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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