anyone knows about it.
Please consider an episode on the USSR itself as it was a one of a kind mega project. Or at least a video on the end of the USSR on one of your other channels. Please and thank you
I'm glad this one got a full Mega Project video after its inclusion in one of the lesser known wonders videos on another of Simon's channels (can't recall if it was Top Tenz or Side Projects)
For $156 Million you could have at least went the extra mile and rebuild it with original materials, reinforced with modern structures. Surely you could have rebuild it to all it's glory, not just a steel shell that frankly has nothing of the grace of the real one.
how long was this one on the back burner lol ur xplrd plug. def from a while back Whistler. (blaze boi ridding down a white mountain of ..."encouragement")
Another idea: Hughes Glomar Explorer The heavy duty bearings for the Gyroscope could be their own Mega Project. Amazing ship. Nevermind, you already covered it... I'm off to watch another video
Me - Man Simon has a lot of channels how does he do it? Simon - "He was also a eunuch which might explain it as he wasn't distracted by other things." Me - hmmmm nahhh surly not. I mean surly!.. 🤔 😉 😅 😎 I like Simon but his writers deserve so much more credit than they get. They really do a great job and make Simon look very good.
The true mega project in this video is Simon making yet another channel. He won’t stop until he has taken over everyone’s sub inbox. Also, time for me to sub to another channel.
The greatest ancient megaproject ever finished is Ming Dynasty's Great Wall. Do Simon already cover this one...? If there is do let me know with a link.
Hello Simon! I was watching the Fukushima nuclear disaster clean up video, you mentioned that there's ton of contaminated soil. Why can't they just throw all that into a volcano?
The Rape of Nanjing video Simon was talking about early on in this video was done on his "Into the Shadows" channel. For those who are curious. Fair warning, though, it is dark. So go in mentally prepared.
Fun fact about Chinese eunuchs, they were the only eunuchs in the world that took the meat as well as the 2 veg if you know what i mean. Other societies around the world took the beans but left the frank.
Simon do the Karl-Gerät 040, massive German Self-propelled siege mortar built for attacking European fortresses. Its shells were 60cm and I know of two called Thor and Odin used in the Sevastopol siege when the Germans were making no progress they had to bring them in
Simon pretty please do one on:. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (kah-RE-lin, Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kəˈrʲelʲɪn]; born 19 September 1967) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear",[2] "Russian King Kong",[3] "Alexander the Great" and "The Experiment", he is widely considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time.[1][4][5][6] Karelin won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games under a different flag each time (Soviet Union, Unified Team and Russia respectively), and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. His wrestling record is 887 wins and two losses, both by a single point.[7][8][9] Prior to his farewell match versus Rulon Gardner in September 2000, a point had not been scored on him within the previous six years.[10] Karelin was the national flag bearer at three consecutive Olympics: in 1988 for the Soviet Union, in 1992 for the Unified Team, and in 1996 for Russia.
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Simon you should do a video about the Rocket steam train, my great great great great great grandfather was the first person to be killed by the Rocket, not a great claim to fame but I'm going with it 😂
I swear Simon is going for the world record on who can run the most active YT channels that are all uploading quality content multiple times a week.
Yes just yes
And then there's us crayon eaters from Business Blaze. Rotten Turtle cologne.. check, OGBB t-shirt.. check, cocaine(allegedly).. check
Simon Whistler, The most "Professional" UA-camr.
With Business Blaze as a way to keep from burning out
@@whatbuttondoipush you absolute legend
So... he works almost as much as a regular person. Cool.
I'm sitting on the porcelain throne while watching this!
I am sat in China... not on china 😳
Poop
Are you laying down a clay sausage within said throne?
SAME!
I just got off mine lol!
The new tower looks like it should have been built in Las Vegas in 1982.
Thank you. A video on the original would have been good, with one minute on "...they built a "look at me, I'm rich!" imitation".
Either the original didn't live up to the hype, or the new one was a scam, money-laundering and tourist -trap (considering I have yet to find a decent photo that shows any similarity, I think it's the scam.)
A lot of this is straight from Wikipedia...pictures and word for word descriptions. That's kind of interesting...in a litigious kind of way.
When Simon has so many channels and videos that even he can't keep track of them all...
I think he meant his Biographics channel, and his video on John Rabe which heavily featured what happened at Nanjing.
It's true. It takes me a moment to get them all when someone asks.
@@megaprojects9649 gotta catch em all
@@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692 STDs? My children and their humor
well it's either this or spend time with his child,, and who wants that .
"Or maybe I'm not lazy and I'll link to it below" thanks for getting our hopes up...
I'm glad I stumbled on Simon Whistler's UA-cam channel or shal I say channels. I have yet to find a person on this level. His content is awesome, very informative, quality is great, and he has a natural voice for this type of work. Idk how he's able to run so many channels especially when he's the person always narrating. Keep up the awesome work, love your content
This is a wonder in Civ V and I had never heard of it outside of the context of that game, but I also just realized I never bothered to look it up.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Nanjing
4:40 - Chapter 2 - Construction
6:45 - Chapter 3 - The original porcelain tower
8:55 - Chapter 4 - The destruction of the tower
10:50 - Chapter 5 - The new tower
12:35 - Chapter 6 - The tower that rose twice
PS: Biographics has a video on the "Taiping Rebellion"
Simon saying "Big Brain" and mentioning cocaine in the first 30 seconds? Am I watching Business Blaze?
Allegedly
Medieval architecture was pretty impressive all over the world. Massive European cathedrals, Mesoamerican Pyramids, and of course these amazing pagodas all come to mind.
Right?! Castles were mostly meant for defence and at least until the 17th century certainly not sophisticated. But the churches! The gothic, even romanesque prior to that. Such beautiful ornamented structures. Simon's comment was not on point.
Simon: "he was cremated and his ashes were fired out of a cannon..."
*Hunter S. Thompson has entered the chat*
There I was, old, decrepit, dead, burned up and piled unceremoniously into a box carried by a large man who smelled of spoiled milk and gasoline. Where we were going I had no idea, though I could see a massive steel barrel and the smell of gunpowder started to rival the petrol and milk combo gigantor here ate for breakfast and I began to get excited....
@@IrishMike22 This needs way more likes
@@johnconnor2572 for reals. Did you hear it in Johnny Depp's voice? Lol
@@johnconnor2572 Thanks bud! I didn't know anyone would see it 👍
@@spddiesel I wanted to do something, anything, but I was closer to being mistaken for the contents of an ashtray than any sort of capable being. Besides, I doubt this skyscraper on legs carrying me came with ears, anyhow. Backhair to rival a mountain yak, sure, but ears I'm having some trouble finding. I had one chance to act before the drugs started taking over and really making the situation confusing--which reminds me; if you see a bat asking around for me tell him you haven't seen me. Don't let him sweet talk you either, he's craftier than he looks. Smart, too, I didn't think he'd make it all the way here driving the way he was but like I said he's very smart....
Megaprojects idea: The Floating Airport of Kansai
We need an episode on Jesus's brother lol. You can't just gloss over that with a giggle and not expect me not to turn my head. The jokes Simon is gonna say will be amazing.
I'm waiting for the changes made by King James to the bible in order to keep the much larger lower class "peaceful and busy" so they don't overthrow the controlling minority.
There's been!
m.ua-cam.com/video/BFqwgb1eIms/v-deo.html
@@lorenzogabutti8303 thank you!
Kind of boring, plus it is the cowardly choice, dumping on Christianity while every other religion is treated gently and with great care. Then again, this channel is Left-wing so no surprises there.
@@owenshebbeare2999 I was dumping on Jehovah's witnesses, the odd Muslim, and Christianity...oh right, also, as I stated every religious belief structure. I'm not talking about faith, just the religion used to harness and control it.
Even the multiple god and single power systems share majority of their structure frameworks, when angels and demons are accounted for. There's only so many types of good or evil deeds any mortal is capable of being judged for or wars fought about.
Always great for these videos to make my *day* thank you!
Look Simon. I knew you existed. I liked your videos. I didn't watch for like 2 years. Now I'm binging everything, I've finished your new podcast channel and explored is next. I'm just watching every new video you make as well.
Great video Simon! Nanjing is my home city and I really appreciate seeing someone recognizes its beauty. Btw you are showing a lot of footage of Nanjing Road, which is located in Shanghai lol
Good Morning Simon, thanks so much for a great video....USA Paul
I love your video wrap ups Simon. Thanks for all the content and channels
I love Simon's yeah yeah jokes. "Yeah yeah, I'm so rich I paid for an ancient tower to be rebuilt." Gold!!
Weird flex but okay.
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As time has gone on, its been fun to see how Simon will plug any one of the thousands of videos he's done ...."And if you're interested in.....the we happened to make a video on......some channel. Maybe i'll link it" You've got alot going on Simon good on ya!
Pretty soon, UA-cam is just gonna be SimonTube..😂
Good video 👍
I constantly worry about watching every video on someone’s channel but not with you Simon, always got my back
Give this legend an award UA-cam. 10..11 channels? Lol how many are you at mate?
I will add this to my list of places to visit as its only a couple of hours from me in Changzhou. Thanks Simon
Just subbed to XPLRD, I think your content is great and very informative. I also like your humor. Keep up the great work.
Excellent video thanks 😊 👍
That b-roll of Nanjing at 1:08 is not Nanjing. It’s East Nanjing Road in Shanghai. 😂
Once again..SIMON!..everyone says it, you might even know it, you are awesome. That is all.
Times Simon puts link: 1
Times Simon talks about putting the link: 56
Wow. That "reconstruction" sounds like a truly hideous eyesore! 😄
Commies are terrible architects. Everything is massive, but stark and ugly.
@@kevintemple245 lol; “commies”... 11:30
@@kevintemple245 I didn't know USA was communist O.o
@@kevintemple245 Yes, a billionaire philanthropist, a Buddhist temple, and foreign contractors are "commies".
The photos Simon gave didn't really do it justice. If you go there in person it's actually not bad.
Could you do a video on The Øresund Bridge?
Talking about Nanjing while using stock video of Shanghai...lol
Searched for Nanjing and found Shanghai’s Nanjing Road lol
Can't wait for Megaprojects: the Simon Whistler UA-cam Empire
RTRD, Simons new Alabama channel.
Thank you
How about an episode about the Thrust SSC?
Please do something about the lack of sound input Simon.
Just stumbled across your channel Simon and find it quite interesting. One thought...about a third of the time I can't hear what you're saying. I know it is just the way you converse, which I enjoy, but perhaps in editing you can have the volume boosted a bit during these times. Never the less, nice job and I look forward to consuming much more of your content.
just so you know Simon, the cityscape you used at the 1:10 minute mark in the video is actually city of Shanghai not Nanjing
Nicely done!! I also enjoyed the humor in here, the imagined conversation between the fellow and his dad was hilarious!
Would like to say in regards to the closing - the castles of Europe weren't exactly the same as this tower, so really they never were meant to be graceful or beautiful, they were military installations and generally designed around defense first... Maybe it would be a closer comparison if we're talking about churches? Structures meant to impress, to awe the viewer. And also built to be the tallest thing for miles and miles...
The Vulcan bomber would make a good episode of what Britain’s answer to the nuclear bomber
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How does this vid not have more views
I`d love to see you highlight the cross Florida barge canal. Its one of the USA`s largest failed public works projects and hardly anyone knows about it.
SIMON! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!
NO MORE CHANNELS, SIMON!
Great video thanks for making it have you ever considered making a video about the London power tunnels they are digging under my local area
Hmmm... The porcelain tower is probably enough to accommodate several hundred Pepsi harrier jets
Please consider an episode on the USSR itself as it was a one of a kind mega project. Or at least a video on the end of the USSR on one of your other channels. Please and thank you
I'm glad this one got a full Mega Project video after its inclusion in one of the lesser known wonders videos on another of Simon's channels (can't recall if it was Top Tenz or Side Projects)
For $156 Million you could have at least went the extra mile and rebuild it with original materials, reinforced with modern structures. Surely you could have rebuild it to all it's glory, not just a steel shell that frankly has nothing of the grace of the real one.
Another channel?! Next thing you know this guy is gonna start his own news network
Hi Simon,the video of road in the beginning is not of Nanjing, but Shanghai. Although the road is called Nanjing Road.
how long was this one on the back burner lol ur xplrd plug. def from a while back Whistler. (blaze boi ridding down a white mountain of ..."encouragement")
The new tower looks like it should be at Universal Studios in Orlando.
the new tower looks like it came out of a teenagers pc case.
Another idea: Hughes Glomar Explorer
The heavy duty bearings for the Gyroscope could be their own Mega Project. Amazing ship.
Nevermind, you already covered it... I'm off to watch another video
Simón you should do a megaprojects on the re-grading of Seattle. It was one of the largest earth moving projects in history!
Who knew there was more people in Nanjing than in the entire world! (8.5 Billion! Wow!)
Ah yes, the toilet tower
you should make a video on neft dashlari, its this wild oil platform city in Azerbijan
On the subject of Asian architecture, Himeji castle in japan is a good one. Or just castles in general
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The b-roll at 1:55 is Shanghai
Regarding the NEW steel tower, in the words of Moe Syzlak,"What an eyesore!"
Is there any chance you have a list of sources for this information? It would be very very helpful for a current project of mine
Do a mega or side projects on the iron dome rocket defense system
Me - Man Simon has a lot of channels how does he do it?
Simon - "He was also a eunuch which might explain it as he wasn't distracted by other things."
Me - hmmmm nahhh surly not. I mean surly!.. 🤔 😉 😅 😎
I like Simon but his writers deserve so much more credit than they get. They really do a great job and make Simon look very good.
Haha I live in Nanjing and can see this from my house. Knew nothing about it!
Simon, name *one* time you have *ever* linked to a referenced video below.
Literally one time, fact boy.
It's sad that they destroyed there history. Thanks for the video very educating!🇹🇹🇹🇹
I was wondering when the next channel would be launched, it had been, what, a couple of months?
Zheng He? You mean the man I based almost all of my AP world history dbqs on
The true mega project in this video is Simon making yet another channel. He won’t stop until he has taken over everyone’s sub inbox.
Also, time for me to sub to another channel.
The greatest ancient megaproject ever finished is Ming Dynasty's Great Wall.
Do Simon already cover this one...?
If there is do let me know with a link.
I beg to differ. Many beautiful cathedrals were built during that time.
Hello Simon! I was watching the Fukushima nuclear disaster clean up video, you mentioned that there's ton of contaminated soil. Why can't they just throw all that into a volcano?
Could you do one on the Abraj Al Bait - A huge building complex in Mecca?
You should do an episode about Fort Eben-Emael, at the time the largest fortress in the world.
As inventive as The London Tower? The Sydney Harbour Bridge? The Statue of liberty?
Simon, should we just start giving you access to our YT channels to help you achieve world domination faster?
This is not a bad idea. I'll be mostly benevolent, until I'm not.
Simon will need a lot more cocaine if he is going to start doing channel takeovers
The Rape of Nanjing video Simon was talking about early on in this video was done on his "Into the Shadows" channel. For those who are curious.
Fair warning, though, it is dark. So go in mentally prepared.
If I could afford SquareSpace, I'd make a SimonTube site with just links to all of his UA-cam channels and a short bio.
Could you please do one on the wing suit?
My phone is seriously considering a smashed like button abuse lawsuit.
Nanjing is "southern capital." Beijing is "northern capital."
That beard is getting more majestic by the day
You should do a video on the Iron Dome in the middle east.
Fun fact about Chinese eunuchs, they were the only eunuchs in the world that took the meat as well as the 2 veg if you know what i mean. Other societies around the world took the beans but left the frank.
Simon will have a billion channels by 2030
Simon do the Karl-Gerät 040, massive German Self-propelled siege mortar built for attacking European fortresses. Its shells were 60cm and I know of two called Thor and Odin used in the Sevastopol siege when the Germans were making no progress they had to bring them in
Simon pretty please do one on:. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (kah-RE-lin, Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kəˈrʲelʲɪn]; born 19 September 1967) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear",[2] "Russian King Kong",[3] "Alexander the Great" and "The Experiment", he is widely considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time.[1][4][5][6] Karelin won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games under a different flag each time (Soviet Union, Unified Team and Russia respectively), and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. His wrestling record is 887 wins and two losses, both by a single point.[7][8][9] Prior to his farewell match versus Rulon Gardner in September 2000, a point had not been scored on him within the previous six years.[10] Karelin was the national flag bearer at three consecutive Olympics: in 1988 for the Soviet Union, in 1992 for the Unified Team, and in 1996 for Russia.
Do Israels "iron dome" defence system please, after seeing some vids of it in action today im highly amazed by seeming complexity
The real Blazing Fact Boy will not be suppressed Simon! We see him creeping out even on your other channels. lmao
I'm here to boost engagement!
I can't find the video you mentioned at 3:00, could someone drop me a link?
I don't think it was a dedicated video on it, but it forms part of the Biographics video on John Rabe. /watch?v=80_r0VuB_wo
Are all these channels under an umbrella channel known as The Simon Whistler Network.
Well if a building is a "Megaproject", than there's no reason you can't do the Alaska Oil Pipeline or the Alaska Highway.
would you do videos on The Confederation Bridge and SNOLAB please?
Any luck if we can see Shanghai tower???
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Wow, there is more people in Nanjing alone than the rest of the world
I subscribed to the xplord but couldn’t find any videos. What’s wrong?
Simon you should do a video about the Rocket steam train, my great great great great great grandfather was the first person to be killed by the Rocket, not a great claim to fame but I'm going with it 😂