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Experts Race to Save a $20B Airport Sinking Into the Sea

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0:00 that's so funny where do we get Mexicans America [Music] California experts are racing to save a $15 billion airport that rapidly sinking into the sea at an alarming rate 15 billion a airport that's sinking into the sea what's what's a rate that's not alarming good question I think just like sinking in general is alarming right holy ████ that's crazy what did they build this on Swamp land or something so as you would say in Japan Japan yeah there's this that's what the airport is sh it's it's actually just right off the coast of it and it's it has been open um for close to 30 years right now uh as of now millions of people use it every year

0:51 it's the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka Koto and Kobe do you know this one nope s sing katachi but it's also however sinking into the sea basically the Kanai region nailed it of Japan losing out was losing on on trade to Tokyo and it was decided the place needed a bigger airport but the existing airport um was surrounded by suburbs there's really no room to expand so and then also the locals were like don't build a fuing airport here please right we don't need more noise um so then it was decided they needed a new airport allog together so they would create an artificial Island to put the airport on oh wow so you know like in China they have a lot of these artificial Islands as well like it it doesn't always sink right but work to start uh this island started in 1987 and by 1994 the airport

1:44 was opened and that's quick Japan got struck with the great Hansen earthquake in 1995 the airport was fine 1998 it was fine when it got hit by a typhoon W but over time they noticed that it would start sinking as the weight of the airport would push down in the soft soil of Osaka Bay wow and it's like a wet sponge right damn that's crazy and it just keeps on continuously sinking based off of the weight and they expect it they expected it to sink by 5.7 M by by the '90s and instead it went down 8.2 M so it's that's alarming an accelerated rate than they even thought scary yeah U plus as people are in the airport right you're you know you got little kids jumping up and down that's accelerating the rate of you got little kids you know what I'm saying Japanese kids like to jump people are jumping all over the you

2:35 got soul planes doing this on the tarmac can't have that anymore how do you I'm so confused like if it's sinking right how do you put dirt under yeah that's crazy is that what you're supposed to do yeah you put dirt over and then put another tarmac on top that's true yeah you got to keep stacking T you know what's CRA like paint layers quite simple at my old house you know there's a at the end of the street there was a house that could have didn't sell because it was sinking so they did have a machine that drilled to the bottom and they filled it with dirt oh but I don't know how you do that that's a house though I don't know how you do that with a ████ airport whole ass airport it's big boy too it's a big boy is it kind of like getting a spatula under a egg and then you lift the egg up a little bit and you put like oil and then you put the egg back bring the spatula in yeah I feel like the Japanese guys are going to figure it out they will but that's kind you got to go to Every Home Depot in the world and

3:27 just get every dude and go we got some a big job boys we need you like the CIA yeah you just stand side by side on a count of three we all lift up there like a Japanese recter going to every home people in America there we go all put the th go go go go go go the guys putting the J in their sweating dude oh man cuz we're watching these guys bend the knees some guys knees are like bent in I like that it's all just labor work it's like there's no machines just everybody's lifting from underwater and then just going like this to yeah holy ████ dude and there's always one dude that's pretending to LIF not doing ████ ████ the guy that can scratch his nose the guy that's like this hey dude how'd you do that hey how'd you point at me damn it's like I was taking arm War

4:19 down the stairs for a neighbor of mine and like afterward he was like whoa that's crazy I was like I took all the ████ weight you little ████ boy I was in the front dude you're walking on the side yeah yeah looking around stairs are always easy to expose who's not help say that was hard so they're estimating it's going to take uh billions and billions of dollars to fix this problem why don't they just remove it and build somewhere else cuz that would also take billions and billions of dollars you got to make a whole new one so it's cheaper I like the idea of layering TX to get to get a bunch of Mexicans to lift you got to cross-hatch them too you got to fly him to Japan yeah well there's going to be a Japanese recruiter I could see this presentation they're like what what are we going to do and then this is like I think the only way is to get the Mexican they built America you know and then they go where do we get the Mexicans like they

5:09 just let a lot of in America and then yeah they'll be a Japanese recruiter we buy a plane that's so funny where do we get Mexicans America California sick ass line one of the problems do is that the airport like different parts of the airport are sinking at different rates like the middle of the airport sinking the fastest the middle like oh so it's like a sinkhole yeah oh damn so planes are going to take off like this the first toilet bow style airport yo that's sick or they just need to have like ████ 20 drones and the drones are just keeping the place from sinking 20 that's it only 20 yeah 25 maybe bra it's Bart's brain it's like it's like the shield helic carrier ████ yeah it's a ████ Marvel Cinematic Universe over here dude I saw three helicarriers did you guys see that plane

6:01 crash that recently happened in Japan oh yeah yeah yeah that was crazy sad uh two one they had that commercial plane in like a medic plane and then they went off at the same time and ████ hit like that the people in the medic plane died like four F folks the commercial one was fine but they had to do a quick Landing right and then they had to do those evacuation things while the back was smoking oh my and then you see like all these people getting out with ████ flames and ████ and then the plane just caught on fire who fault was that air traffic control always yeah my brother used to do ATC and he said that near a near hit made him quit it's so stressful yeah I heard that's one of the most stressful drops so somebody made a bad call and then they just both yeah cuz then you're supposed to let them go like one at a time but then they weren't they were going at at the same time holy

6:52 ████ dude did you guys see the video of uh there's a there's a a a pilot who's like experienced right and he's talking to lady in traffic control and he's like hey I'm going to do like a short l or whatever he says I don't know ████ Pilot Talk and she like lectures him about H that that's not that's not correct or whatever you even got enough oh cuz she like Googled it or something she Googled it yeah she's like I Googled it and like that's not what you're saying like come on that's been poping up my why Googl is air traffic control fighting with Pilots they're like actually you didn't clear the ████ Runway so I'm going to report this and they're like yeah why don't you go ahead and report it then bud let me give you my number yeah like do their ████ talking to each other what's even funnier than that is watching Air Traffic Control simulator Gamers argue with each other no dude those guys are the best there's a game where one guy's being an air traffic controller and the

7:43 other guy's the pilot and even they're fighting no dude the guy who wants to be the air traffic controller guy is a l it's not even real and they're P fighting really so they're just natural enemies there traffic controller and the pilot like Bloods and Crips huh yeah pus that's that's like when your little brother unplugs the controller and plays the game like you're so you're in a game but you're in the air traffic control tower the other guy gets to fly a ████ plane cuz it's like pirate games and you get to tell him yeah landed over there like yeah okay people enter that game on purpose just to troll the air traffic controller and they'll just do whatever the ████ they want and the guy's like no you can't do that and like the guy just goes insane dude I'd be buzzing the tower all day long all day that drives him crazy I watch Top Gun dude that drives those guys crazy I watch top yeah dude that's so crazy that one one guy's bad call it's like the

8:33 crosswalk lady and drivers we have this uh one like crosswalk lady at taica school she's like from New York and like if she puts the stop sign they don't stop where'd you learn how to drive the zoo did I like that it's it's like a G-rated like expit I'm walking here there all these kids yeah would you learn how to drive the zoo what here you freaking animal yeah these monkeys AR less than a so kid friendly yeah dude I need that game and you got to tell me that game ste's you'll love it that's so great cuz anytime you find people taking something too seriously that's what it is they get so mad they're like P can we get pilot checklist please all that kind of ████ it's so yeah dude yeah I'm 69 out here dude dude I dude you'll love it wow so

9:24 have you guys ever been a air traffic controller

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