Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. Turns out Rasputin was not immune to high speed lead poisoning.
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  2. I was playing around with my SW radio a couple of years ago and randomly found what I think was the Cuban one, the lady speaking numbers in Spanish. Really creepy, but cool to find after hearing and reading so much about them. The tougher thing these days is finding a decent quality SW receiver that isn't junk right out of the box.
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  3. Cigarette Smoking Man: [lights up off camera] "Very good, Mr. Whistler, we're finished for today. Don't forget out conversation earlier, about your family's well-being."
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  4.  @rickd1412  Well, I'm glad somebody out there is willing to do that for our benefit, because I sure as hell ain't doing that.
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  5. Nah, it was heavy church organ music and easy access to swords and lances.
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  6. In Soviet Russia, bore drills you!
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  7. If you read about this kid he wasn't really a garden variety introvert. He had a girlfriend and liked the Scouts. But he was almost like autistic or something when it came to certain things. He sucked at everything in school except for chemistry. He could barely write things. He had absolutely zero sense of the danger he was putting himself in dealing with explosive chemicals or radiation, and took laughably stupid safety precautions, like wearing rubber gloves to "protect" himself. He had burns on his wrist where radioactive substances got caught under his wristwatch and zapped his skin.
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  8. Have another Big Ass Fries? Fuck you, I'm eating!
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  9. The German flying saucer and moon colonization project, on the other hand, was well-funded and totally successful. Or so 'they' say....
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  10.  @christopherreed4723  Oh I get it, space is scary dangerous, it's just that deep sea diving is even scarier. I've done recreational SCUBA diving and while it's plenty of fun even that has multiple ways to kill the careless or stupid. Even if it doesn't kill you, things like the bends or embolisms can make you wish you were dead. And you're right about radiation in space, but that's known and manageable (mostly). The other danger in spaceflight is that getting you back to a major hospital in time to deal with a serious problem can take too long or even be impossible. A trip from the Moon's surface to Earth takes about 3 days. From Mars it takes several months.
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  11. Depending on where you work, you also have to deal with the risk of being carjacked, stuck up, or just murdered.
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  12. The deep sea is a far deadlier environment than space or the surface of Mars. In space the pressure differential between your cabin and vacuum is never more than 1 atmoshere, so you won't explode if there is rapid decompression. You'd be awake for a few seconds and pass out and die not long after, but if someone repressurizes the cabin before you die you'll survive and recover. In the deep sea, no chance.
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  13. "Safety measures are for pussies." - also probably Slotin
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  14.  @Sanguine_Entertainment  Sounds good. Now just slap your tattoo up on that shit. Wait...why come you don't have a tattoo? Unscannable!
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  15. The blue flash of Cherenkov radiation that victims witness is caused by charged particles from the reaction passing through the aqueous fluid in the witness's eyeballs. While Cherenkov radiation can occur in air, criticality accidents caught on security cameras usually don't catch any blue flash, even though the unfortunate people in the video reported seeing a bright blue flash.
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  16.  @crazyeyez1502  Oh, sorry, I misread your post. So that's way down past Blacksburg, middle of nowhere. Wonder what the heck you tuned into. Good X-Files type stuff.
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  17.  @KCJbomberFTW  Look up Idiocracy.
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  18.  @iivarilappalainen9836  That's true, and it's human nature. Also related is what astronaut Mike Mullane calls "normalization of deviance", which is when you do something unsafe over and over again with no bad consequences and think it's not a problem, until the odds catch up with you. That's what happened when space shuttle Challenger was lost: NASA got used to ignoring problems with the SRB O-rings until one day it bit them hard and killed 7 people.
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  19.  @tboogz284  Ignorant comment.
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  20. Tom Clancy said that back in the 80s after his books Red Storm Rising and The Hunt for Red October were published, he got a visit from some FBI types who asked him where he was getting all his technical information about submarines and weapons from, and he pointed to his bookshelf and piles of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazines and stuff.
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  21. His parents had no clue how any of that nuclear physics and chemistry stuff worked.
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  22. This is why when I hear rumors of allied troops summarily executing captured SS troops I don't really feel too bad about it. Scum of the earth.
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  23.  @Sanguine_Entertainment  Lol yeah. But I put out.
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  24. It is a great movie, but not historically accurate. And Wolfe was very hard on Gus Grissom, which was uncalled for. If NASA really thought he blew the hatch they'd have never put him back on the flight roster.
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  25. This is a fun and interesting thread. Couple of things to add: there were colonists of German ancestry in the Continental Army, in particular from Pennsylvania, where some people still speak a dialect of German to this day (especially the Amish and Mennonite communities), but they were small in proportion to the rest of the army. I think I read somewhere that many Hessian mercenaries who were taken as POWs wound up settling in Lancaster County, Penna. after the war, but I don't have a source to cite at the moment. Also, when the war began, most of the American rebels thought of Parliament as the enemy, not King George III. The American Colonies had no representation in Parliament and it was believed to be unfair that Parliament impose taxes and other laws on the Colonies, treating the colonists as second class Englishmen. There was initially hope that by going around Parliament and appealing directly to the king they could regain their rights as Englishmen, end the uprising, and continue as loyal subjects of the crown. Obviously things didn't work out that way and the revolution took a more radical turn with separation being the result.
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  26. If this tree was from Australia it would walk around like Treebeard and assault people.
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  27. I remember back when this was big in the news, one of the news shows (60 Minutes or 20/20) did a piece on it and interviewed some postal workers, who reported horrible things like having managers follow them to the bathroom and measure how much time they spent pissing at the urinal and so on, just constantly on their ass for every little thing all day long. Sounded like a horrible place to work. Of course, my solution would be to quit, but I'm not fucking crazy. Honest. Really. REALLY.
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  28.  @unstable_one4838  It's good but it's a bit dated so you have to cut it some slack. I watched it back when it aired and watching it now it's very much a 90s TV show. Still good and creepy though.
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  29. Where were you near? I don't see I-71 crossing I-81 on a map. That's pretty creepy.
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  30. If you look up BioNerd23's channel, she did a video of herself climbing all over the Woodpecker's giant antenna some years ago. Fascinating, if scary; she was known for taking huge risks.
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  31. And he had the balls to try to sue Richard Feynman to cover up his crime. What a dirtbag.
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  32.  @busylivingnotdying  I think you and Hillary need to mind your own business.
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  33.  @jmchez  Neil Young, anyone?
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  34. The Kursk is really sad. The US Navy offered to send their rescue crew but the Russians turned them down.
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  35. Bet that poor guy's ear is ringing to this day.
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  36.  @billysgeo  That's exactly what an alien would want us to think.
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  37. "...nearby nuclear power plant that employs most of its residents." Cool. What could possibly go wrong?
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  38.  @busylivingnotdying  "We"? Are you Hillary Clinton?
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  39. @Another Wacko Quite the opposite: the attitude of "I'm going to force everyone to help each other" is the greatest source of misery.
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  40.  @catatonicbug7522  Or... America is Canada's underpants.
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  41.  @springbok4015  More corrupt than incompetent.
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  42. That's the idea behind listening to The Cure, or so I thought.
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  43. I've read enough Lovecraft to know that what lies deep under that ice is best left undisturbed.
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  44.  @w00tb0ss  His ilk own youtube so they're not going away.
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  45. Lol I had a buddy who had a .50 BMG rifle and he would joke about firing ten dollars downrange with every shot.
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  46.  @SheepInACart  Steam rocket guy was an idiot either way. If he really believed you could prove a flat earth from high altitude he could've chartered an airplane ride that would go much higher than his rocket, and if didn't believe in flat earth than he died looking like a giant moron, building a deathtrap to prove nonsense. If there is an afterlife, he's the laughing stock of it.
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  47. Reminds me of the quack shrink who took over Brian Wilson's life for a while. Horrible person. As for the Soviet Union using psychiatry to control and punish political dissidents, that remains a threat. Look at the recent use of terms like "deprogramming" people who vote the "wrong" way in elections.
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  48. Atari was a large part of my childhood, had a 2600 and later a 5200 (anyone remember that?). Very sad to see the fall of Atari in the mid 80s, before that Atari represented the coolness of the future. And so happy to see that whatever happens to the Atari brand in real life, it lives forever in the Blade Runner universe, when I saw that giant Atari logo ad in Los Angeles in Blade Runner 2049. Atari is now the stuff of cyberpunk dreams.
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  49. 20:20 We prefer to avoid phrases such as "crash course" in videos such as these, please.
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  50.  @pr0xZen  Not very F, either, unfortunately.
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