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

  1. I know, her parents are legends for creating such a beauty!
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  2. Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H Came out in 1970 also and was much larger than the Garret engine.
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  3. These sorts of comments amuse me, you do know that if an amateur journalist can work out the protocol for a specific event then an enemy state would already know it? And have their own version? This is like those comments I see on videos about stealth aircraft where someone says "JUST TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THAT OUR SUPER JETS ARE INVISIBLE!". The world already knows.... You would have a valid point if this video stated exactly where keycards were kept or how long they last, but it doesn't. It simply states that the US has a similar system that most other developed nations have.
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  4. Amazing and destructive in equal measure.
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  5.  @kenjsr1  You are not hosting a TV show though, someone fronting a show that could be seen by millions should do better. Let's have Brits start referring to the US as California and see how long you can go without feeling the need to become 'irritating' by correcting us.
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  6.  @NmpK24  Trump won't wreck America, he won't do anything positive for it but the country will go on. Britain is going to go down the pan thanks to Brexit voters and the delusion that we'll get better trade deals without the enormous clout of the EU behind us.
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  7.  @theotherside931  So you did understand the basis of his comment, you were just pretending to be ignorant?
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  8. "I'll read it again, Mr. President. My challenge code is Bravo Epsilon." "Cofeve!" "Let's try that again, Mr. President."
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  9. Both have pros, both have cons.
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  10. Legendary bigots too.
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  11. Where? In the UK beer is ice cold.
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  12. The preferred term is host or presenter, a narrator is someone that never appears on screen, they only narrate.
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  13.  @chazbaz4519  Actually all but two nuclear plants in the UK have cooling towers because you cannot put seawater near metal or it will corrode, freshwater is fine and this is why Chernobyl had no cooling towers, it used the nearby lake. The plants in the UK that don't have cooling towers use seawater but instead of passing the seawater through the cooling loop it just enters a large pool that the cooling loop sits in - like an underwater radiator. Jellyfish must love the heat from it because every couple of years one of the plants will overheat because the inlet to the pool is clogged with jellyfish.
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  14. Missing out on the biggies, eh? John Logie Baird for TV, Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone, Robert Watson Watt for RADAR (and the magnetron that powers it), and that's just from Scotland alone...
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  15. Didn't have to throw in the racist stuff, Timmy. It's not 1818.
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  16. We likely won't have quantum-based laptops as quantum will never replace binary, but we will have laptops with a quantum processor alongside the main processor, just like an FPU, but whereas the FPU is part of the CPU a 'QPU' would likely be some sort of expansion card or board containing the cryothermic system necessary for it's operation.
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  17. I am blue da ba dee, I am blue L E D..
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  18.  @wildwizard8884  Sorry to break it to ya but a second use of the word coincidence is when someone wants to point out two things that coincided, so his use was correct.
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  19. The majority of satellites that break down eventually fall into the atmosphere and burn up.
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  20. They are ballistic missiles, it's not fuel that gets them to their target, it is the trajectory they were on when their engines cut out. ICBMs and SLBMs are just rockets designed to go up into space but fall back down to Earth, if you want to hit something 3,000 miles away you calculate the ballistic arc needed to make something go up and then fall back down and then the rocket stage of the weapon just has to burn sufficiently long enough for the weapon to achieve that arc, usually just the first 10 minutes of the journey since by that time the rocket would be in such low gravity that it could travel quite some distance before gravity brings it back down to Earth.. The alternative is a cruise missile, they do need to burn fuel for the entire duration of their journey and that's why most use jet engines instead of rockets, as you can't burn a rocket for a long period. A bit of trivia for you: Nazi Germany invented both the ballistic missile and the cruise missile, they used both against the UK in WW2 - The V1 was a jet-powered missile that travelled horizontally at a set altitude before falling onto it's target, the V2 was a rocket-powered missile that travelled vertically on a ballistic arc that meant it went straight up and then came straight back down, reaching it's target thanks to a very short spell at the edge of space.
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  21. You can say the same of supercomputers because neither do we try to predict weather systems or try to invent new disease-curing proteins in our daily lives.
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  22. Obviously you cannot call a missile back but there is a protocol in place that allows the same folks who launched the missile to abort it and detonate a conventional explosive on board the missile which would mean it disintegrates before it gets near it's target.
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  23. Spying, communications, television, global positioning, map topography, a whole host of reasons.
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  24. Well the video said IBM.
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  25. Would take ages, even at the speed of light it would take a second or two to bounce a signal off a satellite and that is why satellite link ups on the news always have a delay, that delay would make most internet activities like gaming, face-timing and stock brokering a lot less fun.
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  26.  @TheLucanicLord  Nonsense.
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  27. No we didn't.
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  28. Grow up!
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  29. Ask ChatGPT to do that when there's no internet access.
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  30.  @wildwizard8884  It wasn't politics, the system was impossible at the time, and is still immensely impractical today.
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  31. What on Earth do you think supercomputers and quantum computers do? Educate yourself!
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  32. Not if everyone on the server is on the same island/continent. but yeah, any time you play anyone that is on another landmass then it's through a submarine cable.
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  33. Why did they build it in the UK then?
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  34.  @pedrorita-pereira  Shut up, imbecile.
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  35. Up in space.
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  36. Got killed by ten million tubes from New York and New Jersey.
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  37. Nope, our brains are binary, neurons either fire or they don't fire, there's no superstate.
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  38. Obviously satellites...
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  39. No, not even remotely close. A single strand of silk is not a web.
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  40. Capitalism isn't sustainable though. It used to take 10 people to make 1 car, now with automation 10 people can make 100 cars, within 30 years factories will make 1000 cars without anyone. Let's see your billionaire heroes agree to pay you 15 bucks an hour when a one-off payment can replace you with something that doesn't make mistakes and doesn't require breaks. Like it or not one day the US will have universal welfare or it will degenerate in to the chaotic dystopia of mass unemployment that every future-based movie predicts it will. Switzerland is already considering a blanket monthly payment for every adult male and female regardless of whether they have a job with the stipulation that it is just sufficient to live on, if you want more money you get a job. The rest of us European socialists are keeping our eye on it as it might be the answer to the inevitable automation crisis.
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  41.  @siinxx7656  It's just a figure of speech, my old china!
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  42. The EU wants to cooperate with China but the US makes it difficult with sanctions and trade threats.
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  43. I don't condone theft but I much prefer poor people stealing from the rich (as it is in the slums of undeveloped nations) than the rich stealing from the poor (as it is in most developed nations).
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