This Is The Most Expensive Mistake In History

This Is The Most Expensive Mistake In History

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10 of the Most Expensive Mistakes in Modern History
Let’s be honest, we all hate making mistakes, especially when there are thousands, millions, or even billions of dollars on the line.

Even the most trivial of mistakes can make you pretty darn frustrated. So imagine the horror of being the dummy behind some of the world’s most expensive mistakes in history?

Yeah, I’d rather just bury my head six feet deep in the sand.

With that being said, let’s take a look at 10 of the biggest mistakes that made millions of people question, what the heck are they doing???
8. The Hateful Eight Guitar $40,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPQTuQfLoHQ

Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 western The Hateful Eight follows a bounty hunter played by Kurt Russell as he escorts a criminal played by Jennifer Jason Leigh through a wintry Wyoming landscape.

On his way to collect his prize money for her capture, they meet up with a variety of shady characters.

Unfortunately, there was a very expensive blooper on set. In a scene where Russell takes a guitar from Jason Leigh and smashes it, he accidentally smashed a 150-year-old Martin guitar instead of a balsa wood prop.

What’s even funnier is that Jennifer Jason Leigh looks quite shocked at the accident, and you can tell that her reaction is not a part of the acting.

The guitar was on loan from Martin Guitars and was worth $40,000. The company was so disappointed that they no longer loan out guitars from their collection for filming.
7. Millennium Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2FaOJxWqLE

Before it was unveiled to the public, the Millennium Bridge across the River Thames in London was hailed as, “a pure expression of engineering structure,” and “an absolute statement of our capabilities at the beginning of the 21st century.”

Unfortunately for the people behind the project, the Millennium Bridge got off to a shaky start.

When the bridge opened in 2000, the first pedestrians to cross felt it swaying beneath their feet. Engineers had designed the bridge to withstand wind and weight, but not the simple motion of a crowd of humans walking across.

The mistake took $6.3 million and two years to fix.
6. The Heavy Submarine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZnR7_-_3Jw

Submarines are an engineering marvel in themselves, as they are able to float and navigate through the ocean despite weight a ton of weight.
Nevertheless, engineers occasionally mess up in their design and construction.

In 2013, the Isaac Peral was set to be the first in a new class of diesel-electric submarines when the discovery of an expensive mistake led to a big set back.

It turned out that the submarine was 70 tonnes overweight because an engineer had put a decimal point in the wrong place early in the planning process.

To offset the weight of the enormous submarine, engineers were forced to make it even longer.

By adding about six meters of length to the sub’s hull, they were able to make it more buoyant. Unfortunately, the mistake still cost them $11.4 million.
5. Trains too wide for the rail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDW6Au09kg

Yet another engineering disaster of epic proportion, this time costing the French government millions of dollars.

Yeah, that’s where all that taxpayer money is going to; paying royal screw jobs!

In 2014, French train operator SNCF ordered 2,000 new trains for their lines in Paris and throughout France.

Unfortunately, the trains were too wide to fit into the platforms at some of the older stations in France.

The mistake arose because SNCF officials had measured stations built 30 years ago but failed to account for stations that had been built 50 or more years prior when trains were much thinner.

To correct the error, construction was needed to widen the platforms at over 1,000 train stations in France. All told, fixing the mistake cost $68.4 million.
4. Mars Climate Orbiter lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4jPnk49PE

The Mars Climate Orbiter was a NASA space probe launched in 1998. I remember it like it was yesterday; all the excitement surrounding how invaluable the orbiter would be in collecting information regarding the red planet.

It was supposed to orbit Mars and study the red planet’s atmosphere and surface, but due to a miscommunication, it was lost in space forever.

NASA had two teams working on the project: a spacecraft team in Colorado and a mission navigation team in California.

One team worked with navigation data in metric units, while the other team was working with imperial units.

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