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

  1. there's a couple hard scifi books I've read where they brought up the concept, usually the issue regarding it hitting someone someday is because there's traffic somewhere in their path, especially in the settings where railguns are more walls of dense projectiles instead of the big heavy shot flying at a fraction of C
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  2. ya, and that's if there isn't some process that requires engineered materials, like say doped silica which they're not going to be able to replicate it at their scale as you need a special electron gun or nuclear reactor to generate that stuff the only analogue we have for nanobots is bacteria and there isn't any bacteria that grows completely out of control
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  3. have you ever actually seen the inside of a backpack? no that's your mind projecting to protect your sanity, its really an infinite empty dimension
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  4.  @Scoots1994  ya I was also gonna say they have to open the doors to do maintenance and refueling. Also a funny fact about that particular reactor was it was delivered by steam engine, there's a great picture of it out there
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  5.  @Beryllahawk  you'd think but the same thing essentially happened in the late 90s in Turkey
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  6. just uh.. don't google how many rbmk1000 reactors are still in use, or how much closer to civilization they are
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  7.  @shadowsnake5133  don't worry, the USSR left many more nuclear torpedoes lying around than the US ever lost nuclear bombs
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  8. ​ @LendriMujina  ya just oxygenating the atmosphere almost wiped out all the single cell life on earth at that point due to it causing one of the worst ice ages we have geological evidence for.
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  9. chernkov radiation is basically a death sentence
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  10. the thing is with dead space they do know planet cracking is stupid. they do a large amount of asteroid mining or used to then moved to planet cracking because they were looking for monuments
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  11. interestingly the book Radiance, when covering chernobyl had quotes from eye witnesses from nearby villages reporting seeing a rainbow of colored fireflies in the night sky, which I presume might have been caused by the radioactive particles interacting with the atmosphere and the various other combustion byproducts from the fires. They also reported seeing a purple glow, which we do see in high flux reactors but probably was also from the radioactive material interacting with the fire.
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  12. I used to have problems with other brands of liquid nitrogen until I found Kyle Hill Brand Liquid Nitrogen, now everything is freezing perfectly.
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  13. I was thinking why these would be doing that much damage but then you said they used strontium-90 instead of the pu-238 used in the west
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  14. general gevious could do it, but he had a much different distribution of mass, much larger feet, non human shape and a complete robot body
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  15. makes you wonder what grievous injuries our inevitable future of laser weaponry will do. sure they're supposed to be anti-air and anti-material, but so were radar fused shells and they became a steel rain when stuffed into a howitzer and fired at troop formations.
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  16. I prefer to think of you as the Kirkland brand Thor, subtly different but quite a good value
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  17. Other Ignorant People: Gotta have guns to be self sufficient in this country, otherwise you'll be murdered
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  18. takes box to the bottom of the deepest cave in the world Yep its still darker
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  19. the sad part is this whole thing was almost undone by a bunch of brain dead conscripts from Russia who didn't even know the significance of where they were or what they were pointing guns at. Moreover we don't know what russia's overall plan was for the site but thank god they left
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  20. is it bad that I learned about this concept from my genocidal empire in Stellaris?
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  21. I never wanted to try it but the salt plant I worked at probably did the opposite, it had these shockingly deep settling tanks for the brine but since the stuff is super saline you probably wouldn't sink, though when you had to walk over them at night to grab weekly numbers from the maintenance shack it that didn't help
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  22. good thing that he at least was faking it. I guess he got scared and deleted stuff too bad its hard to get rid of anything from the internet
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  23. common sense is never common, or always makes sense.
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  24. You forgot the alternative, a black hole bomb where you feed back the released energy into itself over and over again
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  25. seems like the kind of self replicating grey goo nanobots needed for this are impossible otherwise they should have been created now somewhere in the universe, possibly even through biological means like viruses but instead of hijacking cells they directly replicate We have never noticed anything resembling a von-neuman probe even though someone ought to have launched one by now and I think its because replicating electronics isn't easy enough that a machine can reasonably replicate itself without outside assistance there's a lot of issues surrounding machines that small and their ability to move atoms around especially coordinating them in situ
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  26. I think the night vision would be the easiest one to add to humans, its already present in many primates and virtually every mammal but who knows how it affects our ability to process colors in the day
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  27. forget the expanse, the bob-verse has some extremely simple and deadly rocks the legion of bobs innovated on, up to and including imploding a sun with one
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  28. the tyranids of 40k can much more efficiently take over a galaxy since they can fling off probing fleets in many directions each one capable of creating a new fleet itself
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  29. well kinda because iodine only prevents you from ingesting fallout
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  30. then to add insult to injury, senator mitch mcconnell for seemingly no reason, revoked the medicaid coverage to marshal islanders that was promised by the government and had been a non-issue for decades
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  31. As seen in 1982's Tron as the back door to Encom HQ
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  32. Ok but eternal torment with no choice or ability to end it isn't torment at all, torturing someone for information (whether right or wrong) presents them with the choice to end the torment in an instant, they choose to endure the torment. greek gods, or advanced AI just tormenting you with no end is just sensation without context
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