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

  1.  @jonnyhatter35  Lats year here in Australia were were gripped with drought. This year we have been flooded flooded and flooded. We have been flooded so many times this year people can no longer get flood insurance and we are considering abandoning certain towns or parts of towns. When the first bog flood hit the climate deniers said here we are back to normal after a drought. After the 2nd flood they said not to worry, We told to explain the 3rd flood they couldn't. By the time of the 4th and 5th floods they didn't dare speak. we've had 2 more floods since and we aren't even through winter yet or the spring rains. When I look around the world I see things like drought in Germany and England. In Australia we might not know much about the weather in Germany but we sure as shite know about English weather and I have never heard of an English drought before.
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  2.  @jonnyhatter35  I first found out about the inground coal fires about 12 years ago when I saw a German documentary on it. Because the Germans have a long history with coal mining they have a long history of dealing with fires in coal mines. The Chinese hired a specialist German company to help them out. The Germans produced a film about it and it was aired here in Australia. But if you want to check the data go and look for the IEA Key data reports that come out every 2 years (even numbered). The IEA (International Energy Agency) is just a data collection and reporting organisation. They are the main source for energy data for researchers. Their reports are free. What people forget is their high school science class: C+O2 -> CO2 and that works for tons as well as atoms. Remember a C has an atomic mass of 12 and oxygen 16 add it up and 1 ton of C makes 2.67 tons of CO2. So 3 Giga tons of coal makes 11 Giga tons of CO2 and if you're burning that much also in ground fires that's 22,000,000,000,000 tons CO2 EACH YEAR for about 25 years. And the whole time Western economists told how how great it was that we made everything in China because cheaper goods were good for consumers. Now you know why its accelerating and why we are in twice as much trouble as we thought..
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  3.  @jonnyhatter35  No problems mate. Here's a slightly longer version of the subject. I did aerospace engineering and back in college we had an alum who worked at NASA visit and do a special lecture one Friday. He'd just done a project where they assessed the viability of terraforming Mars. He introduced us to what I call planetary mechanics - the basics numbers of what you need to do. The making it all work as a functioning atmosphere is what I call planetary dynamics because that's about dynamic systems as things that move rather than just the basic numbers. So in planetary mechanics you look at things like size of the planet and how much air you need if you want a breathable atmosphere. The numbers are massive because planets are massive. If we go to an air conditioning company they'll ask how many cubic meters the house or building has and we'd be talking maybe a few hundred or a few 1000 for an office block. The quick way to estimate that is to look at the floor space of your house and multiply by 2.5 because most rooms are about 2.5 meters heigh. So if your apartment has 200m2 of floorspace you have about 500m3 of volume. For an office block with 5,000m2 its about 12,500m3. But the Earth has 500,000 square kilometers of floor space that's 500,000,000,000 square meters. So just for the first kilometer of air around us its 500,000,000,000,000m3 (500 trillion). At about 1.2kg/m3 that's about 600 billion metric tons of air. That's just the first kilometer above sea level and there's a lot more above that. Its one of the main reasons its so hard for engineers and scientists to communicate what we've actually done to our planet. The numbers are so large most people can't get their heads around it. How do you get average citizens to consider 600billion tons of air when for their basic daily life air weighs nothing? I can do this because I met the right guy back when who introduced this subject.
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  4.  @jonnyhatter35  Its one of the things i keep telling people who think Elon Musk is just going to whip them off to Mars. Once you get your head around just the basic numbers of how much stuff you need you then get into the stuff to make it work. At that point you start trying to handle so many concepts simultaneously it just blows brain cells away. Complex problem solving is one of the things aerospace engineers have to be trained in because you need that skill to do things like send a probe off to Pluto and think of all the things that might happen, consider their effects and then solve those problems without creating new problems.
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  5.  @LK-pc4sq  Yeah telling me something I don't know. I'm Australian but went to college in Illinois, but in late 2017 I was working in Saskatchewan and experienced a similar event. For about 3 days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures recorded on the planet were in Alberta and Saskatchewan. At one point it was colder than the actual North Pole. Instead of being home experiencing nice sunny +30-40C days I was indoors while outside its was -30 or lower with windchills as bad as -50. The only person I knew who went outside was the police officer who lived across the street who came to check I was Ok.
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  6. I wouldn't call her a Russian Spy because she's T00 STUPlD and T00 lGN0RANT to be a spy.
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  7. ITS NOT IF BUT WHEN
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  8.  @stephiewino626  WTF does that even mean? Damn Bill Gates and others for making computers too easy for morons to use.
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  9.  @stephiewino626  Better than being an ignorant moron who can't think, who can't reason and is of no use to society. 👍😉
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  10.  @louisehogan8192  Can people like you just GET OFF the drugs you are on and stop being to idiotically stupid. I clicked your link only it took only a minute to see some of the most idiotic and moronic garbage ever produced. I don't blame anyone for mistrusting governments or the media they both deserve scorn and ridicule, but turning to stuff that is so patently stupid isn't a solution. You have a brain so start using it.
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  11.  @louisehogan8192  Seriously, like so many you are so ignorant of the Bible its scary. Try reading and thinking and people might think you're not an idiot.
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  12.  @louisehogan8192  When you are BEING STUPID and directing people to moronic conspiracy garbage DON'T DARE quote Jesus back at people or you will get reminded of all the times he spoke about hubris, arrogance and the people he will reject. I am not judging YOU as a person I am judging your stupid BEHAVIOR and YES there is a difference. Since you want to quote from the sermon on the mount try reading Mathew chapter 7 (all of it) most Bible thumpers never dare touch it, but I strongly recommend you take note of verses 15-23 and pay attention about "false prophets." God gave you a brain feel free to use it.
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  13.  @louisehogan8192  Go back and read your second comment - you brought up the "Christians" thing at the same time you brought up idiotic conspiracy garbage. Don't preach to people about reading the bible when you clearly don't understand it. Jesus never said reading was good enough he said "truth would set you free" and truth requires understanding. John 8:32
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  14.  @louisehogan8192  Are you serious MIND RENEWAL Do you not understand just how idiotic that sounds. JUST STOP - people like you have no idea who Jesus was or what he is now or what future has been promised. Its why he warned about the people who teach garbage. You shouldn't claim what you're claiming when you're the one who sent everybody a link to a pathetic conspiracy channel. Jesus warned about LIARS and channels like that one are nothing but LIES and DECEIT.
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  15. Do you still celebrate Christmas or Easter? Do you claim the universe is 6000 years old?
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  16.  @hautecouture2228  That's the idiotic reasoning of a clown and the sort of exaggerated garbage that's dragging society into the gutter of stupidity. If you give someone a mismatched kidney they'll die. Even people who get kidneys that are matched can still have them fail if they don't take care. Its an idiotic stance. Either show some brain function or STFU
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  17. @Cat 4100 Someone else linked it to me a while back and I still find it amazing every time I read it. Remember he lived when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power. So he saw something in America at that time that could compare to those people. What it says is that people like Trump have been around in Western Society for at least 80 years.
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  18. I'm Australian and we just won the 2032 games. NO ONE ELSE BID and nobody is asking why? We have plenty of idiots celebrating and making it out to be a good thing. Some of those idiots a have even started the lies. The worst is the claim that 80% of the venues are already built. That's just idiotic garbage. I am currently in Brisbane. I have lived here previously and there is NO WAY they even 25% of the venues and those they do have will need major upgrades before 2032. If Japan is a massive financial failure it only joins the financial failures of others. As a kid I watched the 1976 Montreal games. To the best of my knowledge they have never recovered the costs. 1980 in Moscow was a success because they had cheap labor which also gave Seoul in 1988 an advantage. LA & Atlanta were held in cities with massive sports facilities and massive universities with huge dorms they could use for the athletes village. Barcelona already had a couple of major stadiums. London already had all those football stadiums and the rest of the facilities. Beijing like Seoul and Moscow just had all that cheap labor to build what ever they wanted. Brisbane has 2 main stadiums the Gabba (oval shaped) at 42,000 and Suncorp (rectangular) at 52,500. Neither of those are up to Olympic standard which needs to be around the 80,000 mark. Brisbane held the 1982 Commonwealth games and did a great job. Every since they felt that justified they could host the Olympics. Brisbanites TOTALLY ignore all the extra sports the Olympics have and all the extra athletes and support staff and the extra media. They are planning to spend $1Billion upgrading the Gabba from 42,000 to 50,000 and don't get that's a joke by Olympic Standards. PLUS there's the lesson of Sydney they have already forgotten. It still hasn't been paid for and will most likely NEVER recoup the money spent. Why did one else bid for 2032? Because they were awake.
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  19.  @connorw360  Just FK-off with that crap. The subject here is the Olympics not some garbage that's totally unrelated.
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  20.  @kethughes8266  Well Vietnam was a police action!! Politicians always have an "alternative label." I even once heard that Bill Clinton called it "Oral validation of instructions given by the Commander in Chief."
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  21.  @kethughes8266  I'm Australian and had a thorough education in British Politics via 3 seasons of Yes Minister and 2 seasons of Yes Prime Minister. Go look up - Officially Official or Sir Humphrey Appleby on the Proper Function of Government and its follow up The Rhodesia Solution
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  22.  @kethughes8266  Also look up Yes, Prime Minister - The need to know
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  23.  @kethughes8266  And even better Sir Humphrey explains Brexit
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  24.  @cratarata2278  Thanks so much for the sentiment. I am not in that area but those that are will appreciate it.
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  25.  @alanhigh8125  So what the F∪CK are you so scared of you need to sleep with a semi-auto? I get the security system and all that. I can even understand people owning a gun as I own one. But sleeping with it. WTF is that about?
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  26. ​ @seanarmstrong8255  Yeah charters of any type are usually profitable because you simply look at the actual costs and then add a percentage and that works for anything - planes, boats, cars,... On fuel Concorde was always thirsty but then so has every other plane in history when it flew supersonic. Its one of the reasons why the generations of jet fighters after the 1970s got slower on their top end speed. I remember an engineer who worked on the F111 who said that with full tanks off an air refueling with no external load to add any extra drag that it had enough fuel for about 4-1/2 minutes at full speed. One day when I was at my glider club in 87 one of the tow pilots mentioned that one of the Concorde pilots had just logged his 10,000th hour as pilot in command at supersonic speed. At that moment he had more time as PIC at supersonic than the entire USAF had logged in all its known history. The SR-71 time was unknown at that stage because it was still pretty secret but it was still estimated at only a few 1000 hours. People don't realise that even though there's F15, F16, F18,.... pilots with 1,000s of hours they have only an hour at most at supersonic with most of them only minutes. Its simply not something they do a lot of. Its a combination of fuel and much it stresses the airframe and engines. I was checking something recently about the MIG 25 Foxbat which was built to counter the potential of the XB-70 and could go faster than Mach 3. Yes it really could go that fast but it did so much damage to the engines they were tossed at the end of the flight and scrapped. Not rebuilt but scrapped. When you know these things it just makes you realise how special planes like the Concorde and SR71 actually are/were.
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  27.  @seanarmstrong8255  Even crazier is that the Concordes computers were analog. I don't know if you know what that means but the channel Veritasium did a great video on the subject titled "The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of" The pilots claimed the engine management, auto pilot and flight trim computers were some of the best that any airplane ever had. The real tragedy of Concorde was that when they were taken out of service they had only done about 25-30% of their design lifetime. They should have flown on for many years. Its why a lot of people were pretty upset.
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  28. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? Bottom line they tried to rip us off and we knew it.
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  29.  @fifty9forty3  silly comment its obvious who "we" are. Typical American you think every thing is about you. "we" is everybody in the Western world who has ignored these issues.
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  30. YES - 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. I remember a TV mini-series (many years ago - 1981) about the Siege of Masada. In one scene Peter Strauss playing the Zealot Leader Eleazar Ben Yair meets Peter O'Toole playing the Roman general Lucius Flavius Silva and Eleazar tells him that if he wants to destroy the Jews simply leave them alone and very quickly they will start fighting among themselves. Look at America right now. We might not see it that clearly because the effect took 30+ years to surface but by winning the Cold War and with it the collapse of the Soviet Empire they lost that 1 major threat. Yeah sure China has sort of stepped up as a challenger and there was the war on terror but neither were the same threat Russia was. In the years since without that 1 real challenger the Americans have simply started fighting among themselves. Sure they had rivalries but not since the civil war have there been factions in America that actually believe that other Americans are their worst enemy imaginable. On the flip side who did more damage to Russia than the Communists. Other than how they treated their own people their industries never really developed that much. I'm an aerospace engineer and Soyuz might be old and less technically developed but its reliable. Where they truly screwed up was environmentally and the best example there is the Aral Sea disaster.
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  31.  @mohwe1007  be very careful with a comment like that as at first view it could easily be taken the wrong way because you haven't given any context
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  32.  @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333  You're almost right, but it is fairly stupid to say the English people are unrelated to the Anglo Saxons when a significant number of them are descendants of the Angle, Jute and Saxon invasions that happened after the Romans left Britain. The actual British native nations (Bretons, Welsh, Gaels, Picts, Mercians,....etc) are NOT Anglo-Saxons and most had their own languages but they're now all related through generations of inter-breeding. The odd ones in that mix are the Normans who aren't actually French at all but the descendants of "Northmen" who settled along the coast of France after the French King got tired of them rampaging and pillaging every summer. William the Conqueror is a direct descent of Rollo the Viking, reputed to be the brother of Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar might not might not have existed but Rollo certainly did. You should check your history a little better.
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  33. The problem is that out of the 99% who want to live in peace massive chunks let themselves be suckered into following narcissistic clowns that belong to or are controlled by the 1% who lead them over cliffs like lemmings despite it being obvious they are being lead over a cliff. Do you really think that deep down anybody truly believes people like Trump, Putin, Xi, Kim, Biden or any of the rest of them are really going to save humanity? Its maybe the most tragic aspect of humanity, our collective willingness to follow idiotic leadership over the cliff edge believing we will somehow magically fly away before crashing into the rocks below.
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  34. Did I just here at 8:34 that they were surprised. You mean there's been ANOTHER FAILURE of Intelligence services. This entire disaster started with a failure of intelligence services with the 9/11 attacks and its now finishing with ANOTHER FAILURE of Intelligence services. Joe "the mission hasn't failed YET" Biden - yeah way for America to go from Bill "can't keep his dick in has pants" Clinton to George "just let Dick make the decisions" Bush to Barrack "don't make any decisions at all" Obama to Donnie "how's my golf score" Trump to this. Maybe in 2024 somebody with a functioning brain will run for POTUS. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  35.  @asafcassuto9152  Did you ever see or hear about the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks??? This is a lot like that moment just before Tyson threw that short right that still scares people 35 years and 1 day later. Everyone who was watching saw it coming including Michael Spinks and there was NOTHING anyone could do.
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  36.  @thhanh1003  You are absolutely right. In engineering we have process/technique called Root Cause Analysis (RCA). So what's the ROOT CAUSE of why we have over 60million displaced (maybe more) people on this planet. Could it be the bat crap psycho leaders that many developed nations SUPPORTED as they raped their countries for last few decades? It might just be a thought but maybe if we hadn't been so skull FKD to keep trashing the developed world as we sent them our TV and movies bragging about how good we had it mixed with the reality of how crap they had it that we shouldn't have been surprised when 10s of millions just showed up one day asking to have a better life JUST AS WE ADVERTISED I know its a pretty silly idea.
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  37.  YutubeSucksVersion2  WTF are you blabbing on about?
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  38.  @michaelj6486  Sorry dickhead but don't because you don't know my situation which is actually similar to your wife's. I've had to remain in partial isolation, out of work waiting until I could get medical clarification. I have had multiple instances of Deep Vein Thrombosis including earlier this year. Due to circumstances I got caught out of Victoria where I am from. So it's cost me a lot of my own money to stay semi-isolated. I have only recently been cleared and got my first jab thankfully without any complications and am due for my 2nd. So I totally understand your wife's predicament and I find it totally egregious that she has NOT been treated fairly. On her treatment you and me are in 100% agreement. I am also against mandates and that is based on the EXPERT advice Dr. Michael Osterholm gave earlier this year. He's the Director of The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy located within the University of Minnesota. He's the guy Joe Rogan interviewed early on and almost everything he's said has come true. He has DECADES of experience with pandemic response. He's totally pro-vaccine and totally against mandates, because in his experience (over decades) is that they DON'T WORK. When the U. of Minnesota went to install a mandate for returning students he was the one who argued against it. His simply stated that the actual issue is there are 3 types of people when it comes to vaccines not 2. 1: The person who will get vaccinated for the simple reason they don't want to get sick. 2: The anti-vaxxer who, for some ideological reason, will never willingly take a shot. 3: The hesitant, who for some reason (medical, social or other) is not yet decided on if they will or wont get vaccinated. The first group aren't a problem and you can't do anything with the 2nd. The problem with mandates is that you risk pushing the 3rd group AWAY form getting vaccinated. Which as Dr. Osterholm pointed out has happened time and time again. He gave examples of parts of Africa. Mandates drive people away from getting vaccinated and that's a disaster for getting the vaccine rate high enough that those who cannot legitimately get vaccinated are not a problem. He did clarify that there are certain high risk environments where you do need mandates. Air travel being one because you have people packed in a plane with a very high infection risk and they are moving from one place to another. So I have had publicly available EXPERT advice on the subject of mandates for most of this year. I have no time at all for SELFISH CLOWNS and their utter garbage about conspiracies and the fact their stupidity is why governments feel the need to lockdown and mandate vaccinations. But there are always people who think the rules don't apply to them and they FK things up for everyone.
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  39.  @MrChrist741  Never forget that not only do politicians abuse their power but there are others in EVERY society that has ever existed who think that the rules don't apply to them. They are willing to cause any amount of havoc, destruction and chaos so long as they feel its what they want to do at that moment. They have no hesitancy in causing other distress or harm. We tend to call these people narcissists. Sometimes they are in government, or the administration of government, but mostly they are lose in society.
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  40.  @joebuck4496  Well why don't you try and explain why its absurd. I'm effing tire of childish idiots like you making giant claims and BACKING NOTHING UP. Saying you don't like something ISN'T PROOF of anything.
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  41.  @evgenigenov3433  I totally get your point, but I think you need to go an see a doctor you trust. I am sorry about your job as I said to Michael J that is totally unfair. As I also said to Michael J I have had multiple instances of DVTs most recently earlier this year. Recently I finally had the chance to sit down with a doctor and we went over it. I wont tell you the discussion, because I am not a medical professional and this is social media where there are trolls and clowns, but I have had my first jab and am due for my second. If you have heart problems then you must have a doctor. Go and see them. if they don't care then go and see a doctor who does. But whatever you do DO NOT TAKE anybody's social media advice on what to take or not take. For you this could be very serious so GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR. Best wishes and good luck.
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  42.  @evgenigenov3433  Not certain what country your in but that is sad when you think there is no way to trust any doctor let alone everyone else. I do understand the feeling however. It certainly seems like we can't trust anyone these days. I blame our governments for most of that. Sure they are people and people are not perfect but when they lie and lie and lie and break promise after promise and when they screw us and help their friends what else are we meant to feel. I do hope your situation gets better and you can find a doctor who will just simply care. You've made me realise that I have been lucky to have had the doctors I have had. Best wishes from Australia.
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  43.  @joebuck4496  WTF do you mean by "you people" and what generation do you think I'm part of. If you stop gaslighting people for a moment you'll stop looking and sounding like an arrogant clown with no clue.
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  44.  @joebuck4496  Other people have pointed out that prior notice of a protest or march gives police and authorities the opportunity to block off side streets and take other measures to allow protests to happen without incident. Don't forget moron the worst things happen when 2 opposing sides clash. Its a lot easier for police to keep them separated when they know what's going on. Plus what don't know is that in Australia (and I am certain other places have the same) we have people who are basically professional protesters and they turn up at almost any opportunity looking to cause trouble. These are the people that turn protests into riots. Even crazier is that they come from both ends of politics. Some are far right and some are far left. The only thing they have in common is a propensity for violence, chaos and destruction. So your whole claim of absurdity is absurd and you clearly have no idea of what happens in Australia.
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  45.  @lobbyskids2  There's nothing there I don't disagree with exit the premise that our governments work for us. That's the basic essence of democracy. Government of the people, by the people for the people. That's unfortunately changing and in some countries the change to plutocracy is almost complete. I've been watching a lot of Scottish political economist Mark Blyth the past few years. He's coined the term Angrynomics which is the state of anger of a population that no longer feels the economy works in their favor. Just recently one of the other panelists he was talking to pointed out that its becoming (and in some cases become) "Government of the corporation, by the corporation for the corporation." That change is effectively complete in America and damn near close in Australia, where the giant dump trucks in mines have more voting rights than humans. Do I think people should be protesting the plutocracy? FARK YEAH! But there's no way that anything will change while protests just end up as out of control riots.
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  46.  @joebuck4496  I haven't moved the goal post you've just realised how stupid you've been making a claim about something being "absolute" Like some many people on social media you left your brain behind and now its trying to catch up. Take a few deep breaths it usually helps as the brain does require oxygen.
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  47.  @johnhess9443  So your the one who wants to play the rational game are you. Are you Australian? Have you ever been here? Have you seen our results for handling COVID? Are you aware that a few weeks ago there was a violent protest at one of our Union offices where both radical leftists and radical anti-vaxxers attacked the offices of a LEFTIST UNION? Yeah morons we had RADICAL LEFISTS attacking a leftist union for supporting mandates on work sites so they could get their people back to work. Have you or any other of these idiots heard any of that? NO OFF COURSE YOUR NOT? But then why let facts get in the road of social media shitfuckery.
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  48.  N.O.S.T.I.A  As I just explained to another clown. If a tiny minority of clowns would just stop being dumb stupid selfish idiots and either get vaccinated or stop being stupid we'd already be out of this mess. But some people just don't think reality or rules apply to them and the rest of us have to bow to whatever they want. And idiots like you don't care about the facts because you are too selfish and too stupid to consider the rest of us.
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  49.  N.O.S.T.I.A  Nobody needs to ever fear a gutless moron who can't think or reason. The only thing that equal to the stupidity of a radical right winger is a radical left winger. Those of us with brains KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE. And for the record the rest of humanity is tired of all your kind.
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  50.  @TexTheMaster  Most developed nations have the right to protest or at least publicly state their grievances. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they dragged me into a lot of discussions on the US Amendments because I had different perspectives on various things. I have also spent time in Canada for work. It gets into interesting areas where you draw the line between what's best for society and what rights you give every individual. I think the US constitution is BOTH brilliant and tragic. Its brilliant because it enshrines some very basic rights for every person in America irrespective if they are a US citizen or not. Its tragic because its allowed some incredibly selfish people to dominate society with their wants at incredible cost to everyone else. Right now in Australia (like other places) we are trying to find a way to deal with a very selfish minority who just don't care about the rest of us.
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