Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. He’s Irish.
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  2. Tankers had casualty rate of 3%, infantry 18%. The Sherman had plenty of armor and firepower for at least 9 out of 10 situations. Also, the Sherman didn’t burn any more than any other tank.
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  3. We’ve already brought back some mass from the moon, and nothing has changed. The real question is how much mass would be needed to cause the problems you’re talking about, and the answer is about 10% the mass of the moon, which is trillions of tons.
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  4. gurnug, you’re including post war production of the T34. At the end of WW2 the Soviets had built something like 53-55 thousand T34s.
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  5. At the time it was called a turo-super charger
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  6. Timothy Stamm, the Martian is a very accurate book/movie, but the strom was narrative device to kick the stroy off with. Andy Weir has said so himself. Also, small fast moving objects are going to punch through an object. If you want to move something, it best to use a large (relative) slow moving object to push it.
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  7. At least 30,000 of those T-34s were built after WW2. The Soviets didn’t stop building them until the 50s.
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  8. Several failed on the pad. That one was just particularly bad.
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  9. No, they just get it from their shadow empire
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  10. No, look up Thunderf00t’s videos on it.
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  11. At the time it was called a turo-super charger
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  12. Power civilization with literally the strongest force in the universe!
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  13. At the time it was called a turbo-supercharger
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  14. It’s easier than the Arctic and Antarctic.
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  15. Moron, I’m only talking being able to sleep, like you were.
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  16. Yes, you are. You go on about things I was not replying too even after I told you that.
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  17. You’re the one started by talking about sleep then responded by saying sleeping is easier, at least as far as the day might cycle, than the Arctic and Antarctic. However, you being a moron don’t seem to understand the pronoun “it” is a stand-in for sleep.
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  18. Some people are also talking about using carbon allotropes.
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  19. Radiation isn’t nearly the danger people claim. No one has actually studied the effects of low gravity. We’ve studied micro-gravity, but not low gravity. We’ve launched several nuclear reactors into space, and there are a few new designs that need testing in space. We’ve confirmed water on the moon, not just hydrogen. As for your comment about Mars, Mars has even more water and gravity with less radiation, so by those standards it’s even easier.
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  20. They’re also one time use.
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  21. Step 3, ignore all the previous bs and build nuclear.
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  22. Solid fuel reactors are incredibly inefficient at burning the fuel. With more efficient gen. 4 reactors we can extend the uranium fuel we have and even use the spent fuel because it’s 97% unused uranium. Those alone will get us thousands of years. Then there’s the thorium cycle. Thorium is orders of magnitude more common than U-335.
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  23. Those are just lies.
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  24. Back then they were called turbo-super chargers.
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  25. Not really. The P-47 was designed to be fast, so it was built around a huge engine
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  26. On the moon there’s not really a need to lift heavy loads. Most mining on the moon is going to be scooping up regolith.
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  27. Thanks for being an exemplar of indoctrination into a doomsday cult.
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  28. They just leveled a farmer’s field and put down some metal grates. It’s impressive, but it was designed for fast instillation even just behind front lines. The US did the same thing all across the Pacific.
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  29. It’s possible but not economically viable.
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  30. The depth of detail. What kind of atlas tells you the size of sand grains?
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  31. We also have sources that avoid those problems.
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  32. The Germans knew the allies were planning an invasion to retake France, but they only had guesses as to when and where.
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  33. It’s remarkable how people think being in an armored box that moves and shoots back is a dangerous place to be on the battle field.
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  34. Humans need water. That doesn’t mean you wont poison yourself by drinking too much water. Too much of anything with throw the balance of a system off.
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  35. It’s an air defense system, supposedly the best in the world.
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  36. That’s a false dichotomy. There’s another option, nuclear, which is actually reliable and cheaper the renewables without the problems of fossil fuels.
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  37. The Sherman was very much a match for the Pz mk 3 and 4, which were the most common German tanks even late in the war. Also, the idea that tanks will just shrug off fire from any sized shell only real came about with Western MBTs being so successful against T72s.
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  38. I was thinking about the North Africa campaign as well. Given the context, I probably should have been more careful, but the point still stands that the Sherman was a match for the most common German tanks. It’s only against heavy tanks, which are designed with armor and firepower in mind above everything else, that Sherman had real problems. My point was that most tanks weren’t designed to defend against the heaviest guns the enemy had, and so criticizing the Sherman for not doing it is wrong.
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  39. First, he said on of the best. Second, 262, because it was the first operational jet fighter, had a lot of problems.
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  40. California is governed by feelings, so with the long standing fear mongering, nuclear never had a chance.
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  41. There’s a lot of raw materials on the moon, which are much easier to move to the rest of the solar system than if we tried sending them from Earth.
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  42. We would have to remove trillions of tons to cause that.
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  43. At the time they called it a turbo-supercharger
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  44. If you apply that same logic any other power source, and you get nearly 100% failure rate.
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  45. If we had the answers to those questions, we would already be colonizing space.
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  46. If people had everything you want to know, people can quantify the risks and costs after which they can make a business plan around.
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  47. At the time it was called a turo-super charger
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  48. Wind and solar don’t solve the first problem because of their huge dependence on natural gas.
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  49. The moon has no atmosphere and less than 1/2 the gravity of Mars.
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  50. 1) we have to make a working fusion reactor 2) it has to then be cheap and light enough to put into a rocket 3) it would still require propellant, just not fuel
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