Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "Machine Thinking" channel.

  1. ​ @ukaszbiaas4093  "Germans love to brag how they did this and that during WW2 and how amazing it was and never talking about millions of non german slaves that was producing even top-of-the-line tech like V2 rockets..." Are you saying that modern Germany has no guilt over the crimes and atrocities it committed in WWII? They even have a term for it, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, "struggle to overcome the [negatives of the] past" or “working through the past”. This is a German term describing processes that since the late 20th century have become key in the study of post-1945 German literature, society, and culture. "Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust. The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it". It is a technical term also used in English that was coined after 1945 in West Germany, relating specifically to the atrocities committed during the Third Reich, when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany, and to both historical and contemporary concerns about the extensive compromise and co-optation of many German cultural, religious, and political institutions by Nazism."
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  2. "America's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers. This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines - all have parts made on these giant machines!" Except they aren't. China has an 80,000 ton hydraulic press forge. The machine is the biggest of its kind in the world. The biggest forge in the U.S. can exert only 50,000 tons of pressure, and is operated by Alcoa in Ohio. France has a 65,000-ton machine, and Russia has a machine capable of exerting 75,000 tons of pressure.
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  3.  @machinethinking  Yes, but the title and description is misleading. "America's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers." The American presses are not the world's most powerful. Three other countries have bigger presses. You aren't American by any chance are you?
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