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

  1. 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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  2. Cam Good na it was his british cousin Charles Noris the Fourteenth
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Man runs an industrial murder room for a few months, goes insane in his old age, yep that tracks
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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. wait they actually put 3 people in a vostok, talk about spam in a can
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  18. simon needs to keep his personas separate!
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  19. imagine how different the country would be is Roosevelt had been the rule for conservatives instead of the aberration
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  20. Love how totally up front he is about shaving his head
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  21. If I ever met this guy I'd buy him a beer, then quickly change the locks on my house.
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  22. not even the postmaster general was incorruptable
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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. seems like it wasn't going to work, but it did
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  27. basically comes down to lie about the actual costs and ensure that nobody looks too closely
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  28. 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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  29. outpatient brain surgery, what could go wrong? oh...
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  30. the welsh guard, including their translator and his translator
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  31. hirum maxim, so people could see his cool new machinegun
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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. jackass adequately describes the character of andrew jackson
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  35. its always a poingdexter
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  36. well that got dark quickly...
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  37. 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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  38. the italians took care of it.
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  39. 6:55 ya antiquated, until trump came along and suddenly declared that it can be won
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  40. 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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  41.  @mickeyrube6623  going where no one has gone before instead of to go where no one has gone before
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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44.  @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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  45. you pray to the omnissiah to guide your hand
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  46. so because potatos aren't in the bible can we call them devil fries?
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  47. ah yes the whole "We're conquering you so we all can prosper" excuse
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  48. 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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  49. ya you use aluminum tape for ducting, its really funny
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  50. 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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