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  • @badarakonate
    @badarakonate 8 месяцев назад +347

    Giovanni’s ability to explain a such serious problem so calmly is actually more fascinating than the problem itself 👏🏾👏🏾

    • @filipszyga7394
      @filipszyga7394 2 месяца назад +1

      Italian engineering is often underestimated

    • @imactuallysotoxic8709
      @imactuallysotoxic8709 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@filipszyga7394 they built a city on the sea. No one is underestimating their genius.

    • @___beyondhorizon4664
      @___beyondhorizon4664 Месяц назад

      ​@@imactuallysotoxic8709 back in the Roman empire period, the people were fleeing their enemies, the Venice saved their lives

    • @Norwegian733
      @Norwegian733 Месяц назад +2

      He is indeed quite hyper. I need to pay attentio...Z...zzz..z.zzzz

    • @danivarius
      @danivarius 27 дней назад

      @@___beyondhorizon4664Venice wasn’t there until the people fleeing started building the beginnings of the city to come.

  • @itaipee
    @itaipee 8 месяцев назад +238

    Very informative video. Nicely edited. I liked the balance between narrator and expert

    • @memehamsterr
      @memehamsterr Месяц назад

      ai bot 💀

    • @itaipee
      @itaipee Месяц назад

      @@memehamsterr the narrator is aibot , or I am aibot ?

    • @itaipee
      @itaipee Месяц назад +1

      If I am , this means that I'm a bot who is not aware he is a bot , and most of the movies with such plot ends up with someone trying to kill everybody else

    • @webgpu
      @webgpu 11 дней назад

      gay dude + old and cry-talking dude 🤣🤣

  • @joesmith9053
    @joesmith9053 Месяц назад +40

    i just saw a documenry on how they built venice and now this

    • @Seeker0fTruth
      @Seeker0fTruth Месяц назад +6

      SAME

    • @kitanagh
      @kitanagh 15 дней назад +2

      Same

    • @webgpu
      @webgpu 11 дней назад +2

      y'all witnessing the workings of the YT algorithm

  • @lezhu6856
    @lezhu6856 8 месяцев назад +105

    My name is Giovanni Cecconi, but everybody calls me Giorgio

  • @averagestudent1158
    @averagestudent1158 8 месяцев назад +156

    Comparing the base of a city to a souffle gave me chills. Engineering is awesome but we're playing with the ultimate boss.

    • @thatguywhois
      @thatguywhois 5 месяцев назад +9

      his little smirks when explaining the souffle 🤌😚

    • @gianlucazanon1505
      @gianlucazanon1505 3 месяца назад +2

      Who is the ultimate boss?

    • @TracyCarolan
      @TracyCarolan 2 месяца назад +8

      @@gianlucazanon1505Mother Nature

    • @JuniorJuni070
      @JuniorJuni070 Месяц назад +1

      @@TracyCarolanit feels good to be dutch. defeating the sea is one our greatest achievements
      only we can say that we won the war against nature.

  • @awellculturedmanofanime1246
    @awellculturedmanofanime1246 8 месяцев назад +50

    venice is such an iconic and gorgeous city full of heritage

  • @user-vi3tb3bw5t
    @user-vi3tb3bw5t Месяц назад +10

    Venice has always been saved throughout history with amazing feats of engineering, I have no doubt this will continue.

  • @herzogsbuick
    @herzogsbuick 8 месяцев назад +11

    any resources on the "super levee" idea? i've done a bit of googling, but everything seems to be about MOSE, i haven't been able to find a real proposal or discussion of the super levee

  • @JK.3
    @JK.3 8 месяцев назад +23

    Makes Atlantis seem a lot more plausible

    • @ReddoFreddo
      @ReddoFreddo 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, Atlantis is a real city that actually existed and it's super cool and it makes me wonder if all mysteries of the world can be explained by Atlantis having something to do with it.

    • @EcnalKcin
      @EcnalKcin 14 дней назад

      @@ReddoFreddo Oh? Been there have you?

    • @EcnalKcin
      @EcnalKcin 14 дней назад

      How so?

  • @CHMichael
    @CHMichael 8 месяцев назад +35

    3:25 just look at that rooftop park

    • @aarond9563
      @aarond9563 2 месяца назад

      Where? I don't see it

    • @sabinasimion2946
      @sabinasimion2946 Месяц назад

      ​@@aarond9563 down in the picture, with more green 😸

    • @lordenkidu1876
      @lordenkidu1876 Месяц назад +1

      Ha, i was giving that a dreamy glance as well.

    • @BlueToronto
      @BlueToronto 22 дня назад

      Isn't that just a garden?

  • @yvan1401
    @yvan1401 8 месяцев назад +5

    I can't believe an Italian engineer is using inches... I'm baffled. An insult to the engineering world.

  • @xchemicalXladybugx
    @xchemicalXladybugx 2 месяца назад +31

    Venice was built on massive wood piles driven into the clay soil. What if, they just did that again?
    But this time, the piles extend several feet above sea level, and they can place mounds of gravel rock over the clay to allow for better drainage.
    Basically, jack the whole city up and create a new, permeable, foundation

    • @Zenas101
      @Zenas101 2 месяца назад +29

      You would have to breakdown and rebuild the entire city. Not a bad idea though

    • @samsalot6115
      @samsalot6115 Месяц назад +28

      The gravel rock would allow air touching the wood piles during low tide, leading to the wood rotting.

    • @ibraheemmonks8866
      @ibraheemmonks8866 Месяц назад +7

      You would destroy the architecture and buildings

    • @angelodona1875
      @angelodona1875 Месяц назад +15

      Venice was build in centuries with one of the strongest economy of that time (during middle ages same GDP as whole France with 1/15 of the inhabitants). Today there is simply not enough money for that. When people walk around Venice it's nearly impossible to think how big strong and wealth such a stupid city was.

    • @caledoniawarrior
      @caledoniawarrior Месяц назад

      That stupid city was founded when Attila the hun invaded and Roman's fled to tiny islands and it was better to stay for protection than to do what some keyboard warrior still living with his parents 1500 years later wants.

  • @metallsimon
    @metallsimon 8 месяцев назад +56

    Can you include Metric Numbers? Like at 1:35, there is a Human for reference, but measured in feet. At 3:26 Meters is used and then back to inches

  • @mrbaywatch21
    @mrbaywatch21 8 месяцев назад +63

    Venice must be saved! ❤

    • @RoberttSmithh
      @RoberttSmithh 8 месяцев назад +11

      Nah its gonna be the next atlantis

    • @mrbaywatch21
      @mrbaywatch21 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@RoberttSmithh at least it will be Italian Atlantis 🦑🪼🐠🌊🍝🍕🇮🇹

    • @Lalalalalkk
      @Lalalalalkk 8 месяцев назад +1

      Cannot stop nature. They will be underwater very soon..

    • @JoeyIndolos
      @JoeyIndolos 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@mrbaywatch21I like your emoticons. Seafood pizza for the win! Extra anchovies please 😀

    • @studuerson2548
      @studuerson2548 8 месяцев назад

      Why,exactly?

  • @denismourenas4876
    @denismourenas4876 8 месяцев назад +10

    Very interesting methode ! I'm glad to see Venice's future to be brighter hopefully!

  • @Plinktitioner
    @Plinktitioner 5 месяцев назад +14

    Well done video and editing. One of the best videos in a while

    • @webgpu
      @webgpu 11 дней назад

      so, you must be watching just 2 or 3 videos per day

  • @dean8367
    @dean8367 Месяц назад +7

    It's impressive that its lasted this long.

  • @alexanderhowarth6460
    @alexanderhowarth6460 Месяц назад +1

    Attempting to hold back the tide is an analogy for futility for a reason. Let Venice go. Times change, cities rise and fall. It is better to get as much as possible into museums. Who knows, maybe if you move a lot of the history to safety, a simple solution might present itself, and a new Venice, potentially on a different principle, can be built. This is what is wrong with Europe these days, an obsession with the past at the expense of the future.
    It's interesting that a key city in the formation of the modern world, with such shaky foundations, would be Venice, a city on a time limit that modernity would inevitably sink beneath a rising sea level.

  • @messityler4121
    @messityler4121 Месяц назад +3

    well the city is built by wood foundation, i hope they can find a way to repair or replace those things, its still a miracle that the city is holding up, those ancient engineer are really something

  • @antonykuo3809
    @antonykuo3809 8 месяцев назад +4

    Solution is move somewhere else. Stop trying to live in a place nature doesn't want you to live in.

  • @oswaldogarcia7327
    @oswaldogarcia7327 8 месяцев назад +32

    Always great to see the Real Heroes of society provide their professional expertise.

    • @joeyaldente8858
      @joeyaldente8858 8 месяцев назад +2

      The real heroes make hard decisions, like knowing when to say enough is enough. They literally flush their sewage into the ocean so it's kind of ironic that it floods back at them.

    • @dshamiljathaddaus1287
      @dshamiljathaddaus1287 8 месяцев назад +5

      Very heroic of him to waste $6bn on a solution which is going to be obsolete in a decade due to the very same phenomenon for which his “engineering solution” was commissioned in the first place… he should be prosecuted honestly..

  • @ticnatz
    @ticnatz Месяц назад +3

    I have had the great fortune to visit Venezia about 150 times. This city that should not be, needs to be saved....

  • @pauloricardoemboabadossant5958
    @pauloricardoemboabadossant5958 8 месяцев назад +12

    Save Venice, please.
    One the most magical, surreal places I have been to.

  • @DonLee1980
    @DonLee1980 8 месяцев назад +12

    50 years from now, they'd either have to completely change the city to make it survive, or they'd have to completely abandon it. Neither is ideal, but that's what it is.

    • @Jedanaste
      @Jedanaste 8 месяцев назад +4

      hey guys there is a genius here! let's all listen to him, come on

  • @derekjackson3990
    @derekjackson3990 Месяц назад +6

    I could listen to him all day

  • @wastedwarrior1045
    @wastedwarrior1045 16 дней назад +1

    IT WILL GET ONLY GET WORSE EVERY YEAR 😮
    START MOVING NOW IF YOUR SMART …..

  • @Themasteric2000
    @Themasteric2000 8 месяцев назад +3

    please indicate both metric and non metric units. It is really hard to follow the video if you are used to metric units.

    • @Paul_C
      @Paul_C Месяц назад +1

      Nah, just stop watching. Like I did.

  • @___beyondhorizon4664
    @___beyondhorizon4664 8 месяцев назад +27

    Venice is more magical than Disney, please save it!!!

    • @runner0075
      @runner0075 Месяц назад +4

      Venice is culture and heritage, Disney is commercial entarteinment industry for children. You are comparing chocolate with poo, indeed.

  • @Alex_Plante
    @Alex_Plante 8 месяцев назад +8

    Venice has been sinking for a 1000 years. Traditionally, people would abandon the ground floor of their buildings, raise the roads (or turn them into canals) and add a new floor on top.

    • @JFP1988
      @JFP1988 14 дней назад

      Thousands of years. I think you mean hundreds. Venice hasn't been around for thousands of years.

    • @Alex_Plante
      @Alex_Plante 14 дней назад

      @@JFP1988 Venice was founded in 421, 1603 years ago.

    • @EcnalKcin
      @EcnalKcin 14 дней назад

      @@Alex_Plante So, hundreds of years then....

    • @Alex_Plante
      @Alex_Plante 14 дней назад

      @@EcnalKcin actually a bit more than the 1000 years I first mentioned. 600 hundred years more than a thousand years.

  • @ALDM404
    @ALDM404 8 месяцев назад +1

    People need to stop using fkn feet and inches when talking about any meaningful measurements. I bet they made the engineer use inches too, just because it's an american platform. We all know that an engineer would never use the moronic imperial system.

  • @mikenjuki
    @mikenjuki 8 месяцев назад +4

    Saw this after watching Lift on Netflix. What a coincidence.

  • @endor8witch
    @endor8witch 7 месяцев назад +3

    and how long has this realization been around? and still nothing is done?

    • @forasago
      @forasago Месяц назад

      It is happening very, very slowly so there is no urgency. Something could be done today but it would be EXPENSIVE today.

  • @danighezzi
    @danighezzi Месяц назад +1

    I have many doubts regarding the MOSE project, starting with the reasons why all the movement mechanisms were placed below the water level and in contact with the sandy seabed. But the most serious doubt is what would happen if one of the barriers were to suddenly fail: how violent would the wave hitting the city be, and how devastating could it become? Frankly, I would have preferred that, to discuss these issues, you had interviewed engineers without conflicts of interest in discussing what is being discussed.

  • @Alesxandros
    @Alesxandros 7 месяцев назад

    Fake news...mose saved venice 15 times in 2023 and tjday is operational too😂

  • @duran9664
    @duran9664 8 месяцев назад +2


    I thought Venice should be flooded all the time🤷‍♀️

  • @LOLINC2010
    @LOLINC2010 Месяц назад +2

    Fascinating video! Thank you

  • @pedroc3948
    @pedroc3948 8 дней назад

    You know what would be cool? Let the streets become canals. People would have Jetskis instead of motorcycles. Pedal boats instead of bicycles. Yachts instead of SUVs. That would bring some tourists.

  • @DrewKaplan2106
    @DrewKaplan2106 24 дня назад

    Great work Giovanni! With that said, I keep wondering if we haven't learned anything from Babylon? Venice wasn't supposed to be. It's an incredible city built on wood piles in clay soil submerged by water. I'd say it's gotten too big (like Babylon) and nature is finally catching up with ancient Italien engineering.

  • @pw3932
    @pw3932 25 дней назад

    WTH Boss! How we got better tools than ancient people and still suck dust when it comes to problem solvings.
    Couldve spent your years for a Master's and looked for a person who can give you wise talk like the good ole days.
    Fine Ill do it myself, since none of yall got special talents.

  • @Mr.AsrafulV2
    @Mr.AsrafulV2 Месяц назад

    I have simple solutions. For you without any hussel. Just move some population from the city. And build a new city at a different place. Then

  • @killerbski9412
    @killerbski9412 Месяц назад

    More click bait from wsj the picture on the thumbnail is not at all accurately showing how the gates work. The thumbnail makes it look absurd and in turn you click to see something that isn’t reality.

  • @caledoniawarrior
    @caledoniawarrior Месяц назад

    The video is propaganda. Venice is sinking, the tides aren't getting higher nor are is there any change in tide frequency. Tides with storm surges must then be the problem.

  • @paullambert6485
    @paullambert6485 4 дня назад

    Im surprised Venice has only sunk about 10 inches seeing how its built on simple wood pilings ! Pretty cool place.

  • @vadimnesen8060
    @vadimnesen8060 Месяц назад

    Its a fantasic idea untill the corrupt greedy people on top start...

  • @mikedubovs1574
    @mikedubovs1574 Месяц назад

    They pumped out water from under the city and it began to sink more.. they can put new pylons and slowly jack up the city

  • @nelsonjr6715
    @nelsonjr6715 16 дней назад

    sealevel rise year by year😢 sadly to hear that one of the pre historic city didn't sea after a long decade .
    global warming is to fast than we expected

  • @Mingonator87
    @Mingonator87 17 дней назад

    0:32 democrats, well fix what we started solution pack #21

  • @johnnycasteel7
    @johnnycasteel7 Месяц назад +1

    The narrator sounds like a 16 yr old high schooler reading cue cards

  • @somulaychirr4202
    @somulaychirr4202 Месяц назад

    It's a kind of humiliation for us to scientifically save Venice which was built centuries ago

  • @Vividxful
    @Vividxful Месяц назад

    Temporary fix at best. But I doubt they will revisit this until it's a problem again.

  • @Jay_Em10
    @Jay_Em10 Месяц назад

    He studied Long Beach but he didn’t study New Orleans?

  • @arcticredpanda4598
    @arcticredpanda4598 18 дней назад

    The problem with the solution is not the engineering but the public administration in Italy.

  • @stepaushi
    @stepaushi 19 дней назад

    Well dam*, if they're letting sewage flow into the lagoon, fix that problem first!

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 8 месяцев назад +1

    how? get more sand and debris to block water and lift city

  • @YoutubeVagabond
    @YoutubeVagabond 5 месяцев назад +1

    Venice wait for me to tour your place.

  • @glenrich-uu9zr
    @glenrich-uu9zr 23 дня назад

    A city is built on a tree trunks pilings,
    it is a game of hourglass, helpless.

  • @DJ-zn1nt
    @DJ-zn1nt 28 дней назад

    Venice has one of the most filthiest water in the world and it stinks never going there again

  • @sew2prosper
    @sew2prosper Месяц назад

    So they legit have people out their protesting again tbe super levee..This seems counterintuitive doesnt. This can potentially save their homes and livilhoods.
    Am I missing something that would cause them to protest this?

    • @Anna-ez5cz
      @Anna-ez5cz 28 дней назад

      Probably corruption

  • @rapidcars1
    @rapidcars1 Месяц назад

    it looks like Venice is the perfect place to test hydrogen from seawater

  • @DC-ux1dt
    @DC-ux1dt 8 месяцев назад +2

    Stop wasting money on something that cannot be saved. Let it go and relocate.

  • @haytch1598
    @haytch1598 Месяц назад

    So in otherwords venice is fckd 😅
    Sinking and sea level rise is bad

  • @eyefreely9682
    @eyefreely9682 Месяц назад

    Mother Nature ALWAYS Wins in the end. Time to move on....

  • @petrektek1385
    @petrektek1385 Месяц назад

    Edit: mose was a disaster for costs, maintenance and corruption.

  • @blue8code
    @blue8code Месяц назад

    Ask Chinese Engineers how they made Reclaimarion Area hehehehe

  • @Positive_Videos_calm
    @Positive_Videos_calm 8 месяцев назад +2

    It is nature's call. No engineering can withstand the wrath of nature. Abandonment of the city before it forces you to abandon is the right choice left in your hand.

  • @HenryBloggit
    @HenryBloggit 5 месяцев назад

    “Thus solving the problem once and for all.”
    “But-“
    “ONCE AND FOR ALL!!”

  • @biblia843
    @biblia843 Месяц назад

    Maybe they should dismantle the whole thing and reassemble it somewhere else like they did with the London Bridge. Depending on the tide to wash its sewage out to sea might have been okay a couple thousand years ago, but we know better than that now. Nothing made with human hands lasts forever anyway. Venice is not going to be around forever and that’s okay. The billions of dollars required to keep it afloat could be better used to alleviate some human suffering.

  • @chengyiq3066
    @chengyiq3066 8 месяцев назад +13

    The world have to come together, in an effort to slow down climate change! Venice is a clear example of what could happen to cities if the average temperature gets warmer!

  • @rodneypantony3551
    @rodneypantony3551 8 месяцев назад

    When a civilization is built upon ports, and those ports are submerged or high and dry, that ends the civilization because the supply chain disruption is so severe. WHAT'S THE ROLE OF FOUNDATION MODELS? Well, you can input all marine archeology and archeology from ports and sea shores such as Troy, Byblos, Shore Forts Roman Britain, Isle Thanet Roman Britain, Chapter 18, Book of Revelation, Egypt, Pompei, Carthage, Caesaria , Israel, and so on PLUS multi modal such as measurements from Rome's port. Then search popular climate change literature from past few decades. Next: AI can search for maritime architectural and civil engineering solutions. Apparently, prior to Rome's hydrophilic cement, ports were designed for sea level fluctuations with hydraulic solutions, much like Canada's St Lawrence Seaway. Troy for example. This is just one way AI can save civilization.
    You could form a GAN to see what the solution is: Lithium vehicles versus civil engineering.

  • @Sandux930
    @Sandux930 26 дней назад

    suddenly global warming isnt just a theory

  • @letres3827
    @letres3827 Месяц назад

    This is probably a very dumb question, but why don’t they inject something other than water under Venice? Like concrete? Or more clay? Or sand?

  • @princedhiman958
    @princedhiman958 Месяц назад

    Sangalkar remind your IPL journey so bad

  • @sebivagyok
    @sebivagyok Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for every information in feet. Very useful outside of murica.

    • @TotallyCreativeNameBtw
      @TotallyCreativeNameBtw Месяц назад

      Yeah i feel that lol, obviously it still gives you some info but its not very practical

  • @MMAproAtGOLF
    @MMAproAtGOLF Месяц назад

    It’s not drowning, it has a 2000 year life line

  • @baitedlol6972
    @baitedlol6972 28 дней назад

    It's so crazy to think that in (possibly) 1000 years, Venice could be a historical ruin. Sinking city + the rising tide levels

  • @TeamTimeRiders
    @TeamTimeRiders Месяц назад

    Italy cannot afford to let Venice sink. The amount of lost tourism revenue would be catastrophic to the economy.

  • @markknoop6283
    @markknoop6283 8 месяцев назад

    It's very simpel don't let the cruiseschip in.
    The system works perfectly just as the corruption.
    And stop complaining.

  • @ATRTAP
    @ATRTAP Месяц назад

    Led Zeppelin wrote a song about Venice.

  • @monkeyguy80
    @monkeyguy80 8 месяцев назад

    Any upgrades or blockages, It’s only the short term solution! End of the day, we can’t beat the FORCE of Mother Nature ya! 🌊

  • @MatthewNGolding
    @MatthewNGolding 8 месяцев назад

    The same will happen in Alaska in the future and trillions of dollars in infrastructure will go to waste, since they literally built on the edge of water.

  • @joeson7700
    @joeson7700 5 месяцев назад

    Where are thou the DOGE's brilliant ancestral descendant SOLUTION to constant FLOODING ?.

  • @FosterFarmsOk
    @FosterFarmsOk Месяц назад

    swim in a lagoon that also has sewage in it. no thanks

  • @ramseykerkula7758
    @ramseykerkula7758 Месяц назад

    Well, yes, money can't stop water from increasing. Only infrastructure

  • @denvious8844
    @denvious8844 2 месяца назад

    watching from July in 2024 where Toronto and a lot of the GTA was completely flooded.

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 8 месяцев назад +1

    Cough, Cough, Atlantopa!

  • @FooTude
    @FooTude Месяц назад

    You can’t fix stewpid!

  • @jamminfreedom2413
    @jamminfreedom2413 Месяц назад

    Why did Venice stop pumping in the first place? ...that just seems dumb.

  • @ya_hya
    @ya_hya 5 месяцев назад

    the animation confuses me LOL, are they gonna raise the whole city 12 feet??

  • @scientificcommenter2830
    @scientificcommenter2830 Месяц назад

    Venice becoming the old wano

  • @Soloohara
    @Soloohara 16 дней назад

    Grande Giovanni cecconi 🤪

  • @hondaxyz
    @hondaxyz Месяц назад

    Venice was built on flood plains.What did you expect.

  • @Waltaere
    @Waltaere 8 месяцев назад +1

    WSJ 😃

  • @Bartwon
    @Bartwon Месяц назад

    Inject expanding foam underground

  • @halitosis75
    @halitosis75 3 месяца назад

    It's time for the super levy. Venice is to unique . It must be saved

  • @stepaushi
    @stepaushi 19 дней назад

    Gotta say Giovanni right.

  • @MsKapselis
    @MsKapselis Месяц назад

    large toilet of a city xD

  • @missyprivate9837
    @missyprivate9837 Месяц назад

    2” in 60 years is a joke.

  • @dhandymandarren3074
    @dhandymandarren3074 18 дней назад

    Doing a great job 1:11

  • @briansandford614
    @briansandford614 Месяц назад

    💩from the Experts

  • @OpLapDancePikachu69
    @OpLapDancePikachu69 8 месяцев назад +3

    this is a bandaid fix. the issue is global warming…

    • @forasago
      @forasago Месяц назад

      The citizens of Venice cannot fix global warming.