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

  1. Deadliest Weapon of WW1: A General, because their solution to trenches was just throw more men at it
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  2. huh, thought you'd go to the yak-15 which as far as first generation jets goes was about as basic as you could get, they took a Yak-3 piston fighter and whacked a Jumo-004 on the front of it
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  3. really seems like these massive gigantic sports events should try to do something to lower their costs and stadium needs
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  4. nearly 2 generations removed from near constant incurable global pandemics, massive wars of conquest, and only like 4 from most of the world being subsistence farming yet the crazy people in the first world can't wear a flipping mask without screaming like babies
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  5.  @zapfanzapfan  its only a crime once we tax layers foot the bill
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  6. Simon's like 35, hardly middle age
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  7. apocryphal but the Milwaukie Road which was an electrified rail road from chicago to seatle on its early runs had a negative energy cost because of the regenerative braking down the rockies generated more electricity than it took to drive it up the mountain
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  8. the cutlass was at least a cool looking aircraft, though the problem is clear today you need computer control to make that sort of thing work
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  9. I really don't understand why nobody thought of just using more plutonium to heat the bomb, I mean you've already made pu-238 when you made the plutonium in the bomb
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  10. Overestimation of Armor Plate; There's like dozens of examples of generals overestimating how protective steel plate was, only for their armor to be easily shot through killing all behind it. From tanks to armored shields, to helmets, the sort of testing we see today came about because ww1 showed what happened if you just assume
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  11. thing is famine is bad back then in a normal year but with the world kind of unsure of who controls what, there probably weren't many large stores prepared
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