Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

@finn7094 Not everybody works for the oil companies, but the town provides services to those that do. Also, Alaska has a sort of NIT, paid by the oil companies. It is like any other town, a major employer enables a market for local businesses not working directly for the major employer.
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@starvetodeath123 While disagreeing in principle with subsidized national transportation, I must say in Amtrak's defense that the oldest of their coach seats is vastly more comfortable than modern 3 wide discount airline seats. Not comparable, just superior.
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@0000-z4z So a proper train system is one in which the profitable traffic is sidelined in favor of the unprofitable traffic. That's why Europe has to carry so much long distance freight inefficiently by truck.
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Should the US abrogate the ratified treaty against claims of national territorial sovereignty by Earth nations of extra-terrestrial real estate? Perhaps. . Should the US abrogate the never-ratified treaty claiming extraterrestrial resources as "the common heritage of mankind." Emphatically! The key to the development of space is private ownership and private industry. Space miners need to own their ore, etc. Something analogous to a homestead law needs to be the basis of private real estate ownership going forward. "Son, invest in real estate. There is always a demand, and they're not making it anymore." So fix that. Read "The Man Who Sold the Moon". The space law in the story is obsolete, but the consequences of the actions of the protagonist in the story are telling. Frontiers have positive effects, not only on the pioneers, but also on the stay-at-homes. They give common folk options, which helps those who leave, and improves the negotiating positions of those who stay. This series on maritime and space law makes it clear that these laws have needed to change in response to changing circumstances. "Time for a cool change."
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@derriegel5705 And, as a side benefit, Europe would get overrun by her enemies and we wouldn't have to hear amateurs telling us how to run our lives.
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@ClosestToTheSun Loss leaders are difficult to detect within a business, impossible to track in the economy as a whole.
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3rd world distribution model: Vaccinate the US and the west first, that's where all the charitable funding and volunteers come from. That will empower charities to assist the 3rd world.
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Yea, astronauts get brittle bones because their skeleton is no longer supporting their weight. Babies don't support much of their weight with their skeleton till they start crawling. Raising a child through todlerhood, in really low-g environment, especially one too small for them to have a fulfilling life living there indefinitely, would be immoral. If it has such an effect on the bones of adults, it would certainly have a profound effect on a child's physical development. We don't know what effect microgravity would have on the birthing process. I suppose if babies can be born horizontally, they can be born in zero-g. Presumably, the experiment will be hazarded at some point, deliberately or accidentally.
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Teenage wasteland, or space age?
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@LoganCharlesII I think that's still illegal.
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@lukethiele3197 I suppose both in Australia and California the parts near the ocean have the more moderate temperatures, but since Cali is long and narrow (and smaller), that is a higher percentage of Cali than Australia. Coastal Southern California is cooled by a cool ocean current.
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@Gregory Smith Oil was not a strategic resource when Alaska was sold.
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@simplerstrength Well, you apparently don't know that hillbillies are from Appalachia, so we might not consider you an authority on geography.
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Defense is a legitimate purview of the federal government. Subsidized transportation is not.
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It's cheaper to fly in the wool than to fly in the feed for the sheep.
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Don't worry, UK has priority over the EU, they're the 3rd greatest charitable contributor, somebody's got to fund the 3rd world distribution.
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When was that? The US bought it from Russia.
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@Red-Magic That's why they aren't having enough babies.
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"Out of context"?
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@fjosephgonzales6870 "Out of context" does not refer to every case of using a word improperly. It refers to lifting a quote in isolation from the context in which it was spoken or written in order to distort the speaker or writer's meaning, which would have been clearer in the context in which the speaker or writer placed it. You can take a quote out of context. You cannot take a WORD out of context, in the sense you are describing.
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@Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne Not me, it's the same situation as for astronauts, only not quite as bad. It is just as cheap to ship caviar as cornflakes. The shipping cost will be driven by bulk and weight, not quality. You might find Raman in the grocery store, it's light. I doubt that anybody bothers with balogna, it would be $14 for an equal amount to $15 of ham. For the extra dollar, I would get the ham. PB&J sounds good, but it would damage my psyche to buy the bread.
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@thomaskauffman96 The sun is up all summer, that's a growing season for many crops.
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No, Alaska is a state, like the rest. Guam is comparable to British colonies, no representation, Alaska is not. The "isolating" body is Canada! Juneau is closer to Seattle than Seattle is to Miami. Hawaii is not connected to the mainland, and is more distant from the closest point of the contiguous US than Alaska is.
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