0:40 - Chapter 1 - The (occupied) storm drain of las vegas 3:25 - Mid roll ads 4:55 - Chapter 2 - Wieliczka salt mine (Poland) 7:00 - Chapter 3 - The deep underground neutrino experiment 10:55 - Chapter 4 - The moscow metro
Daedalus was the crafter/inventor of the wings, Icarus (Daedalus's son) is the one that did not heed the warning about the wax, that held the wings together, melting if you got to close to the Sun.
From 16 until I was almost 21 years old I lived in the tunnels here, I’m 24 years old now and I still go back now and then to visit some of the family I made all over the city. I can’t explain how sad it is to know how many of the people down there will never make it out or be able to have a normal life. People don’t keep in mind that they’re humans too and deserve the same help I was lucky enough to get, sobriety is already the hardest fight I’ve ever fought, but when all you have for a future is that life, it becomes impossible
It's pathetic really. People are okay with sending 100B to Ukraine, but are completely against using that for helping Americans....with 100B we wouldn't have a housing CRISIS....
@@gomahklawm4446 and imagine if the trillion dollars of U.S. global oil war was spent on helping all people. Yes, a trillion if you include discretionary spending.
Fermi didn't discover any particles. He described an (ideal) gas statistically. Later all particles that obey these particular statistics were dubbed fermions. He also only postulated neutrinos (though he was not the first). They were discovered by others. ...oh...and caculations are performed by supercomputers. Not superconductors XD
Literally no one cares BUT.... Lead, SD is pronounced like "leed". Named after the Homestake lode, which is sometimes called a lead (leed). It's obscure, but the locals call it that as well so it must be right (haha). Also, South Dakota is the state that calls it's capital of Pierre by the pronunciation of "peer". And the city of Belle Fourche is "bell foosh" so take all that as you will. I live here, and we are almost never referenced, so felt an obligation to post. Thanks for the videos!
Have you been there? I just Googled it and it looks pretty amazing. I love the different styles of architecture used, so parts look like a Mosque and then the "Cosmonaut Station" looks modern mixed with art deco pillars. I wondered if you'd been as I like to travel and it would be somewhere very different to visit. A Google picture search shows some amazing cultural experiences.
@@AnyoneCanSee I have been there, and yes, the stations are really something. The whole country is wonderful. I would love to see Samarkand and Bukhara again. I was in Samarkand 8 years ago today.
@@mizstories9646 Is that where he keeps all his channels' writers chained to computers? Maybe they're sending a message for help, with the clues subtly spread across many videos...
Las Vegas resident here, the drain systems are quite the feat. Unlike most areas of the world, most of our rain comes from a few select violent storms. Inches of rain can fall in less than an hour, along with destructive winds and terrific lightning storms. All those trillions of gallons of water collect all at once rather than soaking over many hours, thus extreme flooding. Its like comparing watering a plant with a watering can, and watering another by dumping a huge bucket. The former gets water in the soil, the latter gets torn up and swept away.
And the "thousands of hours of calculations by superconductors." ;) Now I want to know if my job is getting taken over by really cold metals, or railway supervisors with capes!
"I must not fear neutrinos. Neutrinos are the mind-killer. Neutrinos are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the neutrinos. I will permit them to pass over me and through me ..."
I was in Vegas for 4 days. It rained for 3 of them and they claimed they were in a drought. I saw flooded streets. I have toured the Polish salt mine on my 54th birthday. And ridden quite a bit of the Moscow subway just before my 55th birthday. Actually rode the St Petersburg subway to Russian bathhouse on my 55th.
12:42 - not anymore. This stainless-steel thing was recently removed to make way for construction work; the city says it will eventually be installed at the ground-level lobby.
It's Sanford, no Stanford (though the latter has some interesting particle physics as well), and data analysis happens on supercomputers, not superconductors.
Daedalus invented flight. His son, Icarus, was intoxicated by the joy of flight and flew too high where the sun melted the wax holding his feathers together.
Around 13:30. In Prague, the Náměstí Míru metro stop has the longest escalator. It takes 2:21 minutes to ride it down. I took it quite often. The first time you look down, the hairs on your neck stand up. 53 metres deep.
given that Simon lives in Prague you would think he would know about it or want it included here, maybe he's not aware of just how long it is? 🤔 That's a looooong time to be slowly rising of descending, I think only ever been on about 30s elevators at most! And those felt long!
"Thousands of hours of calculations by superconductors?" Who is responsible for writing this script? Simon I'm sure You caught it, but for the rest of your viewers that statement should have read, "thousands of hours of calculations by supercomputers." Tsk tsk.
0:38 the (occupied) storm drains of Las Vegas 3:22 sponsorship 4:48 Wielicika salt mine, Poland 6:56 the deep underground neutrino experiment 10:48 the Moscow metro
I can't be the first person to immediately click one of Simon's videos, and in my fast click read that I'm about to watch 5 EDIBLE underground structures :)
😂 I know the feeling. These underground areas, sort of remind me of that young urban explorer "Shiey" on YT that trekked on foot a couple of times to Chernobyl and several abandoned underground bunkers, from the old USSR days. Amazingly most still have electrical power. I know there are hundreds of Urban Explorer channels on YT but Shiey's trips to Chernobyl always intrigues me for a rewatch once a year.
@sideprojects Moscow Metro: In mythology Daedalus created wings and invented flying, not Icarus, his son. Icarus flew to close to the sun, the heat melted the wax in the wings and he fell to his death.
I like these videos, so thanks. But one point: Icarus DIDN'T invent ancient flight- it was his father, Daedalus that made the wings. We remember Icarus because despite his father's warning, he went too close to the sun and it melted the wax used on the wings. Icarus fell into the sea.
I grew up in Las Vegas. My friend group spent more time in those tunnels then I care to admit. It’s where I smoked my first doobie. It’s where I lost my virginity. They were always about 20 degrees cooler in the summer so when kids were outside, it was the place to go.
I wonder if LasVegas saves cleans and uses the water. TORONTO Canada has deep underground tanks to separate the oil etc from runoff caught by storm sewers before returning it to Lake Ontario.
Hey! Fermi Lab! In the early 90s I used to fish in there with my dad. It used to be all wooded with just that cool building. They had an awesome pendulum in the lobby that hung from the roof.
I live at a latitude where the local Foucault's Pendulum takes slightly over two days to make a full circle. If the pendulum was relocated to our northern suburbs, it would be exactly two days. This makes it way easier to remember how a Foucault's Pendulum works. I bet the math is harder to remember if you are in northern Illinois.
Seeing the Las Vegas tunnels in the comments I'm going to sit this one out. I've seen stuff like that in third world countries but I never thought something like that and the current opioid/homeless crisis in America could eclipse the suffering in many developing and third world countries. It's just horrible. How Americans aren't ashamed enough to fix this is beyond belief. I'm an expat for the last dozen years and actually wasn't aware how bad things have gotten in that time but two months ago I received word that my step-nephew died in the Las Vegas tunnels. It's just heart breaking.
Regarding the Russian subway... yes, we should absolutely recognize and respect artistic and architectural works, regardless of the politics. That lack of respect is we ("we" being the world) lost so much to the Taliban, to the Soviets, and even to American businessmen and politicians.
It's so hypocritical that westerns have to bring up "Russian Politics" no matter what as long as Russia is mentioned but they never do so for the dozens of other countries that are also awful.
When my parents and I lived in Richmond MO in the 70's, we were told by many that the reason for all the Black Lung pensioners was because the entire town sits over an abandoned coal mine. Sure it could all collapse. But we got out as soon as we could. Can only hope for the best for everyone else.
Coober Pedy would fit into this list I believe. It's the Opal Capital of the world and most residents live underground. Have your Australian writer look into it for you.
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Simon, my guy, you're voicing so much of the incredible stuff, you don't even notice a superconductor slipped where a supercomputer must've been.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - The (occupied) storm drain of las vegas
3:25 - Mid roll ads
4:55 - Chapter 2 - Wieliczka salt mine (Poland)
7:00 - Chapter 3 - The deep underground neutrino experiment
10:55 - Chapter 4 - The moscow metro
Daedalus was the crafter/inventor of the wings, Icarus (Daedalus's son) is the one that did not heed the warning about the wax, that held the wings together, melting if you got to close to the Sun.
Iron Maiden did a pretty awesome song about this (Flight of Icarus).
From 16 until I was almost 21 years old I lived in the tunnels here, I’m 24 years old now and I still go back now and then to visit some of the family I made all over the city. I can’t explain how sad it is to know how many of the people down there will never make it out or be able to have a normal life. People don’t keep in mind that they’re humans too and deserve the same help I was lucky enough to get, sobriety is already the hardest fight I’ve ever fought, but when all you have for a future is that life, it becomes impossible
Hmm. Find that hard to believe. Praha is not NYC.
It's pathetic really. People are okay with sending 100B to Ukraine, but are completely against using that for helping Americans....with 100B we wouldn't have a housing CRISIS....
@@gomahklawm4446 and imagine if the trillion dollars of U.S. global oil war was spent on helping all people. Yes, a trillion if you include discretionary spending.
@@TomUlcak @gomahklawm4446 There would be a lot more poor if the world was ruled by fascism as y'all want.
In a future part 2, you could include Montreal's massive underground city.
or Coober Pedy, the Aistralian tonw that has been built underground to avoid the heat
Fermi didn't discover any particles. He described an (ideal) gas statistically. Later all particles that obey these particular statistics were dubbed fermions. He also only postulated neutrinos (though he was not the first). They were discovered by others.
...oh...and caculations are performed by supercomputers. Not superconductors XD
It’s true on Venus ;)
Great minds think alike. Glad someone else caught it too.
Simon, you need a proofreader! 😅
@@stefanschleps8758 your minds are sooo great, you should celebrate it by making out.
Sure, but who do you think conducts the supercomputers?
Literally no one cares BUT.... Lead, SD is pronounced like "leed". Named after the Homestake lode, which is sometimes called a lead (leed). It's obscure, but the locals call it that as well so it must be right (haha). Also, South Dakota is the state that calls it's capital of Pierre by the pronunciation of "peer". And the city of Belle Fourche is "bell foosh" so take all that as you will. I live here, and we are almost never referenced, so felt an obligation to post. Thanks for the videos!
I've been to the Polish salt mines and they are without a shadow of a doubt the most impressive thing I've ever seen
That mine was started so long a go, that Copernicus visited it. I can't remember the year though.
😂
Bullshit! Poland doesn't exist! That's like saying you went to Hogwarts or Oklahoma. Fictional places.
Number five is missing. 😁
You should do list of all the large underground train systems of the world.
There are 5 structures. The nuetrino experiment has one structure in South Dakota and one in Illinois.
5:33 once again, Simon shows us that he's never heard of the word "conducive." He ALWAYS says "conductive"
I was gonna point it out won't bother now !
he also said superconductors instead of supercomputers
Meanwhile, my subway stations in America look like they are made of misery, sadism, and shit, designed by a misanthropic shut-in.
If the dungeon you keep your writers in isn’t on this list, the list isn’t complete.
That's why #5 is cut from the end
@@canaanval couldn’t disclose that top secret facility, or torture dungeon which ever it really is.
@@canaanval maybe because the neutrino experiment is two structures 🤷♂
You should do a segment on the Tashkent metro. Many people consider it to have some of the most beautiful stations in the world.
Have you been there? I just Googled it and it looks pretty amazing. I love the different styles of architecture used, so parts look like a Mosque and then the "Cosmonaut Station" looks modern mixed with art deco pillars.
I wondered if you'd been as I like to travel and it would be somewhere very different to visit. A Google picture search shows some amazing cultural experiences.
@@AnyoneCanSee I have been there, and yes, the stations are really something. The whole country is wonderful. I would love to see Samarkand and Bukhara again. I was in Samarkand 8 years ago today.
Holy hell!
Those Las Vegas drains will be prime real estate when the aliens visit. Or the sun decides to throw a massive solar storm at earth.
Sod’s Law states the day the aliens land in Las Vegas either no one will notice, or that will be the days the storm’s also hit.
@@grilnam9945 😁😏👍
There’s actually an excellent book about the Las Vegas drain inhabitants which I’m currently reading.
@@beethimbles8801 what's the name. I watched the vice episode
Or the more likely event. Many will be killed by a flash flood....
That doesn't look like a comfortable chair Simon. You have 15 RUclips channels. Treat yourself to some ergonomic furniture.
Simon: .".. it'll take years of observation and thousands of hours of calculations by SUPERCONDUCTORS to determine the results." (10:22)
Freudian slip ! you need superconductors to make supercomputers ?
@@andymouse Supercomputers need semiconductors...
@@michaelmurray2595 Indeed, I was trying to cover up Whistlers cock up !!! :)
"Thousands of hours of calculations by superconductors".
Lol.
So the title is 5 incredible underground structures… but I only counted four? Did I miss something?
Nope. Unless we were supposed to count the sponsor...?
There's 4
Maybe Simon's basement?
@@mizstories9646 Is that where he keeps all his channels' writers chained to computers? Maybe they're sending a message for help, with the clues subtly spread across many videos...
@@JonMartinYXD That is EXACTLY my train of thought as well!
Las Vegas resident here, the drain systems are quite the feat. Unlike most areas of the world, most of our rain comes from a few select violent storms.
Inches of rain can fall in less than an hour, along with destructive winds and terrific lightning storms. All those trillions of gallons of water collect all at once rather than soaking over many hours, thus extreme flooding.
Its like comparing watering a plant with a watering can, and watering another by dumping a huge bucket. The former gets water in the soil, the latter gets torn up and swept away.
roughly 90% of in-video ads on youtube seem to be for vpns, which is only interesting because less than 10% of the world needs vpns.
I love when he says conductive instead of conducive :)
And the "thousands of hours of calculations by superconductors." ;) Now I want to know if my job is getting taken over by really cold metals, or railway supervisors with capes!
Both have similar meanings...
Conducive came into use mid 17th century, derived from conduce and conductive...
Salty water is conductive
But "brin-ing"? It's a briny gerund, yaarh. Brine-ing. Maybe should hyphenate that one.
or do a rehearsal now and then
Thousands of hours of calculations performed by superconductors? 10:25 😂
I love the Fermilab design. The buildings look like electronic components installed into the ground as a giant PCB.
The motto of DUNE must be "The neutrinos must flow".
"I must not fear neutrinos. Neutrinos are the mind-killer. Neutrinos are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the neutrinos. I will permit them to pass over me and through me ..."
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At some point Simon will make a video where he pronounces conducive correctly.
another banger from Simon
Wieliczka is truly spectacular in person. Thanks for covering it!
Love learning about places like these!
Wieliczka Salt Mine is a great place to visit. I've been there twice 👍
I was in Vegas for 4 days. It rained for 3 of them and they claimed they were in a drought. I saw flooded streets. I have toured the Polish salt mine on my 54th birthday. And ridden quite a bit of the Moscow subway just before my 55th birthday. Actually rode the St Petersburg subway to Russian bathhouse on my 55th.
The number of errors in this video is surprising.....
Mine: 1. CERN, 2. Neutrino Lab in sudbury, 3. Nuclear Waste storage in Norway, 4/5 Tokyo, Ottawa, LV storm drains/basins
12:42 - not anymore. This stainless-steel thing was recently removed to make way for construction work; the city says it will eventually be installed at the ground-level lobby.
nice cool underground in Nevada, away from desert heat
"Ah! Familiar ads from home..." I feel you, bro!!!
I also live over seas and I love watching the commercials from home
There's only 4 Incredible Underground Structures in this video!
You'd be surprised how few of us have noticed this fact
@@russellfitzpatrick503 More like most people really couldn't care less. Lmfao
There are 5 structures. The nuetrino experiment has one structure in South Dakota and one in Illinois.
Why did you break my brain with the neutrino one? I'm to stoned for that lol.
The St. Petersburg Metro is worth a video!
It's Sanford, no Stanford (though the latter has some interesting particle physics as well), and data analysis happens on supercomputers, not superconductors.
How many calculations per second can a superconductor make?!?!?
Poor Simon, sit closer to the teleprompter.
There’s actually an excellent book about the Las Vegas drain inhabitants which I’m currently reading.
What’s the book called? I would be interested in that.
Interesting that you don't mention the name of the book AT ALL.
Daedalus invented flight. His son, Icarus, was intoxicated by the joy of flight and flew too high where the sun melted the wax holding his feathers together.
Around 13:30. In Prague, the Náměstí Míru metro stop has the longest escalator. It takes 2:21 minutes to ride it down. I took it quite often. The first time you look down, the hairs on your neck stand up. 53 metres deep.
given that Simon lives in Prague you would think he would know about it or want it included here, maybe he's not aware of just how long it is? 🤔 That's a looooong time to be slowly rising of descending, I think only ever been on about 30s elevators at most! And those felt long!
"Thousands of hours of calculations by superconductors?" Who is responsible for writing this script?
Simon I'm sure You caught it, but for the rest of your viewers that statement should have read, "thousands of hours of calculations by supercomputers." Tsk tsk.
It’s funny that supercomputers became superconductors in there
Love you’re stuff but why are your videos and podcasts like a little quieter than others?
God bless you mole people, the day will come when you can finally rise and take over once more
0:38 the (occupied) storm drains of Las Vegas
3:22 sponsorship
4:48 Wielicika salt mine, Poland
6:56 the deep underground neutrino experiment
10:48 the Moscow metro
You are the real MVP friend
Unless Surfshark is an incredible underground structure, the video's title and script is wrong.
@@JonMartinYXD
Someone hasnt use surfshark. Tsk tsk tsk
@@JonMartinYXD the neutrino experiment is two structures
I can't be the first person to immediately click one of Simon's videos, and in my fast click read that I'm about to watch 5 EDIBLE underground structures :)
😂 I know the feeling.
These underground areas, sort of remind me of that young urban explorer "Shiey" on YT that trekked on foot a couple of times to Chernobyl and several abandoned underground bunkers, from the old USSR days. Amazingly most still have electrical power.
I know there are hundreds of Urban Explorer channels on YT but Shiey's trips to Chernobyl always intrigues me for a rewatch once a year.
Someone's doing some edibles!
i do this all the time
There were 6, but I was hungry...
MASSIVE TRIGGER!
Unbelievable!
A little salt, some garlic, wonderful!
Oops, I meant, tiger. Massive tiger!
@sideprojects DUNE Project: Calculations by supercomputers, not superconductors.
You've been to West Coast cities right? Pretty sure the percentage of homeless are way higher per capita than Vegas.
Currently sat in Las Vegas Airport on the way home back to UK. Had no idea about the drains wow.
The salt mine cathedral is gorgeous i want to see it in person.
@5:33 Replace word CONDUCTIVE with CONDUSIVE. Hire an additional editor.
Or use your brain and figure out what he meant. Lmfao
@sideprojects Moscow Metro: In mythology Daedalus created wings and invented flying, not Icarus, his son. Icarus flew to close to the sun, the heat melted the wax in the wings and he fell to his death.
but, but... salt doesn't melt, it dissolves in water forming saline solution...
I mean, you can melt salt, but not with water
The wilica salt mine is dope I was there in 2018
Aside: Icarus wasn't the inventor of flight. His father Daedalus, master craftsman and architect, was.
I like these videos, so thanks. But one point: Icarus DIDN'T invent ancient flight- it was his father, Daedalus that made the wings. We remember Icarus because despite his father's warning, he went too close to the sun and it melted the wax used on the wings. Icarus fell into the sea.
The Blazement: Am I a joke to you Fact Boi?🤨
I think #5 went missing. There was only 4 places featured, not 5.
There are 5 structures. The nuetrino experiment has one structure in South Dakota and one in Illinois.
Sounds like Vegas needs a storm drain system for their storm drain system.
Do a video on modern vaults and bunkers plz.
There's as many a needs be, if Mr. Tfue is in Town and limbered-up, Maing!
at 11:15, it was 72 years, not 42 years. The metropolitan underground railway opened in 1863.
I grew up in Las Vegas. My friend group spent more time in those tunnels then I care to admit. It’s where I smoked my first doobie. It’s where I lost my virginity. They were always about 20 degrees cooler in the summer so when kids were outside, it was the place to go.
Ad's from home? I don't remember the last time I saw an ad. Ad blocker and no cable FTW
So awesome cant get enough!
I wonder if LasVegas saves cleans and uses the water. TORONTO Canada has deep underground tanks to separate the oil etc from runoff caught by storm sewers before returning it to Lake Ontario.
Hey! Fermi Lab! In the early 90s I used to fish in there with my dad. It used to be all wooded with just that cool building. They had an awesome pendulum in the lobby that hung from the roof.
I live at a latitude where the local Foucault's Pendulum takes slightly over two days to make a full circle. If the pendulum was relocated to our northern suburbs, it would be exactly two days. This makes it way easier to remember how a Foucault's Pendulum works. I bet the math is harder to remember if you are in northern Illinois.
Super conductors... Wicked smart eh?
Just a heads up, if you’re ever in the Moscow Metro, watch out for the Dark Ones…
Glory to metro!
You didn't repeat the neutrino mass in pounds. How am I supposed to know what a tiny tiny fraction of a kilogram is? I'll go away now
You laugh at Venice's misspelling, I laugh at brining's pronunciation.
Seeing the Las Vegas tunnels in the comments I'm going to sit this one out. I've seen stuff like that in third world countries but I never thought something like that and the current opioid/homeless crisis in America could eclipse the suffering in many developing and third world countries. It's just horrible. How Americans aren't ashamed enough to fix this is beyond belief. I'm an expat for the last dozen years and actually wasn't aware how bad things have gotten in that time but two months ago I received word that my step-nephew died in the Las Vegas tunnels. It's just heart breaking.
Great video! This, and your South China Sea Islands video were extremely well done. You're on a roll today!
Ironic isn’t it that thieves teach other thieves to protect their stolen goods?
You need to look at St Clemente church in Rome. A 11th c church over a 4th c church over a first c one!
Now either my mind is going or someone can't count to 5.
As clint Eastwood said,did i fire 5 or 4....well Simon you fired 4
There are 5 structures. The nuetrino experiment has one structure in South Dakota and one in Illinois.
Shouldn't it be be Daedalus that invented flight and not Icarus?
Regarding the Russian subway... yes, we should absolutely recognize and respect artistic and architectural works, regardless of the politics. That lack of respect is we ("we" being the world) lost so much to the Taliban, to the Soviets, and even to American businessmen and politicians.
It's so hypocritical that westerns have to bring up "Russian Politics" no matter what as long as Russia is mentioned but they never do so for the dozens of other countries that are also awful.
You FORGOT the lab located in Sudbury Ontario Canada
I’m in SoDak, and it’s amazing how many South Dakotans have no idea DUNE is even there.
Gants Hill Station on the Central Line was design with direct inspiration from the Russian Metro.
When my parents and I lived in Richmond MO in the 70's, we were told by many that the reason for all the Black Lung pensioners was because the entire town sits over an abandoned coal mine. Sure it could all collapse. But we got out as soon as we could. Can only hope for the best for everyone else.
Super conductors doing mathematics 😅😂
I've noticed a few of these slips recently.. Too many videos, Simon?
Coober Pedy would fit into this list I believe. It's the Opal Capital of the world and most residents live underground.
Have your Australian writer look into it for you.
Given how large Montreal's underground city I am surprised it didn't make the list.
*WARNING: PEDANT ALERT* 350BC would suggest Roman Republic as the Empire only really rose around 27BC with Augustus. OK, right, I'll get my coat ;)
Y'all must have seen Brandon Buckingham's video
I want Lex Luther's abandoned-transit-station-turned-opulant-subterranian-villian-lair-with-pool from "Superman" (1978)
Me too, that was an amazing set!
Isn't the plural of supernova supernovae? Yes. Yes, it is.
gosh i cant wait for the video about how VPN services are bad :D
A friend’s little brother lost his paper boat in the Las Vegas drainage system and he came home with hotdogs and cotton candy and a balloon. 🎈
Could the drain dwellers survive the nuclear apocalypse?
Really @sideprojects, no SNOLAB in Sudbury ON, CAN?
Neat, thanks.