Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. It amuses me that we still generate electricity from induction derived by the movement of a fluid through a turbine after 150 years of doing so but I suppose occasionally when looking for a breakthrough people sometimes stumble on the most efficient method first.
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  2.  @DarkElfDiva  Joe hit the nail on the head when he said that the Victorian era was a transitional phase from the old to the new, people often remark that their life today is very different to their childhood due to the changes we have witnessed over the past 20, 40 or 80 years but imagine being alive in the Victorian era? They literally went from a world governed by superstition to one governed by science and saw the rise of engineering, electricity, hygiene and medicine. Being born in 1830 and dying in 1900 you would have watched everything you had ever known be replaced by things that would have been utterly alien to your parents.
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  3. Or cover an elephant in crazy glue and roll it around a barbershop floor?
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  4. That's like the cryonics episode of Star Trek TNG where they find 3 folks who were frozen back in our time and one of them is a jackass who witters on about money and stocks and how he's gonna sue Picard if he can't get put through to his lawyer.
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  5. Laika's capsule was one of many Russian spacecraft to eventually land in China, albeit after enduring the 3,000 degree temperature of re-entry and then bursting into flames when it hit the ground. It is said that when those first Chinese folk opened the capsule they found the aroma inside it to be irresistible and Chinese cuisine was changed forever.
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  6. Not scary in the slightest if you aren't a criminal.
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  7.  @erinbsullivan444  Psychopaths are not stupid, they know what punishment is and they don't want to be punished so by that very definition they strive to be good just like the rest of us but they often fail at it because they are wired to take what they desire and their desires are stronger. A high functioning psychopath on the other hand might have no intention of being good because they know how to get around the system, Patrick Bateman from American Pscho and the serial killer Ted bundy are examples of high functioning psychopaths. The big difference between good people and good psychopaths are that the former are good due to compassion while the latter are good due to fear of consequences.
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  8. There is nothing merciful about cutting a creatures throat and letting it bleed to death unless mercy means a different thing in your culture. I would take a bolt to the forehead if the alternative was choking and gasping on my own escaping blood.
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  9.  @mattperrin8372  There are hard core conspiracy theorists who believe in the nonsense they peddle, but I believe the majority of the "this is fake" commenters on videos really are just trolling - on the internet it is 'hip and trendy' to hop on a bandwagon and become part of the cool crowd by parroting what others say. Cabbages enjoy the company of fellow cabbages...
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  10. There was still a lot of upheaval at the millennium, it just wasn't as infrastructure killing as people thought it would be. The French being the most nuclear-reliant country on the planet took Y2K very seriously and were eradicating it from infrastructure as early as 1990.
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  11.  @martiddy  Still no f**king hoverboards, Doc...
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  12. But we still benefit from having it, that is the point you are missing. If we do not initiate something then it doesn't come about.
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  13.  @chopinbloc  Then you are clearly well programmed already.
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  14.  Kelly Smunt  Lefty types? Last I checked the left were liberal and it was the right who were conservative church-goers, correct me if they've changed the definition...
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  15. Well the breaking off of ice sheets is known as calving in English so that fits. All ice is just alien cows!
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  16.  @sambmackenzie  "Professor Klang, how long before we leave the third planet and return home to Mars? It's just that one of my research assistants was eating on the surface and they screwed up, they might have contaminated the planet. They were eating a bowl of primordial soup and it slid off their knee."
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  17. I remember something like "Y2KY Jelly - Because 4 digits are better than 2!"
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  18. In China if your company screws up you get the death penalty, and not after 15 years, they just take you outside after your trial and shoot you, or put you to sleep in a death van. It hasn't made their company's safer because people who earn a million dollars a year will still cut as many corners as they need in order to keep hold of that job, it's a case of "If you don't do it then the board will hire someone who will".
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  19. "Correct. But which of them will bounce?"
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  20. "I'll have the 7 ounce rump synthsteak and my dad will have the mixed grill, don't scrimp on the snythsausages!"
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  21. Did you even watch the video?
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  22.  @SofaKingShit  My next door neighbour got one of his arms degloved while working in a bakery, he tried to rearrange a tray of buns in an automated oven when the extremely hot tray above that one moved down on to his arm and pulled it inwards. When the tray released his arm it was still attached at the shoulder but all the skin that was previously on it was stuck to the bottom of the tray. He got a six-figure sum from the bakery but his arm looks like a prop from Frankenstein now.
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  23. Not to mention defeating the Nazis, I don't think there were any English speakers anywhere near Berlin when Hitler popped his clogs.
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  24. Nah, that is still because a flu shot is an actual shot of the flu. It's expected for people to become mildly ill after a vaccination because you have just been infected by a neutered version of a bacteria or virus.
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  25. Have you any wisdom for us, Elder Zonday?
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  26. In China they have giant machines like robotic-trucks that lay chunks of road and railtrack in 20 metre long pre-made segments, it's allowed them to construct tens of thousands of miles of new infrastructure in just a decade.
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  27.  @ryanisacuc8381  Talk about paranoid.
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  28. To get noticed straight off the bat, Tesla did the same with the original Roadster.
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  29. I'm glad a company is cracking down on unions, they are everywhere, even when I say "No unions" they still put them in my burger.
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  30.  @dadsytsdfsgs  The power you put back into the grid doesn't literally go into the grid it just goes into the nearest distribution substation to be fed back to those in your locale who need it, meaning the transformer that is connected to the grid can pull less power from it.
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  31. If your job was making fridges and everyone had one, who would you sell fridges to?
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  32.  @macdaddydelicious6834  How can he show an example of a system that has never been implemented successfully?
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  33. A parsnip isn't a unit of distance, it's a vegetable. Everyone knows that.
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  34. New York to Paris in two hours? More like New York to Sydney in two hours, this thing is closer to an ICBM than a Concorde.
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  35. Bring back dire wolves to keep the sabertooth cats company then.
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  36. Too much dark matter in the way.
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  37. Because they know that capitalism isn't sustainable forever due to automation and employment being mutually exclusive and because they know that social instability in capitalist nations comes from those at the bottom of the pyramid who are either unemployed, have insecure jobs or are paid a pittance to work long hours. When car plants that employ 6,000 people to make 100 cars each day become plants that employ 100 people to make 6,000 cars each day those other 5,900 people are going to need food and shelter which they can no longer pay for. This is when you have to choose between that evil socialism that must be the spawn of Satan himself (pfft, socialism **spit**) or watch society fall apart as the masses of low-skilled peasants bay for the blood of the bourgeoisie and their masters up in their ivory towers.
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  38. "So, that was 15 things you can do with a dead cat, now I'd like to talk about Brilliant..."
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  39.  @kristianwilliams441  Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads, fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!
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  40.  @martinm1231  That is the first thing they will be thinking after watching such movies, Martin!
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  41. This is why we need a colony on Mars at the earliest opportunity, at the moment we have all of our eggs in the proverbial single basket.
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  42. It was so they could get their hands on Shirō Ishii's research, seemingly committing atrocities can be overlooked if Uncle Sam stands to gain something. Similar to how Operation Paperclip saved a lot of Nazis from the Nuremberg Trials.
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  43. It would likely be a store room. The multitude of warnings and the number 13 would all just be a joke among the faculty.
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  44. You are a Joe virgin? how is that possible? We thought we had converted the entire world to Joe's teachings!
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  45. FirstRisingSoul, you should have told NASA that at the beginning dude, you could have saved them millions with your superior knowledge of their professions. All that money wasted by a bunch of idiots who put us on the moon.
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  46. I have a vegan recipe that requires only a large pot and a small vegan.
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  47. I imagine at some point you could buy a little physicians kit for your little ones complete with little jars of bodily fluids and an assortment of blunt saws.
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  48. Yeah, but the scene was in Blade Runner 2049 which is set in 2049.
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  49.  @eugenemartone7023  Heisenberg is still under house arrest for messing up the last guy.
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  50. Well he only dodged it in this world, there's another world where his cousin often wakes covered in sweat and for a moment thinks that it is brain..
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