Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. the H-Bomb layercake route isn't that complicated but it does require having a working nuclear bomb first
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  2. this whole thing was a mess since the french offered to build a nuclear sub first then the austrailians insisted it had to be a long range diesel, so they heavily modified the design to fit diesels instead, only for the US to offer up nuclear again and austrailia to change its mind again. All in all the french did a lot of work and are pissed off but I think this will pass eventually, alliances are stronger than a few incidents
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  3. this is an interesting problem that shouldn't be one. This company basically collected air refinery byproducts across ukraine and then further concentrated them while these plants exist virtually everywhere but nobody is doing the same thing
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  4. I'd say the industry is probably trending towards safer processes, maybe not out of express concern for the workers, but because the newer processes require a lot more precision and are even more sensitive to impurities
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  5. @Samson Soturian  well, being a colonial plaything for europeans and their racist kids up to the 1990s probably didn't help either
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  6.  @luc_libv_verhaegen  problem is water systems have to run 24-7 so you need a baseline, not strictly a deal breaker though, plus ideally you'd be desalinating to fill reservoirs to help with shortages
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  7. the dumb part about containerization is the new ports partly because of the rail line's inability to adapt, and partly again by the need to union bust, were often not built with rail in mind, so even if a container ultimately gets on a train it has to be offloaded onto a truck to be reloaded onto a train instead of just going from the yard to a train and the same thing at the other end, they can't offload trains into the container yards and while this has been a problem for decades its not changing any time soon
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  8. in terms of grid storage these are absolutely the way to go since they don't require rare earth metals and are much more stable and not prone to catching on fire
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  9. you guys also have really high levels of arsenic in your ground water as well with no apparent adverse effects
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  10. it was radioactive fallout, their customers kept returning fogged film which Kodak had to replace per their warranty and their reputation. they kept driving around the country trying to figure it out
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  11. almost seems like a return to the 1980s silicon on saphire tech
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  12. china has a very inefficient power grid and larger energy ecosystem, its working about as well as you'd expect if you took the US from the 1960s but added all the power hungry stuff from today, lots of individual AC units, lots of poorly insulated homes, factories, and buildings, and little to no efficiency standards
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  13. The government really needs to fund electrifying some of the main cargo lines, our 3 big rail freight operators certainly won't ever even try, even though its constantly being shown it will pay for itself especially in high fuel cost years. the high up front cost is always the limiting factor even though once you have the lines and trainsets you're running for pennies on the mile for fuel
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  14.  @checker297  you only need to refuel a nuclear sub like once, or in the case of more modern designs, never. refitting might be more difficult but I think france and austrailia could have worked out how to build the local infrastructure needed to maintain the new nukes. the problem is austrailia has basically committed to delaying new submarines until at least the mid 2030s. Australia needs to work right now to start building up a nuclear knowledge base
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  15. that's pretty much the entirity of semiconductor manufacturing though. the actual production is more than anything else almost entirely automated, but the workers monitor or fix the equipment
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  16. don't count on it. the further we are from the supply chain crisis without reforms the less and less chances lessons and changes are learned and implimented
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  17. Having worked in enough manufacturing environments, they will especially if the work is stable, routine, and have good pay. long hours and thus OT are something that either people love or loath, and the ones that hate it find their way out.
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  18. problem is IBM was basically going to win since the US were the only ones capable of buying these computers in a volume large enough to let someone like IBM succeed
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  19. almost like a single infusion of funds and only 6 years to implement new business strategies was not enough. Imagine if we had given oil the same cold shoulder, we'd probably still be using electric trains to get around. instead its Energy Dominance and all the oil grift that comes with it
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  20. tbf by the 1970s a lot of industry in the USSR was 10-15 years behind. the 1980 Olympics were a boon for them because they got the IOC to make all the merchandise in the USSR, but to do so they had to import all the machinery to do so, for things like garments, shirts, and especially shoes. The shoes alone would be a massive leap forward for soviet shoe technology and they made them for decades
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  21. 19:20 maker of the magic wand, then the team probably went on to make heavy mining equipment or something
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  22. "A suspension of water, citric acid and oh my god 10% thorium nitrate."
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  23. 2:30 the same thing for Germany, they had 2 competing nuclear programs
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  24. vacuum tube computers were devilishly complex requiring quite different tubes for operation than regular devices since they had to have such high rates of uptime compared to other machinery
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  25. I think they've probably said the same thing about Bollywood too. China may be a lucrative box office but western studios will still make movies that they can release globally outside of china along side movies they can sell in china because those movies are not necessarily going to make good money outside china as well. Occasionally we get the movie that makes money in both, but I think with the censorship and how china has been pushing propaganda elements in films will mean films have less and less appeal in foreign markets outside china kind of like how russian cinema has been. None of this is strictly a bad thing, as long as we make sure it doesn't become chinese companies acquiring all of hollywood
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  26.  @andersjjensen  I worked at a place recycling metal alloys and other junk that they had to buy especially solder covered nickel wire scrap, a lot of stuff still had traces of lead leftover in it, though without chemically testing it I could never be certain if that was the spectro+xrf picking up lead or just picking up something bleeding over into lead's spectrum. Got out of that job partly because I was worried about my health, plus found a job closer to home
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  27. the funny thing was that had nasa done the apollo program 10 years later and they'd have had microprocessors and RAM, the AGC was very advanced but in its own ways a technological dead end as there were technologies on it that wouldn't be replicated for decades such as many multi layer pcbs, I can't recomend enough CuriousMarc's AGC rebuild video series
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  28. demanufacturing seemingly every economy was a mistake but I don't see how we can return to local manufacture of goods without really recalibrating the way businesses evaluate investments
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  29. 0:53 man so many good cars there that have crumbled to rust
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  30. the only time where businesses actually pass along the savings from scales of industries anymore
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  31. Worked at a vacuum salt pan plant once, the MSF plant looks exactly like that except a salt mill intends to grow salt crystals. washing was a hell of an operation, they would flood the pans with HCL then wash it out. you didn't go into the pan area when they washed, the floor was flooded to neutralize drips and the machinery was all full of HCL
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  32. ​@@FartGas-xe4ykcomplicated in relation to the sparkplug design we use which requires a nuke to go off in the correct way as to compress fusion fuel and refract around the casing correctly
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  33. that was my feeling as well, from what I've read most of the newer processes just use ultra pure water exactly because the process is so sensitive to anything. He's not wrong that its an extremely closed up industry, but that's also how nearly every industry that uses chemicals works
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  34. I imagine it had something to do with a smiling grandpa to the north
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  35. the post war relationship was bizarre in its own right, the USSR tried to buy IBM mainframes from the US and almost succeeded and the british did trade 2nd generation jet engines with them
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  36. can't really work around the physics but engineers can use different motor designs for electric vehicles to minimize their use
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  37. wow didn't know tito actually tried to go nuclear
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  38. had never heard of these before they don't seem to be too common in the US, and the wikipedia entry for this topic is very oddly written like someone copy-pasted it out of a project proposal instead
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  39.  @marvin19966  somewhat. At the end of the day there's hand steps involved in everything even if its feeding raw materials into automated machinery, its just we're doing the automation and design, but still placing the factory in cheap labor markets, so we're making less jobs, and still abusing the 3rd world. Just my take as someone who's worked in companies where I've seen the high tech plant be built overseas because the accountants are just addicted to china even if its nearly criminally negligent to do so since our IP goes out the back door there.
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  40. no both the lunar module and the csm used an AGC which had rope and core memory. the lunar module even had a simplified backup computer to launch and orient the spacecraft if the AGC died for some reason
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  41. huh funny. I worked for a company that was bidding to get parts on this thing, it was seen at the time as a big deal since they assumed the japanese government would at least buy a bunch of these
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  42. China's covid policy is insane because nobody involved seems to have any clue how to covid even spreads. the manditory testing involves forcing thousands to stand in lines for hours, with workers just sticking the same swab in people's mouths over and over again pretending they're testing people, and they're all wearing those stupid tyvek suits everywhere, taped into the things like they aren't aware that covid is airborne not really spread very well by direct contact
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  43. Seems sensible to put these things in Arizona, a state that has never and will never have any problem with water
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  44. they're beyond half assing, they've been deliberately misinforming people about medicine, germs, and sanitation for decades to combat 'western' medicine and championing 'traditional' medicine, now that a pandemic is there, you don't have to dig deep to see that nobody from the lowest healthcare worker up to the highest regional powers have any understanding how germs work, but they put on this elaborate theater of doing healthcare but its all fake and making everything worse because cramming people into shacks with no sanitation next to each other spreads disease instead of fights it
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  45.  @dznuts123  there's been no cases of people dying from the vaccines, in fact its covid that kills people from blood clots. the side effects were all massively overblown so people can be lazy and not get vaccinated, and the government supported it in all forms instead of just telling people to fucking grow up and be responsible for once in their fucking lives
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  46. I'm starting to think congress was right back then to keep the russians away from their own oil, just look what it does to them, they go off invading their neighbors and threatening everybody with nuclear holocaust if they don't buy their oil, and that's after we revitilized their oil fields using modern technology
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  47. using a particle accelerator to do lithography
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  48. I wouldn't say its strictly complicated its the same export focused politics that dominate 'conservative' politics the world over, and do anything to keep the money flowing to their backers, at least in modern times
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  49.  @BrunoViniciusCampestrini  wouldn't really need to, shut the power off at a fab for 5 minutes and you've bricked it for months
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  50. its interesting that ITAR comes around in the middle of this story, and without COCOM today it forms the basis of the west's arms export controls and its got the same problems with dual use technologies slipping through
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