Comments by "kd1s" (@kd1s) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Sort of like here in Providence RI - we'd been seeing red tide, fish kills etc. Then they decided to build 4 miles worth of sewage storage tunnels under the city. That stopped all of the bad effects in Narragansett Bay.
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  2. I recall two songs from the 1980's 99 Red Balloons and Do the Russians Love Their Children. Now I know why those songs came about.
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  3. One more thing - illiteracy was rampant back then. And Christians took full advantage of that fact.
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  4. Well crime was caused by both despair and lead poisoning. And as to power - they could have buried 99.999% of the cables and avoided the lightning problem - but the profit motive prevented that ever happening.
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  5. When you think about it WW II is when most of the major technological changes happened. Plus it got farmed out all over the U.S. to make the munitions and vehicles. Another major government program was NASA's Apollo - pretty much every state contributed to that mission.
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  6. Down here in the Atlanta region I do like how they do roadway marking, warnings etc. Take I-75/I-85 and I-20. They actually have big symbols painted in the lanes indicating what highway you'll be traveling depending upon the lane you're in. Very nice. But confusion still reigns. Plus I love the use of reflectors in the roadway plus the usage of warning signs that there's a stop sign or signal somewhat ahead. Very nice too.
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  7. One my dad had was an international harvester Scout.. I believe n it was a 1979.
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  8. If you want a very deep dive I suggest you do Bell System history. It's a fascinating one from about the 1920's to the 1950's.
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  9. The most I know of NOAA is it's National Weather Service. Just tune up 162.400MHz on my amateur radio handheld and I can get weather info.
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  10. Got to wonder why we never learned this in school.
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  11. I had an epiphany the other day. We were talking about why recycling isn't used much. I explained about the different types of plastic containers and then it hit me - you could either leave the bar code label on it or use OCR to see the plastic type that's supposed to be stamped on the container. Then sort based upon that. But until the process to recycle is less expensive than creating new plastics I'm afraid that would be moot.
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  12. We had a bit of flooding in Rhode Island back in 2010. Down near me the entirety of the valley section of the city of Providence was flooded out. It was a week solid of rain that did that - to the point the Scituate Reservoir the cities main water supply sent water into it's spillways. Those spillways connected to the Woonasquatucket River which flows right through the Valley section of Providence. Plus western Cranston - where the water on houses was up to the roof line.
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  13. I remember that incident. And yeah know a lot of police aren't the sharpest crayons in the box.
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  14. Interestingly I read Mary Beard's "S.P.Q.R." It stands for Senatus Populous Que Romanus.
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  15. The inventions that created our modern day time are incredible. The vacuum tube of course, but the transitor which beget the integrated circuit or iC, then of course there's Claude Shannon here's a guy who came up with Information Theory and then rested on his laurels. Plus information theory became information science which I have my B.Sc. in.
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  16. It plays much the same in Rhode Island. At one point the city of Providence spanned from the eastern border of the Atlantic to the Connecticut line. Now of course there' North Providence, East Providence too. And Cranston, Johnston et al.
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  17. What's more interesting is what station wagons became were SUVs
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  18. I wonder if you have a video on SAGE or Semi-Automatic Ground Environment?
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