Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. Actually in Australia you do need authorization to stage protests. That way police can block off streets and let people have their march and have their speakers talk without interference. Off course people can just ignore that and do what ever they like, but then they also can't complain when they get chucked in the slammer.
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  2.  @iron4517  WTF are you talking about? You can't even write a sensible sentence. I haven't justified ANYTHING. All I have done is explain HOW part of the law in Australia works. Where are you from? What country do you live in? What level of education do you have?
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  3.  @bounty1402  No it doesn't mean that at all. Why TF do people like you have to take EVERY ANSWER and blow it out of proportion and some stupid hyperbole? Why can't people like you ever just accept an answer without being stupid idiotic smartasses? Its effing idiots like you that are the reason we can never get anything done because you hijack or sidetrack every discussion with stupid some out of proportion remark.
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  4. I'm Australian and worked with a young engineer who had served in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s. When this subject came up he simply told me that ALL foreign forces were told NOT to burn poppy crops as it would cause too much economic hardship. This isn't a Taliban thing. This was going on long before the Taliban took control the first time. It continued under the occupation and this is just a continuation. This is what happens to a poor country when the world treats it like crap and offers NOTHING.
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  5.  @lluow  Yeah but if no one points out any FACTS lets their BS go undisputed then their BS eventually becomes fact. George Orwell made that clear decades ago. One of the tings trolls rely on is having their crap go unchallenged. Its what Trump and many others have relied on. They only go on networks that never challenge them. Its like the quote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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  6. Actually Afghanistan has always had places of good agriculture. Its always had valleys where crops were productive. Afghanistan's problem is simple - its been the punching bag of superpowers since the 1980s.
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  7. I'm Australian and worked with a young engineer who had served in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s. When this subject came up he simply told me that ALL foreign forces were told NOT to burn poppy crops as it would cause too much economic hardship. This isn't a Taliban thing. This was going on long before the Taliban took control the first time. It continued under the occupation and this is just a continuation. This is what happens to a poor country when the world treats it like crap and offers NOTHING.
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  8. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 5-10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  9. You can substitute London for almost ANY city in the world these days. Sydney Australia is out of water and yet has had floods in recent years and then there's the fires. Southern California is out of water and then there's the fires. There's floods in Belgium, Germany, India and China all in the same week. Most of the ignorant masses don't equate that 1degC temperature rise across the entire planet as increasing the rate of evaporation across the entire planet. And mother earth has substantial surface area - just over half a billion square kilometers most of which is water. That's a lot more water being sucked up into the sky which then has to fall somewhere.
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  10. I'm Australian but went to college in America and there is an undercurrent in American culture that "does not trust anyone in authority." Its been reinforced time and again by corrupt politicians on both sides of the fence AND by big business (as in Wall St., Big Pharma and the MIC). Plus its been compounded in recent years by a relentless barrage of political and religious extremism combined with a failing education system. Americans do have legitimate reasons to not trust those in power because they keep proving they can't be trusted. In some ways its an incredible tragedy to watch a once great nation slide into the state its in all through greed. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  11. I'm Australian so have an outside view on this. The single most telling single item in this fiasco was Nigel Farage running away from what he'd gotten. He was the single biggest voice that the rest of the world heard on the subject. There was that moment the day after when he declared (with some of his fans in the street) "We have our country back!" The next day he resigned and when questioned about the negotiations he said that's for others. I don't think he didn't expect to win but more importantly that showed HE HAD NO PLAN. His claim to fame was Euro bashing so that vote took away his pulpit to preach from. So he ran before he was exposed to the mess he made. SO YOU ALL KNOW Nigel Farage was recently here in Australia on a speaking tour stirring up contention. Most of all he was asking people to pay to listen to how amazing he is. I honestly don't know if Brexit was the right or wrong thing to do. What I'm certain of is that shite stirring sack of crap Nigel Farage can stay the FARK OUT OF MY COUNTRY.
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  12. Its what EVERY COUNTRY that's had to fight a major war does. Go and look at what the Brits and Americans did in WW2 - we still have the films and posters that plastered the streets with. Just the other day I heard somebody make references to Rosie the Riveter which was part of a campaign getting women to help build the bombers, ships and other stuff in WW2.
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  13. As an Australian you can't imagine how angry we are getting with the Murdoch Media as some of them are still claiming this is normal and there are still millions of our people listening to them and believing them. In late 2017 early 2018 I was in Saskatchewan Canada for work and experienced the coldest temperatures I have ever experienced. For a couple of days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures on the planet were where I was. Later that year they had record high temperatures. My degree is in aerospace engineering and what most people do not understand is that when you have more energy in a system (any system) BOTH the highs and lows become more extreme. Climate scientists have been trying to explain this for decades. Unfortunately the media has trouble with anything to do with science.
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  14.  @stuartsimister5042  NO. Do I trust politicians? NO Do I trust idiotic clowns with no grasp of reality? *EVEN LESS than politicians." Its one thing to not trust one group of selfish clowns but that doesn't mean turning to and trusting a complete pack of idiots. How stupid can people be to ignore a clown but trust an idiot.
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  15.  @relevantinfor6682  I'll take advice from people who actually read their comments. I suspect you meant "They are a hypocritical government..."
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  16. I'm Australian and a British Journalist looked into the methods that America used. The documentary he made was done more than 10 years ago when there were issues over the lethal injections. It was also at a time when there were a number of ugly murders around the world and people were asking if capital punishment should be brought back. So this was a timely documentary in a number of ways, but most of all - what method. In the end when all the methods were looked at the cleanest and quickest was carbon dioxide. I remember the Lake Nyos disaster in 1986 when 1,700 people died from carbon dioxide asphyxiation remember how quick it was. Most of the bodies only took a few staggered steps before falling over. I'm an engineer and one of the things people are warned about across many industries are what we call "confined spaces." These are places where other gases can pool and the oxygen level is too low to support human consciousness. It can be incredibly dangerous. One of the major risks in confined spaces is carbon dioxide especially in open pits because CO2 is heavier than air and it can pool in the pit. Its well documented how quickly people succumb and pass out in such conditions. So its well known that if you flood a room with carbon dioxide almost any human or animal will past out within seconds and die shortly after with little or no trauma. In fact its well documented that if anything people have a moment of euphoria before passing out from carbon dioxide. WHAT HORRIFIED ME about that documentary wasn't the fact they found a quick way to simply turn off a human life but the RESPONSE of the chief medical officer they presented their findings to. He simply dismissed the idea of using Carbon Dioxide and how its far less likely to be traumatic. He said "Its a punishment its NOT meant to be pleasant."
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  17. You forgot to mention: - the seizure of dozens of small islands across a vast area of the ocean. - the deal with the Taliban. - the deals with other dubious regimes across Africa for access to resources. - and lets not forget everyone's favorite sabre rattler North Korea that the Chinese push at the rest of Asia.
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  18.  @2PMisTimeless  What I don't like in this BBC report is the inference it started AFTER America & Co. left when its been going on for decades. When the Mujahedeen were buying weapons to fight the Russians they used money from Opium. Other than the one personal experience a workmate who served there told me I have seen other reports over the years. One of them I remember reported that half the problem was that poor Afghans were being given loans to plant opium crops from drug gangs. If the crop got burnt then they wouldn't be able to pay their debt to the drug gang. The Afghan problems were a giant mess of idiotic mistakes made worse by ignorance of the tribal allegiance's and the existence of the drug trade. Complex problems are rarely solved by pointing a finger and SIMPLISTICALLY proclaiming "That's it. That's the cause. That's the problem."
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  19. Unfortunately he does have a brain and its a functioning brain. Its just running on Elon Musk's latest AI software.
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  20. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 5-10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  21. Its reminiscent OF EVERY COUNTRY that's had to fight a major war. Go and look at what the Brits and Americans did in WW2 - we still have the films and posters that plastered the streets with. Just the other day I heard somebody make references to Rosie the Riveter which was part of a campaign getting women to help build the bombers, ships and other stuff in WW2.
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  22. I didn't hear anything about either in this report?????? I'm Australian and I can tell you from our experiences that if power lines are not properly kept clear of trees they can start fires. We had a very bad fire in Western Australia a number of years ago that was started by power lines sparking and setting fire to trees. Don't forget most of our trees are eucalyptus and their sap (which is mainly eucalyptus oil) is highly flammable. The major fires we had in 2019 were mainly started by lightning strikes. Our right wing media (owned by Rupert Murdoch) claimed it was from arson but later inquiries found that was 100% FALSE. Not one of those fires in 2019 was proven in any way that it was arson. The lasers stuff is simply idiotic garbage.
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  23.  @Sonturist  As I said I am an aerospace engineer and the short answer on anyone escaping to space is NO. And its as simple as NOBODY has solved the life support problem. Its the same reason why we don't have a moon base. The only way a moon base works or a Mars colony or giant Jeff Bezos space stations work is if we can solve the problem of a self sustaining life support system. We know what one looks like. Its called Spaceship Earth and its even solar powered. We just don't know how to replicate it and until we do there will be NO Moon base, NO Mars Colony and NO giant space stations.
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  24.  @tomfrench7146  Are you trying to be logical on social media? Good luck to ya mate. I'm Australian and we have had an incredible outcome that has saved 1000s of people when we compare what we've managed to most other developed nations. We are almost back to normal and we have a tiny minority of stupid selfish radicals (with extreme emphasis on selfish) howling and screaming because they just want something to howl and scream about. Almost all of our outbreaks have come from people breaking the rules. There's this shitty attitude among a small but significant chunk of our society who think that rules DON'T apply to them and that ANY RULE put on them is some sort of criminal conspiracy.
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  25. Yeah and what percentage of those are there. What we do know for sure is that vaccinated people are less likely to get infected and if they do the chances of getting seriously ill are lower. That's clear you idiot. Wake the F--K up and stop being so stupid.
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  26. I absolutely support your sentiment but this will be just another useless talk fest where politicians avoid responsibility and activists disenfranchise people with stupid childish displays of self gratification. Until we can get the money out of politics the billionaires will have control of the politicians.
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  27.  @drewking250  If you really want to freak out then work out how many nuclear detonations it takes to heat the planet up just 1 degree. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and we once had a NASA guy do a special lecture on planetary sciences. He'd done a research project where they tried to work out what it would take to make Mars habitable. Their conclusion was "its effectively impossible" planets simply don't take being forcibly changed. That was 30 years ago so I did an upgrade a while back regarding what we have now effectively managed to do. The surface area of the Earth is just over 510,000,000 km^2 and if you take just the first 1km of the earths atmosphere you pretty much have 1/2 a billion cubic kilometers of air. Its pretty straight forward to calculate how much energy it takes to heat that from say 20 to 21 deg. C and yeah its a big number with lots of zeros. Its just as easy to divide that number by the published energy release from something like the Hiroshima bomb. So its pretty easy to estimate how many Hiroshimas you need to let off to heat the planet up by a degree. Its a very scary number and makes no sense until you realise that up in the sky is a mega huge nuclear fusion reactor beaming energy at us and all you need to do is trap a bit extra for a century to start making some very serious changes. This is why Venus although only being just a little bit closer (in astronomical terms) is also massively hotter. Heads up if you do that calculation don't go trying to explain the number to average people. They can't comprehend the answer let alone understand what it means. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  28. I'm Australian and even though I have never been to Brazil I find it an extraordinary country that's been working hard to develop. I did aerospace engineering and I wish we had a company like Embraer, which is a great success story. There were many comparisons between the Olympics we held in Sydney and those In Rio. I thought overall Brazil did a great job of hosting them. We have held a number of such games and had some practice at it so for a first time effort it was great. But its clear Brazil also is going through some growing pains, particularly with the wealth gap. Do you know that most of the Western world NOW has a severe wealth gap that's causing all sorts of trouble. If there is one thing I'd advise Brazil is don't be so eager to repeat our mistakes - learn from them. And I'd say the same to most of Africa, Asia, and the rest of the developing world. Keep your head up. Take care an Stay Safe
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  29. I might be Australian but I went to college at U. Illinois. One summer I drove to California, which included driving across Iowa, Nebraska and then across the rest to SF. So I know how far you are talking about and that's barely comprehensible that the smoke has travelled that far. We've had some bad fires in recent years but these seem to be worse and its only the start of summer.
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  30. From Australia 🙋‍♂🙋 Oh and we just got a news flash over the Star Trek sub-space communicator. The Klingon High command has asked "nuq jatlh?" Which sort of translates to "what said?" which basically means the Klingons are asking WTF? The Romulans are yet to say anything, but are smirking as if they know something. Meanwhile the Vulcans have gone into a catatonic state after someone asked to explain Trump's logic.
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  31. If you want to complain the complain about how other nations with similar systematic issues have not been banned. Drug cheating at the Olympics has been going on for decades. If Russia feels bad about getting caught then don't - you got caught wear it. BUT Russia has every right to scream about other nations cheating particularly China and America. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship for swimming. At the 92 Barcelona Olympics a girl from my club in California was cheated out of a gold by the Chinese and it was obvious they were cheating. FINA (the swimming governing body) were only checking swimmers they new had been tested before they went to Barcelona. That included a lot of people from various countries who were at college in America making it look like the testing was random. The British worked it out because one of their swimmers was at the University of Iowa which was a college I raced against. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics the husband of Marion Jones (who was later caught as part of the BALCO scandal) CJ Hunter was caught multiple times and yet still turned up in Sydney expecting to compete. It was later found out that the US Track & Field team had amassed around 150 failed tests prior to arriving in Sydney. Australia had a runner who finished 4th in 2 successive Olympics. Both times the 3 Americans in front of him were caught at competitions after the Olympics. The infamous Seoul Olympics 100m final where Ben Johnson was caught was a disgrace as every other Athlete in that final was either suspected or actually caught at later events. That included Carl Lewis. America has a terrible record of cheating in track and field. If Russia should be angry its should be because they are the only country punished like this.
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  32. Its actually what we should have expected. Since European settlement there's almost not a single part of Australia that hasn't flooded at some time. Even some of our desert areas have flooded. When our droughts break its usually in a big way, but this is something bigger than expected. 2 weeks ago it was as dry as dry could be. A bush fire would have been massive. What's surprised people is just how much fell in an insanely short time.
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  33. I'm Australian, but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law. They used to drag me into hypothetical discussions. I think they did it because I could say things out of left field and then they would then argue then back. So I got a weird introduction to the US Constitution. All these years later I know consider the US Constitution one of the truly brilliant achievements in human history. Its NOT PERFECT and has a major flaw in that with enough money it can be taken advantage of, but at its core its brilliant. It guarantees you have the right to chose what you believe. It guarantees that you have the right to confront your government over a grievance. It guarantees you and your neighbors can decide how you will provide your community with security. It guarantees the government just can't invade your privacy because it feels like it. It guarantees you will be fairly treated by the court system. Yes it doesn't do these things perfectly and there are some real maggots taking advantage of the system, but you at least have these things written in concrete.
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  34. I remember a story from when the Taliban first came to attention (a couple of years BEFORE the 9/11 attacks). It told of how they tried, convicted, gang raped, and executed a woman for being a nurse. In their view a woman with a job outside the home was a harlot and blasphemer deserving of the harshest penalty. Anyone who funds, supports or assists those kinds of people doesn't deserve much in the way of anything except the harsh hand of justice. What I would like to hear about is how the Taliban got funded this time. This many guns and bullets cost a lot of money - where did it come from?
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  35.  @charsibaba6960  Thanks - it just blows my mind how ignorant and stupid so many people are these days. The saddest joke about Afghanistan's opium trade is that it was part of the story to the 1987 James Bond film "Living Daylights" Look at the 5th & 6th paragraphs of the plot summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Daylights#Plot I find this story perplexing because the BBC is usually a lot better with how it presents information. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  36. That's such a stupid meaningless comment considering the subject. What are you claiming you wont change your mind about?
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  37. Its proof yet again that no matter what your tribe, culture, nation or political system - there is no greater threat to any society than its own fanatics.
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  38. They all do it. And then a year or 2 later, when everyone thinks they've moved on, they get even by knifing a few people in the back. Its called modern politics.
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  39.  @hugoepcastro  Have a look through some of the other comments. The ignorance and stupidity of so many people made this the disaster it is and that same ignorance and stupidity is going to drag this out for longer than necessary killing a lot more people as it happens. What angers me is that a lot of good people have already been hurt or died and a lot more are going to be hurt or die because of the SELFISH ignorance and stupidity of people who should just shut up. Its just a shame COVID doesn't selectively attack dumb people or it would have been a blessing.
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  40.  @gamers-xh3uc  And WTF is your point? This is the first step in any engineering project. Get an estimate of what its going to take. It doesn't have to be hyper accurate but it needs to highlight the basics of the task. I'll give you another example: Right now here in Australia there's a huge argument over nuclear power and the Australian Liberals have identified 7 sites BUT THEY ARE CLAIMING they don't have the costs yet. I happen to know those sites because I have been trying to get people's attention about our power sector ever since I had a small consulting job back in 2016. If we were to choose European EPR2 Reactors we'd need 1 reactor at each of 4 sites and 2 reactors at the 3 other sites. Based on Hinckley Point C an EPR 2 costs AU$35 Billion so 10 reactors is AU$350 Billion and it takes about that long to have an estimate on the costs. If we were to choose American AP1000 Reactors we'd need 14 reactors across those sites to generate a similar amount of power. Based on Vogtle AP1000s cost AU$26 Billion and those 14 reactors would cost AU$364 Billion and that's about how long it takes to get a second estimate. Sorry mate but engineers have to do estimates all the time.
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  41.  @jeromemanoharan7427  I have heard there are issue with Brazils stadiums but didn't want to comment on that as I don't know those issues like I know the others. My understanding is they are very similar to Athens issues. They just don't have the money to keep them. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship so I know what sorts of facilities American cities like LA & Atlanta have. I went to U. Illinois and I know Chicago could hold the Olympics in a heartbeat. Chicago just has that many stadiums as well as several large universities with their dorms. That was LA's huge advantage. They had UCLA and USC and all their facilities. Then they had the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum and several others. Their biggest expense was paint and painters
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  42. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: and that's a damn good answer Below is the same answer I gave elsewhere. The difference is your only looking at dealing with what goes into the atmosphere each year, when there's already a massive amount in the atmosphere that needs removing. I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  43.  @neworder736  WTF does that mean? Do you even know how to write English?
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  44.  @onepeace1274  Like any crop Poppies don't grow everywhere, but like coca it seems to be grown in poorer countries. As for the rest of your argument just go away with the stupidity. I'm tired of worthless morons throwing their hands in their howling "just let them all do it" Very rarely is that a worthwhile point and you case ITS NOT.
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  45.  Seiki  Well I'm Australian and briefly worked in China and I never saw a Muslin restaurant ANYWHERE. As for the labor camps. The western world ahs a history of bad behavior INCLUDING labor camps. So we know what it is we can see in the photographs. This isn't about avoiding our past and our bad behavior its about pointing out a RACIST GENOCIDAL PLAN. Nobody likes having their bad shit thrown back at them, but every so often you need reminding that what you have done or are still doing IS WRONG.
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  46.  @jonnyhatter35  About 18 months ago I saw a vid here on YT about a British environmentalist who was taking a trip to Greenland with his grandchildren. He said in the 1990s they weren't pushing things as hard they could because they thought climate change would not be a problem in their lifetimes. Greenland is now where they thought his grandchildren would have to deal with it. Its not simply years ahead of where they thought its decades ahead. One of the biggest issues was China's growth and use of coal. There coal use is now MORE than what the entire planet was burning the early 1970s. BUT what is not in the data is the amount of coal that was simply burned in the ground. What most people DO NOT realise is that as soon as you expose black coal to air (oxygen) it begins to react and form CO2. If you aren't careful it simply ignites and starts burning. For over 20 years the Chinese were burning as much coal in the ground as they were in power stations. That's why its gotten so bad so fast. We are now starting to suffer the consequences of stalling any action that Exxon, Charles Koch and others have pushed since the 1980s.
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  47. Yeah that bit is a bit stupid. Trump tore up NAFTA in a heartbeat screwing the Canadians and Mexicans. I was in Canada when that happened and it makes me wonder how we can trust the Yanks going forward. Most of them are fine its the nutters that worry me. Then there was that little lie about WMDs where they dragged us into a war. As for the Brits we have totally forgotten that back in the 1970s they totally FUBARd us when they joined the Common Market. Before that they abandoned us in WW2 while they demanded we help them. Before that they sacrificed a generation of Australians on the beaches of Gallipoli and the fields of Flanders. They also used us for nuclear testing in the 1950s and have refused to clean up the test sites. Why anyone thinks they can trust either the Brits or the Yanks long term is kind of ignoring history.
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  48. Simplest and most accurate statement on this disaster. But there is one huge question NOBODY seems to be asking. Where did they get the money? Guns and bullets cost money. Lots and lots of money. Where did it come from and where did they buy that many guns and that many bullets?
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  49. You are right about flying to hubs but only 1/2 right about Concorde. Yes its was fuel hungry but then going fast in anything is a fuel consumption issue. If you use basic high school science class then you'd know from kinetic energy that going twice as fast requires 4 times the energy because its a squared law. Drag is also a velocity squared function so going twice as fast means 4 times the drag. It does get more complicated at supersonic speed but going those speeds is very fuel hungry. On the other hand Concorde ran very profitably and for many years was British Airways most profitable division. There's a great documentary made after they retired Concorde that was made with a lot of BA Concorde pilots. Its actually a great case study in effective market analysis. After BA realised Concorde was losing money they told the pilots they were going to shut it down. The pilots said it shouldn't be losing money because the planes were basically full for every flight. The BA board challenged the pilots and said if they could get it to make money they could keep flying. So the pilots checked the ticket records and found that the most frequent users were a bunch of bankers in New York, London and Paris. They found out that these guys were doing work where people still had to meet and sign contract papers. So for them being able to zip across the Atlantic sign some papers and zip back was brilliant. When the pilots asked the bankers what they thought the tickets were worth they got a monster shock - none of the bankers knew because their travel was always done by their secretaries. So they asked these bankers what a ticket was worth to them in terms of their time and got an even bigger shock because it was $1000s more than the actual ticket price. So the pilots upped the ticket price to what the bankers believed they were worth. People kept flying Concorde and they made heaps of money. The pilots kept the board to their word and the pilots ran the Concorde division for years and kept it very profitable. What hurt Concorde in the end was Osama Bin Laden because something like 100 of Concorde's most frequent flyers died in the 9/11 attack because they worked in the World Trade Center.
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  50. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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