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

  1. The irony that the US is one of the only developed countries not to have high speed rail today is not lost on anyone.
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  2. I must admit this is a channel where I didn't expect to find ignorance.
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  3. Lot of errors in this. The date is wrong, there are sections taken from entirely different film reels and there's even a duplicated section.
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  4. That was the war that invented them. In 1939 the Soviets were bombing towns and cities in Finland while the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov explained to the Soviet people that they were only dropping food parcels in Finland, the Finns sarcastically nicknamed the bombs "Moscow bread baskets" in response. When the land invasion of Finland began the locals fought back with bottles full of fuel and called them Molotov Cocktails which they said Vyacheslav could drink while he enjoyed a food parcel.
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  5. To alleviate her of her chronic hysteria.
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  6. There's that American arrogance we love so much.
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  7.  @raahehaq263  Half of the inventors mentioned in the movie were not American, it wasn't about American inventions, it was about the rapid change in lifestyle.
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  8. No, he didn't.
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  9. Not in Europe, both the UK and Germany had working systems in the 30's, the Nazis even broadcast the 1936 Olympics, it was the first televised Olympics.
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  10.  @statelyelms  Yep, moving at around 120mph (193kmh) would mean the flames being blown off the engine would eat along the length of the plane in a matter of seconds.
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  11. He wasn't, he simply made it practical for commercial use as the one thing DC could do that AC could not was drive a motor. Tesla solved this by inventing the AC motor.
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  12. Nah, every point is still valid. Tracks are still a weak spot, tankers are blind if they have to button down the hatches, you can still shoot out periscopes and if you get a Molotov cocktail hit on the radiator intake you will overheat the engine and stall the tank. The only things that have changed are rifle grenades being replaced by shoulder launched AT missile launchers like the Javelin or NLAW, which are a lot more cumbersome to carry.
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  13.  @GoSlash27  Nonsense. No living thing will ever be as precise as a machine and precision is one of the ingredients in safety.
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  14. 1000 times more than any other country though. Except maybe Germany.
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  15. WW2 was in the middle of the platinum era of comic book readership in the US, every male older than 8 read comic books. In fact this narrator, Dick Purcell, was the first person to portray Captain America on screen.
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  16.  @uploadJ  You can safely bury cables up to 33kV as we do that all over Europe, you can see power lines atop towers if you go to the edge of the city where the juice enters town, but once inside town it's all underground where it can't kill anyone.
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  17. By consistently offending people obviously.
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  18. The original Captain America, Dick Purcell.
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  19.  @theothertonydutch  It's good to know that if you were in such a position that you would rather be killed than try to survive, for a minute there I thought you were just another nobody on the internet.
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  20. This wasn't for troops, this was for the folks in Germany.
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  21.  @vaxrvaxr  Even if they were saw by military enthusiasts it would make no difference, who in 40's Germany would be familiar with a plywood glider and it's operation?
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  22. In the 1950's there were no electron microscopes so why you would get what you got when combining two metals was theoretical at best until we could look directly at the molecular structure of the new material to figure out why it did what it did.
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  23.  @ez_company9325  I'm assuming you are being sarcastic...
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  24. The US only leads the world in two things - the world's largest economy and the world's largest military. They are overshadowed by western European nations and Korea and Japan in most other things.
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  25. I've only heard Americans omit the L for some reason.
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  26. Of course there was, are you saying the Americans will be returning to Afghanistan? Because it's been 50 years and they never returned to Vietnam. You don't always go back if you get your arse handed to you.
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  27. You can't really invent a type of electricity, you discover it. Edison championed DC electricity for commercial use and Tesla invented the AC motor that made AC useful for commercial use, allowing Westinghouse to win the US war of the currents. DC was discovered around 3,000 years ago by the Egyptians who would utilise electric catfish in experiments. AC was discovered by Hippolyte Pixie in 1832 who wondered what would happen if a DC generator created by Michael Faraday had it's polarity reversed at rapid intervals.
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  28. "Granpa, why do you have a battered old frying pan mounted on the wall?" "Well, I didn't like the feel of knives and clubs."
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  29.  @keithmoore5306  True, by the time the V2 came on the scene it's primary launch site in Peenemünde was just a few months away from liberation.
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  30. In those days 90% of your training would probably be using nothing but blades (unless you were an archer), whereas today you only get a few days training in hand-to-hand since if you have let your enemy get close enough to spike you then you've failed all your other training. So I imagine Romans would have been damned proficient at emptying someone's guts with a bladed weapon.
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  31.  @RandomDudeOne  And yet that wasn't the case.
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  32. The Van Allen belts are harmless unless you sit inside one for a prolonged period and no astronaut or cosmonaut ever has, the guys who went to the moon were in and then out of the belts within a matter of minutes.
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  33.  @DrunkenDish  Wrong. That was Hippolyte Pixie. Westinghouse just sold AC in the US using Siemens machinery imported from Europe because at the world expo in Paris he saw that the AC system was far superior to the DC system Edison was selling and he saw a business opportunity.
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  34. Nice display of ignorance from an armchair idiot there.
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  35. Entitled white people bitching about free videos since time immemorial.
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  36. If your country was a welfare state you wouldn't have homelessness levels that match that of a developing country.
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  37. Invention requires a certain level of freedom and freedom is a relatively new concept to humans that has only been around for about 500 years and only really been in full spring for the past 200 years. Before that humans were controlled by Kings, Tsars, Caliphs and Bishops and these kinds of men feared anyone who could challenge them so education was almost unheard of and anyone who was considered a "wise man" was killed, imprisoned or forced to work for the ruler.
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  38. Telephone was Scottish, skid.
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  39. Being banned by YouTube does not validate your credibility, it just proves you are either a liar or a loon. By your logic David Eike must speak the gospel as he has been banned from YouTube and he believes the Earth is ruled by a race of lizards led by Queen Elizabeth II...
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  40. That title is crying out for some punctuation.
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  41. This was made at some point in the 1940's, if it had been made in 1910 there would have been no sound.
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  42.  @steviewonder7495  And told Alexander Fleming that the mold in his sink could kill any infection.
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