Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @norman4628  How do you explain dinosaur drawings and film today? Are dinosaurs alive today? Your logic suggests they are.
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  2.  @charlesmadison1384  Not sure where you get that it refers to a flood. By definition, it refers to any natural, large-scale, violent event.
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  3. $200 million is a few trucks the way it’s priced. The US and UK have donated tens of BILLIONS. Also, NATO pays for most of Estonia’s weapons. Estonia spends just 2.3% of its GDP on defense. The US spends 3.4% on its own defense, then billions more to defend YOU.
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  4. The UN has nothing to do with this.
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  5. Most of the weapons are donated by NATO member states, through Brussels, coordinating who gives what.
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  6. This demonstrates clearly the duality of Eastern European countries. On the one hand, they want to be like Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc. and on the other, they have cultures and a way of thinking that simply isn’t compatible with those values. They use the EU solely as a source of money and do not - cannot subscribe to the ethical values. Ukraine, for decades, voted to stay out of the EU and NATO, choosing to be friends with their Russian brothers. They were warned, repeatedly, of what may, and will eventually come. They CHOSE not to accept themselves as a part of the Western family, even when other Eastern European nations did. Now when the predictions have arrived, they call the West… the only ones keeping them alive, “cowards”. Why? Ukraine did this to itself. Ukraine chose this for itself. Ukraine isn’t alone though… the domestic policies of Poland, Hungary, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania are also at odds with the ethics valued by the EU. These countries are only in the union fir their own benefit, not the benefit of the whole. To be fair, they’re not at odds with just the EU, but Western Europe as a whole, as well as Canada, the United States and other progressive nations.
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  7.  @Marco_Polo790  The UK has 227 Challenger II tanks in operational status with additional 22 in use for training.
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  8.  @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258  The M1A1 is absolutely NOT on for Ukraine. The US has no A1 variants left. All have been upgraded to A2. Furthermore, the tank IS too heavy for Ukraine, it IS too difficult to maintain, it DOES consume a lot of fuel, but most of all, that fuel is jet fuel, not Diesel oil. It will run on any fuel in an emergency, but for prolonged use you need jet fuel. That’s not readily available in Ukraine. The issue of weight is misunderstood often. Ukrainian bridges won’t support it and Russian/European pontoon bridges wont support it. Ukraine also has no wreckers to lift or tow the Abrams’ weight, so once it breaks down or runs off the road into a ditch, it’s done for. That’s useless.
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  9.  @Thinkingaroundthebox  WTF are you talking about? The latest model is the M1A2sepv3 and it uses the same multi-fuel turbine engine as the older models. You must be thinking of the proposed future tank project AbramsX which is supposedly being designed with a Diesel-Electric engine, which will blow away the turbine. It’s not a ready tank though, just a technology demonstrator.
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  10. No one’s happy to stand by and watch, but the Russian nuclear option adds an AK-47 on the bully’s back. Do we hit the bully and hope he doesn’t go on a shooting rampage, killing everyone in sight? There’s also the issue of that kid who’s being beaten repeatedly choosing to stand by the bully, despite being offered protection and being warned.
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  11.  @yurakolesnikov9725  They’re killing orks, very handily. Lots of recent videos of them in action on YT.
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  12.  @asherloat8570  That’s false.
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  13.  @zcrib3  Why by population? Also, all of Estonia’s military aid so far is coming from the US sending Estonia the aid. The US alone provided $180 million in military aid to the Baltic states in 2022. That’s $10 million more than in 2021. Despite that, the US has spent over $100 billion in military aid to Ukraine over the last few years.
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  14. It’s difficult to find a fossil that correlates to any one quick event in Earth’s history.
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  15.  @sollte1239  It’s not an issue of being smart. It’s nearly impossible to do that in a wooded area. The drones are small, quick, quiet and hard to see once they get fairly low, and with an operational radius of a couple of miles, you’ll never find the operator. The only defense against drones is to jam their frequencies.
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  16. The nice thing is that the US Army can provide depot-level maintenance in Poland as Poland is already buying Abrams M1A2sepv2. It’ll be good training for US and Polish maintainers. The difficult part is that they’ll need JP, which Ukraine can’t provide, 100T wreckers, and heavy pontoon bridges. Otherwise the Abrams is simply too heavy for existing infrastructure.
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  17.  @deadboy3646  The Hiawatha crater’s age is still completely unknown. It’s thought that it possibly could have happened within the last 100,000 years, possibly as recently as 12,500 years ago, but also possibly much, much earlier. There is an issue of faulty scientific thinking at play the team of geologists that found it were looking to find why there was a sudden climatic change about 13,000 years ago (Younger Dryas), so there’s a bit of a confirmation bias involved. The evidence collected was inconclusive and it’s a difficult place to do research as the area is cold, extremely remote, and the crater is below a moving glacier. Jay Melosh, an impact crater expert from Purdue Univ. believes the crater dates back much further. The LC-130 ANG unit in Scotia, NY has been flying over it with various ice-penetrating radars, trying to map it at least, but what they need to date it is soil core samples, which are just too deep under the ice for us to obtain right now.
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  18. I think it’s funny how unintelligent you are. I guess we’re both amused.
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  19. Birds are dinosaurs, so we know for a fact that many species weren’t wiped out. Many reptile, fish, invertebrates and mammals didn’t die out either.
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  20.  @antiminer2422  Actually… Sikorskiy was ethnically Russian, born in Kyiv to a staunchly Russian nationalist father. Here’s an excerpt from Wiki (with citations): “Igor Sikorsky was an Orthodox Christian.[16] When questioned regarding his roots, he would answer: "My family is of Russian origin. My grandfather and other ancestors from the time of Peter the Great were Russian Orthodox priests."[3]” He went to school in St Petersburg, then Paris, then enrolled in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1907. He then fled from the Communists in 1918.
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  21.  @user-g5xnx7gjqb  The Rus-Varangians weren’t Russian. They were Swedish Vikings. Russia didn’t exist until after the Mongol invasion when the Dutchy of Moscow separated due to the break up of Kyiv. Kyiv existed for centuries before Russia existed.
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  22.  @eioclementi1355  Yes, if you can’t maintain them, they’re pointless.
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  23.  @kevinfidler6287  One only needs to see which aircraft is used as presidential transport in the US to understand the reliability and capability of these helicopters.
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  24. No, but but the logistics burdens would be equal, for very little impact. Those tanks are outdated. They have no thermal vision, no modern fire control systems and 105mm cannons. Ukraine still has plenty of Ts that can do all that. What they need are superior tanks that can score the first hit, every time, and bring their crews home. If ever their stocks if T-55s, T-64s and T-72s fall, the US can send M60s.
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  25. No one said it was.
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  26. Was it formed in one day? We don’t even know how it was formed yet. There are multiple theories still at play.
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  27. Yes, but it’s now getting Germany to allow sending Leo2 tanks from Poland and Finland. Sweden is considering sending too. That will be closer to 100 to start.
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  28.  @McTeerZor  The Sea King easily surpasses 100kts in operation. It tops out at 140kts.
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  29. That’s not confidence. That’s arrogance. Confident people still have empathy.
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  30. Eh… I would claim that physicists and mathematicians hold that title.
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  31. Crocodiles are only 55 million years old as a species.
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  32. We don’t know that for sure yet, and one might argue that our planet wasn’t formed before that impact anyway (if it did occur).
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  33.  @asherloat8570  Nothing is definite… until it’s proven. That is a huge condition.
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  34. Oh yeah? Two asteroids and two volcanic eruptions? Would love to read about that! You want to give us the source of that info?
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  35.  @BobSacamano666 Except Israel isn’t a colonial occupation.
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  36. Are you serious? Have you never studied any science at all?
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  37.  @huntergatherer7796  All of them are multi-fuel in terms of “can run”, but if you run them on an alternative fuel they produce less power, experience more degradation and require more routine and critical maintenance. In other words, they can run on other fuels in an emergency, short-term, but will then need a breakdown, very similar to how high performance cars can run on lower octane fuel, but will develop knocking. The Challenger II and Leopard II are also technically “multi-fuel.”
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  38. It’s a fossil, not actual skin.
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  39.  @zcrib3  Contributed by the population or by the government? As private citizens, Americans outspend the rest of the world combined, per capita, in charitable donations. No other nation has contributed nearly as much as Americans have, on individual basis. Government spending is public funds, not “the people”, which is why expenses like that are considered “per GDP” as that accounts for the wealth of the nation, not just quantity of individuals. Otherwise populous, but poor nations like India or Bangladesh would never be able to contribute anything of value. Quite apparently the education system is better here than in Estonia.
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  40.  @roymaddocks3184  I agree completely. That said, it’s not short on resources. It’s short on resources Ukrainians can actually use. We can give then F-16s, but no one knows how to fly them. We can give them 5.56mm ammunition, but that’s a NATO caliber and their rifles can’t fire them. We can give them Abrams tanks, but they don’t know how to use them. The amount of Warsaw Pact weaponry NATO has is very limited and the countries that have it will end up with nothing usable if they give it away. Poland was going to give away their SUs and MiGs because they already fly the F-16 and are retiring the SUs and MiGs either way, but Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Hungary aren’t in the same position.
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  41. It’s literally prehistoric.
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  42. They didn’t all die, period. Birds are dinosaurs.
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  43. Is death a solution?
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  44. It’s factually both.
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  45.  @BradD1997  Not the actual guards present, you moron. He said someone from the police gave them the info on the transfer. Seriously… how stupid are you?
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  46. Challengers have incredibly wide tracks, so no, it wont be a problem.
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  47. It’s all one story. You can’t rip out pages out of a book and know what happened.
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  48.  @relaxrelax3772  Not only are there not enough of them, but they’re expensive and hard to replace. They are also more difficult to operate and more difficult to teach to operate. These drones have enough operational distance not to give away the exact positions of the operator, at least not to a poorly equipped force.
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  49. Where do you see shock?
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  50.  @norman4628  Jay… those pictographs have been proven to be hoaxes by countless scientists. Stop spreading bullshit.
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