Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "The Guardian" channel.

  1. Alice Brierley — a fabricated version of events put forward by people with a political agenda. The whole business is thoroughly documented. Besides, Franklin did get credit for her data. Three papers were published together in Nature. One by Crick and Watson on the structural model, one by Franklin and Gosling on their crystallographic data, and one by Wilkins and others on his work.
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  2. Rob Mi — Everybody should know it’s an old Ford.
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  3. Callum Dean — It was controversial because it was pointless. At the time it was sunk, it was not engaging in a threatening movement as the British government claimed. The alleged “pincer movement” was a figment of Mr. Pym’s imagination and that was obvious at the time. It would have made more sense to sink the destroyers accompanying the Belgrano, because they were a threat to the submarine. The sinking of the Belgrano probably motivated the Argentine air force to work hard to get even by sinking Sheffield and other ships. Sheffield had no defense against Exocet missiles and the Royal Navy had no means to keep hostile aircraft out of range of the islands. The British paid a great price for their having weak defenses, but nevertheless prevailed by their fighting spirit.
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  4. Lucas Johnson — One didn’t have to be conservative to support the British cause.
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  5. “What is the point of the Labour Party.” Think about that. Why should a party represent labour, anyway rather than a political orientation? And if actual labourers don’t think it reflects their politics, then it is obsolete. My outsider’s opinion is that Great Britain needs a completely new center-left party which can compete with the Conservatives. It should be for British sovereignty, for preserving the union, and should absolutely exclude Marxists and such.
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  6. CptnJCFG — That is fallacious logic. We have no knowledge of the probability of life originating. But regardless, the frequency of life in other galaxies is purely speculative because it is unknowable.
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  7. Franklin did not solve the structure of DNA, although her data contributed to Crick and Watson finding the solution.
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  8. They weren’t “inhabitants,” they were a military garrison.
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  9. GiLBY MDG — The USA had only a brief period of aspirations of any empire, when we controlled the Phillipines. We don’t aspire to have an empire today. It’s an obsolete concept.
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  10. The Belgrano might have been able to sink a carrier in theory, but not the UK carriers in practice. It was not close to the carriers and could not have gone near the carriers had it tried. I think the sinking was unncessary and stirred up the Argentine air force to retaliate, costing UK lives as well as Argentine. The lesson to be learned from this conflict is the importance of air superiority. Had the UK had it, they would not have lost any ships. It would have been a walkover. Yet, today, the UK still has carriers without catapults, which limits the type of aircraft they can launch. The UK needs one more carrier, in my opinion, with nuclear power and electric catapults.
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  11. Dave Carl — The new carriers lack catapults, meaning they cannot launch an AWACS aircraft. The inability to establish total air superiority over the Falklands was Britain’s greatest weakness in 1982. They might still have difficulty today with the new carriers. One U. S. Navy carrier group of the day could have kept all hostile aircraft out of the exclusion zone.
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  12. What seems impossible today is defeating the European Union. What has happened to the British?
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  13. They worked it out, finally. Best wishes to a soveteign UK.
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  14. M31 is actually “the galaxy in Andromeda” or the “Andromeda galaxy.” Andromeda is a constellation.
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  15. Dave Whitney — I think it would be far larger than either, but I don’t feel like working it out.
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  16.  @JC-rd9sl  — Your ignorance of world geography is beside the point.
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  17. It was legitimate, but it seemed unnecessary. I do not believe the Belgrano was a threat given its location and movements. The yammering about a supposed “pincer movement” was obvious nonsense at the time. The sinking escalated the conflict and cost a lot of lives on both sides, in my opinion.
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