Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. "Gee why is it called a safety bicycle if people get hurt on it all the time?" Sees Penny Farthing "Ah, right, relatively safety bicycle."
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  2. "The blocks perfectly fit together" this is only true on the outer most face blocks, the inner blocks are quite irregular.
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  3. "We got a dangerous recon mission sir." "Eh send the one eyed scout"
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  4. sounds more like his ship captain or quartermaster (whoever sold cargo) was a hell of a wheeler and dealer
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  5. its basically how much of something fits into something else, whether that be trains through tunnels or balls through a barrel
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  6. As an aside they also did the same thing in the US in aiding the organization, tabulation, and processing of American Germans and Japanese to be sent to the US's concentration camps
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  7. its actually funny that the german reactor was this elaborate thing of uranium cubes suspended in this lattice with heavy water, when the first reactor in the US was built using coffee cans, blocks of graphite, and railroad ties
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  8. a cruise missile is basically an unmanned parasite aircraft, it flies like a plane (mostly) and is launched from an aircraft
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  9. pregnant 12 times, only successful 6, to quote Simon "THE PAST WAS THE WORST, YOU DON'T WANT TO GO THERE!"
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  10. its a wonderfully corrupt system that only survives because everybody involved usually gets paid enough, except when they don't, then they hurriedly get paid
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  11.  @stevefox3763  seems like at least 50% of the country understand how colossally stupid and contradictory brexit is and absolutely regret it, but that's from an outsider perspective, the real damage starts in january anyways
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  12. they didn't even have the knowledge, the manhatten project made use of differential engines, analogue computers, and famously, eniac, to develop the science. the germans just didn't even have the raw analytical capacity to develop a bomb from scratch.
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  13. at a level that only an extremely sensitive instrument could ever hope to detect
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  14. it wasn't even just Yamato getting destroyed, Musashi her sister ship went down even faster. Battleships by the beginning of ww2 were still important deterrence assets, they just weren't the neigh invincible ships they used to be (though ww1 gave mixed messages)
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  15.  @stevefox3763  putting a binary choice on something like brexit was absolutely a copout by the then cameron government and totally rigged the thing to pass. There is no 'leave means leave' after january britain will still exist right next to the French and Belgians and still have to trade with them and the EU as a whole, there's less than 2 months to go and no resolution on what leave means from the process. the government basically left all the details for what people were voting for blank while blamed all the failings of their country on the EU
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  16. "And immediately implimented progressive reforms to make things better" "Then he started ripping their teeth, organs and colons out." Damnit, you were on the right track before you went down the absolutely fucking worst track
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  17. part of this had to be the inability to fully rationalize exactly how the brain and conciousness were linked. These were men of the early 20th century, science may have tenuously linked conciousness to the brain but religous dogma still linked it to the soul which maybe made it easier for these men to do this because they weren't destroying people, just their brains
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  18. Also the inspiration for the Star Trek Rules of Acquisition
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  19. well, some modern politicians would agree with the roman overlap between church and state
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  20. Bet you were asked by an investor to take a measurement but you know better because that'd change the outcome
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  21. "Comrads, what is going on." "....oh shitski, we forgot ..... uh we're capitalist now." Angry Tim Curley Noises
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  22.  @skylined5534  you're supposed to use graphite
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  23. when your job involves climbing into one of the early explodey rockets and blasting off into space, the phrase has merit. They hoped everything was fixed but they knew things would get through.
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  24. not really, kinda hard to use them as strategic hubs when your troops are dying from radiation poisoning
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  25. livers and kidneys are perfectly capable of handling small amounts of fermented stuff, it occurs in nature quite often. Diethylene glycol though, that's something our bodies never evolved with
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  26. Back in the day when you could brag about holding the record from X place to Y place. "Why you might hold the record from Moscow to London, but see I hold the record from Biloxi to Boise!"
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  27. "Mankind can't change the environment!" See Exhibit Lake:
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  28. Mishin was also a total alcoholic, even by soviet standards. Imagine the exact opposite of Deke Slayton and he's forcing you into this mission.
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  29. there was the guy who just killed himself on his own steam powered rocket, he clearly believed the earth was flat and thought his thing was safe
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  30. cas if we did we'd have to acknowledge fossil fuels are dirty not some clean jesus juice republicans insist it is
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  31. Not sure where he came from but how he took power well when Yeltson wanted to rewrite the Russian constitution he turned to then the mayor of St Petersburg and his unknown vice mayor to do the writing, and that vice mayor was one Vladimir Putin.
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  32. 2020 was the cap to that. Quantatative Easing for the last 14 years has been dozens of trillions of dollars going straight to the investor class at the expense of all other people in the world
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  33. its really hard to shoot down because it can fly so damn slow.
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  34. the interesting thing is the way other prisons were constructed at the time was a large stone building with an iron or steel cage inside with cells inside that. the mansfield prison has this enormous apparatus inside it.
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  35. he needed the amplifier tube which didn't exist yet at all
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  36. "My name is Simon Whistler, and I used to have a job. Now I'm a Youtuber, trying to make a living."
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  37. sees history of kings crushing peasants "Hey guys, you know what we need, we gotta replace this democracy thing with something more authoritarian"
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  38. I've read that some researchers used to bury big chunks of low background steel and other battleship bits around their facilities instead of leaving the scrap sitting around between experiments to avoid other staff from selling or scrapping the thick plates of metal
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  39. its relatively tame compared to nitrogen tetroxide + udmh which requires an actual space-suit to handle
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  40.  @CB-fn3me  that's kind of a half myth. the fuel wasn't the issue the engine bell was fiberglass, they could test the mechanical bits but the fiberglass engine bell would slowly melt when fired but since it was a hypergolic engine and extremely simple it would work
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  41.  @Doc_OLDGUY_Savage  or today an uber driver and a large tip
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  42. @LTNetjak well the probability part, its actually funny how before all of that quantum mechanics was originally a reasonable way to explain some of the conundrums of thermodynamics without magical calorie stuff
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  43. imagine being in a mazda miata for 2 weeks straight, that's about the size the gemini capsule is
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  44. it was actually a bit more complicated than just a single switch, but it actually did work because it freed enough voltage for other systems to restart fully, allowing for the entire system to be brought up to power again. Scott Manley has a video explaining entirely on what happened
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  45. standing to sue and lack of government intervention lets these things survive. People can't just take these creative company practices to court, you have to be screwed by them, and then also have to prove the owners of the shell company are liable too. Governments not touching these terrible practices is another problem
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  46. I wonder what a Pratt double-wasp swap for this would do. the engine is obstensibly a wright cyclone but seemingly with more rated power, though I don't see wrights leak so much
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  47. fighter mafia move on over
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  48. well only like the 1 guy got extruded, the rest just died from having their blood instantly turn to jelly
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  49.  @robgronotte1  ya sure but then how can he pick up a bunker under a building, an entire stadium, and all that while flying. there's no tiny intense magnetic fields there, just a humungous million tesla strong magnetic field. on a power scale he ought to be a fairly weak mutant but since he's charles X's buddy he gets to be god-tier powerful for no reason
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  50. its about how much is a government willing to negotiate on, money and other goods are usually so trivial for governments to dispense they just pay up. Requiring some kind of legal protection is quite a bit different.
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  51. there was no realistic way to avoid that given the limits to the landers and method chosen to launch off the surface
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  52. Cam Good na it was his british cousin Charles Noris the Fourteenth
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  53. Thinking about it, this is how gambling in the early pokemon games worked, you had to buy tokens, gamble and redeem prizes in separate buildings
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  54. I mean... to the people of the time trying to find a cure for these incurable people, it worked, especially for those clinically insane, but the problem was the ravenous medical industry pushed treatments this extreme as a cure all for any mental problem
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  55. this was a time when congress killed a lot of impressive programs but this one in particular was just too impractical as a shield and they saw that everybody would be fighting to have one, forcing an expensive buildup of missile shields that didn't really work
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  56. no mention of the utterly massive Star Trek TNG syndication network that let them dump millions of dollars on a space show in 1988?
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  57. Man runs an industrial murder room for a few months, goes insane in his old age, yep that tracks
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  58. funniest was the camp in Douglas Wyoming. If you could find a place further away from ww2, I'd be impressed. the prisoners could try and escape if they wanted but back then there were like less than 50,000 people in wyoming and the vast empty plains would have been a death sentence for them
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  59.  @NoSpamForYou  and republicans embraced all those racist democrats to build the Moral Majority who continue to this day to fight for a white majority nation from the side of the republicans
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  60.  @AllMyHobbies  japanese citizens in hawaii were not rounded up, even though that's specifically where they knew they had spies, japanese americans in the mainland were though. the difference was that japanese americans on the west coast weren't working on sugar plantations for big moneyed families like the japanese-citizens in hawaii
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  61. oh wow I never thought about the oxygen, no they wouldn't be roman candles the whole capsule would just explode
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  62. I'm not sure I've heard of any place where pedestrians don't have right of way but obviously people's willingness to run someone over seems to vary from place to place
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  63. I'm inclined to say they probably did in training but then again they probably did less practical training since they were mostly doing scientific experiments or flying spacecraft not doing things like station building or lunar excursions
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  64. worked in a salt mill, probably the only place you can't have a dust explosion but the way everything builds up after continual use is the same
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  65. not sure he can qualify as a genius when his day job was enough to attract the attention of musad assassins
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  66. no that would be the 1910 London-Manchester air race which the movie Those Men and Their Magnificent Flying Machines was based on, which crazy enough actually built many of the planes shown
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  67. wait they actually put 3 people in a vostok, talk about spam in a can
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  68. simon needs to keep his personas separate!
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  69. imagine how different the country would be is Roosevelt had been the rule for conservatives instead of the aberration
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  70. Love how totally up front he is about shaving his head
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  71. If I ever met this guy I'd buy him a beer, then quickly change the locks on my house.
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  72. not even the postmaster general was incorruptable
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  73. you'd think those states that were absolutely wrecked by a man made climate change wouldn't be so quick to dismiss man made climate change but hey, oil money's more important than having a livable planet I suppose
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  74. the only place you could consider a repository in the US is the Hanford Site where they bury the spent reactors from naval ships
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  75. The use of Man, mankind, to refer to humanity as a whole is already starting to become the next split infinitive. Had more than a couple professors in school urge me not to use it like that even though its perfectly acceptable.
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  76. seems like it wasn't going to work, but it did
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  77. basically comes down to lie about the actual costs and ensure that nobody looks too closely
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  78. its like a bunch of Homer Simpsons were actually given a reactor to operate. I never heard the mens' back stories just the details of the accident
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  79. outpatient brain surgery, what could go wrong? oh...
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  80. the welsh guard, including their translator and his translator
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  81. hirum maxim, so people could see his cool new machinegun
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  82. no because iron in most forms can't be just magnetized just like that.However, if you're just going to give him unlimited strength, magnito can just levitate you with the water in your body. they've tossed a frog into the worlds currently strongest magnet and it just floats
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  83. Look at that, fascists used censuses deliberately engineered to identify undesirables for political purposes. Can't see that being used today
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  84. jackass adequately describes the character of andrew jackson
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  85. its always a poingdexter
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  86. well that got dark quickly...
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  87. an interesting aside, they used to use nightshade to prevent nearsightedness, but the practice died off in the later half of the 20th century, but with massive growth of vision issues in young children, they've actually trialed revisiting the drug and early results suggest its effective, though with the obvious caveat of too much will cause blindness so it will be a long time before we have a cure
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  88. the italians took care of it.
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  89. 6:55 ya antiquated, until trump came along and suddenly declared that it can be won
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  90. One question you never answered, does the belt hold his pants up as well as it holds the forces of evil at bay?
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  91.  @mickeyrube6623  going where no one has gone before instead of to go where no one has gone before
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  92. to be fair the US actually had a deadhand system during the cold war and kept it secret the ERCS which was operational from 1963 through 1991
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  93. can't wait for our flying car future when it'll be your fault for being underneath the thing when it crashes to the ground thanks to a well funded lobbying campaign
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  94.  @tacaloking4  rereading I think I didn't clarify enough, for the people wondering what to do about these incurably insane people, it worked. for the people who were lobotomized, it was mostly terrible
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  95. you pray to the omnissiah to guide your hand
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  96. so because potatos aren't in the bible can we call them devil fries?
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  97. ah yes the whole "We're conquering you so we all can prosper" excuse
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  98. to be fair, they buried the reactor in a massive test site full of nuclear reactors. nobody is going to be allowed to wander around that field today, but ya its going to be problematic hundreds or maybe thousands of years from now, but so is all the other radioactive waste out there
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  99. ya you use aluminum tape for ducting, its really funny
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  100. I'm not sure what's worse that they are so blatant about it, or that they just don't just legalize it, tax it, and regulate it.
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  101. "Dreadfully sorry but we can't get a firing squad right now, would it be possible for you to request a hanging instead?" "You must be the shitting me."
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  102. pretty sure you glossed over a bit of bloody history when you mention Ireland 'joined up' to the UK
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  103. You could do a video on shrodinger himself, I hear he was quite the 1920s playboy, and he had quite a lot of influence on chemistry as well as he essentially reinvented the understanding of atomic bonds
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  104. travel used to be colder, wetter, and more uncomfortable
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  105. they're as close to nanobots as you get but they don't do much constructive stuff
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  106. plowshare, otherwise known as the secret not secret plan to proliferate nuclear technology in broad daylight while lying our asses off to the public
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  107. "But my gold standard!" -Quite a lot of rich people throughout the last 100 years
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  108. we use the metric system with an american skin. our system is entirely metric based
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  109. there's a home speaker company near me called radioactive electronics, everytime I see their commercials I wanna just email them these stories and try to explain why their name is probably not that great
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  110. the germans and soviets used explosive bullets which consisted of essentially a bullet and cartridge inside another cartridge
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  111. kinda interesting, he was able to develop an entirely new engine that could propel a submarine hundreds of naughts an hour and yet doesn't seem to have ever tried it in water
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  112. "This is a stupid depression" Love the abstract there
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  113. replicas of these are favorites of military jeep collectors, there's probably more 'nuclear jeeps' than there actually were ever built
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  114.  @aaroncabatingan5238  russia and china repurpose icbms as hypersonic missiles, and caused the DOD to actually build a low altitude hypersonic missile
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  115. his rationel was a mythical report from the early 1950s and we somehow did not develop the technology between then and 1969?
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  116. excedrin migrain has caffeine in it vs extra strength which does not aleave migrain though appears to be exactly the same as the comparable liquid gel, both in dose and physical size.
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  117. "Melting ice jams with nuclear bombs" bless their nieve hearts they were already doing that in spades
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  118. So this is like mcdonnalds fries which are a chemical monstrosity in the US with our laughable regulations, and just potatos everywhere else that would not put up with 147 ingredients to sliced potatos
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  119. Pour one out on this man's grave, then hope the flowers haven't been rigged to spray you because this guy had some foresight
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  120. Big dumb tanks make germans pissed
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  121. to explain it like Neil would: they went there first, landed, then stepped on it.
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  122. the bore didn't have anything to do with it, the weapon was essentially a spiggot morter, needing only the force from the blast
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  123. the weird thing is, this isn't even the first or last time someone caused a nuclear accident like this
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  124. "A. Dupont joined the league" not suprising with how they're blaming liberals for PFOA contamination, though Roosevelt made them fantastically wealthy during ww2 and beyond, using tax payer money to build them munition plants
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  125. 3M is certainly a nicer company to work for than DuPont
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