Youtube comments of Bob thebomb (@bobthebomb1596).

  1. Never ceases to amaze me how many times pilots actually get these split second decisions right.
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  2. Respect to every one of them.
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  3. Never interrupt the enemy when he is doing something stupid.
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  4. Keith Payne VC is an Aussie not a Brit, that's why he was fighting in Vietnam.
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  5.  @bobl78  Did you watch the video?
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  6. Yup, first comment by moscow bots just five minutes after posting. You have them worried.
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  7. If they can build an improved, cheaper and more efficient version, why would they want to build an original F1 now?
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  8. Barracks, airfields, all the same. "We are not using them, so let's close them." All very well until circumstances change.
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  9.  @SJF15  Because all the indicators pointed to them having made the correct decision in shutting down the RHD engine.
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  10. Hard to concentrate when your brain keeps saying "Where are the doggies?" 😂
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  11. "Tempest: What Will A Sixth-Generation Fighter Jet Look Like? " ---- CANCELLED ----
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  12. I think you triggered a Russian troll 🙃
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  13. The lasses did us proud and how women's football has come on. The first two goals were quality by anyone's standard.
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  14.  @jamescaley9942  True, but it's the speed with which they assess the situation, decide what to do then act that I find impressive.
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  15. This type of raid is pretty much why the SAS was formed.
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  16.  @chapter4travels  I never said otherwise, but you stated that renewables cannot provide industrial process heat and that is wrong. Solar - thermal tends to be used in areas with plentiful sunlight (e.g. desert areas) and can be linked to molten salt storage just like the reactor described. Geothermal can also provide process heat.
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  17. Their role appears to be changing as they are becoming more aggressive in their activities. As one of the older guys once said to me "Our job is to get shot, so you have time to lock the doors and hide" 😂 Good bunch though.
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  18. Not necessarily. Health and Safety will often come to an "agreement" with a company if the breach is not thought to have been deliberate. The aim is to improve safety rather than punish.
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  19. Damn those guys think of everything. They are even flying with fish-eyes on military exercises!
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  20. Solar-thermal can provide process heat, but not solar PV.
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  21. When he says "'mobile crematorium machines" he is referring to their tanks.
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  22. Or Russia, China.......... anyone with military technology sells it to their allies.
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  23. Taken them long enough. Russia has ignored treaties and is developing new weapon types. China is growing its nuclear arsenal. All the while the US is barely maintaining its capabilities.
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  24. FFS leave the poor woman alone!
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  25. ​ @albertdula9799  Won? No member of the armed forces is certain to fight, that's the nature of the job. When they are called to fight though, they do it rather well.
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  26.  @clydewillis  Who follow a site they disagree with and respond so quickly? No.
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  27.  @ligametis  Does it claim to be impartial?
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  28. Now we need a mobile, land based version of the ASTER/Samson system from the Type 45.
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  29.  @lagrangewei  Have you not heard of the breeder reactor?
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  30. Respect and thanks for helping keep us safe.
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  31. Good to see a journalist who asks relevant questions then listens to the responses without interrupting the guest.
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  32. Russian leaders (Whether Tsars, Soviets of post Soviet) have never cared what happens to their troops. Just look at WWI for example.
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  33. Such a shock seeing this today, the man was a joy to watch (even when we were on the receiving end). Condolences to his family and countrymen from a Pom.
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  34. This is so true. Don't make the mistake the UK made, we have only avoided blackouts because we have interlinks with Europe. 10:30AM and the UK is importing 13% of its electricity, it's been as high as 17%. Keep your fossil plant on standby just in case. Edit: UK power peaked at over £1000/MWh this morning!
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  35. You prefer the Labour party to be associated with anti-sematism?
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  36.  @KingoftheJuice18  I am trying to point out why they did not think to send anyone to look at the engines and why, without the benefit of hindsight, their decision is understandable. Firstly, their initial indications (and previous experience) suggested that the RHD engine was at fault. Their initial actions appeared to work, "confirming" their conclusions. Their working practices at the time led to them having a high workload. It is somewhat simplistic to say "They should have done...." because hindsight has given us an insight they did not have. Of course if they had sent someone to look at the engines, in this case, the accident would have been avoided. The important lesson to learn though is why they did not think to do it.
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  37. They should determine exactly what they need the fighter to do, then choose the aircraft that best suits their requirement.
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  38. Not just the West.
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  39. The Dragon reactor at Winfrith. High temperature, helium-cooled, ran on fuel pellets encapsulated in ceramic. Ran from 1965 to 1976.
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  40.  @soulscanner66  When you start a war with a surprise attack, treat prisoners of war as vermin, use civilians as "targets" in explosives trials and indoctrinate your own population to believe that death is preferable to surrender, you are to blame for what happens next. More civilians died in two days of conventional bombing of Tokyo than died in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Many more would have died in a conventional invasion of Japan. A great many more would have died in Europe were it not for the fear of a nuclear conflict between East and West.
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  41. Guess what, winter can be cold.
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  42. One is in international waters and requires only a few kilo's of specialised explosives, the other requires tons of explosives and only one country has access.
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  43. Actually with the events in Ukraine most of the western world are crying out for additional nuclear fuel manufacturing capacity independent of Russia. Where better to establish it than at the site of the worlds largest uranium reserves?
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  44. There was a rocket design that would have used nuclear bombs for propulsion. Orion.
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  45. Plutonium is only a problem if it is further refined to "weapons grade" plutonium, otherwise it is reactor fuel. For example, the UK holds around 115 tons of reactor grade plutonium, but only 3 tons or so of weapons grade plutonium. The UK also holds around 25 tons of foreign plutonium (mostly owned by Japan). It would be relatively easy to establish authorised, highly monitored reprocessing facilities in countries with suitable experience to act as reprocessing hubs.
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  46. For the life of me I cannot understand how Biden has not been forced to take a Cognitive Impairment test, as his predecessor was.
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  47. You do know that comments like that just make you sound stupid right?
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  48.  @thegreatid3595  To help throw them out of Ukrainian territory. There was never any possibility of Ukraine having the forces or equipment to attack Russia itself.
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  49. Because the European helicopter really is junk, just ask the Aussies about NH90.
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  50. It's sad to see someone that old struggling the way he does.
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  51.  @stephenwilliams6103  Hydrogen is far harder to contain than petrol.
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  52. ​ @KingoftheJuice18  My understanding is irrelevant, what matters is theirs. The video clearly explains the factors that led to the decision to ignore the vibration sensors in favour of other inputs. As pointed out elsewhere, a classic example of human confirmation bias.
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  53. What matters is, will it provide reliable, clean energy at affordable prices? Experience from the rest of the world suggests, yes.
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  54. ​ @montymatilda The OP was not referring to this specific case, he implied that all such agreements were corrupt. This is not true.
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  55. I have read reports that the UK is supplying "Extreme weather gear" to Ukraine.
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  56. More likely it survived because its fall was broken by fine twigs from a tree or bush. There is precedence for this. I certainly know of one case where a WW2 bomber tail gunner left a burning aircraft without a parachute and survived due to passing through trees and landing in snow.
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  57. What utter drivel. Turn off its radar and the F35 has electro-optical sensors and data coms that make it an excellent recce aircraft. Whoever said the F35 was an air superiority fighter? That was never its role.The yanks have the F22 for that (though not enough) and we have Typhoon.
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  58.  @jblue88hoodgamer54  He may be back, but that won't improve things. US politics is too polarised and politicians too corrupt.
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  59. But China is still a "developing nation" and does not have to comply. Just what are they planning on developing into?
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  60. The media have a lot to answer for.
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  61. Pretty poor effort and unworthy of Forces News.
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  62.  @davidb9976  Then why zero carbon overnight?
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  63. Those figures are for the construction of the solar and wind farms but remember, there is very little installed storage at present. Renewables only work if they are used in conjunction with either storage or an alternative energy source for base load. Remember also that going down the storage route requires the installation and operation of excess capacity.
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  64. Save it for your mosques.
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  65. She's the queen, she doesn't make a fuss. She just get's on with things as best she can.
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  66.  @t0xiicliberator696  Well only the crew if Santa's bringing them.
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  67. What makes you believe that you are important enough to be tracked?
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  68. @ Diseases evolving in Asia are different from those evolving in Europe, or Africa, or S America. That was not a problem until recently because there was less travel between continents. Only rich countries have the capacity to monitor diseases in all continents, but we can all die from them. WHO should be a non political talking shop for leading experts from each country to formulate and disperse knowledge and advice on new diseases and treatments.
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  69. Well done ladies. 👍
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  70.  @soulscanner66  In WW2 civilians were considered as collateral damage. Guernica, London, Coventry, Valletta, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo. Cities on all sides suffered horrible bombing and loss of life. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible events, but they demonstrated what would happen if the war continued. They demonstrated what would happen to us all if the major powers fought another world war.
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  71.  @flagmichael  Agreed :) Which is why I am impressed that they get it right more often than not.
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  72. @@PaulSweezy-eb8if You are betting your future on 70 year old economics?
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  73.  @chrisk1944  As I said in my first reply "If the offence is not thought to be deliberate". Why would they wish to "punish" unless they saw the original failure as a willful disregard of safety?
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  74. Sad, what has happened to Boeing. One of the greatest names in aviation development.
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  75. Good point, well explained. I maybe wouldn't have said ANY long-term waste, as clearly there is some, but far less and far shorter lived than the luddites would have people think. This is of course dependant upon the development of liquid fuel cycles and fast-neutron or thorium based technology, but the world could have these now if it had not turned away from nuclear and thus nuclear research.
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  76. Does anyone still believe judges will act sensibly?
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  77. I doubt it will be air launched, it will not have been certified for their aircraft.
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  78.  @stevetaylor5933  Agreed. Just clarifying that it was the Aussies who fought alongside them in Vietnam, not the British.
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  79.  @jimhofoss9982  Somewhat harder if you live in a flat on a council estate.
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  80.  @NiHaoMike64  Yes, an unfortunate human trait. Probably originates from "I can't hear it anymore, I must be running the right way."
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  81. What exactly is "poorly designed" about ASRAAM?
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  82. Clearly storing some form of rocket or missile bodies if not complete weapons.
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  83.  @ligametis  I assume you meant "partial?" Other channels are available if you want a Russian biased feed. The Russians invaded Ukraine end of. If you don't like that fact I'm sorry, but a quick look at UN voting records will show that you are in a very small minority.
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  84.  @daviddoran3673  They said that about Germany in the 30's
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  85. Finally, someone speaking the truth wrt renewables. So I must be against them? No. I am against miss-selling them. Only by being honest about the costs, benefits and drawbacks of energy generation methods can we ever hope to find the right balance between them.
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  86. Great video as always. To me your best vocal delivery to date. I would still like it slightly slower, but I am an old fart, so humour me 🤣 Your presentation has improved massively and total respect for not going the digital voice route. You still manage to provide nuggets of information that I have missed and are well worthy of a subscription.
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  87. Problem I fear is that Sunak will want a treasury "Yes man" rather than the best person for the job. The country need someone who will fight their corner.
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  88. Obstruction of a public highway - arrest and max £50 fine. Where are the police?
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  89. Pity we get so little for what we spend.
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  90. The whole anti-nuclear movement is going into hysterical mode at the moment. Something has them rattled.
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  91. Can't blame them. I would feel the same way if I lived on the border of Mordor.
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  92.  @WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD  Really, arming them to attack a nuclear power?
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  93.  @xyves8488  Remind me? I am English. The Aussies are our cousins; we may fight like hell, but you couldn't ask for more than an Aussie to stand next to you when the chips are down.
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  94.  @NK-ne9uf  Wrong on both counts.
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  95.  @Wispeks  Rafale or Typhoon would be better choices until Saab can introduce a new engine.
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  96.  @moirascott2963  Agreed.
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  97. You have your own stocks of uranium, go nuclear for your base load.
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  98. Even if you could produce a binary explosive, you would never be able to just put the two halves together like in that chewing gum. For a start the chances of accidental initiation would be too great, but primarily because there would be incompatibility at the junction of the two halves.
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  99. We should have dealt with it in the 90's like the French did. We could have had 20 Sizewell B's for £72bn (at todays prices - they were £2bn a pop at the time). That's 24GW of power, almost our entire baseload requirement.
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  100.  @patclark2186  ASRAAM is carried by Typhoon and F35 aircraft and is capable of engaging anything the Russians can put against it. ASRAAM (Like the AIM-9X) costs around the £300,00 mark, how much are Ka-50/Ka-52 helicopters? The ASRAAM sent to Ukraine are old stock nearing their expiry date, they would otherwise be removed from inventory and sent for disposal. How many Ka-50 and Ka-52 helicopters has Russia managed to build since the start of the war? What is the value of the target that an ASRAAM protects?
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  101. Acres of new PV panels, turbines and pylons vs a replacement power station at a site will existing amenities.
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  102. If the UK had ignored the green movement (like France) and continued to modernise its nuclear capacity we would be in a far better position to meet the challenges we face today. We used to run eleven Magnox reactors, just replacing these on a one for one basis with Sizewell B equivalent stations would provide over 40% of our electrical power requirements.
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  103. My immediate thought was the chili, but then I am a fan of Thunderbirds.
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  104. ​ @bobsemple9341  Who are you to decide who can and cannot speak?
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  105. Welcome to modern Britain, where the law sides with the criminal.
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  106. I don't get it. He invites a guest on, asks him questions then listens to his replies. That's not journalism! Should be asking loaded questions looking for answers that support your position and talking over him if he fails to follow the line. Oh wait, this isn't the BBC.
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  107.  @BobContinental  If he lied to parliament then I believe it's the speakers job to discipline him.
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  108.  @Cynthia_Blackraven_666  Which their pilots are not trained to fly, let alone fight with.
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  109. Not necessary. US Marines/RM would be more than capable of undertaking the task.
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  110. Why? The F35 as a far more capable aeroplane.
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  111. As I write this on a Friday afternoon, the UK is producing just 0.5GW of electricity from wind, the same as from coal! For comparison, the average figure is 6.5GW and last years peak was 12.38GW. That is the type of swing that has to be met from fossil fuel or storage when relying on wind power.
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  112. Very worrying actions by the Chinese. It's one thing to send out the odd recon bird or fighter, but that many aircraft can easily lead to a misunderstanding.
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  113.  @salliemedia  Trouble was, they yomped from San Carlos to the battlefield and fought to an extent with what they could carry. Most of the helo's that would have brought more ammo forward were lost with the sinking of the Atlantic conveyor.
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  114. FFS, can we have journalists that actually listen to the answers to the questions they put without interruption?
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  115. Why? If they were going with a naval version of a land missile they would have chosen Brimstone.
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  116.  @wrightypegz8997  :)
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  117.  @N75911_  It was a joke mate :)
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  118.  @carolinemcnulty6169  Were lepers suffering because of their own stupidity though?
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  119. Completely disagree, listen to what he said. The organisation needs to be reformed to become a true centre of excellence on infectious diseases. Pull together expertise from all around the world so that it CAN give reliable advice on potential epidemics and pandemics.
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  120. 24hrs later and I would have been passing Stanstead on the way to my parents. Very sad, RIP to the crew.
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  121. Macron is grandstanding for the upcoming elections.
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  122. If only they had given the UK people a vote on the formation of the EU?
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  123. That's what I was thinking, what a stupid statement.
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  124. The BBC's analysis on this event was "Another blow to Boeing" and a link to a 737MAX story. Typical of the low standard of journalism that has crept into the BBC.
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  125.  @stormsurge6765  Nope. They were both well taken goals, by anyone's standards.
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  126.  @JosephGibson  So what exactly are they waiting for?
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  127. Makes total sense to go with nuke boats given Australia's geographical position.
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  128. I just hope that the cost of all this help is coming from the treasury and not the defence budget.
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  129. ​ @jbassguy571  To be fair all the Americans I have met are decent, honourable people and I have always liked and respected them. Like the UK however, successive governments have abused ordinary Americans for their own gain and people turn to extremes in response.
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  130. I may be wrong, but I always believed that was the intent of the original flat earthers, to encourage people to look into the background science.
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  131. I would like to see a land based version of Samson/Aster 30 to defend against possible cruise missiles, air or sea launched.
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  132. Is that why they are still advancing?
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  133. Does Ukraine have stocks of it though? Does the UK or US even?
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  134. People are so naïve over EMP. A lot of military equipment has been hardened against it, dating back to the cold war days.
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  135.  @majorchungus  That is true. I have no real issue with hydrogen power to be honest, though I think it is better suited to public service vehicles making lots of short journeys.
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  136. ​ @xyves8488  If speculation of "permanent" deployment of boats to Australian ports is more then just that, then maintenance in Australian yards would be desirable. There are loads of systems on board a submarine that require regular maintenance other than the reactor. One possible route for Australia could involve overseas deployment of US/UK submarines with co-opted Australian crewmembers. Assembly of "modules" built in Australia and either the UK or US followed eventually by full construction in Australian yards.
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  137.  @xyves8488  Grow up
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  138. Why did they not distribute the aid already in Gaza at the Karem Shalom checkpoint?
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  139.  @MichaelApproved  The difference is simple. CGI: "That's what my relative went through" Video: "My relative is inside that"
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  140.  @MM-te8tz  What happened prior to touchdown is currently speculation, however the airport should have learned from the Tam Airlines flight 3054 accident in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2007. If a solid structure was unavoidable, additional mitigation should have been installed to arrest the aircraft.
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  141.  @Memememe-is1yn  Neither side can stop an all out exchange, so all those hypersonics are good for is starting a war by accident.
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  142.  @tassied12  Care to hazard a guess how much actual "waste" is produced?
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  143.  Michael Pezzullo  Child
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  144. You could do a lot worse than to look at the CANDU design in Australia.
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  145.  @sammiemakki9339  It is not prohibited to use against entrenched positions, even if those positions are in a forest or treeline.
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  146.  @tivmego  Oh there are plenty of news sources online, which comes with the added benefits of having news from multiple countries and sources other than msm.
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  147. Which civil reactors run on "Super enriched uranium?"
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  148.  @EbenBransome  I call a system which allows water to flow from one compartment into another poorly designed.
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  149. Of course, why would a wild weasel pilot understand about surface to air capability 🙄
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  150. Italy and the UK operate the F35B, S Korea and Singapore have selected them. Few countries have a need for the C variant as they are intended for carrier operations.
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  151.  @rattusfinkus  No they don't. Cost while they are producing might be cheap, but they conveniently ignore costs associated with backup, increased distribution infrastructure and grid intermittency issues.
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  152.  @Veeger  We haven't built a reactor specifically for plutonium production since Chapel cross in 1960. The UK does not require more plutonium, it has more than it has warheads.
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  153. "Nuclear explosion", "10 MILLION tons of nuclear fuel" This guy is a joke.
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  154.  @whatthefuck1011  Without those spooks you would be crapping your pants every time you heard a bang in a public space.
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  155.  @jackcloud4728  Nothing to do with political correctness. If an individual soldier meets the standard they should be allowed to join. If they don't then they are out, male or female.
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  156. But you do need to help your service personnel by giving them decent kit.
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  157.  @allanknudsen2490  Angers me too. I'm British and have always seen the US as an ally (They will be again when this idiot leaves office). We should have stepped up, both defence spending and support for Ukraine. The op agrees with us though, I respect him for that.
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  158. F35s are arriving as fast as they can be built.
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  159. Maybe because you don't look in the right places?
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  160.  @williamsmith1741  I was not intending to criticise, I agree with your OP. The "anti's" however will jump on any minor point as an excuse to discredit your information.
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  161. Flat earther alert!
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  162. Always said that if I was ever able to migrate from the UK to the US I would settle in New Mexico. I had a couple of two-week stints working at the NMT site down in Socorro and loved it. Give me a ready supply of tea, warm beer and a telescope.... Alas, wasn't to be.
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  163. Until the Russians show debris from Storm Shadow/ATACMs strikes. Now, supplying Western components is less of a problem, given that Russia uses similar components in its weaponry.
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  164. What twaddle. The Sea Dart only left service with the decommissioning of the last Type 42 destroyer in 2013 and was used in the first gulf war (where it intercepted an anti-ship missile targeting the battleship USS Missouri.)
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  165. Complete no brainer given Australia's natural resources.
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  166. ​ @JackRichardsonM8 That's is what the lifting of the ban will allow Australia to decide.
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  167. How do you know, or do you think those images were actually the real thing?
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  168. I trust we will never see you in a doctors surgery then?
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  169. It is not the president who is at fault (current or previous), it is the system. An electoral system that requires a potential candidate to raise billions of dollars in order to run for office is wide open to corruption.
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  170.  @colinsmith2005  Nothing would happen, the plane would disintegrate.
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  171. Of course we do, everyone spies on everyone else.
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  172. It depends which Sea Kings are being supplied; HC, HAR or HAS variant. The HC are troop and utility transport helicopters. HAR are the Search and Rescue variant. They have search radar but no acoustic search equipment. HAS are the anti-submarine variant. They have both search radar and acoustic sensors (dipping sonar and buoys) plus the ability to carry torpedoes and depth charges. News items would suggest that it is the HAR variant that is being supplied.
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  173. By "Handle" do you mean walk into a school and start firing?
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  174.  @mweskamppp  Sorry I'm not sure I understand your point here. My line of argument is that the West were not building up Ukraine's armed forces to "attack Russia" since Russia had massively superior manpower, weaponry, land area and nuclear backup. Such an attack would be doomed to failure. The west is arming Ukraine to allow them to defend themselves and (hopefully) throw the Russians out of occupied Ukrainian territory, which is a possibility. Apologies if my comment was confusing.
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  175.  @JakutzaLP  Meanwhile, biomass is still promoted as "green energy"
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  176.  @xyves8488  No, you missed my point entirely (and I am a Pom not an American) You are going from zero to full capability and that is not going to happen overnight. The first step is to build up experience in the RAN, so if the deployment thing happens, working mixed crews would be a good thing (like the RAF crews working on the Aussie Wedgetails prior to acquisition) Your sub yards could build up experience on nuke boats by first maintaining stationed USN/RN subs then begin assembling the first (however many) RAN boats using modules made in the US/UK (maybe certain critical sections such as the reactor for example). Then as the yard gains experience it moves onto full construction. Seems like a logical way for Australia to both gain access to nuclear subs asap and develop a reliable, indigenous manufacturing capability?
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  177.  @xyves8488  You are right, some people grow old but remain immature. Throwing insults when they have no argument is a sure sign of this.
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  178.  @arturoeugster7228  Glass fibre which is manufactured by heating sand to high temperature, usually in a gas operated furnace.
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  179. Perhaps there is a market opportunity for a fertiliser manufacturer who included minerals and trace elements in their products?
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  180. I guess that depends what you are up to. I would rather my own side had access to the data terrorists are using to plot attacks on my country personally.
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  181. Respect to John Reid for having the balls to let the operation run.
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  182.  @dallesamllhals9161  Yawn, keep reading the troll sites and posters.
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  183.  @philmurdoch1203  Listen to the video again, he addresses that very point. The latest US/UK reactors are built such that they do not require refueling during their operational lives, current French reactors do require refueling. That would leave Australia with two options: Send the subs back to France for a mid-life refuel, or invest in their own refueling facilities. Both options are expensive and result in the boats being unavailable for longer during refit.
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  184. What is the cost of MALD compared with say a Banshee target drone?
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  185.  @dubiumguy  If that price is true then that is indeed a good price when compared to S300 etc.
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  186.  @polarbear7255  CANDU are not fast breeder reactors, they can "burn" non enriched fuel because they use heavy water (deuterium oxide) rather than standard water as the moderator. Deuterium oxide absorbs fewer neutrons, leaving more to find the fissile U235. They are a good design though.
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  187. On its own you are right, it will not make a big difference. It will however allow Ukraine to attack command bunkers, ammunition/fuel stores, staging areas, airfields, naval bases etc deeper into occupied territory, which will help relieve pressure on the guys in the front line.
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  188.  @flyboyben8384  The British did not engage in "Terror bombing" from day one. We responded to attacks on London in a similar manner. Easy for the US to stay out of it when they had not been on the receiving end.
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  189.  @jaex9617  Always listen at 0.75 myself.
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  190.  @UkTruckerStu  I take it you only ever watch the EPL
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  191.  @cestmoi1262  Except it wasn't, it was poorly designed.
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  192. Same issue in the UK. The greens love to say how cheap wind power is, but they never install the storage necessary to make it reliable.
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  193. I can't help feeling that is a mistake, the A400 seems a bit big for some roles. I would love to know what the pilots think, especially those involved in covert insertion etc.
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  194.  @rattusfinkus  Reality. Renewables without hydro or geothermal rely on either fossil or nuclear backup. Gas and/or coal plant must be maintained even if not running (thus generating no financial return) RE advocates always call for grid improvements, though they never include the cost in their own figures. A nuclear reactor has high up front costs, but has a far higher operational capacity and can be sited to take advantage of existing grid infrastructure.
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  195. Well that will p-off the trolls 😂
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  196.  @Poorlineforeva  I have no need to shout. The world is slowly accepting the fact that we should have been building nuclear for the last thirty years.
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  197. I would say one thing (as a Pom). Go with the Astute or go with the Virginia, but for God's sake don't go with an Astute with US tech while trying to build an indigenous manufacturing capability. Your learning curve will be high enough without trying to integrate mismatched tech.
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  198. As long as the Treasury provides the money to replace the kit we are sending.
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  199. I feel for you. I know a true patriot when I see one.
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  200.  @allanknudsen2490  Come on man, don't attack individuals. Especially ones who don't support what has happened.
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  201.  @greenranger2764  He still requires FAA approval, that is why testing at Bocca Chica is currently suspended. Rocket technology is covered by ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations); what can launch a satellite can launch a warhead.
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  202.  @TonyFisherPuzzles  If what they are doing endangers other people then yes, it is other people's business.
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  203.  @snaxx82  Just as the rest of the world is about to move on from a physical standard kilogram.
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  204. Submarines by their nature are higher risk than surface ship, regardless of their propulsion mechanism.
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  205.  @JamesGP89  Here you go, have a cookie.
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  206.  @johnstevens213  You are wrong. For the record the USS Virginia was laid down in September 1999 and commissioned in October 2004. HMS Astute was laid down in January 2001 but not commissioned until August 2010. They are therefore contemporaneous in design.
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  207. That's not entirely true as it depends on operational circumstances. For operations in shallow coastal waters diesel-electric boats are superior owing to their generally smaller size and lower noise signature. However, in Australia's case the switch to nuclear propulsion makes perfect sense given the area of ocean they need to cover to protect their trade lanes.
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  208. What's to say? A tank was hit, the crew probably survived. That's what happens in war (unless you are in a Russian tank, where the crew usually dies).
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  209. Happy Australia Day from the land of the Poms.
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  210. At least set up the regulatory infrastructure necessary to evaluate and license new reactor designs if nuclear does prove to have a part to play.
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  211. Even Comical Ali talked less BS than the Russians.
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  212.  @colonelangus8247  It was a USAF drone, not a private operator.
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  213. As long as they don't enter US airspace there is nothing the US can do about it. Mexico might be a little peeved however.
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  214. UK 40 years ago HMS Invincible? Followed by HMS Hermes, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal.
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  215.  @johnallen7807  Wallace is ex Scots Guards and Mordant is/was a navy reservist.
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  216. It would make sense to have all runway hold points covered by a camera I would have thought?
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  217.  @suzanneterrey4499  Fit a wiper?
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  218.  @asmaar566  I was assuming that he was talking about UK troops. One of their primary roles (Marines at least) in NATO is support to Norway.
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  219. Man's best friend for sure.
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  220.  @JackRichardsonM8  Which utility would go to the trouble of producing such plans while there is no possibility of them being accepted?
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  221.  @rattusfinkus  lol
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  222.  @rattusfinkus  The market is skewed by arcane planning regulations, subsidies and irrational public perception. Which is why nuclear generation should be run by governments, not private industry.
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  223.  @MentourPilot  Give them a fuss from me 😊
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  224. Please don't exaggerate, it does the case for nuclear no good. There will always be a requirement to mine uranium (or thorium) as there is a finite quantity of high level nuclear waste (HLW) in existence. Those "burner" reactors are an excellent technology and will reduce both the quantity of waste produced and the time over which it poses a significant radiological hazard, but they do not produce "practically inert" waste. What they produce are fission products and they are highly radioactive. The good news is that many of those fission products are so highly radioactive that they decay to inert material in a relatively short timescale. Thus a relatively short period of managed storage (tens of years) will see a significant drop in activity and associated decay heat generation. Indeed it is quite possible to imagine a system in which that decay heat might itself be used to generate additional power. Eventually activity will decrease to the point where it is safe to consign the remaining waste to deep burial. That final waste will be shorter lived than that arising from traditional reactors, due to the lack of actinides, but it will remain hazardous for hundreds of years.
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  225. The opposition in those wars were very poorly equipped for cold weather fighting.
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  226. Just don't dismantle them, you may need them when the wind isn't blowing.
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  227. That might be because he does not run the UK?
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  228. UK could use a few of these for its carriers.
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  229. Thorium power is nuclear.
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  230.  @rattusfinkus  It is not so much the cost reduction, it is the reduced manufacturing time that is the real bonus. If you can churn out reactor vessels every few days, instead of every year, then you are truly looking at production line economics.
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  231. He has been in power for three years and a back bencher for eleven. He is not responsible for the failure to build a single nuclear reactor in the last twenty seven years. The only UK prime minister to authorise construction of a reactor since Thatcher was Cameron, in 2012.
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  232. Not until the world moves on from religious bigotry unfortunately.
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  233. Yes
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  234. Create a logistical nightmare, sensible.
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  235.  @Wispeks  The problem with Gripen is that it is reliant upon a license-built US engine.
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  236. Given that he gets the ones who don't go to heaven it stands to reason that he knows the number who do.
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  237.  @classydave75  Capitalism is simply the process of supply and demand.
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  238. Move from polluting energy sources to green ones over time, ensuring energy demand is met at affordable prices. It's not exactly rocket engineering!
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  239. Any excuse to show a Bucc is fine by me 🙃
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  240.  @Will-Alee  Many of the ferry pilots that took aircraft from the factories to the RAF airfields were women.
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  241.  @SJF15  Ffs. The point of this thread is that the pilots THOUGHT they had done everything right. They believed this because they had succumbed to "confirmation bias" whereby the responses from the aeroplane to their actions appeared to confirm their diagnosis of the problem. This accident is a good example of how a natural reaction to an emergency can cause the unwary to make incorrect decisions. Why do commenters find this so hard to understand?
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  242. I'm sorry Sten. I like your videos, but using Bruce's image in this way so soon after the release of his condition feels tactless and lacking respect. I would have hoped for more from you 😞
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  243.  @alexandrebouchet9283  Yes, Russian and Chinese trolls are very active on the internet.
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  244. It is cheap if you just look at cost per KWh generated. It is not cheap if you include the necessary storage and over capacity needed to ensure reliability.
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  245. When governments prevent examination of the figures, ask why.
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  246. The important take from this is that nuclear should be PART of the solution. It's time to end the "Us and them" attitude to future power generation and choose the best tool for the job on a case by case basis.
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  247.  @tassied12  No it's not Australia. Solar is reliable in that you can guarantee to lose it entirely for ten hours a day. Solar is poor over here but we have some of the best conditions anywhere for wind power and wind does not stop at night. When renewables are working they are good, when they are not working its time to light the fossil fuel stations.
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  248.  @andreassumerauer5028  The UK did not join the "Union", they joined the European Economic Community (EEC). The EU was not formed until 1993 and UK citizens were not allowed a vote; unlike those of most other countries. Do some research..
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  249.  @jblue88hoodgamer54  Lol
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  250.  @theo3030  Simp on.
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  251.  @jayfrosti9422  Of course not. 30 years in the defence world, why would I?
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  252.  @Angry.General1461  We have armed police when we need them. Military stocks do appear to have been allowed to drop too low though if rumours are correct.
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  253. Lol. It is an attack sub not a boomer. Muppet.
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  254. News flash. The world is not flat.
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  255.  @rattusfinkus  Batteries 🤣🤣
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  256. We don't really need nuke carriers. I would take more T45's but even the US are now building frigates. Two or three more Astute's would be nice though.
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  257.  @rattusfinkus  Except those studies do not look at whole life costs, where nuclear proves to be cheaper. 100% RE only works well if you have access to plentiful hydro or geo.
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  258. UK could in theory help take up some of the slack by opening a second build hall but there are still great opportunities for SA. Best wishes from a pom.
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  259. When did Australia have a civil war?
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  260. I can't help wondering if Hostile Fire Indicators might be adapted to give early warning of incoming drones? Also, why is the UK still effing around with Ajax when this vehicle is available?
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  261. To be honest. Some of the blokes act like such tarts on the field they don't deserve to be called Lions. Bloody good performance by the Lionesses, proud of you.
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  262. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
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  263.  @PinkPoo  Respect because they have a history of outstanding bravery and service to our country.
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  264. The whole world is quaking at the thought of a second Trump administration!
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  265.  @Lemingtona-x5g  In your head
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  266.  @richardgallagher4880  What's to debate? One of us will be proved right and the other wrong.
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  267. Don't be so lazy and go look for it, it's out there.
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  268. I wouldn't say it was a lie as that would require foreknowledge. I think, as the video suggests, something has happened or at least worsened more quickly than expected.
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  269. Why don't you look at science instead of propaganda sites?
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  270.  @Poorlineforeva In your head, yes.
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  271.  @thecursed01  Because it's only a matter of time before people stop using the platform if it continues down its current path?
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  272.  @thecursed01  True, but YT has become a lot worse the last couple of years.
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  273. Digging out copper, cobalt, rare-earth metals are emissions free? Digging out coal to produce resin for turbine blades is emissions fee? Converting silicon dioxide to silicon is emissions free? No form of energy production is emissions free or without environmental impact.
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  274. In the short term yes. Look at the US, shale gas has lowered their CO2 emissions by replacing coal. If Aus is building wind and solar anyway then switch baseload from coal to gas, followed by nuclear once regulation and manufacturing infrastructure is in place.
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  275. I like that particular technology too as it offers the potential to use U238 as a fuel and has less reliance on speciality salts. I suspect thermal spectrum designs might prove a little easier to license in the short term, though that is more gut feeling than evidence based.
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  276. They are not flown by the air force.
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  277.  @jasondashney  I don't want to make this a flat earth discussion. As I said I think the early "proponents" saw it more as a thought exercise.
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  278. WW3 will only start in a region where everyone dying is not seen as a problem. Cue religion.
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  279. Not for many thousands of years.
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  280. Whirlwind
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  281. It's not that simple to switch to LNG. Countries have to have LNG terminals with sufficient capacity to land it.
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  282. Name one.
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  283.  @Lewisloui  Agreed.
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  284.  @johnallen7807  The defence secretary and previous defence secretary were both military.
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  285.  @rattusfinkus  So you accept that they can be produced in time then? Renewables sound cheap, but their capacity factors are low and they require either backup or storage - which is rarely included in cost. Then they have to be replaced regularly. They are not as "cheap" as people make out.
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  286.  @rattusfinkus  You are out of date wrt LCOE's, they have always underestimated the cost of renewables
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  287. ​ @rattusfinkus  Wrong. They underestimate the cost of the backup needed to support renewables.
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  288.  CHRISTIAN KNIGHT  Trouble is Ukraine does not operate Typhoon or Western helicopters.
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  289.  @johnallen7807  Just a nickname people gave me. I am sick of deniers like you who constantly undermine efforts to control Covid. There is ample evidence from around the world of the effectiveness of facemasks, but you continue to put lives at risk with your drivel.
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  290. It doesn't really matter if it takes fifteen years to build a reactor as by then, some of the interim PV and wind turbines will be reaching end of life and need replacing. So replace them with something reliable that gives operational capacities in the 80+% range and will last for 60+ years.
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  291. It could be the calmest day on record and you wouldn't get me up there for anything. Respect!
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  292.  @asmaar566  It does, I suspect there might have been a motive behind the OP though.
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  293. Almost 40 years ago and the result of a poor reactor design and even worse operating procedures.
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  294. The problems associated with depleted uranium relate more to its form and means of entry to into the body than its inherant radioactivity. As a round it is pretty safe to handle, however when it penetrates armour it emerges as a fine pyrophoric mist and is converted to breathable uranium oxide dust. It is the radioactive dust which represents the greatest hazard.
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  295.  @robbo6689  You can, but then your car will not work until you charge it again.
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  296. Yes you should. If it turns out that renewables can meet Australia's energy demand then fine, but with the uranium resources that it has it would be foolish not to at least consider it.
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  297.  @JackRichardsonM8  In a country where they are banned?
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  298. The UK is not replacing Trident, it is replacing the submarines that carry it.
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  299. Why should he? France did not expel any UK people.
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  300. Superb work, loved it
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  301.  @andynct  It's a Jaguar, look at the undercarriage and engine intake sizes for a start.
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  302.  @MilanGR-888  Luck?
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  303. Possibly. It could also be workers cutting corners. Both occur, neither are acceptable, especially on a submarine!
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  304. Actually this one isn't so bad. At least he has left gaps between sentences.
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  305. You are thinking of the Sukhoi.
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  306. Some of us have the ability to maintain concentration for more than three minutes.
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  307. No.
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  308. The West is being slowly dismantled from within.
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  309.  @arwelp  I was not aware of that, thanks.
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  310. The clue might be in the first "A"? They are not just a space organisation.
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  311. Yes.
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  312. Or look back to the solutions developed decades ago.
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  313. @Democratic Socialists of Australia Yes, which it can achieve for only twelve of the twenty four hours each day. Last year solar averaged 1.3GW. Combined solar and wind can theoretically produce at least 18GW but last year averaged only 8GW. Research: Reality.
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  314. @Democratic Socialists of Australia It's currently 18:30 here in the UK and still light. Solar, wind and Hydro are currently generating 2.52GW of electricity, or 8.5%5 of demand. Tell me again how cheap they are when we are currently relying on fossil fuel for 57% of our needs?
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  315. Same thing as will happen if the grid is powered by renewables.
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  316.  @mycamguy  Neither would nuclear. Whatever "event" hit the earth now we would have ample warning to shut down vulnerable equipment.
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  317.  @ryanmarshall3640  Get a sense of humor.
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  318. There is a reason that the makers of SMR's are targeting coal and not renewables. They know that if they can produce reliable electricity cheaper than coal then the developing nations will buy into their technology.
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  319. As a non pilot with only an interest in aviation, I recognise that a combination of rising angle of attack and falling airspeed is a sure sign of an impending stall. Why do you think it is that we see so many examples of trained pilots not recognising that their aircraft is approaching/in a stall, even when the stick shaker operates?
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  320. So you're to blame 🙃
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  321.  @rattusfinkus  Costs do not have to match renewables, they have to match renewables plus storage (and all it's associated infrastructure)
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  322. 24, 14, 32, 3, 8.... :D
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  323. Spot on.
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  324. Which is precisely what it was designed for, to be able to operate while other aircraft were grounded.
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  325. Nice one Jerry
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  326. Defence: £56bn Universal Credit: £59.8bn Pensions: £134.8bn Health: £245bn
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  327. Lost any credibility when you mentioned the Falklands war.
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  328. I always preferred the looks of the Hurricane, but then my favourite aircraft is probably the Ju52-3m, so what can I say? 🤣
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  329. Going to be very difficult to push the "Trump is not well" line after four years of Biden.
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  330. They are not 😟 I just hope we do the decent thing by those who helped us while we were there.
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  331. Wrong. Most nuclear uses lots of water because it is cheap and available but there are nuclear power plants in desert locations. Australia's large urban/industrial centres are close to the coast anyway.
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  332.  @giostisskylas  Britain has a track record of being quite good at war.
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  333. I think this is probably the most upsetting video you have put out. So many lives lost in an incident which was entirely preventable just by following established procedures.
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  334. During last winter the UK had two and a half days with less than two Giga Watts of wind power generation. At least 420GWh of missing power.
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  335.  @tassied12  I did not suggest it was, I was responding to the 4 hour storage claim that referred to both solar and wind. However sunny Australia is it only generates power during the day and requires storage to cover the dark hours.
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  336.  @johnlee3899  Return of the press gang ;)
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  337. Pardon? Every aircraft with reheat/afterburner has a higher heat output than the Harrier. The front exhaust nozzles emit much cooler air than the rear nozzles as they draw bypass air from the turbofan. While a supersonic fighter variant might have been nice, the Harrier did not require supersonic speed, it was a ground attack/CAS aircraft.
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  338. "Elon doesn't fact check" He brought in Community notes!
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  339.  @noneshere  Russian troll or just thick?
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  340. To the rabid left, any one to the right of their position is a fascist.
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  341.  ZOV_VLAD_Combat.footage  Odd how you "non-bots" all use the same language.
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  342. Has an energy capacity factor of only 25%. Which means additional generation capacity and storage, all of which require resources to produce.
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  343. So that was the cause. Excellent video. I met a few people who were on this flight and from what the told me, I would have likely suffered a brown trouser incident!
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  344.  @SwissPGO  True, though that does depend on reactor type. There are many industrial chemical and pharmaceutical processes that require heat in the boiling water range. In the short term I am a fan of High Temperature Gas Reactors for combined power/industrial heat generation. Longer term I like the fast reactor technology using either molten metal or salt as they also operate at higher temperatures. I believe that the plans for the FLT fusion reactor is envisioning the use of molten lead? As you say distribution is an issue which is where SMRs come into their own, especially ones with sealed, removable reactor modules.
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  345.  @andyhowlett2231  Then sack him and amend the law.
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  346. He has passed it off as a joke (as Brand did with her comment on throwing acid at Farage). The BBC have said nothing.
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  347. On a positive not, both the EJ200 and M88 engines look like they could be adapted to fit the design.
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  348. Brilliant. I will have to look out for this. Love the Hurricane but I had no idea there was an airworthy two-seater.
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  349.  @matze3207  Damn, you have ruined my illusions. I thought they had auto-flushing loos :D
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  350. Vastly overrated EMP
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  351.  @YA-qj8fx  You have an extremely low chance of suffering any of those conditions by receiving a vaccination, however you will significantly reduce both the effects of Covid infection if you do catch it and your chance of passing it on to someone else.
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  352. Excellent video. Question is, does LabPadre have the funding to get his cameras into space so we can all watch?
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  353.  @crystalawen  Yes I can think for myself, it's why I don't roll over to every crackpot conspiracy theory.
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  354. Once we locate an available source of U238 in space, yes. Would be handy to power space ships and off-world colonies. If you mean ship U238 to space for processing, why would we?
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  355. Soldiers often wear ballistic specs anyway and have prescription versions if needed.
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  356. So does solar and wind
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  357.  @Drakesy  It is impossible for a civil reactor to produce a nuclear explosion.
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  358. Accidents happen to all countries, military flying (especially fast jet) is not as safe as its commercial counterpart.
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  359. There should be an age limit on comments. No one under the age of 5.
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  360.  @Lasenggo  My post was tongue in cheek.
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  361. Sounds like the Spitting Image storyline about Reagan back in the 80s.
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  362.  @TehNemezis  Rather think the Russians would have been shouting about it if they had detected a cruise missile strike.
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  363. I wonder if these would fit areas allocated for 30mm guns on warships? Would be a nice upgrade for the carriers.
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  364. There are more important things for the RN to spend its defence budget on than nuclear powered carriers, like a few more attack submarines.
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  365.  @Then.72  Any ship can be sunk by one torpedo, nuclear powered or not. The after effects may be disastrous, but they are perfectly capable war fighting machines.
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  366.  @dallesamllhals9161  Not American.
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  367.  @dallesamllhals9161  Care to rephrase that in English?
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  368.  @tassied12  I have seen similar figures in the UK;14GW generated by wind and 7GW by solar and 62% of demand. The trouble is that for three and a half days last week total wind and solar was under 5GW, at their worst under 1GW. Average generation over the past year was 10.5GW (34.3% of average demand) The simple fact is, renewables only work if you have both excess generating capacity and copious storage. For the UK that would be 2,500 GWh to cover 3.5 days.
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  369.  @tassied12  We have just done the same, 196MWh of storage. To meet three and a half days of UK power would require over 12,500 of them. All of this is at a time when most cars, buses, lorries and some trains run on fossil fuel. When the majority of houses are heated by gas. People just done realise the scale of nett zero.
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  370.  @tassied12  67% when? Always? Hydro?
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  371.  @rattusfinkus  France has been running on mostly nuclear for decades without issue and has some of the cleanest and cheapest electricity in Europe.
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  372.  @rattusfinkus  No, it really is not. Average build time for a nuclear reactor is about seven years.
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  373.  @rattusfinkus  Aus, yes. That's not unreasonable. You have wasted even more years than the UK.
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  374.  @polarbear7255  That's true, I was talking about full sized plants. SMR's can have the advantage in areas without complex grid systems, remote locations, for industrial support etc
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  375. That one made me chuckle.
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  376.  @EthanThomson  That is what I thought. It might still be worth supplying Banshee (with the supersonic Rattler sub-drone) to Ukraine though. If nothing else it would draw fire from S300/400 systems and could be "enhanced" to simulate an SU-24 on radar.
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  377.  Brett Mitchell  Only four of those ships are actually RN vessels. Let's say they were; three T45s and three T23s. A T45 has 48 VLS tubes and CAN carry 8 obsolete Harpoons (neither of the ships in the current deployment has them, though one has provision to). A T23 has one 32 cell VLS for self defence Sea Ceptor only. A US CSG has between three and five support ships comprising 1-2 Cruisers and 2-3 destroyers. The Ticonderoga cruiser carries 2 61-cell VLS launchers plus eight Harpoon. An Arleigh-Burke destroyer has either a 90 or 96 cell VLS system and may carry two Harpoon. Fully kitted a UK CSG would field 48 Harpoon (doubtful we still have that many launchers), 144 full VLS tubes and 96 self-defence VLS tubes. The smallest US CSG could field 12 Harpoon and 300 full VLS tubes. That's without factoring in the carriers, where a US CSG has E2-C Hawkeye AEW aircraft and does not rely on helicopter to spot incoming threats!
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  378. Ripping out the turret and placing the guns in the wing would have produced an equivalent to the Hurricane. One of the issues with operating the Hurricane (and Spitfire) in the night-fighter role was that flashes from the exhaust ports destroyed the pilots night vision.
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  379.  Alphadrummer  🙄
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  380.  @utubeape  If they ever announce that we have been visited by aliens the LAST thing we want to do is fight them.
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  381.  @utubeape  If they are here they have likely found a way to exceed the speed of light. You are not "preparing for war" with races that far ahead of you, you are preparing to die.
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  382. Stevenson's Rocket.
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  383. Absolute cobblers. Every time we have had a lockdown in the UK the figures for hospitalisations and deaths drop. As soon as lockdowns were lifted, they rose again.
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  384. Thanks for the explanation. I had always assumed that the crash was down to a change in the cg as the load moved, just goes to show why speculation is a dangerous thing.
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  385. Still don't understand why they are fitting a 5" gun to a dedicated ASW platform. A smaller calibre multi-purpose gun would have been better and maybe allowed for an increase in VLS cells. No way will they risk one of those for gunfire support.
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  386. I just wish the greens would be as honest as they claim other groups are dishonest.
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  387.  @tivmego  It's not my media. I have never bought a newspapers unless I am travelling and my TV has not worked since 2011.
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  388.  @sparkie996  My lack of TV is a choice not a necessity.
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  389.  @donnairn3419  That is the Germans
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  390.  @gregoryhouse5240  Yawn
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  391.  @anotherperspective8555  It IS safe once it has been sealed and buried. It is converted to a glass or ceramic and buried. It is going nowhere.
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  392. IF you have the means to siphon it from the reactor without being spotted and work on it without killing yourself.
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  393.  @alexrock3162  UK did ski jumps ten years before the Russians
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  394.  @tomconneely1361  My best memory of the Vulcan at air shows was an early (for me) Mildenhall. Would have been '83/4 ish and the Vulcan displayed to a Clannad song. Not only did it howl, but when it turned it would suddenly become almost silent; leaving just the haunting melody and distant rumble of a thunder storm.
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  395. Not at the moment, no.
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  396. McGuinness and Paisley spring to mind. (Spelling)
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  397. Get a life.
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  398. NATO is a mutual defence pact where all members agree to act in support of any member subject to a physical attack. In it's history this has only ever occurred twice- The Berlin airlift following a Soviet blockade and when NATO mobilised in support of the USA following the 911 attack.
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  399.  @stevenmorris3181  I rest my case
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  400. Linked channel is no more.
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  401. There are manned NATO aircraft flying over the Black Sea on a regular basis.
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  402. @Freiherr Dinkelacker No deflection whatsoever. Ukraine was an independent sovereign state that Russia chose to invade. The west chose to aid them.
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  403.  @peterwone7001  I am not so sure. Riders and drivers react well to collision avoidance it's true, but that's something we do as a matter of everyday life. We don't bump into each other when walking as a rule. I was talking about the split second diagnosis of unexpected technical issues. "What has happened, how will it affect the aircraft, what do I need to do immediately to get to a safe state?" How many flights have ended safely because a pilot, while processing all of this information, has also flicked a switch or changed a control setting that has proved crucial?
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  404. The Paparazzi.
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  405. Fusion will replace nothing in the near term. No one is close to running a research reactor with positive energy output, let alone designing, building and licensing a commercial example.
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  406. Debateable, there are no licensed SMR's at the moment and Australia does not even have the infrastructure in place to license one.
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  407. Sort of. Sr90 RTG's require too much shielding and will only really become viable for space applications.
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  408. Not wise if they are likely to fall into Russian hands.
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  409. Many people belong to both camps.
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  410. Everyone likes explosions.
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  411.  @FrancisHegarty  Right. 🙄
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  412. Macron is behaving like a petulant schoolboy.
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  413. Best way forward is to just ignore them.
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  414. Probably because AI is insufficiently developed to do the job?
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  415.  @chapter4travels  It is not completely impractical, it is however situational. Would you install it in Norway? Of course not, but you might in certain regions of Spain, Mexico or the middle east.
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  416.  @RasmusSchultz  No you are not wrong. Molten salt storage has been proposed for other reactor types and solar collection arrays. In the former case it is best suited to high temperature reactors such as those using sodium, lead or helium as coolant or those using molten salt as the fuel carrier.
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  417.  @Derty_the_grower  Who is recommending building reactors based on fifty year old technology?
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  418. Stingray torpedoes.
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  419.  @Bite_Me_MF  Rot. Tradition and progress are not mutually exclusive.
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  420.  @linnetcooke5967  Yes they do. What I meant was twofold. First, that the funding comes from the Treasury's contingency fund and not the defence budget. Second, that they do actually replace the kit we have donated and don't just leave our armed forces short.
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  421. @SplurbBat I have no problem with us paying to help the Ukrainians, I just want to be sure that the money is not coming from the defence budget.
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  422.  @karlmunford7000  It is an interesting discussion point "What would have happened if Britain had made peace with Germany after the fall of France?"
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  423.  @jbassguy571  True, there are supporters.
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  424. Spot on. This approach does not require the huge investment in manpower that tanks and AFV's demand. Fight them in the air and on water, before they land.
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  425. 🤣🤣
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  426. How about giving people time to read the captions?
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  427. Have to ask why? I love the KC135 but many are older than I am!
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  428. Given your vast reserves of uranium I am amazed Australia doesn't have a thriving nuclear industry.
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  429.  @jimjones9239  If you believe symbolism is of no consequence, then I am not surprised you have fallen for Trump's BS. A child has more political awareness.
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  430.  @rattusfinkus  Just in time to replace all the worn out wind and solar then.
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  431.  Vihari N  Rather racist comment there Vihari
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  432.  @kissifferbritannica5357  🙄🙄
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  433.  @isa_L  Believe what you will.
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  434.  @isa_L  And I am going to waste no more time on an infant.
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  435.  @elainereaper259  Airbus have had similar problems with their aircraft.
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  436. We wouldn't have human induced climate change is what she meant, as you probably know. For the record King Cnut was actually trying to prove that even as a king he was not omnipotent and could not turn back the tide.
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  437.  @peacepoet1947  And your point is?
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  438. He's not a liar, he's just a very confused old man 🙃 Edit: THIS POST WAS A JOKE based on a line from a Monty Python movie, not a good joke admittedly.
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  439.  @brynclarke1746  Until they try to go up against the same defender using non-stealth jets. Stealth does not make an aircraft invisible, or invulnerable, just a lot harder to counter.
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  440.  @NoRegertsHere  I would be happy with either or both technologies to be honest. I have always found the proliferation argument a bit of a strawman. SMR reactors can be supplied as sealed units and removed for decommissioning after use. Alternatively operation can be monitored via the IAEA. The only country going the weapons route by limiting IAEA access is Iran and everyone knows what they are doing hence the international sanctions. Any country with the budget and the will can make nuclear weapons, but they can not hide it under the cover of a commercial power program.
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  441.  @NoRegertsHere  Having worked in the public sector, I do not.
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  442. Hyperbole, much.
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  443. Looks like they hit an S400 as well.
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  444. Your argument supports what I was thinking. Even if it was known that oil supplies would become a problem by the time the Panther and Tiger became operational, the fact remains that the Mark IV was inferior to the Russian tanks they were facing. So what options did the Germans have? 1) Continue to fight with an increasingly vulnerable tank; necessitating an increase in tank numbers at a time when diesel/petrol supplies were dwindling. 2) Move to a fighting doctrine that relied more heavily on infantry and artillery and less on armour; restricting tactical options. 3) Produce fewer, but more capable tanks that would outclass the T34 and JS1. Without the benefit of hindsight it is not difficult to see the attraction of the third option. The fact that both tanks suffered technical issues is not really relevant; UK and US leaders must have been absolute barmpots based on some of the tank designs we produced!
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  445.  @alamoemperor3845  Though you have trained to carry US bombs since the introduction of the Starfighter in 1960 and had a (US owned) nuclear missile capability in 1959.
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  446. The enemy of my enemy.....
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  447. Good review and thanks for voicing it yourself.
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  448. NATO
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  449.  @soccerguy2433  However much you spend, above ground munitions storage will never be proof against nuclear weapons.
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  450.  @Jon-es-i6o  Unfortunately they did not give us a referendum when they decided to make it the European Union. All countries had to agree and most put the question to their people. Major decided he knew best (or thought he would lose the vote) and refused to hold one.
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  451. No, they are not breeder reactors.
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  452.  @patmooney9024  Not missing the point at all. The whole world, outside of national airspace is free for all users.
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  453.  @patmooney9024  Keep taking the meds
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  454. Yes, a technology that was abandoned years ago.
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  455.  @jjm8224  Once the US was identified as the potential target they had to be informed. They are an ally, one of the closest we have.
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  456.  @haruchai  Waste: Reprocess to only fission products, then deep burial in mines or preferably boreholes. Accidents: Fukushima might have had some local environmental impact but no one died as a result (one worker may have died from secondary cancer, though this is not proven). A modern design would not have suffered the same failure under those conditions. Nuclear remains one of the safest forms of energy production.
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  457.  @davidhouseman4328  You can, if you have AWACS up 24/7. What worries me is the surprise cruise missile strike on our radar sites from an SSGN. Even if they are detected there is no way that a QRA could be on station in time to intercept. Then we are blind and reliant upon NATO AWACS cover.
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  458.  @budwhite9591  Why? Both are far more capable than the Tornado.
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  459. Doesn't have to be thorium based, but does need to be liquid fuelled.
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  460.  @goranmarkovic6002  We are talking about the Mig 25 back in the 1980's. The only means of delivering a wide area EMP pulse was a high altitude nuclear explosion. Even now, start knocking out long range radar systems with EMP and the only conclusion is that you are about to launch an ICBM strike.
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  461. Should not be illegal, but it should require justification. It's one thing to require a manager or foreman to be contactable, but not an ordinary worker. If you want people on call 24/7 you have to pay them accordingly.
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  462. Hydrogen is not a power source, unless you mean fusion?
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  463. Yes, the coal and gas used when renewables are offline.
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  464.  @trs4u  I was thinking the same thing. Some vehicles are fitted with hostile fire indicators that use sound detection. Whether they would be capable of detecting drones though is beyond my knowledge.
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  465.  @vereferreus5262  And your contribution?
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  466.  @moritamikamikara3879  It's a US weapon, so yes.
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  467. The US has been by far the largest donor of weaponry and other supplies to Ukraine.
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  468. Heightist
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  469.  @romeisfallingagain  Almost 5'9" so hardly short.
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  470. Good luck fella, respect.
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  471.  @jb894  Repeat, in what way?
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  472. So, you didn't click on it by accident?
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  473.  @buildmotosykletist1987  No. I have not followed the thorium developments as, like you, I feel uranium is the more likely fuel for use in the short term.
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  474. You can't work in either?
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  475. Yes, you are.
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  476. How did you arrive at the conclusion that "Conservatives" are supposed to be hard right? They are not and never have been.
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  477.  @darrylrowe8193  Sorry my reply was supposed to be aimed at Mark, I must have miss-clicked.
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  478.  @tassied12  No, it has not. They tried back in the 1960's, but the project was abandoned. Interest only really revived about a decade ago.
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  479. The difference is the length of time it will take to gain an operating license. The RR system is based on proven technology for which there is a wealth of knowledge and experience (though you might want to look up the differences between Gen II and Gen III technology). As such, it should be relatively straightforward to demonstrate compliance with current licensing legislation. Molten salt reactors, for all their advantages going forward, will require new licensing procedures and new test regimes to prove compliance.
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  480.  @MrVaticanRag  Yes it does move on, but are you really saying that you would be happy for Indonesia, a country with practically no experience of running nuclear reactors, to license a completely new design? MSR's are fundamentally safer than PWR designs, but they still have to be designed and built correctly.
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  481.  @budgeman218  Maybe I was a little harsh on Boris to be fair. Cameron and Clegg (as usual) were most to blame as plans were already available to them and they did sod all. We (The UK) must stop the never ending court battles over planning permission and start building, Sizewell C is still not 100% free from objections. Not only does it delay construction but it wastes billions of pounds and puts off investors.
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  482. Support to Norway.
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  483. Well that is where it came from.
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  484. Produced from coal.
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  485. About the same, neither will end up in production.
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  486.  @rorychivers8769  Mostly in either non-combat roles or in areas where there was little fighting.
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  487. Hmmm. Obsolescent maybe, but not obsolete. Like the A10 today it required protection from other fighters, but it could still do its job as a CAS aircraft.
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  488. Oh dear, another chemtrail Muppet.
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  489. I hope not, I'm happy for my tax money to be used to help Ukraine.
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  490. Absolutely appalling. We are seeing the same support for barbarism here in the UK.
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  491. It's video footage, not comment.
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  492. Which was the reason NATO was established in the first place.
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  493.  @limedickandrew6016  Russia had zero right to invade Ukraine.
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  494. Talk about taking a comment out of context!
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  495.  @slobodanpaunovic3834  Four Astute and two T-boats in service, one Astute working up to replace one of the T's. Two more Astute's under construction.
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  496.  @rameshpudhucode6862  We have just built two rather nice fishing boats thanks, 65,000t each.
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  497. The missile has a range of 8km and was designed to be carried by naval helos as a counter to small boat swarms. A Lynx (MH60 equivalent) can carry 20.
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  498. Not their role, government VIPs are protected by the police.
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  499. They would be dead before they removed any material
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  500. If she visits I will scweem and scweem...! Talk about acting like petulant children.
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  501.  @Unknown_Ooh  Manufactured in 1989 and been in RAF service since 1991.
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  502. Why?
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  503.  @SpareSomeChange8080  But it makes for good hysteria, who needs facts?
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  504. Go green, go blue?
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  505. See, it's all down to beer. Any time is beer-time, no illusions required.
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  506. Wanting to move to cleaner energy sources is common sense, it's destroying the world economy to do it that is the problem. He spoke a lot of sense on that issue.
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  507.  @Randomstuffs261  Good luck. Are they throwing in any free Harpoons? ;)
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  508. NZ has declared itself nuclear-free, they are not likely to be operating nuclear powered subs any time soon. Pity the Canucks haven't joined though.
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  509.  @MentourPilot  For info, in the UK the letters are usually spelled out, so it is a Bee Ay Cee 111.
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  510. Journalists, working against the British people since the inception of communism.
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  511.  @daisybelle1025  Who were you directing that at?
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  512.  @MolecularArts  I wouldn't know I'm afraid, it's not my field. The records show it as a death, so it will always be quoted as such regardless. Your argument is solid though, there have been very few attributable deaths to nuclear power when compared to other energy sources.
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  513.  Michael Pezzullo  Flying a few old Harriers they bought from us (as your Marine Corp did btw)? Your own navy admit that they like having a Type 45 with them for air cover as it has superior radar to the Burke.
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  514.  @A_Pt_9298  He also has the right to claim British citizenship for that reason.
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  515. Already here http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-drone-killer-20180403-story.html
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  516.  @Poorlineforeva  They have existed for decades, but only for military use.
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  517. Just one thing, not all SMRs are the same. The ones planned for near term use are mainly based on conventional PWR technology (e.g. the Rolls Royce reactors).The ones offering advantages such as enhanced safety, waste burning etc are based on alternative technologies and will not be available for a few years yet.
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  518.  @buildmotosykletist1987  Not so. The Rolls Royce SMR is not in production, though it could be with funding (The PWR3 is military only). You may be correct on US reactors, there are so many project ongoing in the US. The Chinese SMR is at Hainan and began construction in 2021. They also refer to their high temperature gas reactor as an SMR, but I am not sure at this point if it counts as a production or research reactor.
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  519.  @tassied12  Cost is always a factor, even for the military. Cost isn't the only factor however. For example: For every 24GWh of solar electricity generated you need 2GW of installed capacity and 12GWh of storage. Obviously based on an average 12 hours of daylight and 100% efficiency. Then land area and resource cost/availability also need to be factored in. It's not as straightforward as simply looking at the cost per MWh to generate. Every country and/or region requires their own solution based upon local conditions.
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  520. @Democratic Socialists of Australia No amount of increase will alter the fact that to make intermittent renewables work the UK must install both generation over capacity and a lot of storage. This, along with increased power transfer installation/maintenance, eats into the claims of low cost.
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  521. Given that Australia has uranium resources it is madness not to use them. Go with current tech for now but keep the waste. Once liquid fuelled SMRs come onstream switch over to them. By building a few fast neutron reactors you can even burn up most of your "waste" from the earlier reactors.
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  522. At least that particular politician is a reservist.
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  523. Looked more like the laugh of someone thinking "Oh God, another conspiracy theorist" to me.
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  524.  @sethanix3969  Let me know when you have the raw materials to build al that renewable generation and storage.
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  525.  @mycamguy  No, I was responding to your point about Carrington events. Once a reactor has been shut down it only requires power for cooling and that can be provided by diesel generators.
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  526. Waste of effort. Petitions can only call for a parliamentary debate and Labour have a huge majority.
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  527.  @leiaorgana5098  Potentially safer, yes.
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  528. Biden is lucky if he can remember where Afghanistan is today.
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  529. And Ben Bova
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  530. Have you heard of Reaper and Hellfire? Just a tad more capable than an ISIS VBIED.
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  531. We operated the first commercial power reactor in the world.
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  532.  @rattusfinkus  People claim that, yet the storage is not there to back it up. Lots of ideas for the future, just like arguments against nuclear.
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  533.  @rattusfinkus  The storage is too expensive (if you are talking batteries) and untested for other options. Then huge overcapacity. Now a "smarter grid", who pays for all this? Renewables are suddenly not looking so cheap.
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  534.  @rattusfinkus  Word salad.
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  535. Scale.
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  536.  @SimonJM  Oh yes. MR1/2 were good aircraft.
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  537. In a word, corruption.
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  538.  @B-A-L  The 52 has personality, which goes a long way 🤣
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  539. I just want to be able to buy a T-shirt with the Hippy Hitler image 😂
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  540. To be honest I think the Aussies will go with a US boat for practical reasons.
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  541.  @saltymonke3682  Practical reason that the UK does not have the capacity to build more boats for Australia and they will have to wait a long time before the infrastructure and expertise is in place to build nukes themselves.
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  542.  @samuel10125  Corruption bolstered by religion, a deadly partnership.
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  543.  @GirtByIdiots  Easier to move electricity than water.
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  544.  @davegoldspink5354  Correct. Coastal nuclear stations often have their own desalination plant onsite for this reason.
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  545. Do you require any more to bash a keyboard Mr Warrior?
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  546. That's why it actually works and doesn't end up as a heap of smoking wreckage like S400.
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  547.  @Retrosicotte  Not that simple, Stinger is multi-spectral.
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  548.  @ScienceChap  Then you know that it is the man and not the missile that you try to "counter" with a system like Starstreak. As for Stinger. Yes it is simple to use, but its seeker has come a long way since the "home onto the hottest spot" seekers of early days.
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  549.  Thebossman  I only said that it is not that simple to defeat Stinger with a flare.
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  550.  Thebossman  No worries mate.
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  551. If that were the case then I am all for it. If they start picking quarrels with races capable of making it to earth, it is only going to end one way.
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  552.  @biggie9935  Actually you did say that "We got things flying around in our air space that cant be explained."
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  553. Download an ad blocker.
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  554. Not an issue. If a country wants to make nuclear weapons the only things stopping it are cost and the reaction of other countries.
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  555. Not watched "Curious Droid" then ;)
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  556.  @DanielSMatthews  I don't have your experience, but have an interest in military and naval matters (former defence scientist).
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  557.  @DanielSMatthews  Blowing stuff up is fun, but alas mostly rare.
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  558.  @slipknottin  Absolutely spot on. Literally every reviewer out there uses the same "popular" games to review GPU/RAM/CPU performance. Then they cover subjects like extreme overclocking, LN2 cooling etc. These are niche areas in the extreme compared with the number of gamers playing titles like Skylines.
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  559. They were going to, but they were also cancelled.
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  560. No they don't.
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  561. That was my thought, pre-insert a small cover party prior to a helicopter assault.
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  562.  @stephenwilcockson3498  I watch various news outlets on the internet, I don't have a working TV.
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  563. In theory, but that depends on capacity at Barrow. The yard was building three vessels consecutively and there are only two under construction at the moment. However, the yard has begun construction of the first two Dreadnought class missile boats. Although construction is at an early stage these boats will be much larger than the Astutes.
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  564.  @goattm2  So one Welsh vote should be worth more than one English vote?
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  565. Sod them you pass it on too though eh?
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  566.  @icarusfalls9315  Nope. Vaccines pre-empt your immune system so that it reacts more quickly when infected. You still catch it but your body destroys it before it has time to build up to dangerous levels. While it is in your system it still replicates, therefore you can still spread it. However, since your body is fighting it from day one, the number of replicated strands produced is very much lower and the likelihood of you infecting someone else is also much lower.
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  567. The usual tripe from the eco warrior. "Cheap" energy is no use if you only have intermittent access to it. Solutions to the waste problem have been available for decades.
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  568. " “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. "
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  569.  @SwissPGO  4GWh of heat could be damn useful to industry, it's time to stop thinking of nuclear as solely for electricity generation.
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  570. Good point, I,ve noticed this a lot recently. The Russian and Chinese bot factories are slipping.
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  571.  @qwadratix  I have seen it a lot on the BBC forums here in the UK recently, which is why I wonder if there is more to it.
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  572. We British used to be renowned for our ability to laugh at ourselves, but we are falling victim to the same rubbish.
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  573. If Trump was holding documents pertaining to human intelligence sources, not only could he go down, he should go down.
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  574.  @ralphmogridge8364  Countries such as?
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  575.  @ralphmogridge8364  Not so, the US is looking to reopen closed reactors.
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  576.  @VanderlyndenJengold  No, that was MR4, the AEW Nimrod was 30 years ago.
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  577.  @VanderlyndenJengold  You were still wrong. As for the AEW Nimrod the problem was not the airframe but integration of the radar. BAe were attempting to produce a new type of platform utilising two radars mounted in the nose and tail of the aircraft. Had it worked, the design would have eliminated one of the drawbacks of the E-3 type; namely a radar blind spot beneath the aircraft. The AEW Nimrod failed because they aimed too high.
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  578. According to Kwasi Kwateng, the lack of a losers speech is normal practice for that particular constituency.
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  579.  @GracesGarden80  Maybe if the European members of NATO had met their obligations Trump (and previous US administrations) would have less to complain about.
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  580.  @rickbart1  Which is why I said that moving to clean energy must be done at a pace which ensures that energy availability and price are not adversely affected.
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  581.  @YA-qj8fx  No, I am saying you are stupid because you fell for a conspiracy theory.
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  582.  @YA-qj8fx  Case in point - Flat Earth Focker Flat earther and "Convid" denier. He refused the vaccine and eventually fell ill with symptoms compatible with Covid. He posts a video online from his vehicle while sick, complaining about some guy telling him he should seek treatment. Beginning of November he post another video from his vehicle talking about his upcoming road trip across Canada to meet fellow flat earthers and covid deniers and asking for help with accommodation. He is still self medicating in the belief that he has "a bug". Within 36 hours this man, planning a trip to meet as many people as he could, was dead.
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  583.  @thegeneralist7527  I believe in science. The same science that eradicated smallpox by vaccination.
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  584.  @thegeneralist7527  If you wish to be a pedant then so be it.
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  585. Why do so many in the UK rely on gas for heating their homes? Oh yes, it's a lot cheaper than electricity. But hey, let's go "Green" and burn the gas in a power station then use the generated electricity to heat our homes. You couldn't make it up.
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  586. There are a number of reactor options available. As an example: Korean APR1400 built for the UAE Barakah-1 2012 - 2020 (first criticality) 2021 (operational) Barakah-2 2013 - 2021 (first criticality) 2022 (operational) Barakah-3 2014 - 2022 (first criticality) 2023 (operational) Barakah-4 2015 - 2024 (first criticality) Cost IRO $25bn for ~ 5.6 GW of power (likely 5.2 GW in practice) Other options include the AP1000, EPR2, CANDU and smaller units such as the BWRX300.....
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  587. Did you not notice the gaps between each person, or hear the explanation?
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  588.  @crystalawen  Just grow up.
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  589.  @crystalawen  I suppose you think the earth is flat too?
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  590.  @crystalawen  Well your ideas make about as much sense as belief in a flat earth.
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  591.  @crystalawen  Bit hard. I haven't had a working tv since 2011.
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  592.  @mostevil1082  25mm gun pods.
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  593. Excellent video, its good to see some actual figures given.
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  594.  @annag5541  Whatever, the principal behind the organisation is sound, even if the application is flawed.
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  595.  @mynameisgladiator1933  I suggest you re-watch the video and LISTEN to the commentary.
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  596.  @8xRedMonkeyx8  I wouldn't test that in the courts if I were you.
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  597. It's discouraging that people are willing to vote for either candidate. America deserves better than a senile old man or a convicted criminal.
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  598. The phosphors in early night vision systems produced green light.
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  599. BTW, Plutonium sells for ~$4,000 per gram.
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  600. Listen to the people.
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  601.  @JamesChurchill  Not practicable. All plasticised materials are prone to creep and bleed. Two chemicals with such violent incompatibility would eventually come into contact. A binary explosive that could be mixed and initiated yes, but not one which would initiate on contact.
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  602. There are no Astute's for them to buy, so you are talking nonsense
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  603. Almost as naïve as expecting to replace fossil fuel use with renewables overnight.
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  604. Has there ever been an update on an old idea of using ultra sonics to break chemical bonds? I believe that the theory was to set up destructive harmonics in a similar manner to how bridges may be damaged by marching soldiers. I always assumed it fell into the "cold fusion" camp - nice in theory but impossible in practice.
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  605. So how did Jo Brand get away with her acid throwing comment? Every bit as bad as this lady's.
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  606. ​ @darylephillips6778 If you choose a totally new design it can take a while for sure. So go with something like an AP1000.
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  607. Agreed
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  608. I think that attitude is a more recent thing; from people with no close relatives who lived through the war. That said, fighter jocks have always stolen the limelight (no disrespect intended).
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  609.  @KIM-JONG-UN-84  Hardly, the Astute is still on its initial production run.
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  610.  @Then.72  In what way? They are perfectly "war capable"; they are just too damn expensive to build and operate and offer too few advantages over cheaper, conventionally powered ships.
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  611.  @Then.72  Again, powering a vessel with a nuclear reactor has pros and cons. Nothing about them prevents the vessel engaging successfully in combat. Whatever the type of vessel, the aim is not to get hit.
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  612.  @tassied12  How much installed capacity?
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  613. I think he meant Russian cruise missiles.
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  614. ​ @rattusfinkus  We are generating nuclear power, so we sort of do have the infrastructure to look after it. Most delays are indeed due to planning approvals etc, which is why other countries manage to build quickly while the West does not.
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  615.  @rattusfinkus  Puts you in the SMR market, especially if you are an industry with high power/heat demand.
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  616.  @margaretarmstrong2445  They do yes. At one point last week the UK was receiving 3GW from France as it was night and wind was not performing.
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  617.  @rattusfinkus  It's better than no electricity, or electricity from coal and gas when the renewables are offline. Also SMR's such as the XE100 will be able to give process heat direct for certain industrial applications, which is more efficient that converting electrical energy back into heat.
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  618.  @rattusfinkus  But there is sod all storage, no where near what would be required for grid scale operation.
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  619.  @rattusfinkus  Which is why they are perfect for combined power and process heat applications. It also makes far more sense to produce hydrogen from spare nuclear capacity than it does to install excess renewable capacity to produce hydrogen to then burn it to make electricity when the RE is offline.
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  620.  @rattusfinkus  Ah, it will be there soon. Isn't that your argument against nuclear?
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  621.  @rattusfinkus  Where will all the minerals come from for those millions of EV batteries, PV cells and RE magnets? You cannot drive your EV and power the grid at the same time. Countries require TWh of storage, not MWh. By the time you have started to put that in place nuclear will be available.
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  622.  @rattusfinkus  So in the morning after a wind-less night, everyone finds their car battery is flat as the grid has used the power stored in them.
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  623.  @rattusfinkus  Or you could just build a nuclear power plant and have 24/7 power available for 40+ years.
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  624.  @philmurdoch1203  At the time they went for a non nuclear boat, so the point is moot.
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  625. ​ @froggy0162  There are alternative reactor designs available that are not water cooled.
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  626.  @froggy0162  Again there are alternative designs that do not use water. With respect to steam turbines however, loss of water would mean loss of power, not loss of the reactor.
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  627.  @froggy0162  Do try thinking, or better yet try reading. The vast majority of the water in turbine system is recycled, only a small proportion escapes. You may also have noticed that coal fired power stations (so common in Australia) also emit steam from their cooling towers? Traditional nuclear plants do require a lot of water to keep the reactors cool, but they are not the only design available or under development. Gas, molten salt and liquid metal cooled designs can vastly reduce the quantity of water required or even eliminate it altogether. As for turbines there are options such as supercritical CO2 that both do away with water and are more efficient than traditional designs
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  628. I think you may have underestimated the GWh figure, did you mean terawatt's?
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  629. Australia does have its own subs, they merely wish to upgrade to nuclear power. f
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  630.  Vince James  He was being sarcastic.
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  631.  @utubeape  lol
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  632. No, it really was not. It would have compromised its stealth too much.
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  633. The RN is not going to be fielding two fully equipped QE carriers for a long time (if ever). They don't have the crews for two carriers, let alone the surface fleet to protect them. Why would we require new tankers? Just fit the probe from the C variant to the A.
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  634.  @benachiesween  You have a short memory of Labour under Corbyn.
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  635. Get them from where exactly and where would you find the crews to operate them?
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  636. Nothing is "compromised" by a recce asset if you know when it will be arriving. It may be inconvenient but it can be managed.
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  637. Molten salt reactors are nowhere near developed enough for use on submarines.
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  638. ​ @jordansmith4040  The use of injection moulding assumes that they are using a thermoplastic polymer. My first instinct would be that a thermoplastic would be a bad choice to contain hot, pressurised gasses.
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  639. It pains me to attack the BBC as I have always supported them and still support the idea. Unfortunately they have succumbed to the disease that plagues journalism in general; the journalist is more important than the story. You cannot hold the moral high ground when you engage in illegal acts to further your personal career or political ideology.
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  640. Excellent as always. Have you ever looked at/reacted to the videos distributed by Approach and Departure Videos? I have no experience of aircraft piloting, but as an observer the captain appears to offer an excellent environment for a first officer (or even a flight simmer) to gain experience. I would be interested in your thoughts.
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  641.  Michael Pezzullo  Do you have that comment on copy and paste?
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  642.  Michael Pezzullo  You do have it on copy and paste.
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  643.  @LuciferBlack-j1k  Their argument may be false, but skin colour?
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  644. Yes Ivan
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  645. Prefers Yorkshire to breakfast tea, respect.
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  646.  @tivmego  I don't lose a second over it thanks.
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  647. There already is a viable solution, deep burial.
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  648.  @mattheww.6232  Or the huge amount of energy required to produce pure silicon.
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  649. Fingers crossed the improvement package will fix the problems with the T45s engines.
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  650.  @GGG19872  A modified Type 26 is certainly one of the hulls under consideration. Reducing the size of the flight deck and hanger is another option to create more space. A new, slightly larger hull design would be my preferred option, but I just want a ship that works and provides the best possible protection to our sailors.
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  651.  @abrahamdozer6273  They were defeated by their lack of access to oil reserves.
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  652.  @brothermine2292  Hard to do it without being noticed either. First you need to own the reactor, hard to position your robots by a reactor you don't own without being noticed. Then you require somewhere to process the protactinium and separate out the uranium 233. Again, hard to do without being noticed. Then you require a facility to construct devices. If you own the reactor you have to prevent the IAEA noticing you are syphoning off protactinium, not easy in these days of easy, remote sensing. Finally, if a nation state wants to construct a bomb, they can just do it. All they require is money and the will to stick two fingers up to the international community.
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  653. It's not either/or, go for a mix. There is huge potential for solar generation in Aus, either PV or collection based. Combine that with molten salt storage and you have a mostly reliable power system. Back that up with molten salt based nuclear and you are 100% clean energy capable.
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  654. Possibly the genius part was inventing the first practical vertical take off aircraft (Harrier GR1 1967) and the ski jump system (1980)?
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  655.  @patrickbyrne5070  What has money to do with anything?
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  656. That would be seen as use of WMD and likely to draw an appropriate response.
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  657.  @davem2369  The one credible argument in favour of the decision to drop CATOBAR from the QE's is that the ships have no steam generation system installed. The propulsion system uses electric motors and there were doubts on the reliability of EMALS (which the Ford has found to its cost). I still wish that they had gone with the system though.
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  658.  @anderander5662  Same here. I draw no comfort from attacking the BBC, I would happily pay my licence fee if they returned to their roots.
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  659.  @andieslandies  Pretty sure that is the case in the UK too.
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  660. I don't think he has a clue what he is talking about tbh.
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  661. They cannot take cameras (or any electrical equipment) into explosives areas unless they have been modified and approved for use in explosive environments.
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  662.  @cashkitty3472  I also have no working TV and rely on YT for most of my viewing. However, I still watch the odd breaking news story live, an occasional England match etc. I take it none of the "non payers" ever watch GB News live?
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  663.  @dragonslayer7587  I thought you were implying that it was another 737-MAX. My bad.
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  664. Mad Vlad is becoming more like Hitler every day.
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  665.  @bthestigman9667  I am only responding to suggestions that the UK is about to take the C130 out of service and rely on a mix of C17 and A400 aircraft.
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  666.  @tams805  That's why I would like to hear opinions from the pilots who fly the missions where the C130 might offer an advantage over larger aircraft.
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  667. Aluminium. Solder. People in glass houses.
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  668. Metallic
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  669.  @kennethgoldston4643  Not so. There were zero direct deaths attributable to the Fukushima accident. Around fifty workers received radiation doses above the prescribed limits of which one has since died from cancer. Around 2000 people are believed to have died from complications associated with the evacuation of the surrounding areas, though the vast majority of evacuations were completely unnecessary.
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  670.  @solariss452  Alas, probably true, but it should happen.
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  671.  @rattusfinkus  You think I only obtain information from the likes of Bolt?
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  672.  @rattusfinkus  Try looking for sources offering balance, not those who are pro one side or the other.
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  673. Still under development
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  674. Have you ever thought of applying for an exchange posting with one of our (British) units? You sound like you would fit in and have a ball.
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  675. I attended Mildenhall air shows from 83 to around 96 and only two non-US displays made US service personnel stop and look up. The red arrows and the Vulcan.
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  676. Don't take everything the MSM and mainstream political parties say as gospel, they are running scared of Farage and the Reform party. His actual point was that Putin was able to use the EU/NATO expansion eastwards to justify his invasion of Ukraine to his own people. That is not the same as saying it was all the West's fault.
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  677.  @quantisedspace7047  How exactly is confirming someone's religious beliefs prejudicing a court case?
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  678. Nope. The US would not sell them helium.
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  679.  @GracesGarden80  You make valid points. The radar is good and it might be possible to match the ships system with the SM-6? missile for ABM use. I have often mused on the possibility of a UK "Aegis ashore" capability using the T45's radar system; there is one land based radar for trials purposes, so it should be possible. We have virtually no long range air defence missile capability to counter submarine launched cruise missiles as it stands.
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  680. That land will be unpassable for a while yet, it will be mud.
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  681.  @PJthePlayer  Wrong. All ICBM's travel at hypersonic speeds, they have to in order to obtain the necessary range.
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  682. If you believe in climate change - CO2 and pollution If you don't - pollution Either way, phasing out coal usage for energy production makes sense. Coal extraction is not going to end any time soon, there are just too many other uses for it.
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  683. Typical long range load for a B17 was 4000lb.
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  684. It can be done (at great expense) but will always require a source of carbon.
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  685.  @diceman199  The iron ore has still to be reduced and a plentiful supply of green hydrogen is required if not using coke.
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  686.  @tassied12  Plenty of new build nuclear in the offing. France has finally ended its flirtation with the greens and is serious about nuclear again.
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  687. You have huge uranium deposits.
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  688.  @savagegfry  Specialist reactor. Early reactors were in the 30MW range, but they were not SMR's. What needs to be built now are reactors in the 1-1.5GW range. That technology is mature and more easily licensed. Licenses are key.
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  689.  Soilent Green  True, German aerodynamics were more advanced. Engines were terrible though.
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  690.  @sandervanderkammen9230  Not according to the test pilots who flew them after the war.
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  691. Yes Boris
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  692. Except there is, deep storage. Although in this case surface storage pending re-use in future Gen IV reactors is more applicable.
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  693. The "motors" are the same ones that went on to power the Concord and were later developed onto a marine turbine. So pretty reliable once the early teething problems were ironed out.
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  694. He's not a journalist, he is an SME.
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  695.  @richardgallagher4880  That why your troops have lost ground?
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  696. Mining coal generates radioactive waste. Mining rare earth metals for wind turbines generates radioactive waste. Unlike nuclear industry however, the waste from these operations is largely uncontrolled.
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  697. I would assume that IFF software etc would be removed at least.
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  698.  @davefarmery8180  "Just" sigh.
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  699.  @davefarmery8180  Nothing involving weaponry is a case of "Just" I'm afraid, especially when it involves modifications to explosive trains.
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  700.  @oldtimers6460  Currently generating almost 4GW of electricity from nuclear, 12.5% of demand. UK is also exporting 3GW to Europe.
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  701. If you are right then women should make up the special forces units. You think 1/1000 males are good enough?
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  702. That's never going to happen for many reasons, not just cost. Another batch of Astutes would be welcome though.
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  703. Renewables are the best way we have to make rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (or airborne pollution if you prefer a deniers option). Nuclear is the way to go (if a country has no access to easy hydro or geothermal) to back up that RE when it is offline.
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  704. Well that is true. If a manned alien vessel did make it to earth their technology would be so far advanced we would be slaughtered in any conflict.
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  705. @Dick Dastardly By limiting supply the US will force world prices up as Europeans fight for fuel on the open market. Great for US oil producers, not so much for US consumers.
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  706. He is responding to the report released by an enquiry set up to examine the BBCs conduct in this matter.
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  707. Tempest is years away, if it happens at all.
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  708. Given Australia's reserves of uranium a mix of solar, wind and nuclear must be the way to go. The country could meet its targets and be self sufficient in clean energy.
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  709. Give the man a break, he's retreating as fast as he can.
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  710. I wish media companies would not show images of families waiting for news. They are so fond of the "right to know" argument, but do we always have a "need" to know? I wish they would show some respect. RIP and condolences to all involved.
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  711.    It is true I have never served, but I was MoD civvie and have worked with many who have. Why would encouraging someone not to give up on an ambition after a setback be deemed as negative?
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  712.  @PREDATOR07  As they laughed at the powerful Russians who lost before them.
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  713. Phase out coal, bring in uranium, keep your grid stable.
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  714. @SplurbBat Yawn.
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  715.  @MrBlaxjax  I know we will pay either way, that's not my concern. My concern is that money is not taken from the defence budget.
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  716.  @giovanyrodriguezcruz2859  At what point would you stop if Russia invaded Alaska?
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  717. No, reaffirming that the troops are there to defend Poland not attack Russia.
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  718.  @billycaspersghost7528  You really do live in the past. The UK wouldn't give two hoots if ROI decided to purchase the F35, let alone a few F16s to defend its airspace. You are an independent country, you have every right to defend yourselves. We have moved on, you should too.
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  719.  @L3gionMusic  Hopefully yes; though I suspect others will end up commercialising the technology :(
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  720. MoD Police also use the MP7
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  721. Hubble isn't optimised for that role. They have regenerated two (I think) spy satellites for science use however.
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  722. @joe krupa Nuclear waste has never killed anyone, I would happily live next to a waste cask. However, modern fast spectrum designs are capable of burning the waste from early generation reactors and removing the more hazardous, long lived elements.
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  723. Not a lot, they are sited in huge concrete boxes.
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  724.  @JR-km4gt  I would have no issue living near to a nuclear reactor.
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  725. Sad that this occurred when it could and should have been avoided.
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  726. Young woman videoed dancing - shock, horror!
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  727.  @marc_frank  Humans are very inventive full stop. Sometimes we find new ways to kill, sometimes to cure. Spy satellites were pretty neutral; on the one hand they allowed for improved targeting, on the other they lowered tension by reducing fear.
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  728.  @tezzo55  My choice of ozone depletion was a real world example of how humans can affect climate change. In this case both negatively and positively. Australians could have had "actual heat right now" if a nuclear/renewables strategy had been followed decades ago; just look at France and Sweden for examples. Australia does not have to turn off its coal stations overnight, but it should move to a more environmentally sustainable model and nuclear is one of the options available to achieve that goal.
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  729.  @pwillis1589  No, they could not. An operator could not remove material from a breeder blanket without anyone knowing. For one thing the specialist equipment required to do it would have to be present . Not all thorium reactors have to breed their own fuel, they could be pre-loaded with the right fuel prior to delivery. Those that are designed as breeders and do have the capability to produce U233, will be highly regulated by the IAEA; just as re-processing and enrichment facilities are today.
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  730.  @pwillis1589  Because I am not agreeing with you. There is a huge difference between what can be done "in theory" and what can be done in practice. Countries lacking an established nuclear infrastructure are going to select the simplest, most cost effective systems to operate. These will be the highly modular systems with replaceable, sealed cores. The operators of such systems will have no requirement to access the fuel, and thus no infrastructure in place to do so. Zero proliferation risk and low regulatory costs. Countries with an established nuclear infrastructure, the ones who will be producing and reprocessing fuel and waste, already have the necessary regulatory systems in place. Is that more expensive? Yes, which is why most countries will choose the first option. So who is going to make the weapons you are so concerned about? By orders of magnitude the most likely candidate is a nation state, though you dismissed that option. An unscrupulous commercial operator? Don't you think the National and IAEA inspectors are going to notice the additional facility necessary to remove and handle material from a reactor core? If it is pretty much impossible for a nation state to hide a weapons program under the guise of a civil power program, how is a private company going to pull it off?
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  731. Have to say I cannot help but have some sympathy with the MP here. From everything I have seen this appears to have been an honest mistake, handled badly. I can think of a few people sitting in jail now who probably wish they had ignored advice to plead guilty.
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  732.  @Element905  You clearly know nothing about British soldiers. If a piece of kit is crap they will soon let you know in no uncertain terms, whatever it's origin.
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  733. You saying that installation and maintenance of a power distribution costs nothing?
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  734. The fact that we are not planning to send them to sea with anything like a full compliment of aircraft does not mean that the carriers are useless (though there are certain limitations to them) but that the bean counters are.
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  735. The UK and France said the same in the twenties/early thirties, look what happened in 1940.
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  736.  @NoRegertsHere  Hopefully that will only be a problem for export customers and I don't see Australia falling victim to that; she is a rather trusted friend.
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  737.  @buildmotosykletist1987  Nothing will happen overnight, whatever people think. A first step has to be taken, which is to produce research reactors to gather the necessary data on which to base licensing regulations. A reactor could probably be built within a year.
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  738. Well the Covid virus is totally democratic, it will infect everyone if you give it the chance.
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  739.  @carmelcream7662  You are gong crazy.
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  740.  @bobhawke7373  Happy (belated) Australia day then 👍 Only just made my YT feed.
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  741. Did you really believe that there would be no hitches in something this complex?
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  742.  @duyataksis5210  Difficult to cite "International law" when your actions just broke it.
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  743.  @tomlee3412  Tom, I suggest you re-read the context of my post. As for the Chinese ship being where they were, well they have every right to be there. Just as US/UK ships had every right to be in the S China seas last year.
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  744. That the same fighters sporting NAZI tattoos?
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  745. Why would anyone rely on God to defend them in a war?
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  746.  @truthreignseternal9136  Even if you believe that tale, it only applies if you are Jewish.
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  747. I will point every commenter who talks like fusion is just around the corner to this video.
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  748. Rather sad to see. It reminds me of the old days in the Soviet Union.
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  749. Or uranium for Australian use it seems.
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  750. Manufacturing EFPs takes a lot more knowledge and effort than filling a YPOC with HME though.
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  751. If you are going to make a comparison with weapons programs, then it would be the medical equipment used by the NHS, not the organisation itself. There is no shortage of long term R&D for medical equipment. Your NHS analogy would be with the Armed Forces themselves and no, neither are blessed with reliable long term planning.
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  752.  @jjthomas2297  I am fully aware of the money and effort that goes into weapons development. I am also fully aware of the amount wasted on programs that either never see the light of day or come in late and/or over budget.
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  753. Assuming the persons in question watch no live TV.
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  754.  @nikolaucznaum4312  I never said that they did.
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  755.  @johnwatts8346  It is, but we are on the verge of moving on from fossil. The next revolution will occur once we are able to manufacture in space. Unlimited energy, unlimited resources and access to materials not possible to manufacture in Earth's gravity.
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  756. Weak stealth capability compared with the F35 and only cheaper on paper. Don't forget, it was too heavy to take off vertically in clean configuration as produced.
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  757.  @michaelmr101  Actually they are desperate for more plutonium for space probes, unfortunately most of it is "The wrong sort of plutonium"
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  758.  @FranksHairSalon  Why don't you look up nuclear waste management in technical manuals rather than cartoons?
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  759.  @FranksHairSalon  Ah, a troll.
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  760.  @FranksHairSalon  Well you have clearly missed a few during your search.
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  761.  @anneloving8405  https://www.ipswichfirst.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Solar-damage.jpg
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  762. The idea of a bean counter standing behind a physicist trying to develop a time machine and telling him to "Hurry up" amused me.
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  763. The US has more nuclear power plants than any country in the world.
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  764. Where are you going to find crews for forty conventional boats? There is certainly an argument for a mix of nuclear and conventional boats, just as there is in the UK, but the role of a nuclear vessel is to prevent opposition vessels reaching your coastal waters.
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  765. MP5SD, my weapon of choice for the zombie apocalypse 😉
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  766. If they announced positive energy balance tomorrow it would be ten years just to design and license the first commercial reactor, let alone construct one.
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  767.  @DJ70404  you have to be careful when talking about recycling nuclear fuel. Most fuel is around 97% U238 and 3% U235. Only the U235 is fissioned in conventional reactors and not all of that fissions in practice. A small proportion of the U238 is converted into trans uranics (such as plutonium) which may then fission or remain in the waste. Current "waste" therefore contains mainly U238, with some U235, trans uranics and fission products (the latter comprising less than 3% of the waste) The remaining U235 and plutonium may be recovered and added to new fuel for re-use. This is current recycling. Now certain reactor designs (such as CANDU and breeder reactors) can utilise U238 and trans uranics as fuel. Thus they offer the opportunity to recycle those components of nuclear waste. This can lead to a huge increase in fuel efficiency, with potentially 100% of the U238/235 in the fuel undergoing fission. This is a future goal of the industry, however we are not there yet and the reprocessing required to utilise current waste may not be economically viable under current conditions. It is important to understand however that by using 100% of the fuel in this way you still generate waste in the form of fission products. Now the quantity of waste generated is far lower than current waste, but this waste is not fissionable and can not be further recycled as reactor fuel. In theory some, possibly even all, of the fission products could be recycled as useful materials, but the economic viability of doing so is moot at present.
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  768.  @colonelangus8247  The culprit is the pilot of the Russian fighter who was flying irresponsibly. The drone was no threat to other aircraft.
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  769.  @colonelangus8247  It would have been flying a predictable circuit pattern and there are no commercial aircraft flying in the area. If the Orcs chose to inspect it at close range then that is their decision.
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  770.  @colonelangus8247  Evidence or just mouthing off?
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  771.  @colonelangus8247  Whatever, must be time for your vodka break.
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  772.  @fastfreddy19641  Not always, I bet you don't measure temperature in Kelvin?
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  773. Even if aliens are using quantum communications, at some point they must have passed through our tech level and the signals from that period would still be out there surely?
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  774.  @Jon-es-i6o  There WAS a referendum on joining the common market, in 1974.
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  775. How many more "I make this every day" videos!?
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  776. IMHO Republicans should go Haley if they want to be taken seriously.
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  777.  @thefiestaguy8831  Disagree. You take a weapon and hold people hostage you get what's coming to you. As the guy said, he didn't even see the gun fly away, that's what happens when you are stressed. Whose to say he didn't have a backup weapon? If you need to shoot then take the guy out, full stop.
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  778. Very interesting video, thanks.
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  779.  @aaronbaker2186  All helps
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  780.  @guyspearing4608  Not enough, Germany has none.
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  781.  @guyspearing4608  Better late than never I suppose. Now they just need to reverse their decision on nuclear.
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  782.  @miroslawsita7062  Stop living in the past.
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  783.  @patmooney9024  When has it ever said so? Russia, like NATO , regularly flies in international airspace of US and NATO borders.
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  784. The Democrats should get together and insist he stands down on medical grounds. The republicans should do the same with Trump on the grounds that he is not a fit person to hold office. The world needs a competent statesman (or woman) heading the USA.
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  785.  @kethughes8266  Never watched Fox. I have watched and listened to the BBC a lot though.
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  786. Depends on the pilots.
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  787.  @bloodyhotspur2915  They didn't lie about Iraq having them, they genuinely thought that they did.
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  788.  @bloodyhotspur2915  You are wrong. They were receiving (false) information which led them to the conclusion that Saddam had hidden WMD.
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  789.  @bloodyhotspur2915  The fact remains that at the time of the invasion both the US and UK government believed that the WMD existed. They may have believed it because they wanted it to be true, who knows, but they did believe it.
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  790.  @bloodyhotspur2915  Well I cannot say any more, so we had best leave it be.
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  791.  @bloodyhotspur2915  Or an aversion to jail. Conversation concluded.
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  792. Spot on. I can't wait for the film version of Artemis, which features a (non-practicing) Muslim woman as the main lead, because I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I would be pissed though if they chose to make her a middle class, white, Christian toting a pair of Desert Eagles.
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  793.  @trenta.958  2017 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) Tells the story of a girl living on the moon, working as a porter (and smuggler) who becomes involved in a plot to take control of the city. They were planning a movie but it was delayed by the Covid outbreak. Worth a read, I just hope they stick to the story when they do make the movie. (Yes I looked up the details, I listened to it on audible)
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  794. ​ @williamsmith1741  The trouble is, there are a lot of uninformed people who will see their arguments and dismiss your comments, because they know no better. Which would be a shame. It's not worth arguing over tbh, I was only trying to offer a suggestion, knowing that I have fallen into the same trap.
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  795. Not sure what you mean? It's true that there is very little in the way of ground based air defence for the UK. There are a few Sky Sabre units (One in the Falklands, one currently deployed to Poland), which are good but of limited range and capability. Then we are down to short range, man portable weapons. There is limited capability if a Type 45 destroyer happens to be in port and crewed, but even that is currently only able to intercept short range ballistic missiles. The UK possesses nothing with the capability of the Israeli Arrow 2/3, SM3, Patriot PAC3 or THAAD.
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  796. Hmmmm. Nuclear is not "The only answer," it depends on individual circumstances. Nuclear would be a really stupid idea in Iceland for example, which is geologically unstable and has access to copious and reliable geothermal power.
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  797.  @johngeier8692  In part yes, also by friction.
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  798. If so, then they had better start looking at molten salt reactors. These SMRs are a temporary solution to a current need, but the future is molten salt and liquid fuel. They are safer, more efficient and more applicable to load following.
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  799. Let's be clear. Russia has more nuclear weapons because they are allowed to have more under the START agreement. Why? Because more of their weapons are land based and therefore more vulnerable to a first strike. Both Russia and NATO have more than enough nuclear weapons to wipe each other out.
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  800.  @richardgallagher4880  How dumb are you?
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  801. Without US Intelligence "Assets" they probably would not have identified everyone. Should the US have had more faith? Probably, but in the context of 911 it's not difficult to understand their nervousness.
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  802.  @tomk3732  That's fine in open ground, not so much in an urban environment.
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  803.  @davidhouseman4328  Let's be honest, even with NATO support and when we had our own E3s we never had 24/7 AWACs cover. A SAMSON co-located with our long range radar assets, linked to ASTER 30 and CAAM cells would give some hope of retaining radar coverage. Invulnerable? No, but one SSGN in the N Sea could hit all of our main search radars and airfield radars in one strike as it stands.
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  804.  @davidhouseman4328  For the one scenario maybe not. However the additional range, performance and reach of the Sampson/Aster combination, along with its ballistic missile tracking capabilities, make it a serious upgrade over Sky Sabre alone.
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  805. ​ @sandervanderkammen9230  The Tornado was a joint venture developed by Britain, Germany and Italy. Panavia was formed to manufacture it and headquartered in Germany. It was however owned by all thee nations.
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  806.  @sandervanderkammen9230  Wrong. The Tornado was a joint venture between British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), MBB and Aeritalia. Just as engine development was a joint venture between RR, MTU and Fiat. The joint company (Panavia) was registered in Germany as they were initially intending to buy the most aircraft, but it remained a joint venture.
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  807. Oops! 🤣
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  808. The point is not "Equality" but "Equality opportunity"
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  809.  Michael Doolan  As with anyone else.
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  810. CANDU is a good design; no enrichment required, on-load refuelling...
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  811.  @SlowhandGreg  There are plenty of theoretical solutions and a few practical ones. So why, when renewables are so "cheap", has no one invested in them? Don't forget also that storage is useless until generation capacity exceeds demand. And I mean physically exceeds, not theoretical capacity. If generation is 31GW and demand is 30GW, that's 30 hours to store one hours worth of demand. That's why cost per GWh is not the only relevant factor.
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  812.  @SlowhandGreg  That might be the case in Australia, but here in the UK we have those offshore wind farms. When operating fully the UK has sufficient wind capacity to meet 70-80% of average demand, yet there is no storage in place nor any plans to build any. Wind thus supplies around 20% of our grid power on average. If storage is as cheap and reliable as proponents claim, why no investment? The simple fact is that without base-load, the capital investment required is huge.
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  813.  @SlowhandGreg  A 2GWh storage facility, sufficient to power our grid for around 5 minutes. Or we could have replaced our nuclear reactors with new ones, which would have covered 45% of demand. Add in Hydro, biomass etc and we would have around 54% of demand covered, leaving just 46% for storage backed solar/wind. The latter already average 28% without storage, so the UK would already be just 18% or around 5GW short of fossil free. As it is, fossils comprise 43% of our power generation (12.8GW) despite us having over 30GW of installed wind/solar.
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  814. He mentioned the EAP as one of the aircraft donating components to the X31? The EAP (or Experimental Aircraft Program) was the demonstrator from which the Eurofighter Typhoon was developed.
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  815.  @rpbajb Ah yes, I agree with you. Renewable s will undoubtedly play a significant part in future electricity generation, however I believe that nuclear still has a place. Thorium is an option, but the technology behind it (liquid fuel, molten salt) is more significant. My guess is that availability will be the deciding factor when it comes to actual fuel choice.
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  816.  @Nowanthen  The only use of an EMP pulse that would affect fighter aircraft is as a prelude to a nuclear strike, by that stage we were all doomed.
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  817. Bit of a giveaway when you order a taxi?
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  818.  Frank Smith  Which is safer, sodium cyanide in a sealed container or sodium chloride on your chips?
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  819.  Frank Smith  In what way funny? No exposure, no risk. Do you believe they store nuclear waste as a liquid in buckets?
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  820. Lao Tzu forgot about politicians.
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  821. That's not QAnon, that's the Daily Mail 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  822. The process was invented over a hundred years ago.
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  823.  @davidkersey2414  Probably the specific catalyst used is commercial in confidence .
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  824. 4:49 Hate week 🤣
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  825. It all comes down to power sources and friction. Can you generate (or store) the energy densities you need to make a rail gun work in the real world? Can you find a way of isolating the round from the barrel such that you don't rip the barrel a new bore every time you fire it? Don't think of it as a wonder weapon, it isn't. Think of it as an evolution from hazardous, unstable chemical to electric (but faster)
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  826. I would have used them on day (night) one to take out the Ukrainian air defence systems and establish air superiority, in the same way that the US did in Iraq. It was Russia's inability to control the skies that gave the Ukrainians the chance to hold them off.
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  827.  @teatanks6481  They have not done a very good job then.
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  828.  @sj8099  Why wouldn't they? The losses in men and equipment sustained so far should tell you the answer.
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  829. Hitler's saviour could have been the British suing for peace; assuming that he was prepared to purchase oil/petrol from Venezuela and Iran.
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  830.  @EvidensInsania  You guessed wrong then.
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  831.  @EvidensInsania  I have neither loved nor hated drug companies like Pfizer. Neither do I sheepishly follow conspiracy sites.
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  832. Hi. Sorry to bounce your video but I have an appeal. I have an appalling memory for names, but I visited the old site and met a gentleman with encyclopaedic knowledge of firearms. He ran the collection at the time and was highly regarded by our organisation (DSTL) . Can you remind me of his name please?
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  833.  @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  Mr Woodend, that was the name! Many thanks.
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  834. MTFU it's only a little prick
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  835. No one is safe if they start doing that.
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  836. Odd, I have heard nothing about such a "demand." If there were such a referendum on the "net-zero roadmap" it would almost certainly lead to a call for it to be accelerated.
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  837.  @DuckSith  Not what?
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  838. Why use a less efficient chemical system to accelerate from zero instead of a more efficient electrical system?
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  839.  @daveb5041  Also, I am not sure what would happen if you fired a propellant charge into the back of an energised railgun. Combustion of propellant produces a large quantity of ionised (electrically conducting) gas which would be filling the space between the the two power rails!
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  840.  @daveb5041  The point behind the sabot is where the armature sits, that is where the drive is generated.
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  841. How many industries would suddenly become fans of "Storing nuclear waste in their back yards" if dry casks came with heat exchangers allowing them to be hooked up to process vats or greenhouses? 24/7 heating for the cost of the electricity to run a circulation pump.
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  842. Maybe the angle let you see inside the unit?
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  843. ​ @tamefroggy  It was only speculation, I don't know if there is anything particularly sensitive or different about UK birds.
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  844. It wasn't really the nuclear bomber that caused chaos. Both America and Russia worked on a nuclear powered bomber. The US produced two engine designs; one was underpowered the other too dangerous to use. The Russians actually flew a modified bomber with a nuclear engine (of the type the US considered unsafe), but it was not a viable system. Both countries eventually came to their senses. The bomber that caused chaos in the US was the original Bison A, a four jet strategic bomber. At the time the US was shocked by it's (supposed) performance, which lead to the apocryphal "bomber gap" As it turned out both the performance figures and production numbers were wildly exaggerated
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  845. Maybe show the context of that clip? As it stands he did not say "Since I became president in January 20" just "Since January 20"
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  846.  @pekkajantti7489  Thanks.
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  847. Not thorium based and submarine reactors are designed to run on highly enriched fuel.
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  848. I should bloody well hope so, that is their job after all.
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  849.  @brianterence3211  700m years, your point?
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  850. You couldn't make it up.
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  851. Are we talking about the Scottish Nationalist Party here?
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  852.  @ScottishRoss27  How are you going to protect that zone?
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  853. It's not just about generating cost. You have to factor in reliability of supply, operating capacity, grid stability, backup. All these come at a cost which is often left out of RE calculations.
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  854.  @TimothyWhiteheadzm  Agreed that the major negative affecting nuclear is politics (and technically illiterate protestors)
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  855. Non so blind.
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  856.  @crowe6961 👍
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  857. He might, but he will still be a bad president.
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  858.  @jonathanmarshall9992  Unlikely, I am British.
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  859. Good to see you back. I love your approach to these incident videos, safety as it should be. Regardless of what is said, a lot of safety investigations are still focussed on appointing blame rather than understanding the why.
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  860.  @heybabycometobutthead  They are used in the US though.
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  861.  @heybabycometobutthead  TOW is a US missile system, therefore it's specs will have been issued in imperial measurements.
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  862.  @heybabycometobutthead  ?
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  863. I am definitely in the "All content, but I have little interest in Stalingrad" faction I'm afraid. I feel bad that this is the case as it is obvious how much work goes into the Battlestorm videos, but I have never had much interest in the Eastern campaign. That said, do whatever you feel is necessary to achieve a good work/health balance. Best wishes going forward.
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  864. India is running nuclear that is cheaper than solar.
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  865. RoSK OPR1000: HANBIT-3 6yr HANBIT-4 <6yr HANBIT-5 5yr HANBIT-6 5Yr SHIN-KORI-1 5yr SHIN-KORI-2 5yr SHIN-WOLSONG-1 5yr SHIN-WOLSONG-2 7yr APR1400: SAEUL-1 8yr SAEUL-2 10yr SHIN-HANUL-1 10yr (3 more under construction).
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  866. Glad you enjoyed your time over here - train delays too, the whole British experience! 😂😂
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  867. Wouldn't expect anything less from Dawn Butler, one of the grossest racists in Britain.
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  868.  @romeisfallingagain  Yeah. That I couldn't tell you I'm afraid.
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  869.  @michaelfraser5723  Evidence?
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  870.  @timbosboudreaus7996  Evidence?
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  871. Why wouldn't they, when our legal system does nothing to stop them?
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  872. Have you seen the latest UK Forces recruitment figures?
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  873. Except they are not bringing nuclear weapons to Australia, they are talking about nuclear propulsion.
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  874. Uranium and thorium too. Since Australia would be starting from scratch and have to install legislation prior to any decisions being taken you could afford to wait and watch how the industry develops. SMRs, molten salt, thermal/fast neutron, liquid metal, there are a lot of alternative designs under development.
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  875.  @buildmotosykletist1987  I never said there were.
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  876.  @buildmotosykletist1987  China is about to test one, but I agree, it will be a while before they are likely to become commercially available. That does not mean that they will never become viable though and Australia's reserves of thorium are not going anywhere.
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  877. All depends on the drone; how large, what is it carrying?
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  878. They don't really "evade" it, they break its lock.
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  879.  @johnallen7807  Or you could just look at those Asiatic countries that implemented strong lockdown and mask wearing policies. The ones where for some reason Covid has had much less impact.
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  880. I really hope Boeing are able to turn themselves around as they have made some iconic aircraft over the years. Unfortunately, like many US companies, they have forgotten that there are two sides to Capitalism, supply and demand. In their never ending search for increased profits they neglected to supply a decent product.
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  881. It's certainly taught us the dangers of locating diesel generators at ground level. Fukushima however was an old reactor design.
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  882.  @theseustoo  Yes it would. The only reason Fukushima developed the way it did was because they lost the back up generators. A modern design would allow more time to bring them back online (if they were taken out at all). A molten salt design would be unaffected as it requires no active cooling.
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  883.  @theseustoo  Did the Tsunami destroy Fukushima? No. It took out the mains power supply and back up generators required to sustain coolant flow to the reactor.
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  884.  @Poorlineforeva  There are plenty of countries around the world who would disagree with that.
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  885.  @pmullins8821  Would the F32 have been any different? It couldn't even take off vertically without removing bits of the airframe.
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  886. How many of the "dead" who signed up for him were formerly soldiers?
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  887. For info, in the UK we don't say the manufacturer as a word "Back" but as the letters "Bee, Ay, Cee"
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  888.  @MrVaticanRag  I know that, but the regulatory systems still have to be put in place and the safety case for the reactor made and agreed. Where is Indonesia going to look for the experience necessary to grant such a license? How many countries worldwide have operating molten salt reactors to draw experience from? Answer - none. I totally support the development of such reactors, but there is no getting away from the fact that much work remains to be done before they can be rolled out safely.
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  889.  @eternaloptimist2840  They were given authority, but then the US pulled the ITAR card. Storm Shadow contains some US proprietary tech 😡
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  890. @sprmdnr-t9m ?
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  891. Seems to me that the west should be ramping up production of Giant Viper type munitions and/or laser-guided BLU95/96 bombs for Ukraine.
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  892. Boris moved too slowly, hopefully Labour will speed things up a little. They don't seem to be anti-nuclear at least.
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  893.  @budgeman218  Can't argue with that.
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  894.  @Diponty  Could go CANDU. You could also look at breeder reactors that will burn fertile fuels like U238 and Thorium. In the interim, Australia could also look at having enrichment performed by a third party, such as the USA, UK, France, Japan etc.
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  895. If Aus wants boats built abroad to start with then they will be US built. There is no capacity in the UK.
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  896. @Billy 2020 Not going to happen that quickly. The UK has been building nuclear boats since the 50's yet we struggled to build the Astutes as we failed to maintain our capability. Aus will be starting from scratch, so it is far more likely that the first boats will be made abroad, which means the US.
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  897.  @simonbird1973  The yard does not have the workers to construct three more boats. There are two under construction and the new Dreadnought's are next up.
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  898. @Billy 2020 The Astute's are averaging about 8 years per boat from laying down to launch. So far it has taken twenty years to build five boats. The US are building one Virginia every eighteen months. The UK allowed it's yard to shed experienced workers and this is the result. Australia will be new to nuclear boats, so don't expect things to run smoothly.
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  899. @Billy 2020 Don't get me wrong, I'm a Pom and more than happy to see you getting nuclear boats. I would simply like to see you get them earlier by buying a few while you establish a manufacturing base. I would obviously prefer you to go with the Astute, but in fairness the US would be able to deliver earlier and probably more cheaply. It might be worth buying say two Virginia class then joining the Astute replacement program. Astute is due to leave service in 2035 so the timelines should match. The replacement will be based on the upcoming Dreadnought class of SSBN (minus the tubes). The dreadnought (and its successor) will have a lot in common with the new US boats, which will give you more options for technical support.
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  900. @Billy 2020 That was what I was thinking. The UK only has four A-Boats available at the moment and little yard capacity to build additional boats. I'm not sure that we could base one over in Aus, though one of the T-boats might be a possibility. That's why I feel the US offers more possibilities than the UK in the short term (sadly). Only my thoughts though, based on what I can glean from open sources.
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  901. @Billy 2020 That makes sense.
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  902. @Billy 2020 The UK has no spare anything :( We are sending a couple of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) to the region, but I believe they are to be based in Singapore. There might be more options available once we get the T31/32s. I know the current plans for the Marines is for more forward basing, so I guess Aus may be an option there. It's not inconceivable that one of our boats is deployed to the Pacific area on rotation, we really need to buy a couple more though as we only have seven in total. I can see a lot more service exchanges in the future though.
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  903.  @1IbramGaunt  Don't get me wrong I would love to see the Tempest fly, I just doubt we will ever build another fighter on our own.
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  904. The trouble with F18s is that they will likely have to be new. There are few examples available on the second hand market and they are mostly old and have low residual airframe life. Old USN examples exist, but carrier life takes a massive toll on airframes.
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  905.  @eadams1357  Village idiots do not become pilots.
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  906. Launch sites are all very well and good luck to them, but the future is in manufacturing. The guy was correct when he said that a new industrial revolution is around the corner and the UK should concentrate on being a major player in that revolution. Leave the bulk of the launch capability to those best placed to do it.
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  907. Ouch!
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  908. Pawn in a larger game.
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  909.  @seanpushor909  You clearly don't understand how systems work. There are many legitimate reasons for journalists to hold fake documents; to allow them to penetrate an organisation or give additional credence to someone who has penetrated an organisation for example. The craftsmen (and women) who produce such items will not necessarily know what the particular document is for at the time it is manufactured. They take it as read that there is a legitimate AND LEGAL case to make it. If they later learn that an item they produced was used for a potentially illegal purpose, what else are they supposed to do?
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  910.  @andyb7963  Did he know something was wrong at the time, or with hindsight? Even if he did know at the time he is still not as guilty. The boss is in a position of power and therefore carries greater responsibility to ensure that any actions comply with the law.
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  911.  @charliepearce8767  Try that with a fertiliser plant, steel mill or cement factory.
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  912.  @SubLittoralFilms  The weather is often the same though. The UK averages just 6.5GW from wind and 12GW peak, despite having double that in installed capacity.
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  913. Shouting gets you nowhere.
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  914.  @DgurlSunshine  Neither does lying.
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  915.  @thefleecer3673  That's not entirely true. They can use the uranium, plutonium, actinides etc as fuel, but the fission products remain waste for the most part.
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  916.  @robbo6689  You think you can power your house and run your car on the same stored energy?
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  917. Of course he does, he knows he cannot win a conventional war against NATO.
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  918.  @dertythegrower  What is untrue? I said they should consider it, not install it.
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  919.  @Joe-jd4pn  Until someone actually installs both renewables AND the storage to back them up, no one knows for sure.
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  920.  @Joe-jd4pn  Which is the point of my original comment. Until someone installs both renewables and storage and proves that they both work and are affordable, Australia should at least consider nuclear.
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  921. Why is oxygen still available on aircraft? I can see a possible reason for a supply for emergency medical reasons, but for pilots and crew would an air supply not be preferrable? Sure, there might be weight considerations (although modern COPV's are much lighter than steel) but...........
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  922.  @MentourPilot  Ah, fair enough thanks.
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  923. Australia doesn't use oil to produce electricity.
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  924. Sod all those too vulnerable to cope with covid, as long as we free to go into a nightclub without a piece of paper to prove we are not carrying a disease eh!
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  925.  @icu17siberia  The UK is building quite a bit at this point, just too slowly. Two Astute SSNs nearing completion, Work beginning on four Dreadnought SSBNs, Two Type 26 frigates at an advanced stage, two Type 31 frigates underway.
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  926.  @kaana8421  So it runs into the shrapnel at Mach 3 instead of Mach 1, same end result.
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  927.  @kaana8421  If a missile is too fast for a gun to react then it is down to one of two factors, detection range or multiple threats. In the former case it does not matter what you are defending the ship with, gun or missile, you will not be able to react quickly enough to target it. If you detect the missile(s) at sufficient range a gun can be brought to bear and the speed of the missile is irrelevant (it is flying towards the gun). The faster the missile however, the harder it is to switch between multiple targets. This is where independently targeted AMM's win out. The problem is when bean counters become involved and see the CIWS as "Good enough" to do the job on their own. Against one or maybe a couple of missiles it might be, against a coordinated multiple attack? No chance.
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  928. Sorry, this video would benefit from a course with the Plain English Society.
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  929. If it is possible to produce gamavoltaic batteries, just how high in the EM spectrum can they go? Can you make one that works on cosmic rays fer example?
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  930.  @dickmelsonlupot7697  The trouble is... that technology doesn't exist. Yet.
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  931.  @dickmelsonlupot7697  The same can be said for fusion power. That has taken over fifty years and is still not available. Designers counter the technology that exists now, not what might exist in the future.
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  932.  @dickmelsonlupot7697  Fusion research has been well funded, it's just bloody hard to achieve. Current stealth technology will be degraded and likey rendered ineffective over time, but that time is not now. Newer multi-spectral stealth technologies will be developed in response, that is what happens in all defence fields.
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  933.  @mrdanforth3744  No, I think he was referring to fast neutron fission.
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  934.  @jeremyj5932  Including Russia.
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  935.  @limedickandrew6016  Then the West is entitled to invade Russia after it broke the IRMB treaty?
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  936.  @snowtfl5617  Neither, but NVG technology and performance has always been restricted access for obvious reasons.
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  937. My bad.
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  938. Where did you get your thumbnail pic? Not a good advert as they have the flag upside down.
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  939. Yes Ivan
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  940. Only dangerous when you are a dictatorial government that cannot accept that people might have a different opinion.
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  941.  @bassetdad437  What do you mean as "Title picture"?
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  942. Its pronounced Tallis not Thales (although with a French accent)
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  943. One is senile the other a horrible example of humanity.
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  944. ​ @paulfaigl8329  Is it so hard to work out?
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  945.  @bdawg3942  What part of my comment suggested a liking for either president? US politics is broken, too much money involved.
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  946.  @richardlafleur8389  I beg to differ.
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  947.  @richardlafleur8389  Can't help you I am afraid, you will just have to learn the hard way.
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  948. Two options for waste. Worst option. Store it in ponds until it cools then vitrify it and bury it. Best option: Store it in ponds temporarily then reprocess it to remove the uranium and actinides for fuel use. Vitrify and bury and unwanted fission products. Is that elaborate enough?
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  949. He's a Democrat, they always assume they know better.
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  950. What A6's?
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  951.  @ItsAVolcano  I was thinking. Argentina would have loved to have had some A6's.
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  952. Not a fenestron tail rotor and your thumbnail is of a Sikorsky R4.
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  953.  @larrymckay5219  Again, an opinion without evidence.
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  954.  @billywelch5071  Are you confusing Charles and Andrew?
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  955.  @larrymckay5219  More comment without evidence.
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  956.  @davidpointon8383  And?
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  957. ​ @larrymckay5219  The woman he would have married prior to meeting Diana if he had been able.
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  958.  @larrymckay5219  Royal protocol, he was not allowed to. He has been a tree hugger all his life, Spitting image used to take the P out of him for talking to his plants.
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  959.  @larrymckay5219  Assuming Mad Vlad doesn't blow up the world first he will (Charles is 73 after all). Agree re QE, RIP.
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  960. Yes it does.
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  961.  @1chish  RAF lost their Merlins due to their poor performance under hot and high conditions.
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  962.  @1chish  Only that it was given as the reason the Merlin was withdrawn from Afghanistan.
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  963.  @1chish  It's not a bad helo, but not suited to the RAF; who might be called upon to support ops in any location. Fine for the navy.
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  964.  @ThatGuy-ze5kk  Coal produces many more issues than just carbon,
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  965.  @lesblack413  In a word, pollution.
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  966. Cost IS a major drawback of nuclear, there is no point denying it. It's expensive to build and takes a long time to make a profit; though it is very profitable in the long term. That's not what most investors want to sink their capital into unfortunately. Governments are probably in the best position to finance nuclear, either directly or via loan guarantees.
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  967. Hopefully she will stand against him for President.
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  968.  @ScottishRoss27  Good luck persuading Spain to allow you in.
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  969.  @Gunni1972  Close enough 🙃
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  970. That's why modern reactors are moving to passive safety, requiring no human input in the initial phase.
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  971. What Brexit? Will not be allowed to happen.
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  972. More than one line?
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  973.  @JamesThompson-p4r  Because it could be brought about without destroying the world economy if control were removed from the hands of fanatics.
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  974.  @edbaker515  Develop some common sense dude. Setting aside the whole "global warming" issue, there are many reasons to transition away from fossil fuel use where practicable. We saw in the early years of the industrial revolution what effect the widespread burning of coal had on pollution levels and general health. Fossil fuels are a finite commodity and have a wide range of uses, why waste them by burning them to generate energy when other alternatives exist? There are places in the world where renewables alone can provide energy self-sufficiency; wind & solar backed by hydro or geothermal. Why would a country not use them and continue to burn fossil fuels? Nuclear offers access to clean, abundant energy, even when using current inefficient reactor designs. The case for an eventual move away from fossil use is a strong one. The question is, "Is global warming real and do we have to break our economies to counter it?" I happen to believe that it is real but I do not believe that we (and the UK in particular) have to approach it like headless chickens. We do need to act though.
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  975.  @edbaker515  Grow up.
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  976. What frigate?
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  977.  @Randomstuffs261  There was no frigate listed
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  978.  @Randomstuffs261  They didn't say that T23 was up for sale
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  979.  @das81  From someone who cannot even use a spell checker.
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  980.  @veryrevrufus  We have a lot of sea area to cover. Conventional subs are great for shorter ranged tasks and especially in shallow waters. Nuclear powered vessels have longer range, are faster and can cover large areas while remaining deep (where they are harder to detect).
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  981.  @KenOtwell  A nuclear plant. Energy 24/7, 1/10th the area (your figures) and no requirement for power storage.
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  982.  @KenOtwell  Spent fuel storage does not require a huge area of land., certainly not enough to close such a large gap.
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  983.  @KenOtwell  Which is why all new rectors should be Gen III/IV designs. TMI, Fukushima and Chernobyl were all early reactor designs (Chernobyl did not even have a containment building) which would not be licensed now. Chernobyl, by far the worst nuclear accident to occur, was also the result of a unique chain of events. It did not occur during routine operation.
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  984. I wonder how many years it will be before that new analysis centre is working properly?
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  985. Yes, magnesium is used in flares to increase brilliance, either for illumination or to increase observable range.
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  986.  @michaelmr101  Which means that the nuclear "waste" we already have is just fuel waiting to be used.
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  987. Excellent video and excellent performance by the crew. For a spell back in '91/92 I used to check test filters from the fuel bowsers on RAF airfields to monitor for potential fuel contamination. This incident certainly puts that job into perspective.
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  988. They seem to be managing ok so far
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  989.  @WilhelmKarsten  Repeating yourself now. Did you used to post under the name Sander? You sound as bitter as he was.
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  990.  @WilhelmKarsten  Not in the same thread, lad. Especially when you are repeating rubbish.
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  991.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Comet had 25 hull loss accidents, how many of those were actually the fault of the aircraft though?
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  992. The UK is not in trouble because they decided to go green, they are in trouble because they decided not to back up renewables with a clean, reliable base load. There is nothing wrong with renewable energy generation; What is wrong is the dishonesty of many of its proponents who refuse to admit the true costs involved.
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  993.  @davidrobertsemail  Although the primary weapon, the SM2 missile, does not have active terminal guidance and is launched in pairs.
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  994. Criticism is fine, I would do that where I believe it is warranted. I would never knowingly desecrate any sacred text though.
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  995.  @SilverSixpence888  Wilful damage and who are "They?"
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  996.  @PipBin  Memory is, by it's nature, a temporary medium. Books age and are often damaged and disposed of, that is just part of everyday life. The wilful damage or destruction of a religious text is an intentional act designed to give insult to a particular group in the most hurtful way. There is no equivalence.
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  997. Why do Russians still fight for a system with so little regard for them? I cannot think of a time in history when Russian leaders have cared one jot about the lives of their troops.
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  998.  @MolecularArts  One person from the clean-up team has since died of lung cancer that is believed to be related to the incident. A few more are likely to die over the years and around 2,000 deaths occurred due to overreaction to the event. In contrast, many times that number are projected to die from air pollution as a result of Germany's decision to close its nuclear reactors when the alternative was burning brown coal.
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  999. What a great, if sad, video. Wish the guy well in his recovery and I hope other countries pick up on this and take a look at their own mental health procedures.
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  1000. Gloss - ter - sher
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  1001. Respect to you Paul for this assessment. I can only imagine how much this must hurt a military man. I'm a Brit and it hurts me to hear it. The US has a lot of friends in Europe and one fuckwit will not change that, but relations might sour for the next four years.
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  1002. Excellent video as ever.
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  1003. This idea that any voter who does not share your political views is “evil” or “dumb” and must be denegrated at any opportunity is straight out of 1984.
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  1004.  @Scaleyback317  Didn't Belgium refuse to supply shells to the UK?
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  1005.  @bogeyonanostrilhair9568  Britain had a large industrial sector back then.
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  1006.  @bogeyonanostrilhair9568  Not sure I understand your comment. I meant that we no longer possess the means of production we once had.
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  1007.  @bogeyonanostrilhair9568  Unfortunately I can no longer see your original comment for context, though I fear that we may be arguing through a misinterpretation of each others points. I am British and fully understand how the British economy was transformed during the war - my parents lived through it. Perhaps the most impressive statistic of all is the quantity of goods the country was able to supply to Russia, whilst at the same time fighting for its own survival. Interesting fact, rationing was actually more severe in the years immediately following the war than during it for some goods. My response you your original post was aimed more at the Britain of today. I doubt very much that 2022 Britain has the capacity to transform itself into a war economy in the way that it did in the 1930/40's.
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  1008.  @deusvult6920  I think you will find it was a very real war. Limited in it's scope maybe, but very real.
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  1009.  @RAIDER-xq4pt  They may fall somewhere, not necessarily on target.
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  1010.  SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION  Based on Putin's own line of argument, any invasion of the UK could result in the loss of Moscow and possibly one or two other major cities.
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  1011. This is not part of the nuclear deterrent
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  1012. Slight problem there, she will not fit.
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  1013. Keep safe lads and lasses.
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  1014. Well said. Loads of rivalry between us poms and you, but when the chips are down we stand together.
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  1015.  @thomasreed49  There will always be waste, whatever technology is employed. The trick is to reduce it to as little as possible through design improvements and recycling.
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  1016. And there I thought you had all been wiped out by a meteorite.
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  1017. I had no difficulty whatsoever.
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  1018. Please, you do the argument for nuclear power no favours by making false claims.
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  1019. We may be in the modern age yes, but at the cost of a decent AEW or airborne refuelling capability.
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  1020.  @Poorlineforeva  To be fair, ship classes have become rather confusing of late. USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25/CGN-25) was originally classed as a nuclear powered destroyer but later re-classified as a cruiser, it displaced 9,100 tons. (USS Truxton CGN-35 displaced only 8659t despite being a cruiser. The US built a further six CGN's at ~11,000t and one at 15,500t. By comparison the Arleigh Burk destroyer displacements grew from 8,200 tons for the flight I to 9,700 ton for the flight IV. The latest Zumwaalt destroyer on the other hand displaces just short of 16,000 t!
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  1021. ​ @buildmotosykletist1987  As far as I am aware the only SMR in current production uses PWR technology (Chinese ACP100), though it is still a demonstration reactor.
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  1022.  @johngeier8692  Both can and do make a decent contribution. If we had had just maintained out nuclear capacity we could be close to fossil-free at current electrical demand. I just wish the renewables lobby would be honest when they talk about costs. They always quote "cost per KWh" but never include the costs associated with the need to install over capacity and storage.
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  1023. UK was spending between five and seven percent of GDP on defence during most of the cold war, despite having been nearly bankrupted by WW2. Food rationing did not end completely until 1954, nine years after the war ended.
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  1024.  @fredschnerbert1238  More likely Taiwan reacts to some flight anomaly by firing on the aircraft and sparking a conflict. Each time the fighters approach the Taiwanese do not know if this is just another incursion, or if the planes are armed and about to attack. Nerves strain!
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  1025. Excellent video 😊👍
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  1026. I would tend to agree. Convert aircraft to run on methane. Use waste methane or produce it using the excess (when generated) energy from renewable energy sources, molten salt nuclear reactors or algae. Methane is much easier to handle than hydrogen.
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  1027. Depends on the warhead type. Those cage-like systems work well against HEAT rounds but not EFP rounds.
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  1028.  @flyingpuma9729  They can, but the sides of Russian tanks are usually fitted with reactive armour.
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  1029. I'm not sure where those figures came from but they look dodgy to me, at least when compared with current nuclear technology. The situation may change when liquid fuelled, modular reactors become available.
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  1030.  @DrewPwiener110  Nah mate, what's left of it is grey.
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  1031.  @dvtofk9908  The scientists, you know, the experts?
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  1032. That first time standing on the outside of a bend looking through a viewfinder and you see the driver head on. "Oh shit, I shouldn't be standing here!"
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  1033.  @GunnarKennedy  Doubt it unfortunately, at least not while Sunak is in charge.
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  1034. You CAN build an energy system running on only "renewables" anywhere, but the cost and scale is enormous without easy access to hydro and geothermal.
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  1035.  @mycamguy  You think a CME is going to flood a reactor?
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  1036.  @bk-yg9yw  Probably for a reason.
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  1037.  @mycamguy  Sorry, confused you with the OP. It was 3:00AM when I was posing.
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  1038.  @Interglacial_optimist  Why would they have no diesel?
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  1039.  @Interglacial_optimist  There is plenty of diesel around. If you are talking about a post zero world then yes, an alternative off grid power source would be required. Something new and radical, like a battery pack?
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  1040. If only life was that simple.
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  1041.  @CARLTULLY-tf5qu  They could be on -1000% and it would make no difference. They have the seats and that's all that counts.
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  1042.  @leiaorgana5098  SMR's, whether thorium based or not, should work out cheaper. Conventional reactors have large reactor vessels that are almost one-offs and only available from a few manufacturers worldwide. The aim of SMRs is to introduce production line efficiencies. I doubt that will ever be achieved, but they should yield significant reductions.
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  1043.  Brett Mitchell  I guess if the intention was to station an Astute in the Asia Pacific region permanently then having the Aussies man it might be acceptable. Not entirely sure that was the intention though. One for the Navy Lookout regulars to comment on the viability of extending the Barrow yard to accommodate additional production.
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  1044.  Brett Mitchell  I wasn't sure about that. I knew they could build three and only currently have two under construction. They also have two Dreadnoughts under construction, but I am guessing the space commitment at Barrow is tiny at the moment, if any at all? I guess it depends on how soon they need the space for the first Dreadnought wrt the time to build additional Astute's. So far an Astute is averaging about eight years from lay down to launch. If they can expand the site and build extra Astute boats for Aus, brilliant.
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  1045. Possibly, but it will be years before thorium reactors make any meaningful contribution. Too much political and safety baggage to overcome.
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  1046.  @dogsnads5634  Officious b'tds at Kineton 🙃
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  1047. I have no issue with the fact that he stumbled. That we see an older person stumbling as a sign of weakness says more about society than the President. What I do have an issue with is the fact that he has also shown clear signs of mental impairment, yet he has not been forced to take a cognitive impairment test. Trump on the other hand showed no similar signs yet he was forced to take a test. This is a clear case of systemic political bias. (For the record, I don't particularly wish to see either Biden or Trump contest the next presidential election)
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  1048. Wearing out and/or breaking down does not mean a catastrophe, all depends on design.
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  1049. Nope, it's primary role remains an armour killer.
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  1050. You think it might have been talking about ENVGB's?
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  1051. You can't attribute a geographical location to an epidemic. It's racist apparently.
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  1052.  @ergohack  Or when people act sensibly and don't try to attribute their own views to other people's words? My comment was meant to be "tongue in cheek" for clarity.
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  1053.  @ergohack  I didn't say everyone was sensible, that was my point.
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  1054. We have men's sport, women's sport, disabled sport.. why not just create a transgender class stop demonising people?
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  1055. Great shame. All that's left now is a narcissist and a hold over from the Soviet era of doddery old men.
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  1056.  @aSSGoblin1488  Good luck to the poor bastards handling that device.
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  1057.  @robertsmith4681  Wouldn't happen. The reactors would shut down and only require a fraction of the cooling that working reactors require.
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  1058.  @marcusmaddenov2451  It certainly does have issues, not the least of which is proving its safety to national regulators. The uranium route (either thermal of fast spectrum) is well understood and the way to go in the short term.
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  1059.  @johanberglund6240  That ability is an expediency for wartime operations, not something you want to undertake routinely.
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  1060.  @bemusedkidney8619  So we base our energy future on your opinions?
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  1061. Except that the troops moaned about the SLR because it was semi-automatic. Troops love to moan :)
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  1062.  @andrewgraham7659  What on earth are you talking about? The UK has not suffered any blackouts.
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  1063. Of course not, but I would have no problem if it were buried hundreds of feet underground.
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  1064.  @pwillis1589  What don't?
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  1065. Tastes horrible though
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  1066. We either support Ukraine now or allow Russia to win and grow; the latter resulting in a new Cold War. UK defence spending during the last cold war peaked at 5.5% GDP in 1984 and ran to 6% GDP and more before 1970. A hot war is even more expensive in every conceivable way.
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  1067. No need to watch the video, far more entertaining reading the Russian propaganda trolls.
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  1068. Honest assessment, nice one.
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  1069. They will find illness and starvation, that's for sure.
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  1070.  @MiyamotoMusashi9  Prior to the industrial revolution most children did not live long enough to develop diabetes.
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  1071.  @MiyamotoMusashi9  No amount of evolution will overcome starvation.
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  1072.  @MiyamotoMusashi9  What we can do and what we choose to do are entirely different.
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  1073.  @ehpa9047  The HAR is probably the least "Offensive" version so they might be suggesting that to diffuse possible tensions with Russia. P3 armed with excoct or Harpoon would be a step up, though I'm not sure how long they would last over the Black Sea.
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  1074. Those thermite charges are smaller than I expected.
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  1075. It was yes, but it never entered service.
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  1076. You should stop drinking the mass produced rubbish and investigate your many excellent independent breweries :)
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  1077. Factor in the potential benefits of future fast neutron reactors and that waste storage requirement will drop to less than ten percent of current levels.
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  1078. That will be the cluster and incendiary weapons Russia used on civilian areas in Syria I suppose?
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  1079. Afraid to bring Putin bad news? Another similarity with a certain Austrian corporal then.
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  1080. It is an F16V; the latest version with advanced systems such as an AESA radar and improved, integrated communications.
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  1081.  @anthonycanalese2142  That's like saying The Flying Scotsman was no different to Stevenson's Rocket. The F16 has always been highly manoeuvrable, but In the end air combat comes down to situational awareness. In this, the F16V is light years ahead of the original F16A.
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  1082.  @anthonycanalese2142  I cannot help if you do not understand the folly of what you originally stated.
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  1083.  @anthonycanalese2142  Yawn
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  1084. A good incident for you to cover might be the British Airways Trident crash due to its impact on cockpit management?
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  1085.  @CHINZIG_UK  And we would nuke Moscow before their planes could get near us. Your point is?
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  1086. That would be in Putin's Russia, the arsehole of the world.
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  1087. It's not as simple as you suggest. Wiping memory is one thing, having a system in place to ensure data cannot be recovered is a whole lot more complicated.
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  1088.  @brostenen  I wouldn't want to disagree with an expert
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  1089. Yes, next step should be to play with the software aka F18 removal of AoA limits.
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  1090.  @glennridsdale577  Carefree handling is no good if the other guy turns inside you.
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  1091.  @glennridsdale577 An F22 will turn a typhoon inside out with its thrust vectoring engine. Also we are looking at going forward. Every man and is mutt will look at that F18 footage an say "I want my aircraft to be able to turn like that" I have seen nothing in the Typhoon's manoeuvrability that sets it that apart from a Rafale, Gripen or Su27.
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  1092.  @glennridsdale577  The Hornet has always been a very manoeuvrable aircraft. It was the first jet fighter I ever saw square the corners of a loop (and I have never seen a viper do it). I have seen a Typhoon "display" many times.
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  1093.  @KausnHavok  Agreed (though it could use meteor). In an ideal world you would be correct regarding the likelihood of close in dog-fighting occurring. Unfortunately we live in a world run by politicians with elections to win.
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  1094.  @Highendaudio1  Isn't that what I said? There is more chance (though still low) that US yards could construct a few extra boats than the UK.
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  1095.  @saltymonke3682  The UK yard does not have the trained staff to increase construction numbers.
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  1096.  @saltymonke3682  They have zero experience constructing SSN's
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  1097.  @saltymonke3682  Agreed, but it takes time and personnel to train them. With a much smaller trained workforce ourselves, that is not going to be easy. I wish we could. I wish we could build another three of four for ourselves too.
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  1098. We have seen a new leader, an unelected one.
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  1099. Let's be honest, he was probably bored senseless.
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  1100. Yeah, they chose a US designed intercooler which was not up to the job.
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  1101.  @hellishcyberdemon7112  Our police do.
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  1102.  @hellishcyberdemon7112  Most, yes. All, no. Our police have access to guns when they need them, they mostly don't because gun crime in the UK is low. How free do you feel when every copper you meet carries a gun?
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  1103. No, he helped cause the Iraq war.
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  1104. Religion! Multiple factions willing to kill and enslave to prove that their "peaceful" cult is the true one. Depressing.
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  1105. There's always one numpty 🙄
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  1106. If the UK had renewed its nuclear plants this situation would not have arisen, the shortfall was less than the lost nuclear capacity.
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  1107. Well, that was a thoroughly depressing video! Any chance of your comments on one of "Approach and Departure Videos" offerings, which to my amateur eyes appear to provide examples of excellent cockpit resource management? It would be nice to see an upbeat video after that one.
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  1108. Watch it again.
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  1109.  @cristiangaban960  Sorry I'm confused, that is literally what I was implying in my response.
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  1110.  @cristiangaban960  No worries, I thought you might have.
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  1111.  @tedwarden1608  Sorry, do you mean that we did not, should not...?
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  1112.  @RicArmstrong  Allies don't normally use nerve agents on each other.
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  1113. Surrounded by SS agents? 🙃
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  1114. I take it then that you believe that Biden would pass the CI test they made Trump undergo?
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  1115. Excellent video.
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  1116.  @DerDop  I believe that its twelve.
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  1117. If the ammo had detonated there would be no tank left.
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  1118.  @vacgyverfin5170  Which is what I said. I was responding to the OP's claim that "The attack most likely resulted in ammo detonation."
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  1119. Inflexible? Aside from routine maintenance and refuelling it runs 24/7.
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  1120.  @LustyDwarf95  I am well aware of that. Most people have far more to fear from corporations when it comes to being tracked.
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  1121.  @lazeppelini123  Hope you enjoy the view, I would advise having a sick bag to hand though.
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  1122.  @questioneverythingalways820  You mean like the biometric scanners at airports; where those flagged are often missed because there are too few staff to respond to the flags?
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  1123.  @biggie9935  Then they can be explained by someone.
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  1124.  @Y_hass  Brave statement.
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  1125. ​ @biggie9935  If you make comments under such circumstances, don't be surprised if they are misinterpreted. Your initial statement (can't be explained) implied an extra-terrestrial origin, to which I responded. If you say that you believe them to be from earth, then there are a number of explanations available ranging from misidentification of common objects through to clandestine experimental vehicles. Historically, many classified US vehicles have been observed and labelled as "UFO's" Unidentified does not automatically equate to unexplainable.
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  1126. Chas is a tree hugger, always has been. He has never denied it and I respect honest opinion even when I don't always agree with it.
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  1127.  @matt7775  Add blocker for android.
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  1128. Spot on. If the UK does nothing else it should increase our ammunition and supply stocks. A few more fighter pilots wouldn't go amiss either.
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  1129.  @tommihommi1  No, it is not. Such facilities are monitored by international inspectors,
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  1130.  @tommihommi1  Read my last point. It is pretty much impossible to develop nuclear weapons in secret. There are just too many clues for those with the right tools to look for them.
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  1131.  @tommihommi1  I don't need to read up on it. You should read up on how much people knew of their efforts.
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  1132.  @ernie4125  There is an excess of weapons grade plutonium.
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  1133.  @stevemc6010  Looks like an etch primer
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  1134. The western world wants to ween itself off Russian supplies, for obvious reasons.
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  1135. Depending on the supplied launch/radar vehicles, the NASAMS might be a better option than Patriot to support the offensive.
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  1136. I don't think he actually owns them, they go with the post.
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  1137.  @vultureTX001  I believe that the actual test shown was a British test and that the flask contained steel rods and pressurised water.
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  1138. Hawker P1127 1964
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  1139. That is the sensible option. Fund a selection of service personnel and engineers working in key areas to second to the USN/RN and (for example) Electric boat or Barrow to learn the fundamentals of building and operating nuclear powered boats. Another interim possibility might be to offer to base a USN attack submarine (or RN, IF they have a boat available) in Australia with the proviso that it is joint crewed with RAN sailors.
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  1140. The concord was also put through a barrel roll on a test flight.
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  1141. 🙄
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  1142. If those craft really have the performance figures claimed then just ignore them.
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  1143. What about it?
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  1144.  @nigelliam153  I agree that renewables would, in practice, be far more expensive than is currently claimed. But the OP said that the laws of physics meant that 100% renewables could not be done, which is wrong.
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  1145.  @nigelliam153  Oh and I don't agree with your 7hr assertion (unless you are talking specifically Australia, in which case I do not have the data to make a valid argument). I am UK based and here solar averages 12 hrs and wind appears to average around 30-40% of theoretical capacity over 12 months.
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  1146. Because it is aimed at a foreign market not an internal German one.
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  1147. I loved the Opel Manta B, not as fast but bloody entertaining around corners 🙃
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  1148. Tell your man Vlad to withdraw his forces, then no one would have to.
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  1149.  @stevenhull5025  Yawn
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  1150.  @Darryl_Francis  Aw, ickle flower is butt hurt.
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  1151.  @williammiller567  No, but I studied Biology to A-level and Chemistry to degree level and viruses and vaccines were included in the course material.
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  1152.  @icarusfalls9315  Where did you read that? The vaccine trains the body's immune system to recognise certain proteins associated with the virus and develop antibodies to counter it. That is why you often feel ill when vaccinated, it is your body reacting to a perceived infection. When/if you become infected with the actual virus, your immune system detects those proteins and reproduces the same antibodies. The difference is that your body recognises it is under attack and begins to fight back more quickly, therefore the number of cells infected and consequently the number of replicated viruses is reduced. Less new virus equates to less chance of transmission. Not zero, but far less.
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  1153.  @genetranscends1662  The word you were searching for is drivel not dribble. It's not my fault if you choose to take a tinfoil hat approach to anything you do not understand.
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  1154. ​ @genetranscends1662  Keep digging. It's a sad reflection on today's world when people like you refuse to understand the workings of a vaccine; something understood by the scientific community over two hundred years ago. We really are living in a modern age of Nero.
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  1155.  @icarusfalls9315  Where did I say that a vaccine can stop you catching or transmitting a virus? It speeds up your body's response to an infection; thereby reducing the severity of the illness and the level of subsequent transmission. What happens if the virus mutates? Well the vaccines could well stop working and they will have to develop new ones. That is what happens with the flu and common cold. The same also applies to any natural or herd immunity gained from contracting and surviving a virus.
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  1156.  @genetranscends1662  I know, it's incredible that someone living in the 21st century could fail to understand how a vaccine works and prefer instead to believe some conspiracy theorist on the web. But don't despair, there is still hope for you.
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  1157.  @utube271258  Rubbish, go learn some science.
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  1158. Still fixated on waste 🙄
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  1159. "Needs to replace the F22 and the F15." I lost interest at that point.
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  1160.  @amitsaurabh9948  I would rather slap in a reactor and get 90%
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  1161. The real aircraft when they are flying them in simulated air combat.
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  1162.  @alancotterell9207  Doesn't need to be, there is sufficient uranium and thorium to last for thousands of years. I'm assuming btw that you mean fission products are not renewable?
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  1163. Pedant
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  1164. It is a product of this planet
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  1165.  @andrewr.5909  The planet is a non sentient body and has no concept of humans.
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  1166.  @andrewr.5909  No, you are anthropomorphising an inanimate object.
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  1167. Why the music? I found it too distracting and gave up on the video.
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  1168.  @navalfocus  What happens when the GPS signal is jammed or the satellite nocked out?
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  1169.  @drob437  There are two white diagonals, one thin, one fat. "Look up the pole and she has a cute little bottom" ;)
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  1170.  Mogaaj Fghgf  It was actually. Russia was out of it and Europe was at stalemate. The war would have dragged on for years if the US had not joined.
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  1171. You guys are just so pathetic. Just one sub armed with ballistic missiles can take out up to a dozen cities. Say you leave just one chinese sub, and it targets all of its missies on the New York area; that's up to 20m people dead. That's without the Russians panicking and thinking they are next. Try using that blob of grey stuff between your ears.
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  1172. Thanks. I figured it was a naval signal but I did not know what it said.
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  1173. Fixed one, HMS Dauntless with another in the yard.
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  1174. Why are you surprised by her views? "I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC."
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  1175.  @zoolander1721  Lol. Want to buy a unicorn, I have one going cheap.
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  1176. Have to confess, I am at a loss to explain how Gollum survived his fall into Mount Doom.
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  1177. Greens really do hate humanity.
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  1178. NATO has zero desire to get involved directly, it would lead to a Europe-wide conflict, possibly even world wide.
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  1179. Prejudices showing a bit?
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  1180. Hopefully the EU can organise something where Ukrainian grain can pass through the EU to a port for onward shipment to their old markets.
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  1181. Clarkson gets a lot of stick, some of it justified, but I can't think of many presenters more suited to this type of documentary.
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  1182. Coal has killed more people per watt generated than any other energy source.
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  1183.  @MichaelApproved  It doesn't matter how realistic it looks. Can you really not see the difference between simulation and a recording?
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  1184.  @MichaelApproved  Then I am afraid you have played too many video games.
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  1185. ​ @MichaelApproved  Forget it. If you are unable to comprehend the difference between watching a cgi depiction of an event and watching a video of the actual event, then nothing I can say will help you understand.
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  1186.  @MichaelApproved  I take it back, nothing to do with video games. The problem in in your head.
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  1187.  @MichaelApproved  That was no insult. I gave you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you had become desensitized, my bad.
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  1188. The only conceivable use for a dirty bomb by regular forces would be to deny access to an area, for example to a choke point such as a river crossing. Since Ukraine is the one attacking, why would they deploy one?
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  1189. Luddite
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  1190. Owing to early passenger release, no brown trouser incidents were recorded!
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  1191. Victim of woke 🙁
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  1192.  @wouterdebois7958 You could not be more wrong. The likelihood of an explosion from propellant vs a capacitor bank is so much greater. If you don't believe me, I give you HMS Hood.
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  1193.  @johnstark4723  Indeed it can and in the naval context will have to, but air superiority fighter is not its strongest suit. Can it hold its own in air to air combat, yes, but a mixed F22/F35 force would be preferred.
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  1194.  Hagen van Tronje  It depends on the type of recce required. It is not a strategic asset (eg U2) to be sure, but it makes an excellent tactical asset.
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  1195.  Hagen van Tronje  Ultimately yes, if we had the right drones. What we have are slow moving and easy targets for SAMs. The recce aircraft you can see coming is the one you can most easily hide from.
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  1196.  @Vladimirthetiny  What makes you think I believe in heaven?
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  1197.  @starwindamada5313  Then he is safe.
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  1198.  @lapun47  That's why I used the word.
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  1199.  @MarinCipollina  🤣🤣🤣 Hook, line and sinker.
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  1200. 729 Flat Earthers disliked this video.
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  1201.  @rattusfinkus  Well we are buggered then, because we won't have grid level storage available either.
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  1202.  @rattusfinkus  Btw, France installed 50GW of nuclear in ten years.
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  1203.  @rattusfinkus  No answer without grid level storage.
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  1204.  @rattusfinkus  That's what happens when you listen to "Greens" instead of nuclear engineers.
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  1205.  @rattusfinkus  Lol. In South Australia maybe.
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  1206. There was peace, until Russia invaded
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  1207.  @dreamserengchongbong4176  Then Russia just has to withdraw.
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  1208.  @dreamserengchongbong4176  If you returned home and found me in one of your bedrooms, would you offer the room to me, or call the police? Especially on learning that I was already the owner of the largest mansion in the country.
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  1209.  @yettispaghetti6784  No, the dog was given the guard command.
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  1210.  @orango6113  Dogs are pretty good at picking up the mood of their pack leader.
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  1211.  @davidhouseman4328  NATO has had a 2% defence "target" for most of its existence. Few countries met it, even during the cold war.
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  1212. The issue with US politics (and it's the same over here in Europe) is most of your politicians are on the take.
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  1213.  @ToroidalX  The point of the F-35 is to kill rather than being killed. How would Europe have looked if the RAF had not adopted the Hurricane and Spitfire and entered WW2 with Fury and Gladiator biplanes?
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  1214.  @ToroidalX  You can die for even less. Why is the 21st century any different than the previous twenty? People want stuff that belongs to others. If NASA fails then science is set back a few years, if the US military fails so does the whole of western democracy.
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  1215.  @ToroidalX  I do not "fail to understand" the US defence budget. The US spends so much because it has been the only superpower and operates worldwide. In Europe it has effectively subsidised NATO; most of whose nations were unwilling to pay their agreed share. It maintains the capability to fight in two or more theatres of operation simultaneously, all while defending CONUS. The US has no direct land border with any of the theatres to which it provides security and must therefore maintain the capability to reinforce those theatres by air and sea. The US military is already failing because it continues to try to do too much. Why do you think material availability is so low? The USAF bomber force has worn out aircraft, the USN can not afford to replace it's Ticonderoga class cruisers. The land based nuclear arsenal is ancient. There are many other examples where it has either lost its edge or fallen behind.
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  1216.  @ToroidalX  You want an arsenal of nuclear weapons that are seen as a credible threat, the US Minuteman III system is fifty years old and ABM systems are improving all the time. Both Russia and China are close to fielding far more advanced systems using hypersonic glide bodies to evade such missile defence systems. In fact this technology is probably the most dangerous yet devised given that it has a huge potential for misunderstandings leading to all out war. China already has the largest army in the world and the largest surface fleet. It is building a nuclear arsenal, ships and submarines at an unprecedented rate. It is openly threatening Taiwan and any country that tries to defend it; including first use of nuclear weapons.
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  1217.  @ToroidalX  The only point you have made so far that is correct is that they are inefficient.
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  1218.  @ToroidalX  How do you think China managed to "Do all that" with 1/3 of the budget? Same with the USSR, let the people live in hovels.
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  1219.  @rickbart1  Why would energy companies not make a profit from green energy sources? They are still selling the energy they produce.
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  1220.  @rickbart1  Finally? That's what I said in my OP. We should move to greener (call it cleaner if you prefer) energy generation and use, but we should not destroy the world economy to get there. The argument is that millions will die if we do nothing, but millions will also die if we break the system. Steady progress over "Religious doctrine"
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  1221. I will lay you odds that a straw poll of the British public would show that they would be unable to identify an L85. Maybe the younger generation would, thanks to games, but not the rest.
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  1222. Actually, if the worries are to be believed, we are making Earth more like Venus.
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  1223.  @nilsfrederking62  You mean the vast majority living in abject poverty, working every minute they are awake and dying before they are 40?
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  1224. I think you need to re-read your notes.
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  1225.  @murraymclean5177  Possibly, but that is no reason to refuse to take advice from professionals.
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  1226.  @SWags-ly7dp  Flat Earth Focker was the name he went by, that is fact not emotion. I cannot link his videos directly as they have been taken down, but you can hear and see him in this reaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXwKdbDFmo Your follow up remarks are so ironic. Why? because you sound just like FEF in the days before he died.
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  1227.  @YA-qj8fx  I never said that vaccination prevents transmission, it does not. It reduces the likelihood though and that is a fact, not an opinion. There are specific medical conditions that can result in an adverse reaction to the vaccines. They are known and you will be asked about them prior to being vaccinated. If you have one of them, then fair enough. For the population as a whole however the risks associated with the vaccine are far lower than the risks associated with catching the disease.
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  1228.  @alantollemache8627  Yawn
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  1229. ​ @henryottis295  Educate me then over the "Many" with lasting problems over the five million "lucky ones"
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  1230.  @thegeneralist7527  "Minor details?" I do apologise for having "academic training", so much worse than spewing "internet theories"
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  1231.  @voiceofreason7856  You can't educate pork.
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  1232.  @thegeneralist7527  I rest my case
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  1233.  @thegeneralist7527  Grey actually
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  1234.  @voiceofreason7856  That is true, you refuse to see what you don't want to see.
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  1235. What a pratt.
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  1236. When they know why?
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  1237. There is no way France will send troops to Ukraine, it would only happen if Russia attacked a NATO member. Macron is trying to boost his ratings, pity he did not do more in the run up to the war.
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  1238. All the high level waste produced by the UK since the 1950s would fit into a volume the size of a single Olympic sized swimming pool.
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  1239. Of course the moon is made of cheese, Wallace & Gromit proved it.
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  1240. Stop with the "hypersonic" hype ffs. All ballistic missile that have flight profiles close to orbital are hypersonic in their terminal phase. The space shuttle was hypersonic during re-entry.
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  1241. If only there was a cost effective way to produce hydrogen. Oh, there is, nuclear. Nuclear is traditionally used for base load generation, where continuous operation increases efficiency and reduces costs. Solution? Make some of your capacity duel-use. At peak demand, make electricity. At low demand make hydrogen. Unlike renewables, where your hydrogen production is to cover periods of low generation, here the hydrogen can be sold as fuel.
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  1242.  @CaptainQuark9  That's why I added the emoji, to show it wasn't a criticism of your comment.
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  1243. Absolute rubbish. Hinkley Point C will be operational by the end of the decade (3.2GW). Sizewell C is set for 2034 (using the higher twelve year build estimate).
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  1244.  @thomasreilly6362  No, sorry. You said "new nuclear power station opens" the two I mentioned are not yet open. They will, in themselves, account for around 14% of current UK demand. There are no planned SMRs at present, but it is highly unlikely that it would take 20 years or more to bring the first into service.
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  1245.  @thomasreilly6362  Sizewell C is not under construction, it has only just been approved. As for the rest, the main issue is funding, which is why nuclear should be nationalised and built by the government. Failing that, large capital intensive projects like nuclear, tidal, hydro etc should be given access to government backed, long-term, low interest rate loans.
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  1246.  @thomasreilly6362  China recently built one in three years! Sizewell B took seven (and people complained it was too long), so it's not unreasonable to think that we could have been knocking them out in five if we had continued building them. We could have been fossil fuel free (for electricity generation) by now :(
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  1247.  @thomasreilly6362  Agreed. Takes far too long to gain approval.
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  1248. Care to explain that gem of knowledge?
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  1249.  @LynnMarie-v2f  So each country spends a fortune looking at diseases on every continent and developing their own procedures rather than pooling information. Sensible!
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  1250. No, it really could not.
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  1251. No.
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  1252. When you jump on a bandwagon phrase but can't even spell it 😂
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  1253. How many nuclear reactors did you authorise when in power Tony?
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  1254.  @johnallen7807  The last two are already under construction.
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  1255. Best wishes. Youtube is fast becoming the thought police.
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  1256. Feedback sent to YT on your behalf.
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  1257. "The atomic bombings of Japan are considered by many to have ended WW2, this is partially correct" No, it is correct. Whatever else occurred in the run up to the final surrender, it was the two A-bombs and the prospect of more to follow, that convinced the Emperor and cabinet to surrender.
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  1258. Because our defence is run by the bean counters in the treasury rather than the military.
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  1259.  @mickeypopa  You missed the point. This is a lesson in how NOT to respond.
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  1260.  @hb1338  A contributory factor along with others. As pointed out the primary reason was confirmation bias.
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  1261.  @8xRedMonkeyx8  Just trying to keep you out of jail mate.
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  1262.  @jodygirrl  On the ISS, where you can see it happen for yourself.
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  1263. Nothing, neither should be on the pavement.
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  1264. Or it could be yet another option to add to a nuclear reactor to give current systems 24/7 power output with load following capability.
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  1265.  @operator8014  Yes but few have and most of them are already nuclear capable. I have no issue with any country reprocessing waste as long as they sign up to inspections. It would likely be simpler and more economic though if just a few nations undertook the task.
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  1266. I have a question. Are there no sensors (independent of the flight control computer) that could be used to give pilots a guaranteed indication of their pitch angle?
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  1267.  @MentourPilot  Thanks for replying. I guess that raises two further questions. Why do pilots fail to recognise they are in a stall and pull back on controls when the aircraft is telling them they are already pitched up? Would it not be really helpful to pilots to have a clear representation of their angle of attack, perhaps displayed as a visual of the aircraft relative to a horizontal line? I'm sure it's not as simple as that though. If you have not already, could you perhaps produce a video explaining why pilots fail to recognise that they are in a stall?
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  1268. Agreed.
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  1269. To be fair, I see nothing in what is reported from that document that I would not expect to see in any document discussing biological warfare. Whether the authors are planning to use such weapons, or defend against them, it is only common sense to first outline the nature of the threat.
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  1270. You still end up with waste. A permanent solution has to be found, be it a shallow underground repository or deep borehole storage.
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  1271.  @BananenBoerBob  There was a natural reactor formed within a groundwater stream in the Belgian Congo. The reactor waste products are still localised millions of years later.
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  1272.  @brunol-p_g8800  Every single navy uses NH90 - ok.
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  1273. @Big Ern McCracken About the most dumb idea imaginable.
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  1274. @Big Ern McCracken I made no such claim.
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  1275.  @stephenbrickwood1602  So build a fuel manufacturing plant and export fuel pellets instead. Value added export.
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  1276.  @stephenbrickwood1602  Pardon? I said supply the fuel rather than the ore to countries with dictatorships. That way they have no fuel enrichment/reprocessing capabilities.
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  1277. I take it you don't understand English, they said it has not dropped any weapons. Recce only so far.
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  1278. @Blob BYes, on recce missions
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  1279. Not for everyone
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  1280.  @jsmith9705  Yes, for some. Even then it's not usually immunity. More an ability to defeat an infection before it can kill you.
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  1281.  @jsmith9705  The implication that immunity is sufficient; which may not have been your original intent, but is often claimed.
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  1282.  @jsmith9705  No one is "refusing to accept" anything. There simply is not the data to say how many people who have recovered from covid now have natural protection and how long that protection lasts.
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  1283.  @pwillis1589  Well you require something for when your renewables are offline.
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  1284.  @tassied12  Nuclear by itself would indeed require some form of alternate backup or outlet. It is most efficient when run at maximum capacity, which is why France still requires some fossil fuel. The answer is a blend of reactor types and uses. Large GW reactors to cover baseload and smaller reactors that can be switched between power generation and industrial use as required. For example a reactor might produce electricity when demand is high or hydrogen when it is low. The hydrogen being used for steel, ammonia, fertiliser production. Or it might run a desalination plant off-peak. Or it could simply form part of a mixed source generation system. To simply dismiss it, or close existing nuclear while burning fossil fuels is folly.
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  1285. Just image if the UK had taken his approach in 1935.
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  1286. This is why free speech is so important. Allow people to speak freely and they will eventually hang themselves.
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  1287.  @BatteryCommander  Whether you believe in global warming or not, coal is a shitty, polluting, inefficient energy source. Even the most inefficient nuclear plant is cleaner, safer and more efficient than coal.
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  1288. Only if Aus decided to buy the nuclear version of the TLAM cruise missile (and if the US would sell them). Neither is very likely. These boats will be attack boats; primarily designed to hunt other subs, ships and gather intelligence.
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  1289.  @RowdyTrain4472  Why would Australia have and use Nukes? I fear you may be correct regarding war but if it becomes necessary to use nukes then the US has more than enough to do the job. It makes no difference who uses them, we will all die anyway.
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  1290. Tell that to the sun
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  1291. @Abu Mohandes Do some research
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  1292. @Abu Mohandes Try the subject in question.
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  1293. @Abu Mohandes No. After a suitable period the fission products can be removed from the waste for safe disposal. The remainder (mostly U238) but also 235 and transuranic's can then be converted to the chloride salt and used as fuel in a fast spectrum reactor. There are a number of companies working on those reactors as we speak.
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  1294. @Abu Mohandes Not reprocessing as practiced for decades. Traditional reprocessing is the extraction of U235 and plutonium from waste fuel to produce new mixed oxide fuel. Only around 2% of spent fuel is recoverable for use in conventional reactors. Fast spectrum reactors are able to consume the U238 and actinide component , thus consuming around 96% of the waste. You read too much into what was undoubtedly a quick comment on a Youtube video.
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  1295. Australia needs to look at licensing the upcoming modular reactors rather than the larger, current tech ones. Get ahead of the game.
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  1296.  @TheRealBobSmith. The cost per KWh while generating is cheap, relative to most other methods. The issue (usually ignored) is that when they are not generating some other means of providing power has to be found, which leads to the cost increase. You cannot simply replace 10GW of coal with 10GW of renewables (Wind / Solar) because they are intermittent providers. It requires 20GW solar and 120GWh of storage for example (based on an over simplified average 12hr light/dark period, ignoring energy losses) Alternately, you have to keep the 10GW of reserve coal capacity and run it for 50% of the time. The more intermittent renewables installed, the greater the need for excess capacity and storage in the system.
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  1297. I guess it never occurred to you that it is possible to construct more factories to build them?
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  1298.  @ashleygoggs5679  The UK has never fielded a large standing army outside of actual combat.
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  1299.  @ashleygoggs5679  Once Germany failed to capture the Caucasus oil fields there was never much doubt about the outcome on the Eastern Front. The problem with having more units is persuading people to fill the posts. That said, we could use a temporary increase of the defence budget to 3% GDP to bridge all the black holes.
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  1300. So, people are finally beginning to wake up. Too late this time though, the West no longer has the industrial capacity to win.
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  1301. Bloody RAF should never be entrusted with old aircraft, why did this not end its life in a museum? Reminds me of the AEW Shackleton that ended its life on the Valley fire training grounds 🥵
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  1302. He should have taken the test at the first sign of possible mental deterioration. POTUS is just too important to be left in the hands of someone who people perceive as unfit to undertake the role. I cannot believe that the US is considering another Biden/Trump showdown, have they no one better to put forward?
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  1303. Then you are an idiot.
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  1304. Does anyone still have faith in our legal system?
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  1305. UK should have bought the CV90 system to replace its warriors etc and ditched Ajax.
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  1306.  @TJ-TJ  Truth is truth, whether you like the source or not.
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  1307. You cannot get away from the fact that the nuclear power and nuclear weapon industries have historical links, to try and do so only feeds the impression of a cover up. However, the two do not always go together. Any country wishing to develop a nuclear weapon can do so; it just requires the will to spend the money and withstand the wrath of other nations. No country can hide a weapons program behind a nuclear energy industry. To produce weapons a country has to enrich uranium or reprocess fuel/spent fuel. The IAEA will demand access to any facility with the capacity to produce weapons grade material and failure to allow such access will automatically raise suspicion (looking at you Iran)
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  1308.  @desertrat7634 You cannot exclude history or the fact that pretty much any fission process can be used to produce weapons grade material. Certainly the reactor designs that are likely to be constructed in the next 10-15 years can.
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  1309.  @desertrat7634  You are missing the point here. For nuclear power to be accepted in a country like Australia it is the general public that have to be convinced. The top four arguments used against nuclear power are cost, safety, waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation. All four of which have some level of validity. You cannot dismiss proliferation by claiming that power and weapons are entirely separate, when the public can see how they have gone hand in hand in the past. If you want to win over an opponent, start by acknowledging the truth. That way they are more likely to listen to your follow up arguments.
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  1310.  @thegreyghost5846  And STILL you miss the point. It is not those who understand the processes involved that you have to convince, it is the majority of the general public who's views on nuclear power are founded on historic events and media headlines. How much time do you think they will afford your arguments if you begin by telling them there are no links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons? Can those links be broken? Are they overstated? Yes, but you will never have the opportunity to prove so because they will have stopped listening to you.
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  1311.  @thegreyghost5846  I don't view it as the main problem either, but it was the only point raised in your original post. That is what I reacted to.
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  1312.  @MolecularArts  I know that weapons grade material is usually produced via a different route, but it still requires a reactor in order to breed the Pu.
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  1313. What changes due to human activity?
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  1314.  @joso5554  Not in the UK, where is is also "acting tough". Or rather he was, he has since backed down on threats to cut power to the channel islands.
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  1315. Cannot agree, especially with respect to defence. What makes you think a "private army" would act in the best interests of the public and not the company/cooperative/whatever who raised them? How would a system of small competing private armies, even assuming that they were acting in support of the population, fare against a state with a single army using common methods and equipment? Their logistics would be crap and they would be slaughtered is how.
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  1316.  @tassied12  Britain is not "returning to coal." The UK only has three coal fired plants left and there are no plans to build more. The old ones are in various states of demolition. As I type (15:42) our power grid is in a shocking state. The 25GW+ of installed renewables are generating just 1.4GW and we are having to import almost five times that power from Europe to meet demand. In contrast Gas is delivering 22.6GW, Coal 1.3GW, Nuclear 5.7GW and Biomass 1.4GW; all must be running at full capacity.
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  1317. How would they be vulnerable to terrorist attack? Know a lot of terrorists with access to missiles capable of reaching targets in geostationary orbit?
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  1318.  @frednewman2162  Someone watches too much TV
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  1319. PG Tips and a respectful attitude; without wishing to offend, all the makings of a proper English gent :) Seriously, I love the the way way you present your videos.
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  1320. Large country, small population.
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  1321.  @kirishima638  Yawn. Our borders were open before Brexit and produce was "checked" by the manufacturer not the EU.
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  1322.  @coldpllay  Not yet, it was a tongue in cheek comment.
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  1323.  @fjellyo3261  In this case yes, as the reactors are of Russian design. Future reactors will not have that limitation.
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  1324. It was launched properly, it failed after launch.
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  1325. Not if the hydrogen was generated from water in the first place. Might have to find a technology to increase the size of the water vapour though - cause the plane to "pee" as it flew along :)
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  1326. That's true enough. Now I am going to visualise vast solar powered airships sucking water and CO2 from the atmosphere and manufacturing hydrogen or methane for aviation fuel :D
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  1327. No.
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  1328.  @bremnersghost948  Exactly. This is a strategic signal. If they wanted to look at Anson they would have just sent a sub.
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  1329. You wouldn't if they told you it was radioactive and had to be stored as low level radioactive waste.
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  1330.  @tassied12  That is wrong. It has not been done before because there has been no need. Nuclear reactors have been designed as stand alone units; reactor and turbine generators. A reactor is however a heat source, just like a coal, oil or gas fired furnace, whose product is steam to run a turbine.
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  1331.  @tassied12  Non of which prevent nuclear being sited at existing coal plants. There are reactors running in deserts using wastewater flow as coolant. All but two existing coal plants have water cooling in place, that can be made more efficient by increasing cooling tower numbers. Current coal plant in Australia ranges from 340MW to 2.2GW, already in the nuclear reactor range. If you are saying that current transmission capacity is insufficient to cope with an outage then you designed a poor grid. It is still nothing like what is required for a wholly new, distributed, intermittent supply. Don't get me started on duplication of supply and backup provision. VRE has availability factors in the 20-50% range and requires huge over capacity to meet demand and charge storage for use when it is unavailable.
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  1332.  @tassied12  So add additional cooling towers or choose a different reactor design for that site.
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  1333.  @delawarecop  Why do you assume people would be unwilling to live near a nuclear reactor or to have waste in (or under) their land?
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  1334.  @delawarecop  Are you paying anything if you are completely off grid? Or maybe you benefit from the power used to clean and pump your water? To make the car you drive? Or any other service you use that needs electricity. Why would you want to place any industrial facility next to a beauty spot or heritage site? As for the waste, reprocess it until it is all fission products/stable elements and drop it into a borehole. Job done.
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  1335. Greens don't hate Australians, they hate humans.
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  1336.  @saltmerchant749  Again, do some research. The EU was not formed until 1993.
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  1337. ​ @someguy-k2h  Wrong. Formation of the EU relied on the unanimous agreement of all member states.
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  1338.  @saltmerchant749  Wrong again. The EU was not formed until 1993
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  1339.  @andreassumerauer5028  No worries, apologies if I came across as similarly harsh. I was too young to vote in the 1975 referendum (to remain in the EEC) but a 14 year old me would have voted to remain. I do not however support the EU because I do not like the way it has evolved from a trading block into a supra-state. I much prefer smaller communities working towards common goals in their own way. I do regret that the split became so acrimonious; we share many similar goals, if not the path to achieve them.
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  1340.  @mpwaterhouse  Is that unexpected when the organisation was know as the European Economic Community? It did not become the European Union until 1993, an act which required the unanimous approval of all member states. John Major, fearing the public would not back such a union, refused to hold a public referendum in the UK.
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  1341.  @someguy-k2h  As I said before, go and do some research. You are making yourself look foolish.
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  1342. Yes, I worked for them.
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  1343. Just speculation, but it has been said that some of the bombers "protected" by tyres lacked engines and are in fact decoys. If so, then the tyres could well be there to enhance the decoys infrared signature at night.
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  1344. Coal emits more radioactive waste to the atmosphere than nuclear.
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  1345. I've been "flash banged" twice. Once by a squaddie, who pulled the pin and chucked it up in the air and once on a vehicle trial when they were set odd while I was stood next to it! First I was expecting it, second was a shock and.. yes, you do turn away when they go off, you can't help yourself.
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  1346. Doddery old geezer vs petulant man child. What a state US politics is in.
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  1347. Saya all I need to know about you.
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  1348. Cool video, well, both of them.
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  1349. Recruit the best candidate for the job, irrespective of colour or gender.
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  1350. If Russia had achieved air superiority they would have won by now.
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  1351.  @Diponty  Pst... I have a book for sale that proves the flat earth. Only $A99.99 while stocks last.
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  1352.  @sdmain  Bridgewires yes, at one time anyway.
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  1353. All completely pointless and likely to produce a new nuclear arms race. There are already sufficient nuclear armed missiles to overwhelm any ABM system and annihilate us all.
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  1354.  @voodoo6705  Winscale was not an enrichment facility, it was a reactor operated primarily for the production of plutonium.
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  1355. Bit hard to achieve if the reactor is buried.
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  1356.  @KindergentlerMr.Softbelly  Molten salt was researched for use in aircraft not surface/subsurface vessels. Even the developers thought that a stupid concept.
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  1357. First strike leads to mutual destruction.
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  1358.  @markvick6138  They are going to die anyway.
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  1359.  @fossils-z9d  You seriously believe that any ICBM strike by either Russia or the US will not trigger an attack by both sides? Regardless of the intended target.
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  1360.  @markvick6138  Once the nukes start to fly all sides will fire, simply because they will not know who the intended target is until it is too late. A missile flying towards China could equally be targeting a Russian ICBM complex or city.
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  1361.  @markvick6138  Sorry, I don't understand your point.
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  1362.  @fossils-z9d  They might if they are not certain that the weapons are heading towards China. A missiles flightpath can not be confirmed until it is past its boost phase. Given the short flight times involved and the time it takes to launch their own response, they might not be able to wait for that confirmation.
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  1363. ​ @fossils-z9d  It would only take a minor adjustment to the flight profile of a rocket to change its target destination by hundreds of miles. Considering its payload, would you wait to be sure? Also, would the US hit only China in a first strike? China has ICBMs of its own, which would be targeted at US cities. The US would have to take all of those launchers out in that first strike, which would require a large launch. Such an event would likely be seen as a direct threat by the Russians. If they did not take out all of China's launchers then the effects of the counterstrike on US cities would be devastating and destroy the US economy. The US would lose its superpower status to Russia in the process.
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  1364. Very dangerous ploy by the Russians Taking out Fylingdales would be a dangerous move as it is a natural first step in a planned attack on the USA. The UK would respond in kind, in fact with only one or two SSBN's available, it would likely send a whole boatload of ICBM's in response.
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  1365. Care to explain how? He was in power for three years during which his government granted development consent for Sizewell C. Only the Cameron/Clegg government have initiated construction of a UK reactor since the 90's.
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  1366.  @petedraper5185  Why I would have switched to Labour if they had not elected a commi as leader.
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  1367. It's what happens to it when it reaches the border and beyond.
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  1368. Just click further along the timeline. It even shows you a preview so you know when to start again.
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  1369.  @benchapple1583  What hypocrisy? No advertisement, no money. No money, no content.
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  1370. ​ @benchapple1583  He did not waste your time; you did, when you chose not to exercise your option to skip forward.
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  1371. ​ @benchapple1583  It would only be hypocrisy if you were forced to waste time watching the ad in order to view the content.
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  1372.  @filmserve  As do Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and N Korea (and likely soon Iran). At no point since WWW2 have Western leaders shown any desire or intent to use them other than as a response to a nuclear attack. It's not nukes in the hands of the West that we have to fear.
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  1373.  @filmserve  I own the DVD of Dr Strangelove 😉 There is always a risk of a miscalculation (Though not the way shown in the movie) but Putin is the first leader of a major nuclear power who gives me real concerns. Even Khrushchev and Kennedy were sufficiently responsible to back away from the potential nightmare of nuclear war. What really worries me is a combination of nuclear weapons and religious zealots, that would truly be a frightening prospect.
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  1374.  @filmserve  You haven't seen all the movies in my collection 🤣 True we don't have the best crop of politicians at present, but I don't believe any are so bad that they would not try to do all in their power to nuclear conflict. Maybe I am just too trusting?
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  1375.  @MrThorfan64  US politics (on both sides) will not improve as long as presidential candidates need to raise vast sums of money to run for office.
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  1376.  @gherieg.1091  You tell ME to think when you have convinced yourself that the same people who supported the KKK are now "Lefties"? How do you think your "Deep state" influences Presidents, could it be money? Perhaps you think the "Deep state" give out of a sense of philanthropy towards their fellow citizens?
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  1377.  @gherieg.1091  I don't claim to know everything, just that everyone accuses those they disagree with of being the "deep state." Just like everyone right of centre is "Far right" and everyone left of centre is "Far left." It's all BS.
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  1378. Go Ratty.
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  1379. You have already dismissed the answer. However, if you really want a full explanation see the comment by William Smith (above)
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  1380. Damn guys, does nobody study history anymore? The RN had Sea Slug and it's replacement Sea Dart for long range surface to air applications. Sea slug was useless at low level, Sea Dart somewhat better but not optimal. For low level they had Sea Cat and its replacement Sea Wolf. Sea Wolf was only available on the Type 23, despite it being offered in quad form as a direct Sea Cat replacement. Bloody bean counters! The RN has never operated Sea Sparrow.
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  1381. Are/were these drones originally manufactured in Russia or Ukraine?
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  1382.  @cardiffflyer  When are the navy going to provide gunfire support that could not be handled by a 56mm or 75mm these days? We have two carriers for CAS duties and any ship close enough to be hit by medium artillery will likely be facing anti-ship missiles. If we absolutely must have NGS capability then buy a few GP versions or fit it to the Type 32 and don't risk what few ASW and air defence assets we have.
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  1383.  @cardiffflyer  I would rather have a ship with a smaller, more versatile weapon and additional space for something more useful to be honest.
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  1384.  @selwyn500  Current waste: Keep it until breeder technology is becomes commercially available then convert it to fuel. Breeder waste: Keep it for a few decades until the worst of the radioactivity has subsided then bury it deep underground.
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  1385. If leasing is explored then the choice would almost certainly be for US boats. The UK is still operating two of the older Trafalgar class boats while construction of the final Astute's is completed. There is certainly no option to lease A-boats as the UK is woefully short of numbers itself. A couple of T-boats might be an option, but they are old and may well have little hull life remaining.
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  1386.  Monster Hunter  What? My comment was 11 months ago.
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  1387. The video timeline is segmented, just click to the end of the advert.
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  1388.  @maecarpenter69  Seriously, a quick click causes you so much hardship?
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  1389.  @maecarpenter69  The ad is where it is because it has the most impact. You have been given the opportunity to skip it so stop whinging. There would be no videos without sponsorship.
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  1390.  @maecarpenter69  Trying to irritate you on the basis that your complaint is inane.
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  1391. Germany's decision to close its nuclear reactors early and the resultant requirement to burn coal are predicted to result in 70,000 additional deaths from air pollution.
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  1392. For the same reason that I know lots of Christians that have no interest in recreating the crusades. I judge and respond to people based on their actions, not their beliefs.
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  1393.  Politically Correct  Not by an organisation whose purpose is the unbiased reporting of news.
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  1394.  Politically Correct  I suggest you re-read my comment, does it look like I am suggesting they have no agenda?
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  1395. Both Serbia and Libya were UN mandated actions, NATO provided the forces. Afghanistan was a response to an attack on the USA, that's why NATO exists.
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  1396.  @giuseppecappelluti3626  The Taliban government were hosting OBL therefore were de-facto complicit in the 911 attack. The Libyan actions were undertaken according to UNSC mandate 1973. The UN gave authority to their local commander to request NATO airstrikes in response to Serbian attacks at the London conference of 1995.
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  1397. Will the QE fit through the Panama canal?
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  1398.  @ricky1231  617sqn is Scotch mist is it? 208 NAS should be standing up soon too.
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  1399.  @positivepawpaw7564  Lol. Case proven.
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  1400. They issue them to stop the sort of press hounding Diana was subjected to.
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  1401. Killed for Putin's ego you mean?
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  1402.  @tivmego  Who is stopping you speaking?
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  1403.  @tivmego  I include the BBC of course (since I watch some live TV on line and thus have to contribute to them) but only as background and never "opinion" pieces. There are independent sources to fact check claims made during the war.
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  1404. Good man.
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  1405. Such ignorance. The original technology for submarine reactors came from the US whereas France developed them independently.
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  1406.  @serviusm9523  No, they would be a civilian development by RR. I am not belittling RR (I am British) but there is no need to belittle France either. They have the technical ability to adapt their military reactors for civilian use if required.
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  1407.  @jonathansimmons5353  Good band
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  1408. VRE vs reliable nuclear. You even have your own fuel supply!
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  1409. Anything "traditional" has to go, our country is doomed.
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  1410. .... and Northern Ireland
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  1411.  @AntonioNoack  Still has to undergo the reaction SiO2 + C = Si + CO2. Just means that you don't have to roast it again with copper.
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  1412. Common sense at last.
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  1413. Absolutely, Its why all these "Green energy" projects fail, we just don't have the means of storing energy at anything like the power density we need to make them work.
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  1414. Trump then Biden, bit late to worry now America.
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  1415.  @GGG19872  Not until the mid 2030's at the earliest. I am hoping for a larger hull than the T26 given the prevalence of air and surface launched anti-ship threats. Especially if it is also going to carry an ABM capability.
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  1416.  @Mishn0  Mainly oil though, they were already losing mechanised units by the time they invaded the Soviet Union. They might (and I stress that) have had some hope if they had managed to secure peace with the UK after the fall of France.
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  1417. "These are not the hypocrites you are looking for"
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  1418. Disgraceful act. I fear for the US the way its politics are becoming so polarised. The UK is going the same way.
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  1419. Couldn't agree more. I supervised operations in an energetics process facility and having a motivated, happy cleaner is every bit as important as having the most gifted materials scientist. If you want to end the day with a process facility and not a smoking hole in the ground!
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  1420. Roughly equivalent to a 105mm artillery piece but with a higher rate of fire.
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  1421.  @Kieran_187  I have argued something similar, especially when fitted to specialist vessels like the T45 and T26 frigate. It's hard to imagine either being risked in a naval gunfire support role. That said, I am certainly no expert and I have heard arguments in their favour.
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  1422.  @franzmenzies5268  It does yes, but with so few T45's available and with two carriers to protect it is more likely a T23 would be dispatched if needed.
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  1423.  @anotherperspective8555  Try learning something. Any toxin, whether radiological, chemical or biological is only hazardous if someone comes into contact with it. How is anyone going to come into contact with a solid glass/ceramic, in a concrete container, a thousand foot underground? There are fission products from a naturally occurring reactor that have only moved a few meters in millions of years, and they were sitting in ground water with no containment whatsoever.
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  1424.  @anotherperspective8555  Tectonic plate movement? Wow you are really clutching at straws now. Why would anyone bury their waste in a volcanically active area? Having said that, a subduction zone would be an option. The simplest method of deep burial is in boreholes, which can be drilled at the reactor site as necessary. It is a myth that waste has to be stored for thousands of years to become safe. The vast majority of the highly radioactive waste is gone within a few decades and the longest lasting of the fission products within two to three hundred years. With suitable technology (Fast neutron reactors, which we should be moving to anyway) trans-uranics can be removed and burnt as additional fuel. Radioactive waste does actually become safe over time if we bury it.
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  1425.  @anotherperspective8555  I wouldn't be. My knowledge only scratches the surface compared with those who designed these disposal systems, years ago.
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  1426.  @DgurlSunshine  If you know them, you tell them. I am discussing nuclear power not weapons programs.
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  1427. I would like to have seen more on the repository, given the title.
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  1428. So Trump is heavily criticised for saying that NATO members are not meeting their defence spending commitments but Biden is ok claiming that US allies must do more in their own defence. Talk about double standards.
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  1429.  @brothermine2292  Based on what? During that decay the fertile material also contains U232, a hard gamma emitter, good luck hiding that and keeping your people alive without the backing of a state behind you.
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  1430. They should have been able to achieve it two years ago, but failed.
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  1431.  @markotrieste  Proliferation is overblown. Anyone can make a bomb if they have the will and the cash to do it. Trying to hide it under the guise of a civil program is much harder. Just ask Iran.
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  1432.  @cestmoi1262  Don't be a dick. The issue with the Titanic design is well known.
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  1433. There is and most of it is burning coal.
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  1434.  @surindernagi1406  The submarines are currently in dry dock 🤣
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  1435.  @pietjebel3119  Yes they are, they have been seen on satellite photos in the last few days.
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  1436. Possibly because so many people have their fingers in their ears?
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  1437.  @Liberal_From_Prairies689  Less emissions per flight maybe, but more emissions per passenger.
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  1438. Can we have a video on current (and potential) technologies for the manufacture of x-ray, gamma and potentially cosmic ray photovoltaic power generation please?
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  1439. If certain reports are to be believed the real fault with these ships is lack of bandwidth, criminal if true. If you are going to pay a fortune for a ship, pay a slightly larger fortune for one that works properly.
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  1440. Reduce it to the minimum quantity possible and bury it.
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  1441. Rather stupid if you are still using fossil fuel.
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  1442. Excellent article. One of my pet hates (looking at you BBC website) are articles that are padded out with text taken from other articles on the same subject. When you boil it down there can be less than three sentences that are actually new information and they are usually shallow.
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  1443.  @davem2369  The French could use it as their carriers use the CATOBAR system, but would the French ever buy a non-French aircraft?
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  1444. I'm sorry, but no journalist is "ignorant". They have agendas, but they are not ignorant.
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  1445.  @alvanrigby6361  I'm no expert on these matters by any means, but I would doubt that the Trafalgar's have much hull life left.
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  1446.  @seneby1  Not for quite a few years, they will have to build up infrastructure and operational experience first. Expect to see Aussie submariners on exchange postings to US or UK facilities and boats first.
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  1447. Not a problem with modern engine reliability.
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  1448. If they kept us from fighting WWIII then it wasn't wasted.
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  1449. Not that much of an issue as they are fairly easy to deal with.
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  1450.  @johnmcclainejriii5829  There is a lot of internet hype around them. Sure it would spread a little radioactive material around, but it's not exactly hard to find and clean up.
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  1451.  @johnmcclainejriii5829  That incident involved a source which was passed around that no one knew was present. We are talking here about a bomb and radioactive traces would be detected pretty quickly. Fortunately the people who would be involved in any cleanup are some of the best in the world.
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  1452.  @johnmcclainejriii5829  Oh agreed, I don't want to see any type of device used in Westminster, or any other city.
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  1453.  @henryfchapman3544  You mean the guys who trashed our economy in 2008?
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  1454.  @tassied12  Yes, France was having to use fossil fuels or import power, just as the rest of Europe is doing. Maybe other nations should be building nuclear reactors too?
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  1455. Now imagine doing this on the old Lombard RAC Rally. The co-driver received a "Tulip diagram" that described each bend on the course but the race lap was their first and only drive through the stage. Add in that the weather back then often included ice and snow, they had night stages and very little rest. Many drivers hated it!
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  1456. ​ @wallybingbang9892  In what sense, paired with whom?
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  1457.  @wallybingbang9892  I believe they found that they got on quite well professionally, which is why I used them as an example.
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  1458. Agreed. Not an answer in itself, but why do we have to pitch our tents on one solution? Use ALL of the technologies available now and give ourselves time to decide which is the best long-term solution.
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  1459.  @funkyzero  Algae and bacteria based systems will have a part to play. Admittedly, they may be more useful in generating future plastics than fuel.
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  1460.  @funkyzero  My original comment was more general in its scope but I think we have similar approaches. If we are going to set CO2 targets then we have to use all available options to try to meet them. Battery tech, solar, hydrogen fuel cell etc are not going to meet the requirements of air transportation any time soon. Synthetic fossil fuel is the only viable option available now. We do need to standardise on a fuel, but the route to synthesise it does not have to be fixed (yet). My preference would be methane as there are so many potential routes available to generate it.
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  1461. Kit can be hardened against EMP, the military has been doing it since the cold war.
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  1462.  @justthetip--o  Not reliably, no.
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  1463. I doubt it would have mattered what aircraft undertook the spotting role, the Germans had greater numbers of fighters and more experienced pilots at the start of the war.
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  1464.  @Brian-om2hh  Speak for yourself, mine sit under it! 😂😂
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  1465. I miss characteristic aircraft like the early 737's, ones you could identify without having to spot a tell-tale bulge or cone shape.
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  1466. Short term I suspect the main use of lasers will be to dazzle. You cannot put reflective coatings on an IR sensor window.
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  1467. Not so. Both solar and wind offer huge potential, just not on their own.
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  1468.  @tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120  The ongoing issue with storage is precisely why I say that solar and wind cannot meet electricity demand on their own. To suggest that neither is able to provide large quantities of clean energy to a grid however is nonsense. Wind (primarily offshore) produces an average 18% of UK demand and is growing. Solar; both PV and collection, could supply a good chunk of Australia's demand - it's not like land availability is in short supply! Use the tools available to you.
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  1469. ​ @tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120  Whether climate change is false, overblown or the predictions are true is irrelevant. Pollution alone is a good enough reason to switch from fossil fuel use at the earliest opportunity.
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  1470.  @tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120  Yawn, never heard that before. You expect them to change their system while we continue as usual?
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  1471.  @tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120  No I am telling you that you cannot expect China, or any other country, to take on the cost of reducing fossil fuel dependence if we are not prepared to do the same.
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  1472. ​ @tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120  China is one of the leading developers of Gen IV nuclear reactors. Their new coal stations are designed so that they can swap out the coal furnaces for SMRs when they come online.
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  1473. Why? Our pilots will gain from the opportunity to engage in BFM with F-18s.
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  1474. The Gen III power stations currently under construction have features inbuilt that would negate a Fukushima-style accident. You might lose the reactor but there would be no external leak of radiation. These features have been included in reactors built since the 1990s. Upcoming gen IV reactors have even grater safety features that would in most cases result in only a temporary reactor shutdown.
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  1475.  @barbaraneville5036  How many people never watch a live broadcast though?
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  1476. We used to run eleven Magnox nuclear reactors. Had we maintained that number and upgraded them to Sizewell B PWRs (or equivalent) we would have the capacity to generate around 13.1GWe. That equates to 45% of the UKs average demand in 2020. Renewables provided another 27% with imports and other non-fossil sources at a little under 5%. I would much rather we were looking at reducing our fossil fuel dependence from 25% than the current 39%.
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  1477. 737-800 not a 737-MAX
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  1478.  @dragonslayer7587  Too early to speculate really. I don't think it was a bomb (at least not the usual luggage/cargo type) as the bulk of the fuselage looked intact. I fear that we may never know the truth, depends if the black boxes survived the impact.
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  1479. Under current conditions the best bet might be a high temperature gas reactor co-sited with hydrogen/ammonia production. Run it at high capacity all the time and either supply electricity or manufacture hydrogen or ammonia feedstock as demand dictates?
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  1480. Dick, it's a bird strike.
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  1481.  @thinkabit7264  A fairly large bird too (or multiple birds) I would imagine, to cause that much damage.
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  1482. The West has been backing Taiwan against China ever since it was formed, long before it had a semiconductor industry.
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  1483.  @ap5672  Maintenance of supply routes, corporate greed and benevolence have always played a part in foreign policy decisions. It is true for any nation that attains a degree of power or influence.
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  1484. That's the problem with Marxists, Not only do they believe they are always right, but they are happy to suppress any contradicting views. By force if necessary.
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  1485. @Freiherr Dinkelacker I thought it was a special operation, not a war?
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  1486. @Freiherr Dinkelacker Irrelevant. Ukraine was a sovereign state recognised by the UN. Russia chose to invade it, twice.
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  1487.  @havanasyndrome3024  Yawn
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  1488.  @havanasyndrome3024  Yawn.
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  1489. No, the LMM is not an anti-tank missile
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  1490.  @chugachuga9242  BMP isn't a tank.
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  1491. Pushing "smart meters" in the UK so they can pay people to turn off when demand is high. That's where renewables have landed us - unreliable power provision.
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  1492. That was really interesting, thankyou.
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  1493. If you are talking about Australia then they are NOT putting nuclear energy into missiles (only the Russians are currently doing that). They are planning a series of nuclear powered attack submarines NOT ballistic missile submarines. Further those submarines will NOT be armed with nuclear weapons.
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  1494.  @luisbustamante9869  or Canadian
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  1495.  @Robert_DeVille  That's not an easy question to answer. There is much that could be done to improve the performance of renewables (molten salt storage capacity for one) to even out their supply. Traditional nuclear has relied on a small number of large reactors running at full capacity to provide even base load. This is not necessarily going to be the case going forward and newer technologies allow for smaller reactors with the capacity to "load follow" What this means is that it will become much easier to run nuclear and renewable energy in a more synergistic fashion. Another important feature of the newer Gen IV reactors is their ability to run at higher operating temperatures. This gives them the ability to both generate electricity and to provide direct heat for industrial production and space heating. As a direct answer to your question though, the peak (electrical) energy demand for the UK (~38GWe) could be met by 32 reactors of the size of Sizewell B.
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  1496.  @Robert_DeVille  Enlighten me with your superior knowledge then.
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  1497.  @Robert_DeVille  Did you pull your last comment? I received a notification but it has vanished?
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  1498. Did they have a license?
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  1499. Another tinfoil wearer
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  1500. About time.
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  1501. Three deployed submarines out of four would be extremely efficient, if true. CASD is normally one deployed out of four.
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  1502.  @alexandrelarsac9115  I am aware of the French nuclear disposition, but it is highly unusual for three SSBN's to be available at any given time. They can be surged on occasion (to make a point) but it is not the norm and the situation cannot be sustained.
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  1503. Yes, we (British) did so back in the 50's and early 60's
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  1504. I guess commercial aviation is about to be down two pilots .
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  1505. Each I hope? :)
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  1506.  @peterbrown1012  Got to encourage "team bonding" somehow :)
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  1507. You decoy torpedoes, for which it carries the Surface Ship Torpedo Defence (SSTD)
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  1508. Russia/USSR has a good record of self terminating submarines.
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  1509.  @fafski1199  People who heavily mod games are no more "stupid" than people who fill their cases with RGB. They are looking for a specific gaming experience. All they are asking is for reviewers to consider them rather than covering half a dozen more popular games producing near identical test results.
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  1510. We need DEI in parliament - no more than 1% of MPs can be lawyers.
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  1511. Everything produces waste. The rare earth mines generate radioactive tailings when they extract the neodymium for wind turbine motors.
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  1512.  @nersesgrigoryan1988  Depends how well it is controlled. Fission waste is extremely hazardous but not harmful as people are not exposed to it. Radium from coal burning is free to enter the atmosphere and mine tailings frequently enter water courses.
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  1513. We currently have zero ABM capability. The T45 can track a ballistic missile, but carries no weapons to intercept it. We would be lucky if we had one T45 available even if we had a missile to fire :(
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  1514. Most likely at his monitor
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  1515. While I am a supporter of nuclear energy and agree with lifting the ban, it is wrong to claim that use of nuclear energy is the only way to achieve net zero "anywhere in the world." Countries with access to plentiful hydro and/or geothermal do not "need" nuclear in the mix. Look at Iceland, Norway and parts of Sweden for example.
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  1516.  @AximandTheCursed  As I say, I support lifting the ban. I merely pointed out that the presenter's remark was factually incorrect.
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  1517.  @JetS_Gamer  I totally agree. It's not helpful however if presenters make incorrect statements. Hopefully he will choose his words with more care next time.
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  1518. If that's what is required then he will either lock down or be locked up. His choice.
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  1519.  @cadaeishere8242  That depends on the type of reactor you intend to deploy.
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  1520. We do, but in very limited numbers (one unit on the Falklands and one in Poland atm). We have nothing to take out long range ballistic missiles.
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  1521. Your analysis is a breath of fresh air. As a Brit, I am more than happy to agree that certain NATO members do not meet their spending obligations. I have argued this for years. With China on the rise and threatening the Pacific region it is vital that we over here step up and take on more of the burden of facing Russia. However, the US leaving NATO would be a disaster for all of us, America included. Edit: It is also true that if the US left NATO both the UK and France would have to increase their nuclear arsenals to compensate.
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  1522. Have you been asleep for the last few years?
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  1523. I know this may hurt your ego, but they really don't care what you think. The important factor in air combat is not maneuverability but situational awareness. See first, kill first.
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  1524. The problem is cost, synthetic fuel is way more expensive than fossil fuel.
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  1525.  @seppwurzel8212  Easy, store the waste in the same place we obtain the fuel, underground.
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  1526. Putin doesn't care. Russian leaders have never given a toss how many ordinary soldiers die.
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  1527. 🤣🤣 The sad thing isn't the state of President Biden, it's that the US has nothing better to offer its people than a choice between Biden and Trump.
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  1528. Why? He is a military man, leave the rest to the politicians.
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  1529.  @ScarletEdge  Radiation would kill him before he made atmosphere.
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  1530. The one who kills his opponent before they close to dog fighting range.
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  1531. Most probably Romania
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  1532.  @miroslawsita7062  Nothing like hyperbole eh?
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  1533. They are refuelling probes. Russia uses the "Probe and drogue" system, like the US Navy. The US air force uses a "Boom and receiver" system, where the "pole" is fitted to the tanker aircraft.
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  1534. Why would anyone hijack them? In most cases there will be no fuel in them during transportation. Where there are "swappable cores" the fuel will be low activity and useless without all the ancillary equipment to run the reactor. Terrorists might go for a "used" reactor carrying spent fuel, but where these leave the site at all they will be as highly guarded as current spent fuel movements.
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  1535.  @jasonvene  There have been designs which feature a "swappable core" where the infrastructure for a number of SMR's would be put in place and sealed reactor modules would be delivered, used, stored temporarily then removed back to the manufacturer for reprocessing and disposal.
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  1536. What was it ABBA sang about - Money, money money.
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  1537.  @rattusfinkus  Copy/paste....copy/paste.... no brain required.
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  1538.  @babajikaghanta8842  What has this to do with river crossing?
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  1539.  @babajikaghanta8842  I do. It was a stupid reply to a stupid comment.
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  1540.  @jutsu1  God help Russia.
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  1541.  @After_Pasta  Depends on the tech involved. Some are scaled up submarine reactors, some are scaled down large reactors and some are completely new designs.
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  1542.  @After_Pasta  Westinghouse AP300 is a scaled down AP1000.
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  1543.  @After_Pasta  It isn't anywhere at the moment, it has only just been launched.
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  1544. Pedant.
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  1545.  @AB-zw5xx  :)
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  1546.  @OneofInfinity.  Sigh.
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  1547.  @diceman199  Who is "They?"
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  1548.  @diceman199  Name the third that are using hydrogen not coke.
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  1549.  @diceman199  So your comment was not based on evidence then? I thought not.
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  1550.  @rattusfinkus  Given that you should have started years ago, the plan must be to start nuclear as soon as possible. At the same time, invest in renewables to reduce fossil fuel use in the short term, especially coal. The more nuclear you have, the more viable RE/Storage becomes.
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  1551.  @tassied12  But you don't have RE/storage. You have a few MWh but you need giga or tera watt hours. If you figure 20 years for nuclear (your figures) your early RE will be ready for the scrap heap anyway.
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  1552.  Soilent Green  Love the Draken, The Hunter is hard to beat on pure aesthetics though.
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  1553.  @1993Crag  In comparison to the Meteor though.
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  1554.  @JaskoonerSingh  It is not going to be a problem though. Its not like anyone needs to access the chosen sites for any reason, other than to store waste. All of the high level waste produced in sixty years of operation in the UK would fit into a single Olympic sized swimming pool. The vast majority of spent fuel is uranium (over 95%), plutonium (~1%) and stable fission products (~3%). Once Gen IV reactors come online the uranium and plutonium will be reusable in a far more efficient process. Trans-uranic actinides (eg. Americium,) can also be destroyed in some Gen IV reactors (producing more energy) or eliminated altogether if the thorium cycle is followed.
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  1555.  @namename9998  That's not true. 90% of the spent fuel has the potential to be re-used, but there is still a lot of low and intermediate waste produced. It is no use pointing out the errors in wind and solar claims, then making the same type of claims for nuclear. All processes generate waste which must be dealt with. The only way to persuade the public is to be honest with them.
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  1556.  @namename9998  What I was saying is that your claim "Nuclear creates the least waste. 90% can be reused as fuel" is misleading. It implies that 90% of all waste can be reused when in reality we are talking about 90% of the spent fuel. Of course I agree that this is by far the most hazardous class of waste. However it allows the anti-nuclear lobby to claim that you are being dishonest. To the layman radioactive waste is radioactive waste. They may not make, or understand, the distinction between high, intermediate and low-level waste and the hazards presented by each. The lobbyist can present your comment as "lying" or promoting "fake news" and therefore that you must be....(insert conspiracy theory). I am not saying similar misleading claims are not made for wind and solar. Both are portrayed as "green" while ignoring the environmental impact of manufacture and disposal of equipment. Or claim that they are "cheap" while ignoring the cost of the storage required to make them reliable. Essentially I am saying be mindful of how you phrase a comment so that it cannot be taken out of context.
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  1557.  @namename9998  My initial comment was a generalised one, all forms of radioactive waste can be disposed of by deep burial. Once I moved on to provide more detail I specifically referred to "High level waste" and "spent fuel" rather than "waste" I am not saying you are wrong, I understood what you meant, I am merely saying be careful with the language you use.
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  1558.  @anon-i6p  I prefer "It's meant to scare the sh1t out of world leaders so they avoid starting a war"
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  1559.  @anon-i6p  I understand it very well thanks.. Trying to bully someone who possesses the means to destroy you is a pretty bad idea..
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  1560. I'm sorry, I was a Brexit supporter and still am, but Nigel is talking Bollox (pardon my language) The UK has minimal reliance on Russian gas, is about to reopen the Rough storage facility and has the main LNG terminal in Europe. Yes we should have invested in nuclear back in the 90's/2000's, but our current problems are more to do with prices than lack of fuel. We need Truss (or Rishi if he pulls off a surprise) to cap the price of energy and cover any excess charges. If that means stocking up more national debt, so be it. And before you call me a rabid leftie, I have only ever voted left of Tory once and that was a protest vote for the Monster Raving Loonies.
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  1561. Which is why you should enrich it and process it into fuel. Sell ore, enriched hex and fuel depending on the needs of the customer.
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  1562. They run on highly enriched uranium, too highly enriched to be available for the civil market.
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  1563. A: He's British, so why would he "brag" about the C5. B: He stated that the C5 was the largest aircraft in the USAF inventory but the An-225 was larger.
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  1564. A mini one. They compare cabin sizes with a King air 350, but even using a Falcon 50 as an example its wingspan is approx 19m, compared to the 55m wingspan of Thunderbird 2. I know, I'm nerdy :D
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  1565. It's not fake, it was a conventionally armed IRBM. What's fake is the hype around it, which is aimed at western civilian populations.. Russia, like the West, is fully aware of the dire consequences of an accidental escalation to a nuclear exchange.
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  1566.  @terrysullivan1992  I used to do that, but I no longer have to 👍
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  1567. Downvote for irritating AI voice
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  1568. I can't watch this. Tango shithead actually said that he didn't think NATO members would come to the aid of the US if thewy were attacked. I'm British. 457 British forces (Including MoD civilians) died in Afghanistan. 2,116 Military and civilian personnel were "Wounded in action" All as a result of NATO Article 5 support for the USA, the only time it has ever been invoked. I don't lay ANY blame on US service personnel, I hold you all in high regard. Your Commander in Chief however!
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  1569. It's a new report, there has been no independent verification. Does that mean that it is untrue? No. Does that mean that it is true? No. It means that it is an unverified news story. The public might be less likely to believe it however, if Russia did not have recent history of using chemical weapons.
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  1570.  @philiploveswatcheswhiskies9832  Ask the French to provide air cover.
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  1571. In the Zombie apocalypse I would go for an MP5SD; if you have to shoot, do it as quietly as possible.
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  1572. Not questionable at all. The Harrier was designed specifically for the cold war in Europe; when it was expected that forward airfields in Germany and Norway would be subject to massive Soviet air and missile attacks. It's role was to continue the fight while other types were grounded.
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  1573. It will take years to establish an Australian nuclear submarine build capability, just look at the issues the UK have had building the Astute. If you want boats quickly they will be US built.
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  1574. AGM84 Harpoon begs to differ.
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  1575. Sad but true, politicians are not held to the same standards as public servants (Civil servants to me as I am British).
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  1576. @MGazT Poor attempt.
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  1577.  @rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761  That's not really true anymore. Most military and government agencies are becoming increasingly reliant upon COTS technology developed for other purposes.
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  1578. Hint, next time you see one open Flightradar24 or ADSB Exchange.
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  1579. You sound rather bitter..... and not a little pathetic.
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  1580.  @abrahamdozer6273  There's something to be said for learning on both types as they require slightly different skill sets. The RAF replaced them with Bulldogs in the 70's; though many were retained for cadet use and for experience flights.
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  1581.  @carbonite1999  Hint CANDU - CANada Duterium Uranium
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  1582. Would be nice, but there are other designs of molten salt reactor using uranium which might be more useful in the short/mid term.
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  1583.  @mickoz9389  That's why I gave you an alternative option of cutting pollution
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  1584.  @grannyannie2948  Better than poisoning the world with air pollution.
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  1585.  @Wide_Awake708  In your head maybe.
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  1586. @@laborshill8503 There is more to fossil fuel pollution than CO2
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  1587.  @Wide_Awake708  I've had them thanks.
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  1588.  @grannyannie2948  Carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, sulphur oxides, aerosol particulates...
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  1589. BS
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  1590. Done (and you will have been, there was no frigate)
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  1591.  @wontonmin6481  ?
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  1592. To quote Angela Rayner - "They are scum".
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  1593. I would buy that as a T-shirt
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  1594.  @philmann3476  At present AI is not developed sufficiently for full autonomous deployment. That's without the ethical considerations of allowing AI independent authority to kill.
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  1595.  @ariaspes3842  Flying to and bombing a predetermined point is neither difficult nor new, the Germans were doing it in1944.
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  1596. USN carriers are nuclear powered, so don't require exhaust stacks. The Marines might use the concept for a future assault ship design.
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  1597. So... who is going to manage the NHS now? The government? Individual trusts? Looks like a paper shuffling exercise to me.
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  1598.  @johnarnold893  No, I mentioned it just to distinguish it from solar thermal (or solar collection).
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  1599.  @christopherfairs9095  It can yes, but to heat salt to process heat temperatures you might as well use the electricity to heat the process directly? With solar thermal heating fluid/salt is part of the collection process. True, in the right situation you might generate sufficient electricity to heat both the process and a salt storage system.
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  1600.  @richardfeynman7491  Not really, you have to find some way to even out power generation. Battery technology is expensive. Molten salt storage would be a good option and would tie into upcoming modular reactors based on that technology. Most of the expense of current nuclear infrastructure originates from fuel production, waste processing, decommissioning and capital outlay. Fuel production and waste processing are much simpler with these types of reactor. Decommissioning and initial outlay are far cheaper with small modular systems due to the much smaller reactor vessels, production line manufacturing techniques and elimination of large, high spec containment buildings.
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  1601.  @buildmotosykletist1987  Then it is time to spend the big buck on developing it. There are several potential options.
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  1602.  @buildmotosykletist1987  It will take ten years to license and build any nuclear reactor. Start with a modern PWR by all means, but molten salt is the way to go. There are just so many advantages. I have no issue with coal as long as it is fitted with carbon capture technology.
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  1603.  @buildmotosykletist1987  The Chinese are building their new coal plants with a view to replacing the furnace with a modular reactor when they become available. Makes sense as they only have to replace the heat source and not build a complete power plant.
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  1604.  @buildmotosykletist1987  I have heard differently. They are building them so that they can close down the coal furnace and hook a reactor up to the same set of steam turbines. The "end product" as you call it is the steam to drive the turbine not the electricity.
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  1605.  @drinkme6803  "They have it if Israel is going to give it to them AFTER stealing it from the U.S." I highlight this comment so you can read it again. Bit of a problem with tense?
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  1606.  @drinkme6803  Past, present and future. How can China HAVE a railgun if Israel is going to GIVE it to them AFTER stealing it from the US?
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  1607. The largest know uranium ore reserves, yes.
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  1608.  @r.ladaria135  Had they waited a few seconds no, that tank would be a couple of million to replace at least.
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  1609. Damn US politics in in a bad space. Successful candidates are far too reliant on their ability to raise funding.
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  1610. Trust in him to do what?
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  1611. Putin had already breached the INF treaty by the time Trump formally withdrew from it.
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  1612. It can, only now the industry has even better options available.
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  1613. Good for you Aussies, same rules for all.
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  1614. ​ @thehon.antiexperimentaldru3475  Then one law for all, same outcome.
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  1615.  @awolf391  What bomber is that?
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  1616.  @thewishmastur  Actually, you cannot. Your yards are full.
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  1617.  @iracingrookie3301  They are funded for an eleven year build, they could have been built faster.
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  1618.  @iracingrookie3301  Agreed, although I doubt the kit installed on Anson is exactly the same as that originally fitted to Astute. Ships (and boats) do undergo periodic upgrades during maintenance and I expect (though I cannot say for sure obviously) that upgrades will have been fitted as standard to later boats. Take the US Virginia class for example. The boats began production two years before the Astute's, but the latest block V boats are a whole different beast to the original.
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  1619. Muppet.
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  1620. As others have said don't give up yet. You could always appeal the decision or maybe try a different service? Best of luck.
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  1621.  @normanboyes4983  The armed forces are not so flush with recruits that they can afford to dismiss someone out of hand for a past mistake. It not like they have a poor track record of turning peoples lives around. The fact that he owned up to it would suggest that he has something for them to work with.
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  1622.  @normanboyes4983  We have just had a promised increase in the defence budget and the armed forces are set to grow again.
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  1623.  @normanboyes4983  GDP does not matter, it's a percentage increase.
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  1624.  @normanboyes4983  Only if GDP fell by more than the percentage increase, which is unlikely. Spending is to rise from 2% to 3%, that's a 50% increase. GDP would have to fall a long way to offset that.
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  1625.  @normanboyes4983  History
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  1626.  @normanboyes4983  Yes, but nothing fundamental to our economy has changed; unless the whole Ukraine thing kicks off completely. If that happens we either have a huge increase in defence spending or we all turn to ash.
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  1627.  @normanboyes4983  The fuel price rises in the 70's affected the whole world economy, especially the US. That is what drove the recession. The US has some degree of insulation from the current fuel crisis due to it's ability to produce oil and gas. Europe will suffer (including us) but there are already signs that fuel prices are falling again. If Russia redirects its sales then supplies from other countries will become available - Germany for example is already building floating LNG terminals to ease importation. The UK is to reopen the Rough storage facility. Only a worldwide recession would bring about the sort of GDP falls needed to offset such a huge increase in spending.
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  1628.  @normanboyes4983  And you are overplaying it. One of us will be proved right, no point arguing further.
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  1629.  @a3103-j7g  That your best?
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  1630.  @mrg4847  Different type of warfare, that's what you face after winning on the battlefield.
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  1631.  StopFollowingTheClowns-sx5zn  We will see.
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  1632.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  He knows exactly what he is talking about and is correct. Shortages may indeed be common and not just in Germany, but for the government/military leadership to run down ammunition stocks to the point where ships have to sail into a conflict zone with insufficient ammunition is as unprofessional as it gets. There might be some excuse if this were weeks into a conflict, but this is the navy's first deployment.
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  1633.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  They may not be as advanced technologically, but they can produce the numbers and have the will to allocate resources the west do not appear willing to match.
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  1634. Cost: India is running nuclear for the price of solar, Proliferation: Strawman. Waste: Not an issue. The technology to deal with it has been available for years. Improved methods on the drawing board.
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  1635.  @GeneralMilosivic-db9io  Israel will NOT use nuclear weapons.
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  1636. You should leave a link to the report above, that would be good science practice..
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  1637. ​ @thecursed01  Trouble is, what are the alternatives? Twitch is more for livestream as is X.
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  1638. Insane that a country with Australia's uranium resources bans nuclear power. With power comes fuel manufacture and export potential. Its like selling iron ore instead of steel.
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  1639.  Just Myself  Wrong country mate, Biden is President of the US not PM of the UK.
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  1640.  @dannychen1281  Any resolution authorising the use of force would have to go through the full council procedures, where Russia would veto it.
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  1641. @Drew Peacock And when he does attack NATO airfields? War between two nuclear powers, good idea!
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  1642. @Drew Peacock The difference is that if he attacks a NATO country then we have no alternative but to fight. He would have made the initial move and would face the judgement of whatever history the human race may have. It IS the concept of MAD (or rather the knowledge of what a nuclear war means) that prevents us from initiating that conflict.
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  1643. @Drew Peacock Yes, there is a guarantee. If Russia attacks a NATO member then it is war, end of. The potential outcome of such a war is terrifying, which is why NATO will not be the one to start it. British and French nukes are irrelevant; they would only ever be used independently if the home nations themselves were attacked independently.
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  1644. @Drew Peacock "That's the theory, an attack on one NATO member is supposed to be treated as attack on all NATO members. But will Article 5 actually be triggered?" That is the fact. NATO will go out of its way to avoid starting a war, but it will fight if attacked. There is a good argument that NATO should not have expanded, but that is now history. As for the British and French nukes, they are independent nuclear deterrents and not committed to NATO. They are the last ditch defence/reprisal for a nuclear attack upon their respective countries. They would be used if an all out exchange occurred (because in such a situation the UK and France would be targeted), but they would not be used independently unless a specific attack upon that nations homeland occurred.
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  1645. More people will die if the worlds economies are wrecked than from sea level rise.
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  1646. Thankyou! Living close to Biggin Hill I frequently hear that howl but never knew what it was. I always associated it with the engines.
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  1647.  @Averageperson0007  Talking of trolls.
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  1648. To be fair that sounded more like banter between people who know each other.
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  1649.  @karlmunford7000  Why bring religion and Islam into this? Christianity hardly has an unblemished record in this area.
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  1650.  @RCN2820  That is largely a result of the development of the high-bypass turbofan.
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  1651.  @simonm1447  Swings and roundabouts. Drag is lower for wing mounted engines and the Nimrod (a variant of the Comet airliner) used RR Spey engines (a low bypass turbofan). Successful airliners such as the 727, DC9, BAC111, Trident and VC10 all used podded engines located at the rear of the aircraft, rather than under the wings. It was the high bypass turbofan which ultimately killed off both design variants (at least for larger, long range aircraft) due to their increased weight and physical dimensions.
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  1652. In Armageddon, wouldn't the bomb's effect depend upon the structure of the asteroid? Everyone assumes asteroids are solid chunks of rock, but they can be anything from a solid mass to an agglomeration of pebbles. Since that one was outgassing, some of its structure must have been ice.
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  1653. "So that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark"
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  1654. Probably a security stipulation in case they needed to get him out of there quickly in the event of an attack. PR gaff all the same though.
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  1655.  @damedusa5107  None of us have to be honest. Certainly we were too slow initially and fed them arms and equipment in piecemeal fashion.
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  1656.  @allanknudsen2490  We never stopped being an ally, we just left the EU. I fully endorse UK membership of NATO and any joint efforts to support Ukraine.
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  1657.  @idarpolden5913  Maybe we should arm the Native Americans? Or the Spanish, French and British could reclaim their colonies?
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  1658.  @jackfanning7952  Only if you use the purex process to produce solid fuel. Much easier once you move to liquid fuel.
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  1659.  @jackfanning7952  The US, UK, France, Russia and China all have stockpiles of radioactive waste and unwanted weapons grade plutonium. Do you suggest leaving it where it is? Burying it? Or using it as fuel to produce clean energy?
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  1660.  @jackfanning7952  Keep reading the "green" propaganda. We used to dump effluent from houses into the streets. Factory waste was pumped into rivers or left in open piles. Times change.
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  1661.  @dsd333d  All supressed weapons work more effectively with sub sonic ammo; with the possible exception of the Welrod and it's mate, who were only ever intended to be used for a few rounds.
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  1662. Oh God. As a Brit they may be using a lot of "big words" but what terrible editing that video has. Embarrassing.
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  1663.  @ThePtoleme  Unlikely. They could probably build one to that timescale, but getting it licensed is another matter.
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  1664. I wish Elon would forget about Twitter (which is largely just a talking shop) and buy into fast neutron nuclear; which is where nuclear energy needs to go if it is to deal with its waste issue.
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  1665.  @robertthomas1590  While amassing offensive armaments.
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  1666. You are confusing SMRs with the Rolls-Royce design. Both conventional solid fuel (RR) and liquid fuel reactor designs are available as SMRs. The big advantage of the RR design in the short term is that it relies on mostly proven technology and thus should be relatively straightforward to license. There are a lot of questions to be answered wrt molten salt technology before a regulator will approve a design for commercial application.
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  1667.  @Blake-Urizen  I know, but why would the producers not make the video suitable for all viewers?
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  1668. ​ @Blake-Urizen  Not on a phone, I just tend to read fairly slowly. I never used to find it a problem with older tv and films (and still don't), but I do with a lot of more modern material.
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  1669.  @Blake-Urizen  Us owd un's eh? 😂😂
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  1670. Pay renewables providers to turn them off? Why? Fossil fuel accounts for 45% of UK power generation yet we are told that wind and solar are the cheapest sources. Why pay a cheap source not to produce, then sell a product which is more expensive to produce, if the sale price is fixed and harmonised over all sources?
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  1671. 90% sounds bloody marvellous if you are talking about nukes.
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  1672.  @billycaspersghost7528  😂😂 Oops!
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  1673.  @billycaspersghost7528  Age 😂
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  1674.  CH0L3R1C  Most likely will be the Su-24 as that is a strike aircraft.
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  1675. While concorde was a great aircraft its development lost us our space industry. "There is no future in satellites" another government pronouncement.
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  1676.  @richardhockey8442  Maybe, however Richard Branson did offer to buy and operate BA's fleet.
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  1677.  @richardvernon317  Concorde had nothing to do with the military. It used engines developed for a military plane yes, but there were no non-military derived engines available for an SST at the time (or now to be frank). As a country however, we would have been financially better off if we had developed a commercial space launch system though.
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  1678.  @Ps5GamerUk  Long in the tooth? The KC135's are 30 years older.
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  1679.  @M3PH11  Yes, but it isn't all that reliable atm.
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  1680.  @giuseppebattagliese6424  Well let us have a look shall we. In theory the Hubble would make a very good spy satellite, however. Pointing Hubble at the earth would overload its sensors. These were designed to image tiny light sources in an overall dark background, not a brilliantly lit planet a few hundred miles away. The speed at which hubble is travelling around the earth would cause any high magnification images taken of the surface to be blurred. So in practice it makes far more sense to de-orbit Hubble or service it to continue performing its original task. The military satellites I mentioned are earth observation satellites. Despite having the same sized mirror, they cannot replicate Hubble's performance, because they were not designed to do so. They (or one at least) are however going to be used for wide area search (see WFIRST).
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  1681.  @giuseppebattagliese6424  Well at least you have dropped the abuse. I doubt that replacing the optics and sensors on the Hubble while it is in space would be a trivial task and would likely be prohibitively expensive.
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  1682.  @giuseppebattagliese6424  Best thing to do with the Hubble is to mount a mission to service it and extend its life.
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  1683.  @MrEh5  Quite possibly yes, but that is a separate argument.
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  1684.  @richardvernon317  It was designed for the over water mission, in which it excelled.
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  1685. Excellent video.
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  1686. Sorry, I could not disagree more. You don't attack a man whose country has been fighting an invader for three years like Trump and Vance did. Can you imagine how Churchill would have reacted if spoken to that way by Eisenhour pre-PH?
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  1687. How cool would it be to have an observation satellite in orbit around each of the major planets?
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  1688.  @brianterence3211  Material with a 730m year half life is no more hazardous than naturally occurring U235.
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  1689. Ageist.
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  1690. Goodbye Iran
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  1691. I am going to have to buy some of those shirts just to watch people's reactions :D
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  1692. No, they are not. They are one possible way to go.
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  1693. Thanks' for that, I understand so much better now. Well ok, it made about as much sense to me as carrying water in a sieve 😂😂😂
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  1694.  @rattusfinkus  And there are examples of RE which are already over ten years old.
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  1695. Because they are held independently and not committed to NATO.
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  1696. Nothing about that operation on the BBC.
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  1697. FY
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  1698. Should have gone to Specsavers. Oh and that's lose, not loose if we are being picky.
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  1699.  @Dischingo  They are still in service with both NATO and the US.
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  1700.  @chad6080  No, you don't. This is the Navy not a dodgy care dealer.
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  1701. No one, it just didn't perform as well as they hoped it would.
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  1702. Would they have been allowed to build them?
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  1703. Not necessarily a bad thing.
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  1704.  @rockinwackyidk  If it free's up crew for larger ships that will be no bad thing.
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  1705. The real issue is that the choice was between him and Trump.
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  1706. You should watch the short scene where they rescue his wife and kid. Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzxXCNT_e3s
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  1707. Too much infighting and self interest from EU members.
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  1708.  @faketheo3432  From how many countries?
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  1709.  @faketheo3432  Spread over how many members then, if you couldn't work out what I meant.
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  1710.  @ronnie5329  Europe has done the same with respect to old equipment and Ukraine is on their doorstep.
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  1711.  @ronnie5329  Most NATO members are not even meeting their spending targets, or are fiddling the figures to do so. Many have never met their targets throughout the history of NATO.
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  1712. They don't, they will require some fissile to start the reactor (although they could use a neutron generator to start the breeding process).
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  1713.  @Sciolist  That's why they are called breeder reactors, they turn fertile thorium into fissile uranium.
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  1714. Not if you can produce the reactor vessels cheaply.
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  1715. Greens, not the fossil fuel industry.
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  1716.  @karlmeyer9473  "Snowflake" was term used to describe white people in the 60's
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  1717. Make it comprehensive and most Youtubers would complain it was too long.
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  1718. "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
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  1719. Guys, just go back to school!
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  1720. They wanted a conventional submarine.
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  1721. Just go away Meghan, the more you speak the more self obsessed you appear.
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  1722. How was this bad when it reduced the level of tension between two superpowers armed with nuclear weapons?
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  1723.  @marc_frank  If you are going to quote scripture then all I will say is that "We are made in his image". He did after all wipe out almost the entire human race according to your book.
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  1724.  @marc_frank  Not especially thanks, when I die I am happy to die forever.
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  1725.  @Leo555ZZZ  How much do you spend a year on tinfoil?
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  1726. One question regarding deep frying, how do lard, beef dripping, goose fat etc stack up relative to butter and coconut oil?
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  1727.  @spundam  Agreed. I believe it was intended for motorists who parked inappropriately etc.
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  1728. I knew there was a reason I hated physical chemistry at school!
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  1729.  @tezzo55  Hardly a "Young fella" The point is that humans have the means to affect the climate to a greater extent now than they have ever had - just look at ozone depletion. Like it (or believe in it) or not, the world IS going to switch away from fossil fuels for heating and power generation. Australia can either go with it, or be left behind.
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  1730.  @jaymiewilliamson2521  Can't argue with flat earthers. Goodbye.
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  1731. Come back when you have been educated.
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  1732.  @keithsexton1263  It was a play on a Monty Python line "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy"
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  1733.  @Kathleenskinner-n6u  As I said in my previous reply, my post was a joke.
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  1734.  @pwillis1589  You were doing so well until the last statement.
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  1735.  @pwillis1589  I understand it very well. However, no country requires a civil reactor program to produce nuclear weapons if that's what they wish to do. Similarly, no country can hide a nuclear weapons program under the cover of a civil program. Any country can acquire nuclear weapons if they are willing to pay the political and financial cost.
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  1736.  @pwillis1589  U233 (or more correctly its precursor Protactinium 233) can be removed from the outer breeding blanket around certain Thorium SMR designs (with the intention of increasing U233 yield). Salt can also be removed from the inner reactor core (with the intention of removing fission products), but neither are trivial acts. Both require the means to handle and process extremely radioactive material and any such capabilities will indeed be highly regulated. There are also designs for reactors that are delivered as sealed modules. They come pre-loaded with fuel, are run for a set period of operation, stored, then returned to the supplier for disposal. The fuel in such designs would not be accessible by the operator, who would lack the specialist equipment to handle such materials anyway. In this situation regulation would be lighter, though still present for safety reasons. Less confused now?
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  1737.  @ianhomerpura8937  I have seen reports of 10-15% of world reserves of thorium (No idea how reliable that figure is or what other reserves worldwide remain unidentified).
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  1738. Maybe this tech, maybe that. Meanwhile everyone is installing renewables and crossing their fingers in the hope that something will turn up to solve the looming storage issue.
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  1739. Fast spectrum breeder reactors can utilise U238, thus extending the availability of uranium as a fuel.
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  1740. Please don't try chewing PETN!
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  1741. I'm a far right English thug (according to Comrade Starmer) and I pity America whichever candidate wins. The leader of the free world should exude strength, dignity and statecraft, not spite, waffle and personal ambition.
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  1742. Of which over 95% remains fuel.
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  1743. You would be surprised.
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  1744. Your reason for dismissing the MP5 (poor performance vs body armour) completely misses the point. In a hostage situation you don't want a round that can defeat body armour unless you know that the bad guys are wearing it. Even then it may not be the best option. A full up 5.56 at close range will penetrate (some) body armour, but it can also pass through an unarmoured body. While a 9mm will just about penetrate a breeze block wall a 5.56 will do so with ease. TLDR in close quarters within a building, you have more chance of accidentally killing hostages with a 5.56mm round than you do with a 9mm low velocity round.
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  1745. The world will only run out of uranium if it sticks with conventional nuclear technology. It is perfectly possible to breed fissile fuel from U238 rather than rely on natural U235; which constitutes less than 1% of natural uranium. That's leaving aside thorium, which is even more abundant than uranium.
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  1746. If you are going to try to troll at least get the aircraft right.
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  1747.  @random2829  That's religion for you, Live and let die.
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  1748.  @nattanapathongkam1172  Bury it. There isn't that much compared with other options.
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  1749.  @stephenbrickwood1602  Good luck running heavy industry from a few rooftop PV panels.
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  1750. Tied down an awful lot of enemy soldiers searching empty bushes.
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  1751. Technology that is no longer built.
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  1752. Low frequencies offer reduced targeting performance.
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  1753.  St Stephen  Agreed. Leopard 2 is a better choice as it is more widely used and thus more easily supported.
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  1754. 1700 scammers dislike this video :D
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