Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. Soldiers in the Iraq War also had problems with dust. Iraq's desert sands are as old as the Earth and are ground extremely fine. The slightest wind kicks them up, it's coarse, and it gets everywhere. Even inside air field control tents, computers were found to overheat as the sand somehow managed to get in. Soldiers said they had to clear rifles everyday regardless if they used them because there would always be sand. It'd get in your shoes, inside your pants, and so on and so forth.
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  2. Rural Kansan here: The rise of ethanol has driven a lot of farmers to install water pipes so they can turn wheat/soy fields into corn fields. That means the demand for corn is high enough you can make more money with one corn crop than you can with the double crop per year the wheat/soy method offers.
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  3. Correction: The not-sugar part of the corn is a high protein mush that makes great cattle fodder. Not wasted.
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  4. HESH rounds are mostly used as anti-fortifications since it decimates brick walls and such, but the round most armies carry loaded in the chamber are HEAT rounds since they can be used on almost any target effectively.
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  5.  Dominic Brunsmeier  You
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  6. The price tag matches.
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  7. He didn't fall! He greated the moon with his face!
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  8.  @robsengahay5614  it is. Humans need a little meat in our diet.
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  9. 30:30 The reason for this is at high speeds the projectile cuts through the air like a knife rather than push it out of the way like a hammer
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  10.  @oldnick6709  not important
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  11.  @robsengahay5614  I would also have your tongue for fudging facts. Avoiding meat doesn't mean you control what other people serve you and you admitted you ate it routinely after attempting to give it up. And right now I feel like roasting your pets and making you eat them just to prove what they're worth.
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  12. We should add each rocket costs as much as a civilian car. But since it can easily disable armored vehicles worth millions it's well worth it.
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  13. Or stop hearing...
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  14. That is not a nice way to speak of your wife [sarcasm]
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  15. "Composite materials are made of two or more materials." You don't say!
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  16. The last two decades of work has been to reduce the price. Also, spaceports and government entities are often backlogged and space launching used to be super high risk back when no one knew what they were doing
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  17.  @robsengahay5614  a hundred bucks says you've eaten meat this year.
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  18. Having tried to read Ignition, I can ask why it's so popular as it's poorly written and the author says he didn't any drafting. Since it's organized by chemical types, it jumps around between countries and eras constantly often with no explanation why said chemical was or wasn't preffered. Also he's suppose to be funny but for every one joke there's another gratitous jab against all sorts of people.
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  19. I make generic early comment, GIVE ME MEANINGLESS UPVOTES!!!
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  20.  @goldenhate6649  don't blame lobbyists, as we all wanted it to happen including you mr. The fact is we tax gasoline and subsidize ethanol, making it artificially cheaper to use high ethanol fuel.
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  21. Is that a weird joke or do you have a death wish?
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  22. The amount of cash donated to charity by the US alone is many times that what is needed to "solve world hunger." It's a matter of human vice and logistics, not government budgets.
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  23.  @stephenleonard8361  Vhut?
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  24. So many people watched the Apollo missions live ghat Hollywood still hasn't stopped copying iconic shots.
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  25.  @asylumking3642  that not all that fair since two crops a year does the same thing. Getting lots of good crops involve a copious amount of fertilizer.
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  26. No, but you can win. Ask a preacher how to stop wars.
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  27. You think they're all spent the day they arrive or something? No, war in the Ukrainian plains involves looking for the enemy for weeks or sitting waiting to ambush someone who might never come. War is actually really boring except for brief moments of horror that come and go in minutes or seconds and are usually determined by dumb luck.
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  28. You
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  29. Don't you have a math test to fail?
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  30. You have to get a comment in early if you want meaningless upvotes.
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  31. Duh. Who's funding you? Potheads?
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  32. Yeah. War is spending weeks training, weeks in muddy holes looking for the enemy, and then it's all over in a 2 minute fight determined by dumb luck.
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  33. Fun fact: Japanese smiths went to great lengths to ensure the sword edge was hard while the thickest portion was more mallable. This meant the edge could be sharper while the sword would bend instead of break.
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  34. It's still working.
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  35. Because the marines are suppose to be naval infantry but the Pentagon forgot about that for a couple decades
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  36. Sign you didn't watch the video
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  37. To all our enemies who helped create our armed forces, I'd like to say: Tank you.
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  38.  @MrCTruck  I said coarse as in rough.
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  39. The problem with carbon nanotubes is they haven't been invented yet. The longest ever made was like 2 inches
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  40. That's cheap consumer electronics versus custom made NASA electronics
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  41. Torgue definitely built these....
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  42. Have you friggin seen the pictures this thing takes? It's spotted a large hot planet outside the solar system.
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  43. You don't want to know what they do with recycled cooking oil in China...
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  44. Not if you know anything
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  45. Not if you know anything. The chasis is from the late cold war, but literally every piece of it has been upgraded in some fashion. Tankers like me can actually identify the age of a tank by the internals (old ones are switches and dials, new ones have touch screens, middle ones are LCD).
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  46. Those aren't equivalent rockets.
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  47. You have have high ridership across its entire life to recover that cost, and you can't just raise the price of a train ticket since people will simply find other means of travel. Ergo, this is only profitable in first world sardine can cities like Tokyo.
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  48. Please leave military science to those of us that know basic facts about military science.
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  49. Depleted uranium. Big difference
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  50. Computers are not the issue.
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  51.  @ericlamont4130  there's not a lot of alternatives as all that ammo has to go somewhere. I know with the Abrams the munitions are stored behind a hydraulic door in the turret. The armor above the munitions has large loose bolts so (in theory) the munitions going off would blow off that blast door instead of the crew compartment. Whether or not this is better is unclear as there are several tradeoffs.
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  52. The most recent tweaks to the gun are a electric plasma igniter that ensures the rounds go off perfectly everytime (a little more power and accuracy).
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  53. Instead of naming it after a scientist they should have made it a literature reference. Call it "Barad-dur."
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  54. Non-political? His intro statements were overtly partisan.
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  55. Quit obsessing over that dude
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  56. If it works it works
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  57. Critics of this point out the level of precision needed to use this may be actually impossible, but I don't know.
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  58. 13:20 No one uses the smoke screen. The grenade launchers are where tankers put their cans of Monsters for the road.
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  59.  @redneckpyromania6965  that's the sign you don't know the first thing about farming.
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  60. About Russian diesel tanks: Most Russian oil fields are not suitable to make jet fuel, meaning diesel is stupid cheap but jet fuel is expensive.
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  61. He wrote of a giant gun, and none of the methods he described would actually work.
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  62. You mind making sense?
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  63. A tank costs as much as several farms. And those are the costs of complete systems. Replacement rockets cost 1/4th that.
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  64. Getting in that sort of equipment isn't a problem... On Earth. A backhoe wouldn't fit in a spacecraft and you'd need hundreds
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  65. They'll go bankrupt like all the other "revolutionary" startups
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  66. Yes, that's a major issue as the rocket wants to keep spinning.
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  67. You using that word "insane." That does not mean what you think it means.
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  68. Watch the video
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  69. Yep, already operational and putting out better photos than any other telescope.
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  70. Advances in open heart surgery are worth their own episode. Originally they had to cut open the sterum to get to the heart but now there are snake like tools/scopes that go through an artery in the arm or between the ribs.
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  71. They're still operational
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  72.  @tjv6976  you knew what I meant
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  73.  @tjv6976  liar
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  74. That joke was stale weeks ago
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  75. That sounds expensive and volatile.
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  76.  @bobguy6542  depends where you were stationed. And Baghdad gets dust storms
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  77.  @ehtuanK  that says nothing about the price, though. As we're not only going to the moon safely but on a budget.
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  78. That would be a waste of cash akin to Bill Hwang's exploding bank account...
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  79. Better a diesel fire than a face full of shrapnel.
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  80. Don't you have a math test to fail, kid?
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  81. Can you say nothing?
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  82. You're mistaken in one key aspect: OceanGate never had any intention of making money, in fact their no-refund policy stemmed from how customer money went immediately to payroll and when they were no customers they borrowed money in one fashion or another. Stockton Rush was doing all of the inventing, and he was like those degenerate street racers who know they'll die eventually but just want to have fun in the meantime. In Stockton's case, he wanted to be the epic explorer.
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  83. That's a lot of weight.
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  84. Instead of naming it after a scientist they should have made it a literature reference. Call it "Barad-dur."
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  85. There's greese monkey companies and undervalued tankers that do all that.
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  86. Nothing lives there
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  87. That comment was years outdated when you wrote it.
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  88. Not the topic at hand
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  89. Not necessarily
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  90.  @c7zr179  no one in the first world is going to starve because of ethanol. Long before then, the price of food would exceed the price of ethanol
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  91. What about the idea of a giant gun? It hasn't been seriously researched ever since the lead scientist was assassinated (he was working for Saddam's nuclear program).
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  92. That hasn't been invented yet, and it would take hundreds of trips
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  93. What are you talking about?
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  94. Nuke it.
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  95. WWii is still referred to as THE war, meaning everything gets compared to it no matter how absurd. Some statistician studied political debates and found that as arguments go on it becomes inevitable someone will compare something to Hitler.
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  96. To give you an idea how stupidly effective the long rod armor piercing rounds are: We tankers are taught to shoot those at nothing besides tanks because if you hit an grenade proof truck or something similar it will pass right through it, wasting its potential. We have explosive HEAT rounds for those medium armored targets.
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  97. That's likely the one of very few places it would be economical to do so.
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  98. Lose the hyperbole. No one's going to die because we didn't get a telescope.
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  99. What a lot of people overlook is the negative energy costs in some regions that have too much government subsidies for this junk.
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  100. You didn't watch the video
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  101.  @Waywind420  So shut up before you make a bigger fool of yourself
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  102. Watch the video
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  103. You got a weird sense of humor
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  104.  @ewc58  you can go to Benning. The drill sergeants will make something useful out of you.
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  105.  @ewc58  please leave military affairs to those of us that aren't talking out our butts
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  106. That blows.
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  107. It's called a Ponzi scheme
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  108. That's silly. This plane is extremely well known in army circles.
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  109. Found the crypto scammer
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  110. No one read that shit
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  111. ​ @KrunoslavStifter  you don't even know what the javelin is for do you?
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  112. Heck, land mines are considered a crime in many areas but guns and mortars aren't. International law is just holier-than-thou bullshit.
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  113. ​ @RealEngineering  it's perfectly fine to use napalm. It works quite well at torching buildings, killing fools, and making enemies run away. That's all that matters in war.
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  114. That's why they all say "do not drop." They're just ceramic with a plastic coating to protect against spalling.
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  115. Sht upp. Get drafted
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  116.  @Mrstrikerace  It will never be fixed. End of story.
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  117. They made them quickly in the Cold War and these things outlive the pilots when maintained right. If they do start building more, they won't use the old airframe.
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  118. They already have more power plants than they need due to green energy garbage
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  119. You're trying to sound smart but even army grunts can tell you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
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  120. Obsolete? What replaced it then?
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  121. None that I know of
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  122. Liars burn in hell
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  123. That's true for anything in space
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  124. We already got a ton of ICBMs from the Cold War, we don't need more.
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  125. They're often tacked onto Europe anyway like Turkey and Malta.
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  126. No one can confirm or deny it works. We heard from it twice: Once when they tested it and once when it started an accidental alien sighting
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  127. There's a lot more to it than that.
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  128. Hardeehar
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  129. We already have excessive power production due to all these new power plants we don't need
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  130. It simply wouldn't have enough power to move
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  131. We were always taught to shoot nothing but tanks with the sabot. If you shot a medium armored vehicle it'd pass right through it and may let it live. That's why we ride with a HEAT in the chamber.
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  132. China's railgun projects have been defunct for years, and they never even actively tested one meant for space launches. If they really wanted to improve their space program they'd build a rocket that didn't depend on hypergolics.
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  133.  @brofist1959  Watch the video. Electricity is cheap and plentiful in the civilized world. And it's SpaceX, and they aren't using hydrogen.
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  134.  @brofist1959  Hardeehar. Try 6 dollars a kilo, and is only used in rockets for that reason. Liquid methane (which is what SpaceX Raptor engines ACTUALLY USES) costs roughly half that, is a lot more energy dense, and is the main part in natural gas that is piped all over the world to heat homes. Also the Merlin engine uses RP-1 which is just highly refined jet fuel.
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  135. We might not want one. A man with a month's practice can load in half the time as a machine.
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  136. ​ @peddlershat6840  a machine could load an Abrams in 7 seconds. A skilled loader can do it in under 4.
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  137. ​ @peddlershat6840  not a ton. A month worth of drills is all a man needs.
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  138. Shut up
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  139. Even those segments are not even profitable for Amtrak trains, let along hugely expensive maglev
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  140. If there is a "correct" way of making tanks, you can be sure everyone will do it.
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  141. This will fail because even if the machine works it will cost too much to operate. Takes a lot of power to boil rock.
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  142. It's been discussed to put a radio telescope on a moon crater on the dark side, but you have to factor in light from the Earth as it passes overhead which would blur out all images periodically. Also, most of the costs of going into space are getting into orbit around the Earth as you not only have to go up real high but go sideways real fast to stay up there.
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  143. Fraud
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  144. You know what happened with Castro and the Missile Crisis, right? How is that relevant? Especially when the Ukrainian war definitely didn't start over NATO expansion?
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  145. Watch the video
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  146. Better than where your wages go
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  147. Landmines are among the biggest tank killers in all wars
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  148.  @TheAkashicTraveller  you're a little low on the food chain to be giving diet advice
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  149.  @robsengahay5614  you really are living in your own little world one way or another, as this is all baseless extrapolation from what you suppose to be true or want to be true. And I really do think your psyche will benefit from seeing your pets spill their lives from their throats onto the ceiling. So shut up.
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  150.  @robsengahay5614  I'm not crazy, I'm just a jerk that likes Poe style horror. You know that some Indian tribes during winter would coat their skin in bear fat before putting on coats in order to get more insolation? Think about that next time you complain about someone's furry parka.
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  151.  @robsengahay5614  the Indians used natural resources wastefully because there wasn't enough of them to deforest anything. Again, you're making stuff up as you go along because you have no idea what you're talking about, and liars burn in hell. So shut up, airhead.
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  152.  @davidthosome623  you think these fools know a thing about the science they hold as god?
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  153.  @chistinelane  I'm just a jerk. Pipe down.
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  154.  @conors4430  there's no industrial/ag process in the universe that doesn't "add to climate crisis" to some people. I once saw an unironic report that cow farts contribute to global warming.
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  155. Only if you know nothing of science or magic
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  156. Trains are faster in America? Everyone that has been on an Amtrak says otherwise. Wait times are a little less, ticket prices are a little less, but in exchange your selection of destinations are less and you will be on that train for days. Amtrak's CEO said they have not been profitable for years and will likely never be profitable since everyone chooses greyhounds or planes over trains. And it takes a special kind of fool to call big highways a hellscape
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  157. Depends how old the tanks are. But it's not like the AC actually cools any more than 10 degrees in there
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  158. This video dates you....
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  159.  @vaughnkingston6902  no, there was space travel books before that. Edgar Allan Poe wrote one involving a giant balloon and a wonder material lighter than hydrogen.
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  160. You never found your wife's firmament. Now shut up
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  161. Like you're different
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  162.  @wayando  I'll wager you're guilty of a lot of the things you accuse others of
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  163. Watch the video
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  164. Liars burn in hell
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  165. He lied. He did hire old white men because he needed experienced naval engineers, but each of them mutinied when they found out this was a suicide mission. His secretary who nothing of science also mutinied when she found out what she said to the press and what was happening in the dives contradicted each other. Diversity was just a cheap excuse for hiring incompetents who would just get the work done and never learn enough to mutiny.
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  166. Wrong thread
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  167. Eh, no. The MPAT is expensive and useful because of the airburst feature, but there are plenty of HEAT rounds in use. No idea if any phase out is planned. Source: Was trained on both rounds
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  168. The algorithm can be weird. If you include a word or phrase that is frequently reported, the computer may delete the comment. This leads some people to abuse the report button.
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  169. The cannon was guaranteed to break any Soviet tank because it was specifically made to be overkill on all existing or potential tanks. Tanks haven't gotten heavier since the 1980's, it's simply not practical to put more armor on. @madkoala2130 
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  170.  @bensneller5797  you're being rude. INCONCEIVABLE!
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  171.  @bensneller5797  did I mention your JOB is at stake?
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  172.  @bensneller5797  dude, these were all movie quotes
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  173. Saddam's funded a space gun for his Manhattan Project back in the day. He hired a disgraced western scientist, and the project ended with his assassination. He kept many key calculations in his head so that he would remain unfireable.
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  174. Shut up. Get drafted
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  175. As if anyone is really fighting right now
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  176. He puts that on all his videos. It's mild clickbait
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  177. This is standard
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  178. Dude, tanks are not exactly stealthy pieces of equipment. We have all that armor so we can charge past resistance and chew up the soft bits at the enemy's rear.
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  179. Shut up
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  180. So?
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  181. Shut up before we call your mother
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  182. Don't equate the man himself with the sycophants
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  183. It is fast when you consider it weighs as much as the space shuttle.
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  184.  @capturedflame  those things don't really go bad, but are universally terrible but filling. There was a time when "hardtack" was the norm. They'd take a bisket, burn the crust black, and it'd last forever even if it took a hammer to open them up. Soldiers would generally throw them in a stew with whatever fresh food they had.
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  185.  @capturedflame  hilarious, but we're on the same side. I just have a peeve against talking trash
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  186.  @capturedflame  Uh, you think because I didn't laugh at a viral joke for the 100th time that I'm an algorithm? I think you've been arguing with randos for way too long, dude.
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  187. It's the UAE. Once you left, they simply no longee had any qualified personnel
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  188. @keymot1491  it's all fake. We have testimony from the guy selling the certificates
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  189.  @jamescoe4765  Up north you have to brush snow off too. Solar panel maintenance is never zero and calling it zero is securities fraud
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  190. @nairable  that too would need serviced and adds costs. Solar only works when we let plants do the bulk of the work for us
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  191. China's attempt at maglev was fake like all their other ponzi schemes
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  192. The cost 5 million apiece
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  193.  @scottfree6479  I can't tell if this is a joke
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  194.  @HikarusVibrator  it was there when Gilgamesh was written.
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  195.  @HikarusVibrator  I don't think we're referring to the same areas
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  196.  @esecallum  it'd get in through the seams of the bag, and you must also use stuff
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  197.  @FransBlaas1  shut up and get drafted
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  198.  @stanley1554  is that a sick joke or do you have a death wish?
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  199.  @MunishKumar-gw6kw  you keep regurgitating that as if you yourself don't believe it either
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  200.  Science Revolution  bug off
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  201.  @PREDATOR07  You mean Iraqis? And no, it's just as much a fact of life there as the desert heat.
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  202.  @georgeszilva1223  That's literally not how those work.
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  203.  @Chris_Sheridan  I say we draft you and see what you think then
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  204.  @Emy53  The goons we were fighting in Iraq didn't even know how to aim.
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  205. @NoReplyAsset  vhut?
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  206. They have a few good modern tanks but the thing is most tanks in theatre is just what happened to be nearby when war broke out
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  207. All tanks are super vulnerable to attack planes. All the armor in the world doesn't stand up to a pair of 500lb bombs
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  208.  @starptgr  depends on the rocket. Many of them cost a lot less than that.
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  209. Dude, he was mostly a danger to himself
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  210. It's one of those factors that tend to change the shapes of countries.
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  211. Chila is too poor for that
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  212.  @ehtuanK  a lot of that goes to building the rocket. There's no blank check like during Apollo.
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  213. @ehtuanK  only ponzi schemers think cost of material is negligible
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  214. Almost no gravity. Might as well float free
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  215.  @tmdepot6167  I repeat. All space is exposed to astroids.
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  216. Those idiots can't even keep satellites in air. That is why they used balloons
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  217. Cope cages?
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  218.  @Amenti_H  shut up
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  219. Dude, he got half of this off Wikipedia
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  220. Not exactly. You test the invention ON AN INANIMATE OBJECT! Or mice if applicable.
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  221. All artillery rounds are incendiary
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  222. Dude, the German war machine collapsed because of logistics. The case in point was only a fraction of the German forces were in the Stalingrad area, only a fraction of those were engaged at any one time, and they were acutely short on everything. They had thousands of tank drivers without tanks and hundreds of disabled tanks without spare parts and dozens of good tanks without fuel.
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  223. Vhut?
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  224. Do you even know what the CIA is? And no. It shouldn't surprise you that citizens of NATO states are overtly partisan regardless of their backgrounds. Real Engineering is run by a Brit, I think.
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  225.  @rihardga7122  the point is you should get drafted because your family is better off without your lying, stealing, and bullying. Now shut up
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  226. No one cares
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  227. It literally didn't. The problem was there wasn't any way to get the workers out there to fix it safely.
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  228. Shut up
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  229. Shut up and watch the video.
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  230. Subs that work are all made by the same companies who have always made subs and are often just part of the work done by larger factories. That's some deep institutional knowledge/funding that no clever inventor with loans from family and friends can beat.
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  231. Dude, it's working just fine even though a tiny meteor put a hole in it.
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  232. Shut up
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  233. We all know how much they help that doesn't mean half of us can be bothered to put it on anyway.
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  234. US gear tends to become global standard. Consider the 5.56 cartridge
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  235. I suggest getting off those trash channels.
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  236. What you said about other energy types being cheaper is a misconception: Some types of energy are heavily subsidized while in others punitive regulations exist to make them less profitable.
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  237. Depends if they have manual backups available. It's the least of their problems, the main problem is that a whole list of design flaws that would inevitably kill the crew were allowed.
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  238. The rocket is a self-stabilizing projectile (I.E. it is shaped like a dart). The force of the air will straighten it.
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  239. Big off
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  240.  @suicideistheanswer369  also before that with the Russia Civil War. Poland split with Moscow and took chunks of territory.
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  241. It's depleted to the point where you won't suffer from radiation, you'll suffer from how it spontaneously catches fire.
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  242. Don't you have a math test to fail, kiddo?
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  243.  @MrAlexs888  yeah, I make jokes about violence all the time. That's why I thought the satirical chemistry book would be fun.
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  244. Some people won't hear a kind word about Boeing because they lost money playing the stock market.
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  245. ​ @chrisperrien7055  the details of how certain systems are put together are still secret
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  246. Dude, this is available on Wikipedia
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  247. Couple hundred miles
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  248. You can always be sure the Pentagon will choose performance over practicality.
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  249. Watch the video and know that engineers aren't cheap. He didn't even discuss the extreme vacuum chamber needing to test this stuff.
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  250. Yep. It's laying around due to old reactors and serves no other purpose
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  251. Also, a man is faster if he has enough practice.
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  252. Robots are expensive and they could only gather a little at a time. You sure this is profitable?
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  253. The amount donated to charity by the US alone is nominally many times what is needed to resolve those issues. It's a matter of human vice, not government budgets. So quit whining and do volunteer work for once.
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  254. Those idiots can't even make rockets that work.
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  255.  @viceralman8450  They generally get retrofitted when they're brought in for overhaul, which can take years. I've seen training devises that don't even have digital displays
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  256. All the electronics have been replaced and old engines when overhauled are replaced with new ones. That's pretty much all that has changed.
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  257.  @legionofthedamned157  taken already. And the data analytics company is more appropriate given the possible abuses of palantir. Barad-dur was where Sauron sat, and his eye could see through mountains and across the Earth. Appropriate for a deep space telescope.
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  258. Because its replacement hasn't been invented yet
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  259. You expect a Brit to comprehend why they frontloaded all the internals?
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  260.  @ASJC27  that demonstrates a lack of knowledge. The Spike is a whole family of interchangeable components that range in size from anti-ship to anti-vehicle. The SMAW, javelin, and TOW are all equally "equivalent."
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  261.  @ASJC27  that degree means nothing to the specific knowledge I mentioned in my last comment. I apologize for coming off condescending. And when I said components there's not only several different rockets, but several different launchpads and targeting sights that are each compatible with each other and each have a specialty.
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  262. No one cares
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  263. You know people fret too much about the oceans when they literally don't want anyone kicking up dust clouds in it........
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  264. The Congolese will fight over anything worth money. Get over it.
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  265. Or perhaps your understanding of warfare sucks. But that's par for the course on both sides
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  266. It's really a matter of budgets
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  267. From what I read it came down to a disconnect between admin and engineering, with the execs promising anything the customer wanted.
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  268. If there was any fighting
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  269. Shut up. Get drafted
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  270. They have free elections that matter. I don't know what oddly specific thing you're freaking out about, but by your screen name I'd wager it's because they don't demonize Nazi Germany.
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  271. That's not really a problem. The part of the corn not used for ethanol is fed to farm animals.
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  272. Lose the trash talk and grab a gat.
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  273. THere's many types of biofuels
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  274. If only you weren't a liar with dozens of accounts.
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  275. Relays
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  276. Yours fucking don't
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  277. Like he said, that was the least of their problems. As long as there's a backup, it works
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  278. Like you would know, kiddo.
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  279.  @Europainstitute  you wouldn't even know what grunt soldiers think of this plane
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  280. You wouldn't even know what the bullets smell like.  @Europainstitute 
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  281. Arcebo did that. We want one better
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  282. There's more to science than weapons. Recently geneticists managed to breed up new corn that resists common crop plagues, but that's not as exciting is it
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  283. Vhut? You mean von Braun? He wasn't involved in any of that.
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  284.  @Steph.98114  and that makes him anything besides a loyal German?
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  285. It is. Lose the sensationalization. The problem came down to a disconnect between admin and engineering, with the former promising the customer anything they wanted to ensure the contract didn't go to competitors. Specifically, they promised significant systems upgrades while also promising the planes would be similar enough to past planes that the pilots would not need retrained (you see the problem).
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  286.  @mrjpb23  I probably am. I assumed you were talking about the plane that was grounded.
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  287. Watch the video
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  288. @matsv201  depends how wide the highway is
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  289. @matsv201  relative costs of material is also important. North America has a lot of crude oil and gravel so asphalt is cheap.
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  290. @matsv201  depends what part of Europe and America you mean
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  291.  @matsv201  two lanes, four lanes, six lanes, eight lanes?
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  292. No... Smoke launchers are just that
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  293. Robots do stuff in space all the time
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  294. @IanZainea1990  there's not much difference if those functions. In space stuff breaks and you say "Oh well"
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  295. Possibly. The DoD is notoriously slow and indecisive
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  296. I can't find what g-load will break a CPU, so I guess that's why you have this experiment.
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  297. All I can think of is how you mother is going to spank you for being annoying.
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  298. Googling... I can't find the max g-load for a CPU anywhere, so I suppose that's why you need the experiments from the video. And I assume the counterweight will be proportionately sized for the job.
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  299. It doesn't have a lot of lift to glide with and if one engine fails the other engine will push aircraft into a spin
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  300.  @divyanshuyadav5111  shut up
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  301. Story of your life
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  302. Shut up. Get drafted
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  303. They were never mothballed.
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  304. ​ @DoitsuRyoku  it literally is fine. It ignites on contact with air, and THAT is what will kill you
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  305. A few feet larger, yes. No one knows if it works, and it was already surpassed by that algorithm that photographed those blackholes
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  306. What? This was never classified info to begin with and the plane is older than you are
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  307. @XantherBlaze  I'm a military historian and my Dad used to fix A-10 during the Cold War. I know a lot of things, one of which is that most of the information in the video has been on Wikipedia for years
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  308.  @XantherBlaze  you're ignoring reality. NONE OF THIS IS SECRET. There were press releases on it before you were born
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  309. Yes, I too write loony limericks.
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  310. No. I don't know about palm oil but with the corn, the part that's not turned into fuel is used as cattle fodder, so not a fraction as wasteful as this guy thinks.
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  311.  @skz5k2  it makes no difference as the wasted energy goes into cows.
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  312. Impossible (unless carbon nanotubes become an off the shelf product).
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  313.  @international-arms-dealer  Deep in the video they said they were surprised a lot of these components withstand the g-loads they do, but then again these space thingies are made to be super light and g-loads go down the lighter you are. Some things had to be folded up in a way so they wouldn't break, though.
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  314. You didn't watch the video
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  315. Sign you're making it up as you go along
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  316.  @toutlaw2431  come on, you and I know you'd say that regardless if it were true. And I was there when ethanol finally became cheaper then regular gas.
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  317.  @maxmustermann-cy9zn  I KNOW. It depends what field you're using as to what combo works best and my farming knowledge is finite.
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  318.  @TheGor54  spy boys?
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  319.  @CowMan897  that's probably a ripple effect. Plus there are a million more uses for soy now then a century ago. But I don't know what all soils are good for.
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  320. Shut up
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  321. Just as viable, I don't know if it would be better.
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  322. Ha. Those guys don't even know how to hold a rifle
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  323. Or maybe just you
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  324. @remygrandemange8460  I'd rather put a date on you disembowelment. This is mostly existing tech. The main problem is moon dust and moon terrain
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  325.  @CarFreeSegnitz  try the other way around. We're going because there's a list of experiments that can only be done in space like using seismic equipment on the moon. And there's a lot of goons angry that none of the Apollo astronauts happened to be women.
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  326. Before anyone suggests building more of these, know that these are so expensive they're only profitable in first world cities that are as population dense as a sardine can.
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  327. Junk? These things set the world record for vehicle kills per sorte.
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  328. That's silly. We don't build that shit because it loses money.
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  329. Dude, this plane was specifically built to survive and evade manpads. The biggest threat to this plane are air superiority fighters.
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  330. Not exactly. They put mayonnaise on ice cream
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  331. 0:20 London is the definition of a strategic target.
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  332.  @lightdark00  Liar. Now shut up before we tell your mother you're trolling the internet, Mr. Alshouse
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  333. Lose the bull. Science itself was unable to fix this
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  334. Imagine if you spent a dollar housing homeless people yourself......
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  335. Shut up
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  336. It takes a lot of steel to withstand the forces involved.
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  337. Shut up
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  338. The Iraqi and Serbian air defenses were extensive but failed to down a single plane. Quit talking out your butt.
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  339. @Khaotik_99  5 aircraft, none of which were A-10. And the A-10 holds both first and second place for most vehicle kills in a single sorte at 21 and 20 because of two pilots in the gulf war that simply never missed. Another A-10 had a whole wing shot off and landed safely. So when you say they "weren't that good," that simply reveals you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
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  340. Uh, no. Tanks do the opposite and seize key areas. They tend to be sitting ducks on the defensive side. Traditionally, in a defensive action they send the tanks to the enemy's rear to monkey wrench his plans.
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  341. There was one scientist that was working on that, but got fired for being a jerkwad. So he defected to Iraq and worked for Saddam's nuclear program. The Israelis killed him, and since his techniques were so secret he wouldn't even tell his own employees, the project died with him.
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  342. 15:00 More importantly: Human loaders are faster than mechanical loaders. A strong man with a month of practice can load rounds in half the time that a machine can do it.
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  343. ​ @ΣτελιοςΠεππας  You are talking to an ex-tanker now, fool. Quit making shit up. We'll easily burn through all ammo before anyone gets tired.
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  344. ​ @МихаилОрлов-б8щ  because you have no idea what you're talking about
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  345. ​@Raphael Santiago you clearly never drove a tank.
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  346. ​@Krunoslav Stifter if there was a clear winner everyone would do it. And you can bet your butt the US Army will choose performance over common sense every day of the week.
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  347. That's not necessarily a flaw since you have to penetrate into the deepest part of the tank to do so. Certainly possible with DU weapons, though.
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  348. Come on, kid. Trolling the internet isn't going to get you anything but spanked.
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  349. I don't think you'd know anything about the Navy if we drafted you
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  350. Who says we don't?
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  351. Don't be silly. Everything you think is new is old
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  352. Well trained? When I was in we were too busy brawling and spreading lies about each other to git gud. Also, during Iraq/Afghanistan there were a lot of TWOTs (Tanker WithOut Tank) because while idiots in charge kept the tanks on hand just in case the tankers were mostly doing grunt infantry stuff. "Professional armies" refers to pay rate, not skill.
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  353. You don't even know what sort of range these have do you?
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  354. There's a lot of subtle signs like that to show he didn't read much on the subject before choosing it as a topic for the video
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  355. They also frontload all the machinery
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  356.  @guss77  And most of the rest
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  357. Except the pilots ain't near as incompetent as you are at videogames. @madkoala2130 
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  358. ​ @p_serdiuk  overhyped? Ot didn't even have a fam base until fools in the Pentagon tried to retire it. In any case, it can get 20-21 armored vehicle kills per sorte and costs the same amount as a good tank.
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  359.  @p_serdiuk  You don't know a fucking thing about airplanes in general, let along CAS. Your talent is more suited to grunt infantry
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  360. It only effects those with voluntary delusional schizophrenia
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  361. The F-35 isn't known as that because Obama wasn't the one peddling that junk.
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  362. Depends
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  363. No, we always called them shaped charges
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  364. And if you get enough magic rocks in one spot, all your enemies will disappear
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  365. @gusfring6887  not if you know anything. The reactors they're testing now are made so they won't kill anyone if they melt down, and most of the reactor killers from history are now physically impossible.
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  366. It would be cheaper to simply use disposable telescopes
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  367. Vhut?
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  368. Found the shoplifter
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  369. No....
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  370. No, because they are depleted. Radiation isn't the issue, pyrophoric inition is.
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  371. It's America. We complain no matter what the bosses do
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  372. Clickbait
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  373. Liars burn in hell with a nailgun on their spine
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  374. Not any worse than lead bullets.
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  375. Are you trying to sound stupid? Honest question
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  376. There's nothing old about these except the airframe and gun.
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  377. It's a fraction what it was when Apollo was a thing, and there's actually a massive backlog of projects we want to do including but not limited to: Put a probe on Venus that works, get decent pictures of Pluto, send another probe to Mars to pick up the samples other probes have collected and bring them to Earth, put a probe on Europa, build a data link waystation for space probe, and so on and so forth.
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