Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "Curious Droid" channel.

  1.  @SuicideNeil  Nature is already having the last laugh in Chernobyl, site of their nuclear Powerplant gone critical. Wolves and birds have returned as well as rare plant species. Nobody lives there (except the odd old person who won't leave), and this is strictly enforced by military guards and the high radiation still present inside the destroyed nuclear plant. Nature is a tough lady. Still it does not absolve use of our obligation to take care of the planet, and ourselves of course. We can easily wipe ourselves off this Earth.
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  2. He makes me very proud of my own Scots-Irish and German heritage!
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  3. Happy little bomb explosions!
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  4. That we brain - drained from Germany. He didn't care what side he was on, only that he was working on his projects. He was critical to the success of the early space launches or the astronauts. Fermi was also brained, IIRC. Einstein, too, and many other Germans, German Jews, and other people of German - controlled countries.
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  5. If these high - altitude tests of nuclear bombs caused these reciprocating, high - energy, Aurora - producing phenomena, i wonder what effects they still have today? I wonder if the satellites that run into the range of these phenomena lose telecommunication abilities and can't propagate cell phone signals. Could these phenomena be active in some way today and still cause interference? Or even cause interference with microwave radiation itself if the energy is lower, kicking people off the Internet and their cell phones and causing the Internet to misfunction?
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  6. I always liked Gorbachev.
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  7. Benjamin The problem with that technicality is that Challenger was heavily covered and publicized, and the explosion being the fault of technical and weather problems, no one is going to see that as anything but a failure. Maybe injustice, but human lives were at stake and therefore undivorceable.
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  8. Hindsight is 20/20,and so are my memories of feelings at the time. It was an exciting time to see a new direction for NASA: to make a reusable rocket, and I loved it and was egging it on (I was about 17 at the time). I felt the development was going slowly and not at all like Apollo. But when I saw the first one on the launch pad (Enterprise?) I was all for getting it launched. Now the other thing I felt was uncertainty. I didn't realize the shuttle couldn't take off by itself, and that huge fuel tank looked like a balloon to me, not nearly as stable as the hydrazine side rockets. I felt disappointed that it wasn't the huge fuel tank that would be recovered. But another thing that it itched in the back of my brain was the fact that the fuel seemed like sitting on a bomb. And that made me nervous. But it wasn't a bomb of itself; it was an irritant to the skin of the shuttle. And that was just as bad.
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  9. Australian, I think.
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  10. Also, there were many Germans who became NAZIs in self - defense, to preserve their lives. My Dad worked at North American Aviation during the 1960's with A German man, Eberhard Ernst Hermann Weber, who had been a member of the Hitler Youth. It was a matter of survival for him till he came to the United States. And while he was at North American he got his American Citizenship. My family has a picture of him at his desk with celebratory signs around him: "Joe American" (with stars) "Yanqui go home!" (a play on the fact that North American is in Southern California, not far from the Baja border) "Post no bills" (I'm not sure, but "Notary Sojack" might have been one.) It's a great picture!
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  11. Ammonia more like it!
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  12. Bell Labs was a very important technological giant, and it left when AT&T was broken up into its local service companies—"Baby Bells." The reason was because of anti-monopoly legislation. Since such legislation didn't stop mergers and downsizing that went rampant at about that time (1970's-'80's), it was, to me, a dirty deal to break up "Ma Bell." And a real loss. The exceptional quality of Bell telephones and clear service was at a peak. And the breakup made sure we as consumers never had that quality of phone call ever again.
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  13. And before man made satellites, Ham Radio Operators were skipping their radio signals off of the atmosphere and even off the moon itself. (Not off the array because it was before Apollo, and lasers weren't around either. And the moon itself doesn't have good enough optics to get a clear enough laser return signal to be captured and analyzed.) So the idea of sending signals to a satellite to another part of the world was there.
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  14.  @SuicideNeil  Ah! The post:apocalyptic life where it's every man for himself and the womenfolk huddle together inn terror! Actually, women would be sorting through the scraps and landfills to find stuff to repurpose. One man's trash is another woman's treasure. I'd be collecting garbage bags and plastic shopping bags to to make plastic yarn or plarn. Then I'd find or make a crochet hook to work it. Others might make knitting needles. Making a tatting shuttle is easy; I've made one before. Plastic can be reused. Melt together items made of the same recycle number. Numbers 2, 4, and 5 are least toxic to do so. Then you can make plastic stock for what you wasn't to make. Plastic grocery bags are good for this. Discarded food containers, too. Basically was would be going lo-tech. Hand needle to sew with. Beeswax linen to cover food bowls. Using caves for root cellars. Stuff like that. You can even make a good lathe with a bow hung from a ceiling tho power it. Women are pretty good at do-it-yourself kind of stuff. But I might have digressed.
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  15.  @Canofasahi  It can be done and is being done. The ban on chlorofluorocarbons or CFC's inn the last 1970's has healed the ozone layer significantly. California used to have pollution so bad that it was trapped by weather patterns there. The smog was such that you could not see through it. Inn the late 1970's a nationwide mandate was issued to require the drivers of cars of the day to curb our polluting emissions. There were converter add-ons tio modify cars to do this. New cars were required to have a greatly-reduced emissions output. Ten years later smog has disappeared in California because of these Federal mandates. Another mandate inn the late 1970's was for emissions from factories from smoke stacks were required to have scrubbers on the stacks to remove sulfur dioxide and other noxious pollutants. This removed even more pollution from the air. These nationwide mandates and the creation and strengthening of the EPA corrected much of the damage from our polluting habits. Curbside recycling came from a grassroots effort. First it started with paper drives by the Boy Scouts of America. In the early 1970' Boy Scout troops came around our neighborhoods collecting the most prominent discarded recycleable item, newspapers. Sunday newspapers were always three inches thick and larger dimensions than nowadays. The Boy Scouts would pile the papapers in the back of a van, and the troop leader would drive the van tio the paper recycling plant. I was excited when Coke and other soda companies changed fr making thetheir cans from a tin alloy to all aluminum. Then soda cans could be taken to a recycling company and get paid about 30 cents per pound. I remember the refund got up to fifty cents a pound once. They even advertised the refund amount on a billboard they owned. In the 1980's, my city started curbside recycling, finally getting the idea that recycling is good for us. And that's when companies started making their cardboard packaging from 50% to 100% recycled cardboard.
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  16. And all these things happened under one of the most criticized Presidents: a humble man named James Earl Carter.
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  17. Thanks for dispelling another conspiracy theory. A lot of these NASA projects get a lot of coverage going up,but hardly do we (or at least I) get any news on how the data is taken or what comes of it. Even the Jupiter family of missions, amazing as they are, don't get any media love.
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  18. And ourselves! Nature can get along without us (research Chernobyl today and see the restoration of wildlife and rare species there). It's up to us to quietly and peacefully make our nests in accord with nature.
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  19. Wow! Only 40 parts, now! Like you said, we do things in a different way, today. And I'd bet that 3-D printing could decrease the cost even more, perhaps by building miniatures to study.
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  20. Agreed. Did the Soviet Union and USA realize mutual destruction and back of unofficially?
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  21. And I don't trust several countries that have detonated nuclear missiles of their own.
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  22. The most valuable war inventions are the ones that promote peacetime prosperity and convenience.
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  23. Hindsight is 20/20.
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  24. Jeremy Bentham's preserved head?
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