Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1.  @johnw2026  Funny thing is the Pinkertons are still around today, as a security company, basically rent-a-cops for corporate facilities. I did a college internship at one place that was guarded by Pinkertons in the mid-2000s and they were basically fat, lazy, and slept on the job at night. Not like the Pinkertons of old.
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  2.  @dirus3142  The seeds for what looms ahead were sown at least as far back as the 1960s.
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  3.  @peteranderson037  It's not that hard to figure out, honestly.
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  4.  @markschippel7974  There's an apocryphal quote by a German officer who said it's impossible to predict what the Americans will do next because the Americans don't even know half the time and make it up as they go along. Looks like the same could be said for British Paras.
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  5. Awesome story. "Helping the Red Cross girls make donuts." Oh, is that what they called it? ;-)
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  6. The captain of Speedbird 9 made the most British announcement ever.
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  7. You are descended from Dr. Joseph Warren? Didn't he fight at Bunker Hill?
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  8. Wow, I'm surprised to see how many people have been killed by big cats, I always figured it was just ones and twos here and there. Can you imagine how scary it would be to have a whole pride of lions basically training their young how to stalk human villages and avoid armed men? I always noticed how smart my house cat was, she watched us open doors and later she would reach up with her paws and try to turn the doorknob herself, foiled by lack of thumbs. We loved her and she tolerated us but always suspected that if she were bigger she might decide to kill us lol.
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  9. Great book. Harrison did eventually get his prize money for inventing the seaworthy clock, but it took him something like 40 years.
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  10. THG really laying on thick the apocalyptic themed history lately.
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  11. Cavalla's skipper was characteristically aggressive. Takes guts to attack knowing you'll be immediately depth charged. Also, it's easy to forget that despite being a very technological form of warfare, naval combat results in terrifying death and destruction. Reading about what happens to ships fatally struck by bombs, torpedoes, or missiles is awful.
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  12.  @kenthawley5990 slow clap, sir. Slow clap.
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  13. This event was a part of the plot in the alternate history novel "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson, IIRC.
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  14. Hydrogen is an important element of water. Who doesn't like water?
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  15. Strange hairless apes which somehow managed to break quarantine and reach their planet's moon. Somebody must watch that species; eventually they will cause trouble across the galaxy.
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  16. I know about bestiaries from playing Advanced D&D back in the 90s.
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  17. She fed the ammo to the commies.
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  18. I recommend the book "The Dead Hand" by David Hoffman. Tells the story of the Soviet/Russian biological and nuclear weapons systems and what happened to them after the breakup of the USSR, including the Dead Hand doomsday machine. Russia was so backwards that they couldn't keep track of everything in the early 90s and yet they had these world-killing systems in place. Truly scary stuff.
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  19. I actually have heard of rocket mail before. An ICBM, configured to carry mail instead of a nuclear warhead, could get mail anywhere in the world in less than an hour; unfortunately to foreign observers it's hard to tell it apart from a weapon. If suborbital long distance flight ever becomes a reality it's possible that mail will be carried aboard the spaceplane. I don't think the Regulus missile counts, though, since the Regulus' main propulsion system is not a rocket but a jet engine; rockets only being used for the initial boost.
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  20. When the wokesters and their cancel culture show up to ruin THG they'll be too busy to pay one-off comments much attention.
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  21.  @MJ-vq3ws  It certainly sounds cooler than most alternatives.
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  22. Clowns? Toronto? Anarchy? I'm thinking of the song "Carnies" from the Rush album Clockwork Angels...
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  23. Being stationed in Memphis was a blast in those days. Intense training by day, intense partying by Friday night on Beale St. You ever went to the Antenna Club? All gone now. If you look at google maps on satellite view the A-5 that was displayed outside the chow hall is still there, but the rest of the base is basically gone and the airfield is now a civilian airport or something.
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  24.  @navyskaterdude  Ah yes, the "Skanchor", aka the "Shanker", many an 18-year-old blew his money there on questionable short term pleasure lol. I don't know what's still there other than what I see on google maps, haven't been there in decades. I was a Marine in avionics training there and I remember cleaning the ever living shit out of those barracks and being made to paint all the railings and shit, and from google maps it looks like they are all gone. We used to dream of getting out to the fleet and once we got there we didn't realize how much fun Memphis was. I saw a few now-famous bands at the Antenna Club but I was usually too blitzed to remember much. A bunch of my roommate's Navy buddies threw a graduation party at a local hotel and when I got there they were trashing the place, everybody was stupid drunk, wrecking the room, and when they started jumping off the third floor catwalk into the swimming pool that's when the cops got called and we had to bolt ass out of there.
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  25. Or a bro-down, where two bros circle each other in a parking lot posturing and talking trash but never actually coming to blows.
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  26.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  Fine, Don't want to get vaccinated? Stay in quarantine until you change your mind.
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  27.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  And you sound like a faith healing, science rejecting, conspiracy theorist nutjob who puts your kids and others kids into danger, and I also am not at all surprised.
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  28.  @brachiator1  Depends: what is the purpose of the sin tax? To raise revenue or reduce the sin? If the latter, reduced revenue means it is working. If the former, than it was all a bullshit money extraction scheme to begin with.
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  29.  @QuantumRift  BOY!
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  30. I knew a Marine once who moonlighted as a bouncer in a rough joint. You knew it was time to leave when he said it was time to leave. One night he told a guy to leave, and the guy says "Imma finish my drink first." Bouncer dropped his cigarette in the guy's drink. "Your drink's finished. Get the fuck out."
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  31. Like Tom Hanks playing the role of a man that would've been half his age in Saving Private Ryan, for example.
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  32.  wargent99  Okay, millennial....
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  33.  @thomasb1889  But that over the top thing kills me. The trailer alone had me cringing.
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  34.  @HootOwl513  Truman stated that Marines were nothing more than the Navy's police force, and that's all they'd ever be if he had his way. And that was after the Pacific campaign. Truman was old school Army from WWI and the Corps was in a transitional period then, acting as a second land force in Europe and moving away from its maritime roots, while encroaching on the Army's "turf". Thanks to Lejeune, the Corps found its current role the nation's amphibious power projection force, getting back in touch with the sea, and this paid off in the war with Japan, which Lejeune correctly saw coming. After the war, though, guys like Truman and others tried very hard to break up the Corps and divide its assets and troops amongst the other services. Various excuses were made, such as "no amphibious warfare in the atomic age" and so on, but the Corps' proponents lobbied hard and Congress codified the mission and strength of the Corps in law as a result. Even in modern times, there are still people who don't understand why we have a Marine Corps, or why Marines aren't part of the Army instead of the Navy Department. David Hackworth was one of the latter; despite respect for the Corps he thought it should be merged with the Army. I lost a bit of respect for him when I read that. The Corps derives its strength from its partnership with the Navy and its ability to develop and manage itself apart from Army leadership (and importantly, Army budget controls), while being able to operate alongside the Army when called on.
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  35. Sounds like a good idea, but Hollywood would turn it into a preachy crapfest.
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  36. Witchcraft was used in a similar manner to explain the odd behavior of the girls accused at Salem.
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  37. The strange thing is that the DC-8 and DC-9 were fine aircraft. As a boy I remember flying on many DC-8s and always loved them. They were very flexible, with wings flapping and engine nacelles swinging back and forth in turbulent air, which made for a fairly comfortable ride, even if it alarmed some of the passengers. Delta had tons of them, and later UPS used them for cargo well into the 90s at least. And Boeing 717 was still in production as late as 2006; the last member of the DC-9 family.
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  38. The other thing about the DC-8's flexibility I remember is that if you sat at the very back of the longer version, the "Stretch 8" they called it, and looked up the aisle during turbulent flight you could see the cabin bending as the fuselage flexed. Funny thing, I remember the seats, the armrests with the little ashtray lids, the windows, and even the smell.
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  39.  @carlcushmanhybels8159  Agree about the boring modern jetliners. My dad worked for Delta Airlines back in the day and told me stories about the Convair 880 and how fast it was. The pilots loved flying it. The 747 is a 60s design and it's got a pretty high cruise speed as well as being the ultimate in smooth ride.
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  40. His spare shirt doubled as a tent.
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  41. The correct term is "Regiment of Foot", meaning foot soldiers.
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  42. A lot of Americans lost our minds after 9/11 and got real stupid real fast. The phenomenon of normally smart people suddenly turning into chauvinistic warmongering idiots after a terrorist attack is an amazing and scary aspect of human nature that should be studied by someone who was not stuck in the middle of it all someday.
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  43. Great video, but the Space Shuttle is not a lifting body, it's a conventional fuselage with a cranked delta wing. Some of the alternate designs for STS were lifting bodies, though.
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  44. I'm so sick of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-Friday plane!
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  45. I have watched many of your videos, aaaaaand…...subscribed.
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  46. It's called the "anthropic theory"
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  47. The Watt is a unit of power equal to 1 Joule per second, so a watt per second would be the first time derivative of power, meaning that the power level is increasing at a steady rate. So that number quoted at 12:19 doesn't quite make sense.
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  48. I like Ford and Chevy trucks from the mid 80s. My family had a diesel K5 Blazer that was awesome, and I worked for a small company who used an F-150 and an F-250 as work trucks. We beat those trucks, but a little maintenance and regular oil changes and those things would never die, they could take anything. When it comes time to get another truck I might just look to see if I can find a decent mid-80s Ford or Chevy.
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  49. More proof that a ship designed to sink itself on purpose is a damn dangerous thing, even when you're just trying to use the head.
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  50. Over the years there was always talk of replacing the 8 engines with 4 big turbofans, but for various reasons that never happened. Practical considerations aside, I'm glad they are sticking with 8 engines in the refit. A B-52 with 4 engines just doesn't seem right.
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