Most Expensive Mistakes in All History - Part 1

Human error is almost inevitable. Here are some of the most expensive mistakes in history.

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[realtblemomentz]

The most expensive mistake in history:
Buying movie theater snacks

[afifkarout]

Most expensive mistake in history: Art School in Austria refuses Hitler's application.

[slime_entertainment_inc.]

$185, 000 compensation to cover 32 deaths? Nothing like receiving $5800 in exchange for a loved one ..

[notyourmum]

I can’t believe literal rocket scientists forgot to convert their measurements

[steigerbuilders]

Most expensive mistake in history:
Eating bat soup

[alanmelb]

Most expensive mistake in history:
Buying shares in Blockbuster.

[Krullespam]

At 6:34 : "Rijkswaterstaat" is NOT a company. It is the Dutch authority responsible for most infrastructures, especially everything water-related.

Best translated as "Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands" (which is their own English designation).

[hpy]

The most expensive mistakes video ever. Ever given captain “hold my beer”

[ggtay]

That first bridge- for so many people that is low compensation.

[henryroop]

My most expensive mistake was digging straight down in Minecraft

[elizabethshaw]

It's moments like this that make the Death Star's destruction vent seem like a plausible design error.

[engineeringismyblood]

Video: “Most expensive mistakes in all history”

Evergiven *stuck in Suez Canal*: “I’m going to ruin the whole economy”

[linusskold]

When they declined an up-coming artist for art-school back in early 1900.. that mistake was kinda expensive

[galaxel]

The Vasa actually capsiesed because of the wind. But as a swede i know that it was the king’s fault. The ship was never meant to be a three deck, it was only made to be a two deck. However the kin demanded that it would be a three deck a long wayninto the consruction.

[cantchangemynamefordays]

fun fact: the berlin brandenburg airport finally opened 2 months ago

multiple employees have had to go to the hospital due to electric shocks around the airport

[perhesh]

Czar Alexander II knew he was seriously undervaluing Alaska, but he was moved to do so by important strategic considerations.

First, some imperialists among the British were seriously moving to take over Alaska, to remove the Russian threat to their colonial domination of the area now known as Canada. The Russians seriously did not want a powerful British colony only a few miles away from their valuable but almost-undefended Siberian frontier. The Russians knew that if the British moved into Alaska, they had no realistic hope of defending it.

Second, for that very reason, the Russians wanted to damage British power as best they could. Selling this land to the US, even for a bargain price, blocked the British from becoming a near neighbor while it increased the good relationship between the Russian Empire and the US. Russia had supported the Union during the Civil War, and even sent ships of the Russian navy to San Francisco to discourage other European powers from seeking to seize the region while the Union was concentrating on the war.

So for the Russian Empire, the sale of Alaska to the US was a good deal. They got rid of a claim they knew they could not defend, thwarted what they saw as a British plan to menace their claim to Siberia, and even got a bit of money in the bargain.

[dfreeman]

Alternative title should be “Why we can’t have nice things.”

[laranaries]

I remember being taught (back in the 80's) that the Vasa sank when it failed a stability test, where the sailors are all assembled on deck, and ordered to run from side to side several times! The idea being to rock the ship, and assess how well the ship rights itself. To the horror of the Admiralty, the ship actually completely overturned!
Another interesting one is the fact that soldiers are not allowed to march over bridges in lockstep! They are ordered to break stride, lest they match the frequency of the bridge and collapse it!!

[ssaraccoii]

The Alaska Purchase was nicknamed, ”Seward’s Folly” in honor of US Secretary of State William H. Seward. Guess he got the last laugh!

[tenuksdnbhd]

8:39 imagine spending more than $300 Million just to launch a "firework" on Mars