Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. So exactly how many SOPU's* does it put out? *Snake Oil Power Unit
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  2.  @PistonAvatarGuy  The US moves a vast amount of freight by rail. Every year the total tonnage moved continues to climb. Where trucks really shine is transportation from hubs to destination. Especially with container cargo. There are some situations in which cross country trucking is used simply because the shipping time by truck is faster.
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  3.  @PistonAvatarGuy  There's some parts of the US that use electric locomotives with overhead power supply. But for a lot of the US the traffic density just isn't there. For the major high density lines between freight hubs. Yes, electric makes sense. For branch lines no. As far as passenger rail I for one would really like to see more options. But once you get past a certain distance it's faster to fly.
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  4.  @Darrylizer1  Remember, someday you are going to be an old fart too. But by then I guess you all just volunteer to check out
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  5. I haul or have the city pickup all of my yard waste, leaves, grass clippings etc. The city composts it all and next year ill go out and pickup tubs of compost for free.
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  6.  @iluvatar003  Actually it was Jerry Pournelle in the early 70s
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  7. Give Musk credit for one thing. At least he's trying. Is Starship a step too far? Possibly. As far as the 3 billion goes. Just how much has NASA spent on the SLS launch vehicle? Or Boeings Capsule?
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  8. Interjecting clips from Faulty Towers with the reviews was perfect.
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  9. It all about self-esteem
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  10. The only reason these bozos got away with this is because the volume of water provided a large enough heat sink to chill the aluminium and keep the steam from forming. I predict for their next trick they will drop a frozen turkey into a deep fryer. Filled to the top with oil
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  11. This is today's version of the Popeil Pocket Fisherman
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  12. Yes, humans will go to Mars eventually. Not as soon as these people and Elon think. Any Mars research facility will require a water source that's a granted. The other other thing is such a facility will require power. Lots of it. But such a facility will be small cramped and limited. In all likelyhood the first item you need to ship to Mars is a small nuclear powered excavator. Then use that to dig a trench to put the facility in. The excavator can then be used to power facility. The facility could be based off of the same technology in the Bigelow inflatable modules. Crew would need to be rotated. But I don't hinkan maned missions to Ars should be undertaken until trip time is down to around sixty days. Another factor is how much gravity is needed to maintain health. We have two data points. 1 gee and zero gee. Shouldn't we know more about that. One way would be a small satellite with small animals. Mice for instance. Tethered to the booster and spun up to 1/6th gee. Fly another mission at 1/3rd gee. Return the mice to Earth and find out how they did. After while try it with a human crew. If lower gee is not a problem the transfer vehicle from Earth to Mars and back should have spin gravity on the way out gradually reduce the spin rate to 1/3rd gee. On the return build up to 1 gee. One other thing. If Phobos is a type of asteroid fairly rich in water a refueling feed facility will be needed to be built. The point is won't be easy. Or cheap.
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  13. I don't care how good the optics are*. It's only gonna get so much light down the tube *and I'm willing to bet the optics are shit
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  14. I will give Musk credit for getting Tesla and SpaceX off the ground in terms of actual products to their market place.
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  15.  @toomanyaccounts  Tesla actually builds and sells cars. SpaceX actually operates a commercial launch service. Musk seems to generate enough crazy ideas but at least one of the has worked. When SpaceX set out to develop reusable launch vehicles (boosters at least) I doubt any body really took them seriously. On the plus side also look at the development pace that SpaceX has had with Starship vs the SLS* being developed by NASA. Now I agree that Musk generates a lot of hot air and some or most of his ideas are crazy. But he is actually doing things. I'm surprised he hasn't started a fusion program. *Supposedly SLS stands for Senate Launch System.
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  16. All one needs to say are two words. "NUCLEAR" and "RADIATION" and the average person is going to go bonkers. Don't misunderstand me. Chernobyl was bad. Plus it was compounded by poor reactor design, really stupid decision making and a plant staff that as I understand it were trying to boost power levels beyond design levels. I remember the hysteria over Three Mile Island. Carter went to do an onsite inspection and was subjected to more radiation on the flight than when he was there. Plus when the Congressional hearing on the accident were held the radiation levels in the room where the hearing was held was at least an order of magnitude higher than at the plant simply due to the naturally occurring radiation in the granite and other stone used in the building. The average coal plant puts out far more radiation than a nuclear plant due to radioactive trace elements in the coal
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  17. At a guess this "proposal" was probably dreamed up by a market analysis expert., AKA Con Man I would be interested in your opinion of the Liquid Metal Battery idea https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=liquid+metal+battery&view=detail&mid=614BEBBD80EE91433B50614BEBBD80EE91433B50&FORM=VIRE
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  18. The problem with pumped hydro is places like Kansas. I can see a lot of issues with this whole idea but also possible uses. The first thing is get rid of the ridiculous small blocks. When building a tall structure in an area building it simply to act as a battery is an economic loss. Instead build the structure with say four large vertical shafts in the center. In the shafts place really large steel boxes. Till the boxes with something cheap. Like gravel maybe. Place the motor/generator set st ground level. Maintenance will be easier. Now wrap the shafts with rentable floor space. Commercial, residential whatever. Workable. Maybe not. But in my opinion it makes more sense than the silly crane idea. One of the storage solutions for renewables that has been proposed is air batteries that involved pumping high pressure compressed air into natural underground reservoirs. If you think fracking is bad.
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  19. I can just see it now. A new caste, um class of pedal pushers
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  20. No one with any sense believes any of the conspiracy theories that got hung on C-19. This is one nasty bug. But there is one question I have tried to find an answer for. Given a death rate 8.2 per 1000 people per year and a population of 330M (that's the number I got from the census bureau) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Census Actually the projected figure +334M. At 8.2 per 1000 that comes out to 7500 deaths per day from all causes. New York City's population projected at 20.169M. https://uspopulation2020.com/population-of-new-york-2020-population-growth-demography-facts.html This works out to an average of 453 deaths per day. Is the death toll we are seeing attributable to C-19 added on top of the deaths from other causes. The current US total of 22000. If we put the first death at March 1st for sake of arguement then we are looking at 511 per day. Is this on top of the 7500 per day average. How many of these deaths are people who would likely have died from other causes. I am not being a heartless SOB here. I'm simply asking a question as to what the real numbers of deaths per day is. I suspect some causes are way down. Motor vehicle accidents. Hopefully the murder rate is down. Although I understand domestic violence is up. Are there less people dieing of other infectious diseases such as influenza because of social distancing and other practices. Are all deaths that are attributed to C-19 actually have that as the primary cause. Or are we seeing a case of they tested positive so C-19 is the cause. I strongly think there is going to be very thorough statistical study done in the future. In fact I know it. And yes this bug is going to be back this winter. Whether it comes back from a small pool of infected individuals here in the US or from outside the country. Hopefully everybody will be better prepared come October. And it will also pop back up in Europe, Asia after the Southern hemisphere's turn. After things settle down we may well see some restrictions on air travel. I also think we are going to see countries or regions looking to be more self reliant on their own sources of medical equipment and prescription drugs if possible. That and either expanding national stockpiles or creating one to start with. The US used to have surplus food stocked as it was used in the commodities program. How much they keep on hand I don't know. But this is something that needs to be looked at. In all countries. I also think the days of open borders are over at least for awhile.
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  21. About the only "third world electric power generation device" that makes sense and is workable and cheap is the weight powered light
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  22. Where do these people come from. I've been seeing the 5G causes COVID-19 conspiracy, the COVID-19 is a hoax, Bill Gates caused COVID-19, it's all part of the UN Plan 19. You name it. The Loonie Tunes are invoking it. As to the usually evangelicals believing that Christ is coming in their lifetime. As my late father-in-law said what makes them believe they are so special the Second Coming will come in their lifetime.
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  23. Jake, the level of scientific reporting in the media has already sunk lower than whale poop
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  24. If one wants to complain about underdelivering in this arena l can think of a few other organizations and corporations that deserve to get skewered.
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