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

  1. Which is dumb. Considering he's not from there his pronunciation is reasonable.
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  2.  @mitchellpatterson1829  It's the only logical explanation. Like in the movie Moon.
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  3. All the greatest pilot heroes have southern accents. I know this from watching movies like The Right Stuff and Dr. Strangelove.
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  4. There is no parking in the red zone!
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  5. So basically the Brits were years ahead of the Mythbusters when it came to sticking rockets on every damn thing in sight.
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  6. You just explained why it's super dangerous and then you encouraged Simon to try it. What'd Simon ever do to you?
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  7. I know a township in NJ where the fire trucks are white.
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  8. I keep thinking it's outside my door and pausing the video.
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  9. Just wait.
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  10.  @stevengordon3271  Or styptic pencils, or nuclear fuel pencils...
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  11. Apparently the long term consequences involve mutation the exposed people into crazy drug cartel warrirors.
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  12. When I was about ten I wreckd my ten speed bike and bent the frame right behind the forks just a bit. After I repaired/rebuilt the bike, I noticed a difference. Before the wreck, that bike would ride no-handed very easily, but after the frame was bent wonky, it was never stable enough to ride no-handed and couldn't "ghost ride" with nobody on it. Take your hands off the handlebars even for a second and very quickly wanted to wipe out. I don't know what that has to do with all of this exactly, but it was an interesting thing to observe. Epilogue is that I didn't keep that bike much longer after that since it would never be trusted.
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  13.  @woodhonky3890  The front wheel was no longer aligned with the rear wheel, so I guess that's why it wouldn't right itself.
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  14. Here's a bonus fact I was hoping you'd mention: In the 50s or 60s there was a machine called the "Lady Godiva Device" which was an unshielded nuclear reactor. It was used by US nuclear scientists to create short bursts of radiation for testing purposes, and it was basically a metal framework with two fuel elements. One element was fixed and had a hole through it, and the other element slid down a rail and passed through the hole as it fell. For a brief moment, as the two elements passed, they formed a critical mass and reacted, creating a blast of neutrons and gamma rays, which would be used to dose items placed nearby. The reaction was less than a second, so the thing wasn't supposed to get hot enough to need a cooling system, but there was an accident once when the element didn't slide fast enough and the reaction created enough heat to bend the metal structure and wreck the machine. From what I've read the machine was operated out in the open air desert in a pit, and the operators stayed a safe distance away. I don't know why it was called Lady Godiva but I would guess because it's a "naked" reactor, maybe?
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  15. Yeah, but usually they're just weird.
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  16. If they want to buy up all the cows and kill them, it's okay. Same with toilet paper. Buy up all the toilet paper and wipe up the dead cow juice.
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  17. Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder approves this post.
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  18. In the US military, "pogue" is a derisive term for anyone who is deemed useless or lazy. According to wikipedia it originates from "POG" meaning "person other than grunt". A grunt is an infantryman, which is considered the toughest job in the military. "Poguey bait" is snack food or junk food, the kind of food fat lazy good-for-nothings eat while grunts are busy training for war.
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  19. Dirty Harry has entered the chat
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  20. And now Arecibo's big antenna has been destroyed by neglect :-(
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  21. Like shooting clay pigeons.
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  22. Nazis didn't trust free market capitalism.
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  23. 4:56 that girl would've been mugged for that headgear a few months ago.
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  24. If you turn on closed captions it skips the word "Cock" in "Colditz Cock". So glad google is protecting us from naughty words.
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  25. 5:06 RIP that guy's hearing.
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  26. The only reason you can drive a car or fly on a plane is because some rich guys made it happen and began the auto and airline industries. I'm no Bezos fan, but if I just blew a whole fortune to start a rocket passenger business, god damned right I'm gonna go for a ride on it.
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  27. 9:30 The glory days of Camden, when they actually built stuff there.
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  28. If playing pinball is gambling, it's a shitty gamble, since you literally have zero chance of winning any money ever lol. It's a game, not a slot machine.
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  29. TMI was very public, got lots of media attention, and happened right after the scare flick China Syndrome came out starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemon, so it gets a disproportionate level of attention, unfortunately. The fact is that TMI showed how safe US powerplant reactors are despite the clown operators screwing the pooch multiple times.
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  30. I think he just chose a stock photo of President Carter visiting NORAD or SAC HQ.
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  31. 1:45 I almost tried to wipe that crap off my screen.
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  32. Or a magic wand, like in Harry Potter.
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  33. The ancients were smart, they knew prog rock would be invented someday and that capes would be needed.
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  34. That film is so inaccurate in terms of dates and names etc.
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  35.  @akizeta  Doesn't change the fact of my statement. Maybe Apollo 13 would've been a better film if they used warp drive engines. I doubt it.
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  36. Simon not being the least bit familiar with not only the Banshee's music but also how to even say Siouxsie Sioux's name makes me feel really old.
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  37.  @neezduts69420  ok
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  38. Apollo 11 dropping the space race mic on the Moon. Nice.
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  39. Romulan plasma torpedo. From the TOS episode Balance of Terror.
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  40. This. You don't reveal sources and methods of collection, unless the President or Congress orders you to for policy reasons. Even if the Soviets probably know about your capabilities, you don't confirm it for them. Ralph Nader is, as usual, full of shit.
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  41. There is a passage in one of Stephen Ambrose's books, (Band of Brothers I think) where an American GI in Europe found Hemingway sitting in a bar in a combat zone. The soldier was a fan of Hemingway's writing and talked to him for a few minutes, before deciding that Hemingway was a worthless drunken douchebag who was touring a combat zone basically for fun, while soldiers like himself were getting shot up. The encounter ended with the soldier telling Hemingway to fuck off. I'll have to look it up; I can't remember the details of the exchange.
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  42. Smooth-headed Fact Boy
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  43.  @musicglenn  Don't worry, Scro, just slap your tattoo up on that shit and we'll get you out of here.
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  44. The test "pilots" judgement must be called into question here.
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  45. They did an episode of Myth Busters on this subject, BTW. Adam, with zero flying experience, was able to land a jetliner simulator by being talked down over the radio, using the autopilot as stated in this video.
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  46. Given that in the past Simon has defended Americans against the constant harassment by metric users, I had a feeling he'd do this right. Well done sir.
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  47.  @brianm6117  Almost, what really happened at the end of Sopranos wa
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  48. I like how the thumbnail is less "clickbait" than "click command"
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  49. "(Do this today.)"
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  50. We all agree that Nickelback sucks. Right?
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