Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. Frank, first of all, defense takes up about 20% of the federal government's spending. Welfare and entitlement programs take up over half (about $2 trillion a year). Second, $1.5 trillion for the F-35 is actually the cost of the program, including procuring hundreds of battle-ready aircraft. It's not just $1.6 trillion to get metal to the location. A cruise missile is very different from an attack aircraft in capabilities, and that's why there are both cruise missiles as well as attack aircraft. People need to come to the realization that this planet is fucked no matter what we do, and our only hope of survival in the bigger picture of things is to be on as many hurtling death rocks as possible. Next year, we could be hit by a world-ending asteroid, and then what? We need to get in there and tap this planet of its resources and put as much research as possible into technologies that will make us interplanetary and then interstellar as quickly as possible and as recklessly as necessary while still being able to technically survive it. Once we're among the stars, and maybe even having taken some local species with us, we'll be doing much better. Ruining one world out of a countless number of worlds is nothing.
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  2. Isn't the point of heating the gas to extreme temperatures to create the plasma excite the particles to the point where the electrons are free-floating instead of creating shells around the nuclei, therefore allowing the nuclei an opportunity to interact?
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