Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
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Published 2023-09-30
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All Comments (21)
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The way I’ve gotten used to American transit construction costs He said “it was supposed to cost €4.7b, but at the end it cost…” Me: What, twenty… Sam: “€8b!” Me: oh.
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Since the Italian word for the sea, "Mare", is grammatically masculine, Whereas the Italian name of Venize, "Venezia", is grammatically feminine, I'd like to posit that the Sea is not Venice's wife, But in fact Venice's husband, With Venice being the wife.
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Sam takes the "Americans will use anything but the metric system" meme VERY seriously
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Venice hasnt been in the sea ever since they married, can you blame her for wanting to change that?
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You could name the island after Moses' wife, Zippora. Then they can show Venice and the Adriatic Sea what a good, co-dependent relationship looks like.
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I love it when HAI compares measurements with everyday objects.
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Venice is not only a cultural treasure but a big money-maker. I'm sure it's worth the investment to save. They should implement tourist taxes to help fund it.
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I am torn between "Amy gets a rise" and "Brick" Island.
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Man those flood gates could have been really useful that one time I left the bath water running on accident
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Huge props for Sam for both translating (in writing) & giving an interpretation (in audio) to acqua alta means. HAI unintentionally fixed a big issue translators have: either translating a term or explaining its concept.
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Congratulations to HAI for making the first accurate video about MOSE, everyone stops at the “lol overpriced project that doesn’t work, should’ve asked the dutch” while failing to understand the peculiarities about the venetian lagoon and the fact that MOSE was being developed as it was built. Really shows the difference between a channel that does his research and writes his own video and all the other chatgpt copy pasta.
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Honestly, the threshold of using MOSE being above what it takes to flood Piazza di San Marco makes sense - people love getting a shot of Venice underwater.
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Two HAI videos in less than 24 hours?! What a pleasant surprise!!!
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Il Mare is masculine, Venezia is feminine. So, it is a marriage where the Sea is the husband and the City is the wife. In old-school Catholic tradition, that meant the City was willingly "submitting" to the Sea, for better, for worse... That makes sense for a seafaring state.
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We should take Venice and push it somewhere else!
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4:30 if I had a nickel for everytime human actions had ecological consequences, I would be a billionaire
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Now I want a WTYP episode on this. You know it's a good half as interesting episode when you want a 3 hour version of it
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2:42 thanks for the real mesurements, some would appreciate imperial, but the ping pong tables just hit different.
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wish new york had a semi-working flood barrier on friday
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Any megaproject will inevitably cost double its estimate. Considering the corruption involved thats honestly pretty good. Imo they should put the entire city on hydraulic stilts like in Oceans Twelve and just raise or lower it at will
