Comments by "spaceflight101" (@spaceflight1019) on "1420 by Daniil Orain" channel.

I spent a month working in Slovenia in 1983. My career took me to a lot of places. At our level, people are all the same...trying to get through the day, make a better life for their kids, and maybe have enough left over for a beer or two with their friends.
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@andrepereira744 , if I could post a link to the outside I would. Bottom line is, he knew nothing about Americans until he visited. When he came to Pittsburgh he was astonished at the sheer number of Slavic and Russian men he drank with at a bar in West Homestead. Getting to actually know people goes a long way toward erasing stereotypes and misconceptions.
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@beorlingo , only on the surface. At the working man level, my level, we're all the same. Trying to get through the day, make a better life for our kids and families, and maybe have enough left over for a beer or two.
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@ljuboizsiska5448 , things were different in 1983. Growing up in the 1960s, we developed a view of everyone living behind the Iron Curtain. Having spoken with people living there over amateur radio I knew that the image wasn't entirely accurate. Working behind the Iron Curtain proved it. Now... I've read that the station service power at Chernobyl has been cut off due to the fighting. If they weren't fighting and I went over to help fix it are you telling me that at the end of the day the workers don't want to go home to their families and maybe knock back a few?
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My parents grew up during the Great Depression. They paid cash for everything, never had credit cards, and lived within their means. My father was a craftsman. He borrowed $12,000 to build his home in 1957. He built the house for $8,000, returned the extra money to the bank, and worked overtime in the steel mill and had the loan paid off before the 1959 steel strike.
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@алексейсалин-о6в , what difference does it make? Look at it from a galactic viewpoint and see how unimportant we are. We are Terrans.
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@TheRealNickG , what am I doing? That's actually a tough question to answer. One of the answers is simple: don't add to the negativity and animosity that seems to be so prevalent on today's internet. Another one is a matter of perspective. Trump encouraged people to "make America great again". Some people took that as some sort of "dog whistle". I saw it as a call to action. Once upon a time, people did nice things for one another just because. How do you "make America great again "? Hold the door open for someone. Let another driver pull out in front of you. Check in on the seniors in your neighborhood. Cut their grass and shovel the snow for them. Respect others' point of view. See where I'm going? One of the fundamental building blocks of a civilization is civility, something that seems to be missing these days. A man goes through many stages in his life. One of the earliest is thinking that you can solve everything with your fists. The next is thinking that you can solve everything with your hands. Years later, you have the knowledge to actually have the right answers to the big questions, and people will listen to you. Time passes, and although you may have the answers, people stop listening and you become obsolete. The key to not becoming a fool is knowing when you've become obsolete. My 49 year career was in Electronics and Industrial Instrumentation and Process Controls. Just as I learned, I passed whatever I learned on to anyone who was interested. If I keep it to myself then I've learned nothing. War comes when people stop talking and communicating. My hope was that with this Tower of Babel called the internet wars would be left in the last century but I was wrong. Putin, who was 17 when Woodstock happened and was a member of the "peace, love, dope" generation has become a Joseph Stalin analog. Civility implies trust. Mr. Putin said that he would not invade Ukraine. A man is only as good as his word.
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@beorlingo , from what I was told, places like Saudi Arabia have isolated compounds for us Western infidels in which you can have an adult beverage with your dinner. But don't go outside of the lines! There were guys in Yugoslavia who thought that pounding down the pivo (at 13% alcohol content) like it was Coors Light was a great idea...until having a policia (milicija) point an Uzi at you and yammer in a language you don't understand. Our rental car was a Fiat with a manual transmission. I was the only one who knew how to drive a stick but read the road signs and a map. I drove the car and everyone else got drunk. The hangovers were legendary. I had no problems and other than missing my family avoided trouble and enjoyed the experience. A savvy voyager learns the local customs before setting sail (or foot) on foreign soil. There are a variety of things that you can do in Muslim countries that will result in a whipping, but if one plays by the rules, you won't have any problems. One more thing...alcohol is one thing, illegal drugs are a whole 'nother world altogether. Your second step, after learning the local customs, is to never, never, NEVER have ANYTHING to do with illegal drugs!
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@andrepereira744 , my last paragraph is my observation. I view myself as a Terran. It's going to be difficult to live with extraterrestrials when we can't live with ourselves.
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The surprising thing is that the internet has done nothing to further peace and understanding amongst the people of the world. These people gave the same answers their grandparents gave in 1960.
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@bluedragon94 , I grew up near Pittsburgh. There are many headstones written in Cyrillic in the cemetery where my parents and grandparents and great-grandparents are buried. Even today Russian immigrants keep coming here.
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@jaygarit9177 , I couldn't care less what Trump did or does. The only person who can make a difference is me, and by extension, you. Be pleasant with others. Treat others as you'd like them to treat you.
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@jaygarit9177 , you're welcome. If I'd been in line behind George Floyd he'd still be alive because I would have covered his purchase. That's the kind of man I am.
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That's only in New York and Chicago.
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Western Pennsylvania is home to plenty of Eastern Europeans. They began coming here over 100 years ago and made a good life for themselves working in the coal mines and steel mills. Many years ago Nikita Khrushchev came to Pittsburgh. He was surprised at how respectfully he was treated and at how many people spoke Russian. I invite all of you to read the articles online. A long time ago Putin was quoted as believing that Americans thought of Russians as "vile pigs". Most Americans think of great vodka and hockey players. I sent the Russian embassy an email inviting Mr. Putin to take a motorcycle trip from Maine to California and see what we're really like. Too bad my missive fell upon deaf ears. I once had a "bucket list" idea of renting a Harley in Bratislava and dropping it off in Moscow before boarding the Trans-Siberian railroad, but with things as they are it can never happen.
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@beorlingo , I invite you to read "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan.
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@beorlingo Thanks for the invitation, but I already did that. I used to work for Westinghouse and then Siemens building gas turbine power plants.
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@beorlingo I spent August of 1983 in then-Communist Slovenia and Croatia. I do regret not taking the Kathmandu project but family issues were more important.
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@verycoolguy5947 , is that why they're great hockey players?
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@andrepereira744 , you should read about Russian history sometime. Their hands are every bit as bloody as America's, if not moreso. According to recorded history, Russia stole land from the Persian Empire when Alexander the Great ran the show.
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@andrepereira744 , likewise, I'm only responsible for what I've personally done. Back on topic... Please read about Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Pittsburgh. From your description, you're Italian.
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@ilyasnm837 , and we started on exploring space together until politics got in the way.
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@fz7694 , invade and conquer seem to be hallmarks of Anatomically Modern Humans, does it not?
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@fz7694 , unfortunately, Neanderthals had no known languages and didn't record any history. What they did or didn't do during the 250,000 years before AMHs appeared is lost to the sands of time.
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@SteveFarmerMusic , if they came to Pittsburgh, as many of them do, they find that they are not so very far from home. Ethnic foods, Orthodox churches. Nikita Khrushchev himself came here and his attitude toward America changed.
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"Yeah, well, I guess they had it comin'." "We all got it comin', kid."
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