Humans aren't perfect and we all make mistakes but i'm sure the mistakes you
make don't end up costing millions billions or hundreds of
billions of dollars well the ones we'll look at today sure
do from a typo that cost millions of dollars to a 15 year old
german airport which has never had a single flight
million dollar typo spell check sure is a great thing but
it's something that one broker in 2005 clearly did not have
in 2005 stock for the company jcom was listed at
610 000 shares for one yen each but this was an accidental listing the
company meant to sell shares at 610 000 yen each of course when this
happened traders took advantage this tanked the company's stock price
and led to a massive investigation thankfully the brokerage firm who had
made the error was able to buy back most of the shares and recover the stock
price but that was after they'd already lost
225 million dollars that's why you should always double check your work
especially when it could cost you hundreds of millions of dollars
but since 2005 jcom stock has gone up 600 percent
however it's safe to say 225 million will still make a dent in anyone's
wallet thrown away bitcoin years ago bitcoin
was worth pennies but today a single bitcoin is worth over 11 000
the cryptocurrency is massive and is used in transactions every day all
around the world in 2009 one british i.t worker had just
discovered bitcoin james howells began mining bitcoin from
his laptop by 2013 he'd mined 7500 bitcoins
this would be worth 85 million dollars today or 127 million dollars at
bitcoin's peak the bitcoins were stored on his
computer's hard drive but in 2013 he mistakenly put that drive in
the bin this was collected by the trashmen and
taken to a local dump james says he wants to search his city's
landfill but the city says no as it's against their policies today
james is still trying to convince his city to allow him to search the landfill
for his lost bitcoin if it was me i'd break in after all it's worth 85 million
dollars but even if he was allowed in the
landfill it's unlikely he'll ever find his bitcoins
that's because the hard drive is now buried under six years of waste
according to the city digging everything up to find it would cause a huge
environmental impact on the surrounding area
but do you think it's worth it for 85 million dollars
b2 bomber crash the b2 stealth bomb is one of the most expensive and amazing
aircrafts ever made they're produced by the defense company
northrop grumman only 21 were ever built for the us air
force at a cost of 45 billion dollars this means just
one of these aircrafts costs 2.1 billion well in 2008 that exact amount of money
went up in a big fireball during a b2 test flight in guam a faulty
sensor caused the plane to stall during takeoff
this made it crash immediately sending 2.1 billion dollars up in flames
amazingly though this mistake could have been prevented easily
water had gotten into the sensor that's because a technique to deal with
moisture in the engines hadn't been properly communicated to the right
personnel luckily the two pilots in the plane were
able to safely eject before the crash otherwise they would have gone up in
flames as well but i guess the old saying communication is key
really is correct walkie-talkie in spring of 2014 a new
skyscraper was completed in london uk this was a 525 foot tall building known
as the walkie-talkie it was named this because of its curved design
it was finished in spring but as summer rolled around the city began to realize
there was a big mistake with this building the building's
south-facing concave was incredibly reflective this would cause
strong rays of sunlight at certain points in the day and this would cause
temperatures of 158 fahrenheit or 78 centigrade
this caused tiles on other buildings to melt it also caused a fire on the
doormat of a barber shop and even melted a businessman's
jaguar xj things got so ridiculous one journalist
even fried an egg using the heat from the building
this earned the building the nickname walkie scorchi eventually a gigantic
permanent sunshade had to be installed this was attached between the 3rd and
34th floors it took 6 months and cost 12 million dollars
that's incredibly expensive seeing as the building had already cost
250 million dollars the architect rafael vanilla also has also designed another
building with the same problem this was the vitara hotel in las vegas
which was nicknamed the death ray raphael actually said that he knew this
would happen but he had no idea how bad the problem would be i don't know this
guy sounds like more of a bond villain than an architect to me
chernobyl pretty much everyone knows what's happened at the nuclear plant in
the ukrainian town of chernobyl but many don't realize that
it's the most expensive mistake in history and the mistakes were totally
preventable on april 25th 1986 there was a drill
simulating a power outage but this led to some uncontrolled
reactions and a steam fire that burned for 9 days
134 workers were injured and 31 passed away
14 would pass away years later from radiation there were massive design
flaws which weren't used in any other country in the world
this caused the terrible incident and irreparable damage
and the total cost was 590 billion dollars
lottery ticket it's everyone's dream to win the lottery but what if your worst
nightmare happened right after that dream was realized well that's exactly
what happened to one british couple in 2010
their lottery dreams were realized as they won 147 million dollars
but those dreams ended very rapidly when it was found that the husband had thrown
away the lottery ticket by accident just imagine the arguments over dinner
after that i guess the husband can never be angry at the wife again
now maybe they avoided what's known as the lottery curse
that is where most lottery winning couples end up divorced and penniless
after a few years some spouses have even taken each
other's lives but it will be pretty hard to convince the couple of that
as they did lose 147 million dollars deep water horizon oil spill the
deepwater horizon oil spill happened off the gulf of mexico
and it's widely considered to be the worst oil spill in history
210 million gallons of oil were spilled into the ocean
this was after an explosion on a drilling rig the oil destroyed marine
and wildlife habitats from louisiana to florida
and the spill took place over months this was as workers desperately tried to
stop the flow of oil eventually though it was revealed that
bp was responsible they had cut massive corners and this
had had terrible effects it turned out it would have been way
cheaper for bp not to cut these corners that's because in total it cost them 61
billion dollars they had to clean up a lot of the oil
they also had to pay massive fines and legal fees
and of course they lost 210 million gallons of oil which is worth a lot of
money mars climate orbiter in 1998 nasa
launched the space probe the mars climate orbiter
it was supposed to orbit mars and study the red planet's atmosphere and surface
but because of one super simple human error it was lost in space
forever nasa had two teams working on the mission
one team was based in colorado and the other based in california
they both had to give each other navigation data but one team was working
in metric units while the other was using imperial units
when the craft got into mars's orbit they failed to communicate the different
units that's because they didn't realize that
one was using the metric system and the other was using the imperial system
only three countries in the world actually use imperial the united states
liberia and myanmar but the communication failure meant that it
missed mars orbit and flew into space never to be found again
and this meant that 193 million dollars was wasted
s81 isaac peril when you have the world's best engineers working on
state-of-the-art technology you don't expect mistakes
but that's not what happened with the state-of-the-art s81 isaac peril
submarine production began in 2013 for the spanish
navy but there was one gigantic design flaw
that is that once the submarine submerged it was never able to resurface
again the reason why is because it was 75 to
100 tons overweight the submarine could only move in one
direction down this meant that when the submarine went
into the water it simply sank down it didn't move anywhere
and this mistake was because of one decimal place point during calculations
this single dot cost 9.7 million dollars this caused them to lose one 680 million
dollar submarine and that was part of a three billion
dollar project for four subs the s81 submarine is expected to join
the spanish navy in 2020 but some are skeptical of that and say
it may never make the fleet trains in 2014 the french train operator
sncf ordered 2 000 new trains this was to be used on their train lines
in paris and all over france but they made a massive blunder that was
that they ordered trains which were way too
fat that's right these 2 000 trains were way too wide to fit in the platforms
that's because france has many old stations with
thin train tracks they couldn't simply get a refund because
these trains were made to order sncf workers had only measured stations built
30 years ago but they failed to account for stations
built 50 or more years ago when the train tracks were way thinner
this caused the train tracks to be widened at over 1 000 train stations in
france and this cost a whopping 68.4 million
dollars berlin brandenburg airport
it's a stereotype that germans are great engineers
but ask any german and they'll tell you that that stereotype ends in berlin
berlin has had an airport which has been around for 15 years
but in that 15 years it's never had a single passenger or flight
it has modern terminals and even a working railway station
it was set to open in 2012 but is still not open today
at one point they realized they'd made it twice as small as it had to be
later on the designer realized they'd not accounted for any shopping areas
there was then supposed to be a grand opening in 2012 but it had to be
cancelled because the fire prevention system did not work
officials then re-evaluated the airport in total they found
550 000 volts this included entire cable systems being all wrong and
also incorrect light bulbs being used millions of dollars are spent on this
every month to try and get it up to standard
and so far it's cost 6.5 billion dollars three times its original budget
some berliners say that they don't expect it to ever be opened
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