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

  1. More than likely German work ethics in not growing complacent and letting their ship's maintenance routines slip, Germans being very efficient at whatever they set their mind to is a stereotype for a reason. I imagine other crews kind of gave up on the thought of getting the ships out someday and instead knew they would just be flown off, whereas the Germans took their duty seriously and kept their ships in tip-top condition.
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  2. Probably felt that anyone plucky enough to attack a steel-hulled, steam-driven warship in a little wooden yacht deserved to live, they deserve to be able to tell their grandchildren that story.
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  3. Yeah, it wouldn't be infinite, but it would be a horrendously massive number. You would have to settle on a solid metric no smaller than 1 meter or else all of the tiny little ins and outs and jaggy edges of the coastline would mean you'd have recorded about 1km of coastline before you were even 100 meters from where you started and the UK would end up with more coastline than Canada currently has using a 5km metric. If you were daft enough to use something like 5mm as a metric Britain's coastline would be a journey to the Moon and back.
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  4.  @thesheckels9309  No, it would be smart to contain it, which is why we seal nuclear waste in concrete and bury it away from water sources. This is the plan with Chernobyl, the reactor will be dismantled and sealed into casks and then stored until it can be processed in another reactor as fuel.
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  5. If something increases exponentially it is fair to say it approaches infinity. Technically just going from 1 to 2 would be approaching infinity.
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  6.  @ansmerek  An amount that was agreed when east and west were always seconds away from blowing each other to bits. The cold war is over and some countries don't share America's doctrine of "war comes before all else".
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  7. Fukushima isn't even remotely as bad, the only reason they are both a 7 on the INES scale is because 7 is as high as it goes and both fulfill the criteria of a large radiation release, however if the scale went up to 15 Chernobyl would get there and Fukushima would stay at 7.
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  8.  @gck82s  Can you spread any more nonsense? Getting radiation out of a fluid is simple, you put the fluid through a neutron absorbing material, they have to do it to the coolant every time they decommission a NPP. And Fukushima is nowhere remotely as bad as Chernobyl, man, when you prats aren't lying about it flowing into the sea you are complaining that they are capturing and storing it - people can't win.
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  9. Or just a credit card.
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  10. No it won't, you think people will wait 100 years and just standby watching something fall apart? There are already bridges designed to flex and stretch with Earthquakes and bridges and tunnels that get adjusted every 5 or 10 years to accommodate shrinkage or stretching. You don't give enough credit to the intelligence of your species.
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  11. He didn't leave you out you muppet, he was explaining what the map would become if only distances of 100km were taken in to account. Listen to videos and try to understand them.
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  12.  @centralintelligenceagency9003  Where did anyone say there have been only two accidents? You are seeing or hearing things, mate.
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  13. Spoken like a Daily Mail reader.
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  14. Only outside the US would her family have to pay for her recovery? In most developed nations healthcare is free.
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  15. You've seen ONE other video of people inside the sarcophagus and have we seen either of those two idiots since they made that video in 2016? no, they probably skipped work on the NSC one day to stay at home and turn into a puddle.
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  16.  @jackfanning7952  The science would suggest otherwise since most of the world's second generation reactors already use fuel that has been through first generation reactors and considered spent.
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  17. Still far cheaper than just about anything else, these days they include the decommissioning cost in the initial price as it is an IAEA regulation. So 20 billion up front and then for the next 40 years you collect monthly electricity bills from four million households (two million per reactor), I just did a quick calculation using my monthly bill of 34 quid and got a total of 70 billion. 50 billion pound profit.
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  18. *stranded
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  19. Kpatel, because 28 days in a car is more efficient than 27 hours in a jumbo jet? Way to be irrelevant.
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  20.  @omggom2488  Nope, British.
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  21. Darth_Turtle has a crystal ball, he uses it to see the future.
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  22. Anyone over the age of 10.
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  23. Well evidently Zanzibar did beat them by 42 days.
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  24. 33,000 feet is 10km or 6.25 miles. 😲
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  25. And? That proves nothing.
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  26. No it isn't, but it does mean you will get very ill.
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  27. They named the first confinement "Shelter Structure", it was the western media that first called it a sarcophagus and it stuck.
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  28. Different aggressor each time.
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  29.  @striker865  Like protecting a killer rather than extraditing them to face justice?
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  30. We've got six of these magnets at CERN, we don't need them, we just keep building them because we know US laboratories like them. They are kept in a broom closet with the paper towels.
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  31. Those Americans have annexed half of Canada! The rascals!
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  32. You're 125 years old?
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  33. I'm not American and even I know that Fermilab is one of the biggest and most prestigious labs in the US, it has the largest particle accelerators in the Americas and it's buildings have featured in half of the American sci-fi movies of the 80's like Space Camp and D.A.R.Y.L.
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  34. We had to throw away milk for a few months after the accident as cows were munching on fallout and we had to wait for the radiation to go through their system, then we had to test animals everywhere to see if they were safe to eat still. Which they were. We got off pretty lightly compared to the countries directly north-west of the Ukraine like Belarus, Poland and Sweden/Finland, oh and the Baltic states in between.
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  35. Oooh, so it's just lack of roads that is holding them back is it? Why is Trump bothering with a wall, he can just dig up the few roads that connect Mexico to the US and problem solved!
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  36. Macau too? I thought the Portuguese drove on the right?
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  37. Nah, first thing they do in an accident is stop the meltdown to safeguard the water table.
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  38. Any non-socialist country has medical bills, Czechoslovakia was socialist but she also wasn't from there and her own country of Yugoslavia and her airline refused to pay so that left Czechoslovakia with the bill, which they did pay in the end. Her family paid what they could but it was peanuts compared to the total and so the rest was written off.
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  39. Why would there need to be gas stations on water? That wasn't sarcasm, it was just a silly comment.
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  40. It is colloquially known as the Chunnel thanks to 90's tabloids.
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  41. It's an electromagnet, it has no magnetic field without power.
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  42. If I'm not mistaken Ireland was a part of the empire until 1922 and 1896 is before 1922...
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  43. She wasn't from Czechoslovakia and a bill like hers would be huge, even a socialist country draws the line at health tourism and will either ask you for payment or they will invoice your home country.
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  44. The moon has been uninhabited for eternity yet it has still had people on it.
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  45. The metric system isn't used for altitude.
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  46.  @LeNumidium  According to Wikipedia only China and North Korea use metric for altitude, Russia used it until 2017 before switching to feet. No mention of the French using it anywhere, are you a pilot?
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  47. Ordered obviously, which is what a call up is, your commanding officer doesn't ask you if you want to go on a tour of duty...
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  48. Doesn't matter where it 'burst', it was a gun-type bomb and thus very inefficient, if I recall correctly the amount of material that reacted was something like 17% of what it contained meaning the vast majority of the naughty stuff simply got blown to smithers and eens and sprinkled across a large area.
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  49. We Brits knew that not all Germans were Nazis but between 1939 and 1950 we didn't care, ask anyone alive at that time and they would have happily watched any German burn to death. Between 1914 and 1918 we lost an entire generation of sons and husbands to that nation and so what did they do one generation later? They killed another generation of our sons and husbands. It's easy (and naive, and immature) to judge something when you are neither British nor living in the 1940's.
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  50. The smaller your measurement the larger the result. The edge of a brick might be 3 inches but look at it very closely and it's not flat, it goes all over the place meaning a more accurate measurement would put that edge at more than 3 inches. Now if you look at that edge under a microscope it is no longer even a straight line, it's a jaggy surface of mountains and valleys and measuring up and over or down in to each and every one of them would give you a distance of many yards, zoom in even further and you would effectively be measuring the distance from where you are to the next city by individually measuring every branch, twig or leaf on every tree that gets in your way and you'd have a line that would have a hundred zero's in it's length. A distance of just 30km would seem like thousands.
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