Most Useless Megaprojects In The World

The rock the Costa Concordia struck was charted, not "uncharted" and the captain never spotted it. He actually abandoned ship and left his passengers to fend for themselves. The problem was not the size of the ship, as there are bigger, but the quality of the crew.

Okay, the Costa Concordia wasn't useless. It just had the misfortune of having a useless captain. That wasn't the ship's fault.

One major fact that was omitted from your commentary on the Crazy Horse Memorial being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain is that this is a private, no-profit project. The Memorial Foundation refuses to accept any Federal funding.

I feel like the inclusion of Challenger at the end was a bit uncalled for, that was not a useless megaproject, and if anything the reason why it exploded was not due to it being useless, but rather carelessness.

I don't see the Challenger explosion as a useless megaproject, it fits more in the category of engineering disaster.

Videos like this might have worked in the early years of YouTube, but nowadays there is actually also quality content available. People who do research and don't just upload because they hit a deadline.

About the Gundam, there are actually three life sized Gundam in Japan, the third one being in Fukuoka. Which also moves just a bit. But thing is, both that one and the "simple" one in Tokyo you can watch for free, and are basically a fancy billboard for the Gunpla shops inside the mall. The one in Yokohama, you have to pay for, at least to get a proper view. And pay a lot more if you want to get up close in that tower and get 20 seconds to have your picture taken right next to the head. And people are flocking to see it, and many end up buying quite a bit of merch and/or (often exclusive) Gunpla kits in the process. So pretty sure this thing is making money while looking cool...

We just went to see the Gundam when we visited Japan this month and really enjoyed it. We had fun and visited other areas of Yokohama, which we would not have done if it wasn't for visiting the Gundam. There were plenty of people there from Japan and other countries as well. We paid to go inside, where there is also a small museum and a gift shop, but you can actually view the Gundam from outside the facility for free

I’ve taken the H3 and I would hardly consider it unused. It’s a super fast and efficient way to get to the north end of the island, and it can even get congested at times

The Mexican border wall example is COMPLETELY DECEIVING. I live on the border and the actual thing is 3-4 times as tall as the fence shown here, with spools of razor wire on top. It can be penetrated, anything can, but it's nowhere near as easy as this video would have folks believe

As a Chinese, the Hong Kong Macau Zhu hai bridge is used a lot. My dads a driver and he crosses it daily.

The life sized gundam isn't useless tho. It has an entrance fee and a viewing dock (which costs even higher). Not useless to the company if they earn from it

May I recommend The Marble Arch Mound for Part 2? For anyone wondering what that is, basically, the Westminster City Council decided that their city needed a new tourist attraction to bring back the tourist revenue lost during the Covid pandemic. What did they come up with? An 82-foot tall pile of dirt right smack dab in the middle of London. No, seriously. Even worse, it was literally across the street from the titular Marble Arch, a prominent and beautiful piece of marble architecture that's been in London for almost 200 years. And they thought their little dirt tower was going to look good compared to that. And they originally wanted to charge people the equivalent of 10 US Dollars PER PERSON so they could have the "privilege" to climb this oversized eyesore. The whole thing was closed and demolished after being open for less than 5 months when they realized no tourist wanted to spend their time and money in London climbing a useless hill of dirt. And worst of all, this giant heap of mud somehow cost SEVEN MILLION BRITISH POUNDS to build and remove. Which was actually double what it was originally forecast for, but even that sounds way too high for what it ended up being. It was just a huge waste of time and money, and the whole thing was slammed by the press and the public.

The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge is now opened for applying a direct permit to cross the bridge and be registered in both cities and the mainland.

The great physicist Richard Feynman was on the board of inquiry of the Challenger explosion. He was trying to get answers about the vulnerability of the rubber O-rings in freezing weather, but he wasn't getting a satisfactory answer. So, he took a small O-ring and dunked it in his glass of ice water for a few minutes, and when he took it out, it snapped when he applied stress to it. You gotta love a scientist who is grounded enough to do things so simply without a half a million dollar grant.

The H3 on Oahu is one of my all time favorite drives! The view when you pop out of the tunnel on the Kaneohe side is breathtakingly beautiful. It is used pretty frequently though…no doubt in my mind that a lot of Native Hawaiians avoid it because of of superstition and/or principle, but between the military community, tv/movie productions, and tourists, the highway sees its fair share of travelers ☺️

H3 being labeled “unused” is very inaccurate. It’s very commonly used because it’s a quick way to get to the windward side. But yeah, sadly, it destroyed so much of the sacred parts of the land…

The Chalanger? Disaster yes and mistakes that shouldn't have been made most definitely. But useless engineering project nope.

At crazy horse, most of the work lately has been done on the hand. I took a tour up to the top of the mountain about a month ago and I found out that they are putting cuticles on the fingers. Some of crazy horse's descendants are actually working with Zilkowskies descendants on carving the mountain and most of the donation go to carving the mountain. one of the reasons that the mountain doesn't quite look like the finished model is because the finished carving will be much larger than Mount Rushmore and carving a memorial that large takes a lot of time. The project has also never accepted any amount of government funding and doesn't plan to in the future. Crazy Horse Memorial even has its own college. The memorial celebrated its 75th birthday not too long ago.

Maaaaaajor problems in Horsing around 7:55. CrazyHorse did NOT lead the battle on our side, (Sioux and Cheyenne, American Indians.) Most of all, Crazyhorse was NOT killed at Little Bighorn. In fact, Crazy Horse wasn't killed in battle at all. He was murdered by a U.S. Army soldier after being betrayed by the Army Comandant at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.