Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. You guys are Sikh
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  2. Rail works great for really long haul freight. Especially bulk cargo. But there are loads that are going long distance that are better moved by truck. Especially loads that may be time sensitive.
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  3. And then the Internet via YouTube allow idiots to post videos of themselves doing really stupid stuff while there buddy carved their tombstone. Hence "hold my beer" and "watch this" became memes
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  4. There where Soviet merchant men sailing between the US west coast and the Rusdian far east during the war carrying lend lease material iirc. Australia? Haven't a clue.
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  5. Let's be honest. The major reason people would want to go to an orbital hotel is they'd be able try every position in the Kama Sutra
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  6. If the manhole covers (both of them) got blown into space they may well of exceeded Solar escape velocity and are now on their way to the stars. Now we just need to figure out the vector
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  7. Of all know supervolcanoes there are more of them in Western North America than any where else*. I suspect this has a lot to do with the remnant of the Jaun de Fuca plate and perhaps other subducted Pacific Seafloor Plates that are still in the process of being absorbed back into the Mantle. But Yellowstone is a whole different ballgame. The hotspot that feeds Yellowstone has been active for a very long time. As North America has moved slowly to the Southwest due to its Plate motion the hot spot has repeatedly burned through the overlaying North American Plate leaving a trail of old caldera. Plus the hot spot likely fed the great Flood Basalts that buried parts of Washington. The only reason that the trail of old caldera fo not trace a fairly straight line to the Southwest is that the Pacific Northwest is rotating slowly in a clock wise motion. Approximently 50 million years ago the west coast of North America was in Eastern Eastern Washington. Various chunks of continental crust and island arcs have slowly been acreated to the western edge of the continent as the North Ametican Plate over ran the subducting Juan de Fuca Plate. One of the largest of these was a large volcanic province known as Siletzia. Portions of which comprise the Olympic Olympic Peninsula of Washington. For a good channel one PNW geology visit Nick Zentner's channel. He's a geology professor at UW Ellensburg *Yellowstone, Long Valley in California and Valles Calderas are just three. Some of the known North American supervolcanoes are likely extinct. Although there has been some activity in historic times. The various cinder cones in areas of the American West are evidence of this.
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  8. This is not only an issue that can be solved. It must be solved
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  9. Hey, a flag biking is the perfect display of the flag
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  10. We don't have tornadoes due to a city ordinance that banned trailer parks.
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  11. Any future orbital facility should be designed to have a rotating component. The main reason is we have a data base on 1g and Zero G. We have no idea on the effects of 1/6th or 1/3rd G on the human body. I have to think there are some but if it is graphed out is a straight line? A curve that starts shallow and rises rapidly as the G increases*. Or is it a curve that rises rapidly and then flattens out? In reality we could have done this anytime in the last 40 years if we really wanted to. There have to major benefits from using spin "gravity" even if a fairly low acceleration is acceptable simply from the housekeeping and sanitary side of things.
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  12.  @TheOleHermit  So I had it reversed. The point is technology has made it possible for idiots to show their idiocy to the world. The most dangerous thing in the world today is somebody who live streams something with no context as to what is actually going on.
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  13. I remember during the CF hype there were academics claimng that cheap Cold Fusion would be one of the worst things in the world as it would actually make it possible to raise living standards world wide
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  14. Someday, someone will go to Mars and other places in the Solar System. But I don't think anyone should go until several things happen. The first is travel times have to come down to 60 days maximum. Second is some form of magnetic shielding needs to be developed to help protect crew and passengers. Third is more advanced pressure suits. The best option here IMO is the Mechanical Counterpressure Suit. Or the Space Activity Suit as some call it. These should allow a far greater degree of mobility and dexterity for the user. Fourth is some sort of reliable and safe nuclear power unit. This is pretty much a given for the faster trip times mentioned in #1. Fifth is a source of propellant that can be obtained at Mars. The best source for this may actually be the Martian moons. Sixth is a Mars SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) re-usable lander. And #7. Ships designed to provide spin gravity. This would allow mission personnel to adapt to 1/3rd gee on the trip out. On the return trip the spin rate could gradually be increased to 1 gee to adapt the crew to returning to Earths gravity. This would also negate the effects of prolonged weightlessness. Why there hasn't been research into spin gravity in the past is beyond me. It almost seems as if NASA is fixated on zero gee. One way to make ships with spin gravity is through the use of tethers
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  15. The worst plague to ever strike humanity is stupidity
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  16. Technically everything in the Solar System is older than the Sun. Or to better phrase it. Older than the formation of the Solar System
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  17. Its not just about mpg. It's also about operating cost. Lets say a 777 is burning 5 gallons/20 liters per mile. Let's say you have a 777 carrying 240 people. It would take 40 of these to have the same capacity. Just what is the fuel usage per passenger mile. Ask your self this. If a 6 passenger minivan is getting 25mpg on the highway with a full load of passengers and a Honda Fit with 2 or 1 person on board is getting 50 mpg which vehicle is getting more passenger miles per gallon. This may have a future in the business aircraft market. But I have heard that before. Anyone remember the Beech Starship. Much less the LearFan? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LearAvia_Lear_Fan&ved=2ahUKEwir58_Hv8LtAhUiAp0JHTmDD-oQmhMwDXoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw0dAMjsNg802qU_-FQYVRyA
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