I just want to say, thank you for taking the time to show the video with original audio instead of talking over it, but also still explaining what happened. I really appreciate this video!
Honestly, in a list of the worst catastrophic failures caught on video, a special mention has to be given to the loss of the American space shuttle, Challenger, where seven astronauts lost their lives when the shuttle was made to launch in conditions beyond where the equipment had been tested. Below-freezing temperatures in Florida, lower than the shuttle engines had been tested at, caused failure in parts of the fuel tanks, leading to an explosion mere moments after launch. The rocket failure shown was bad, but the Challenger disaster was far worse.
Everyone knows about that one is probably why it is not in the video, but yes i agree it was a failure on NASA's part. They did not listen to the advise of certain engineers and is costs them millions and the life of the astronauts. It was a special crew as well.
Let's all give the camera man and the workers in the first video a big hand for filming the disaster as proof that something went wrong even though they were directly in harm's way
Hard to believe that their voices could be so easily heard in that industrial environment. Usually places like that are so obnoxiously loud that you can't hear someone talking to you, as you are standing face to face.
The man just calmly walking away from his car on the suspension bridge is insane. I would have been running so fast to get off the bridge. Incredible videos.
I would have thought after seeing it fail a thousand times it might begin to start to become a little bit boring. At the very least, not so fascinating anymore. Each to their own, I guess.
@@nommadd5758 Sad but true. The dog was the only death when Galloping Gurdy went down. The story goes that the owner tried saving the dog but it was too scared and kept biting him.
I was pleased to see such an exciting, disaster video that had not even no loss of life, but not even any injuries. Underworld, thank you for your efforts. May you and yours stay well and prosper.
8:21 yeah both instances were from the internal brake systems failing. First one from friction due to the hurricane force winds they claimed were present. That kind of wind will generate some serious heat in a wind turbine set to "Park", second one was from the exact opposite failure. The all too common complete braking system failure causing a runaway wind turbine. There's really nothing you can do about those other than don't be near it because it will come apart like that every time as soon as the lube system overheats causing the bearings to sieze. And kablammo!!
I poured chrome steel at Esco in north portland back in the 1970's. We had a pot with 3000 lbs of molten steel fail. It started spewing steel out of the front. Right next to a full propane tank on a Hyster, a forklift. With fast work we got the hyster away from the pot. Was a colorful night.
Friend of mine had a similar story from BHP smelter here in newcastle australia. One of the sides of the pot broke away and dumped the whole contents onto the floor. He was just lucky it was the opposite side to where they were standing. Serious business. Respect to you sir!.
working at an aluminium foundry was scary enough. Stuff having a compound with over twice the melting point spewing everywhere. It was amazing and terrifying to see the lack of viscosity when molten aluminium hit the cold cement floor. It would spread with the least of resistance.
Yes agree, it also cools a little faster than other molten metals,so if it hit a steel post or I beam etc it then forms or "least resistance" is perfect :) also worked casting brass and bronze & an automotive glass plant it had the original"giant pizza oven" was made with 4 walls of lg. red bricks,took 2 days to get it warmed up :) thankfully was not in operation then,we still tempered glass but not at the extreme temps or quantity they did for 3 yrs:). yeah a place that foundry will humble you a little be safe. Peace. Rick
@@kenwittlief255 I suspect the guy had a pretty good idea of how much danger he was in. He works in a damn metal plant. What is the steel going to jump across the room and get him? If he felt safe enough to film it, he probably was safe enough. AND the footage collected will be useful in figuring out what happened so they can fix it.
@@gustavthemagician - Usually is expensive. Until the wrongful death/injury lawsuits. Cheaper to have the safety equipment in the long run, but companies never learn until in front of the judge.
The Antares rocket was redesigned after that 2014 disaster, and it has since had 11 successful launches (and counting), with the most recent in February, 2022.
i thought the tacoma narrows bridge was from resonance frequency same way you break a wine glass from singing. the wind blew the bridge back and forth at the perfect speed that caused it to resonate like a kid on a swing. the stress from the swinging caused it to fail. "hopefully as engineering standards increase across the world accidents like these would become fewer and farther in between." yep never going to happen when we have construction companies bidding for the lowest price to build a building.
Thank Veritasium for confusing people about this topic, he suggested years ago that its not resonance its "aerolatic fluttering" truth is, its both, the fluttering doesnt matter that much unless it happens at the bridges resonant frequency.
And so what, you think we should grant contracts based on the person who says they can build it for the most money, or what? a contract is for a person who will build it _to the specifications_ for the lowest price. The specifications cover all safety laws and regulations, and whatever performance the buyer demands out of the finished product. Inspections ought to verify these conditions are being met, or the contractor has to go back and fix it at their own cost. I like your assumption that being able to so something more efficiently and cheaply must mean they are cutting corners, and that a company charging more must be doing so because they are providing a superior product. Go ask the military how well no-bid, cost-is-no-object contracts worked out for them.
@@justforever96 well, anytime you leave the door open to corner-cutting to secure contracts or increase profits, the unscrupu lous may take advantage. jail sentences and public shaming a solution. Usually doesn't happen. corner cutting
Pretty crazy to think that with our technology these days, you can launch something that massive with all of those major risks from miles away without anyone risking lives to accomplish it. The soundwave alone was incredible.
So do you actually believe that the footage of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse was "video footage"? Really? See, back before video existed there was this thing called film...
im surprised you didnt show the wind turbine that caught on fire with 2 maintenance workers up there. the one jumped to his death the other burned alive.
From what I have been told, when you see a turbine spin like that it usually means the governer that paces the blades has failed, either by its own wear and tear or some other component breaking it.
This is why I'm scared of turbine, when it either goes to fast or too slow, too slow is a bit disturbing, too fast is scary, what if it falls? This is also why I'm scared of big fans (the ceiling fans) there are actually some places where they have fans bigger than turbines, and i was so scared it would fall on my family and so, i was begging my mum to go home.
@@bkpress Those incidents are rare and occur if a lot of crap goes wrong at once. Your safer under that wind turbine most times than you are under your own bed.
@@bkpresswhat worries me is in December 2019, the Trump administration gave approval for one company to transport LPG cargo in rail cars - the first time in U.S. history - through populated areas in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The new rule expands that approval for companies to transport liquefied natural gas throughout the entire nation. 22 of these cars hold enough explosive power as the Hiroshima bomb.
I worked at a metal factory as well since like 2 years ago. But those workers are perfectly safe even this colse. The sparks dont really do much. The molten metal and droplings fall fast to grounds due to weight, and the sparks contain so little, they cool enough in the air, and if they meet with more durable clothing they bounce off of you. Accidents like those happen often in metal factories, but its more of an enjoyment/annoyance then catastrophe. I dont think any of those could be even called catastrophe.
Catastrophic to the factory I imagine. Molten steel spewing all over the factory floor and over other equipment isn't exactly a 'Clean-up In Aisle 4'. I'm sure a lot of expensive equipment needed to be replaced.
@@lhfinatl7068 I doubt it. Unless they ran that ladle over something that could be destroyed. That would be bad engineering up front that routed a ladle over something. Realistically, the ceramic in the ladle probably burned thru allowing hot metal to leak out. I agree with The Password333333, this was a problem but not a catastrophe. Probably not the first time this has happened in that plant. all the damage I see is that the ladle needed to be relined- something they do in the foundry pretty regularly.
@@lhfinatl7068 might be but most of the damage is ruined concrete due to water inside it vaporizing and "exploding" the concrete. but not very harmfull to bystanders unless youre under it ofc
@@SagittarA I too can attest for this. Stuff like that happens, and often times, the ladles aren't being carried near workers, as in places workers are actively at. With something like this, the most expensive part is actually down-time from not making steel, rather than the cleanup.
How would you go about cleaning up molten and then hardened steel off a floor? Weld cut piece by piece or tear up the concrete flooring and take all out?
@@mikimomo97 It depends how deep it is. Sometimes oxycutters are used, sometimes pneumatic hammers are required to break it up and it gets put back into the furnaces.
I would pour new concrete over it. But I'm lazy. Seriously, i dont think it will stick to the floor. Small pieces are probably whacked off with a sledgehammer . Larger pieces probably have to be heated, cut up and then pryed off.
In the bridge collapse there was actually a fatality: a dog left in the car parked on the road. I think he meant to take pictures but got off the rougher it got, sadly leaving the dog behind.
When the video started in a disaster in Russia, and no Russian was harmed, I heard the word "Miraculously" so I was anticipating the USA version of disaster and YES, the word "thankfully" was used when no one was hurt...I knew it !
I am surprised more wind turbine failures didn't happen in the past. Back in 1983, during the summer after my senior year in high school, wind energy was a new technology in the California desert. Three wind energy developers came to town offering jobs to anyone that had a pulse. They were hiring everyone they could to erect as many wind towers as possible by the end of 1983 as part of some tax break to developers. The pay started at $10 an hour which was nearly three times minimum wage in 1983. Damn good money for someone with nothing more than a high school.diploma. However, the shifts were 12 hours long, 7 days a week. Some worked noon to midnight while others worked midnight to noon. I was one of two mechanics and worked midnight to noon. So now you have 18 year old guys making $10 working 84 hours a week. What could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah, drugs. A lot of drugs. Since I was a mechanic and not part of the construction crew, I was one of the very few that didn't get caught up in it. The methamphetamine problem was out of control. I ended up leaving and took a job at the Ford dealer for a lot less money. I had to get away from that insanity. But I always kept in mind the kind of work that went into those wind towers and knew to stay far away from them. All those wind towers were torn down a few years later and replaced with a newer design. I have no idea who did that work and I probably don't want to know.
:) sounds to familiar, worked "turn-a-rounds" on refineries and power house boilers with about the same conditions! Yeah putting up 12 story scaffolding AT NIGHT on12-16 hr shifts "what could go wrong" :) or running gas lines and power cords for welders up that same scaffolding at night :) But worked on a flight deck for yrs for about a dollar an hr. so was never a big problem :) luckily ,although I did a lot of speed as a teen avoided the meth game, I drank to much for a lot of the drugs to matter:( have done all manner of crazy dirty jobs over a lifetime, some luck but also worked with tuff,safety minded people. be careful, peace takes practice. Rick
7:54: This also happened in Denmark once, but with the rotor bring intact, wheeling down a plowed field like a juggernaut/doomsday wheel! It looked absolutely insane and scary!
Watching this video made me suddenly remember that we also had a wind turbine catch fire in my area some years ago. I had to look it up to be sure, and indeed, it was back in 2017. It was caused by the brake systems overheating and failing.
There's one of those wind vanes at the state fair grounds in Minnesota. Damn thing is about 6 stories tall. I have this image in my head of one of those things coming loose, flying off, and landing in someone's back yard [maybe that's how the one got to the state fair grounds]. Those things are made of a material that can't be recycled, so when their use limit is reached they are cut down into pieces, and buried in landfills. So much for ecological planning.
@@markl2322 Wrong. They CAN be recycled. The majority of blades from onshore turbines can be shredded and used to replace raw materials for cement manufacturing, creating a “circular economy for composite materials." So, renewable and recyclable, near 100%. Not sure where you got the idea that they cannot be recycled. And even were they not entirely recyclable, I'd take burying their parts in landfills as opposed to "disposing" spent uranium from nuclear power plants having to be buried deep in the mountains where it takes thousands of years to decompose and poses a risk should there be an earthquake or volcanic eruption. Not to mention their constant risk of meltdown and catastrophic radioactive contamination. I'll take wind turbines any day.
@@sadee1287 The only problem with wind turbines is that they are placed in the most productive wind lanes to produce the maximum power but that is also the path birds take because they can do nothing else. So many birds are cut down by turbine blades the local ecologies are collapsing because of the enormous number of birds being killed. If a cascade effect has not already commenced, it soon will.
@@sadee1287 constant risk of meltdown and catastrophic failure? You're so full of shit "...there have only been two major accidents where a large amount of radioactive material was emitted: at Chernobyl (1986), which has resulted in 46 deaths so far, and at Fukushima Daiichi (2011), which resulted in no casualties. Air pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels, including in power plants, causes 8.7 million deaths every year, making fossil fuels the deadliest energy source overall. In terms of the number of deaths from accidents, hydroelectric power is the deadliest method of generating electricity. The hydro accident with the highest death toll was the collapse of the Banqiao Dam in China’s Henan province in 1975, which resulted in 171,000 direct and indirect fatalities according to official estimates." You're also looking at roughly 1 million bird deaths annually in the USA alone nevermind globally for wind energy, and more people have been injured or killed by wind turbines anyways so your nuclear fears are unfounded compared to the eyesore and noise pollution produced by your death fans.
The pool falling like that is supper strange!! It fell completely level and all at the same time! You would think that one side would go and then make the other follow shortly afterwards or something like that. Not just a perfect complete fail of the entire bottom of it and all 360° of attachment points just poof done! That's crazy..
Some Brazillian construction companies became well known for cutting costs and corners. With lower quality material and improper procedures, there was an insane number of constructions that failed during that time. I still remember a balcony from a bulding that ditached and fell to the ground killing one person.
@@downpipe we complain about all the different building codes and inspections and hoops we need to jump through held up by red tape, but all that stuff is in place for a reason! Most of it anyway LoL
Something on the pool video looks a little off. One time there is a car there on the left of the screen and then there isn’t. I believe this one has had some work done on the video.
We had a windmill that caught fire a year ago (give or take a few days) in my area. It's since been replaced. It burst into flames during maintenance of the turbine.
The key phrase.... "It's since been replaced". One turbine in let's say 100 on a site had an issue, it's 1% output lost and the pylon remains standing, so it's just a case of removing the blades and generator for recycling and fitting new units. . (Btw, wind "turbines". No "milling" involved)
The first time I saw the video of Galloping Gertie, I thought I was watching a video of an earthquake, and I thought to myself "Humm, I didn't know that Washington had or has earthquakes." Little did I know that it was a construction error, and a rather weak wind (about 30-40 mph) took out the bridge.
Bridge design was changing, wider span bridges were being constructed with lighter materials which cost less. They did not consider the effects that winds blowing across the bridge could cause. The bridge did not just fail all of a sudden, the bridge was well known to sway and jump under winds. It was an attraction, prior to its failure. After the failure, designers learned the hard way to consider the effects wind can have on bridges and other structures.
I used to work at a steel mill. Every week I had to read the safety bulletins. One sticks in my head. A guy was walking in at work. A ladle of molten steel was moving along a rail track. A welder was welding a beam on the building but hadn’t cut off the excess sticking out. The ladle hit the steel beam and the ladle dumped out. They found the worker’s arm holding onto his lunchbox. 😳😳😳
I live in the region near the Tacoma Narrows. One of the things people don't realize is that the area the bridge goes over has a very strong wind current that blows across the bridge. Large trucks still need to be careful on some days, and when you stand on the bridge, you can feel it move.
I like when videos of huge explosions from a distance have sound the delay is the best part. It’s also pretty cool to have the sound to a rocket launch to compare it to. A rocket engine is already approaching incomprehensibly loud and the explosion was even louder. Amazing stuff.
Gotta say having put in my years in the swimming pool industry that's the fastest I've ever seen one drain that damn fast 😂 How the F*ck do you not rebar the shell of an elevated pool!?!?
Another thing is that it appears the floor of the pool was also the roof of the garage . They didn't put the pool on top of the garge; the pool was the garage . How can you put that much weight into such a small area and not give the pool its own support? The roof of the garage was its only support. The least they could have done was put cross beams and support columns under it .
Kodak built an employee rec center in Rochester decades ago. They built a full size pool on the second floor. When the building was complete and ready to be open, someone asked "how did you support this pool to handle the weight of all that water?!" Uh... the guy who designed the building did NOT calculate the weight of the water. The pool was never filled or used, they put a wood floor over it. Its still there.
I seen the wind turbine the following day. They believe the turbine wasn’t in the feather position as the wind speed was too strong to be online. The turbine was on the road between Dalry and Ardrossan.
Sadly, a man at the steelworks where I once worked was killed when he fell into a ladle of molten steel. I hadn't started my employment then, but had a very lucky escape when crossing over a bridge above red hot steel billets, when a shearing machine failed to fully cut through one length, instead looping it upwards and bowling the bridge down the mill, mere moments before I'd stepped off it. Another man, who'd actually fallen onto hot steel billets some years previously was left with a very bowed leg and given an easy job thereafter, on the cover machines that heated the ingots prior to their initial rolling. I actually saw a man who'd just been sprayed with white hot steel from a blowback during a sulphur charge and got some bad blistering to his back. He was later murdered in my home town, in a case of mistaken identity. Talk about being cursed !
As soon as I saw #2, I knew it was going to be Galloping Gertie. I was born and raised in Tacoma, still here after 33 years. My dad told me growing up while we were fishing on the Sound about the previous bridge, I didn't believe him, so we drove under the new bridge with the depth sounder on and he pointed out the scans of the debris from the previous collapse. You can still drive a boat under the Narrows and see the remnants of GG, still slowly deteriorating with the salt water. One of my best memories growing up, but looking back on the video, it must have been terrifying for everyone to see it actually collapse. Well, almost everyone -- I do love the single guy who left his car on GG and just walks away so casually. haha
Actually, I believe that the man walking off the Tacoma Narrows bridge had to leave his dog behind, because the dog wouldn't leave the car, and subsequently perished, so there was a life lost.
There wasn't any human life lost Rasha, which is what the narrator was referring to. Yes that guy's dog wouldn't let them rescue it so it died, but no human life was lost.
The wind turbine in Scotland turned out to be the clutch packs inside the transmission of the motor which generates the energy when in use, had burst into flames when high winds was creating too much pressure for the blades to resist moving and something had to give and it was the clutch and transmission which burst into flames
The wind turbine at Ardrossan North Ayrshire caught fire as the internal brakes failed and caused the fire, So to say no one knows what caused it is BS, everyone in the area knew the wind speed broke the brakes and they caused friction to build up which caused heat to build in the braking system and that's what started the fire. Ask a local before you come away with some BS about unknown reasons.
That wind turbine at 7mins20 likely had the brakes fail. You can see the blades turning, which id guess caused the brakes meant to hold them to catch fire. The one to the left of the burning turbine is also turning slow.
@@blue9multimediagroup point was they arnt meant to move in high winds, they should be locked. The brakes most likely failed, got hot and destroyed it.
Most likely those that spun to fast and broke apart, the breaks most likely failed or were blocked, strong enough wind is terrifying on such a scale, those wings usually travel at 300km per hour at the tip as it's fastest, these things were spinning almost 5-8x that fast
what you said about that famous bridge video is pretty true, you can't learn anything about bridges or how they work without seeing that bridge failure video at least once
One of my statics (no, not statistics!) professors was obsessed with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. He firmly beat Method of Sections and Method of Joints into our heads!
At 5:32 Come on guys, what could go wrong with it? Is just a rocket science. Isn’t like we’re replacing the brake pads of car or changing a tyre on the side of the road 😂😂😂
What about the NASA shuttle Discovery? I was in high school when this happened, and they had televisions on in the classrooms to watch this launch. I was in shock, and unable to process it for quite some time. It seemed surreal.
research before you talk..... he tried to get the dog, but it kept biting him so he left it. I'd have done the same not knowing the bridges behavior twisting like that. [SF]
Owner bailed and left the dog behind. I would have driven the car off the bridge and saved me, the dog and the car. The car will get me off the bridge a lot faster than running.
@@MrYfrank14 You try driving off that. Your car would've been smashed before too long. And if you walk down the centre line you'd be able to walk pretty straight with out much movement from the structure. Someone went back to get the dog (who was able to walk fine on the centre line) and the dog actually *bit* him and wouldn't allow the man to take him out of the car, so he walked back and when he turned around the bridge was tearing itself apart as it failed.
Pertaining to the steal mill incident. I worked at an aluminum melting plant where they melted aluminum cans. Just one can had a small amount of water in it and caused a huge molten aluminum explosion. Slag went at least 100 feet in all directions. 777
You know its going to be good when an American says "places in the world where safety isn't so good" 🤣 because America is top of the list for work place safety 🤔🧐
I've seen some truly crazy things on surveillance cameras from industrial sites Wind farms are usually pretty quiet and you don't see many bizarre things but I did see nudists climb one of the towers and sunbathe on the top of one of our wind turbines and one cold winter night I saw a UAV come in at a high rate of speed and either it's radar didn't pick up the wind turbine tower, or the turbines weren't put into its software for Towers to avoid and it collided at about 400 miles an hour destroying the tower and toppling it over in a ball of flame. No one ever came forward from the government to say who it was that the UAV belonged to or why it was flying so low. The same month twice we had UAVs fly down the Hudson River breaking the sound barrier and shattering windows around 4am No one ever came forward with those either, and the military denied they were theirs, even though people had video of them.
They have a braking system that shuts them down if the wind speed is too high. This way they don’t spin too quickly and destroy themselves. Unfortunately it seems the ones in this video must have malfunctioned.
Wind turbines are designed with a maximum RPM in mind. They have braking systems that control their speed. In the first case the brakes overheated and caught fire, similar to a tractor trailer that rode it's brakes tok much going down a hill. In the second instance the braking system failed entirely and the turbine spun out of control till centrifical force ripped it apart.
I still can't believe they were able to finish building the Tacoma Bridge without it falling apart. They thought only wind which blew in a rhythmic pattern could produce dangerous oscillations . Turned out just a steady breeze of normal intensity was strong enough.
Windmill failures aren't that hard to catch. Considering they are entirely petroleum based and lubricated it's a bit of a miracle they don't all eventually burn.
Yes windmills and turbines are a fairly new technology and the problems need to be workout on them that's what advancement is all about, and here's some good news they can make wind turbines with a cylinder shaped design that does not need the long blades
@@donaldrobinson214 There's nothing new about windmills. It's a tech dating back hundreds of years. Even electricity generation/battery charging goes back over a century. There is also no way to get away from their use of fossil fuels, regardless of blade shape. At that scale every part of their construction depends on oil, and the generators require it regardless of size. There is no future in wind energy as a source for mega-calorie energy use. Solar, OTOH, has a future, but not as single point sourcing. As the tech grows we stick it on skyscrapers just like we already do individual homes. Along with hydro and nuclear we could power most buildings that way, but we'll still never be able to power an electric car fleet.
The first one in the steel plant happens all over the world. I worked for British Steel and when I did my apprenticeship in the steel making end of the plant I was told that if I heard a continuous klaxon sound to run like hell as the ladle stopper had failed. It was called a "running stopper"
OMG, I was pretty close to meeting eternity. I drove across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Granted, it was like 81 years later but still. Gives me shivers to think what could have been had I been born little earlier.
Those steel mill guys were playing Russian rules "The Floor is Lava"
@Tyler Girard Russian Floor is Lava. Interestung.
How so manny likes and one comment and not mine likes no one see it
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Bro this is the nothing funny comment…
Nevermind it was one month ago
I just want to say, thank you for taking the time to show the video with original audio instead of talking over it, but also still explaining what happened. I really appreciate this video!
I'd wish everyone spoke English that way...
Steel factory: 1:37
Shuttle: 4:19
Windmill: 6:49
Other Windmill: 7:46
Bridge: 9:34
Pool: 11:57
That wasn't a space shuttle at 4:19, just a rocket taking supplies to the ISS, there was nobody on board.
@@Sciguy95 did the ISS ever get their supplies tho?
Whoever filmed that steel mill accident is a complete madlad.
He's Russian, they all are
"Sadly, the rocket never reached its destination." Really. You don't say.
Lmao
Yes, the script is just awful.
I thought the same thing....like honestly is that necessary to state....
I was like yeah no shit
it did... went back home...
Honestly, in a list of the worst catastrophic failures caught on video, a special mention has to be given to the loss of the American space shuttle, Challenger, where seven astronauts lost their lives when the shuttle was made to launch in conditions beyond where the equipment had been tested. Below-freezing temperatures in Florida, lower than the shuttle engines had been tested at, caused failure in parts of the fuel tanks, leading to an explosion mere moments after launch.
The rocket failure shown was bad, but the Challenger disaster was far worse.
Everyone knows about that one is probably why it is not in the video, but yes i agree it was a failure on NASA's part. They did not listen to the advise of certain engineers and is costs them millions and the life of the astronauts. It was a special crew as well.
To be fair, it wasn't intended to be the *worst* catastrophic failures, just a list of a few of them.
I have a picture of this crew as my respects in my scientific book about Space.
@@Ujuani68 lol ok????
The Challenger explosion is a glaring example of what happens when low-bid parts are used to build a spacecraft.
Let's all give the camera man and the workers in the first video a big hand for filming the disaster as proof that something went wrong even though they were directly in harm's way
Yes - I agree!!!!
those guys are insane
I would have been running for my life!
Hard to believe that their voices could be so easily heard in that industrial environment. Usually places like that are so obnoxiously loud that you can't hear someone talking to you, as you are standing face to face.
Gross dude... you want to give those guys a big handy?
I am shocked! Their voices didn't even sound like they were panicing! It looks like it was just BAU for them! Insane!
The man just calmly walking away from his car on the suspension bridge is insane. I would have been running so fast to get off the bridge. Incredible videos.
I have seen the Tacoma Narrows bridge flail & collapse a thousand times. It never ceases to fascinate.
Yeah that was crazy when that happened
I would have thought after seeing it fail a thousand times it might begin to start to become a little bit boring. At the very least, not so fascinating anymore.
Each to their own, I guess.
The guy that owned the car on the bridge right before it failed left his dog in the car.
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@@nommadd5758 Sad but true. The dog was the only death when Galloping Gurdy went down. The story goes that the owner tried saving the dog but it was too scared and kept biting him.
Agreed. I'm 64 yo and never understood why the concrete didn't immediately crumble?
I was pleased to see such an exciting, disaster video that had not even no loss of life, but not even any injuries.
Underworld, thank you for your efforts. May you and yours stay well and prosper.
8:21 yeah both instances were from the internal brake systems failing. First one from friction due to the hurricane force winds they claimed were present. That kind of wind will generate some serious heat in a wind turbine set to "Park", second one was from the exact opposite failure. The all too common complete braking system failure causing a runaway wind turbine. There's really nothing you can do about those other than don't be near it because it will come apart like that every time as soon as the lube system overheats causing the bearings to sieze. And kablammo!!
It's the blades not feathering.
After listening to your commentary I have come to conclusion that you are a master of the obvious.
I poured chrome steel at Esco in north portland back in the 1970's. We had a pot with 3000 lbs of molten steel fail. It started spewing steel out of the front. Right next to a full propane tank on a Hyster, a forklift. With fast work we got the hyster away from the pot. Was a colorful night.
Friend of mine had a similar story from BHP smelter here in newcastle australia. One of the sides of the pot broke away and dumped the whole contents onto the floor. He was just lucky it was the opposite side to where they were standing. Serious business. Respect to you sir!.
working at an aluminium foundry was scary enough. Stuff having a compound with over twice the melting point spewing everywhere. It was amazing and terrifying to see the lack of viscosity when molten aluminium hit the cold cement floor. It would spread with the least of resistance.
Yes agree, it also cools a little faster than other molten metals,so if it hit a steel post or I beam etc it then forms or "least resistance" is perfect :) also worked casting brass and bronze & an automotive glass plant it had the original"giant pizza oven" was made with 4 walls of lg. red bricks,took 2 days to get it warmed up :) thankfully was not in operation then,we still tempered glass but not at the extreme temps or quantity they did for 3 yrs:). yeah a place that foundry will humble you a little be safe. Peace. Rick
The russian steel spill wasnt even that dangerous, ladle just burst from the bottom. It just looks dramatic but is quite harmless from that distance.
The camera man in the first video held camera straight and kept his cool even tho he was in the heat of it lol
You can’t tell me he didn’t catch some embers on his arm 😂
@@mrlionkingTV oh yah he did and kept that camera on the action. A lot of people can learn from his dedication
@@TstanDa-Man yeah: you life is more important than catching a video - get out of harms way FAST
Can you imagine how hot it got in there, and how quickly?
@@kenwittlief255 I suspect the guy had a pretty good idea of how much danger he was in. He works in a damn metal plant. What is the steel going to jump across the room and get him? If he felt safe enough to film it, he probably was safe enough. AND the footage collected will be useful in figuring out what happened so they can fix it.
Love the delay sound delay from the rocket explosion. Must be weird seeing such a huge explosion and then hearing it a few seconds later
There's a pretty haunting photo from about ten years ago or so of two workers stuck on a burning wind turbine. Unfortunately, they didn't make it.
That was in the Netherlands. They didn't have escape-gear, too expensive. Now safety lines are compulsary.
There were originally four people on that one, and two made it. The other two, as you said, did not.
Holy crap. I can't imagine how terrifying that would have been.
Never seen that 1
1st heard of it
@@gustavthemagician - Usually is expensive. Until the wrongful death/injury lawsuits. Cheaper to have the safety equipment in the long run, but companies never learn until in front of the judge.
What is most horrific is that it looks like the motel metal machine is 'hunting' people.
A thirteen minute video showing what amounts to be 2 minutes of actual video clips. Bravo!
The Antares rocket was redesigned after that 2014 disaster, and it has since had 11 successful launches (and counting), with the most recent in February, 2022.
i thought the tacoma narrows bridge was from resonance frequency same way you break a wine glass from singing. the wind blew the bridge back and forth at the perfect speed that caused it to resonate like a kid on a swing. the stress from the swinging caused it to fail.
"hopefully as engineering standards increase across the world accidents like these would become fewer and farther in between."
yep never going to happen when we have construction companies bidding for the lowest price to build a building.
Thank Veritasium for confusing people about this topic, he suggested years ago that its not resonance its "aerolatic fluttering" truth is, its both, the fluttering doesnt matter that much unless it happens at the bridges resonant frequency.
And so what, you think we should grant contracts based on the person who says they can build it for the most money, or what? a contract is for a person who will build it _to the specifications_ for the lowest price. The specifications cover all safety laws and regulations, and whatever performance the buyer demands out of the finished product. Inspections ought to verify these conditions are being met, or the contractor has to go back and fix it at their own cost. I like your assumption that being able to so something more efficiently and cheaply must mean they are cutting corners, and that a company charging more must be doing so because they are providing a superior product.
Go ask the military how well no-bid, cost-is-no-object contracts worked out for them.
@@justforever96 well, anytime you leave the door open to corner-cutting to secure contracts or increase profits, the unscrupu
lous may take advantage. jail sentences and public shaming a solution. Usually doesn't happen.
corner cutting
At 2:32 it sounds like the one dude is saying “I’m shook!” in english 😂
Pretty crazy to think that with our technology these days, you can launch something that massive with all of those major risks from miles away without anyone risking lives to accomplish it. The soundwave alone was incredible.
It almost looked like burning phosphorus several times. It just looks scary.
So do you actually believe that the footage of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse was "video footage"? Really? See, back before video existed there was this thing called film...
Re: bridge. FYI: Video wasn’t shot in the 1940’s. It was film. Duh !
im surprised you didnt show the wind turbine that caught on fire with 2 maintenance workers up there. the one jumped to his death the other burned alive.
I think they want to keep these videos rated G. Yes, I remember that horrifying incident.
Too strong for RUclips to allow.
@@geraldmartin7703 cover up is a better term.
Just look up "Chernobyl".
@@ursulasmith6402 RUclips standard strikes are a thing, ya know?
From what I have been told, when you see a turbine spin like that it usually means the governer that paces the blades has failed, either by its own wear and tear or some other component breaking it.
Clearly not unknown like video says. It’s obvious what happened
TY
This is why I'm scared of turbine, when it either goes to fast or too slow, too slow is a bit disturbing, too fast is scary, what if it falls? This is also why I'm scared of big fans (the ceiling fans) there are actually some places where they have fans bigger than turbines, and i was so scared it would fall on my family and so, i was begging my mum to go home.
@@bkpress Those incidents are rare and occur if a lot of crap goes wrong at once. Your safer under that wind turbine most times than you are under your own bed.
@@bkpresswhat worries me is in December 2019, the Trump administration gave approval for one company to transport LPG cargo in rail cars - the first time in U.S. history - through populated areas in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The new rule expands that approval for companies to transport liquefied natural gas throughout the entire nation. 22 of these cars hold enough explosive power as the Hiroshima bomb.
I worked at a metal factory as well since like 2 years ago. But those workers are perfectly safe even this colse. The sparks dont really do much. The molten metal and droplings fall fast to grounds due to weight, and the sparks contain so little, they cool enough in the air, and if they meet with more durable clothing they bounce off of you. Accidents like those happen often in metal factories, but its more of an enjoyment/annoyance then catastrophe.
I dont think any of those could be even called catastrophe.
Catastrophic to the factory I imagine. Molten steel spewing all over the factory floor and over other equipment isn't exactly a 'Clean-up In Aisle 4'. I'm sure a lot of expensive equipment needed to be replaced.
@@lhfinatl7068 I doubt it. Unless they ran that ladle over something that could be destroyed. That would be bad engineering up front that routed a ladle over something. Realistically, the ceramic in the ladle probably burned thru allowing hot metal to leak out. I agree with The Password333333, this was a problem but not a catastrophe. Probably not the first time this has happened in that plant. all the damage I see is that the ladle needed to be relined- something they do in the foundry pretty regularly.
@@lhfinatl7068 might be but most of the damage is ruined concrete due to water inside it vaporizing and "exploding" the concrete. but not very harmfull to bystanders unless youre under it ofc
@@SagittarA I too can attest for this. Stuff like that happens, and often times, the ladles aren't being carried near workers, as in places workers are actively at. With something like this, the most expensive part is actually down-time from not making steel, rather than the cleanup.
exactly
How would you go about cleaning up molten and then hardened steel off a floor? Weld cut piece by piece or tear up the concrete flooring and take all out?
I wondered about that too.
Had a similar accident at the grey cast iron foundry I worked at in the 1970s. Of course, video cameras weren't available back then.
Honestly it scrapes off the concrete with minimal effort. But it depends on the oxygen content.
@@mikimomo97 It depends how deep it is. Sometimes oxycutters are used, sometimes pneumatic hammers are required to break it up and it gets put back into the furnaces.
I would pour new concrete over it.
But I'm lazy.
Seriously, i dont think it will stick to the floor. Small pieces are probably whacked off with a sledgehammer .
Larger pieces probably have to be heated, cut up and then pryed off.
"They were so afraid for their lives, they walked away slowly, cursing in their native tongue and filming the event."
That pool accident was a freaky and scary thing to watch. Thank God there was no one in the pool or beneath in the parking lot.
In the bridge collapse there was actually a fatality: a dog left in the car parked on the road. I think he meant to take pictures but got off the rougher it got, sadly leaving the dog behind.
When the video started in a disaster in Russia, and no Russian was harmed, I heard the word "Miraculously" so I was anticipating the USA version of disaster and YES, the word "thankfully" was used when no one was hurt...I knew it !
I am surprised more wind turbine failures didn't happen in the past. Back in 1983, during the summer after my senior year in high school, wind energy was a new technology in the California desert. Three wind energy developers came to town offering jobs to anyone that had a pulse. They were hiring everyone they could to erect as many wind towers as possible by the end of 1983 as part of some tax break to developers.
The pay started at $10 an hour which was nearly three times minimum wage in 1983. Damn good money for someone with nothing more than a high school.diploma. However, the shifts were 12 hours long, 7 days a week. Some worked noon to midnight while others worked midnight to noon. I was one of two mechanics and worked midnight to noon.
So now you have 18 year old guys making $10 working 84 hours a week. What could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah, drugs. A lot of drugs. Since I was a mechanic and not part of the construction crew, I was one of the very few that didn't get caught up in it. The methamphetamine problem was out of control. I ended up leaving and took a job at the Ford dealer for a lot less money. I had to get away from that insanity. But I always kept in mind the kind of work that went into those wind towers and knew to stay far away from them.
All those wind towers were torn down a few years later and replaced with a newer design. I have no idea who did that work and I probably don't want to know.
:) sounds to familiar, worked "turn-a-rounds" on refineries and power house boilers with about the same conditions! Yeah putting up 12 story scaffolding AT NIGHT on12-16 hr shifts "what could go wrong" :) or running gas lines and power cords for welders up that same scaffolding at night :) But worked on a flight deck for yrs for about a dollar an hr. so was never a big problem :) luckily ,although I did a lot of speed as a teen avoided the meth game, I drank to much for a lot of the drugs to matter:( have done all manner of crazy dirty jobs over a lifetime, some luck but also worked with tuff,safety minded people. be careful, peace takes practice. Rick
Gotta say, if there's one thing I enjoy about this, it's how well spoken you are sir
That swimming pool one is so scary. There one minute, then whoop! gone. So lucky no one was in the pool at the time!
dive dive dive
The first one is just Terminator 2 behind the scenes.
7:54: This also happened in Denmark once, but with the rotor bring intact, wheeling down a plowed field like a juggernaut/doomsday wheel! It looked absolutely insane and scary!
Den her? ruclips.net/video/G1OlHEvPRT8/видео.html
@@jon3584 Nej. Dén der eksploderer jo bare. Dén anden LØB ud over en mark! Men videoen af den er desværre fjernet for flere år siden...
The steel video was incredible to watch. Really glad no one got hurt.
R.i.P Tubby though from the bridge.
Watching this video made me suddenly remember that we also had a wind turbine catch fire in my area some years ago. I had to look it up to be sure, and indeed, it was back in 2017. It was caused by the brake systems overheating and failing.
There's one of those wind vanes at the state fair grounds in Minnesota. Damn thing is about 6 stories tall. I have this image in my head of one of those things coming loose, flying off, and landing in someone's back yard [maybe that's how the one got to the state fair grounds]. Those things are made of a material that can't be recycled, so when their use limit is reached they are cut down into pieces, and buried in landfills. So much for ecological planning.
@@markl2322 Wrong. They CAN be recycled. The majority of blades from onshore turbines can be shredded and used to replace raw materials for cement manufacturing, creating a “circular economy for composite materials." So, renewable and recyclable, near 100%.
Not sure where you got the idea that they cannot be recycled. And even were they not entirely recyclable, I'd take burying their parts in landfills as opposed to "disposing" spent uranium from nuclear power plants having to be buried deep in the mountains where it takes thousands of years to decompose and poses a risk should there be an earthquake or volcanic eruption. Not to mention their constant risk of meltdown and catastrophic radioactive contamination.
I'll take wind turbines any day.
@@sadee1287 I am gobsmacked how misinformed you are. Truly impressive ignorance.
@@sadee1287 The only problem with wind turbines is that they are placed in the most productive wind lanes to produce the maximum power but that is also the path birds take because they can do nothing else. So many birds are cut down by turbine blades the local ecologies are collapsing because of the enormous number of birds being killed. If a cascade effect has not already commenced, it soon will.
@@sadee1287 constant risk of meltdown and catastrophic failure? You're so full of shit "...there have only been two major accidents where a large amount of radioactive material was emitted: at Chernobyl (1986), which has resulted in 46 deaths so far, and at Fukushima Daiichi (2011), which resulted in no casualties. Air pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels, including in power plants, causes 8.7 million deaths every year, making fossil fuels the deadliest energy source overall. In terms of the number of deaths from accidents, hydroelectric power is the deadliest method of generating electricity. The hydro accident with the highest death toll was the collapse of the Banqiao Dam in China’s Henan province in 1975, which resulted in 171,000 direct and indirect fatalities according to official estimates." You're also looking at roughly 1 million bird deaths annually in the USA alone nevermind globally for wind energy, and more people have been injured or killed by wind turbines anyways so your nuclear fears are unfounded compared to the eyesore and noise pollution produced by your death fans.
So glad to see a string of failures where NO lives were damaged [directly].
The pool falling like that is supper strange!! It fell completely level and all at the same time! You would think that one side would go and then make the other follow shortly afterwards or something like that. Not just a perfect complete fail of the entire bottom of it and all 360° of attachment points just poof done! That's crazy..
Some Brazillian construction companies became well known for cutting costs and corners. With lower quality material and improper procedures, there was an insane number of constructions that failed during that time.
I still remember a balcony from a bulding that ditached and fell to the ground killing one person.
@@downpipe we complain about all the different building codes and inspections and hoops we need to jump through held up by red tape, but all that stuff is in place for a reason! Most of it anyway LoL
Something on the pool video looks a little off. One time there is a car there on the left of the screen and then there isn’t. I believe this one has had some work done on the video.
We had a windmill that caught fire a year ago (give or take a few days) in my area. It's since been replaced.
It burst into flames during maintenance of the turbine.
The key phrase....
"It's since been replaced".
One turbine in let's say 100 on a site had an issue, it's 1% output lost and the pylon remains standing, so it's just a case of removing the blades and generator for recycling and fitting new units.
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(Btw, wind "turbines". No "milling" involved)
This is definitely one of the best channels on RUclips!!!…🤙😎🤘
Thank you so much. I put a lot of effort in it. I appreciate your comment sir.
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That swimming pool collapse is absolute unreal. I never thought this could be possible.
The first time I saw the video of Galloping Gertie, I thought I was watching a video of an earthquake, and I thought to myself "Humm, I didn't know that Washington had or has earthquakes." Little did I know that it was a construction error, and a rather weak wind (about 30-40 mph) took out the bridge.
Bridge design was changing, wider span bridges were being constructed with lighter materials which cost less. They did not consider the effects that winds blowing across the bridge could cause. The bridge did not just fail all of a sudden, the bridge was well known to sway and jump under winds. It was an attraction, prior to its failure. After the failure, designers learned the hard way to consider the effects wind can have on bridges and other structures.
@@MyRadDesign TY
Not a construction error, an _engineering_ error. There is a huge difference. The builders built it exactly as specified, it was not their fault.
WA does have that history. And future looks scary,
Not gonna lie, that molten steel sparkling on the floor looks so awesome.
I used to work at a steel mill. Every week I had to read the safety bulletins. One sticks in my head. A guy was walking in at work. A ladle of molten steel was moving along a rail track. A welder was welding a beam on the building but hadn’t cut off the excess sticking out. The ladle hit the steel beam and the ladle dumped out. They found the worker’s arm holding onto his lunchbox. 😳😳😳
2:11 looks like it was taken straight from the final scene of Terminator 2. "You're terminated"
The epitome had to be “Roger, Challenger, go at throttle up…” (I saw it live on TV, it’s seared into my memory)
I live in the region near the Tacoma Narrows. One of the things people don't realize is that the area the bridge goes over has a very strong wind current that blows across the bridge. Large trucks still need to be careful on some days, and when you stand on the bridge, you can feel it move.
I like when videos of huge explosions from a distance have sound the delay is the best part.
It’s also pretty cool to have the sound to a rocket launch to compare it to. A rocket engine is already approaching incomprehensibly loud and the explosion was even louder. Amazing stuff.
Gotta say having put in my years in the swimming pool industry that's the fastest I've ever seen one drain that damn fast 😂 How the F*ck do you not rebar the shell of an elevated pool!?!?
Hindsight, that’s the only reason I can come up with. (Or just being a god damn idiot)
Bribing the inspector was cheaper than the rebar.
@@MrYfrank14 According to a friend of mine who was from Brazil that is more common place than you know. Pretty sad.
Another thing is that it appears the floor of the pool was also the roof of the garage .
They didn't put the pool on top of the garge; the pool was the garage .
How can you put that much weight into such a small area and not give the pool its own support?
The roof of the garage was its only support.
The least they could have done was put cross beams and support columns under it .
Kodak built an employee rec center in Rochester decades ago.
They built a full size pool on the second floor.
When the building was complete and ready to be open, someone asked "how did you support this pool to handle the weight of all that water?!"
Uh... the guy who designed the building did NOT calculate the weight of the water.
The pool was never filled or used, they put a wood floor over it. Its still there.
I really like the black humour of that "severe side wind ahead" sign coming onto Tacoma Narrows.
but black humor
that's literally what happened
I seen the wind turbine the following day. They believe the turbine wasn’t in the feather position as the wind speed was too strong to be online. The turbine was on the road between Dalry and Ardrossan.
3:07 Hence proved, Cameraman never dies.
That explains why so many people take out their phones and start recording a catastrophe instead of helping to save lives...
Sadly, a man at the steelworks where I once worked was killed when he fell into a ladle of molten steel. I hadn't started my employment then, but had a very lucky escape when crossing over a bridge above red hot steel billets, when a shearing machine failed to fully cut through one length, instead looping it upwards and bowling the bridge down the mill, mere moments before I'd stepped off it. Another man, who'd actually fallen onto hot steel billets some years previously was left with a very bowed leg and given an easy job thereafter, on the cover machines that heated the ingots prior to their initial rolling. I actually saw a man who'd just been sprayed with white hot steel from a blowback during a sulphur charge and got some bad blistering to his back. He was later murdered in my home town, in a case of mistaken identity. Talk about being cursed !
As soon as I saw #2, I knew it was going to be Galloping Gertie. I was born and raised in Tacoma, still here after 33 years. My dad told me growing up while we were fishing on the Sound about the previous bridge, I didn't believe him, so we drove under the new bridge with the depth sounder on and he pointed out the scans of the debris from the previous collapse. You can still drive a boat under the Narrows and see the remnants of GG, still slowly deteriorating with the salt water.
One of my best memories growing up, but looking back on the video, it must have been terrifying for everyone to see it actually collapse. Well, almost everyone -- I do love the single guy who left his car on GG and just walks away so casually. haha
Actually, I believe that the man walking off the Tacoma Narrows bridge had to leave his dog behind, because the dog wouldn't leave the car, and subsequently perished, so there was a life lost.
And what about the fish the bridge fell on🤦🏻♂️😂😂
and, the dog bit him and the rescuer that was trying to save it
@@hooeysilva2971 who cares about the fish?
There wasn't any human life lost Rasha, which is what the narrator was referring to. Yes that guy's dog wouldn't let them rescue it so it died, but no human life was lost.
the fan falling apart was funny
Fortunately wind turbine failures are quite rare, and unlike Chernobyl, the area for miles around is perfectly safe the next day!
Excellent! I'm a civil engineer, and I like to watch things break. It's great for educational purposes.
This video missed one failure that still needs to be explained ruclips.net/video/LJPuWy9utss/видео.html
The wind turbine in Scotland turned out to be the clutch packs inside the transmission of the motor which generates the energy when in use, had burst into flames when high winds was creating too much pressure for the blades to resist moving and something had to give and it was the clutch and transmission which burst into flames
The wind turbine at Ardrossan North Ayrshire caught fire as the internal brakes failed and caused the fire, So to say no one knows what caused it is BS, everyone in the area knew the wind speed broke the brakes and they caused friction to build up which caused heat to build in the braking system and that's what started the fire. Ask a local before you come away with some BS about unknown reasons.
That wind turbine at 7mins20 likely had the brakes fail. You can see the blades turning, which id guess caused the brakes meant to hold them to catch fire. The one to the left of the burning turbine is also turning slow.
they don't constantly turn. they only turn when wind is blowing them
@@blue9multimediagroup point was they arnt meant to move in high winds, they should be locked. The brakes most likely failed, got hot and destroyed it.
Most likely those that spun to fast and broke apart, the breaks most likely failed or were blocked, strong enough wind is terrifying on such a scale, those wings usually travel at 300km per hour at the tip as it's fastest, these things were spinning almost 5-8x that fast
@Wandering Nomad not from an English speeking country*
Auto correcting into the wrong language is awesome*
The wallops island one occurred in my home town. I watched all this unfold from the waterfront just like this video
Wow, that must have been some sight!
what you said about that famous bridge video is pretty true, you can't learn anything about bridges or how they work without seeing that bridge failure video at least once
@ 0:56 "this risk is multiplied over" "moltiplied" no pun intended.
Did I...Did I hear someone *clap* when the rocket exploded!?
you heard the aftershock
I think the worst catastrophic failure was back in 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.
5:57 Nobody was injured but somebody was definitely fired for that.
Some genuinely startling footage. Good job.
One of my statics (no, not statistics!) professors was obsessed with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. He firmly beat Method of Sections and Method of Joints into our heads!
At 5:32 Come on guys, what could go wrong with it? Is just a rocket science. Isn’t like we’re replacing the brake pads of car or changing a tyre on the side of the road 😂😂😂
What about the NASA shuttle Discovery? I was in high school when this happened, and they had televisions on in the classrooms to watch this launch. I was in shock, and unable to process it for quite some time. It seemed surreal.
Not all of the clips are free from the loss of life, the bastard that left his car on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge also left his dog in the car to die.
Sub human😰😰
research before you talk.....
he tried to get the dog, but it kept biting him so he left it. I'd have done the same not knowing the bridges behavior twisting like that.
[SF]
Similar factory accident happened in Germany the other week.
The burning plastic is a toxic pollution.
"The rocket never reached its destination". Really? It wasn't able to soldier on? Okay.
9:46 no need to explain the bridge. I think everyone who went to school learned about resonating vibrations from this famous collapsing bridge.
The one with the bridge always makes me sad as there was a dog in the car when it collapsed and they weren’t able to save it 😢
The dog survived. He went on to star in a few Movies.... You might remember his name was Lassie🐕🦺
Sadly the dog was sad and it wasn't a big deal because sad things happen to sad dogs sadly. 😥
Tacoma narrows bridge :)
Owner bailed and left the dog behind.
I would have driven the car off the bridge and saved me, the dog and the car.
The car will get me off the bridge a lot faster than running.
@@MrYfrank14 You try driving off that. Your car would've been smashed before too long. And if you walk down the centre line you'd be able to walk pretty straight with out much movement from the structure. Someone went back to get the dog (who was able to walk fine on the centre line) and the dog actually *bit* him and wouldn't allow the man to take him out of the car, so he walked back and when he turned around the bridge was tearing itself apart as it failed.
At least the guy recording the rocket didn't pan the camera to the ground when it exploded
the camera moved when the blast hit it
did you notice
Pertaining to the steal mill incident. I worked at an aluminum melting plant where they melted aluminum cans. Just one can had a small amount of water in it and caused a huge molten aluminum explosion. Slag went at least 100 feet in all directions. 777
That turbine was uncontrollably producing hella electricity FUCK YA TALMBOUT 🤣😭😭
You know its going to be good when an American says "places in the world where safety isn't so good" 🤣 because America is top of the list for work place safety 🤔🧐
I can't believe that not even a single person was injured in these accidents.
I've seen some truly crazy things on surveillance cameras from industrial sites
Wind farms are usually pretty quiet and you don't see many bizarre things but I did see nudists climb one of the towers and sunbathe on the top of one of our wind turbines and one cold winter night I saw a UAV come in at a high rate of speed and either it's radar didn't pick up the wind turbine tower, or the turbines weren't put into its software for Towers to avoid and it collided at about 400 miles an hour destroying the tower and toppling it over in a ball of flame.
No one ever came forward from the government to say who it was that the UAV belonged to or why it was flying so low.
The same month twice we had UAVs fly down the Hudson River breaking the sound barrier and shattering windows around 4am
No one ever came forward with those either, and the military denied they were theirs, even though people had video of them.
Show the video
Love how in the wind turbine video you can tell it is windy out... but NONE of the turbines are moving... Awww how amazing
They have a braking system that shuts them down if the wind speed is too high. This way they don’t spin too quickly and destroy themselves. Unfortunately it seems the ones in this video must have malfunctioned.
@@DerfLrak sounds like a waste of money!
There was that windmill in Scotland during a storm, spun to quick and exploded
The Italian video of a wind turbine submitted by friends against wind. 🤔hmmm sabotage ?
@@michellebranch7972 I doubt it
They are not windmills.
@@timweather3847 yes they are, or a wind farm
TOO quick!!!
1:08 For some reason this is so funny😂😂
I guess you could say the people in the first clip had nerves of steel
To me, seeing a wind mill catch fire is like watching a great fireworks show on the 4th of July. :)
Wind turbines are designed with a maximum RPM in mind. They have braking systems that control their speed. In the first case the brakes overheated and caught fire, similar to a tractor trailer that rode it's brakes tok much going down a hill. In the second instance the braking system failed entirely and the turbine spun out of control till centrifical force ripped it apart.
Feathering system, like an aircraft.
If it was just brakes they wouldn't last long.
I still can't believe they were able to finish building the Tacoma Bridge without it falling apart. They thought only wind which blew in a rhythmic pattern could produce dangerous oscillations . Turned out just a steady breeze of normal intensity was strong enough.
Windmill failures aren't that hard to catch. Considering they are entirely petroleum based and lubricated it's a bit of a miracle they don't all eventually burn.
Yes windmills and turbines are a fairly new technology and the problems need to be workout on them that's what advancement is all about, and here's some good news they can make wind turbines with a cylinder shaped design that does not need the long blades
@@donaldrobinson214 There's nothing new about windmills. It's a tech dating back hundreds of years. Even electricity generation/battery charging goes back over a century. There is also no way to get away from their use of fossil fuels, regardless of blade shape. At that scale every part of their construction depends on oil, and the generators require it regardless of size.
There is no future in wind energy as a source for mega-calorie energy use.
Solar, OTOH, has a future, but not as single point sourcing. As the tech grows we stick it on skyscrapers just like we already do individual homes. Along with hydro and nuclear we could power most buildings that way, but we'll still never be able to power an electric car fleet.
The first one in the steel plant happens all over the world. I worked for British Steel and when I did my apprenticeship in the steel making end of the plant I was told that if I heard a continuous klaxon sound to run like hell as the ladle stopper had failed. It was called a "running stopper"
OMG, I was pretty close to meeting eternity. I drove across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Granted, it was like 81 years later but still. Gives me shivers to think what could have been had I been born little earlier.
Lol
it's not the same bridge anymore
4:55 that bang, caught me of guard.......
Can’t help myself.
In Soviet Russia, metal smelts YOU!
🤣
Take my like and go buy yourself a coffee, you earned it as that gave me a good chuckle.