Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Sideprojects" channel.

  1. The biggest reason that Moldova is likely to cease to exist isn't Transnistria separatists. It's eventual reunification with Romania. Moldova is an artificial nation created by Stalin to steal some of Romania's territory, after all. Half of the historical Moldavia is still in Romania, while the other half was stolen by the USSR and a propaganda out of Moscow declared that there was a separate Moldovan national identity and Moldovan language (even though the later is literally identical to Romanian, except that during the Soviet era it used the Cyrillic alphabet).
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  2.  @andromidius  There's also some Americans who go to North Korea to look down on the peasants.
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  3.  @Elainerulesutube  The IOC is to blame. The 2020 Olympics should've been delayed another year at least, if not cancelled entirely in favor of giving Tokyo the 2024 games (and thus pushing back Paris to 2028, Los Angeles to 2032, and Brisbane to 2036).
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  4. That's an interesting theory. Just imagine how mystifying it would be if a replica of an in-universe book (written in Elvish, with no translation guide) was the only surviving evidence of Tolkien's works.
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  5.  @horeageorgian7766  Moldavians were happy to be part of Romania until they were ripped away by Russia.
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  6. If BuOrd had been deliberately sabotaging the US Navy...they probably would've done a better job with the Mk XIV torpedo, because enemy agents would've felt the need to be subtle and avoid getting caught.
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  7. There'll always be some governments willing to subsidize those losses in pursuit of national prestige. See: Russia and China. And of course Qatar will probably bribe their way being an Olympic host at some point (and use slave labor to build the stadiums), resulting in the insanity of the Summer Olympics having to be held in winter because it's so fucking hot in Qatar. Just like they've done for next year's World Cup.
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  8.  @karnubawax  No, one could not in any way make such an argument. Ukraine has existed for over a thousand years.
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  9.  @charles-y2z6c  I'm sure that if you're old enough to have seen it, you were also outraged by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics.
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  10.  @djbeezy  Where did you morons come up with that "99.8% survival rate" bullshit?
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  11.  @djbeezy  No, it's called being wrong. Because your claims of a "99.8% survival rate" have zero basis in reality. The truth is that COVID-19 is about 10 times more lethal than you claim it is.
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  12. What if whoever created the simulation are themselves unknowingly the product of a simulation?
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  13. Mark 11 and 12 were used on surface ships. The Mark 13 was the air-dropped torpedo used in WW2. The Mark 15 was the surface ship version of the Mark 14. Since they were generally bigger than submarines and mounted their torpedo tubes externally on the deck, destroyers could carry somewhat larger torpedoes. The Mark 15 had the same 21 inch diameter, but was 3.5 feet longer and 800 pounds heavier than the Mark 14. While the Mark 14's range and speed settings were 4,500 yards at 46 knots and 9,000 yards at 31 knots, the Mark 15 had settings of 6,000 yards at 45 knots, 10,000 yards at 33.5 knots, and 15,000 yards at 26.5 knots. And yes, the Mark 15 had all of the same problems as the Mark 14. But destroyer crews were much slower to realize the problems, because surface engagements tended to be a lot more chaotic, and ambushing Japanese ships was less common than it was for the submarines. There was rarely any chance to observe the paths of each individual torpedo fired. Plus the longer range of destroyer torpedoes meant that it was harder to see whether a torpedo was a dud or if it simply missed. A large majority of torpedoes fired by surface ships missed, whereas submarines (since they were firing from ambush positions underwater) had much higher hit rates. This was true for every navy, not just the US Navy. So it was a matter of once the problems were solved in the Mark 14, the same fixes could then be applied to the Mark 15 since it used the same detonators.
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  14. @ Yes, when the USSR seized Moldova, it was the second time the region had been forced into Russian rule.
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  15. Regarding the pyramids of Egypt...not only were they ancient to Cleopatra, they were ancient to Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, and Ramesses II as well.
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  16.  @thatdude1435  Nope, the "99.8% survival rate" nonsense is proven completely wrong by precisely those official numbers from hospitals.
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  17.  @djbeezy  My "narrative" is the facts. You're simply saying "nuh-uh" to the facts.
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  18.  @djbeezy  The actual statistics for recovery vs death from COVID-19 in America shows a 2% death rate among those who get the virus.
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  19. The whole question of "what was before the Big Bang?" depends on there being any "before the Big Bang".
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  20. Calling Elon Musk an inventor is a stretch, given that he's only ever "invented" things that other people had already invented.
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