Youtube comments of Helium Road (@RCAvhstape).

  1. Rhett: "We could a whole 'nother video on Geezer Butler's bass tones." YES YES YES
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  2. Denis has the guts to take on both Bladerunner fans and Dune fans, and he's done good.
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  3. Rick Beato discussing "The Gilmour Effect" with...David Gilmour. These are the moments we live for, folks, savor this!
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  4. Note to self: When coming across an area in a deep underground tunnel blocked by caution tape and smoke and flame clearly visible opposite the tape, DO NOT cross the tape and enter the confined area which is filling with smoke. Also, do not hang around the top end of an inclined tunnel with a smoldering grease fire in it, lest it suddenly turn into a giant flamethrower with me in its path.
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  5. Turns out Rasputin was not immune to high speed lead poisoning.
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  6. "Lost most ships, the Sally had its fair share of screwups, including a couple of murders..." I hate when my ships have murders on them. You'd think they'd have designed that out by now.
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  7. All I saw was "Rick Beato" and "Radiohead" and clicked so fast I broke my mouse.
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  8. The only thing wrong with this interview is that it is only an hour long. I could listen to Rick and Danny talk for a long time.
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  9. If I've learned one thing from this video, it's that I really need to listen to more Steely Dan...
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  10. Still hard to believe we lost James Gandolphini so young, RIP. Nobody else could've nailed that role and he had a long career in front of him had he not passed.
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  11. Wow, they actually intended to recover the booster stage. In the 1940s. Impressive.
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  12. I think the common element in all these disasters is that bloke with the clipboard and lab coat. If you see him near your project, keep an eye on the bugger.
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  13. He should've mentioned Edward Hopper's painting "Night Hawks", which seems to encapsulate why we love diners. A handful of patrons sitting in a corner diner in some dark neighborhood, the place is an island of warm comfortable light. Anyone who's ever been out late at night and looked for a place to eat wants to sit in that diner talking to those people.
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  14. "Their skipper having lit the fuze, they rowed with considerable enthusiasm." Now that's an understatement.
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  15. A corrupt NYC official? Shocked, shocked I say.
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  16. Somewhere I remember a documentary about Vietnam, and there was audio of a wild weasel pilot talking over the radio. Somebody asked him if he knew where the enemy SAM site was, and he replied in a calm, cool voice, "Not yet. I'm trying to get him to shoot at me." Crazy and fearless indeed.
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  17. This turned out to be a sadder story than I expected. Drunks and idiots throwing stuff at him, loses his girlfriend, and gets flashbacks when tanks roll by. I never thought I'd feel sorry for an alligator before.
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  18. Drach: mentions "fly-over states" in a slightly negative way Me: watches to see how good Drach's damage control is
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  19. Compare how these guys were treated with the way the Imperial Japanese treated the White Russian troops who served with them.
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  20. "Edison kept locking himself down into proprietary formats..." So he was the Apple Computer of his day.
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  21. Buzz Aldrin is the man. He had a plan worked out to navigate using handheld instruments taking sightings out the windows and doing the math himself. A true astronaut.
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  22. In Soviet Russia, space explore you!
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  23. When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks his closet for Christopher Lee.
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  24. 3 battleship older brothers holding down some cruisers in the schoolyard so their little sister carrier can kick them in the ribs.
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  25. "ZIP Code Contracting" lol that one's new to me, but yeah, this reeks of pork barrel politics designed to waste as much money as possible. The idea that we can't build affordable new suits in a short period of time 50 years after the last moon landing is pathetic.
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  26. He was sort of the Nickelback of comedy: the internet loved to hate on him but he still sold out shows.
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  27. There have been incidents where the US Navy has had to shoot down a friendly aircraft when it didn't crash as expected after the crew bailed out, and there is also the USAF "Cornfield Bomber", an F-106 interceptor that belly-landed after the pilot ejected. After landing, the aircraft was in such good shape the Air Force later returned it to service.
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  28. I remember when this came out and was all over the radio. The visceral anger in her voice was amazing and even a little unsettling, which I thought was great. She just put everything into it. And that bass line was the next thing I noticed, so good. I love this video series, Rick, because I would never have noticed all that other stuff buried in the mix; it all has a subconscious effect on the listener but it goes unrecognized until now.
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  29. The cool thing about the Starliner launch is that this will be the first manned Atlas launch since the days of Mercury and John Glenn 60 years ago. Another feather in the cap of the Atlas program before it finally sunsets.
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  30. If you hear "timecheck" while working in retail, fuck looking for suspicious packages. Just get the fuck out. No retail job is worth getting a face full of shrapnel.
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  31. And the winner is: Fisher! They still sell those pens today.
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  32. Convict: "I murdered a guy and stole a million dollars. What are you in for?" Engineer: "I built a dam that didn't break like I was told to do. I'm really good at my job." Convict: Moves to get away from evil engineer.
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  33. "Wokeness is emotional communism, in which the system regulates those who feel any pride or joy." Hmm. Going to think on that for a bit.
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  34. Scott, I don't usually comment on this stuff, but these kind of technical explanation videos are my favorite, and this one in particular is outstanding. You answered a bunch of questions I always had about spacecraft design and a few I never even though to ask. I always assumed Apollo capsules were shiny to reflect solar heating during space travel; I never thought about radiant heating from plasma during reentry. Likewise, I never really thought to ask why the Space Shuttle had that black and white color pattern, but it makes perfect sense now. Please keep up the good work.
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  35. The fact that your final moments may lead to you being remembered as being unprofessional and having poor airmanship should be pretty strong motivation to quit screwing around.
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  36. When you're in your teens and early 20s, your ability to learn is at its highest and you usually don't have lots of complications in your life. No wife or kids, no long term job yet, no major bills to pay. That combination of simplicity and voracious learning ability means that whatever you practice hard at during that time will make a lasting impression for life. You can still learn stuff when you get older but it's harder and takes more willpower. You have to avoid distractions and for people with obligations it's tough. So if you're young, strike while the iron is hot. Before you know it you'll be married and involved with life. Put down the video games and your facebook phone and pick up your instrument.
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  37. Another thing most people don't know is that all those cool films of the launch vehicle separating in flight shot from inside the stages were taken from Apollo 6, which was packed with instrumentation and movie cameras. The film cartridges were separated, dropped in the ocean and picked up by sailors for later analysis. There were no compact HD digital cameras back then like there are today on almost every launch. People get confused because whenever you see some video or documentary about Apollo 11 they always edit in footage from Apollo 6, because that's the only in-flight footage of a Saturn V staging that exists.
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  38. Cops = totally useless tax feeders. They'll happily take a paycheck, benefits package, and nice retirement, but ask them to catch a thief caught on 4 camera angles with ID and everything and they "investigate"
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  39. That Energia II looks really cool. NASA had messed with the idea of flyback boosters before, too. There was a plan for a flyback F1 booster stage and also plan to replace the shuttle's SRBs with Liquid Rocket Boosters (LRBs) that would have wings and fly back to a runway using jets. Ultimately we had to wait for the Falcon 9 to see anything that cool.
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  40. This thing is basically a monster analog video synth. You can still buy analog video synths, small companies make them from time to time, but they tend to be small and fit into rack systems and can't do nearly what a beast like that old machine can do. God bless this guy's heart for taking care of it.
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  41.  @koghs  You miss the point. When you go to a hospital you expect that they are taking care of you, that these systems have been thoroughly checked out. Plus, unlike Chernobyl or Fukushima where reactor buildings are exploding and alarms are going off, there's no sense of danger when one of these things kills you. You feel discomfort, then you get sick and die while the operator works another shift.
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  42. That shot of the engine bell wiggling back and forth between oval shape and round at 6:55 always amazed me; the pure power and fury of what was happening to that big piece of metal was astonishing. Watching live shuttle launches was a thrill that never got old. The engine startup was like a shot of adrenaline.
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  43. I was playing with my shortwave radio a couple of years ago, randomly spinning the tuner, when sure enough I found a numbers station with a female voice speaking numbers in Spanish. I did not immediately burn my radio as per Simon, but I was pretty geeked out to have found something spooky I had heard about for years but never actually heard for myself until then.
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  44. Somewhere Werner von Braun is smiling. This is a lot closer to his old Collier's Magazine vision of lunar exploration than Apollo turned out to be.
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  45. I saw an interview with a Soviet scientist who witness the Tsar Bomba blast. He was very far away, I forget how far but it was on the scale of at least a hundred miles or more. He said the most terrifying thing was feeling the heat of it on his face. He did not expect it to be that hot from that far away. Yeah, F that noise.
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  46. It's amazing how fast the German military was able to modernize in just a few short years, with all the prep work done in secret or almost secret.
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  47. These Rick Beato interviews are the gold standard for musician interviews. More good information in a one hour video than whole stacks of music magazines or knucklehead youtuber vids.
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  48. "Was considered safe due to all the writing being in Russian, which was a questionable safety feature". I dunno, whenever I find a machine hidden behind thick radiation shielding, I just assume it's safe if it looks like it came from Russia. I guess I'm doing it wrong?
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  49. Capsule: I'm going back to the shop; not feeling up to flying today. Atlas booster: I have better things to do than wait around for you with the meter running. Hop in Lucy, I'll give ya a lift.
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  50. My vote for Drachism of the Day: "...which very quickly would leave you with no hull, which is generally held to be a disadvantage in the whole Staying Afloat Department."
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  51. That poor guy running along the platform definitely yelled, "Balls!"
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  52. I forget which Apollo astronaut it was who said that if he ever went back to the Moon he'd like to bring a set of skis with him, because apparently the lunar regolith felt to the astronauts a lot like powdered snow on a ski slope as far as texture and consistency goes. So maybe that's a winter sport you can do on the moon without needing actual snow?
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  53. That scene at the end when Perkins looks up at the camera still gives me the creeps. What great filmmaking.
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  54. History Channel: "Ancient Alien Space Travelers" No. Mark Felton: "Nazi Rocket Monkeys" Yes.
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  55. Statistically, you are safer in a jetliner than on a ladder, I bet.
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  56. "This had an additional advantage in that the British ships could use both broadsides since they'd have targets all around." As Chesty Puller, USMC, said at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir: “They’re on our right, they’re on our left, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us; they can’t get away from us this time.”
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  57. "Rifle Broads" would make a good name for a punk band.
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  58. To be fair, your use of Tsar Bomba as an example is a poor choice, since that was much larger yield than operational devices and was not a practical weapon. So you'd want to replace it with about a dozen smaller warheads striking various targets around DC, which might even be worse.
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  59. I want America to have as many launch vehicles, especially reusable ones, as possible. One thing I wonder about this one is the short landing gear. I feel as though Falcon 9's barge landings have taught us the benefit of a wider landing base on a pitching flight deck.
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  60. "After Tsushima the Russian navy needed new ships..." Good Drachism there.
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  61. Rick is the most honest interviewer out there, and that honesty has earned him the trust of people like Sting and Maynard. Very cool.
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  62. Reactors in caves may have problems, but it still seems like a better idea than how Chernobyl was built.
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  63. 19:20 "Now we're just getting to the good part!" LOL the smile on that face. On behalf of all your fans and all Tool fans, we love you Rick. Seriously.
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  64. 9:58 "She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar." So H G Wells also predicted Drachisms? Amazing.
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  65. "Wow, that radiation alarm is annoying. Let me unplug it so I don't have to listen to it as I step into an area containing a radiation source." The company had a lot to answer for, as usual, but in this case it just seems like it mainly comes down to really poor judgement on the victim's part.
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  66. Whenever I see something about space in the news, I always wait until Scott's next video to get the story.
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  67. It seems Britain has a history of optimistic assumptions about new technology as an excuse to cancel programs. Their aerospace sector suffered from the assumption that surface-to-air missiles would make fighters obsolete, full size aircraft carriers no longer needed because the future is all Harriers and Harrier-wannabes, and now that we have ballistic missiles, who needs bombers? All these new technologies turned out to be useful, but there were serious tradeoffs made. Britain seemed to have to strain hard to project power in the Falklands, for example. Bet the Royal Navy would've liked to have had a ship full of F-4 Phantoms and A-6 Intruders along with those Harriers...
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  68. Yes, I remember commenting on that with my friends at the time. Christa's dad was smiling for a while because he didn't realize what he was witnessing yet. I thought that was pretty cruel of the news lizards to do that to her family.
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  69. We've lot a lot of 90s singers, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Scott Weiland, but I think Cornell was the biggest shock for me, Soundgarden had recent albums and were an active band once again, and he was indeed one of the greatest rock singers. Huge loss.
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  70. RE. launching through the eye of a hurricane: that was a key plot point in the awesome film Marooned, where an Apollo spacecraft was stranded in LEO, unable to deorbit itself, and NASA had to figure out how to mount a rescue mission. The film was scary enough that it influenced NASA's decision to have a spare Apollo-Saturn IB stacked up for rescue during Skylab missions.
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  71. They totally did the ornithopters right in this film, really sold me on them as believable aircraft.
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  72. Nothing like sleeping in on a Saturday morning and eating breakfast to a good nuclear accident video!
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  73. Rick Beato + Led Zeppelin = automatic thumbs up. Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands in rock and roll history.
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  74.  @albertawheat6832  Well, it benefits the smart humans at least. Sorry about that.
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  75. I like the little 3D man with his hands on his head in that disaster sim.
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  76. 4:36 "Did it go in?" "Negative. It just impacted on the surface."
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  77. In the documentary film "In the Shadow of the Moon" Gene Cernan talked about how he was tempted to go to manual and be the only man to fly a Saturn V by hand. He figured it was the last Apollo mission, anyway, worse that could happen was that he'd get fired after getting back from the moon. But he decided to play it straight and let the machine do its job.
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  78. Meanwhile, at Firefly... Engineer 1: Anyone have any idea where to start? Engineer 2: Scott Manley's video just dropped, ask me again in 20 minutes.
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  79. L'Orient burning near HMS Orion..."Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion"
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  80. There's always the "Skylab Maneuver": Step 1: Evacuate the station Step 2: Wait Step 3: Pay littering fine to Australia
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  81. Back when US carriers had good names from historical ships and battles instead of politician names. Stennis and Ford just don't have the same ring as Wasp, Hornet, Lexington, etc. At least the USN has kept Enterprise in play.
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  82. I know this project sounds difficult to pull off, but this is Rockwell, they created the Turboencabulator. They could do anything.
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  83. The engineers who work on these things are conditioned to never give up as long as there's money in the budget lol. But honestly, they are trying to fix or at least salvage a broken machine that is many light seconds away, which they can't get their hands on or even get pictures of, based purely on various bits of telemetry data, and more often than not they succeed.
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  84. "Bass player and drummer are nailing it by the third take..." That's one take too many for Two-Take Beato!
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  85. Who'd have thunk AT&T would have one of the coolest channels on youtube?
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  86. The reason South Dakota didn't get hit by torpedoes is because the intensity of her crew's foul language actually scared off the enemy weapons.
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  87. I remember years ago Keaton said in an interview he'd like to revisit this character some day, so it makes sense he's not phoning it in at least.
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  88. Context is important. You sell enough of these things to enough customers, some of who do not train or maintain properly, or operate with good judgement, you get accidents over a 50 year period.
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  89. Admiral Ackbar: "Laffey can withstand firepower of that magnitude."
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  90. With all the awful news today, this is just what I needed, Rick digging the mighty Purple! Everything about this song is great, the overdriven organ, the riff, the killer bass line and tone, Paice's ownership of the drums, Gillian's vocals. There will never be another band like 70s Purple.
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  91. I grew up not too far away from Bell Labs. It was the kind of place I dreamed of working at some day. And they weren't the only one, lots of big companies used to have laboratories and did lots of in-house research decades ago.
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  92. The grainy photos of the buildings and images of the decaying sites go good with the creepiness of the radio signal. I'd love to hear from any Germans who actually cooked up that final message, I bet they were aware of how creepy their broadcast sounded and had some fun with it on their last day on the job.
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  93. Dr. Hocker looks the part of an old school professor: beard, older style 3 piece suit, and pocket watch chain. Perfect fit for Drach's channel.
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  94. And once again in the thick of it is the good old B-52.
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  95. I for one never thought I'd see a US president talking casually with Joe Rogan about MMA fighting. Fascinating.
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  96. Between THG and Drachinifel we aren't wanting for naval history these days.
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  97. 8:30 Theory: the real reason Skylab was allowed to burn up was to make sure they got the spiders.
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  98. 28:50 That painting of US Marines assaulting Derna was painted by Charles Waterhouse, who passed away in 2013. He was a Marine who received a Purple Heart in WWII and became the USMC's only "Artist in Residence" and painted various historical scenes in USMC history from the Continental Marines of the 1770s to US Marines in modern times. I believe the officer depicted here with the red plume holding a musket up and leading his Marines is 1st Lt. Presley O'Bannon, who was later awarded the "sword of the Mamelukes", which serves as the pattern for the current Marine officer's sword, often seen in recruiting ads today. It's a straight blade with an ivory grip, as opposed to the NCO sword, which is a curved blade with a black leather grip.
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  99.  @JamesDavy2009  NASA has its own version: "go fever"
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  100. The accidental triggers are happy little accidents, though, so it's fine.
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  101. Alien and The Thing still scare the shit out of people today.
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  102. The funny thing is that we used to have actual typing classes in school until at least the early 90s. In the military in the 1980s and early 90s, if you knew how to type you kept it to yourself because you'd get stuck filling out paperwork instead of doing whatever your job was supposed to be. The average person did not know how to type until suddenly everyone had a computer in their house.
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  103. Adam Neely has talked about audiation before as well. I've always done this in my head, and always assumed everyone else does, too. Translating it to my instrument is a bit harder, though.
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  104. Kubrick managed to take a scene that is on the surface very cold and emotional and squeeze tons of emotion out of it. Such a fantastic movie.
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  105. I discovered the cycle of fifths was a lot easier to learn by just doing it on a bass or guitar. Play a major scale starting with the note C. What's the fifth note in the scale? G. So play another major scale starting on a G note. What's the fifth note in that scale? D. From there, A. Then E. Then B, Gb, Db, Ab, Eb, Bb, F, and finally back to C. Do this while looking at a picture of the cycle of fifths in front of you. Follow along with the diagram and you start to get the relation.
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  106. After Lord MInimus shot the guy, he uttered his catch phrase, "You have been Minimized!"
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  107. I think this disaster is referenced in the film "Chinatown" with Jack Nicholson, when the engineer at the town hearing refuses to build another dangerous dam near the beginning of the film. It's a great crime noir story takes place with the backdrop of LA's shady water rights history, which involved screwing a lot of farmers and landowners out of their property,
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  108. This thing had better work. ULA is all in since they shut down Atlas production, and the USA in general currently has only one working launch provider, SpaceX. Personally I think it would've been a good idea to hedge our bets and fund an engine swap for Atlas as well as Vulcan.
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  109. Wow my comment got a Double Beato reply.
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  110. The fact that the fusing mechanism can withstand all that and still function has always amazed me. The earliest proximity fuses for antiaircraft shells used vacuum tube tech and had to survive the shock of firing and spinning, and that was in the 1940s, which amazes me.
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  111. These ships had quite the fighting record before meeting their fate. I would count them as successful designs certainly.
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  112. The definition of virtue signaling.
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  113. 3:30 even when the flying saucer is man made and the photographer was involved in building it, you still get only grainy photos. Something about flying discs makes them impervious to photography.
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  114. Some of the rescue pod systems were not designed to get you back to Earth, but just to keep you alive until a rescue can come get you. My favorite was the Space Shuttle's "Personal Rescue Enclosure", which was a beach ball-looking spherical thing that you curled up inside and could keep you alive in space for about an hour, just long enough for guys in space suits to toss you across from your stricken vessel to another shuttle orbiter. It was about as bare bones as you can get, low mass, low bulk, designed in the days before the LES suits when there were not enough space suits for a full crew of 7.
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  115. So this means Bruce Willis just needs a garden shovel to bury the nuke in the asteroid.
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  116. Makes me want to eat a nice Moon Pie.
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  117. It was a steam explosion. Steam in great enough quantity and pressure is extremely scary.
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  118. You don't have to apologize for covering dead end designs, they are very interesting parts of history that would otherwise be forgotten if not for guys like you.
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  119.  @joshuaortiz2031  And of course there's always the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but I'm sure they're acting in humanity's best interests.
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  120. "Cats self-domesticated..." I knew it. Cats know damn well what they're doing.
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  121. In the Marine Corps we had the 11 General Orders for sentries. Our drill instructors also told us about "General Order 12": To walk my post from flank to flank, and take no shit from any rank.
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  122. Sailor 1: "This admiral's a cock-up and he's gonna get us all killed." Sailor 2: " Time for a 'change of command' then."
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  123. Shocked by transmitted power from a mile away. Nicola Tesla smiles upon us.
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  124. Awesome timing, Scott, I was just reading up on Nike (again). When I was growing up there was a nearby abandoned Nike missile site situated to defend Philadelphia. It was out in farm land and had a rusty chainlink fence around it. Kids used to sneak in there and poke around. Parts of it were dangerous due to flooding and so on, but it was good "X-Files" type stuff. You should do a video about Nike-X/Sprint and the HiBex programs, ABMs that have ridiculous accelerations of 100G or more and went from 0 to Mach 10 in like 5 seconds upon launch. Fascinating technology.
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  125. Scott you are my main source for space news. There are good websites and so on, but being subscribed to your channel means I will be alerted to most of the important and cool stuff.
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  126. My question is: Who was holding Story Musgrave's beer while this was happening?
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  127. How do Australians avoid falling off the planet without seatbelts?
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  128. Needs chrome tail lights and fins.
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  129. Arthur C. Clarke wrote a good story called "A Meeting with Medusa" about a guy exploring the Jovian atmosphere in a nuclear-powered hot-hydrogen balloon, it's worth looking up.
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  130. "If." Spartans, inventors of the action movie hero one-liners.
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  131. She wants that victim cred.
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  132. I hope it works out fine. The US needs more working launch vehicles. Can't put all our eggs in the Falcon 9 basket, and Vulcan isn't cranking out yet.
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  133. Coming soon: Starship Nuclear with liquid core nuclear thermal rocket engine, like the old Liberty Ship concept. Bring it!
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  134. For air show disasters, the 1988 Ramstein accident deserves a video. And of course, for more aerospace ideas you've got Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger, and Columbia, as well as a few Soviet accidents to cover if you are interested. Challenger in particular and NASA fatal accidents in general have lots of documentation to draw from.
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  135. Probably a Marine, instinctively doing what Marines traditionally did: board and seize enemy ships. Old habits die hard.
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  136. Mac was a flawed figure but for sure he was really good at this sort of thing. The Philippines loved him, too.
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  137. Otto Skorzeny is the Most Interesting Criminal Man in the World. Basically a real life Bond villain.
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  138. This is the kind of country Obama wants the US to become.
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  139. @Luke He's all legal under fair use. Maybe you should read up on things before spouting nonsense on Rick Beato's channel.
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  140. Some people actually do their job, thankfully.
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  141. Because it makes music fun to listen to, not boring like so much mainstream garbage out there.
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  142. The guy won a river boat in a card game and cheated gangsters, he's like a real life Han Solo.
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  143. The way that Arleigh Burke trained and led his destroyer skippers so that they would perform well in his absence is reminiscent of the way good admirals led their frigate captains in the age of sail.
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  144. I remember when the M1 Abrams tank was heavily criticized. Too expensive, too heavy, too fuel inefficient, the turbine engine would surely clog, on and on. All of the detractors shut right up when the US Army took them to war for the first time and monkey-stomped an entire army of Soviet quipped and trained Iraqi tankers.
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  145. As an American with relatives who fought in that theater I have no sympathy for the Imperial Japanese forces generally, but this was just sad and wasteful. Over 4000 guys who should've lived to help rebuild Japan had their leaders not foolishly sent them to a horrible meaningless death.
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  146. They probably saw what that photographer saw and decided to nope out.
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  147. Cats want to kill us? Well, no duh, anyone who has ever owned a cat knows this, but we love them anyway.
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  148. It's not just British signals; I have yet to fully comprehend any signaling system. In the US it varies by railroad company and time period so you can really go down a rabbit hole with it.
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  149. "You're under arrest for burning a cell tower." "Wait, let me call my lawyer." Call doesn't get through.
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  150. You know the old joke: The quality of Weezer's music is inversely proportional to Rivers Cuomo's self esteem. So if you want to hear better Weezer tunes, you have to try to make Rivers feel sad.
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  151. In the 1990s there was a Discovery Channel special about one of these. Some lumberjacks spending the night in the frigid woods found some strange cans emitting heat, and decided to curl up next to the nice warm objects to sleep. Ooooops. Later on they showed up at a hospital with signs of radiation sickness. From their description the authorities guessed what this was and sent a crew up into the woods to secure the devices. There is video of these guys grabbing the cans with long metal tongs and tossing them onto the ice-covered road surface, which immediately sizzles into steam from the heat. A guy with a stopwatch calls "Time!" and the next guy goes up with the tongs and chucks the can into a big lead bucket on the back of the truck. They repeated this until all the cans were in the bucket, then posed for a big smiley-face photo. Nobody knows how many of these things are out there in the wilderness or where exactly.
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  152. I regret that I have but one like to give for this video, Rick, been waiting a long time for this one, and you did not disappoint! Tool is one of my favorite bands of all time. Subscribing to your channel was certainly a good idea. I won't be this happy again until you get to a Rush song!
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  153. I hope AM radio never dies here in the US. I love using old tube and transistor radios and keeping them running. There's something cool about using a machine that's well over half a century old to listen to modern news broadcasts.
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  154. I'm kind of surprised there were no revenge activities among the parents of the lost children.
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  155. When I was in high school they made us watch films about venereal diseases and had graphic photos of chancres and other sores on various body parts. Great stuff to look at, especially at lunchtime.
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  156. That is a killer track. Loving this. Anyone know who played bass on this song? It wasn't Paz, was it?
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  157. My takeaway from this is that I should've been a youtuber: look at the size of this dude's fancy house.
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  158. "Building a rocket in a field and then flying it would be a first" Even more fitting since that was how it was done in a few Heinlein stories. Although I assume this one isn't using a nuclear thermal rocket engine.
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  159. That photo of the lander descending under a chute with the giant crater behind it is one of the most epic photos in spaceflight history.
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  160. Film won't die completely; it's transitioned from a mass production pro photo medium to an art medium with a smaller market. Some of the bigger companies like Kodak have had a rough time making that switch but other companies, including some new ones, are coming in to fill the demand. Once it stabilizes it'll be a bit more expensive but steadier.
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  161. I like how the continued secrecy around the Blackbird means Kelly Johnson's legend continues.
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  162.  @lumiauroras6741  Yes, risk is measured on two axes, likelihood of an accident vs. consequences. For a ladder, likelihood is high but consequences low, for modern jetliners it's the other way around. There's no way to make a crash at 500 mph survivable, so you have to reduce the likelihood to near zero. This has been largely achieved, but you have to stay on top of it to prevent stuff like MCAS.
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  163. You should do the Kosmos 954 accident if you haven't already. Soviet nuclear reactor-powered satellite that crashed into Canada in the 1970s.
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  164. When the cops ask you how you found out about the UFO landing, just tell them you saw it in the sky and followed it down to the airfield.
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  165. If the JAXA rover doesn't turn into a mech I will be disappointed.
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  166. And it's not like they really need to reinvent the wheel; just take a proven design from the Apollo or Shuttle era and build new ones, with upgrades to the materials and electronics. Why does this have to be so difficult?
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  167. The thought of 600+ guys suddenly killed when their ship goes down is sickening. Naval warfare seems more comfortable than infantry combat, right up until you take a major hit. The losses are staggering.
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  168. Ever since I was a little kid I have loved the F-104 Starfighter. Everything about that jet is cool, even the name. Speed, power, futuristic 1950s space age looks. Pure Kelly Johnson badassery, the hell with utility, just make it fast as hell.
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  169. After the Challenger accident, the LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) was left in orbit for a much longer time than was planned. Eventually it was retrieved by another shuttle and a lot of good data was gathered from it. Since then we've had several chances to visit Hubble Space Telescope and see how it has held up as it aged, and of course Mir and the ISS have both yielded lots of data on long term mission hardware. But Snoopy would be special, since it has been in deep space for five decades, outside of the LEO gravity well and the Earth's magnetosphere.
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  170. I would guess that a nuclear-tipped Sidewinder would be intended for continental defense against bombers, in which case using small nukes on aircraft is totally NOT overkill, since those bombers are on their way to flatten your cities and you are already in a full scale nuclear war by that point.
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  171. This is a sneaky way to get Drach to discuss post-1950s era naval combat lol.
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  172. Most of the positive comments about the design have already been said, so I'll just throw in my admiration of the black and silver color scheme of Rocket Lab's vehicles, I think it adds a classy touch with a high tech look. I also love how these newer designs are looking more and more like the classic 1950s style, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended.
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  173. Linear cities as dystopias are featured in cyberpunk works such as the William Gibson's "Sprawl" and Judge Dredd's Mega City One, both of which are speculative future versions of the US Northeast Corridor, the line of cities from Boston, Massachusetts down to Richmond, Virginia, all merged into one giant urbanized mass running north to south with no remaining rural areas in between.
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  174. Galena's weak armor resulting in her going into situations over her head reminds me of a guy I knew who, when asked if they taught him hand to hand fighting in the Army, replied, "They teach you just enough to get your ass kicked."
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  175.  @Edax_Royeaux  The British didn't have to copy them, they just took the originals from the French.
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  176. Good to see PD getting back to its radiological roots. Seems like you've run short on these types of incidents, and that's a good thing for the general public I'd say. Also, I want a device that reads out "shitballs" when it goes off-scale high.
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  177. This doesn't do much for France's military history joke problem.
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  178. When I was growing up these Steely Dan tunes actually got lots of play on mainstream rock radio. We didn't know how good we had it. Unthinkable today. Tastes have certainly changed.
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  179. Okay, so let's do a little trading. I'd kick "The Boss" (hate that guy, growing up in NJ in the 80s was brutal for haters like me) off the list and add in Rob Halford.
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  180. For hard rock fans, this is a "secret shame song" that you crank up only when alone, kind of like Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending or one of several Billie Eilish songs. When your girlfriend talks you into going to a concert, you act negative but don't put up much of a fight because inside you know you want to go.
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  181.  @bobharritech8460  Exactly. Not like they put it in a shelter and found it a good home lol. It was probably killed and tested for rabies since the guy got bit.
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  182. Side note, a tone that sounds like it is continuously rising or falling but never goes out of audible range is known as a "Shepard Tone" and is commonly used for effect in horror movies or action films. I suppose that tones phasing in and out of each other can produce the illusion of a Shepard tone and that's it's a byproduct of these digital signals, but of course I'm just guessing and don't really know what I'm talking about.
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  183. Given how many times you've used that Pinto-looking graphic in your videos, it's about time you've actually covered the legend itself! I am old enough to remember these cars being quite common, and like most 70s American "compact" cars I thought it was crap. Or, well, my dad did, anyway, and I was like 7 or 8 so I tended to agree with him. But I remember what they looked like up close, with cheap chrome and trim, a finish that was sure to rust through after a couple of winters' salted roads, and that awful exhaust smell. Some old cars, with no smog pumps or catalytic converters, smell cool, but in the 70s when they tried to clean up the exhaust they stank horribly. Nowadays cars hardly smell at all. When an antique hotrod drives by though, that smell suddenly transports me back to my childhood.
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  184. They weren't Millennials, they were Centennials...or...something
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  185. I wonder if the book mentions the various types of nuclear rockets. Nuclear pulse propulsion, where you use nuclear bombs behind a pusher plate, would actually be fairly safe "fuels" to handle in the sense that the bomb devices would be hard to accidentally detonate. Nuclear thermal rockets like NERVA are a different story; once the reactor has gone critical the fuel becomes pretty lethal stuff to be around. My favorite has to be the nuclear salt water rocket, which uses an open cycle liquid fuel core. The liquid is basically water with uranium or plutonium salts dissolved in it, which are injected into a reaction chamber and mixed to become supercritical, heating the water to steam and blowing it out the nozzle as reaction mass, along with all the fission products. High Isp and high thrust, it's almost a torch drive but using it in atmosphere would be unconscionable, since it's basically a giant flying Chernobyl disaster.
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  186. These machines are depriving cashiers of their jobs. And as a customer, I hate having to bag all my congressmen myself.
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  187. I personally think that the Huey is the quintessential helicopter: totally iconic and, to me anyway, a beautiful design. The US Marines are still using the latest member of the Huey family, the UH-1Y Venom, which has 2 engines and a four-bladed rotor. Cool that the Huey is still around, but it doesn't sound the same without that big 2-bladed thump.
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  188. "Cunningham for his part was determined simply to find the enemy as quickly as possible and get as close to him as he could." The legacy of Nelson is strong with this one.
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  189. The multiple flight deck level thing may seem like a mistake, but the IJN was on to something, a problem that would later be solved with the angled flight deck, allowing the simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft we see on modern nuclear-powered supercarriers.
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  190. Dave Grohl on the drum kit. Where he belongs. Great song, and great breakdown. That orchestral part suddenly sounds familiar and I remember hearing it on the radio many times, but it flies under the radar, awesome to see that. And yes, the piano version of this tune sounds cool.
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  191. Never heard of a coal torpedo before, learn something new in every one of these videos!
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  192. Dependable Engines. PW also has the coolest logo.
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  193. "Even with the video footage, the police wouldn't do anything." So frustrating.
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  194. That aero phase, with the fins controlling it like a skydiver, is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
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  195. Makes it difficult for astronauts to judge their altitude. It's one reason the Apollo landings were all made with the sun behind the ship, so that the pilots could see the shadow of the LM in front of them and use it to judge height and ground speed.
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  196. That guy at 00:31 is crazy!
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  197. The Soviets would use vodka bottles.
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  198. Hunley is technically still "sunk", only in a tank of treated water in a preservation lab.
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  199. Being sub'd to Adam's channel led me to Rick's channel.
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  200.  @davefaulkner6302  If you get offended by a joke, then you deserve to be offended by a joke.
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  201.  @nerofl89  Fox sabotaged it by changing the time slot and running episodes out of order. Whoever was in charge of the network must've really hated that show.
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  202. Well, here I am, trawling youtube for hilarious graphic safety films again...
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  203. USAAF: We will use nuclear weapons to sink you. Nevada: Come at me bro.
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  204. If a record company exec can make a bunch of hit songs without having to pay musicians or pay for studio time, then that's what you're going to get. Support local live bands; at least you know they are real when you see them in front of you (unless they're using backing tracks...which may be made by AI).
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  205. 8:46 they used a shielded Ford Pinto? That's a whole different hazard.
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  206. Mrs. Thatcher didn't like how it was handled, with Reagan not getting her blessing first, but she was happy enough with the outcome. Another scumbag communist dictatorship shut down.
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  207. Let's try to keep the discussion focused on UK power projection and defense programs and V-bombers and leave the current politics bullshit for some other video, please.
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  208.  @tc25d  Her channel is great, and she did some crazy stuff. Hope she's okay out there somewhere.
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  209. I love dogs, but dogs don't understand what a Silver Star means, they don't understand abstract concepts, and giving an animal a medal mocks every man who earned one by acting heroic despite knowing the risks. Maybe they should make a medal just for service animals.
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  210. 6:22 This is actually a camouflaged internet cat video.
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  211. 10:10 was waiting to see if Rick would pull out a Theremin and rock that too.
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  212. Stay safe, Drach, America'll be there when you're ready.
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  213. So how much money did it cost nd how many people died saving Matt Damon in that movie?
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  214. I want to see a Technology Connections / LGR Tech Tales collab!
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  215. Great video, love this spooky stuff! There is a well-known "hidden message" (not hidden well at all) in the Rush instrumental "YYZ", where the opening riff is the morse code for the Toronto airport radio navigation beacon, YYZ, of course. Story is that guitarist Alex Lifeson has a pilot's license and was flying the band into Toronto, and had his comnav radio tuned to the beacon. Drummer Neil Peart thought the morse code was a cool rhythm, and since Toronto was the band's home town, they built a whole track around it.
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  216. For a not-quite-there-yet design she was a very good-looking ship, nice clean lines and oddly modern-looking.
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  217. My theory about Groundhog Day is that they did it that way just to piss you off. I mean you, personally.
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  218. SpaceX should take bids for ad space, Coke vs. Pepsi.
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  219. I love when guitar and bass together sound almost like a single instrument, the way a piano player uses two hands to play two parts on one instrument.
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  220.  @Ralph-yn3gr  It probably weighs more than the Swordfish.
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  221. That was me. My buddy built the time machine but he couldn't quite get it to go where and when we wanted, so that fight was the best I could do. To make matters worse, I dropped the phone in the toilet and lost the fight footage, so now nobody believes my bullshit time travel story.
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  222. Digital replaces film for things like pro photographers, but for personal use and art photography film is fine and preferred by many. Besides, your favorite digital camera will be obsolete shortly. Your favorite film camera may have been made as far back as the 1950s and will still work fine after you are dead, so long as you take care of it properly.
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  223.  @RickBeato  I was wondering if you were going to mention it or chicken out haha!
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  224.  Shots Fired  Tell us more about movies you hate. We all really want to hear it.
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  225. Airships are perhaps the greatest failure of the romantic era of early air travel. Even today they fascinate us and many of us wish there were a way to make them practical, if only so we could treat ourselves to the spectacle of those great vessels gliding over skyscrapers. If only the mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building hadn't proved equally as dangerous to use, we'd be able to take an airship and travel between the tops of buildings in cities. Sometimes reality fails us.
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  226. That was awesome. I wonder if anyone has ever tracked down the lady whose voice was sampled for that station. She's a legend. Someone should make a gritty spy thriller film set in the 1970s based on the Poacher. Or maybe a miniseries.
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  227. "With some poor clerk being tasked to pull out the first several volumes of notable battles of the Royal Navy and start picking names..." Ah, the price you pay for having an illustrious history.
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  228. It was always a hail mary thing anyway, and after Challenger's loss they redid the math and concluded that had Columbia's crew ever used the seats they'd have been killed by the SRB plume anyway.
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  229. Can we just take a moment and admire how freaking beautiful that guitar is?
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  230.  @TheSchultinator  US Marines from 1st Btn 14th Marine Regiment used 155mm as direct fire weapons during the Gulf War of 91.
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  231.  yeoldebiggetee  Communists are scum of the earth.
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  232. 23:56 Ah, now we see the problem. The Takata employees were probably using the strangely anatomically correct "crash test" dummies for something other than their intended purpose.
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  233. On the plus side, if the Americans aren't producing quality science then the Chinese have nothing to steal.
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  234. What's interesting is when you look at designs for space stations and such from the 1940s and 50s, they are depicted as having solar thermal turbine generators for power, basically a parabolic reflector focused on a boiler unit filled with liquid sodium or some other working fluid, that then heats water to turn a turbine and generator. Photoelectrics were not yet ready for prime time so designers and futurists were working with technology of the day. BTW, I have an old Minolta twin lens camera from the 50s that uses a selenium light-powered meter, no batteries required, and it still functions just fine.
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  235. 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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  236. As an American I am ambivalent about monarchy, but I've always been impressed by Elizabeth's leadership. She's an actual patriot who believes in service to her realms and people, and if one is to have a king or queen one could certainly do far worse than to have such an outstanding woman as a leader. Let's hope when the time comes her successors can try to measure up. She has been a strong figure in the post-WWII anglosphere, as well as the non-English-speaking western democracies of NATO.
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  237. ​ @usernamesoldout And spending money rather than pocketing it.
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  238. I like a lot of Tom Petty's work, I love this series, and this breakdown analysis is very good. But I have to say I've always hated this particular song and still do. I was hoping this would be about Breakdown or Refugee. It's interesting to be able to appreciate the work that went into producing it while still hating to listen to it.
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  239. So in the end Jupiter basically ate the probe and digested it.
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  240. 34:20 That F-4 Phantom variant with the swing wing is a cursed image lol.
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  241. Mal: "What was that?" Wash: "We just lost a stabilizer." Mal: "How bad is it?" Wash: "Um, 'Oh God Oh God we're all gonna die'"?
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  242. I can't hear Sarah McLachlan's voice anymore without seeing sad puppies.
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  243. The idea of riding the inside of that fairing reminds me of the old astronaut bail-out devices they were testing in the 60s, such as the Douglas Paracone and so on, where an astronaut who needs to abandon his spacecraft would strap this thing to his back. It would deploy a conical heat shield behind him so he would enter the atmosphere back first, with "eyeballs in" acceleration. He had a small solid rocket thruster in front of his chest which would be used to deorbit himself. If he timed it right, he should be able to at least hit a landmass. The conical heat shield was also an aerobrake and had a honeycomb crush zone in it to absorb impact with the ground. The poor astronaut would be falling face to the sky with no idea where he was about to land, assuming he survived reentry.
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  244. In my experience the culture in management is to implement more rules, instead of disciplining the offenders who failed to follow the rules already in place. Especially if the industry you work in makes it difficult to fire worthless people due to fear of being sued.
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  245. 6 hours coast to coast is not too shabby for a prop job. And no TSA BS to deal with either.
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  246. Are you sure you don't want to upgrade to Windows 11? Really sure? Really really sure?
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  247. Did anyone else pause at 0:15 and try to solve the maze?
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  248. @@badger519 Try not to parade your ignorance of culture so prominently.
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  249.  @rev_dude  Staggered QWERTY is bad for who? Once you get used to it you can type redonkulously fast. Change it and suddenly NOBODY knows how to type anymore. This is example of when standards are good.
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  250. 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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  251. Nah, they used Super 8 film.
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  252. Self-loathing metrosexuals tell us about their first world problems and why we should all hate white people and auto companies for the horrible world we live in, where we can travel long distances quickly and cheaply. Leftists applaud them through their Apple products before jumping into their Beemers and Audis to head for the Starbucks.
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  253. You had SIX phones in your house? When I was little having more than one was a luxury. Kids who got their own phones were the cool rich kids.
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  254. Best train ride ever!
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  255. Following WWII the US balked at giving the UK access to nuclear weapons tech, partly out of the usual national chauvinism, but also because the Brits had failed to properly screen the scientists they had sent to the Manhattan Project, which led to several of them being successful Soviet spies. Thus US UK relations took a downturn in this period, and to get better status in the "nuclear club" the UK pressed ahead quickly with Windscale. So it may be more correct to say that the US UK relationship was already suffering and this contributed to the background of the Windscale accident.
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  256.  @MissFetishable  10k can buy a lot of ammo.
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  257.  @sewasewa6585  According to this video, those documents may have never existed.
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  258. "We here at Flying School try to avoid phrases such as 'Dead Reckoning' and 'Crash Course'."
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  259. Lead from the front. If you're not willing to put yourself at risk, you've got no damn business telling others to do it.
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  260. It's called "The Cold Equations"
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  261. If you want a million dollars as a musician, you start with 3 million.
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  262. And maybe it means he will be near a naval hospital and survive his heart attack.
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  263. "Wore out her guns and had to get new ones." Well now.
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  264. Drach the jet-setting historian, living the dream! Safe travels, Drach.
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  265. Great singing, of course. Still sad that "real piano" is considered special now.
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  266. Submarine duty is pretty grim. And war sucks. The skipper of RO-105 was probably a damn good guy, and his crew was a crack team, but down they went.
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  267. I love the fact that Rick just made a cicada mashup just for a rant. Love this channel.
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  268. So are we not gonna talk about that epic thumbnail?
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  269.  @robertw1871  You must be new here.
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  270. I was unaware that there was a plan to boost Skylab without using the Shuttle. Now I'm kind of angry they blew that chance. Skylab could still be in orbit today if they had done that, so how much money did they really save by letting it fall? One thing you didn't mention was the incompatibility of Skylab's Apollo-type life support system with the Shuttle's. Skylab used a low-pressure pure O2 atmosphere, while Shuttle (and ISS) use ordinary air at human-normal pressure. A special airlock module was built to allow Shuttle crew to transfer back and forth between the orbiter and the space station.
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  271. It's just the practical thing to do. Among other things, the US had a responsibility to protect occupied Japan against nearby threats, and to get Japan back on its feet so it could operate independently again. The sooner this could happen the less money the US had to spend and the fewer troops the US had to commit to Japanese security.
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  272. Marines are used to it. Get on a ship, and guess where they're sending you based on what kind of gear they issue you lol.
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  273. This is the first I've heard of this dirt stupid idea. Kudos to you for having the patience to make a video addressing it.
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  274. When Good Guy Greg turns into Bad Luck Brian.
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  275. It's a phenomenon known as Manley Scattering.
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  276.  @gean31  "Remember, Joe, if you screw this job up, the crew dies on national TV. No pressure. See at the pub later, yeah?"
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  277. Sabine, I've been watching your videos on and off for a few years now but this one makes me subscribe. Your honesty is sorely needed these days.
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  278. You should do Top 5 Creepiest Discoveries in the Solar System. Things like the Great Hexagon of Saturn.
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  279. Rick, those isolated drum tracks are awesome, especially Whole Lotta Love, what a great one Bonham was! Also, great way to sneak in a Led Zep video without getting blocked!
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  280. Could be worse. At least Eric is still a male.
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  281. I had to look up Johnny Carson's wiki page and sure enough, you were talking about THAT Johnny Carson! I never knew he served in the Navy or WWII. Learn something new every day.
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  282. The phone calls from the missing climber? Yeah, NOPE.
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  283. I once replied by asking, "Well, if the kids in China are starving, why not send them my food, I don't want it." That did not end well for me.
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  284. Slight correction: at 0:40 you say "northwestern Pennsylvania", when I think you meant northeastern. Northwestern Penna. is more about oil drilling history (look up Drake's Well) than coal. And then there is steel in various parts of the state as well as railroads... For a state that is mostly trees when seen from space, it sure has a huge industrial history.
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  285. Attacking a US VP when Marines are just off the shore nearby is not good for one's health.
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  286. Or popping the destroyers into a giant magazine with a giant thumb and firing them at Japan like rifle rounds.
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  287. You win the internet for today, sir! (Now get your coat)
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  288. How do they change the bulb? Simple, disconnect all the cables, unbolt the tower from the pedestal, tip it over with a crane, unscrew the bulb, then reverse the process. Easy peasy. I should add that this only works on older towers. Newer towers, when the light burns out you just throw the tower away and buy a new one.
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  289. [watches vid. Turns off computer and sets it on fire. Moves to shack in the mountains with no electricity.]
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  290. You're doing a great job with this channel, RM, keep up the good work!
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  291. The Falcon missile is an interesting animal. According to F-106 pilot Bruce Gordon (check out his channel), the Falcon is a fine enough weapon when paired up with the correct radar and fire control system on the F-106. The missile and aircraft were specifically designed to work together. Putting the missile on an F-4 Phantom sets it up for failure since the F-4's avionics was built more for the Sparrow. Since the F-106 never saw combat, we'll never know if the Falcon was actually a good missile or not. Similar tale for the Falcon's successor, the Phoenix, which was specifically built to work with the F-14. Only a small number of those were known to been fired in combat and their record was not good, but with a sample size of 2 or 3 it's hard to draw a conclusion. Both the Falcon and the Phoenix performed very well in training shots with their complimentary aircraft. Gordon shot down a BOMARC missile in a head-on supersonic pass with his F-106/Falcon.
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  292. Or the Korean ferry boat from about 10 years ago, where all the high school kids were sitting in the passageway recording video with their phones and talking to their parents before it rolled over and they all drowned, as the captain and most of the crew left them behind to die.
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  293.  @docjanos  He also had a famous response to some NASA leaders who wanted to do an RTLS abort during a test flight just to see if it could be done, "We don't need to practice bleeding."
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  294. Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane survived an ejection from an F-111 earlier in his career. He called that his "first" rocket ride.
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  295. Also bananas. Not kidding: "banana equivalent dose" or BOD is a measure of radiation, since all bananas are slightly radioactive. XKCD has a great graphic explaining this stuff.
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  296. Good info, thanks.
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  297. When I was little I had an SRN-4 Matchbox car toy. Too bad I never got to ride on a real one.
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  298. I was playing Missile Command on my Atari 2600 in those days...
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  299. The bull was like a giant house cat, the way cats walk around on a table without knocking stuff over.
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  300. Congrats, RM, shortwave has become interesting once again, and you are one of the main reasons!
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  301.  @MarcoTheGreat2008  Most throttleable rocket engines can only throttle down so much. I think the Space Shuttle Main Engines can only throttle down to about 65% thrust or so.
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  302. The cuckoo clock one is hilarious. I imagine if you are a spy trying to listen to that it does not inspire confidence that you are part of a well-run operation.
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  303. Sure, you could've kept the Saturn V around and launched multiple Skylab-sized modules to create a nifty gi-hugic station.
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  304. ​ @Juliusiezure It's about zombies. You're welcome.
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  305. If Martin Scorsese was making "What Makes This Song Great" vids, he would do only Rolling Stones songs.
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  306. That snake was killed by Conan the Barbarian in Thulsa Doom's temple.
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  307. Excellent rundown of the subject! I always thought that as technology and operational experience advanced they could build a Space Shuttle 2.0 that would correct for many of the deficiencies in the 1970s design someday, and heat shield tech would be a major part of that.
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  308. "Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted Shtupidly." RIP Sean Connery...only he could credibly play a Soviet naval officer with a Scottish accent.
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  309. "In a way, Nelson was lucky to die at Trafalgar" Reminds me of, "You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain."
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  310.  @fretlessfender  In North Korea to this day being caught with an unapproved receiver gets you into big trouble.
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  311. "Dusting your computer junk" Archer: phrasing!
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  312. He should've proposed using a flux capacitor instead. That would've cut the power draw down to 1.21 GW.
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  313. I remember a 90s game called Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic by SSI. I used to love playing the Royal Navy side with 6" cruisers as escorts. While the battleships were slugging it out the speedy cruisers would lay down sheet after sheet of 6" volleys, taking out gun directors and peppering other superstructure items, and starting fires that the Germans had to deal with. Made for a good force multiplier.
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  314.  yeoldebiggetee  You're right to agree with me. Communists are filth, as are those who sympathize with them.
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  315. "A Reef of Dire Repute" sounds like a good name for a 70s prog rock album
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  316.  @douglasskaalrud6865 Who hurt you?
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  317. Sheltered academic: "I have a brilliant idea: let's take a toy that was designed to be a punching bag for kids, and see if they punch it to prove...science...or something." Other scientists: "Brilliant!"
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  318. TMI resulted in zero deaths, but is often called the "worst nuclear accident in US history". Why is that? The SL-1 accident, for example, killed three people directly, yet a lot of people have never heard of it, and there have been other nasty accidents as well. TMI was very public and very scary (I was living not too far from it at the time as a child and it was BIG news), but in the end turned out to be little more than an expensive mess.
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  319. Heated roads for the winter, nice.
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  320. On the other hand, they were probably happy they weren't treated the way they used to treat occupied people. And from that they learned and their descendants prospered.
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  321. I'd be happy with a strong Japanese navy, run by good guys, allied with America. Shame it wasn't that way 80 years ago.
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  322. Sometimes I feel like I am the only viewer of these vids who doesn't care about computer warship sims and just likes to study naval history.
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  323.  @ralfbaechle  If the vehicle is weight & balanced properly it should settle into the proper attitude shortly after entry interface. Most space capsules are designed to do this in case of loss of attitude control.
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  324. Reminds me of the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs in 1987 when Philadelphia Flyers's Dave Brown (who is Canadian) ran onto the ice in his underwear to join in a giant pre-game brawl with the Montreal Canadiens, where, of course, he was fighting with mostly other Canadian citizens. Hockey was so much fun to watch in the 80s.
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  325. They had Japanese scientists telling them that the Americans probably only had enough material for about 3-5 bombs for the moment. And those scientists were correct. The warlords' real mistake was being willing to let the Allies bulldoze the entire country, culture, civilians, everything, knowing they couldn't actually stop the invasion forever, while at the same time a large portion of the country would be overrun by the Soviets and live behind an iron curtain, North Korea style. Had those warlords succeeded, maybe another city or two would've been nuked, but Japan as we know it today would simply not exist.
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  326. France: "Let's help the psychotic despot build a nuclear infrastructure. What could possibly go wrong?"
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  327. There's a scene in the miniseries "The Pacific" where Marines on a hill on Guadalcanal are watching the battle at night and assuming that the burning ships in the distance are enemy, not realizing at first that the US Navy is getting its ass handed to it. In the book "Guadalcanal Diary" the Marines describe all the wounded and dead bodies of sailors washing up on shore later.
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  328.  @hhairball9  Because I am male, I am now compelled to blow Pepsi out my nose farther than you did, just to see if I can.
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  329. Telling Marines not to fight is like telling tigers not to eat
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  330. TOS will always be the best Trek.
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  331. Reminds me of the three things a pilot can't use: the altitude above you, the runway behind you, and the fuel you left on the ground.
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  332. "The Anglosphere Cooperation Bingo Card" lol
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  333. Drach, you're killing it lately, collabs with Operations Room, an interview with the captain of the Iowa, and now this, one of the best history interviews I've ever seen, fantastic guest. Keep up the good work! And when you finally get to visit the US you won't have to pay for drinks if you're in my neighborhood.
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  334. Someone needs to make a Downfall parody that somehow involves Mark Felton. "Hitler Discusses Mark Felton's Successful YouTube Channel"
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  335. The tips of the propeller blades are supersonic, which is why it's so loud. Basically a bunch of constant sonic booms around each engine.
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  336. Amos reminds me of Rome's Titus Pullo, that hyperviolent fearless best friend you wish you had, and whom you'd never want to cross.
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  337. It has outlasted JFK Stadium, the Vet and the Spectrum.
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  338. Taylor didn't design the spaceship (known as "Project Orion"), but he was part of the team and was responsible for the nuclear shaped charges that would power the vehicle. In George Dyson's book, Taylor states that in the end he was okay with the project being canceled because he was getting pretty good at building small bombs and was worried it would catch on.
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  339.  @LoveClassicMusic0205  Nope, it'd just get covered up and forgotten about, like the cocaine in the White House and so on.
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  340. Great story. The boxer guy had the drop on the clown and should've pounded his head into hamburger after that first punch. If you're going to bring fists to a gunfight, you have to be prepared to go full savage.
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  341.  @nathanfisher6925  That's the film of unburned kerosene fuel that coats the inside of the nozzles to keep them from melting. F1's burn fuel-rich to protect themselves from their own heat.
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  342. Because the photographer was using black and white film. Many of us still do. If you process your photos in a home dark room, it's much easier to deal with the chemicals for processing B&W film than color, and much easier to print B&W photos than color, since you can use a safelight. Color photo paper is finicky, requires absolute darkness, and easy to fuck up. B&W process is much more forgiving. And if you're shooting "illegal" photos, you want to do all your processing at home, not trust your images with a drugstore photo clerk who might call the cops on you.
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  343. "Yacht Rock" is a retronym, like "hair metal", a term made up years after the fact which nobody used at the time.
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  344. Smart stewardesses on jetliners do not wear nylons for the same reason.
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  345. Whenever I see footage of Patton speaking and hear his voice it always takes me aback, as I am expecting him to sound like George C. Scott.
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  346. Hipster Stalin
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  347. Kirishima has entered the group Washington has entered the group Kirishima has left the group
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  348. You know, that cassette bluetooth adaptor actually makes having a car with a cassette player more useful than a more recent car with a CD player. If your car has a CD player you have to buy one of those bluetooth FM transmitter things, which kinda work but are also a pain in the rear, especially when you drive to a new city and have to find a new blank frequency.
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  349. I don't know how relevant this is, but maybe someday you could do a video or a series on the radio noises coming from Saturn and other celestial objects. NASA's Cassini probe sent back the creepiest signals I've ever heard, picked up by its sensors inside Saturn's magnetosphere. NASA slowed them down to audio rate and posted them on the web back in the 2000s and I made the mistake of listening to it in a dark room alone late at night. 1950s Forbidden Planet type sound effects. Also, at least one Apollo crew picked up weird signals on their radio while orbiting the Moon, thought to be a heterodyne whistle perhaps. A video about the radio systems used for Apollo comms might be cool, too.
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  350.  @RT-qd8yl  The engineer from Thiokol who warned about the solid rocket booster cold weather issue before the Challenger accident. He was ignored, he was right, and he suffered for the rest of his life about it.
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  351.  @mostevil1082  This. Musk makes some people butthurt so they like to crap all over anything he's associated with, even when it works. SpaceX is more than just one guy, it's a lot of engineers doing a lot of work with the support of that one particular guy, and over the last 2 decades they've accomplished some impressive things. I can't say that Starship will live up to its lofty goals, but it's already achieved a fair amount as a test program.
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  352. The 707 was also used as Air Force One (VC-137) for many years into the early 90s, which made it remain a very public symbol well after commercial jetliner sales of it had ended. The KC-135 Stratotanker, the E-3 Sentry, and a few other military variants have stayed in service a very long time as well. It's hard to keep track of all the members of the 707 family.
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  353. For starters, it's still contaminated. Look it up on Wikipedia.
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  354. "Beat one of his animals to death" Well, there's a red flag right there.
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  355. Youtuber and former F-106 pilot Bruce Gordon has stated that he thinks the radar version of the Falcon was a pretty good missile, so long as it is paired with the proper radar and fire control system and a pilot who knows how to employ the weapon properly. He said the F-106 could handle itself very well in a dogfight, but only after he and his fellow pilots were trained for it, as F-106 and F-102 pilots were generally only trained for interception missions. So one question here is how well were Turkish F-102 pilots trained, and can the F-102 handle itself in a dogfight given a properly trained pilot? And how well did the Falcon work with the F-102's avionics?
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  356. Who here does not subscribe to 8-bit and Techmoan? The internet is a big place, but sometimes it feels so small.
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  357. "Times can be tough, but good times will come again." Unless you are killed, that is.
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  358.  @adampedersen5384  Mice don't study physics either.
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  359.  DR Dan  Almost every ship gets a "not for public consumption" nickname. Ships tend to be dirty nasty things to live in, especially when packed in with a full crew. They require constant maintenance and cleaning to stay fit for humans. The toilets tend to clog, and the unclogging process is hilarious and disgusting, involving a firehose and high pressure followed by a lot of cleaning. The entire ship smells like machine oil and paint and cleaning chemicals and sweat and salt and vomit from seasick, and personal space is more of a theory than an actual thing. It's noisy 24/7, with air handler fans and machinery and the goddamned 1MC speaker right next to your fucking rack waking you up all the time and some asshole who won't shut the fuck up or turn off the TV in the berthing area. Sailors and Marines can love a ship while sometimes hating it at the same time, plus they have a warped sense of humor, thus the funny foul language nicknames they give the ships. And if they're in aviation maintenance, the aircraft often get equally irreverent nicknames too.
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  360. You just put a ceiling fan under the table and use its thrust to hold the table up.
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  361. The one point safety tests are scary. Fizzles are supposed to be easy, for safety reasons. If for example, a B-52 crashes with a megaton-range bomb on it and the bomb's chemical explosives cook off in a fire, you absolutely do not want any fission to occur, but those tests make it look very possible. And I use the B-52 because there were several accidents in the past where this sort of accident did happen, particularly in North Carolina, Spain, and Greenland. Fortunately none of those weapons went nuclear.
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  362. When I was very little in the 1970s there was a tanker ship fire on the Delaware River near Philadelphia. The tanker Corinthos collided with the tanker Edgar M. Queeny and there was a huge explosion that shook my house, a couple miles away. I remember my dad watching the news on TV and there was footage of the ships burning. The deck of one of the ships was lifted and was draped over her side like a curtain. I found the Coast Guard report on it, but I can't find footage of it anywhere, and it's been so long that not many people even remember it now. It was pre-internet so it's almost forgotten. Plus that area of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania has had quite a few refinery accidents and incidents over the years so it kind of gets lost in the noise I guess.
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  363. That's how things work in DC. Blame the innocent and cover for your guilty friends.
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  364.  @winstonsmith478 IIRC Taylor also became known for lighting his cigarette with a nuclear bomb. He put it at the focus of a parabolic mirror that was pointed at the bomb, and he ducked into a trench beneath it. When the bomb went off it lit it up. So not a healthy lifestyle in more ways than one, I guess, but he got cool points for it.
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  365. I find the concept of a "Plainly Difficult Universe" to be fascinating. The line between pop culture and reality becomes blurrier over time.
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  366. Nearly a hundred thousand deaths in the Battle of the Atlantic, wow, that's more than most whole wars. And this battle was brutal, amazing I've never heard of it before. An old school battle from the days of Nelson.
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  367. He also had a most epic naval beard.
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  368. I can't be the only one who had anxiety at you putting your radio gear on the railing over the water.
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  369. They were happy they weren't in a Soviet camp.
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  370. Why am I not surprised that the Soviet descent rocket braking system uses gamma ray radiation to sense the ground instead of a radar altimeter?
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  371.  @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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  372.  @221b-l3t  At least submarines can surface. A 747 cannot "surface" and escape Jupiter, it must fly forever.
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  373. One you missed was a 1970s/80s proposal to use a 747 as an airborne aircraft carrier. The embarked fighters would be small, roughly like an F-5, and the 747 was to carry them stacked like an auto carrier semi truck carries cars. Can't remember the name of the program, but I've seen it in articles with drawings and so on. The fighter was never built, IIRC.
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  374.  @PerishingForLackOfKnowledge  Please explain how capitalism had anything to do with this. I'll get popcorn.
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  375. Without Johnny the Beatles might've been a krautrock band.
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  376. I agree on the paintjob, Drach, , fortunately we still have Olympia for eye candy. Also, I need to watch this video again just for these magnificent photographs! Some great pics you have here. If only TR knew someday he'd have a nuclear powered supercarrier named for him...
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  377.  @johnnemeth6913  Nye was doing good things when he was explaining basic science in a children's TV show. As soon as his head swelled up and he thought adults should listen to his stupid ideas he became useless. Tyson is much the same; at one point he was an actual scientist, but then he became a TV star and his ego blew up.
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  378.  @pudgeboyardee32  I have known a few USAF missileers. Weird guys. I guess sitting in an underground bunker with a few dozen megatons, surrounded by porn, while waiting to destroy the world will do that to you.
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  379. "How about a nice game of chess?"
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  380. Over the years I got pretty sick of hearing this song on the radio over and over again; the fact that it's really just a long live jam didn't help. But I have to say that watching Rick break it down is a good reminder of how awesome a guitarist Frampton is. And how much fun it is watching Rick play that stuff and loving it.
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  381. SpaceX launches more rockets than Blue Origin makes announcements.
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  382. A while back I saw an absolutely beautiful Victrola machine in an antique shop. I spent some time dithering about whether it would be worth the money and where I would put it in my living room, but before I could act the shop burned to the ground. :-(
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  383.  @SnakebitSTI  Well, the propulsion seemed to work well enough to punch holes in hulls. Basically the torpedo was just a big solid shot bullet.
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  384. Me and some friends drove over that bridge a few months before this happened, and I've driven over the fixed version of it a few times since. The idea of driving off a downed bridge in pitch black darkness is a nightmare I've actually had more than once, one of those recurring dreams that makes you want to write a metal song about.
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  385. "I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good." ~attributed (probably falsely) to Napoleon Bonaparte
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  386. A near perfect design. There's a saying, "The only thing that can replace a DC-3 is another DC-3." Over the years there have been lots of upgrades for the old DC-3's avionics, of course, but also re-engine jobs. I remember seeing an ad in a 1980s edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine for a company offering to put turboprops on your DC-3. But anything that makes it less simple and harder to work on is almost a downgrade.
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  387. One thing to remember is that in the US for about five years or so after the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, anyone seen hanging around anywhere taking photographs was treated like some kind of potential terrorist. So whatever was going on at that site, it's no surprise these guys got chased away.
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  388. If you're gonna mutiny, you'd better: a - win, and b - have a plan for what happens afterwards
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  389. The nazis in those pics are some fucking psychopathic looking dudes. It's like a reverse Inglorious Basterds.
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  390. That camera shot from on board the missile body at 13:10 is pretty cool when you consider they didn't have tiny little digital cameras like they put on rockets today. That sucker was film, it was probably big and had to operate its mechanicals under that huge G load and vibration.
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  391. I love how these videos end in a terse manner with no epilogue. "Ship was torpedoed and magazine exploded and that was the end of that. That's it for this video, thanks for watching..." It gives this series a certain personality.
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  392. I want to see images of the crash sites where the Saturn stages and LM ascent modules impacted.
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  393. Some people actually believe the fake theory that Finland doesn't exist, or that the earth is flat. The world is loaded with fucktards.
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  394. The jurors should be put in prison for not caring about Chauvin's rights. Their rules.
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  395. That's pretty cool. Railroading is a skilled profession.
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  396. This would never replace 2-rail vehicles anyway. It would be useful for some shortline type stuff, like a city light rail or Disney's theme park system, but for heavy freight, which is what the vast majority of railroads haul to make money, 2 rails is the only way to go. Same with long distance heavy passenger service like the modern Amtrak intercity sleeper trains.
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  397. "Like a tuned down Geddy Lee" ha ha love it. Never knew about this band, I think I may run off to Amazon and buy this album now.
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  398. I thought I saw an interview with the guy in that photo a few years ago. He was in his 70s and a heavy smoker, and still in good health. Soviets, man.
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  399. DC-3's are still in service with various operators today. C-130s have been around about as long as B-52s and Lockheed is still building brand new ones with all the modern goodies. I think aircraft which are good general purpose designs, don't get subjected to huge metal fatigue, and can take upgrades are prone to lasting longer than fancy high performance airplanes that specialize in narrower missions and which take lots of Gs. The B-52 will outlast the B-1B and the B-2 which were built to replace it because it's basically a dump truck full of bombs or cruise missiles that is long lasting and not super expensive to operate.
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  400. Admiral Kondo: "We are experts at gunfighting in the dark." Admiral Lee: "Konichiwa."
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  401. Laughs in Wuhan lab.
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  402. It's kind of Lovecraftian, actually. Lovecraft stories often feature geometric shapes that make people insane by looking at them or which channel energy and open portals to other dimensions.
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  403. The blocked passages in the pyramid lead to a secret underground rave club
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  404. Not really related to any of these radios, but when I was growing up I got a build-it-yourself radio kit from Radio Shack that received, among other things, air band. It wasn't fancy and it used one of those weird clear plastic earphones every Radio Shack kit came with, but for a 10 year old it was awesome. It was a blue plastic console with a smoked glass plastic dust cover that you could see the electronic innards through. I had no idea what I was listening to, but the fact that I built a working radio and was listening to jetliners was so cool. I really miss Radio Shack.
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  405.  @Biden_is_demented  Who said it was one missile? "Ballistic missile threat" could mean one or hundreds.
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  406. I love this channel. The P-80 Shooting Star was the first of Lockheed's "star" themed aircraft. Among the most famous is, of course, the F-104 Starfighter, but also the F-94 Starfire, the Jetstar corporate jet (famously owned by Elvis Presley), the Constellation airliner, the C-141 Starlifter transport, the P-3 Orion patrol plane, the C-5 Galaxy transport, and the L-1011 Tristar widebody jetliner. Makes me wish the F-22 and F-35 had gotten star-themed names as well.
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  407.  @onearmedbandit84  People are burning cars in the street right now. Pretty sure that's worse than a few records.
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  408. This is one of the most studied gunfights in US law enforcement history.
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  409.  @dpreston8831  Challenger was not the first time they noticed burn-through damage on the O-rings; on previous cold weather launches the O-rings showed damage after the SRBs were recovered. That's how the Thiokol (and NASA) engineers knew there was potential trouble. In the Challenger accident, the combination of icy weather and wind shear made for the perfect storm and for the first time there was a catastrophic burn through. This failure mode was known to be a problem but the program was under a lot of pressure to produce a high flight rate and get costs down, so they kept putting off the field joint redesign and crossing their fingers. Mike Mullane's book does a great job explaining the mindset of the decision makers. It's also the reason they kept blowing off the debris shedding problem that eventually wrecked Columbia; that was a known issue from the very first flight and they talked themselves into thinking it wasn't really a threat even though the original requirements from the 70s allowed for no debris striking the orbiter.
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  410. I'm an American but because of this channel I've caught myself using "balls!" as an expletive lately.
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  411. German sniper: "Check out my nifty sniper rifle!" Texas: "That's real cute."
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  412. As a former serviceman, I can confirm that I spent my free time chopping wood like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando while waiting to be called back.
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  413.  @johnw5584  It also has a large cargo bay for holding cash deliveries to Iran.
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  414. Nice Drachism: 29:33 "Lacking only the silver spray-paint to complete the image..." WITNESS ME!!!
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  415.  @DrLoverLover  What's with the saltiness, someone pee in your cornflakes this morning?
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  416. In the end, Chrysler did design a very successful mass-produced turbine vehicle: the M1 Abrams main battle tank.
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  417.  @Lethgar_Smith  Yes. In fact it's already happened.
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  418. I have always hated crowds because of stuff like this, as well as what happens when riot police are around and things get kinetic. When I was a kid we used to horse around in the yard playing "Pileup", where we would pick out one of us and everyone jumps on top of him (as boys it takes us a while to grow a functioning brain lol). Having been at the bottom of that stack of people, unable to breath or even call for help, feeling the panic, was enough to teach me to avoid situations like the one in this video.
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  419. Throughout history the most effective military organizations are the ones that reward their leaders for taking initiative instead of standing around waiting to be told what to do or blindly following orders. As long as you understand what your commander's intent is and what goals he wants to achieve, you are free to make decisions based on your vantage point and local knowledge to carry out that intent. In this manner, lower level leaders who are competent will surface quickly while the incompetent will weed themselves out. Micromanagement is not a recipe for success.
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  420.  @bigblue6917  Also in the Vietnam War there is a documented case of a guy (technically an Air America civilian, aka CIA, I think) who shot down a NVA An-2 biplane from the door of a Huey helicopter using an AK-47 rifle.
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  421. Young later said that if he had known about the uncommanded movement of Columbia's body flap during STS-1 launch, he would've aborted and ejected right then and there, and that almost certainly would've killed him and Bob Crippen, since the shuttle seats were later found to be unable to clear the SRB plume. I wonder if Bob Crippen still gets the shivers thinking about that.
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  422.  @mathewferstl7042  Why's you post it then?
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  423. But then along came the chainsaw, basically a full auto axe.
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  424. Extra points for doing some math on this joke.
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  425. "Hilariously"
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  426. Merlin-equipped Mustangs had a ceiling of 42k ft? Wow, some jets even struggle up there.
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  427. Manhattan Project used water cooling for its reactor (B Reactor). Also, there's nothing necessarily more dangerous about using air as coolant than water; the advantage is that you eliminate the risk of a loss of coolant accident. But you have to guard against fires both in the fuel elements and the reactor moderator, and you have to properly design the reactor so that the elements don't rupture, swell up and jam in the channels, or miss the water pool when discharged. Windscale was rushed to hurry up and build weapons for political and diplomatic purposes so these problems were not worked out. And later Chernobyl would show that even a water cooled graphite moderated reactor can still catch fire.
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  428. I say we bring back the Great White Fleet paint job as seen on the Olympia in Philadelphia. I really want to see an Arleigh Burke destroyer in that scheme.
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  429. This is a good Veritasium video, because it doesn't have the guy's face all up in the camera the whole time like his other vids.
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  430. 7:01 Thanks to this channel training me, whenever I see someone standing like that with their hands on their knees I just assume they've taken a nasty radiation dose.
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  431. The guy accidentally poisoned his own horses, worth a lot of money. Why would he do that knowingly?
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  432. Nah, it was heavy church organ music and easy access to swords and lances.
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  433. Never forget that the first Space Shuttle flight was also a super risky test flight. An untested, never flown rocket powered spaceplane, and you stick two guys in it, launch it to orbit, and then fly them home at mach 25 to an unpowered landing. Young and Crippen were an amazing crew.
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  434. Reminds me of the Argentine air crews in 1982. Immensely brave and competent but terrible top leadership.
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  435. "The F-100 had to remain uncrashed long enough to be useful..." this is the aerial equivalent of Drachism of the Day. We need a name for it on this channel...
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  436.  @JoshStLouis314  Being aboard an airplane for weeks on end eating nothing but MREs and dealing the attendant MRE-related digestion issues sounds like a special kind of hell. You'd be praying for a war to start just so you could end it all.
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  437. There were a few Civil War vets at WWII victory parades. Those guys went from muzzle loaded muskets to jet fighter and nuclear weapons in their lifetimes.
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  438. All these tech companies are slimy. Uber, Google, Facebook, etc. They all seem to be run by egotistical psychos.
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  439. 18:40 demonstrates the importance of NFL football music in winning a nuclear war.
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  440. They were optimized for a particular altitude, like any fixed-geometry bell nozzle engine. They were very efficient in near vacuum, which is where they spent most of their burn time.
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  441. Complaining about 37 acres of lost forest? That's like, what, a Walmart parking lot or two?
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  442. The Black Album is a great album, and it was really the album that made Metallica into the massive juggernaut that they are today. And for a lot of us it was basically "thrash for beginners" and led us to check out their older stuff and get into other thrash bands. It's like Moving Pictures for Rush or Dark Side for Floyd, that one smash hit album that makes people notice all your other stuff too.
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  443. A buddy of mine got pulled over by a cop, who asked him why the F he stopped at stoplights, and told him he needed to get the F out of the neighborhood.
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  444.  @leDespicable  I figured it had to be water, I don't think an animal that big and heavy could survive a fall like that without breaking its legs.
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  445. Aluminum is literally rocket fuel. The Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters used aluminum powder in the fuel mix.
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  446. IIRC K-Tel compilations were all shortened edits of songs and the vinyl pressings were really poor quality. But yeah, those commercials are like vaporwave nostalgia.
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  447.  @fruitbouquet5479  "Gonna have to call in an expert." Brings in Alien Hair Guy.
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  448. A video about 70s rock guitarists could easily go on for an hour and a half. Besides just naming players you could make it into a documentary about how the styles and techniques changed and how the players were influenced by each other. For instance, at the tail end of the 70s Alex Lifeson was heavily influenced by Andy Summers, and it starts to show on songs like Vital Signs and on through the Grace Under Pressure album. These guys were paying attention to each other and the music developed rapidly as a result.
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  449. Yeah, we've heard that before, it's called the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Everywhere communism has been tried it's been a disaster, and evil that results in, at best, a stagnant economy and an oppressive regime, and at worst, megadeaths (and an even more repressive regime). There is absolutely no reason to believe that guys like you will finally "get it right" if we just give you another chance, give up all our liberties and property, and hope for the best. Ill take my freedom with all its flaws and imperfections, thank you very much.
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  450. It's interesting to look at the aftermath. For a while at least, NASA took safety seriously again. Then by the late 90s they were pulling PR stunts again such as the John Glenn flight. The normalization of deviance trend never ended either. Since the very first flight debris from the ET's foam insulation had been striking the orbiter during launch, which was NOT supposed to happen, but because they got away with it so many times they quit worrying about it, right up until loss of Columbia in 2003. As with Challenger, this was a preventable accident had they just followed their own rules. For some reason, the Columbia accident didn't have the devastating effect on the public as Challenger. Two years after 9/11 and with endless war in front of us, it was like people just felt they had more important things to worry about than another Shuttle accident.
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  451.  @nathanadams6648  Thomas the Death Engine
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  452. "Get in here and watch my film, you poors!" 😄
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  453. Designer: "politicians, remember to inspect the cables regularly" Engineers: "politicians, the cables are in bad shape. Spend money or else disaster is coming" Politicians: "sorry not spending any money. Besides we passed off responsibility for this to some corporation so we can ignore it" Bridge: collapes Politicians: "Designers and engineers, we're blaming you, go to jail!"
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  454. In Robert Heinlein's fictional future the "road town" featured prominently. His version of the road town was literally a moving roadway with buildings on it that rolled along in a continuous loop. Think of those moving walkways you see in airports, but imagine it the size of an interstate highway, rolling along with clusters of buildings on it. It was a ridiculous concept but it made for interesting reading.
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  455.  @SlavicCelery  Even in its heyday History Channel was never this good. There was always filler and recap BS to make sure the whole thing could make it an hour in length, which was really only about 45 min after commercial breaks. Drach actually has to work to keep things from getting too long and nobody here complains when it runs long. I really get tired of all the comparisons of Drach and Mark Felton to History Channel. HC was always bush league compared to these guys.
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  456. The talk is interesting but the video of you holding a shaky camera on yourself was kind of distracting.
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  457. As an American who was a child at the time, I never understood the controversy. There was a war, two navies went at it, and one sank the other's cruiser. Seemed pretty simple to me back then. In fact, I never understood why the Brits didn't attack the Argentine naval bases and airfields on the mainland, the US Navy would certainly have done so.
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  458. Ah yes, back when History Channel was worth tuning in to.
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  459. This is like a pitch for a TV series about radio hobbyists who solve murders. Murder, She Transmitted.
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  460. He's making the big bucks and doesn't have the balls to risk it. "Hey Bill, how big's your f'ing yacht gotta be!"
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  461. Define "just went off". That photo is likely days after the blast and the radiation levels were low enough for a short visit. Also notice they are wearing rad badges. The guy in the white hat is Dr. Oppenheimer, basically the chief inventor of the bomb. You can trust he knew what he was doing. (Besides, everybody smoked in those days, so you can flip a coin as to what was going to kill them first).
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  462. I used to play the old SSI game Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic back in the 90s. It had a thick manual that was also a pretty good history book about WWII Atlantic theater. One of the tactics sections mentions that while cruiser fire won't penetrate battleship armor, it is useful for starting nuisance fires and fore taking out things like gun directors and other sensitive bits above deck. And that's exactly what I used them for. I particularly like 6" gun cruisers, which often had 12 guns each and a rapid rate of fire, so I could form them up, get in close, and pepper the enemy battleships with them, then when my battleships came into range I had the advantage since I was not busy fighting fires and my fire control systems were all still in good shape.
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  463.  @Dr_Do-Little  Actually, he kinda was selected by accident; the accident in question being the one that killed Gus Grissom and his crew. Had that not happened the flight schedule would've been different and someone else likely would've been the first, probably Gus himself.
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  464. I wonder how they know Leon Theremin designed it. Did he later admit to it? Interesting note about Theremin: he was a US resident and the KGB kidnapped him and forced him to go back to the USSR for many years. After the Cold War ended he returned to the US and reunited with his student, Clara Rockmore, considered the greatest Theremin player, before he died. There is a cool documentary about him out there.
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  465. Good to see you finally covering this one, and in more detail than I've seen before, great job. When I was very little I remember seeing this on the news.
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  466. As if being in a Japanese POW camp wasn't already bad enough, your day gets even worse.
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  467. I'm going to love this series. When I was growing up, I read a book about Old Ironsides that, IIRC, was written for boys, and was very inspired by it. Later when I visited Annapolis and then Constitution herself, I had a deeper perspective of what I was seeing. Sadly, I'm not sure how many younger Americans (or of any age for that matter) are aware of this ship and its relevance to US history, but anyone who enjoys films like Master and Commander, pirate stories, Hornblower books, etc., would probably love to know the real stories about age of sail warfare.
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  468. Vacuum tubes are still common in guitar and bass amplifiers.
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  469. I love the terrifying idea of being 5 miles away from your spacecraft, out of sight behind the hills, on an alien world with nothing but a spacesuit and an off-road vehicle to keep you alive. Sounds like the ultimate wilderness adventure.
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  470.  @trespire  Speak for yourself!
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  471. My comment got deleted. It was about President Teddy Roosevelt finishing his speech after getting shot. I hate youtube.
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  472. A lot of ships end as artificial reefs.
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  473. Wow, a Mach 3 Phantom with Mach 2 super cruise and high-altitude performance, like a mini-Blackbird that runs on normal jet fuel. What an awesome thing that would've been.
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  474. Is this true? Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark.
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  475. Awesome. Best I'd be able to do is, "There once was a History Guy from Nantucket..." aaaand I'd better just stop there.
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  476. Kudos to that pilot for pranking you and keeping it going for 30 years. Also, gotta love the old DC-8.
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  477. 6:18 there he is again, Lab Coat Guy. Always suspect. Also, at 10:22, when a Ford Pinto enters a disaster scene you need to start running.
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  478. I think I know why I love these videos. They remind me of when I was a teenager sitting in my bedroom with my buddies listening to records and talking about music, except that now one of us actually knows what he's talking about.
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  479. Oh boy that would be a wild ride.
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  480. That Pompeii Echoes is one of the greatest things ever created by humans.
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  481. "They pretend to tell us jokes, and we pretend to laugh."
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  482.  @gimmethegepgun  "Glass cockpit" means a cockpit that uses lots of video displays and modern electronics as opposed to an old school cockpit using all analog dial instruments. Look up a photo of a Boeing 747 cockpit from 1970s vs. a 747 from recent years to see the difference. It's common to upgrade old aircraft with glass cockpits if they remain in service long enough.
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  483. Shangri La was tied up in Philadelphia for many years until they towed down the Delaware River and sold her for scrap. My dad served aboard her and watched them tow her away from the New Jersey side of the river. He wasn't happy.
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  484. This reminds me: time to go give James Burke's Connections a rewatch!
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  485.  @BrunoNeureiter  Nobody said it was a "song". It does have a killer drum intro, though. As well as a killer drum solo. And a killer drum groove. Because Joe Morello.
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  486.  @T3hderk87  Only Connery could play a Japanese officer with a Scottish accent and the movie goers wouldn't think about it until later.
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  487. North Korea: We have Dear Leader's haircut of death!
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  488.  @lawrenceallen8096 STS failed to meet its cost and safety goals, and as a related effect, failed to meet its launch rate goal. It was a tremendous technical success, however, and did deliver a capability to do things in space that no other system could do before or since. All in all, I think that for a first of its kind, it wasn't as bad as its critics like to whine about. NASA always had ideas to improve the system but it never was able to get the up front cash it takes to implement those ideas. And instead of building a Shuttle 2.0 which built on the earlier system and corrected its flaws, NASA had to cave to the critics and shifting winds of politics when STS was finally retiring, sticking NASA with SLS and hiring SpaceX for Uber rides to the ISS.
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  489. In the process of trying to build my own antenna this afternoon...
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  490. "Hirohito Cruise Lines is not responsible for lost or stolen property or life."
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  491. Sorry, but no. If you read more about this kid, you'd see why. David was kind of smart, but also a borderline idiot. Almost like he was autistic or something. He could barely write legibly and sucked at every subject except science. He literally had no regard for safety measures at all, nor did he seem to give any thought to why doing his experiments in his house or back yard was a bad idea. A "scholarship" wasn't going to help him, because he could barely make it in school, and training him to be safe would be like training a cat to stop liking the taste of meat. When he joined the Navy and served on a nuclear ship, the officers were careful to make sure he was never allowed anywhere near the powerplant. If they'd have had their way he'd never have been allowed aboard. In short, he was a F-up with brains. Too bad he lived a tough life, but some of it was his own making.
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  492.  @jasonfuller9440  Their problems would be fixed if they'd just put guys like you in charge and tell them what to do, right? Make sure you mock their accents, too, they'll love your leadership for that.
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  493.  @Scanner9631  Interesting. Thinking back on it, Grumman went through this thought process back when they were designing the landing gear for the lunar module. 5 was too much mass, 3 meant they had to be too long to be stable, so 4 turned out to be the choice.
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  494. Message: "We are pleased to announce your entry into the Galactic Federation. We require confirmation. If you don't verify receipt by December 31st, 2020, we begin orbital bombardment."
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  495. I saw it in the theater on the 50th anniversary of the mission. Totally blown away! Absolutely emotional documentary. The footage looks like it was shot yesterday, but also the editing and music were amazing. Hard to watch it without tearing up.
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  496.  @rhysnichols8608  You have made several posts apologizing for the Japanese behavior towards POWs and innocent civilians. If Japan didn't want to get firebombed and nuked, maybe they should've thought about treating civilians humanely and not playing the fanatic on the battlefield. The Japanese civilians who suffered in the Allied campaign deserved better to be sure, but it was the Emperor's job to protect them and he failed by allowing his militant government to wage illegal war, and they failed to stop it when they had the chance by surrendering when the war became unwinnable. The Japanese militarist government was responsible for what happened to their civilians. They made war on civilians directly, using bullets and bayonets to murder women and children just for sport. Your defense of their behavior is despicable.
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  497. Tom Stafford also flew on the joint US/USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project, where the American and Soviet programs learned how to build common docking systems and did an in flight docking.
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  498. I've actually seen people dump on him for some reason. No accounting for taste.
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  499. I got a burned a few times by processing labs making assumptions like that, and one even screwed up my negatives by letting an idiot with scissors get a little too excited. When I take film to a lab now, I ask them not to cut the rolls and just do it myself on a light table later. Most of the time if it's black and white I just process it all myself, so I don't have to worry about some pothead screwing up a roll of film I shot on an expensive trip across the country.
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  500. Jonesy was a good ship's cat, too. He even tried to warn the one guy about the xenomorph sneaking up behind him, other cats would've run. Jones, last surviving crew member of the Nostromo.
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  501. Silane won't hurt your engine unless you're letting it form sand as its passing through turbopumps. Make sure it doesn't form a solid until it's clear of the exhaust nozzle.
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  502. Whoa! That's heavy, Doc.
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  503. "The Americans ruined the fun..." Yep, flipped over their lunch tray.
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  504. A ship named after an Irishman using potatoes as weapons...hmm...
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  505. Sometimes perfect is the enemy of good enough, but in the case of precision navigation there is no real reason not to improve at every opportunity. Ships and aircraft (and likely you in your car) today navigate by use of satellites using atomic clocks, the finest timekeeping devices currently available, and are accurate to within a few feet. Harrison was a hero we should all look up to. Even more so because he didn't let the bastards get him down and never gave up.
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  506. Yeah, my thoughts exactly. If ever a bunch of idiots needed to be made an example of, it was those clowns.
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  507.  @jtgd  That's no joke, for those who don't know, Wilson threw people in prison for speaking out against the war to make the world safe for "democracy".
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  508. "Forced to wait in their sinking aircraft until the carrier had passed overhead before jettisoning the canopy and swimming to the surface." Now that is some weapons grade nightmare fuel right there!
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  509. Yukikaze was a Highlander. There could be only one.
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  510. The 818 looks like it would've been a poor substitute for the Tomcat to me. Dorsal engine intakes cause compressor problems at high angles of attack, which would mean pulling G's in a dogfight would probably not have been feasible. Same thing with the poor cockpit visibility. In the early 60s aircraft were designed for long range interception with missiles and dogfighting was thought to be obsolete. Vietnam showed that to be not the case, so when the Tomcat was designed it had high pilot visibility and was able to handle close in fighting as well as 80+ mile intercepts, so it probably worked out better for the Navy in the end.
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  511. @Halepeno 2401 The sad thing is how many Americans today actually side with the communists. Betrayal of their own forefathers and an insult to people like you who stand with liberty,
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  512. "I grow tired of asking, where is the secret woke fan base?"
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  513. Somewhere I heard that a lot of Canadian engineers went south to work on Apollo for NASA or NASA contractors when the Avro Arrow program was canceled. Canada's aerospace industry was counting on that program and when it was cut it resulted in a big brain drain.
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  514. I don't know much about this guy's band, but he sure comes off as somebody who really knows his business, really sharp and clear-headed. Off to check out some Periphery now...
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  515. His book is a good read, and a great look into how IJN pilots were trained. Tough bastards.
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  516. It made me reflect on things.
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  517. "Ya ever wonder why?"
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  518. These big companies don't (usually) actually hate each other, they are just competitive rivals. On lots of projects one company will be the prime contractor, and lots of other contractors will be subcontractors, so engineers from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, etc. will find themselves working side by side on the same team for a particular project, sometimes for years on end. At the worker bee engineer level they will all drink beer together at the end of the work day.
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  519.  @Saitaina  "Ready to jump into" while waiting on "tarmac" implies that the man was a paratrooper with the 101st AB Division. He himself may not have been told why he was being readied for deployment, and even if he did know, not to run his mouth about it, and forbidden from using a phone. Just a guess here.
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  520. Slight tangent: does anyone else miss those older websites with their crazy colors and designs from the days before social media funneled everyone into a small number of tech giant sites? I remember things like "web rings" and so on, when surfing the internet was fun and a little crazy.
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  521. Fascinating discussion about how these trends happen, more like this, please! About liner notes, Bandcamp allows bands to post liner notes, credits, and song lyrics. More bands should take advantage of that.
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  522. Wiping out its own launch pad set the N1 back a very long way.
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  523. Kelly Johnson wasn't running Lockheed's corporate sales and marketing; he just built the airplanes the best he could.
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  524.  @Sableagle  "I read your book, Ryan. Your conclusions were all wrong. Halsey acted shtupidly."
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  525. My rangefinder don't want none unless you got gun hon!
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  526.  @IstasPumaNevada  The key is to team up with someone who already flies and you just focus on buying and operating the camera rig.
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  527. I've rode the Southwest Chief several times both ways. Takes 3 days and 2 nights to get from Chicago to LA, but I enjoy it, especially if I get a sleeper roomette. Passenger trains can be a pretty comfy ride, and accidents are rare, but things like this make you wonder how awful it would be for those inside these rail cars when they are involved in collisions or roll-overs. There are no seatbelts or airbags inside them, just some padded seats and lots of metal fittings, doorframes, tables, etc. If you are in the process of walking between the cars you are in even greater danger one would imagine. Still my favorite way to travel, though, especially eating in the diner car with random passengers and having conversation.
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  528. The weird thing is that we rarely bother memorizing phone numbers anymore because we store them all on our phones. If you are ever in an emergency where you've lost your phone, it's good to remember at least one friend or family member's phone number so you can dial them up from a desk phone quickly.
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  529. And we have today's Pin of Shame! lol
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  530. NASA took a needless risk by launching the first shuttle with a human crew. I was told once, and this may be urban legend, that the only thing a human was needed for to pilot the orbiter was to throw the landing gear lever on final approach. Everything else the vehicle did could be done by computer and remote commanding, at least for basic stuff. For once the Soviets did something smart and launched Buran's first flight unmanned. NASA was super cocky after the Apollo program and to put Young and Crippen into a couple of ejection seats and hope for the best was not wise. To make matters worse, it was later determined that the ejection seats were useless and would've killed the astronauts in the plume of the SRBs, so they were very fortunate they never felt compelled to activate them. It's a testament to the engineers who built STS that it worked so well on it's very first flight. The program managers should've known better, though.
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  531. Hand me my falconet. It's the one that has bad mother*cker engraved on it.
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  532. Sailors are always painting and scraping rust anyway, so it's all in a day's work.
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  533. The US is different because you are envied, and everyone with an inferiority complex has to make themselves feel better by nitpicking oddities in your language or behavior.
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  534. "The cage is bigger on the inside." So. Disco the parakeet is a Time Lord.
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  535. VMA-231 Ace of Spades. Oldest squadron in the USMC, Gulf War 1991. Will be the last Harrier squadron when it switches to F-35B likely in 2026. We got a whole lotta mileage out of those beautiful birds. Semper Fi.
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  536. "Sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES right about now."
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  537. In the Onion book "Our Dumb Century" there was a headline from the early 60s that said, "Soviets ahead of US in dog-killing race" and a story that went on to say how alarming it was that the US was falling behind in the technology of killing dogs in space and had to catch up. I love the Onion.
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  538. The degradation of sites like this and Arecibo is heartbreaking.
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  539. 6:27 I hope UFO guy had that facial hair setup registered with the Ministry of Silly Beards.
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  540. In Soviet Russia, bore drills you!
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  541. Now the next stage of evolution would be torpedo zeppelins: flying torpedo battleships!
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  542.  @jetseekers Do you doubt the effectiveness of a tachyon pulse modulated deflector array?!
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  543.  @MeltedMask  The USSR used RTGs for all kinds of stuff and lost track of lots of them out in the vast wilderness even before it broke up. And don't forget about the nuclear reactor on a satellite they accidentally crashed in Canada in the 70s, only a small portion of the reactor core was ever found, the rest is out there in the woods somewhere in Canada.
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  544. Legend has it that Kate and its crew are still prowling around each night out there to this day.
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  545. "We need to give more money to schools/poor/drug addicts/whatever!" "What's stopping you, then?"
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  546.  @dx-ek4vr  Thank you for your valuable contribution to this discussion about sonic booms.
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  547. As Zorin in A View to a Kill. One of my favorite James Bond villains.
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  548. Parts of the PA Turnpike are built over another abandoned road, the South Pennsylvania Railroad, an attempt to build a competing southern rail passage across the state which was canceled after much of the grading had been done. The rights-of-way were then used for the trunpike.
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  549. If done properly, an underground nuke releases no radioactive material to the environment, it keeps the whole cloud buried underground where it can't hurt anybody. The example in this video was not done properly, but most were. Atmospheric testing is far more dirty.
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  550. I'd rather spend 80 hours at battle stations aboard that ship than 80 seconds on foot disembarking from a landing craft with German machine guns shooting point blank at my face, though.
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  551. Hypergolic fuels in land-based missiles are scary dangerous enough (look up the Titan II silo explosion in Arkansas); putting them in submarines is beyond stupid.
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  552.  @AD1978leo  No, some of the artists are also big time blockers and copyright hawks. I have heard Roger Hodgson of Supertramp is one, and I think the Eagles are too. Never forget Lars Ulrich and Metallica's great Napster episode. If you asked them specifically about Rick's instructional videos, most of those guys would probably be cool with it. But youtube is known as a place where uploaders blatantly violate copyrights, and there are way too many uploads each minute for a human to judge which ones are legit, so they just have dumb algorithms to indiscriminately block whole swaths of videos based on sound clips, legal or not.
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  553. That boat was the coxswain's responsibility. He was its commander. Nimitz understood that. General Order 12 states clearly, "When on duty, I must walk my post from flank to flank, and take no shit from any rank."
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  554. Where did you get all the cool super gritty black and white photos? Are those from an accident report or something?
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  555. I once visited the USAF museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and saw the B-36 up close, along with an engine on display nearby. Good Lord, what a gigantic beast! I always loved Pratt & Whitney's logo, with the eagle and the motto "Dependable Engines". Can't get much more plain language than that, and reminds the managers and employees what they are supposed to be striving for.
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  556. Unfortunately in all likelihood it would be woke and full of CGI and totally suck. Michael Bay would direct it and every thrown knife would result in a huge explosion.
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  557.  @Markle2k  The 747, on the other hand (which is what the guy is talking about) has been an overwhelming success and has stayed in production and service far longer than Boeing ever imagined, and way outlived the customer who originally asked for it, Pan Am. It is also in my opinion, one of the most beautiful airliners in history.
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  558. This reminds me of a 1986 movie called Riders of the Storm starring Dennis Hopper. It's a comedy about a bunch of psy op Vietnam vets who operated a station out of an old B-29 Superfortress in Vietnam, and after the war kept the aircraft and use it to broadcast pirate radio and TV in the 1980s. They decide their last mission is to prevent the election of a war-mongering woman. It's not the best movie ever made but it's very much of its time and the concept of a flying pirate broadcast operation is a fun one to contemplate. I remember my dad renting the VHS tape back in the day.
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  559. Teabagging the kills
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  560. That's really cool.
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  561. "I'm your sonar system. I don't feel like keeping track of that American aircraft carrier you've been stalking for days. Oops, look out {BANG}! [Mayhem laughing hysterically] Better get Allstate, so you can better protect your submarine against Mayhem."
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  562. Honestly, it's an order of magnitude better song than anything on these spotify lists.
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  563. Another great album from 1978 is Hemispheres by Rush. Speaking of which, today marks one year since Neil Peart passed.
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  564.  @bearcatben4762  "Now I finally have time to read!"
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  565. Look up Agent 355. She was a spy who gave her life for her country and to this day we haven't found what her real name was. So sad we can't even honor her properly.
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  566. Incubus always takes me back to good days, love the unique sound of that band. Also, nice to see Carol join in on the fun with this one!
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  567.  @YouTube_username.  You're missing the part about partial pressures. Also, wrong thread to hijack, this one is about Atlas.
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  568.  @smoshfan439  They're not being "dishonored", they're being remembered for exactly what they did: abused an aircraft, destroying the aircraft, getting themselves killed in the process, and putting others in danger. These are facts. Doesn't mean they were bad guys, but on their last day on earth they got into trouble they couldn't get themselves out of.
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  569. How does one make a parody of what is already a parody of itself? - Philosoraptor
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  570. Let's face it, while Enterprise was possibly the most distinguished fighting ship of the Pacific war, the Iowa class battleships take the cake for radiating intimidating POWER to an observer. One can argue that this was their primary effect when they were returned to service in the 80s and 90s. Sailing through the Strait of Hormuz with an Iowa and attending Aegis destroyers and cruisers makes a huge impression on an Iranian sailor despite their age and obsolescence.
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  571. There's a reason people make bombs out of fertilizer.
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  572.  @animalmother9339  Well, in a sufficiently large group of passengers, there's probably at least one psychopath who looks around the cabin at everyone and laughs with his eyes wide open the whole way down.
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  573. Sometimes Rick's channel is like TV before the Internet: if you don't catch it at the broadcast time you're just out of luck.
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  574. @ I don't know the history of the region, but I'm guessing the railroad was there long before the launch pads. I have wanted to ride that particular Amtrak train, the Coast Starlight, for a while but haven't had the pleasure yet.
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  575. "I shot down 3 MiGs with one of those."
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  576. That's why the Left cancels comedians. No mocking of the new order is to be permitted.
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  577. You are not weaklings. Not all of you. You just took good life for granted and the evil snuck in and took hold. You will have to work be rid of it now. And it's not just you. All Western countries are facing this problem right now.
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  578.  @pattheplanter  That's like saying you didn't have sex because you wore a condom.
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  579.  C O  I read your book, Ryan. Your conclusions were all wrong. Halsey acted shtupidly.
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  580. Well, HMS Pickle seems to fit the bill.
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  581.  @sirrliv  Ladders across to a moving vessel while it's crew is shooting at you? I don't think so. But at a range of only a few meters, infantry can do lots of damage with well aimed rifle fire and crew served machine guns. Even better if they had mortars or other light artillery available. And if they manage to find a way to block the channel and stop the ship from moving, boarding even becomes a non-zero possibility.
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  582. Amazingly easy on these horrible people.
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  583.  @buzzsaw838  ULA was a shotgun wedding between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, with the government being the dad holding the shotgun. Atlas V is an LM rocket, Delta IV is a Boeing rocket. Vulcan will be the first true ULA rocket.
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  584.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  FDR's works projects were not "capitalism", try again.
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  585.  @josephahner3031  Right. Chesty's Marines were surrounded because of McArthur's stupidity, and they had to fight their way out of North Korea back to the coast so the Navy could pick them up at Hungnam. One Marine division vs. 8 Chinese divisions; resulting in one Marine division successfully withdrawing leaving a trail of frozen dead communists behind them. As a parting gift, the US Navy blew up and shelled Hungnam harbor on the way out.
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  586. It can't hurt the magnetic field; the mag field is emanated from the earth's liquid metal core, which couldn't care less about some nukes in space. What it does do, though, is fill the field up with charged particles which can damage satellites and interfere with radio comms for a while. The mag field deflects and contains charged particles from the sun all the time, and when solar activity picks up more particles get trapped in the field and race between the poles, interacting with the atmosphere and causing the aurora. A big nuke injects a huge load of particles into the field, causing the aurora effect seen in this test.
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  587. "Build ships for brawling rather than sniping" somewhere Adm. Nelson smiled.
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  588. I spent some time on the Jersey seashore. He wasn't wrong. Damn bugs can steal babies from carriages down there.
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  589. This was not a topic I had expected Drach to cover!
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  590.  @gardnep  The Atlas V was designed and built by Lockheed Martin and production was split off to ULA. Atlas started off in the 1950s as a Convair program.
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  591. The USN training film on the Forrestal fire is a great film that teaches a lot of lessons, it was still being shown at least as late as the early 1990s. Wouldn't doubt the Navy still uses it today. One thing to note about that fire is that, even though they made mistakes and didn't know exactly what they were doing, the crew showed great courage in continually running back to fight the fire and try to rescue their buddies, you can see this in the film: a bomb goes off on the flight deck and a bunch of guys run straight into the fire, huge balls.
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  592. This was an emotional and politically charged event that had to result in jail time. The fact that the crew and their employer were comfortable blowing off the rules for years before this suggests they were not deterred by the law.
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  593. In the US military adultery is against the law. If your wife reports you to you commanding officer it will get looked into and you could be charged with violating the UCMJ.
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  594. That fighter jet with the engines out on the wingtips looks like a nightmare in a situation where an engine flames out at supersonic speeds. Looks cool though.
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  595. This is possibly the best documentary about the F-100 I've seen yet, and I used to watch Discovery Wings back in the 90s. Great job.
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  596. Love his tone on Warning.
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  597. Awesome, Ozzy's myth is the only one that turns out to be true, because that dude is fucking crazy. And he co-founded the most awesome metal band ever. Black Sabbath forever.
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  598.  @jackboot8432  Why do the French line their roads with trees? So the German army can march in the shade.
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  599. He grabbed a baseball bat, ran into the barn, and beat himself in the face with it for a half hour screaming and crying until he quit breathing. Damndest thing I ever saw, officer!
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  600. I am old enough to remember when Nirvana and Alice in Chains was alternative. Boy are those days ever gone.
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  601. I love how the water heater launched through the roof of the house like a Polaris missile from a submarine.
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  602. I love dissecting great songs, and these videos really hit the spot. Been lurking your channel for a while, this pushes me to subscribe.
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  603. That sounds a lot like how the very first air combat was conducted in WWI between scout spotter planes. No real fighters existed yet but the air crews started taking shots at each other with personal arms.
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  604.  @tramlink8544  A lot of Americans dislike him, too.
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  605. I remember reading that Soviet tank crews in Afghanistan were prone to drinking their own brake fluid.
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  606. One of the Soviet reactors is scattered across northern Canada. If you're hiking in the Great White North and run across grizzly bears with tentacles you'll know why.
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  607. The bridge was being disagreeable.
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  608. YouTube/google is run by assholes who half the time don't know what they're doing and the other half are deliberately trying to sabotage your privacy and steer discussion and speech. Hard to tell which is which sometimes.
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  609. paved with communism
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  610. Funny, I see it the opposite way. Despite all these screwups and even a couple of major disasters nuclear reactors seem manageable, if not completely safe. Weapons are a different story, however...
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  611.  @evensgrey  Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
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  612.  @thatoldyankeesguy  Uh, what?
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  613. "Hitler is upset about Mark Felton's latest YouTube upload."
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  614. Somewhere I have a photo book written by a guy who turned his VW Microbus van into a giant camera obscura by lightproofing the interior and putting a pinhole on one side of the van. Basically a giant camera on wheels. He'd drive it to a location and park it with the pinhole side facing the subject, pin a large sheet of photo paper on the back wall, and open the pinhole to expose it.
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  615.  @Shinzon23  Well, we're all dying extremely slowly over the course of several years right now, just getting old. I think I'd go for the Mad Max future myself. Would have to think up a villain name for myself. Toecutter, Humongous, Master Blaster, Immortan Joe are all taken...
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  616.  @YoursNKR  Basically, a fire extinguisher.
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  617. Pringles, maybe. Monster. Campbells Soup. Folgers Coffee. Pennzoil. Lots of ad revenue potential here.
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  618. All that security and secrecy and the Soviets had moles working right in the Manhattan Project telling them everything.
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  619. Okay, that's great that the car company tested this as well, so when will we find who was right and who was wrong, and why? That's like a huge tease!
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  620. It gets overshadowed a lot, but the US Navy's submarines managed to do to Japan what Germany's could not do to the UK, cut them off almost completely from seaborn trade. I find it interesting that two of the Japanese subs sunk in this story were sunk by allied subs, one American and the other Royal Navy. How many sub-on-sub kills were there in WWII I wonder?
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  621. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, Darth Hirohito.
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  622. In the old days, cops were held accountable for their actions and not treated like god-kings. Plus they hadn't yet learned mantras like "Stop resisting!" and "Officer feared for his life."
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  623.  @hhairball9  Can't reply...keyboard fucked up now
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  624.  @fnoigy  Oh, so it was the government that was worried about losing money. I thought you said it was capitalism.
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  625. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me Then have to have a frontal lobotomy!"
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  626. He picks tracks that he thinks are well-produced, not the tracks that music nerds like.
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  627. They cancel the civilian alert upon realizing it's only an exercise, but that poor woman and her kids are still hiding in the fallout shelter scared shitless...
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  628. So Bee Mail complains about the music and now is here to rag on the Brits. Troll.
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  629. The B-52 is still in service because it has to do one simple thing and it does it well: be a flying dump truck full of weapons. It can't overfly defended targets with gravity bombs like it was to do in the 50s, but even in a lethal environment it can carry a metric shit ton of cruise missiles to within striking range. And once air supremacy has been achieved, it can go back to being a simple gravity bomb truck or it can load up with GPS-guided JDAMs and loiter in the area waiting for troops on the ground to call for support. There's something to be said for a fairly conventional design that can carry lots of stuff.
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  630. Gimme Shelter is one of the best rock and roll tunes ever.
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  631. It makes me happy, in a way, that Scott Manley also wastes his time on nonsense like the rest of us.
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  632.  @Axius27  The snake was thirsty.
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  633. If you look up "colony drop" in TV Tropes, Skylab is given as a real life example lol.
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  634.  @LCaddyStudios  Oh really? Then where is NASA getting the crazy money mentioned in this video? The Apollo and Shuttle suit designs are already proven and the major development work was paid for long ago. Simply take those designs update the electronics and maybe some materials, and build more. No need to reinvent the wheel.
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  635. @Tired of War And no doubt you are always looking for opportunities to dig at the Yanks.
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  636. It is funny how when it's in the mix it becomes acceptable, but on its own it's unlistenable.
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  637. In boot camp we were taught about night vision and how it takes about 25-30 minutes to let your eyes adjust fully to starlight. Light discipline is extremely important. No flashlights, no glowing cigarettes, no brightly illuminated watches, because if you can see in the dark so can the enemy. Even shiny reflective things must be hidden so as not to reflect moonlight. If you must use a light, maybe to look at a map or something, you do so with a dim, red-filtered flashlight underneath a poncho or a field jacket. Red light doesn't ruin your night vision as fast. It's a shame that so many people never get to see a non-light polluted sky, when you're at sea or out in the desert away from any city lights it's astounding how many stars and other objects you can see. The night sky is amazingly cluttered.
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  638. The lack of professionalism shown by the Russian air crews says a ton. Not knowing or obeying the rules of engagement, screaming and cursing at each other over the radio like a bunch of teenagers playing an MMO video game, etc. All of that plus the quality control we've come to expect in Soviet/Russian high tech hardware.
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  639. After seeing the meteor, they immediately attacked the nearest humans, just because that's what geese do.
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  640. Great video, my thumbs up is actually for the cool footage of a Convair 990 in action! My dad worked for an airline in the 70s when the Convair 880 and 990 were still in service and known for their great speed. Now largely forgotten, in their day they were great jetliners and pilots used to "race" each other to see if they could shave seconds off the route times in their speedy Convair jetliners.
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  641. "I don't think you understood what I was asking for. What I meant was, 'Go find all of the guns, and put all of them on my ship', is that clear?"
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  642. That missing jetliner is also probably in a thousand pieces, too, even if you find it you might not know what it is at first.
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  643.  @chadcuckproducer1037  Those aren't privateers since they don't carry a letter of marque from any recognized nation.
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  644.  @freebeerfordworkers  Sounds like what the Japanese navy is doing today: building carriers capable of operating F-35s and calling them "helicopter destroyers".
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  645. TMI was a wakeup call indeed. "What if that valve hadn't failed in 1979?" is a good question, and the answer can go both ways. One the one hand maybe the industry would've thrived, on the other hand, without that wakeup call and given the continuing complacency of operators, it's possible that a worse accident may have occurred. Something else to think about: the space shuttle Challenger accident was a huge wakeup call for NASA, almost the worst possible. That totally changed safety culture in NASA...for a while anyway. As time went on, they got sloppy again and we wound up with the Columbia accident. TMI was 40+ years ago, most of the people in the business then have retired, and the lack of new growth means less experience. Something to consider if/when nuclear power gets bumping again.
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  646. Yet despite all this science tech at our fingertips, we have flerfers and other idiots. SMDH
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  647. Space Shuttle pilots spent redonkulous amounts of time in the simulator, practicing, among other things, manually flying into orbit and back. Also, KSP players do not fly anything into space; they only pretend to.
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  648. I think my favorite "Balls!" moment was the one where a dog got dosed with radiation and yells "Balls!".
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  649.  @therealuncleowen2588  For all their aggression as individual warriors, the IJN failed to be aggressive at key moments.
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  650. The Live at Pompeii version of Echoes for me, especially the jammy part that takes place about a third into the song.
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  651. Cold War equipment like this is fascinating.
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  652. Music without narration, way better and creepier. The cool music is half the reason I love these vids.
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  653. 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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  654. I remember an episode of The Outer Limits (90s version) called "Final Exam", in which a university student discovers how to easily build a really powerful nuke while taking a test, and proceeds to hold a whole city hostage. He is eventually stopped but before he is killed, he warns that if he figured this out, other people are bound to figure it out, too, and the episode ends with another student in another school suddenly also discovering it. It's just like the atom bomb in real life: the US couldn't keep it a secret for long, and the Big Five can't keep it a secret either, so now it's proliferating. We can slow it down but we can't stop it so we have to learn how to manage the risk going forward.
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  655. Midgets. Custom designed for space travel. We laugh at them now, (yes, you do, in secret, don't act like you don't) but they are the future of humanity, while you long-leggers are obsolete.
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  656. This happens to me in the shower. By the time I towel off and get to my instrument it's gone. Like trying to remember a dream fives minutes after you wake up, so frustrating.
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  657.  @Orlunu  Or the "oatmeal bar" thing that came in MRE rations, which was tooth-shatteringly hard and which Marines used to joke about being able to sharpen bayonets with.
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  658. I read somewhere that Ho was an admirer of Thomas Jefferson and the idea of the Declaration of Independence before he threw in hard with the communists. Methinks we screwed the pooch on that one. But at the time, it would've meant letting the French down. They'd have gotten over it eventually but nothing is free.
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  659. The dark plumes are due to water injection during maximum power takeoffs, when the plane is loaded to the gills with fuel and weapons and trying to get airborne before the incoming nukes obliterate the airbase. They aren't that smokey in cruise flight.
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  660. Destroyer USS Laffey came within 20 feet of Japanese battleship Hiei, raking her with machinegun fire and everything else on deck, wounding Admiral Abe and killing some of his officers. She was then surrounded by enemy ships and went down soon after taking a 14" hit from Hiei, fighting to the death against four enemy ships at a point blank range.
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  661. And with that terrible disappointment...
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  662.  @dbf1dware  And now your task is to become incredibly wealthy so you can visit it.
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  663. In reality heating and air conditioning both heat the whole neighborhood by burning energy. Whether your energy source is coal, gas, nuclear fission, or even someday nuclear fusion, there is waste heat generated all along the circuit starting at the generating plant. It's a problem for the future if fusion becomes cheap and easy someday, because while pollution, carbon output, and cost will drop immensely, civilization demand will go up and our main problem becomes dealing with waste heat. Arthur C. Clarke mentions this in 3001: Final Odyssey novel, but he doesn't say how the problem was overcome, presumably because he had no idea.
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  664.  @EneTheGene  Until they do want to create an incident and pick you out as the lucky winner like that guy who was accused of stealing a poster.
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  665. and also Slayer writes a song about you
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  666.  @UncleWermus  Nah, the gym membership fee was too high.
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  667. He should do Tom Sawyer. It's a great song with great production, and there's a reason it's still a huge radio song even today.
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  668. Astronauts are just riding on an expensive simulator developed by Walt Disney and Howard Hughes. It's a very realistic ride, but you never actually leave Florida. Good thing, because just a few miles offshore is the Bermuda Triangle, a triangular hole in the flat earth into which you may fall.
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  669.  @overlordmgcover2262  I am guessing he was a Filipino who had served in the US Navy. Was very common and I think may still be to this day. I visited a US Navy ship in the early 90s and there were several Filipinos serving.
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  670. Drach, can you do a video on the observed effectiveness of armor in history? How many battleships or cruisers took hits from enemy shells and were saved by their armor?
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  671. Same thing I thought. "Good job, professor, you've shown that a cat still acts like a cat while the transmitter is on."
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  672. Asking people not to be jerks on the internet is likely to be as effective as asking people not to look at pr0n or cute cat pictures. But you're not wrong. Where I live the cops went digital and possibly encrypted, and the fire department too, so my 125 is no longer usable for them, but I still have air, rail, and marine traffic at least. Public safety, in my opinion, shouldn't be encrypted. Some police activity needs to be, but the bulk of it, stuff like accidents and so on, should be in the clear for the public. One of my favorite photographers is a guy known as Weegee who, back in the 1940s, made his living by scanning New York City police radio in his car at night so he could drive to the crime scenes and get the photos. He was friendly with the police, and they never had a problem with him. I guess that sort of thing is old fashioned now.
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  673.  @davidmoore8741  What does Ukraine have to do with a 1950s launch vehicle family?
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  674. I remember it also. I really couldn't care less if some Italian or Egyptian politician gets bent out of shape over it; those bastards murdered an American citizen and I'm fine with the Navy and other services hunting them down and bending the rules to do it. We must never forget, and they must have no safe haven.
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  675. I think most Soviet rocket engineers admired the Saturn V, even if they didn't admit it. Heck, the N1 has fans around the world, and it never even worked right.
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  676. Bear in mind that for artillery pieces every single shot is logged and detailed records kept, so that the barrel liner wear and other details can be fed into calculations for the next salvo. Every single gun tube has its own history. This is true for land-based towed artillery such as the M-198 155mm howitzer as well as naval guns.
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  677. Germans: "Good news, Dutch, you don't have to spend money on your navy or defense anymore!" Dutch: "So what's the bad news?" German army:
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  678.  @RealCadde  But many speed limits are complete bullshit, tied to politics and one-size-fits-all highway engineering, as well as an obvious fine money grab by government entities. You are still correct, but the cynical way in which speed limits are implemented makes it hard for anyone to take this kind of lecturing seriously.
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  679. In Soviet Russia, polonium uses you up.
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  680. "Hands off" she said.
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  681. Do you even understand the purpose of this video?
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  682. We don't need AI to land on the moon, we just need more practice.
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  683.  @Wolf-md2ui  It's Australia, you have to be more specific. It might actually cause mutated animals that don't kill you, which would be weird for Australia.
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  684. The VC-54C used by President Roosevelt during WWII is nicknamed "Sacred Cow" and is on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. You can walk through the cabin and see all the mods they made for VIP use, as well as all the 1940s avionics and communications suite the USAAF installed. Also, because FDR was wheelchair-bound, there is a wheelchair lift installed in the aft fuselage used by the president to get on and off the aircraft. The museum also has the Constellation and one of the VC-137 (707) birds that came to be known as Air Force One.
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  685. Have another Big Ass Fries? Fuck you, I'm eating!
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  686.  @BillySBC  Yeah, that tone of voice is really increasing your likeability.
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  687. Wow, she got trolled a lot. In Alien she did not know that thing was going to pop out of Kane's chest, either.
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  688. "Go to the radio shack and tell them you're looking for a PRC-E7."
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  689. If I'm 79 years old and can sell my music for millions of dollars, well, why not? Live out the rest of my days comfortably and be happy that I've made my mark and won't be soon forgotten. Most people publishing their stuff on bandcamp won't ever get that kind of payoff.
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  690. This ship served a long time. I am intrigued by the concept of coastal defense ships. A mini battleship with limited range that is basically meant to act as a mobile coastal battery. INteresting concept.
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  691.  @misterknightowlandco  Guy I know is a great songwriter and he knows dick all about theory. He plays guitar great, but he doesn't know how to play the guitar the way trained players know; never took a lesson. You put a creative human in a situation where they can be creative they will come up with good stuff. I agree that knowing theory is better than not knowing it, but "dicking around and strumming" is how you come up with new ideas, and if you're thinking about theory while you're doing it, you're just letting your brain get in its own way.
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  692. A friend of mine used to work on Titan II missiles years ago when he was in the Air Force. He told me a story about some guys that were working in a room with a solid rocket motor that was, IIRC, supposed to separate stages, when they screwed up and set it off. It fired for maybe a second and those guys were essentially erased from existence.
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  693.  @justingrey6008  It's always clear when you are reading subtitles along with it.
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  694. I went through this with Rush. Right around when I graduated high school I kind of drifted away from Rush and other 80s bands because I was in a whole new phase of life, with new friends and new music to listen to. At the time, Rush was also in my least favorite phase musically. 10 or 15 years later I met some younger people who were newer, huge Rush fans, and they got me to go back and give them another look. Their newer stuff, like Snakes and Arrows and their final album, Clockwork Angels, have some fantastic work in them, and in their final years I saw them 4 or 5 times live.
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  695. Someone needs to break into that transmission and start playing Warpigs by Black Sabbath to go along with the air raid siren \m/
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  696. And following that machine, a lake of water at 20 atmospheres of pressure finally let loose in the room you're in.
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  697. I believe the ownership chain of Atlas, starting in the 1950s, is Convair, Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin, and then ULA. ULA was a shotgun wedding between Lockheed Martin and Boeing forced upon them by the government. The Delta family of rockets was Boeing legacy companies.
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  698. True, but building a modern improved version of rockets like the Energia or even the Saturn V is not technically difficult; both vehicles are well-documented and have successful flight history and data, and there are even existing examples to physically inspect. NASA even has a raft of fresh never-used F1 engines in storage. The hardest part is funding, bureaucracy, institutional inertia, public perception, etc.
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  699. The thing I like about bench seats is being able to throw my right arm over the seat while driving like my grandpa used to do, and also being able to slide around a bit, especially long drives where shifting your body around a little keeps you from getting cramped. Bucket seats are comfortable at first but after a few hours of driving they feel confining. One of the reasons I drive a pickup instead of a car is because the split bench seat is way more comfortable.
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  700. Led Zeppelin: writes nerdy songs about Lord of the Rings, girls go crazy Rush: writes nerdy songs about Lord of the Rings, girls go away Plant: ;-) Geddy: :-/
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  701.  @barrettKiwi  I feel like Rick's importance to music is up there with John Peel or someone.
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  702.  @TeKnOShEeP  And after the shuttle landed they were still radiating heat for a good while just sitting there on the runway.
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  703. The real name for "Fat Earth Theory" is called "earth oblateness" in the textbooks.
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  704.  @Shinzon23  It looks like something from Thunderbirds Are Go
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  705. Also funny if Donald Trump.
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  706. 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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  707. It's the Boss's willingness to pay for it. Most engineers want to try to push the edge and get crazy, but they can only do it if the management is willing to pay for it. Musk was young and new to the industry, while the older companies were much more risk-averse, unlike the days post-WWII when those same companies were pushing limits themselves.
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  708. I once saw a documentary where they interviewed former mobsters and one of them said that eating a lot was a big thing amongst the mob, maybe because of their desire for physical gratification but also the guy said he thought maybe he ate a lot to cover up his guilt for the awful things he knew he had done.
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  709. And put a bomb inside the kick drum like on Tommy Smothers show.
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  710.  @BeeWhistler  He probably thought it was valuable and he could sell it later, until he got radiation burns and maybe saw on the news that they were looking for it?
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  711. As an aside, I spent some time near Lake George a while back and I learned that people from upstate New York tend to hate NY City, which doesn't surprise me.
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  712.  @SnakebitSTI  Mike Mullane calls it "normalization of deviance", basically ignoring the requirements because you got away with it a few times and figure you always will. Ther was a requirement for no O-ring burn-through, yet despite multiple burn-through incidents they launched Challenger anyway. There was a requirement for no debris strikes on the orbiter, yet despite tons of previous debris strikes they decided Columbia was going to be just fine. Follow the rules from the get-go and you can cut down on the risk and danger.
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  713. The tale of Maj Harvey makes you dislike Beatty even more intensely.
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  714.  @afriendofafriend5766  At the Speed of Love
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  715.  @purplespeckledappleeater8738  Nor does he get enough blame for going along with his war criminal government, so on the balance it's a wash.
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  716. "Almost caught the cruiser SMS Rune before being called away by Beatty." There's that name again lol...
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  717. This video is great. I means, this all happened over 200 years ago, but it's still sad when you heard about the fates of the famous men and ships involved, and so cheerful to see good old Constitution still serving today, that photo with her in formation with Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers and the Blue Angels' Hornet jets is fantastic.
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  718. Plot twist: it IS a meteorological station, but not to report the weather, instead it CONTROLS the weather! (Cue X-Files theme)
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  719. If you buy his book it explains it.
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  720.  @One-ny1hp  Hey guys, found the flerfer!
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  721. You know it's bad when the instrument starts flashing "balls".
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  722.  @TheBeigeBox  I like the cut of your jib.
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  723. The irony of a guy calling people stupid when he confuses the 80s with the 40s....
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  724. For sure there's no way you'd get me to ride on that damn thing, up or down. I mean, it's awesome and as an unmanned freighter it shows great potential, but it scares me way more than the Shuttle did. The belly-flop landing is terrifying to behold, I'd take my chances on STS over that anytime.
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  725.  @Chris_the_Muso  Maybe also because water is corrosive and will get into all the parts and CO2 will immediately evaporate and dissipate in the air?
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  726.  @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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  727. I always thought that scene was funny, because it implied that the Imperials were deliberately looking to kill people and didn't really care about cargo or droids getting away, even though the whole reason they boarded the ship was to find the stolen Death Star plans. Also, if they had just rolled the star destroyer so its belly faced away from the planet the escape pods may have all failed to function properly and could've been captured intact in orbit.
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  728. Driving off a downed bridge in the dark or fog is some pretty good nightmare fuel.
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  729. Gods helps those engineers who do the math.
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  730. That last one is basically what the Joker does to his victims.
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  731. DecessusFar If you're gonna wait for the cops to show up to defend you while someone is assaulting or robbing you, you will get about as much help as the guy in video.
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  732. Black Sabbath, definitely. First heavy metal album, and every song on it kills. Definitely changed the landscape, plus it has one of the most metal album covers ever.
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  733.  @Mr._Infamous  How's your naval doing, seeing as how you gaze at it so frequently?
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  734. Ask your doctor about Dysprosium. Do not take Dysprosium if you are pregnant, diabetic, or have a heart condition. Side effects of Dysprosium may include unconsciousness, sleepiness, dizziness, greasy or oily stools, death, or an irrational urge to listen to Nickelback.
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  735. Drach, I always watch your videos in full screen. As an amateur black and white photographer I love looking at those beautiful photos of proud ships. Cheers from the USA.
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  736. Slow clapper.
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  737. Don't sweat it, you're doing fine. I briefly studied this stuff in college and built a DAC as part of a project (the details of which are now very hazy), and what you're saying rings a bell, if simplified.
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  738. He got Epsteined.
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  739. The cool thing is that it doesn't sound weird when you listen to it, not jarring, just flows.
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  740. "The IAEA determined that there were no other radiation sources on site." Yeah, okay, but I'll still skip the tour all the same if you don't mind, thanks.
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  741. ABSOLUTE SCANDALLLLLL!!!!!!!
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  742.  @connclissmann6514  I was thinking the same thing. There is no reason LEDs have to be so cold and harsh; they come in all colors nowadays.
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  743. Get more for your dollar: send probes to outer planets and/or the Kuiper Belt equipped with telescopes and instruments for this as a secondary mission. Basically, more New Horizons type missions, but a bit bigger and better outfitted. NH was a fairly cheap mission as such things go, spend a bit more on a multi-vehicle program you could multiply the science return methinks.
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  744. A BattleTech thread in a Drach video? I've found my people.
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  745. Daspit was radiating so much heat from anger, that he could've ordered his boat to pull up to the Tonan Maru while he stood on the bow, and just ignited the target's fuel from his angry stare.
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  746. He gets a Winnie the Pooh bear.
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  747. If some talented rando can make the despecialized edition in his spare time surely Disney could do it. They'd make a mint selling those.
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  748. Proving that 80s tech still looks more futuristic than 2020s tech.
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  749. As far as Led Zep and JPJ keyboard parts, my favorite is No Quarter. And yes, JPJ is an outstanding musician.
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  750. I did the opposite. Got into photography in the early days of digital, took a class on dark room printing and B/W film, and pretty much gave up digital after that, aside from my smart phone. I spend my day in front of a computer. Doing my hobby on a computer is not cool. Plus, the older antique film cameras will always be cooler than any digital stuff, and don't go obsolete with the next firmware drop.
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  751. That story about the cops stumbling onto it, asking for a shoutout, and then leaving it alone is pretty cool. I wish we had a pirate radio scene like that where I grew up, sounds like a blast.
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  752. In the US AM is still pretty important, especially out in the country away from the cities. I hope it never dies. I love listening to AM at night on long drives, scanning for stations to see how far away I can pick them up. If the conditions are right, you can hear stations hundreds of miles away for a while. There has been recent conflict over car manufacturers trying to remove AM from car radios and it upset a lot of people, I think Ford actually reversed the decision. A lot of people still listen to it.
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  753. Agree. Why stop there? Piracy has been big in the news in recent years as well.
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  754. Hitting guy wires is how they made the sound of the laser cannons in Star Wars.
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  755. Somewhere out there is the list of alternate landing sites for the Shuttle; you could look that up. But basically the Shuttle can land anywhere with a big enough runway. The tricky part is keeping the locals safe around the nasty hypergolic propellants after you roll to a stop.
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  756. That footage of those guys assembling the solid rocket segments, where you can see the rubbery propellant grain, scares me at some deep level. That's one of those jobs that is simple but seems like it can turn crazy deadly in an instant. Damn, rockets, you scary.
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  757. Disney doesn't need our business either.
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  758. He WON the Battle of Saratoga for Gates, while Gates hunkered down in a tent far to the rear, unaware of what was going on at the front. In an era where generals on horseback frequently took bullets next to privates, Gates was a terrible officer and leader, who conspired to replace Washington as leader of the Army before disgracing himself at Camden. Despite his later treachery, Arnold could not be accused of cowardice in combat.
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  759.  @pedrolmlkzk  Nope. Launch vehicles and weapons have very different requirements. Generally, launch vehicles can tolerate things weapons can't such as delicate handling of hardware and propellants, slow tanking and slow preparations for launch, trading speed for higher payload mass to orbit. A missile is basically a bullet sitting in the chamber of a gun (silo) which needs to be able to stay ready for years on end and able to launch at a moment's notice. Missiles trade efficient performance for speed and reliability, and must be easy to handle for maintenance people. The liquid fueled Atlas, America's first ICBM, was mediocre as a weapon but made for a great launch vehicle later. Atlas had to be stored empty until an alert, when it would be raised out of the silo or coffin, and it took 15 minutes to load it with fuel and ox, while the current ICBM, the solid fuel Minuteman family, is much better suited to the task.
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  760. Lately the USN has been naming LHAs and LHDs after battles. Amphibious assault ships that can also fulfill the role of small carriers using Harriers, F-35s, and helicopters.
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  761.  @RingwayManchester  Looks like you've got a live one on the line, time to reel him in!
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  762.  @AWMJoeyjoejoe  Them US Navy rigid airships also beg to differ.
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  763. Reminds me of Creepshow when Stephen King's character touches a meteor in a swamp and it grows all over him.
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  764. 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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  765. Well IIRC the original idea was to have it retrieved by a Shuttle orbiter and either serviced on the ground and re-launched or retired and put out to pasture in a museum. That idea's history now, so either HST gets grappled and deorbited or, if it loses attitude control and tumbles, it becomes impossible or unsafe to dock with, winds up dying in orbit and becoming space junk. My bet is it will die on orbit before anyone coughs up the money to grapple it. So, likely space junk.
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  766.  @AsbestosMuffins  In an extreme situation, an extra 100 lbs can be the difference between life and death, and the whole point of the story is that it's an emergency with no time to build a mission with the proper safety margin.
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  767. Ah, I see, so he's registered that move with the Ministry of Silly Walks, then.
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  768. According to Wikipedia the tailguns were removed from B-52s some time ago, but in Vietnam there were two or three enemy fighters shot down by B-52 tail gunners, depending on whose records you go by (US and NV records differ, as is common in all aerial wars), supposedly the last planes shot down by a bomber. It must be immensely cool to fly around in a strategic bomber that has a MiG kill painted on its side.
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  769. 1:05 well that's about what I've come to expect from DHL, the deliverymen who have never once actually found my house for some reason.
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  770.  @zenarcher9633  I've heard a speech he made a few years ago in the UK. Dude's mind was way sharper than I expected.
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  771. DART is helping Earth fly safe.
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  772. @Samuel Sweetmann And until 2006 Americans had to pay a telegraph tax to fund the Spanish American War of 1898.
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  773. Some survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were surprisingly close to the blasts but survived through the luck of being under or behind the right kind of cover. One woman was interviewed was working in a bunker close to ground zero in Hiroshima and survived, while her friend was killed by being near a window. Of course, not knowing anything about radioactive fallout, they didn't always make the right decisions about where to go or what to do following the blast. And after a multi-bomb attack you are probably doomed even if you make it through the initial blast anyway.
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  774. He had that old school New York City accent that made him come off like the guy who comes to fix your plumbing instead of the nuclear bomb-building mega brain he actually was.
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  775.  @Sableagle  No, this was made by a bunch of 50-year-old white guys, many of them Navy vets.
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  776.  @SudrianTales  Even worse, in the 2010s US Navy destroyers collided with other ships despite Aegis radar systems.
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  777. Would be funny, but in the end being negative and bagging on bands is usually a bad idea. The odd joke is one thing but a whole video just makes the uploader look like a hater.
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  778. As an amateur chemical photographer and printmaker I luurrv these photography vids, and this one might be the coolest yet. Not only is it a process I knew nothing about but those photos are achingly beautiful! Please do more of these kinds retro tech videos.
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  779. Pay no attention to the money going to Ukraine.
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  780. This shows how mixing can make or break a song. Another song I'd love to hear remixed, just a bit at least, is Different Strings by Rush, all I want them to change is to not fade it out so fast at the end so we can hear Alex Lifeson melt faces with that outro solo.
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  781. That shot of the orbiter in space with the wing root sections popping out scared the crap out of me, I thought I was watching actual footage. If your wings ever did that in real life you are in big trouble.
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  782.  @joevignolor4u949  And made more space available for donning suits, and on later missions, sleeping in hammocks.
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  783. These are, indeed, weighty matters to consider. For some reason I find them quite attractive. I am however, at a loss as to why I keep falling for them.
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  784. Innovation in a microwave oven? I'd just be happy if they would give the clock a memory of some sort so that I don't have to reset it when the power goes out for 2 minutes.
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  785. The Philippine jungle is super dense, I can totally imagine a plane going unfound for decades out there.
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  786.  @apparition13  That's just another way of making my point for me. A given organization may shrink in physical assets (ships), but its bureaucracy will resist any attempt to shrink itself. That's classic government, and the Royal Navy has exhibited similar behavior in past decades.
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  787. Keep the bowtie. And keep growing "professor hair"!
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  788. Have you considered a trip to Ukraine lately? One day you are enjoying normal life with your smart phone and your internet and the next day you are fighting against Russian tanks and taking artillery fire. Civilization is thinner than you think, and we are never more than a few decisions away from seeing it all crumble, decisions made by men you cannot hold accountable from your position as a normal guy working a normal job.
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  789. I've heard that the sound of the starship Nostromo's machinery in the background of the film Alien was deliberately made to make the audience feel uneasy and disturbed without them even knowing why.
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  790. To be Devil's Advocate, McNamara was brought in to get control of the huge cost overruns, which were, and still are, a problem with government contracts. His background was in the Detroit automotive industry, though, and he was ill-suited for making defense policy. He hobbled the services' ability to evolve both technologically and personnel wise, he fucked up the Vietnam War in multiple ways and didn't understand the purpose or needs of the services. He might've made a good advisor to the Sec Def on cost cutting but he never should've had the job.
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  791. Great scientists do not a great economy make.
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  792. The real question is which would you rather fly in: a Mk 1 Comet or an early production Boeing 737 Max.
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  793. I remember a show on one of the cable channels, Discovery maybe, where they sent a camera crew in with the fire fighters and showed them blowing fires out using explosives and some of the other methods. It was pretty fascinating stuff. I was in the area when this happened and remember the smog being so thick it blocked out the sun at high noon. Fortunately I never had any health effects that I know of from it. A lot of troops complain about it, but the troops got to go home when the shooting stopped. People need to remember that war zones are also where people live, and I feel bad for the Kuwaiti and Saudi civilians living downwind from the fires. I saw shepherds tending their flocks, people who spend most of their lives outdoors, breathing that crap.
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  794. On one of the early SpaceX Falcon 1 launches, this actually happened and many of us saw it on a live stream. On the Falcon 1 the interstage skirt is fixed to the first stage, and when the first stage separated the skirt banged into the upper stage rocket nozzle. In the video it is dark and then suddenly sunlight enters you see the nozzle scrape past the edge of the skirt and spring back into position before igniting. Though the burn started off well, the re-contact collision caused the upper stage to slew sideways and induced fuel slosh in the tanks, making the vehicle oscillate back and forth. The control system failed to damp it out, it got worse and worse, and finally the fuel sloshed too far and caused the engine to cutoff early, leading to a mission failure. I vividly remember watching that live and guessing what was happening before SpaceX cut the feed. Days later after analysis they confirmed what lots of us were thinking. I think this was the second launch, back in 2007.
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  795. I think the cop is a serial killer like in an episode of Dexter. I mean, it's Florida, which is Dexter territory...
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  796. While Lockheed was involved in a lot of shady practices during that period, I don't think they can take the blame for canceling the SR-177; the British government at the time was making a lot of dunderheaded decisions to try and be cheap, and this was just one of many. The one that stands out in my mind is the assumption that the surface-to-air missile would shortly make fighter planes obsolete for defending the home islands, a classic case of believing what you want to believe. I am sympathetic to the fact that the UK wasn't swimming in cash at the time, but some of those decisions were hard to believe.
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  797. Youtube has strayed so very far from its origins. And don't be fooled into thinking that paying for Premium means you'll never get ads again. This monetization strategy is always the same. Back in the 80s when cable TV became big, it was done by telling subscribers they are getting ad-free TV for their fees, which got everyone hooked. Once they had enough subscribers addicted, back came the ads, except for movie channels like HBO, etc. Likewise, once everyone got trained to use ATM machines, banks started charging more fees. Once everyone is forced to use EZ Pass, the discounts on highway tolls will go back up. Youtube will be no different.
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  798.  @lukasribin4168  Uh oh, we got an edge lord over heah!
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  799. 4:57 I think you meant to say C-141's. aka the Lockheed Starlifter.
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  800. Yes, and be able to do it without spying on you via the IOT like every gadget made today is designed to do.
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  801. Arthur C. Clarke's book 2010: Odyssey Two also saw some Chinese astronauts discovering life on Europa the hard way.
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  802. The Genesis Device!
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  803. American nuclear warhead makers: "So how many nuclear warheads do you want?" Late 20th Century USS Ohio: "Yes"
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  804. 8:31 It never fails to amaze me that when the air is clear with no dust the Martian sky is so blue. Makes it look like you're in Utah.
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  805. If Barbary pirates were the final Yarrs, does that make the Somali pirates the Yarr's Revenge? (Yes I'm old)
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  806.  @connormclernon26  USS Winston Churchill has a billet that is always filled by a Royal Navy officer, too.
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  807.  @PlainlyDifficult  If I recall NY City's subway system history is also convoluted, started off as 3 or 4 private companies I think.
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  808.  @TeeCeeBee  The file-sharing "community" is a bunch of pirates who steal people's work because they feel entitled to the fruits of someone else's labor for free. Rick is a teacher who does nothing of the sort and has nothing in common with music thieves. What file-sharers do is illegal; what Rick does is protected by law. That said, Lars was still an a-hole and Don Henley is an even bigger one.
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  809.  @onlyrick  Yeah, jet fuel and jet exhaust, and the anti-skid coating on the flight deck blasting you in your face if you're in the wrong spot when the jet engines spin up. And, if you're too close to shore to dump trash, you get to smell the rotting garbage near the mess deck for a few days. And then the chow, which is good when you first leave port but after a few days you're drinking powdered milk and eating powdered eggs and so on lol. And when you're in heavy seas and the ship is pitching and rolling, you get to find out which gear wasn't properly secured, while your muscles get fatigued from just trying to sit still for a few minutes, and you have to strap yourself into your rack so you don't fall out. No matter how big the ship is, somewhere out there is a storm that will make it feel like a rowboat.
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  810. My dad served aboard an aircraft carrier in the 60s. He saw an arresting cable snap and when it whipped around it took out the landing gear from under some A-4 jets, leaving them pancaked on their bellies on the flight deck. The landing signal officer who guides the jets in to land is in a pit off to one side of the deck and he ducked down below deck level, saving his own life.
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  811. You mentioned Sparrow's Point in Baltimore. I once talked to a guy who worked there back in the day when it was busy and he told me he had two cars, one for his family daily driver, and the other just to go to work, because the stuff in the air at Sparrow's Point was so nasty it would eat the finish off the bodies of cars in the employee parking lot. Bet that was good for their lungs.
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  812. "The P-61 was engaged in the aviation equivalent of seal clubbing." That's basically the aviation equivalent of a Drachism. Well done.
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  813. It's not just German culture, it's Western culture in general that is under fire.
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  814. Given the general anticapitalist bent of the usual commenters here, it's more popular to bash than to praise, sadly.
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  815. I recently visited KSC and took the bus out to the Saturn V visitor center, which drives right past the VAB. Sitting outside next to the VAB were both crawlers parked. The thing I love about Apollo is that everything we did was going to be the biggest, the best, the most powerful, the most badass, and we were destined to freaking win. Like the Saturn V itself, America's space program was an unstoppable juggernaut in those days, and the crawler transporters are living, breathing, still-working artifacts of that age.
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  816. Theory: Dark5's typos are actually a secret code.
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  817. Marty, quit copying and pasting your racist nonsense.
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  818.  @SabineHossenfelder  I had a friend in college who was a creationist, or more properly, a fundamentalist Christian. He is a really smart guy. Has a masters degree in robotics engineering and was big into rocketry. He believes in physics as it applies to his engineering world and almost everything else, so he's a fully functional member of society. He's also a really good guy. But he was never able to square that with his creationist beliefs when I asked him about it.
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  819. Well, to be specific, he said 20th Century classical as opposed to "classic" classical. 20th Century was when all the experimentation was happening.
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  820. Drach, I think we just missed the five year anniversary of your channel, didn't we? Just wanted to say how much we appreciate you and the work you do here. You've come a long way since the early robot voice videos. Here's to a long and successful career as a naval historian!
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  821. While still in the gulag, even
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  822. That's because outside of America you are all using metric fan switches.
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  823.  @bigblue6917  The incident I mentioned, if you search it up, is actually documented on the CIA's website, and it names the pilot and the guy with the rifle.
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  824. "Helicopters do not 'fly', they beat the air into submission."
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  825. There have been at least two spacecraft named Enterprise as well. The first space shuttle orbiter, which was never fitted out for spaceflight and is now in the Intrepid museum in NY City, and VSS Enterprise which was destroyed during a test flight a few years ago, killing one of her two pilots when the feather malfunctioned in supersonic flight. The US Army apparently also had an observation balloon during the Civil War named Enterprise.
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  826. I believe some variant of the Titan III was also planned to be used for launching the X-20 Dyna Soar spaceplane before the X-20 was canceled. There are illustrations of it from the 60s. If anyone gets a chance to visit the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio, they have several rockets and ICBMs there, including a Titan IV shown towards the end of this video.
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  827. Not to mention his incestuous nature and treatment of his sister and nephew. Some villains can be charismatic and be admired a bit, Tony Soprano or even Darth Vader, but guys like Gladiator version of Commodus have no redeeming features, they just utterly make your skin crawl whenever they are on screen.
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  828. The Red Queen has given me my target.
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  829. Same here, when he pulled out that one module I was waiting for it start singing Daisy.
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  830.  @paulcairns8718  Being cautious is one thing, but when there are people who've spent their entire careers on this program and may retire before it's even launched, one might say it's taking a bit too long. And that's before we bring up the money.
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  831. The B-2 is a Northrop design and descended from Jack Northrop's earlier flying wing experiments in the 1940s-1950s, including the YB-49 jet bomber. Right before he died he was read into the then-classified B-2 program and brought in in a wheelchair to see what his old company was building. There is video of him holding a model of the B-2. He developed the flying wing tech independent of the Horton brothers.
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  832. The Fairey Swordfish keeps popping up in history as the best obsolete attack plane ever, always punching way above its weight class.
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  833. You need spotter planes, right? Here ya go!
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  834. I was lucky, I didn't see this film when it first came out and my friends told me it was worth a look, but nobody spoiled it for me. That reveal when we see Amy is actually alive and batshit crazy was so awesome.
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  835. Great minds think alike. Though I will say that the F-16 is way prettier than the F-35.
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  836. Hunley: Amateurs!
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  837. Lockheed Martin should restart this as a private project and smoke SpaceX. Do it all private, so Washington doesn't get to decide to kill it.
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  838. Leland Sklar got his video taken down for doing a demo of his own bass line.
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  839.  @grg6574  Fewer engines also has many pros. Fewer moving parts to fail, and a higher thrust-to-weight ratio. And more engines didn't work out for the Soviet N1, for a variety of reasons beyond engine choice. This is a debate that's as old as spaceflight itself. But the OP's point is well-taken: big engines are cool to watch in action. What I'd give to witness a cluster of F-1B's shoving a giant rocket into the sky.
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  840. For the first stage when you are fighting gravity to get your giant tank of fuel off the ground, high thrust is more important than high Isp, for later stages the reverse is generally true. But yes, solid rockets are sometimes used on satellites to boost them into GTO due to simplicity and the fact that they are small and only need to burn once, briefly, to get the job done. At Goddard Spaceflight Center's visitor center there is a early-model Delta upper stage on display, a small solid rocket motor with no propellant loaded (obviously) and a mock satellite payload on it for context.
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  841. Because you are in the sites of Ching Lee. He's looking at you through his binoculars right now. And you know what comes next, pal.
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  842.  @whippinsaw  "Snowflake". Did you just learn a new word and now you're gonna use it on everyone to bone up on your trolling skillz?
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  843.  @PiDsPagePrototypes  What you say ablut the F35 is what people said about the F111 in the 60s. Waste of money, too expensive, no need for advanced technology, etc. If it were up to them the 91 Gulf War would've been fought with Korean War weapon systems. The F-35 is the future.
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  844. Adele is a great blues singer and has some great pop songs. Would be great to see her fronting a legit rock band though, like a modern Fleetwood Mac kind of band, with more of an edge to the music. We have talked a lot about what would bring rock back. Killer talent like Adele might have a chance.
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  845. Sounds like a drug. "I asked my doctor about Palpasaur."
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  846.  @DonnieDarko727 May as well, ain't nobody gonna look up to you, sweetheart.
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  847. ​ @HermitKing731 He's into kiddie stuff.
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  848. Drachism of the Day
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  849. Decades Ago, based on his performance as SecDef in 1990 and 91, I thought Cheney was a good guy. I was wrong.
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  850. Were you unable to tell your family about your work? Was it classified or proprietary?
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  851. 13:55 That Vice Admiral Mayo guy looks like someone who knocks down brick walls with his fists as a hobby.
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  852. No Quarter by Led Zeppelin, any number of tunes by Deep Purple
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  853. I would gladly pay for an AI robot that cleans my toilet and does other household chores, like Rosie from the Jetsons. But only if it doesn't spy on me and report all my data to its manufacturer or to the government.
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  854. Everything is racist to these overly sensitive brainwashed dumbasses these days. Fun is racist. Be moar serious!
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  855. I'm pretty sure that even in the 80s you couldn't just walk in and buy a full auto submachine gun without a Class 3 license. In Hollywood, guns are always way easier to get than they are in real life.
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  856. I imagine that would be a huge hazard in free fall, with it getting into the ventilation system and avionics, shorting things out, and being breathed in by the occupants.
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  857. For a big centrifuge, yes. For a smaller internal drum type like the one Frank Poole runs around, you need some Ligeti.
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  858.  @AIRGEDOK  In 2022 he flew on Bezos' New Shepard rocket in a suborbital flight, and for a while held the record as the oldest space traveler.
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  859. Coastal defense ships. Royal Navy: "You mean ships for losers?"
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  860. I lived a few blocks south of Camden many years ago. At the time, there were still abandoned structures there from WWII where ships were built to fight the war, and huge industry drove the city. It was a good place to live once, thriving and all. By the time we were there (1980s) it was horrible, with drug dealers and hookers standing on corners in broad daylight. Camden and Baltimore are the two places I actually feared for my life just driving through, especially at night after making a wrong turn.
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  861. I always wonder what the value of transmitting propaganda on SW is, given that such a small fraction of the population listens to SW these days.
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  862. Best one since the live action version in the film "Airplane"
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  863. WWII ships had pretty sophisticated mechanical fire control computers, machines with gears and cams and so forth. The ones in the Iowa class were still functional during the Gulf War of 1991. Do a search, somewhere on YouTube there is a cool Navy training film from the 1950s showing how these computers worked, maybe on Jeff Quitney's channel. By the middle of the war the US Navy had superior radar and fire control systems, as well as very consistently made gun shells, which made them scary accurate for a moving platform.
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  864. Great video about a great subject, with a great fitting soundtrack and a shirt that looks fittingly like thousands of little nuclear explosions. Right on!
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  865. The end of that movie was perhaps the greatest blue ball moment in film history.
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  866. Sort of. The automated ones look much more sinister and robotic. I like them.
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  867. *not
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  868. You'll change your mind when you get to 60. Trust me.
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  869. Seems odd not to keep plain old radio around as a backup. Internet and satellite puts you at the mercy of outside agencies to communicate, but when everything breaks down and the power goes out a battery or generator-powered radio will still work.
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  870.  @willrichards9482  Hirohito was also spared because MacArthur understood that to keep the Japanese as allies after the war it was important not to destroy their culture and history. Tojo's militaristic government was recent history, but the monarchy's history goes back so far that it's prehistoric legend. Whatever else you could say about MacArthur, he really knew how to run an occupation and turn a former enemy into an ally; he did it first with the Philippines and then with Japan.
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  871. German officer: "Rockets? That's not fair!" US Army: "I'm not sure sure you understand how this works."
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  872. Yes, this is mission design. Before a mission is flown the planners have to work out things like this to ensure that in the case of contingencies there are fallback options. There's an old but great movie called "Marooned" about an Apollo CSM that gets stranded in orbit while returning from a space station because the service module's main engine fails to ignite. It's a great movie but it always bugged me that the fictional mission designers didn't budget enough propellant for the RCS jets to allow for the crew to use them for deorbit or to return to the space station and await rescue.
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  873.  @Raptor747  Not when Ching Lee is in charge of gunnery.
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  874. Mashing the baseplate into the ground with the car probably provides a pretty good ground, no?
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  875.  @b-17gflyingfortress6  Bearn was not a museum ship nor did she have the kind of illustrious history that Constitution has, in fact she was almost useless, but she found a way to stay just useful enough to somebody that she made it into the 1960s, which is the OP's point. But of course you knew that.
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  876. I was thinking the same thing. Something shady went on behind the scenes here, even if the guy probably did murder his wife.
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  877. Or like elevator music. Soothing, calming, and utterly forgettable.
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  878.  wargent99  Anyone who thinks Canadian soldiers are violent murderers should move to Venezuela. Or Seattle.
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  879.  @nitehawk86 The B-36 at the USAF museum is truly monstrous in size. Walking underneath it looking up into the bomb bay, you will notice there are hatchways that allow crew to enter the wings during flight. The wings are so big people can walk around inside them (hunched over, but still). In that same room is a B-52 which saw combat in Vietnam, and yes, the B-36 makes the B-52 look kind of small.
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  880.  @davebooth5608  Apollo 11 (2019)
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  881. The frustration ran deep.
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  882. I was at a jazz concert once and after the set I was talking to the upright bass player, a guy looked to be in his 70s. Somewhere in the conversation the words "Led Zeppelin" came up and the dude busts out Black Dog on the upright bass. Never assume someone's music tastes based on a stereotype.
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  883. This is among the more compelling "fighter pilot" channels.
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  884. Beware anyone who wants to ban things. Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, drugs, etc. Free with risk is better than unfree.
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  885. Did it land in water?
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  886.  @steverobbins4274  NERVA is a fairly conventional design that was tested in the 70s and works, but its specific impulse and thrust are limited by the melting temperature of the reactor core, so they are about 2 or 3 times as efficient as chemical rockets. A nuclear saltwater rocket is a whole different animal: its fuel is fission fuel dissolved in water (hence saltwater) which is at weapons grade enrichment levels, so you have to store it in long tubes just to keep your ship from detonating. The fuel is sprayed into a reaction chamber where it immediately goes supercritical like an atom bomb, and then rushes out the nozzle behind the ship, taking all the fission products with it. It gives you super high thrust and specific impulse, while also destroying any nearby real estate by making it radioactive for a few thousand years. NERVA, if built right, is almost completely clean and only hot hydrogen gas comes out the nozzle.
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  887. They could've landed at a downrange airfield if they lost a second engine after a certain point. I think part of the cockpit dialog was "Story, where are we going?" "I think we're going to Spain". After that they were told to ATO.
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  888. Navy docs who serve in Marine units are considered as Marines by the Marines they serve with. Especially the ones who go to USMC School of Infantry. Brothers.
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  889. You could go on further about how the Pennsy was innovative with its locomotive designs and other engineering developments. Their shops at Altoona (which are now owned by Norfolk Southern) used to have a laboratory for internal corporate R&D, kind of like a railroad version of Bell Labs. Also, the Northeast Corridor, which links DC all the way to Boston by high speed electric rail, was built by the Pennsy at their own expense in the 1930s, and now Amtrak sees heavy passenger traffic on it today.
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  890.  @fuferito  Same thing I thought when Saving Private Ryan came out, and the characters were all dropping F bombs nonstop. Troops cursed like that in the 90s, of course, but my grandparents were WWII generation and, sure, they knew all the foul language we all know, but they held it back a lot more. When my grandfather dropped foul language on somebody it was way more effective and shocking.
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  891.  @Vares65  I figured as much. I don't speak Spanish so I can't distinguish the accent.
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  892. US military in Korea 1950: "Gen. MacArthur will get us home by Christmas!"
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  893. When I was growing up me and my brother used to play with a great dane down the street named Sandy. Sandy was a happy girl who loved when the neighborhood kids hopped her owner's fence into her yard to play, but as she ran past us she would wap us in the thighs with her wagging tail and it was like someone smacking you with a leather belt. She also liked to rough house with us, and as we were like 8-12 year old kids this usually meant we were eating dirt pretty hard. Great dog, she was.
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  894. Can't you fix that by drinking more beer, resulting in more flushes?
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  895.  @S1baar  Ezekiel Jones isn't wrong, but he didn't answer your question: the reason you never hold your breath is because if you have to swim to the surface in an emergency, the air in your lungs will expand as the outside pressure on your body decreases. This will cause your lungs to inflate and will damage the lung tissue. This is called lung expansion injury, and is a whole other thing that can painfully kill you besides the bends. SCUBA diving is lots of fun, but you really need to get good training.
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  896. I love that we all just accept "Picard" as a name equally as valid as "Patrick Steward".
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  897. The vast majority of those Hollywood people demonstrate no respect for my beliefs, so their strike means nothing to me.
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  898. McArthur and Patton were both solid combat generals while also being prima donnas at the same time, which meant that more pragmatic and down to earth guys like Ike and Nimitz hated dealing with them but couldn't get rid of them because they were too good at their jobs, despite being insufferable. Monty was the same way, with the added complication of being the hero of America's ally and therefore even harder to get away from for diplomatic reasons.
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  899. It also helps that the B-52 doesn't get fatigued by putting lots of G's on the airframe. Fighters and other tactical aircraft that spend their service lives pulling G's get worn out faster, while there are still DC-3's from the 1930s flying today because nobody is yanking and banking in them.
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  900. Warm-hearted dictators don't last long.
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  901. ​ @JohnSmith-pl2bk Also, to retract the gear you nose over to unload the G on the airframe as you crank them up so they feel lighter. I've watched pilots do it at air shows.
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  902. The A-10's mission was pretty different from the Cheyenne. The two would've complimented each other nicely.
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  903. You want that video? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE VIDEO.
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  904. I call BS on that. Back in the 50s/early 60s most pop songs were blues tunes. Pick at random any Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley album and count the 1-4-5's on it. Today, maybe, but not back then. Also, you didn't answer his question: if using the same chords all the time is mediocrity, then why is blues not considered mediocre? (I actually think a lot of it is mediocre and worn out, but still, lots of good blues, too)
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  905. Beware the man with cauliflower ears who wears a pink shirt.
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  906. The pauses to allow us to hear the jet noise are much appreciated.
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  907. Good point, as this was before sharks were equipped with frickin' laser beams, too.
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  908. In Germany, maybe. Certainly not true in the US. My aunt lived in Pennsylvania and she could nail game with a high powered rifle at over 300 yards in the 1970s. And so could all her neighbors.
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  909. 2021? 2020 ain't over yet.
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  910.  @scottmanley  It's like University of Pennsylvania (aka Penn) vs Pennsylvania State University (aka Penn State). People confuse this in conversation all the time, and the Penn Ivy Leaguers really hate it.
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  911. Very cool. It has to be said that the Interceptor is much cooler-looking than the newer unit, has that 80s/90s futuristic thing going on. Good thing you're taking car of it.
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  912. Those bandits learned how the FAFO equation works.
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  913.  @jukebox_heroperson3994  "They're shooting at us with goddamn battleships now. Fuck this, I'm gonna surrender to that drone up there and hope they see it." - Iraqi soldier, probably.
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  914.  @SnafuFourTwo  One, the B-52 is a combat aircraft, not a commercial jetliner, so apples to oranges and all that. Two, there must be something good about the B-52, since the Air Force is still flying 60 year old airframes and plans to do so for another few decades. But let's get real here: the 747 is one of the greatest, safest airliners ever built. Boeing's reputation was solid up until five years ago when the MCAS scandal hit, but idiots on the internet live in a simplistic world where a company like Boeing with a hundred-year-old history remains static and never changes. The Boeing that designed and built the 747 was almost 3 generations and many mergers ago.
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  915.  @jameselliott9866  Have a nice day.
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  916. Go get my battleship. It's the one that says "Bad Motherf**ker" on it.
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  917.  @filanfyretracker  Also wheels on railroad locomotives have steel tires that get "sweated on" the way you described.
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  918. Jeez, Rick you even crush the piano like a boss. That last piece was freaking amazing!
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  919. Probably a round of drinks owed to the crew for every attempt, payable upon return to Houston.
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  920.  @thescramble4309  Yes, I'm afraid of you. You sound like you might beat me up.
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  921. Not speaking over the videos allows us to enjoy the music while forcing us not to get distracted and pay attention.
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  922. The leprechaun tells me to burn things!
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  923. By 1997 the internet was a well-established "thing".
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  924. They just made the orbit insertion burn, and so far everything looks good. Let's hope it continues.
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  925. I think you're right about rockers getting Bonham wrong. I think the same is true of a lot of the early hard rock and metal drummers, Bill Ward is another one. Compared to modern metal drummers, Ward and Bonham are so much more groovy and swingy, and it's a huge part of why Zeppelin, Sabbath, and other bands of the era remain so listenable years later. Before 1970 I imagine most drummers were trained to play jazz, or at least influenced by it.
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  926. I think in Eugene Sledge's book he mentions how they shot up these tanks with lots of rifle and machine gun fire and eventually scored a few lucky hits.
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  927. I have a friend who got a ticket for not using a signal even when nobody else was around. So depending on the state, your instructor was totally wrong.
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  928. Scott, I thought the Columbia seats were reexamined after the Challenger accident and found to have been unable to get the astronauts clear of the SRB plume. Another reason to be thankful they were never used.
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  929.  @danagiles5100  Constellation is coming back as the leader of a new class of frigates, bearing the name of one of the USN's original frigates from the 1700s.
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  930. Not to get all nationalistic or whatever the term is, but when you say "Were 'we' right to abandon the moon?", that "we" is US citizens. Apollo was paid for by American tax money. Pretty much all of it. I realize that the rest of the West sees Apollo and even STS as belonging to us all in spirit if not in actual ownership, but it's US politics that drives whether these things get funded or not. Congressman Space-Hater doesn't answer to voters in England or Germany. Like you said, this was a government-funded project, free-market propaganda notwithstanding. The Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos' and Richard Bransons of today stand a better chance of getting back to the moon precisely because they don't have to answer to voters; they just have to amass the necessary cash to keep pushing their projects forward by other means. Yes, Musk's companies are either government subsidized (Tesla) or earn revenue from government contracts (SpaceX), but that is not the same as directly burning tax money allotted by Congressman Space-Hater. And the nice thing is that there is likely more opportunity for international citizens to invest in or take part in these corporate projects.
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  931.  @hernerweisenberg7052  BTW, when you say "Connie" that's usually a nickname for the Constellation, not the Constitution. The more recent aircraft carrier Constellation was referred to as "Connie" by many sailors and Marines in the 80s and 90s.
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  932. If you can thread your spacecraft through the open holes in the belt though, then you, sir, are a steely eyed missile man.
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  933. "Do a barrel roll!"
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  934. In Soviet Russia, moon land on you!
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  935. If you want to find out who is man's best friend try this: take your dog and your wife and lock them both in the trunk of your car. Wait two hours and then open the trunk. Guess which one is happy to see you. Who's a good boy!
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  936. Your video got demonetized because Google/YouTube hates America and her allies, Canada and Great Britain.
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  937.  @fixedguitar47  Why use paintball, when you can just use real guns?
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  938. 6:50 Now is time on Sprockets when we dance. I am your host, Dieter.
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  939. Look up the sounds of Saturn. Years ago when NASA first posted the recording online I listened to it at night with the lights off and it scared the piss out of me. Like a 1950s horror sci fi film.
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  940.  @treystephens6166 If you're a gentile it means you're a good guy. If you're a Philistine, it means the opposite.
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  941. This is the best explanation of this battle I've seen anywhere. Capt. Broke sounds like a fine officer. And the savagery! These age of sail battles are always viewed so romantically, with the officers being so polite to each other, but when the shooting starts, they are as bloody and brutal as anything seen in any war ever. I can't imagine serving on one of these ships, especially if I were already an experienced veteran and knew what was about to happen to the guys around me and possibly myself. That takes a lot of bravery to focus on doing your job in that situation.
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  942. That first song almost sounds like a cover of Nickleback's How You Remind Me.
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  943. Can you navigate through space using only a handheld sextant and some brains? Yes, Armstrong's ship mate Buzz Aldrin could do it.
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  944. Assuming she was dying of dehydration or exposure, there would be a time where she would fall unconscious prior to death and the crabs would not wait to start eating. Along with the utter despair she must've felt hoping and waiting for a rescue that would never come, this seems like a truly awful way to die. She'd have better off if the aircraft had hard crashed into the reef and killed them on impact.
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  945. Puts on sunglasses: YEAHHH!
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  946.  @jazzerson7087  The weird thing is that growing up I remember Herbie as an electronic pop star in the 80s. I didn't find out he was a legendary jazz pianist until much later.
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  947. Ballast.
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  948. And the answer: Lars' snare. Video done in one sentence.
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  949. If he had murdered those kids there would've been a huge manhunt for him and it would've been all over the locals TV news. By handling it the way he did the cops consider him just small time perp in a hit and run accident and the heat will be much less.
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  950. That slow motion video of the nozzles flexing is kind of terrifying, the amount of energy being released by that beast is awesome. I love the RS-25 engine.
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  951. Sure, he was the bad guy, but I kind of have a grudging admiration for him. He survived being in U-boats, survived ground combat, survived a plane crash, survived stomach issues, lived to be 105, tried to give his sinking victims some time to abandon ship. The fact that he pissed off Hitler wins him some points, too.
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  952. Would I be far off base to say that Midway was the "decisive battle" and the USN performed the proper follow up actions to gain control of the sea from that point forward? Even though the USN won it almost by accident...
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  953. Watching this live took me back to my childhood, watching the launch of STS-1 with my little brother, the excitement of seeing something really big, scary, and new blast off for the first time. When the hydrogen sparklers and water deluge began my blood was pumping, what a rush.
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  954. Love. This.
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  955.  @Gun4Freedom  Old nuclear bombs can't just be used as is for pulse propulsion; they are designed as weapons and they come in various sizes, yields, and configurations. You'd want all your pulse units to be built the same way, with a fraction of them as half charges for engine starts and stops. So you might be able to reprocess the old bombs and use their fuel to construct pulse units, but that's going to be pretty expensive.
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  956. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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  957. "The prospect of a sky that wasn't mostly gray would surely lure the British beyond their borders..." Drachism of the Day perhaps?
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  958. Or the fact that they only really got to stress test them in combat, and that they actually worked fine for a good 30 or 40 salvos or so before they started running into problems. Very informative.
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  959. I can't remember the last time I cared to watch an NFL game at all.
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  960. It's the most Gilligan's Island thing ever.
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  961. Because Russia is one of the few places where you can still get them mass produced. RCA tubes, for example, are high quality, but they quit making them decades ago and the company doesn't even exist except as a brand name now.
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  962. The Soviet pilots generally hated the NATO code names but they liked the Fulcrum. Wasn't official though.
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  963. As an American, I can see why the American sailors took a liking to this Evans guy. He'd have fit right in.
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  964. New York still causes problems today. Aside from the New Jersey jokes (hey, let's throw our trash in the ocean, and when it shows up on NJ beaches we'll make fun of them for it!), there is also the fact that guys like their boy Bloomberg have been interfering in elections in places like Virginia for many years, spending wads of NY cash to get people elected in other states. NY just can't mind its own business. What else would you expect from an entity that calls itself the "Empire State"?
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  965.  @johnlawson2984  Alien Junk Pickers
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  966. @dark day You get butthurt replies from people like you, apparently.
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  967. "...except for 'surrender', which comes from French." That got a laugh out of me.
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  968. Remember when Soviet Russia shot down a 747 full of innocent passengers and there was no war? Pepperidge Farm remembers that, too.
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  969. 20 years since the loss of Columbia. Wow.
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  970.  @AllenSymonds  Strange, comfortable world you live in.
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  971. ​ @oopskapootz7276  This engine model has been successfully flown on the Vulcan launch vehicle.
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  972. Sheean died a warrior's death.
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  973. Years ago I was at the Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia and there were two acoustic mirrors on opposite sides of a large exhibit hall, aimed at each other. I stood at the focus of one and my brother stood at the other, and we were able to carry on a conversation with each other across the room even with loud people and kids walking between us. I don't know if it's still there but it was pretty cool.
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  974. Amazing this guy lived so long before getting his throat cut.
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  975. Shoot a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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  976. The creepiness of SW radio makes it so awesome.
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  977. Doesn't matter how good you are, you will conform to record industry cookie cutter pop standards.
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  978.  @MonkeyJedi99  Q: "How bad is it?" Answer: "Um, oh God oh God we're all gonna die?"
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  979. If you watch live videos of him playing solos, he often sings along to them off microphone as he plays. The guy has music in his head and it goes straight to his fingers.
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  980. That's like the Marines' name for combat boots: LPCs or Leather Personnel Carriers.
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  981. You should watch the film "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart for lots of B-47 footage. Jimmy was a bomber pilot in WWII Europe and stayed in the USAF Reserve throughout much of his acting career.
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  982. Canada has one advantage: Rush. RIP Professor Peart
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  983.  @Jacob-th7do  Never seen Mars bars come in soda cans, but sure, I guess...
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  984. And the SR-71 is so cool it needs muscle car V8 engines to start up its own jets.
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  985.  @petersmith4423  In the US Marines, we are told that the seven belt loops in our trousers stand for the Seven Seas. I am guessing maybe the first garment maker to get a uniform contract just happened to make pants that way, but I knew enough to keep my pie hole shut.
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  986.  @waltking9141  Hitting the trailer park meth a little hard today, are we?
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  987. That part near the end where you guys mention that song recording is time-traveling hits so hard. I have an old Victrola record player from 1915 and some really old records that date to the 1910s-1950s. One of the records is from 1915 and it's like listening to ghosts. Every musician, vocalist, everyone involved in making that record is long gone but here I am in 2022 hearing their voices.
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  988. Which of the two young ladies did he prefer? Because obviously, Mary Ann is hotter than Ginger.
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  989. ​ @ianmuir3640  Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons? Since when?
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  990. 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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  991.  @fnoigy 1. I wasn't talking to you, and 2. you didn't explain how any of that specifically led to this accident, you're just trying to link something you hate (because you don't understand it) to a catastrophe.
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  992.  @pamle1  Wishing death on millions of people, including babies. You must be fun at parties.
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  993. It seems funny, but I bet Tupolev didn't think it was funny. Get it wrong and it's your neck. What an awful regime to live under.
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  994.  @IrishCarney  On the plus side, the money allowed us to protect Puerto Rico from being retaken by the ever-dangerous Spanish Armada for the last 110 years.
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  995.  @BlueCyann  Yes, but if the road is built to drive 85 mph and you limit it to 55 in order to gain ticket money than it's not safety that drives the speed limit, it's abuse of power and therefore bullshit.
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  996.  @TheEndless560  No, it's individualism they hate. Guitar can be used to make music by individuals. Presumably the approved music is all made using the Temple's great computers, which fill the hallowed halls.
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  997. They already jailed a woman for silently praying on the street near a abt. clinic. She wasn't doing or saying anything, just standing there. A cop asked her what she was doing, and she told him she was praying inside her head. Jail.
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  998. A giant monument to wastefulness. Sad to see all those functional ships, and all the work and money that went into building them, only to be destroyed.
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  999. The B-58, an absolutely gorgeous airplane. To imagine an alternate history where B-58s are kept in service as space interceptors, just wow. It seems that in the 1950s and 60s the future was our oyster and with a few good engineers, it seemed the sky was the limit on what we could do.
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  1000. 10:10 I'd be interested to hear more details about that story. While the US Navy has a lot to be proud of, it also has a lot to be ashamed of when it comes to the way it treats guys like that.
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  1001. Violent criminals just love softies like you
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  1002. There was a more recent incident in Iraq where a two-engine civilian cargo jet was hit by a surface to air missile while taking off, and the crew managed to control the aircraft and land it using only engine thrust alone, managing to get it down on the wheels in one piece. Happened in the mid-2000's IIRC.
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  1003. Chris has a Rush album behind him. Instant cool points as far as I'm concerned.
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  1004.  @dumpygoodness4086  You need to see an ad for crazy pills.
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  1005. Ah yes, the infamous MiG-28, almost took out the Iceman's Tomcat back in the 80s!
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  1006. Don't forget health care.
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  1007. Gain controls the pre-amp, master volume controls the power amp. Turning up the gain overdrives the input to the power amp, resulting in distortion. If you turn the gain way up and the master volume down, depending on the amp, it will be fuzzy and noisy but not necessarily ear-splittingly loud.
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  1008. More like a Scooby Doo "Ruh Roh!"
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  1009. The clock tick makes me think of the Cold War and the Twilight Zone. The whole station has a very 1950s atomic age vibe to it.
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  1010.  @hokedo  Well, too bad you don't like it. Fortunately for you, there's plenty of music with no dynamics, lots of auto-tune, and no song structure out there currently.
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  1011. The parts you think might be easy or hard often turn out to be the opposite. Remember that most people worried about the Space Shuttle's main engines, when the simple and trusted solid rocket booster turned out to be what killed Challenger.
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  1012.  @philb5593  So the solar panels are basically selfie sticks?
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  1013. The 29th Inf. Div. is called the "Blue Gray Division" because it is made up of National Guard units whose lineage can be traced back to both sides in the Civil War. The 116th Infantry Regiment is known as the "Stonewall Brigade" because it's battalions served under Stonewall Jackson in the Confederate Army.
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  1014.  @kenikmatanterlarang9700  Go watch Mark's last video on Japan's White troops. Really sad.
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  1015.  @evelghostrider  That's all been explained a million times. You might as well try arguing that water isn't wet.
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  1016. Yeah, but in England sunshine isn't really a huge threat most days.
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  1017.  @DeputatKaktus  If archiving footage is the question, then fine, use digital cameras, and transfer the video to film after the fact. Digital cameras can be tiny, which allows them to be mounted all over launch vehicles, and they are cheap, which means if they get destroyed or lost they can be replaced, and the imagery is stored on a hard drive far away from the violent events being recorded. Personally I love film for artistic reasons, but for engineering applications not using digital imaging is simply dumb.
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  1018.  @rackstraw  As US Marine snipers say, "Run if you want. You'll only die tired."
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  1019.  @shadodragonette  He calls them dodgy right here in this video. Dodgy has a similar meaning to sketchy.
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  1020.  @MrDariolett  Of course they could do it if they wanted; the plans and documentation for the Saturn V and its subassemblies all still exist, there are photos, books, and actual examples still around. But if you were to build a Saturn V today you wouldn't make an exact copy anyway; you'd use modern technology to make it more capable by using lighter materials, miniaturized electronics, upgraded variants of the F-1 and J-2 made to be more powerful, lighter, etc. You'd wind up with a "Saturn V-A"
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  1021. Aren't the Americans building another six frigates today? Maybe more than 6...
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  1022. Seriously, leave that to the disturbing music videos, it's kind of inappropriate for this.
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  1023. The History Guy did a pretty good rundown of it.
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  1024. Hopefully you're better at it than the poor guy who lost his hands.
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  1025.  @TheJuggtron  More admirals than ships is because of the growth of bureaucracy more than technology.
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  1026. Those eyes are super creepy. Never blinking. Dead eyes.
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  1027.  @davebooth5608  It's weird, the footage is so clean and new-looking that at first it feels like you are watching a modern Hollywood movie set in 1969 instead of the real thing. Kind of like watching Apollo 13.
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  1028.  @kittehgo  Also set one up near Loch Ness.
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  1029. Let's see your well-researched and well-made video response.
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  1030.  @disbeafakename167  The operator isn't being punished for their mistake, the patient is.
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  1031. It's only a start. The real fight is to change the culture so that it's okay to call out this nonsense and mock it brutally without getting canceled.
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  1032. "Why are you holding the door shut?" "To keep the fires of hell from coming in here with me." "Oh. Good idea."
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  1033. Where did Elon Musk get the money? From his successful Paypal business. Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup, etc. make tons of money off of defense contracts. Invest some of it. Once was a time when companies did that. The DC-X mentioned in this video? That came out of MD's pocket mostly. So did Lockheed's U-2. You want to succeed in private space? Find the capital, just like everyone else who doesn't live in defense contract Disney land.
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  1034. All of the "Dark XXX" channels are crap. Except for his early "Dark 5" channel, which was kind of fun in an X-Files "don't take this serious" kind of way, but even that was low effort cheap stuff. Also, that guy's voice is hugely annoying.
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  1035.  @cherriberri8373  I hate astronomy. There, I said it.
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  1036. "Safety measures are for pussies." - also probably Slotin
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  1037. It was my understanding that the original mechanical fire control computers were still used during the Gulf War because they are built into the ship and linked directly to the rangefinders, gun turrets, etc. You can put modern electronic computers aboard the ship along with modern radar, but at some point when it comes time to aim the guns you use the old machines. Something I thought I read somewhere. In any case those old fire control systems were the best in the world, and the US had a huge advantage over Japan when it came to radar and fire control in the later part of WWII. At the Battle of the Philippine Sea the only Japanese battleship to have radar fire control was Yamato, IIRC, the others were all using optical rangefinders.
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  1038. I knew a woman who was studying nursing and also happened to love weed. That does not inspire confidence.
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  1039.  @legoeasycompany  I actually like Frogfoot as a name for a mud-moving bomb-dropper, but that's just me.
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  1040.  @trukr817  Constitution is still a commissioned ship and gets real Navy money. If taking your museum out of the water to save it is what it takes, at least it's better than letting it rust away beyond repair.
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  1041. In contrast to WWI, WWII Germany just never seemed to get its naval game together. Not enough time to arm up, a flawed strategy based on commerce raiding, and meddling by officials. Their submarine arm was the only thing they managed to gain traction with, and the effectiveness of that waned as the war dragged on and Allied tech and industry overwhelmed it.
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  1042. Or the US Marines' version: strong or smart. If you're not smart, you have to at least be strong. Which is another way of saying life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
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  1043. Turn the Earth into a Death Star with a nuclear cannon? Sign me up!
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  1044. All of those old government training films had good artwork and explained things very well, stuff like how an engine works, etc.
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  1045. 3 years, $2,000,000 and no idea, so "had to be arson!" SMDH
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  1046. John Wick's grandfather, Corporal Wick.
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  1047. FEMA, like most government agencies, is not there to help you, it's there to help itself and the politicians who created and fund it. The CDC does not protect you from Covid, it protects itself from bad publicity. Department of Homeland Security's goal is not to protect the country, it's to enlarge its size and budget while protecting politicians from you.
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  1048. I read your book, Ryan. Your conclusions were all wrong. Halsey acted shtupidly.
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  1049.  @ronv6637  No, that's just human nature when traffic gets so dense everyone gets frustrated. It's fun to joke about lousy Maryland drivers (honestly, just look at them, especially the ones driving BMWs!) but there's nothing in the water that makes people in the DC area or anywhere else drive badly, it all comes down to frustration at being forced to waste your life sitting in traffic.
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  1050. Attacking polar bears with melee weapons...that's not the kind of guy you want to pick a fight with when he has a fleet of warships.
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  1051. Audiofools. I talked to a guy once who bought a super expensive snake oil power cable for his stereo system and swore he could tell the difference. SMDH
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  1052.  @foximacentauri7891  Let's keep the politics to ourselves.
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  1053. Lest you dismiss the Bulova Accutron too quickly, it's interesting to note that the Apollo spacecraft that flew men to the moon used Accutron movements in their cockpit clocks, because at the time (1960s) the quartz movement technology was considered too young and untested for NASA to trust. The astronauts themselves were issued Omega Speedmaster mechanical wristwatches, which of course became super famous and popular, are still made to this day, and are now very expensive luxury items. On the Apollo 11 mission, one of the cockpit clocks failed prior to landing on the moon, so Neil Armstrong strapped his Omega watch to the control panel of the lunar module and left it there when he and Buzz Aldrin stepped outside. In the famous photo of Aldrin standing on the moon, where he is facing Armstrong's camera, Aldrin's Omega watch can be clearly seen strapped to the wrist of his spacesuit with a long Velcro strap, right out there in hard vacuum on the moon. That watch was later stolen when he shipped his belongings after the mission and is still missing.
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  1054. It's like email Nigerian prince scams: sure it's obviously stupid, but there is a non-zero number of people out there who might fall for it.
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  1055. Wow, so much salt in these replies. Some people can't let a compliment pass.
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  1056. It's amazing the information they can extract from simple data like spectroscopy. Kudos to the brainiacs who do it.
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  1057. Post war when your uncle wanted someone to go out fishing with I bet he had no takers.
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  1058. The plutonium used in spacecraft RTGs is a byproduct of making nuclear weapons. Because the US quit making new nuclear weapons years ago, NASA is running low on the good plutonium isotope for RTGs. You can use other substances but plutonium 238 has the best power density, reasonable half life and less massive shielding requirements compared to something like strontium 90. The nice thing about RTGs is that they have no moving parts; it's basically just a thermocouple wrapped around an isotope that radiates decay heat. Stick it in a shielded container with some cooling radiator fins and it's basically a battery. The LM Aquarius used by the Apollo 13 astronauts had an RTG aboard for use by lunar surface experiments, but the crew never landed on the moon and used Aquarius as a life boat until just before reentering the atmosphere, so that RTG is at the bottom of the ocean somewhere. The things are nearly indestructible if built right.
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  1059. There was an article recently about how Boeing's merger with McDonnel Douglas changed Boeing's corporate culture, and not in a good way. Basically, before the merger was the old Boeing that created the 707, the 747, the B-52, and other long-running success stories, but since the merger something changed and the 787 and newer versions of the 737 (such as the Max) have seen a decline in various aspects. Something else to consider, though, is that Boeing is a huge company and the space side is pretty separate from the jetliner side; much of the space side came from the merger with Hughes Space, which is a whole different story than the MDD merger. Big corporations are complex organizations and it's hard to make broad generalizations, although it's fun to joke about it.
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  1060. I was always horrified by the notion of being sucked INTO the ship if it sank. Imagine being anywhere near the larger openings, hanger bay doors, large hatchways, etc., when water starts gushing into them. You're going in with it, into a pitch-dark cavernous interior, unable to tell which way is up or which way is out. I never really thought about the suction of the ship itself, so add that to my list of things to have nightmares about. That sinking scene from the film Titanic looks like Hollywood hype drama but maybe it's not as wrong as you think.
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  1061. Rick should be paid to remix all rock music from the last 15 years.
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  1062. I grew up in the 70s and 80s listening to this, moved away years ago, but listening to it now makes me feel like I have to get to bed so I can be up for school in the morning, but I want to stay up and switch on Johnny Carson instead.
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  1063. When I was taking flying lessons and was obsessed by all things aviation, I used to read flying magazines and always skip ahead to the accident and incident report articles. Weird maybe, but I always thought that a key part of not making mistakes is learning how not to repeat others' mistakes, and also to imagine yourself in their position to think what could or should have been done differently. I think that's true of any risky undertaking, including operating a facility that handles nuclear power or material. It's also worth noting that while nuclear reactors get all the attention, it's these smaller facilities like the one in this video, as well as medical devices, which are more likely to be near your home, in nondescript buildings that do not look scary, and which may have knucklehead operators attending them. It's worth educating the general public to be cautious and know what to look out for. Think of the two untrained fellows in this vid, or the scrap metal collectors we've heard about who accidentally hurt their own children.
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  1064. 36:10 My dad served on the Shangri La CVA-38 in the 1960s. By then she had gotten the angle deck refit and was operating F-8 Crusaders, A-1 Skyraiders, and A-4 Skyhawks. Decommisioned in the early 70s, she languished in Philadelphia until the late 80s or early 90s when my dad stood on New Jersey bank of the Delaware River and watched them tow away his old ship for scrap.
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  1065. That nosedive flip maneuver looks really dicey for a ship carrying passengers. They should call it the "Jesus Maneuver" because when it happens the passengers yell "Jesus!"
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  1066. On the flip side, if the aliens had done so maybe we'd have been spared the Disney Star Wars sequels.
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  1067. Clever argument, but good luck getting a judge to buy that theory.
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  1068. 3:02 love those old school graphics
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  1069. Very cool, I had no idea somebody was building attack subs before the end of WWII, very ahead of their time.
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  1070. Sane people understand that a society needs its rich people, even the jerks like Gates, in order to finance art and technology and take risks on ideas like this.
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  1071. I won't wish that upon her. All she did was make a bad movie and some dumb remarks. I will just avoid her business, as she requested.
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  1072. @Watcher505 So you flat earthers have now moved on to SR-71 denying, now?
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  1073.  @QuantumHistorian  Comes from common sense. Bread is funny. So it has to be true.
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  1074. Anything that features lots of Rick Wright's sound would be awesome.
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  1075. Excellent. I'm a big fan of the modern Harrier II, which are still in service with the USMC for the moment, all of which were built in St. Louis by McDonnel Douglas in the 1980s. They've all since been upgraded numerous times and currently sport a powerful radar and ability to use the AIM-120 missile, something they couldn't do right out of the factory.
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  1076. They did, it was called the "Davey Crocket" and was a man-portable nuclear recoilless rifle that was mounted to a jeep.
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  1077. My policy: always watch first, then read. That way you won't get upset when the show/movie doesn't match the book.
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  1078. Fantastic footage, I've never seen much of this. Also, those socks at 9:09 are some serious helicopter socks.
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  1079. I was born in a wildlife refuge, so my name is Two Giraffes Shagging.
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  1080. *emit
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  1081.  @RingwayManchester  I love how you always pin the craziest or most belligerent posts on your videos.
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  1082.  @RedLP5000S  LeMay may have been crazy, but he was certainly not stupid. Anti-American bigotry, on the other hand is as stupid as it is common.
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  1083. I'm from America in the 2010's. What's this "rail travel" you speak of? BTW the music around 3:00 is pretty cool.
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  1084. If you go to the Fighter Pilot Podcast channel and watch the episode on the B2 they mention it. The guy also says the rule for that little toilet is "Doing an inflight Number 2 is not cool", although 44 hours would be damn tough to avoid it. I imagine the crew might take laxatives the day before the mission and go liquid diet only lol.
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  1085.  @OfficialFedHater  It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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  1086. In socialism, you line up to get bread. In capitalism, bread bakers line up to get customers.
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  1087.  @Runetrantor  The moon is too lumpy and too close to the earth for anything to stay in a stable lunar orbit for long without frequent thrusting to keep it there. That's why all of the Apollo LMs either crashed into the moon or escaped into solar orbit after they were abandoned. You could park stuff at a stable earth-moon Lagrange point though.
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  1088.  @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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  1089.  @flxrckt  They did it only once because they ran out of money. The whole country ran out of money actually.
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  1090. 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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  1091. A contractor recently remodeled my bathroom and installed a new showerhead and valve. The first thing I had to do was take the goddamned water restrictor out of the showerhead so I could actually take a real shower. Next, I had to figure out how to remove the shower handle and rotate the plastic thing that limits how far you can turn the shower in the "hot" direction, because, probably to protect himself from liability, the contractor set it so I couldn't make it more than lukewarm. Very annoying. So, in conclusion, Kyle hates freedom of speech. Learn something new every day.
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  1092.  @AndrewBlacker-wr2ve  Here's a choice for you, choose one: 1. Kind and polite 2. Rude and unpleasant Looks like you already chose 2, never mind.
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  1093. The US has, in the past, made conscious decisions not to implement certain types of new weapons technology, in order to avoid sparking new arms races. Project Pluto, for example, the nuclear ramjet cruise missile, was canceled, along with nuclear powered bombers, and treaties were signed by the US to preclude certain types of weapons which US engineers absolutely know how to build. But we are now entering a time where major US adversaries, China and Russia, are starting to build this stuff despite America's restraint. The US can certainly build hypersonic weapons as well as anyone else; the question is whether it's good policy to do so.
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  1094. Also, the fact that Zeppelin has been sued successfully in the past for stealing lyrics makes them a target for every sleazebag ambulance-chasing lawyer out there with dollar signs in their eyes.
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  1095. Normie parents will still take their kids to see this. They don't pay attention to reviews and 'ratios', all they know is there is a new Disney poster on the theater wall and their kids won't shut up.
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  1096. The "SKYBIRD" call sign is featured in the opening scene of the 1983 film War Games, where the nuclear missile crew gets a message from "DROPKICK" to execute a launch order.
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  1097.  @jwr2904  The "Pin of Shame" love it! :face-green-smiling:
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  1098.  @Biden_is_demented  It doesn't say there's only one. And nobody fires only one missile.
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  1099. Lana...LANA...LAAAANNNNA! What?! Danger zone.
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  1100. Being trapped underwater in a sinking airplane while being run over by an aircraft carrier, hearing the giant screws in complete darkness, is your basic high test nightmare fuel.
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  1101. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat was a killer combat flight sim in the 90s. If you screwed up a mission, Chuck would come up in the debrief screen and tell you about. Being told you suck by Chuck Yeager was a pretty good motivator to get better.
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  1102. Voyager will eventually return as V'ger.
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  1103. Tektronix scopes are great. I was a tech years ago and the rule was generally, "Tektronix for o-scopes, Simpson for meters, and Hewlett Packard for all other test equipment." Sadly, I don't think HP makes test equipment anymore; they are known for consumer computers now but until the 90s HP made really high end test gear. At least Tektronix is still around, last I heard.
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  1104.  @rcknbob1  A "bottom" is sometimes used to refer to a low lying area of land, such as a swamp. And swamps are often foggy, especially in the morning.
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  1105.  @PHelsing  Years ago a local US radio station had a morning show feature called "Florida or Germany" where some crazy news story would be read with the names left out, and callers would try to guess if it happened in Florida or Germany.
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  1106.  @tncorgi92  The builders of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building were competing to build the tallest building in the world and so they were keeping the mast designs secret from each other until the last minute. ESB won out and held the record for a good long time. The mast is, in fact, an airship mooring mast and there is an old airline terminal near the very top, which is now converted into a tourist area. It was always a gimmick, as it is impractical and reportedly illegal even in the 1920s to operate an aircraft like that, but they did try to dock an airship to it once. The airship captain approached a few times and aborted each attempt due to strong vertical wind gusts that made it scary dangerous to get anywhere near the building, and that was the end of that idea. But it shows up in fiction sometimes still, the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has a scene in which the fictional "Hindenburg III" is docked to the ESB in an alternate history timeline.
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  1107.  @shd2236  There was a flame shooting out of the engine bay, and then the plume changed colors. We've seen that on other rockets before, usually right before the engine blows up. I think they were fortunate to get it down and shut off before that came to pass. Good thing is they'll be able to learn from it quicker.
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  1108. Krusty Band Seal of Approval: "It's not just good, it's good enough!"
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  1109. The Japanese seemed to be a lot nicer to POWs in this war then they would be in the 1940s.
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  1110.  @KG-jm1zl  Okay, just looked it up. They are planning to buy 20 new frigates, the new Constellation class, and using some of the original sailing frigate names.
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  1111.  @juanixinauj  That means Japan has to launch into polar orbit.
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  1112. Get rid of your Marines? How stupid is that?
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  1113. Careful, there's a good way and bad way to get your own crater.
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  1114. It's like the videogame in the movie The Last Starfighter. It's actually a test put here by aliens to find the toughest humans for some mission somewhere in space.
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  1115. A Drach video without that iconic outro just wouldn't feel right.
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  1116. I didn't think I was going to watch a whole hour but this was riveting. That poor woman can't even celebrate her achievement after landing. A very bittersweet story.
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  1117. This should've been in the soundtrack for One Tree Hill, Charmed, or Smallville. Like it.
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  1118. I used to do that with a diecast toy P-47.
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  1119. Or whatever color you are.
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  1120.  @ai4px  I also heard that the British don't drink ice cold beer because the people who make their refrigerators are the same people who build their cars.
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  1121.  @gregboyington4896  It was a good movie, but the ending is one of the greatest blue ball moments in film history. I REALLY wanted to see the Nimitz's air wing lay hard into the kido butai, they had the whole strike package moving out loaded for bear...
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  1122.  @ΣτελιοςΠεππας  It's Philly, you have to be careful who you're yelling at.
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  1123. Mitsubishi license-built their version of the F-16, the F2. So the Mitsubishi name is still on modern fighter planes.
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  1124. That was literally the mindset of many Americans right up until the Declaration of Independence was signed; even after the war had been going on for months they still hoped to reconcile with the king, their main problem was with Parliament.
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  1125. A partial list of crazy fission-powered stuff from the 1950s: Nuclear ramjet cruise missiles (Project Pluto) Nuclear turbine jet aircraft Nuclear powered car (Ford Nucleon concept car) Nuclear powered locomotives Nuclear electric generator stations (these actually exist in large numbers) Nuclear powered ships and submarines (these actually exist in large numbers) Nuclear thermal rockets (NERVA) Nuclear pulse propulsion spacecraft (Project Orion) I know I must be missing a few. Also, when I was growing up in the 1980s, Popular Mechanics magazine (or was it Popular Science?) had an article about backyard nuclear reactors that you'd have installed on your property underground which would power your home off the grid and be designed to be inherently safe. Still waiting for mine...
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  1126. It got Sully safely onto the Hudson, and also saved the Gimli Glider.
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  1127.  @vpgnto  Someone with skillz should make some Beatowave music and vids, like vaporwave but with Rick voiceovers heavily reverbed. Chill out while Rick preaches the word.
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  1128.  @lancerevell5979  Over the 1MC every damned day lol.
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  1129. Check out Greenbank Observatory in the middle of nowhere West Virginia for some cool radio telescopes, including one really cool art deco design.
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  1130.  @whippinsaw  I find your spelling errors offensive. Now, tell us more about the origin of "snowflake" as an insult, since it is your new favorite word.
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  1131. It's the same story in other communication and navigation infrastructure as well. Shutting down radio nav aids leaves no redundancy in event of GPS system failure, and trying to shut down various radio bands leaves no redundancy for mass communication in event of Internet failure. Plus what you watch or listen to on the Internet can be monitored, unlike radio, and using GPS for navigation on devices connected to the Internet is also an easy way to track you. People increasingly don't own radios with multiple bands and also seem to have forgotten how to read a simple roadmap.
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  1132. Honey badger don't care.
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  1133. Wow, that would suck. It's like fishing with dynamite, except you get to be the fish this time.
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  1134. Now they can free up factory space to restart producing new DC-3's! I mean, it's not like they wouldn't sell a bunch, right?
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  1135. He always wears wild shirts. That's half the fun of this channel!
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  1136. Dirtbags often have no sense of self-awareness.
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  1137. In the 80s the USN was way bigger, the goal of the Reagan administration was 600 ships, though it never quite made it that far. That was why they brought the Iowa class battleships back into service.
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  1138. Shady contractors still do that kind of shit today. Have a house built. Contractor delivers the appliances and leaves them in the garage where they are magically stolen overnight. No prob, insurance buys you new ones. Stolen appliances wind up sold to the next customer.
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  1139. Kickass book, best alien invasion story I've ever read.
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  1140. Well, you can get Yamato into vacuum for real after you install the Wave Motion Drive.
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  1141.  @jmr  You gotta give us a hint or a clue at least.
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  1142. Now it'd be livestreamed. And some disloyal political asshat in the Pentagon would leak it to the media beforehand.
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  1143. Dude cuts his own appendix out? Holy shit that's hardcore.
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  1144.  @JeffBostick222  I think he would care, actually. At the very least he'd be cool enough to give Rick an interview. Jimi did some TV interviews and he always came off as humble, nice guy. Sad he's gone and has no control over his estate.
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  1145. He's the king of the world
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  1146.  @davidhoran7116  WWI German pilots were seen as sort of modern day knights, riding their aerial steeds out to do single combat with the enemy's knights. Pilots are still kind of that way to this day. Some of the famous German pilots were actual aristocracy, the prime example being The Red Baron. WWI aerial combat was also brutal, often with no chance to bail out and at ranges close enough to see the opponents' eyes. So it makes some sense that successful WWI pilots would rise to higher positions.
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  1147. Doesn't the shuttle SRB operate at sea level, though? Why test in vacuum?
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  1148.  @davisdf3064  Nice. And engineers figure out that all the space debris is a good thing to block solar energy and reduce global warming.
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  1149. I was wondering if Blood and Roses by Smithereens would make the list, at least honorable mention, but alas... I agree about Krist Novocelic deserving more recognition. Part of the problem is that Nirvana as a band often gets looked down on by snob musicians, from jazzers to metalheads.
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  1150. I should add, making friends among other companies is also a viable strategy for an engineer to find new job opportunities. Jumping ship from company to company is sometimes the best way to get a good pay bump.
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  1151. "...and then the captain had an idea." Combined arms, thinking like a Marine.
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  1152. Google literally censors things based on politics now. And sooner or later, everything relates to politics.
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  1153. There was also a guy my dad told me about who had a houseboat on the Delaware River and used to move back and forth between NJ and PA in order to avoid being a resident of either state and taxes. Dim memory of that.
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  1154. Fun fact: sentences started with "fun fact" are often neither fun nor fact
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  1155. I love everyone in this thread. "I'd expect any of you to do the same for me."
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  1156.  @manuelroca5289  There is a recent Mark Felton video about her wartime service.
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  1157.  @hairyairey  Is that in the report or just your opinion?
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  1158. Well I been to one World Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones!
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  1159.  @michael5045  Supposedly, long range artillery such as battleship guns must take coriolis into account. Don't know for sure.
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  1160. Wait, Bach died?! Dammit I guess I waited too long to catch him on tour.
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  1161. That Realistic radio at 3:47 is a beautiful artifact.
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  1162. I love how this starts right out with a Drachism.
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  1163.  @skiphouston7392  Rogue One was just dark enough, I think. Any darker and it gets to be too much for Star Wars. I say this as someone who saw the very first Star Wars film as a little kid in 1977 and have had enough of all this excessive darkness shit. Everybody dies at the end of Rogue One, that's dark enough for me. I admit I'm curious though.
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  1164. I think of Radiohead as "prog pop", meaning the sophistication of progressive rock but presented in a way that is listenable to non-music nerd fans, like popular rock. Plus the songs aren't like 15 minutes long, either.
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  1165.  @seneca983  Eye of the beholder. Personally I much prefer old industrial buildings to a bunch of fugly modern apartment buildings or subdivisions of McMansions.
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  1166.  @SunwardRanger83  I'm a phobist, myself.
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  1167. That's what made me sub
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  1168. In a proper Batman story, there are a few mysteries Bruce should never solve: what is the Joker's real name and background, and of course who really killed his parents.
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  1169.  @volatile_gaming9475  "Game over, man, game over!"
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  1170. Kassel was also where Hessian regiments were raised to go fight for the British in the American War for Independence.
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  1171. Lots of memories attached to this song, involving cassette tapes, hair spray, and a Chevy Camaro.
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  1172. Yes, I like this channel, but Mr. Socash makes a stretch from time to time.
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  1173.  @tujue7  Someone told me (which means I am talking out my ass here, so take this with a grain of salt) that MDD was the larger, senior partner, and took over Boeing, but decided to keep the Boeing name, logo, and so on for marketing purposes, since Boeing's commercial aircraft were more highly regarded than legacy MDD.
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  1174.  @stantonh1452  Even country is just pop music with a southern accent now.
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  1175. If they don't knock, then they are an alien from Rescue on Fractalus. Do not let them in!
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  1176. It's totally true, as far back as the 90s people were afraid of cell towers. And even today some people are afraid of radio towers of any type, as well as electric transmission lines.
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  1177. Arleigh Burkes being the exception IMO.
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  1178.  @thescramble4309  You sound like you're pretty tough.
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  1179. Great post.
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  1180. "The blast debris would not impede enemy troop movements through the jungle." Maybe not, but the blast itself vaporizing the enemy troops might impede their movements.
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  1181.  @TheEndless560  One of the lyrics is "we've taken care of everything, the books you read, the songs you sing". So there is music, it's just music approved by the regime.
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  1182.  @markashe3786  Well good for you. Fortunately there's nobody by that name in Metallica, so you can listen to them and keep your signaled virtue intact.
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  1183. This is kind of sad to hear Burt Ward, sounds like he really was close.
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  1184. Ejecting from a jet is a lot more punishing than taking a hit on the football field, but it beats the alternative.
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  1185. When Alex Lifeson finally shows up here I will consider the point turned!
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  1186.  @mattstorm360  Exactly, which is why this vehicle never imploded.
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  1187. Serving on a ship always seems safer and more comfortable than serving as an infantryman, right up until the ship takes a catastrophic hit, catches fire, rolls over, and sinks into ice cold or shark-infested waters in pitch black darkness. Somewhere during that sequence, the thought of hiding in a foxhole from enemy rifle fire stops sounding like such a bad alternative.
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  1188. All true, but also a fair amount of luck. If the failed engine was on the other side of the vehicle it probably would've crashed right into the launch pad equipment.
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  1189.  @BHuang92  You know that had to be sweet revenge, especially for anyone who had been present at Pearl Harbor. You look at these photos and the faces of those sailors and you know what they must all be thinking at that time: we're going to try to clean up this mess and then we're going to pick a fight with the bastards who did this.
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  1190. Growing up in the 80s I didn't know much about this, but I once read a book about Viktor Belenko, the Soviet pilot who defected with a MiG-25 to Japan. In the book it describes Belenko's training as a pilot and how his superiors were talking about potential conflict with China. One of them told Belenko, "Sure, the Chinese have a few nuclear warheads, but nothing to deliver them except maybe some donkeys."
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  1191. Drinking game: drink whenever History Guy says "banana".
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  1192.  @drewrussell8531  I think the last good Windows was XP.
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  1193. "Why is the rum always gone?" Captain Jack Sparrow
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  1194. My understanding is that the B-52 still has a better availability rate than the B-1B or the B-2, and that it's relatively cheaper to maintain than those newer birds too. It's also been able to find new missions besides just strategic bombing; in more recent years it's been used tactically to support ground troops, since you can load it up with sensors and precision guided munitions and have it loiter over the battlefield waiting for a call for fire. Nobody in the 50s ever imagined what we'd be using it for now, it's truly one of the best acquisitions for the dollar the US military has ever bought.
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  1195. They put a lot of thought into the song, but in the end it's still a schmaltzy song that has no appeal for me. Interesting only from a theory nerd point of view. Good video.
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  1196.  @Biden_is_demented  My point stands. You are digging your heels in for no good reason. Also, when I was in kindergarten, I learned how to spell kindergarten correctly, so spare us the English lesson.
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  1197. The skycrane deployed thumpers as it flew to its crash site.
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  1198. I got one of these for my airplane, and it's great. I don't have to bother practicing landings anymore, I just get over my destination and pop the chute. Biggest drawback is having to repack it every time.
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  1199. That dark blue space suit looks like it's off the set of The Expanse.
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  1200. That hideous cockpit alone makes it pass the ugly test.
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  1201. Balance of Terror was the episode name. IIRC the "pattern" they laid down with the photon torpedoes wasn't described in detail, but it felt like it was an obvious analog to a depth charge pattern used on subs in WWII by destroyers.
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  1202. If it were China it would say, "adds heavy metal waste to product"
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  1203. I can never get over the monstrous power of those engines seen from so close in those launchpad camera shots.
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  1204.  @bobross8786  Cuttings off your nose to spite your face. If you aren't an idiot, credit cards make your life a lot easier and you don't run up dept. I can drink without getting stupid drunk, it's not that hard unless you're an addict.
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  1205. "...for recording some war crimes" Did you pick that up at the pro-terrorist rally yesterday?
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  1206. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and everyone used to smoke everywhere all the time. It was gross but you got used to it because you couldn't get away from it. Don't miss those days at all, and never could understand why anyone would be so stupid as to start such a filthy habit.
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  1207. You can never go wrong putting Tori Amos in front of a piano and a microphone. She will always be awesome.
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  1208.  @ckbennetttn  Even Smithereens. At least they were considered "college rock" in the 80s.
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  1209. The story I had in mind was Rocketship Galileo, in which a professor and three teenage boys build a thorium-fueled nuclear thermal rocket out in the desert and fly it to the moon. Crazy, especially the part where they test the engine in a static fire while standing behind a simple shield to protect against radiation. Teenagers. Interesting story, though.
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  1210. All I could think about was Stewie Griffin's teddy bear.
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  1211.  @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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  1212. There's an old joke in the Navy and Marine Corps: "What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story? A fairy tale starts, "Once upon a time...", and a sea story starts, "And this is no shit..."
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  1213. 6:10 See Employee "A"? Don't be Employee "A".
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  1214. Solution: change the name of the SI unit of time from the "second" to the "third". Rewrite and republish all textbooks and software references. Start calling it the third hand. Problem solved.
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  1215.  @tjampman  So you're saying you got it on the third second?
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  1216. Something about the P-51, especially the D model. Even today it looks as if it could handle itself in a fight against a MiG, it just has that look, like it was the perfect fighter design. When I was growing up I saw one at an airshow, and it blew me away. As it rolled down the runway in front of us on takeoff, the ungodly awesome sound of that Merlin engine and that giant prop is something I'll never forget, how I felt it in my chest, the thunderous roar and sense of power radiating from that beast, gleaming shiny metal in sunlight.
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  1217. Way back before WWII in 1908, a US Navy officer accidentally grounded his destroyer on his watch. He received a black mark on his record, but was not kicked out of the Navy. This man's name was Chester Nimitz, and he later went on to lead the US Navy in defeating the Imperial Japanese Navy and now has a nuclear aircraft carrier named after him. So sometimes mistakes happen, and the people in charge recognize the guy needs a second chance. To be fair, Nimitz's ship, the Decatur, was damaged but not lost, so the harm was minor.
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  1218.  @dragonsword7370  RIP Kirk Douglas great film.
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  1219.  @EneTheGene  He may have actually stolen the poster. The response was nevertheless a bit extreme, given that he ultimately died as a result.
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  1220.  @Gernot66  There's also the old favorite, "Abort, Retry, Fail"
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  1221. Maybe so, but I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. Only serious inquiries, please. And while we're at it, if you act now, you can get your own square foot of land on Luna, to get started on a moon estate your grandkids will thank you for some day.
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  1222. Sounds like a sound effect from a Dr. Who episode.
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  1223. Yes, once they close that hatch your fate is out of your hands.
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  1224. The weakness of digital medium is the machines and software needed to retrieve it, which may become obsolete at any time in the future, rendering all your jpgs, Word docs, pdfs, etc. unreadable to most future computers. The beauty of film is that all you need to read it is a light and a magnifying glass, and printing it requires some fairly simple chemistry, or it can be scanned into the future tech of the day for digital viewing. This makes film a good long term archival storage option.
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  1225.  @fenrirr22  Simpler than that. The goal of war is to force the opponent to yield to your will.
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  1226. I forget which channel I found first, but if you view one you probably get recommendations to see the other. Mark Felton's channel is another one.
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  1227. "The world weighs on my shoulders, but what am I to do I know it makes no difference To what you're going through But I see the tip of the iceberg And I worry about you Absalom Absalom Absalom" - Rush Distant Early Warning
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  1228.  @craigcorson3036  "There will never be a good enough reason to use nukes" Oh boy that sounds a bit fanatical. A nuke is not some evil totem, it's a machine that creates lots of heat, radiation, and blast effect. If you have an application that benefits from those things you may consider a nuke. It does nobody any good to be afraid of technology just because it can be used for evil purposes; it's not going to get uninvented and there is no going back to 1944, so the only choice is to be rational and keep moving forward.
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  1229. He should've trolled us and put it up as a Vanilla Ice bass intro lol.
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  1230. My dad had that book, and also the follow on by the same author that dealt with the Rabbit/Scirocco water-cooled cars. Best maintenance manual ever written. Even had instructions for how to build a sandwich when you take a break from working on your VW.
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  1231. It's actually pre-Boomer, it's the generation before Boomers, the ones who were teens or twenty-somethings during WWII.
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  1232.  @enisra_bowman  Oh boy, want some pork with that salt?
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  1233. I first heard it growing up watching Apocalypse Now.
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  1234. @JZ's BFF WTF is your problem?
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  1235.  @hreedesh  There was a limo with ribbons on it, so this was probably the wedding day.
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  1236. Yep, what most young pop fans don't think about is that most of this music is produced, recorded, mastered, etc. by guys like Rick, who are about his age and have lots of experience in the business.
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  1237. I have three of them, sometimes still use one at work when I'm too lazy to reach for my calculator.
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  1238. A few sandwiches short of a picnic.
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  1239. Also, sharks will fly out of the volcano for thousands of miles
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  1240.  @257shooter9  Gotcha.
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  1241.  @jaredliv  Somehow a bunch of engineers once figured out how to fly to the moon without googling "how to build a Saturn V". Stinking amazing, huh.
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  1242. Bananagate!
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  1243.  @miroslavdockal9468  It's not like it's an expensive hobby; all you need is to buy a decent shortwave radio and spend a few minutes turning the tuner knob. Do that often enough and you'll run across a numbers station. I found what I think was the "Spanish Lady" not too ago just by random chance.
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  1244. Over the years, Rocketdyne got all the glamour jobs with engines like the F1 Saturn V main engine and the RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine, and it always seemed Aerojet lost out on the big contracts. But Aerojet had done well for themselves building engines like the AJ-10 and most of the thrusters used for attitude control and as propulsion on satellites. I'm a bit old school, so it's a bit disappointing that they merged into one company. As far as them being owned by L3 Harris, unless I am mistaken, I think Rocketdyne has spent most of its history owned by other bigger companies, and if so this is just more of the same.
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  1245. 35:55 Has this guy been keeping a live 88mm shell all these years?! I hope it's been demilled.
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  1246.  @thewriteinpresident  Uh, yeah, you tell him buddy! And don't let any of them tell you you have to take your meds, that's just propaganda from the lizard overlords! lol
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  1247. No one expects the Spanish gun sub!
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  1248. Look up XKCD's explanation of Banana Equivalent Dose
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  1249. Unfortunately they are relying on Blue Origin for those engines. Hope they get there but BO does not inspire great confidence on my part.
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  1250.  @stevenkelby2169  True. Just saying, there are chemicals that make your hair fall out is all.
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  1251. Then there's USS Nevada, which survived Pearl Harbor and even being nuked.
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  1252.  @ramal5708  CONUS was never in any serious danger of invasion or massed bomber attack. Sneaking subs up in onesies or twosies to lob a bunch of smaller caliber shells is not like rolling up on Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York with a line of battleships and dropping 15 or 18 inch shells the way the US Navy was doing to Japan in 1945. Nor did the axis powers ever have a heavy bomber force or the basing options to support it like the Americans and Brits had.
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  1253. I feel that some American manufacturers just had a better take on how to design naval aircraft for shipboard service. Grumman, for years, had "it" when it came to this, with the A-6 Intruder and the whole Grumman cat series, starting with the Wildcat and culminating in the Tomcat. North American seemed much more aligned to the Air Force's tastes than the Navy.
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  1254. Shows how good an actor Christopher Reeve was, this actually looks like it could be two different guys.
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  1255.  @neilscotter5191  As soon as Queen Starsha's plans for the wave motion drive are received, Japan can get on that and Shinano can help save the Earth.
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  1256. Curious Droid: that research into miniature nuclear explosives was also related to Project Orion, IIRC. Some of the Orion team were concerned that the same technology used to make nuclear propulsive devices for spacecraft also made it easier to construct small, easily proliferated weapons.
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  1257. In the fictionalized TV series (Baa Baa Black Sheep) version of the story VMF-214 (now VMA-214) was created out of thin air when Boyington scammed the paperwork and stole a shipment of factory new F4U Corsairs from some Navy squadron that was due to get them. That never happened in real life, but it makes for a great sea story. If you've never watched the pilot episode for the show it's worth a look.
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  1258. And also the part where the wounded German ex-soldier is trying to find a ride home so the US soldier flags down a couple in a civilian car and talks them into giving the German guy a lift.
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  1259. Love those old photographs. I'm fascinated by antique electronic equipment, especially WWII era. I have a 5-tube AM radio that I need to get repaired, worked fine until recently, probably a dead tube. I almost bought a 1920s radio set that was in superb condition, complete with vintage horn speaker, but the antique dealer moved on before I got back to her. I went to a museum near Baltimore once that had lots of military electronic equipment, including a bunch of radio and radar gear from WWII.
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  1260.  @Isaiah-h8n  He is a physically tough guy, yes. But he would make a horrible president, unlike the guy he's trying to slam.
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  1261. Cool story. But I'd argue with that guy; the Lincolnshire Poacher as far as I know always had a lady speaking in a British accent.
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  1262.  @doctechno2241  All of this tracks. As is said near the end of this video, any one of a dozen things could've gone right and she and Noonan could've made it, but they fell through the "swiss cheese" model we hear about in modern accident reports. She was also a huge media darling, a celebrity, and therefore remembered decades later while most people don't even remember Noonan's name.
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  1263. More a case of "If you can't afford to replace it, you're stuck with it."
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  1264. The footage from the cameras mounted on the SRBs during launch, separation, and splashdown is some of the most epic spaceflight footage ever made. Even has sound with it, so you can hear the wind whistling and the structure howl and creak as it tumbles downward. When the camera turns so you can see the orbiter and external tank screaming away at full thrust into the dark sky, that is just freaking awesome.
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  1265. If you gain or lose weight on a long mission, or if your spine stretches out a bit in zero G, I can see the precision fit stop being precision. And then there's the problem with the areas you can't put constant pressure on, like the area around your crotch and genitals, and the area around your neck where the helmet has to attach. It's still a cool idea if it can be made to work, but it's been in sci fi books since the 40s or 50s and we still don't see a viable model yet.
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  1266. My family had a 73 Chevy Impala that was awesome. Huge car, huge comfy interior, power windows and locks when that was a luxury, smooth as silk ride at high speeds. Hood was so big the Navy could land a jet on it. Flying down a long stretch of open road with the cruise control on, elbow out the window, loving life.
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  1267.  @volgawolfhounds741  Bro, do you even quote?
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  1268.  @johnserrano9689  wtf?
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  1269.  @lawrencemiller3829  That person should've had a few teeth knocked out.
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  1270. The opposite is almost just as bad. Some parrots can live more than 60 years or so, which means if you get a young parrot in your 30s he may outlive you and become an old, unwanted bird. The bird rescue organizations have lots of them. It is recommended to leave instructions in your will for pets that may outlive you.
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  1271. It was about there on a map
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  1272. "Either you're a dead man, or you earn yourself a medal" Or maybe both.
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  1273. There is a price to be paid for giving up conventional aircraft carriers. The Royal Navy would've been better able to project power with a carrier loaded with Phantoms and Buccaneers, or maybe even Grumman Intruders. The Harrier was and still is a capable aircraft, the US Marines still use them for the time being, but it's limited in fleet defense and bombing capacity.
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  1274. I will allow it, but just barely. The Concorde did have an ugly wannabe look-a-like, the Tu-44, which of course was very seldom seen and rare. There aren't many jetliners that look like a 747 though.
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  1275. For once I actually knew this before Mark's video. The National Electronics Museum near Baltimore, Maryland has a display about the British radar and the Germans' failed signal reconnaissance mission using an airship as a sensor platform. It's also worth mentioning that the US Navy operated a large number of non-rigid airships (blimps) for antisubmarine patrols during WWII, and unmanned tethered blimps ("aerostats") are in limited use today for surveillance duties.
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  1276. Sounds great until the ornery goose bites you in the scrotum.
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  1277. Please tell us all about your poor life choices.
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  1278. Different navies also had different doctrines, such as whether it was advantageous to be upwind or downwind of the enemy. This affected your shot placement, as being upwind meant the ship would heel towards the target, allowing your gunners to aim for hull shots, while the downwind ship was heeled away, and her gunners would be aiming for rigging and masts.
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  1279. 9:44 would be cool to actually get 150k people to try to relay a message across the country.
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  1280. First of all, "nuke" is not a proper noun, so stop capitalizing it. (Same goes for the words "idea", "nuclear", and "detection") Second, moving missiles around in trains means you don't know exactly where they are at any given moment, so they are harder to target. You're right, it's not high tech, but unless you are devoting lots of resources to identifying which trains are carrying missiles and then tracking them 24 hours a day, you are going to miss a few and they will survive long enough to shoot back.
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  1281. +God There are definitely flakes of some sort involved...
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  1282. +jefferi chang All film is a niche market, now, but it's a very steady niche market.
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  1283. None of us would be inbred? And if Noah had more than one family on his boat, maybe we wouldn't be double inbred?
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  1284.  @DavidChipman  They're smart, they'd figure it out.
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  1285. Throw in my defense of Alice in Chains and Tool.
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  1286. "We got 2 guys. You got 6 guys. Looks like you better go home and get some more guys."
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  1287.    Yeah, Dune definitely isn't for you.
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  1288. You need to introduce yourself to a map, dear boy.
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  1289. 6:11 Beijing looks like Los Angeles in Blade Runner 2049.
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  1290. It's almost every accident ever. If you had waited five seconds or gone five seconds early, that fender bender would never have happened. If you had not ordered another glass of wine, talked to the waitress, or moved your hand at the wrong time, that wine would not have spilled on your shirt. Every accident is the result of a chain of events, any one of which could've stopped the result. I used to read flying safety magazines and they all stressed this concept. It's the same for most accidents.
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  1291.  @KCJbomberFTW  Look up Idiocracy.
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  1292. When the Iowa class battleships were brought back into service in the 1980s they still used the 1940s analog fire control computers for the main guns, despite having all sorts of modern electronics and computers installed. The machines are still very accurate and they are basically built into the ships, mechanically linked to the gun turrets and gun directors, so may as well keep using them. Plus they keep working after an EMP or if the ship takes a massive hit, and because they were made in the 1940s when everything was bulletproof and overengineered they are very reliable as long as you take care of them.
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  1293. And they were still alive. Sadly, many of them have since passed. Bill Anders just the other day.
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  1294.  @andrewstrongman305  Admiral Nelson would disagree. He'd be proud to see them get in and mix it up at close range with the Martian bastards.
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  1295. Well, the crew didn't really get a chance to decide one way or the other. When you're working below decks in the galley or shoveling coal or whatever it's not like you get any say whatsoever in what happens to you.
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  1296.  Doctor Blome  There are laws for war. Which is ironic since war is the abrogation of law in order to get what you want through the use of force rather than legal means.
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  1297.  @Goldenspiderducck  Or Monty Python
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  1298. "WEstland's last fixed wing aircraft before they turned to the Dark Side of aviation." 😄
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  1299. Or they could just use a flashlight from a window.
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  1300.  @shaider1982  Heat seekers only need to know where the target is. By knowing where it isn't.
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  1301. Nukes. Only need to be close.
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  1302.  @mmogaddict  That could describe a beer can.
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  1303. Another example: a century ago the Pennsylvania Railroad had its own research division and did a lot of work optimizing and designing steam engines and other rail equipment. Many of their locomotives were designed and built in their own shops or the designs farmed out to contractors, they did their own signal technology and had lots of smart people on the payroll. The company ceased to exist around 1970.
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  1304. We like to have fun here.
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  1305. The thing I love about that camera shot is that it is at both the beginning and end of the film, and at the beginning it's just a girl looking up at the camera, but at the end of the film it's like a demon staring into your soul. Such a great well-made film.
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  1306. 8:35 LOL Marines! Even when they aren't anywhere in sight, they still manage to find ways to piss off the Army!
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  1307. Rick has talked about this before, especially in his Bonham vids, where he puts Zeppelin tracks in a DAW and quantizes them, making them suck.
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  1308. Because all the market supports now are sequels to awful superhero films.
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  1309. The Irregular Dashes remind me of the signal in the film "On the Beach", received by a submarine after a nuclear war. They hear a signal near San Francisco, but can't read the code, as it sounds random, so they send a party ashore to investigate and search for survivors.
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  1310. I often wonder why fans of any particular channel obsess over those who dislike videos.
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  1311.  @DUKE_of_RAMBLE Nuclear reactors in space are not banned by any treaty.
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  1312.  @adampaula1863  Things kind of slow at the BLM riot today?
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  1313. I bet the other cops had a good laugh outside the room after seeing that.
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  1314.  @insignificantgnat9334  Sounds like a scene from Spaceballs. Or maybe Star Wars Episode VIII, which was also a satire of Star Wars.
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  1315. On the differences between the USAF and Navy versions of the A-7, there was a sea story* I heard once. A couple of USAF A-7's landed at a Navy base in California, and in addition to fuel, the pilots asked the Navy guys to recharge the pilot oxygen systems. Apparently, Navy A-7's used a higher pressure O2 system than the USAF version, but nobody told the poor young petty officer who was sent out to the flightline with an oxygen cart. He plugged in the cart, cranked up the pressure and opened the valve. The Corsair promptly exploded! I saw a photo: the engine was sitting there surrounded by airplane parts. They sailor was thought to be dead, but they couldn't find his body. A couple of days later he showed up and explained: After the plane blew up, he took off running and hopped the fence to go hide out in town, thinking that for sure he was going to burn for this. I didn't hear what they actually did to the guy, but I'm guessing he didn't get punished as bad as he was expecting lol. *In US Navy/Marine parlance, a "sea story" is a story which may be true or may be complete BS or something in between.
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  1316. ​ @midnightmosesuk It was the US Navy, and the United States Marines, led by 1st Lt. Presley O'Bannon. "...to the shores of Tripoli" lile it says in the song.
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  1317. Most people who work for NASA don't work for NASA directly; they work for contractors. Like SpaceX.
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  1318.  john bloggs  US Army Rangers trace their history back to Robert Rogers' Rangers in the 1750s when Americans were still part of the British Empire. There were ranger units of both sides of the American Revolution (Rogers himself remained loyal to the crown) and later, on both sides of the American Civil War. Today there are ranger units in both the US and Canadian armies.
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  1319.  @ZboeC5  Because anti-capitalists think that places like the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and North Korea are utopian wonderlands where everyone works honestly and there is no corruption and dozens of millions of people were not murdered by their own governments.
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  1320. Yes, beware the bunny boilers!
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  1321.  @snail2171  I don't buy the idea that good people must surrender liberties because bad people abuse them. Drug dealers use speech to do business, should we therefore ban speech? (The way youtube keeps deleting my comment?)
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  1322. In prehistoric Soviet Russia, chicken eat you
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  1323. It was a scam.
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  1324. I was involved in field artillery years ago, and it was similar stuff. Each gun has its own logbook, and everything that is done with that weapon gets recorded. How many shells it fired, what the charges were, etc. These are all inputs to the computations, along with wind, temperature, humidity, and so on. The computations are mostly done with software, but, at least in my time, all artillerymen are trained to do things old school using firing tables and slide rule computers, which don't ever break down. The gunnery, when done right, is supper accurate. Batteries would sometimes write their name in the sky using illumination rounds and timed fusing at the end of a field exercise. The scariest thing I saw was a regimental time on target, when the entire 14th Marine artillery regiment timed all their guns to hit the same target at the same moment, resulting in a massive mushroom cloud. I'd hate to be on the wrong end of that.
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  1325. "As you may have heard..." Nope, I don't hear about stuff like this until I hear it from Scott Manley.
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  1326.  @LCaddyStudios  All fighter planes have always been built by contractors in the US, Lockheed Martin being one of them.
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  1327. Like finding the Bat cave.
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  1328. I see what you did there. FBI will be visiting, soon.
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  1329.  @hydro-flare  More like 7.8 km/s
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  1330. "Many of we original Star Wars fans wish that they had stopped there [in 1983]" Hear hear.
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  1331.  @gokbay3057  Doesn't matter, since you're evaluating the gun as if it were in a 30° capable turret.
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  1332. I don't know if "perfect" is the right word, but they got it to at least be useful.
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  1333. Maybe it was the cloud of unburned propellant looking like a wet rain cloud to radar?
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  1334.  @johnlansing2902  Cool. But you don't have to keep reposting that over and over.
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  1335.  @josephvanas6352  You could sell it to someone who doesn't know it's radioactive. He may come to harm later, but what would a no good thief care.
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  1336. 30:58 video like that always amazes me to see how fast one of these giant battleships actually can move. The fact that the Iowa class is able to keep up with modern nuclear carriers is telling; the term "fast battleship" is well deserved.
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  1337. They knew the risk and did their duty. God bless them.
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  1338.  @donkeyshot8472  I mean, at the RRHOF induction he was practically doing standup.
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  1339. My comment about the Justice Department got nuked by yt censors.
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  1340. Just watching this video gives me a bit of vertigo. I don't know what it is about the Saturn V; even though we have stuff like Artemis and Starship today, the Saturn V in my mind is just so much more badass. It's also aesthetically beautiful, the perfect shape and look for a rocket ship, right down to the massive engines, fairings, and those fins.
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  1341. USS Vincennes was a Ticonderoga class cruiser, not a destroyer.
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  1342. There are areas of Camden and Philly that could be improved with an odd 16" shell or two, to be honest.
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  1343.  @221b-l3t  It also makes it so you never have to worry about anything ever again.
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  1344.  @GeneralBolas  Since the sequels suck even worse than the prequels, it'll be a breath of fresh air. Who'd have thunk Disney could fuck up Star Wars even worse than Lucas already did.
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  1345. When the Soviet army was in Afghanistan in the 80s they had problems with their tanks, because the soldiers kept drinking the brake fluid.
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  1346. Metallica should pay you for your know-how, Rick.
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  1347.  @frequentlycynical642  Convention or not, if your captors thought there was danger from submarines in stopping to pick you up, you'd be left to die.
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  1348.  @marbleman52  Yes, storage is important for any medium. Even stone tablets wear down if left out in the weather.
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  1349. I don't know if they still sell it, but you used to be able to get peanut butter and jelly in one squeeze bottle. It wasn't very good though.
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  1350. Interesting thought about the Shuttle's aesthetics. The Soviet Buran shuttle orbiter was a very similar design, approximately the same size and shape, but it was not a direct copy system-wise. It turns out that to do what STS did, your orbiter has to look pretty much just like it did. Function over form, as has been stated. But if you look at the two spacecraft side by side up close, the Rockwell orbiter looks a bit different than the Buran orbiter. The nose is a bit different, the windshield frames, the tile pattern, all these things represent the differences in philosophy between American and Russian aerospace engineers. The Buran looks Russian, while the Rockwell orbiter looks like it came out of a US aircraft factory, like it has some Boeing or Lockheed DNA mixed into its aesthetics. Personally, I think the US orbiter is better-looking, but that's subjective.
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  1351.  @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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  1352. Well good for you then.
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  1353. All it needs is some planar array antennae.
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  1354. Re ejecting the warp core: assuming the thing has significant amounts of antimatter still inside, you'd better hope you get reeeeaaaalllly far away from it before the containment fails and the fuel contacts the reactor walls. If you look up the famous cutaway poster of Enterprise from the first Motion Picture, it also shows a whole array of magnetic antimatter storage bottles at the base of the engineering hull, each of which should be able to glass over half a planet according to the original series. Come to think of it, operating antimatter-powered starships in LEO is a really dangerous thing to do. In ST III when they destroyed the Enterprise, by all rights it should've wiped out the face of the planet along with it.
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  1355. They sound awesome.
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  1356. I'm shocked to find a Casablanca reference in the comments! Shocked!
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  1357. IIRC the asymmetrical intakes on the newer 737 variants are because the engine diameter is large and a round intake won't fit underneath the low wing of a 737. Mentour Pilot did a video on this a while ago. It's also the reason the engines had to be shifted forward, resulting in the need for the ill-fated software system to prevent excessive pitching up.
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  1358. I thought it would say, "Drink more Ovaltine."
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  1359. Mine is more of a minor flat 5 headache.
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  1360.  @newsguy5241  Maybe the Iranian navy will name a ship for Obama. He paid them enough.
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  1361.  @tboogz284  Ignorant comment.
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  1362.  Adymn Sani  I heard that was a prank they would play, trying to strand you in the middle while you were sleeping and then watch you squirm when you wake up.
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  1363. If I were one of those passengers, I'd tell the agent to make sure I get aboard whichever plane that particular pilot is flying.
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  1364. Anything off the first 3 or 4 Sabbath albums is awesome, to be honest. I can listen to them all end to end without any skips.
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  1365.  @RedLP5000S  The U2 camera sees it too. It sees everything.
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  1366. If it weren't for this channel, I'd never even know any of these songs exist. The juvenile and repetitive mediocrity made me tune out of pop a long time ago. A shame, since some of these artists have actual talent but they aren't in a position to let it show. Also, awesome thumbnail.
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  1367. STS-51L was part of a larger problem that developed within the STS program. NASA had promised Congress low costs, and the only way to get the cost lower was to have a higher launch rate, which meant rushing everything and scrimping on tracking down problems such as O-ring burn-through. What happened to Challenger could have happened on several previous missions launched in cold weather, the crew of 51L just happened to win the bad luck lottery that day. Same thing with Columbia; NASA had problems with debris shedding from the very first shuttle launch, and incorrectly determined it would not be a problem.
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  1368. Hasselblad made that model up util just a few years ago, and sadly they discontinued it. A friend of mine has one and it's a really sweet camera.
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  1369. I think he sucks, the halftime show was well-choreographed garbage. But you know, that's just like, my opinion.
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  1370. Brains =/= wisdom
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  1371. "Good luck setting fire to graphite." Windscale nuclear reactor has entered the chat.
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  1372.  @trysometruth Likewise, Dane has some good jokes. See, just like Nickelback!
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  1373.  @ericmorrissette2253  I remember when my mom first let me use the internet, way back in 1969.
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  1374.  @SofaKingShit  Yes, the very next morning in school the shuttle jokes were already flying around.
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  1375.  @yaldabaoth2  Correct. As anyone who watches swords and sandals films knows, all Romans spoke with British accents!
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  1376. The microphone deserves to make the list, but like any of the things mentioned on this list, by itself is useless; it's only part of a system of amplification, which itself may be part of a PA system or a system of recording, and they did mention the vacuum tube and magnetic tape, which together enabled hi fi recording. It's really tough to put together a list like this, because so many of these inventions are so dependent on other inventions and how they are used together.
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  1377.  @Dan20q  Watch the video again and pay attention to the WHOLE story.
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  1378. Sounds like she learned her lesson in the end and straightened out later on in life. She was lucky she got the chance instead of a long drop and a short stop.
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  1379. "Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Teddy Roosevelt
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  1380. Funny, that message is in my head all the time. It must be the US Navy's HARP project!
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  1381.  @kfeltenberger  I'm guessing he could've mopped the floor with John Wayne, too.
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  1382.  @frazzeldazzel5445  Well to be fair, other than Orlok all the characters in this film are German but had British (or American faking) accented English, and the fictional town of Wisborg could just as well have been some fictional English town. I liked the movie, just saying. Ironically, the 1921 silent version has all German actors, but you don't get to hear them speak.
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  1383.  @bloodyneptune  It's not a comment about laws at all, it's about societal perceptions of women and firearms. Try to pay attention.
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  1384. Too angry to die? This makes Warspite sound Scottish.
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  1385. Television used to be the main transmitter of stupidity, but it's been surpassed by more recent tech.
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  1386.  @Boold198891  Objects like that have higher area to mass ratios than the station and will deorbit naturally due to drag, probably after a few months or so. In addition, when astronauts chuck stuff away they should be doing it opposite the direction of the ISS's velocity, so that the object will be in a slightly lower altitude from that moment on. BAck in the day when the Shuttle astronauts were replacing the solar panels on Hubble they tossed the old ones overboard the same way by hand.
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  1387.  @Belligerent_Herald  The forward end of the vehicle deck on the Nassau was also a great amusement park ride in heavy seas. RIP LHA-4!
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  1388.  @karenrobertsdottir4101  I believe that as long as the quartz remains transparent to X-rays then it'll work. But what do I know.
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  1389.  @jimmyseaver3647  Look at photos of the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov during her recent voyage through the Med with smoke belching from her stack as if she were burning coal.
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  1390. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like picking a fight with a battleship called "Warspite" feels like a good way to get seven shades of shyte knocked out of you. But what do I know.
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  1391. USS Winston Churchill
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  1392.  @mattweihl  Yes, Mike Mullane talks about this in his book.
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  1393. I admit to being ignorant of French fighter plane history beyond WWI, so this video is good info, and the footage is great. Ouragan was, if nothing else, at least a good-looking jet plane, and all fighter pilots place high value on looking good! Also, around 17:20 that jet appears to have the insignia of the Lafeyette Escadrille on the nose, which is super cool.
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  1394. More like a Henry Ford or one of the robber barons (I do not use that term as a pejorative). Enough engineering knowledge to know the high level, smart enough to hire engineers who can realize his vision, and savvy enough to run the business.
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  1395. I thought real hipsters rip all their records to mp3 and then brag about they are listening to "vinyl"?
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  1396. "Just a dancing toaster" Cylon Centurion has entered the chat.
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  1397. Howzabout a spoiler alert, there, chief?
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  1398. Because of this channel I've gotten into building crystal radios. You should do a video on those, before all your UK AM stations are gone.
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  1399.  @bkjeong4302  Yes, I am well aware of your hatred of battleships reading your comments on this channel, but if you read my comment, I'm not talking about actual destructive capability so much as perception. In a ceremony, looks are more important than unseen technological edge.
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  1400. It's absolutely slow motion. Look it up. It was shot with high speed film cameras for the purpose of allowing engineers to examine it frame by frame so see how the system was performing after the launch. Every launch is extensively filmed so that if something goes wrong they can figure out what broke and why, or if nothing goes wrong they may still learn something and improve future missions.
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  1401. "If I wrote that riff (Michael Jackson's Beat It) we could've been talking about this on my space shuttle from all the bread I would've made." Hilarious. Amazing to hear that MJ wrote riffs with his voice to teach to his musicians.
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  1402.  @FLPhotoCatcher  Whenever I think of Starlink or any of these other dump-hundreds-of-satellites-into-orbit programs, my song is Space Junk by Devo.
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  1403. ​ @tjroelsma Especially citizens in "Flyover Country".
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  1404. This is still a big deal in Pennsylvania, at least in that region of the state. I have friends and family from that area, and they are quick to bring it up in conversation.
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  1405.  @donf3877  ON top of that, if a lengthy invasion had taken place the Soviet Union would've seized all the northern Japanese islands and possibly part of the main island.
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  1406.  @kennethc2466  Do you get offended when someone makes fun of Blue Origin? Because this is a conversation about the New Shepard, has nothing to do with whatever you're talking about.
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  1407.  @hadronoftheseus8829  Ed, "Ha ha ha. Yes."
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  1408. Eph Phours Phorever
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  1409. SickOfTheStupid Please provide credible (emphasis on that word) evidence that the US used nukes in Afghanistan, because that sounds like complete bullshit. Also, depleted uranium is NOT highly radioactive, it's only mildly radioactive. That's why it's called "depleted", the opposite of "enriched". Depleted uranium munitions are used because uranium is extremely hard and thus good for penetrating armor. Uranium dust, however, is a toxic heavy metal, a chemical property which has nothing to do with radiation, similar to lead poisoning.
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  1410.  @aaditya4954  Doesn't happen often, but happy this time I was.
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  1411. But but but Russia! Radiation! Aliens! Nukes! LOL yup
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  1412. My local NDB is the only thing I can hear on my radio's LW band, but it's cool to listen to. Back when I took flying lessons my instructor showed me how to tune the comnav radio in to NDB's and listen to the morse code over the headphones. From up in the air they come in pretty loud and clear. Also, he showed me that the radio would tune up into the MW band so you could listen to the local sports radio station while flying lol.
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  1413. The Star Trek version?
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  1414. Electrolux vacuum cleaners are an example of really good industrial design, I love that 50s/60s machine look and the logo.
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  1415.  @Cautionary_Tale_Harris  This happens to me all the time.
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  1416.  @starventure  The invisible unicorns pull everything down, of course.
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  1417.  @eamonnprunty  Nav aids used by the enemy's sea and air forces are absolutely legitimate military targets.
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  1418. Always assume they are.
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  1419.  @richardhart9204  Trust me, chief. Thar be dragons.
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  1420.  @michaelpcoffee  Calling 1812 America "imperialist" as they fought a nation known literally as "The British Empire" for impressing American citizens into the Royal Navy. Now that takes a lot of sand.
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  1421. These days we'd have an emoticon class. HMS :-), HMS >:-), etc.
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  1422.  @Andrew-13579  Plus, like most Russian designs, the Tu-22 is as hideous as an infected zit on the ass of Rosie O'Donnell, while the B-58 is one of the sleekest, most beautiful, badass-looking planes ever built.
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  1423. We'd be in LEO with an even older ISS, because when there is no competition, LEO is about as far as you can get funding for.
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  1424. Read the book "The Dead Hand" about Soviet WMD stuff. Among the other absolutely terrifying things you'll read will be about a facility in the former USSR where nuclear fuel elements were stored in a warehouse, stacked up next to each other on pallets, behind a padlocked door surrounded by a rusty chain link fence. The only precaution was the pallets were separated by so many inches to guard against a criticality accident. The facility was visited by Americans who had been invited to take some of this stuff away and use it as fuel in US nuclear power plants instead of leaving it sit unguarded in Communist Fail-topia.
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  1425. It's also a gamble. In the years it takes for the spacecraft to get into position for its mission there are plenty of opportunities for something to go wrong. I'm always happy when something like New Horizons or Cassini gets all the way to its target and nothing major goes wrong.
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  1426. I imagine you would treat the sun's surface the same as you would a gas giant, since it is basically a gas giant that is burning itself.
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  1427.  @HALLish-jl5mo  Correct. And the water/steam inside the engine is a working fluid.
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  1428. This channel keeps getting better. I have always thought the USAF leadership were a bunch of pricks over this business. The Army needs dedicated air support, the Air Force doesn't want them to have it, yet at the same time the Air Force doesn't really want to do it either. The USAF has never really liked the A-10, for example, and expecting the USAF to acquire and operate dedicated squadrons of aircraft such as the OV-1, the OV-10, the Harrier, or some sort of A-4 equivalent, and then to have them work as closely with the Army as the Army's own aviation, is not a good bet. The US Marine Corps, with cooperation from the Navy, has steadfastly maintained its own very powerful aviation element and has no asinine restrictions placed on it like the Army does. The result is that the Corps has entire air wings of both rotor wing and fast movers dedicated to supporting Marines on the ground, and which operate in the field as integrated parts of the whole fighting force. The USAF should develop this kind of relationship with the Army, or alternatively, allow the Army to procure and develop its own aviation equipment and training as it sees fit. At least Ken Lee got to hear about his confirmed kill from legends like Robin Olds and Chappie James, I bet that was cool for him!
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  1429.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Yes, the props were fake, but in universe they were real tech of the early 21st Century.
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  1430. "That's what we do here. Strap rockets to everything we see." - Adam Savage
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  1431. My understanding is that newer boosters have a leveling system, while 1058 was older and did not. So this is somewhat less likely to happen to boosters going forward. Read that in an article over on Space News I think.
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  1432.  @Dan-yq8lf  Took you long enough, I knew one of you'd be along sooner or later.
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  1433. Wow, lots of haters here.
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  1434. Enterprise was supposed to fly in space, hence her serial number OV-101. (OV means orbital vehicle, STA means structural test article) She was rushed out the factory door to get the approach and landing tests complete before sending her back to be fitted up for space flight, but an airframe design change during the ALT made that prohibitively expensive. That's why STA-099 was changed to OV-099 and named Challenger. Also, you pronounced Christa McAuliffe's name wrong. I can forgive that, but having heard her name on news and documentaries over and over for almost 40 years it dawned on me that I am now getting older and lots of people are now too young to remember seeing this on TV in 1986. Things you'll never forget.
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  1435. Because they're not in the UK. In the US civilians normally don't use 24 hour time.
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  1436.  @bobroberts2371  I seem to recall one of the lessons learned after the 9/11 attacks was that many of the emergency services involved couldn't talk to each other on radios. That's now over 20 freaking years ago now (God I feel old) and lessons tend to get forgotten over time.
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  1437. It's the new crappy techno we'll hear in every Russian road rage dashcam video.
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  1438. That reminds me of the videos from Lebanon 2 years ago where people were recording the blast with their phones and just stood there watching it through glass windows, not understanding the price they'd pay when the shock wave arrived.
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  1439. Where I grew up it was against the law for kids to buy rocket motors at the hobby shop without some kind of license or something. So as a result I never got to do model rocketry, even though I desperately wanted to, looking at all the cool kits. I guess some asshole somewhere was happy they "kept me safe" or something though.
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  1440. Isn't he the guy who flew through a nuclear test mushroom cloud with a swallowed radiation sensor and the string hanging out his mouth so he could cough it up after the flight? Those were crazy days.
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  1441.  @misterpink8099  Yeah, something like that. The Purple Paw.
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  1442.  @Idahoguy10157  Wrong. The mast is real, and there is even an air passenger terminal built into the top of the building. They tried to moor an airship to it once, but the captain deemed the approach too dangerous because of the vertical gusts. It wasn't well thought out, but it was real.
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  1443. Tool sampled it from the same radio show. Listening to that track on headphones is creepy af and one of the reasons we love Tool.
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  1444. The title of this video is all about landings and failures to launch. It's a real downer. I'll be here all week, folks. Try the veal.
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  1445. There is a video, possibly by Mark Felton, which describes the German plan for submarine launched ballistic missiles. A U-boat would tow a sort of barge behind it which contained a V-2 missile. This barge would've been a missile silo turned on its side. When it was time to launch, the barge would ballast itself to pitch up 90 deg into launch position. Never got close to making it happen, of course. But people in the 1940s were thinking ahead of the tech at the time.
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  1446. They are far from simple, though. That's always been one of the struggles. In sci fi people put space suits on and off like a set of coveralls, but in real life it takes forever and involves lots of moving parts, all very expensive and some of which are custom made for each user.
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  1447.  @KuhanVincek  which were junk and never went into service, unlike the Harrier, which has seen extensive combat and is still in service with the USMC today.
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  1448. You have to imagine that in Morpheus's voice
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  1449. The F-8 Crusader's ancestor, nice.
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  1450. RN should have an HMS Motörhead. That beats 'em all.
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  1451. In Soviet Russia, pants poop you!
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  1452. ​ @betsybarnicle8016 I eat where I please and ignore chicken sandwich politics.
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  1453.  @Dave_Sisson  During the Gulf War in 1991 every bomb I saw had stuff written on it. And it's not like we didn't "have far more important things to do".
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  1454.  @GreatDataVideos  So, my comment about left wing terrorism in the 70s got deleted. Weird.
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  1455. They are useless for cleaning, but they do a pretty good job of mapping your private home and sending all the data to the manufacturer's servers.
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  1456. Anyone who was anyone avoided this and went straight for the Chrysler Cordoba, with its rich Corinthian leather!
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  1457. He's a Time Lord, obviously. His TARDIS is probably shaped like a crow's nest.
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  1458.  @kingoftheworld5753 If she did hire a guy like that, she should've hired a guy who was better at convincing the jury. To answer your question, I've read that the reason they asked for a jury was because jurors are randos with no music education, so they'd be easier to bullshit.
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  1459. I thought it was anti-orange-ism.
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  1460.  @LCaddyStudios  The Apollo and Shuttle suits were also built by contractors.
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  1461. Drill Instructor School is one of the hardest schools in the Marine Corps, with a high washout rate. They are very professional and everything they do with the recruits has a purpose. They are also among the fittest men I have ever seen; they have to be in better shape than the recruits.
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  1462. Hindsight is 20/20. Nobody at North American, Grumman, or NASA ever thought there would be a need for interchangeable filters, any more than they thought the LM's descent engine would be used for mid-course correction burns. Faulting them after the fact is hardly fair, given the circumstances.
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  1463. I don't think it's technically an acronym, though, unless there is a way to pronounce it as a word, is it?
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  1464.  @TheNasaDude  I dunno, but in that stupid movie they were driving a drilling rig rover thing around in super low g, so, Hollywood rules.
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  1465.  @TimothyLipinski  The RTG carried on Apollo 13's LM was carried back into Earth's atmosphere after the crew abandoned it and is still at the bottom of the ocean today. RTGs and nuclear reactors used in space are engineered to be very safe in the event of a launch vehicle failure and aren't worth losing much sleep over. A bigger problem is if a reactor gets placed on a trajectory to reenter the atmosphere after it's been critical. The Soviet Kosmos 954 satellite failure resulted in a nuclear reactor breaking up and scattering over northern Canada in 1977. Much of the core was never recovered and is still out in the woods and lakes somewhere.
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  1466. There may well be a million Pearl Harbor videos today, Drach, but yours is the one we wanted most.
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  1467. It's a gigantic radar target, especially with that radial engine. The last thing you want is to be a soldier riding in the back of one of these things in any kind of hostile environment, as it's basically dead meat. DC-3 is also a great airplane, but there's a reason the US no longer uses them in any kind of a combat role. These old planes are great for civilian utility work, but useless in warfare. The fact that the Russians are basically throwing their An-2's in the garbage by using them as decoys for enemy missiles tells you how useless they are.
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  1468. I remember seeing that explosion in the early days of Youtube and thinking the launch platform must have been lunched. Was surprised to hear it was only lightly damaged.
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  1469.  @mskellyrlv  Absolutely. Video used to be scorned as nice to have for newbs but sensor data is for professionals, mainly because getting video from space missions required heavy, bulky equipment and lots of bandwidth. Technology has advanced very far just in the last 15 years. The video camera technology in your phone is something NASA would've loved to get their hands on in the 60s.
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  1470. The F-106 was intended to be an interceptor for continental air defense, period. Go check out Bruce Gordon's channel. He was an F-106 pilot in the 60s and explains it all. F-106 pilots were not even trained to fight other fighters, all their training was to intercept. They considered themselves to be "fighter pilots" of course, and during a rare deployment overseas Gordon and his wingmen almost mixed it up with some Nork MiGs off the coast of Korea, but even then they intended to make an intercept and then outrun any enemy survivors. Gordon states that later on he got to do some dogfighting against the F-104 and the F-4 and that despite not being built for it, the F-106 was pretty nimble in a turning fight if you knew how to manage it, but it was never sent to Vietnam because it lacked survivability features such as radar warning receivers and countermeasures, stuff you need in a high threat environment like Vietnam, but could safely dispense with over the wilds of Canada and Alaska where the jet was meant to operate.
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  1471. Marines don't steal things, we "recon" them.
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  1472. Sad thing is that even the singers who can sing great get autotuned into oblivion.
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  1473. Sharks with frikkin' laser beams.
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  1474.  @xomm  The reentry is a bit longer than a capsule going full ballistic, but only by a few minutes. When it gets down it lands on a runway where an ambulance can roll right up and get the patient off. Also, a lifting body should have decent cross-range capability, so it will have a bit more opportunities to deorbit and still make the landing field. Not as much as a winged Space Shuttle, but a fair amount more than a capsule.
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  1475. My dad drove a 73 Super Beetle for many years, and took great care of it. It had no rust issues and ran like new. For a long time after he sold it he regretted getting rid of it. Even worse, somebody local bought it off the used lot and my dad often saw his own car around town being abused by some muppet. If he had kept it, I'd probably be driving it today.
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  1476. Well, if I were wealthy and funding my own space tourism business, damn straight I'd give myself an early ride. Let the jealous chatterboxes on the internet be damned.
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  1477. Count me in. From New Jersey to Jersey, all for a good pint.
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  1478.  @robertf3479  The Russians also lack a tradition of professional NCOs / petty officers.
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  1479. "Go up to that live rocket, the big one over there with the vapors hissing out of it and tighten that bolt." "This bolt here?" "NO! That one lets the hell out of the big red tank thingie! Turn the one next to it. Remember, righty tighty, lefty loosy!" "Got it boss mang. We gonna take care of that badboy."
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  1480. @tst ccnt It only works with nukes. That's the whole point of the design. We use chemical explosive right now, called rocket engines. Nuclear explosives have a much higher specific impulse (efficiency), along with very high thrust, something no other type of propulsion system can do with current technology. That's why this scheme was thought of in the first place.
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  1481.  @thetreblerebel  AT&T no longer has the impact it once did on the science and tech world. Bell Labs invented the transistor and so much other world-changing tech in the 40s-60s, tech which you are using right now as you read this, but lately AT&T are seen as just another service provider and Bell Labs itself is faded in prominence. I'm sure IBM is still doing heavy stuff but since they walked away from the PC market they are no longer in the public spotlight as they once were. GE ruined itself over the last two decades, RCA is long dead, Westinghouse is largely fragmented. The old aerospace big names have either gone under or merged into today's super giants, the Lockheed Martins, Boeings, and Northrop Grummans. Currently people look to younger companies like SpaceX for futuristic vision, unaware that some of the old giants are still out there and in some cases still quite potent innovators.
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  1482. I wondered if you were going to open the cases to compare the guts, Techmoan style.
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  1483. Thanks for not doing what usually happens to guys like us: left to drown, freeze to death, or be eaten by sharks. Or in some cases, machinegunned to death for fun.
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  1484. Fort Washington, situated south of Washington DC at the confluence of Piscataway Creek and the Potomac River, was built in the early 1800s to defend DC from river attack and is now a national park, but for a while after the 9/11 attacks the Army deployed a Patriot missile battery there, which was plainly visible from the bike trail on the other side of the river.
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  1485.  @enkinaser  Pilot training on how to employ a weapon is hugely important. The Sparrow missile is widely panned by aviation buffs, but the USAF aces in Vietnam became aces by using the Sparrow after better training was provided. The Atoll is certainly lacking, but if you want to use it properly you need to know a lot more than just "pushing a button". Like all missiles, it has a set of conditions and engagement criteria under which its chances of tracking and hitting a target are maximized. Your post is trollish and nonsensical.
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  1486. HMS Can-o-Whoopass
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  1487. And my flying car? At this point I'd settle for a robot that cleans my toilet and does my laundry and dishes. Without spying on me and sending all the data to the company/goverment/whoever.
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  1488. Frigate captains were crazy aggressive, kind of like destroyer skippers in WWII. Always out looking for trouble.
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  1489. AS well they should, Chuck Yeager is a real life badass. Chuck Norris wants to be like Chuck Yeager.
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  1490. This is alternate history Batman, where instead of being treated by Dr. Harleen Qunizel at Arkham, the Joker is sent to be treated by Ratched and loses before Batman ever meets him.
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  1491. I would posit that it wasn't as random as you say. Slotin was practiced at this procedure, which to some extent means he was more likely to screw it up in his earlier tries. But after doing something risky over and over, humans get complacent and distracted, which then increases the chance that an accident will happen. He wasn't rolling dice randomly every time; he was performing an unforgiving procedure that requires concentration, like landing an airplane.
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  1492. As for the purpose of the procedure, I think it was to test to reactivity of the core by taking measurements as the reflector got closer to criticality, so as to build a curve on a graph. I guess every new core manufactured had to be measured prior to installing it in a weapon, maybe? In this particular case, however, it seems Slotin was performing a demonstration for his visitors, which to me sounds wildly risky and irresponsible. If I were one of those guys in that room and I saw his flirting with criticality using only his thumb and a screwdriver I think I would've excused myself and left the building quickly.
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  1493.  @michaelhowell2326  Um, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was pretty bad for the dinosaurs' ecosystem. But pretty good for the one that replaced it.
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  1494. I'm guessing 80s hair spray didn't help with the hair thing.
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  1495.  @SenselessUsername  So you like not having a place to get decent food at 2 AM? Because that's what a diner is, functionally. The decor is just part of the fun.
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  1496.  @jackwilson5542  Firmware wasn't even the real reason, anyway, it was the hardware itself going obsolete so fast in the mid-2000's. It's more stable now but it doesn't matter. At this point I no longer care. Digital photography holds zero interest for me. If chemical photography went away, I would just stop doing photography. You're trying to be clever when you know exactly what I meant all along.
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  1497.  @alphabravodelta42  You really should stop peppering every thread with your defense of attacks on civilians.
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  1498. Backed up by the future queen with a bolt action rifle.
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  1499.  @SimplySketchyGT  Slow your breathing = fine, holding breath = very bad habit
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  1500. 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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  1501. That's a great podcast.
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  1502. Reservists often get as much practical training as regulars, since most of the time as a regular is spent doing routine maintenance and scrubbing toilets and the like anyway. Also, a reservist's job is harder because he generally has a "real" life outside the military, a real job that pays his bills and rent, and has to take time out of that to do his reserve duty. I didn't get that until I went from active duty to reserve and found out what a handful life can be with all that going on.
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  1503. 8:50 I think the equation you're looking for is kinetic energy KE = 0.5 mv^2. The energy of a projectile increases linearly with mass, but with the square of velocity. That's why a small caliber rifle bullet can do more damage than a heavier, slower pistol bullet, since rifles tend to have much higher muzzle velocities.
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  1504. Under VFR water towers are still great aids.
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  1505. 10:00 That photo is the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, near DC. The building is now an art center, with a torpedo on display in a small history exhibit.
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  1506. ​ @EyFmS In what way does blowing millions of dollars and ruining the brand "please investors"?
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  1507. An inspection won't catch people slacking off on watches in the middle of the night.
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  1508. I forget where I heard it: Easy times bring weak men Weak men bring hard times Hard times bring strong men Strong men bring easy times Repeat as necessary.
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  1509.  @ronv6637  L'enfant designed the city.
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  1510.  @edcrichton9457 That's just it. A frenzy of building lots of cheap bridges and structures when the economy is humming leads to a bunch of decrepit structures decades later, with no guarantee the economy will be so good. (Spoiler: it's not.) I also like the "build like the Romans" idea, at least where practical. Stone arches won't work everywhere.
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  1511. Jerry Pournelle was a great writer. RIP
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  1512.  @ahorsewithnoname643  The US squadrons that operated Mosquitos were given a new role as heavy bomber squadrons and equipped with B-29's.
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  1513. Arthur is absolutely evil as well as tragic. The third man killed in the train scene was not even close to self defense, his mother was not self defense, no matter how horrible he thinks she was, Murray was an asshole but not self defense, and the therapist murder was not self defense. Even the fat guy from work he murders in his apartment was guilt of being a liar and an asshole, but that was straight up murder. Joker's mental issues and situation made it easier and more tempting to murder these people, but his failure to resist the temptation makes him evil.
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  1514. I think when you look back on it, the Seven Years War (aka French and Indian War in North America) of the 1750s-60s may have been the first world war. Or one of the first, anyway.
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  1515. That is Mars. That big red thing in the sky is just a very large chunk.
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  1516.  @CrackerFL  There are spring-loaded brakes on modern elevators; they do not freefall, power outage or not.
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  1517. Highly illogical.
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  1518. The Iranians were operating Tomcats against "a numerically superior opponent who was being supported by the Soviets and French, for what that help is worth". LOL gotta love it, throwing shade on the French in a subtle manner.
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  1519.  @packrat76  C---nism is also very bad for agriculture, as we see in so many countries such as the USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia, etc. Collectivist farming coupled with elimination of political "enemies" leads to mass starvation, which is itself handy as a method of maintaining control.
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  1520. Everybody but IJN vets I'd guess.
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  1521.  @DIREWOLFx75  That's because for 40 years nobody produced anything remotely truly dangerous to a trained F-15 pilot, which is the accomplishment.
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  1522.  @burningchrome70  You put the sticker on a transparency across the mouth of the telescope so that the SpaceX watermark shows up in every image lol.
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  1523. I find that any vessel can get disagreeable quickly when you get seasick.
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  1524. Or Superman would kill thousands of New Yorkers..er...Metropolisians while fighting Zod.
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  1525. I thought it was lousy cheap beer.
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  1526. "Haunted pencil" lol gonna have to remember that one.
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  1527. He was like SSgt. Barnes in Platoon.
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  1528. It's an exaggeration to say the Swordfish "took out" Bismarck, but it's true that a Swordfish struck Bismarck's rudder with a torpedo and crippled her long enough for the RN surface combatants to catch her and finish her off.
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  1529.  APCOPILOT  You have a problem with Jews, do you?
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  1530. Drach love your videos. Wish my dad were still around, he served on USS Shangri La in the jet era, was big into naval history, and loved to read Alexander Kent novels. He'd be going through all your videos and loving it were he still here. Cheers.
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  1531. It was called the Apollo Telescope Mount, and yes, it was used.
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  1532.  Ron Lewenberg  That would be a good topic for Drachinifel.
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  1533. Yes, same thing.
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  1534. Well, if it makes them feel better, the rest of the country, and even the rest of NY state, don't care about the difference between the boroughs and think they are all equally insufferable.
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  1535. 19:40 Admiral Ackbar Cereal: Your taste buds cannot withstand flavor of this magnitude!
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  1536.  @stevenkelby2169  Chemo
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  1537. The Secret War is awesome. 1970s documentary featuring a lot of interviewees from both the UK and German side about WWII high tech. I had to go to Daily Motion to find the episodes, I think Youtube takes them down.
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  1538. The fact that you'd never know what was happening to you if you were on the bus, and some of those people are walking around out there today still with no clue. A friend of mine bought a Geiger counter that she carries around to antique shops for this reason.
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  1539. Drach's coat buttons up over a number of other duties.
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  1540. With Phantoms on the deck! Eph-Phours Phorever!
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  1541.  @AudieHolland  Combat footage of Marines in the Pacific is real as hell.
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  1542. I read that there actually is a very slight wisp of atmosphere on the Moon, so thin as to be negligible.
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  1543.  @model-man7802  I don't own the hotel rooms I stay in, but that doesn't mean I shit all over the furniture. It sounds to me like this was done deliberately to spite the Brits and Americans who lent them the vessels.
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  1544.  @aamirrazak3467  I read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice.
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  1545. A good US Army or Marine artillery unit can paint their battery's name in the sky using illumination rounds and time fuses, and they are deadly accurate. As for fire control computing, the tabular and graphical firing tables will do the job, but of course digital computers are today used for fire direction control.
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  1546. That's about the same for any technology, peaking just as it's about to be replaced. Piston-engined aircraft such as the P-51 vs. jets, CRT picture tubes vs. flat panel displays, high tech steam locomotives vs. diesel electric, etc.
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  1547.  @peterg9729  You should go over to the Strip and volunteer to defend them from her people. If you had any guts, anyway.
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  1548. The thing about Atlas and Titan is that they were such good launch vehicles, and so inadequate as alert-worthy weapons, that they actually stayed in production as launchers long after they were retired as weapons. These solid fuel jobs, on the other hand, are really optimized as weapons, designed to sit in storage for years, like cartridges in a rifle magazine, and then work simply and reliably if fired in anger. They will get warheads to the other side of the planet very quickly, but they aren't as efficient as liquid fueled launchers, can't lift as much mass for a rocket of their size, and their high accelerations, desired in a weapon, can be rough on more delicate payloads. But it's good that they've found a niche launch market.
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  1549. I've heard this story many times and I find the conventional interpretation of it to be a bit dubious. The Arrow was indeed a very advanced aircraft, but it was likely limited due to its pure interceptor design. In its intended role for continental defense it may have done as well as its later American counterpart, the F-106, which stayed in service until the 1990s, but the Arrow would likely lacked the multirole versatility of the F-4 Phantom, which was used for air-to-ground missions extensively as well as air-to-air. Could the Arrow even handle itself in a dogfight against other fighters? The Phantom certainly could, when flown right, and in tests the F-106 even did well. Then there's the question of how fragile the Canadian aerospace industry was. When one big project cancellation results in the shutdown of your nation's entire industry, it doesn't say much for the resiliency of the business to begin with. A lot of big projects in the US were canceled over the years as well, and while occasionally a company would go out of business or merge, the US aerospace industry was never seriously in trouble. The B-70 comes to mind right off the top of my head. Finally, the idea of Canada pulling off an Apollo-Saturn style moon landing project is a bit much to believe. Where to even start with that? Sounds a lot like the lost golden age myth fantasy. Canadians have played a large role in the US space program, but to imagine the Canadian government shouldering the financial burden of a NASA type moon landing program, with all the public scrutiny that comes with it, is just too much for me. Public perceptions about government spending is what led to the guy who canceled the Arrow, after all.
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  1550. The Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center is a great museum. There is a second floor walkway with a glass window where you can see into the shop area where the technicians are doing restoration work on various aircraft and spacecraft, up off to the side of the space shuttle Discovery.
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  1551. There is a great book out there called "Longitude" which tells the tale of how Harrison invented his clock and how the Admiralty avoided paying him the prize money for decades before King George III finally overrode the board and made sure he got paid. The Admiralty was heavily influenced by the astronomers to reject Harrison's clock prior to this. The astronomers at the Greenwich Observatory had worked out a complicated system for finding longitude based on the moons of Jupiter, which can be thought of as the hands of a clock in the sky, and if you have the right almanac of published tables, you can use the Galilean moons to find out what the time is in Greenwich and compute your longitude. It also factored in the sun and moon and some other stuff. Problem is, of course, seeing the Galilean moons is only possible at night with a clear sky, and you have to deal with the ship's pitching and rolling as well, so it is impractical for most ships in the 1700s. It was used by landbound surveyors and cartographers though.
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  1552. The guns on battleships are giant rifles, and they can be used as giant sniper rifles. Just ask Admiral Ching Lee or his opponents on Kirishima, who found out the hard way.
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  1553.  @the_undead  To complete this analysis, we need an estimate on the mass of a tripod.
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  1554. Those F-16s in that dark green camo paint job, never seen that before. Looks freakin' cool.
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  1555. So then, this would be some of Roll involving a Rick, you would say? Like maybe something you would never want to give up, never want to let down or desert, perhaps?
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  1556. +1 to this, can't go wrong with Lifeson or Gilmour, awesome sounds. I'm still holding out hope that Rick gets to interview Alex someday.
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  1557. Perfectly cromulent comment.
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  1558.  @alexanderg-p3z  Yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about.
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  1559. Not just your eardrums, but probably several of your organs. I can't imagine the violence of that sound at close range.
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  1560. I know a few idiots where I work who could use a bit of screaming and hollering from time to time.
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  1561.  @lewisw9905  When you go where the most bullets fly you take the most hits.
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  1562. He got the words "God damn!" out while it was still mid air.
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  1563. 5:28 looks like the USN was taking lessons from the RN about how to make your lookouts as miserable as possible through careful placement of the crow's nest.
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  1564. Semper FI to those guys.
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  1565. A-6E is called the Intruder. A-7 is the Corsair II, F-8 is the Crusader.
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  1566. 727s are awesome jets, but they are anything but "whisper" quiet.
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  1567. Any French naval subject is Drachism gold.
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  1568. Welp, it's almost bedtime. Time to watch another fucked up Dark 5 video, and maybe curl up with a Lovecraft book to drift off...
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  1569. So Dark5 hacks your phone and Alexa and next video is about you: "5 weirdest things Dark5 viewers do in their own bedrooms".
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  1570. You bet, Buck! bidibidibidi
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  1571. This whole list should be 8 Clint Eastwood fights, the Bronson train station fight,  and the Bronson-Fonda fight from Once Upon a Time in the West. 3:10 to Yuma was a garbage film and shouldn't even be here.
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  1572. It's used the primary time membrane in the tachyon field circuits of interosciters. By projecting the 5D ceptron thoughts in a 4D pattern onto a single surface substrate you can get a very high gain Jasper factor while keeping tachyon bleed to a minimum. Highly useful when dealing with Scrotors and such.
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  1573. This looks like a really cool way for the stoned kid in the apartment next door to burn down the whole building.
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  1574. That is why, as an American, I refrain from hating on the French. Without them the USA might never have been. Though I admit, they are just so damn...French. It's no wonder the US and UK eventually got so close again.
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  1575. Several Douglas Reeman novels are about smaller ships like destroyers and such, and they make for great stories.
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  1576. 4:50 Funkytown by Lipps Inc.
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  1577. This disaster rates a 3 on the "Balls!" scale. Drinking game: binge PD vids and every time you see Balls! in a thought bubble take a drink!
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  1578. What is that really cool 70s-looking computer graphics at 9:00? Did that come from NASA, or some contractor, is it in a documentary somewhere, is it public domain? It reminds me of the early vector scan video arcade games like Asteroids.
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  1579.  @MrMontanaNights  Because the bombs got so big and so numerous that survival of the population became impractical. Also, Mutually Assured Destruction became the policy and making plans to protect your population instead of allowing them to be held hostage to the adversary might be considered as an attempt to fight and win a nuclear war, provoking the other side. So the government decided to say the hell with it, it's pointless and costs money and our fearless leaders want us all to be vulnerable anyway.
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  1580. On Eminence Front Entwistle's bass is absolutely crushing. I remember cruising around in high school with that song on the radio in our drummer's car, and he would crank it for all it was worth, then he would ask me if I could make my bass sound like that.
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  1581. These are what cars for winners look like. We have the other kind of car today.
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  1582. That Zach Bryan tune "I Remember Everything" is pretty damn good.
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  1583.    It follows the book, which has no computers. Maybe Dune just isn't for you.
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  1584.  @JohnDlugosz  Okay, now I want to see one in a microwave oven...
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  1585. There's a pretty good movie called "At Close Range" starring Christopher Walken and Sean Penn, about an organized crime gang in rural Pennsylvania in the 70s. It's loosely based on Bruce Johnson's gang in the 60s and 70s who stole drugs, farm equipment, etc. around the Lancaster County area.
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  1586.  @richcast66  Nestle Crunch bars are good tho
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  1587. Mothra!
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  1588. It is? What world do you live in? Ask Rush fans about Tai Shan. Nevermind, Rush fans don't talk about Tai Shan.
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  1589.  @christiank.bagleyofficial736  Quite the opposite in most organizations, I'm afraid.
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  1590.  @TheNasaDude  That was real for Alexei Leonov.
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  1591. Kubrick's 2001 also had flat panel screens on the spacecraft, something that was way ahead of its time, we literally didn't see those get widespread until, well, around 2001 or so. Even the sequel film, made in 1985 and set 9 years after the first film, had CRT screens, which by that time had real computer graphics on them.
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  1592. SpaceX is only effective because nobody gives them money, they have to deliver to get paid. NASA has been giving money to private companies for half a century. Those companies grew dependent on it. Keep private companies hungry and they will perform.
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  1593. NASA hasn't blown up a rocket in over 30 years? I guess when they killed seven astronauts in 2003 on the Columbia, that didn't technically count as "blowing up a satellite", since it didn't blow up so much as disintegrate around its crew, exposing them to hypersonic shockwaves and heat. But whatever makes you feel better.
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  1594.  @LimitedWard  Depends on which version English. A German guy once told me that we Americans sound like someone trying to talk with a sock in his mouth.
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  1595. Before deploying for the 91 Gulf War we all got extra chem weapons training. Saddam had gassed his own citizens recently and we were all convinced that when the shooting started we were gonna get hit with that stuff. We took it pretty seriously.
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  1596. Not quite the same, but after the Challenger accident, Rockwell assembled a replacement space shuttle out of structural spares which became Space Shuttle Endeavour. At first NASA considered refitting Enterprise for spaceflight, but that would've required disassembling the airframe and rebuilding major parts to bring her up to spec, so the Endeavor option was deemed cheaper.
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  1597. If Marines had been a part of the operation, it would be called "reconning it".
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  1598. The "Today I Found Out" channel has a great video mocking the moon hoaxers. Recommend.
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  1599.  @Codysdab  Different regions of America are weird in different ways, too. Just like every English-speaking country.
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  1600. Ah, okay, my memory was dim, I read something about it years ago. But still, he was working with the OSS, so again, a missed opportunity on the part of the US.
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  1601. Well, then watch it.
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  1602. Great. Now hopefully someday we will retake the Pueblo from North Korea, put her back in service just long enough to sail her home, and paint a giant middle finger to communists on her stern as she stands out to sea. Pueblo is the second oldest commissioned ship in the USN after Constitution, because the Navy refuses to strike her from the list until she is either recaptured, returned, or destroyed.
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  1603.  @BoldenFMA  He's on a beech sipping drinks with little umbrellas in them.
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  1604. Why do carbon units infest Enterprise?
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  1605. I had trouble seeing the video because of all the puns in my eye, but I was able to hear all the jokes and found them rather cornea.
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  1606. Great story, and great connection at the end!
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  1607. Sounds like a The History Guy episode.
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  1608. Just like Joe and Hunter making bank off the Chinese, promising to smooth things over with them once he's installed.
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  1609. When I saw the title of the video I thought it was going to be about some connection between the French secret police and the FBI, which has at various times in its history behaved in a less-than-scrupulous manner. But instead I am surprised to learn that the Napoleon family has played a more significant role in US history than I ever knew. Very good work, Dr. Felton.
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  1610.  @theseductivepotato7459  That's how most failed beyond-LEO missions end.
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  1611.  @tbg3889  Probably need DOS Box to run it. If you can find a copy of the manual it's worth a look. In the 90s computer games came with good manuals.
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  1612. I heard a former German air force mechanic refer to the Phantom as the "air defense diesel" due to its smoky J-79 engines lol. It kind of fits, since I've always thought of the Phantom as a sort of flying freight locomotive of screaming death.
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  1613. In the next war, Germans will march to combat to the tune of Rammstein, Nina, Scorpions, and Kraftwerk.
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  1614. 23:45 Tom Cassidy looks like he knocks down brick walls with his fists as a hobby and refreshes himself with the tears of communists.
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  1615.  @atomicshadowman9143  I prefer "reused dozens of times, then retired to gather dust in a museum", which is what they were built for.
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  1616.  @Enigma-t6n  Found Rachel's sock puppet account!
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  1617.  @donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495  Why don't you go there instead of standing around. Guess you would miss your daily smoothie.
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  1618.  @nolibtard6023  No it's not. Some of it is, if it's designed right. But run of the mill analog electronics is just as vulnerable as digital electronics. And all electronic devices are analog when you go in deep enough.
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  1619. Underrated comment.
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  1620. During wartime, any company that had factory production capacity was used to build war materials, period. Every one, in every country. In the US, Remington Rand typewriter company was making rifles for example. WWII was an industrial war, and if your company tried to say "no" to your government, well your leadership would be replaced with someone more compliant. There was no whining about stuff like this; that was for the post-war Boomers and their kids living in the comfort bought for them by the blood of their fathers.
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  1621. Somewhere there is a video of a PowerPoint presentation given some years ago by one of the firefighters that was there that night. Very interesting to hear. The ambulance was not permanently abandoned; they parked it out in the desert with McKinley's body in it after he was declared dead because his body was a hazard and the nurse and driver weren't equipped to deal with it yet. Later, after his body was removed and taken to a lab, the ambulance was decontaminated and stayed in service for several years after. One of the guys was wearing a watch and the guy stuck to the roof was wearing a wedding ring. These metal parts were analyzed as part of the investigation to determine the power excursion of the reactor. There is a very good government film on youtube which details the investigation and cleanup of the accident. The amount of information the scientists and engineers were able to gather was very thorough and the brains of those guys is impressive. Sadly, even smart people make mistakes.
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  1622. I only started watching Sabine's channel within the last year, so I only know her as the attractive lady who explains science subjects with a cool accent. Somehow I fell down a youtube rabbit hole and discover she was doing killer New Wave music videos like 4 years ago. Wow.
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  1623. Colossus: "There is another system."
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  1624. Many of the Essex class were refitted with this stuff as well and served into the 1970s.
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  1625. I swear I've heard that on the radio at some point. Don't remember where or when.
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  1626. Hindsight is 20/20. Without timely help from the US Navy Wake was doomed to fall, despite the fact that the Marines made the enemy pay dearly for it.
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  1627. I was going to ask the same thing, do we know who that guy was? There is a famous photograph of a Japanese aircraft in combat in the Solomons and the pilot was identified. Last time I checked that guy is now like a hundred years old and still flying glider tow planes in Japan!
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  1628. IIRC the orbiter's tile heat shield system was the biggest expense in terms of time between flights. All those tiles had to be inspected, many replaced, and it was painstaking manual labor that cost a lot of time and money. The main engines were expensive to maintain, too, but they had a rotating pool of engines to swap out after each flight; while some were being torn down and refurb'd there were good ones available off the shelf, so the engines did not cause as many headaches as the heat shield. There were also a lot of other, smaller things that added up; swapping the windshield glass after every flight, for example, or even the tires after every landing. These things were technically good for many flights but NASA was trying to eliminate as many sources of accidents as was practical, and compared to O-ring redesign or debris shedding, these little things were easy to do.
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  1629. Well, as a jerk who hates holding doors for people, I might be someone she'd get along with. Somehow I doubt it, though.
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  1630.  @cowafungus8104  Wow, you went really dark really fast. I think I like you.
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  1631. They are so ugly the Earth repulses them. (Actually I think some of them are pretty)
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  1632. Still one of the best albums in rock; I can listen to the whole thing from end to end with no skips. After Bon Scott's death they could've packed it in and broke up but instead they recruited this bar brawler-lookin' Brian Johnson dude with a massive voice and just crushed the new album.
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  1633.  @-coolerlegothings-9784  No, JWST is not a replacement for HST, different wavelengths. A new HST-type could also be built to be easier to maintain without risking humans. Hubble is over 30 years old, and even if we do nothing we'll probably get a few more years out of her, we've gotten our money's worth. Time for a better model.
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  1634. That wooshing sound when it fires.
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  1635. When I was growing up one of those long line towers was clearly visible about a mile away from my bedroom window. My mom still lives there, but trees have grown to obstruct the view. If you drive over, though, the tower is still there with all the feedhorns on it, and other stuff as well, now, mostly cell tower antennae.
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  1636. I actually started on digital photography and gave it up when I learned how to do black and white chemical photography. Digital bores me to death. But I'm a hobbyist, not a pro, and I have enough income to afford it. If I were a pro it's be digital 100%.
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  1637.  @I_am_ARTBOT  I played the daylights out of Rescue on Fractalus on the Atari 5200 console back in the day.
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  1638. And the one at Lakehurst, NJ too, which was where the Shenandoah was built, and where the Hindenburg was headed when she wrecked. That one is 100 years old now.
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  1639. Often we have to explain to people exactly why we fought a Cold War to resist communism. Here is yet another reason.
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  1640. And while you're at it, how connections are severed in flight, as when the space shuttle ET separates, or the Atlas booster engines cut off and jettison, etc.
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  1641.  @KetsaKunta  Oliver Cromwell
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  1642. Always thought it was an amazing coincidence that Earth and Mars days are almost the same length. Easy enough to make up a reason for that and use it as an excuse for lots of sci fi worlds to have similar days as well I guess. Happy retconning.
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  1643. Kudos to the Navy for rewarding Hudner despite his violating standing orders. That's how things work in a real fighting force. You support the man on the spot for making tough decisions and choosing courage over ass-covering, and you show the rest of your troops that being brave is the right thing to do.
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  1644. @ I keep trying to answer your question, but the censor bots keep deleting it. I guess that means I'm mostly right.
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  1645. If Apollo 13 had 3d-printed a CO2 adaptor they probably would've died from CO2 poisoning before they finished. Sometimes it's just quicker to use duck tape.
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  1646. Modern stoner bands do that on purpose, to the point where's it's not only obvious but also cliché. But when it's done honestly it's pretty awesome. Dead Moon was a garage rock band whose every record was like a lo-fi version of AC/DC and I loved them.
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  1647.  D D  Buh bye
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  1648.  @stephenburrows4250  If Trump gets voted out of office, all of this moon landing stuff gets canceled again, just like it did in 2008. Happens pretty much every time a new party wins.
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  1649. Sounds good. Especially if you can find a railway disaster that also involves a radiation incident! But seriously, railroad accidents will keep your channel busy for years, there are so many. This one reminds me of the Amtrak disaster in Philadelphia a few years ago where the engineer apparently got distracted, ran the train around a curve too fast and laid the coach cars out on the side of the tracks for a yard sale, passengers included.
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  1650.  @Schedel99342  I thought I read where they start up the engines on a regular basis to keep them from sitting too long? A big airplane sitting in water like that outdoors must be a ton of maintenance.
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  1651.  @HullBreaking  Cool, dude. How does that make you feel?
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  1652. Geezer and Bill?
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  1653. His parents had no clue how any of that nuclear physics and chemistry stuff worked.
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  1654. Paul, the answer is "yes", the Pentagon does often reach out to SF authors from time to time, particularly the future-looking agencies like DARPA. And Jerry Pournelle worked for the Rand Corp. and other defense contractors and was involved in the SDI studies in the 1980s.
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  1655. "Desertron" coolest mad scientist project name ever.
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  1656. I'm picturing the operator getting dressed down for playing Windows solitaire while on duty lol.
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  1657. I thought it was coming from inside my house, had to pause the video to make sure.
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  1658. The US never flew an actual nuclear jet engine. One reactor flew under a B-36 but was not used for propulsion, and operated successfully without incident. Project Pluto successfully ground tested a nuclear ramjet but it never flew and had no accidents. Also the NERVA project tested nuclear thermal rockets successfully, which also never flew. NERVA engines were developed for space vehicles, not weapons or bombers.
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  1659.  @miccrhaafetl5101  I'm not saying Alien Hair Guy is an alien, but...alien.
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  1660. The only reason the internet evolved from a DOD project into something useful for civilians is the desire to make money.
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  1661. Tony very clearly loved Christopher but when it came down to it, he cold bloodedly killed him. Tony was capable of loving you and still deciding to kill you. It's why he was so good at running a mafia family, he could make hard, and horrifying, decisions.
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  1662. Lafayette's first real combat was at Brandywine, where Cornwallis won. Lafayette got shot in the leg there, too.
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  1663. @lati long "Instant sunshine" is now solidly a part of my lexicon.
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  1664.  @cia5649 Wow, you're right, come to think of it. A less grumpy Ford.
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  1665. The original lineup is one of those perfect matchups, pure magic. Change one member and the band might still be great but it sounds fundamentally different. When they reunited in the late 1990s and did that live album it was back as it should be for a while, all the power of Bill and the heaviness of Tony and Geezer and the creepiness of Ozzy's voice, for a while the world was made metal again and all was right.
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  1666. Nobody stole anything from you. Canberras and Harriers were built in the US under license. And your economy tanked because as soon as the war was over you got stupid and kicked Churchill out of office and replaced him with a bunch of socialists, who immediately set about killing your aerospace industry, self-inflicted damage from which you've yet to recover.
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  1667. Youtube is censored, though, which is another major problem.
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  1668.  @johnsutcliffe3209  Nonsense, they could not only build an F1 if they wanted to; they'd build a better one since materials and other technology have advanced. An F1B design was even floated a few years ago by Rocketdyne. This myth of "lost knowledge" surrounding the Saturn V keeps going for some reason.
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  1669.  @MrPig40  ASAT missiles are generally not orbital; they don't have the velocity to achieve orbit and don't need to. They just need to toss themselves in front of an oncoming satellite (with great precision) and the huge velocity of the collision does the rest.
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  1670. Can't be thinking about that stuff all the time, drive yourself nuts. Some people get drunk or take sleeping pills before getting on planes to get through it. I wouldn't recommend that, but you need to take your mind off the endless spiral of bad possibilities and just enjoy the view.
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  1671.  @ahwilson1744  In the US Marine Corps the phrase is "recon'd"
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  1672. I knew Alex Lifeson would make the list! About Stone in Love: Ross Valory's bass line makes it even better.
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  1673. You need to add "company blames victim" to your bingo card. I remember when this happened there was a lot of talk that the moving train operator was texting on her phone and not paying attention. This later turned out to be false; she was fully alert and hit the brakes but just didn't have enough time to slow down before impact. The other thing about this is that the old 1000 series rail cars were more comfortable to ride in, despite the ugly 70s upholstery, and the newer cars have recently had a lot of problems with the wheels going out of gauge and jumping the tracks. Metro has had a pretty rough safety record in the 15 years since this accident, with trains catching fire in tunnels, derailments, track workers getting killed by trains that shouldn't have been moving, and a famous escalator failure which piled passengers up on the bottom of the escalator and which might make a good short video of its own. The motto of the system: "DC Metro: We Dare You to Ride!"
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  1674. Bomb damage comes in three types: radiation, heat, and blast. Blast damage includes flying debris, such as tree trunks, fragments, and splinters. If you're hiding in a ditch or a hole you may be safe from the heat and radiation, but if the trees overhead are exploding and showering you with splinters that might be bad. So one purpose of testing is to look for things like that. ("Radiation" in this context means the prompt, direct radiation from the bomb when it detonates, which doesn't last long but is very intense if you are close. Think of a camera flash, but instead of visible light it's gammas, X-rays, and neutrons. Radioactive fallout is radiation you worry about hours to weeks later.)
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  1675. Reporters don't know anything about any subject other than being a reporter, so when they write stupid stories like these about "radio hams" or whatever, they get their information from various sources, including officials who hate amateur radio. The kind of jerks who write laws making it illegal to listen to ATC on a scanner.
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  1676.  @MrSniperdude01  More like the boys at Bell Labs who created the transistor. Von Braun's rockets were cool but couldn't hit the broad side of a battleship at 50 paces.
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  1677. I love that you included the Constitution in the Atlantic fleet. Never underestimate her if you know what's good for you.
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  1678.  @allangibson8494  And a few Burt Rutan designs as well.
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  1679. The USMC still operates an F-5 variant in the aggressor role. I believe they are the only F-5's of any type still in US military service. And its cousin, the T-38, is still used for NASA astronaut pilots to maintain currency I believe.
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  1680. Lots of Greek diners in the US, too.
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  1681. Hmm...makes me think of a river boat design, think "The Sand Pebbles", festooned with GE miniguns and a 2 or 3 Vulcan cannons. Maybe add in a 30mm Avenger gun from an A-10 for good measure. "Never get out of the boat."
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  1682. Now westerners are afraid of mean tweets.
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  1683.  @neeneko  Definitely can be the case, especially if there is poor management/leadership.
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  1684.  @badhat3051  The locations and destinations of naval flotillas are concealed as best as possible. I'm guessing the Venezuelans did not have high tech maritime surveillance in 1958; it's likely that they knew about the carrier and the Marines off shore only when Ike wanted them to know what was coming if they didn't protect the VP. A Marine landing is not considered "stealthy"; it's an old joke: Navy SEALS sneak up and kill you in your sleep, Marines call you on the phone and tell you they're coming to kick your ass in a few hours, and then they proceed to do exactly that. But in reality you never quite know where they're going to land if they can help it.
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  1685. So then, trying to find the ashes in a cemetery would be like the Ecstasy of Gold scene in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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  1686. Could be worse, according to Blade Runner we should have Replicants running around murdering people in a cyberpunk hellhole.
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  1687. It's as bad as Dr. Who's timey wimey stuff.
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  1688. I love that the VW Beetle is a unit of mass. I remember when the Iowa class battleships were in service in the 80s and 90s and people would say "each main gun shell is like a VW Beetle being thrown 20 miles."
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  1689. 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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  1690. As a kid I built a Revell model kit of a Zero and loved the look of it, that sleek shape and the dark green and grey paint scheme. Always liked this airplane.
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  1691.  @jaredliv  I don't know, why don't you google that?
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  1692. I'd hope they'd have removed it when it was taken out of service.
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  1693. "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile."
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  1694. The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum has the restored Enola Gay B-29 and a model of the Little Boy bomb on display. About 10 or 15 years ago some wackjob protestors threw blood or red paint on the airplane, right after they had spent hundreds of man hours restoring it.
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  1695. That part about the shoe shine box reminds me of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
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  1696. Another solid video. The Soviet block missiles are certainly interesting, and it doesn't surprise me that they copied the AIM-9B almost completely; they copied the B-29 bomber down to the rivet. Also, I always wondered what those thumbwheel-looking thingies were on the corners of the Sidewinder/Atoll fins and was about to look it up when you described it here, very cool.
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  1697. USS Remington, USS Winchester, USS Colt, USS John Moses Browning
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  1698. Great imagery with that comment.
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  1699. Jeff Goldblum remembers.
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  1700. That day came and went when they got NERVA to work and then canceled it.
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  1701. Things that keep you alive in one form are deadly in another. You die without water, but water can surely kill you. Electric shock can kill or restart your heart. UV radiation can be bad for you, but the right kind in moderation helps you produce vitamin D.
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  1702. In yhe days before zero zero ejection seats pilots needed all the help they could get if things went wrong on landing. If the plane crashes on deck and catches fire punching out was not an option, only way to live was to jump out and run for it.
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  1703. The Navy vehicle also didn't have delicate humans inside it, so it could be operated with more risk.
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  1704. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done here.
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  1705. If they can get Kaylee to join the engineering team things'll work out all shiny I conjur.
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  1706. Isn't this also the ship whose skipper and crew saluted Johnston as she was sinking and her crew abandoning? That's a pretty big deal for the WWII IJN to not only not just machine gun you in the water but to actually salute you for your valor.
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  1707.  @jackwalsh6758  Right. Welp, off I go to watch this whole series again.
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  1708. The mechanical devices are complicated, but they can be repaired by a competent man, which means they can last almost forever, while most aging electronics will have parts that can't be replaced or repaired due to being out of production. This is especially true with digital cameras, which are by nature packed with unrepairable chips; digital cameras become obsolete in a fairly short period of time, while a well-cared for mechanical film camera can last virtually forever. My oldest camera is from the 1930s and still functions perfectly well.
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  1709. I still play some old PC games from the 1990s, many of which surprisingly still run on modern versions of Windows.
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  1710. To quote Goose, "I hate it when it does that."
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  1711.  @cmdraftbrn  I read the book. It's a good read but it's also grim. HIs time in Japanese POW camps was not pleasant. He also had serious alcohol problem later in life that probably led to an earlier than expected death.
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  1712. Also, the old Bell Telephone logo is a scarce sight these days, not just on the non-existent booths, but anywhere. For years after the breakup of Ma Bell, many of the Baby Bell companies had the right to use the logo but lately it's not being used by the telecom companies that still have the rights. When I was growing up that logo was everywhere.
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  1713. The band I play bass in, the singer guitarist does this kind of thing all the time when he's writing, and then, because he knows no theory, asks me if I can figure out what kind of chord he just played so I can tell the other guitarist lol. He has a good sense musical sense but doesn't know the language.
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  1714. "We are rockets! Bom bom bom, bom bom bom!"
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  1715. The title of this video, is this...a Firefly reference? Is Drach a Browncoat?!
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  1716. I've been doing dark room printing for about 15 years or so, and this video is as good a primer as one could ask for. Your simple explanations of the chemistry, safe lamp, and so on, are very much appreciated. I will recommend this to my friends, especially the n00bs in the dark room for whom this stuff isn't intuitive yet. Excellent work!
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  1717. Manned is still appropriate, because basic English.
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  1718.  @ronfullerton3162  Now we have unsecure wi fi networks instead.
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  1719. So Marty, how many times are you going to copy and paste that hogwash and crap all over History Guy's videos?
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  1720. Lean hard on the feather merchants.
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  1721. I've always thought it is cool when you look at a brand-new modern F/A-18E Super Hornet you can still see the family resemblance to the ancient F-5 if you squint. Jack Northrop's legacy lives on, being launched from carrier flight decks every day.
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  1722.  @declan9876  I agree, a small chance to survive is better than no chance. Makes you wonder if Columbia's crew had used these things at least some of them might've made it.
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  1723. Some Israelis have spoken of "The Samson Option", which is a theoretical plan to bring down the rest of the world in the case where the home country is facing extinction; basically holding the world hostage to ensure your own survival. Such a plan would be a good candidate to keep an eye on for cobalt bombs or other doomsday devices. Rational actors need not continue to be rational once they feel they have nothing to lose.
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  1724. Basic education on the meaning of homonyms didn't age well.
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  1725. Very interesting. I never knew about the back channels between Israel and Iran. The enemy of my enemy and so on. Saddam, you know you've screwed up when you get those two to gang up on you.
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  1726.  @SlavicCelery  Some of the stuff that used to be on public TV holds up, like Secrets of the Dead and Frontline.
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  1727.  @chrisclark9209  Every US destroyer skipper: "At least I got chicken."
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  1728.  @Psychlist1972  Good party line speech.
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  1729. Communists are pieces of shit, and Stalin was among the greatest piece of shit in communist history, topped perhaps only by Mao. I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would embrace that wretched, foul ideology after the enormous piles of dead bodies it leaves in its wake, and the monsters that always rise to the top. Doesn't surprise me to learn this asshole started off as a violent bank robber; the Communist Party is a natural place for him to wind up.
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  1730. I've gotten robo telemarketer/scam calls and often I just mute my phone and listen to waste their time. Sometimes in the background you can hear weird machinery/computer noises. I've often wondered what that was.
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  1731. Lee Marvin played the NCO, I remember that scene.
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  1732. I know some people who have worked for Boeing for many years, and they are good engineers. They don't work for the programs that get all the bad press, Starliner, 737, SLS, etc. They work for older, more obscure programs and are pretty good at their jobs, despite the upper level corporate issues. That's all I got.
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  1733. War is stupid, but wishing it away and that all of us will live happily ever after is denying reality. There will always be conflict. The trick is keeping it from becoming violent conflict as long s possible.
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  1734. Except for the guy King Edward throws out the castle window in that film.
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  1735. Is there such a thing as a legal bandit?
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  1736. Isn't an instrumental hook called a riff? Or in classical music, a motif, think Beethoven's 5th: DUH DUH DUH DAAAH
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  1737.  @ariariaris  Wow, lecture much?
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  1738.  @GazB85  "Line of protest". Hmm. Still, she was not "protesting" if she was just standing still and not even talking.
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  1739. Final Countdown! Now that was a fun film that ended about 20 minutes too early!
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  1740.  @cwwhg  There's an old youtube channel called Bionerd23, run by a girl who visited and climbed all over the Duga antenna some years ago. It's a great video and pretty scary, since the structure is rusting away, and she climbs very high on it. Do a search on her username and check out her channel. She is insane.
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  1741. It helps that he was a smart general, as opposed to some of the blithering idiots commanding the troops.
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  1742. "...so useless, the Navy's only option was to give it to the Marines." Oof, as a Gyrene myself, I feel that. All through our history we've felt that.
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  1743. +jmr1068204 No way, the music is awesome, totally goes with the whole Cold War feel of it.
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  1744. +strojny1998 Because it's just for entertainment, not a peer-reviewed documentary.
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  1745. Again my phone's songfinder app fails to detect this tune...
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  1746. Thirteen!!!!
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  1747. As if clowns were the only creepy thing at circuses.
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  1748. I loved that show as a kid watching it with my dad. Later I read Pappy's book and found out how much of the show was fictionalized but it's still great and certainly less grim than Pappy's account of life as a POW. His squadron today is now VMA-214 and flies Harriers; soon to be replaced by the F-35B. As the number of flyable WWII aircraft dwindles, we will never see a show like that again. That footage of the engines turning up is something no CGI will ever get right.
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  1749. In WWII the US figured out how to put tiny radar transceivers into anti-aircraft artillery shells, vacuum tube tech that could withstand the shock of being fired out of a gun barrel.
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  1750. Scott Manley did a great video explaining this.
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  1751. Inners wreck Ganymede. Only Belter life matter now.
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  1752. In the US, many years before the current New Jersey Drone phenomenon, we had stories of "black helicopters" flying around at night without markings. After 9/11 it is believed that terrorists were being flown into certain airfields by small business jets stopping on their way to or from Guantanamo Bay. It's all very X-Files-ish, but also kind of creepy.
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  1753.  @octaviocuesta1155  Except it wasn't a bad movie at all.
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  1754. I think the immense perihelion velocity is cool, it's getting closer to the relativistic speed range.
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  1755. Actually, many parts of that Goldsboro bomb were recovered; the part still buried in the mud is no longer a functional bomb. It may contaminate the water supply or cause some other pollution problem, but it is physically impossible for it to function as an explosive.
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  1756. That's actually quite incorrect. LeMay was an asshole to be sure, but he did know how to run a strategic bombing campaign. His campaign against the Japanese Empire was brutal, a war crime, but effective. And his work building SAC into a credible and terrifying nuclear deterrent force was solid. So he was good for something, but in my opinion he was also too dangerous to be left in command. During the Eisenhower administration he illegally sent US bombers onto recon/mock bombing runs inside Soviet territory against the president's orders, and for that alone he deserved to be run up the fucking flag pole. His blatant insubordination is intolerable in a man charged with a nuclear arsenal, and his disrespect towards those brave Navy pilots marks him as a first class piece of shit.
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  1757.  @Willaev Yeah, let's skip the conspiracy theories, though.
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  1758.  @HollowVortex81  I once learned to program a Motorola microcontroller, and though it seemed complex at first, once you learned the machine code and registers, etc., it was fun because you knew exactly what you were telling the machine to do. With a high level language like BASIC or C++ you are very removed from what the hardware is actually doing inside the plastic chip case.
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  1759.  @paulhaynes8045  Along with a youtube comment that belies a strongly held opinion lacking in reality.
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  1760. They'd screw it up.
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  1761. Or turds bouncing off the sides of the toilet bowl.
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  1762. Very cool. This reminds me of a NASA proposal to build a giant pinhole camera out of two free-flying spacecraft, one of which would have the collection sensor and the other would have the "pinhole" aperture to focus the image on the first. The idea was that they'd be able to see extrasolar planets in enough detail to make out seas and continents. Each spacecraft would have to flown extremely precisely in order for the two to aim at distant point subjects. I think it was an idea from the late 90s that never got funded.
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  1763.  @Sanguine_Entertainment  Lol yeah. But I put out.
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  1764.  @dreadpenguinlord340  What joke?
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  1765. Fine then, go stand in front of a radiating fighter jet radar for a few hours and enjoy the non-ionizing radiation.
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  1766. I once studied RF tech pretty hard in college, loved it, but never worked in the field and now my knowledge is lost. Still really cool stuff.
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  1767. Nelson cast a long shadow.
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  1768. The speed at which you go from healthy to dead can be fast at any age.
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  1769. In recent years it's been stated that antiballistic missile shots are super hard, but back in the early 60s systems like Nike and Sprint were scoring metal-on-metal hits against practice warheads. Sprint is one of the most insane missiles I've ever seen, accelerating to ungodly speeds after launch which made the missile body glow white hot from the dense atmosphere,
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  1770. Drach, since this vid is on the Delaware River, do you plan to do a video on the actions of the Royal Navy on the Delaware during the American War for Independence? I'm thinking of the explosion of HMS Augusta in 1777 in particular, when the American river fortifications were being contested.
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  1771. Strong memories of the McDonnel Douglas DC-X project from the early 90s here. That might be worth a video, Scott (hint hint!).
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  1772.  @MrHiBeta  A Marine lance corporal in the early 80s stole an A-4 Skyhawk attack jet and took it for a joy ride, safely landing it before being apprehended. He was an aircraft maintainer but had only trained to fly in a Cessna 150. Apparently Skyhawks don't have any locking system either.
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  1773.  @doodskie999  Yes, but your phone is far less reliable than the simple computers used on Saturn, which were designed and exhaustively tested for radiation, vibration, temperature, and redundancy before being cleared for flight, not to mention the extremely strict software configuration control, resulting in a near-zero error rate in the code, something no phone app developer has to worry about. If those computers don't work, they can kill the entire crew. I would never trust a cheap smartphone to do that task.
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  1774.  @MonkeyJedi99  The sweet, sweet taste of JP-5!
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  1775. That is an awesome film. And probably the only film we will ever get to see with Panther jets.
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  1776. She's not dead, you've just stunned her.
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  1777. It makes me happy to see so many Airwolf, Blue Thunder, and Knight Rider fans. Especially Airwolf.
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  1778. The real question is how much does it cost to maintain them in mothballs vs. what do you get for scrapping them.
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  1779.  @sleeptyper  "Ford" is an acronym for "F'd over rebuilt Dodge". MOPAR means "my old Plymouth ain't running". Why do the British drink warm beer? Because their auto makers also make refrigerators. I'll be here all week!
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  1780. You better stand, there's no turning back!
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  1781.  @jerrymiller276  Far easier to indoctrinate children in ideological nonsense than to teach them reading, writing, math, and science.
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  1782. The willingness of Truax to do business with an that worthless idiot Knievel calls his judgement into question, but he gets credit for pushing rocket technology ahead of its time.
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  1783. Most significant figures > least significant figures. Makes sense.
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  1784. Artemis, like Space Shuttle, jump fast off the pad because they use solid rocket boosters, which are very high thrust but lower specific impulse compared to liquid fuel engines like those of Saturn V. Interesting footnote to the Saturn rocket family history is that some of the uprated Saturn variants studied featured strap-on solid rocket boosters to increase first stage performance, as well as a nuclear thermal upper stage and stretched booster stages, etc. All cast aside when the launch vehicle was retired, of course.
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  1785.  @digitaurus  California-accented Scottish English lol
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  1786.  @Ottee2  IIRC that one has been restored and placed indoors now. I plan to visit it, hopefully soon.
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  1787.  @N1rOx  I didn't get it at first, since this is the first time I've ever heard a single word about Sir Isaac's sex life.
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  1788. It was like a South Park Bro-down.
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  1789. Learn some manners.
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  1790.  @billbolton  Cigarette smuggling is common in the US, since some states have high taxes on what is a legal product.
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  1791. Cool. I just looked up that Roman bridge on google maps. Seems there is a golf course just west of it that kind of makes it pointless now, I am guess the golf course is built over the old stream bed and the water course was rerouted?
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  1792. No idea how long after posted. But here's a rumor I heard: Back in the 80s after the film "Red Dawn" came out, supposedly somebody spraypainted "Wolverines" on the wall outside the Soviet (now Russian) embassy in Washington DC. I have a friend who lives a few blocks from it and she told me this. I have no way to confirm it, can't find any photos of it online.
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  1793. I got a Uniden Bearcat BC125AT scanner, mainly for train and plane watching, but it also scans CB radio and it picks up quite a few signals, so CB is less active but certainly not dead, not in the US at least.
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  1794.  @bf1701  "You just lost the war. You know that, right?" "Yeah. So anyway we got these plans for a cool new class of battleships." "You just lost a war because of carriers, you know that right?" "Yeah, right. So here, check out these cool battleships we're gonna build." "The occupation has dismantled your government and naval establishment. You know that, right?" "Right, yeah. So anyway, check out these awesome battleship designs!"
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  1795. Anytime troops are told "You'll be home by Christmas" it's almost invariably a lie.
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  1796. When I was little and the DeLorean came out I remember people thinking it was sort of cool looking but it had a rep as an underpowered dog with reliability issues, and when DeLorean got busted and the company broke up everyone figured it would soon be forgotten about as another weird failed startup. Then one movie comes out and suddenly the car is immortal. And in recent years as the 80s retro vibe has ramped up the DeLorean has become an even bigger icon than it ever was in its own day. Amazing to see how history and pop culture work in realtime like that.
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  1797. Of all the things Heinlein wrote I always thought the Road Town future was, if not the dumbest, then maybe the least practical future technology he envisioned.
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  1798. "In this video, Drach demonstrates the importance of not being on fire." I like this Mythbustery type of video Drach, and would like to see a bigger demonstration/experiment, but please make sure you take the right precautions and get some expert help with bigger stuff!
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  1799. 7:28 that Lockheed ad for the Agena stage is classic. You could do a whole video about the Agena, which was a real workhorse for America in the early days of spaceflight.
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  1800. 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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  1801. Slight correction: Joe wasn't born; he was hatched.
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  1802. Better, yet, Yamato refitted with the wave motion gun. Take the fight to Mars and make the bastards pay for ever leaving their planet.
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  1803. Beato Rants are the best. The Apple rant was the most epic.
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  1804. Also that jackass running the pizzeria down the street from me. I don't like his cheesy bread and he doesn't give me enough free napkins. Break him up!
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  1805.  @rickyphillips7630 That's insane. How can you expect a man to go into battle knowing his bosses are betting against him. Even worse, it's not his skin alone on the line, he's got a fleet of sailors and Marines being sent into the meatgrinder under his command. To lose means lots of those guys pay the price.
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  1806. It seems ironic that for a force as infamously ferocious as the Imperial Japanese military, the IJN seemed to lack aggression at key moments in the war.
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  1807. 11:55 Nelson, "If it makes you feel any better, you've had your ass kicked by the very best who's ever sailed the Seven Seas and you put up a decent fight."
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  1808. I also think they could do a better job at timing; they're not quite cutting off Rick in mid sentence as well as they could.
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  1809.  @danstone8783  That one or the Teenage Dirtbag song. Listen to Iron Maiden, baby...
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  1810. In Ozzy Osbourne's autobio he says the Beatles are his favorite band, too.
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  1811.  @joshuabessire9169  I mean it's true, right? America produced the F-106, and BAM, Armstrong walks on the moon!
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  1812.  @edwardd9702  The US also tried using older B-17s as TV-guided heavy cruise missiles. A human flight crew would fly them until close to the target, then bail out. From there an operator in another aircraft would guide the bomber to the target. Future President Kennedy's brother was killed in one of the contraptions when it blew up before he jumped out. The whole thing was deemed a stupid idea and shut down after failing to work well.
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  1813. It's worse in the US Navy, where we name our spanking new nuclear carriers after politicians, some of whom are pretty obscure (how much of the public has any idea who John Stennis was?) or even still alive, instead of giving them proper USN names like Hornet, Ticonderoga, Wasp, Intrepid, etc. At least they plan to name a new one Enterprise again. All of our cool names go to amphibs and cruisers, which is okay, but still... At least the new frigates on order are to be given names from the old sailing frigates, such as Constellation.
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  1814. 4:26 "And then it gets to the hard part." LMAO
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  1815. Oh yes, the movie where a missile strike in GEO somehow causes instant Kessler syndrome thousands of km below in LEO, within 15 minutes. Conveniently, Hubble, ISS, and Tiangong are all in the same orbit plane, at the same altitude, close enough to drift to in a space suit. Also, the Space Shuttle is still flying. Sorry for the rant, aside from that stuff I actually like the movie and thought Sandra Bullock was great.
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  1816.  @kamakaziozzie3038  Problem?
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  1817.  @milesdufourny4813  In the US we had Ford: Fix Or Repair Daily (alternate: Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge) MOPAR: My Old Plymouth Ain't Runnin' Pontiac: Poor Old N*(racial slur) Thinks It's A Cadillac
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  1818.  @3gunslingers  What I saw was a fake heating effect done in a cut rate space sim that can't even get earth's mass right and none of the numbers are even close to reality. Scott likes to use it for quick visual demos, but don't think KSP's visual effects have any bearing on reality.
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  1819.  @pegasusted2504  The universe is metal.
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  1820.  @winstonchurchill3597  Honestly I had buddies in college who had to do that to get through school. I was in a technical program, so not so much for me, but there were still a few liberal arts classes where telling the truth was bad for your grade if it didn't match the professor's ideology.
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  1821. I like how that rocket powered plane is held back by sandbags and a street curb, while aiming into a shipping container just in case.
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  1822. Sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES right about now.
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  1823.  @Dave_Sisson  Also fishing poles for when they run out of food. Those guys thought of everything!
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  1824. When the tower radios, "Check wheels down" and the pilot thinks, "How do I tell him?"
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  1825. If you have a low-pass filter on the output the "stairs" get smoothed almost completely away. Back in college I built a DAC from Radio Shack parts. I don't remember all the details, but I remember that.
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  1826.  @bethoscope  I have zero interest in Coldplay, so I'll watch something else 😉
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  1827.  @davidrogers4917  Bikes going up mountains? Easier on foot.
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  1828. For a great read on the history of the Atlas program from the 50s up to the early days of Atlas V, pick up a copy of the book "Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon". Goes into detail about how the program was started, the people involved in it, the early efforts to design and build launch facilities, command and control systems, guidance systems, propulsion, weaponizing it using coffin launchers and later vertical silos, later development as a space launch vehicle, etc.
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  1829.  @paulbedichek2679  Sorry but that's incorrect. The China Syndrome film was released 12 days before the TMI accident. And to say TMI "was not scary" is factually incorrect, as you can talk to anyone who lived near it at the time, including me. They were evacuating parts of the Pennsylvania countryside and telling people that if the core melted down into the water table that the whole region would become uninhabitable for years to come, so yes, people were actually scared. In the end, like I said, it resulted in zero deaths, no breech in containment, and a nasty mess to clean up.
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  1830. Tiles were the biggest PITA for the Space Shuttle, in terms of man hours needed to service them between flights. That's one of the main reasons STS was so expensive to operate. SpaceX has done a lot of cool stuff, but reusable orbiters are tough.
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  1831. That's funny, but if a man goes overboard, jumping in after him is probably a bad idea, for a number of reasons.
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  1832.  @fredthebulldog529  TMI, friend, TMI!
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  1833.  @rhysnichols8608  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes I realize posting this link is pointless for you, since you've already decided to be a cheerleader for a brutal regime, but maybe some of the others reading this thread can compare what they read there, including the cited sources, with the pro-militant Japanese comments you've made on this video.
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  1834. No internet and no cable TV, nothing else to do.
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  1835. That photo at 5:15 is beautiful. I love the little details like the cranes, railroad equipment, and the guy riding the bike along the dockyard at the left.
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  1836. The A-10 is still popular because, well, look at it. It's totally badass. Outdated, but so is the Spitfire and we still love them too.
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  1837. The ship USS Bonhomme Richard was burned beyond repair in 2020 while being refurbished in port. Also kind of fits the pattern.
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  1838. Also the Delaware and Chesapeake systems, and many others. The Intercoastal Waterway, numerous canals. One interesting thing about water traffic is how several canals were put out of business by railroads, in particular the C&O Canal and the Erie Canal. I believe if Africa had an instituted system of property rights, they would get around the river problem with a good rail network.
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  1839. The other good Drachism in this video: "Gasoline versions were available if you particularly liked being set on fire."
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  1840.  @Muzer0 I'm not reading that wall of snarky text, there, Tiger, but you keep at it and we'll just agree you're so much smarter than I am.
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  1841.  @suprememasteroftheuniverse  You're a rude, uncivil person. I bet you're fun at parties.
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  1842.  @ArKritz84  For any given system, a trade study is necessary to determine the pros and cons of lots of small engines vs. fewer bigger ones. There is no free lunch either way. TANSTAAFL as Mr. Heinlein used to say.
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  1843. My dad served on USS Shangri La CV-38 in the 60s and said this was a known technique for handling a ship in tight quarters when there was no other option, but they hated to do it because it was very rough on the aircraft engines.
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  1844. Pssst: might want to take a look at California's recent legal framework before talking smack to the Brits, dude. The US is not immune to stupidity when it comes to laws and bureaucrats.
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  1845. In addition to all the other problems mentioned and the issues with clearing the flight deck quickly, I'm trying to imagine Vietnam era vacuum tube avionics suffering this sort of abuse. Even modern solid state electronics don't much care for it. Still, the only way to know for sure if it doesn't work is to give it a serious try.
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  1846. I used to work in aviation maintenance. We used to have a saying: there's no such thing as a perfectly good airplane (or spacecraft); they're all in various states of disrepair. Every jetliner you've ever flown on, however shiny and new, has had something minor wrong with it somewhere. The problem with spacecraft is that they're so dependent on high performance that it's hard to design margin of error into the systems. A B-17 bomber or an A-10 can fly home on one engine and half its structure ripped to shreds, because it can be built heavier than required to get the job done. A jetliner can absorb a surprising amount of punishment due to weather, engine failure, rough landings, etc. Most spacecraft don't have that option. A launch vehicle's engines are like a dragster's engine, they have to operate at super high performance for a short period of time and the whole vehicle has to be as light as possible, while flying at hypersonic speeds and large accelerations. The whole machine is always on the edge of spectacular success or failure.
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  1847.  @johnmorris7209  If you've ever pulled buttes at a rifle range you know what it sounds like when rifle rounds pass close overhead. They are loud with a supersonic crack that over time damages your hearing if you don't wear earplugs. Now imagine a much bigger round going just as fast or faster passing even closer. Yikes.
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  1848. She's one of those cat ladies J.D. was talking about.
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  1849.  @neilfurby555 Tim Hunkin's youtube channel is great!
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  1850. I know what's better: the above guitar rig next to a Rickenbacker bass played in stereo through a couple of Ampeg SVT's and 8x10 cabinets. Better yet use Sunn amps, if you can find them. Pretty sure that's what Geddy used back in the day. Orange AD200's will do the trick, too. That will pretty much force people to move whether they want to or not. Might set off car alarms or even make people puke if they stand too close to the cabinets. Making people puke from pure amp power should be your goal.
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  1851. Also, the Washington DC Metro collision in 2009 comes to mind, where one train telescoped into another and turned it into a charnel house.
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  1852. Many of these are easily debunked but they still make for great campfire stories.
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  1853.  @terrygardner3031  Sounds about right, King was kind of a knob.
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  1854. I read that it's because in a crash landing luggage and other stuff will be flying forward and hitting passengers in the face; facing forward means the seat back protects you from that.
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  1855.  @rzr2ffe325  Yes, von Braun and many of his V2 team wound up building missiles for the US Army .The Redstone missile that carried the first American astronauts on suborbital flights was an evolution of the V2.
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  1856.  @mitchellneu  Well considering the ridiculous war crimes Tavington committed in that stupid film it's a good thing they changed his name. Tarleton was known to be ruthless but he never locked people in churches and burned them alive. I'm an American and I thought that movie was embarrassing the way it painted the Brits as barbarians.
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  1857.  @DaveRoberts308  Well, he made it to 75 before his voice quit on him, that a lot farther than most screamy rock singers make it. Geddy Lee had to quit screaming in his 30s. Last I heard Rob Halford was still killing it.
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  1858.  @jon-paulfilkins7820  Ivanova is God.
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  1859. If you look closely at an F/A-18, especially the A-D versions, you can see the F-5 DNA in there. There's definitely a family resemblance.
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  1860. 10:22 As a kid in the 80s watching movies like Tron, this image is what I thought future computers would look like.
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  1861.  @mharrye  Everyone makes mistakes. That's not the question, the question is did they fail to follow proper procedures and checklists or not. Or, maybe the procedures need to be fixed.
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  1862. I call that for a metal band name!
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  1863. ​ @Mute_Nostril_Agony And Arthur C. Carke describes it in detail in the book.
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  1864. I think we only stepped away from it because ballistic missiles became a bigger threat than bombers. Vietnam wasn't considered a "real" war, since neither superpower's existence was threatened it could be treated as a sideshow (at first, anyway). But right up until 1991 the potential battle in Europe was considered the real deal. The F-117 and B-2 were not built to drop bombs on desert-dwelling guys with sandals and Kalashnikovs; those aircraft were designed to penetrate defenses of places such as East Germany and the USSR.
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  1865.  @abnurtharn2927  It would have the Rush song Necromancer as its walk-on music.
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  1866.  @Willy_Tepes  I think the landlord is held responsible for the antenna on the building, but you have a point. If the pirate antenna is inside the window or just put out on the windowsill or balcony for a limited time, it's pretty hard to expect a landlord to deal with that. And if he fails to find it, he pays the FCC a fine and they still haven't stopped the pirate.
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  1867. Oh boy, is the "crime the radio fans" guy back?
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  1868. 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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  1869. Last time I was this early, early jokes weren't stale yet.
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  1870. I knew I wouldn't have to scroll down too far to find a Rush fan commenting on a science channel!
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  1871.  @NullHand  You can't shut down a whole patch of airspace across an entire ocean permanently.
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  1872. It's a thing that explodes.
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  1873. It was to ensure you would score a kill, since missing meant a bomber would get through to nuke your cities, and early air to air missile tech was not considered reliable enough to bet on.
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  1874.  @donjones4719  Atlas V and Delta IV are both EELV programs. The government wanted two EELVs to ensure access to space in case one system was grounded, which is what happened when Challenger blew up and too many eggs were in the shuttle basket. The USAF (now Space Force) does not want to rely on just one rocket. The Centaur is just an old, very very good design for a high energy upper stage. Complaining about monopoly in the space business is kind of pointless, since there are more launch providers now than there were a few years ago, and maybe more coming up, and the upstart companies are building their own unique designs.
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  1875. They're still trying to figure out how to waste the maximum amount of money and waste maximum time fixing the Baltimore bridge. Lots of palms to grease, and constituencies to pander to before that gets done.
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  1876. And Drachinifel.
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  1877. I find air traffic radio to be very relaxing for some reason. I sometimes put my Eton radio on the local airport control tower frequency, set the off timer, turn the volume down a bit and drift off to sleep to it. Almost like listening to distant train horns, it's somehow comforting to hear people traveling through the skies at night communicating.
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  1878. That's what underground nuke tests are.
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  1879. That footage of the Los Angeles maneuvering above the surface fleet is really cool, first I've seen it.
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  1880. That's a piston engine. Jets are more like "suck squeeze burn blow".
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  1881.  @InfernosReaper Gene Simmons has made a career out of being hated.
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  1882. I remember in the 80s when ideas of turning the Iowas into hybrid battleship/STOVL carriers was floated about, and the hideous nature of it was offensive to the eye. I had no idea the IJN had actually done this for real. And I see it was a dumb idea in the 1940s as well.
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  1883.  @timgimmy609  Plus Raylon's dad Arlo is a giant crook, one bad turn and Raylon could've wound up in the gang with him and Boyd instead of being a lawman.
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  1884. The robotic shark they used for this film looks so fake when you see it in person but the way they filmed it it looks like a real animal.
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  1885. Everyone wants to blame the MD merger, but I think that's a bit overplayed. That merger was over 2 decades ago and besides, if you're going to say that, then you have to ask: what happened to MD's culture? Once upon a time McDonnel and Douglas both built good aircraft. The DC-3 and the DC-8, for example, or the F-4 Phantom. Then came the DC-10 and the MD-D merger, and things tool a downturn. Wonder why that was?
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  1886. I read Subaru Sakai's book. He was a IJN Zero ace pilot. In his book describes Japanese naval aviator training leading up to the war. It was brutal, with a huge washout rate. They were trained in swordfighting and hand to hand combat as well as pilot skills, and at the beginning of the war they were basically the best naval pilots in the world. But their training pipeline was so long and slow that when they started to take losses they couldn't fill the cockpits with replacements fast enough, and they waited too long to speed up the training. In addition, they flew their best pilots until they were killed, while the US Navy would rotate their best pilots out after they were seasoned combat vets and send them back as instructors, so as the war went on, USN aviation got stronger while IJN aviation got weaker, until we see things like the Marianas Turkey Shoot and carriers with no planes being used as decoys at Leyte Gulf. Sakai survived because he was critically wounded, shot through the eye, and flew hundreds of miles back to base where he got medical attention but was taken off flight duty.
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  1887.  @Commanderziff  Didn't Maneo get sponsored for his crazy antics before meeting his fate at the Ring? I think that was how he was making a living.
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  1888.  @lordcraycray2921  That actually makes sense. But still, when it comes to Russia I always think of radiation, and this only reinforces that in my mind.
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  1889. I have a cool book somewhere with all kinds of designs for the Apollo Saturn system that were supposed to build on the initial moon landings. Habitats, cargo LMs, all kinds of cool stuff.
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  1890. It's amazing how far back the heritage goes on so many modern launch vehicles. Thor was a long time ago. Atlas is another program that's been around since the mid-1950s.
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  1891. If this tree was from Australia it would walk around like Treebeard and assault people.
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  1892. So, after you advised us to fly "safe", I was wondering, does Blue Origin have a large bag or sheath of some sort to provide the booster with protection from the elements?
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  1893.  @krashd  There's a video of BioNerd as she climbs up the abandoned antenna array of the Duga and videos it. She's crazy.
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  1894. I love scary clowns. I prank them in my basement for hours.
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  1895.  @jonathangatto  Just like the student loans that the administration wants to "forgive"?
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  1896.  @sebwarren7918  I imagine the producer encouraged the guys to go crazy and let it all out. That yelling is part of what makes it rock and roll and it's awesome. Bonham was definitely feeling it that day.
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  1897.  wally crail  Yes, but we've since developed a technique to get around that limitation using a retroflanged carbon vapor conductor over a celery substrate. As long as you watch the anode voltage, it should be safe to use for at least a few hours of running time.
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  1898.  wally crail  Yes glad someone gets it. Kids these days just don't understand the power of gated pi functions and their effects on the spherical plasma cortex.
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  1899. 2-10-0 wheel configuration would be called a "decapod" in the US. As for spare parts, a good shop can make their own parts from scratch. In Pennsylvania the Strasburg Railroad is a tourist train operation that has a fully functioning shop and operates several locomotives, as well as doing contract work for other tourist rail companies who operate steam engines. Strasburg is a very impressive operation, and on summer days they might be operating 2 or 3 engines at the same time. They also make some money on the side hauling revenue freight cars from the Norfolk Southern main line down to Strasburg, using steam engines for the job occasionally.
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  1900. Laser Squad! Now that's a name I've not heard since...loved that game back in the 90s.
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  1901.  @lilidutour3617  It fascinates me to see how cheapo the US Navy can be about some things while blowing piles of cash on other things. Reminds you that it is a government agency after all lol.
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  1902. Great to hear some things never change up in the Jerz.
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  1903. I had a great aunt who was working in the building when the B-25 crashed, on a lower floor. There was a rumor that she had a piece of the airplane from the windowsill near her desk, but she never said anything to me about it and I'm not sure it was true. Way too late to ask her about it now.
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  1904. Ah yes, Bill Nelson, who said to Congress he has "no idea" why China is exploring the far side of the moon.
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  1905. From the Appalachian hills of Pennsylvania, can confirm: Alcohol and firepower is a fun combination.
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  1906. True, but losing the Phantoms was also a bad thing, since they have a huge speed, radar and weapons advantage over the SHAR and can strike BVR. When defending ships from Exocet-equipped attackers these things are important. Had the Royal Navy been fighting the Soviets, their intended adversary, instead of Argentina, they'd have been facing heavy bombers and waves of large cruise missiles such as the Kitchen. For that you really need an F-4, preferably an F-14. And yes, you need AEW so you can see far enough out.
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  1907.  @ragnarok7976  Do those come with electric motors?
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  1908. The Saturn V was empty on the transporter, too, wasn't fueled until it was on the launch pad. But even empty these big machines are still heavy.
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  1909. Pickle Rick
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  1910. Film is definitely superior to digital for certain niche applications such as this. One benefit of digital, however, is that you can livestream HD digital video from the launchpad in real time. With film you can't see it until it gets processed. In the Apollo days they had analog TV cameras for real time broadcast but none that close to the pad. Looking at the comments here it seems NASA is still using film after all, so they get the best of both technologies.
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  1911.  @RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloy  He's one of the best Joker actors, actually, kind of sad he turned into a wack job.
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  1912. My hat's off to software guys. Especially if you have to maintain legacy code that was written by some guy years ago and you have to decipher his thinking. I feel lucky just to be a normal end user who has to write some simple stuff in Matlab or VBA once in a while.
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  1913. 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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  1914. Hauling freight may not be as exciting as naval service, but it also means less chance to get shot in the face.
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  1915. And they didn't have to get them from central casting and pay them actors' wages to act like they want to be there.
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  1916.  @BeachsideHank  That's a great rant and all, but in this case the Navy was right.
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  1917. Where the power goes out so you can't charge your electric car that makes you feel self righteous, and where people drop drug needles and shit in the streets. Seriously, get out of California.
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  1918. When the launch is successful it's a New Zealand rocket. When it fails, it's the Americans'.
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  1919.  @marhawkman303  In order to save Earth from the Comet Empire, duh!
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  1920. Nightmare fuel.
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  1921. Submarines were so slow compared to surface ships, and couldn't ripple off so many torpedoes. A sub is more like a sniper while one of these is like a line formation of riflemen firing volleys,
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  1922. Try to explain to a 20-something what life was like before internet and mobile phones. "When you wanted to meet somebody, you didn't text them. You just agreed over the landline phone to meet at a pub, and if one of you didn't show, the other just went on without you and that was it."
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  1923. Here is the US Navy film on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NnfRT_OZA
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  1924. I think this video is an excuse to show off that beautiful Artemis film footage again, always appreciated!
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  1925.  @uberduberdave  Amazing how those two details make all the difference between the beautiful Six and the rather homely-looking Deuce.
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  1926. I was in Japan in the early 90s and the Japanese navy was flying large 4-engine turboprop flying boats out of Iwakuni, a joint US Marine Corps and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (ie navy) base. They used them for antisubmarine patrols and search and rescue, and they were very impressive, landing in the water and then taxiing up the seaplane ramp to get the salt water hosed off. They had a bunch of pitot tubes and weathervane-looking instrument probes sticking up from the forward deck area as I remember. Don't know if they still use them today.
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  1927. Worth it to pay a bit more for some peace of mind. The bigger names like Delta were pretty keen to maintain their decades-old reputations.
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  1928. Outstanding work, and glad for the Orbiter shoutout! I have simulated every Apollo missions from launch to splashdown in Orbiter.
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  1929. To be fair, used motor oil is less toxic than the shit in Love Canal.
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  1930.  @simonfrederiksen104  It was based on a smart remark by FDR IIRC.
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  1931.  @CubicApocalypse128  Voting Democrat for starters ;-)
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  1932. Fender Jaguars are great for that. The guy from Sonic Youth did it a lot on their recordings.
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  1933. The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3.
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  1934.  @The_Viscount  Yep. Plus for shore bombardment or fire support for Marines, it's hard to beat guns that can hit an area over and over again for hours without running out of ammo, plus 5" shells are way cheaper than any guided missile.
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  1935. One I'd like to see covered somewhere is the collision between the tanker Corinthos and the Edgar Queeny in the Delaware River near Philadelphia in 1975. I was a very little kid at the time but I remember the boom and our house shook and then my dad watching live coverage on the TV news with footage from a news helicopter flying over the river. One of the ships was buring furiously and her deck had lifted up and was draped over the side like a tablecloth dipping into the river. It's one of those huge events of the time which, because it happened before the Internet, seems to have gone down the Memory Hole. There is a Coast Guard report out there somewhere and a few local blog sites talk about it, and I think one of the firefighters wrote a book about it, long out of print and very hard to find.
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  1936. The USSR delayed admitting it because disasters like this are a huge embarrassment to dictatorial regimes. They also only announced rocket launches if they were successful; the failures were covered up. Standard operating procedure for authoritarian rulers. Doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.
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  1937. Reminds me of a story from a few years ago. My band is not "punk rock" but it's "punk" in the sense that we're almost completely DIY, no money, and very little formal music training. At the time, I think I was the only one who had taken lessons (to play bass, years ago), and we had no support from any label or anyone else. We decided to try and make a demo recording in one of the guys' dingy basement. I used my little Korg handheld recorder, on a coffee table in the middle of the room, between the drum kit, the amps, and the little PA speaker, and we just played 2 takes of each of our tunes, about 8 or 9 originals. We were fairly well rehearsed, so the playing and singing were fine, but obviously the recording was very lo-fi, and not in a good way, and worse, there was an extra snare drum in the corner of the room that rang constantly. But the band was on fire and the recordings were high energy, with all the things that make rock bands cool, all the little finger squeaks and small mistakes and feedbacking guitars. Later we went into an actual studio and recorded an album, and while the pro versions of the songs sound way better, they seem to lack a bit of that magic that we got in that filthy basement, bad sound quality and all. If only we'd captured that basement session with good gear and somebody who knows what he's doing...
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  1938. As if tornados weren't scary enough. That's a pretty good siren.
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  1939. Unmanned landers have already done so, many years ago since, but if you're talking about manned landings, forget it. In addition to the extreme (and I mean EXTREME) difficulty in keeping a human alive in that hellish environment, you also have the problem that ordinary rocket engines will not work in that extreme ambient pressure. Venus is a great setting for a sci fi story about a prison planet from which no man can ever escape.
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  1940.  @thomashiggins9320  Yeah, it's a brutal story.
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  1941. Or a setup for a Gilligans Island reboot. Just need a movie star and a country girl.
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  1942. Try not to be shocked.
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  1943. Agree on continuing this. Drach, you should do a video on the submarine that was lost with Thomas Dolby's uncle on it, during a secret mission.
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  1944. That wasn't a warning light, it's one of the plasma weapons like the ones on the wingtips of the Martian machines in War of the Worlds 1955.
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  1945. For some reason I had confused this aircraft with the Douglas Skypirate torpedo bomber which also never saw service. I wasn't familiar at all with this particular jet. Great to see this series talking about how US Navy fighters evolved after the War.
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  1946. Destroyers fascinate me. Multipurpose platforms that often get overlooked despite their usefulness and lethality. Lots of experimentation and technology advancement.
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  1947. I find Sabaton to be quite cheesy. Just my take on it.
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  1948. @Aqua Fyre Yes, but he's asking how they do it.
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  1949. The scary thing is that the plume is invisible between the nozzle and the shock diamond. You can't see it, but there is a stream of intense violence in that space.
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  1950. I used to watch that show when I was little and loved it. Later when I met people from Cincinnati I was dismayed to find that the station was entirely fictional. I mean, having that call sign is marketing gold!
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  1951.  @farnborough83  Okay Mr. Bitterface. For my part I enjoy SW radio.
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  1952. RM, suggestion for a video, though it's a long shot: when I was little we had toy Star Trek communicators, which were walkie talkies. They had the flip up lid on the front and came in a pair. They also had a base station unit that looked like a console panel on the Enterprise, presumably Lt. Uhura would use it. I think they were on a CB channel, don't remember which one, but we could hear truckers talk to each other on nearby highways. These things are rare today, but if you were to find a working example in your travels it'd be cool to see you do a run down.
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  1953. Japan is limited by their constitution when it comes to building "offensive" warships, but never count them out. If they decide it's necessary, they could have a full up carrier navy again within a couple of years, complete with nuclear reactors. Unlike most other nations, Japan actually has lots of history with carriers in heavy combat and a proud naval heritage.
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  1954.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I wonder why he rode it into the ground. It must've been before zero-zero ejection seats, when those old seats couldn't save you if you were too low and too slow.
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  1955.  @Deilwynna  The new carrier is also named for Elizabeth I, not the current queen.
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  1956. I borrowed the B. Concertos on cassette from a library on a military base long ago and that was an eye-opener.
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  1957. 7:31 If I was one of those guys trying to pose for a photo I'd be certain to slide off the barrel, hit my head on the rail on the way down and then plop overboard to drown unconscious.
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  1958. Not to mention a whole flock of Essex class carriers, and tons of escort carriers and light carriers. Battleships still coming into commission, as well as the Alaska class cruisers. Insane level of production, and the Navy managed to find and train crews for all of them and keep them all supplied downrange.
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  1959.  @johnstirling6597  That makes the aircraft maintainer in me shudder. Different times.
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  1960. Unless you have SpaceX's balance sheet there's no way to answer your question.
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  1961. +Kekkonen They derka jerb!
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  1962. I caught some transistors hanging out near my garage, looking suspicious. I think they're planning to burglarize my home.
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  1963. A huge magnetic anomaly? In 2001? Arthur C. Clark are you hearing this?
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  1964. minecrafter0505 MY post was totally cromulent. 
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  1965. It was the ultimate "fuck the world" weapon, when you've got nothing to lose you just shit on everything with a few dozen Pluto missiles.
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  1966. It's Amelia Earhart.
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  1967. This kicks ass
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  1968.  @peterstickney7608  Ah yes, the good old days, when boys would build their own nuclear reactors, usually from a kit your dad bought at Radio Shack. Good times.
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  1969.  Raging S  Marblehead is also where John Glover's regiment came from, the guys who handled the boats that got Washington's army across the Delaware River to attack Trenton on Christmas 1776. The guys manning the row boats in the famous painting are Marbleheaders.
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  1970.  @RingwayManchester  Now you're criming the photography fans lol.
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  1971.  @maxthexpfarmer3957  I have a degree in engineering and I can barely afford a plumber to fix my toilet lol.
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  1972.  @DavidChipman  Umm, yeah, that's kind of the point.
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  1973. And every load would have a different drag profile than the last. Try planning that flight.
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  1974. Even if the manual control thing were true, it's not necessary. Even with the autopilot engaged, the human in the left front seat is still in control of the vehicle.
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  1975. Echoes. Pompeii version preferably.
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  1976. They actually had those Vienna sausage abominations in the early 40s?
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  1977. An American using meters instead of yards? Sus. Plus, I've never seen a cell tower with a 12 meter (or yard) cordon, that's a lot of real estate.
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  1978. Decades ago I sailed above the Arctic Circle in February. I remember that steel gray water, and how absolutely blue it was next to the ship's hull when you looked straight down into it. I also remember thinking that if were to foolishly fall overboard I was almost certainly going to cash in my chips, even if the lookouts spotted me immediately. When the wind kicked up the spray on your face was crazy cold. It was beautiful in a brutal kind of way, actually.
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  1979. Exactly, by making a stand he never got to use all the awful stuff he had in his car on her.
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  1980.  @davidlean1060  BR49 is awesome.
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  1981. Even the sites of the crashed LMs would be cool to visit and see the scattered parts. Depending on the circumstances there may be some machinery or avionics intact enough to be worthy museum artifacts.
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  1982. Great rundown on Soviet/Russian launch vehicles, Scott, have a Merry Christmas!
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  1983. Much more to come unfortunately.
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  1984. The law is the law and insurance is a business based on contract, not a charity. If you start forcing insurance companies to pay for things they did not agree to cover they will go out of business. As it stands now flood insurance is provided only by the federal government; no private insurance companies offer it.
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  1985. Between Dario Impini and Erin M I would definitely want to be friends with Dario based on this thread.
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  1986. Cursed image.
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  1987. If you haven't been yet, visit the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio. There you will find the world's only remaining XB-70 and a B-58, along with 4 hangars full of aircraft and missiles.
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  1988. @Silently Sceptical you are just a troll
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  1989.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I'm sorry, but I don't think she believes it is YOUR mail. It belongs to her now.
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  1990.  @crazydave951  Is Salty Cracker as bad a dude as Corn Pop?
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  1991. IIRC the IBM AP-101 computer family was used in a lot of applications in the 70s, including the F-15 fighter jet, the B-1 and B-52 bombers, and probably still is used. It's bullet-proof reliable and for the limited number of flight software programs you run on it it doesn't need to be super modern. I think the shuttle used them right until the end of the program, despite all the other avionics upgrades.
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  1992.  @dantreadwell7421  no, it's "impossibru!"
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  1993.  @corneliuscrewe677 Yes, but it's a 5 mile walk, in an environment with no air, and your suit must not fail. So it's still pretty edgy.
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  1994.  @silverjohn6037  In the WWII victory parades in the US, there were a small number of American Civil War veterans in the cars waving at crowds. Guys who had served when they were teenagers with muzzle-loaded muskets had lived long enough to see jet fighters, digital computers, and nuclear weapons. I think the 1870s to 1970s was the most explosive tech period.
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  1995. Kind of like "Pennsylvania Dutch", which is the German dialect spoken by Amish people, a very old-fashioned form of German. With a bit of a Philly accent mixed in for lulz.
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  1996. Certainly true in those days. One can fantasize about Northrop Grumman developing a rival or follow on to the F-35 and giving it a "cat" name for the Navy someday.
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  1997. At first, I thought you meant a town in Texas (TX) called Blackhill, and wondered what kind of Texan calls a TV a "telly", then I realized you meant Tx to mean "transmitter".
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  1998.  @SeatBill  The US has the big amphibs, LHAs and LHDs, which are as big as WWII carriers. Aside from the strictly amphibious capability, you can load them up with Harriers, F-35s, and helicopters and use them as a sort of auxiliary carrier if need be.
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  1999. Who knew there was so much engineering in a simple window. Compare that with the simple glass in an antique window.
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  2000. Moonraker was goofy, and they got the spin gravity on the space station wrong as usual, but as I've grown older I've learned to accept and love it. Besides, it was conceived before the first real shuttle launch, when we all thought that launching space shuttles all the time would be an everyday affair. I think the hardest thing to believe was the idea that the British government would pony up the cash to actually buy a half dozen space shuttles, complete with a supply of external tanks, SRBs, and launch facilities.
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  2001. Yes, it was a Zucker Brothers film, same people who produced Airplane and The Naked Gun! The star was also a young Val Kilmer.
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  2002.  @nobodynoone2500  Disney is the best place to work in the world, we are all happy here. Now get out there make me some goddamned money, ha ha!
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  2003. Montemayor's videos are well worth the wait. Love the way he uses real photographs to explain things.
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  2004.  @Daniel-kz3df  Doesn't change the fact of what I wrote: everyone, including the astronauts, thought the SSMEs would probably be the thing most likely to cause an accident, not the SRBs.
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  2005. My comment got deleted by the youtube bot bureaucracy.
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  2006. Don't crime the radio fans!
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  2007. Kodak is not a camera company, though, it was primarily a film manufacturer, making tons of money off of mass produced film. So switching away from film would've been a difficult transition for the company no matter what. And as another reply said: digital at the time was impractical for consumer use, basically too far ahead of its time.
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  2008. I remember this on the news back in the 90s, but I didn't know about the radio transmission part of the story, very interesting. Sorry for those poor victims and their families. Sarin can have some pretty nasty aftereffects for those who survive it.
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  2009. Dodgy lab coat guy, too.
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  2010. When I was a boy I went to an airshow and saw a P-51 in high dudgeon rolling down the strip for takeoff. I was pretty far away but I will never forget that sound and the way it shook my chest cavity. Merlin FTW.
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  2011. Elvis Presley comes to mind.
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  2012. The rocket booster in that story refers to the space shuttle solid rocket booster segments, which were built or refurbished and fueled at the factory and shipped by rail to Florida where they were assembled into complete boosters. An alternate plan offered by a competing company was to build a manufacturing plant in Florida near the launch site which would build larger, fatter booster rockets which would be all one long casing. The bigger one-piece boosters would've been more powerful and also would've avoided the engineering problem of the O-ring joints that doomed the Challenger.
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  2013. 4:59 Look at that beautiful art deco window trim. It's so high up you would never see it without binoculars and yet they spent good money to do that back in the 1920s. No modern buildings are built with that kind of love or made to be that beautiful today. Art deco forever.
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  2014.  @NesconProductions  That's not true, the last USS Yorktown was a Ticonderoga class cruiser CG-48 which entered service in the 80s and is now retired. Once a ship has been stricken from the List its name is eligible for use even if the ship survives as a museum or whatever. Constellation is an example; the mid-1800s frigate still exists but the name has been used again.
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  2015. Surprise Volcano!
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  2016.  @neithere  I don't care about Ukraine.
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  2017. I was there once, many years ago, doing the same thing. Keep the faith, brother, and come home safe.
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  2018. History shows how people can be really smart (enough to do astronomy) and stupid (enough to believe in prophecies) at the same time.
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  2019.  @RickBeato I watch these vids and understand maybe 10% but that 10% is totally worth it, it makes me think about things a bit differently and I can study the rest if I really want to get it all down.
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  2020. It's also why Sputnik being first into orbit was actually a good thing for the West, since it established the precedent that vehicles in orbit may overfly any country's airspace at any time, thus allowing the US to get what Ike wanted once the satellite technology was caught up.
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  2021. Oh man, can't wait for the SVT video! My band sometimes practices in a space which has an old beat up SVT and a 8x10 fridge cabinet. When you switch it from standby to on the lights dim for a second and then I crank it up until the earth quakes. Like the voice of Bass God. That is the sound of rock bass right there. Feel the power! Too bad the things are so big and heavy or I'd own one for sure.
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  2022. Also the US, and probably Mexico. I think all of North America's railroads use similar systems, kind of like the highway rules for automobiles.
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  2023.  @terryjwood  Nice. If radio waves could develop muscles, there would be a huge market for radio fitness equipment.
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  2024.  @irix5093  Sure, an 80 year old with a single broken down tank was going to overthrow the government. Same way a bunch of yahoos were pulling off an "insurrection" on Jan 6 with some scrounged flagpoles and fire extinguishers.
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  2025.  @ss_whole  He told them they need to stop censoring people and respect the right of freedom of speech and conscience. In modern times, being against censorship and supporting freedom of speech makes you a not see, because reasons.
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  2026. There needs to be an Arnold Schwarzeneggar action movie where the bad guy's head winds up inside this thing.
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  2027.  @nelikaufmann4802  Know what sound an asteroid makes as it hurtles through the air, right over your head? Whoooosh.
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  2028.  @GLAZERSOUT-oz8kh  Early war they lasted a long time. Serving in one later in the war was almost a death sentence. The allies had cracked the codes as well as creating much better anti-submarine warfare technology.
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  2029.  @moonshinershonor202  Well, we do, and you can't wish it away.
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  2030. Imagine tuning in your aerial radio and hearing Heston's voice over the net.
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  2031.  @Idahoguy10157  Well, you'd be right to say it has no function today, except to remind us of what almost was. That air terminal has been documented in photos and videos; I don't think they let tourists into it often, but it's a beautiful piece of art deco work, functional or not. Passengers boarding an airship from up there would've had to walk across a swaying catwalk at dizzying heights, so even if it had worked it was not for the faint of heart.
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  2032.  @paulstubbs7678  Yeah, I wasn't gonna spoil that.
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  2033. Most naval ships have a machine shop aboard. In the old days, sailing ships each had a carpenter for the same reason.
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  2034. I think it was dumb luck. Had that happened at higher altitude the thing might've failed hard (ie. blow up) before it had time to land and shut down.
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  2035. Going straight from plasma rings to electricity is also how fusion works in the BattleTech universe. So maybe I'll get to drive around in a Marauder Battle Mech someday after all.
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  2036.  @melissametivier4  Don't forget clipboard and lab coat guy!
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  2037. Also Jim O'Brien (RIP)
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  2038. I studied this stuff in college, and I must say this a great explanation of it, your motion diagrams regarding the Fourier series and aliasing were very informative. I've never gotten into the habit of arguing with audiophiles; it's rather like arguing with flat earthers or other such nuts who refuse to listen to logic, but it's good to be able to explain this stuff to those who are willing.
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  2039.  @nizm0man  The suppliers and tooling didn't exist when they set out to build it in the first place, and yet they did. You can build anything if you have enough money. The USSR made an exact copy of a B-29 bomber and they no access to Boeing's plans, documents, or factory tools. What they did have was a real B-29, enough money and the threat of Stalin executing them if they failed.
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  2040. To be fair, those rules apply to lots of hazards besides just ionizing radiation. Gunfire, for example, or playing on the freeway.
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  2041. It's more like an unrep with the oiler just pumping the rum across in the hoses.
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  2042.  @betsybarnicle8016  I eat chicken.
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  2043.  @tbg3889  It was called Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic. There was a follow-on to it that was about the Pacific war but it wasn't as good as North Atlantic.
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  2044. The Gregorian calendar is, by historical twists and turns, sort of based on the winter solstice, so...
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  2045.  @minertheo  Not being designed for something is not same as "can't do" that thing. Gordon states he found the F-106 was a good dogfighter once he trained up for it, and there is also the example of the A-4 Skyhawk, a light bomber which was used for years by Top Gun instructors to fight against students in F-14s. I don't know that much about the F-102, other than the fact that it was disappointingly slow compared to the Six, but maybe it can dogfight subsonic? That was my question.
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  2046. Tremendous work you've done here, Drach. I've never seen this color footage of the salvage efforts. My grandfather worked in a shipyard in WWII and it makes me proud of him to see this. Very emotional moments when those battleships rose from the bottom with their crews on deck.
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  2047. The A-5 Vigilante was similar in size and shape to the Six, maybe even a bit longer, and they flew off the boat. Also a beautiful machine in its own right.
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  2048. I've never been a big fan of all that slap bass stuff Flea does (especially for all the ear pain it causes when you walk near the bass section of Guitar Center), but I hold him in high regard for all the great non-slap bass lines he plays. His work on the first Mars Volta album is superb. He's no gimmick player; rather he's a real pro who knows what he is doing.
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  2049.  @bbartky  Oh yes, the Osborne. A suitcase with a 5 or so inch cathode ray tube that was heavy enough to be used as a wheel chock on a 747. Used one of those at work back in the day. It was hopelessly obsolete, but the only thing that ran the custom test software we were using in our shop.
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  2050. Also, it's worth mentioning the coolness of the equipment they have there. The main telescope is 100 meters in diameter and moves frighteningly quick for such a large structure, it's the biggest steerable dish antenna in the world. They also have several other antennae there, some of them are pretty old and have an interesting 1950s industrial design to them.
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  2051. government
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  2052. Modern advancements in technology over the last few decades are mostly in the realm of electronics and software, so a well-maintained ship can last a very long time with upgrades.
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  2053.  @Duhya  Largely true for LEO missions, but for translunar or interplanetary returns at 11+ km/s such as Apollo, control is absolutely necessary to ensure lift is generated, as neither the vehicles nor the crew could survive a ballistic reentry as such crazy velocities.
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  2054. I have a CD by a band called Kwook, album name "Skywave", which I got about 15 years ago. Electronic band that used a bunch of numbers station recordings in their music. Very obscure stuff, though, not surprised they are absent here.
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  2055. I've been aboard the Jerz. I remember standing in front of the turret looking at that ridiculously thick armor on the face, and then looking at the armored conning tower, again armored like crazy. And I remembered thinking that they needed all that armor in order to stand a chance against other ships much like her. She looked like she could take a small nuke and just walk it off, yet there were things out there to be feared, like Yamato's guns, and modern antiship missiles. Hence the 20mm CWIS Phalanx armament and the Tomahawk missile launchers and, I think, Sea Sparrow missile launchers, and a flotilla of guided missile destroyers to keep her company.
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  2056. A E S T H E T I C
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  2057. "Boats" aren't really "ships", either.
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  2058. Well, you'll certainly never get there with THAT attitude.
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  2059.  @kennethferland5579  Apollo 13 LM Aquarius was equipped with an RTG to power experiments. Look things up before responding in a hostile manner next time.
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  2060. No, don't invite them into your house.
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  2061.  @3gunslingers  With this attitude we'll be to Mars in no time at all.
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  2062.  @kennethdeanmiller7324  It's from the time the Klingons started a bar fight with the Enterprise's crew by insulting the ship to Scotty's face. Scotty had been rudely interrupted from a drinking contest with his Russian crew mate Pavel Chekov, so he was already irritated. The Klingon FA'd and when Scotty hit him, the Klingon FO'd.
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  2063. Despite my knowing that these things will not happen anytime soon, it's still a bit terrifying to see such enormous power. As for Q, I think he's cool with humans thanks to Picard, but his fellow Continuum member Trelane, the Squire of Gothos, may be the bigger threat.
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  2064.  @whyjnot420  Yes, to the Brits, the American war at sea was pretty much a side show distracting them from the main effort against the French. The US at the time was no real threat the way that Napoleon was.
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  2065. Wow, Still They Ride by Journey, haven't heard that tune in a long time. Back in the 80s that was major makeout music lol.
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  2066. I think it had to do with the difficulty of landing jets on a carrier with primitive early jet engines. One reason why modern supercarriers were built, too.
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  2067. Drach, this video is an example of the fine work you've done. The research, the photos, the color film footage, and your narration is all a pleasure to watch.
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  2068. 8:10 James Bond called, he wants his Moonraker pictures back.
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  2069. It would also be interesting to try and list appearances of numbers stations in movies and TV shows. I know they were depicted in the TV show "The Americans" about Soviet spies in the USA in the 1980s, during one scene a safe house is shown and there is a shortwave radio set tuned to one.
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  2070. RIP Dusty Hill, gone to the great Lagrange point in the sky...
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  2071. I think I know what you are talking about. I often think of things like the Voyager spacecraft which is far beyond the solar system out of human reach, but the electronics and comm system continue to function and will do so until the plutonium power source decays beyond its ability to produce enough electrical power. The Pioneer spacecraft are another example. On at least one of them the signal got so weak that NASA declared the mission over and stopped tracking the spacecraft, but it's still out there, still transmitting weakly, likely never to be seen by humans again.
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  2072.  @kpd3308  Maybe make your argument like an adult without all the snark.
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  2073. He's been doing these breakdowns for four years now, and the rest of his videos are full of music knowledge. His first breakdown on Blink-182 is what caused his channel to blow up finally, best subscription ever.
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  2074. While it's true we don't measure success of aircraft the same as e used to, it's interesting to note the handful of 1950s aircraft types that are still in service today. Most of them are large transport or bomber type aircraft which don't put lots of G loads on their airframes and thus don't suffer as much from fatigue, B-52 Stratofortress being the obvious example. Others are so successful in their role that they are not only still in service, but even still in production after over 6 decades, such as the C-130 Hercules.
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  2075. That's one of my favorite movies, they don't make movies like that anymore.
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  2076. Being fined for talking in a silly voice is the most British thing I've heard of in a while.
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  2077. Along with Mark Levin and Lindsey Graham and the Cheyney family.
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  2078.  @briankoski2532  Did he live in a van down by the river?
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  2079. The SR-71 makes no sense, the F/A-18 is wrong, the F-117 is not a fighter, etc.
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  2080.  @Hevach  True, but I'm glad we didn't have to watch the Saturn V blow up over and over again before it finally worked, though the footage would be spectacular. We did go through that in the very early days of Explorer I and Corona and so on.
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  2081.  @mrcuttime22  Oxygen and hydrogen are nontoxic, as long as they aren't on fire.
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  2082.  @notshapedforsportivetricks2912  Well, we Americans have been to war with the Canadians twice, and I agree, we couldn't ask for a nicer enemy. Even though they beat us twice they don't gloat over it. Nowadays we just restrict our fighting to hockey games. More black eyes and less sucking chest wounds is good news all around.
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  2083. Brawndo's got what plants crave!
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  2084. Especially when blended with the meth.
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  2085. That is a great article, worth looking up. I read it back around 2007 I think. The STS flight software is known as the closest thing to perfect code that's ever been written. Whatever else was wrong with Shuttle, the software was on point.
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  2086.  @sage5296  So if you briefly dip your face in it you turn into Darkman starring Liam Neeson?
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  2087. Rush was a few years old as a band when the Police came around, but Alex Lifeson always pays attention to newer bands, and he was a huge Police fan.
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  2088. Drachism of the day: "There was also an armoured conning tower, if you wanted to go and die in a giant bell"
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  2089. Swords and sandals and seawater!
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  2090.  @Infinite_Maelstrom  The fins are one of the coolest aesthetics of the Saturn V and Saturn IB, useless or not they look cool.
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  2091.  @tomhenry897  I thought Dr. Indiana Jones recovered it and it's in an American warehouse with the Ark.
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  2092. I noticed the pad but never thought much of it, never noticed those sci fi noises before.
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  2093. Even though he's super famous, I feel like Ben Franklin doesn't get enough credit. As ambassador to France he basically saved the Cause by getting the French to back it and recruiting all these talented foreign officers to cross the Atlantic and join the Continental Army.
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  2094. Add to that the 1980s tech on the New Jersey, another 40 years later. Tomahawk missile launchers and Phalanx gun mounts.
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  2095.  @samrobinson9110  Maybe. I should've tried to ignite it to see what kind of Isp PB&J gets you.
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  2096. I grew up not far from there, Drach, wish I'd known you were coming by. I've been aboard Olympia a few times, but I've never been to the engine or boiler rooms. Those steam engines are absolutely beautiful things, what I'd give to see them in action again someday. If I had Musk/Bezos/Gates money I'd make good and sure that Olympia was taken care of. She's the only one of her type and era left in the world, and she's a much-overlooked important link in the history of the US Navy.
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  2097. Spam in a can.
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  2098. When I was taking pilot lessons they referred to small private planes as "lawyer and doctor killers". Be safe, dude.
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  2099. If I was in charge, I'd troll everyone by naming the floors 13A, 13B, 13C, and so on. No escaping it.
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  2100. A "Karen" police officer was doing her job and you were trespassing. Given the above comment about a serial killer dumping bodies and the problem with drug heads hanging out in these places you should've thanked her for looking out for you.
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  2101. I visited the Philly mint once in the 90s and got a tour. The guys who work there doing bill destruction are all bonded and background checked, and when they show up for work they had to change into coveralls with the pockets sewn shut.
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  2102.  @jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301  Explain. Please cite facts and numbers.
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  2103.  @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020  MacArthur was pretty good at governing occupied Japan and he also was popular amongst the Filipinos, so he was useful for US foreign policy in that respect. As a field general he had some bright spots like Incheon, but he had a lot of issues, many of which were unforgiveable. In the end, his ego and his mouth got him fired when he crossed the president in public. Whatever you think of Truman, he tolerated no crap from his people like that.
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  2104. Astronauts don't need suicide pills; just open the hatch and you'll pass out in seconds. Suicide pills? Those are for the conspiracy idiots.
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  2105. Amazing how many people go to funerals for dirtbags like this. It's one thing to make a movie about them, because they make for good stories, but it's another to act like they're some kind of hero. I talked to an Italian guy from New York once and he told me that when he was growing up the mob would help out families in the neighborhood with stuff, especially the first or second generation immigrants, which was how they managed to have some level of popular support.
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  2106.  @SMGJohn  No one who sticks up for communism can be taken seriously. If the Lada and the Trabant aren't evidence enough, the dozens of millions of dead communist citizens murdered by their own governments ought to be enough argument against it; if this doesn't work for you then we can only conclude you are evil.
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  2107. A square orbit around the moon, well I'll be! I have to say, I was one of the doubters/haters of Artemis but since the launch and seeing all this stuff lately I've gotten pretty excited about it. The odd orbital mechanics is super cool. And so, by the way, is seeing that NASA worm logo out in deep space looking back at Terra and Luna.
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  2108. Man, Mark's been killing it lately!
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  2109. The purpose of navigation lights is so you can tell the relative heading of a ship or aircraft (or spacecraft) from a distance. Red is always port side, green is always starboard side. Ships have white lights on the masts, a low one forward and a high one aft, while aircraft typically have a red "beacon" and an flashing strobe "anticollision" light. It seems to me spacecraft have apparently only had them since LED tech made lights light enough to bother putting them in your mass budget, I may be wrong. If you see a spacecraft (or any vessel) in the distance, you may be able to make out its shape but not its orientation, so the lights aid the observer.
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  2110. The USAF had no replacement for the EF-111 and had to rely on the Navy for EW support after that. A bit premature methinks.
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  2111. Well said.
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  2112. Sadly, the commercial failure of the L-1011 knocked Lockheed out of the airliner business for good. Every once in a while Lockheed Martin floats on idea for a futuristic jetliner again, the latest usually being some sort of quiet supersonic tech, but concepts only, no serious plans to reenter the market. But the L-1011 is certainly a beautiful bird. Not too many left flying these days.
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  2113. If I Did It
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  2114. Would be cool if they had video and sound in the cabin when this happened.
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  2115.  @justinhannan1713  Exactly my point. And in the 80s some older guys were still using that Bryl cream stuff.
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  2116. A mirror is a tiny fraction of the cost of a system like Hubble. Not only do you need to build the rest of the satellite, and launch it, but you need the ground facilities and infrastructure and employees to operate it and process the telemetry and astronomy data. That extra mirror may wind up in a ground telescope at an observatory someday.
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  2117.  @filanfyretracker  As a sport diver who's never been deeper than 140 ft or so, the deep ocean definitely scares me more than vacuum.
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  2118. I feel the need. Does anyone else here feel the need? I feel the need.
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  2119. There is no parking in the orange zone.
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  2120. Re. combining services: The US recently created a separate Space Force because the USAF wasn't adequately prioritizing space, which is to be expected since their main focus is strategic air power. As a separate service the Space Force now has its own budget to manage and doesn't have to compete with the F-35 or the next gen bomber, etc. Within the Department of the Navy, the USMC has its own air component, which, while still part of naval aviation, is focused on supporting its own Marines on the ground, freeing Navy air power to focus on actual naval warfare. Combining things may look good on paper, and sometimes it is good, but often it's more complicated than just saving money (looking at you, Robert McNamara.)
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  2121.  @legoeasycompany  I always thought Blinder was scary because it reminds one of a nuclear flash.
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  2122.  @jimmyseaver3647  Yeah, I need to find this Family Guy clip
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  2123. Imagine if the Japanese Empire had just decided not to be bad guys and made peace with the Americans and Nationalist Chinese. Imagine how different the Cold War would've played out and how secure the Pacific would be today with the combined might of the USN, IJN, and RAN. Could've, would've, should've.
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  2124. Love the way you ended this video, with the silent flyby. Great work on this series. A lot of this footage and photography is new to me.
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  2125. I am astonished to think that my parents made me mow the lawn and trusted me with a gasoline-powered foot-chopping machine unsupervised. I hated cutting grass but I liked operating the Briggs and Stratton motor, maintaining it, oiling it, and so on. I hit a golf ball with it once, as well as a few crab apples and even a rock or two. Damned dangerous thing but I survived and now I know how to handle power tools and work on engines.
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  2126. Long time Rush fan, crushed. What else is there to say, really? It's the end of an era. We are now living in a post-Peart world, and we are poorer for it.
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  2127. Because Dragon had a rocket engine blow up, which would kill the crew. Starliner's anomaly was non-lethal, easy to correct by an alert crew, and easy to fix without redesigning hardware. The vehicle went off course, but it was recovered and undamaged.
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  2128. I love that they named the dredger Nicollo Machiavelli.
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  2129.  @TheGelasiaBlythe  Her dad, of course. She made Ken drive it around too, to his ridicule. Later she was happy cruising around in the passenger seat of GI Joe's Nissan Z while Ken cried.
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  2130.  @juniorloaf12  It would be cool if NASA were to obtain a few B-1B bomber when the USAF retires them in the years to come; they have great speed and payload capacity anyway.
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  2131. I visited the site a few years back. It's really remote. You lose cell service long before you get there. There are no nearby interstate highways, so you have to travel a fair distance down country roads through mountainous areas to get there. The visitor's center is pretty nice, and they give bus tours, in a diesel bus of course. When the tour guide said that digital cameras were prohibited inside the fence line, there was an audible sigh from the tourists, except me, since I brought my old film camera. On the way out it was dark, and I almost hit a deer like 3 or 4 times on the twisty mountain roads, so if I ever go back, I plan to leave when there's enough daylight to reach the interstate or a town.
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  2132. I was trying to figure out what you were saying when you mentioned Amoco, until I realized you were just pronouncing it weird. In the US we pronounced it "AM-uh-ko". They used to have gas stations everywhere where I grew up.
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  2133.  @DeathValleyDazed  I'm referring to what some people call "The Greatest Generation", yes. I do not call it that, for reasons which are off topic and personal.
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  2134. At the distance these things are from the sun, it's like pointing a flashlight at a solar panel at the other end of a giant parking lot. Only in recent years have solar panels gotten good enough to be considered for use at the distance of Jupiter; in the 1970s there was zero chance to use solar power on anything past the orbit of Mars. Plutonium RTGs are still the best power source for a vehicle operating in the vast darkness of the outer solar system.
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  2135. Well, there have been ships named for Baron Von Steuben, and an entire class of nuclear ballistic missile subs was named for Lafayette.
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  2136.  @jokerace8227  If you look at some of the orbital bail-out schemes proposed for rescuing astronauts back in the 60s many of them involved an inflatable heat shield of some sort, some of them strapped to an astronaut's back so he would reenter butt first and descend under a chute.
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  2137.  @ariaspes3842  That's twice now you've pedaled that bogus 37% failure statistic. Stupid troll, if you're going to spread propaganda, you have to be at least a little bit truthful. If you respond to this comment, don't forget to post a citation for your fake numbers.
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  2138. Or they're communists.
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  2139. I wonder what all the secrecy is for. For a century police and fire service worked just fine in the clear.
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  2140.  @gregedmand9939  USS Nautilus, the first nuclear sub, still had a WWII style hull form and was not considered obsolete. I imagine that if X1 had continued in service she'd have done okay in the 1940s. Especially, as Drach mentions at the end, since the IJN had F all for antisubmarine capabilities.
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  2141.  @bobqzzi  The scene where the astronauts are talking to their families, believing they are probably not going to make it, was pretty stark and horrifying. Gene Hackman's did a great job of portraying an astronaut who was at the end of his rope mentally.
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  2142.  @5Andysalive  And that rescue vehicle CSM 119 is the only "flyable" Apollo spacecraft in existence now, on display at KSC.
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  2143. Sounds like you're talking about Attack Vector: Tactical. I have a mint copy I bought years ago and never played since I moved away from my gamer friends, but some day...
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  2144. I had to put on my new reading glasses to read this post.
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  2145. I imagine anyone caught with an amateur radio transmitter in North Korea is risking his very life.
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  2146. Yes, now that you mention it, the footsteps of the id monster.
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  2147. It's 2019, you think they'd have the technology to add stars to the fake moon landing videos by now, jeez! The Chinese guy just copied Stanley Kubrick's outdated moon-faking technique, no innovation! (this is a joke, don't melt down)
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  2148. The Harrier is not retired just yet, friend.
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  2149.  @abrahamdozer6273  It does seem odd that a couple of islands in the middle of nowhere are the scene of so many battles.
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  2150.  @marcm.  This is the first time I've ever heard this word "smelkalka", but it tracks with everything we've seen in Russian and Soviet history. Makes you wonder how they ever became a superpower with that kind of thinking.
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  2151. That crack about Jimmy Carter was funny, but it might get you canceled soon. We censor political speech in the West these days. Even though I think Carter is a decent guy for the most part.
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  2152. It's not that hard: India wants Pakistan (and China) to know that they can hold their space assets at risk. Objective achieved. Some people will whine about space debris for a few days or weeks and then they will get bored and forget about it, but India's adversaries will remember the threat. India is betting that most of the space debris will decay and never collide with anyone else's satellites, and the chances of that happening are still pretty low.
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  2153. The problem with Dracula is that he technically isn't human anymore and hasn't been for centuries. Once you become a vampire you are a "creature". You keep your identity, in this case as a Romanian count with a large estate, and your memories and even personality, but your motivations and cravings are now driven by your supernatural (and fictional, of course) state.
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  2154.  @forrest225  The cueball was an almost perfect knuckleball, too, which is why it made a visible S-turn before going out of camera view. You can see it coming out of the muzzle with little or no spin on it.
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  2155. Guam is US territory. So Guam is America's back yard.
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  2156. Sarcasm aside, the last Hubble service mission installed a docking ring on the back of the telescope so that a vehicle such as Orion (or anything with that docking mechanism) can dock with and boost the telescope. The main purpose, IIRC, was to de-orbit it when the time comes, though.
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  2157. I have a few cheap SW receivers, and the best one is an older Grundig FR200 "emergency" radio. Analog tuner, hand crank (I normally just use AA batteries), a flashlight (you know, for emergencies!). It's kind of a cheap plastic radio and it's been discontinued for a few years now but honestly it works great. I sit outside with it and slowly tune around and pick up all kinds of distant signals. It's also possibly the best small AM transistor radio I have used as well. Only problem is no sideband capability.
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  2158. MDD was once a good company, too. And before that, Douglas and MD were once good companies. The DC-3 was introduced in the 1930s and is still in service today.
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  2159. Heart is still around. They do the best Zeppelin covers thanks to Ann's voice.
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  2160.  @alansmithee419  Not anymore. Sabine has changed the pronunciation forever.
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  2161. Regarding the M2, John Browning didn't design disposable junk.
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  2162. "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." - Mike Tyson
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  2163. Elephants.
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  2164. +1 for finding a way to use "force my lute" in a sentence.
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  2165. I thought NASA also has a bunch of unused F1's in storage looking for a future booster to be used on.
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  2166.  @obelic71  I believe there is a section of land in France that is considered a toxic waste zone because of heavy chemical weapons use there. There are even places in the US where signs warn people to watch out for Civil War ordnance.
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  2167. I don't use netflix, so I'd miss him
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  2168.  @NeonVisual  Mynocks. Chewing on the power cables.
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  2169. That scene in From the Earth to the Moon was awesome. They woke the guy up in the middle of the night and fed him coffee until he came up with a fix.
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  2170. ​ @therealjamespickering Anyone involved in ship or air navigation is who TF uses nautical miles. Next stupid question?
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  2171.  @MonkeyJedi99  In the Red Mars trilogy the first Mars elevator gets taken down by revolutionaries, who cut the counterweight off beyond synchronous altitude, causing the elevator to wrap around the equator, violently destroying anything or anyone close to the impact track. Because it was made of carbon nanotubes or similar, it didn't rot away, was hard to cut up by tools, and so large parts of it lay on the surface for the rest of the story basically being a giant eyesore and nuisance for the people of Mars.
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  2172.  @coopman0  ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE
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  2173.  @prairiepanda  If it's like where I live, he got it from a box of Captain Crunch cereal.
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  2174. Adam Neely recently said this: "As a musician, I don't feel protected by copyright laws; rather, I feel threatened." There you have it in a nutshell. Copyright law is supposed to protect people's IP rights, but that's not the case these days. It's been manipulated over time by people like Disney and the big record companies and so on to do the opposite, and youtube/google/alphabet is part of the problem. That guy who told you how they love making money off the backs of youtubers who do all the work for them was talking about how they play guys like Rick for suckers. We should be pissed off about it.
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  2175. Duck tape and chewed bubblegum
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  2176.  @andrepires7687  Also, Jimi's music is classified broadly as "popular music", which is what the word "pop" is short for. And in the late 60s, Hendrix's music was marketed to the same target demographic that Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish's is today, teens and twenty-somethings.
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  2177. This is old school naval combat, ships so close the crews can see each others' faces and exchanging fire with rifles and pistols. Brutal.
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  2178.  @canadbpolis  I eat breakfast 300 yards from men trained to make videos. So don't think you can come down here, and make me nervous.
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  2179.  @nottrevorallen  Nobody with a heart who has ever witnessed a space shuttle launch would not think it was epic. Bitching about the shuttle is for space hipsters.
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  2180. I'm pretty sure there is a series of books from about 20-25 years ago which speculate about an alternate history where the Roman Empire lasts through the Industrial Revolution and maybe even into the Space Age. I distinctly recall seeing a paperback with an illustration of Roman Centurions in an airship gondola in some bookstore.
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  2181.  @adamc1713  Dream Chaser can't carry 7 people and a school bus-sized payload to orbit and back. People say that capability, mandated by the USAF, was overkill, but it was there, and it was used, for things like Hubble, space station construction, LDEF recovery, and so on. So to me an STS 2.0 would not give up capability, but deliver the same capability with better safety and economy.
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  2182. Wait, somebody tell me where I sign up to get paid by NASA for telling people the earth is round! I could use a few extra bucks.
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  2183. I'm just happy to be at home here with fellow Rush fans. It's how I know Rick's channel is good.
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  2184. This was supposed to be light-hearted. Don't get all butthurt over it.
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  2185. The JFK assassination and UFOs were the two big conspiracy theory sources I heard about growing up, long before HAARP.
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  2186. Disposable movies? Sure. Star Wars Episodes 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8 for starters.
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  2187. He ruined that style of mustache for sure.
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  2188. Then there was the USS "Forest Fire" (aka Forrestal), who earned her nickname from a horrible flight deck accident in 1967 that killed like 30 dudes. Camera footage of the accident and firefighting efforts was used for a training film that I'm pretty sure every American sailor and even some Marines were made to watch. If ever there was an example of how a ship can get scary dangerous in the blink of an eye, that episode is it.
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  2189. Another top notch video, and Happy 4th to all!
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  2190.  Vela S  Wow, sorry to hear about your difficult life so far. Best of luck going forward.
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  2191. The smile is just his face pulled back from g forces, like in Spies Like Us.
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  2192. Exactly. Quit treating the sites as if they are holy sites. They are fields of lunar dirt with footprints, old equipment, and bags of astronaut piss laying around them. Build a small stone monument, preserve a few odds and ends, and be done with it. Also, screw the Outerspace Treaty. It's a Cold War relic, a conspiracy between jealous governments that will hamper efforts to colonize the solar system for generations. Where there is a system of private property rights, there will be progress, otherwise every trip to space amounts to nothing more permanent than a camping trip in a National Park.
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  2193. Rocket explosions are one of the few real life explosions that actually do look like a Michael Bay film.
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  2194.  @Paladin1873  Yes, Houston, home of Johnson Spaceflight Center lol
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  2195. Amazing how many sorties are required to score a critical hit on a big bridge in the days before precision guided weapons. The USAF experienced this trying to destroy the Dragon's Jaw bridge in Vietnam, repeatedly bombing it to no effect, until one day they showed up with a single laser-guided bomb and nailed it in one shot.
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  2196.  @bruce2357  Ah yes, TWA Flight 847. Time finally caught up with some of those SOBs, too, quite recently in fact. I also remember as a kid the whole Iran Hostage Crisis, and the good men who died trying to rescue them at Desert 1. I'm not above keeping score when it comes to that stuff.
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  2197. The US Constitution does authorize Congress to issue letters of marque to privateers, but I haven't had any luck getting one yet. You never know.
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  2198. I have a Panasonic radio I picked up in an antique shop. It was made in Japan in 1970 or 71, and it's a solid piece of tech. Now all these Japanese brands, like many US brands, are made outside of the brand's home country and the QC is a bit spotty at times.
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  2199.  @MX304  The X-20 was also designed with skid landing gear. Never got to fly, unfortunately.
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  2200. Just add some poorly played slap bass.
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  2201.  @dancoroian1  I'm a republican: someone who keeps going back for more beer.
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  2202. A Terminator has no ego and no feelings to be hurt. No need to punish people for insults or to prove how tough he is. Mouthing off to a Terminator is like mouthing off to a parked car. Attacking a parked car, however, is a lot safer.
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  2203. Not to mention the Titan V, which was used by Zephram Cochrane to launch his prototype warp drive spacecraft.
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  2204.  @Misha-dr9rh  Yep. About 4 days ago.
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  2205. My guess is that FAST, like a lot of communist projects in the past, was probably made bigger than Arecibo for propaganda purposes. The practical or scientific value of such things is secondary to the public perception of party strength. Anyone who thinks it makes Arecibo or any other active radio telescope obsolete is just falling for the propaganda or maybe trying to get in a dig at the US by trolling.
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  2206. Whatever else was wrong with the Shuttle's design, its glide ratio was exactly what it needed to be and was never an issue on any flight. If you want to fly a U2 into orbit you're doing it wrong.
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  2207. saint denis I'm going to tell my Zionist conspiracy buddies to save a special place in the FEMA camp for you when we take over your flat Earth. Get ready, we're comin' for ya!
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  2208. His flagship, the cruiser Olympia, is a museum ship in Philadelphia. There are a pair of brass footprints on the bridge where he stood when he (Dewey) gave that command.
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  2209. Block Sabbath
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  2210.  @capmidnite  Yes, a wristwatch is still the most convenient way to track time, especially if your hands are full. A phone is a fancy pocketwatch.
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  2211. There is an old sci fi short story out there called "The Cold Equations" in which a space traveler is faced with a very grim decision due to the rocket equation. Worth a read.
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  2212. YouTube doesn't like history type channels lately. The Operations Room has mentioned this a few times.
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  2213. Cthulu likes this comment
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  2214. "We're passing through the magnetic field, set your deflectors double front."
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  2215. Skylab was a modded upper stage, and it was a pretty good station.
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  2216. I left a comment here that contained nothing controversial and apparently youtube deleted it. Sorry, NAPFATG, I would love to have a nice conversation here but the petty tyrants who run this place won't let me.
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  2217.  @BB-848-VAC  If he's really that good, it's not because anyone is forcing him to practice, it's because he likes doing it and gets a kick out of improving himself.
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  2218. My guess is that the manhole cover bent and started fluttering like a flipped coin, really fast, and was destroyed by heat and acceleration without ever reaching the crazy hypothetical speeds described.
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  2219.  @averageparasenjoyer  In some versions of the story, yes, including the Jack Nicholson film, where we find out not only who Joker is but that he killed the Waynes. I prefer these things to be left unsolved.
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  2220.  @vincent67239  How does that make you feel?
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  2221. Sherrod's book on Tarawa is a good read.
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  2222. @ He's talking about the actress, not the character.
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  2223. For roll control in the hover it would likely have used bleed air jets on the wingtips a la the Harrier, which has proven to work well. I assume the lift fans are driven by bleed air from the engine compressors as well? Or my mechanical linkage like the F-35B? Either way that would be a huge engineering challenge. One thing we've learned from decades of Harrier experience is that when things fail in a hover you have no time to decide what to do: you eject immediately and write off a very expensive aircraft, possibly loaded with a nuke. And with 6 early 60s technology jet engines, you're going to experience a lot of flameouts in day to day ops.
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  2224.  @TechnologyConnections  Yeah, that's one of those "Let's go outside and try this in the driveway" kind of things.
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  2225. Worth mentioning is that there were two aircraft companies named Ryan, this one was "Ryan Aeronautical", not to be confused with "Ryan Airlines", builder of the Spirit of St. Louis. This used to confuse me, when I was growing up, I assumed they were the same outfit, but apparently, they were different entities started by the same guy named Ryan. It's still confusing to be honest.
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  2226.  @arizona-hunter6684  Maybe, who knows. Lots of ghosts out there in the Pacific skies and waters.
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  2227. This has me pumped. Not sure for what, yet, but I bet it'll be good.
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  2228.  @sshep86  It still is subsonic, and still in front line service. With the USMC, whose jets today were all built in St. Louis, Missouri. The UK even abandons its most successful programs.
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  2229. Great video and some awesome footage, especially the treetop flying shots.
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  2230.  @RobertLutece909  Sad for the composer, happy for me. I love Ligeti because of that film.
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  2231. Back when I used to use the Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator there was an addon vehicle called the "Dragonfly" that was basically a tug for moving cargo and other modules around a space station. Whoever created it had built into it a detailed model of fuel cells, and I remember that operating the vehicle was complicated due to the complex sequence you had to go through the start up and manage the fuel cells.
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  2232. 15:14 "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (canceled)" cool name, too bad it didn't get built.
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  2233.  @benranson8424  America started off as a bunch of ex-British rebels, after all.
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  2234.  @absalomdraconis  A heat shield plus a parafoil means making it heavier and bulkier. The idea is to provide a way to survive with the smallest mass penalty. This is even more important on spacecraft than on aircraft.
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  2235. Buy the Beato Book, it's all explained in there.
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  2236. No, you may be facing the enemy in a dogfight because the rules of engagement set by politicians in Washington force you to wait until you are in visual range before shooting at enemy aircraft. They say that in war, you must always remember that the enemy gets a say in how things happen, but don't forget that so do the politicians. This is why dogfights happened so often in Vietnam, where Phantoms were usually not allowed to use their advanced radar and fire control to shoot at beyond visual range because of ROE restrictions. Phantoms and other allied pilots then found themselves in dogfights, running out of missiles in a jet with no gun. That's why 4th Gen. fighters all have guns today. Maybe you're right and history won't repeat itself, or maybe politicians with satcom capability will continue to micromanage combat decisions. Which do you think is more likely?
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  2237. I saw Cape Hatteras LH in the early 90s and I remember how close to the water it was. Came back a few years later and it was weird to see it in a different location. I think there was a whole Discovery Channel documentary on how they moved it, really fascinating engineer work.
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  2238. Rebecca Black's Friday video is clearly superior.
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  2239. As long as the ruling elite doesn't find some reason to cancel Jones before the pandemic is over.
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  2240.  @Frostfly  It's awesome, watch at soonest opportunity.
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  2241. His work is probably responsible for those brace things that come down over your shoulders to hold you in place on many roller coasters. The lap bar on old wooden coasters is far less effective.
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  2242. No. As long as the reactor is not shedding material the air coming out the back is just hot air.
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  2243. I believe the single-engine MiG-21 is the most produced fighter jet in history, with tons of export orders and license-built versions made outside the USSR, and has an extensive combat history in many theaters, as opposed to the EE Lightning, which was 2-engined and never produced in large numbers or widely exported, if ever.
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  2244. Dr. Felton, I have a few really old cameras, one dating back to the 1930s. Sometimes the leather cases and straps get old start to rot. I repair the ones I can using an upholstery needle and thread but others, like the straps, I absolutely no longer trust. I almost lost a camera due to a strap almost completely severing, so though I keep the straps for looks at home, I always use a modern strap when I take the cameras out to use them. I noticed your U-Boat binos still have that leather strap with cracks in it; I would advise getting a modern nylon replacement to use outdoors.
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  2245. Wow, forgot about that show. Throw that in with Smallville, Gilmore Girls, and The OC. Maybe some Firefly for a bit of sci fi.
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  2246.  @FranNyan  Nevertheless, some people need to be screamed at. We all know one or two.
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  2247.  @treystephens6166  It might not need a drop to go off; if there's a loose part in there and the thing is tilted just the right way, you're suddenly having a bad day. On top of that, some explosive and incendiary chemicals can get unstable after years of sitting and maybe being exposed to moisture, etc. These things are scary as hell.
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  2248.  @QuantumRift  I was so waiting for that joke to come up.
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  2249. Don't forget the part where the generals banned parachutes because bailing out of a stricken aircraft was considered "cowardly".
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  2250. That is why we worry that they and Pakistan will nuke each other into oblivion.
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  2251. The tanks all passed their emissions tests until they were found to be cheating lol.
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  2252. Because putting Russian subtitles in a movie meant to be seen by Russians is stupid? Because the Soviet Union put this out as a propaganda film to show the progress of Soviet science and intended it to be seen by the English-speaking world? Use your noggin.
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  2253. As I get older I find I just don't have the patience to argue with moon hoaxers or flerfers. A lifetime of studying science and engineering have given me the ability to sus out facts in most cases and the ability to do math and make observations which clearly confirm things like how a rocket works or the fact that the planet is round, orbits the sun, etc. I can't convey all of this to someone who has so completely bought into conspiracy theories such that they cannot admit their theory is wrong without suffering some form of embarrassment. You're not just fighting ignorance and bad science; you're fighting human nature and the human tendency to dig in one's heels and defend a position based on fear or ego or other emotions. Someone has to keep arguing the side of reason, of course, but it tires you out after a while and feels so futile at times.
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  2254.  @LN997-i8x  I mean, it can be both, you know.
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  2255. Mark has commanded you to study. No getting out of it now.
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  2256. The RAF has ground troops. Huh, never knew that.
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  2257. It might be a DC-X / Grasshopper type test vehicle. Or it might be a big joke to distract us from what they're really building.
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  2258. Once we have robots there won't be any cleanup, because robots don't care about gas or arsenic. #skynet
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  2259. It's not an analog computer.
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  2260. You'd better report them. Do your duty. Don't let them win.
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  2261. Really? That's pretty much every classic hard rock or metal band. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Deep Purple. Hell even Rush had idiot fans back in the 2112 days because of that album cover. Tool is a very intelligent band whose fans endlessly argue over silly obvious shit. And right from the beginning the bible tards thought Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were doing the devil's work, when what they were really doing was making mad cash and getting tons of pussy, just like every rock star since. Welcome to rock and roll.
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  2262. Goose!
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  2263. Pick up a guitar and play a "normal" chord. Then fuck with the chord a little and come up with a cool new chord, move a finger over one fret and see what it sounds like, etc. Do this a while, and you can make some cool new stuff. Later, go back and try to figure out the theory behind what you did, but don't worry about theory when you're noodling or writing.
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  2264. Even Atlas III was pushing it. Atlas II and IIAS were the last "real" Atlas rockets according to many, because they still had the two design features that make Atlas distinct: the balloon tank and the booster-sustainer engine configuration. According to one history book, Lockheed Martin debated whether to name the new rocket Atlas V or Titan V. I think its connection to Centaur and development lineage from Atlas III gives it the right to still call itself an Atlas, if just barely.
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  2265. +David Lawman They will seem expensive, but you get free processing and digital transfer with it, so for movie film it's probably a good deal.
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  2266. ***** I hope Kodak understands that this will be a niche market for diehard film fanatics (like me). The old days of giant mass film production are over, but the art crowd will always be here. 
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  2267. A low-flying Pluto wouldn't kill people from the shock wave, it would kill them by bombarding them with neutrons from the unshielded reactor. Also, one idea for Project Orion was indeed horrifying: it was to use it as a gigantic nuclear missile which would lob a humongous hydrogen bomb high over the USSR whose blast of light and radiation would basically fry a whole continent from space. Closest thing to a Death Star we ever dreamed up, and scared the crap out of President Kennedy and the Orion engineers who just wanted to explore the Solar System.
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  2268. +XxKFCrockersxX Maybe.
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  2269. Cayde-6 Who ever kills the mpst wins. 
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  2270.  @brians7749  Funny, Tom Sawyer is one of the few songs Peart didn't write, at least not by himself. He got the idea from a poem written by a member of the band Max Webster, who were close friends with Rush.
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  2271. Nothing stupid about it, it's named after a city, which was common for USN cruisers.
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  2272. "OH well, Camden wasn't particularly valuable anyway." Grew up there, can confirm.
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  2273. In Soviet Russia, propellers spin you.
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  2274. Everyone who watched "Rome" knows Titus Pollo is the real father of Ceasar's kid. ;-)
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  2275. "More art than science...that's gonna cause me some grief" --- Ansel Adams was famous for collecting lots of data and reducing his shooting, development, and printing work to a "science" which, if you follow his instructions, should always produce a perfect image. His work speaks for itself; his philosophy was not to try to make "art" the way a painter would, but to use the camera to do what no painter can: produce pin sharp images. Hence his school of photography was known as the "f/64 Club". Adams books are good texts to study to figure out the "best" way to do it, and then you are armed with the knowledge to start mucking with chemicals and times to create something more artistic and personal, figuring which of Adams' rules to break and which ones to follow.
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  2276. As if hundreds of microsats isn't bad enough, we have people throwing needles into high orbit creating a long lived debris hazard. Wouldn't want to be in a spacecraft or worse, a spacesuit, when one of those needle projectiles hits you at several km/s.
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  2277. It will land on Gilligan's Island. The ground controllers will see the castaways dressed in feathers and think they're looking at aliens on Venus.
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  2278. I love these historical subject videos, Lewis. You do a great job digging up all this historical information, the kind of Cold War history most people forget about. And the photos of vintage 1970s East Block radio equipment are wonderful. Would love to get our hands on some of that gear today!
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  2279. To this day even modern high tech level bombers like the B-2 would have a very hard time trying to hit a maneuvering ship with an unguided bomb from altitude. Mitchell's demonstration was at least half a stunt in that regard.
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  2280.  @ndenise3460  With aircraft, an airframe that doesn't experience high G loads and thus almost no metal fatigue will last almost forever. Something like a fighter plane will never last as long as a DC-3 because a fighter's job is to pull Gs, while a DC-3 just lumbers along hauling freight. Like a pickup truck, as long as you keep corrosion under control and have spare parts for the mechanicals, a DC-3 will last forever. It's also why B-52's have such a long airframe life.
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  2281. I picked up a Cuban numbers broadcast a while back while randomly scrolling the SW tuner from near Harrisburg, PA. The regime is still active on the airwaves.
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  2282. That whole album is amazing, and that album tour was my first ever concert. Another great solo that plays off the vocals is Neil Giraldo of Benatar in the song Fire and Ice. Something he does in several Pat Benatar songs is where Pat will hold a high vocal note and Neil will start the guitar solo off the same note, so you almost can't tell where the vocals end and the guitar begins.
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  2283. The very opposite of what the Americans would do. "Not only do I accept these fine 10" guns, but I should like to inquire how we might add a couple more?"
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  2284. Like Josey Wales said, "Hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat too."
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  2285. When I was little my dad had a series of Time Life history books, and the one on pirates I read over and over, and used to stare at the illustrations. I was surprised when, about 20 years ago, piracy started becoming a real life issue again in the far east and off the east coast of Africa.
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  2286.  @motmontheinternet  Yeah, I think it's just a chemical toilet and it's in a very confined space. Plus it sucks enough to be the mechanic whose job is to clean a toilet, so it's kind of rude to make the poor guy have to clean up crap too.
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  2287.  @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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  2288. Austin Dam in Pennsylvania, failed in 1911. Now it's a park and the ruins are still up there in the middle of the woods. The park has its own website.
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  2289. He was stupid for agreeing to be their representative. But since he previously got kicked out of the navy for something so stupid as refusing to fold his hammock, I am guessing he wasn't exactly a rocket scientist to begin with. Poor discipline and stupidity go hand in hand, as most who've served in the military know.
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  2290. Okay, now this video was satisfyingly spooky.
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  2291. ​ @Ralph-yn3gr  There is film of Civil War vets in WWII victory parades. Guys that served when some troops still had old flintlocks who lived long enough to see jet fighters and nuclear weapons.
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  2292.  @Ralph-yn3gr  I believe they were drummer boys or really young guys who lied about their ages to serve late in the Civil War, and basically about a hundred at the end of WWII.
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  2293. My favorite part of this video was right after the talk about mushy bones I got a Taco Bell ad. Yum!
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  2294.  @DigBickDepresso  Try English next time
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  2295. You should watch the video.
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  2296. I used to work in a welding shop. Whenever we would weld, cut, or grind galvanized steel pipe the fumes from the galvanizing compound would make you sick if you inhaled too much, and all the welders carried hard candy in their pockets because the shit would make your teeth taste weird, so sucking on a Jolly Rancher every so often would counter it. I'm pretty sure that wasn't doing me any good.
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  2297. Loving this channel. And you know it's getting bigger since haters are starting to show up. Losers can't stand it when others win.
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  2298.  @michaelpcoffee  (Rereads my own post) I made no such assertion.
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  2299. Insurance or not, they'll never get back the time they spent on a project they tried so hard on only to watch it utterly fail. If it's a one-shot program like a Mars probe or something you could spend years working on it only to lose it due to one small missed detail.
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  2300. Jose Jimenez, he no like to drink so much when he fly.
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  2301. Read Mike Mullane's book, he was an astronaut at the time and was one of the people who did the math and recommended using the OMS during the main engine burn, long before the ISS. One reason was to give them an extra push for transatlantic abort scenarios.
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  2302. What? Elon Musk wants to be an admiral? Fascinating. SpaceX does own a flotilla of boats, come to think of it.
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  2303. I was waiting for Black Sabbath's War Pigs to start playing.
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  2304. Somewhere I saw an interview with one of the members of Pink Floyd who said the band was on the road driving in a van when they first heard Sgt. Pepper's on the radio, and they pulled over to the side of the road to listen to it intensely. Beatles were a huge influence on EVERYONE, even other legends.
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  2305.  @kedrednael  No
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  2306. You need to check your facts before posting comments. The early Sparrow 1 was a beam rider. Look it up. (I admit, I'm being a dick here, but it's kind of funny.)
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  2307.  @manyhammers5944  Do a search on "radioactive boy scout". Some kid in the 90s tried to make a nuclear reactor in his mom's garden shed. He got thorium by collecting lantern mantels and grinding them up and processing them to separate the thorium if I recall correctly. Lots of other dumb things, too. He died about a year ago I think; a few years back he was arrested for stealing smoke detectors to get the americium, and in his mug shot he had weird sores all over his face.
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  2308.  @TheSanityInspector  As opposed to today, where there is plenty of good music, and we don't listen to it now.
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  2309. For a non-singing bassist he's done pretty well becoming a rock star, though. Most famous bass players in rock are also singers.
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  2310. When Curious Droid and Scott Manley each drop a nuclear vid on the same day.
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  2311.  @Easy-Eight  Grumman is now part of Northrop Grumman and doing quite well building rockets and spacecraft.
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  2312. Yes, or maybe a Forest.
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  2313. Also, don't feel bad. I play bass in a band with a singer/guitarist who has no idea how his amplifier works. I try to explain to him the relationship between gain and volume and his eyes glaze over, so we just find a knob setting that works and keep it there lol.
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  2314.  @operatorjeffdeathstar7759  Kinda hard to live in any environment when Soviet bombers are coming in undetected and dropping nukes on you.
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  2315. @ Found the light loafers.
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  2316. 3:52 those guys shooting the Finger at the pilots is hilarious. I'm kind of surprised that film managed to survive.
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  2317. Get your coat
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  2318. Allow my voice to join in the chorus of premier hatred.
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  2319. I knew there'd be a good Halloween ep!
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  2320. Dude, you do 5 hour(!) live streams, no need to ever apologize for taking a break.
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  2321. The importance of New Jersey to tech history. Radio astronomy, Thomas Edison, Princeton physics, Bell Labs, RCA corporation. Lots of cool history buried under those turnpike jokes.
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  2322. Don't even wait for him to answer the question first. Show him who's boss right up front!
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  2323. tipperstefi1, tell the truth, did any pilots ever smuggle a Stetson hat into the cockpit, for, you know, just in case?
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  2324. Star Trek: The Motion Picture depicted a horrible transporter accident that haunts my dreams. The two crewmen screaming as the device mangles them is not easily forgotten.
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  2325. Japan wasn't hurting for carriers. Japan's problem was pilots. The training pipeline was very slow, and veteran pilots were sent into combat over and over until they were killed, instead of rotating back as instructors like the USN did. At Leyte Gulf the IJN actually had carriers sent in with almost no planes just to act as decoys. The Yamato class battleships had problems of their own, being technically inferior and slower than the latest US designs, which had better fire control systems and could keep up speed with nuclear carriers into the 1990s, proving to be adaptable to modern systems upgrades.
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  2326. No apologies needed.
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  2327.  @TheAnimeist  Well, hearing about hundreds of civilians from a democracy getting slaughtered is more awful than usual. But that's just me.
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  2328.  @TechnologyConnections  "Radiated audio" is what you get from a speaker. A radio transmitter is actually generating electromagnetic radiation, modulated by some sort of intelligence. That intelligence is usually audio, in the case of your favorite music station or your walkie talkie, but it can also be data. But what comes out of, or gets picked up by, an antenna is radiation. It's non-ionizing radiation, so it won't hurt you, despite the word "radiation" which scares people.
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  2329. At some point you just need to go ahead and install the Wave Motion Gun and be done with it.
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  2330. We used to go sledding on a nearby hill that had a berm and a pond beyond the berm. The trick, of course, was to see who get the closest to the water without falling through the ice. When (not if) somebody fell through the ice, we'd all laugh as they stripped down to their long johns and run like hell home to get dry and warm. Can't ban ponds or ice, so there's that.
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  2331.  @danieljensen2626  Also, ULA is a customer for Blue Origin engines, so throwing them some Vulcan payloads may be good for business.
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  2332. Back in the 90s I knew some guys who built the drones used on the Iowas in the 80s/90s. The drone aircraft was called the Pioneer. A couple of the engineers from the manufacturer were aboard the battleships during the 1991 Gulf War and told me they were able to feed live video of the 16" shells impacting targets ashore to the ship's officers, allowing them to adjust fire visually and verify battle damage to targets. They also told me the ships' crews loved being able to actually see what they were shooting at in real time, something WWII technology didn't provide for.
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  2333. Not this again....
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  2334. One option would be to boost it to a higher orbit so some future shuttle-type vehicle could recover it.
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  2335. The saxophone might make a "comeback", too, but it doesn't mean 50s jazz will become pop music again. However the guitar shows up in the future, it probably won't sound like 70s rock.
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  2336. *Kodak. With a K.
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  2337. It's really not that much different than the rail launcher the Wright Brothers used on their first flight.
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  2338. This was a decent overview, despite some errors and mispronunciations. The US Marine Corps years ago published a training volume that was all about the history of this war, and I happened across a copy and read through it. Fascinating to read about the various major battles and operations, and to see how what should have been two powerful armies were hobbled by poor and stupid leadership.
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  2339.  @armanGT800  In case you're curious, the document I think I read (it was over 20 years ago) was FMFRP 3-203. Apparently it was prepared in 1990 as a guide for Marine officers about to go into combat against Iraq, since it's dated December 1990, just prior to the war starting. https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/899833/fmfrp-3-203/
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  2340. I want to see three craters named Alex, Geddy, and Neil.
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  2341. "Your majesty, don't worry, we'll smuggle you to safety. We've got the perfect ship for the job: HMS Decoy. Nobody will ever suspect."
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  2342.  @christopherpardell4418  LOL SpaceX go brrr!
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  2343. The Horta: "NO KILL I"
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  2344.  @kevinoverbeck4250  There was no middle class.
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  2345.  @DUKE_of_RAMBLE  Not the one I've heard of, NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to develop a nuclear thermal rocket engine demonstrator. No explosions or weapons involved. An NTR is a solid core reactor through which you pump a propellant fluid, usually liquid hydrogen, which is heated and squirts out the nozzle producing thrust.
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  2346. Used to love Paul Harvey.
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  2347. Oh man 2 Minutes to Midnight would be an awesome breakdown.
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  2348.  @RDDPro  I'm not the best person to explain it but my understanding is that injecting a bit of water into the combustion cycle adds thrust (ironically) by adding reaction mass or something. If you search on it there is probably a good explanation on wikipedia or even youtube. I know the Harrier also uses water injection when it's in hover flight for extra thrust, and that the water supply runs out after a few minutes.
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  2349. Drachinifil also has great a great intro sequence. And has kept his robovoice outro, too.
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  2350.  @markbecht1420  Having seen modern Fiat cars, some of which are at least cool looking in a 60s throwback kind of way, I find the idea of a Fiat fighter plane to be a bit funny.
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  2351. "We're only immortal for a limited time" - Neil Peart
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  2352. "In this household we trust the science."
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  2353. You're probably now on a government watchlist for writing a non-supportive letter to your representative.
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  2354. LOL at the part where the colonel sends in female soldiers to try and see if his guys would spill the plans!
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  2355. Actually, if you asked what is a computer, most people today would say it's that box on or under my desk on which I waste my life on social media. But I get what you're saying.
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  2356. Whatever her deal was, Hood was one beautiful ship.
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  2357. Was it British intelligence? They were top notch in that period. They also found and "turned" German agents in Britain in a similar kind of story.
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  2358. Sgt. Hero's name is Kregg Jorgensen, if you poke around he's actually posting in the comments here. I just bought his book, Acceptable Losses.
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  2359. I didn't know they were still building sidewheelers as late as 1891, would figure they'd all be propeller driven by that time.
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  2360. 4:15 Isn't that also called "The Godiva Device"?
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  2361.  @wst8340  If I had a source I wouldn't have written my post in the form of a question.
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  2362. It's like the movie Last Starfighter: the game was a test by a secret agency that protects the planet from asteroids, and the best gamers were chosen to do it for real.
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  2363. The FBI leaned pretty hard on social media companies to censor their users in the last few years, resulting in loss of freedom of speech. What you describe sounds like a similar model. The police agency gets to say they aren't the ones searching your apartment randomly for drugs, and the landlord gets to say he is searching his property on the strong advice of the DEA, so cut him a break. The tenants lose.
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  2364. So, in a sense, this was early version of a guided missile cruiser, considering that torpedoes are missiles that travel by water rather than air.
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  2365. I don't know, I think the part of history that contains Jar Jar Binks deserves to be forgotten.
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  2366. I agree, sort of. The loss of SAC meant the loss of the most hardcore, squared-away part of the USAF, the guys who most took warfighting seriously in my opinion. Strategic nuclear warfare (and prevention of) is grim, deadly serious business. You fuck it up and everyone dies. The US could afford to lose a Vietnam War now and then without ceasing to exist, but the Soviet Union could never be allowed to believe they had a snowball's chance in hell of surviving a fight with the US, and SAC was a major part of that equation. SAC's professionalism set an example for the rest of the USAF and it was a well-known public trademark of America's strategic readiness. When you said "SAC" to somebody on the street, chances are they knew what you were talking about. Ask somebody today what "AFGSC" means, and they probably won't have a clue.
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  2367. Because bridges go over water.
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  2368. Quality Polaroid photos from 2019?
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  2369. The US Navy had flying aircraft carriers in the 20s and 30s. Cool idea that proved impractical. Submersible carriers also have a cool factor but don't really count as real carriers due to their limitations.
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  2370. This looks like the kind of thing you'd see advertised in Omni magazine back in the 80s. A great sci fi / UFO nuttery magazine that is lost to history now, it always had great art work and far-out articles, with some serious science and SF mixed in with some creepy UFO hogwash.
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  2371.  @khaelamensha3624  Look up the Byford Dolphin incident. Bring a barf bag.
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  2372. Something big enough to change the moon's orbit in a big way, or worse, obliterate it, would probably be a Very Bad Day for Earth. But for those wondering why the moon is useful, life on earth is pretty highly affected by the tides, the earth's crust even moves a tiny bit due to tidal forces. Also, in the long term the moon's gravitational effects are important for damping the nutation and precession of the earth's spin axis. Even moonlight has an effect on life.
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  2373. Totally agree. Nothing like getting off work and seeing a new Not a Pound vid in the feed.
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  2374.  @eternalreign2313  Buzz had to exit second and re-enter first because of the way the hatch was hinged. That's why the commander was the first to walk; the interior of the LM was too tight for the LM pilot to go first when they both had all their bulky EVA gear on.
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  2375.  @NemoConsequentae  Except they'll call it the "Xeagle" because Masten.
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  2376.  @bentilbury2002  Also, if the guns aren't aligned perfectly they will always be at slightly different elevations. It's like regulating the barrels on a double barrel shotgun to make sure they both shoot straight.
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  2377. Sulu figuring out that flying a Huey is harder than a starship.
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  2378.  @MrMotey  You're a beta tester.
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  2379. Where were you near? I don't see I-71 crossing I-81 on a map. That's pretty creepy.
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  2380.  @daveyboy_  also yes
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  2381.  @ericcrabtree6245  Yep, and also David Gilmour and Rick Wright had similar voices to my ear.
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  2382. 0:35 does Mr. Holland live in a bomb shelter?
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  2383.  @stevebarrett9357  The ability of politicians to communicate quickly with field commanders is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it results in cockups of epic proportions (see US in Vietnam). On the other hand, it is useful in a world where nuclear weapons exist to keep nuclear forces on a short leash.
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  2384. Metric is inconsistent too? Hush child!
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  2385.  @Dave_Sisson  The coolest American names are names of battles. Ticonderoga, Saratoga, Yorktown, Tarawa, Midway, etc.
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  2386. If you watch the Command and Control documentary there was a lot more to the story. The knuckleheads who dropped the socket delayed telling the missile commander exactly what happened for quite a while, so as he sat there watching alarms go off and tank pressures drop he was missing key information that may have allowed him to act sooner. Opening the overhead blast door and allowing the fuel fumes to dissipate may have delayed or prevented the explosion. Sgt. Kennedy and Livingston were extremely brave men who entered the complex more than once. Kennedy was pissed off because he believe he could've saved the missile if he had been allowed to act sooner. Also, when they had trouble entering the complex, they were told conflicting instructions by the higher authority located miles away at the main base, which also wasted a lot of valuable time. It's really worth it to look it up.
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  2387. I've scuba dived to over 100 feet of depth. At that depth, you can still see sunlight streaming down but you can't actually see the shimmering surface above you. That's enough for me. I can't imagine being in a 1940s steel tube at over ten times that.
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  2388.  @paulschulte1064  So what was the answer? Is there lift being generated?
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  2389. This is a very well-made effort, Drach, great job, and cheers from the US!
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  2390. And history shows that Grumman is always right when you want a naval fighter.
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  2391. Randy Marsh's crowning moment of awesome was when he showed Stan and the boys how to play that riff on a real guitar.
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  2392. We are farther removed from the Columbia accident today (20 years) than Columbia was from the Challenger accident (17 years).
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  2393.  @JamesRDavenport  Drill instructors treat people extremely well. It may seem tough, but they are teaching you how to survive.
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  2394. @ Payload Specialists came in two varieties: those who had something to do with the payload, and those who were politicians/celebrities/PR Stuntmen.
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  2395. The kind where they tell you everything is racist, getting worse, and America sucks, so you should hate yourself and just accept socialism. Any part of your history to be proud of is to be minimized and ultimately forgotten in favor of the new narrative.
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  2396. Yes, some gyroscopic instruments are electrically powered, some like the ones in older airplanes are powered by vacuum from the engine. often airplanes will have a mix of both types, so that if you lose electric power or the engine quits you don't lose all of your instruments.
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  2397. Bragging about having more soldiers than Germany would be a thing in 1940, but today it's kind of pointless. The Rhode Island National Guard probably has more soldiers than Germany now.
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  2398. I wonder if the confusion about which gun mount was forward was due to many photographs being shot on plates which are left-right reversed back then, as opposed to film which is easy to print in the correct orientation. The image of Abraham Lincoln everyone is most familiar with is actually what he looked like in a mirror.
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  2399.  @Justanotherconsumer  Tough sell on that one.
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  2400.  @Justanotherconsumer  Well, I think less of people who can't be bothered to get things right. It's an initialism.
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  2401. Or they salvaged it from Bismarck.
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  2402.  @777Lxxx  For now, maybe. Until DIsney locks it away. Get your DVD before it's too late.
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  2403. Obi Wan: "So wait, you made the run in less than 12 parallax seconds?" Han Solo: "Uh, yeah, sure. That's what I meant. I think." Han looks at Chewie, "What are you laughing at? Shut up and give me another beer. I'm trying to drum up business here."
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  2404. I remember the beer being locked in the brig until the steel beach party. For protection of our virtue, of course.
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  2405. @joebobshouse The Secret War is a really good show, very high quality 1970s documentary with a bit of dramatized reenactment here and there. Plus the 70s synth music in the credits of each episode is awesome.
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  2406. Lesson learned: tell the teachers exactly what they want to hear so you can get your grade and move on.
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  2407. I grew up in range of KYW in Philadelphia, 1060 kHz AM. When I pass through the area I will still tune in to get news and weather, etc., and the station ID is kind of nostalgic. Back in the 70s and 80s they used to constantly broadcast the sound of a teletype machine in the background during news segments, so it always sounded like they were getting news fresh off the wire. It was a gimmick, but it was cool. I don't think they do that anymore, especially since no one knows what a teletype machine is these days. I'm also glad you mentioned TV stations. We don't think of them as "radio stations", but of course TV is just a fancy form of radio communication.
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  2408.  @thiesenf  A metric shit ton of feathers is even more deadly.
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  2409.  @pebo8306  A-1 Skyraiders scored a MiG kill in Vietnam
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  2410.  @davidkottman3440  His eyesight on the other hand...
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  2411.  @cmdraftbrn  No, it's because being a soldier is physically demanding and younger bodies are better able to handle it.
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  2412. Grandpa B-17: "Back in my day taking out enemy fighters was par for the course."
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  2413. Aerodynamics is for the weak! We will power through and force the air out of our way. Diesel fuel is cheap.
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  2414.  @signorasforza354  No, Ukraine SSR was a Soviet republic. That's like saying Texas is "occupied" by the District of Columbia... Hmm, on second thought, maybe you have a point...
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  2415.  @dielaughing73  Back in the 70s my parents bought a Chevy Impala which happened to have an oil pan heater, something meant for northern market but somehow wound up at my dad's dealer. You used an extension cord to warm up the oil pan in extreme cold so that the engine would start. I don't know if they still offer that on any vehicles these days, and of course, we didn't live far enough north to ever use it as far as I recall. Knowing my dad, he probably plugged it in at least once just out of curiosity.
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  2416. "Winnie the Pooh's trolls hate this!"
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  2417. Things like grain, chocolate, and molasses can be quite dangerous at industrial scales.
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  2418. I get emotional but then I put it in perspective. Airplane accidents are no less horrific, and neither are train or highway accidents. Astronauts seem special to us because we project our dreams onto them and because they're public figures, but getting killed in an accident sucks no matter who you are and can happen to anyone.
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  2419.  @nicholasmuro1742  Incorrect, the Marines are part of the Department of the Navy. The Navy is a separate service under the same department.
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  2420.  @nicholasmuro1742  I'm gonna type this nice and slow so you can read it: The Navy is not the Department of the Navy. What part of this do you not understand? The Coast Guard has an anchor, too. They are not part of the Navy either.
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  2421.  @scratchpad7954  Thanks, Captain Obvious.
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  2422. David Gilmour sings along to his own guitar solos, usually away from the mic.
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  2423.  @prickyX  Another reason for Chris to change his bass strings before every gig, consistent twangy piano sound.
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  2424.  @erikvelasco7718  Also JPJ's bass playing on What Is is just fantastic and totally blew me away the first time I really listened to it in headphones.
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  2425. My engineer friend calls what happened to Mary Rose "another catastrophic improvement."
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  2426.  @clivehorridge  Actually I'm not; I never heard of John Peel until a few years ago. He wasn't well-known in the US when I was growing up.
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  2427. These puns sink to new depths.
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  2428. Derinkuyu is like a real life D&D dungeon.
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  2429. The nautical term for using an anchor to move a ship like that is called "kedging" if I recall correctly. During the war of 1812 USS Constitution got into a fight with a British squadron and due to complete calm lack of wind the ships got into a kedging race, with the Royal Navy chasing the Constitution, all ships using boats to carry their anchors forward and drop them, haul them in, and then repeat the exhausting process.
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  2430. I've often wondered why the US Navy or Coast Guard don't operate any flying boats any more. Almost as fast and ranging as a Hercules, but with the added ability to land on water. Japan has cool 4-engine turboprop flying boats, I saw them operating out of Iwakuni and they were very impressive. Besides, I watched Tales of the Gold Monkey growing up and always wanted a Grumman Goose.
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  2431. Also remember that the Philippines was a US territory at the time, so it was "home".
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  2432. If you run out of toilet paper there's always the fire hoses, if you're brave enough :-)
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  2433. Wow, never noticed that deliberately out of tune stuff, it's genius! ATDI and Mars Volta are bands that really deserve this kind of breakdown, lots of thought went into their music. Watching this with a huge smile on my face, I'd almost forgotten how much I love this band's music.
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  2434. THG you didn't mention the fact that NASA put up a website where you could type in your name in the early 2000s, so that when New Horizons was launched they would put all the names on a CD stashed aboard the spacecraft. Somewhere out there in the far reaches of the solar system is a CD with my name stored on it now.
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  2435. The solo at the end of A Forest by The Cure. Daryl Sturmer's work on Easy Lover by Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins.
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  2436.  @notshapedforsportivetricks2912  The War for Independence was the first one, War of 1812 was the second.
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  2437. ​ @scottmanley It's in Stanley Kubrick's old studio 😉
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  2438.  @oncesedated4849  It was neither. The Germans forfeited any right to expect rescue when their U-boats were ordered to attack enemy chips engaged in rescue operations. They were known for torpedoing ships laden with survivors from other sinkings, even rescued German sailors. For you to defend them is shameful.
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  2439. The Police always sounded great in headphones. We also used to play it to test out car stereos, too. Especially Wrapped Around Your Finger with that deep bass and sparkly cymbals.
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  2440.  @theenzoferrari458  Try not talking down to people. The internet really brings out the true nature of people.
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  2441. Most Americans have never heard of accidents like the SL-1. It wasn't covered up by the government, it just didn't really interest the news media because it happened in the middle of nowhere and only really affected 3 guys. Unlike the Soviet Mayak disaster, which was actively covered up until the fall of the USSR, or Chernobyl, which they initially tried to cover up until it became impossible to do so.
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  2442. I played it a few times in the arcades back in the day. I always thought it was overrated. More fun to watch than play.
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  2443. They also counted on the lower definition to hide wires and things, and it worked well.
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  2444. Reporters ask such stupid questions.
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  2445. You see how aggressive adult chimpanzees are? We humans are talking chimps, with nuclear weapons.
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  2446. LOL have you ever even heard of the 1970s?
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  2447.  @221b-l3t  I think Spaceship 1 had a control issue that didn't get worked out, there being only two flights before it was retired. I do remember the awesome footage of Mike Melville dumping M&Ms through the cockpit while he was in zero-G.
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  2448. They should put Buzz Aldrin back in the cockpit and make him mission commander. The ultimate chad space navigator can find his way back with handheld instruments and a wristwatch if all else fails.
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  2449. It's not just speed that makes it dangerous, it's the powerful long range radar and fire control systems, which can track and engage up to 6 targets simultaneously. The Phoenix missile was built for this system and has a range of something like 80 nm, but who knows if the Iranian home-built replacement missile is as capable. They made it look like a Phoenix anyway.
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  2450. That tone is pure Rickenbacker love.
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  2451. And a bunch of guys wearing dress uniforms despite the fact that their "ship" is a tiny, cramped pipe you can barely stand up in.
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  2452. Running out of nuclear accidents to talk about would be good for the world in general, but oddly sad for your subscribers ;-)
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  2453.  @Vonononie  The Netherlands is like Finland in that regard.
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  2454. What you said about how the forest has changed so radically in the last 100 years made me think. When we think about what makes our time different from the past we always think about things like technology, clothing fashion, hairstyles, etc., but it's important to remember that even the very land itself was different, something movies never rally seem to convey. I was in Virginia at the Bull Run battlefield and besides the obvious incursion of sprawl in the area, I couldn't understand the sight lines as described in history, and then someone explained to me that in the 1860s there were a lot fewer trees than there are today, because it was all clear cut for farming. Look at a map of Boston today and compare it with a map of the same city in the 1770s; not only are there obviously more buildings, but the landscape itself is completely different, rivers and shorelines all changed.
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  2455. It depends on how many test articles are left when the program ends. Nobody builds flight hardware just to donate it to museums; if they can earn revenue with it they'll expend it.
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  2456. 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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  2457.  @profile2047  And how does that make you feel?
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  2458. As an American, I mourn the loss of President, but admire the RN for trolling us by keeping the name.
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  2459. That's as horrifying as it is funny.
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  2460. 4625 is also a common jazz chord progression
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  2461. I used to watch Speed Racer religiously when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Later, when I was in my early teens, I watched it again with my brother, and we were surprised at all the grizzly deaths. Fiery car crashes with no survivors, and bad guys gunning people down. By comparison the later cartoons of the 80s were so sanitized that they made no sense anymore. I used to hate GI Joe because here we have an elite group of soldiers with advanced weapons fighting an elite terrorist force and nobody ever got shot, hurt, or killed, ever, despite them all shooting at each other constantly. Speed Racer was silly but it was good memories and it didn't pander to the socially conscious busybodies who never fail to ruin everything they touch.
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  2462.  @TheWolfsnack  Or maybe it was just the circumstances of the particular incident? Making a prick-waving comment like yours while talking about friendly troops accidentally killing each other is in poor taste.
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  2463. Very interesting to watch this video 2 years down the line in Feb 2025. I think it has aged well, most of it, anyway.
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  2464.  @duartesimoes508  It would also be woke, with the Nimitz refusing to "victimize" the IJN.
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  2465.  @GnarleighYaps  One does not have to go to South America to learn that lesson.
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  2466.  @justinrayguitars6024  I get that when driving long distances at night. Driving down a dark highway and hitting the seek button on the car radio.
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  2467. I remember this when I was growing up. It's as much a statement on the loss of innocence in society as it is a crime story. Prior to this you just trusted most people to be cool and not poison random strangers like this, which is why pill bottles and other products used to be easier to open without all the excessive plastic seals and whatnot.
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  2468. If I'm going to listen to wackiness on the radio, I prefer Art Bell and UFO/X-Files type stuff. Getting harder to find these days.
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  2469. Hubble doesn't have any propulsion system, so there's nothing to refuel. It has to be boosted (or de-boosted) by a docked spacecraft.
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  2470. Well, we know he got to see New York at night.
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  2471.  @jackwilson5542  You're right, because I don't use a digital camera anymore.
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  2472. The fact that NASA needs to worry about pansies getting emotionally bent out of shape over a survival gun makes me shake my head.
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  2473. The makers of War Games did not know about this, but the fear that an electronic glitch could accidentally do us all in was pretty common at the time. Coincidentally, around 1983 there was a real life incident at NORAD where somebody mistakenly loaded some tapes from a simulation, leading NORAD to believe for a moment that North America may be under attack, much like the first incident in the film.
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  2474. I grew up watching Bill Cosby's Fat Albert show. We know that aged poorly.
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  2475.  @ThePrisoner881  No, it's kind of scary. It IS a bomb, that's the whole point of it. If the propellant tank is damaged by accident, you can get not only a criticality accident which kills the crew and wrecks the ship, but you also will probably get a Chernobyl-like excursion that blows the ship open and sprays the fuel and fission products all over the general area. In deep space, you just lose the crew and vehicle. Close to the surface of a planet or moon you get a bigger mess. Also, in the more enriched fuel version of this system, a damaged propellant tank might actually bring on a nuclear explosion. The US Navy's nuclear power program is an example of a well run and disciplined program, but the Soviet navy has a much spottier record with nuclear power. I agree with you that nuclear energy is the only realistic option for aggressive space exploration, but building something like a NSWR is not something to be taken lightly. There's a lot of ways to f*** this stuff up.
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  2476. They deserve the credit he gives them for getting the USAF more focused on basic dogfighting again, even if they were wrong about so much else. The F-111 program is the poster child for bloated pork defense spending, even though the airframe did eventually become useful as a bomber and electronic warfare platform it was never going to be an actual fighter plane.
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  2477. Kind of like the singer from Echo and the Bunnymen, too, another 80s iconic voice.
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  2478.  @jack.d7873  People only understand the benefit of rail travel if you've taught them that, first. If I time-traveled someone from 1750 and told them there was this machine that used lots of fuel and occasionally wrecks and kills people without explaining why that machine was built, you'd likely get a similar first answer. The difference is that after 1750s guy tells you to quit using the stupid machine, he'd probably wonder why you built it and then ask you that question.
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  2479.  @nunyabidness674  MY older borther once took a couple of wrecked Chevy Vegas, cut them in two and made one good one, then put a nice big V8 in it, I forget what engine exactly, and he would crush people at stoplights. Much fun.
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  2480. Lockheed Martin is also working on fusion power. With the advanced technology of both companies, we may be closer to an Epstein Drive.
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  2481. Because communism.
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  2482.  @gerrydepp8164  Um, ok...
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  2483. "Kursk" also starts with the letter K. Concidence?
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  2484. Better to use a TARDIS for a shower. Lots of room inside. More than you'd think looking at the outside.
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  2485. Also, SpaceX's launchers are far from perfect. They have, in fact, blown up rockets. Atlas V has a better record.
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  2486.  @MaxPanic  *independence. If you're going to use English, at least learn how it works.
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  2487. The USAF definition of where space begins is 50 miles, so technically the V2 was the first space weapon, thus Space Nazis were a real thing.
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  2488.  @domonicdecoco2410  I disagree. The albums without Ward sound very different, especially the last album, which really missed Ward's swingy feel. Furthermore I believe no guitarist can carry a band on his own; even Hendrix benefitted greatly from Mitch Mitchell's killer drumming. Guys like Malmsteen bore me to death.
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  2489.  @SteveW139  Humans are fallible, but a human intuitively knows that a train doesn't just stop existing when a sensor fails to detect it. Machines don't have any common sense. The best answer is a a good automation system supervised by trained and disciplined humans. And of course, that's expensive.
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  2490. Loving this channel so far. Solid work.
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  2491. If that's true the ship's lookouts were doing a very poor job.
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  2492.  @karolakkolo123  True, even better: stand on your roof and look down at night, eclipse with extreme closeup.
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  2493.  @usaman7358  Parker and Stone are fearless.
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  2494. Doesn't it have to be more than one car to be considered a "train" though? Fastest vehicle on rails, certainly.
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  2495. So did the Sabre Dog never get a chance to shoot? Interesting. And another solid video.
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  2496.  @PanduPoluan  Of course I know that, and nothing you said has anything to do with what I said.
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  2497. That pyramid? Read Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness
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  2498. I'd really like to hear more detail about the passive magnetic damper system. Gravity gradient I understand well but that mag system and how it kept the yaw angle steady is new to me.
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  2499. Kind of like Good Morning Vietnam, which is a about a radio DJ in a war zone. I mean, I hate Robin WIlliams, but it was an entertaining film I admit.
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  2500. Thanks for the info, Julian.
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  2501.  @NullHand  You don't schedule rocket launches around regular weekly windows, that's not how orbit dynamics works.
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  2502.  @kiwidiesel  Geese are sketch.
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  2503.  @mommy2libras  The Starrucca Viaduct and other stone arch bridges have carried heavy railroad traffic for almost 2 centuries now. Stone doesn't rust or crumble, so if it's on a good foundation and build correctly it can last a very long time. And temperatures in Italy can be just as extreme.
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  2504. Well, I was going to do something else, but this video popped into my feed, so...
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  2505. Oi rockhoppa!
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  2506. Yep. And I'd feel safer on any one of those 60s era jets than a brand new Boeing.
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  2507. ​ @StratMatt777 Excuses.
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  2508. And he had the balls to try to sue Richard Feynman to cover up his crime. What a dirtbag.
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  2509. And if they got sent home to Korea, just before the Korean War broke out in 1950, more's the bad luck for those blokes.
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  2510. Cool to learn about this, I will now be on the lookout for this every time I am in a tunnel somewhere. I often wonder how things like this work, like how do they feed WiFi to passengers on Amtrak trains running through the countryside.
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  2511. I knew Marines who served aboard Wasp when she was brand new.
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  2512.  @timf2279  US military bases are anti-gun because the officers in the chain of command all the way up to the Pentagon are very much into covering their asses when it comes to accidents and crime within their commands. A good way to get passed over for promotion or even cashiered is to have someone in your command get shot, or to have too many DUIs or a high accident rate. It's the same reason there are strict rules about riding motorcycles or bicycles on base, speed limits are absurdly low on base, and so on. It is ironic that a place set aside to train and house people expected to act courageously is also a place that everyone must act like a cowardly milquetoast, but that's bureaucracy and politics for you. On top of that, the military tends to be made up of young men who tend to take lots of risks like driving fast and getting into bar fights (or GASP! volunteering for combat duty!), and that is a bureaucrat's nightmare.
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  2513. The Japanese navy still uses 4 engine turboprop seaplanes, the Sin Maywa US-2. They aren't Martin Mars big, but they are big enough to impress you if see one operating up close.
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  2514.  @mikeyboy3054  It's okay, his buddies in China will give him a ride in one of their new carriers.
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  2515. The guy who shoots the film is usually not the one who develops it.
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  2516.  @nicholashylton6857  Also, a sequencer isn't the same thing as a backing track, and many synth parts are meant to be played on a sequencer to begin with. I saw Rush 6 or 7 times, and they never used a backing track to fill in for synth parts that were played by hand, Geddy always played them himself, while playing bass pedals with his feet. And Alex never tracked in a second guitar part during solos, they just rolled with it and Geddy filled in the space with his bass.
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  2517. Sammy Hagar managed to get some pretty good mileage out of that one.
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  2518.  @just_because_  It's a British thing, I'm guessing? The whole "class" thing is less common in the US.
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  2519. @Carlton B One does not simply retire from YouTube!
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  2520. Exactly. Belters would never waste that useful scrap mass.
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  2521. The Lighthorsemen (1987) is a good movie about Aussies in WWI.
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  2522.  @AudieHolland  So much wrong with this post.
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  2523. It was the way Boeing built planes in the days before MCAS.
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  2524.  @benitoswagoini4713  The F-14 had its share of TF-30 compressor stall issues as well. The TF-30 is what killed Goose!
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  2525. That image of a navalized F-15 with Phoenix missiles...as if the swing-wing Phantom variant wasn't disorienting enough already.
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  2526. Well, modern US LHA/LHD ships carry F-35 fighters (or Harriers as long as they are still in service), and they are clearly "amphibious assault ships" and not carriers in the classical sense.
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  2527. Especially in the shiny dark navy blue scheme.
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  2528.  @ASalishFalcon  Cool. I can taste the battery metallic flavor in the air from here lol.
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  2529. I'd like to see a video about the entire Grumman cat family, from the Wildcat to the Tomcat.
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  2530.  @wendychavez5348  Oh. Seems complicated. I was thinking you were using the bottle as a magnifying glass or something lol.
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  2531. engineerguy is pretty good, too. Doesn't make as many videos these days, but dropped one yesterday.
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  2532. Some parking garages scare me.
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  2533.  @petesheppard1709  To be fair, the X-15 and the Apollo Command Module were some of North American's greatest achievements in their later years.
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  2534.  @abrahamlincoln9758  wtf?
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  2535.  @robin_holden  A Hitler joke? I did Nazi that coming!
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  2536.  @tomasmalin  Horrible.
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  2537.  @longforgotten4823  I think Brick Immortar did a good video on that disaster, and it was more than just the ship's officers and owners, the government officials handled it horribly as well.
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  2538. Chuck Norris does not wear a watch. He decides what time it is.
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  2539. Supply chain problems are due to politics, a giant airplane isn't going to fix that. Still is cool though.
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  2540.  @RepublicConstitution  So true.
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  2541. He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
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  2542.  @notapound  I second the in-depth look at SAGE, I find it fascinating. Also, you might want to reach out to youtuber Bruce Gordon. He's an old F-106 pilot who flew continental defense missions in the 60s before heading to Vietnam to fly combat in the F-100 and he has experience with SAGE as well as the AIM-4 Falcon missile. His channel is pretty awesome.
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  2543.  @million_heir5298  LOL or they hear snake jazz.
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  2544. I'M THE REAL CAPTAIN KIRK!!!!!
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  2545. 9:29 "Chevy Citaaaaaaation!"
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  2546. I thought they are trained more the way the US Secret Service is, as a bodyguard force to protect VIPs.
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  2547.  @korbell1089  What's fun is the tell the new guy to go up to HQ and ask for a "PRC-E7". Hilarity ensues.
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  2548.  @DaveJLamar  Nope, not even close to being true. 80s Rush doesn't sound anything like 80s synth pop or anything like 80s blues or anything like 80s hair metal. I don't know if you are old enough to remember the 80s but it wasn't just a bunch of synthwave tracks and a Ferrari driving over a pink grid pattern.
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  2549. 737 Max MCAS anyone?
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  2550. If you have a picture, they will tell you it's photoshopped. Basically, what you need is not just hard evidence, but lots of scientists to see and be able to collect that hard evidence for themselves. Something like alien life or cold fusion or UFOs isn't just science; it's fraught with all sorts of expectations by the public due to decades of exposure to science fiction writings and movies. It's a bit different than saying, "I discovered a cheaper way to make plastic" or the like, which hardly makes headlines and doesn't immediately make people think you are a fraud or an overeager science n00b.
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  2551. Because model rockets have no guidance system, other than maybe some fins, and fins only become effective once the rocket is moving at sufficient speed. Full size launch vehicles have gyroscopes, computers, flight software, and gimbaled engine nozzles to control their attitude throughout the powered phase of flight.
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  2552. They're in on the joke, for sure.
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  2553. I would love to see a breakdown of Lifeson's solos from any songs on the Grace Under Pressure album. Not often thought of as a "guitar rock" album, but if you actually listen to it is has great guitar work; a great riff on Kid Gloves and the solo on Between the Wheels just kills. In fact, Between the Wheels as a whole is just a fantastic song, one of the best deep cuts of any Rush album, right down to the drum beat ending.
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  2554. Sabine should be a character in The Expanse.
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  2555.  @drivenc3  As an American I always get confused by the whole England/Britain/Great Britain/UK/British Isles thing. I think I've got it mostly down but I still get confused sometimes. Funny thing is I am friends with a Canadian woman and when I told her one day that Elizabeth II was officially the queen of Canada she acted as if it were the first time she'd ever heard that.
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  2556. It's also fairly common in jazz recordings from the 50s and 60s to hear musicians vocalizing in the background, yelling, laughing, or grunting in between breaths while playing horns, etc. Most of those recordings were done by having the band just play live in the studio and using the best takes.
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  2557.  @bobbyfonts3486  David Gilmour also sings along to his guitar parts often.
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  2558. Confirmed. He made it up the porch steps with no issues.
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  2559. B-52 is projected to be in service until at least the 2040s. That will make it a 90-year-old design. And it was designed when the airplane was only a 50-year-old invention and military planes had service lives of only a few years.
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  2560.  @champagnegascogne9755  Wasp and Hornet are really old names that date back to the founding of the United States in the 1770s. Wouldn't surprise me if a new LHD gets named Hornet.
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  2561.  @prowlus  Carrier air wings on Essex class flat tops included F-8 Crusader squadrons, which were pretty good fighters with supersonic top speeds. But the Tu-126 was subsonic, and the A-4 Skyhawk is as good at air-to-air combat as any subsonic jet has a right to be, so, what the heck.
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  2562. "Our connection to history is sometimes tenuous..." Something to think about. There is a lot of concern about digital photography because people are worried that format changes and technological advances could make many of the digital photos we take for granted today unreadable in the future. For example, will anyone be able to open a .jpeg file in 100 or 150 years from now? I have files on floppy disks from 20 years ago that I already can't read because my computer no longer has a floppy drive. Stuff like that. One advantage of older technologies like paper and negative film (not the nitrate kind) is that as long as you store them properly they will last a long time, and you can always convert them to whatever the current digital form is in the future. Some people prefer physical formats for archival purposes. I guess that makes sense, just don't let your library burn down before you make copies.
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  2563. Whenever I think of the word "Durandal" I think of the specialized cratering bombs used to destroy runways.
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  2564. I've heard of this airplane since seeing it on Discovery Channel's Wings back in the 90s, and while it's famous for being dangerously loud, I didn't realize it had all these other problems with vibration and controllability. The F-84 was a great platform for experimentation and there were several variants over the years. It's now an almost forgotten fighter but it's very important in the history of aviation.
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  2565.  @philgiglio9656 That's fine if that's what you chose to believe. 2010s Venezuela or 1980s US? I'd choose the latter. Your mileage may vary.
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  2566. No matter how much you idiot-proof things, there will always be at least one idiot who is just smart enough to get around your safeguards and hurt himself.
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  2567. It's in Orbiter, has been for at least 10 years.
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  2568. Can you talk about the antisubmarine gun shells mentioned in this video worked? How were they constructed and employed, targeting, etc.?
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  2569. When the test plane rolls out of the factory for the first time there, is no checklist. The engineers and test pilots have to write it.
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  2570. "If the enemy tried to follow up with a surface action, well, Lee's ships were the correct ships to deal with those." Admiral Lee would've fixed the glitch for sure.
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  2571.  @ringowunderlich2241  In the US Navy, I believe the LCAC hovercraft are considered "boats" or auxiliary craft, not "ships". They don't get names, only numbers.
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  2572.  @JiveDadson  Yeah, no kidding? Every time that line comes up 2 or 3 guys like you bring up the Dallas story. The guy right before you in this thread, for example.
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  2573.  @jdenino6022  Yes, and unless you drive an older car your car is reporting data to the manufacturer as well. All this tech is designed to make life easier for us by making us a product to be mined.
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  2574.  @notapound  As has been mentioned, former F-106 pilot Bruce Gordon talks about the AIM-4 on his youtube channel and his opinion is that it's a fine missile, so long as it's paired with the correct radar and fire control system. The F-106 has this system, built specifically for the Falcon missile, but other fighters such as the F-4 Phantom do not, which is what Gordon attributes the negative reviews to. In an exercise, Gordon made a successful head-on shot against an oncoming BOMARC cruise missile in a supersonic pass using an F-106 and a Falcon missile.
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  2575.  @Keystone_Investigations  Or Krychek.
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  2576. Is that a quote from the book "Ignition!" about the scary rocket fuel chemistry? Awesome book.
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  2577. Mr. Drach's coat buttons up nicely over a number of other duties.
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  2578.  @jamesbehrje4279  Friend of mine was in the Air Force and served aboard those planes. You wishing him to die over your politics is sickening.
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  2579.  @bigcliftyidworks  Just ignore the haters, the internet is full of jealous losers who try to rain everyone's parade. FWIW I believe you. If you had been making up the story the door to the torch would've been unlocked.
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  2580. Stolen McValor is now my new favorite phrase.
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  2581.  @left4twenty  My older mechanical cameras don't have any light sensors, and if you know what you're doing you can estimate light levels based on experience. Maybe your cute little emoji will help.
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  2582.  @left4twenty  No worries. To answer your question, there are ways to do photochemistry from chemicals available at drug stores and hardware shops, and a few different books to tell you how to do it. There were no commercial chemicals available in the 1840s when photography was invented, of course. The harder thing is what to do if they quit making film stock. At that point, you can go to a large format camera and make your own sensitized medium, again 1840s style. I have built my own 4" x 5" camera just to explore primitive photography.
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  2583. This is...DRACHINIFEL!
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  2584.  @thethirdman225  Makhonine was the French Sikorsky. Sikorsky was the American Makhonine.
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  2585. The USN said they were going to scrap Bonhomme Richard because the damage was too great. Sad, they wrecked a fine ship.
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  2586. Stares in Gary Seven
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  2587. Would that be the Casawba Howitzer?
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  2588. I try to keep an ear to the rail when it comes to music, but it has occurred to me that I hardly know any of these names, and have little interest in hearing their tunes. If you go to their youtube videos they have millions of views, yet somehow their very existence passes me by unless they make it into a news headline. I never wanted to be one of those people who becomes totally disconnected with younger pop culture as I grow older but it seems like you can't help it. I listen to a lot of newer bands, but none of them will ever chart. And I guess I'm okay with that.
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  2589.  @karney6583  Flag. Inappropriate use of meme. 5 yard penalty, repeat first down.
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  2590. I met a lot of sailors who didn't "like" to sail on ships lol. And barracks ship is miserable but cheap. Cheap wins over comfort, unless you're in the USAF.
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  2591.  @pov1  I don't believe that for one second. Landing an airplane on a paved and heavily instrumented runway is not the same as landing on an alien planet surface full of poorly mapped obstacles and sloping ground, with a comm lag of several seconds. Proof is in the pudding: the Apollo astronauts, all test pilots, managed to make 6 good landings in a row, while these modern robotic landers are having a hard time getting consistent results.
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  2592. 6:53 I like that 80s graphic design, like an ad for a toy rocket. "Get the new Peacekeeper Nuclear Missile by Hasbro! You and your friends will have hours of enjoyment posturing, threatening, and even nuking each other!"
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  2593. 59:50 That shell appears to still have a fuse on it and presumably that fuse was activated by the shock of firing. I would not want to disturb such an object without having EOD folks disarm it first. The Marine sitting on it sorting out his foot gear is probably well beyond worrying about such things, but your description of somebody stacking up unexploded ordnance after a battle is something I find a bit alarming.
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  2594.  @martythemartian99  pink hair theory
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  2595. Radio does nothing. Radar would cook you like a microwave oven if you were dumb enough to not move when you felt the heat.
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  2596. So the hineri-komi maneuver is the Japanese navy equivalent of the Maverick maneuver in Top Gun?
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  2597.  @stevenfrasier5718  The "media" is firmly captured by those who oppose Sowell.
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  2598. When I was taking flying lessons, my instructor jokingly said, "We like avoid using phrases like 'crash course' and 'dead reckoning' if possible."
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  2599.  @tom.m  Perfect reference. Give King Tut my regards - not Jack Burton
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  2600. Edited because I was being an internet jerk. Sorry.
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  2601. So true. I prefer 90s tech or earlier.
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  2602. After the program ended in 2011 Discovery was brought to the DC area and I happened to be there on the National Mall when she flew over. The SCA, escorted by two T-38 jets, paraded Discovery around the Mall about 3 times as we all stared up at Discovery, then proceeded to Dulles to deliver the orbiter to the Udvar Hazy Center. Enterprise was then moved from Dulles to New York and is at the Intrepid Museum.
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  2603.  @Frankincensedjb123 With speech-to-text technology you can write posts and practice music at the same time.
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  2604. 1970s school busses and the old failed Penn Central Railroad. Distant memories.
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  2605.  @relluplewis7112  Really? WTF?! That's nasty.
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  2606. I was in the Keys in the early 90s and there were a couple of old DC-3 airplanes painted bright yellow with the words "MOSQUITO CONTROL" painted in big letters under the wings. They would fly low overhead every morning, spraying the swamps, and their engines would shake our house. I don't know how well they worked on mosquitos, but it was very cool to see a DC-3 still earning its living and being well taken care of.
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  2607.  @evensgrey  True, but a new aircraft would be marked up so high it wouldn't be economical. Just take the old airframe design, make a few small material improvements, add modern engines and avionics. You're probably right about Russia too.
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  2608. 5:00 that dude in the lab coat again! I knew it!
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  2609. It's a bitter sailor's reenlistment papers or divorce documents.
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  2610. Wow, if only the State Department and CIA would hire snarky YouTube commenters, they'd have all their problems figured out!
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  2611. The Max Headroom reference is even more relevant, since the 1980s TV show Max Headroom was all about Japanese megacorps jockeying for position over who gets to rule the cyberpunk world of tomorrow (which is actually about now, I think). You know, like Sony. G-g-g-groovy!
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  2612.  @MacGuffin1  Well, then, just be sure your oven isn't leaky you might want to check it out.
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  2613. Shuttle haterz be like:
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  2614.  @infernaldaedra  I'm sure it can be made to work, but no thanks. I'd rather fly in a Shuttle with a nice comfy smooth runway landing. That bellyflop means that no matter how smooth the mission has gone, the last few seconds will be terrifying. With Shuttle, the scariest parts have all passed by the time you are on final approach and the landing gear deploy.
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  2615.  @piotrd.4850  Don't get all butthurt at me. People said the M1 would lose battles, and it didn't. All that other stuff is you looking for an argument. I really don't give two shits about Franks or whatever. We still won.
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  2616. Nobody really knows. It's possible that time freezes in that moment and spend all eternity staring at the last thing you saw, the eyes of your killer staring at you under the barrel of the gun. Forever, like a cosmic horror. Probably not, though.
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  2617. It seems like a poor design choice to make those batteries hard to replace or recharge while the vehicle is on the pad, given that they are a showstopper.
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  2618. You're making up a conspiracy theory that smears the investigators, who were doing their job: gathering as many facts and details as possible and documenting it. If you have an ax to grind with the Navy, you should direct your theories at someone who deserves it.
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  2619.  @SephirothRyu  I'm sorry, but people have this sci fi movie idea of how VTOL jets are supposed to work, that taking off vertically all the time is expected, but it's not. Fact is, any VTOL jet that has wings can take off a lot heavier with a forward roll than it can straight vertical, because wings generate lift. The F-35 isn't expected to take off vertical, and the Harrier rarely does it except at air shows. These jets main strength is short field operations, and being able to use smaller flight decks at sea. The US Navy has a fleet of full size carriers, but it also has about twice as many amphibs, that, thanks to USMC squadrons, also operate fixed wing aircraft. And anyone who doubts the effectiveness and usefulness of the Harrier can just ask the Marines, who have used them extensively in heavy combat since the 1980s. A Harrier is the difference between conducting landing ops with just helicopters and conducting ops with solid fast mover support. The F-35 has some big shoes to fill for the USMC.
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  2620. Someone dear to me later had to fight the Iraqis, so I thank the Isrealis for this.
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  2621. So this Woody guy was stealing from dead air crews? Pretty low. I'm guessing that wasn't in his contract with the Army.
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  2622.  @michaelsommers2356  What was it Scott was saying about pedantry again?
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  2623.  @michaelsommers2356  Well, SpaceX is calling their latest a starship, and it clearly is not capable of interstellar travel, but I don't get too upset. Beech made an airplane called the Starship back in the 80s too. Same deal. So I'm cool with biplane.
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  2624.  @harambo88  unga bunga dude
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  2625. I see my lame attempt at a pun has failed to make contact.
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  2626. Only downside to that is that you need to have more propellant to start the landing maneuver at a higher altitude, especially if you're going to use an extra engine. I don't know what their delta-V budget is for a typical Starship mission, but I'm guessing it's tight. Falcon 9 does the hoverslam because it needs to use just enough propellant and can't carry smaller landing engines that would allow it to hover. Personally, even if this worked every time I don't think you'd get me to ride it without a solid bailout system.
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  2627.  @martinduran9523  The commercial market is smaller than the defense market, and MDD was a huge defense contractor, so maybe.
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  2628. When I was little I thought it was cool that they named our galaxy after a candy bar.
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  2629. 23 years in the making, billions of dollars, and the delta-V budget only gives us 6 to 10 years? Can't say I'm very impressed by this project. Hope the data is worth it.
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  2630.  @1337penguinman  Technically the F-14 was what the USAF would call an "interceptor", designed to get out there really fast and shoot down ,multiple incoming bombers and antiship missiles at long range before they get close to the fleet, but it was good at dogfighting, too, and later they found out it was also not bad at dropping bombs (see "Bombcats"), so it morphed into a multirole fighter, which is what the Phantom and the Hornet had been right from the start. The Crusader was never anything but a purebred fighter jet.
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  2631. Sounds like you're volunteering to make your own documentary. Can't wait until it comes out.
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  2632.  @mightyV444  Geddy's Rickenbacker bass tone in those days was amazing, it had a kind of chime and grumble to it that he has never topped. I really wished he had used that bass and rig on Clockwork Angels.
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  2633. I'm going to tell people this with a straight face and see who doesn't get it and watch them melt down.
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  2634.  @Marcg-b4n  *ship. And that fire killed a lot of guys.
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  2635. Just off the top of my head: NIB (Bassically) - Black Sabbath Come Together - Beatles Believer - Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne Rain When I Die - Alice in Chains Cygnus X-1 Part 1 - Rush Does It Really Happen - Yes Money - Pink Floyd
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  2636.  @toohardtowatch  Yes, lack of atmospheric haze is a big thing. Human stereo vision stops being good at angular range-finding beyond a certain distance, but we can still estimate the range to a distant building or mountain based on haze and humidity. We also have familiar objects to aid us, such as trees, animals, people, cars, light poles, etc. On the fractal surface of the moon, though, most of these advantages are not present. During the Apollo landings, the landings were all set up so that the sun was behind the LM and the crew would be able to see the shadow of the spacecraft on the surface during final approach, which gave the crews a familiar shape to help judge distance and height.
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  2637. Your jet must update and restart. Please choose a time.
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  2638. I think google's creepy present is worst than their creepy past.
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  2639. I heard they were making them in WWI and called "trench radios".
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  2640. Chances are your house has a PVC stink pipe sticking out of the roof, venting your sewer line.
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  2641. The Guppy and Super Guppy transport planes come to mind as something that looks like it has no business flying. The F-117 Nighthawk is another one that looks wrong but flies fine thanks to fly-by-wire. On a related note, the F-16 is a plane that looks pretty much perfect, and you'd think it should fly fine, but it turns out that without fly-by-wire it is totally unstable, although I suppose if you shifted some internal weight forward you could build an F-16 that looks the same and is actually stable.
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  2642. Technically his Replicas album is under his band's name: Tubeway Army, so even though it is full of great tracks it's not strictly a Numan solo album. As for his newer stuff, I love some of it. He was a major influence on Trent Reznor of NIN and now NIN is a major influence on Numan.
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  2643.  @farnborough83  Now you're using emojis.
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  2644. US Navy: "Why didn't we think of that?"
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  2645.  @MonkeyJedi99  Right there with you. Thank God for the Expanse!
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  2646. 7:10 HMS Carcass. Have we a contender for worst ship name ever? Is there a USS Corpse or IJN Cadaver out there?
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  2647. Coastal artillery technology was pretty advanced by that time. I imagine the US Army would get a crack at anything that wandered too close.
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  2648. That sounds like a great way for cops to spend your tax money. I guess they had some spare time after finally rolling up all the thieves, vandals, assaulters, and drug dealers, right? /sarcasm
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  2649. Careful what you wish for. Gamma ray burst, anyone?
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  2650. Smart meters, no thanks. Cool tech though.
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  2651. Silver linings on so on.
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  2652. Or Ray Manzarek's organ in Riders On the Storm
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  2653. The pop singer Thomas Dolby lost his uncle on one of those subs and wrote a song about it. Later he found out that his uncle's boat had been on a classified mission at the time.
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  2654. The B-2 is not a Lockheed Martin product, it was built by Northrop prior to the Northrup Grumman merger. Maybe Nebula should tell you that.
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  2655.  @Psyfi85  The guy's yelling was also demoralizing to the other troops, who didn't need any more reminders of the crap they were in.
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  2656.  @RealCadde  How about one that is not artificially anything?
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  2657.  @BlueCyann  The whole point of this discussion is that people often violate rules because they think they are smarter than the rules, same as the guy in the irradiation facility. The actual speed limit itself is irrelevant to the discussion, but because you're a safety nazi you've decided to make this all about your crusade to limit speeds to an arbitrary number that feels safe enough for you personally.
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  2658. Like Dr. Snuggles' rocketship.
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  2659.  @z-beeblebrox  So hydrogen bombs and dinosaur-killer asteroid explosions can't get any louder than that?
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  2660.  @ph89787  Hunting big game with the 16"/45's.
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  2661.  @kennethc2466  I'm not going anywhere, better just mute me, Rosco.
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  2662.  @kennethc2466  You really hate this guy. Let's hear some more.
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  2663.  @kennethc2466  This is great, keep it going!
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  2664. They didn't bother to safeguard the hi rez Apollo 11 landing tapes, and that was pretty much the most historical thing NASA ever did, its whole reason for being. So, no surprise here.
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  2665. The "Space Shuttle" consists of the entire stack, orbiter, solid rocket boosters, and external tank. It's all part of one launch vehicle system, the Space Transportation System (STS). While the orbiter is very well designed and worked fine, it is pretty useless without the other two components, so as a system, STS failed twice.
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  2666. Starfleet Battles, BattleTech, AD&D Battlesystem, homemade horse and musket combat rules, so many awesome tabletop wargames in the 80s and 90s.
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  2667. I have never been a fan of flying on Cheapo-Jet type airlines. They may technically meet the minimum requirements for safe operation by the FAA but they are, in addition to being sketchy, also uncomfortable and often miserable to fly on. I am at a point where if I can afford something nicer I will fork over the cash. Back in the 90s I would've specifically avoided Value-Jet just for the name alone, which implies dodgy aircraft maintenance and operations.
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  2668. She's Hillary
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  2669.  @CSSVirginia  Or "reconning"
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  2670. The Shining
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  2671. +Michael Hamilton You are naïve if you don't think there are people in the Pentagon who have contingency plans to fight a war with anyone you can think of, just in case.
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  2672. Dark5, I think this video got corrupted on the server or something, it only runs for 13 seconds. Need to re-upload, man.
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  2673. #4 is why you keep your private business to yourself.
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  2674. +FlowManHD Then you become like that strip of aluminum foil they vaporized.
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  2675. 4:43 hottie detected. Also, thumbs up for the 70s analog synth music.
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  2676. Chevy Chase looks kind of like Dick Cheney...
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  2677. Eddie wins.
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  2678. +SallySallySallySally Thanks, I was about to ask whose voice that was, I'm pretty sure I've heard him in commercials, too.
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  2679. These all may very well be fake, but this video gets the job done of being creepy af. I always wait until just before bed to watch the latest Dark5 vids, usually in the dark, and this one was certainly effective.
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  2680. That shirt is so 1970s that my hair grew 6" while watching this vid and John Bonham came back from the great beyond.
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  2681. Space Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane survived an F-111 ejection; he talks about it in his book.
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  2682.  @aesbj9228  As in "almost 50 years since the last moon landing"?
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  2683. I love that outro. Memorized.
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  2684. @kevin barker But if they get hit you die just as fast.
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  2685. Leave Britney alone!
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  2686. The Joker speaking to his driver: "Look at the city. What do you see out there?" Driver: "I see lights, boss." Joker: "I see holes in the darkness."
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  2687. We will use the moon as target practice before the Klendathu bugs take out Buenos Ares. Want to know more?
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  2688. Of course it was sophisticated, it was designed and built by Q to communicate with 007. Only the best for Her Majesty's finest.
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  2689. 1:30:15 "Of course the Japanese still would've had the benefit of fighting Halsey."
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  2690. Same for USMC. "Yes" is a proper response to a question, while aye aye is the proper response to a command.
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  2691. Don't forget grain silos.
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  2692. It kind of looks like the graphics you see in the cockpit of the Nostromo in Alien during the landing scene.
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  2693.  @mkrchnak5269  You also need the pajama pants and effeminate sneakers.
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  2694. The live version of that song from All the World's a Stage is brain-shatteringly awesome.
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  2695. The horse noped out.
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  2696. @Luke It is censorship when you are protected by fair use. Educate yourself before posting next time.
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  2697. Ah yes, the futuristic maglev train! By 1979 we'll be operational, and by the year 2000 maglev lines will crisscross the continents!
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  2698. But they'll face stiff competition from flying cars by 2019.
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  2699. Or HAL-9000 for a good non-human villain.
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  2700. Good thing nobody thought about keeping all those Brown Bess muskets around to save money instead of buying new rifles.
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  2701.  @dunamoose3446  Or the Behemoth.
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  2702. It's not the ship that was used as an excuse for a war, though. It's the one built afterwards.
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  2703. He was only 57 when he died, but he looked like he was in his 70s. HIs poor wife didn't live very much longer, looking at that tombstone.
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  2704.  @bighands69  Right. Neither is removing AM radios or providing "features" the public never asked for and doesn't want to pay for.
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  2705. "I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion..." Roy Batty knew what happened up there.
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  2706. I wish they still made movies like that. Sand Pebbles is an awesome movie.
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  2707.  @busylivingnotdying  I think you and Hillary need to mind your own business.
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  2708. Finland is actually a planet.
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  2709. Large quantities of swiftly moving water hurtling over a cliff is something that terrifies me at a primitive level. I love standing next to the top of a waterfall, but not too close. Under no circumstances would I have walked out over that dry riverbed knowing that somewhere upstream millions of tons of water was just waiting for its chance to rush back and sweep me away. It's kind of like that phenomenon before a tsunami hits where the water recedes from the shore. That part of your lizard brain that tells you, "Something ain't right here, RUN!"
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  2710. I was thinking the Klingon D7 battlecruisers from the original TV show and the first movie, not the Bird of Prey thing which doesn't appear until ST 3.
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  2711.  @TheBitterSarcasmOfMs.Anthropy  Capitalism is like democracy: the worst system there is, except for all the other ones.
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  2712.  @nikolatasev4948  Yep. The best programmers or engineers won't help you if you have poor configuration control, system engineering, and a rigorous and thorough testing regimen. If management whines about the cost, tell them you won't work on it because you don't want the guilt on your conscious when the damn thing kills its crew. Manned spaceflight is not the place to scrimp.
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  2713. 5:00 Expecting the US Navy to retreat is usually a poor strategy; it is known as a very aggressive institution. I talked to a historian once about the attack on Pearl Harbor and he told me that the fact the Navy didn't know the attack was coming was probably a good thing, for had they been alerted the United States Navy would've sortied those battleships and gone out to fight the IJN carriers without any air support, and likely would've wound up with several battleships sunk in deep water instead of in the shallow water of the Harbor where they could be salvaged. The US Navy has a history of aggressive behavior going back to the War of 1812 or even earlier.
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  2714.  @michaeljoesmith3977  Yeah some of those derogatory nicknames have been recycled over the years.
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  2715. The British version of Texas Towers
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  2716. So these videos are a platform for your political horseshit now. Cool.
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  2717. Legend has it Tubby changed his name to Spike, joined the Marines, and served as a Marine fighter squadron mascot in the Pacific. At Guadalcanal he saw combat against Japanese infantry and bit one in the face.
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  2718.  @Kevin_Kennelly  Wind and the Lion is an awesome flick. Love the Marines in it.
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  2719. Suggestion for a future video: The 1975 Corinthos disaster near Philadelphia. Two ships collided on the Delaware River resulting a tremendous explosion and fire which killed several sailors. Strangely forgotten today, it's hard to even find any info on it, but I remember it as a very young boy.
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  2720. I was in an Irish bar once and the guitarist/singer stopped in the middle of his song as two woman came out of the ladies room, one of them helping the other, who was clearly smashed and had obviously been puking. After they walked out the door, the singer looked at the crowd and said, "Let that be a lesson to you, folks: If you're going to drink, you have to practice!" And thus he went back to singing and we went back to drinking.
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  2721. The US loves Churchill so much, we created a whole government agency for him: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms!
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  2722. I notice a lot of these picks are from the late 70s / early 80s, and they remind me in style and tone, of Neil Schon's work with Journey. Schon was highly rated, of course, but some of Journey's deep cuts from Escape and Frontiers have awesome guitar work. There's also Alex Lifeson's solos from the 1984 album Grace Under Pressure, which often gets overlooked as a synth album when, if you listen to it, is really a guitar masterwork by Lifeson. Check out his solo on Between the Wheels, an obscure Rush song that really deserves to be well known.
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  2723.  @randalscott7224  The best part is that Spock was actually afraid of the Starfighter, worried it might be carrying a Genie nuclear antiaircraft rocket. With no shields up, Enterprise would've taken a nuke direct in the face.
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  2724. Guarding against Cthulu
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  2725. Mitsubishi has made modern fighter planes as well, such as the license built version of the F-16
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  2726.  @ivanmonahhov2314  Nuclear rounds for Iowa class guns were a thing in the 50s and 60s.
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  2727. What I want to know though, is did this guy get into a fistfight with a huge German airplane mechanic underneath a powered-up flying wing aircraft?
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  2728. Hmm...if only there were a website where I could easily and quickly find tons of videos of Steve Vai playing guitar... j/k dude, you're right lol
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  2729. Some people make an entire career out of something we take for granted. Designing antennas, or the water suppression system on a launchpad, or a turn signal system for a car. Engineering is a busy field.
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  2730.  DrakeIsSix  Interesting info. I like the sound of older Hueys and Jet Rangers.
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  2731.  @sechran  Especially if you take the rads in the gnads.
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  2732. Being used in the interior of a sturdy building means the wood may last centuries. There are a lot more 300-year-old houses than ships.
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  2733. Dazed and Confused was a Yardbirds song, that Jimmy brought with him when he formed Zeppelin. There is a video out there of the Yardbirds performing it. As with all these "stolen" songs, the Zeppelin version is far superior, and if was stolen, I'm glad they did.
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  2734. Her work here is done.
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  2735.  @AsimWajid  And yet, once pilots were trained properly, it managed well enough. And unlike its MiG opponents, it was also multi-role, making it much more useful in any air campaign.
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  2736.  @weldonwin  Wasn't the Soviet Union, though, IIRC it was Not-Libya. In the sequel it was Not-Iran-or-North Korea.
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  2737.  @rabbi120348  I watched some of Tyson's fights. His signature move was a vicious uppercut to the jaw early in the fight, snapping the head back, immediately knocking out his opponent. Most boxers could take hits from him elsewhere, but that shot almost always took them out. So whatever plan they had was rendered moot as soon as Tyson landed that hit. Later, some guys got wise to that and refused to let Tyson get the opportunity, and that's when it was Tyson whose plan started falling apart. Even still, though, Tyson is a scary man, even as he ages.
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  2738. Someday when you're old enough, you'll understand.
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  2739.  @caso3253  Probably because it rings true with our cynical view of our fellow man. I try to keep an optimistic view myself, but even being conscious of it it's still tough when you look at the news sometimes.
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  2740. @ Reminds me of the bombing computers used in the earliest version of the A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War. There was a mechanical drum turning, and if it wasn't working supposedly the bombardier was supposed to kick it to get it moving again.
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  2741. One-boat wrecking crew. Sends a cutting-out party to blow up a train. Awesome.
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  2742. Can you imagine where that microphone has been? Ewww.
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  2743.  @havanaradio  You're a CIA asset. Prove me wrong.
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  2744.  @richardcooke9948 Exactly. Steam is great for long haul trains but for a downtown commuter or subway system, electric is the way to go and was adopted as soon as it was practical. New York City banned steam locomotives in Manhattan very early, which is why the Northeast Corridor is electrified to this day, since it was built in the 30s by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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  2745.  @stone-hand  Being judgmental about those ladies.
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  2746. "And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you!" - Iron Maiden 2 Minutes to Midnight
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  2747. Did you fill out an organ donor card?
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  2748. Some of the locations where the "hum" has been heard have been solved. In one case, a guy was bothered by it and made it his mission in life to figure it out, and he found out it was coming from air conditioning units at a recently built big server farm building. That solved it for that location, but other places, including Taos, are still unsolved apparently.
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  2749. Shiny
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  2750. 1:00 That is one of the most 'Murka in the 70s photos ever taken.
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  2751. South Jersey had the WIldwood boardwalk. Some of those rides were kind of sketchy back in the 80s too. Tons of videogame arcades though, lots of fun.
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  2752. I hope Drach never gets rid of that robot voice end title. It's becoming iconic.
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  2753.  wargent99  Are you a butthurt fascist?
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  2754.  @filyn  The saying I heard about bumblebees is that, like helicopters, on paper they shouldn't be able to fly (if that's true, your paper is wrong, of course). Also bumblebees are cute and fuzzy, not ugly. (And I'll confess, some helicopters are good looking machines to me.)
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  2755. It's called the "Dembow Riddim" and it's super annoying.
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  2756.  @gristen  Builds character!
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  2757. Imagine if Lockheed had told Kelly Johnson there would be no new aircraft for 25 years. Pretty sure he would've jumped ship and gone to work for someone else.
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  2758. I swear these youtubers all conspire to sync up the subject du jour. Amy's Vintage Space also talked recently about the jet boots experiment on Skylab.
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  2759. Able Archer 83 was pretty close, too, we in the West just didn't know it until later.
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  2760. So you like your bass tones the way you like your women: thick?
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  2761. X-33 and VentureStar are not the same thing. X-33 was a subscale proof of concept; VentureStar was the full sized SSTO shuttle.
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  2762. They are literally two different vehicles. X-33 wasn't even going to fly in space.
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  2763. Try not to get so condescending when somebody corrects you. Just accept it as part of a civil conversation.
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  2764. Another word of advice: don't insult people and insist on getting the last word. That's right up there with being condescending. That said, I realize you need this, so I'm going to stop now and let you have it.
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  2765. Well, that's war.
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  2766. Wouldn't be the worst place for a Phalanx 20mm Vulcan mount, though.
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  2767. You could always go back to row galleys and recruiting rowers would help alleviate the unemployment problems caused by banning fossil fuels.
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  2768. Interesting analysis. Given post-Vietnam hindsight it's tough to put yourself in the heads of decision makers in the 50s. The idea that a fight would break out and either side would decide not to immediately go full nuclear and eliminate the enemy's nuclear forces just didn't seem to make sense. In a way, it almost still doesn't. I remember the 80s when it was still assumed that any conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact wouldn't stay conventional for very long, if at all. If one side feels its survival as a nation state was in jeopardy, it was assumed they'd open all the stops and use all the big bombs in desperation. Even today, people are wargaming a Pacific war between China and US allies, and it's important to realize that both sides have considerable nuclear capability, which presumably discourages either side from attacking the other's mainland. That seems like a dangerous assumption, but the alternative is to go back to a hard Cold War mentality like we saw in the early 80s where everyone lived in constant dread.
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  2769. So as we worry about a collision, SpaceX is launching another cloud of space junk into orbit.
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  2770. 6:36 My shoulder is getting bruised just watching that.
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  2771. "Fiction has to make sense. Reality doesn't." - Drachism of the Day
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  2772. There have been several nuclear powered submarines lost at sea, reactors and all. I can't imagine that whatever comes out of Fukushima's slow water release is worse than that, but I don't know enough to say for sure.
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  2773.  @jmchez  Neil Young, anyone?
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  2774.  @kevinwelsh7490  This is all fiction. You know that, right?
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  2775. You don't just have a problem with LM, you have a bunch of left wing opinions and LM making weapons is just one of them. For my part, I'm glad LM makes weapons. I'm also glad they build launch vehicles. And I don't buy into any of that other political crap you're peddling here. Class warfare, "what the American people want", blah blah blah, save that for your Antifa rallies with your pink pussy hats. As long as LM's planes are bombing terrorists I'm cool with it.
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  2776. Frankly I was expecting more than just one Zep song, but it did get to number one so yeah.
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  2777. I do love old Windows XP, but those error noises are by no means the source of fond memories. More like wall-punching frustration. Nice to see hostile spies having to deal with that problem for a change.
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  2778. 90 dial-up nostalgia
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  2779. Many amaze
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  2780.  @neithere  Stop shilling.
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  2781. Right, because the stone cold criminal pointing his gun at them wasn't traumatizing or dangerous at all?
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  2782. Cool video. I knew rail fanning was a big thing but I never thought about chasing ships. Not too far from where I used to live there is a canal that connects the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay and there is frequent barge traffic there, and a bike path that runs alongside the canal. There is also a gigantic railroad lift bridge over it, which only closes for trains infrequently, but it's amazing to see up close when it does. Might be interesting to get a radio and check that out.
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  2783. Considering the multi TRILLION dollar budgets congress is blowing lately what's a billion bucks on hypersonics here and there?
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  2784. Skylab used an Apollo-style artificial atmosphere, while ISS uses a space shuttle type atmosphere, so you couldn't just berth it to the ISS unless you had a special airlock module between them. Such a module was actually built to allow the Shuttle to operate with Skylab but never got used since the shuttle got delayed until after Skylab's orbit decayed. A great missed opportunity; had it worked out there would've been Skylab-STS missions through the 1980s and lots of data gathered on long term human spaceflight 15-20 years before ISS.
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  2785.  @justrecentlyi5444  The Apollo spacecraft family, including Skylab, used a low pressure pure oxygen system. The space shuttle used a normal air system at much higher pressure, almost sea level, similar to what you breath in a jetliner. So if you wanted to transfer from the shuttle's cabin into Skylab, you'd have had to go into an airlock where you'd slowly lower the pressure and breath pure oxygen to keep you from getting the bends when you enter Skylab.
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  2786. Well, if the Singularity hits, you might live to get an immortal robot body, only to die anyway when it gets vaporized in a multi-gigaton asteroid impact.
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  2787. Duel is a good early Spielberg film, with Dennis Weaver. You will never look at a tanker semi truck the same way again.
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  2788. Get your coat and see yourself out.
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  2789. I wish there was more to hear on long wave. All I get where I live is the morse ID from the local airport non-directional beacon. It's very spooky but gets old after a few minutes.
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  2790.  @owensmith7530  Let that be a lesson: when a veteran cosmonaut tells you something, you should probably pay attention.
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  2791. So you want to pick it apart and scavenge it? I think it'd be better off to see it maintained as a museum piece when the current war is over. You could always build replicas of the various parts, though, maybe even make your own scaled down version of the antenna.
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  2792.  @83Yankee  A working scale model would be cool. Good mad scientist's toy for your backyard.
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  2793.  @ZoneofA  Prove him wrong, smart guy.
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  2794. All truth.
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  2795. I like those small gunboats. Basically floating tanks. Seems like a very army way of looking at boats.
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  2796. I opt out of all that crap right off.
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  2797.  @will9357  What Will 93 said. Film isn't going away completely; but it had to struggle with going from the professional mass-production market to the art photography market. It's gotten a bit more expensive and with the shutdown of so many labs you have to have your own dark room in many cases, but it's doable if you're into it.
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  2798. Wilco, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Pere Ubu, Boards of Canada, etc. lots of pretty well-known bands here.
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  2799. @ Whatever I wrote here earlier has also been censored. Remember when we could speak our minds on this platform?
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  2800. Ah, yes. Our first Drachism of the day.
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  2801. Money is weird because it's a blues in 7/4 with a straight 4/4 on the guitar solo. The sax solo is in 7 though.
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  2802. Chris Squire's bass tone is the gold standard for me. That lineup of Yes was unbeatable. And I never realized that guitar part was backwards, wow!
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  2803. 58:20 That's the same maneuver Maverick and Rooster pull in their stolen Tomcat!
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  2804. The United States Marine Corps is also known for it. See Victor Krulak's book First to Fight. Also an old joke is that that is the reason the Marines have it rough compared to others is that when the Air Force goes to build a base, they spend all the money on quarters and chow hall, then go back to Congress and ask for more money to finish the runways and hangars. The Marines do it backwards, spending the money on stuff for warfighting first, and then when they ask for money for a decent place to sleep, Congress says, "Fuck you. Live in tents."
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  2805. Bet these ships would've looked great with an angle deck refit, too.
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  2806.  @randomentity6553  "Maybe you should try an easier mission." Oof, Chuck Yeager says I suck...
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  2807.  @toddabowden  For me it's Cold War electronics. Radar and radios, as well as the SAGE system with its giant computers and data links.
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  2808. So pot heads are Not Sees? I knew it!
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  2809.  @Banthafodder8  Thomas Sowell is referring to the fact that having credentials as an "intellectual" does not make you an intellectual. It just means that you got the right degree and fit in with the right crowd of self-appointed experts. Universities and institutions are full of people like this. Argument from authority is a fallacy. A reasonable man will make a case based on facts and evidence, as opposed to forcing you to accept his explanation without question simply because he has a piece of paper and you don't.
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  2810.  @djbiscuit1818  👍
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  2811. One exception is when on a flight deck or flight line; loose covers are considered FOD hazards and can cause a lot of damage if sucked into a jet engine.
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  2812.  @Dave_Sisson  Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done here!
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  2813.  Michael Powell  Seen on a modern t-shirt: "I have a liberal arts degree. Would you like fries with that?"
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  2814. Monopoly.
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  2815. That's the bathroom on biplanes.
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  2816.  @christopherpardell4418  Please, never ever accept a job as a public official in NASA or any other space agency.
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  2817. 9:15 I'd like to hear more about the "B Bomb" sometime!
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  2818. That little girl's parents ain't raisin' no fool.
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  2819. "Follow me!" - Marshall Applewhite, 1997
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  2820. Good to know, Cliff!
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  2821. Thanks for this video. When I was growing up in the 80s USA things were simple: you wanted a shortwave radio? You go to Radio Shack and get yourself a nice Grundig for starters. Now it's more difficult, and there are so many random Chinese brands out there, none of them are household names like Sony or Panasonic, so it's hard to tell which ones are decent and which are pure junk.
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  2822.  @area609joe2  There was no "middle class" until the Renaissance. Marxist class theory is all BS anyway.
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  2823. I remember how disappointed I was when I visited England from the US and found out that London Bridge is just a boring plane old modern concrete highway bridge. For a bridge that is so famous and embedded in children's songs and so on you'd think they'd have spent a little extra coin on some architecture and make it look cool.
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  2824.  @grahvis  Commie tanks, guaranteed for the life of the user!
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  2825.  @daszieher  American Civil War in a nutshell. The Union had strategy but tactically was pretty deficient. The Confederacy had great battlefield commander who won lots of battles early on but their strategy was lacking. The result was a long meatgrinding war that ended in a Union victory and a horrendous casualty figure.
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  2826.  @MJ-xk5ts  Highlight it and hit CTL-C?
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  2827. George Lucas used it in the Star Wars scene where Alderaan gets obliterated. Fact.
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  2828. As soon as we ditch communism/socialism, we can get on with the business of living in freedom and peace together.
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  2829.  @peterstickney7608  aka "6" cruiser spamming"
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  2830.  @BillMellow  1984 is such a killer album, the last true VH album and one of the greatest rock albums of the 80s.
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  2831. He explains it at the beginning of the video. It's for sterilizing medical equipment. The radiation kills any bacteria on the equipment, which stays sealed in packaging until it's used by a doctor or a nurse.
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  2832.  @markbecht1420  Yeah, there's one in the Smithsonian hanging from the ceiling that looks like the fighter plane equivalent of a Ferrari.
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  2833.  @lueysixty-six7300  Last I heard he owned an arena football team in Philadelphia lol.
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  2834.  @davidnull5590  Oh wow, interesting.
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  2835. Rich Corinthian leather?
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  2836. Awesome, Drach! Somewhere up there, John Moses Browning is smiling, knowing his mighty and terrible invention brings you joy and still to this day serves to bring fear to the enemies of freedom!
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  2837.  @shadodragonette  To me dodgy or sketchy means something or someone I don't quite trust, as in "The brakes on this old car are kind of dodgy, better get them checked out."
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  2838. Yes, it's the poster child for how government will build something cool in the slowest and costliest way possible. Even more so than the Space Shuttle.
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  2839. Sounds like Celebrity Death Match. "Chairman Mao vs. Chuck Norris"
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  2840. I'm jealous of anyone who got to see Zep live. Savor it!
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  2841. You can always wear your favorite snoopy cap replica you bought at the NASA gift shop, I'm sure. Will help your hair out of your face while you're in the suit, anyway.
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  2842. Robert Capa shot a bunch of photos on Omaha known as "The Magnificent Eleven". He said he shot well over a hundred photos but most were lost in a lab accident. Some have disputed that story, and his famous photo of a guy getting shot in the Spanish Civil War was also accused of being staged. But those 11 black and white photos are the real thing and they are quite moving. As for color footage, there was some color footage released back in the 90s, probably when Saving Private Ryan was out, and I saw some on the evening news. There was a shot looking down into a landing craft where wounded men were being treated and evacuated. There was blood and torn clothing but it was a very short clip. The news announcer said there was more and it was very graphic; that's all I remember.
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  2843. Tool managed to go 13 years between records and when the new one came out in 2019 it was a pretty big deal. When I went to the show it was a lot of dads bringing their kids, which was kind of weird to a GenX'r like me. A Tool show in the early 90s was a dirty mosh pit of teens and 20-somethings and nobody in their right mind would take a child there.
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  2844. Great video, I always wondered how Dolby worked. More importantly, I always wondered if Thomas Dolby was related in some way...
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  2845.  @coyoteone6197  When I was in NCO school they used the scene where Doc J and 8 Ball get hit to illustrate how Cowboy made leadership mistakes with his squad, and how Animal Mother demonstrated initiative in leading the squad to try and rescue his buddies. When Animal Mother charged with his M-60, and entire classroom broke out in barks.
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  2846. Taylor was mentioned in George Dyson's book Project Orion (George is the son of Freeman). Taylor worked on the nuclear pulse-propulsion program and was interviewed on the subject, search for it on youtube. He also famously used a parabolic reflector to light his cigarette with a nuclear bomb.
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  2847. I never knew about this concept. What in the US would be called "depot level maintenance" or just D-level maintenance done at sea. I don't think the USN has ever had such a ship type.
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  2848. She was a pretty ship in her day, with the color scheme, ornamentation, and rigging.
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  2849. More like Russians: our ships are already nuclear accidents waiting to happen
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  2850. You mean your spelling, right?
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  2851. Oscar Goldman is who you want to talk to about this.
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  2852.  @PlanetEarth3141  Well, in the 70s, they'd throw in an arm and two legs along with the eye. Inflation, though.
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  2853.  @privatepilot4064  Oh yeah. Sea lawyers, lollygoggers, pogues, various types of shitbird, you name it.
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  2854. Didn't one of the pilots decide he'd had enough fun for one career and resign from the air force after this mission? I bet they didn't realize how close a call this was going to be, with the aircraft getting singed and knocked around so much.
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  2855. A laser bluetooth mouse should work fine if you make the mousepad with a sheet of metal underneath the cloth and put magnets in the mouse so it doesn't float away. Magnets fix everything!
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  2856. You can almost smell it through the video even.
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  2857.  @stevebabiak6997  Worse, the meth heads and bums would all hang out in the restroom where it's nice and warm. And if you have a problem with the awful conditions for you and your family, you'd be labeled as "racist" or whatever. I love Philly, but the people who manage it, not so much.
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  2858. My understanding was that the Project Pluto engine worked quite well when it was tested in a static test, and that it was air-cooled, no liquid coolant of any kind. I also believe that the reason the project was canceled was because it was expensive, prone to safety issues (as we see here), and because it was too provocative. US policy makers figured that if they went ahead with it then the Soviets would be sure to start building and stockpiling the damn things as well. It was also an insanely scary weapon, basically being able to hit multiple targets, and optionally, the reactor could be "salted" so that it spewed out deadly fallout onto the areas it flew over, pretty much the ultimate "I hate the world" weapon. I really am shocked the Russians would build something so stupid, 30 years after the Cold War ended.
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  2859.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Is his opinion, as you said before.
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  2860.  @mike30534  I like the lobbying local government idea. My neighbor liked to play his Michael Bolton records really loud, so I lobbied to have his house declared "blighted", so they could bulldoze it and build some McMansions to bring in more tax money. Just let any of those new bastards try that Bolton shit with me.
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  2861.  @gregorywright4918  They're not unguided, they're just open-loop guided, with no seeker head capability.
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  2862. Compared to Feynman, most of us are about as smart as a bag of hammers.
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  2863. 7:40 I was trying to figure out why construction workers are wearing shorts and no shirt or hard hat and realized those guys must be divers.
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  2864.  @matthewsermons7247  Dihydrogen monoxide is a leading source of drownings and corrosion and should be banned!
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  2865.  @leary4  Olympia is neither a dreadnaught nor even a battleship; she's a pre-dreadnaught era cruiser.
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  2866. I drive a GM truck with almost 270k miles on it. Runs fine. No engine teardowns or anything major. So from where I stand GM reliability is awesome. Can't speak for newer GM, since my old one is sticking around for a while.
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  2867. You forgot to tell him to fly safe.
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  2868. The Saturn IB isn't "cute", it's cool-looking, and it was a workhorse for NASA. Could've been a workhorse for a lot longer had Congress funded it into the Shuttle era. I love the fins, too, not so much the Saturn I block 2 but the ones on the Saturn IB are so cool looking. Those small fins are part of what makes the Saturn family of rockets so good looking.
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  2869.  @Andrew-13579  I also subscribe to the "wasn't one" answer. In the 50s the USAF had interceptors and fighter bombers but dogfighting was not taken seriously at the time. Vietnam caused a shift in thinking and by the 70s the concept of an air superiority fighter was born, resulting in the F-15, a pure air-to-air platform that can intercept and dogfight equally well, and outperform any Soviet block fighter.
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  2870.  @robertmellang6998  Gonna take an awful lot to beat that Apple rant.
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  2871. Radios installed in homes that can't be turned off. SMDH some people read 1984 and instead of seeing it as a horror story they think it's an instruction manual.
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  2872. Kind of like the Grumman Cats, starting with the F4F Wildcat and ending with the F-14 Tomcat, and all the other cats in between: Hellcat, Bearcat, Tigercat, Panther, Cougar, and maybe one or two I've missed. Now Grumman is part of Northrop Grumman and the Navy doesn't buy their airplanes anymore.
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  2873. Also, "I'm a doctor not a parakeet" Strat Trek reference, and "The cage is bigger on the inside" Dr. Who reference.
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  2874. That dig on Target has aged like a fine wine.
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  2875. You didn't search for this channel: it searched for you.
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  2876. Maybe, since transporters (aka teleporters) are so far fetched technologically, this is just an angels-on-a-pinhead type of question. And speaking of angels, if you choose to believe in an afterlife, will Kirk's soul, upon arrival in Heaven, get to meet up with a separate Kirk soul for each time he used the transporter?
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  2877.  @davebooth5608  Watch on a big screen with a good sound system if you can. Enjoy.
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  2878.  @mikepatrick1904  Only the ones in that particular squadron, which was training USAF pilots for spaceflight. The F-104 in Yeager's accident was one of these specially modified Starfighters which had a rocket motor installed in the tail above the jet nozzle and gas thrusters in the nose. The pilot would use the rocket to zoom climb to stupid high edge-of-space type altitudes, where his jet engine would flame out and his control surfaces were useless, and use the thrusters to control the jet's altitude like he was flying a spacecraft for a few minutes, until he fell back to lower altitude where he would restart the jet and fly home.
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  2879. Saturday morning doesn't really start until the Plainly Difficult horrible disaster video drops.
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  2880.  @kingoftheworld5753 So why didn't Perry have one just like him?
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  2881. A big satellite in low earth orbit like that is easier to see with wide field binoculars, especially at dusk and dawn, when the satellite is in sunlight but you are in the dark on the ground. The ISS is especially bright under these conditions and hard to miss. I think NASA has a website that tells you when and where to look for it based on your location.
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  2882.  @hermanmudgett8830  No reason to be an insulting jerk.
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  2883. A 50k year old tool that is still usable?! Wow, they don't make 'em like they used to.
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  2884. I think you can hear it during the triplets in Moby Dick, too. Been a while since I listened to it, but I remember hearing it in more than one place.
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  2885. Up to now, the only thing I knew about Ryan Reynolds is that he made some movies I liked. If any of this is true than I guess he just another rotten Hollywood person.
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  2886. The 727 is one of my favorite ever jetliners, glad to see one still in service, and with a cool paint job to boot.
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  2887.  @Txnxttxy  Different people get narc'd at different depths, and not consistently every time. Even in shallower dives you have to be on the lookout for it.
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  2888.  @jimfritz9503  The music from "The Thing" 1982 is as terrifying as the movie.
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  2889.  @thaismatsumoto  I think they grow them on trees.
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  2890.  @MoominDoogie  "That" -She
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  2891. It'll be a sad day when the last Atlas rocket flies, that program is well over 60 years old at this point, been passed through multiple companies, and many of the people who worked on it have passed. Centaur will live on, but Centaur didn't start off as an exclusively Atlas-related program, the two programs just wound up being a good match for each other and by the time the Atlas V was introduced they were tied at the hip. Original balloon-tank Atlas was the closed thing we ever had to SSTO, as well. Wasn't great as a weapon, but is a great launch vehicle. Besides, there aren't many rocket names as badass as "Atlas".
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  2892. I find that the most effective way to increase my fob's range is to put a fresh battery in it.
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  2893. 11:30 Does anyone know what that large dark cylindrical structure is in the upper middle of the photo? Is that LA? Is it still there?
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  2894.  @TheKeyser94  Judge Dredd does his killing legally. Frank is an outlaw.
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  2895. Torpedoes = explosion amidships waiting to happen
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  2896. It seems to me that if you need to build a "junior battleship" class you'd be better off building pocket battleships than pre-dreadnaughts.
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  2897.  @JD-tn5lz  The North Atlantic above the Arctic Circle in January is also quite brisk, as I've found.
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  2898.  @neithere  But that was the best part: Clooney gets killed off the film.
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  2899.  @benjaminhanke79  Redesigning the systems when you have something that works perfectly well is riskier than making changes just so everything looks neater. As @Owen Smith says, the movie dramatized the procedure a bit, but Apollo 13 proved it worked under adverse conditions, and that real life testing is worth a lot. Especially since the program was already facing cancelation and getting the last few expeditions to the moon depended on them staying on schedule.
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  2900.  @unduloid  I resemble this remark.
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  2901. Right on.
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  2902. Those low slung engines look like a nice FOD hazard.
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  2903.  @CaptainLumpyDog  Pre C-19 all history is lost to the ages.
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  2904.  @unclenogbad1509  I'm talking about a particular virus which we are all in the process of forgetting ever existed.
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  2905. Back in the early 80s I think when I was little my dad and uncle drove us through Centralia and I remember it being mostly abandoned. There was a field with a chimney sticking out of it and smoke coming out. Really weird. We were probably on PA 61, the one shown blocked by the pile of dirt at the end of the video. (I don't know why a pandemic has anything to do with closing access to a ghost town, but whatever)
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  2906.  @dragonfire8729  Disney does this with many of their properties for several reasons. One of those reasons is because the IP in question has become "politically incorrect", such as Song of the South, which they've vaulted.
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  2907. I grew to hate this song back in the day, too, but if you listen to the whole album, it's good in context. Same goes for songs like Stairway to Heaven or Money; they are on such awesome albums they sound good again.
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  2908.  starshipeleven  No need to get personal. But I'm sure the Rockwell engineers had a clue.
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  2909. During Desert Storm I witnessed USMC Harriers taking off with nape under their wings and returning empty quite frequently. Harriers were also using Mk-82s and 25mm cannon fire. Each Harrier had a bomb with a number stenciled under the cockpit indicating the number of sorties flown, and some of them were well north of 80. That was a really bad time to be an Iraqi soldier.
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  2910.  @sevvysweetsparkles6969  What you said, it's an awesome movie.
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  2911.  @DAKOTA56777  That, and echeloned turrets look cool. And it's always important for your ships to look cool.
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  2912.  @staalman1226  No, just something that makes sense at the concept level. Isaac Arthur's futurist youtube channel talks about this a lot as well. I just think it's interesting conversation.
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  2913.  @staalman1226  I'm not trying to "prove" anything. I just think it's interesting.
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  2914. That can be computed easily by multiplying the mass of the spacecraft with the acceleration created by the drive. Would have to look it up, but it would vary based on which version you were talking about. The smallest design was a 10-meter diameter pusher plate vehicle designed to be lofted on a Saturn V class launcher and used for Mars missions; the largest was the size of a small city that was designed as an interstellar generation ship firing fusion bombs out the tail. That would undoubtedly be the most powerful thruster ever built, insane mega-engineering at it's finest.
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  2915. "...or had possibly been atomized by a wandering Admiral Fisher." Possible Drachism of the day?
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  2916. This thread is becoming lame.
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  2917. While I congratulate SpaceX for getting so afar ahead they've almost cornered the market for launch vehicles, I hope ULA and others get in gear soon. You never want to be in a position where you rely on only one launch vehicle. The Challenger accident was how we learned that the hard way. If something goes wrong and Falcon 9 gets grounded for some time the US, and for that matter, many non-US customers, will be in a jam.
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  2918. Those suits...just weird. For starters they look like costumes from a cheap sci fi movie more than functional suits, made out of what looks like oven mitt materiel, paintball helmets, and hunting boots. But what really makes them look odd is the lack of visible external connections and other stuff. Other suits have always had connections on the front for hoses and comms, as well as visible fittings made of shiny metal. I think that's what makes these look like costumes more than anything else.
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  2919. Some years before the 9/11 attacks my cousin took me to the top of the WTC Twin Towers, all the way up to the observation deck on top. I remember looking across at that mast shown in this video at 0:20 and being surprised at how huge it was. Prior to that I had only seen it and these buildings from far away driving up the New Jersey side. I had assumed that mast was just a big light pole thing. What did I know? I was a teenager. When I got up top everything was so much bigger, that giant mast, the buildings themselves, even the deck I was standing on. Between the edge of the deck and the edge of the roof was a fairly long distance, and it was covered in razor wire to discourage anyone from hopping the railing and thrill-seeking or suiciding. All this time later still hard to believe all of that is gone.
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  2920. Yes that's the one, I guess it wasn't a full-size 4 model but still way out of scale.
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  2921. Only on days when it's not Sabbath riffs.
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  2922. Great video. I've always been interested in this sort of thing. The United States east coast has a lot of old coastal fortifications which have now been turned into parks or museums. Some date back to the colonial days. During the War for Independence, when the British army occupied Philadelphia, the Americans made an effort to throttle the British supply lines by constructing a system of fortifications along the Delaware River south of Philly, consisting of Forts Mercer and Billingsport in New Jersey, and Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side, with a set of submerged barrier obstacles strung between them across the river. The fire plan was apparently to get enemy ships caught in the barrier and then bombard them from the shore batteries. Fighting there resulted in at least one Royal Navy ship, the Augusta, running aground, catching fire, and being destroyed by a magazine explosion. Fort Mifflin stayed in service until well into the 20th Century as a US Army depot and is now a park next to the airport, while the other forts have been turned into parks as well. The forts saw intense combat, including land-based assaults. While I understand you were focused on fixed coastal defenses, particularly those that were armed with guns, I think you might've spent a few more minutes at the end talking about modern coastal defenses. As you mentioned they consist mostly of mobile surface to surface missile launchers as well as other dynamic defenses such as aircraft and maritime patrol vessels, but they still have a large influence on planning for modern warfare. The example that immediately comes to mind is the Iranian defenses on the Strait of Hormuz, which are apparently designed to control the Strait or at least to try to deny use of it by potential adversaries. This has likely had an influence on US policy in the region, and at least some deterrent effect on war. The loss of an aircraft carrier or an amphibious ship would be a pretty major disaster for the US Navy, which faces numerous seaborne platforms and batteries of missiles in a very confined region, barely large enough to even operate a carrier.
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  2923. But I am also 80% water, which makes it very toxic.
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  2924. Electronics used on spacecraft are usually several years behind what you can get here on Earth, because they need to be tested extensively for years in vacuum, temperature, and radiation environments, as well as cycled on/off, vibrational testing, etc., before you trust it to not fail on your super-expensive space mission, which you'll only get one shot at. Add to that the fact that JWST was delayed for many years so components like the main computer were designed and spec'd out a long time ago, and there's huge risk in altering the design once construction has begun. Even if you do make changes, they must go through a series of engineering review boards and be signed off by the program leaders, who are all very conservative-minded about taking on new risks, and then it costs a ton of money to implement the changes and retest everything.
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  2925.  @simonpeter5032  THIRTEEN!!!!!
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  2926.  chris younts  They were also picking up trash. Very environmentally conscious, those guys.
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  2927. uh, right, glad you're here to enlighten us all. Why don't go start a protest march or something.
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  2928. The CIA invented a time machine and went back centuries to create the sl4ve trade. Even worse, they created Clippie for Windows!
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  2929. Saint John Moses Browning always got it right.
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  2930. He's wearing a hoodie in this vid, indicating that it's cool in Scotland. I'll take that any day over 95degF and super humid with mosquito bites all over my body, which is every summer where I live.
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  2931. 00:52 Wow, look at that air terminal! Beautiful and classy art deco style, with that awesome globe in the middle. They sure don't make airports like that anymore. And notice there are no passengers dressed like hobos in sweatpants or being crotch-grabbed by fat, luggage-stealing high school dropouts in blue shirts.
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  2932.  @jessejordache1869  Or into a church parking lot.
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  2933. "Boeing, Fueled by Our People"
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  2934.  @nicholasmuro1742  You're not a serious person.
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  2935.  @greggweber9967  Which ones? The ones who shot at him or...?
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  2936.  @James_Knott Yes, but that bears a fair amount of resemblance to the way older analog radar systems synchronize the antenna, pulsing, and display. So it's a fair question.
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  2937. "His political leanings aren't what matters." Yeah, right. If you think you can be in show business and no one will care about your politics...
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  2938.  @Mentaculus42  Both, but mostly the plane. There are hatches in the bomb bay that allow the crew to enter the wing in flight, which is almost thick enough to stand up inside. And the early model hydrogen bombs it carried could only fit in a B-36 because they are so big and heavy. They have an inert one on display next to the aircraft and it's huge.
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  2939.  @Gregnier  Sounds like the B-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber.
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  2940. Not to be confused with the Chevrolet Chevette, sometimes known as the "Shove-it".
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  2941. The simplest thing would be to build a replacement for Hubble.
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  2942.  @Wannes_  Part of that purchase was foisted upon the USAF by McNamara I was led to understand.
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  2943.  @migkillerphantom  Then you make do. Just as Marines have always done.
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  2944. Presumably the intended recipients were closer to the transmitters than the guys in UK recording all this stuff.
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  2945. To be fair, before they knew it was carcinogenic, asbestos was pretty useful in fire retardants and probably saved a lot of lives without anyone even knowing it. Likewise, mercury is useful for lots of stuff but is unfortunately stupidly toxic. The real problem is when people find out a substance is dangerous and don't change how they use or handle it, like the guys who ran these radium clock factories.
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  2946. Also, you do not need any training to be a frogperson. All you have to do is say, "I identify as a frogman" and everyone must immediately treat you as such or they are guilty of discrimination and antisocial behavior and shipped off to a reeducation camp.
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  2947. I remember in the 80s the Philadelphia yard had a humongous crane towering over it. You used to be able to see it from New Jersey as you drove up Hessian Avenue towards the river. I forget when they took it down, but it was a pretty iconic landmark back in the day.
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  2948.  @timengineman2nd714  I found photos of it. Built in 1919. Can't find the year it was taken down, though. I'm guessing early to mid 90s.
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  2949.  @fairwinds610  Yes, Bolo! Loved those books.
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  2950.  @Max-kd2gh  No, my parents are boomers. Learn what words mean before you use them.
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  2951. Excellent work, Mr. Ringway. Thanks to you, I've started doing more SW listening. I even bought an ATS-20+ because why not? It's super affordable. Even with an external wire antenna, though, it doesn't seem to get great reception where I live, and since it doesn't come with any instructions I'm left to hunt around the internet for hints on the various features and controls. My best SW radio, though, is an old Grundig FR-200 that I bought years ago, probably at Radio Shack before they folded. It's an analog tuner so I never know exactly which frequency I'm on, but even with the built-in telescopic antenna I can pick up a lot of stations at the right time of day. I swear I heard that some morse code station the other night, around that same frequency.
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  2952. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's (now Lockheed Martin's) corporate logo is a shooting star. Many Lockheed aircraft have had "star" in their names, such as the F-104 Starfighter and the C-141 Starlifter.
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  2953. Such as?
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  2954. He can probably even do it without his pants (but I for one would prefer not to see that on his channel).
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  2955. The military blimp or balloon is massive in comparison to the thrust of the gas coming out of those holes.
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  2956. It took me a moment to realize your video was mirror-imaged at the end there.
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  2957.  @SeverityOne  WTF are you on about?
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  2958. The bass line is what makes Down in a Hole stand out. Especially if you listen to the unplugged version.
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  2959. Pilots flying off the Navy's airships in the 30s had to do this, and flying aircraft carriers moved along at a pretty good clip compared to sea carriers.
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  2960. You disgraced us, sir! You shamed us, sir! You will answer.
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  2961. A lot of cargo planes use a similar scheme and it works quite well for them, including the C-5 and the cargo version of the Boeing 747.
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  2962. Yes, I would like a more detailed follow up, this is fascinating stuff, and what we learn from this accident may help in the future. While you're at it, maybe do a detailed follow up on the Three Mile Island accident cleanup, and how they've since handled the wrecked reactor and its containment building there.
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  2963. 14:47 My dad served aboard USS Shangri-La and always talked about the Skyhawks. No way to tell, but possibly he was aboard the ship when this photo was taken.
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  2964. You didn't mention the current work on the Northrop B-21 flying wing bomber, which is expected to enter service in 2025 according to Wikipedia. Also, there is footage of Jack Northrop in a wheelchair being brought into a secure office and handed a model of the B-1 by the Northrop managers, a very moving scene. Jack was a great aviation pioneer and a patriot and it was only right for them to give him a clearance and let him know his life's work was finally paying off, and that his brainchild was about to enter service in the USAF.
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  2965.  @johnrielley7756  I loved that show. I remember they developed that magic rocket fuel called "monohydrazine" which had huge specific impulse and allowed all the single stage to orbit adventures on the show.
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  2966. Logan Beato
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  2967. So they rebuilt houses on that nasty contaminated ground? What could possibly go wrong?
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  2968.  @carlcushmanhybels8159  The L1011 is awesome, but it put Lockheed out of the airliner business unfortunately. Delta used to operate lots of them and they were great.
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  2969. I experienced something similar when training in a C-150, but the plane in front of me was a light twin, not a Hercules. Didn't flip me sideways or anything, but definitely got a wicked shimmy there for a minute. Almost learned the hard way.
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  2970.  @JH-pt6ih  I don't understand why some people have to shit on anyone who likes doing things the old way. We live in a golden age. Want to do digital? Go for it. Like film? have at it.
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  2971. Also, it's the only Vietnam War film I know where it's all urban combat instead of jungle. The Battle of Hue City is infamous in Marine Corps lore.
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  2972. Great video, love the bass! Of course we could argue about this all day. For example, I love JPJ's bass parts on stuff like Ramble On, but always thought the tone was dead and muddy. My favorite JPJ bass tone would be from Achilles Last Stand or Nobody's Fault But Mine. And Geddy? His Rickenbacker tones are the best to me, especially on the Hemispheres and Farewell to Kings albums. Cinderella Man and Circumstances are still killer crushing bass tones, and of course that riff during the guitar solo in The Necromancer is one of the heaviest things Rush ever did.
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  2973.  @awilliams1701  The two poor bastards who were mangled by the transporter died horrible deaths in TMP.
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  2974.  @enkinaser  TLDR toolbag
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  2975. 80s kid here. I try to forget that movie existed lol
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  2976. 4:00 So even in 1983, Orange Man was the bad guy?
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  2977.  @cplpetergriffin1583  Don't argue with him, let the pinhead think he's got it all figured out if that's what makes him happy.
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  2978. The Corinthos collision and explosion near Philadelphia back in the 1970s, please!
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  2979. Fantastic movie, and very rare to see F-9's and Essex class carriers in a movie together.
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  2980. Well this explains why the SRBs are so stylish.
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  2981. So then, did the chief engineer Ego McEgoface ever get his nose rubbed in this mess?
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  2982. No, being exposed to sudden vacuum isn't particularly painful. Your eyes will get dry, the saliva in your mouth will fizz like soda pop, and if you stay conscious long enough you may get an earache, but before you really feel anything you will pass out within 10 seconds or so. You can briefly view the lunar surface with the naked eye and enjoy the view. And of course, the great thing about death is that you won't remember a thing about the pain once it's over. But if you try to hold your breath, you'll get a lung expansion injury which will hurt like hell. One of the few mistakes in 2001 was Dave Bowman holding his breath before blowing the hatch; in that situation he'd want to do the exact opposite: open wide yell loudly as the hatch blows to protect his lungs, especially since he planned on using them again.
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  2983. Everything I know about trolling and sarcasm I learned from Bugs Bunny.
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  2984.  @MenaceGallagher  Sorry, won't read it. I'll just have to accept your dominance. Congrats, you win the argument.
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  2985.  @stickytapenrust6869  I'm just too lazy to read all that, and too uninterested in arguing on the internet. So take the win, Chief.
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  2986. "As it turned out, merging two destitute companies did not magically create a profitable corporation." K-Mart and Sears, are you listening? Oh, that's right, you didn't...
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  2987. IIRC Perimeter wasn't a thing until the 80s and The Buzzer predates that by a fair amount, right? If so the timeline doesn't check out, either.
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  2988.  @Splattle101  The Nike family ABM warheads were supposedly designed to kill inbound warheads through "neutron heating". In vacuum there is no air to carry the blast effect of a nuclear explosion so you need radiation effects to do the damage. The idea was to bombard the enemy warhead with neutrons at close range and cause it to undergo fissions, thus rendering it useless. Even the fairly high yield ABM warheads relied on radiation effects due to lack of air as a medium. I read that in one source, and I'm no expert, but it makes sense to me anyway.
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  2989. The Hercules is similar to the C-47 in usefuleness. The best replacement for either of these aircraft is another one just like it (with some upgraded subsystems).
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  2990. What Makes This Bassist/Musician Great
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  2991.  @esquilax5563  No it's not hard. It's defined by the spacecraft body. The space shuttle's left wing is the port side, for example, no matter whether it's upside down or not. Airplanes can fly upside down but it doesn't change the meaning of the lights.
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  2992. Don't give 2020 any ideas...
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  2993. NASA will defraud the taxpayers. Research the SLS fiasco as well as the JWST. Like pouring money down a toilet.
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  2994. "The skulls are harder to come by these days." If this channel has taught me anything, it's to wait. Just wait.
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  2995. Makes you wonder what accidents have been covered up in places like North Korea or Pakistan and so on.
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  2996. Every day's an IQ test.
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  2997. The opening theme is back?
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  2998.  @nlwilson4892  Some people wore hairspray in the 80s, no need to be an insulting little cuss about it. Hair product is what got Micheal Jackson injured badly.
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  2999.  @nlwilson4892  You're getting all bent out of shape for nothing.
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  3000. It looks like a one-off experiment. Pretty impractical on a range, since you can only point the gun in one single direction, the direction of the suppressor. I'm disappointed you didn't have audio to go with it.
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  3001. US Navy rigid airship guides, please! More people must be made aware the USN actually once had flying aircraft carriers.
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  3002.  @paulhaynes8045  Racism is protected speech.
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  3003. Blaming somebody for donning a bulletproof vest instead of blaming the guy threatening to shoot him.
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  3004. Interesting that photo at 5:54 has a little clock face burned into the print at the lower right corner. Must've been a way for a camera to timestamp the image.
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  3005. That's exactly what a member of the conspiracy would say.
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  3006. @ Product guaranteed for the life of the customer!
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  3007. B-movie script writers at the SyFy Channel: "Write this down, write this down!"
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  3008. You just need a transmitter and a way to avoid getting caught and sent to jail.
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  3009. The surrealist artist would say, "Ce n'est pas un verre." The Treachery of T-shirt Images.
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  3010.  @Graham-ce2yk  Great movie. Poor mission planning.
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  3011. I love the way these videos end, with silent historical footage of the aircraft in flight, like a distant memory, with no music.
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  3012.  @korawitbuttramee618  He made some unfortunate choices and wound up in a bunch of B movies, at least one of which was a Blade Runner knockoff (I forget the name but it's watchable at least). The A movies he was in just didn't get big unfortunately. I think Hitcher is one of his better roles, a great horror/thriller flick from the 80s. One of the films he made about ten years ago that's worth checking out is "Hobo with a Shotgun", which is based on a fake movie trailer from the Grindhouse double feature of 2007. Violent as hell, of course, but fun to watch.
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  3013. Once I was with a friend outside at night and I pointed out the moon and the planet Venus, and then I told him where the sun would be below the horizon. When he asked me how I figured that out I went into a long explanation of the plane of the ecliptic and also how you can find the sun by looking at the phase of the moon etc.
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  3014. 1:28 and thus the CD passed into the dreamy realm of Vaporwave and became known as the C O M P A C T D I S C
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  3015. I hear you, but like I said, at least Northrop's flying wing design came to pass after all, unlike the TRS2 or the Avro Arrow, which were killed forever.
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  3016.  @johnny5805  Pedantism, bet you're fun at partys. Oh, sorry, "parties".
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  3017. 10:20 Gotta love how even in the era of modern HD video China's rocket launches still manage to look like Cold War Soviet rocket films.
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  3018.  @zeitgeistx5239  6-Falkland Islands: CATOBAR aircraft carriers are expensive, but you miss them when you don't have them. Same goes for anti-ship missile defenses.
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  3019.  @karlvongazenberg8398  Also, we hopefully will skip "stop vaporizing my fleet with fusion weapons".
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  3020. A kickass movie that one is.
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  3021. They can't dispose of it, period, they ran it out of propellant. There is nothing anyone can do about it.
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  3022.  @rockymac3565  I saw those videos. Phillipine Mars has modern avionics in her cockpit, with color flat panel displays, etc. Pretty cool.
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  3023.  @davidb6576  So then, how does that make you feel?
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  3024.  @Ccs4646  You can fly cheap or you can fly safe. Atlas doesn't blow up. Falcon does.
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  3025.  tommy aronson  "Boomers" seriously?
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  3026. Reefer, I don't think your comments add much usefulness to this conversation. You may leave now.
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  3027. How do know which are bots vs. fans?
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  3028.  @ulexite-tv The FBI commands and google obeys.
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  3029.  @juniorloaf12  The V bombers are all subsonic, as far as I know.
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  3030.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Mark Felton just did a great video on that .
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  3031.  @giovannirodriguesdasilva646  Because the USAF, unlike the US Navy, hates the names of its own planes for some reason. The F-16 Falcon is called a "Viper", the A-10 Thunderbolt is called a "Warthog", and so on. To be fair, some of the official names of their aircraft are stupid and god only knows what Pentagon idiots chose them. The B-1 Lancer, for example. Or the B-2 Spirit. Seriously. The Navy and Marines, on the other hand get planes that mostly come with cool enough names to keep. Tomcat, Hornet, Harrier, etc.
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  3032. It would've been like Escape From New York. German version of Snake Pliskin would have to go and rescue him.
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  3033. The Kursk is really sad. The US Navy offered to send their rescue crew but the Russians turned them down.
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  3034. Also, it's a safe bet that anyone who works on these ships knows who Drach is by now.
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  3035.  @Zundfolge  Sure, but making enough money is almost as hard as getting famous. And while it's probably true that many artists don't care about becoming gigantic celebrity famous, it would be nice to at least be an influence on future music rather than just being completely forgotten about the moment you quit or die. Not everyone gets to be JS Bach unfortunately.
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  3036. Better fold that laundry lest you wind up in the doghouse!
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  3037. When you speculate about what UVB-76 and other buzzer stations are up to you just know there are people from GCHQ and NSA out there who are dying to correct you but not allowed to do so. They probably know all about it, who the operators are and even the names of their pets. Come to think of it, the operators of those stations probably watch these videos too lol.
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  3038. I used to live a few miles away from Brandywine Battlefield, part of which is preserved as a Pennsylvania state park with a visitor center museum and often reenactment battles.
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  3039.  @scottgiles7546  I would give a quick salute and then make sure my float coat was secure before taking a swim.
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  3040. Lots of film and TV shows have stock NASA footage.
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  3041.  @bytesback.  To be honest I get confused myself.
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  3042.  @Markle2k  No, we didn't.
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  3043. FrF Grace Under Pressure is one of their best albums, very underrated. When it came out in 1984 a lot of their old school 70s fans didn't like it because it was too synthy and 80s sounding but it is a masterpiece.
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  3044. Compared to all the other awful injustices happening around the world, you're hard pressed to generate a lot of sympathy for some scumbag drug smugglers who got caught in the act after partying it up on the money they made from it while their victims suffer debilitation and sometimes fatal addiction. Is Indonesia's law unfair? Was there corruption or politicization involved? Is water wet?
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  3045. AT-AT's that will operate on Mars. Imagine how cool that would look.
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  3046. As if the whole Pluto controversy couldn't any dumber, the seemingly minor semantic change of classification prompts a huge shift in coordinate system, upsetting all mapping work to that point, because common sense isn'tcommn. SMH.
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  3047. Started with cookies in browsers and the tech companies who make this stuff have always been secretive about how much data they gather on you and how they do it. The longer they get away with it before you find out the harder it is to make it stop when they get caught.
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  3048. Not confirmed, just plausible, and barely so. Doing that mirror trick on an actual warship in combat would be a lot more difficult.
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  3049.  @sequoiahughes8536  Takes a lot of coordination, and making really polished mirrors was harder back then. Then try doing it with thousands of disciplined Romans shooting at you, and possibly landing off to your side and about to assault you.
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  3050.  @whlawson5812  Yes, accurate weather, or "met data", is a nice thing to have in artillery. I don't know if or how navies did it in the gunboat days, but modern land artillery units have a variety of ways to get met data. Sometimes, though, you just do your best without and adjust fire based on where your first salvo hits.
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  3051. Don't forget the awesome game Sinistar. "I live. I hunger. Run! Run! Run!"
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  3052. We are seeing the logical outcome of allowing google to accumulate so much market share: they feel themselves to be so powerful as to be invincible and can now start imposing their own worldview on society and censoring people arbitrarily. The builders of youtube certainly made some cash when they sold out to google, but ultimately they sabotaged their own once brilliant platform. Google has taken youtube and cynically turned It into both a money-making machine and a laboratory for their own snowflake social experiments. Sadly, so long as youtube remains private property, you're only real way to fight back is to hope another video platform rises to challenge it. So far it hasn't happened yet.
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  3053. Dude killed me with a sword, Mal, how weird is that?
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  3054. Why would you ever want to change that awesome music? That was the best part of the show! Also, RIP Airwolf helo Bell 222 which crashed in Germany while being used as an air ambulance.
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  3055. If true it's a good example of the customer not always knowing, or at least not voicing, exactly what they want. They wanted something that would do everything an F-86 could do, but also be faster and climb better. What they asked for was something that was faster and better-climbing than an F-86, and that's what Kelly Johnson gave them. The F-104 is absolutely fast and powerful; even in 2025 it's totally badass if you want to race instead of fight.
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  3056.  @EFCasual  Well, you have high standards for your dictators.
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  3057. Meters? Yards? Let's think big: go with rods!
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  3058. Fisher: Japan: "Write that down."
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  3059. Well, lots of them, pretty much anyone who was old enough to serve in the F&I War who later served in the Continental forces. Washington himself is an example, served under British Gen. Braddock. Ben Franklin didn't serve in both wars but one of his sons was royal governor of New Jersey and the two never reconciled after the war.
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  3060. Lookout in the aft mast: "And on that terrible disappointment..."
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  3061. The B-36 is so big it could drop B-29s.
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  3062. Fun heist story. Given the number of guys in their gang, even if they had pulled it off there was no way someone wouldn't run his mouth sooner or later. Hard enough to keep secrets with good people let lone a bunch of crims.
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  3063.  @StratMatt777  Yes. Yes I am.
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  3064.  @lllordllloyd  "Snitches get stiches." - William Boeing, founder of Boeing
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  3065. *V2. Known by the Germans as the A-4. The V-1 was the Buzz Bomb cruise missile.
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  3066.  @paulhaynes8045  Roger that.
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  3067. It's also how the Moties were first introduced to the Empire of Man.
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  3068.  @patreekotime4578  No, the warning comes later in the story.
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  3069. I love these rocket history vids!
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  3070.  @RogerBiwandu  Clearly you aren't getting the reference.
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  3071. I'm wondering how the movie sound effect compares to the sound of an old school arc light coming on.
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  3072. 9:40 the device in that photo is called the "Lady Godiva Device", an unshielded nuclear reactor that would go critical for only a short moment, as one fuel element dropped from above and through a hole in the other elements below. Obviously, nobody was near it when this was happening. The device had at least one accident where the structure got too hot and then bent all out of shape. There's an interesting wiki page for it somewhere.
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  3073. It would be beneficial for NASA to partner with the UK to develop the Skylon tech as long as it's actually viable. We've heard about that project for years now, time to get it moving.
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  3074.  @Astronist  How would US investment in Skylon not be helpful? It's not like the UK government is dumping piles of money on them.
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  3075.  @Astronist  I was thinking about the Harrier, and how US Marine Corps interest in it kept it going for another generation or two.
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  3076. A lot of it was used, much of it multiple times. All of Artemis 1's engines, including the SRB segments I think, had flown previously.
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  3077. 18:37 Mike Collins' Omega Speedmaster watch. Buzz wore his on the outside of his spacesuit, visible in photos. Neil's watch was strapped to the LEM control panel to act as a backup for a failed cockpit clock. Sadly, Buzz's watch went missing after the mission, likely stolen during shipping back to Houston.
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  3078.  Jim lastname  Sorry for triggering you. I'll send some cookies and a comfort puppy to your safe space and we'll call it even.
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  3079. Most nations were founded by violence. Families don't get to be "royal" families by selling girl scout cookies and Avon.
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  3080. "Thanks, France." Tell me you're a Brit without saying you're a Brit (or maybe an American) lol.
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  3081. The APAS docking system used by both USA and Russia was developed for the Apollo - Soyuz Test Program which flew in 1975.
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  3082. STS gets dumped on a lot, but had they stuck with it and developed some of these various upgrades and spin-offs, I think the whole sidestacked/reusable SSME system would've proved very versatile. Even as it flew, the straight up STS configuration managed well over a hundred missions and accomplished a lot of stuff. There certainly was nothing like the Space Shuttle before, so considering everything they did was pretty much the very first time ever, it's not really fair to hate on it so much. As for Wayne Hale complaining about the abort options on the stretch ET, there are ways to engineer around that.
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  3083. Well, if they are trying to stay "diplomatic", they would likely avoid being rude and causing interference.
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  3084.  @fredflintstone8817  Okee doke.
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  3085.  @paulfrantizek102  I like that idea. Not because I know what I'm talking about, but because the A-5 is so beautiful and the world could do with seeing more of them around.
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  3086. Years ago I at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station and was on the running trail off the end of the gigantic runway there. A loaded C-5 was all the way at the end of the threshold taking off away from me, so the business end of the engines were pointing right at me. That was awesome. That sound, and the fact that the heavy jet took its time moving away.
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  3087. Youtube's little propaganda banner: "Robust safeguards help ensure the integrity of elections and results." lol
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  3088. It takes them a couple of days to separate from each other after they are deployed, so you have a few opportunities to spot the line of them. Mainly, when the satellites are in sunlight and you are in the dark, near sunrise or sunset. There is at least one website that tells you when and where to look to see them, I forget the name.
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  3089. So I'm a little unclear on the first half of this video: is there a way to detect passive crystal receivers? The unlicensed lodger lady's radio wasn't even unpacked from her luggage?
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  3090.  @travelsofmunch1476  References the film Mad Max: Fury Road.
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  3091. I love your channel, History Guy, I find myself clicking on one after the other, and I especially love these ones about significant events that should be remember but have faded in memory for some reason. I have a suggestion for you: The collision, fire, and explosion of the Queeny and Corinthos on the Delaware River near Philadelphia on January 31st, 1975. I was very little at the time living nearby and I remember the explosion and then my dad watching the fire on the local news, it was a huge event, giant column of smoke, the river was on fire, and several sailors were killed, but the weird thing about it is that many people living in the area today, even those old enough to remember it, don't remember it or only dimly remember it. Funny how the internet makes it seem as if things that took place before we could upload video didn't really happen.
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  3092. They weren't in action when they were killed.
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  3093.  @johnmartlew5897  Sorry, but no. "Killed in action" means they were killed in combat with the enemy, which they were not. The idea that anybody participating in supporting the war effort is "in action" is as stupid and exaggerated as the modern notion that anyone in a uniform is a "hero" who deserves to be "thanked for their service". This sort of exaggeration does real heroes no favors, as anyone who has served knows there are more than a few shitbirds who are not heroes at all. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the guy who touched off this explosion was a shitbird who was blowing off safety rules.
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  3094. Okay, now we need to know how Able Seacat Simon came to be decorated.
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  3095. The good news is that you can still play guitar for the Rolling Stones.
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  3096. VW Things were cool cars. Rare as hens' teeth now.
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  3097.  @adamnichols3506  Carter was a questionable president, but he is a Rickover-trained Navy nuclear engineer, so he is pretty competent when it comes to nuclear power.
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  3098. Drach, do any after action reports like this exist from the Japanese side? It'd be really interesting to see what the IJN perspective was on these fights. The IJN seemed really well drilled and trained on carrier ops but their air strike tactics let them down and cost them so many planes and air crews, I wonder if they noted their deficiencies and had ideas for fixing that.
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  3099.  @UNcommonSenseAUS  I remember when my mom first let me use the internet, too.
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  3100. 17:10 Amazing photograph! Anyone know who shot that? And did he survive?
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  3101. Let's be honest here: what you call a "flight cap" in this vid is actually referred to by US troops as a "piss cover".
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  3102. My guess would be that the sub was on a desperate mission to retake possession of the Ark of the Covenant after that Dr. Jones fellow absconded with it.
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  3103.  @oliverquach9614  He did. HIs superpower was the ability to say "balls".
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  3104. How do they compare with the Rocinante's PDCs?
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  3105. I'm sorry, could you write that again? I couldn't see it on my computer screen the first time.
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  3106.  @wendychavez5348  Wait, what's the spray bottle of water for?
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  3107. All you need is an awkward family birthday wish to Frank Poole on that tablet screen.
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  3108. Diving the wreck won't hurt you.
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  3109.  @hansdeable  No, we certainly did not "lose the knowhow" of building F1's. Rocketdyne has designs for upgraded versions of F1's and will gladly build you some if you pony up the cash. This myth of "lost knowledge" is recurring bullshit on the internet and it's just not true. We can even build a steam engine if we want; there just aren't any customers for that tech these days.
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  3110. Good to have as an ally. As with the US Marines, "no greater friend, no worse enemy".
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  3111.  @jwenting  Tru dat
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  3112. Where are Commander McHale and Ensign Parker? And Grouper? Loved that show.
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  3113. Shouldn't a thousand deaths be labeled "kilodeath" instead of "megadeath"? Just askin', since I still use Freedom Units...
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  3114.  @cythefox7510  Well that explains the problem. I'll take Japanese-made rail equipment any day.
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  3115. I would prefer not to see Drach take such a needless risk.
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  3116. It's too bad the booster won't live, but then again, which rocket does?
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  3117. That latin beat is called the "Dem Bow Riddim" and it's been around forever. Apparently original thoughts are not values in that genre. I always liked how hiphop is all about coming up with new beats, but whatever that Latin genre is called these days is just monotonous.
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  3118. Not just WWI if you're an Iraqi army vet.
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  3119. Is there a source for this? I'd like to read more. I've also heard the frigate Constellation (the 1854 one currently in Baltimore's Inner Harbor) was also activated during WWII for some sort of picket duty or as a communications relay or something. God that would've sucked to lose Constitution to a U-boat torpedo.
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  3120. In the 50s and 60s Robert Heinlein wrote sci fi stories such as "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" where he described lunar colonies getting water ice from underground mining. Seems like he may have been onto something with that guess.
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  3121. The Eagle took battle damage without being shot down. It was even returned to service after repairs.
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  3122. Notice in real life that the bigger the flying creature is, the slower it tends to flap its wings. A bald eagle vs. a honeybee for example. The machines in Dune are certainly cool-looking, but I imagine a machine capable of doing that would be horribly uncomfortable to ride in due to the vibration. For how they were used in the film, it seems a conventional helicopter would make more sense.
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  3123. Everybody crazy about a well-cooked ham!
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  3124.  Tucsoncoyote 2019  Can't let it go, can you?
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  3125. 11:50 we are at 2216 S. Wallace St. looking across at what is now the Mark Sheridan Math & Science Academy. The school and the entrance and parking area to the right are still there on google maps street view, but some work has been done as the window frames today look different and the fence is also different, but it's definitely the place.
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  3126. Sounds interesting. Can you tell us more about this? Is there a picture somewhere?
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  3127. Pretty sure they based the video on that film. Sure goes good with metal.
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  3128. Robert Heinlein wrote a classic sci fi story about swamps and plantations on a colonized Venus. It's called Logic of Empire and it's about a guy who gets drunk and accidentally signs up as an indentured servant to a colony company, who ships him to Venus and puts him to work in miserable circumstances. Obviously written before the facts of Venus were known, but a great story. It's in the book Green Hills of Earth IIRC.
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  3129.  @peterebel7899  That's not what I wrote at all, if you can't handle basic reading comprehension why bother even posting.
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  3130. Happy Birthday, US Marines. Semper FIdelis!
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  3131.  @de-173  Kill the wabbit!
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  3132. One riot, one Ranger.
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  3133. I think I read somewhere that super aces were rare among the US and British pilots because after a certain number of combat missions they'd usually be rotated out, usually to become instructors, while in the German and Japanese forces the best pilots were usually flown until the war ended or they were killed or rendered unable to fly. One wonders if the likes of Richard Bong or Chuck Yeager were left to fly and fight as long as possible how many kills they might've racked up.
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  3134. It's brutally beautiful. You can feel the sea spray on your face looking at it, and being in black and white just makes the mood.
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  3135.  @neiloflongbeck5705  If the only jets available are ground attackers which may also have guns and/or Sidewinders, then you send those. USMC Harriers are primarily attack jets but will fly CAP for an amphibious squadron when necessary (the latest AV-8B upgrades do have radar and are capable of carrying the AMRAAM even, though.)
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  3136. Charo, now there's a blast from the past. Cuchi Cuchi!
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  3137.  @sister_bertrille911  She's more talented than Neil Young skill wise for sure.
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  3138. The mentioning of Bessel Functions suddenly gave me a flashback to my darkest college days...
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  3139. 4:15 Is that Adolph Galland, fighter ace, walking alongside Goering?
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  3140.  @MarkFeltonProductions  I read his book years ago, quite a character.
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  3141. Just for fun somebody should autotune a Rick Beato monolog, like all those "autotune the news" videos ten years ago lol.
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  3142. The last full-scale conflict against a peer enemy the US faced was a good 70 years ago. Since then, every war the US finds itself in needs something like an A-10. The minute the A-10 gets retired the Army will find itself wanting. Honestly, the A-1 Skyraider, as old and slow and out of date as it is, would've found good use in the last 2 decades had it remained in service.
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  3143. I was partial to Gowron myself.
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  3144. OMG I almost forgot about those Shreds vids! About Whiplash, though, the thing about movies like this is that musicians were going to hate on it no matter how "realistic" it was. This is not a movie for snobs and nitpickers of technical details, it's a movie that uses a fictional music school setting to tell a good story about obsession on the part of both a student and his teacher, and how destructive it can be. Fletcher is obviously a manipulative, abusive jerk, but Neiman is also a horrible person, and actually chooses to be so, showing his family disrespect, ditching his girlfriend as an abstraction, and deliberately buying into Fletcher's worldview, almost like Anakin Skywalker choosing to follow Palpatine. He deliberately lets Fletcher help him ruin his life for the dream of being the greatest drummer. It is pretty funny that he admires Buddy Rich, who was a top notch asshat in real life, as abusive as Fletcher and an opinionated jerk to boot. Anyway, it's not a movie for musicians. Nobody cares what musicians think. It's a movie for people who love good storytelling.
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  3145.  @JonathanNagel  How is Fugazi not a rock band?
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  3146.  @jupitard  Punk rock is, by definition, rock.
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  3147. Wish away the stupid coronavirus.
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  3148.  @ArchieOnEarth  Same
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  3149.  @briancrawford8751  The joke is funny but my first computer was a British-designed Timex/Sinclair 1000 from around 1982, and I still have it.
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  3150. 4:13 what a cool looking TV
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  3151. You're just making that up to justify your own violent fantasies.
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  3152. Carry 20+ tons of up mass along with 7 crew and then return 7+ people to a soft runway landing along with another huge payload? Not really. Space Shuttle was expensive and dangerous, but it was way more capable than anything else.
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  3153. Eat well, my hardies, for tonight, we dine while watching Drachinifel!
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  3154. Good timing on this video; I just started binge-watching Boardwalk Empire on Prime and 1920s bootlegging is a major subject.
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  3155. Encyclopedia Feltonnica
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  3156. The inly improvement in passenger comfort today is the ban on smoking. But even here they had a separate smoking lounge. IN every other respect flying today sucks more than it used to.
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  3157. They were trying to build a rocket without Von Braun's help, so they only half knew what they were doing.
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  3158.  @absalomdraconis  True, it failed at its goals of safety and cost effectiveness. But it was still a technical marvel and was truly an awesome thing to see in action. I'd say it's not bad for a first-ever spaceplane. Hopefully the data from it will be useful in the future. X-37 is likely already benefitting from it.
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  3159. Back in the 1990s John Dupont, heir to the Dupont family fortune, murdered an Olympic wrestler on his estate in Delaware. He was known to support the sport of wrestling, among others, and frequently had wrestlers as guests, I think he had a gym on the property. Turned out the guy was going crazy; he used to have a de-mil'd Sherman tank that he would drive around his mansion grounds and knock over small trees and stuff with it. He died in prison in 2010.
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  3160. What you're describing here is the virtue of respecting people's right to freedom of speech, as opposed to shouting down, bullying, or outright censoring of people with ideas currently described as "misinformation/disinformation". Unfortunately, many people in powerful positions have decided to go the censorship route lately, free speech rights be damned. This will only backfire later, since being censored only reinforces the belief that one's ideas are largely correct, else why would the opposition go to such lengths to silence you.
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  3161.  @TomStorey96  I'm not going to bother reading your whole book-length post. Either you believe in freedom of speech, even speech you hate (which you label "misinformation"), or you don't. Clearly you don't.
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  3162. I'm happy to see Triumph not getting left out. Such a great band.
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  3163. There are 50 states, and each state's congressmen want a piece of the pie. That's why NASA has centers in so many states instead of just putting it all at Cape Canaveral where it belongs.
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  3164.  @cassgraham7058  RL-10 is also only ood for upper stage use.
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  3165. I played once with a guitarist who was always too loud and would get all butthurt when the venue asked him to turn down. If people are holding their ears and leaving when you play, you need to get a clue. That counts for rehearsal; I shouldn't need a hearing exam after every practice. On top of that he once broke a string on a Strat and tried to finish the song with his guitar horribly out of tune, then we had to stop and wait for him to change a string and tune up, on stage, at full volume. I was so embarrassed I almost quit the band on the spot. Fortunately he quit not long after that. How many pet peeves is that? Here's another one: I play bass, and I've had idiot guitarists tell me my bass is too loud, even when my amp is turned off. Here's another one: young metalhead guitarists who want to shred like Yngwie but can't play a simple 12 bar blues.
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  3166. "Compared to 70 dollars for a Thompson" wow imagine only paying 70 buck for a class 3 Chicago Typewriter today...
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  3167.  @haldorasgirson9463  That's a good point, the media really covered for Roosevelt, seriously withholding critical information about the Democrat president's issues during the election season. Good thing they'd never do that these days, right?
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  3168. "24 million Isaac Newtons" sounds like a Rick and Morty episode lol
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  3169. Great video about an obscure jet that deserves to be remembered.
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  3170. Some Coltrane and some Miles
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  3171. You can choose not to buy it all you want, but it's documented history. So go stand in the corner, stomp your feet, wrap a wet towel around your head and suck your thumb if you like, it's still true, yelling and cursing isn't going to change that any more than whining about blue will make the sky change colors.
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  3172.  @davidschwartz5127  Triggered much?
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  3173.  @notapound  For another take, there is a documentary about the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile out there, where they describe a fly-off (or is it a shootout?) between the Sidewinder and the Falcon. The Falcon showed up at the airfield with a crew of technicians and required a lot of prep before flight, whereas the Sidewinder was much easier to handle by ordinance men arming the aircraft. The Sidewinder, of course, also requires a lot less electronic support from the shooting aircraft, doesn't even need a radar, and so it was easier to get accepted by the users. The Falcon later evolved into the AIM-54 Phoenix used on the F-14 Tomcat, and was reportedly very successfully employed by the Iranians against the Iraqi air force in the 1980s. Different tools for different jobs.
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  3174.  @babboon5764  I believe that's common in a lot of T-tail designs.
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  3175. Or his helpful cousin, Technology Suggestions.
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  3176. The footage of those reentry vehicles coming in always reminds me of Atari Missile Command. Which is a little nostalgic and a little nightmarish at the same time.
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  3177.  @Keystone_Investigations  why not both?
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  3178.  @Keystone_Investigations  And the Lone Gunmen.
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  3179. FCC has no sway in the UK.
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  3180. Most news stories on the web have no proof reading either.
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  3181. Along with the M1911 pistol, the M2 is one of John Moses Browning's greatest inventions.
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  3182.  @rrob692326  Even the Iowa class battleships, 80 years old and retired, are faster than their published speeds. Same with the old Essex class carriers. When the engine room kicks them in the ass they will eek out a few extra knots of speed, and the Navy was just fine not bragging about it in public.
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  3183. He needn't worry. Nobody will hold him accountable.
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  3184.  @puzzled012  Ask your grandma about him.
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  3185.  @left4twenty  Now you're just being silly.
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  3186.  @johnnash5118  After the initial scare, all that would accomplish is pissing off the American public even more and ensuring that Japan loses harder. Similar to the way that strategic bombing in Europe, despite massive damage, utterly failed to live up to the Douhet theory that bombing would pressure the civilian populace to rise up and overthrow their rulers, thus ending the war.
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  3187.  @robertdurham7039  USS Nassau LHA-4 in a wild winter storm above the Arctic Circle. Waves over the flight deck 70 ft above the waterline, airplanes and vehicles straining at their tiedown chains, weather decks secured to keep idiots from washing overboard, ship rolling to scary angles, propellers cavitating and shaking the ship every time the ship pitched. Watching destroyers dive almost completely underwater and then bob up so you can see their keel. Crazy times. Can't imagine being on one of those destroyers.
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  3188.  @Shindiggity Who pissed in your Wheaties this morning?
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  3189.  @peteranderson037  Who hurt you?
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  3190. Stuff like this keeps this channel alive and interesting. I'll probably never play Pat Matheny's guitar stuff, but I enjoy studying chords, and I enjoy watching Rick geek out over it.
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  3191. Back in the 90s I was listening to the radio with my dad when the jackass living a few hundred yards in front of our porch with a giant antenna hanging from his tree keyed his mic and started blasting over the station we were listening to. I recognized his voice. Don't know what he was doing on the FM band but it only lasted a few seconds.
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  3192. 15:00 I used to live near a Navy base where they flew P-3 Orions, and it's nice to see an Orion so clean and shiny as this.
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  3193.  @justasimpleguy7211  Yes it is. Trust me.
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  3194. A toilet specialist? What was his navy rating, Toilet's Mate Third Class?
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  3195.  @LuvBorderCollies  How would you know? Were you on the Mount Hood when she blew up? Fact is, whatever happened, it happened because of something someone on the ship did.
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  3196. Don't forget the epic Baba Booey prank played on Peter Jennings live on national TV.
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  3197.  @sheevone4359  "...like a million civilizations..." is more like it I'm thinking
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  3198. This actually makes me a bit nostalgic for the cars of that era. My mom drove a 79 Chevy Impala and that car was nice and comfortable, her dad drove a 78, almost identical. Both were decent cars. The weird thing about remembering cars from years ago is that I can still vividly remember the smell of the upholstery in every vehicle me or my parents ever owned, odd.
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  3199. Ligeti for the win.
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  3200. This is awesome, actually having one of the band members in the vid. Now, do this with Alex Lifeson! I really didn't know much about this band, but it reminds me of some of the best 80s metal, the beat, vocals, harmonized guitars, and that bass tone is like Queensryche on one of their good days.
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  3201. I second this, Drach, this awareness of your own thinking process speaks well of you.
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  3202. When Monty Python designs a nuclear weapon.
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  3203. I think the composition it was used in is copyrighted.
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  3204.  @szurketaltos2693  That's what I would do if I visited Japan.
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  3205. Balloon flying may be risky, but you're already doing tourism in Egypt, so what's a bit more risk?
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  3206. Large amounts of moving water is a terrifying thing, the forces involved are staggering. I can't believe anyone had the guts to go back into the other building after this happened. If I had seen those cracks forming that wall I would've immediately noped out and made a run for it. Interesting thing is that looking at this on google maps I don't see any trace of the old canal jumping out, usually you can see some evidence of stuff like that but the whole neighborhood looks different than the map you put on screen. The 1950s wasn't that long ago after all.
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  3207.  @genephillips4809  Right. Then, in a couple of years, when ads start showing up on Premium, you can upgrade to "Super Premium" and on and on.
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  3208. After the Fire's cover of Der Kommissar needs to be on this list. The writer, Falco, was pretty well known, but his best song became a hit in the US when it was covered.
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  3209. They did preserve the Nipper Building at least, turned it into apartments and offices, and kept the tower with the stained glass window that has the RCA dog and record player logo.
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  3210. I'm pretty sure this was a Twilight Zone episode.
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  3211. We can track you from your brainwaves as long as you don't wear your tinfoil hat. We NWO types are smart like that.
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  3212.  @Anvilshock  Let's see, you wrote this on Wednesday. Maybe from now on, let's make Wednesday your "not dumb day" so you don't make posts like that, what do you say there, chief?
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  3213. On any mission, the CSM main engine would be tested on course correction maneuvers during the outbound trip to the Moon, and if it fails to work, you can use the LEM descent engine to return home, which is what happened to Apollo 13.
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  3214.  Megas Pantelos  Japan lost the war. Destroying the records was pure spite.
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  3215. "Buffers? Yeah, buffers, Senator, we got lots of buffers."
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  3216. The swipe against Beatty. Priceless.
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  3217. I remember this on the news, the footage of the gunfight was crazy. I wonder what the hell makes guys like this tick. "Hey man, how's the leg work doing at the gym today? BTW, want to suit up in armor and weapons and go rob some banks? Cool, me too! Let's get a beer and hang out."
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  3218. 14:18 "Mynocks, chewing on the power cables."
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  3219.  @bjorntorlarsson  Nice.
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  3220. Question: were the objects full RTGs or were they the strontium cans removed from the rest of the RTG assembly? Is a fully assembled unit dangerous to be near or is the shielding on it good? And if these orphan sources were removed from the RTG, who did the removing and why leave them in the woods?
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  3221.  @deblou7  All over the internet? You mean like aliens and ghosts and Bigfoot stories?
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  3222. It's the Mythbusters mod.
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  3223.  @laserkitty3820  And Fort Mercer across the river from Philly, where the Hessians got to eat a loser sandwich good and hard with ketchup and hot sauce.
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  3224.  @joeo.4546  If he was crossing the other way he would've been able to afford the toll.
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  3225. 16:57 Well, technically, Top Gun is a movie about naval combat, so we'll allow it.
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  3226.  @janvanv  Kind of like on the East Coast we affectionately refer to Philadelphia as "Filth-a-delphia" when the smog gets up over the city and the hot afternoon sky turns yellowish as you drive over the bridge from New Jersey.
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  3227. It's a good design, but it's still built by potato-drinkers like the guy who drilled a hole through one a couple of years back.
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  3228. "If you find a missile like this, please don't try firing it, it will probably explode in your face." Got it, thanks. I'll remember that next time I'm wandering around in the woods or digging through my mom's garage. ;-)
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  3229.  @markfryer9880  If they were smart Boeing (who owns Douglas now) would restart production.
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  3230. Even better, Geddy's Ric live tone on, say, Exit Stage Left, or his studio tone on Circumstances. Legendary bass sound, wish he had never quit using that bass. Let me also add the tone from Countdown, the last Rush studio track to feature Geddy's Rickenbacker, and a glorious tone it is.
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  3231.  @mightyV444  As I've grown older I appreciate Grace Under Pressure more and more as the masterpiece that it is. It's now one of my favorite albums and represents that part of the 80s perfectly. The bright sound and the dark themes and the sophisticated music that puts it above most of the New Wave era.
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  3232. I always thought one the things that makes Hell's Bells a great song was that steady A under the main riff, which is played on guitar at the beginning and then the bass line picks it up, it ground the song and drives it like an unstoppable freight train. Also, that piece in the beginning of this vid? Can we all agree that J.S. Bach is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicians of all time? Can you imagine how awesome it would be for him to be alive today doing movie soundtracks and stuff? Bach never fails to make my hair stand on end.
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  3233. What saved Jake was being a good guy and stopping a rape. Loved that film. If I remember correctly I saw it just after the 9/11 attacks, so it was filmed in the months leading up to it.
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  3234. 20:32 That photo of President and Mrs. Carter is interesting. On the far right, the older man standing and looking straight at the camera is Admiral Hyman Rickover, the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", basically responsible for all US Navy nuclear power. He personally met and vetted every nuclear power officer in the Navy during his career, including the man standing to his right, Jimmy Carter, who was a Navy nuclear engineer back in the day. Apparently Mr. Carter was deemed satisfactory by Adm. Rickover and therefore permitted to serve as a nuclear officer in Rickover's beloved Navy.
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  3235.  @jimsmith7212  Of course, banana is also a unit of radiation, too, bananas do it all!
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  3236. He fired three missiles in quick succession.
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  3237. He was protecting the galaxy from the ideological contagion.
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  3238.  @invadervim9037  No, he used a sextant.
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  3239. My brother still has his GI Joe "X-14" Tomcat toy.
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  3240.  @sohrabroozbahani4700  Look it up. It was a fighter designed to keep up with the B-70 Valkyrie bomber, at Mach 3 speeds. Never got built, but it was big, in the league of the A-12 and SR-71.
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  3241. Every Polish joke I ever heard came from the Polish half of my family. My grandfather knew a million of them, my uncle still does.
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  3242.  @FlyinRaptorJesus  NYC and LA being the worst offenders.
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  3243. 2:00 an ad for an electric car. Take that, Tesla.
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  3244.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Get ready for the flood of junk you're gonna get sent now that you've posted that address lol!
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  3245. One of the all time best carrier films.
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  3246. Split jetpipe became important for another Hawker product, the Harrier.
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  3247.  @simong9067  Fair enough. Family resemblance is there, though.
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  3248. In the novel Red Mars they used an airship. The author is pretty hard sci fi, but I still question it.
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  3249.  @headcrab4090  Obviously it's meant for overland travel, not tunnels.
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  3250. Can Rick actually play that bad?
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  3251. Surprised to see so many decent tracks for once.
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  3252. Mr. Ed. Who she ate.
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  3253. "Late stage capitalism" Oh brother another one
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  3254. IIRC the Sparrow was pretty successful in the 1991 Gulf War, having had 20 years of improvements to both the system and training of the maintenance and air crews. That was the last hurrah for the AIM-7.
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  3255. Aaaaand again my comment was deleted
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  3256.  @alastairbarkley6572  The F-35B does not use a Pegasus engine; it uses a geared lift fan. Not sure who builds the engine, might be RR. I remember there was a political battle to make sure two builders were contracted to make sure supply wouldn't stop if one were grounded, but I don't think that ever got through.
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  3257.  @thelettuceconsumer  I wonder what they'll call it when they hit AIM-9Z and run out letters. The current Hueys and Cobras flown by the Marine Corps are Z models.
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  3258. @ So maybe if the government pays for more woke Sesame Street in Iraq the rockets will work better? Makes sense, I guess.
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  3259. There is a famous photograph shot from inside a bomber looking down at another B-17 that had just had part of its empennage sheared away by a bomb dropped by a bomber above it. The bomb didn't explode, it just passed right through the horizontal stabilizer. The stricken bomber lost control and crashed. It was in a history book and I can't remember if any of the crew survived.
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  3260. Nobody ever considered a Gulf Coast invasion to be a threat. It was an exercise deigned to test theories and Louisiana just happened to be the area of the US chosen to play the fictional battleground. Nobody in Washington was ever worried about Cuban troops invading. Rather, they were worried about the spread of toxic far-left ideology in the Western Hemisphere, which represented a long-term threat to Western Civilization in general and to the US in particular. The US has always had a vested interest in suppressing malign influences in its hemisphere, a policy going back to the Monroe Administration (look up the Monroe Doctrine). China's current policy towards Central and South America show the foolishness of relaxing the Monroe Doctrine. All of your nonsense about how the US should sit idly by while neighboring nations become hotbeds of socialist dictatorships hostile to Western society can be safely ignored by thinking individuals.
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  3261. Cruise may get to space and even hang around astronauts, but that doesn't mean the movie will be in any way accurate. Seen it too many times before where they ignore the technical advisors and make films with garbage physics anyway.
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  3262.  @mikesmnell414  Stop feeding the nazi troll. Look at his avatar.
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  3263. Drinker, this is the best postmortem for a beloved franchise I've heard yet. I raise a cold one with you from the USA.
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  3264.  @ClickItYT  Hopefully this will energize my pun game and light up the thread.
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  3265. For anyone who wants to see a B-47 on screen, look up the movie Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart.
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  3266. I knew the USAF used them but I didn't know there were still some B-57's actively flying.
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  3267. Or Amtrak.
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  3268. Silver boosters? Because they look awesome. See the Atlas IIAS for an example.
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  3269.  @bobroberts2371  Wow, I think I remember that cover. I used to subscribe to that magazine.
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  3270.  @rudithedog7534  Take two American 18 year-olds, one joins the Marines and the other goes straight to college. 2 years later they have wildly different attitudes and outlooks.
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  3271. There are no gloves. They strut around with their knuckles and fangs visible to all, fearless.
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  3272. The astronomical methods are difficult to use on a pitching ship under cloud cover, but they are useful to surveyors for mapping out territory on land where you can use a steady tripod and have enough patience to wait for a clear night sky.
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  3273. Dazed and Confused was a Yardbirds cover, which was Page's old band. He started Led Zeppelin as a way of restarting the Yardbirds but they changed their name to Led Zeppelin and became a new band.
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  3274. It is, but I doubt any stories from people claiming to bring back pictures of Hitler. For starters, the Navy went through it pretty thoroughly decades ago when the wreck was discovered, mainly to remove as many munitions as possible (some are still there, inaccessible, including at least one live torpedo warhead). Since then, the wreck has been dived on by thousands of people. Getting inside the sub is dangerous and stupid, as the hatch openings are very narrow and the wreck is deep for a sport dive, at 110 feet, so going inside means removing your dive rig and pulling it in behind you, while only having about 8-10 minutes of bottom time. Also, not sure, but I think it may be illegal to remove anything from inside the wreck, could be wrong about that.
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  3275. That's a good question, would have to look that up. I know the Navy removed whatever human remains they found inside and repatriated them to Germany, and after removing as many munitions as they could access, cleared it for sport diving. Like I said before, I'm sure about the legal stuff, and I have no interest in going inside a dark, tiny space at such a depth anyway, so I've never worried about it. You can swim along the entire length of the boat outside, it's a pretty neat thing to see.
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  3276. My band covered this song and I don't think any of us really noticed all these little details, this is great. I play bass, so I don't really pay too much attention to the guitar parts, but it's fascinating to see what that second rhythm guitar is doing, playing the third on the E chord, and the whole thing with the delay on the piano is fantastic. Thanks for helping us get through Quarantine 2020, Rick!
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  3277.  @pikachuchujelly7628  I love Heinlein's hard sci fi but I don't know what he was thinking with that one.
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  3278.  @PlainlyDifficult  Right after 9/11 we had the anthrax postal attacks, and then the DC sniper attacks. Everyone speculated that they could be linked, but they weren't, nor were they ignored. The sniper attacks in particular scared everyone because they were so random. People were fueling their cars while trying to hide behind their engine blocks or other structures, people were afraid to walk across a parking lot and put groceries in the car trunk at markets, etc. And anyone driving a white van or truck was absolutely going to get pulled over and checked out by a cop, no matter what. In the end it turned out to be two dirtbags in a blue car.
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  3279.  @grahamstrouse1165  Frontline is all political now. But 15 years or so ago it had good stuff.
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  3280. A side note to Iridium is that the first collision between two satellites was between an Iridium vehicle and an old Russian satellite in 2009.
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  3281.  @seanp9277  Were they, though? Or were they just lucky in this case? And even if the carrier's radar wasn't pointing in that direction, wouldn't the radar from the escorts help cover the gap?
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  3282. I always liked this airplane. It looks a lot like a miniature version of the RB-45 bomber, which had a similar wing shape, tail, and 4-engine layout.
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  3283.  @egyeneskifli7808  Don't try to tell write us what kind of joke limericks we're allowed to make fun mock.
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  3284.  @mightyV444  I don't think Moving Pictures is all Jazz, is it? I thought for sure Camera Eye is a Rickenbacker, and maybe Red Barchetta? Sounds like it anyway. As far as I've heard, his last studio use of the Rickenbacker was on Signals. Subdivisions, Analog Kid, and Countdown are Rickenbacker. I think the rest is the Jazz. Exit Stage Left there is no question, a sublime sound.
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  3285. Done. The Harrier and the F-35 can both fly at zero knots.
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  3286. 'Twas a good looking ship.
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  3287. New Glenn's plan: it's a bold strategy, Cotton.
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  3288. Well, she is a huge figure in modern jazz. And also a killer bass player.
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  3289.  @Peter_S_  That's pretty horrible.
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  3290.  @Marcg-b4n  I am former Marine. My dad was Navy. Out of respect for my dad and my Navy buddies I say ship.
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  3291. A Lerxst fan thread? Count me in! And my pick for obscure Lifeson solo would be Between the Wheels.
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  3292.  @timothyreff6750  Yeah, lots of Tool songs. Sober is a great one, too, bass chord city on a Rickenbacker!
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  3293. Amazing that all those fighters couldn't intercept a Concorde. I'm guessing that because the Concorde can sustain high speed for hours compared to minutes for most supersonic jets?
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  3294.  @kevincrosby1760  Unlike God, Darwin works in predictable ways.
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  3295. Alliteration always amazes and arouses all aviators.
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  3296. Hopefully the Mudders of the Belt will erect a statue of our Big Damn Hero Amos someday. "Ain't nobody ever had a statue made of him that wasn't one kind of sumbitch or another." - Capt. Reynolds
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  3297. Love Carmen's voice. One of the best ever Beato vids was when you had her and her I9 guitarist on singing live. Made my hair stand on end.
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  3298. The plus side of being in his position is that the assassins who killed three presidents never bothered targeting Hay.
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  3299. Bet that poor guy's ear is ringing to this day.
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  3300. To make good binocular images, you'd want the two scopes to be spaced far apart. For really distant stuff, you'd want them to be on opposite sides of the solar system, just for starters.
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  3301. In the Bugs Bunny cartoon, the tortoise wins by tricking the hare into getting himself arrested and taken to jail. This would be the equivalent of Jeff using lawfare tactics against Elon lol.
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  3302. Skow clap, sir.
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  3303. The sound of an early 70s Chevy turn signal is strangely nostalgic to me, as is the smell of pre-catalytic convertor car exhaust whenever a classic car passes by.
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  3304. Drach, you. Are. Awesome. I think Tide deserves a 5 minute guide!
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  3305.  @somedude4805  Nope. Figured you were referring to 2001: A Space Odyssey. When it comes to space sims I'm an old Orbiter guy.
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  3306. I think that the inexperience the US Navy suffered from at that earlier stage might've wound up with the battleships taking torpedo hits and possibly being lost.
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  3307.  @mfd70  If you are broadcasting in the clear and talking about UFOs, that's like talking in a movie theater about the guy with the bomb out in the parking lot on his way in. The law sounds pretty stupid to me. If you don't want to be intercepted than encrypt your stuff the way a lot of police departments have done in recent years.
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  3308. I was talking to someone about how much I love my vinyl collection. He said, "I love vinyl, too. It just sounds better than digital!". I told I liked vinyl because of the cover art and cool old equipment, but I'm an engineer and CDs, properly mastered, will always beat vinyl for reproduced sound. He got all aggro with me and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. Whatevs.
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  3309.  @billysgeo  That's exactly what an alien would want us to think.
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  3310.  @Yvolve  Last word
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  3311. They were stealing bandwidth. Using communications service without paying for it. Similar to phone phreaking in recent decades, where people figured out how to go to a pay phone booth and get free long distance calls in the 1970s.
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  3312. 19:09 I have a bad feeling that that dog is probably dead and taxidermized, since I can't imagine a dog well-trained enough to sit still for a slow speed photograph. Even with a high speed modern film or digital it's hard to take photos of pets.
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  3313.  @tybofborg  "Did you say explode? I don't want to explode."
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  3314. We need that giant wheel station from 2001: A Space Odyssey, along with the nuclear-powered moon shuttle that gets you to Tyco Station.
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  3315. The Eagles should get exactly what they want: zero mentions, zero attention. Let them be forgotten by the Internet.
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  3316. I think ULA made a poor decision to rely on Blue Origin for their engines, but hopefully I'll be proven wrong.
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  3317. Thanks. It's a great photo, considering the photographer is in front of the advancing troops. There is a painting, possibly by Charles Waterhouse, of US Marines making a rare modern bayonet assault to retake a position outside of Khe Sanh in 1968 which looks very similar, even the viewpoint is from approximately the same angle.
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  3318. Also, Sleep is a great power trio.
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  3319. Can't wait for the follow-up on this. That photo of the F-4 Phantom jets on the deck near the end is epic. The Essex class carriers also served long, into the 70s.
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  3320. I am loving this channel more each week. I have long been a fan of 1960s era Cold War fighter jets.
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  3321.  @tinaturnerization  "Whispers when she sings" Yeah, aside from the fact that you didn't pay attention to the video, which is filled with conventional singing, whispering into a mic is great if you can make it work, it's one of the great things about electric amplification. And Kurt was great, but he wasn't that much more special than any other rock star in the end. He had great talent, but deification is not healthy. Let's hope Eilish avoids the depression issues he had.
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  3322. Why not? No Mexican War means Mexico isn't resentful, and no secession means no Civil War, no dead 750,000 Americans, and slavery ends peacefully like in every other Western nation.
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  3323. Because secrets can't be kept forever by so many people.
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  3324. RIP Jeff Quitney's channel
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  3325. +smoke rain It's all rock and roll to me.
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  3326. Jasper Tan That's a good point. Although Uranium Maiden or Plutonium Maiden would make good band names as well.. 
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  3327. JPJ makes everything look easy.
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  3328. Daniel Thompson Well the US is even ready to fight a war with itself if need be, it even did once about 150 years ago. 
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  3329. The Davey Crockett was basically a neutron bomb. The burst of radiation would kill enemy troops; the blast itself was a bonus. If it landed close enough to take out some enemy vehicles through heat and blast, so much the better.
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  3330. Dark5 is the only one I like, mainly for the creepy music and lack of annoying voiceovers, and the subjects are usually interesting.
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  3331. This is from 1978, and Piscopo was on SNL around 1980, so they are actually about the same age. Maybe it's his twin, separated at birth lol.
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  3332. +ElfNet Gaming Meh, Bell Labs did in-house research for their own benefit. The military was but one customer of many.
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  3333. To vary the difficulty, you could've made the pocket hole bigger, and then insert liners to reduce the size for more of a challenge. Very cool table, BTW, I've thought of doing this on a miniature golf course.
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  3334. Yes, I remember that.
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  3335. +TMJ It's actually just late for 2015.
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  3336. ***** Scrotor and interosciter are absolutely related words, but you have to be a fan of MST3K to get it. 
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  3337. This video showed up on my "recommended" list...I have no idea what I'm watching.
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  3338. +RiaRadioFMHD773 Time is an abstract concept, so in a sense, humans did invent it. I think that's what he's getting at.
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  3339. No mention of Gary Seven...
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  3340. Dolphin dicks, to be precise.
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  3341. We need to pay them back. Next time I see a dolphin getting mugged while flopping about on land I will rush to his aid.
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  3342. According to Wikipedia, Bondarenko was trapped inside the chamber for 30 minutes because the pressure of the heated air held the hatch closed. Same thing happened to Apollo 1, but in that case the O2 content was 100% and the astronauts were killed before the hatch could be opened. Also, Apollo 1's pressure vessel cracked under the high pressure and allowed the hatch to open sooner, but it was too late.
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  3343. Karyn Kupcinet, if that's an actual photo of her, was hot.
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  3344. The LM used a SNAP-27 radioisotopic thermoelectric generator (RTG) for power. There is a photo of Apollo-14's RTG sitting on the surface of the moon after the crew unloaded it from the spacecraft on Wikipedia.
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  3345. The Shining
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  3346. Ships on paper are one thing, but when they fight for real it only takes one lucky hit to change the whole equation. As boxer Mike Tyson says, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
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  3347. sigh...oh Russia...
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  3348. Oasis and other Britpop bands are kind of in a different category, because they were very far separate from the American Seattle grunge scene and also from the LA bands like Tool. Oasis & Blur mostly had their fanbase in the UK. I was in high school in the 80s and I remember all of this happening in my early 20s. By the end of the 80s I was so sick of "glam metal" (we didn't call it hair metal until later) and was glad to hear new stuff, but I hated how the music industry just overnight killed off all the good along with the bad. Alt rock didn't get big on its own, it was made big by those running the business, and in 2000 it was made irrelevant by the same business.
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  3349. Stukas practice bombing a silhouette of Illustrious. Kind of like a voodoo doll for a ship and bombs for pins.
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  3350. 2:38 The cover art on that Cityscape album is awesome.
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  3351. SO then, either there was no warning on the machine saying, "DO NOT OPEN THIS YOU KNUCKLEHEAD YOU WILL DIE", or the warning that was on the machine was not explicit enough for said knuckleheads. Also, if I ever go into the scrap metal business I will be extremely careful thanks to stories like this; forewarned is forearmed.
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  3352. There is a punk band from Philadelphia called Spinechain who killed live when I saw them some years ago. I don't know if they are still around but I'd love to see them get some traction.
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  3353. I remember reading Ambrose's history of the Normandy invasion. He said the biggest fear of Piper Cub pilots flying over the beech on spotter missions was that they'd get shot in the testicles since the aircraft has zero armor protection. German troops were taking pot shots at them with rifles and machine guns and sooner or later they'd get a lucky hit, the aircrews reasoned. The solution was to put a small steel plate under the seat cushion, not enough to really protect the crew from anything, but just enough to get the pilot over his fear, however irrational, of getting his balls blown off.
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  3354.  @jackstevens585  The Statue of Liberty has to climb up Chuck Norris.
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  3355.  @AdamSWL  Bust a deal, spin the wheel!
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  3356. Sounds like a job for worker THX-1138.
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  3357. I always wondered how they measured angles from such distant observations. Cool.
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  3358. I hate when they name things "Starship" that obviously will not ever fly to other star systems. There was also a very cool airplane (that was unfortunately a commercial flop) called the Beech Starship as well.
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  3359. I agree, but sometimes I kind of need the dumbed down version, since I feel pretty dumbed down sometimes.
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  3360. Regarding the Super Tomcat, the Navy has really shot itself in the foot over the last 20 years or so. No replacement for the A-6, no true replacement for the F-14, retiring of the S-3 with zero replacement. They are building brand new Ford class carriers which are awesome, but when it comes to aircraft they sold themselves short. The F-35 will be a game changer but it can't fulfill every one of these roles by itself. As an aside, who doesn't love the Tomcat in all its glory? MiG pilots, I guess...
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  3361. A little bit of fallout from a low-yield high-altitude air burst, probably over sparsely populated areas, vs. megaton sized bombs going off over your population centers, it's no contest. The study of nuclear war strategy is the study of extremes.
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  3362. Several states have naval militias today, and others have long-inactive ones. The Pennsylvania Navy is an example of an inactive one; it was very busy during the Revolution and still exists on paper today even though there is physically nothing to it at the moment. Apparently the governor or state legislature could raise it back up if deemed necessary. The active units are mostly made up of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard vets and reservists.
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  3363.  @n0n1337h41  Thanks, and yeah, I figured as much. TANSTAAFL
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  3364. "...nearby nuclear power plant that employs most of its residents." Cool. What could possibly go wrong?
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  3365. I am garbage, and I vote.
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  3366. Americans, let's get our popcorn heated up!
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  3367. 30:50 does anyone know where that dockside coal facility was and where to read about it? Looks like a model railroader's dream.
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  3368. "White male privilege" Oh please, you couldn't just call him a douchebag or something, you had to use politically charged bullshit language instead.
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  3369. As his mom was giving birth, the doctor was like, "It's a....it's a.....it's a.....it's a boy!" But seriously, it's a sad story and another great video, complete with bonus cat cameo!
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  3370. In the American deep south the revolution was often used as a way to justify settling scores in family feuds and got pretty ugly.
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  3371.  @patriciolemus9271  My post was half joking, for those who aren't grasping that.
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  3372.  @Fooney1  Whatever you say, chief.
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  3373. 74 Jailbreak
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  3374. I love 727's, I think they are still sleek and futuristic looking. My dad worked for Delta Airlines when I was growing up. At one point in the 80s I think Delta owned something like 200 727's, and as I used to get a discount, I flew on them a lot. I used to keep a mental note of the numbers on the nose gear door, and I think there was one particular 727 which I flew on multiple times. Delta also owned a ton of DC-8's, which is a whole other classy cool old jetliner.
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  3375.  @burtbacarach5034  Right, the bombers got faster after they dropped their bombs, but the gunship stayed heavy.
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  3376. Look up a 70s band called Fanny. They were awesome and should've been huge.
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  3377.  @SimonVanliew26  You might want to delete your comment, to avoid evidence of being self-owned.
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  3378. Interesting about the delta wing's high speed takeoff and landing requirements being hard on the tires. I remember in the early days of the Space Shuttle, also a delta wing, they had problems blowing tires on the runway after landing, so they added the drag chute, allowing the pilot to go easy on the brakes until the ground speed came down. One of the orbiters experienced a fire on the landing gear during landing. Building an airframe for high speeds has consequences.
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  3379. I thought he was a lance corporal at the time? He was a major sea story in the Air Wing for years.
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  3380. That tower in Prague is actually cool-looking to me, it just doesn't belong in that city, certainly not at that location. And you can ditch the creepy babies, too. But a bunch of buildings in that style clustered together would make a cool futuristic cityscape.
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  3381. Please correct the part where you say there was risk of a 3 megaton blast should the core melt through the floor into the water pooled underneath. That is simply not physically possible. Nuclear accidents are bad enough, there's no need to spread such sensationalist nonsense around; it only calls into question the rest of your research. Good video overall, though.
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  3382. I was at Antietam last year and went to the sunken lane, where a photo had been taken of dead bodies stacked up right where I stood. It's just a dirt road again, manicured by the NPS and marked with little signs. But that photo...
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  3383. What's your theory about that?
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  3384. Radio back in the 80s and early 90s was so much better. I used to work midnight shift and the rock stations would play deep cuts and longer songs at 2 AM, prog rock and instrumental stuff and stuff that hadn't been heard in years. And if you drove around the US, every city's stations were different and each city had a different "radio personality". New York sounded different than Philadelphia which sounded different than Baltimore or DC. Now it's all the same. You have to search the internet to find good music, but streaming is not the same as a radio broadcast. With radio, you know there are people in the cars around you listening to the same thing you are.
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  3385.  @mikepatton8691  Even if you're using AI (which is a misnomer anyway) you still need to practice building, programming, and operating vehicles that land on alien surfaces. AI isn't magic.
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  3386. Dr. Felton, is it possible the torpedo was jettisoned by accident or in an emergency? I have heard of torpedoes whose motors start inadvertently inside the tube and must be immediately discharged to prevent severe damage to the boat. Could this have been what happened aboard I-15 while she was prowling for merchant ships?
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  3387. Apollo 1 accident was 19 years before the Challenger accident, not 15. So the trend is flat at best.
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  3388.  @tinyb69  Nice.
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  3389. That posed photo of Marines at11:25 is pretty cool.
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  3390. Time magazine has been a joke for a long time now, along with lots of other traditional media publications.
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  3391.  @asandax6  You need to quit telling Americans what to do.
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  3392. Once again, Rick, another great interview. I never knew Andy played in Soft Machine, going to have to look that up.
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  3393.  @garetheckley7018  That's just all politics and is guaranteed to turn off half his audience.
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  3394. Goddamn DC-10
    2
  3395. Was going to say something about how tough the times and people were in Kit's day, but now just sad about the History Cat.
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  3396.  @busylivingnotdying  "We"? Are you Hillary Clinton?
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  3397. @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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  3398. It's the bayonet of aerial weapons.
    2
  3399.  @jackp492  I AM THE INTERNET
    2
  3400.  @resignator  Disagree strongly.
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  3401. Yes, it's fun to watch Yngwie play fast. For like a minute. But ask a random person to name a single Yngwie song, then ask them to name as many Pink Floyd songs as they can. I can think of like 25 immediately. Virtuosity is not the same as musicality, and unlike the Olympics, music is an art, not an athletic event.
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  3402. Now if you don't vote the way the mob wants you get defriended from facebook or banned on twitter and labeled a racist.
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  3403. I think Technology Connections did a video on this a few years ago explaining why the sodium lamps were replaced. I have mixed feelings about them. I agree the modern LED lamps can be pretty harsh, but back in the 80s I remember thinking the sodium lamps were kind of a sickly yellow. The streetlamps where I grew up were a softer whitish light of some sort, bright enough for us to play street hockey under but not yellowish. I wish I knew what those were, but they were probably installed in the 60s or 70s.
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  3404.  @Lazarus7000  I'm picturing the psychic tests administered to students by Bill Murray at the beginning of Ghostbusters, with the electric shock for those who fail.
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  3405. That part about the airframe not being strong enough to withstand the failure stands out to me. An aircraft that loses pressurization should not simply disintegrate in midair like that, it should remain flyable until the crew can land it. Think of the 737 where half the roof blew off near Hawaii and the crew still managed to land it safely with only the loss of a single stewardess who had the misfortune of standing near the breach.
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  3406.  @TheKakan1337  Hence "Soviet"
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  3407.  @TheKakan1337  Ukraine was part of the USSR.
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  3408. Well, we all know what Japan's contingency plan is for alien invasion, don't we? Salvage part of battleship Yamato, build a space cruiser equipped with a wave motion gun, and proceed to obliterate the alien invasion fleet.
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  3409. I've always been fascinated by the SAGE system, radar system with networked computers in the 1950s and 60s, with datalinks to F-106 fighter interceptors, it was pretty futuristic in its day and that old school tech is interesting.
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  3410.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Ask anyone who travels along the Northeast Corridor. Trains make a lot of sense there. A train ride from DC to NY takes less time than a plane ride, once you factor in the time to get through security, travel to and from the airports, etc. And being dropped off in downtown instead of an airport 30 miles away means a short taxi ride to your meeting.
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  3411. Check out Bruce Gordon's youtube channel. He is a Vietnam vet who flew the F-102, F-106, and in Vietnam the F-100. He has a more positive opinion of the AIM-4, as long as it is used properly.
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  3412. 1:55 random blimp sighting!
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  3413. Ray Roulstone  How do pelicans know how to push buttons? Why don't they just fly over the road?
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  3414.  @ghoulbuster1  Free health care, you get what you pay for.
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  3415.  @michaelturner4457  So then this guy actually was in violation, even if the authorities handled it wrong?
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  3416.  @michaelturner4457  Okay, makes sense now.
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  3417. Amazing interview. Great work, Drach.
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  3418. I'd love to see Rick do one on Echoes. To me that's my favorite Floyd tune. Especially the Live at Pompeii version, that's pure music heaven right there.
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  3419. This is like the Monty Python sketch "The Importance of Not Being Seen"
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  3420. Yes, an Aegis Iowa class. New Jersey BB-62 would be redesignated as BBG-62 and become an absolute beast! One can dream, right?
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  3421. Mitchell was kind of a jackass. I never knew about the part where he endangered the lives of servicemen assessing bomb damage, that's unforgiveable in my book. I think if a modern US Army or Air Force pulled a stunt like that the Navy or Marine Corps leadership would go on a crusade to make sure he was held accountable. As for his ideas, well, in the early days of aerial warfare there were lots of theories out there about how air power would shape the future, some of which haunt us to this day, Giulio Douhet's strategic bombing theory being a huge example. The USAAF in WWII built entire campaigns around some version of Douhet's theory, and the USAF to this day still believes in it in a limited way, despite history showing us its limitations. Mitchell's half-sane theories on air power fit into this category in my mind.
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  3422.  @johnnypopper-pc3ss  "Blockbuster bombs...ya gotta hit 'em juuust right."
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  3423. 9:45 Intercepted not by a real fighter, but by a US Navy attack jet. LMAO.
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  3424. Would be funny if Rick Beato Live turned out to be a Blocker and blocked the Rick Beato channel.
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  3425. Regarding discipline and punishment, read Saburo Sakai's book. He was a Japanese Navy fighter pilot and his description of pilot training is vivid. Japanese naval aviators were severely trained and beatings were common. The training regimen was very long and the washout rate was very high. They were trained not only as pilots but also in sword fighting and hand to hand combat, and those who made it through were basically considered as samurai. Great book, even if some of his stories are disputed.
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  3426. Kash is why I love legal immigrants. He's a great American patriot and is going to be a great FBI director. Takes no shit and gets things done.
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  3427.  @chrislin2774  How does that make you feel?
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  3428. @kevin barker Over in France they called it the "Royale with Cheese"
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  3429. I was in the Corps in the early 90s and I remember hearing some sea stories about a Lance Corporal who stole an A-4, I always assumed it was BS like most sea stories and there was no internet to look it up on. Kind of shocked to find out it's actually true.
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  3430. I don't think Alonzo ever started off wanting to be a good cop. For him, being a cop put him into an advantageous position to get away with committing crime. He says it to the other cops in the diner about the perp who walked after convincing the judge he was crazy: guy played the game and came out on top, why hold it against him? Alonzo spent his whole career playing the game and getting away with whatever he could.
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  3431.  @nzoomed  He wasn't destined to live a long happy life in any case. Despite being quite smart when it came to chemistry, he was pretty simple-minded about almost everything else. He was very poor at writing and spelling, for example, and when he handled all these hazardous materials he exercised laughably ineffective safety measures, showing up at school with radiation burns on his wrist under his watch and so on, with little concern over what he was doing to himself or his neighbors. His "reactor" was never close to being an actual fission reactor, but it was a stupidly toxic and radioactive pile of hazardous garbage that got hotter as the days went by, irradiating the nearby houses, until he dismantled it and stuck it in trash bags in the trunk of his car like the idiot he was. He later joined the Navy but didn't have the common sense to succeed in that career either.
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  3432. Interesting that the band Yes did, indeed, still exist in 2019. Pan Am and Atari, not so much.
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  3433.  @marcmcreynolds2827  The commando raids were a good idea, but the fact was that Germany never took nuclear weapons as seriously as the UK and US did, and their work on the subject was half-assed by comparison. They never had anything on the scale of the Manhattan Project, and even that took a good three years to produce results.
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  3434. It seems like a lot of effort to make a joke broadcast that isn't even that funny. Risking legal penalties for it doesn't seem a good trade, either. I think the number pirates could be more creative. Make the messages play out some kind of story, maybe, or even some sort of scavenger hunt.
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  3435.  @stanleyrogouski  During the American Revolution there was more than one ship named Oliver Cromwell just to tweak the Brits IIRC. Some states had their own navies so there were overlapping names.
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  3436.  @TheSanityInspector  Exactly. Tons of good music out there but you have to put effort into finding what you want.
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  3437. 33 Thomas St totally looks like it belongs in a Blade Runner film.
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  3438. It's been a while but I think I was there, once.
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  3439. They were the Damned.
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  3440. Skeptical about what? It appears to work, does it not?
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  3441. ​ @adub1300  Apollo had a "commander" and a "command module pilot", so try again.
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  3442.  @Easy-Eight  But the F-111 never had the makings of a varsity Grumman Cat.
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  3443.  @lektwik  Yes? And?
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  3444. He has so many not-normal guitar solos to pick from. Afterimage from Grace Under Pressure is a solo played pretty much with just chords, and sounds so good.
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  3445.  @ukcardcast6711  That's no joke, man!
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  3446. Please tell me the sailor who threw that knife carried it in his teeth while swinging down on a rope from the yard arm. Maybe he even had an eyepatch and a pet parrot.
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  3447. As well as the various state navies of the American War for Independence.
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  3448. It's a copy of the American Project Pluto, which was canceled because it was considered too crazy even by crazy nuclear mad scientists. Apparently it's not too crazy for the Russians.
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  3449. Part of me wants to laugh at this woman, but part of me is just sad. I actually know people like this, two of them in fact, who used to be close friends. 2016 broke one of them, she threatened to end our friendship if I didn't vote for Hillary. I dodged the question and we drifted apart. My other friend was this dude who ignored me over and over when I told him I didn't want to discuss politics, invited me and my girlfriend to dinner at his house, and then cornered me with questions about whether I believed in all the C19 vax stuff and if I thought the 2020 election was on the level. It was creepy, I knew him for years but it's like he had lost his mind and was obsessed with the orange man and all the craziness of the last few years. He no longer responds to my texts or emails, and I find it very upsetting. So back to our crazy woman here, there are no doubt people who love her and wish she could just drop the obsession and go back to being normal. Some of these people disown their own parents and so on, and it's awful. So I hope she comes around soon.
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  3450.  @silentotto5099  They would demolish the tree the sniper was hiding in, and the sniper along with it.
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  3451. @ He indeed understood the assignment.
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  3452. As an American, Manchester makes me think of great post punk bands.
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  3453. 6:00 Tom Hanks faked his death while saving Pvt. Ryan and wound up grabbing a bunch of gold. Accidentally let himself be photographed here.
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  3454. That's a very Battlestar Galactica way of doing things.
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  3455. 1. As soon as I heard they were making a Mad Max film without Max, I decided they were feeding us another woke sandwich and decided I don't want a bite. Maybe it's not woke, but I've been trained to assume it probably is. 2. I don't even know when new movies are being released anymore, because I don't pay attention to ads and frankly don't care much. So I didn't even know this was out.
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  3456. 16:00 Robotron 2084 was also the name of a kickass arcade videogame in the 80s, used to love playing that.
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  3457.  @dcurry7287  Nick seems like the easiest one to get along with, but he's also protective of the Floyd's catalog. If he thought you were actually infringing I imagine he'd take action. I think Rick need not fear Mr. Mason. Record companies on the other hand...
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  3458. So many Tool songs to pick from.
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  3459. The X-15 is one of the coolest airplanes ever built. Not only did it break all those speed and altitude records, it did it while looking good.
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  3460. Never piss into the wind.
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  3461. I like how you measure crew sizes in blokes.
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  3462.  @BobbyIronsights  "Died suddenly" implies that the person was healthy right up to the last day and suddenly has a heart attack or something, as opposed to having a long period of health problems or a slow lingering illness.
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  3463. I want my next car's turn signal to sound like Owen Wilson saying "wow".
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  3464. I grew up not far from Camden. If you were driving up to the Walt Whitman bridge and accidentally took the wrong exit you'd wind up in the hood, with hookers and drug dealers on every corner, streetlights out and every other house burned out, so the only light on the street was from your headlights. I was told by a cop friend that stopping at red lights was a stupid thing to do there, just look both ways, blow the light and get on the next highway ramp out of the area. That was in the 80s.
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  3465.  @toweri_li  Well, there have been airplanes which flew away after the crew bailed out.
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  3466. What is "sensitive" that needs to be redacted? I thought the ISS was all civilian?
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  3467.  @Ye_Old_Grog  No, "we" don't, not when compared to lots of other countries.
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  3468. What makes this song great? It's Rush lol. It's a rainy morning where I'm at, but this makes my morning mood!
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  3469. @JZ's Best Friend Yes, any era. Look at various ships in WWII where hundreds of men all die in the span of a few minutes. Fire, flooding, shrapnel. No thanks. And modern warfare hasn't gotten any nicer. It's cool to be on the winning side, of course, but watch videos of target ships getting hit with modern antiship missiles or torpedoes and count yourself lucky never to experience that sort of abuse up close.
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  3470.  @FeatheredDino  And the P-47 was nicknamed the "Jug" because of its shape. The USAF (and its predecessor the USAAF) has a nasty habit of giving its aircraft names the troops don't like and ignore. B-52 Stratofortress is the BUFF, B-1B Lancer is the Bone, F-16 Fighting Falcon is the Viper, etc.
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  3471.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  You need to surreptitiously introduce some cat purring in the background. Some stealth ASMR.
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  3472. Michelle Pfeiffer: the gold standard for Catwoman.
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  3473. It's cool, but that enormous number of satellites at that altitude there will be a substantial number of failed units that can't be deboosted to a high drag altitude for disposal and will thus create more space junk. Especially considering there are multiple companies doing this.
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  3474. Another vote for the mighty Pennsy, RIP.
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  3475. I used to drive along US Rt. 322 through Pennsylvania just northwest of Harrisburg at night, where it was a high speed 4-lane stretch of highway, and when the mountain fog socked it in it became really scary, not because I can't slow down to drive in fog, but because of all the idiots who think it's okay to blow by me at 75 mph without being able to see far past the hood of the car. I understand risky behavior, especially among young guys who are in a hurry, but the sheer stupidity of some people and failure to foresee the consequences of it amazes me sometimes.
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  3476.  @catatonicbug7522  Or... America is Canada's underpants.
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  3477. My family didn't have a wagon but our friends down the street had a 70s Country Squire with the fake wood paneling. The whole lot of us would pile in and head out to the movies or to cross the river to see a Phillies game at the Vet. The rear-facing back seat with the tailgate window rolled down was a blast going over the Ben Franklin Bridge.
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  3478. Those graphics are fun sometimes. There was a graphic for the now-abandoned Ares V rocket (which morphed into SLS) which showed it with black and white pattern similar to the Saturn V, obviously a ploy to drum up enthusiasm for the project by making it look related to the coolest launch vehicle ever flown.
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  3479. By the 1920s it almost certainly was, "barrel of oil" as a unit has been in use since oil was first drilled in Pennsylvania in the late 1850s.
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  3480. 9:20 If you want us to read it, give us time, please.
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  3481.  @jlivewell  And the Ft. Mercer battlefield.
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  3482. It's the button that signals the start of a toga party in the cabin. Animal House starts playing as the in-flight movie.
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  3483. Thanks for mentioning the unit names, lineage, and current status. Civilians are often unaware of the fact that there are units serving in modern forces that trace their history back to these famous actions, and that the history of their unit helps gives its troops a sense of esprit de corps. The Skyraider is a workhorse of an aircraft, despite being obsolete a couple of Skyraider pilots scored a kill on a MiG jet fighter in Vietnam. The aircraft's high endurance and weapons load would make it a good tool in modern counterinsurgency operations.
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  3484. Great breakdown, and lets me see the song in a different light. I remember when this song was all over the radio. Great instrumentation but I could never stand that guy's voice and all that rap rock stuff was so irritating to me, like Limp Bizkit. Too bad, because the bass and guitar on this song sound awesome.
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  3485.  @hshs5756  But even with that threat, it's tough to stay on the edge for an entire shift without getting fatigued.
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  3486. A few years there was an incident where a fishing boat capsized and sank. A couple of days later divers were searching the wreck assuming they would find only bodies, and they found some guy still alive in an air bubble, trying to stay alive in the cold and complete darkness. They managed to rescue him. There are videos about it.
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  3487. If you have a pitcher full of fixer in a dark room that you are using over and over, using a fixer after developing but before fixing helps extend the life of the fixer. Or so I've been told.
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  3488. @orionh3000 He'll still kick your ass into next week.
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  3489. Tape drives, actually. Tape is still a pretty good medium for archival storage of old data. Of course you need a functioning tape machine to read it back someday.
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  3490. Word of Blake will eventually control all ComStar hyperpulse generators. Our BattleMechs are mighty.
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  3491. ACME bat suit, guaranteed for the life of the user!
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  3492. You're not even close to your baseline!
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  3493. Love the astronomy and space subjects, Dark5, keep up the good work.
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  3494.  @OCinneide  They didn't change it, they just reworked it to make it more fireproof while changing procedures. Prior to launch, the cabin atmosphere was pumped up with normal air, and after launch as the air leaked out they would replace it slowly with low pressure oxygen. Apollo 1 was a firetrap because the cabin was filled with O2 at higher-than-sea level pressure, along with faulty wiring. As for ASTP, I think that model of Soyuz had a low pressure system, not sure.
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  3495. I'd be interested in hearing the results of using rubber as a backing and why it didn't work.
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  3496. It always bugs me when investigations lay blame on lack of PTC or some other system. The root cause of an accident such as this is not properly training operators and not following procedures. PTC is good, and it or something similar should be used when available, but it's not a substitute for knowing how to run a railroad properly. Procedures for running a railroad safely were worked out in the 19th Century, before radios even existed, so don't lean on PTC as a crutch.
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  3497. It looks like a baby V2 with some extra thingies attached to it.
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  3498. Romulan Ale is only for medicinal purposes. Honest.
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  3499.  @marhawkman303  Even better if Drach puts on the ears and eyebrows.
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  3500. If Hubble loses attitude control there won't be any safe way to dock with or grapple it, and thus no safe way to boost or deorbit it. NASA needs to do something while they still can, find a way to attach a propulsion module to that docking ring the last service mission left there.
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  3501. My dad was in the Navy and his ship operated A1 Skyraiders, which they nicknamed "Spads". They were old fashioned and slow, but they carried an enormous weapon load and could fly forever on a single tank of gas, so they got used a lot for close air support. And according to history, they even managed to bag a MiG jet fighter kill in Vietnam. For what they used it for it is a solid aircraft.
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  3502. Warspite is coming. All your ship are belong to us. Make your time.
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  3503. Great video, Drach, and thank you Dr. Scholes! While most comparisons of gun ships compare speed, armor, and firepower, I think it's important to remember how vitally important the other technologies are, especially the fire control systems. For example, people always compare the Iowas to the Yamatos in fantasy matchups, but do they factor in the differences in radar, computers, and precision of the gun-pointing mechanisms? I'd like to see you talk about the Japanese fire control tech in a future video (and German, Italian, etc. as well).
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  3504. As if Drach's channel couldn't get any better. I wish I could give more than one up vote for this video, really some of the best information about the Zero, and Pacific war aviation in general, ever.
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  3505. It's no fun for those who work in that business, for sure.
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  3506. I used to work in a building with a framed photo hanging on the wall of a formation of US Navy destroyers steaming in line ahead, colors flying. These were modern Arleigh Burke class destroyers, not WWI ships, mind you, but destroyers nonetheless, and the photo was amazing. When people think of the US Navy they tend to think of aircraft carriers, planes, and other big ships, but those destroyers just conveyed power and might like no other. The old school Navy, the surface fleet with its guns and missiles and masts and yard arms, radar antennas, and flags flying, plowing through the waves into harm's way. Hats off to the destroyer crews on patrol around the world.
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  3507. From the people that brought us the F-14 Tomcat, Grumman.
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  3508.  @manaboutit1594  Funny thing is I actually thought they tasted alright once you smashed it to get it crumbled up a bit.
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  3509.  @GJones462-2W1  No I was a Marine in Desert Storm and every MRE had a bit of TP in the "accessory pack" along with the sugar/salt/Tabasco Sauce, etc.
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  3510. Interesting that the Boeing candidate was the ugliest of the three; yet it's cousin the 747 is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever.
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  3511.  @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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  3512. The ones who commit big crimes usually commit lots of small crimes as well.
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  3513. I'd like to see what that would look like and how it would work in such a short stretch of tunnel.
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  3514. If I had a time machine one of the things I would do with it is give JS Bach a rack of synthesizer gear to do what he wants with.
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  3515.  @dirus3142  The seeds for what looms ahead were sown at least as far back as the 1960s.
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  3516. That video of the helo's shadow on the ground flopping around looks like the bat from Atari 2600 Adventure game.
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  3517. "...it would've been more along the lines of 'I suppose it's the thought that counts'": my nomination for Drachism of the Day
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  3518. That first photograph, presumably of Henderson Field, appears to show a creek passing right through the near end of the runway. What's up with that?
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  3519.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Convair is now a legacy Lockheed Martin brand. The Atlas missile/rocket program was started in Convair in the 50s, became part of Lockheed Martin in the 90s, and became part of ULA when that company was created as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing in the 2000s.
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  3520. Maybe building giant thirsty cities in the middle of a desert needs to be rethought.
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  3521. "Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development" Now that's an organization I'd be curious about.
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  3522.  @peteranderson037  It's not that hard to figure out, honestly.
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  3523. Hendrix thought of Clapton as his guitar god. I don't think people today get how highly regarded Clapton was in the 60s, probably thanks to some of the weaker pop stuff he's put out since the 80s, but part of Hendrix's agreement to go to England was that he got to meet and jam with Clapton.
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  3524.  @r3d0c  Your snark is unappreciated and misguided. Every mission has risk associated with it, no matter how many brains are involved and how much money is spent. And if you ask any one of those scientists and engineers, they'll all tell you that. Let's not pollute Scott Manley's comment section with the same toxicity the rest of the net has.
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  3525. I think the internet and youtube specifically killed the market for content like this on those cable channels like Discovery/TLC/History. In the 90s that was where science and history junkies got our fix.
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  3526. Really? How many square rockets does the US fly?
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  3527. Don't forget "full nuclear exchange over the pole" to really crank up the anxiety. Been living with that what-if since the 60s.
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  3528. This film and Gigli came out around the same time. Coincidence?
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  3529.  @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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  3530. Wrong, she was carried in the alien mothership that later returned her, still young and healthy, to Devil's Tower, Wyoming where the aliens made contact with the US government and played a bunch of electronic music to communicate.
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  3531. Voyager is still within Sol's sphere of influence, so it has not entered galactic orbit yet, but will when it gets far enough away.
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  3532. Yes, but close enough. Unless NASA restarts the Voyager program with some fresh new vehicles...
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  3533. I think the internet, or any telecommunications, is less secure than radio. The downsides to radio are that you can locate the transmitter, it can be jammed sometimes, it's one way only, and usually a low data rate. But you can't tell where the receivers are and if using the right encryption it's very secure. It also has an almost unlimited range, depending on the equipment used and the atmospheric conditions.
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  3534. I am an American but I watch lots of British TV shows and movies, as well as subscribe to several British Youtubers such as Mark Felton, Techmoan, and Drachinifel, so as a result I enjoy the differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary. Potato chips vs. crisps, french fries vs. chips, trucks vs. lorries, trash can vs. skip, color vs. colour, aluminum vs. aluminium, etc. I also like the way Brits often end a sentence with "yeah", as in, "We've got to get this job finished, yeah?", whereas an American might use the word "right" or something. Some British slang took me a while to decipher; in one TV show a woman says a teapot is "minging" and that they might get "minginitus". I paused it and looked it up, took me a while to figure out that "mingy" is British slang for "nasty" or "dirty" or "crusty", and thus she was saying the teapot was old and rusty or dirty. Watching Canadian TV is a bit weird, because Canadian English is just North American English with a regional accent, but they use a lot of British words and spelling and so on.
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  3535. This abort system is better than the one on the 737 Max.
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  3536. There is a school of thought that the entire psychiatry establishment is a giant unscientific qwackfest, and this is the reason why. These clowns had no real idea what they were doing, no scientific rigor or testing, they were just guessing and doing it to live human beings. And not one of them was held to account for the harm they did. Look up Donald Ewen Cameron for an example of an out of control mad scientist who did horrible things to people under the guise of science with the help and encouragement of government. Is psychiatry/psychology all BS though? I don't think so, but it's "squishy" enough to make you have to really think twice before loading somebody up with pills or subjecting them to any of these irreversible treatments.
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  3537. If you search around you should be able to find interviews with Cunningham and Driscol where they describe the air battle that day, both back when they were still in the Navy and more recently since the 90s. Cunningham also wrote a shorty stor about it for a book about fighter pilots. Driscol, IIRC, still talks to Navy pilots about air combat tactics, or did for a long while, anyway. Cunningham got stupid, went into politics, elected to the US Senate, and sent to prison for a while for corruption. But the story of the fight that day is still amazing. They became the only Navy aces of the Vietnam War that day, having two kills going into the mission and coming with three more. Their Phantom was falling apart as they raced for the sea, knowing they would have to eject, trying to get over water so the Navy could rescue them after they punched out, and they barely made it.
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  3538. Interesting that the modern Spanish navy is also officially called the Armada..
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  3539.  @michaelfried3123  7809
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  3540. Kind of like how Geddy Lee's ability to scream was shot by the early 80s.
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  3541. I love BoC's music and own all their albums, but I am too lazy to search for hidden clues and Easter eggs so I just put on headphones and listen to it instead.
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  3542. The best thing here is that before the video played, a Farmer's Insurance ad with JK Simmons showed.
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  3543. They're dyslexic and hit the wrong button is all.
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  3544. Some people only watch auto racing for the crashes. Falcon 9 landings are probably about the same, only no people get hurt when one crashes.
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  3545.  @niki123489  Wrong. F-35 is the result of the Joint Strike Fighter program, to fill the role of the F-16 and F/A-18, both of which resulted from the 1970s Light Weight Fighter program. These jets are meant to be mass-produced multirole fighters that make up the bulk of the force. The F-22 was supposed to replace the F-15 in the air superiority role, and would've had it not been canceled. As a result, the USAF is scrambling to get newer F-15s. While there has been talk of building another run of F-22s in the future, Lockheed Martin would have to build new tooling and at this point any future F-22 would be vastly improved, using knowledge gained from the F-35 program. For now it's just talk.
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  3546.  @eduardoGentile720  Well, they are the kings now that Rush is retired ;-)
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  3547.  @alanfhall6450  And also Grant after the American Civil War.
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  3548. Americans are told, "Go take that objective." "How the F are we supposed to do that?" "Here's some guns and stuff. Figure it out."
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  3549. Every time I hear these stories of valor it reminds me that we left people in Afghanistan and pisses me off.
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  3550. You're missing Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles, 1979! This song is very important as it kickstarted the 80s and the video was the very first video MTV ever showed. Like Numan's Cars, it gets listed as an 80s hit but it's really a 70s song.
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  3551. The journalist who shot the Tank Man photo hid the roll of film inside the toilet in his room when the commie cops came to confiscate it. The commies were trying to make sure there were no western reporters or cameras around to see the massacre they were cooking up. Amazing that photo got smuggled out successfully. As for Tank Man, whoever he was, sad fact is that they likely killed him off in a back alley somewhere out of view. Hopefully he escaped and lives today. Either way, remember him.
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  3552.  @cosmo5102  You're just talking emotional stuff. Let me know when your dog learns how to swear an oath to the Constitution and understands what that means.
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  3553. 10:45 Atari Night Driver, anyone?
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  3554.  @armanGT800  As opposed to what? A youtube video made by a guy who can't pronounce common names or get ship types right?
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  3555.  @armanGT800  Assuming you're telling the truth, being in a war doesn't mean you are knowledgeable about the bigger picture, only the parts you personally experienced. The USMC has professional historians who do serious studies of various historical conflicts worldwide, unbiased by politics, in order to learn from these conflicts. You made a smart remark on my comment, so you're the one walking.
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  3556.  @armanGT800  Is your research published somewhere? Name or ISBN number? Link?
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  3557.  @armanGT800  Okay, look, you don't want to have a discussion, you just want to yell and shout and argue. Have a nice day.
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  3558. I learned how to analyze the guts of electronic devices from watching Techmoan do it. As you can see, there are some purple round things, some little beige things with colored strips, a bunch of white blocky things with numbers on them, and a coil of copper wire. There, done! Hope that helps! :-)
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  3559. About payloads taking the acceleration: there are smart rounds for artillery that have sophisticated electronic components which are designed to handle the shock of being fired from a cannon. In fact, the earliest examples of these date to WWII when radar-fused antiaircraft rounds were introduced.
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  3560.  @springbok4015  More corrupt than incompetent.
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  3561. I wonder if any of these rail vehicles still exists in storage somewhere.
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  3562. It's also the natural way most people read a 2-line picture macro meme. Top line with a rising inflection, delivery line with a descending inflection.
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  3563. Didn't you see the film "The Final Countdown" starring Kirk Douglas? Of course the Nimitz herself was there in WWII. Adm. Nimitz had no idea his namesake ship would time travel back and lend a hand.
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  3564. What pop star today would give up that kind of mad cash to put on a uniform and serve his country.
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  3565. Awesome story. "Helping the Red Cross girls make donuts." Oh, is that what they called it? ;-)
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  3566. I think the History Guy did a video on it a couple of years ago?
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  3567. FLEXTAPE
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  3568. How did you extract that judgmental nonsense from this video? You must be one of those guys who thinks he is a great driver and all those other drivers are idiots.
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  3569. Sounds like a Hawkwind title.
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  3570. USS Enterprise has 8 reactors aboard, compared to the 2 aboard Nimitz class ships, so that probably makes her a pretty poor choice for a museum ship in any case. As for removing reactors, I think it'd be cool to install a fake reactor, minus any classified details of course, to make a basic display of how the ship's powerplant worked for the visiting public.
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  3571. These kinds of things amaze me. Were I a ferry boat captain I'd be paranoid about critical systems like these doors. The discipline among the crew was terribly lacking, with hands falling asleep or failing to be at their stations, and officers not checking up on things. Sure, an indicator light is a great idea, but it's not a substitute for a properly trained and disciplined crew. This crew was going to find a way to screw up, light or no. Also, I was taught to pronounce boatswain as "bosun".
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  3572. The live in France 1970 version of Warpigs is basically Bill Ward destroying the world. Awesome.
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  3573. RM, look up clips of The Count from Sesame Street. It's a children's program in the US and that is definitely him laughing.
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  3574. 10:50 in the video
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  3575. Resistance is futile.
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  3576. Col. Cowley sneaks around Budapest was an achievement considering he was like the most British-looking guy ever. Top man.
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  3577. Reminds me of the horrific 2009 DC Metro train collision.
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  3578. Ed Heineman went on to create the A-4 Skyhawk jet in the 50s, nicknamed "Heineman's Hotrod".
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  3579. Excellent lecture. So I gather that the problem with flat earth theory isn't the flat earthers themselves so much as it is with the scientific community or the society they exist in not properly communicating and teaching people to think critically, thus failing to inoculate people against crackpot ideas.
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  3580.  @L3gionMusic  Maybe you should go beyond Brexit and just apply for statehood in the USA. At least then you'd get congressional representation and maybe Lockheed or Boeing will build a factory there and get you back in the manufacturing business. (edit to add: this was a JOKE, don't @ me)
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  3581.  @Haamre  I am continuously astonished that anyone today supports communism anymore, and yet there they are, out in the streets, ignorant fools.
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  3582. I think it was a solid concept. A sort of gunship with long loiter time that is designed as an anti-airship platform instead of surface attack. I feel like this idea seems to come back every few years in a mutated form. I remember a proposal to arm a 707 variant with tons of missiles as a flying arsenal ship, which would answer calls from data-linked fighters that would do all the radar sensing. The F-15EX is a similar concept, when linked with an F-35. Then there was the idea of using a 747 as a flying aircraft carrier with several fighters aboard. And of course, the 747 laser gunship known as the YAL-1 which carried a giant laser to shoot down ballistic missiles at a distance. The YAL-1 might be the closest modern analog to the Nighthawk.
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  3583. When I started playing bass as a teenager in the 80s my rig was a cheap Acoustic solid state head through a Peavey 2x15 cabinet. Wasn't the greatest sound in the world but it kept up with our guitarists, who were using pretty big rigs, one had an old Fender tube head and a 4x12 cabinet with Celestion speakers. If you touched his guitar strings it would shock you. Safety lol. My heavy Peavey bass cabinet was a bitch to haul up and down stairs but I did it regularly. We were not particularly loud as teenage bands in the 80s went. Now I'm in a band in 2019 and the guitar players are using 30-ish watt combos that get mic'd up, and my bass rig is an Ampeg Portaflex with a 2x10 cabinet. We sometimes get asked to turn down. In the 80s we got asked to crank everything.
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  3584. Slack safety in nuclear power plants has been a subject of humor and drama for a lot longer than the Simpsons. Robocop has jokes about it in the mid 80s, and of course The China Syndrome movie came out right around the time of the TMI accident, which really didn't help much. Simpsons or not, and all facts and math aside, nuclear power still scares people. One of the things I see a lot in the comment sections is the phrase "corporate greed", which is a common bogeyman, but I would say that most of the more destructive accidents took place in a country where the government ran the whole show, the Soviet Union. Chernobyl and the Mayak Disaster have had extremely long-lasting effects. That's not to say that corporations as organizations can't screw things up; TMI was an example where the containment system worked despite the mistakes made and the company tried to deceive the public initially. Humans are fallible and it's impossible to guarantee disasters will never happen.
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  3585. Falcon 3.0 not only had a thick manual, there was an actual guidebook for it written by an actual F-16 pilot. Lucasarts' Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was a killer WWII flight sim and the manual was like reading a history book of aerial warfare in the 1940s. The 90s were the good old days.
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  3586. When you said it was the worst fashion disaster I wanted to make a joke about Lady Gaga's meat dress or something but it's just so horrible. 1134 people in one go, wow.
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  3587. "Italian cruisers...which meant that whatever happened, they would at least look really good." Drachism of the Day. Also a true statement. Italians do know how to make pretty vehicles.
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  3588. Best I've seen since 1940s Bugs Bunny.
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  3589. Dewars 12 scotch whiskey. Did that have a role in forgetting to turn the lights on? ;-)
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  3590. 7:28 What's up with the dude in the Hawaiian shirt? That looks like a film clip from the 1980s lol.
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  3591. Drach, since you have been in the area, maybe you could do a 5-min guide on HMS Augusta which blew up near the Battle of Red Bank a few miles south of Camden in 1777? Or maybe any of the ships of the American Revolution?
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  3592. Has anyone ever tried to track down the phone numbers announced in that broadcast? And lived to tell the tale?
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  3593.  @vk2ig  There are two kinds of countries: those who use the metric system, and those who have walked on the moon.
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  3594. "I rarely buy guitars." says the guy with a room full of guitars lol
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  3595. Same
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  3596. The captain of Speedbird 9 made the most British announcement ever.
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  3597. I remember clearly Chuck Yeager was employed by Northrop back then to sell the F-20, I think he was even on a magazine cover, or maybe a full page ad. He stated he didn't trust a naturally unstable aircraft that needed a computer fly-by-wire system like the F-16. While I love Maj Gen Yeager and he was certainly old school, that sounds like Northrop sales copy lol.
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  3598.  @gordonfreeman5179  Is he related to Knuckles Nuclear from the Jetsons?
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  3599. "The fact that Russia has kept them in service is proof enough of their still being useful and potent today." I have to disagree that this proves anything. The Russians are known for keeping really old and outdated stuff, and even if it's useful you can't guarantee that they are properly maintaining it, updating, or training their flight crews and maintenance personal properly. I suppose these would useful enough for launching missiles from stand-off ranges outside the engagement range of enemy defenses, as the Russians have been doing, but beyond that the Russian military has yet to show any real competence.
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  3600. I need a brain transplant...oh, wait, you said "implant". Never mind.
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  3601. Same, but different state.
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  3602.  @LOOKINVERTED  We're part of the leg of a chair on some giant hillbilly's porch.
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  3603.  @LOOKINVERTED  Sounds like old school Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
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  3604. TikTok is Chinese communist spyware designed to gather personal information while spreading stupidity in the western world.
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  3605.  @dewarkhodern9990  Funny how movies do that. Smokey and the Bandit totally made Pontiac a fortune in Trans Am sales.
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  3606.  @marcse7en  Well I use the clock to TELL TIME! TRY IT SOMETIME, MAYBE YOU WON"T BE LATE FOR CLASSES ON HOW TO USE THE CAPS KEY!
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  3607. You are descended from Dr. Joseph Warren? Didn't he fight at Bunker Hill?
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  3608. 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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  3609. The North Korean one is creepy, the voice sounds like a cute girl but it's probably some ominous stuff.
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  3610. 3:33 a surprising number of younger people probably won't get this reference
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  3611. Oh I don't know. I kind of like being able to buy my own phone. If Ma Bell were still around we'd all still be forced to use Western Electric wall units that we don't own and which come in three colors: black, beige, and pea green or whatever.
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  3612. Bet they had a hard time explaining this later: "Hey, look, our brand new ultrathin dam is cracking and water is leaking through. Shouldn't we worry about that?" "Nah."
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  3613.  @allanrichardson1468  Guitar amplifier builders never stopped using tubes, and they all still use them today.
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  3614. Back in the 90s I had the "Fulcrum" expansion pack for the Falcon 3.0 flight sim and I flew the heck out of the MiG-29. I don't know how well the game modeled things but the game's Fulcrum was hella powerful and fun to fly. It also came with a really cool MiG-29 poster which I still have. I always thought the Fulcrum was the best-looking of all the Soviet fighters. The airframe and engine seem to be well-designed, though built with the usual crude Russian quality control. I imagine with a Western avionics suite and HMI it would be a lot scarier.
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  3615.  @georgejones3526  I imagine an aerospike engine landing and getting stuck in the mud.
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  3616. Explosions are what we live for. My request is for the Corinthos fire on the Delaware River in January 1975 when two ships collided and massive destruction ensued.
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  3617. 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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  3618. Please tell me the officers and crew are fans of your channel. Wouldn't surprise me if they recognized you.
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  3619. I'd be more interested in how they write crazy stuff like this, but yeah, this too. That said, Justin Chancellor is famous for keeping his pedal board secret. He reportedly puts unused pedals on his board as decoys so that photographing it won't tell you how he gets his bass sound lol.
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  3620. Or maybe Longish Island
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  3621.  @ghost307  Solid rocket tech in the early 60s was not ready for prime time yet. The SRBs, especially after the Challenger accident redesign, were among the most reliable pieces of equipment used in manned spaceflight. The early shuttle astronauts were far more afraid of the RS-25 engine blowing the tail of the orbiter off than they were of the SRBs, due to them witnessing an RS-25 blow up a test stand in the late 70s.
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  3622.  @SecretRaginMan  I'm restating what astronaut Mike Mullane says in his book. Prior to Challenger, astronauts were more worried about the RS-25 than they were about the SRBs. After Challenger, the SRBs have been reliable ever since on both the Shuttle and the single SLS launch to date.
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  3623. You may not be a huge country fan, and that's probably why you liked it.
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  3624. THG really laying on thick the apocalyptic themed history lately.
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  3625. Great video. The mention of a space zeppelin reminds me of Iron Sky lol.
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  3626. On the rare occasion they take USS Constitution out to sail her briefly, they'd never risk putting as much sail on her as seen in that stunning photo. We have to settle for paintings of her under way from before photography was even invented.
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  3627. Sucks that they lost it again, but that camera angle looking up at these things as they do that belly skydive are among the coolest looking footage ever.
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  3628. They do seem like cool buildings. So if this was so successful, why don't we see dozens of these things in every city in North America?
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  3629.  @chrisgoetz3889  Teaching you to read was a waste of your teacher's time.
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  3630. The old school Atlas rocket was almost SSTO with a manned Mercury spacecraft on it. We know how to build SSTOs, we've done the math, we just haven't found an economic reason to do so.
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  3631.  @PlanetEarth3141  Or the origin of the Borg...
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  3632. 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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  3633. Awesome to see the mighty 747 finding new work.
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  3634. My guess is you're not an engineer yourself, nor do you know any engineers who work on stuff like this, certainly none who work for Boeing.
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  3635.  @kenthawley5990 slow clap, sir. Slow clap.
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  3636. Right, and maybe the B-2 was copied from alien UFO tech, too. I'm not saying the Hortons were aliens, but they were aliens.
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  3637.  @SCP-POOL  If there's one thing I've learned from reading Popular Mechanics over the years, is that it's full of really cool stuff you'll never see in real life.
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  3638.  @digi3218  I wasn't making excuses. Just pointing out that losing your spacecraft in...space...is not at all uncommon. Didn't read your long post, sorry.
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  3639.  @bearlemley  Well, it looks like reverse engineered alien technology, so I'm gonna go with Lockheed Martin for the Jupiter II. But the reason they got lost was Dr. Smith, so he might be a Boeing employee.
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  3640.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Uh, the uploader calls it a good aircraft in this very video.
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  3641.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Yes, but your statement that nobody call it good is incorrect, and that is not an opinion.
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  3642.  @WALTERBROADDUS  That's all well and good, but your statement is still wrong.
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  3643.  @WALTERBROADDUS  His is an opinion, you made a statement as if it were a fact.
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  3644.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Back at ya, cheers.
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  3645. Similar thing with Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler's Sabbath riffs. The guitar riffs don't sound quite right without the bass filling in the missing part of the sound.
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  3646. This event was a part of the plot in the alternate history novel "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson, IIRC.
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  3647.  @SabineHossenfelder  I can imagine the Star Trek Next Generation script writers eating this up.
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  3648. 27:30 "Have a Coke and a smile"
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  3649.  @Dratchev241  Also that.
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  3650. When I saw the title I was afraid you were gonna tell us you got a DUI or something serious!
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  3651. First time I heard Imagine Dragons Radioactive on the radio I knew music was in trouble. They sound like a cheesy car commercial. Way overproduced and unnatural sounding, not like you'd imagine a real rock band sounding live at all. And since then our local "rock" radio station is chock full of this kind of slickly produced schlocky garbage. I'm sure the guys in that band are talented and all, but I tried hard to find something to like about it and just can't.
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  3652. If all that can be done is that Navy SEALS raid her berth and destroy her with scuttling charges, that would be a satisfaction of honor for the US Navy. A good old fashioned cutting-out operation like the age of sail days. Anything to take her out of the hands of the DPRK and publicly embarrass them would work. At the current time, of course, not even that is possible without astronomically high risk.
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  3653. "She's only correct because she's semiliterate." LMAO awesome slam.
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  3654. So then, just culture is more effective than cancel culture.
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  3655. Hydrogen is an important element of water. Who doesn't like water?
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  3656. "nee-OH-show" is how I was taught to pronounce it.
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  3657. I'm okay with this.
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  3658. Fifth gen, wow! Did your ancestors serve in WWI or the Spanish American War? The Banana Wars?
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  3659.  @deusdragonex  Of course he's creepy, he's the Fly.
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  3660. Moving story and video. My dad served on an Essex class that later got the angle deck upgrade in the 50s and served in the Fleet until the 1970s. Upgraded Essex could handle jets like the A-4 Skyhawk and the F-8 Crusader, but couldn't handle the heavier aircraft like the F-4 Phantom or the F-14 Tomcat. One Essex, the Lexington, served into the 90s as a training carrier.
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  3661. Remember that despair is a sin among Cbristians for a reason. Always keep a positive attitude and don't let the darkness win over your mind.
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  3662.  @solcalsteve198  There's no such thing as free.
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  3663.  @twisantigo  So was her mom attractive? And did it become awkward when the song came on in her presence?
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  3664. The Canberra family of aircraft has a long and storied history. I believe both the English Electric and Martin versions saw a fair amount of combat in Vietnam in service of Australia and the US.
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  3665. Zubrin is like Elon Musk, but without the money.
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  3666. Wow, beautiful ship. I need an excuse to travel to Alabama someday.
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  3667. I figured Alex Lifeson would pop up somewhere on this list, wasn't wrong.
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  3668. 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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  3669. Will the next video involve painting Christmas lights and mounting them on a ceiling fan?
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  3670. Cougars are pretty exciting to me, I think they are gorgeous looking airplanes.
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  3671.  @srgntpepper9855  Pink Floyd were hugely influenced by the Beatles. I remember seeing an interview with one of them, Roger Waters I think, where he said that when Sgt. Pepper album was released they played it on the radio and Floyd were touring in a van, said they pulled over to the side of the road and listened to it.
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  3672. Doesn't sound like it was much of a loss.
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  3673. 5:47 It's interesting that you chose almost the exact place in New Jersey where the Hindenburg disaster occurred as Rachel's point of origin.
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  3674.  @elcapitan240  They aren't big enough to have a powerful motor nor can they carry the battery mass needed for it. No matter how strong the AI is they will always be bad at cleaning.
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  3675. Everybody loves a good Q turret!
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  3676. Looks like Ron Howard nailed the look of leaking fluids in Apollo 13.
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  3677.  @billlarson226  Nice Falco reference!
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  3678. I know about bestiaries from playing Advanced D&D back in the 90s.
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  3679. She fed the ammo to the commies.
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  3680.  @martinilopez1  wow, who_pissed in your corn flakes this morning?
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  3681.  @martinilopez1  So you're apologizing for calling me an a**hole, then?
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  3682.  @nagualdesign  Once they reach a number of flights you have to retire them. Nothing lasts forever.
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  3683. They should've let the bagpipers keep playing, so the French can hear them when they get close.
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  3684. The Starship tower catch landings remind me of the early 1950s VTOL Ryan X-13 Vertijet, which hung from a crane rig by its nose.
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  3685.  @dareangelmusic  The drummer in my band uses his smart phone. I don't know if he started doing it on purpose or just out of habit of taking his phone out whenever he sits down, but it works for him lol.
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  3686.  @andrewkline5611  Especially the people hanging out on the beach waiting for the launch. I almost expected to see my mom and dad there.
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  3687. Italian restaurants are almost as scary as walking through a peach orchard. You just never know what's gonna happen, right?
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  3688. 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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  3689. I mean, even the modern Japanese navy gives its ships famous names used in WWII.
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  3690.  @tompotter5981  F-4 Phantoms were used in the '91 Gulf War as wild weasels. That was the last use of the F-4 by the US before they were retired from American service.
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  3691. They are definitely young and ill-informed. Rolling Stone has always been all about what's trendy, not what's good.
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  3692. Because we're all mortal and the only species that ponders our own demise, so we are curious as to how others have dealt with it.
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  3693. 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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  3694. Kelly Johnson ran the Skunk Works at Lockheed, and the P-80 is just one of his many brainchildren. Among the others are the F-104, the U2, the SR-71, F-117, and the still-in-production C-130 Hercules.
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  3695. STS was more expensive and dangerous than we had hoped, but it turns out there were good reasons for wanting that capability. Fixing Hubble (or even retrieving it) was one.
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  3696.  @danielpassigmailcom  The Titan rocket family had a payload size and capacity approximately that of STS. I think there were others.
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  3697.  @ericg7044  Since they merged with MDD
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  3698. That's the idea behind listening to The Cure, or so I thought.
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  3699. I've read enough Lovecraft to know that what lies deep under that ice is best left undisturbed.
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  3700. I like your picture tube screen shirt.
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  3701. The USAF's attitude towards Army aviation is pretty unproductive. The worst aspects of guild mentality, it prevents the Army from doing what they need to do to support their own troops. The Navy doesn't have any problem with the Marines having jets, because Marine air focuses on close air support, freeing Navy air to focus on fleet defense and other strictly maritime missions. On top of that, Navy and Marine air are part of the same system, train at the same schools, and can cover each other's missions when circumstances require it. It's a shame the Air Force can't build the kind of symbiotic relationship the Navy and Marine Corps have, especially considering that the Air Force was once part of the Army.
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  3702.  @TheKeyser94  Jesus write me a novel why don'tcha. It's a cartoon character STFU
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  3703. 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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  3704. So what's a "knuckle bow"?
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  3705.  @MJ-vq3ws  It certainly sounds cooler than most alternatives.
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  3706. In the pre-internet days it seemed like only people who grew up in the area had ever heard of the Jersey Devil, and even today it's still not very well-known outside of New Jersey. Even people in Philadelphia or New York, literally a 5 minutes drive from NJ, have often never heard of it. Back when they named the hockey team the New Jersey Devils, most people around the country just thought it was a cool name, but people who grew up in NJ knew why that name was picked.
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  3707.  @hoilst265  Definitely awful
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  3708.  @w00tb0ss  His ilk own youtube so they're not going away.
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  3709. I"m confused because the titles of some of your videos seem to change once or twice in the first day or so.
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  3710. Good video. Although I don't know if I'd consider this a "disaster" as opposed to just a "pretty scary reactor accident". To me a disaster is something that wrecks the whole system, does damage to the surrounding area or population, etc. The fact that they were able to refuel and use the reactor again doesn't sound very disastrous, though it was hazardous and a real pain in the ass to clean up and fix.
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  3711. Shuttle was designed to return with payloads, including some fairly heavy ones like Hubble. Columbia retrieved and landed with the LDEF, which was about 10 tons IIRC. Not sure about this one.
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  3712. @El Bearsidente Hipster detected
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  3713. It's like whiskey or anything else, you develop a taste for it over time, starting with that one jazz tune that catches your attention. For me it was Take Five by the Brubeck Quartet; that album was my gateway to all kinds of jazz. But I'm still a rock guy mainly.
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  3714. It makes sense, since the size of aircraft was growing and after the war we'd see large jet aircraft get introduced that required bigger decks and hangars.
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  3715. As an American, I want to join in on the French navy jokes, but then I look at the Zumwalts….
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  3716. Aren't the youtube servers all in the US?
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  3717. They'd love it more if they hadn't discontinued the 500C a few years ago. Film is still a big art medium and that was the best medium format camera on the market.
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  3718. Clowns? Toronto? Anarchy? I'm thinking of the song "Carnies" from the Rush album Clockwork Angels...
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  3719.  @RG-zt4cn  I don't understand the question. Nukes.
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  3720.  @BattleshipWarspite  Yes, and a balloon is a type of aircraft, so he has a point. Unless we decide to rename aircraft carriers to airplane carriers.
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  3721.  @jeffzaun1841  Yep, there was also a lot of complaining about cluster bombs and land mines. We used a lot of cluster munitions in Desert Storm, both aerial bombs and artillery shells, precisely because they are so effective. The Iraqis were entrenched and Marines were about to assault straight through the middle, so Marine and Navy air was doing what they do best to help out.
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  3722.  @jeffzaun1841  Just did an image search, and sure enough there is a photo of Marines arming one of my squadron's Harriers with nape at Jabayl where I was at the time.
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  3723. Diving the wreck won't hurt you. Stay off the Bikini Islands, though, the ground is contaminated with cesium isotopes.
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  3724.  @staalman1226  No biggie
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  3725. If they needed extra traction, they asked him to ride in the locomotive.
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  3726. That photo at 9:46 is awesome. Perfectly captures that moment in history.
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  3727. He should've been charged for that facial hairstyle, too.
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  3728.  @keithammleter3824  Later in the war, though, they could see periscopes with radar.
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  3729. Dave Jerden is wearing the Beato uniform in that pic at 0:37
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  3730. FAA is damned if they do and damned if they don't. On one hand they are too conservative-minded and ruin the fun of the daredevils, on the other hand they catch hell for being too lenient and get accused of being in bed with industry, etc. Nobody ever likes the kid who gets to be hallway monitor. Imagine the hell they'd catch when one of these rocketships crashes into a group of spectators and douses them with burning rocket fuel. We've seen it happen at air shows and it resulted in air shows made of tiny dots doing maneuvers far away. It's a shame about the rocket racing, it did look cool but you could see it getting watered down and chipped away into oblivion.
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  3731. I love how the Americans named the operation "Chow Hound"!
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  3732. In Soviet Russia, science experiment test you.
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  3733.  @gormster  Some people are just born to troll.
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  3734. 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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  3735.  @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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  3736. "So I see you're applying for a railroad job. Do you have any experience in the field?"
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  3737. Looking out that window it reminds of how gutsy Young and Crippen were to fly STS-1 in an unproven spaceplane design trusting the math.
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  3738.  @johnned4848  Several of the ones sent to work on the Manhattan Project in the US turned out to be spies. That sloppy security vetting is one (but by no means the only) reason the US Congress shut the UK out of the nuclear weapons program after the war ended.
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  3739. There exists a GPC MFD add-on that simulates the energy management displays which really help you to manually fly the orbiter back to the landing site.
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  3740. Scotty, the most badass Trek character ever. Kicks the crap out of Klingons in bar fights and fixes warp drives in impossible situations, all while holding his own against the Russian kid in a drinking context and telling ambassadors to go f*** themselves. Legend has it that Klingon's broken jaw still gets sore to this day whenever the temperature changes.
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  3741. Nice try
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  3742. 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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  3743.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  Fine, Don't want to get vaccinated? Stay in quarantine until you change your mind.
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  3744.  @_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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  3745.  @Halinspark  "Big Edison" lol. Did Tesla invent the tinfoil hat, too?
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  3746. B-52s are awesome. I'd listen to Planet Claire over this any day. Awaiting the comments insulting my taste.
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  3747. They aren't tourists, they are Italian air force and they were there to do a job first and enjoy themselves second. Presumably, the paying customer is the Italian government, not the passengers.
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  3748. This is why I love this channel, always teaching us stuff they never teach us in school.
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  3749. Wow, another good one from the enlightened one. Ya really put me in my place, chief.
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  3750. It is a mind melting solo but doesn't fit this list. If that were the only song Rush ever published it would still make Alex Lifeson a guitar god.
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  3751. IIRC Blackbirds didn't zoom climb, but after takeoff and tanking they climbed to altitude in a supersonic climb, so they were already well north of Mach 1 before they even got to cruise altitude. As Brian Schul put it, they were faster than a rifle bullet while climbing.
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  3752.  @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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  3753. I don't understand why they want to sink the Starship booster. Wouldn't they want it to float so they can retrieve it and examine it?
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  3754. Rock and roll piano? The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis for one. Little Richard wasn't too shabby either. Piano was much more prominent in rock's early days. One of my favorite rock pianists you may never have heard of is Nickey Barclay of the all-girl 70s band Fanny. There is a live in studio video around here somewhere and she absolutely kills on keys and vocals.
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  3755.  @stefaniadangila3017  The thing about Fairies Wear Boots is that you don't have to play the intro bass line note for note exactly the way Geezer played it, you can improvise it to some extent. But it's good to learn every note he played just to see how he was thinking when he did it.
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  3756. THe ultimate question when talking aviation tech is often something like this: How would the Zero have fared had it been flown by US Navy pilots and maintained with US Navy money?
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  3757. I don't care what the PA or crew is telling me. If I think the vessel is in danger of sinking or capsizing I'm going above decks and figure out my next move, while taking my loved ones with me. People on 9/11 did what they were trained and told to do: stay put, wait for help, don't confront hijackers, etc. They are all dead now. F** that noise.
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  3758.  @Teverell  You contradict your own statement. By fighting back, the passengers stopped the terrorists from hitting the target. Had they regained control of the aircraft, they would've at least have bought a non-zero chance of survival. Never give up your own judgement and stop fighting for life.
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  3759. 1:10 Al violates Rick's "no clip-on tuner" rule. Can the universe handle it!
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  3760. If you watched the movie Airport 1975, you know that the correct procedure is to let the autopilot keep the airplane steady and slow so that Charleton Heston can rappel in from a helicopter. Once he is in the cockpit, he will land the plane for you.
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  3761.  @QuantumRift  BOY!
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  3762. Why did the other cops present not stop it and arrest that man for assault and kidnapping?
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  3763. I wonder if the North Koreans are aware that all of their missile names are penis jokes in English.
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  3764. I don't know if you can call it "innovation" when it blows up four times and never works right even once, even obliterating its own launch pad in the process.
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  3765. The first line in Tale of Two Cities is "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
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  3766.  @drott150  In WWI when the US Marines showed up in France the legend has it that they fought the Germans so fiercely that the Germans nicknamed them teufel hunden (spelling?), or "devil dog". It's been a nickname for US Marines ever since. It's a legend, but it's a great legend.
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  3767. Hard to boycott something you had no interest in to begin with. For me, the only reason Disney exists is to entertain me in videos like this one.
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  3768. I saw the Who live once in the late 80s, front row seats. Kenny Jones was drumming at the time. Awe-inspiring show, great stage show, and super loud. Something I'll never forget.
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  3769. 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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  3770. Iommi's strength has always been creating the almighty riff. His sound is also great and heavy, but that guy is just a riff-writing machine. A lot of Sabbath songs aren't built around just one riff, they're built around three or four legendary riffs just in each song. And he's done this for decades, album after album, even when it's a song you don't like, the riff is still kickass.
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  3771. This is fantastic work, Drach, your channel keeps getting better. Now I really want to visit Chatham someday if I ever get across the Atlantic.
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  3772. I wonder if the Germans poking around in the ship accidentally set off the charge.
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  3773. Because it sounds like a voice in the fog that knows you're listening.
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  3774. 4th I guess...but seriously, great video and thanks for giving us the gratuitous A-10 footage as a bonus.
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  3775. 12:20 That's a pretty vaporwavey color scheme for a communist dictator's plane.
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  3776. The flattards will question the size and distance and motion of the sun, blah blah blah. To idiots like them, the wonders of the universe will forever be out of reach. Pretty sad, really.
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  3777. I thought the color was called "Laurel"
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  3778. @stop-the-greed  the sr71 has long been retired, while the aircraft it was supposed to replace, the U2, is still in service.
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  3779. If you watch video of a Space Shuttle launch, you see how right before the engines light they start dumping massive amounts of water onto the launch pad. This is too help suppress the sound of the massive solid rocket boosters, because they are so loud that the noise can damage the vehicle before it gets far enough away from the ground.
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  3780. In the 91 Gulf War they were used to warn of Scud missile attacks.
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  3781. He's become a "star" now, and he is in the circles with people from Hollywood and SNL. He's comfortable with his neat little life now and no longer wants to risk it by being edgy. In addition, maybe he's got something embarrassing to hide and doesn't want to get Louis CK'd.
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  3782.  @raywhitehead730  The Sidewinder and Genie are of the same era.
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  3783.  @raywhitehead730  Yes, but they are both products of the 50s. Turns out the unguided Genie didn't have the longevity the Sidewinder has had. Being unguided, for starters (which makes it a "rocket", not a "missile" in US military parlance), means that it's only useful with a nuclear warhead, and therefore useless in most situations. The Sidewinder has proven to be adaptable to advances in technology such that the modern version has evolved a very long way from its ancestors.
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  3784. You know you're tough when you can fight in weather that's too cold for Russians.
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  3785. 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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  3786. His remark about Strangelove and the doomsday device is a bit unfair, that was obviously a fictional device made up for the plot. In addition, the Soviets did build a doomsday device in the 1980s (I guess they looked at that film and thought, "Huh. Good idea!") called "Perimeter", also known as "The Dead Hand". It's a semiautomatic system that detects an attack in progess and launches a counterstrike with minimum human intervention. Look it up. Also, it's possibly still in existence today.
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  3787.  @Xatzimi  January in Florida is not usually as cold as it was on that morning. That said, a reliable launch vehicle should be able to operate in cold weather. STS shouldn't have had any problems with it if they hadn't cut corners to get the schedule on track.
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  3788.  @Wannes_  The A-7 was a very successful attack jet, but it's always amazed me how ugly it is despite its obvious design links to the beautiful and sleek F-8. I'm also surprised the Air Force bought A-7's. The USAF seems to only like pretty, pointy, fast jets, and eschews anything Navy-related, but there are exceptions such as the A-7 and A-10.
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  3789.  @Wannes_  No argument from me on that.
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  3790. Don't worry, Ukraine will defend you, they are loaded with free cash and weapons from American taxpayers.
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  3791.  wargent99  Okay, millennial....
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  3792. I have them on VHS. Just need to make sure my VCR never breaks down...
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  3793. The Phantom is still the meanest-looking jet fighter ever built. Just sitting still on the deck it looks like it's rearing to kick someone's ass, and if you've ever been on the ground when they scream overhead on a low level bombing run it's like a flying locomotive of death going by. They convey a sense of massive power.
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  3794.  @thomasb1889  But that over the top thing kills me. The trailer alone had me cringing.
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  3795. Ares-1 could've been a good crew launch vehicle, but in the end it was just money tossed into the ocean for some questionable test data.
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  3796. I was thinking more the theme to Airwolf...
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  3797.  @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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  3798. In Soviet Union, bomb test you.
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  3799.  @tiov3001  I imagine a jerk doing that in Alabama would get his punk card pulled right quick.
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  3800. Hard to find info on, and not really a horrible accident as far as they go, but maybe do a video on the Lady Godiva device? They did wreck one once when a power excursion caused the metal parts to soften and get bent out of shape.
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  3801. YouTube has been doing that to me for some time now. I feel there is a secret algorithm or filter out there.
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  3802. The Hoover Dam is natural. If you're a beaver who studies humans and how they behave.
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  3803. Sounds like a good idea, but Hollywood would turn it into a preachy crapfest.
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  3804. Witchcraft was used in a similar manner to explain the odd behavior of the girls accused at Salem.
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  3805.  @DereliqueMahBAWLS  They don't teach anyone how to use their brain when posting comments on youtube, though.
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  3806. Hey Lana. Lana. LANA!
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  3807.  @waharadome  The best part is that she didn't even know that was from a movie soundtrack lol.
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  3808. 8:45 there is an anime character on Scott's computer in the background who appears to be performing the "Tickling the Dragon's Tail" test with a nuclear bomb core. WTH is that all about?
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  3809. Scott, since you mentioned the Soviet spacecraft, maybe you can do a video on the one that crashed in Canada in the 70s and basically scattered its reactor core over the northern wilderness.
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  3810. Avionics hooked up on the ground to act as if they are in flight is what we used to call a "bench bird".
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  3811.  @MetallicAddict15  I don't know, good question. I mean, I never met you, don't know what you look like even, and yet for some reason I already don't like you. Weird, isn't it?
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  3812.  @Max-kd2gh  And what is your mentality?
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  3813. "One of the best songs of the past decade, Clarity..." Me thinking: You mean the doom metal song by Sleep? Doh...
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  3814. "Why did you put a 5" gun on the Shaw? You aren't expecting to get into a fight with that thing, are you?" USN: "Look who you're talking to. The question should be, 'Why only one gun?'"
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  3815. The US never bothered to build a bomb this big because there's no use for it. It is really just an expensive science experiment. It was already known to nuclear scientists on all sides that there is no theoretical limit to the yield of a fusion bomb; by stacking stages you can just keep making them bigger and bigger, but at some point the energy starts being projected upward into space instead of the surrounding landscape. The Tsar Bomba was at the then practical limit for a bomb due to its size and weight, but if they build it on the ground or a barge as a pure experiment they could've made it even bigger.
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  3816. Does blowing up a radio tower constitute "criming the radio fans"?
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  3817. Also doubles as a Justin Bieber doll.
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  3818.  @Canada_Dominium  No, it wasn't a Dyna-Soar. It was some kind of fictional lifting body that could seat three people, including the rescue pilot, which was launched on a Titan rocket similar to Dyna-Soar. That fact that they didn't have room for all three marooned astronauts was a major plot point.
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  3819.  @hikermrsblood1  No idea, didn't write it down and that radio has an analog tuner so I would've been estimating anyway. Plus the transmission stopped and moved on at some point; they don't always broadcast on the same frequencies.
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  3820. Always good to see Ringo getting some respect.
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  3821. THat last category I knew you were going to mention Andy Summers and Edge, first guys I think of when I think of soundscape guitarists. And Andy Summers in the late 70s hugely influenced Alex Lifeson as well, who has never been afraid to pay attention to what other bands are doing, even though Rush is technically older than The Police.
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  3822. As bad as it was in an American POW camp, there's a reason the Germans all wanted to surrender to Americans or Brits instead of the Soviets.
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  3823. Now that you've pointed it out it cannot be unheard.
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  3824. Using an electromagnetic launcher on the surface of the moon is a very old idea. It's been used in Arthur C. Clark and Robert Heinlein stories. I recommend The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for a great story featured a lunar mag launcher.
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  3825. 3:05 Wait, you mean in the UK listening to air traffic is illegal too?! Wow, y'all need to fix your laws. I can't wait for the authoritarian bootlickers to defend this.
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  3826. 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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  3827. 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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  3828.  @michaelwoods4495  Which one are you? Drach never served in the Navy, so which one is he?
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  3829. If I were in charge I'd run two trains: an early one with the actual material, unpublicized, and an on-time train with a fake cask filled with that stuff from light sticks that glows when you shake it. Then, as it passes by the protesters I'd arrange for an accident where the glowing cargo gets spilled all over the protesters. I'd be fired, of course, and maybe even charged with a crime, but to get that on video would make it worth it for me. I'm the reason we can't have nice things.
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  3830.  @magtafcmdr8621  The squad bay in the movie looked just like the Weapons Battalion squad bays at The Island, with the red paint and all.
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  3831. So, did the Romans also invent crayons?
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  3832. It was all that and a bag of chips somewhere around 100 episodes ago.
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  3833. On the subject of small arms used in air-to-air combat, I have read the tale of a kill scored by a CIA-operated helicopter in Southeast Asia on an AN-2 biplane. IIRC it was a CIA employee shooting out the side door of the civilian Huey with an AK-47 rifle that did the deed.
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  3834. 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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  3835. Excellent documentary, once again.
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  3836. "If you take your guitar into the woods and play badly where no one can hear, do you still suck?" - Pat Metheny 2021
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  3837. It's interesting how ditching the basket masts suddenly made the whole ship look more modern.
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  3838. At least the failure happened before people were living in the building.
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  3839. Project Orion was a sort of nuke gun propulsion system, the manhole cover experiment was part of where they got the idea for it.
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  3840. Would love to get my mitts on a pair of those Teleyeglasses. Those tiny CRTs must be awesome.
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  3841. Brutal takedown of a nonsense merchant by Sabine.
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  3842.  @nachtschadedoggerbank1089  Possibly, or it could be located in Hangar 18 next to the flying saucer.
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  3843. Damn straight.
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  3844. I love that theme and how they used it again in The Animated Series.
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  3845.  @frabe81118  It's being pre-empted for a special showing of Seattle Follies.
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  3846. I've seen that rubber deck wheelless aircraft before, back on Discovery Wings in the 90s, I think. I always thought that was a crazy idea. How are you supposed to taxi the aircraft out of the landing area after recovery? Do you have to jettison all external stores, drop tanks, and even air to air missiles before landing? No wonder it didn't go anywhere.
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  3847. Von Braun wrote a series of articles for Colliers magazine in the 50s where he laid out his ideas for space exploration, with illustrations included. That's where all the space ferry stuff mentioned in this video comes from. Von Braun's early ideas had multiple flights to LEO to build a large moonship which would fly to, land on, and return from the lunar surface with a crew of about 30 guys, and IIRC it would return to LEO to be refueled and reused. All of this meant a huge amount of up mass, lots of launches, and a large infrastructure, the kind of thing commonly dreamt about in the 50s and 60s. Apollo-Saturn was big but it was kind of a compromise compared to the earlier ideas.
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  3848. And we wonder why Putin is not afraid of NATO. Never forget, weakness breeds aggression.
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  3849.  @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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  3850. 9:00 That diagram of apogee and perigee is incorrect. I assume von Braun was not the illustrator, no way he'd have made such an obvious mistake.
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  3851. @Phillip Banes Heck I even know a few people who shoot wet plate large format, 1860s style. For a lot of people, the difference between film and digital is like the difference between making a chair in a woodshop and just buying one at Ikea.
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  3852. @Phillip Banes You can beat painting with photography, and yet people still paint. What's your point?
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  3853.  @dougbrowning82  As recently as a few years ago Walgreen pharmacies still did one-hour.
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  3854. At least one US Navy fighter squadron uses the jolly roger as well.
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  3855. His spare shirt doubled as a tent.
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  3856. From what I heard, Zeigler hasn't kept her proverbial mouth shut, making an anti-Israel woke statement online to spite her ever-hotter Israeli costar.
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  3857. For a 38-year-old he looked pretty old, must've been some hard livin'.
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  3858. I vote for the Triton mission, or anything Neptune related.
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  3859. Diameter is equal to four small Nerf footballs end to end, or about 2.4 large Nerf footballs end to end, depending on whether you soak them in cold water first.
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  3860.  Curiosity  Don't see that I was talking to you in the first place, so it all works out, champ.
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  3861. 31:00 also whether you'd get a poorly made short fuze and a detonation inside your barrel before you fired it off was also a risk, I'd imagine.
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  3862. Even better is when it spools up! Standing on the flight line with a fire extinguisher while that beast spins up, and the forward nozzle wash starts flapping your pant legs.
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  3863. If it didn't come from Mark Felton, I'd never believe that crazy story about landing a fighter plane on top of a balloon.
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  3864. I see this as an opportunity. Properly shaped, skyscrapers could be used as giant reflecting telescopes for astronomy at night.
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  3865. Wow, this is unexpected and hilarious. I haven't seen a review this scathing since William F. Buckley and his devastating obituaries! The people running the tourist operation done goofed with the wrong visitor. "Face like a smacked ass" LMAO!
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  3866. First surface to air missile, yes.
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  3867.  @samsonsoturian6013  MBDA is marketing a naval missile called the Hoplite. The Soviet helicopter Mi-2 has the NATO codename Hoplite. And of course, the US Navy used the Phalanx close-in weapons system for anti-missile defense, and Phalanx is a pretty cool name.
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  3868.  @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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  3869. At least one variant of the Atlas missile had a blunt nosecone as well; I'm guessing that was a reentry heat shield. And yes, it looks wrong.
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  3870. The sad thing is that the Mk 14 wasn't a horrible design; it just needed to be tested to work out the problems before being issued to the fleet. You never want to go into a fight using a weapon that's never been fired before.
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  3871. I think it sounds like a stunt that, if all goes well, will result in a bunch of overrated cheesy "art". If it doesn't go well, well....then it's a very bad day.
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  3872. Interesting lander design, height to width ratio much higher than Apollo LM, and the lander has 6 legs instead of the Apollo's 4. I thought the whole legs thing had been settled by the Grumman engineers, and that 3 was too few and required long legs, while more than 4 was excess mass, and thus 4 was optimal. I could be mistaken.
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  3873. I enjoyed the history lesson here, but the comment section is bound to be just a bunch of political comments, so moving on to the next video...
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  3874.  @rosswarren436  In those days you were lucky to get 7 months of life out of a satellite to be fair.
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  3875.  @stickytapenrust6869  Right again! Looks like you are also a fan.
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  3876.  @Flaming-Hedgehog  Great username.
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  3877.  @RowanHawkins  I've been considering it. Need to see how much time I have for another hobby.
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  3878.  @jony663  Are you actually related to the Yuengling family that owns the brewery or is that just your internet handle?
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  3879. 10:30 who knew Sean Penn was such a good translator.
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  3880. In 1997 I attended a Marine Corps Ball* in which the guest of honor was a retired USMC Gunnery Sgt. who had served in WWI. At the time he was in his 90s and in seemingly good health, having no trouble walking around and making his way through the chow line. I walked over, shook his hand, and briefly spoke to him. Here was a man who had fought in Europe at battles legendary to Marine Corps history, standing right in front of me, chowing down on some bread rolls lol. It was an honor and also kind of funny.
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  3881.  @princejellyfish3945  None of that crap you bring up makes a good excuse for all the murders committed by Stalin, Mao, or Hitler, who were all of the same stripe.
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  3882.  @racer927  So every three days you are going to reply to my message now, defending evil?
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  3883. I think the Dead Milkmen shot their video for Punk Rock Girl there, too.
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  3884. I'm pretty "pro-nuclear" power and I agree with you that the water release is really no big deal, but that stunt with the bus tour and the groveling apology film make me less than trustful of TEPCO as an organization. If there's one thing history has taught us concerning nuclear power, or any industry really, it's that telling bad news truthfully up front may hurt now but lying will hurt you even more later on. Good video.
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  3885. The correct term is "Regiment of Foot", meaning foot soldiers.
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  3886. When a ship sinks by the bow or stern like K3 did with Prince Albert aboard, or otherwise assumes an extreme attitude, is there danger of the boiler's crown sheet being exposed and thus prompting an explosion, similar to a steam locomotive?
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  3887. He was definitely wackier than Hitler with all that occult stuff.
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  3888. "He'd lost 20% of his bodyweight." Doctor: "Looking good." LMAO aways find the bright side, I guess!
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  3889.  @esquilax5563  Yes, they do, the axes of the rocket body or any other space vehicle are defined by the engineers who designed them made the drawings, and wrote the documentation.
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  3890. 7:53 bombing accuracy really was crap in those days.
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  3891.  @absalomdraconis  Growler replaced the EA-6B Prowler, not the S-3 Viking. Viking has no replacement.
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  3892. Plot twist: Airbus killed the whistleblower to frame up Boeing.
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  3893. That's probably exactly what is happening in many cases. Spies were around long before the Cold War and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
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  3894. Once upon a time, department stores all had cafeterias in them. People used to go to Woolworths to sit at the lunch counter.
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  3895.  @RANDALLBRIGGS As a Marine I find all this cavalry talk and Army history to be very interesting. Totally different to the way the Marine Corps is organized and uses aviation, the Corps' aviation is administratively based on the Navy's aviation system, and of course, the Corps has never had any sort of serious horse or cavalry units (with small exceptions in weird situations). To the average civilian, the Army and Marine Corps look similar because we dress alike and carry similar rifles, but when you really look at the services and their history they are vastly different.
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  3896. 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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  3897. 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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  3898.  @davidpearse1536  How does that make you feel?
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  3899. If it can be determined which ship lays a mine that destroys an enemy vessel or puts it out of action, does the minelayer ship get credit for the victory?
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  3900. "The test pilot's life was a precarious one in this period," he said, while holding Chuck Yeager's beer.
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  3901.  @nlwilson4892  How does this make you feel?
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  3902. Royal Blood is all bass guitar through octave up pedals to get a guitarish sound IIRC. Kind of a cool 2-man band.
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  3903.  @wireless6  In the US they sometimes did something called a "simulcast" where you could watch, say, a concert on TV and the superior audio would be broadcast over FM stereo. Only saw it a few times growing up.
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  3904. I'm so sick of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-Friday plane!
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  3905. I have watched many of your videos, aaaaaand…...subscribed.
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  3906. New on the KFC menu: Kentucky Meat Shower!
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  3907.  @Heike--  Yes, anyone who gave us fruit or other non-candy risked getting it thrown at their house later.
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  3908. Hydrogen peroxide has been used as rocket propellant. So yeah, 80% is scary.
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  3909. The X-20 Dyna Soar's heat shielding also would've used liquid coolant during peak heating.
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  3910. So let me discuss this with you a bit: all accidents are the result of a string of events. The removal of any one of these events stops the chain leading to the accident. A military attack is an event you really don't want to introduce into this string, just in case your other redundancies aren't quite as ready as they should be.
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  3911. Well done as usual RM.
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  3912. It's called the "anthropic theory"
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  3913.  @gristen  That is hilarious! The ride looks like something some redneck built in his back yard drunk one Saturday afternoon with some duck tape and a nail gun.
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  3914. Yes, yes, everything's better with more money.
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  3915. It's by far the worst song on an otherwise killer album, and possibly the worst VH song ever, but it certainly is a well-known anthem.
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  3916. When I was growing up I learned about Leonov when I read 2010: Odyssey 2 by Arthur C. Clarke and saw the movie. The Soviet spacecraft was called the Alexei Leonov and a younger, hotter Helen Mirren played the Leonov's skipper.
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  3917.  @aaronquak2139 Does a kangaroo fly any higher?
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  3918.  william bush  No, only compressed air for me so far. Nitrox was kind of a new thing in sport diving in the 90s when I got started but I never tried it. It's where you bump up the O2 percentage a bit from the natural 20% to something like 25% or something. Gives you more bottom time at medium depths, but in deeper dives you can get oxygen poisoning. Plus you need a different dive table or computer so I never bothered.
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  3919.  william bush  But yah, nitrogen narcosis is another thing to look out for. People get drunk on nitrogen sometimes, get disoriented, and drown before they know what hit them. And the opposite in oxygen poisoning, which sounds odd but it's yet another thing that can hurt or kill you. These are reason why sport divers never go deeper than 130 or 140 ft. Once you go deep the risks add up really fast. Most sport dives are 75 ft or less depending on where you are.
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  3920.  william bush  And also, there are sharks lol!
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  3921. Love Renaissance!
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  3922. 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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  3923. About 9 years ago I bought an old Minolta twin lens reflex off of ebay for about $100, fully functional but in need of some care. Spent some more money to send it to a guy who restores old Minoltas; he cleaned, lubed, adjusted it, and put a new leatherette skin on it to replace the old crackled one, so it's like I have a bran new 1959 roll film camera, with a super sharp lens and a working light-powered meter. It's been my main camera ever since, been on long trips and hikes to tops of mountains. I can't imagine how much it would sell for now given the prices that guy was quoting in this vid. Looks like I jumped in at the right time.
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  3924. At least Steward Copeland plays a real hi hat.
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  3925. 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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  3926. 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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  3927.  @chrissinclair4442  How many times are going to copy and paste that?
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  3928. Sure they were cool, except for all the communism and Weather Underground stuff. And thanks to them it's going on in the street right now in 2025.
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  3929.  @Dave_Sisson  A "publicity stunt"? It's a completely new military service, brought into being by an act of Congress. Of course it's real. And if you look into the way China is investing in space (and you have to look, it's not on the front page of any news media service), you'll see why the US defense establishment has been concerned about this for the last two decades now. Don't buy into all the slanted political hysteria you see in the news.
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  3930. 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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  3931.  @rbeard7580  I've also read that the Air Force did the math and found that for the cost of buying and changing all the engines in the fleet, they could just keep burning fuel for years on end, making it easy to put off the project.
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  3932. The Continental Navy was formed by the rebellious Congress after the revolution started. Also, many of the states had their own navies, in particular Pennsylvania had a navy which saw fierce combat on the Delaware River near Philadelphia.
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  3933. I think in the US if the Buffalo Bills ever win the Super Bowl that means it's the end of the world and US submarines will launch their missiles. We had a string of close calls in the 90s when they reached the Superbowl 4 times in a row, but fortunately they never pulled it off.
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  3934. I've heard of the Tower, but not this incident. Great vid.
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  3935. 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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  3936. Great story. I knew about the German POWs, there was a camp not far from where I live. NPR did a story about the gentle treatment of Germans in US camps, and how sometimes Americans got resentful of it, especially after finding out about the concentration camps, and when lots of Americans came home in caskets. It's interesting to note that German POWs were also put to work on farms during the American Revolution when many captured Hessians were sent to farms in German-speaking Pennsylvania, many of them electing to stay there after the war, from what I've heard.
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  3937. @laser325 you forgot the important part "in my opinion"
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  3938.  @BalshazzarWastebasket  Funny, but the Space Shuttle replaced its tires after every single flight, even though they were rated for something like a hundred landings. And Space Shuttle tires aren't exactly cheap.
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  3939. The people of New Jersey have had to take trash dump jokes from New Yorkers for decades, so I think Puerto Rico will be just fine.
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  3940. 3:38 You have a photo of the locomotive General Haupt, and standing on top of the embankment to the right is the man for whom the locomotive is named, General Herman Haupt of the US Army, a civil engineer famous for organizing and operating railroads for the Union army during the Civil War. He's worth an episode maybe.
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  3941. To be fair, there is the Northrop (aka Northrop Grumman) B2 bomber, which Jack Northrop lived long enough to see before he died, so the flying wing bomber made it after all.
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  3942. Look at that jackass Slavsky with that crazy fruit salad on his chest. You'd think he single-handedly killed or captured the entire German army and roundhouse kicked Hitler in the face like Chuck Norris to earn a stack of tin like that.
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  3943.  @alecblunden8615  Nice try to turn this into yankee-bashing, but that's not what this is about.
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  3944. How does one unjam a 15" gun?!
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  3945. Clint probably has it!
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  3946. Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are examples of how great things can be when good bass players write good songs.
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  3947. They've played around with spherical drones I think, look like the interrogator droid from the Death Star, but I think they are designed for use inside the cabin and were just an experiment.
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  3948.  @Pravlord  Not.
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  3949.  @davidb6576  And how does THAT make you feel?
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  3950.  @rorykeegan1895  Sure thing, buddy.
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  3951. Much how all modern jetliners now look the same from a distance.
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  3952.  @Stoney3K  When driving over long distances at night in the US I have been amazed at the distant AM radio stations I've picked up on my car stereo sometimes. Being on an Interstate highway in, say, Tennessee, and hearing a Chicago station clear as a bell for at least a half hour or so. In Virginia picking up stations from New York or Philadelphia. Used to listen to creep UFO conspiracy stuff on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show at 2 o'clock in the morning while driving through the middle of nowhere.
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  3953. Cells, interlinked!
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  3954. This video is a very post-premodernist metaphysical representation of nihilist humor framed in a metamodern substrate while bearing in mind the postmodern possibilities of a metanarrative which subverts expectations of deconstructivism. Brilliant, really. But with the rise of AI it will all be rendered obsolete. I am a banana.
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  3955. You know the American who decided to drag race tanks must've been from Detroit.
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  3956.  @Ccs4646  Atlas V has indeed had more launches. All successful. It is indeed less complex. Both points for my argument. I would rather fly on the rocket that doesn't blow up. And it's good that Crew Dragon's launch went well; had it needed to abort its engine might have blown up.
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  3957. 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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  3958.  @SWilford  Nah, they stole it from Karate Kid, when Mr. Miagi tries to catch a fly with chopsticks. Also, at one point Musk was calling it the Mechazilla arms.
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  3959. It's the same as a passive rangefinder, only less precise. Like any angle rangefinder, the farther apart the two lights are the more accurate it should get.
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  3960. Wow, bombardier almost pulled a real life Major Kong, all he needed was a cowboy hat!
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  3961. Looking forward to a Falklands War episode. Sad how the Phoenix ended up, a lot of dead Argentine sailors. Dictators suck.
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  3962. At least one early subway system consisted of cylindrical cars in a round tube tunnel driven by air pressure. Also there was the 1980s toy Micronauts Rocket Tubes, which was a pneumatic driven toy "train" set. What Elon Musk wanted is notable for the great speed at which it would operate; the entire system must be kept in a near vacuum which is a major engineering challenge.
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  3963. A just government would protect the right of citizens like Peterson to speak freely, instead of protecting those idiots.
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  3964. @Rroff2 I think that was the point I was trying to make: The UK gave up on expensive fighter development in favor of "cheaper" surface-to-air missiles, and then dropped the ball on the missiles, indicating that actually defending the home islands was not the real goal to begin with; defunding the defense industry was. If you really want to do without manned interceptors, you need an absolute world-class integrated air defense system. The US/NORAD actually had this in the form of SAGE, BOMARC, and the Nike missile systems, but even then they still had high performance interceptors such as the F-106, never fully trusting missiles to defend against incoming bombers. UK gave up one for the other, and wound up with neither. And given a realistic assessment of the state of missile air defense technology in the 50s and 60s, manned interceptors were still obviously required to put up an effective defense against a mass bombing raid.
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  3965. And, at least when it comes to home defense, arguing that it's too expensive falls a bit flat for a first-world power. Power projection may be too pricey, but defending one's homeland against attack is among the most basic functions of any government. Of course, there were politics involved in all of this in the 50s and 60s, as always with defense policy.
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  3966. This will come in handy for boarding actions.
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  3967.  @JohnE9999  Makes sense.
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  3968. @ BTW, your response is a blessing of creativity and humor!
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  3969. 8:56 That looks like the symbol of the Klingon Empire
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  3970. Thanks to your post there will certainly be more.
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  3971. 7:56 Americans and Soviets dancing to an Austrian waltz.
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  3972.  @Cjnw  Yes, but he wasn't at war with the Austrians at the time.
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  3973.  @Cjnw  Sure, but my point is that at the time Austria was part of the Third Reich and those dancers were in bitter combat with Austrians, yet they still appreciated good music.
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  3974. GPS IIR-1 launched on a Delta II in 1997. Just above the launch pad one of the SRMs failed and the vehicle exploded spectacularly, raining debris and burning propellant down all over Cape Canaveral AFS. There is video. Several parked cars were hit by chunks of burning solid rocket fuel. Imagine explaining that to the insurance company.
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  3975. Like NASA's 1990s programs that resulted in two crashed spacecraft on Mars: "Better, faster, cheaper: pick two."
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  3976.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907  I get what you're saying, but Better Faster Cheaper was an actual slogan for the 90s unmanned exploration missions.
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  3977. Sure, however, do not fall for the temptation to suppress information because you're afraid of the antinuke nuts.
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  3978.  @MultiEviscerator  Side note: that's a great song.
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  3979. Indiana Jones and the Plutonium Rover
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  3980. The American version is the Martin B-57 Canberra, for reference.
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  3981. "Reassessing McClellan" ie. trying to polish a turd. He may have been a good engineer and strategist but he was undeniably a pompous ass and a prima donna in an army full of prima donnas.
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  3982. In the days before body cameras, like say, 1970s NYC, this guy would've gotten the living shit kicked out of him.
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  3983. They ask you to refrain from even pushing the buttons on your key fob.
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  3984. This is a 70s Berlin School flair in this vid.
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  3985. Fu Manchu
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  3986. Well, there's been enough discussion about the death of rock. Fun to talk about but kind of sad and distracts us from making music. Time to start looking at the bright side and motivate ourselves. I play in a rock band with a bunch of guys younger than me and we see a fair amount of younger people at shows so it's not like it's completely dead. We do shows with other bands that have lots of talent, we record stuff for far less than it once would've cost. It may not be like the heyday of the 80s anymore but it's still a real thing. EDM or other electronic music may be huge, but it is never going to be as much fun as jamming with a group of people and forming a band, which is more than just a collection of musicians; it's a team trying to achieve a goal together. So what if it's all underground now, that's part of what makes it cool now.
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  3987.  @nowster "How many times have I told you boys, no messin' around on the airplane!"
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  3988. Have they re-flown a first stage yet?
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  3989. I think that even if you do nothing, the air blowing from the ventilation system will eventually push you up against a wall.
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  3990. Somewhere between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown, maybe?
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  3991.  @ExasBits  Because your average sports fan has bad taste in music.
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  3992. That's a great story. Did it detonate or just kill the cow by collision?
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  3993. 3:20 I've never seen the business end of a TBM in action like that. Usually there's no room in front of it for a camera. Interesting to see they just cut right through rebar like that.
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  3994.  @averageeclairenjoyer3010  Yeah, the movie never explains how a Soviet spacecraft winds up in a position to be able to rendezvous with Ironman 1, or how NORAD didn't notice it. Not a knock against the film, really, just one of those nerd questions I always ask.
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  3995. This is an awesome interview. And given Metallica's fan base, Rick's gonna get a TON of views.
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  3996.  @swissTom124  Apollo expeditions were limited in range by rules. You couldn't drive the rover more than some distance (was it 3 miles?) from the LM, so you could still walk back to the ship if the car broke down.
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  3997. The Godfeather.
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  3998.  @krisfrederick5001  We fight the Sparrows for the right to perch on Scorsese's Head.
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  3999.  @krisfrederick5001  Badda bing!
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  4000. Interesting. The only digital camera I ever bought is a Fujifilm in 2004. It's a 6MP, which was decent for the time, and has tons of features, but it's one major flaw is that it has horrible shutter lag. Any film camera blows it away in that one department. I never bought another digital camera, though, my smartphone does the job. Ironically I shoot film as a hobby and love the old beautiful vintage cameras. Film is now a niche art medium. Fujifilm film is still one of the best quality films on the market. I still use Kodak Tri-X film, too, but I don't think it's actually made by Kodak anymore, rather it's made under license using Kodak's formula, or so I've heard. Kodak film has also become unreasonably expensive, which, in a market chock full of films to choose from, is not good.
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  4001. Whoever created the Tara the Singing Android vids. Still one of the creepiest things I have seen on youtube.
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  4002. It was a safe place and quite civilized. It's not like he left them in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan; it was jolly old England.
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  4003.  @filanfyretracker  yep
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  4004. "Why didn't they use real drums?" Because record companies and producers.
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  4005.  @legalize.brokkoli  Often it starts riots and wars and gets a lot of people killed, too.
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  4006. Right, What we need a dictator to make us do what needs to be done. I nominate me.
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  4007. I will never forget that old lady in the commercial angrily clapping off her TV and lights. When I was little I was afraid of her because she reminded me of the mean old lady next door who used to yell at us every time a ball would stray into her yard. I'll bet she had a Clapper in her house somewhere.
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  4008. Both Closer to the Heart and this song were huge radio hits. Sorry you're too cool to like only the deep cuts, but there's a reason these songs got, and still get, so much air play.
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  4009. I put this video on my "watch later" list and recently when I went to find it it's not on my list, yet if I click the "save" button it still shows as "watch later". Weird.
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  4010. The Navy and Marine Corps have safety magazines and training films that show gruesome accidents, the results of not following safety rules. There was a magazine article that showed what happened when a Marine didn't duck down as he walked away from a helicopter with drooping blades. The blade swiped the top of his head, scalping him. His cranial helmet probably saved his life, but there was a photo of the scar on his head and what is probably a permanent bald spot. Another incident was a Marine who improperly disassembled the nose landing gear of an A-4 Skyhawk, resulting in him laying on the hangar floor with the nose of the jet on his chest. Marines came out and lifted the jet off of him by sheer muscle power, but he didn't live long. A Navy mechanic was trying to get up to the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder, so he thought he would just back his plane tractor up to the side of the jet and stand on top of the tractor. He failed to notice he was approaching the engine intake, which hit his back and forced his body forward onto the steering wheel and jamming his foot on the accelerator. He was crushed to death by his tractor. There is a famous video on youtube of a sailor on a carrier flight deck being sucked into the engine of an A-6. He was fortunate that his body was jammed against an inlet vane before he reached the spinning engine blades. His cranial helmet got sucked through and damaged the engine, while he had nasty injuries. Flight decks are particularly dangerous places, because with all these engines running all around you you cannot rely on your hearing to protect you. My dad served on a carrier in the 1960s and witnessed a man walk into a propeller, killed instantly.
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  4011. Getting excited for China's space accomplishments today is like being excited for Germany's aerospace accomplishments in the 1930s.
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  4012. Fasteners are one thing, what shocked me the first time I stood next to a Mercury is how tiny the spacecraft is.
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  4013. Is that actually old Bruce Wayne?
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  4014. Mechanical control systems, including music box drums or player piano roll systems, are the kind of thing that is very useful for programming something like a robotic aircraft or missile. Here's another one: in the 60s when Project Orion was in development, they needed a system that could eject nuclear explosives out the back of a nuclear pulse-propelled vehicle at a steady rate of 1 per second, so General Atomics contracted Coca Cola to help develop it, since Coke's bottling machines worked in a similar manner.
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  4015. Q2 in later days.
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  4016.  @Nuke-MarsX  Lots of studies have been done regarding parachutes vs. powered landings, going back to the 60s, and it's generally agreed that a parachute and landing gear system big enough to land a large vehicle masses more than the engines and a bit of extra propellant used on the same vehicle. Add to that the fact that the engines used to recover SpaceX's boosters are also used during the launch, so they are not dead weight. Also, a parachute recovery system won't be recoverable by a Mechazilla-style system, and that system allows you to do away with heavy landing gear and hang the structure under tension, saving more mass.
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  4017.  @daveweiss5647  Modern ships are sold for scrap metal, not exactly a waste. The bronze propellers in particular are worth lots of money.
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  4018. Could also be a reference to OK Boomer.
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  4019. You should do a segment on Pithole, Pennsylvania. A ghost town of the oil rush.
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  4020. Now they just need to protect it from hot dog pilots like that guy who had a midair with a B-17 at an airshow a while back.
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  4021.  @bigwoody4704  No, it wasn't bugs. The baseline B-29 cannot fit a Fatman-type atomic bomb in its bay because of the wing spar. The AAF had to get the manufacturer to redesign the bomb bay for it to carry the weapon, and these later models were called "Silverplates". Of course, the later B-50 version of the Superfortress was built from the start to incorporate all the improvements of the B-29 and served well into the 1950s.
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  4022. "COVID crisis caused a crash" say that five times fast
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  4023. 27:00 "How are you supposed to know if nuclear warheads are present?" Don't worry, the Marines guarding the warheads will gladly get you learned right quick!
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  4024. Sony MDR-7506 is my current favorite pair. Oldie but goodie. Generally speaking, I've never had any complaints about Sony's higher end headphones/earbuds, going back to the 80s. I still have my MDR-40 headphones from 1984 but I need to repair them since they are so abused. Good value for the price.
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  4025.  @lajya01  And deliberately so. Getting a simple repair done to your car requires you to pay a small fortune in labor and parts.
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  4026. "How Rick Beato makes a song great"
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  4027. Didn't the Sparrow do pretty well in the 91 Gulf War?
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  4028. Training wheels are off, people. You'll have to tell yourself from now on.
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  4029. Careful, Drach, you may be opening a can of worms talking about post 1950s ships! I suspect many other people reading this, like me, can name a ship we served on that we'd love to see reviewed, and we know you'd rather stick to more distant history.
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  4030. If someone is kicking in my door at 3 AM, I will just do nothing and wait for them to come in and do what they want, because I want to avoid being charged. Be right back, gotta go change the headlight fluid in my Prius.
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  4031. Hit Girl is probably cousins with Wednesday Addams.
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  4032. Sure, it was a dumb thing to say, but it's not like I was going to waste my time on this movie anyway.
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  4033. I think a lot of pop songs use basic melodic phrases which are easy to accidentally copy, lots of songs use these three chords (I, IV, and V), and lots of songs have this kind of disco style rhythm. But to put them all together in such a way that it sounds this close to another song? Gonna be difficult to argue that's a mere coincidence.
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  4034.  @JeffBostick222  Oh, gotcha.
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  4035. During the War of the Worlds radio show panic of the 1930s, someone in New Jersey spotted a water tower in the night time gloom and started shooting at it with small arms, thinking it was a Martian Tripod. So maybe the Austro-Hungarians thought that Italy was overrun by Martians?
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  4036.  @tommcdermott9875  How does that make you feel?
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  4037.  @fredflintstone8817  Is that what I wrote?
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  4038. I always thought ectoplasm was something they made up for Ghostbusters.
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  4039. All the high rise casino buildings in Atlantic City, NJ, are built on top of sand IIRC. Not sure how long they last, though. Casinos seem to get torn down and replaced more often than apartment buildings.
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  4040. 20:20 We prefer to avoid phrases such as "crash course" in videos such as these, please.
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  4041.  @Archgeek0  Statistically, it's a very safe bet. The odds of a collision are still quite low, and if one does occur, so what? India could deny responsibility, or just apologize, maybe even pay out some compensation, but the odds of having to even worry about that are still quite low math-wise.
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  4042. It's very touching and cute and all, but she's still a wild animal who can kill a human just by playing. Only a matter of time.
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  4043. And the corollary: if someone is trying to take away your arms, you're next on the oppressed list.
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  4044.  @_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._-  BS to your condescending tone ("You do realize..."). Even without Allied deception the V2 could at best hit an urban area.
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  4045.  @_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._-  It's all good, man.
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  4046.  @darkhorse13golfgaming  And then I saw him on camera for the first time and he did not look like what I had pictured.
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  4047.  @pr0xZen  Not very F, either, unfortunately.
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  4048. Another interesting idea is if they kept the hulls around for a few decades and then fitted them up as BBG's loaded to the gills with VLS tubes and Tomahawk launchers. Harden them against missiles attacks while you're at it. There was also the "arsenal ship" concept that comes back around from time to time.
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  4049. So what's up with the fires? I've never seen a diesel locomotive catch fire like that. Were they burning ordinary diesel or some kind of high test jet fuel or was there something else about them that made them burn like that?
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  4050. "That's what we do here. We strap rockets to everything we see." - Adam the Mythbuster
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  4051. Considering that lots of Japanese, including Kenpetai, spoke English, and surely some of them must have listened to the radio once in a while, she and her team showed extreme courage doing what they did, and should've been rewarded when the war ended.
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  4052. 12:35 Technology Connections where are you!
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  4053. In addition to redesigning hardware I hope they took a good look at their best practices for ground testing and handling, seems like there were several points where they should've taken a step back and said, "Nope, doesn't look or sound right, do not approve this tank for flight."
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  4054. As well as a computer screen that says "UR FKD"
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  4055. @ThomasMeeson He is truly an artist of some time.
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  4056. So far it sounds like this guy got away with it and lived out his days a free man.
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  4057.  @dalethelander3781  Yes I'm well aware of that.
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  4058. 18:14 "As most Edwardian homes were still using gas...this tiny spark could cause an explosion..." Um, didn't everybody smoke back then? And often use open flame cooking?
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  4059. Plus, it was a simple formation flight, so possibly they figured it was an excuse to log some extra flying time and didn't consider it to be particularly dangerous. It's not like GE was asking them to fly through Soviet flak fire supersonic at treetop level or something.
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  4060. They weren't close friends, but the idea that they hated each other is a myth that needs to be busted.
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  4061. This sounds a lot like the SapceShip2 accident that happened a few years ago when Scaled Composites was testing their new rocket plane out. The plane was supersonic with the rocket engine lit up when the tail section unlocked and started to deploy as it would for reentry, tearing the plane apart, and the pilot suddenly found himself flying supersonic without an airplane. He managed to survive, but the co-pilot was killed.
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  4062.  @augustosolari7721  Oh, that sucks
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  4063.  @escobar64  Or maybe it all sounds the same to him. Insulting him isn't going to make him waste more time on music he doesn't like.
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  4064.  @GrimJerr  Check out the movie Oblivion.
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  4065.  @MarkFeltonProductions  Don't take it too hard, Mark, it's the Internet, after all. Keep up the good work, coming from the US.
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  4066. Hard to figure out who the good guys are? Not to me. Rescuing children from an abusive communist dictatorship that would've targeted them for their racial background is pretty cut and dried to me.
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  4067. There are people shooting daguerreotypes today, but with a full lab setup for safety. A shame mercury is so toxic; those are the most beautiful of all photo processes.
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  4068. Interesting side note: There existed for a time an unshielded nuclear reactor called the "Lady Godiva Device" which was used by US nuclear scientists in nuclear weapons research. Basically, it had two fuel elements, one was suspended above the other, and when released it ran down a rail through a hole in the second element, and for a brief moment as it passed through criticality was achieved a burst of neutrons and other radiation was produced for testing. As the element fell through the hole the reaction stopped. The device was operated remotely, of course, being near it when this happened would be bad for your health to say the least. If you search on it there are photos out there.
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  4069.  @bfc3057  A sense of humor is worth quite a bit, though.
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  4070. Replacing the coal fired boilers with nuclear reactors to produce steam does the trick.
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  4071.  @benjaminminty9602  Ah, but you're not one of the dumb people, right? You and I and our little group, we're all special. It's all those other nameless faces that never think for themselves! I enjoy feeling superior.
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  4072. As a general rule, if Rommel had a plan, and higher ups had a plan, Rommel was usually correct. It's a good thing for the allies that the Germans didn't listen to what he was telling them.
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  4073. Why is that indecent? Did the ship not cover herself properly?
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  4074. I'd like to know what the sniper's plan was after he discharged his rifle. Shoot himself in the head, maybe? I can't see how he and his spotter hoped to escape.
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  4075. She is truly stunning in that photo at 5:30, navies need to bring back that style of paint job. Also, I love that the Drachism of the Day is supplied in the description.
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  4076. The mental image of a KRAP transmitter about to fall down a sinkhole makes this even funnier.
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  4077. 7:49 Carrie Fisher's dad
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  4078. Gotta love the off the wall ideas that might've worked. My favorite is the Chrysler SERV, a wildly different alternate design for the Space Shuttle that ditched the side-stacked orbiter idea for an SSTO VTOL vehicle with an aerospike style engine system that would take off and land back on the same pad. For manned missions it would have a small winged glider as an upper stage, which would have abort rockets to escape the launch vehicle in an emergency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_SERV
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  4079. The Amazon thing was always stupid. Lots of large drones buzzing around the airspace sharing the sly with airplanes and helicopters is a major hazard, and of course it's also a huge privacy breech to have drones equipped with cameras and other sensors buzzing around your house, even if it's the neighbor's delivery. (Not that Amazon gives a damn about privacy)
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  4080. "Just in case you don't want your hands hoisted up and loaded into the breach of an 8" gun" Drachism of the Day
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  4081. Another great vid, Mr. Felton. I'm not sure how much control you have over it, but you should be aware of the alarming number of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic kooks that always turn up in the comment sections of your videos on subjects such as Rudel.
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  4082. I really think it's rude when people constantly harp on this. Lots of people don't speak English, either, but you don't expect him to translate, too, do you? The strongest economy in the world uses English units, so maybe it's in your best interest to learn a bit about them. They are historical units, used in old literature, so it's worth the time. And for the record, Americans do use metric, maybe more so than even they realize. Beverages are sold in liters, some foods are sold in kilograms, the US military uses kilometers, and any American who receives science or engineering education has to learn metric to the point where it's second nature. Rough conversions in your head are not difficult, if you just take a few minutes to learn and memorize them.
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  4083.  @shawnmiller4781  Well sure, I know what that is, but it's not in the museum.
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  4084. The book is so much better than even the best of the films, mainly because the Martians, while unbeatably tough, are not invincible, and do take damage from soldiers and sailors with the guts to stand up and fight them. It's always fun to speculate how the Martians would fare against other ships, such as, for example, a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser, popping off Martian tripods at long range with Standard missiles, or Fletcher class destroyers, peppering the tripods with 5" shells.
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  4085. Growing up I never took David Carradine very seriously as an actor, but he was awesome in this film. I'm happy Tarantino gave him this role and that he did this before he passed.
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  4086. This is actually a really neat idea to put up cell towers that people don't think are eyesores. Wouldn't work everywhere, but in a lots of urban or suburban places. Make the art works temporary, so they get replaced every few years when the antennae need to be replaced or upgraded, maybe.
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  4087. Would be ironic if the damage was caused by debris from a Russian ASAT test.
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  4088. That's cool you were able to fly that drone around and get that footage without being questioned by cops.
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  4089. 30:17 If memory serves there was a brief nasty dispute between Spain and Canada over fishing rights in the 1990s I think it was. The news sensationalized it a bit; I don't think there was ever any danger of it coming to blows but I do remember me and my dad breaking out the books and looking up the naval strengths involved and wargaming it verbally a bit.
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  4090.  @davearonow65  Yngwie does seem to be overinflating a bit as he gets older, come to think of it.
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  4091.  @harveywallbanger3123 How much of the poor hit rate was from pilots not using the weapons properly, shooting when not in the proper envelope? Training cannot be underestimated. Rippling off four missiles without getting a good fire solution is a good way to drive up the miss rate by four more misses. Better to adopt the USMC state of mind on marksmanship: "One shot, one kill."
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  4092. You need to get a bow tie for the History Cat.
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  4093. I had commented on that short video that I always thought the crackle was from rough-burning solid rocket propellant and that I was surprised that the all-liquid rockets do it, too. Very cool that you made this video so soon after that.
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  4094.  @atlas8827  There's no proof of that. In fact, it could be argued that private spaceflight was held back by government run agencies like NASA. Congress basically allowed NASA to monopolize the launch market in the 80s to try and make the Space Shuttle "profitable", or at least less lossy. One wonders if a bunch of universities decided to pool their considerable funds and contract a builder for a space telescope as well as a launch provider how it would turn out and compare to Hubble, which has been an undeniable success, albeit an expensive one. Can't do worse than the current JWST money pit cockup.
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  4095. How many plane crashes do the Miami cops work? Is plane crashing a regular thing in the Miami area?
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  4096. Somebody keeps stealing a mine? I know a way to put a stop to that, but it's probably not legal.
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  4097.  @raketny_hvost  So your point is that the Soviet block's pilots suck as much as their jets? Another point for the F-15.
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  4098. Cut me off in traffic, eh? Wrong answer buddy.
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  4099. At least your media pays some attention to science. Where I live the media only cares about politics and Taylor Swift.
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  4100.  @jurgschupbach3059 Exactly. Now we experiment on entire populations. Plu sa change...
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  4101. "We won't need wheels where we're going..."
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  4102. Mongoloid is perfectly in keeping with the theme of the band and that first album especially. The idea that an artist can't get away with his art anymore is a pretty sad one.
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  4103. Not London, but DC suggestion: the 2009 Metro train collision, which was pretty horrific.
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  4104. It sounds like an Emo Philips joke to be honest
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  4105. 12:07 "...while the German press just completely ignored it." Hmm. Reminds me of somethng...
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  4106. I think it's published by Apogee Books.
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  4107.  @machy8515  Found it. Lunar Exploration Scrapbook. Go to Apogee Books website and look it up. Also, check out the vast pile of cool books they publish on space stuff. I have a bunch of them and some of them are crude and poorly printed but the ones on the Saturn V and the DynaSoar are great, so is the one on the Atlas rocket family, called "Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon".
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  4108.  @bkjeong4302 Ok, we get it, you hate battleships.
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  4109.  @lawrencelewis8105  LOL I don't know. Maybe the metric guys can tell you how many soccer fields it is.
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  4110. The overhead catenary lines would seem to be a better candidate for an antenna than the rails.
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  4111.  @bluegamer308  Last of the V8 Interceptors?
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  4112.  mike boultinghouse  They have neither H bombs nor ICBMs. Check your facts before posting. Also, communists are filth.
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  4113. I was eating greasy porkchops from a dirty ashtray when this video came on. Also a banana dipped in pickle juice. Get well soon, dude!
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  4114. I believe it's called the "Oberth Effect" (there is a wiki page) and I think it's used quite often.
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  4115. Absolutely.
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  4116. Which is dumb. Considering he's not from there his pronunciation is reasonable.
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  4117. Not a crazy idea, but ahead of its time and poorly executed. The Germans did have guided weapons that actually worked against allied ships, truly high tech for the 40s. The V2 ballistic missile was open loop guided via gyroscopes but was also just a bit too far ahead of its time to be practical. Too long to prep for launch, finicky propellants to work with, not accurate enough for a high explosive warhead, and even if small nuclear warheads would've been available for it it wasn't terribly reliable. The Americans and British were ahead in electronics technology, such as radar and the television systems used on these B-17 drone bombs, but nobody was quite there yet with these advanced weapons.
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  4118. Yup
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  4119. Guess you've never been to a hog roast. Probably should avoid those.
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  4120. @Fe Cu Yep, that's all we zombies can do. We also like to reference George Romero films.
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  4121. Okay, idea for a new test: build a sloped tunnel, put a nuke at the far end, and stuff a bunch of these steel spheres in on top. World's most badass shotgun.
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  4122. Ships in service can smell a whole lot worse at times.
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  4123.  @autury-5703  Seriously, let's hear it for fake music, amarite?
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  4124. I watched Artemis 1 live when it launched. That was awesome. So happy to see this amazing footage. The sheer fury and violence of that massive powerplant is a sight to behold.
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  4125. You won't hear anything. The rounds are supersonic.
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  4126. Funny, because Mitsubishi makes a modified licensed version of the F-16 called the F2.
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  4127. I'd love to hear Capt. Seaquist's remarks on handling a BB in various maneuvers and while entering or leaving port, anchoring, etc. The discussion of the hydrodynamics was fascinating, I had no idea that a ship's bow wave can have such an effect in water as deep as 100 fathoms. I'd also like to hear his ideas for how he would modernize an Iowa for returning to service. Standard missiles and Aegis radar perhaps? The Tomahawks and Phalanx guns certainly worked out in the 80s.
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  4128.  @browngreen933  No kidding.
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  4129. Yeah in the interview he said he thought he overstepped and was gonna have to do another take.
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  4130. 6:10 that's a hell of a way to mount a horse. Lots of ways to screw that up.
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  4131. "Conspiracy theory" has taken on negative connotations, but when you're talking about power-hungry people like Hitler they need to be considered, since the idea that Hitler kills people is certainly not a crazy one. When a plane crashes with a guy Hitler was pissed off at inside it, you form a few "theories", to include pilot error, mechanical failure, enemy action, and of course, the possible conspiracy to murder the man. Then you work through the facts to rule out each of these and settle on the most likely theory, which in this case is pilot error. The recent death of Vladimir Putin's powerful critic Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash is a similar case. Most people automatically assume Putin had him wacked. It's a case where the conspiracy theory is also the commonly accepted one.
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  4132. 11:24 I don't think I've seen that photo of Hitler smiling before. It's creepy, like when Wednesday Addams smiles.
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  4133.  @jaschul  You know everybody seems to think that Rick hates this or that band or whatever, but be fair: rock is a HUGE genre with about a 70 year history at this point, even a guy who swims in music like Rick isn't going to cover everyone's favorite band in a tiny list of 20+ examples.
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  4134. "Not quite my tempo."
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  4135. "The Americans must be executing their scientists at a faster rate than we are, we must increase scientist executions in order to build better rockets!"
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  4136. My favorite bands like Rush and Tool are always cool with people doing teaching videos and instrument covers and so on, while people I dislike such as Don Henley and Axl Rose are just too shortsighted and greedy to know what's good for them. Kind of makes me feel good about the bands I choose to listen to and the ones I never really liked.
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  4137.  @cindycraig3164  Fiestaware! I was trying to remember the name of it. I heard about it in a photography class once, when we were looking at a magazine article featuring photographs made from uranium salts (as opposed to the usual silver salts in ordinary black and white photo prints). Which is another thing: you can use uranium, among other heavy metals, to make photographic prints with, also it's not the best idea, since it is toxic and there are other metals like platinum and palladium which are easier to work with and not radioactive.
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  4138. If you think the film 500C model was expensive, look up the price of a Hasselblad medium format digital. That big old sensor drives the cost way up like a Saturn V. I'll stick with the film for now, thanks.
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  4139. Also, he can handle the recoil of a rifle which fires a projectile with a muzzle velocity of almost 8 km/s.That's a pretty tough guy.
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  4140. Enshittification
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  4141.  @mitchellpatterson1829  It's the only logical explanation. Like in the movie Moon.
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  4142. Nice face. Mind if I try it on?
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  4143. I'm pretty sure someone did a Gemini Lunar mission addon for Orbiter; over the years they've done most of the alternate history stuff. Someone did LUNEX a long time ago.
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  4144.  @GuinessHangover  The corporal will take you down to the flight line, and you can have all the videos that you want. But first you have to ask me nicely.
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  4145. Back in the 90s I used to play Dynamix game Aces of the Deep on my old DOS 386 machine, still one of the best games.
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  4146. Ringway has chosen your post, be happy, you're special!
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  4147.  @clazy8  How do they do it in China?
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  4148.  @AsbestosMuffins  Do Amazon facilities not have stairways and fire doors?
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  4149.  @JonBrase  The whole point of the Genie is to use it over your own territory. The high-altitude air burst does not create an appreciable amount of fallout and the only real danger to your civilians is eye damage if any of them happen to be looking at the blast at the point of detonation. The main danger is still debris; however, unless the unguided Genie detonates very close to the target, the MiG would be damaged by the shockwave and the crew given a fatal dose of neutron radiation, and the aircraft will then go on to crash similar to any other missile hit.
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  4150.  @theatom7264  I don't know about that, both VentureStar and Star Raker had pretty tough engineering problems to solve. I would like to see if anyone could solve VentureStar's propellant tank issues, given advances in material science. And that linear air spike engine was pretty nifty if you can make it work right.
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  4151. It's become the fad to rip on Boeing, but as an American I want to see them succeed in the end. More successful space companies, competing with each other, is a good thing in the end. They need to stop coddling them, though, and ween them off that defense/NASA money they've become so addicted to since the end of WWII. Same goes for the other legacy aerospace companies, the Lockheeds and Raytheons and so on, many of which have storied histories to be proud of.
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  4152. Missile manufactured by Weyland Yutani Corporation.
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  4153. Many jet fighters lack APUs to start their own engines and thus require ground support equipment to start up, usually the device is called a start cart, and the procedure is called "fluffing the jet". Think about that. They had to fluff the Saturn V.
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  4154. How about Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy
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  4155. Imagine turning on your radio and hearing Darth Vader calling. Screw up the conversation and get force-choked through the radio.
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  4156. Never bring a katana to a gun fight.
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  4157. Is there really such a thing as ass weed? That sounds gross.
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  4158. Wow, British generals just seemed for a long time to be forever stupid and so nonchalant with the lives of their troops.
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  4159.  @ge69rh  Zero nuclear power accidents and a strong navy? More assholes like him, please. I am guessing his counterpart in the Soviet Navy was a nicer guy, perhaps, but their nuclear power safety record is an appalling joke, while Rickover's record speaks for itself.
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  4160.  Deborah B  Call it, frendo.
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  4161. My favorite thing about these air launched systems is that keep very cool retired aircraft in service. I hope the Stargazer finds work and stays airworthy, as well as the F-104 system.
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  4162. The Tech Lords are today's elitist robber baron types. Will be interesting to see what kind of awful stuff they are up to behind the scenes some day.
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  4163. 2:38 how is that guy sitting comfortably on top of conical steel objects?
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  4164.  @rodchallis8031  The Renault owners probably didn't think it was funny lol.
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  4165. I wouldn't mind downloading the music for separate listening.
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  4166. The Med has two settings: "flat calm" and "why are you even out here you stupid moron". Drachism of the day?
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  4167.  @katarinazelenova4748  He had some kind of degenerative nerve disease that made his hands shake really bad in the later footage, so probably not. Although he probably had issues with depression or something as well given that he was losing the war and surrounded by jackals who wanted to kill him. Of course now he's in hell taking Satan's thorned rod up his backside for all eternity, so the hell with him.
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  4168. Love the shots of the shockwave, both at the target and in the sideview of the rifle being fired.
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  4169. Great rundown on the Sparrow. I wonder why the AMRAAM and some other newer missiles don't get names like Sparrow, Sidewinder, Phoenix, etc.?
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  4170. Turtle was also featured in the spy thriller show "Turn", a fictionalized account of the Culper Ring spy network ran by George Washington in New England / New York area. Greatvshow, despite the inaccuracies.
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  4171. When your own country is ruled by a crushing communist dictatorship that hates you and you're being invaded by another brutal dictatorship and you're starving and freezing to death, options are tight.
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  4172.  @thepanpiper7715  Some of us learned quit e bit. The rest of us think we learned something else.
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  4173.  @adamc1713  True that. There were lots of ideas for upgrading STS over the years that never got the funding to go ahead. Liquid flyback boosters to replace the SRBs, for example. Stuff like that would be a no-brainer for an STS 2.0, where all the lessons of 30 years of operating STS could be applied.
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  4174. Speed is no longer rated as highly as it once was, but there is something to say about a bomber that can sustain Mach 2 for long periods of time. SAMs might be able to hit it, but fighters trying to intercept it will have a hard time scrambling in time to catch it and can't keep up with it for long before running low on fuel. Even the SAMs' envelopes are reduced by a target hauling that much ass. Tough to go that fast at low altitude, though, and nap of the earth flight is also very hard on the airframe and fatigues it faster. Big airplanes like the B-52 and C-130 have long lifespans only if they avoid abusing their structures like that.
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  4175.  @johnhudghton3535  Would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
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  4176. 1:07 That quote from Richard Feynman is crazy, especially if you read the rest of it. IIRC, he wanted to watch the bomb go off without using those welding goggle type glasses, and he reasoned that it was the UV light that burns out your eyes, not the visible light, so he got into a pickup truck, reasoning that the windshield glass would block most of the UV while allowing a clear view of the event, and watched it through the windshield. That is what they call "trusting science", and I certainly do not trust it as much as Feynman did!
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  4177.  @stickiedmin6508  yeah, definitely
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  4178. This. Orbiter identifies the dedicated space nerds.
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  4179.  @rcmedia9516 Bless your little heart.
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  4180. Apologizing on the Internet is a sign of weakness!
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  4181. Either you can stay relevant by being honest, or you can fail at it by trying too hard. I always think of how Rush ended, with a final well-made concept prog rock album. They weren't worried about trying to stay relevant (whatever that means anymore), they just set out to make a good album like always. The fans gave them an A+, they toured twice and Neil Peart called it a career. Honest and real.
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  4182. Cool story if true, but of course without GPS the captain of the Warrimoo wasn't really able to say where the ship was enough precision to actually do this. He probably just got as close as he could and declared it to be so in order to entertain his passengers and crew.
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  4183. 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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  4184. Way to make your kids hate the History Guy.
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  4185.  @guhalakshmiratan5566  After the Olympia, of course.
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  4186. I think trios are the easiest rock bands to form. It's the fewest people you need to be functional and more people makes it harder to organize and split pay and so on. My own band is supposed to be a four piece, sometimes we have a fifth member, but the core of the band is guitar/singer, drums, and bass. Keeping a band together is hard when nobody wants to pay for music anymore, so most of the time when we play out it's just the three of us, and we write all the songs and arrange them for a trio mostly, so the trio is the natural result.
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  4187. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who's a bit sad to see the Atlas program marching towards an end. It's one of the world's oldest rocket programs, dating to the mid-1950s as an ICBM, morphing into a series of reliable launch vehicles. Atlas V is radically different than the OG Atlas, but the program has been a good one. Will miss it when it's gone.
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  4188. Definitely Nike X!
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  4189. Similar to what US mail-in ballots are gonna look like this fall after they get "edited".
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  4190. My picks for self-owns would be Halsey's Typhoon Follies, and maybe the MK 14 torpedo fiasco.
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  4191. In the long run it's all moot anyway. Mars is too close to the sun to be an escape from it when it swells.
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  4192. I thought the line was, "I'll shoot three of you for sure before you clear your weapons and take my chances with the fourth."
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  4193.  @tedhenkle  Ah, okay, been a long time since I've seen them.
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  4194.  @Taistelukalkkuna  I used to have a Viewmaster (kind of a toy stereo slide viewer they used to sell in the 70s and 80s) and I had some reels of Peanuts stories that had Snoopy shot down and helped by a French woman, so that makes sense. The woman was probably Patty.
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  4195.  pencilpauli  Well, Danny Glover is a fellow communist so you should feel right at home.
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  4196.  pencilpauli  No such thing.
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  4197. This makes me want to buy a portable gieger counter and scan EVERYTHING I come into contact with in my house, car, and office. And supermarket. And everything else, forever.
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  4198. "This is an interstellar poll. Are you planning to vote in the upcoming election? Type STOP to unsubscribe."
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  4199. Too easy to pile on, it would just come off as being mean, like picking on a special needs kid or something. I agree with ignoring the idiot.
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  4200.  @thethirdman225  Yes, like Sikorsky, who wound up in the US instead of France.
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  4201.  @justasimpleguy7211  It's all real.
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  4202.  @justasimpleguy7211  Trust me, bruh, Jersey Devil.
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  4203.  @justasimpleguy7211  Seriously, bro. Trust me.
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  4204.  @neilpuckett359  Chester Nimitz grounded a ship when he was a young officer. Could've ended his career, but the Navy gave him another chance and now look at him. Leads the Navy in victory against the Japanese Empire, has a nuclear carrier named after him, winner of life.
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  4205.  @BeachsideHank  I guess I just need guys like you to cheer me on. Thanks.
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  4206. Chrome? By the same people who own YouTube? lol
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  4207. UNLIMITED POWER!!!!
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  4208. At least in Europe they don't line up and execute the engineers when a rocket fails. Not now, anyway.
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  4209.  @gmill7911  I saw Pentagram a few years ago and the guitarist was playing an Epiphone ES335, sounded great.
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  4210. Look up his djent video, where he answers the question, "But can Rick djent?". Spoiler: the answer is yes.
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  4211. I'm American and a big fan of the history of the nation's founding, and this is the first time I've ever seen all this information laid out in a way that's easy to understand. A lot of history texts do not explain how elections were run in those days and it's confusing to say the least. I knew about the problem with choosing a vice president, for example, but I just assumed that the problem was that the VP would almost always be in opposition to the president, as in the case of President John Adams (Federalist) and Vice President Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican), where the two men were bitter enemies at cross purposes the entire term. But I didn't know about the problem with it as you lay out here. I also didn't know how the electors were chosen in the various states, which you show here. Great video.
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  4212.  @ronfullerton3162  SW radios are easy to find. Just go to Amazon and search. I have two of them, cheapos. I wanted to get one of those really nice big Grundig units you used to see at Radio Shack years ago but couldn't find what I was looking for. One of mine is a smaller Grundig with an analog tuner and the other is a Chinese make and has a digital tuner. The analog Grundig gets better reception.
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  4213.  @dpscloud3324  They can also cook hot dogs by sticking skewers out the window and asking ground to turn the lasers to max.
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  4214.  @ronschlorff7089  Oh yes. And 1960s Teri Garr. (RIP)
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  4215.  @rogersmith7396  Or if you're more bloody-minded, there's always the Japanese method of using airplanes as expendable cruise missiles with human beings as the guidance system.
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  4216.  @ScottKenny1978  And they proved pretty useless in practice. Bad for the barrel linings, too, IIRC.
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  4217.  @bruce2357  Yeah, me too, though I was younger. I also remember the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia when one of the clowns in the parade flashed a "Fuck Iran" button to the news camera on live TV lol.
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  4218. Weird story, and weirder still that I may have seen this very airship on TV as a kid in the 70s on Wide World of Sports or the Indie 500 or something. This reminds me of an article on Wikipedia I read once about "mystery airships". In the late 1800s and early 1900s, before fixed wing aircraft were common and long before the concept of alien spacecraft was in the public consciousness, there were several reports of unidentified flying objects, which many believed were airships or balloons flown by eccentric mad scientist types or the like.
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  4219.  @skyden24195  There were a handful of sizeable boat battles on Vietnamese rivers between the US Navy and North Vietnam, IIRC. Bosuns Mate First Class Willie Williams was awarded the Medal of Honor for a battle in which he led two patrol boats into battle on the Mekong Delta.
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  4220.  @PlainlyDifficult  Tunnel fires and rail disasters are definitely a fertile ground for videos. Baltimore had a nasty rail tunnel fire a number of years ago.
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  4221. 8:12 I'm always struck by that photo of Wyatt Earp; it's amazing how much Kurt Russel nailed the look of that character in the film Tombstone. That could be a photo of Russel in costume.
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  4222. You know what doesn't kill viruses? Toilet paper.
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  4223.  @Right-Is-Right  Yep, youtube is a microcosm of the Internet at large. 90% normal people and 10% worthless trolls, and this is reflected in almost any video that has more than a hundred views or so. That said, sometimes people just don't like your videos. When my videos get dislikes, I just assume it's because I suck and they figured me out lol.
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  4224.  @callmeshaggy5166  Link?
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  4225.    lol nice. I wonder they call Pennsylvania German.
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  4226. Well, it was a freight line, and it was losing money, so no. Find a way for the railroads to make a profit and they won't abandon the lines.
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  4227.  @morgs456  YouTube/Google is heavily into censorship these days. Dr. Felton doesn't lie, but he is allowed to post here only because he has yet to trigger Google's censors, same goes for the rest of us commenting here.
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  4228. Speaking of lighthouses, videos explaining how radio nav aids work would be a topic idea. Even though those are slowly going away thanks to GPS.
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  4229. I used to drive a VW Sirocco with non-power steering. Hard to turn the wheel at a stop but not impossible, but it wasn't a heavy car. It had manual everything, transmission, locks, windows, no A/C, no cruise control, but fun as hell to drive and a kickin' stereo system.
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  4230. When they build a repair drone that can fix my car (or fold my laundry, or clean my toilet) maybe I'll believe in one that can do what astronauts did on Hubble.
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  4231. I like how his tone changed over time, too. On the last Sabbath album, 13, he had a much more modern clanky gritty tone while his early stuff was fuzz city.
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  4232. You need to be doing documentaries for major networks. BBC, PBS, History Channel or whatever. And you need to wear that turtleneck sweater while doing it, too.
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  4233. Whenever I see actors acting like Kinski or Brando, being complete assholes to the cast and crew, it makes me wonder how they managed to not cross the wrong crewman on the wrong day and get the absolute beating of their life at least once. All it takes is to catch that one cameraman or carpenter who is having a bad week to begin with and just decides he isn't getting paid enough to deal with Kinski's crap.
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  4234. Must've been crazy what Willy was thinking when he decided to try that stunt.
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  4235.  @KuK137  Communism is a political ideology, not a race.
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  4236. Comparing oil rig workers to nazis? Come on now.
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  4237. This is all a smokescreen. The launches will take place in secret, very soon, to set up our defenses against the UFOs. Commander Straker is seeing to it.
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  4238. You should do a video on the DC-3 and variants, including the Japanese C-47s that saw service in WWII. I was surprised to read that Showa and Nakajima managed to build C-47's under license from Douglas before the US and Japan were at war with each other. Also, as a former Harrier tech I love that jet and am happy its still in service for now.
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  4239.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  That makes it even sadder.
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  4240. Juice makers gotta eat too.
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  4241. This story further cements my dislike for George A, Custer. The more I hear or read about Custer the more he comes across as an ass.
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  4242.  @GenoLoma  And for Sandra Bullock.
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  4243. The movie Ad Astra from a few years ago was of questionable quality in some ways, but its depiction of what Neptune would look like up close to the naked eye was pretty spectacular.
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  4244.  @taohu4997  China's not a legitimate country, so it doesn't have any airspace. It all belongs to Taiwan by right.
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  4245.  @iciclecold2991  Or maybe it's not the thought, maybe you've been dosed!
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  4246. About the linear accelerator on the moon: the goal is to launch the payload at greater than lunar escape velocity, so that it goes into orbit around the earth. If you locate the accelerator in the right place on the moon and point it in the right direction, so that the payload leaves the lunar sphere of influence traveling in the right direction, the payload will have a perigee closer to earth, or if shot fast enough, even hit the earth. With a bit of aiming, you could splash down payloads routinely in the same spot in a body of water, such as the Gulf of Mexico or wherever your pickup operation is.
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  4247. The episode where the Gorn had just wiped out a Federation colony and Enterprise was running them down at flat out speed, with weapons hot.
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  4248.  @willbowling3744  "Boomer take"? Chart numbers don't lie, sonny boy.
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  4249. Gotta love how we got the John McClane version of "Go way now!" And yes, you can never go wrong with watching Die Hard one more time. Here's wishing the best for Bruce Willis in his hard times.
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  4250. Anytime somebody tries to guilt me into buying into something by labeling it as "eco-friendly" I start with the assumption that it's probably a scam.
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  4251. The difference between being killed or being maimed for life.
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  4252. "Did not know how to remake the F1" is pure BS, a commonly recited fake fact. Rocketdyne not only knows how to make F1's today, they have designed much-improved version of the F1 and, if given a contract, will gladly build you as many roided-up F1's as you'd like. NASA or some other customer just needs to have a requirement for that kind of engine and the money to pay for it. Which, right now, they don't.
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  4253. I hope he got the thrust of your remark.
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  4254. You can certainly build a modernized F1, that is about the same size and shape as the original and performs about the same, if a large 1.5+ million lb thrust kerosene-burning engine is what you want. No need to make an exact copy; the modern version would perform better and be easier to manufacture. Rocketdyne even has plans for this over the years, just in case the phone rings and NASA wants more big engines.
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  4255. Battle of the Chesapeake 1781 between the French and RN would be interesting to see refought with more modern ships.
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  4256.  @dwp1970  My favorite line is "I'll cut off your nose and feed it to my goldfish". As a kid that line always stuck in my mind, along with the imagery of a goldfish eating a nose.
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  4257.  @gerfand  Oh, sorry, I read that wrong.
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  4258. Aaaand Mercy has been attacked in LA by an idiot locomotive engineer who ran his locomotive off the tracks and tried to ram the ship because "it looked suspicious". SMDH
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  4259. So glad to see someone mention Joe Morello for a change. Brubeck Quartet without and with Joe was like night and day.
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  4260.  @MattMcIrvin  I find the look of The Last Starfighter to be part of its charm, part of what makes it nostalgic and stand out as an early 80s film. They also used CGI on the TV show Babylon 5 in the 90s and it's really not that much more advanced that The Last Starfighter.
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  4261. As an American I have no idea what "red sauce" is lol. Years ago I was in Japan and ate at a Burger King, I had to point at the pictures to order past the language barrier.
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  4262.  @googiegress  Vigo the Carpathian?
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  4263.  @jean-pascalheynemand3271  My comment got deleted by the bots. AGAIN.
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  4264. There are still a few people serving in the US Navy today who knew Rickover, so he's definitely close to the modern era.
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  4265.  @stoic.little  I see what you did there.
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  4266. I wanted to see Alex Lifeson do it. That would be different.
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  4267.  @steveadams7550  As long as it's an older Boeing he be aright.
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  4268. There's something to be said for smaller caliber, high volume spamming. You won't punch through heavy armor but you can turn a capitol ship's topside into a combination forest fire/July 4th celebration, wreck his radar and rangefinders and other bits, and make him easier for the heavies to deal with.
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  4269.  @mightyV444  That's the Rush magic, the guitar solos have lots of space in them and suddenly the bass and drums pop out even stronger. Another thing I notice is that even though Lifeson changed his gear and style over the years, there's always something about his sound that only sounds like Alex Lifeson, from the first album in 1974 to whatever he's doing today.
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  4270. 5:15 there's that bastard with the lab coat and the clipboard again! I told you he was dodgy. Wherever we see him, bad stuff happens.
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  4271. I knew there would be a Tholian Web reference!
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  4272. At least the Essex class carriers stayed useful into the 1970s.
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  4273.  @devynlewis8167  Maybe, but "radiational" is a good word. We need to find ways to use it.
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  4274. Interesting fact: Imperial Japan also used C-47s, license-built before the war by Nakajima as the "L2D". Sadly there are no surviving examples of Japanese-built DC-3s around today as far as I know.
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  4275.  @simonbrennan7283  I don't mourn for Alex Jones, I mourn for our loss of entertakning radio. But don't let that fact get you off your self righteous soapbox.
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  4276. Oh boy, a political joke.
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  4277. Makes me thinks of the Kraftwerk song Neon Lights.
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  4278. Please fix that squeaky chair. Just sayin'.
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  4279. When In was growing up it was often joked that Hitler was living in Argentina alongside Elvis Presley and Amelia Earhart.
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  4280. 10:08 when I get married I want this music to be played, along with the Dr. Felton theme.
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  4281.  @gamerfortynine  Oh, well, sorry you're not impressed. Here's your money back:
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  4282. Wonder how it compares to the mythical F-108.
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  4283.  @dlxmarks  You could try it with your cat, if you don't mind risking a gaping abdominal wound.
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  4284. AV-8B Harriers are AMRAAM capable.
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  4285. In the Tom Clancy book Red Storm Rising one of the characters, a female F-15 pilot, actually becomes a space ace by shooting down 5 satellites with this missile type in a war with the USSR.
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  4286.  @philswift8311  Same here. The base is a good ways away from me but when it goes off you can hear it, followed by the creepy echoing voice announcement that I can never actually understand. I'm guessing it was built to warn people of imminent nuclear attack.
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  4287.  @headcrab4090  Kim Stanley Robinson is a hard SF guy, so I assume he did his homework. I just wonder how humongous an airship would need to carry two people, living quarters, and supplies for a weeks-long voyage like he describes. My next question would be how do I get to ride one.
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  4288.  @Bora_H  That makes a lot more sense.
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  4289. I was always under the impression that most of the sounds in newsreel footage is just dubbed-in sound effects, especially since there seems to be like 5 unique cannon sounds that get used over and over. If you've ever been to an artillery range or aboard a ship when guns are fired the sound is not quite like it is in these films.
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  4290. I would reallllly love to spend some time on Mars just to see what it all looks like in person. Long way to travel just to take some cool photos, but what the hell.
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  4291. I can't look at that Blue Comet train without thinking about Bobby's demise.
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  4292. It wasn't just his brother Himmler left behind; it was also all the troops his brother was serving with. Those troops didn't get to escape or suicide themselves, they got to die the old-fashioned way. And to people like Himmler, they were expendable so he could save his own skin. What dirt bags he and his ilk were.
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  4293. IIRC it was conceived to be able to bomb Germany in case Britain got overrun but spent too much time in development to enter service in the war.
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  4294. There is no parking in the red zone!
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  4295. 2010 was a great film, and the book was also good, in my opinion the book was Clarke's best full-length novel. I read it in 1983 or 84 before the movie came out. In the preface Clarke said that he wrote the book as a sequel not to his earlier book, but as a sequel to Kubrick's film, because Kubrick's film was significantly different from the book version and Clark believed most people were more familiar with the film. I read the book 2001 and have to say the film was way better and more mystifying. The film 2010 is great, but obviously doesn't have the Kubrick touch. I was later saddened when I found that the story of 2010 was unrealistic due to most of the story taking place deep in Jupiter's radiation belts.
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  4296. 9:20 The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, is now an art center, located at the end of King St. You can find it on google maps.
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  4297. Defectocraft lol
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  4298. Douglas: "So how many guns would you like on your A-26?" USAAF: "Yes."
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  4299. I also miss the old chalupa with the ranch dressing for whatever was on it.
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  4300.  Vitali Druzhinin  Mossad would like to know your location.
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  4301. The speed of US carriers is amazing when you consider their size (and that the Iowas could keep up with even modern CVNs!). Something that big and massive doesn't seem like it should able to go almost 40 mph (land miles). Bravo for the Brits who beat one in a race.
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  4302. What's the confusion? They didn't blow it up on purpose, so it's an accident.
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  4303. @gilbert1975nf  I'm sorry, the question is why is it called an accident. The answer is becuase it's an accident.
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  4304.  Jennifer Temple  If what happened? A big project got canceled? Happened all the time, still does. Look up the YB-49 bomber, or the A-12 Avenger attack plane. Or, as I stated, the B-70 Valkyrie bomber. Boeing is currently going through convulsions over the lost sales of the 737 Max.
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  4305.  Jennifer Temple  Well, if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.
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  4306.  Jennifer Temple  What was your point?
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  4307. He was probably the only one who happened to be looking right at it when it happened, the others all had to process what was happening first.
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  4308.  @tomburton6057  Wright Pat is humongous, took me two full days to see the whole thing, and my feet were killing me at the end. Bring good shoes.
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  4309. Barnes' behavior towards his men was aimed at keeping them alive and healthy; comfort is not his business in the army. Up until he crossed the line and started murdering people he was a pretty good platoon sgt who did his job and took care of his guys. That scene where he loses two guys to a booby trap and breaks down was key, I'm pretty sure that's when he flipped his switch and went from a bastard good guy to an actual bad guy.
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  4310. Gaming the algorithm to get clicks is clickbait.
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  4311.  @ynoten  The title is a clickbait style title.
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  4312.  @ynoten  It is though.
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  4313. There was a character in Star Trek who basically was exactly this.
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  4314. So, is this kind of like what happened at SL-1 then? Prompt criticality inducing a steam explosion. This time without 3 guys standing on or next to it.
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  4315. Look up the H3 base on google maps. It looks pretty abandoned these days. But it's also back country Iraq, where everything looks kind of abandoned, so what do I know?
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  4316. Did I miss it, or did you fail to mention the cannon fired by the Soviet space station in the 70s? AFAIK it's the only test of a firearm in space to date. Also, I have actually seen and handled a gyrojet pistol. After hearing about them I was underwhelmed. It was very light and cheaply made, and felt flimsy. The owner was a gun dealer and he kept it in his shop on display. He said the ammo is super rare. He also explained why it never caught on: it was extremely inaccurate due to the projectile taking too much time to spin up. In addition, it's useless at close range because the projectile takes several yards to accelerate to ballistic velocity. Basically you could probably hold your finger over the muzzle, fire it, and the bullet would just fizzle against your finger for a moment (I wouldn't recommend that, though). Maybe with more development it could work, but like caseless ammunition it hasn't been made practical yet.
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  4317.  @stingr23  And got Radiohead to make fun of him. That's just cruel.
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  4318. I want to recommend the book "Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon" for anyone who wants a good history of the Atlas program from the 1950s up to about 2005 when the first Atlas V's were built. I love that the old Atlas program logo is still on the side of every launch vehicle. Convair, Martin, Lockheed Martin, and finally ULA, the program endures.
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  4319.  @regulatormachine2788  Well, okay, I will then. And I'll keep your five bucks, then, too.
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  4320. I also imagine wood chip cargo beimg good at absorbing damage and increasing bouyancy maybe.
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  4321. That was the plot of the TV show Salvage 1 in 1979 starring Andy Griffith as a junk dealer who builds a rocketship to salvage space junk, including high-dollar Apollo hardware from the moon.
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  4322. 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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  4323. I remember the 80s Camden as being a place where you didn't go unless you had good reason, didn't stop at red lights if you were smart, and where drug dealers and hookers stood right out in broad daylight. Basically, it was like Baltimore in The Wire.
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  4324. Yes, and they were right. The chart in 78 was way better than the chart in 98. If we're talking top 40 charts here, and we are, then absolutely music today sucks. If you're talking about music in general, which you have to dig around the net to find, then music today is certainly doing fine, it's a golden age for listeners who don't mind a little searching around.
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  4325. When you trashed that Corvette with the dead pig and broke the seller's heart I was pretty upset. For pete's sake you couldn't use a cheaper more common car for that?
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  4326. I was waiting to hear of a connection between railroad signals and radio, but if this is also a railfan channel that's cool. Maybe you could talk about the radio systems and frequencies used by railroads. Railfans in the US often use scanners to keep track of trains. Been thinking of getting one myself.
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  4327.  @eliasnewall-vuillemot2680  I'm not talking about a launch abort. I'm talking about abandoning ship while still in orbit.
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  4328. Prog metal: "metal kids who were into Yes" Perfect description.
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  4329. Tremendous interview, Rick, eagerly awaiting part 2!
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  4330. Alliteration always amazes any and all audiences. Also, toasters aren't for toast; they're for English muffins.
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  4331. Didn't Stu leave the band before they changed their name from The Quarrymen?
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  4332. Love the space-related vids, Dark5!
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  4333. 10:19 lol need some help there, buddy?
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  4334. "HMS Akbar, you are to proceed to Liverpool for a fine new assignment!" Akbar, "It's a trap!"
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  4335. "We're losing the battle. Let's murder all the civilians." I like Japan today, but seriously, WTF is wrong with people who do that?
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  4336. Was Uncle Jesse Duke one of his drivers?
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  4337. Eris? Ahem, Team Xena here...get your nomenclature right!
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  4338. 49:00 They had firing tables, just like we do for modern field artillery. Cool.
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  4339. It's that boosted mid range guitar tone Eddie uses. It's not necessarily the best for all rock, but it's perfect for the kind of music VH made.
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  4340. Eph Phours, phast and phiersome phighters!
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  4341. "But I was a child, and thus, an idiot." LMAO
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  4342. Pilot in command is responsible for what happens on his aircraft. Same as the captain of a scuba diving boat.
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  4343. Divide by 3 to get meters. Easy.
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  4344. I'm confused because there was no BASS at the end...
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  4345. The 172 isn't a dedicated trainer; it's a general aviation airplane that happens to be good for training. And tons of fun to fly just for the hell of it, too.
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  4346.  @mightyV444  Yeah, he is shown with the Ric in the music video, but music videos are often not representative of the gear used on the track. Knowing the album is split between the Jazz and the Ric, if I had to guess I'd say Tom Sawyer was a Jazz tune, the bass is darker and less aggressive sounding than his Rickenbacker. In more recent years he buries the Jazz tone in overdrive and people think it sounds like the Ric but it never did to me really. If you bury a bass under enough distortion they all start to sound similar. I saw them on they're last tour and Geddy used like 15 different basses through the same stage rig, including a Ric 4001, a 4005 export model hollowbody, a 4080 doubleneck, and a bunch of Jazzes, as well as a Precision and even some Gibsons. Every one of them sounded different. But the solid body Rickenbackers were the best.
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  4347. One thing for sure about LCACs is that the enemy probably has no problem hearing them coming, they are so *&%$ing loud lol.
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  4348. The only Bon Jovi song I think I actually like. Okay, maybe Runaway is also good.
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  4349.  @fenderstratocastertelecast8479  Never forget: Rush is Alex's band, he started it in his bedroom as a teenager in the first place and had the smarts to gather a bassist and drummer who were good enough to be in it!
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  4350. The projectiles were hitting the Earth at translunar velocities, so about 11 km/s or so. Possibly a bit faster, depending. They were also likely falling at a pretty steep angle, as opposed to just grazing the atmosphere like a returning Apollo vehicle would, so a big enough rock would make it to the surface. Awesome book, one of my favorites. Fortunately they have yet to butcher it with a bad movie.
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  4351. I was once in an area in North Carolina where there were signs warning people that the woods still may contain unexploded ordnance from the Civil War. War is messy.
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  4352. How much of the Police's sophistication was due to Andy Summers? I think he is more of an old school early 70s rock guitarist, but he really seemed to stretch out in the post-punk/new wave era when he teamed up with Sting and Copeland.
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  4353.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  There is, believe it or not, a conspiracy theory out there that says that nuclear weapons are fake and that the whole Cold War was a hoax to keep the world's population fearful and under control. Shit you not. These people dwell in their own private Plato Caves and have crazy imaginations of the shadows they see on that wall.
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  4354. Soldiers still carry and train with bayonets, despite having rifles with ranges of several hundred yards. Fighters still need a gun for the same reason.
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  4355.  @sacredsteeler  Decay of what?
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  4356. Shuttle was built by Rockwell, which later merged with Boeing. So Boeing provided support but all the orbiter design work was legacy Rockwell.
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  4357. I hate to be the buzzkill here, but this borders on mutiny, something you can't tolerate in a nation of laws. The PM's government may have been a bunch of idiots with no respect for the RAF but they were the lawful government and if they decide the RAF gets no new jets and no birthday celebration then that's it. The RAF isn't a person with rights, it's a military organization that must obey the civilian government, it exists to protect you, not the other way around. Now that I've surely made myself unpopular by pointing out what should be obvious, I really wish there had been a camera rolling when he passed the bridge. Amazing the things you could get away with in the old days; if an American fighter pilot tried this kind of stunt around the US Capitol today he'd almost certainly be shot down, and if he lived he'd be made an example of and tossed in the klink for a long time.
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  4358. It never occurred to me that the Japanese left behind a sizeable number of combat aircraft after the war. A shame more of them weren't preserved. A while back I was reading up on the history of the DC-3 and was surprised to find that Nakajima had built copies of it under license legally obtained before the war, and that sadly no examples remain in existence.
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  4359. On another note, Mary Tyler Moore was pretty hot back in her day.
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  4360. And Colossus was benevolent compared to Skynet. Especially if you read the sequels.
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  4361.  @hagamapama And Ben was already an old man by then, too, but still had game.
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  4362. Nobody named Crowe has ever been Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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  4363. 'Time becomes a loop.'
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  4364. The US military is run by NCOs and Petty Officers. Officers are just there to give us a general idea as to what they want accomplished, and then if they are smart they let the senior NCOs handle the details.
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  4365. It's still there?! Wow, I'd have thought it would've been demolished a long time ago.
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  4366. Illegal to listen to radio signals? You mean like in North Korea?
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  4367.  @FranNyan  Hmm, maybe you're one of them...
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  4368. And since you brought it up, Chemistry is also a great Rush song, a deep cut from the Signals album.
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  4369. WITNESS ME!
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  4370.  @somedude4805  Well, if there is a monolith nearby, just level the ground next to it, knock it over flat and BOOM: instant indestructible landing pad. Thanks, aliens!
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  4371.  @somedude4805  I see now. I skip most of his KSP videos because I don't use the program and don't really want to watch other people play games. But yeah, you should see 2001. Some people find it a bit long and boring in some parts, but it's one of those gorgeous visuals films like Lawrence of Arabia where you just settle in and drink up the scenery. It also doesn't dumb anything down and leaves you to figure out what you just saw, which I love.
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  4372.  @somedude4805  Douglas Trumbull did the visual effects in that sequence, using a very painstaking slit-scan technique. That was over 50 years ago and he I think he still does fx today. He also did the effects in Blade Runner and a bunch of other films. What I find fascinating about that film is that it was made before anybody had yet walked on the moon, so they were making an educated guess about the lunar surface up close and got it very close to reality. Also, the flat panel displays on the spacecraft were pure fantasy in those days but you're using one right now.
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  4373. I remember being on the observation deck of the World Trade Center long ago, and I was amazed at how big that radio mast was on the opposite tower.
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  4374. Now here's something Neil Degrasse Tyson could never pull off. Nor would any of us want to see him try.
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  4375. A half hour video on Mahan. God I love this channel!
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  4376.  @ashn1729  There was also a study to use a 747 as an airborne aircraft carrier, which could carry something like 7 or 8 small jets, about the size of an F-5 or so, much better performance than the Goblin. Of course that never happened, either, but there are some drawings of the layout.
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  4377. The range safety officer on the Space Shuttle program must've been an awful job. If the day came when you had to push that damn button you were probably going to kill 7 people, since there was no launch escape system for the orbiter. At least when the RSO blew up Challenger's boosters it was too late for him to worry about hurting the crew; that was an awful day for different reasons.
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  4378. Things we've learned from watching mobster flicks: Whenever somebody says, "What? Relax. I'm just breakin' balls," they are about to get murdered. Add to this list.
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  4379. The USAF used to routinely catch film payloads the same way using a C-130, so it's a proven technique.
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  4380. I can't get used to seeing it fly with the nozzles hidden by the aft fuselage skirt. Look weird. Most rockets you can plainly see the nozzles. Isn't that extra bit of skirt just dead weight that could've been left off for better performance?
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  4381.  @hhgttg69  Yes, some mass death and destruction to feed the nightmare factory that is my brain just before I slip into unconsciousness.
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  4382.  @BlueCyann  Ok
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  4383.  @RealCadde  Fine
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  4384.  @Yvolve  Yeah okay whatever.
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  4385. More evidence that the Internet was created for, and still run by, cats.
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  4386. The XF-90 was a stunner of an aircraft, absolutely beautiful. Too bad it was underpowered and there aren't any intact examples left today. Just part of one that got wrecked in a nuke test.
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  4387. It took me two days to get through this whole video, but it was worth it. As a photographer who still uses film I love this stuff and those old photos are just gorgeous to look at.
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  4388. Scott, for a great "path not taken" story you should look up the Chrysler SERV, an alternate idea for a space shuttle that was radically different than the winged spaceplane concept.
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  4389. That scene was so cringy, the plane just seemed to glide on and on and on, even managed to turn hard and score a kill while gliding. If the Spitfire could really glide like that it certainly not run out of fuel so fast in the first place, just cruise at idle.
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  4390. It's not like Rick is charging you money to watch it.
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  4391. That Super Sabre footage always makes me cringe. It's famous and has been on TV shows for decades. I don't know who the pilot was but I assume he didn't survive and his final moments must've been terrifying.
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  4392.  @scottmanley  Found it: the guy's name was 1st Lt. Barty Brooks and he did not survive. January 10th, 1956.
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  4393. That title card should've read, "A dream to some. A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!"
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  4394.  @ammosophobia  "Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long...fortunately."
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  4395.  @ammosophobia  McCoy was right all along.
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  4396. Then he just walked it off.
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  4397. Look up "Joint Electronics Type Designation System"
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  4398. I am also racist against vegetables.
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  4399. Back when I first discovered youtube I never pictured myself being excited to hear about a hat collection. Strange world.
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  4400. So are you inferring that black people are to be treated like children by the government and told what's best for them?
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  4401.  @TuhljinTampergauge  Who are you talking about, when you say "you're the ones"? What group are you accusing me of belonging to?
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  4402. 14:40 Can you say where that photo of charging infantry came from? Are those Marines? Where are they? At least one of them has a fixed bayonet, it's a very dramatic photo.
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  4403. 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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  4404. So if this is a Battlestar, are the embarked aircraft called Raptors or Vipers? Or just "shuttles" like in the 1978 version of BSG?
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  4405.  @althejazzman  Rick understands that we want to hear the guy being interviewed, not the guy doing the interview.
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  4406.  @arclux  Reminds me of the Tool song Aenima.
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  4407. Or beer-o-clock.
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  4408. 9:18 great Michael Caine reference!
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  4409. These are American rocket designs from the 1960s, so inches. Don't get all butthurt about it.
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  4410. It takes bands I didn't really like and gives me reason to go back and give another listen.
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  4411. So could one refer to these as a modern "bomb letch"? Could you do a video on bomb ketches or bomb ships?
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  4412. If there is a resurgence in SW popularity, Ringway will bear some of the credit for it, no doubt.
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  4413. ​ @petesheppard1709 He didn't say F-10, he said F1O, which is correct for the old Navy system: F for fighter, 1 is the model number, and letter O for the manufacturer Lockheed.
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  4414. So did Bell Telephone and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The PRR is an interesting example, as they chose to keep developing steam engine technology into the 1950s believing they could build machines that would do the job better than any diesel. It wasn't the only bet the company lost, but it was a big one.
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  4415. Like the great 1980s TV show Automan.
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  4416. "Brian May look-a-like Isaac Newton" LOL nice, not gonna get that out of my head now.
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  4417. I think he's a talented bass player but I was never too happy with his bass playing for post-Roger Floyd. A bit too disco-ish for my ears, more of a late 70s/early 80s style of bass playing.
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  4418. Um, cloud seeding IS weather control. And it's never worked very well in practice.
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  4419. +Filmmaker IQ Ha ha Kubrick FTW! Love your videos, FMIQ!
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  4420. +RANDOMLETTERSBLAH Drift Enemy Nope. Electronic music dates to the 1920s with Leon Theremin or even farther back to the Telharmonium. And engineers were making music with computers the way the guys in this vid are doing it at least as far back as the 1960s with the IBM 1401 and other mainframe machines. The difference is now you could do it home.
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  4421. The last one looks like Freddy Kreuger.
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  4422. Years ago I had to do this. The rules said no parachutes. So I built a set of auto-rotating helicopter blades out of balsa and basswood, with a plastic tube shock absorber on the bottom. Overly complicated? Hell yes, and a glorious thing it was! Unfortunately, it hit the ground sideways on the first landing and bent the shock absorber, which meant I couldn't immediately drop it again without repairs, which disqualified me. I still got an A, though, because nobody else understood how autorotation worked and everyone else's solution was boring, like the bag of popcorn or a foam block.
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  4423. "Could criminals use mathematics to plan crime?" "I hope not."Hope is not a plan. In any case, no doubt some criminals have used math for a long time. The really smart ones are the ones who get away with stuff.
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  4424. So Russian chicks are hot and don't piss them off or they will make your head explode from half a mile away.
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  4425. You mention capitalism and show imagery of a slot machine. Subliminal message?
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  4426. City of the Monkey God... There was a TV show back in the early 80s called Tales of the Gold Monkey which was an Indiana Jones-ish adventure show set in the 1930s and in the first episode they were searching for a mythical "gold monkey" statue but missed the fact that they had actually been inside a whole monkey-shaped lost city. I wonder if this is where they got the idea for that show.
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  4427. Carolus Rex Billy Joel has, on occasion, made rock and roll, although it's of an entirely different subgenre than heavy metal, of course. "Adult contemporary" is what we used to call it and it is was a thing back in the 70s and 80s. It was a pop rock thing for older listeners and it made Billy a lot of money and I generally hate it but yes, even bad rock and roll is still rock and roll.
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  4428. Would've been nice if the Japanese had these for Fukushima instead of creepy fembots.
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  4429. 5 Creepiest Unnamed Music Tracks by Dark5
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  4430. I have this old axe. Changed the head twice and the handle three times, still as good as it was when I bought it.
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  4431. But it's Metallica, so you can't hear the bass, anyway.
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  4432. TheRiekman I'm old enough to remember when Metallica was an underground metal band. Even back then as a bass player I was never too impressed with Burton and didn't think he really stood out except that he used a lot of sloppy muddy distortion and got to play a few solos. His biggest contribution was his songwriting; after he died Metallica started to suck, but while he was around they were good. Also, it's a joke: whenever Metallica is brought up the response is always "you can't hear the bass".
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  4433. Oh man, fuck this vid...
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  4434. One good thing about living on Mars is the day being 40 minutes longer. I always wish my days were just a little longer. A Martian sol is so close to an Earth day that you'd sleep at night and wake up in the morning and it would feel normal. On the Moon, one lunar day is 28 Earth days long, so it would be dark for 14 days and daylight for 14 days, which would make sleeping more difficult but at least you would just set your clock to GMT on Earth.
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  4435. The Vatican Archives is where they store the Purity Bricks.
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  4436. Who run Bartertown? Master Blaster run bartertown.
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  4437. I like how the Soviet rover has a smiley face on it.
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  4438. I just come to read the comments about the red circles.
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  4439. STP's Creep sounds NOTHING like Nirvana. Who the fuck mixes those bands up, ever? (Going to listen to Creep by Radiohead, now)
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  4440. The music is awesome.
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  4441. Narration? Well, that's the end of Dark5...
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  4442. I think I've seen most of these photos before and never really thought any of them were creepy, until you put them to that awesome music.
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  4443. Are you sure the carriers weren't named Wolverine and Sabretooth?
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  4444. I really hope that's not Dark5's voice at the end. I like seeing him respond to comments from time to time, but his channel is cool in part because I don't what he looks or sounds like.
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  4445. So was the ABMs they showed, killed by treaty.
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  4446. +Noah F. But the spookiness is the best part.
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  4447. jacob soliz You open another tab with the chosen music video on it. 
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  4448. A couple of candidates you missed for "real life Death Stars": 1. WR 104, the "Pinwheel System", is a binary star 8000 light years away whose axis is pointed right at earth, and which may go supernova, sending a deadly gamma ray burst that would sterilize the Solar System. 2. Project Orion, a nuclear bomb-powered spacecraft project from the 60s, was supposed to transport people around the Solar System, but one of it's proposed uses was to loft an enormous hydrogen bomb high over the USSR that would basically fry the whole continent with a blast of radiation from space. There is no theoretical limit to the yield of hydrogen bombs; it's only a matter of size and mass and how practical it is to build it. Only Orion could've lifted something so massive into space.
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  4449. In the 70s any heavy rock band was called heavy metal. The genre hadn't really set itself apart from other heavy rock yet.
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  4450. +andrew hall It's hard to explain this...the bottom number is almost always a 4 or an 8 because the 4 represents a beat (quarter note, usually a kick or snare) and the 8 represents a half beat (eighth note, think of the high hat in surf rock). The terms "quarter note" and "eighth note" represent a quarter or eighth division of a 4-beat measure, even when you're not in 4/4 time, it's a naming convention. So play a complex piece of music, listen to Money by Pink Floyd, for example: the main riff of the song, Waters' bass intro, repeats every 7 beats. These beats "feel" like quarter notes, so if you notate that bass riff it's easiest to write it in 7/4 time. You could notate it in, say, 7/8 on paper if you want, but it would divide that riff into two awkward halves and make it "feel" wrong to a musician trying to read it. To answer your question, it is not common to think of beats as anything other than quarter or eighth notes, which is why you don't see time signatures with a 7 or a 13 in the bottom.
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  4451. Good forced perspective photography. I wonder how he gets such a great depth of field.
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  4452. Even though I suspected this would be a stupid topic, I came and stayed for the music. Dark5 always has at least that going on.
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  4453. The explosion of the atmospheric processor reactor at the end of Aliens was pretty awesome.
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  4454. I always loved the X-15, it's the perfect example of a test program and one of the most purebred badass airplanes ever built.
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  4455. I give props to Metallica for experimenting with St. Anger, but sometimes experiments blow up in your face and burn down the laboratory.
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  4456. I used the song finder app on my smart phone to try to figure out what the music is but it turned up empty.
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  4457. The first two are actual Russian spies, but Walker, Ames and Hannsen are fucking traitors.
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  4458. Ah, there's my red circle, welcome back to my comfort zone.
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  4459. nipples Wow, nips, you really put me in my place, now I'm gonna reexamine my life and turn into a liberal.
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  4460. Best argument yet for cutting down the rest of the rain forests.
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  4461. Good video, and the music is outstanding Berlin School stuff, totally fits the 70s technology backdrop of the video!
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  4462. I saw Land of Mine in a small independent theater in the US, very good movie.
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  4463. Awesome tribute to the Eagle's skipper.
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  4464. ***** You get processing and digital transfer for free. If you look at what it costs to do 8mm now and add it all up it's about right, assuming those numbers are correct. 
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  4465. CoroaEntertainment Obviously.
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  4466. CoroaEntertainment It is a bargain when you see how much it costs to buy film, processing, and digital transfer separately. Assuming you can even find these things these days it's not cheap. 
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  4467. I think it's a mistake to use a shiny sphere instead of a flat black metal disk. The overhead projector experiment pretty much showed you the problems the ball bearing can cause.
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  4468. The Chronic...what?
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  4469. +Garubolas You can still get Tri-X at least.
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  4470. ***** Yes, also there are lots of other companies making film. Fujifilm, Agfa, Arista, etc. You can buy it all online, and chemicals, too. I still love Tri-X, though. 
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  4471. Flufy Seal Kodachrome is gone forever, I'm afraid. The chemical process for it was proprietary and Kodak shut the whole line down. Unlike, say, Tri-X, where any generic developer will work. 
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  4472. He can add those later by putting it on a pedestal with a speaker underneath. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
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  4473. Number 5 is stupid. Number 1, the Void, is the really interesting one. Studying stuff like that is what astronomy and science are all about. As well as great sci fi.
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  4474. You forgot to mention that Geezer also writes most of Sabbath's lyrics. All that creepy sci fi and occult shit Ozzy sang? All Geezer.
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  4475. Carolyn Jones version of Morticia was insanely hot. The winner in my book. The movie version of Morticia was overshadowed by her daughter Wednesday, who stole the show, especially in the second film. Would be great to see Christina Ricci come back as grown up Wednesday someday.
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  4476. And Kubrick was right to do so, since the result was almost perfect. He was also right to blow off Steven King during the making of the Shining, as King himself would later prove by embarrassing himself with that awful SyFy channel remake.
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  4477. This isn't very dark. But it's good.
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  4478. The chubacabra was made up for an X-Files episode and people spread it like it was real LOL
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  4479. Also, the drone is straight up cheating. The rules also don't say you can't hire some kid to carry the egg down the stairs for 5 bucks, but that's probably cheating, too.
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  4480. So there are tigers roaming the Korean DMZ...didn't know that.
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  4481. The video begins at 00:30
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  4482. Well that escalated quickly, from "ha ha, failed video games" to "human organs and fingers of small children WTF"
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  4483. Possibly the best Dark5 vid in this particular universe so far.
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  4484. The shark one reminds me of the cattle mutilation stories back in the 1970s. Aliens in UFOs are stealing organs from our sharks!
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  4485. 17:03 WTF
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  4486. The sea life on the ISS...many of the ISS modules were launched from Florida right near the ocean. Would be a lot easier for the microorganisms to drift into the payload area there than up through the upper atmosphere.
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  4487. So even if the bomb never goes off, you will still starve to death in that box, right? Or does the existence of "bomb immunity" also imply that nothing else can kill you either?
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  4488. Gaxio sounds like a great anime name.
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  4489. A real life "atomic battery" is a radioisotopic thermoelectric generator, or RTG, like the ones flown on space probes. They are basically a thermocouple wrapped around a substance like plutonium or strontium 90 which generates heat from decay. The whole thing is encased in shielding to survive a launch failure and is quote safe to handle if built right, but not very efficient for the weight. So they are good for powering a space probe's electronics, but to power an electric car they'd be kind of weak and heavy.
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  4490. +undercoverduck Wrong video.
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  4491. Someday I want to have a cult following that closely guards my secrets...and an Aston Martin Vanquish.
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  4492. The only way to abort a launch is to have a guy outside a few hundred yards away with a high powered rifle put a round in the turbo pumps as it clears the silo. One shot, miss, and the world dies. Of course, you have a guy for each missile silo...and that would be a boring job.
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  4493. So then, neato kinetic sculptures...
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  4494. Some people just can't stop talking on their damn phones, even in the middle of a gunfight! j/k she is badass and did the right thing. One less POS in the world and her home is safe.
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  4495. No mention of Pripyat or the Kyshtym disaster?
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  4496. The Iraqi super gun was aimed in the general direction of...
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  4497. 1:12 that photo of Tesla sitting casually with his notebook underneath his lightning bolts is one of the most badass mad scientist photos ever.
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  4498. 5:50 what's the point in wearing a helmet when there's no roll cage
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  4499. Hmm...good point.
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  4500. 4:12 what is that borg-looking sensor attached to the back of that little girl's head?
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  4501. After watching Ex Machina I wouldn't trust her or her inventor as far as I could throw the two of them.
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  4502. Interesting. I always thought it as because the early missions were shorter and didn't need the extra power. Should be easy to look up.
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  4503. #4 was accurately predicted in the 1980s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. #1 is Krieger's girlfriend on Archer.
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  4504. Winning.
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  4505. Vyse Arcadia Well it kind of is. 
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  4506. Where is the underground base where Stringfellow Hawk hides the Airwolf helicopter?
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  4507. Oh boy, don't let the hoaxers hear this lol
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  4508. That AI Rick voice is creepy af. Why are we creating this world.
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  4509. "Customized to all my quirks and misdemeanors."
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  4510. So we're allowed to go to Hawaii now?
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  4511. Howzabout Necromancer by Rush?
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  4512. I say degrees Kelvin. Screw 'em. Also, Pluto is a (dwarf) planet.
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  4513.  @Sherwoody  You wasted yours by washing it down the drain, you're supposed to detonate it!
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  4514. It looks worse than just leaving the antennae bare.
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  4515. When I was growing up a lady down the street had two dogs, one was a great dane named Sandy whom she let run around in her fenced in back yard. Me and the other kids from the neighborhood would hop the fence and play with her. We were about 9-12 years old and Sandy was bigger than all of us. She would get excited and plow into us knocking us all over the place, just a big happy dog. Her owner would let us come inside sometimes to play with her dogs.
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  4516.  @machinethinking  Awesome! If you manage to get Tim Hunkin in a video you'd be a hero to us all. I've been binging Secret Life of Machines videos the last few days and wondering what ever happened to Tim and Rex. Used to watch that show on US cable TV in the 90s with my dad.
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  4517.  @tomnewsom9124  Ah that sucks, RIP Rex, you crazy dude.
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  4518.  @machinethinking  For you and your viewers, Tim Hunkin has a youtube account, and he's been active recently. Worth looking up.
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  4519. That 747 is such a beautiful airplane.
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  4520. Contrast Gensoul's pompous ass behavior with the sheer balls of the French Resistance. What an absolute jackass.
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  4521. Ah, I like Bautista in Blade Runner 2049. Too bad he's a giant DB now. Just checked his wiki page, Bautista never served in the military, either, so his point at Trump not serving is a bit flat.
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  4522.  @thetaraparker  Lots of other places, too.
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  4523. 15:09 that looks like it's probably really bad for you eyes to be in that room.
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  4524. Kind of like in Star Wars, when the Imperial gunners held their fire on the escape pod carrying R2D2 and C3PO because there were no life signs detected. I bet those guys got force choked later.
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  4525. I know a township in NJ where the fire trucks are white.
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  4526. I'm an American who has been to Europe a couple of times and I couldn't care less how you use your fork. Never noticed. Is this really something people worry about?
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  4527.  @SiriusAundB  Um, that's not from looking at his face. It's from something your mom told you to stop doing. (Maybe while looking at his face?)
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  4528. "China is less courageous than India or Isreal..." lol shots fired, commies!
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  4529. This is incorrect. Water did not extinguish the fire, that plan actually failed. What worked was starving the fire of oxygen by blocking the air intakes.
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  4530. Good rundown of Soviet naval aviation. I never knew about the prewar stuff.
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  4531. I'm surprised it's legal to fly your drone around it.
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  4532. This movie is both a great Lovecraftian story and also a great remake of DIsney's The Black Hole.
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  4533. Stupid, dull-headed person here. Can confirm, we all have mullets.
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  4534. Either they were in a hurry and decided that getting material into the hole as fast as possible was more important than salvaging the rail cars, or they decided that the rail cars and other debris would form a sort of framework for the dirt fill to bunch up with, kind of like rebar or the way concrete works.
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  4535. I like how putting on Star Wars Part VIII is what broke him.
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  4536. 10:14 wow I had forgotten about some of those machines, the Emerson and Bally ones in particular. That was a crazy time.
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  4537. And they should also be wearing an Omega Speedmaster watch, too, just like the one Buzz is wearing in these photos.
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  4538. I served in the military for five years and never heard of such a thing. First time I saw one was later after I went to work for a company that did some defense contracting. If anyone had told me I owe them drinks for not having a coin I would've laughed and told them to get bent.
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  4539. I for one don't think the aircraft is ugly, but I'm a sucker for push-pull propeller designs. Too bad the Jules Verne didn't survive the war, she belongs in a museum. This is basically France's version of the Doolittle Raid.
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  4540. "These aren't those kind of feet." [Quentin Tarantino has left the chat]
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  4541.  @ZenZaBill  I looked into the Star Trek version. Turns out that version was made up for the show and no rules when they filmed it, the move were made up for dramatic purposes. Later on when fan literature was written the rules were retroactively invented for the game so it can actually be played. I want one of those chess sets but they are expensive.
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  4542. 8:00 as long as the French could get wood to build ships, the Royal Navy would always know where to go.
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  4543. The Iranians certainly got more use out of them than the US Navy did. By their account they did pretty well against the Iraqi air force.
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  4544. Wow, you guys sound great, Rick.
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  4545. The wide angle lens makes it look like the pilots are facing each other instead of the nose.
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  4546. If it was intentional you wouldn't let it trash your test stand like that.
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  4547.  @grahamwilburn6070  And the modern version of the Pegasus still serves in the last Harriers today.
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  4548. Is there a downside to Adblock? Do you have to pay a fee? Does it put spyware on you or track you? What's in it for the Adblock people?
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  4549.  @harshsrivastava9570  It's a good book, you should read it.
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  4550. Let's hear it for the excellent soundtrack to this video.
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  4551. Really surprised one of you three didn't call out the Stratocaster. As a bass player I always thought Strats were cool and one day I got me one. I just think of all those legendary guitarists who used them, Hendrix, Buddy Holly, David Gilmour, SRV, Clapton. Even guys who aren't known for being Strat guys have used them at least occasionally, Alex Lifeson comes to mind.
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  4552. As a former electronics tech I find the switch symbols in that schematic to be highly confusing since they look like capacitor symbols.
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  4553.  @johnclement5903  Interesting.
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  4554. Living vicariously through video games you say? Vicariously we live while the whole world dies much better you than I - Maynard Keenan
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  4555. Bulova Accutron movements were used in the Apollo LM cockpit instruments.
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  4556.  @ZGryphon  We all love the Two Hazmat Guys.
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  4557. Wait, the T-62 was still in production 12 years ago? Seriously?
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  4558. 2:23 I find that clip of the off-center record to be terribly disturbing...
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  4559. This is like a scene from Kelley's Heroes or something.
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  4560. This is one of those vids I had to think twice about giving a thumbs up. Sure, you did a great job, but it feels icky giving it a "like".
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  4561. My background is in electronics, not rocket engineering, but my understanding is that the nozzle acts as a sort of impedance matching device between the engine and the ambient environment, to ensure as much power gets delivered from the "source" to the "load", so suddenly losing the nozzle in such a short period of time probably generates a wave of some sort that the "source" isn't going to like. I'm just BS'ing here, of course, but I find that electronic and mechanical systems can often be analogs of one another. Keep in mind I don't know what I'm talking about.
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  4562. "Steel piñata" :-D
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  4563. 8:22 that Brad Mehldau cover of Tom Sawyer is quite the thing.
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  4564.  @johnsmiff9649  Crew Dragon isn't dangerous because of its design; it's dangerous because it's built by SpaceX, who think you can fly people on rockets with the same slacker hipster attitude you run an internet startup.
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  4565. At least use it for target practice...
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  4566.  @afx935  They were using ships as nuke targets on post war defense budgets. They were developing antiship missiles as well. Gotta test 'em on something.
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  4567. So sad to hear this. So good to hear Rick paying tribute.
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  4568. Which is your most conservative province? How about we trade you California for that?
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  4569.  @spaceman081447  I agree, and I think it's a good thing that NASA is letting private industry handle the more routine stuff, that was kind of the point of creating NASA in the first place, to boost American aerospace industry. Maybe I shouldn't have worded it the way I did. But with the end of STS came the loss of a significant capability that was never really used in its day.
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  4570. The Las Vegas scene in Bladerunner 2049 was like a practice run for Dune.
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  4571. The deceleration slingshot has been used by spacecraft traveling to Venus and Mercury.
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  4572. I took a ride in an Uber. I guess that makes me a "motorist".
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  4573.  @madb132  That's exactly what the gravity conspiracists would say!
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  4574. No narration, please. Narration results in immediate stopping of video. Please don't make me unsubscribe, I liked it here...
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  4575. Pretty darn "anime"? So it looks like it will convert to a giant mecha?
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  4576. I keep thinking it's outside my door and pausing the video.
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  4577. Can you talk about the specialized ships of the Age of Sail, such as bomb ketches and such?
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  4578. In the military, wearing a hat on the flightline is forbidden as a FOD hazard. Always kills me to see civilians doing it at airports. Also agree on the cellphone thing, that should also be forbidden on the flight line if there are any flight ops happening at least.
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  4579.  @joebledsoe257  My dad served on an aircraft carrier. Saw a guy walk into a propellor on the flight deck. Awful.
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  4580. Trust the Morton Fisherman!
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  4581. Toxic Disney fans, aka your customers. Now former customers.
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  4582. Does anyone else remember the jingle in the Citation commercial? "Chevy Citaaaaaaaaaation!" Just thinking of it still annoys me today. And yes, it's on youtube if you look it up and want an annoying early 80s earworm in your head. Many American cars of that era were indeed junk, but some of the larger GM cars like the Impala and Delta 88 were still nice and I wish I had one right now.
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  4583. Just wait.
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  4584. So you prefer a communist dictatorship. Noted.
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  4585. AN ad popped up for Justified: City Primeval as I'm watching this, and it made me think, "Why doesn't she rate Raylon Givens gunfight scenes?"
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  4586. Bonus SRV clip, love it! I remember where I was when I read that SRV had died.
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  4587. Like an episode of The A Team
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  4588. "People are stupid" People are also elitist. Go figure.
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  4589. Rick, you should let Glenn Fricker translate your awesome rants to metalhead language. Basically the same stuff with lots of F bombs and screaming.
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  4590. Germans shut down nuclear power plants. Bet they are regretting that right about now.
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  4591. Advances in technology are useless without proper systems engineering.
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  4592.  @mikeschlup6886  We didn't "win", we merely managed to hang on without losing. Twice. And the first time it was because the French navy somehow miraculously managed to beat the Royal Navy for once, when their American allies really needed them to pull through. The second time we attacked Canada and got a kick in the teeth and a burned capital for our efforts, and won our greatest battle after the war was technically over. By the 1930s we had fought a major war as an ally of the UK and Imperial Japan was shaping up to be a major threat to both the US and the British Empire.
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  4593. 6:56 what's with the Cyrillic characters on the US currency there?
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  4594. You called this "Joint Base". I think that term didn't come about until the 1990s drawdown. Prior to that (I think), McGuire AFB, Ft. Dix, and Lakehurst NAS were all separate bases located in the Pine Barrens next to each other. I remember flying in a small plane over South Jersey in the 90s and if you looked north over the Pine Barrens you could plainly see the Navy's airfield, with the mockup of a carrier flight deck and the old gigantic airship hangars which had serviced Navy airships as well as civilian airliners such as the Hindenburg.
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  4595.  @leonkernan  Everything I know about Australia I learn from Mad Max movies, so in my mind I picture Australian trains as having tanker cars with lots of armor, a bunch of dudes with mohawks and crossbows, and a kickass sound track. Am I close?
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  4596. Problem with hats is that I want to wear one in the hot sun, but they just make my head sweat even more and get disgusting after a while.
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  4597. Funny how the Royal Navy kept the USS President's name just to troll the USN. Got to hand it to them for that.
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  4598. The Sopwith Camel is the Harrier's grandmother.
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  4599.  @SAIUN  No, Sopwith is the company that later became Hawker, which built the Harrier.
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  4600.  @grindelston5968  You think so? I'd like to see the evidence for that.
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  4601. Happy happy Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Happy happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock!
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  4602. I don't know about other services, but the US Marines teach their guys a technique to use your pants as a life preserver. You take them off, tie the ends of the legs together, put them behind your head, and use your belt to attach the pants to your waist upside down so the open part of the pants is facing the water in front of you. Periodically, you swish water, and air along with it, into the open part of the trousers and then hold that part just under the surface. The soaked pant legs will actually hold air pretty well for a while, and the whole thing allows you to stay afloat much easier. I was trained to do it and it works really well. Not as good as a real life vest, but way better than nothing at all. In 1995 Lance Cpl. Zachary Mayo fell overboard off the USS America in the Indian Ocean and used this technique to survive for 36 hours before being picked up by Pakistani fishermen. Here's the story: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19951130&slug=2155247 Also, one thing I was taught was that you have to maintain a positive attitude if you want to survive. No matter how grim things look, don't give up. You may or may not survive, but if you give up you are doomed for sure.
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  4603. More bass stuff, please, Rick, we're not all guitar players out here, and this was great!
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  4604. I had a dream once that I was on that corner where Ronald's Drugs is in this video, that it was a real place, with all those colors, where the 80s never ended and there was always a distant city skyline down the hill.
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  4605. He used the term incorrectly. A microphonic pickup is when the glue holding the magnet and the windings together loosens up and vibrates, making the pickup act like a microphone. If you yell at it you can hear your voice through the amp. That's not a good thing and when it happens it needs to be fixed. Can cause feedback problems and stuff.
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  4606. Marines figured out how to deal with counter battery fire in the 1991 Gulf War. Marine artillery batteries would move forward, fire a salvo, and then quickly hitch up and get out of dodge before the enemy counter battery fire returned. Meanwhile, circling above, a brace of Marine Harrier jets would watch for the enemy muzzle flashes and roll in on them with bombs and 25mm cannon shells. The benefits of the Marine Corps having its own jets dedicated to supporting its ground troops.
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  4607. As the center booster approaches the barge, over the sound of the engines could be heard "Leroy Jenkins!!!!"
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  4608. Remember when youtube used to show down-thumbs? Now even if you downvote someone it doesn't count. Only up-thumbs show up. So I don't have to know how many of you hate my comments and will always feel good about myself.
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  4609.  @chasethedragon  You know, not a Kiss fan here at all, but Simmons is actually a decent bass player, among other things.
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  4610. In every painting of Bach he is wearing a black top. Beato uniform precursor? Bach also never used a clip-on tuner.
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  4611. Ahem...have we all forgotten the great Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up? TO this day bringing joy to the Internet like no other!
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  4612. Bose Companion 2 Series II Multimedia Speaker System. 70 bucks on Amazon. Small footprint, great sound, no screwing around with gluing foam onto speaker cones or any of that. I know that bargain hunting and tinkering may be part of the fun, but if you just want a good set of bookshelf speakers that sound good get yourself a pair of these.
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  4613. That photo at 7:12 of the women in dress uniforms with Thompson submachine guns is pretty cool.
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  4614. Another great thing about these old films: no annoying music during the explanation.
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  4615. 4:08 that guy in the hard hat seems awfully close to the huge engine gimballing around. Wouldn't want to get caught in that machinery while it's moving.
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  4616. RIP Gene Hackman
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  4617. MAD works. But it doesn't protect against mistakes or suicidal madmen. Problem is there's no good alternative. Need to become a multiplanet species just in case.
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  4618.  @glennllewellyn7369  No politics, please.
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  4619. Looks like the sats are spinning a Tholian Web around the Earth.
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  4620. Dwellers of Plato's Cave.
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  4621. You know I saw this coming as soon as I saw the title but I wasn't expecting that execution. Nice work, Mr. Manley.
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  4622. 6:00 once again we are reminded that Bob Newhart is a national treasure.
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  4623. "Soviet pilots did not respect the red cross." "Harsh communist regime that treated them as spies." Communism sucks.
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  4624. 3 things a pilot can't use: 1. The altitude above him 2. The runway behind him 3. The fuel he left on the ground
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  4625.  @goosenotmaverick1156  Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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  4626.  Syd McCreath  Everyone, including Plainly (who should know better) should ignore this knucklehead. He deliberately takes the discussion off track to try and capitalize on recent news events to change the subject to his personal pet cause. He's likely a member of some extremist left wing group sent out to foment trouble. Gun control or the lack thereof is not the topic of this discussion or video.
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  4627. More excellent work, Drach.
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  4628. Mercury's apparent position is affected by relativity due to its proximity to Sol, just a bit. This vehicle's perihelion is a lot closer to Sol so that relativistic effect will be much more important when it comes to orbital computations.
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  4629. Why do the giant letters have gravitational force? These things are totally fictional, so you can make them out of whatever you want. Giant hollow Styrofoam, or tin foil, or even some kind of Star Trek holographic tech that shines light outward, also solving the facing-away-from-the-sun part.
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  4630. So glad I don't drink coffee. LOL @ coffee drinkers.
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  4631. I applaud the inclusion of Slestaks.
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  4632. Black Sabbath needs a mention here. So many of their songs change up in mid-song, usually from one bone-crushing riff to a new one. Electric Funeral, Hand of Doom, Into the Void, Fairies Wear Boots, Iron Man, the list just goes on and on and it's all awesome.
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  4633. Question Rick: is the guitar solo played and then reversed from end to beginning, or did Fruscianti play it forwards and then each note was reversed individually? I was kind of hoping you'd play it backwards for us. I've heard this song a million times and once again you've given me reason to really pay it more attention again.
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  4634. The Vulcan is cool and all, but it will be sad to see the end of the very long Atlas program, which stretches back to the mid 50s and has had huge historical significance, starting as the first American ICBM and quickly retiring as a weapon and morphing into a very successful launch vehicle family, including launching Mercury manned spacecraft into orbit. When the last Atlas flies, we need to have a big online tribute party for it.
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  4635. The F-16 is among the most beautiful airplanes ever. Just stand next to one on a flightline and look at it. It's like they brought Leonardo daVinci back to life and asked him to make a supersonic sculpture.
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  4636. Lemme guess: duct tape?
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  4637. What is this you speak of? Link?
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  4638. A 2 year wait to play on that stage? Wow. A lot of bands don't even last that long.
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  4639.  @mattbrew11  Orbiting 40 satellites is easy, though. Launch any rocket with a basket of 40 baseballs, eject basket, done.
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  4640. Whatever the hate for SLS, I still love that RS-25 engine, such beautiful machines. When the engine shuts down and there is ice on the outside of the nozzle while a moment before there was hell fire on the inside, that just gets me every time.
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  4641. I find it weird that so many people today don't know about record changers. I grew up with my dad's 1960s era Garrard record changer, which I still use today. It has that fake wood paneling like the one in this video, so it's very 60s style. My dad eventually replaced it in the 80s with a very sleek modern Technics turntable (which I also still have), and so the whole time I was in high school I played all my records on the Garrard. Over time, as the Garrard sat in storage, the grease in the mechanism would get hardened and the automatic functions would stop working, but I got it fixed and it all works fine now. If I stack more than about 3 records on it it starts to have issues, and it works better with older lightweight records then these newer heavier ones they sell today. But it's great, I stack up a few records while I sit down to read, and if I fall asleep on the couch or whatever then it shuts itself off when it's finished. Also, what you said about audiophiles. I have met some truly dumb people over time, and one of them was an audiophile who told me he had paid hundreds of dollars for a special power cable and that he could hear the difference. Okay. No point in arguing with that guy. As for damage to records, my records from the 80s are doing just fine. The damage they do have is from dirt and scratching. Also, storing them horizontally for long periods of time will result in some warping. But the Garrard record changer has never hurt them and with a good amplifier and speakers (and a good stylus) it sounds great.
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  4642. I can't just listen, gotta look at the photos and footage, especially rare airplanes such as this.
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  4643. You took down the subsequent rant video?
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  4644. Maybe, but it was huge. Shook our house, and I remember my dad watching it on TV, the deck of the one ship had been flung upward like a blanket and was draped over the side of the hull as the ship burned. Somewhere a few years ago I found the Coast Guard report on it, the investigation. Wish I had saved it; it went into depth about the whole sequence of events, the people involved, the tidal and weather conditions, the age and mechanical state of the ships, the poor decisions made by the river pilot and so on, fascinating story. But because it happened years before youtube or even the internet it's almost like it never happened.
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  4645. That's it. I'm buying this album.
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  4646.  @kospandx  Yes, if I stick to a subculture, I can skew the results. But that fact is I am an 80s metalhead, I even own an Yngwie record from back then, and I can't name a single song off of it from memory. After I bought it I regretted it. Great guitar playing, boring songs. To make matters worse, he picked an awful singer for his band.
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  4647.  @judu2b  You're smart, huh? Make a better comparison. Don't forget to upvote your own comment again.
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  4648.  @kospandx  Agree to disagree. Also, "patently false" implies that you have some sort of research to back that up. I doubt it, and have none of my own, other than the fact that aside from my musician friends I can't think of anyone I've ever met who's even heard of Yngwie. It's not real data, just anecdotal.
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  4649.  @judu2b  Of course I'm speaking for myself. DO you think you are going to change my mind in a youtube comment argument? Is it really that important to you that I agree with you? I don't like Malmsteen's music, regardless of how much of a shredder he is, and you typing at me all night isn't going to change that.
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  4650.  @thomasreedy4751  "God" refers to the beings who run the Universe Simulation Software.
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  4651. I kinda want a Rigby Otto t shirt now.
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  4652. Bingo. Also, he speaks out against the wke mind virus and publicly dumped California. So, yeah, it's all about the politics. They are using their government power to punish him based on his political views, which is pretty much illegal for them to do. They will get humiliated in court.
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  4653. Agree. I had more to say, but YT deleted my comment. I bet these ladies run the censor bots.
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  4654. My comment here got deleted. Damn google.
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  4655. Having just watched Mark Felton's video explaining the Japanese mindset towards the Westerners it surprises me to hear they ever tried to be treaty compliant.
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  4656. Writing letters by hand and making voice calls is another way to get away from bots.
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  4657. "Yeah, there's stars in there. Shut up." Scott Manley, 2022!
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  4658. When you listen to a radio, nobody knows what you're listening to. Whatever you do on the internet is tracked. Even if you're not doing anything wrong, it's nice to have a bit of privacy.
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  4659. 15:49 There he is again, Clipboard Guy. And we act like we don't know who did this?
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  4660. They were British Army regulars under General Ross IIRC, not Canadians. Canadian troops did repulse US attempts to invade Canada on more than one occasion though.
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  4661. 2:07 I don't think Marshal Zakharov has enough medals on his uniform. Better give him, oh, about 25 more ought to do it.
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  4662. Kind of like "to Pearl Harbor" became a verb meaning to launch a sneak attack.
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  4663. You forgot 4: Quit paying to watch poorly made garbage.
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  4664. I love this kind of stuff. When I was little there was a TV program, some kind of documentary about the technologies used in the soon to fly Shuttle. The film of the guy holding the tile fresh out of the oven stayed in my mind to this day. So what about the metal scale system that was developed for the X-20 program? Would that work any better?
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  4665. I've seen the XF-85 Goblin, they have one on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Pretty snazzy little beast. Can't wait for you to dive into the F-84 family of jets, always loved the F-84, a cool early jet that always seems to get overlooked, but they built so many of them in so many iterations, and years ago I read a cool book written by a Cold War F-84 pilot that makes me want to fly one.
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  4666.  @badlaamaurukehu  It's the real world construction business.
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  4667.  @letsburn00 Well, the acting nuts part might explain a few things about me lol.
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  4668.  @hoghogwild  TLDR your silly book length kook rant
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  4669. Advertising has been shown to work, and work very well, for a good century and a half or so. Companies pay a ton of money for ads for a reason. The fact that I can watch youtube videos for free makes me okay with some advertising of some sort, but this is deliberately obnoxious and is aimed more at getting you to pay for YouTube Premium than it is at advertising per se.
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  4670. I believe there are a handful of WWII warships still in service around the world today. If the US Navy had money to blow on it, the Iowa class battleships would still be in service.
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  4671. I pronounce it like "bug it" just to be that guy.
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  4672. We are now at the point where large clouds of space junk are being launched en masse. Astronomy will be a problem, but so will collision hazards.
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  4673. Or the theme from Dragnet.
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  4674.  @kurtisrinker1202  Just ask George Soros to write you a check.
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  4675.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  He was referring to my post, which said nothing about Canada.
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  4676. Also, where's Children of the Sun by Billy Thorpe?! Killer guitar riff, one of those songs that makes you instantly reach to crank the volume all the way up.
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  4677. "Damn rockets, ruined Scotland."
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  4678. I'd like to see an early Paul D'Amour Tool song, like Intolerance.
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  4679. Wow, his last wife new how to turn the screws lol.
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  4680. In 1968 a guy name Glenn Woods, in a CIA (Air America) UH-1 Huey helicopter shot down a North Vietnamese Air Force AN-2 plane by shooting at it with an AK-47 rifle out the side door of the helicopter. I think that's the only time that's ever happened.
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  4681. And the native name for the Delaware River is the Lenapi-hanna.
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  4682. The purpose of the DEW line was to detect incoming aircraft, so not sure how the Soviets would pull off such an airstrike without being spotted. And if it were a precursor to a massive strike, they'd have to hit several DEW sites at once to make a hole for the bombers to come through. The aircraft hitting the DEW sites would almost certainly be nuclear armed bombers themselves, so there is no sneaking past this without NORAD noticing and going high and to the right. As for "stealth", there was no such thing in the 50s/60s. All aircraft were visible on radar.
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  4683. 14:50 that machine slicing through all that paper is terrifying
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  4684. If your locomotive wasn't left in notch 8 throttle, is it even a real runaway? :-)
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  4685.  @Lukeasz096  I thought I read it was under power and the loco's brakes were engaged, totally burning out the brake shoes by the time they stopped her. Also, the loco was rebuilt and put back into service but sadly CSX renumbered her, she's no longer 8888. They should've kept that number and someday put it in a museum.
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  4686. It's only a problem if the CCP cares what happens.
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  4687. If NASA had made 17 or 15 of them then there'd be at least one left for museums. Tough luck it happened to be exactly 16. BTW last I heard there is also a raft of F1 engines sitting in storage someplace, waiting for the day when someone finds a use for them.
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  4688. 10:15 cool photo
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  4689. People who still believe in Marxism scare me more than flerfers.
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  4690. Jones was the last survivor of the Nostromo.
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  4691. And the poor SS United States sits rotting on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, waiting for someone to save her from the scrapper's torch...
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  4692.  @CAP198462  Kentucky for me, please.
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  4693. 3 Days Grace, now there's a name I haven't heard since...
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  4694. I think that Different Strings by Rush cheated itself out of making this list when they faded the outro solo just as Alex Lifeson was winding up to face-melting mode.
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  4695. At least Boeing quit now before wasting many more years of time and money on it. If you're in over your head, please quit now so the customer can cut their losses and move on.
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  4696. The crew should've renamed her the Rocinante. Legitimate salvage.
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  4697. Then we'd all be Scientologists.
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  4698. Whenever you dig deep enough, there is always shady stuff going on leading up to war, even the "good" wars.
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  4699. Perhaps the Great Attractor is some sort of Lovecraftian horror we are best not knowing about.
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  4700.  @jimurrata6785  It was on the Discovery Channel many years ago I think, I remember watching it on one of those disaster shows.
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  4701. I believe it, but as far as understanding it, I'm gonna have to think about this for a bit.
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  4702. Someone in New Jersey shot at a local water tower, thinking it was a Martian tripod. That tower was still standing at least until the 1980s or so, I don't know if it still is.
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  4703.  @WingedAsarath  Ah yes, finally found a fool to take the bait!
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  4704.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Yes, but were a Roger's Ranger!
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  4705. This is good, but the voice actress's laugh wasn't near creepy or annoying enough.
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  4706.  @michaelturner4457  So then this guy actually was in violation, even if the authorities handled it wrong?
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  4707.  @stakkerhmnd  I heard he was kidnapping babies and selling them to space aliens for use as meat.
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  4708. Also an 80s teen bass player here; I listened to a lot of Rush in the 80s for the same reason lol
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  4709. Don't mistake Hollywood for the majority of normal American people.
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  4710. Is C maj over F a Csus4 inverted? Are they related?
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  4711. This video just makes me smile.
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  4712. Liberally distributing high explosive freedom. Murka.
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  4713. Fascinating stuff Scott.
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  4714. Some of these are pretty cool, but I still want my giant wheel station with a Howard Johnsons in it.
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  4715. Ever since I saw Twilight Zone: The Movie, I find all those old black and white cartoons to be really creepy.
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  4716. "Perilune" Technically not incorrect, but I believe NASA used the terms "pericynthion" and "apocynthion" to label the apses in a lunar orbit. Also not incorrect would be "periselene" and "aposelene". To be consistent with the usual naming system of Solar System objects, the proper name of the planet or moon is the Roman form, in this case "Luna" (the actual name of our moon, even though we get lazy and just call it "mun"), and the aspects of the body are in Greek form, "Selene" or sometimes "Cynthia". I have heard people say "lunar geologist", which is a contradiction in terms; "geo" refers to the earth (aka "Terra"). The proper name for such a person would be "selenologist". On Mars he would be an "areologist", and so on. This language and naming stuff is kind of a pet peeve for me. We want to live out there some day, we may as well learn the names. Just don't call your colony "Hadley's Hope" if you know what's good for you.
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  4717. Love these technical history videos! The aeolipile's creator was Hero of Alexandria. I remember seeing that in a book somewhere growing up, with a picture of it. I would call the nozzles "jets" as opposed to "rockets", but it's all semantics I guess, since a rocket is technically a type of jet, and thrusters on spacecraft are often casually referred to as jets.
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  4718. Perfect!
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  4719.  @greenpedal370  Well, for starters, their fighter jets suck, their tanks suck, their navy ships suck. They dress them up to look cool and give them powerful engines but when it comes to electronics they all suck. Speaking of Russian electronics, when's the last time you bought a piece of Russian electronics kit? Over my years I've seen electronics come from the US, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, PRC, UK, Finland, etc. Never bought a radio or a computer or a cell phone that was made in Russia or the old USSR.
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  4720.  @greenpedal370  Oh please, wise one, educate us.
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  4721. Whales: "Let's go to the South Atlantic, it's far from Japan and should be pretty safe." South Atlantic:
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  4722. Well I guess if you can't make enough money by selling your poor quality controlled guitars, may as well try your hand in the lawsuit lottery.
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  4723. All this machinery, making modern music, can still be open-hearted Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty, yeah your honesty! - Neil Peart
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  4724. 10:51 Rick throws together a quick demo piece and a video that blows away anything I've ever tried to do lol.
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  4725. The focus is on guitar heroes, but the problem is that rock as we knew it 30 or 40 years ago isn't the cultural force it once was. Pop music used to consist of a fair amount of rock, now it's moved on to lighter fare. Rock, like jazz, is becoming a niche or underground movement. Like jazz, it's still hugely popular with a large segment of the population, but it's not the top of the hill anymore.
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  4726. Condolences, Rick. (Or should we call you "Richard" for a while?)
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  4727. Refueling a supersonic super jet from a submarine? Mitchell Gant can do it with Firefox. But remember, you must think in Russian!
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  4728.  @justforever96  It's all personal taste. I think the B-58 is prettier than the SR-71. But I also think the AV-8B Harrier II is great-looking, too, and many people would disagree. After a while, the A-6 Intruder even grew on me.
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  4729.  @stevengordon3271  Or styptic pencils, or nuclear fuel pencils...
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  4730. Green slime makes me think of Alanis Morrissette...
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  4731. Rick's shoes
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  4732. The SG will forever be associated with Tony Iommi in my mind.
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  4733. "Pac Man battle" I think you meant "Space Invaders", Drach. Drop down, reverse direction, increase speed!
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  4734. R. Lee Ermey's performance in this film and his subsequent film and TV work led to him getting promoted by the Marine Corps from Staff Sargeant to Gunnery Sargeant even though he had already retired, something very rare for an enlisted Marine. He was credited with increasing recruitment and giving the Corps a positive public image, which is ironic since FMJ was not supposed to reflect positively on the Corps, and in fact the Corps viewed it negatively at first. Unlike other military-themed films of the era such as Top Gun, FMJ received no technical or other support from the Pentagon. Thanks to Kubrick and Ermey himself though, it was quite accurate in its depiction of US Marines.
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  4735. Is it really that hard to find stock photos of a 727 with the aft staircase open? Otherwise cool video. I never heard about the copycats before, though I know that in the 70s skyjacking was almost an olympic sport.
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  4736. You should do a part 2 where you point out the things to pick out for someone who is listening to a tune like this for the first time. When I started listening to jazz I did what any fan does; I just played my favorite tracks over and over and each time I paid attention to a different part. Piano one time, bass line another time, the turnaround, etc.
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  4737. Bad guy hackers always wear hoodies and sit in the dark.
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  4738. Armed merchantmen would be useful in dealing with pirates in the modern day. Even better if it's a Q ship manned by Navy sailors and Marines. "Oh, you'd like to steal this? Not your lucky day, mate."
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  4739. I wonder how many of those DC-3s are still flying today; that plane outlived them all. Also, nice pic with the Stormtroopers at the end there.
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  4740. "We'll talk more about deception detection in a later section." That was perfection, you might win an election or advance yourself by natural selection!
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  4741. For what it's worth Dr. Hossenfelder your English is very good, and I think most Americans and Brits find a bit of an accent on your part forces us to listen more carefully when you speak. Plus we've got a stereotype that Germans are all rocket scientist brainiacs anyway ha ha.
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  4742.  @roberthuffmann8204  Yeah Hendrix was known for Beatles covers. There's video somewhere of him doing a Beatles tune or two at a show.
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  4743. I was in Washington DC a few years back and they had tour groups riding those stupid Segway things. They looked like idiots, made worse by the fact that they were all made to wear bike helmets.
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  4744. You can do zero-G by renting a Cessna 150 and nosing it over into a parabolic arc, no need for a jetliner. Of course the cabin is too small to really float around, but you'll feel it, alright. Just pretend you're in a Gemini capsule.
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  4745. Your incorrect use of capitalization is the most troubling thing here.
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  4746. The reason there are so many Philip K. Dick film adaptations is because he wrote so many great short stories. On the other hand, the film Johnny Mnemonic is based on the William Gibson short story (which is in the Neuromancer universe), and it's not that great.
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  4747. Dead Hand may sound like Skynet at first, but Skynet was an intelligent system that actually knew what it was doing. Dead Hand is a really simple automatic system that probably could be triggered by accident in any number of ways. According to literature on it, the Soviets designed it to be fully automatic but decided to keep humans in the loop because they were scared of it. Also, in the fashion of Dr. Strangelove, they kept the whole thing top secret, thus negating its usefulness as a deterrent system. As the Kinks told us: "Paranoia may destroy ya."
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  4748. He plays astronaut Alan Sheppard in From the Earth to the Moon.
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  4749. If you get offended by a joke, you deserve to be offended by a joke. Ricky's performance and the reactions in that room were a pretty good way to decide which of those pompous ass celebs deserve scorn.
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  4750.  @willdenoble1898  Thanks for your contribution.
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  4751. Amazing interview.
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  4752. @ Or, alternatively, Hitler was just a sad failed artist and wounded WWI soldier who told racist jokes but every attempt at time travel resulted in a timeline where he became a more horrible person with more political power.
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  4753.  @Eric-kn4yn  Pretty high tech for the early 1940s. It's a really good thing the Germans spent their money and effort on things like missiles instead of nuclear weapons.
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  4754.  Syd McCreath  No it isn't.
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  4755. They are as worthless as flying cars. More so, since an actual Jeep or a conventional helicopter can actually carry a decent payload, while these things are doing all they can to just not kill you.
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  4756. Being attacked by machines of a long dead civilization, isn't that the Doomsday Machine that killed Commodore Decker's crew and ate the Constellation?
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  4757.  @stanleyrogouski  Cool info, thanks.
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  4758. I'm happy to see that the knowledge from the Space Shuttle program is apparently being put to good use in a private space program, which is ostensibly one of NASA's main reasons for existing. STS was the very first of its kind, and while it failed to be economical and had safety shortcomings, it achieved a number of remarkable technical feats and 3 decades of real flight data was obtained, which is now available for industry to put to good use. I hope this heat shield system works out.
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  4759. Liking the new theme music.
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  4760. ​ @AlexKarasev And if the government didn't have a robust free market economy to tax, and to provide quality work, Apollo wouldn't have happened. That's why the N1 rocket was hot garbage.
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  4761. ​ @tomschmidt381 Bell Labs dove deep into information theory, which is way beyond "just telephone stuff".
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  4762. 60 second video shorts on awesome guitar knowledge, 20 minutes on horrible overproduced pop.
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  4763. This is some good Dark5.
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  4764. This may or may not be the US military's worst idea, but it is one of the worst tests of that idea. The speech at the end about how unfeasible it is falls a bit short as a result.
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  4765. I know some people won't like this, but I kind of hope a meteor comes along and blankets the sites with a nice coat of ejecta powder, so we can quit acting like the sites are so sacred nobody may ever be allowed to disturb them. Nobody preserved the spot on the beech where Columbus first stepped off his boat, and nobody knows where the first human set foot on North America from the Bering Strait, and it doesn't matter. Trying to preserve every footprint on every Apollo landing site is a fool's task, especially the later sites like Apollo 17 where they drove miles from the ship on the rover. Armstrong's footprint? Sure, coat it with some kind of cement and put a marker stone next to it. Get really good detailed photos of everything, then move the equipment to a museum somewhere indoors, maybe underground on the first moon colony, where it can be protected. Put stone markers on all the sites, and then quit worrying about trying to disturb a single grain of dirt for crying out loud. Luna is a world we should be allowed to walk on and live on, not some kind of holy ground we have to treat like walking on eggshells for the rest of human history.
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  4766. The Taylor Swift song is okay, but it makes me want to go listen to "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama now, which remains a killer 80s pop song.
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  4767. There is video of the inside of a Saturn V fuel tank out there, showing those massive F1's sucking the kerosene down like a swimming pool drain from hell.
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  4768. Why does beard guy keep saying it's a "gravitational field propulsion system"? If you've never seen one up close, taken it apart or talked to whomever built it, how would you know what it is?
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  4769. Just last night I watched a rail fan video about the CSX Tropicana Orange Juice train that runs from Florida up to North Jersey. Sometimes I feel like the internet is reading my mind.
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  4770. The concept of using aerodynamic forces to change an orbit plane goes back a very long way, and was considered to be used for the canceled X-20 Dynasoar program and is described in the literature from the early 60s.
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  4771. This tune encapsulates all that is iconic and cool about the early 1960s. Sex, style, surf rock, a bit of film noir, and the dashing agents we liked to imagine were fighting the Cold War behind the scenes.
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  4772.  @wojtek1582  Yes, the story works better if Deckard is a natural human. Though the ambiguity is nice. BTW in the book there's no question Deckard is human, but the movie makes a lot of changes from the book.
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  4773. Turbine powered vehicles did eventually go into production...as the M1 Abrams tank, which is powered by a turboshaft engine. It was built by Chrysler, though, not GM.
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  4774. I thought BAE stood for "British Aerospace-English Electric". But I'm old I guess.
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  4775. 8:05 the US rep to the UN is doing an epic facepalm.
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  4776. There is an old video from around 1999 that predates youtube, where some Arab dudes are shooting the .577 Tyrannosaur at an indoor range and knocking themselves down from the recoil.
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  4777. Apparently the long term consequences involve mutation the exposed people into crazy drug cartel warrirors.
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  4778. I love these anomaly breakdowns. If you haven't done so yet, you should do a video on the GPS launch that blew up over the launch pad back in the 90s, showering burning solid propellant all over the employee parking lot and melting cars.
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  4779. I think the APAS system also allowed for two shuttles to dock to each other, allowing for rescue scenarios.
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  4780. Rush made 4 albums before they proved the public would pay for good heavy prog rock. Their third album sold so poorly they almost got dropped by the label. No way would a band like that NOT get dropped today. Also no way they'd let Peart write his own lyrics.
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  4781. I read about this a few years ago on The Atomic Rocket Main Page website. It's awesome and scary, as is the open cycle gas core reactor. Do NOT use these things anywhere near a planet people live on. There is a saying on that site, "Any spacecraft propulsion system powerful enough to be interesting is also a weapon of mass destruction".
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  4782. Probably not.
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  4783. There are two categories missing: The Early Wave Motion Era Battleships, of which only one existed: the rebuilt Yamato (sometimes referred to as "Argo" in English-speaking texts) with wave motion engine and gun. The Later Wave Motion Era Battleships, which includes the Andromeda Class, being built from scratch as space battleships with wave motion technology.
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  4784. Wow, even more movies for me to not give a shit about!
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  4785. Welp, time to go watch a Japanese horror movie and complete the cycle of terror this started...
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  4786. The return of naval gunnery. Maybe we will see the return of actual cruisers and battleships, equipped with different sizes of railguns. WWII battleships were quite capable of hitting moving targets with their slow projectiles and analog fire control computers; imagine what a battleship equipped with a few railguns could do. And how would you defend against this? I imagine traditional armor wouldn't be of much help against a kinetic projectile made of say, tungsten, coming in at Mach 5.
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  4787. I have a bunch of old phone books. I knew hoarding would pay off someday!
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  4788. No left wing comics?! What?! SNL is all left wing, almost every comedian you see is left of center, some more than others. The conservatives stand out because they are so rare.
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  4789. Ukraine's "winning sauce" all comes from the pockets of American taxpayers.
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  4790. 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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  4791.  @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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  4792. Yet another installment ion the Scott Manley Bathrobe series!
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  4793. If you told me you were in a famous band and played this song for me I'd assume you had nothing to do with it except maybe singing. The whole thing sounds like it was created in software and uploaded to Bandcamp or Soundcloud.
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  4794. Windows XP, the last decent version of Windows.
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  4795. 6:12 Is that the new Moonraker expansion they've been keeping secret?
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  4796. This video needs to blow up, and this channel needs to blow up more.
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  4797. This will truly be a movie that "sends a message". Get it? "Sends a message"!
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  4798. It's almost like the US Navy was replacing losses by building one ship for every sailor lost in battle.
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  4799. I always thought Wellington's "scum of the earth" description was about the low backgrounds of his men, being street criminals and such, and that he meant it in a good way, as in, "Look at how these magnificent dirtbags of mine whipped the finest French soldiers."
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  4800. William Murderface gets overlooked again! lol Great video, Rick, I hope you'll do a few more vids focusing on the role of bass in music.
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  4801.  @eddydeathwishe4638  How does that make you feel?
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  4802.  @olieboer  Snow Crash is one of my favorites.
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  4803.  @eddydeathwishe4638  Well, the Sprawl trilogy hasn't been made into a movie yet, and Judge Dredd was a comic book character long before any movies were made, so nothing I mentioned in my initial post comes from any movie.
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  4804. I'm not a scientist, I'm just a chUd with an engineering background. I don't think I'm stupid, but like most taxpayers I am mostly ignorant about the science establishment and how the money flows. I have always suspected that wherever government grant money is concerned, things should be taken with a grain of salt, especially since scientists are as human as the rest of us and thus vulnerable to politics and fads. Recent news events have strengthened my suspicions about fraud. But the clown who wrote that letter confirms it. I have known people like that, and it makes me very angry.u
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  4805. Idea for a future video: talk about Apollo moon mission comms and how amateurs would listen to them back in the day.
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  4806. Americium I pronounce as am-er-EEE-see-um
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  4807. Interesting that the ostensible reason for treaties is to prevent or reduce the risk of a war, but in many cases they are just another form of jockeying for position in advance of a war everyone figures is coming sooner or later. And trying not to wreck one's own economy in the meantime. Makes me wonder about the various treaties between the US, USSR, and other powers over nuclear weapons; are they at all effective, do the signatories actually believe they will work, and for how long?
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  4808.  @gorebunny  Sometimes, you must choose: creep or gay. I guess we know which one you are.
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  4809. Sabine, when you did that video wondering why so many people dislike scientists, well, papers like this are a clue.
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  4810.  @SeatBill  TLDR
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  4811. Willy Pete is metal.
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  4812. As a Kryptonian on Earth it would be really hard not to do this often. Kudos to Clark for being able to hold back (except for this one time lol).
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  4813. Duster is another great slow-fi band that does this kind of stuff. RIP Mimi.
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  4814. Congratulations!
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  4815. I love how you could've chosen any Tool song to demonstrate their odd time signatures, but you choose Die Eier Von Satan, which is one of their most off the wall hilarious tracks!
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  4816. I realize this is harder for some younger people to believe, but there was once a time when people in public would make a slight effort to avoid being a potty mouth in the presence of children. At least where I grew up this was true. Sometime around when smoking started getting banned on jetliners people seemed to lose their inhibitions regarding foul language, and now we get people walking around Chucky Cheese cursing into their phones or at each other lol.
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  4817. History Guy, you should invite a guest. Bruce Gordon is a youtuber who flew F-102's and F-106's during the Cold War and also F-100's in Vietnam. His channel is a great stuff for air history fans. In particular, the F-106 and F-102 were important parts of NORAD's defense of the continent, but because they saw no action Vietnam they get overlooked often. And the F-106, developed in the 50s, was ahead of its time, with its speed, range, and according to Gordon, even its maneuverability was surprisingly good for an interceptor never meant to dogfight. It also had a digital datalink to the SAGE system which was a system of radars and computers that coordinated air defense for the US and Canada. SAGE itself would be worth a video.
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  4818. The consolidation of media companies has implications for society far beyond music. It's a major factor in what has gone on in the last year or so, and that's about as far as I want to go in this comment section.
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  4819. I believe it's John's own music he makes for these videos, and it sounds very much influenced by the electronic band Boards of Canada.
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  4820. When we see the environmental damage caused by electric car batteries someday, which institution will deserve to get wiped out?
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  4821.  @VanillaMacaron551  I was a buggy whip maker. They durka jerb!
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  4822. SO if the Merlin was not named after a mythological figure, what about the Rolls Royce Pegasus that powers Harrier jets? Is there a bird in the UK called a Pegasus?
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  4823.  Wallace  Cool, thanks.
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  4824.  @ignatziusturret5641  How does that make you feel?
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  4825. For spacecraft which are not one-time use devices, the dust is going to be a problem as they fly through it at high speeds on a regular basis.
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  4826. I think I owned that Beck album in the 80s for some reason. Don't know why; I hated that Rod Stewart song and never listened to the record. Maybe my brother owned it or something, because I sure can't imagine why I'd buy something I disliked so much.
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  4827. Okay, smarter-than-thou guy, as soon as you convince Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Hamas, and all the other crap bags out there to stop threatening the West, then we'll take you seriously.
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  4828. When this kind of mistake happens, that guy and several others involved all get fired.
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  4829. If it wasn't for those idiots at the Pentagon and the political idiots getting us into generation-length wars the US military could be far more advanced and ready than it is today, and there'd be a lot less war.
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  4830. Dr. Felton, you mentioned the East India Company had its own army, could you explain that in a future video perhaps?
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  4831.  @CharliMorganMusic  Since you mentioned it, Marine Corps aviation also makes the Navy stronger, since a secondary mission for Marine squadrons is to augment Navy carrier air wings. Amphibious task forces equipped with Marine Harriers or F-35s can provide their own limited air cover and can act as auxillary carriers. Air Force: take note. The Army can help you if you let them.
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  4832.  @tatianaromonov1416  Who exploded?
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  4833. Or Maynard's Dick.
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  4834. It was people who scavanged Challenger parts from a beach and turned it in after the government threatened to prosecute anyone hoarding shuttle parts. Which they had to do because aholes were selling Columbia parts on ebay.
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  4835. 10:56 is that an American naval officer walking behind the ceremonial guard in Moscow? The emblem on the front of his cover looks like an eagle with anchors.
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  4836. As long as you're not Jewish.
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  4837. American car companies in the 70s and early 80s made a lot of junk when it came to economy cars. The Vega, the Pinto, the Maverick, The Pacer, the Gremlin, the Chevette. We like to look back at them fondly sometimes but they were truly garbage. The trucks and larger cars weren't so bad. My mom had a 79 Chevy Impala that I remember liking a lot. It was really comfortable on long drives, had lots of power stuff (which is almost all standard today) and was pretty reliable. I even remember what it smelled like and how awesome the heater worked when getting picked up from school or somewhere on a freezing winter day.
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  4838. This is a really well-composed video and thoughtful commentary, Rick, those are all great points. I remember thinking years ago that streaming was causing us to revert to the days of the 45-rpm single, only this time without the cool physical media of a 45 record and sleeve. I think that even if a musician can't afford to have records or CDs printed, they should strive to make albums in digital form, complete with artwork and liner notes, etc. Of the bands I've played in, my favorite project was the one where I successfully pestered them to go in a studio and record an album. We did it for fairly cheap and it was a milestone when we finished it, we were all proud of what we had accomplished, and years later we have a tangible record of the times we spent writing and performing.
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  4839. Great episode!
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  4840. Did you say "Both our pair-petrators have met?"
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  4841. So basically he was Sasha Baron Cohen's mentor...
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  4842. Dating myself with this one, but in the 70s/80s the show "Quincy" featuring Jack Klugman. I was too young to understand politics, but I remember at least one entire episode devoted to gun control. Super preachy, and one of the things that set me on a course in the opposite direction.
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  4843. 14:03 in addition to the airbags, rear-ending a Ford Pinto is a whole nother ball of danger wax.
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  4844. Pink Floyd Umma Gumma and Tangerine Dream Zeit! Love this guy's musical tastes.
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  4845. ​ @susansauceda9879 And if you do go to a council meeting, you will be ignored as they look at their watches and roll their eyes. The decisions are all made before the meeting and your input is not welcome. If you express anger over this, you may have police theaten to arrest you. In Loudon Co. Virginia the school board got the angry parents placed on an FBI watch list.
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  4846. I've heard that since the 9/11 attacks CAP volunteers have flown light aircraft as practice intercept targets for the Air Force in the DC area, so the Air Force can learn how best to counter the threat of light aircraft terrorist attacks. Don't know if there's any truth to that.
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  4847. 90% enriched uranium? Isn't that weapons grade? What's up with that?
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  4848. I think this was an actual Eddie Murphy joke from the 80s.
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  4849. These little things are the kind of thing that can kill astronauts on long missions to places like Mars. In concept, a spacecraft is such a simple vehicle; you fill a can with air and food, stick an engine and some sensors on it, man it, and launch it into space. Since the early days when Clark and Heinlein and Asimov wrote about this stuff we have learned, and keep learning, so much about the space environment and how it interacts with spacecraft equipment and crews, but we still miss things like this in designing the devices. These RWA's were tested rigorously by the vendor, under the watchful eye of NASA and other customers, and passed every test, and yet there was something going on that nobody had ever though to model. If we are going to start sending people into deep space, or even long duration missions to the Moon or near-Earth solar orbits, we need to make sure the mission can absorb the weird things nature will throw at us. These unknowns, and the risk incurred, is part of what makes spaceflight so expensive.
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  4850. "I am not satisifed with the product you sold me. Please send the truck back out to my house and remove it as soon as possible."
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  4851. Does she own the melodies and copyrights? Are the new versions actually covers of the old versions for which she must pay a fee?
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  4852. That No. 1 track is cool, almost sounds as if they transported 70s Rush into the 90s and gave them a 90s producer.
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  4853. "If you are painting them on the strand, pro tip..." lol nobody else is doing this, dude. Still, great video. And I agree, the old filament bulbs are awesome and I miss them, fire hazard and all.
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  4854. My dad had this album years ago and I used to listen to it a lot. I'm not really a fan of Pat Metheny but at the time I thought this album was cool.
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  4855. Rush's Limelight solo as played by David Gilmour
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  4856. Yes, didn't the YAK-38 have separate lift engines in the forward compartment instead of a lift fan?
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  4857. Cannon shells carried by aircraft are made of mildly radioactive depleted uranium. A-10, AV-8B, for example.
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  4858.  @Colt45hatchback  We can just feed the rowers with soy products and unicorn meat. The world will be a magic happy place where there is no oil and we all sing kumbaya.
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  4859. Hipsters ate dandelions after they were cool.
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  4860.  @wrayday7149  They wanted to rice it out?
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  4861. The revolving rocket launcher reminds me of modern rotary weapon launchers
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  4862. I can't wait to watch this. I always thought Colin Ferrel was a god actor who accepted lousy roles, but it sounds like he hit the right combo this time.
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  4863. I would've shaved my beard so the mask would form a better seal against my face. Just a thought I had. Cool video.
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  4864. "This person was a woman" That photograph would've fooled me.
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  4865. 8:30 Pichegru didn't kill himself
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  4866.  @epincion  At >500 km they will last quite a bit longer than that.
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  4867. I've always loved Sony's hardware products, especially back in the 80s Sony electronics was good stuff and still ain't half bad today. But they're attitude towards IP is awful and only seems to get worse as time goes on, especially in the entertainment media side of things. So I'll still buy their headphones and stuff but I have to hold my nose a little bit as I do it.
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  4868.  @janMelantu  Yes, "their lucrative film business" was their main line of business, not cameras.
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  4869. I agree, however encryption is one thing, prosecuting people for listening to your transmissions is quite another.
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  4870. Things were different back then. Chester Nimitz ran the USS Decatur aground early in his career, and was reprimanded, but it didn't end his career, much to the misfortune of the Imperial Japanese Navy decades later. The modern US Navy, in contrast, literally has more admirals than ships last I heard, and can probably afford to cashier an officer who screws up easier.
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  4871. Mobile phones are pretty much worthless for privacy or security, and I haven't seen a functioning pay phone in a good ten years or more, at least not in the US. Land lines still exist, of course, especially for businesses and government offices and such, but you have to ask someone to use one so it's hard to be sneaky. Maybe the guy behind all this is the same guy who posts crazy shit on your videos and whose comments you always pin for us to enjoy? That would be funny.
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  4872. That photograph at 7:45 is what you see in a dictionary when you look up the word "awesome". The Tomcat is legend.
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  4873. They beheaded men over 50? So it was like Logan's Run?
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  4874. From my experience, the first few days after leaving port the chow (aka "food" in the US Navy and Marines) is at its best because you are eating all the fresh stuff you loaded from the port. After that, out comes the powdered milk and eggs and so on and while it's not bad, it's kind of bland.
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  4875. @Maximillian Wylde The 1980s were an amazing time, technology just kept advancing so fast and it felt like we would be able to do anything so long as the USSR didn't blow us up. Even the Challenger accident didn't stop us, only slowed us down. 30+ years later it seems like we've been spinning our wheels wasting time on smart phones and social media instead of colonizing the Solar System.
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  4876. This is good, but the overly dramatic music is a bit much.
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  4877. Semper Fidelis, brothers.
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  4878. If you want to pay Lockheed Martin to start building civilian aircraft again, they'll be happy to do it. So put up or shut up.
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  4879.  @tra-viskaiser8737  The Navy needs to bring back flying aircraft carriers, this time with giant nuclear-powered airships equipped with catapults, a full radar suite, and cruise missiles. Go big or go home.
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  4880. You mean they don't shit in the streets in Paris?
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  4881.  @jetsons101  communism'l do that
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  4882.  @ynptrip  Yes, I've been there, it is awesome.
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  4883. China acts like they are a forward looking modern nation, but sometimes they remind us that they are in fact a brutal communist dictatorship that tries to control all information.
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  4884. I hope she sees this video, the meltdown would be legendary. Also, remember 20 years ago when Rosie O'Donnel stirred thing up by making fun of Trump's hair? I wonder what Rosie has to say about Joy's um...hair.
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  4885. Elon Musk has irritated the powers that be with his recent non-space related purchase, so of course his space operations will not be punished by the completely professional and non-politicized government agencies. I know this because the Disinformation Governance Bureau has warned me against knowing otherwise.
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  4886.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  Looks like I got one on the line. Took you long enough.
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  4887. Chicago should be renamed Phaeton City, because Exosquad is the greatest sci fi show ever.
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  4888. This is great. Hope to see some Alex Lifeson here someday.
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  4889. Old school
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  4890. Great video, Zeppelin might call it up in court, haha. Loving the Adam Neely-ish outro theme. Also: 3:20 Zeppelin-Beatles mashup: Page and McCartney need to make this happen NOW
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  4891.  @j_freed  Her name is Merry Clayton, and I don't know where you heard that. She actually covered the song on her own album and she's been on youtube talking about working with the Stones.
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  4892. Cernan is tired in that photo not because of dust, but because he spent 3 days on the ground, hiking around, moving all that bulky gear around and working his ass off to follow a busy schedule, while not getting good sleep in the tiny hammocks set up inside the cramped lunar module cabin. The dust didn't help, but it's not like he was just takin' it easy for three days at a ski resort.
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  4893. Remember Bill Clinton announcing that NASA found life on Mars? Sort of?
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  4894.  @ultrahighgain412  Pvt. Snowball probably became a lifer and a drill instructor as well.
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  4895. Well, this changes my view of Belgium as Germany's doormat into France, where some decent beer comes from.
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  4896. I had problems seeing the last part of this video. I think there's something in my eye...
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  4897.  @wyganter  Graceland is not downtown.
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  4898. I lived in the area once and Memphis used to be fun, wasn't all bad. That was 2 decades after King was shot, so there's something else wrong with the city, the uploader can't blame it all on one bad event 5 decades ago.
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  4899. Every time you show a photo of those women working in ammo factories, I think of that Bugs Bunny episode where he gets a job testing for duds by hitting the shells with a hammer and marking them "dud" when they fail to explode in his face.
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  4900. The woman and children getting hit by the window panes are lucky the glass didn't shatter. They'd be blind and all cut up.
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  4901.  @ivantrapic6209  I think that's the one.
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  4902. I was really young, didn't know about it until the next day when I walked to the school bus stop and one of my friends said, "You hear John Lennon got shot last night?" and I was like, "Oh. Who's that?" I had no idea who he was talking about. I remember it was really freaking cold out and there was snow and ice all around that morning.
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  4903. So, basically, Sandra Bullock's reentry in Gravity was not entirely implausible.
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  4904. Magnets, how do they work?
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  4905. "567 million dollars or whatever that is in Euros" lol Scott you're such an American now!
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  4906. The problem with the Turing Test (well, one of them, anyway) is that the AI has to lie to pass it. Even if the AI is HAL-9000, talk to it long enough and you will realize it has to be a machine because it has no family, birthplace, or even a physical body. So if it's truthful it fails the Turing Test. But that does NOT mean it is not intelligent or even sentient; HAL-9000 was very intelligent and even able, in the end, to make moral choices. Remember that Alan Turing died in the 1950s so he never had time to evolve his ideas as computer technology advanced; had he lived until the 1990s or 2000s he probably would've admitted the limitations of his eponymous test.
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  4907. 10:37 boy that would never fly in the modern US
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  4908. The Russian Captain Sully. And ya gotta love the Russians, actually flying that thing out of that cow patch and then returning it to service! I'd bet that in the UK or US a jetliner that'd been through that abuse would've been retired and parted out.
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  4909. Wow, remember Bill Buckley, RIP.
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  4910. In Soviet Russia, missile launches you.
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  4911. Just a guess, but maybe pro gear is meant to look "business like", similar to the beige computers of the time, and the colorful buttons allowed them to be seen better in the dim light of a studio control room perhaps.
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  4912.  @neithere  And I hate propagandists.
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  4913. Not to be confused with Pennywise, the comet that comes back every 27 years.
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  4914. Never thought I'd say this, but pick any random 80s hair metal band and they sound better than this list.
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  4915. I root for them, if for no other reason that I want more reasons for that beautiful 747 to keep flying.
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  4916. IIRC Olympus made a digital version of the Pen a few years ago, since the old design was so cool and popular. Concerning half frames, the Diana Mini 35mm plastic camera has been out for over ten years and it has switchable half or full frame option.
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  4917. Looks like Wallace got together with a couple of chimpanzees and a bowl of crack to hash this idea out.
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  4918. So does anyone know where that estate was in Point Breeze, NJ? Google maps shows a neighborhood in Philadelphia called Point Breeze but nothing on the Delaware River. I am guessing it's a geographical feature. Would be interesting to see the site today. Probably built over with houses or something.
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  4919. Using contests like this find the smartest or best people reminds me of the 80s film The Last Starfighter where aliens were using an arcade game to find the best human candidates to be fighter pilots in an interstellar war that threatened Earth, but which no humans knew about.
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  4920. Murder Hobbits is a good band name.
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  4921. This is great, Rick. That stuff about the panned reverb is why I love this series. For decades we've all talked about how great the playing was in VH but without this video I never would've known about that studio magic.
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  4922.  @stevenpilling5318  And then there's Constitution, which is still commissioned and gets actual Navy money for maintenance.
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  4923. Some Germans.
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  4924. 3:34 The train is backing but the drive wheels are stationary and appear to be skidding down the rails. Is something dragging the train back from the other end?
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  4925.  @shhs1791  Cool, didn't know that, thanks. So one locomotive is pulling but the other one has the brakes on?
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  4926. How much did Adm. Lee and the USN really know about Japanese battleships at this point? Did they know about the Yamato class and the 18.1" main guns? I thought the Americans didn't know all that much until the end of the war because the Yamato class was a well-kept IJN secret.
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  4927. I thought the Zeppelin song would be Whole Lotta Love but there are a dozen that'll do.
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  4928. I count Marissa Paternoster of the Screaming Females as a guitar hero. She has chops and stage presence for days. The problem there is that rock bands like the Females won't ever play stadiums because the industry doesn't put them out there as pop stars the way they used to.
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  4929. I agree the Long Beach was hideous compared to the Missouri with that radar system. I get that function is more important than form and all, but if I'm sailing out to get shot at I want to look good while doing it.
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  4930. I'm guessing that when we build colonies on Luna or Mars, the farm animal most likely to go with the colonists will be chickens.
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  4931.  @frantisekvtelensky820  Also, in her James Corden interview she sang in his car and yes, she can actually sing very well when it's called for. I wonder if Dan can sing as well.
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  4932. "Vibration induced relaxation of threaded components" Try safety wire?
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  4933. 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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  4934. I actually remember where I was the first time I heard this song. Driving up I-95 through Baltimore and it came on 98 Rock over my Blaupunkt car stereo. I had no idea who it was but I cranked it right up immediately. Been an AIC fan ever since.
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  4935.  @tomhath8413  Really, tell us more.
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  4936. The 2000's were the beginning of the end for rock as a mainstream genre. So many rock bands were riding the coattails of what remained of grunge and post-grunge and the production was starting to get really obnoxious in a way we hadn't seen since the hair metal days. Throw in the Loudness Wars and here we are in the 2020s struggling to find a decent rock radio station in major cities, inundated with mediocre pop songs produced by a committee of 25, snapped to grids, and autotuned to hell and back.
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  4937. This video will be demonetized for the Eagles pie fight!
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  4938.  @GJones462-2W1  That's just cruel. The worst thing about the MREs was the tiny bit of toilet paper that came with each one. MREs clogged up your asshole so you could only shit once a week, but when you did you had better hoped you horded every bit of that TP, because you were gonna need it after that giant weight loss you just incurred. Too much detail for civilians, maybe, but if you lived on these things in the field you know it's truth.
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  4939. I really want to watch this but I don't subscribe to HBO.
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  4940. So what's up with the Voyager simulator? Was it written in FORTRAN or some other 70s format they can't support or emulate? How hard would it be to write a new one? Or is it a hardware simulator that can't be fixed due to lack of old parts stock?
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  4941.  @Hdtjdjbszh  I think you're actually German, if you were British you'd have a better sense of humor! ;-)
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  4942. Awesome! Next, tell us about the Lifeson Chord. And then someday interview Alex Lifeson and ask him about it.
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  4943. Brits invent steam catapults. Number of CATOBAR carriers in service: 0 Brits invent Harrier jet / Pegasus engine. Number of Harriers in UK service: 0 Brits build successful launch vehicle. Number of British launch vehicles in use: 0 This list could go on. Come on, UK, ya got the stuff, but ya gotta follow through!
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  4944. Don't forget Mentos and Diet Coke!
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  4945. The powers that be aren't interested in producing enough power; they are more interested in reducing energy usage and thinning the population. Feeding us bugs and forcing us into smaller housing and the like.
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  4946. Everyone uses propaganda in warfare. During the 1991 Gulf War it was reported that Iraqi soldiers had been told that US Marines were required to murder a family member before being allowed to call themselves Marines, which tracks pretty well with what the Japanese troops were being told about Marines. And poorly disciplined troops lacking supervision will commit atrocities in warfare, especially after the enemy is sufficiently dehumanized. I think the major difference in WWII is that the Japanese troops committed war crimes as a matter of policy, not just against enemy forces but also against non-Japanese civilians they conquered. Given their own propaganda about being the heroes of East Asia, it's shocking how badly they treated the other Asian civilians they encountered, including the Chinese and Filipinos and so on.
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  4947. Disney DVD is like Disney Star Wars: it kind of looks the same, but it really isn't.
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  4948. The 1911 is one of John Browning's finest designs.
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  4949. Dee. John Dee. (Cue 007 theme)
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  4950. I've seen Prometheus and Pandora's Box referenced in several sci fi stories about people losing control of science and technology, and as the video points out, it's common thought among scientists in many countries.
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  4951. Logan's Run showed a society which had no interest in tradition, family, history. Sex no longer had any connection to families or children. Most importantly, they exterminated everyone when they turned 30, so no old people to pay and care for. Population completely controlled, sustainable energy sources. They owned nothing and were happy. Awful lot of sick people today think that's a fine way to live.
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  4952.  @jafinch78  If you shoot a duck, I will fear toasters!
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  4953. Good ole' Philly.
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  4954. 1:53 Wow check out the Alaska ANG's cool camo job on that Viper.
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  4955.  @solandri69  Incorrect. Read what I wrote and leave the anti-Trek snark out.
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  4956.  @solandri69  Of course it didn't have engines or a heat shield, hence my line about "getting fitted up for space flight." You don't need real engines or real heat tiles to do glider tests; you only need aerodynamic stand-ins and to properly weight and balance the spacecraft. When the ALT were done, the vehicle was to be sent back to Palmdale and fitted up with final components. As for the name, of course it was going to be named, because it was a real OV, not an STA. The Trekkie write-in campaign just helped them pick that particular name. It was going to be called Constitution.
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  4957.  @solandri69  And for reference: "Development of the Shuttle, 1972-1981", by T..A Heppenheimer, Smithsonian Institute Press, copyright 2002. Specifically, Chapter 3.
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  4958. Book. …..and congratulations!
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  4959. WHy does the narrator talk like he's eating a ham sandwich at the same time? And how come the idiots who made this video can't tell the difference between a nuclear power source and a nuclear explosive? Why are people so fucking ignorant about anything with the word "nuclear in it"? It's been 65 years since the A-bomb, time to figure it out, morons.
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  4960. 8:55 your photoshop job reminds me of Henry Cavill's mustache being poorly digitally removed so he could play a weird-looking Superman that creeped us all out.
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  4961. I went to high school in the 80s. I just figured we were all gonna get vaporized sooner or later, so in the meantime, enjoy listening to my Rush records (RIP Neil Peart)
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  4962. Boomer bends sounds like some kind of horrible scuba diving accident.
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  4963. Nothing that can't be solved with a Grizzly hover tank.
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  4964.  @annapierce8666  It's actually a reference to Activision's Battlezone game in the 90s, which was itself based on the early 80s arcade game.
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  4965. 12:59 is that Robert McNamara on the left in the glasses?
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  4966.  @matane2465  Gadot never insulted me and told me to F off, so no bad feelings. Either you like her acting or you don't Zegler, on the other hand, picked a fight with me and people like me.
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  4967. The down votes must be from the various piano repairmen and tuners who worked with Oscar.
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  4968. We do not go to the bathroom, we use the head. Walls are bulkheads. Ceilings are overheads. Floors are decks. Doors are hatches, windows are portholes, and stairways are ladderwells. Left is port, right is starboard, and the foreword end of the room where the entry hatch is located is called the quarterdeck. Service rifles are rifles, never guns. "Guns" refer to machine guns or shotguns. It's weird to talk to civilians after a being indoctrinated with naval terminology for months on end.
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  4969. There is a school of thought that land-based ICBMs are more of a liability than an asset, because in a full blown attack they have only about 30 minutes to get off the ground before they are destroyed in their silos. This puts enormous "use it or lose it" pressure on the president, who, by the time he is awakened and told what is happening, might have only a few minutes to decide to launch a retaliatory strike or not. If it's a false alarm and he launches, the world dies. If it's the real thing and he doesn't, then the enemy's first strike gambit wins. As long as missile subs are at sea and bombers are airborne, the president (or whoever is in charge if he is taken out) still has a way to ride out the first strike and take some time to decide how to respond. Thus, some people, including a former US Defense Secretary, think focusing on sea and air based weapons that can survive a first strike is a better idea.
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  4970. The Taliban and ISIL are crucifying people today.
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  4971.  @WALTERBROADDUS  You keep saying that. But remember, if you have no defense against bombers, then bombers become a viable threat again. Even today they are still a threat, actually, since they are a recallable option, unlike missiles.
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  4972. 6:14 is that a painting? If it's a photograph it's a particularly outstanding one.
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  4973. As for Lockheed and rotor wing aircraft, Lockheed Martin had the contract to build the next helicopter to carry the president and other VIPs back in the mid-2000s, but that got canceled after getting way behind schedule, over budget, and overweight. Lockheed learned their lesson: if you want to build helicopters, you need helicopter experts. So they bought Sikorsky. And the latest helicopter stuff Sikorsky is building is fantastically advanced and high tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDYUaFOIqM
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  4974. Yes, we all like this video, please revisit the topic later on. Your videos about how tech, especially old tech, works are what brought me to your channel in the first place. I used a mechanical typewriter for school papers growing up, and when my dad got an Olivetti electronic typewriter in the 80s it was an amazing machine at the time. I have a 90s-era typewriter I rescued from destruction.
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  4975. That's a huge loss of life for a ship that had hours to figure out whether to repair or abandon.
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  4976. I feel like Goodfellas is a pretty extreme test of such a device.
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  4977.  @iridium8341  Not really what?
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  4978. Balloons can't fly into space, just really high.
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  4979. 👍 1686 8146 91734 6248 1645!!!!
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  4980. Artillery shells often use fuses with miniature electronics in them, going back to antiaircraft shells in WWII, which had tiny radar sets in them. Of course, these devices are purpose built for that kind of abuse and only have to operate for at most a couple of minutes. Not sure you could build a useful orbital payload that can take that kind of treatment.
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  4981. Yeah, but usually they're just weird.
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  4982. I've worked on some systems that were carried over from decades ago, and it's true about documentation falling by the wayside over time, especially when you're talking about things like FORTRAN or other older code and hardware systems. If you're an old expert, aka a "greybeard", on these things you can get paid good money working part time after retirement for your experience. People who worked on space systems in the 1970s are certainly in that category. Sometimes I wonder about programs that have been going for as long or longer than the average human lifespan. The Sidewinder missile, for example, or my favorite: the C-130 Hercules, which was designed and built in the 1950s and they are still producing brand new ones today. I wonder how many engineers and technicians present when the first plane was rolled out are even still around today? Lots of changes in avionics and engines since then, but the basic airframe design is the same. I wonder if the original drawings are stored away somewhere.
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  4983. For me, it was Niel Peart. The only celebrity loss I was really upset about, and still am.
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  4984. Take that, flerfers! lol
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  4985. So is the Beverly Clock an odd type of Sterling engine?
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  4986. Is this a real human or is it a computer-generated voice with an Australian accent?
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  4987. Wow, kind of like President Teddy Roosevelt who got shot by a wannabe assassin and finished his speech before accepting medical attention.
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  4988. @Nick Costa Your opinion reinforces my point about people today not understanding how important Clapton was back in the day.
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  4989. @Nick Costa Well Jimi didn't think he was boring.
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  4990. @Nick Costa And besides, I was trying to talk about a historical fact, when you decided to throw in your personal opinion and then start an internet argument over it. If you're really in your 50s you should know better than to act like such a child.
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  4991. At first it looks like Dr. Felton is in the custody of two Stormtroopers. But a closer look indicates the Stormtroopers are under his command. You ARE the droids he's looking for, no weak-minded fool Jedi mind tricks work this time.
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  4992. I was wondering if you were going to bring up Sirenhead, I noticed it immediately.
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  4993.  @annebradley6086  Piss off with your political propaganda.
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  4994.  @annebradley6086  Internet. Serious business.
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  4995. 8:44 another reason why Prohibition is stupid.
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  4996. Search around youtube for a BBC documentary about Able Archer 83, it's really good, really scary, and has a kickin' soundtrack.
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  4997. Very recently radio transmissions from the DC fire department were intercepted during the White House cocaine incident. Would also make for a decent radio story.
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  4998. I would gig her for not aiming center mass but I think we can let it slide this time.
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  4999. You make it sound like the 747 is a dangerous aircraft. Maybe some context would help.
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  5000. I notice Monaco's troops use the M-16 rifle. I'm guessing that's a bit rare in Europe.
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  5001. So Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was more real than we thought...
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  5002. IIRC, on the Cessna 150 I used to fly, some instruments were vacuum and some were electric. That way if one of those power sources was lost you didn't suddenly lose all your instruments. Been a long time since then, though.
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  5003. I remember the parody version: Eat Me I'm a Danish.
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  5004. Just wait until the start bringing back Martian potatoes someday. They'll call them "Watneys", and they'll be expensive, but don't ask how they were fertilized.
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  5005.  @himanshuanand9048  AT&T has a channel with a bunch of their old films from the 50s and 60s.
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  5006.  @himanshuanand9048  Don't know why this keeps getting deleted: AT&T has a cool channel.
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  5007. The Spanish Inquisition was in New Mexico? Unexpected!
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  5008. 8:40 That's where Ripley tosses the Xenomorph queen out.
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  5009. I remember how, about 10 or 15 years ago, rock music on the radio started to sound dry and repetitive, and every band had an annoying loud mouth singer and the music was all overproduced. It reminded me of how rock music got really stale in the late 80s, when all the hair metal bands were just rehashing each other and trying to see who could have the bigger party image than Motley Crue, before the grunge/alternative scene breathed new life into it. This video goes a long way to explaining how the later phenomena came to pass.
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  5010. They really ad-bombed you on this one, Rick. I guess Eddy Vedder's gonna make some money off your vid.
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  5011.  @RickBeato  I too lazy to use an ad blocker, so I just have to struggle through this. Getting harder these days the way youtube is going.
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  5012.  @ethanbaum6776  Funny thing is I know a woman who is pretty good with the theremin but can't get used to playing a guitar or a piano.
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  5013. And SLS will be ready before JWST.
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  5014. Where do you get new flash bulbs?
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  5015.  @positivelynegative9149  Oh, you mean the place next to Radio Shack, across the street from the Howard Johnsons, by the Bell Telephone booth.
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  5016. The globe is in a crate, stored in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant, courtesy of one Dr. Jones.
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  5017.  @truthsRsung  Attention to detail is important. So is being able to take criticism. Good luck.
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  5018. 8:57 that is an awesome photograph.
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  5019. Time for a new Beato=produced I9 album.
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  5020. This is quality stuff here, good work.
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  5021. I took my check ride in the early 90s using one of those. The cockpit in the Cessna 150s had no computers or GPS or video displays. Things have changed so much I'd have to take a lot of training to catch up on everything, except basic flying skills. Flying the airplane is really the easy part, like riding a bike. Map reading, radio procedures, and keeping up with regulation changes is the hard part.
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  5022. Nice to know you can still go places in the world where Big Brother can't watch your every move.
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  5023. Right, so let's get this straight: small time youtubers who sample a few seconds of a 40 year old pop song for instructional purposes get demonetized or even copyright strikes, but super pop stars blatantly ripping off 40 year old songs almost note for note is just fine with youtube. Why? Because the pop star makes the record company money, and youtube does what the record companies want? That's complete BS. I'm so sick of this. Has anyone here heard of "February Filter Sweep"? Last year a youtuber was reviewing a new synthesizer and showing off the filter sweep function and his video got hit for copyright infringement because that one sound, not a melody or even a note, just a sound, was too close to a sound in some pop song. Earlier this year it happened again. This is insane, when does it stop?
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  5024. And with government oversight, the gauge switch would've taken 36 years instead of 36 hours. Let the capitalists keep their money. They earned it.
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  5025. 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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  5026. What's cool is watching the plume impinge on the opposite fairing.
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  5027. Just here from the live stream...okay, end of vid. My opinion: Vox for the win. Too bad it has to be ear-splitting loud, but you can't beat that sound.
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  5028. I like the look of it, from a distance. Those shots you got up close with the corrugated metal cladding could use an upgrade, in addition to repairing all the windows and certain water damage inside. I bet it smells like mold city in there.
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  5029. I'll say this for Guitar Hero etc., those games introduced a lot of younger people to music of past generations and gave a lot of 70s rock bands an uptick for a while. Maybe even got some kids interested in learning a real instrument once in a while.
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  5030.  @rbrtck  True, but there just aren't enough of them to cover all the geographic regions the Air Force needs to cover. That's why the F-15 isn't going away. High technology is nice, but for things like interceptor duty there's no substitute for raw speed and performance, which the F-22 beats the F-35 in by a wide margin.
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  5031. If your shit is transmitting RF energy, you need to see an asshole doctor post haste.
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  5032. Also similar to a Redstone, which is an evolution of the A4. The engine looks kind of like the A4's as well.
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  5033. Kyle, this is a solid video and I avidly follow this series, but I have a follow-on question for this vid: You mentioned that you previously didn't understand "how contamination escaped a melt-down". Well, I am still not entirely clear about this. Chernobyl is easy to understand, the reactor core blew wide open, caught fire, and was exposed to the sky directly. But if Fukushima's containment was able to keep the fuel particle in, why not the other stuff? Are the containment structures unable to contain fluids? Maybe it's beyond the scope of your channel but I'd like to see an animation of how these substances moved from the reactor core, through the containment structure, and into the outside environment. Sorry if this is a dumb question.
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  5034. I've never seen that photograph at 18:24, that's very dramatic. That photo screams "1950s USAF" in more than one way.
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  5035. Fantastic series, Drach, you leave us wanting for more as always. I never heard about this part of WWII history and it's a shame. Seems like it should be on one of those "mega engineering" shows on TV or something.
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  5036. Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder approves this post.
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  5037. If you had told me that I'd watch an hour and a half worth of video footage on how to use a common kitchen appliance I'd have never believed it.
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  5038. BASS
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  5039. @bildo99ify  Helps who? Get real.
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  5040. It was Jan 10, 1984, reported in the LA Times in 1987. The USAF was getting ready to do some maintenance on a MM III missile when they got weird signals indicating it was going through some parts of the launch sequence. To be safe, they parked an armored car on top of the silo door, so that if the door blew open the truck would fall into the silo on top of the missile and wreck it before it could go anywhere.
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  5041. So how do older automatic elevators work without computer algorithms? That would be a good place to start.
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  5042.  @gregoryford2532  Older elevators do, in fact work. Try again.
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  5043. You know you've fucked up when you managed to piss off that many Canadians.
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  5044.  @kristopherloviska9042  At least it took some skill to paint Dogs Playing Poker. I can't draw that, anyway.
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  5045.  @armanGT800  I don't know what claims you're referring to.
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  5046. The French sailing ship just noped right out.
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  5047. Trailer for the first Joker was also top notch.
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  5048. To be fair about it, there was no point in worrying about long term contamination or health effects, since in those days we all figured we'd be dead from the coming nuclear war within a decade or two lol.
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  5049. Everyone is referencing a condition in KSP known as the Kraken. Orbiter also has (or used to have; it's been a while) a bug where two docked objects, upon contact with the surface of any planet or moon, would immediately by flung off into deep space at very high speed, relativistic IIRC, and also spinning at jet engine speeds. If you taxied a Delta Glider on the runway over to another Delta Glider and tried to dock them nose to nose while sitting on the landing gear, for example, BOOM off you'd go into the void.
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  5050.  @Ob1sdarkside  No it didn't. The Su-57 is called the FELON, and it's post-Cold War. The NATO system is still in effect.
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  5051. Orzel is still out there, hunting for Nazis under the sea, keeping the faith.
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  5052. West Coast hoods all have nice weather year round. To have a proper ghetto you need a few seasons of harsh winter.
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  5053.  @MicovskiMC  Rick says it's a real piano. You say it isn't. Guess which one of you I am going to believe.
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  5054.  @disarmsox  Hey, I'm having an argument on the internet over here!
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  5055. @ I am getting old, but I didn't really get into Hawkwind until a few years ago.
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  5056. If that's true it's a great story. "American bomber crew angers the gods!"
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  5057. We've all heard of pirate broadcasters, but pirate listeners?
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  5058. Question: does the spacecraft have a name? Is this the first American manned spacecraft without a name?
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  5059. I'm looking forward to a Manley / Degrasse Tyson Smackdown event livestreamed in the near future. Let's get ready to rumble!!!!
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  5060. My dad used to think that using the machine instead of hand washing was a sign of laziness. He was right, and I still use my machine.
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  5061. Brings up another historical "what if" question: What if Japan had stuck mainly to mainland expansion and decided against attacking US or British territories? No war with America or British Empire, at least not until later, at least? Post-war survival of the Japanese militaristic government? A totally different map of China? Japan needed raw materials, which was why it invaded some of the places it did, but maybe they could've gotten by some other way?
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  5062. 3:30 diagram describes ded reckoning for aircraft, which is pretty much exactly the same as it is for ships, except of course you are worried about winds aloft instead of water currents.
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  5063.  @quillaja  Maybe they could bring an English textbook so they understand how to use "extra" as a prefix instead of a stand-alone word?
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  5064. "Pretty much anti-anything you point it at..."
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  5065. @ Beech I says
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  5066. Trivia: David Simon's nephew is Jason Simon, singer/guitarist for the band Dead Meadow, which started in the DC/NOVA area.
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  5067. Nice Star Trek shirt.
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  5068. First song I remember learning was Distant Early Warning by Rush. On the bass. Because I decide from the start I wanted to play the bass. I was obsessed with bands with strong bassists like Rush and Yes, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, and I worshipped guys like John Entwistle. Every kid I knew wanted to play guitar or maybe drums; I wanted to play bass. Worked out, too, in the 80s if you were a teenager who was competent on bass your phone rang off the hook with kids asking you to join their bands.
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  5069.  @L3gionMusic  Quit the European Union and join the United States instead. Nevermind. It was a joke.
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  5070.  Carah-sq6lh  It's not the ending, just the end of the first act. The film is still worth watching. It's not cheery though.
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  5071.  @websitemartian  Only those who lack maturity.
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  5072. The modern laws of warfare are an outgrowth of the concept of chivalry. Concepts like treatment of POWs, accepting surrendering enemies, and so on, as well as refraining from using certain weapons deemed to be too uncivilized. There is a practicality to it, in that you don't want your own troops to be abused if they get captured, and maybe more importantly, you don't want to cede the moral high ground representing your own society by stooping to the level of barbarity. As with the old codes of chivalry, modern laws of warfare can be conflicting or irrational, get broken pretty much all the time, and get enforced more often against the losers, but we need them as a ideal to strive for.
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  5073. Units unclear. Is this a metric mouse or an English one?
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  5074.  @jmr  What scenario are you not afraid of? We've already seen how cameras installed in TVs were used to spy on consumers, as well as Roomba-type robots mapping homes and sending that data to the manufacturer, and who knows who gets it after that. Then there's the computer you're reading this on, which may have a camera that can be hacked, a hard drive which can be infected, and can be used to target you by thieves or nefarious government agencies. Smart devices create huge security gaps as well. Adding radar without fixing the security problem first only makes it worse.
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  5075.  @rukeyazu8669  No need to subscribe since all his videos show up in everyone's recco's all the time lol
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  5076. Glad to hear these filthy creeps got the chair.
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  5077. Now a photo of cats in space, on the other hand, that's just pure gold.
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  5078. Col Edmund Drake's Well in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania was the first commercial oil well in the 1850s. There's a cool museum there, now, up in the hills a couple of hours from Pittsburgh.
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  5079. Cool video and knowledge. That shot at the end, though, even with all the precautions and maintenance guys there to guide me, I don't think I'd trust a 60-ish year old antenna structure to hold my weight like that. Looked cool, though.
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  5080.  @DT-sb9sv  There is no Tower Bridge in the childrens' song.
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  5081.  @DT-sb9sv  Tower Bridge is not in the children's song. What part of that do you not understand.
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  5082. 29:14 VMAQ-2 the Playboys. They flew EA-6B Prowlers in the 80s and 90s, but had to change their logo and nickname due to modern PC thinking. I recognize so many of the Marine squadrons in these videos. 542, the Tigers, became VMA-542 and flew the AV-8B Harrier and are now called VMFA-542 and fly the F-35.
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  5083. Man. The 70s! Cartoons on UHF channels and cheap baseball tickets in the nosebleed seats of crappy stadiums.
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  5084. This is awesome, Rick, more New Wave / Post-Punk tunes, please! At least let's talk about on a live stream sometime. Some obscure great stuff from the 80s buried behind all these hit songs, too. Modern English's entire After the Snow Album, for example, or The Chameleons album Script of the Bridge. The 80s was so experimental and creative. Nobody knew what the future was going to be coming out of the 70s and all kinds of things were being thrown out there.
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  5085. Rick, great job with the on-screen notation and color display, I don't know how you did that but it's a great visual aid. Also, that title, even though you mentioned this was coming on your live stream it still scared me a bit!
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  5086.  @DUKE_of_RAMBLE Also NASA is absolutely a US government agency.
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  5087. He was probably more afraid of his ejection seat than he was of a dud missile warhead hanging out of his ass.
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  5088.  @johndododoe1411  Getting those engines detached is one thing. But then you need parachutes, impact protection, flotation, and someway to protect the delicate RS-25 components from corrosive seawater. All of that costs money and a mass penalty. Also, more development time. If it were as simple as it sounds, they'd have been doing this with lots of rocket engines over the last 6 decades, starting with the F1 engines on the Saturn V.
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  5089. I always knew there was a synth pad there but never noticed it made those sci fi noises! I love the vast amounts of space the notes have to breath in this song, and the fact that it's not squashed to death with compression. Those ambient room noises actually make it better, more natural sounding. The Police were a great band who existed when analog recording was at its best.
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  5090. Gotta correct you on one thing: torque on the spacecraft is due to solar light pressure, not solar wind. Solar wind effect is much smaller.
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  5091. Why did the partisans shoot his mistress?
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  5092.  @organismseven3700  Sounds about right.
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  5093. I'm for bringing back rods as a common unit of length.
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  5094. 6:25 Scott "um akshully's" the world.
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  5095. The meanest looking aircraft ever built, looks like its pissed off and spoiling for a fight just sitting still on the ground. I went to an air show at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey in the 80s with my brother. We got there late and had to park far away along the road, and walk up past the end of the runway, before making a right to get to the viewing stand. Turned out we were lucky. Air National Guard Phantoms were making mock bombing runs over the field for the show, and they were flying directly over our heads at treetop level, screaming like monsters, close enough to see the color of the crews' helmets. There is nothing like that sound, they are so huge and loud they shook the air around us, and as they passed they lit up their burners and there was a deep thump sound as they tore off into the sky. Like a flying freight locomotive hauling a train load of whoopass.
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  5096. I've been waiting for ages for that Sabre engine to get rolling, what's the holdup? If you Brits build a no-shit reusable airbreathing launch vehicle engine that actually works, I guarantee there are American space industry types who'd buy it, not to mention the USAF. Probably even license-build them in the US.
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  5097. @Technology Connections Did you see the Apollo 11 film that was released to theaters earlier this year? They had film clips from 1969 that looked like they were shot yesterday. Amazing color and clarity, it was like watching an episode of Mad Men where they are shooting a period piece.
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  5098. Sound reminiscent of "air rushing through a big tube". Well, that's basically what a jet engine is so...
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  5099. Side B of Rush's Moving Pictures with songs like The Camera Eye and Vital Signs. The deep cuts from Signals like Chemistry and Countdown. Albums are essential for any real artist.
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  5100. When the guy pointing his Geiger counter at you yells, "Bruh!", you're having a bad day. Two things are likely: 1. You're a dead man already. 2. You're going to be the subject of an upcoming Plainly Difficult video. (Which is bad. For you, I mean, not his viewers.)
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  5101. 1 million subs, congrats! Imagine, 1 million people who will never get informed about all those blocker bands Rick would love to tell us about. Don Henley thinks he is protecting his income by keeping his music in the dark, SMH.
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  5102. The chances that the original artists are watching your channel are much higher than you think, Rick. Over the years you've gotten feedback from quite a few of them and your channel is well-known amongst musicians. Now, when do we get a Matthew Fisher interview? ;-)
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  5103. I don't know which one I "like" better; that would depend on what you're trying to record, but the difference in sound is certainly dramatic. There is a lot of truth to the notion that the speaker cab is at least as important or even more important than the rest of your gear.
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  5104. "Minimum wage laws are a form of price control." - Larry Elder
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  5105. I open my cans the way I open my mind: with a power drill!
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  5106. Great video, did not know if I'd sit through 37 minutes but those minutes flew right by. It seems odd to me that the US doesn't use flying boats or seaplanes of any sort these days. I would think that perhaps the Coast Guard would find them useful, and they could be pressed into service overseas if needed. Japan still uses big 4-engined turboprop seaplanes for SAR and so forth.
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  5107. Sad that we think of Gary Numan as a 1-hit wonder, at least in the US. He has a lot of great songs and that Replicas album, under his band's name Tubeway Army, is one of the most cyberpunk themed album ever, all in new wave style. His newer stuff is pretty good, too, check My Name is Ruin on his channel. I saw him live a few months ago.
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  5108.  @scottmanley Nice!
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  5109. It was a single DJ at WMMS in Cleveland, OH, who broke Rush by playing Working Man on the radio repeatedly in 1974. Donna Halper, arguably the first and most important Rush fan is a girl, believe it or not, and today she'd not be allowed to do that. Radio used to be awesome, and now it sucks big time, and we need to make it awesome again.
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  5110. 5:04 is that a Tu-4 with jets on it?!
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  5111. Someone with the right equipment and know-how might be able to get some info from that dial-up modem sound.
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  5112. 3:45 Inappropriate and gross. But kind of funny at least.
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  5113. This story is like one of those 1970s airline disaster films like Airport 1977.
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  5114. "Fat Earth Theory" aka the J2 effect
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  5115. Nobody "misses" an avoided war. While I love the history of these ships and proudly served aboard one once, the thought of being aboard one while it's taking hits from enemy fire is not a pleasant one.
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  5116. DQ, never heard that before except when in the mood for some frozen desert product.
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  5117. The fact that he murdered JF Sebastian alone makes him evil. Some of the other people he killed may have had it coming, but JF was never anything but a nice guy who suffered from a similar condition as the replicants, a disease that was shortening his life span, and which probably also disqualified him as a candidate for travel to an off-world colony as well. Pris played him for a fool and he took her in off the street to give her food and shelter, and later Roy as well, and in return Roy and Pris terrorized him, forced him to gain entry to Tyrell's quarters, and then murdered him really for no reason at all. Yes, in the last minutes of his life, Roy "saw the light" so to speak and decided to stop being a murdering bastard, but a murdering bastard is exactly what he was up to that point. Guys like Roy were the reason replicants were outlawed in Los Angeles and why Blade Runners had jobs.
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  5118. Where does the 720 fit into this? They are all part of the "707 family", but not sure which came in which order.
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  5119.  @9HighFlyer9  Cool, thanks.
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  5120. On top of that, you have the E3 AWACs member of the family, as well as the EC-135 Rivet Joint and whatever J-STARS was called... The 707 family sure was adaptable.
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  5121. Any paragraph in this video should end with, "She is...the most interesting woman in the world. Stay thirsty my friends."
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  5122. Volcanoes, because Venus wasn't enough of a hellscape already.
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  5123. I remember the 1970s when most houses didn't have central AC and neither did the schools, so I can say that the answer to your question is, "Yes. We were just miserable all the time." Which is why we all use AC today.
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  5124. I call dibs on "Supersonic Bears" as my next rock band name.
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  5125. I have never cared or thought about syncing up my turn signals with other cars. Thanks for providing me with something new to obsess over.
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  5126. You know why first-class seats are expensive? Because they are worth it.
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  5127. Did the horn play Dixie like the Dukes of Hazzard?
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  5128.  @glhx2112  A shame, too, the Demon and Skyray were such cool-looking jets.
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  5129. 3 hours to get from the hatch to the Soyuz docking port, wow. You'd think they'd have a quicker way of doing that. After 3 hours of just trying to get there you must be exhausted and so done with that suit.
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  5130. Nice to see some optimism for a change. I love dystopian sci fi as much as the next guy, but when I was growing up sci fi was a mix of light and dark. Lately it's just all dark. I have a theory that pessimism and self-loathing is bad for society, for nations, and for humanity in general, and risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy at some point. Deep down inside, I still believe a Star Trek-ish future is possible, even if we have to go through a period of Blade Runner-ism before we get there. BTW, Arthur C. Clark, in his novel 3001, Final Odyssey, predicted a possible future such as the one described here, where fusion power results in nearly limitless energy availability, but causes a new problem: runaway heat pollution from all the waste heat generated by less-than-perfectly-efficient devices using that energy. Somehow humans found a solution to that, too.
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  5131. Olympia could use some help too.
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  5132.  @nah-y4e  Watch out, looks like we got a badass over here!
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  5133. "Hydrogen implants" Oh, the huge mammary!
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  5134.  @mikekokomomike  Possibly. I'll pay attention next time I listen.
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  5135. This is actually my second time getting rickrolled today. When I was at work my friend edited a hotlink to redirect us all to the video. This time I saw it coming but I went along anyway for the lulz.
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  5136. I hate how you ended such a great video with a downer note about garments being trashed, as though every video has to be some sort of moral crisis instead of just letting us marvel at the invention of the sewing machine.
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  5137. Please never use the phrase "cast some shade" or "throw some shade" ever again. Also, no "clapping back" or "breaking the internet" please. Bonus points for the Back to the Future reference though.
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  5138. It's a Star Trek phaser pistol, and next to it is a C-3PO figure.
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  5139. Is your Whitey Bulger episode going to be about Johnny Depp's portrayal?
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  5140. THG you should do an episode on the Pennsylvania Dutch and the dialect of German spoken there.
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  5141. In the end, computers are dumb and there's nothing like having Neil Armstrong at the controls to save the day when landing on an alien world.
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  5142. Energy company.
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  5143. Busses are still filthy and full of creeps, don't know what government control has to do with it.
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  5144. The German rocket scientist physically holding back the range safety officer from wrecking his wayward rocket. Sounds like a scene from Dr. Strangelove.
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  5145. So does anyone know who the German airman was whose parachute got caught on Artie's wing and whether he lived or not?
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  5146. The Ruger 10/22 is similar in form and super popular.
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  5147. Neat idea, but I assume you're trusting the CCP with your data and ability to communicate? Nothing like plain old fashioned radio for when things get pear shaped.
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  5148. It's still a communist dictatorship. I'm sure the people are nice, just not the ones in charge.
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  5149. Not quite yet.
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  5150. It's called the G.I.F.T. Greater Internet F-wad Theory. Basically, internet access + anonymity = people act like total F-wads for no good reason.
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  5151.  @michaelfuller2153  Would have to call it The Hangar.
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  5152. April 1st, some time in the 23rd Century.
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  5153. Growing up I was told to be happy I don't live in a country where the police drag you away for saying the wrong thing. We're never far away from that, though, are we. The US was there and escaped, the UK is in the thick of it.
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  5154.  @ineednochannelyoutube5384  I think so, but they will be built in the US under license with lots of mods.
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  5155. Second albums better than the first, a few of the top of my head: Rush - Fly By Night Slint - Spiderland The Sound - In the Lion's Mouth
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  5156. I like the picture of the guy with the pit-bull.
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  5157. Thing is, if Rick warmed up and woodshedded sufficiently, I bet he could play that lick after all.
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  5158.  @RickBeato  That's the spirit!
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  5159. Thanks for another great breakdown.
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  5160. Keyboard Bsss!
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  5161. I prefer Ben Franklin's "moderation in all things" to wack job religious extremists with huge egos who like to set things on fire.
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  5162.  @cheryldylan9506  Do you know me from somewhere?
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  5163. This is a great breakdown. Remember, though, change a few variables and the results come out way different. A lucky hit from Yamato can ruin your whole day.
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  5164.  @Philistine47  true dat
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  5165. Do tell, Rick!
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  5166. I think the problem with people not turning on their lights is ironically because of all these efforts to make cars "safer". Automatic lights make us complacent and we expect all cars to have them. Then there's the fact that a new car instrument panel looks like a giant smartphone display instead of, you know, an instrument panel. If you get into one of these cars at night in a well-lit parking lot and drive out onto a well-lit street it's very easy to notice that your lights aren't on. And when the other cars flash your lights at you now you have to scramble to find the damn switch that turns them on. Is there even a switch? Or is it on this stupid ass touch pad thing that's blinding me on the dashboard? If you rent a newer car this can easily happen. That's not to say there aren't idiots out there who just don't pay attention to what they're doing or weren't trained properly. Younger drivers answer me this question: did your mom or dad teach you that the left lane is for PASSING, not cruising? And did they teach you that when someone flashes their lights at you, that it means maybe your headlights are off? Because where I live I swear it's like people just get their license from a box of Cracker Jacks or something. Now get off my lawn. You know where the lawn edge is, there are retroreflectors along the edge.
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  5167. What kind of shape? A teardrop of molten metal sounds about right. At 66 km/s you'd be out of the atmosphere in less than two seconds anyway.
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  5168. Are we not going to talk about Spock's use of a high delta-V jetpack to visit the heart of V'ger?
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  5169. 1:35 not knowing if the cyclist gets hit or not is keeping me awake...
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  5170.  @oscarleijontoft  "A man with three buttocks."
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  5171. Somewhere I heard that (in the US at least) if you have an old cell phone with no service it will still reach the police if you dial 911 on it, and that if you have an old one laying around keep it charged up and in your glove box just in case. I don't know if this is true anymore, of even if it ever was. But if so it's a good excuse to keep that old 2004-era Nokia brick phone around for a bit of practical nostalgia I guess.
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  5172. When I was little, I saw that 60 Minutes episode and it scared me and made me try to avoid walking near Pintos on the street.
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  5173. The Japanese launch facility is the most James Bond thing ever.
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  5174. J.S. Bach may be my pick for greatest musician/writer of all time. Hard to find a better one.
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  5175. I guess I live under a rock...
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  5176. 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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  5177.  @brucelytle1144  Exactly!
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  5178.  @donaldjones3580  Yeah, obviously some sort of procedure was not properly followed. I think I saw this in a safety film or something long ago. Wish I could confirm the incident.
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  5179.  @spottydog4477  Ignore them, Comrades. China is the source of all light and good.
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  5180. Songs like You Know You're Right just plain sound good to your ear, you don't know why you like them, you just do. 20+ years later along comes Rick to explain why, and now I know. RIP Kurt, if only you had found another way to deal with the pain. He'd be about 50-ish today, and the world would be a little better place for it.
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  5181. Something about those ships, they look so cool with all those antennae on them.
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  5182. Leviathan cannot stand being mocked.
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  5183. What soulless clown would label it an eyesore?
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  5184. If we're to press forward with our plans for the future, all media must be centralized and homogenized. It's the only way to control misinformation/disinformation and get the message we want heard out there. Once we get people's mind right and everyone on the same sheet of music, we'll be ready for the next step.
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  5185.  @remcolangbroek656  Northrop and the Horton Brothers developed it, not invented. Since we're being pedantic ;-)
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  5186. When I was little I had a big die-cast metal toy P-47, probably about a 10 inch wingspan or so. I think it had retractable landing gear. That thing was awesome, and pretty heavy. Always liked this airplane.
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  5187. Thos Bu Ord bozos should've been lined up and shot. Or better yet, sent out as human shields for beech landings by Marines in the Pacific. "You run up there and find where the Japanese minefield is. If you're lucky, their mines suck as much as your torpedoes, you piece of crap!"
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  5188.  @luketfer  I once ran a BattleTech tabletop campaign that involved BattleMechs duking it out with Tripods, on both Earth and Mars.
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  5189.  @WyvernApalis  Same ship according to the anime lore.
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  5190. 00:25 also looks like Dr. Snuggles' rocketship.
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  5191. You keep calling it a "spacecraft". It clearly is an aircraft.
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  5192. I don't think the question is, "Will you still be listening to today's metal when you are 80?", to me it's more like, "Will you be listening to whatever metal has turned into when you are 80?" I think for most people that answer is probably "no". Sure I love Tool and Opeth and so on, but many of these bands are already more than 20 years old, and we grew up with them. Whether I listen to tomorrow's metal depends on a few things, like how overproduced and formulaic will it be, how original does it sound?
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  5193. The F-12, IIRC, wasn't competing with the B-70 Valkyrie, but rather the F-108 Rapier interceptor, which was being developed alongside the B-70 and used some common technology. The F-108 was going to be a Mach 3+ interceptor in a similar role as the F-12 but was also canceled. The MiG-25 is probably the most similar design to actually enter service, and it was quite limited to a small mission set. The Avro Arrow is another similar high speed interceptor that got canceled.
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  5194. Hey Rick, did they use a compressor on the bass and guitar for more sustain during those slow chords?
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  5195. Where we're going, we won't need eyes...
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  5196. Or the A-10, which also had the "use a big gun on ground targets" philosophy.
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  5197. I'm not entirely sure I understood that whole sentence, but I like the ring of it.
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  5198. Modern cars and trucks are absolutely built better mechanically. The hard part about keeping them running forever will be electronic parts. You will always be able to buy, or have custom-made, mechanical parts for a 100-year-old car, but manufacturers don't make electronic parts for more than a decade or two, and you need those parts if you're trying to keep it street legal or even original configuration. You can always Mad Max a modern vehicle to keep it running if you know what you're doing but it won't pass inspection anymore.
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  5199. Mark, make sure you don't get hit by a bus between now and the release, the conspiracy theories would be overwhelming.
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  5200. lol
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  5201. Batman would call in a favor from Julie Newmar Catwoman, who would distract Superman with her hotness.
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  5202. People forget that all through the 70s we had terrorist bombings all over the place, including inside the US capitol building, from left-wing terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army. Dustin Hoffman's house was blown up by his next door neighbors who were building pipe bombs in their basement and accidentally killed themselves. Terrorism was not new to the US, but in the 1980s we all just decided to pretend it never really happened.
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  5203. Information hazard = every HP Lovecraft story ever
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  5204. There is a B-58 in the USAF museum in Dayton. Amazing to just stand in front of it and look at that awesome thing of beauty. It hails from the era with the coolest-looking cars where high tech meant high speed and high power and this aircraft screams all of that just sitting still.
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  5205. It was the War of Almost Losing Independence. Also the War of Getting Ass Kicked by Foolishly Invading Canada, War of Getting Washington DC Burned Down, and finally War of Winning a Major Battle After the Treaty Was Signed. And I guess it was also the War of US Navy Building its Lore.
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  5206. @Lurking Carrier Yes, and acoustic homing technology did exist by the end of the war, so it wasn't too far off.
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  5207. This is cool but I'm not sure about your software. At 100km above Jupiter the horizon is clearly curved as I'm looking at it. I know some virtual cameras have barrel distortion and other things that make the scenery look less than realistic.
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  5208.  @bobroberts2371  With a young hottie named Helen Mirren playing the Soviet spaceship skipper. Great movie.
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  5209.  @RodneyGraves  Isaac Arthur, of course.
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  5210. 22:00 I thought somebody was blowing their car horn in front of my house lol
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  5211. This is genius, Rick. Eric's was my favorite. I'd so love to see a guitar duet with him and Page. Phil did a decent job of copping Eddie's sound and chops, but I have to wonder what Eddie himself would've come up with music wise. Same goes for you and Peter. Me, I'd love to see what Alex Lifeson would sound like on it.
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  5212. I can't hear Suite Judy Blue Eyes without hearing the bass part in my head.
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  5213.  @dwightstjohn6927  I wouldn't know, I was never in the Army. Just study a bit of history here and there. The lineage of regiments and other units is interesting to me.
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  5214. Next month, we demonstrate 18th Century medical procedures.
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  5215. I love watching Dark5 after watching the latest episode of X-Files.
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  5216.  @dennisharrington6055  It would be a fun video game scenario at least.
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  5217. Or Deniro in Heat.
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  5218. This was always one of my favorite Police songs, and this is a great video. This breakdown of structures is why I sub'd to this channel in the first place. Also, what more proof do we need of Andy Summers' talent than the fact that Alex Lifeson studied him intensely during the late 70s early 80s, and you can hear that influence all over Rush's albums of that period.
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  5219. Re. the quote attributed to Henry Ford concerning black cars: I visited an antique car museum and the docent told me that's a myth, then showed me about 5 Model T cars in their collection, only one of which was actually black. So not sure about that one.
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  5220. Nowadays Americans and Canadians settles disputes via hockey and baseball games, thankfully.
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  5221. Or sports.
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  5222. Was that so your VHS recorder could pause during the ad?
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  5223.  @tonychan8558  Makes sense.
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  5224. It's really to get just one important man to trouble spots as fast as possible. Hence they'll name it the Chuck Norris Space Transportation System.
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  5225. 10:24 That footage of the helo pilot tracking a passing Phantom is interesting.
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  5226. 10:18 "US Air Force" I'm pretty sure those were Navy pilots, wearing Navy uniforms in those photos and flying RF-8 Crusaders, which the Navy had but the USAF, to my knowledge, did not.
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  5227. 6:48 She has two guns, one for each of ya!
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  5228. With those side by side funnels she looks like a Mississippi River steamboat from hell. I like it.
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  5229. 8:50 I remember as a little kid seeing commercials for toy credit card machines like that.
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  5230. Or they just wanted it to look cool.
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  5231. Aren't all post-Dreadnaught battleships considered "dreadnaughts", including the Iowas?
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  5232. The thing about this is that most people would not think of molasses as dangerous. If it were a giant tank of gasoline or something, you'd be a bit more apprehensive about it, but this is just an edible liquid, no big deal, right? Goes to show you you can't take anything for granted. For my part, any large tank full of any liquid creeps me out a little bit to be standing near, know the force that's being held back so close in front of me.
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  5233. You could build them safer today but as Owen notes, it's more economical to move large loads of freight or passengers with a 747 than an airship. Airships would make money only as a luxury cruise ship for wealthy customers, or for very specialized applications where a helicopter or fixed wing craft just can't get the job done. They could never be as common as jetliners. Too bad, because looking at photos and footage of airships flying over NY harbor as the tug boats blow their horns it seems a grand way to travel.
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  5234. Jesse, there are several projects today attempting to use airships for things like heavy lifting, surveillance, and skyborne radio relay or cell towers. Most of these vehicles are unmanned, removing the safety concerns and making them much more long duration. I don't think any of them are true rigid manned airships like a Zeppelin, though. Interestingly, though, the Zeppelin company which built the Hindenburg is still around and they partnered with Goodyear to build the new Goodyear "blimps" which are actually not blimps, but semi-rigid airships.
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  5235. You should reply and send her a link to this video.
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  5236. Hard pick just ten, the Beatles were lightning in a bottle when it comes to music, how can all those good riffs and songs and talent come from four random guys in under ten years?
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  5237. Can't stop the signal, Mal!
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  5238. Dirty Harry has entered the chat
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  5239. I'm also a fan of mechanical bells, and mechanical devices in general, a bit of a minor steampunk vibe makes things a bit more comfortable to live around. I hope you do more videos on subjects like this. I love the old radio/TV/music player tech, but I also love stuff like this. Used to be a TV show called Secret Life of Machines I watched religiously; check out the episodes here on youtube, they are still awesome though they are a good 25 years old now.
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  5240. Question: Around 12:10 you mention a "2nd Raider Battalion". To my knowledge that was a USMC unit and was not present at Normandy. Can you clarify that?
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  5241.  @smparreira  Lexington. My mistake.
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  5242. Today the all purpose pill is called "Motrin", dispensed by quack military docs in all the services.
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  5243. Had they landed in the US, they'd have been treated well. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/uss-kearsage-rescues-soviet-soldiers-1960.html
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  5244. The Pretenders' awesome debut album misses this list by one year (1979).
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  5245. Another great story, Rick. With your talent and experience it's about time you finally get some recognition. One thing about music is we know all about the celebrities who get famous, but for every one of the "stars" there are lots of people like you who make things happen without getting "big".
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  5246. What's the over/under on how many cats each of them has?
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  5247. Is No Quarter in drop D? Personally, I would've filled this list with mostly Tool songs myself. Of course, Everlong, and a few Van Halen songs I guess. And you mentioned the CSN and Neil Young stuff. So many good D tunes it's hard to keep it to just 10.
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  5248. Backup cameras and driving lights is all insurance company safety nazi bullshit. If you can't back a car up without a camera you have no business being behind the wheel.
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  5249. Eph-Phours Phorever!
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  5250. Oh cool, I thought it was just me.
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  5251. Can you do a video on the wargames the US Navy used to build carrier tactics in the 1930s?
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  5252. Scott, some people run away from danger, you ran towards it. You're a good guy.
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  5253. Yeah, some clever architect set out to make a name with that job.
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  5254. I thought it was because math and science are racist now.
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  5255. I was gonna say the elevators on aircraft carriers are a lot bigger and stronger but I guess their primary function is lifting heavy airplanes as well as Marines so...
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  5256. I saw an interview with a lady whose car was crushed on the Bay Bridge under that concrete. I think they had to cut her legs off to get her out. She said she saw the car in front of her get crushed and then her windshield exploded in her face.
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  5257. Given how everyone surnamed "Hitler" scrambled to legally change their names after the war, one hope we don't someday have a dictator whose name is "Smith" or something else very common.
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  5258. I love Starfleet Battles! Used to play it all the time growing up. Still have my box set from the 80s. Not mentioned in this video is that according to the notes in the manual, the missile weapons which all the aft-facing phasers are to defend against are mainly from the Kzin navy. The game designers couldn't understand why Klingon warships would have so many aft-facing weapons as shown in the Star Trek blueprints (stuff that was cool to have in the 70s and 80s for nerds like us), so they figured they might be defenses against some kind of missile weapons. But who is firing these missiles? Well, Larry Niven had written an episode for Star Trek The Animated Series which included his own popular Kzin feline humanoid aliens, and since animated Star Trek is considered by many fans to be Trek canon, the game designers decided that there is an entire Kzinti empire out there with a large space navy, their ships armed with guided "drone missiles" analogous to today's guided air-to-air missiles or anti-ship missiles. The Kzin even have space carriers with fighter craft equipped with more drone missiles. And of course, the Kzin and Klingons absolutely hate each other's guts. Aft-bearing weapons problem sorted!
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  5259. When I got my private certificate in the 90s it was in one of those "rickety" old Cessna 150s (which was not at all rickety, but a well-maintained trusty airplane), and it didn't have any of that electronic whatnot you've got there. It was all old school dial gauges, and traffic separation was done by eyeball. It's been a while since I've flown but I would find that thing distracting and, as you've found, misleading. VFR has the word "visual" in it for a reason, after all.
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  5260. The Universe is so metal. \m/
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  5261. Cool aircraft, but no ejection seat in an early Cold War jet is pretty scary.
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  5262.  @c3bhm  After that he becomes the next Shepard Book, since Book is heavily implied to have once been an operative himself before quitting and turning to faith. The comics later dive into this more, but the comics aren't needed to figure it out, the show drops enough hints.
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  5263. I immediately thought of Dust in the Wind.
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  5264. I remember when Episode 1 was coming out and I was so pumped. A new Star Wars movie! Awesome! And then...it sucked. And the next one sucked. And so on. With the lone exception of Rogue One, every Star Wars film or project since 1983 just sucks harder than the last one. I saw the first Star Wars film in the theater as a little kid, and after The Last Jedi I walked away, totally done with all this. Now I want Disney to keep making these things and wasting their money, because I get joy from watching Drinker and Nerdrotic's reviews of films I will never spend my money or time on.
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  5265. It's a "rod"! Back a decade or two ago there was a paranormal phenomenon known as "rods" where people were catching things like that on video cameras and all sorts of crazy claims were made about what these things were, including, of course, aliens.
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  5266. I always imagine the crews in the two cockpits fighting each other over who gets to fly.
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  5267. 3:20 What's that thing near the stern of the ship that looks like a giant ship's wheel? Is that a radio antenna?
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  5268. @ That would be purrfect
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  5269. And now Arecibo's big antenna has been destroyed by neglect :-(
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  5270. If you're looking for more almost forgotten industrial disasters to cover, there was a tanker collision on the Delaware River near Philadelphia in 1975 that resulted in two ships exploding and burning and some guys killed. Blew out the windows in Marcus Hook, PA. The river was on fire for a day or so with all the burning oil and fuel. Because it was before the internet, it's hard to find info on, but there was a good US Coast Guard report on it which I ran across somewhere. The tanker was called the Corinthos, and the other ship was called the Queeny I think.
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  5271. It's like we're living through the 80s again, but this time with lousy music.
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  5272. Trees is another one, 5/4. La Villa Strangiato. Natural Science. The list just goes on with that band. All good.
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  5273. Did he say "electric shower"? What the heck is THAT?
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  5274. Port and starboard navigation lights; don't recall seeing those on space vehicles before. Do the shuttle orbiter have any lights at all even?
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  5275. That shot at 11:08 is beautiful, the blues and purples.
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  5276. The coronavirus exists in this universe, therefore the universe was created for the coronavirus.
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  5277.  @jwr2904  You can vote, though.
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  5278. I remember in the late 80s a lot of US aircraft were painted in green camo since war in Europe was what was being prepared for, but when all of the sudden deployments to Desert Shield began, many aircraft were repainted to gray schemes overnight. Since most combat deployments since the early 90s have been to desert environments, gray has kind of stuck around. The intervention in former Yugoslavia in the late 90s was an exception, seeing aircraft used in the European theater after all.
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  5279. I smell something...smells like an opinion.
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  5280.  @a2phil  I listen to conservative talk radio all the time. It's the best thing about radio now that the music stations all suck.
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  5281. The affair was settled briefly in 2018 when the Eagles vanquished the Patriots in the Superbowl.
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  5282. I think Freeman Dyson was involved in the TRIGA design when he was working for General Atomics during the Project Orion days.
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  5283.  @martinilopez1  Wow, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning, chief?
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  5284. You think the History Guy is funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown, like he's here to amuse you?
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  5285. @Broken Broke Bloke This is among the most retarded posts ever written. Unless you are trying to be sarcastic, in which case you also fail.
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  5286.  @nagualdesign  Hopefully Artemis will get the new RS-25E/F.
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  5287.  @GOOD_FARMER  Nonreusable engines can be cheaper than reusable ones, plus they can run them flat out almost to the point of trashing them because they are only going to burn for 8-10 minutes total.
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  5288.  @atomicshadowman9143  Why?
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  5289. Not quite. SLS is hugely expensive, but it has one flawless launch under its belt. Starship is getting there, but not quite yet.
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  5290.  @pikaachoo3888  It's still incorrect to say Starship has rendered SLS obsolete. Starship hasn't been proven yet. It may happen soon, but not yet.
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  5291.  @daviddesrosiers1946  We're not talking about Starliner here, or even Boeing. We're talking about SLS, which is 1 for 1, and we're talking about Starship, which is getting close but not quite there yet.
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  5292.  @pikaachoo3888  SLS is not obsolete, it's overbudget. Overbudget is why it's being considered for cancellation. Not the same thing.
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  5293.  @pikaachoo3888  Artemis is designed to use the SLS.
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  5294. Spicy chords are like spicy food. They burn at first, but then you get used to them, and over time you like them.
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  5295. Welp that answers the question I asked in the earlier video about these graphics! Now that's what I call service. BTW my first computer was also a Timex/Sinclair 1000, which I still have and last I checked still works.
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  5296. When I get control of AI, y'all better watch out!
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  5297. 17:29 Blue Origin and that feather-in-a-circle symbol. Are they Led Zeppelin / Robert Plant fans?
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  5298. There was a TV show about this, I think it was on Discovery Channel or something. I remember watching it.
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  5299. The constant sounds of guys screaming makes it more horrifying, though I'm pretty sure it was added later.
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  5300. Shipping data around by jet net. Like Battlestar Galactica's network on a huge scale.
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  5301.  @PolPotsPieHole  Absolutely. And when they did each maneuver and showed the velocity kick up on screen, epic.
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  5302. Over on the Orbiter forum there was a megathread for Reaction Engines/Skylon which started many years ago. After a period of giddiness updates slowed down and eventually it kind of faded. I always thought this thing was a long shot. Air-breathing rockets were studied at least as far back as the 1960s. There was a now mostly-forgotten company called Marquardt Corporation that was into all kinds of crazy high-speed propulsion ideas, they did some development work on liquid air cycle engines, a design which actually compresses air into liquid form to feed a rocket engine. As for the SABRE engine, I was hoping you could explain why in the illustrations of the Skylon it always has that weird curve to it, like the front is pointing at the ground when sitting on the landing gear. Kind of like a macaroni-shaped jet engine.
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  5303. I was picturing that taxi cab ghost story as an anime in my head.
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  5304. The government report film shown in this video is worth watching; the scientists who investigated the incident really knew their stuff. Also, one of the firefighters who responded that night gave a powerpoint presentation a few years ago and there is video of it. He showed a photo of the ambulance used to carry off the first two victims found, said it had to be decontaminated but stayed in service into the 1970s. Great presentation from an eyewitness. And of course, if you don't know about his channel, look up Plainly Difficult's videos on disasters, including this one. And look it up on wikipedia if you enjoy disaster reading.
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  5305. That is a great museum display, basically a shrine to Olds, what a legend. And that beautiful Phantom.
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  5306. I still have a few tools used by my grandfather in the shipyards of NYC during WWII. I have my dad's electric drill from the 1960s, still works like new. The motor brushes make sparks, so it's not as safe to use as newer ones, but it's made of steel and super reliable.
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  5307.  @-oneretrospective1960  Whatever, wack job. Don't you have a church to burn somewhere?
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  5308. This episode seems to typify Japanese decision making through the war: despite winning the engagement, they act with brutality towards the enemy survivors, and then foolishly withdraw without finishing the job. The IJN was a very powerful force but it was plagued by flawed, strangely timid tactical thinking, and hobbled by the brutality of the militarist regime that it served. Japan is a great country and deserved better than to do that to itself. Here's hoping they can be a force for freedom and enlightened civilization in the years to come.
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  5309. I didn't need someone to tell me how to do it on our office door; I just figured it out myself. Funny this video drops a few days after I did that.
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  5310. Years ago the Onion had a funny article titled "NASA to launch money into space": https://politics.theonion.com/nasa-announces-plan-to-launch-700-million-into-space-1819568441 That's basically what James Webb Telescope is, except for the launching it part.
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  5311. The Beato kids will grow up to be like Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
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  5312. WHY DO CARBON UNITS INFEST ENTERPRISE?
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  5313.  @jc441-i3q  Uh, because Persis Khambatta was redonkulously hot, that's why.
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  5314. Like shooting clay pigeons.
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  5315. "we can always travel back in time to listen to this music." UMG: "Oops. Yeah, about that fire we had ten years ago..."
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  5316. Regarding the purchase of the Finnish satellite by Ukraine, there may a question of international law there. If Ukraine is using the satellite for military intelligence and a Finnish entity owns and controls it, then it may look as if Finland is an active participant in the war.
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  5317. When mentioning kluges in space, you can't forget the makeshift repairs to Skylab, basically saved the entire program.
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  5318. "It took the damn spacecraft 4 days to change its velocity by 94 km/hr." I know, right? Damn slow thing! ...Oh, wait, "Dawn", he said Dawn spacecraft...nevermind.
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  5319. My truck has replaceable light bulbs that you access from inside the hood. Light goes out, costs me a few bucks to fix. The hell with those stupid multiple hundred dollar replacement units.
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  5320.  @thomaswalkowiak815  You and me both brother
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  5321. Atari Video Chess early 1980s
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  5322. "Smart lightbulbs" for god's sake, can we just stop with all the smart phone and internet crap? I just want a light that switches on when I throw the switch. Keep it simple, please.
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  5323. A stall speed of 25 mph, you could tie this thing to a pickup truck and fly it like a kite. Reminds me of the Piper Cub.
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  5324. He's right, the current issues are rooted in 60s radicalism.
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  5325.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  You mean like what women wear to support their breasts?
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  5326.  @garrysekelli6776  Oh cool, an Internet Tough Guy! Cool that ITG's watch Curious Droid vids, too.
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  5327. Wow, Rick, you keep knocking it out of the park with these interviews.
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  5328.  @torquetheprisoner  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hxi5Z76PqA
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  5329. How about What I Got by Sublime? Pretty sure that's two chords.
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  5330.  @danielpassigmailcom  Yes, but launching Hubble could've been accomplished with any number of existing expendable rockets, same as any other satellite. Your point is taken, though, STS had a pretty hefty payload capacity.
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  5331. So Mel Brooks and Norman Lear are actually badasses. Who knew?
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  5332. It's always interesting to hear about the families of infamous bad guys in history. I always thought it would suck if your cousin Adolph and you had the same last name. Goebbel's brothers were actual nazis and hard to feel bad for, but the fact that he murdered his own children is just awful. And Stalin's treatment of his own family is disgusting as well. I wonder if he has any relatives walking the earth today.
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  5333. Making Japan the potential adversary in the Pacific instead of the ch1n3se c0mmun1sts is such a loser move. Reminds me the Red Dawn remake, or the Sum of All Fears, where they changed the bad guys to make it more p0lit1cally correct.
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  5334. 5:01 somebody's been hitting the mess deck a bit too hard.
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  5335. Queen is still actively touring, too, which helps. My friend's 17-year old daughter went to see them like a year and a half ago. Don't know (or care) who their singer is these days, but continuing to exist as a band and putting on a good show helps you stay relevant, as long you're not geezing it too much (talking to you, Yes). As far as Hendrix, it seems his estate's management is a big fail. Jimi wasn't just a great guitarist and musician, he was actually a great rock star, complete with cool image. Basically the greatest rock guitar hero ever.
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  5336. The lineage of the Delta rocket family stretches back to the old Thor rockets, of which the Thor D became known simply as "the Delta". Lot of history there.
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  5337. I know people who live in Gloucester County, New Jersey, so I know how to pronounce it just fine.
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  5338. This reminds me of the concept of "rapture insurance" whereby you sell people insurance to cover the cost of taking care of their pets in case they get raptured. If you're a non-believing insurance salesman it's basically free money.
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  5339. Jude Law wore one as Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films, and rocked it pretty well too.
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  5340. 19th!
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  5341. You're not supposed to shake them.
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  5342. Dude.
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  5343. My dad served on an Essex class ship and he called it a hurricane bow as well.
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  5344.  @stolearovigor281  lol. According to the cast members of The Expanse their prop suits were horribly uncomfortable. Maybe NASA wants better props with air conditioning? Also, Birds Aren't Real, Finland is Fake, and....aliens...or whatever.
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  5345.  @stolearovigor281  Oh wait, you were serious? Ha ha, you're an oxygen thief!
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  5346.  @AndreLuis-gw5ox  Why don't you send them yours? Surely they'll hire a yes man like yourself.
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  5347.  @raphwalker9123  Cool, tell us how science works.
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  5348.  @eduardo_equis  And how does that make you feel?
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  5349.  @hetmanjz  I don't understand your point. Burning a car with lithium batteries is not worse than burning records? Is that your point?
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  5350.  @the_babbleboom  Put them in the dumpster where they belong.
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  5351. So does that mean that Monitor's turret is actually a "mount"?
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  5352. "Mom, can we get a Crew Dragon Falcon 9?" "We have Crew Dragon Falcon 8 at home." Crew Dragon Falcon 9 at home: 17:54
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  5353. 9:25 that's a beautiful Strat
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  5354. Getting rid of VOR is stupid. GPS is vulnerable, you need something old school to fall back on. My opinion, not to confused with your opinion.
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  5355.  @luma8212  Yes, most manned spaceflights since Yuri Gagarin have been tests to see if humans could do this or what happens if humans are sent there and so on.
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  5356. Sad to hear about the airplane crash.
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  5357. For F-106 fans, check out Bruce Gordon's YouTube channel, he's a former F-106 pilot with a ton of cool stories to tell.
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  5358. ​ @cortanathelawless1848 oh look, a communist
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  5359. Wow, never heard of this, she was in some ways way more advanced than Hunley. Even decades after Turtle though, submarines were still too far ahead of their time.
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  5360. It would've been pretty looking if it weren't for that chicken head cockpit and canopy set up.
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  5361. 3:30 the train station has a hallway called "Khyber Pass" lol
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  5362.  @bfrobin446 Thanks, I see that now.
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  5363. It's not just jet fuel, it's also rocket fuel. The Atlas, Saturn, and Falcon rockets all use it.
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  5364. This is cool and all, but when do we get our centrifugal wheel already? According to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke we're at least 20 years behind on that. I mean, will this thing even have a Howard Johnson's in it?
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  5365. SO now we need a Drach vs. Adam throwdown between the youtube channels!
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  5366. Boeing is a study in how decision made years ago lead to a series of humiliations today. I hope the new guy straightens them out.
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  5367. 5:29 I often see that clip of the missile crew preparing a V2 for launch and that guy with the white lab coat strikes me as the perfect evil mad scientist.
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  5368.  @General12th  Why would Blue Origin hope for SpaceX to fail? They are not currently in direct competition but each is helping to grow the broader space industry and thus they both benefit. I don't understand why people automatically assume it's a race between the two. Musk is more likely racing against the Chinese Communist Party to establish a civilian presence in space before the CCP militarizes it, while I would assume Blue Origin's main rival might be Virgin Galactic or some other space tourist outfit.
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  5369. Like a airplane version of a Chevy El Camino. "Hey Jimmy, looks like one of the tie-down straps came loose. Better suit up, walk out there, and secure it. Make sure you dress warm and hold on to the deck clamps!"
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  5370.  @tractionownersclub4827  "Moronic interrogative" never heard it called that before, love it!
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  5371. What naive fool would think an American carrier in the 1960s wasn't armed with nuclear weapons? Whether operating off Vietnam or patrolling elsewhere, all ships on deployment are expected to be ready for war with the USSR, in which case Vietnam becomes an insignificant sideshow. And let's be adults: Japan relied heavily on the US "nuclear umbrella" during the Cold War, and still does today against its aggressive evil neighbors to its west. US nuclear protection is likely the only thing keeping Japan from building their own nuclear deterrent, despite a vocal public opposition.
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  5372. Yep, I remember suddenly young people were interested in 70s rock, which was kind of weird to me but cool.
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  5373. Also, I want to visit Idaho someday as part of a "nuclear history" road trip I want to do. I think the SL-1 site is up there, too. That part of the country is so gi-normous it's a LOT of driving, though.
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  5374. 00:40 Sounds like an Imperial Probe Droid. The AT-ATs are coming soon!
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  5375. Wow, the outro is downright Neelyish. Rick gettin' fancy!
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  5376. Yes, I hate it when people jump to the conclusion that it's aliens. But it's equally important to know that you can't always automatically rule it out and just ridicule everyone who looks into the possibility. Alien life is one of those scientific possibilities that we believe is true somewhere, sometime, after all. The technical difficulty of achieving interstellar flight is such that I would think it more likely to be an unmanned probe than an actual crewed vessel, and the tumbling and apparent lack of activity would suggest that if it were some sort of space vehicle it is likely dead and powered down. The apparent outgassing activity would likely mark it as a rocky natural object. But you never really know until you get a close enough look and gather more data. It would be difficult to chase it down because of its high velocity, but if it were an actual starship I would expect it to be going much faster. So it's still probably a rock.
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  5377. You can use not just water as shielding, but also rocket propellants such as hydrogen, oxygen, or kerosene. So one approach is to build the propellant tanks around parts of the crew quarters. As the mission goes on and you do maneuvers, you will reduce shielding of course, but the idea is to supplement the usual solid material shielding and so forth such that by the time the shielding gets low you have already reached your destination, be it a properly shielded Mars habitat or back to Earth.
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  5378. A better idea would be to place the turkey in a solar oven just prior to deorbiting. It can bake in a solar-heated oven chamber, rotating to make it even, for as long as you'd like, as long as you're in a solar orbit that stays in the sun.
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  5379. Nice score, Rick, happy for you.
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  5380. Did it actually come with a guitar? Would be cool to have a Strat with a VW logo on the headstock lol.
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  5381. Is your outro music Adam Neely?
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  5382. Happy Thanksgiving to you from America, John. Fortunately, we are mostly concerned with turkey rather than pizza here today.
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  5383.  @Cm-lp4mu  A little defensive, are we?
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  5384.  @Cm-lp4mu  I'm sure it's worth whatever that guy is getting paid.
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  5385. Getting hit by a meteor has got to be amazing bad luck.
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  5386. I'm sad, Rick hit up all these blockers' hooks, but no Eagles or Don Henley? Dirty Laundry has some good hooks in it, so does Life in the Fast Lane, Take it Easy, etc.
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  5387. There is more footage out there, and back when this happened, I saw it on TV, CNN probably. Too bad you won't show it here.
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  5388. I'm not sure you can use the term "capitalist" to describe pre-industrial societies like Egypt or Rome which didn't have corporations or the like yet. You could say they had relatively free markets, maybe.
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  5389. I do not have any kind of phobia about water or diving, but this kind of stuff is so risky that I wouldn't want to do it with experienced Navy guys and the best equipment. James Cameron's dives were a lot safer but still too risky for me personally. No way in hell would I ever get into something like the Titan, especially after a few minutes talking to its boss and the guys who used to work for him. I feel bad for the paying customers he took to their deaths, but they do bear some responsibility for not taking a good hard look at the risk they were taking.
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  5390. "Hipster Nosferatu" 😅 gonna remember that
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  5391. I was under the impression they were already there. Maybe not in 1984?
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  5392.  @jacqueschouette7474  Also, if I recall, the AIM-54 was optimized when paired up with the Tomcat's radar and fire control system and probably wouldn't have worked as well with a different system. Similar to its predecessor, the AIM-4, which reportedly worked well with the F-106's radar and FCS but was terrible when hung on a Phantom tried to use as a substitute for a Sidewinder.
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  5393. If we build a rocket in Philadelphia we have to call it the Hoagie. The second design is the Cheesesteak.
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  5394. So Rick, whatever happened to the 12-string your mom bought you? I still have the bass my mom bought me.
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  5395. Great work, as always, Drach.
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  5396. That business with the Filibusters would make a great video or two on its own. Imagine the private security firms of 2003 Iraq fame basically taking over a whole countries and fighting their own private wars with next to no oversite and lots of shady dealings.
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  5397. The three missing videos, I only watched the first one and figured I'd get to the other two later. Apparently, from these comments, I missed the most remarkable stuff?
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  5398. Landing on the Mun is not easy.
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  5399. My dad served in the US Navy from 1964 to 1968. Sometime during his enlistment he was stationed at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and doing some kind of maintenance work on aircraft and ground equipment. HE told me a story of how one day he had to taxi a De Havilland Beaver around the field, and he opened the throttle for the hell of it, and accidentally became airborne for a short time. He throttled down and the aircraft settled back on its wheels and no one was ever the wiser. Said it scared the hell out of him though.
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  5400. Did my comment get deleted?
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  5401. Explaining the hoverslam maneuver and then telling us to fly safe...
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  5402. He lived long enough to see America gain independence. A brave soldier and a loyal patriot, a life well-lived. We should all look up to him.
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  5403. You say this is better than duck and cover, but to me this just looks like a better version of duck and cover.
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  5404. Jan, I'll do it, but you have to pay me.
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  5405. You know when you go to a museum, and you see a display with a button that starts a 2-minute narration of the subject? This is the kind of thing those buttons are made for. Not full length feature films.
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  5406. That one about the mice, isn't that the basis of the story in The Secret of Nimh?
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  5407. Another amazing catch for Rick's interview archives.
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  5408. Some of my recent favorites: "Birds aren't real", "Finland doesn't exist", "nuclear weapons are a hoax". I love stupid conspiracy theories, they make me laugh.
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  5409.  @irresponse  Yeah, that one's great.
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  5410. Nazis didn't trust free market capitalism.
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  5411. Hey TC, how about a link to that dimmer tape you put over that display, or at least a product name to look up?
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  5412. This video makes me hungry and eager to go to a supermarket for some Betty Crocker products.
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  5413. Ron Carter?! Automatic thumbs up.
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  5414. I have trouble believing it'll be 24,000 years before someone tries to live there again.
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  5415.  @AkaliXIV  I didn't say anything about suitability.
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  5416. Well, they have pressure gauges. I'm thinking of the scene in 2010: Odyssey Two when the US and Russian astronauts board the Discovery over Jupiter and the American opens his visor and smells rotting meat from the powered-down galley, and starts to panic when he thinks it might be the bodies of Discovery's crew.
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  5417.  @mrj4990  Sure, you just wait right here, I'll be right back, boss.
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  5418.  @jonathanhudak2059  Agree.
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  5419. Rick digging Rush. Automatic thumbs up. Geddy's bass playing is what inspired me to start playing an instrument.
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  5420. Great video, Rick. About your better sound recording equipment, unfortunately it also picks up not only your voice but also the thumping sound of your piano's keys when you play them.
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  5421. In a sane court, Musk's lawsuit should be an easy win against this prejudiced government agency. Also, if the Space Force wants those launches to happen, California is going to lose that battle.
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  5422. What the difference between a beatnik and an old time hipster? (not a modern hipster)
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  5423.  @muppet7665  Yes. A virus came from Wuhan, China, where there is a bioweapons lab called Wuhan Institute of Virology. Got it CCP stooge?
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  5424. "What do we have on the spacecraft that's good?" - Flight Director Gene Kranz to his engineers dealing with multiple failures on the Apollo 13 vehicle.
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  5425. Outstanding work.
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  5426.  @byloyuripka9624  problem?
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  5427.  @jeffzaun1841  I am going by memory here, so I can't verify for a fact that I saw napalm, but they were metallic canisters under the wings. The ordinance men mentioned napalm to me in conversation, too, come to think of it. Hats' off to you for your service, and glad you're with us still today.
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  5428. So Rick, where can we find that video where Carmen sang live in your studio? I don't see it on either of your channels, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
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  5429. A battleship doing 37 kts. [Darth Vader voice] "Impressive." Also not the first time I've heard of this. A guy I knew served on New Jersey and told me they were doing 35 kts one day.
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  5430. If you can't navigate using a compass, a map, and a watch you really shouldn't be in a cockpit to begin with.
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  5431. Not a win, but not quite a loss. If they manage to navigate the ship back and recover it successfully at White Sands I'd say they broke even at least. I agree that had a trained crew been aboard they likely would've been able to identify the problem and take steps to counter it sooner. Certainly the attitude control jets banging away and wasting propellant would've been stopped quick and gone to manual control with a pilot aboard.
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  5432. Also, I was expecting to see a bunch of MCAS jokes in the comments. Was not disappointed. Internet lol
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  5433. Back in 2007 or 2008 I remember telling people that no matter what NASA was planning with Constellation, the next administration was going to cut it and change it to something else. And now, again, we see the same thing happening to Constellation's successor. If you want something to happen, you need it to have a shorter timeline, preferably before the next president gets elected. That's the basic reality for a government agency like NASA. It's not the 60s anymore, nobody is trying to beat the Soviets to the moon, and the president who started the current program was not loved and admired before being tragically cut down like Kennedy was. Even, then, remember, after Apollo 11 the writing was on the wall for major cuts and Apollo was dead within a few years.
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  5434. 33:44 767 tanker for the USAF: now there's a subject for a scandal video involving Boeing and the Pentagon, epic shenanigans went on in that program for years and someone went to jail IIRC.
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  5435. That's the saddest "Go away now" I've ever heard on this channel. Loved Firefly. At least we got a decent movie to wrap it up, better than dragging the show out for years until the writing gets stale and the actors start quitting I guess.
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  5436. 5:45 is that Pappy Boyington?
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  5437. 4:56 that girl would've been mugged for that headgear a few months ago.
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  5438. Delta IV Heavy, sure, and don't forget about the other hydrogen powered rocket attempting to launch: the Delta V! (aka SLS)
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  5439.  @Altoclarinets  lol like Debbie Downer
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  5440. Solar panels in space degrade over time and lose power due to micrometeoroid pitting and other environmental effects, so even if you build these megastructures, you will have to continuously replace the PV panels as soon as you finish the array. And that will cost lots and lots of money.
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  5441. The engine exhaust at landing was pretty bright green. Is that normal?
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  5442. Read George Dyson's book about it, it's fascinating stuff. If you can't use them at a distance from the Earth than what's the point?
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  5443. "Stadium rock" is another fake term made up so people can dump on bands like Journey and Styx.
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  5444. "So what do you do?" Hans: "I'm a musician." "No, no, what do you do for a living?" Lol that's so on point.
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  5445.  @caseyo6033  I don't remember that, sorry.
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  5446. Delta II, Delta IV, and Atlas V are more reliable than Falcon 9. Landing your rocket is nice, but delivering your customer's payload without blowing it up is even nicer. Keep trying, SpaceX, you'll get there and someone needs to innovate, but in the meantime we still have rockets we trust.
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  5447. You forgot to mention that H G Wells' novel War of the Worlds featured Martians using space guns to launch their spacecraft which carried the invasion to Earth.
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  5448. My dad's old 1973 VW Beetle was not overengineered, though, it was well-made, reliable, and easy for the two of us to fix. It was an almost perfect design and build. You just had to stay on top of it and protect it from rust when they salted the roads in the winter. If only all German cars could be that simple and well-built. Modern VWs are smart phones with wheels like everything else and they suck. Like everything else.
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  5449.  @holzbergerpeter4480  Yes, not that it matters much.
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  5450. 2:25 nice callout to Grady
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  5451. It pisses me off that the Navy sent a task force to relieve the Marines and then recalled it, but I can see the logic. One US carrier equipped with crappy Brewster Buffaloes and green pilots against two Japanese carrier equipped with Zeroes and veteran pilots, it would've been a disaster for the US fleet. Still pisses me off, though, to think of those Marines and company being hung out and left to the tender mercies of the Imperial Japanese.
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  5452. I have a dream that James Burke and Tim Hunkin will get together to do a web series.
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  5453. As a bassist I find your spread triad videos immensely useful and satisfying.
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  5454. For purposes of publicity, they were counterparts. Each was a famous news film reel star in his own country. America didn't really have any 4 or 5 star generals or admirals as photogenic as Monty, except maybe for Adm. Halsey, and Halsey didn't make 5 star until the war was over.
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  5455.  @S.A.U.1489  Um, okay...
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  5456. 12:54 the sound of that thing spinning up earned a thumbs-up, as does the fact that even though I remember these things growing up, I never knew they were analog!
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  5457. Are you serious?!
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  5458.  @Aren-1997  I remember when we thought we beat communism in 1991. Sigh...
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  5459. This video is brutal and so on the dot.
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  5460.  @limedickandrew6016  So you're a war expert.
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  5461. Interesting points by all here so far.
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  5462. I have been aboard the New Jersey at Camden. I've been aboard a lot of ships, but I've never seen anything like that. The Tomahawk launchers, the Phalanx 20mm Gatling rotary cannons, the 1980s computers and electronics, next to the 1930s mechanical wonders of machinery and weaponry. The beautiful wooden deck planking, the massive anchor chains. The thick armor on the faces of the turrets, the massive guns, the conning tower with it's walls so thick you wonder how anything could penetrate all that steel. What a beast. Just the hatch to get into the wheelhouse makes a bank vault door look like a porch screen door. And the wheel itself actually has polished metal and wood. All that brutish and she's still got that touch of 1930s class.
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  5463. Once again I urge viewers of this video to look up the radio episode of Secret Life of Machines. I wish Tim and Rex could be guests on Technology Connections.
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  5464. Support the good guys: buy a Dean or two.
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  5465. And they say Germans can't do comedy. We have ways of making you laugh.
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  5466. Fly Orbiter instead.
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  5467. People make comments on the internet about these things all the time as if they know something the engineers don't. It's like that false story about the Soviets using pencils instead of an expensive ink pen in space. It makes a poster feel smart for pointing this out online to a bunch of other people to give you likes and thumbs up, and they are all equally as ignorant as the poster is. Sometimes this makes me hate the internet. Then I remember that there are people like Scott using the internet to cut through the ignorance and set things straight.
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  5468.  @navyskaterdude  Different times back then lol. I spent most of my deployments ashore but got attached to a Harrier squadron on a float aboard USS Nassau, and finally learned what the definition of "bad weather" was.
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  5469. What if...Germany had never gone to war. Would they have skipped the whole Adolf episode and still be a monarchy today?
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  5470. So where does Slint fit in? Certainly an important band at the dawn of the 90s in underground circles and still influential today. Their use of guitars to create tension and soundscaping was pretty radical compared to the mainstream at the time.
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  5471. I wish, but it wasn't to scale, it was the same size as all other Matchbox cars.
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  5472. That Caspian Sea Monster is the bee's knees. I want one.
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  5473. Apparently I missed all the fun, wasn't into SW during this time. But it also gives me major Dr. Demento vibes, and I grew up listening to that on rock radio stations. Was where I first heard Weird Al Yankovic back in the 80s.
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  5474. The Egyptian jerk's wine-colored car is stunningly beautiful.
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  5475.  @SHAHROOKHSHROFF-uk7ub  That king was a jerk. I know exactly what I'm saying.
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  5476. Wait a minute, the heat shield is made of Bakelite? Like my grandfather's old telephone? Huh. Learn something new every day...
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  5477. 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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  5478. Excellent report, Scott!
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  5479.  keith moore  No shit. I was talking about looks not performance.
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  5480. So true about how Taylor Swift and so many other pop megastars could be doing fresh-sounding stuff like this but choose to stay boring and predictable instead.
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  5481. I see some common threads in these reactor accidents. - Accidents usually happen when you're doing something that's not routine. Tests and experiments. So be more careful and put more thought into these. - Inexperienced personnel on the operations team are to be avoided or teamed up with better trained and trustworthy people, especially during non-routine events. - Hire somebody with a gloomy attitude whose job is to imagine all the things that might go wrong, and try to mitigate the effects of these scenarios with engineering, training, procedures and checklists. Take this guy seriously, if he tells you you are vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis he might have a point.
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  5482. Whatever happened to the guy who used to comment on every RM video about how he was "criming the radio fans"? Seems like this is the kind of video that would trigger him to lose his mind.
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  5483. There were too many reusable launcher ideas to cover. Ideas were proposed for a flyback version of the Saturn V first stage, for starters. Do a search on the Chrysler SERV idea for an alternate space shuttle design, that one's my favorite.
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  5484. Are commerce raiders really pirates, though? Pirates generally aim to steal stuff, while WWII commerce raiding was more about sinking enemy shipping, no?
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  5485. Build a replacement telescope such that the whole back half of the satellite is one of these "life extender" devices. That way, when it's time to fix it, you just send up a new life extender and discard the old one. No need to risk lives and the whole program becomes cheaper. Plus, every time you launch a new "life extender" you can upgrade with new technology, new sensors for the telescope, etc., just by docking and plugging in.
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  5486.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  Do what you want, just stay away from kids, typhoid mary.
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  5487. Film the interviews with the blue wall in the background instead of the white door.
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  5488.  @monad_tcp  Engineers are neither right nor wrong, they are just approximately close enough for the system to function.
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  5489.  P Davis  Except that some pilots didn't die from blowing up, they died from being exposed to leaking propellants in the cockpit. I read one account where the pilot was found half melted in his seat. I'm going to guess that was likely an agonizing death.
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  5490.  @bbarnhouse9022  Cool. I long ago quit trying to argue with people who don't like what I like, but the internet will internet. I enjoy Rick's technical analysis of music like Coldplay even though I may not care for the music itself.
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  5491.  @shawnminnier6117  B-52's have a lot of great songs, but what I like about them is the energy and vibe they put out, with that 50s/60s surf throwback thing.
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  5492. Back in the day I thought they were cheesy but I still listened to them when they came on the radio. Little did I know I would later miss that sound.
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  5493. So, what are we talking about, here? I'd like to know so I can try to avoid it.
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  5494. Those hypergolic propellants are still in common use today aboard many satellites and other space vehicles. It's toxic, but it stays liquid at room temperature, doesn't boil off so you can store it in propellant tanks for decades with no problems, and because it self-ignites, thrusters do not need a separate ignition source such as a spark plug, making them much simpler and reliable devices.
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  5495. Honestly when this song was all over radio I wasn't a fan, but I do love that bass line. Also, Tim looks a little hurt that just as he grabs that Rickenbacker the video is ending.
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  5496. I keep checking to see if my cell phone is close to my speakers.
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  5497.  @weasel2htm  For example, Bill used to say, "Rape."
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  5498. That era of Journey, those two albums Escape and Frontiers, was just tremendous. I was about 10 or 12 years old when those songs came out and I was instantly nostalgic for a time and a place that I had never experienced, taking the midnight train to anywhere, singers in smoky rooms, I was too young to have experienced any of that in life, but Journey makes you feel as if you've lived it. Still They Ride is another instant nostalgia song, I remember listening to it on vinyl with my bandmates when I was in my first band around 16 years old, marveling at Schon's guitar playing and seeing the emotion on each other's faces.
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  5499. I decoded the signal, "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control."
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  5500. "Because I'm too heavy sir." "Because you are a disgusting fatbody!"
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  5501. Some movie villains are portrayed as likeable or sympathetic, but Jack's portrayal of Frank is a truly disgusting piece of human filth. It's so good because as a Jack Nicholson character you want to find him charming and roguish like so many glorified movie gangsters, but Nicholson manages to be foul and revolting at the same time.
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  5502. "Sorry, Muon, no one wants to mate with you." Haha Muons are incels.
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  5503.  @ezekielbrockmann114  Ok, Jigsaw! lol
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  5504. This is cool, wish it were a bit longer. Home Adam and his band make more appearances on Rick's channel.
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  5505. Will the new s come with the cool Tron rave lighting kit? 6:05
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  5506.  @DemiGod..  You missed my point. The OP said that the US Navy would end a male officer's career for accidentally grounding a ship. In Nimitz's case, they did not. He got a nasty reprimand but was able to continue, because the Navy recognized a good man made an honest mistake. In this woman's case, she seems to be incompetent from the get go and did not rise on merit, rather she is shielded by politics. So no, she will likely not be of any use in actual combat ops.
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  5507. Dang, Simon, do you ever take a break?
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  5508. "By forming up a sort of nautical conga line / Voltron" - Drachism of the Day!
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  5509.  @oskari61  Yeah, good thing Chernobyl wasn't run by capitalists, something awful might've happened.
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  5510. ...in which Dr. Felton delivers a brutal smackdown to the legislative body that called protesting truckdrivers nazis for voicing unapproved thoughts before going on to applaud an actual Nazi.
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  5511.  @PlainlyDifficult  Sounds good to me.
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  5512.  @brachiator1  No, the ideal sin tax makes people stop doing the harmful activity. If you tell me smoking is horrible and then pass a tax to make money off of smoking, you are horrible.
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  5513. You totally missed the influence of Jar Jar Binks!
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  5514. I saw a painting once of an American soldier, just back from the Mexican War I think, telling stories to an old man, presumably his grandfather or great grandfather, himself a veteran of the American Revolution. The old man was sitting in a chair, obviously very old and perhaps a bit ill, but he looked at the young man with pride in his gleaming eyes. It was a very moving painting, I wish I could remember the artist. Charles Waterhouse, maybe (in which case the two men would've been Marines, not soldiers).
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  5515. "...that moved the armor penetration from hilariously ridiculous to just ridiculous." My vote for Drachism of the Day
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  5516. "The NY legislature passed a bill to move the facility to New Jersey in 1849 but did not act on it." Typical New Yorkers dumping their problems in Jersey, while using the courts to solidify their bogus claim that the Statue of Liberty is in NY waters.
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  5517. @@WilhelmEley-lr4gl Interesting. I wonder how many agents went into hiding and for how long. Who knows, there may be some die-hard communist agents still laying low to this day, like the Japanese soldier in the Philipine jungle who refused to surrender for 30 years.
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  5518. Uh oh, RN, Dr. Felton is going all DOGE on you!
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  5519. I normally ignore the dislikes, knowing that videos with lots of views always get a few, but I'm genuinely curious as to why anyone who watched this gave it a thumbs down, these stories are the best and they have a valuable lesson embedded in them as well. So why the dislike? You hate music? You hate learning? You hate dads?
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  5520.  @RickBeato  They envy you.
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  5521. @jimj2683  Why not mind your own business and quit being a health Notsee?
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  5522. You mentioned greed and negligence, but you could've also thrown in incompetence and cowardice as well. Similar to the Italian cruise ship a few years back where the yellow-bellied skipper immediately saved himself and left his crew and passengers to twist. Guys like that really need a good punch upside the face for starters.
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  5523. I don't why but that shot of the K-mart logo on the box fan brought a wave of nostalgia over me just for a second.
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  5524. 12:07 an episode of Law & Order 1858
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  5525. Over the last 2 decades I've traveled coast to coast by rail a few times. (all pre-pandemic of course) I love it. If you want speed it's not the thing for you; you have to make the rail trip itself part of the reason for the trip. The food is always decent, you meet some interesting people, and I like the privacy of the roomettes. One of my favorite things was the friendliness of the staff. Compared to airlines the Amtrak staff are very nice people, and talking to them some of them are proud to be railroaders. My favorite route is the California Zephyr eastbound from Oakland to Chicago. As you pass through the Rocky Mountains in the late afternoon the views are spactacular.
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  5526. I was thinking the same thing.
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  5527. Upper Echelon Gamers, I randomly found your video, I have no real interest in gaming channels but the subject of this is an important one. I must say that the last 5 minutes or so of this video are incredibly powerful and compelling, and are fully in line with the founding of not only the USA but pretty much most of enlightened civilization since the Magna Carta. Bravo sir.
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  5528. I have a photo of an AV-8B Harrier in Saudi Arabia in 1991 during the Gulf War with shark teeth nose art, nose number 01 of Marine Attack Squadron 231, with the commander's name on it: LtCol Jones. As far as I know that was the only Harrier ever to have shark teeth painted on. Only one I ever saw, anyway.
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  5529. 5:06 RIP that guy's hearing.
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  5530.  @shereesmazik5030  damn straight
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  5531. I'm old school, so I don't trust an all-glass cockpit with no backup mechanical instruments. Especially with a wonky electrical problem.
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  5532. I shoot film and I'm going to love this series! I use an old twin lens reflex camera that has a built-in selenium light meter which is light-powered, so I never need batteries to get a good light reading as long as I'm in daylight. In darker areas, with black and white film, you just use a tripod and overexpose like crazy. Most black and white film is pretty forgiving on exposure.
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  5533. Okay, so this is a thing. Now you have to get Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Adam Jones to show up on your channel. You've set a high bar!
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  5534. Great video and great tribute, Rick. Keep up the good fight.
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  5535. The whole list could be Bonham tunes. Maybe with a few Bill Ward tracks thrown in.
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  5536. Just wait until SpaceX and these other companies start their constellations of JunkSats.
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  5537. I love great lyrics. Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream. Subdivisions by Rush. Invincible by Tool. From Beyond by Sleep. I'm the President by Knower. If you have vocals and you give a damn about the music, you should treat the lyrics with the same intensity you treat the rest of the song.
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  5538.  @kitbag9033  The US still pays for NATO. And everything else, too.
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  5539. We do use "Victorian" in the US, especially when describing things like architecture.
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  5540. I wonder whatever happened to that Huey, if the aircraft still exists somewhere. Would make a good museum exhibit.
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  5541. I had no idea that so many escort carriers existed at any time. That is amazing.
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  5542.  @davidcoffman9326  Legends can be true, too.
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  5543. The massive increase in fighters looks as if the US Navy was starting to get the idea that air superiority was a prerequisite to doing anything else with your air power.
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  5544. I am the Jetmaster. Are you the bombkeeper?
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  5545. Not sure I'd want to be the first person to ride one of these things.
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  5546. Lots of "whoosh" in the replies here lol
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  5547. Years ago I was in North Carolina somewhere and there was a sign in the woods near the road that warned of unexploded ordinance from Civil War, which I found fascinating and unsettling. It's not something we worry about much in the US, but they did use explosive shells in the 1860s around here, after all.
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  5548. All of this is cool, but when do we get a centrifuge?
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  5549. Isler may not be a "real architect", but his stuff is way better-looking than that awful thing Gaudi built. Convince me otherwise.
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  5550.  @MikeAG333  Lots of people used to watch Jerry Springer every day, too.
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  5551.  @MikeAG333  I never put you down for liking Gaudi, so spare me the condescension. We all like what we like. To me, his stuff is awful.
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  5552.  @MikeAG333  What is your problem?
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  5553. "Long form youtube videos are different." Are they really though? I waste ridiculous amounts of time on videos that are about 10 minutes long. 3 or 4 hours can go before you realize it, time I should be spending in the music room. And these aren't garbage videos, there is a lot of good stuff out there, it's just that I should be spending that time on other stuff.
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  5554. Laugh all you want, at over 40 mpg thirty years ago compared to a hybrid loaded up with toxic batteries and shit to even come close today.
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  5555. The "Justice" Department is too busy targeting the regime's political enemies to bother with doing anything the right way.
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  5556. When I was growing up in Philadelphia, the football stadium was called "Veterans Stadium" in honor of veterans. We called it "The Vet". It got torn down and replaced by a nice modern stadium called "Citizens Bank Field", because bankers are more important than combat veterans. Remember those brave wealthy Citizens Bank bankers this July 4th!
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  5557. Gonna be watching close Monday morning!
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  5558. Huh. I browse up and down the radio dial and run across faint odd noises like this and wonder what they are. I hear what sounds like a 1970s computer sound effect, a sort of sample and hold sound, but I also hear buzzing things like this.
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  5559. Turning nuclear warfare into a drinking game? Sounds legit.
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  5560. I like your new stylish 1970s Italian character drawings. I recently watched House of Gucci and it rings true,
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  5561. Great interview with a great musician. Also, I like this interview format, where you break it up to play or demonstrate the music being discussed, very cool!
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  5562. Rick, that piano piece was beautiful. I hope once you're satisfied with it you post it up on Bandcamp or SoundCloud, I'd definitely throw a couple of bucks toward a download. And the accompanying video makes it even better.
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  5563. I think of singers like Neil Young and Tom Petty, who weren't really great in-tune singers, which was part of why we like their songs. Modern production would autotune those guys to death and kill the appeal. Also, the fact that modern pop stars even use autotune in live performances is something I find grossly dishonest and in poor taste. They are ripping off their fans, and even if the fans know it they are conditioned to be okay with it. In recent years I've all but quit listening to rock radio in my car, because I can't name a single newer act that doesn't sound fake as hell due to overproduction, as if they're all making soundtracks for car commercials or something. I hear these things on the radio and think "there's no way a rock band can sound like that without lots and lots of processing help". Thus all the music I like is "underground"* and you have to go online to find them or go to local small time shows. *not really any such thing as true underground music anymore since the internet, but you know what I mean...
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  5564.  @Markle2k  The AIM-47 missiles were upgraded versions of the AIM-4 Falcon, which was used by the awesome F-106, and which were later developed into the larger and heavier AIM-54 Phoenix used by the F-14.
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  5565.  @4RealTalk1989  Well then go look it up, it's publicly available. Although keep in mind that often when people "research" these things, they are just cherry-picking data that confirms the position they already hold, so try to avoid doing that.
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  5566. ​ @4RealTalk1989  Also keep in mind that if there was a bump in cancer rates near Harrisburg in the years following the accident, you have to demonstrate strong evidence that they were caused by TMI and not some other source. But the fact is that the 3 deaths in the SL-1 accident can be absolutely attributed to the steam explosion, the Demon Core directly caused the deaths of two men, etc., while TMI has not been shown to have caused any deaths at all.
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  5567.  @4RealTalk1989  Oh no, you're on to my secret plan to take over the world with nuclear power! How does that make you feel?
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  5568. "Nuts!" not being understood by Germans? I'm an American and I don't even really understand it. Odd choice of word(s) that.
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  5569.  @Peter_S_  North Korea: "Am I a joke to you?"
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  5570. The fact that Venus has such a slow rotation rate might be an advantage for a solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft if it can stay in sunlight for very long periods of time, which would reduce the need for heavier batteries.
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  5571. This is great, Rick, keep up the good work! Interesting note about that drum track: Eddie Money's song Take Me Home Tonight (with Ronnie Spector) uses the same drum pattern during the saxophone break about 2 minutes into the song. I only know this because when I was a teenager in the 80s I remember my band's drummer pointing it out when it was on the radio one day. Useless fact for the day. I'm sure this pattern shows up in lots of places.
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  5572. The most influential rock band of all time is without question The Beatles. Period. I would say that the Yardbirds may have been the most fertile breeding ground for rock musicians, but their music has not even a fraction of influence of The Beatles, who still have young fans today almost five decades after they broke up.
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  5573. You were making perfect sense until that silly "world is round" part. ;-)
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  5574. "The new dam can be made thinner to use less material and still be strong enough." Cool. How about still using more material anyway, just in case. I mean, it's a dam, not a driveway for your family car.
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  5575. Oh, so THAT's what LightScribe is? I had an HP laptop for years with this LightScribe crap on it and never figured out what it was supposed to be. The sad fact f the modern age is that nobody documents anything anymore, nothing comes with an instruction manual, your shiny new computer is packed with bloatware and other features that may actually be useful if you knew what they are for or that they even exist. That laptop was a good computer, I used it for like 8 or 9 years and drove it into the ground. But the only thing I knew about that weird LightScribe thing was that you apparently had to buy some special disks for it. Since my local Radio Shack didn't have them I never bothered.
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  5576. Also, nice subtle dig on Apple there for removing features and calling it "improvement". As with documentation, being lazy and cheap is marketed as "innovation".
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  5577. Thing I like about GC is that I can order something from them on line and pick it up or return it at the local store. And it's not like there aren't shitty "mom and pop" shops out there, though, some of them are run by idiots or assholes.
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  5578. In the US it's almost impossible to find a pay phone anywhere at all now, let alone an actual phone booth. Where I live there are several abandoned pay phones which no longer function and are in various states of damage and decay. It's been years since I saw one that actually still works.
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  5579. We need to start equipping phone cases with little parachutes, and CO2 cartridges and altitude sensors to auto deploy them. Should only add about 5-10 lbs of weight to your pocket, no biggie.
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  5580.  @GrayMatter70  Well, airlines will have to change their rules if we are to have safe air travel for our phones.
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  5581. Fusion power may be only 20 years away, but fusion power grant money from the government is never farther than the beginning of the next fiscal year. Want to know why confusion is good for those leading these projects? Follow the money.
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  5582. That solo is already sick as hell, but it sounds even better with Rick playing along to it.
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  5583.  @zotfotpiq  Take your political crap somewhere else, troll.
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  5584.  @tookitogo  Nah, that's called "Yanny"
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  5585.  @loganstroganoff1284  It's a sampled recording of an actual woman. Back in those days speech synthesis couldn't do that.
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  5586. I think it's the distortion and reverb as much as the spread triad thing that makes people think of Eric J.
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  5587.  @Cymbaline713  Jimi's sister probably would actually try it.
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  5588.  @nghtwtchmn129  The known German spies who were captured in the US and Canada were generally morons who got caught through poor tradecraft and poor training of how to dress and act like an American or a Canadian. Generally the Germans didn't pick their best and brightest for these missions.
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  5589. So then, Dr. Felton, what is the origin of the inverted V symbol painted on coalition vehicles in Desert Storm?
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  5590. While being occupied sucks, being occupied by Americans or Brits is certainly favorable to being occupied by Nazi bastards, and you were going to get one or the other, so bless your luck.
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  5591.  @TestGearJunkie.  You should be fined for being a party pooper.
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  5592. When aliens come to Earth, they steal technology from Lockheed.
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  5593. While you are correct about UMG being out for themselves, as far as I'm concerned anything which hurts TikTok is a good thing. TikTok has always been a project of the Chinese Communist Party designed to influence Western, specifically American, culture in a negative way. If this forces UMG to support an alternative to TikTok that is based out of a western democracy than that will be a good thing in the long run.
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  5594. If I were running one of these transmitters, I'd blast out the alien signal that Jodie Foster listens to in the movie Contact.
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  5595. @ Tump isn't sending troops to Palestine, but if you love Hamas maybe you should go.
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  5596.  @TheHigherVoltage  You should go get your money back.
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  5597.  @TheHigherVoltage  I guess you should've voted for Kamala.
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  5598. @TheHigherVoltage  Ha, knew it!
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  5599.  @italia689  And Paul Wolfowitz, too. Throw in Matt Drudge while we're at it. Keith Olberman and the crew from The View as well.
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  5600. Another 60 pieces of space junk were successfully inserted into near earth space.
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  5601.  @michaelb1761  I'll be honest: every once in a blue moon I'll see an ad that is actually a well made entertaining or funny video and I'll watch it to the end. Think "GEICO Caveman" levels of entertaining. Happens very very rarely, though.
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  5602. Awesome. How about Alex Lifeson's guitar tone on the Grace Under Pressure album?
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  5603. My great aunt worked in the building when this happened. When I was little I overheard the grownups talking about her finding a piece of the airplane on her window sill after the accident, no idea if there was any truth to that.
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  5604.  @alleygh0st  Are you a duck?
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  5605.  @loopyzreal  Well said.
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  5606. You'd think it would be more common to give the crew a means of inspecting their wings and control surfaces from the cockpit.
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  5607. What are you using to download it with?
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  5608. Hearing myself talk is more important than listening to what you have to say.
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  5609. Canadians are building a steampunk fusion reactor. For some reason this makes me smile.
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  5610. "Chrysler, the laughingstock of the industry." Until Christine was born. Nobody laughs at her.
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  5611.  @wlewisiii  Sorry I triggered you. But how does that make you feel?
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  5612. Let this be a lesson to you: if you work where there may be a criticality accident, figure out how to die fast. I've seen the video containing photos of poor Mr. Ouchi being treated. Search for it if you dare. Absolutely horrifying. They should've dosed him with morphine to knock him out and let him die quick.
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  5613.  @numbersstationsarchive194  The photos in the documentary I saw were not sensationalist nor were they false. The guy lived with almost all of his skin fallen off for a lot longer than I would want to. If he was comatose the whole time, that's a good thing.
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  5614.  @numbersstationsarchive194  Yeah I don't use imgur. Have a nice day.
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  5615. "Good news everyone!"
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  5616. Monty named his dog "Hitler". I learned this today. Still processing.
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  5617. That's how Swedish actress Noomi Rapace says she learned English. She was moving up after the successful Girl with the Dragon Tattoo miniseries and wanted to do English language movies in Hollywood, so she watched tons of American TV shows.
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  5618.  @paulmoir4452  There is that. I wonder what accelerometer data from the one test shows.
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  5619. And I agree, we need THG to do a USMC miniseries.
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  5620. The Bill Cosby gag was gold.
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  5621. Happy fun times refined spicy rocks. Gonna have to remember that particular Drachism.
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  5622. "Would make a pretty good heat shield if you think about it." Oh you mean a MEAT SHIELD? This would also be the most metal heat shield of all: a heat shield made of people. Cue Dethklok music.
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  5623. I'm lovin' it!
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  5624.  @arcanondrum6543  Stick to things you know before posting
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  5625. So is no one else gonna bring up the Battlestar Galactica intro? BTW, Scott, when I was a little kid we had toy VIpers from the 1978 show, and I seem to recall that the wings could fold up like the ones in that sim.
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  5626. They're the same picture. - Pam from The Office
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  5627. Would like to see you do a vid on the 2009 DC Metro collision.
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  5628. Think about this: imagine you record an original song and post it to youtube. You're not a signed artist on a big label, just a dude or girl in your bedroom having fun. Do you think if an artist on a major record label blatantly steals your song that youtube's bots are going to help you out? I know how I guess that would go.
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  5629.  @sarjim4381  I thought aluminum became shunned after the loss of HMS Sheffield, I may be wrong...
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  5630. The thing that kills me about this stuff is that those who create these AI tools actually think they're doing some kind of good for the world. Some of them, anyway, all of them are happy to get paid for doing it, and for the algorithm writers and coders, it is a rush to build a software tool and see it work so well.
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  5631. What is that hanging in the cockpit? Fuzzy dice?
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  5632. My first band covered that, when I was like 16 or 17 and hair metal was still a thing.
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  5633. Worries about safety. Let's a 10-year-old operate powerful machinery.
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  5634.  @scottmanley  It's like the aerospace equivalent of a "brain in a vat".
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  5635. I bet you could rearm Constitution with light breech-loaders and .50 caliber machine guns and she'd do pretty well against Somali pirates lol. For good measure add some Marine snipers and Navy SEALS for boarding and hostage rescue actions. When the pirates laugh at the antique ship, wipe the smiles off their faces with shot and shell, and then call in some fast movers from the nearest carrier task force to dot the i's and cross the t's.
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  5636. Sometimes simple is best, especially in noisy loud garage rock. White has great instincts when it comes to that. He's the kind of guy that technical prog guys look down on and then wonder why he has so many hit singles.
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  5637.  @RickBeato And so does Lindsey if he watches this video.
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  5638.  @fernandox25691  He knows what he did. Music theory is about why it sounds good.
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  5639. Looking it up, Kolterman lived until 1994. Interesting.
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  5640. It's probably a wooden toy whistle you can buy in gift shops at tourist railroads or railroad-oriented museums.
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  5641. Of course the mermaid is bad, didn't you see Cabin In the Woods?
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  5642. Television and Radiohead should've been here IMO.
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  5643. The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3.
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  5644. Wasn't that a monster made up for the X-Files episode?
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  5645. Wanna be friends?
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  5646.  @rdfox76  Interesting.
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  5647. There is a school of thought that finding life on Mars, or anywhere else in the Solar System, would be a bad sign, since it would indicate that the "Great Filter" is ahead of us instead of behind us, especially if the life is advanced to, say, the level of vertebrates. All philosophical stuff to me. The science of dating rocks is cool, though.
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  5648. Rush, Pink Floyd, Tool, and Alice in Chains, 4 of my favorite bands in the top five. Guess that says something about my taste in music lol.
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  5649. Katy Perry, Scott? I guess we'll let it pass, since you are a known Joy Division fan.
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  5650. Meade is out of business? Wow, that's like losing Pontiac.
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  5651. Moss Hills: a real Guitar Hero.
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  5652. I'll be here all week folks. Try the veal.
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  5653.  @m10lover  Only the ones with diplomatic immunity. The ones like this guy are unprotected spies and go to prison where they belong.
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  5654. Upon arrival at Parris Island, sitting in the bus in the dead of night, the first thing you see is the top of one of these covers as the drill instructor climbs the steps at the front of the bus. The next thing you see is a blur of unruly civilians rushing out to the yellow footprints.
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  5655. Never seen the show, but I used an M-16 rifle with body armor on and I'm wondering how awkward it would be to operate that rifle in an Apollo suit.
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  5656. wfw
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  5657. Well, the engineers who work in the space business are almost all Scott Manley-types of geeks to varying levels.
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  5658. I want to go back to the days when Alex was wrong and easily dismissed.
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  5659. ​ @jameswilkerson4412 Coast 2 Coast AM is still on the air. Sometimes they run vintage episodes with Bell.
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  5660. It was the 70s and you were young...drugs, maybe?
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  5661. Anything else.
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  5662. All this aside, the Phantom is still one of the meanest-looking jets ever built. Like the devil himself tear-assing through the sky. If you've ever stood underneath one during a low level high speed pass you'd be a believer.
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  5663. I have heard stories of people getting strikes on public domain music before. Record companies suck.
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  5664. There is a good film called Marooned from about 1970 or 71 about an Apollo spacecraft crew who get stranded in orbit when their main engine fails to ignite while trying to return from a space station. They have only a limited supply of consumables for power and life support, and NASA has to scramble to put together a hasty rescue mission. The flight director, played by Gregory Peck, makes the good point that a hastily prepared rescue mission puts two crews at risk instead of just one, and rushing to get a rocket to the pad by cutting corners is immensely risky. This film came out before Skylab was launched and scared NASA enough that for Skylab missions they always had a rescue Apollo-Saturn I vehicle stacked up in the hangar and ready to go just in case. All of that was long forgotten by the time Columbia happened decades later, of course.
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  5665. For a real halftime show they should land a Falcon 9 first stage on the football field.
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  5666. Baird looks like a young Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. Which is interesting, because Professor Farnsworth is supposed to be a descendant of the real life Philo Farnsworth, who was a television pioneer.
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  5667. This is the only vid I think I've seen where Rick isn't wearing a black t-shirt. Looks like a Captain Kirk shirt.
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  5668. Since it's pretty much right on the border with Belarus, you'd think Ukraine would be glad to let the Russians or Belarusians take control of the damn thing.
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  5669. 'twould be cool
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  5670.  B00 050  He most certainly did not.
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  5671. I did a search on audio mixers and youtube gave me this. Amazing algorithm.
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  5672.  @GiordanDiodato  The 717 is the latest member of the DC-9 family of jetliners. Douglas created the DC-9, later merged with McDonnell to become McDonnell Doulas, who later merged with Boeing. The DC-9 changed names as it got upgraded, from DC-9 to MD-XX to 717, with lots of variants. The name 717 once referred to a 707 variant temporarily but that got renamed 720, so the history is a bit confusing and goes back 50 or 60 years of design changes and corporate mergers. Bottom line is that the 717 is a modern DC-9.
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  5673. Great story.
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  5674. In the movie Apollo 13 one of the astronaut's wives is crying as she sees the Saturn V launch. When I saw the recent film "Apollo 11" I was sitting in the movie theater hoping no one would notice me quietly tearing up. Watching the Saturn V do its thing never fails to be emotional. In many ways it's more than just the most awesome flying machine ever built; it's the ultimate symbol of engineers saying to the world, "Yeah, we got this."
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  5675. 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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  5676. "Let's store these fireworks next to the ammonium nitrate." "Great idea! While we're at it, let's call in the welders."
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  5677. Germany can't make trains run on time? The world has changed after all.
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  5678. Fascinating.
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  5679. Dead Meadow
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  5680. I for one do not miss the days of being force fed garbage pop tunes every time I turned on a radio or started my car or switched on a TV or walked into a bar. I am quite happy not to be able to name a single Taylor Swift song, for example, and believe I can live a happy life without it. That's not to say I don't miss good rock radio; I absolutely do miss it. MTV not so much.
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  5681.  @jayzo  Yeah it was a joke.
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  5682.  @danielch6662  You know it was a joke, right? Does nobody on this channel understand humor or what?
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  5683.  @BTW...  Wow, you sure showed me, tough guy!
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  5684. Thanks, 2020. Well, maybe they can use some of the demolition money to start a rebuild fund.
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  5685. Not to worry, by the time the war ends there will plenty more radioactive zones to visit, so the pressure will be off of Pripyat.
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  5686. That photograph at 11:30 is epic, with the airship in the distance!
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  5687. This is one of your best ever videos, Drach.
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  5688.  @janbadinski7126  Obviously my point went right over your head like an airliner.
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  5689. I'm surprised nobody has made a TV show or something based on this woman's story. I was watching The Alienist the other night, a show about detective work in the late 1800s USA, and this seems like it'd fit into that genre.
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  5690. 0:00 United States Marine Band. Semper Fidelis
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  5691. In terms of screenwriting, Nixon was the Spock or Dr. McCoy to Winters' Kirk. Like all movies it takes liberties with facts to make a watchable story.
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  5692. RCA: the original patent troll
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  5693. Fascinating stuff, love the high speed video of the ignition tests. IIRC the US was pretty far ahead of the USSR on solid rocket technology for a while, which is one reason why Buran was all liquid. In one of the STS history books it is explained that during competition for the SRB contract one company proposed building the SRB factory in Florida right next to KSC, so that the SRBs would've been one big cylinder instead of segments. That would've avoided the whole O-ring problem. It also meant they could've built them with a larger diameter if desired, since the diameter and length of the SRBs as built was limited by the need to transport them by rail. Doesn't necessarily mean they had a better product; there may have been other engineering problems with their plan, but it is an interesting alternate scenario to think about. There was also a proposal to replace the SRBs with LRBs (liquid rocket boosters) that would burn kerosene and have wings to fly back to the launch site and land on the runway.
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  5694.  @RobertLutece909  I was careful not to say that. It's easy to take the cynical view but it may be that the segmented boosters were a more desirable option for reasons other than politics.
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  5695.  @RobertLutece909  Thanks for the lecture, but you're still missing the point: you are making an assumption that the decision was based solely on money and politics, which may be true, but there may also have been engineering reasons, or even program goals, as well.
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  5696. The US abandoned using nuclear fission for spacecraft power after SNAP-10A, but the Soviet Union launched over two dozen satellites into orbit with nuclear fission reactors aboard. These vehicles, at the end of mission life, were supposed to eject the reactor core and a rocket motor would put it into a higher graveyard orbit where it would be theoretically safe for centuries. This didn't always work. One of these spacecraft failed and deorbited into northern Canada in 1978, Kosmos 954. I remember as a little kid watching American and Canadian guys in protective suits walking around in the forest searching for parts of the reactor to clean it up, but it was scattered over a huge area and only a small fraction of the core and fuel were recovered. So it's out there somewhere still.
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  5697. There were a few accidents in this program besides just the 954 incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
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  5698. 9:30 The glory days of Camden, when they actually built stuff there.
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  5699. ETA: I just found the story on the CIA's own website, along with a painting of the action. Ted Moore was the pilot, and mechanic Glen Woods was the rifleman.
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  5700. If it's used as part of a copyrighted composition. If you made your own recording of the same signal you can do as wish.
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  5701. Best internet cat video ever.
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  5702. I didn't know I needed the word "poliest" in my vocabulary until now.
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  5703. The 2-lighthouse setup is interesting. I wonder if it works like the lighting system I've seen on the Delaware River, where a system of light towers is set up such that if a ship keeps them lined up with each other at certain parts of the river than you know you're in the channel.
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  5704. ​ @jerryerhardt1263 Canada needs to awaken, along with the rest of the Anglosphere. Hopefully the US is going to turn it around.
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  5705. So it sounds like an average 80s flick. Which makes it above average by today's standards.
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  5706. The music at the end tho
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  5707. Wait, Phil is readying for another Genesis tour?!
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  5708.  @jcn115  Interesting, didn't know that. 223 and 231 were both part of MAG-32 back in the 80s and early 90s, along with VMAT-203, VMA-331, and VMA-542, until they all got moved to MAG-14 in 91 or 92. 331 retired their colors after the Teamwork 92 cruise aboard USS Nassau in winter of 1992.
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  5709. The ejection seats on the early shuttle flights were even crazier, and as later analysis turned out, almost certainly suicidal, since the seat likely wouldn't get you clear of the SRB plume. John Young said that if he had known about the body flap uncommanded movement during liftoff of STS-1 he would've ejected then and there; good thing he didn't or he and Bob Crippen would've been killed.
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  5710. It seems to me that Jamestown was a terribly mismanaged operation.
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  5711. I grew up with the Cars all over rock radio, and this song was always my favorite. Such a great band. Covering this song is truly fun to play in front of a drunk happy crowd all singing along lol. Also, Ric Ocasek gave all us nerds hope when he managed to marry supermodel Paulina Porizkova. RIP Ric and Ben.
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  5712. I once worked a summer job for a small family business that made and installed awnings and canopies. To make the awnings they had to stitch large sheets of custom cut fabric together. They had a large room in their shop with a giant work table, and a bunch of sewing machines. The fabric was thick and tough to withstand the weather, so the boss and his family would sometimes go hunting for old heavy duty Singer sewing machines, the old ones that were made of iron or steel. They'd find them at antique shops or auctions and they got heavy use. So whenever you see a marquis canopy in front of a hotel or a restaurant, chances are it was stitched together using a Singer machine. Also, Gandhi sounds like an idiot.
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  5713. Ouch!
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  5714. Fantastic interview, Ricks!
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  5715.  @quillmaurer6563  My understanding is that the fins help stabilize the launch vehicle for a brief period of time after launch, after it gets going fast enough for them to matter up until the air gets too thin to help much. Since the gimbaled engine steering proved to work so well, it was planned to delete the fins on future versions, and few if any launch vehicles have fins since then.
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  5716. IIRC I saw two of these at the USAF museum in Dayton OH a couple of years ago, in different paint jobs.
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  5717. I watch Sabine's videos to make sure I never get the stupid idea that I am ever going to be more than a semi-moron.
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  5718. That bass kind of sounds like a cello to begin with.
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  5719. "Les Pauls are heavy." LOL the bass player has no sympathy for you. And I look cooler than the guitarist when playing my Rickenbacker!
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  5720. Sure, let's send priceless artifacts back to a land full of religious nuts who would love the chance to destroy it.
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  5721. Drach this is a fantastic video, well done! Combines two things I love: naval history and mechanical clocks. Harrison is a hero and should be a household name worldwide.
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  5722. It's new tech. Wait until it's been in service for a few decades and see how it pans out. Compare with the first jets, which were all deathtraps too.
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  5723. 4:45 is a bit confusing, you say "watts per second", but a watt is a unit of power which represents energy per unit time in joules per second. So a "W/s" would mean "J/s^2" which means an power output increasing over time, not a steady power. Can you clarify, Curious Droid?
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  5724. "People are cooler than rockets." Well...gonna have to think on that one for a while...
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  5725. The idea of facing a polar bear with anything less than a high-powered rifle is terrifying.
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  5726. To answer your question re. what do I think? It is certainly an exciting idea and would be awesome to get involved in the field as it grows, but there are definite drawbacks, some immediate, and some growing in the future. For starters, concerning large collectors and transmitters in GEO, the GEO belt is already a crowded space and there are lots of entities competing for various longitudes just for relatively tiny communications satellites, each of which eventually dies and either gets boosted to a graveyard orbit or dies in place and becomes a navigational hazard. This problem will be bigger when you're talking about multiple giant orbiting solar farms. These large structures will also require maintenance, as the components will all have limited lifespans. They will also create issues for astronomers and any instruments using stars for navigation. The industrialization of local space may cause issues not yet thought of. Meanwhile, on the ground, the unsightly receiving stations would, if the technology is successful, multiply and pop up everywhere, using up large swaths of previously undeveloped land. Maybe this can be dealt with by building them above buildings, to solve two problems at once: reducing heat islands while generating power. There are currently zoning battles underway in parts of the US over the construction of vast solar farms in the countryside; needless to say getting renewable energy by way of cutting down a forest seems a bit counterintuitive. Also, although you mentioned the system would create no pollution, I wonder if you considered the heat caused by beaming all that energy onto the earth's surface, all of which will either get burned and converted to heat, or will get wasted before being collected, converted to heat as it strikes the air or ground? Waste heat from cheap, abundant energy is something Arthur C. Clark envisioned in the novel 3001: Final Odyssey, and is something that may be worth thinking about in advance. All that said, I would love to be one of the engineers working on something like this. Social problems and all, count me in.
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  5727. All planned cities are "fake" or at least start out that way. The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, for example, is "real" because it exists and the buildings are all used by the public, but it's also "fake" because it is deliberately set up to look futuristic as opposed to just naturally evolving to look the way it does.
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  5728. Also, the FAFO principle applies here as well.
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  5729. That deescalated quickly.
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  5730. Drach, your relationship with BB New Jersey is wonderful and makes me very happy.
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  5731. 8:28 very odd photograph?
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  5732.  @skydiverclassc2031  Or the super awesome photographer who snapped that photo, and how fast the shutter would have to be given that the relative speed between the two planes would be enormous.
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  5733. USN still had LSTs in the 90s? I didn't know that.
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  5734.  @nemo-x  Roll around in mud, like kids tend to do.
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  5735. Apple Watch? Meh. Stick with the Omega Speedmaster.
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  5736.  @David-wc5zl Oh please, I just laid out the facts about von Braun's magazine articles. All the rest of that shit you're laying on me is your own projection. Go troll someone else dickbag.
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  5737. Hollywood would have to find some kind of flaw in him to make the story dramatic. He'd be a fearless photographer who beats his wife or some nonsense.
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  5738. Nonsense. Nobody wants to spend time with their family.
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  5739. 12:30 Max Headroom? Say it ain't so!
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  5740. Wonder why you even watched the video. The nice thing about electric guitar is that with the right amp and signal chain you can go from super clean to crazy distorted.
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  5741. @Phillip Banes I know quite a few people who shoot large format, including myself, and 4"x5" sheet film is readily available. Other formats are also available, but less so. Large format is great because it is 100% manual and setting up a shot can take several minutes; everything is hands-on from start to finish.
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  5742. @Phillip Banes Keep on posting, you might win an argument on the internet.
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  5743. How about showing the whole clip? Why hide it?
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  5744.  @werre2  Clueless. Geneva Convention is very clear about the rules. POWs have to be treated humanely. And they can be allowed to work, for pay. It's not slave labor and in fact it's a pretty good deal, considering the men who captured them are still in Europe getting shot at while they work on a nice peaceful farm and sleep in a warm bunk every night.
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  5745.  @notapound  It's amazing how different the Navy's airpower is from the Air Force, in both doctrine and hardware. The F-4 Phantom was a rare case where both services (3 counting the USMC) used the same basic model, only because they were forced by SecDef McNamara, and even then the services armed and operated the aircraft differently.
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  5746. Try that on the Florida coast and see what happens.
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  5747. Jason is such a good metal bassist. Too bad about all that history.
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  5748. "Physicists hate this" lol nice one
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  5749. 3:18 Looks like Jeff Bezos studied his history.
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  5750. Old school long nose Peterbilts are just beautiful machines to look at. Cabovers not so much. Newer aerodynamic long noses are also lacking in looks.
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  5751. So if they didn't launch into the same orbit as ISS, how is Sandra Bullock gonna get home?
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  5752.  @airhammer6203  I have the DVD, and of course they're in order there.
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  5753. The Apollo rovers had camera masts on them, but they weren't omnidirectional like the google cams.
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  5754. Every one of those "patriotic" ass clowns in that photo should've been rounded up and sent to France to parade around in no man's land with their cute little flags and search for landmines in full view of German machine gunners. Whenever I hear stories of lynchers getting off in a court room it boils my blood. Stupid herd animals.
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  5755. Incorporation just means the neighborhood became an independent town or city with its own municipal government as opposed to being governed by the county. Plenty of unincorporated small villages and towns all over the US, especially in rural areas. Some small towns have even been unincorporated when their population falls too low.
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  5756. The Phantom is the only fighter jet that looks pissed off just sitting still on the ground, like it can't wait to fire up those big J-79s and go hunt for something to kill. A US Marine fighter pilot back in the 80s once told me that while he like the F/A-18, he loved the Phantom. He said the Hornet was good but the Phantom had so much power and acceleration that if you got into trouble you cud just light 'em up and go away fast. He showed me photos his backseater had taken of SAMs in Vietnam. He was busy dodging them at the time the photos were shot. He said the Phantom was proof that you can make a brick fly if you put big enough engines on it. Eph-Phours Phantoms Phorever!
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  5757. I've been to Hiroshima, many years ago, and rode on a streetcar, but certainly don't remember the number. Now I wonder if I rode on one of these amazing artifacts.
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  5758. 8:00 Oh if only they actually would build that Atlas heavy...
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  5759. A bass solo. Be right back, going to hit the head and get a beer.
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  5760. 3:00 "acoustic pants" is my new favorite phrase.
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  5761. It's worth noting that the aircraft commander made a deliberate decision that got his entire crew killed, likely without their knowledge of it, and he was rewarded for it. Same goes for any aircraft or ship commander who makes a decision that will knowingly get their vessel and crew killed. War sucks.
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  5762. The Jerry Reed appearance sent me down a wild Wikipedia rabbit hole; I knew I had seen that guy somewhere before, and sure enough, he was the truck driver in Smokey and the Bandit!
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  5763. One of the problems with historians is that letters are a key primary source, and people just don't write letters like they used to. So Soros and his son probably text, email, etc., but that will be harder to find after hard drives get wiped by family lawyers.
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  5764. For what it's worth that hideous stealth ship shown here, the Zumwalt class destroyer, has pretty much turned out to be an expensive piece of junk, prompting the USN to buy a new run of proven and affordable Arleigh Burke class destroyers. The guns on the Zumwalts are basically just ballast, since the special ammo for them was canceled, so their original role to provide long-range fire support for Marine landings while remaining out of range and undetected is unfulfillable. Bring back the Iowa class: "You'll see us coming, there isn't much you can do about it, and when we get close enough, it's gonna hurt real bad. And that's before our Marines get to you."
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  5765. This is the first I've heard of this guy, he sounds like a real douchebag. Must be nice to have money to blow on wrecking vintage airplanes and friends with helicopters. The fact that he disposed of the plane's "corpse" like a mafia hitman is really stupid.
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  5766. When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
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  5767.  @anna-mariedupreez542  The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the globalist socialist model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own immigrant influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason Trump is so violently hated by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness.
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  5768.  @anna-mariedupreez542  The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the globalist socialist model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own immigrant influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason Trump is so violently hated by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness.
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  5769. The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the globalist socialist model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own immigrant influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason Trump is so violently hated by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness.
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  5770. Deleted: " The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the globalist socialist model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own immigrant influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason Trump is so violently hated by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness."
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  5771. @ My comment keeps getting deleted, but it's something like: " The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the globalist socialist model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own immigrant influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason Trump is so violently hated by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness."
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  5772. @ The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the gl0b4list s0ci4list model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own 1mm1gr4nt influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason 7rump is so vi0lently h4ted by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness.
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  5773. @ The plan is to wreck Western civilization and then rebuild it in the globalist socialist model. That's why all these Western nations, including Germany and the United States, have deliberately created their own immigrant influx problems, bringing in people of alien cultures faster than they can assimilate, while simultaneously punishing their own citizens for calling it out, all the while deliberately degrading their military capability and spending their economies into danger of collapse. The reason Trump is so violently hated by the Left is because he is the opposition to all this craziness.
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  5774. I'd say the case against Lyndon Johnson is much stronger.
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  5775. I hope Drach never gets rid of that robot voice outro, it's such a trademark of this channel.
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  5776.  @carbon1255  On an explosive shell, a "short fuze" refers to a fuse that burns down faster than it was expected to. The fuse is set off when the gun is fired or shortly before, but if it burns down before the shell leaves the barrel or shortly thereafter instead of near the target, bad things can happen. This is still a problem even with modern artillery; I was present when a 155mm howitzer shell exploded nearby shortly after leaving the muzzle, showering the trees with shrapnel, fortunately nobody was hurt. The investigation blamed a defective fuse.
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  5777. I'm old enough to remember when Robert Downey Jr's comfort food was Bolivian Disco Dust.
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  5778. 8:47 Let's hear it for the lady changing the trash bags. Another unsung but necessary employee in any office or operations setting.
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  5779. The bass line in that song also kicks ass.
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  5780.  @2handsandwiches  NASA walks on your mom's moon.
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  5781.  @2handsandwiches  I'll be sure to let you know, there, buddy. Betting on all this conspiracy crap sure seems like a prudent way to go right? I'm sure the people of the future, forever trapped on their flat earth, will look back and see you as the smart one who saw through it all. lol.
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  5782. You could do a whole video on John Moses Browning and his influence on 20th century warfare and weapon design. The 1911 is a near-perfect design and is hugely popular among civilian owners and sport shooters.
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  5783. This rant is not wrong, but you did gloss over the point that this is just another attempt by the "left" to deconstruct Western Civilization and demoralize us.
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  5784. I never knew the Italian navy had any success at anything, but these guys obviously had guts and skill.
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  5785. I remember this when I was growing up. They made one of those cheesy made-for-TV movies about it.
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  5786. 19:02 the man to right looking up from the ladder is Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear navy. Quite a character in history and worth looking up.
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  5787. "Havoc" is such an awesome name for an attack plane, I'm surprised it hasn't been reused yet, like Corsair II, Phantom II, Lightning II, etc.
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  5788. That Cupid song sounds like a ripoff of the song from the GEICO Caveman airport ad. "Remind Me" by "Röyksopp" was the song.
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  5789. Reverse Karen, the Nerak: Speaking to a manager to recommend rewarding an employee who gave exceptional service.
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  5790. In the 1950s, everything was atomic. Nuclear powered toys? Hell yeah!
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  5791. 3:19 that's got to be the most ghetto-looking science facility lol
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  5792. "Hungry Hippo" fairing vs. "Angry Alligator" fairing (Project Gemini reference)...hmmm....
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  5793. That's what the A-10 is for.
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  5794. 3:15 cue Beavis and Butthead laugh
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  5795. The new material technology is a good thing, but the newer helmets just don't look as cool as the M1.
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  5796. When the last B-21 is retired, its crew will be flown home on a B-52. (And when the last B-52 is retired, its crew will fly home on a DC-3 lol)
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  5797. Massive guns like this today could actually be pinpoint accurate using, for example, laser-guided or other precision-guided shells, tech which did not exist yet in the 1940s. But of course, tactical missiles do this job even better now and don't require a giant traveling circus to use them.
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  5798. I'm not an Oasis hater, but a woman friend of mine hates them. She says they are a Beatles ripoff, and she certainly noticed the similarity to Lennon's voice, I think it's what she dislikes most about them. It's a shame to dismiss them so quick, they made some really good songs. Ironic thing is, she loves the Smithereens, another band notoriously accused of ripping off the Beatles, so much so they decided to own it by recording a Beatles tribute album lol.
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  5799. Why stop with Hood in the Falklands? Extend it another decade and imagine Hood in formation with Wisconsin and Missouri supporting allied troops in Kuwait.
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  5800.  @Mugdorna  There is also a seaport museum at Penn's Landing near the ship that's worth a visit, and if you can get across the river to see the battleship New Jersey, by all means do it.
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  5801. I recommend "Riding Rockets" by astronaut Mike Mullane for a good look at NASA's culture at the time.
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  5802. Okay, so basically Britain is defenseless. Great job.
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  5803. 30:45 Awesome photo
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  5804. I saw a movie today, and this beats out every trailer I saw hands down. I served once, but this almost makes me want to sign back up again, damn. Love this channel.
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  5805. *For those who want to know, the Marine Corps Ball is a formal dinner that US Marine units have every year around Nov 10th, the birthday of the USMC.
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  5806. Y'all won't be laughing when she mysteriously finds enough ballots to win Wednesday. I for one welcome our new benevolent leader of joy.
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  5807. A year or two ago we had "Filter Sweep February" in protest of youtube squashing synthesizer videos which feature a filter sweep that sounds too close to some copyrighted song. Not even a riff or series of notes, just one note with a filter sweep, played by people doing sound demos. Disgusting.
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  5808. 4:14 this also turns into an Internet History Cat video, just keeps getting better and better!
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  5809.  Joe Average  It's all the same. Communism = socialism = Stalinism = fascism = dictators in different flavors who think they know how to build a better tomorrow by forcing you to do things against your will. Don't try to talk your way out of the fact that Cuba is an ass backwards country, Venezuela is wrecked, and the Soviet Union, Cambodia, and China, murdered untold millions of their own people for your stupid pipe dream where people magically sing kumbaya and get free stuff.
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  5810.  @racer927  You were supposed to wait another three days.
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  5811. Nice.
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  5812. Astronauts are trained to fly manually as a very last desperate resort, but the onboard computers are the only system that can operate the engines with the precision needed. The start-up and shut-down sequence of the RS-25 engine is very precise, events have to happen in sequence at exact times relative to each other or the turbopumps may overspeed or something could burn through. That's why there are five computers, and the software code on the Space Shuttle was the most error-free code in history.
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  5813. One wonders how a country as fucked up and backwards as Russia ever managed to be a superpower. Brute force is the solution to everything.
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  5814. I learned to play the bass line for The Trooper by Iron Maiden when I was in a band as a teenager.
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  5815. @88Gibson LesPaul Every communist has an excuse for their wretched beliefs.
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  5816.  @trespire  Sounds pretty cool.
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  5817. Hard to believe there is a US Navy and Marines with no Intruders anymore. There were a lot of incidents in safety films and magazines involving this type. If you search youtube you can see the film of the guy on the flight deck getting sucked into the engine intake (he lived; stopped by a vane before he reached the spinny killy parts). There was also a nasty incident where an A-6 crew were flying low through a valley hotdogging and cut the cable of a sky tram, killing a bunch of people. Also, there is a film of an A-6 who's crew ejected after a cold catapult shot and the airplane decided it wanted to keep flying, so off it went over the sea, a ghost ship that had to be chased and shot down. A typically Navy aircraft, picked for its abilities and the looks be damned; it seems ugly at first but when you see what it can do and how well it did it, it starts to look pretty good. Best shipborne bomber/attack aircraft ever, retired way too soon with no real replacement.
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  5818. Butch, Sunni, Boeing, you hear that? Scott says to fly safe. I'd listen if I were y'all.
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  5819.  @dixonpinfold2582  And that orbiting gunship idea started with the C-47 in the 1960s.
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  5820. Great video!
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  5821. It's rare to survive being blown up by a grenade in close contact but it has happened. David Hackworth, in his book About Face, describes being wounded in the same manner in Korea. He didn't jump on the grenade on purpose, though, he tripped and fell on it and the steel receiver of his Thompson sub gun took most of the blast. Still, he was thrown up in the air and busted up pretty bad, had to spend a lot of time in the hospital.
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  5822. This makes me think of the song Witch Hunt by Rush, on the Moving Pictures album. It's creepy to begin with, but there's this part during the intro where Neil Peart plays this creepy line on what sounds like a xylophone, and then just goes crazy with it, like some poltergeist or demon is playing the instrument and suddenly gets pissed off. I remember listening to that with headphones in the dark and it creeped me out so much my eyes watered up.
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  5823. Dragon models exist for the Orbiter Spaceflight Sim. Done these kinds of maneuvers many times in Orbiter with various vehicles, usually Space Shuttle and ISS. One thing to think about, I don't know how the Dragon's thrusters are configured, but I believe NASA frowns upon letting your hot corrosive jet wash over the station's surfaces. Space Shuttle always set up the approach so that thruster firings would not blast the station, and used orbital mechanics such that as the Shuttle reached the docking port it would come to almost exactly zero relative velocity with no thrust needed.
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  5824.  @plvmbvm513  My favorite Heinlein book actually.
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  5825. Almost as dark as the Zune's future.
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  5826.  @Merthalophor  Not at all what I said, so go pick a fight with someone else.
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  5827. IIRC the reentry energy management software algorithm was developed for the X-20 DynaSoar in the early 1960s and modified for STS. Had the X-20 been flown we would have seen orbit-to-runway navigation like this about 15 years before STS-1.
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  5828. A human is just dirt and water that thinks.
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  5829.  @jimselander1357  I don't need to be a chef to know my dinner tastes bad.
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  5830.  @jimselander1357  Maybe not, but apparently for you it's hard to understand an analogy and not miss the point.
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  5831. Horrible. But at least got a "balls!" this time.
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  5832. Other X-wing pilots, "Oh look, the hotshot redneck moisture farmer who's never flown a fighter in his life walked into our ready room with a flight suit and an opinion, and now he thinks he's going to hit that target with no computer....oh, wow, he did it, waddya know?"
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  5833. Gandy dancers do serious hard work. You don't mess with those guys.
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  5834. Some people read Orwell's 1984 and think, "That's a good idea for running a government!", some people watch Terminator and think, "That's a great idea, we need stuff like that for our military and police!" Those people are insane. Unfortunately, they are also the ones who always wind up in charge of things.
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  5835. In New Jersey there's also a city (and a neighboring county) called Gloucester. Anyone who lives in the Philadelphia or South Jersey areas knows how to pronounce it.
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  5836. I fought in the French and Indian War and I'm still sore at George Washington for cutting off my British pension.
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  5837. If one rotor fails, you die. I'd rather fly on a Huey, thank you.
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  5838. "Grippy" I love how Michael just takes off on tangents about stuff like that. When he starts doing that I can hear the Vsauce music starting in my head.
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  5839.  @ThunderClawShocktrix  Yeah, my comment aged well in a sad way.
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  5840. Wow, that sounds like it was worse than the RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine, which also blew up in a test and destroyed the test cell. The delays caused by the RS-25 development problems are part of the reason they couldn't get the Shuttle working in time to save Skylab. In the end, like the F-1, the RS-25 turned out to be a fine engine, possibly the best piece of tech to come out of the STS program.
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  5841.  @craigcorson3036  One can argue that it's being used for construction instead of demolition and therefore allowed. Or, if it's really needed bad enough, renegotiate the treaty. Gonna have to do it someday anyway.
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  5842. Does anyone else think that green color the planes have in the factory is really cool-looking?
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  5843. China is exerting a lot of influence in both the US and Canada, and when the hammer drops, both countries will have to have each other's backs. Canada needs to step up and get a serious military again, particularly its navy.
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  5844. If you anger astronomers, they will demote one of the planets to dwarf planet status. Already happened once.
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  5845. Very cool, but my favorite has to be the video from the shuttle SRB as it separated, tumbled, and splashed down, complete with sound.
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  5846. One of my favorite vids was when you shut down the metalheads who thought you couldn't "djent".
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  5847. One of the greatest fighter jets never to see real combat. Sleek, beautiful, high-tech, fast as hell, from the days of vacuum tubes and fission rockets, in its final days with the modern paint job it still looked high tech. Bruce Gordon's youtube channel is a great resource for those who want more. He tells tales of flying air defense missions with hot Genie rockets, shooting down a BOMARC in a supersonic head-on pass, dogfighting with Phantoms in tests, and almost getting into a furball with North Korean MiGs during his Six squadron's deployment to the western Pacific.
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  5848. About him not being an "ace", makes me wonder. In the US Navy, if an aircrew kills 5 enemy aircraft both the pilot and backseater are given ace status. I wonder if the USAF or previously, the USAAF, used the term for gunners or whole aircrews who scored 5 kills. There were multiple bombers with 5 or more kills, but not always the same aircrews.
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  5849. That was very entertaining.
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  5850. The Lincoln ghost photo is obviously fake, and easy to do if you understand chemical photography, but still creepy af, as are all the ghost stories about him in the White House. Although I think that a disrobed Churchill would scare Lincoln's ghost off rather than the other way around.
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  5851. I never had a favorite asteroid. I guess I do now, congratulations!
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  5852. Wonder what happens if you use a different color paint.
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  5853. These Half Life Histories are great.
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  5854. Compare this channel to Adam Neely's regarding gearheading.
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  5855. I just asked the question. Both are pros in the music biz, one likes to talk about gear, the other not so much, which I find interesting. Don't get all butthurt there, Phil. Maybe you need to avoid my comments.
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  5856. I've read about this accident before, it's like a dramatic scene in a sci fi movie. You know things are bad when the Russian commander is telling the American to go fire up the Soyuz in case they need to get out of Dodge.
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  5857. Watching this and I get an ad for a mattress. Well, I guess that might come in handy...
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  5858.  @12voltvids  Did you build from a kit? I've been looking for a low power AM xmtr but all I see are FM ones.
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  5859.  @orion4565  VWestlife recently reviewed the Sony ICF-P26 / ICF-P27, which is an older Sony portable that gets pretty good AM reception. I picked one up new for about $25.
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  5860. 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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  5861. After looking at al these photos, I must admit that the looks of these ships has grown on me a bit, in a sort of Dr. Snuggles steampunk kind of way.
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  5862. It's like in Flight of the Intruder when Jake Grafton's bombardier gets killed by a lucky shot from a peasant with a flintlock. Lucky shots are improbably, but they happen.
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  5863. 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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  5864. And if you sprint down one, you feel like those old rental car commercials with OJ Simpson flying through the airport. Back before all his murdering and such.
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  5865. This is the sort of thing that should've existed in the 80s, and we should be far beyond that by now.
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  5866. Meteor vs. Bouvet: Thunderdome
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  5867. ​ @Keystone_Investigations To helpnyou decide, listen to a dial tone.
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  5868. So the part that ULA built worked fine, but there was certainly an uncomfortable conference call with Northrop Grumman earlier today.
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  5869. Was there some years ago, cool place pretty much in the middle of nowhere. I-40 gets you within a few miles and then it's a drive through empty desert to get there. Got some cool photos. Standing on the rim is pretty cool.
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  5870.  @keiyakins  Ouch! I honestly hope they can put this poor decision-making behind them.
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  5871. I think he just chose a stock photo of President Carter visiting NORAD or SAC HQ.
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  5872. Those crawler-transporters are some of the most awesome machines ever built, I bet the guys who built must've swelled with pride when they saw them fired up and hauling Saturn V's out to the pads. Over 50 years old and no end of work to do. Americans definitely got their money's worth out of that particular piece of equipment.
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  5873. I really hate the yellow color of these lamps. It's sickly. But the blueish white LED lights can be even worse. Maybe I should move to the country where you can actually sleep at night under stars.
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  5874. 6:15 is that Fred Haise wearing an Apollo 13 patch on his flight suit?
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  5875. Isn't the Tharsis Bulge on Mars thought to be caused by an asteroid impact on the opposite side of the planet?
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  5876.  @citylightsish  You have to be kidding.
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  5877.  @dudefromkeene  Look up the anthropic theory (or principle?) to answer your question. Or at least, give you something to think about.
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  5878. You are so right about not playing to a grid. Black Sabbath's last album, 13, had some decent tunes on it and great Iommi and Geezer riffs, but without Bill Ward's swingy drumming and that 70s time feel it was lacking something. Also Rick, you should have a 1-minute spiel about having the tracks that you paste onto the beginning of every one of these vids to shoot down all the questions about it.
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  5879. I hope you explore this a bit more, love it!
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  5880. To be fair to the last guy, if you do succeed in building a perpetual motion machine, it would have to be God who is powering it, because only the supernatural can violate the laws of nature.
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  5881. The interesting thing is that we've only been aware of this particular threat for a few decades, and only started really worrying about it much more recently. So for all of human history, from caves to Babylon to Egyptian pyramids to the Trojan War to the rise and fall of Rome to the settlement of the Western Hemisphere to the defeat of Nazi Germany and even to the invention of nuclear weapons we thought we had a pretty good handle on what we needed to worry about and that the world as we know would go on pretty much indefinitely. We even dream of being masters of our own fate, with talk of terraforming worlds and someday even engineering on interstellar scales. Now we suddenly realized that everything our species has ever done can be wiped out in a single bad afternoon, in about 30 minutes or so from the time of initial impact.
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  5882. Ditto
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  5883. You should do a whole video on Chuck Yeager. His passing was not paid enough attention to.
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  5884. If you buy an electric guitar made in CA it has that stupid label on it. Are we all supposed to, what, stop playing music because we're afraid of wood, wires, and enamel paint?
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  5885. I want to live in a world full of English units and blue LEDs. Also, red turn signals, only red.
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  5886. Drach, during one of your visits to the Philadelphia area, maybe you could shoot some video and do a series on the campaign to seize Philadelphia and secure control of the river during the American War for Independence? The Royal Navy vs. The Pennsylvania Navy and the system of forts and barriers.
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  5887. Blocker
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  5888. According to President Biden the other day, climate change is more dangerous than nuclear war, so relax.
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  5889. The "U" in "UAV" stands for "unmanned", not unarmed. Cool vid and music, though!
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  5890. That era was a time of superstar scientists. We don't really have guys like those today. The last one I remember was Freeman Dyson, who passed away recently.
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  5891. 7:55 "HMS President" lol you Brits are never gonna let us Americans live that down, are you?
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  5892. Oh man, lots of ways to get in trouble with that one!
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  5893.  william bush  Yeah I still have the plastic card. Helium is considered "exotic gas" and is beyond recreational diving. Professionals only.
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  5894.  @icjd80  Would you like another Big Ass Fries?
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  5895. Yoykes! This is one step below some human centipede level shit.
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  5896.  @emjackson2289  "Guaranteed for the life of the customer."
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  5897.  Something Something Dark Side  You made it all these years in life and still act the jackass?
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  5898. Fascinating stuff. My guess about blotting their own radio broadcasts is that in a giant collection of bureaucracies like the Soviet government, the left hand (ministry that runs radio broadcasts) doesn't know what the right hand (the military) is doing, and the right hand feels no need to explain itself since it's got carte blanche to run air defense however it wants.
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  5899. I don't know. I kinda want to...
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  5900. "We slam the S-IVB into the moon and cause a moonquake...all the little green men are running around going, 'The Americans are back!'" Love this guy.
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  5901.  @mntbighker  Rosanne Rosannadanna
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  5902. Well. I guess that settles that.
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  5903. "We've been experimenting with using intermediary platforms like the U-2 spy plane." U-2, from the 1950s, outlives 'em all.
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  5904. Another way to word that is they accepted bribes from Lockheed instead of Grumman.
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  5905.  @stargazer7644  Yes I have, and it wasn't as cool as this.
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  5906. That Gracie Abrams song, if I didn't know better, I'd think it was a Lisa Loeb song from the mid 90s.
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  5907. Apple's lawyers have entered the chat...
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  5908. 13:50 who else tried to wipe the dirt off their computer screen?
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  5909. My first printer was a Panasonic KX-P4410 that I bought new in 1993. It was a pseudo-clone of an HP II laser printer. That thing was awesome, super reliable and sharp. It suffered from lack of memory, so it was really mostly for text documents only, but it would print a really classy-looking document. Also, it had only a serial cable jack for an interface, it was way before USB or wireless. One day a few years ago I finally got rid of it since it was just too obsolete, but I felt horrible; it was still perfectly functional and had toner in it, even after abusing it all through college and moving several times. I am definitely a fan of a good laser printer. And of what Panasonic used to be back in the day.
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  5910. The more I read or hear about American destroyers in WWII the more I'm convinced that their captains were all crazy and fearless. Like Joe Pesci when somebody tells him to get his shine box.
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  5911. NYC in the 1970s: "Warriors! Come out and play!" Also, it's weird that you, a musician and a Londoner, would pronounce David Bowie's name like that.
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  5912. Lol
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  5913. Fort Washington, south of DC along the Potomac River, is a national park now but for a while after the 9/11 attacks the Army had a surface to air missile battery deployed there.
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  5914. @ Don't ask me, ask John Lehman.
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  5915.  @deathtrooper199  Cigarette Smoking Man hates the Bills.
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  5916. The spin gravity pointing in the wrong direction reminds me of the Hollywood space stations in movies like Moonraker and Armageddon, where the spin gravity was also sideways to the direction it should've been. Simple stuff that tells you how little thought went into it.
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  5917. And now we have the MLRS, aka the grid square eliminator.
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  5918. 1:45 I almost tried to wipe that crap off my screen.
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  5919. What I'd like to see is a study on cops and prosecutors who do this. Something tells me that the cops involved here, most of them anyway, honestly believed they had the right guys. Maybe even the cop who later went to jail. Bullheaded people in an organization full of bullheaded people tend to find ways to convince themselves that they are right and to double down on things that contradict the narratives they carry. As that NY City cop says in the documentary, backing down after you've extracted a confession makes you look weak and stupid, so in your mind you have to justify the path you're taking. The result is this BS.
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  5920. If Boeing ever gets tapped to build another bomber, what are they gonna call it? The Hyperfortress?
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  5921. But there was a real F-17; it was the lightweight fighter contest loser and was redesigned into the F/A-18...
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  5922. Crew suddenly found themselves reenacting a scene from one of the Top Gun movies and managed to keep it together. Shame the company trashed the airplane.
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  5923. Necrinomicon
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  5924. Kirk makes a mistake by engaging the guy on the Trump crime subject. Never let your opponent change the subject. "What about Trump?" Answer: "We aren't talking about Trump, we are talking about Garcia. And whatever the president did or didn't do does not excuse Garcia from breaking the law."
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  5925. "...This of course assumed you didn't do something like, say, launch a sneak attack that costs thousands of American lives which they were very unlikely to ever forgive with anything other than unconditional surrender..." lol you don't think they'd ever do THAT, now, do you?
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  5926. I have several Minolta cameras, including a HiMatic. Rokkor was MInolta's lens maker; they tend to be fantastically sharp lenses. It's really a shame Konica-Minolta got out of the photography business.
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  5927. I heard this on the radio last night while driving and without the visual ques it's even funnier to pick out where the seriousness stops and the sarcasm begins.
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  5928.  @Crowniecrown  "Oh look how edgy he is, making excuses for some of the most horrible people in history."
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  5929.  @Crowniecrown  "And with total lack of self-awareness, he doubles down on lies and evil."
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  5930.  @Crowniecrown  How old do you think I am? How many countries do you think I've been to? How about you?
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  5931. Great story. Is this the History Guy Halloween episode, or is that yet to come? I'm hoping for a good creepy one.
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  5932. Great, looking forward to it!
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  5933. Sadly, that's Gus Grissom in that photo. Losing some toes would've been a great alternative to what actually happened to him.
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  5934. LOL true dat
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  5935. 8:57 brings up a separate discussion and a peeve of mine: why doesn't the US Navy operate any seaplanes of any sort anymore? Or the US Coast Guard at least? The Japanese navy still has them, they are great for patrol and search and rescue missions. That has always seemed like a gap in capability.
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  5936.  @SeedOfElijah  Can drones land in water and pick up survivors or carry rescue swimmers?
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  5937. I read that the controller you hear trying to get them a runway at Teterboro felt horrible because he thought the people he was just talking to were all dead, and was surprised to find out that they survived.
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  5938. "Why was there a toilet in the living room?" I don't understand the question.
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  5939. I disagree that a military 747 means all 747's are at risk from the Soviets. The USAF did and still does operate multiple members of the 707 family, including the KC-135, E-3, and various radar and reconnaissance versions based on the same basic airframe design, and they have done so since the 1950s. This did not result in multiple Soviet attacks on 707 jetliners.
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  5940. What does NK care if people think it's a missile? Not like anyone's gonna do anything about it.
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  5941. Pripyat reminds me of the 1959 film On the Beach.
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  5942. I remember as a little kid in the 70s there was a push to get us to use metric in the US, speed limit signs were being put up in both systems, and of course cars sold in the US to this day have metric markings on the speedometers next to the ASE ones. Didn't stick, though.
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  5943.  @timdoherty101  More pedantism.
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  5944. ​@GfrildxyYou'rr on the same side as German mustache guy. History will not be kind to you. And neither will the good guys once your day comes.
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  5945. I think the real villain in these films is Kiddo's ugly Big Toe.
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  5946.  @MightyMezzo  Fortunately the 2009 wreck only killed 8.
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  5947. I don't understand why they would put the crow's nest right where any ship designer knows there will be stack gasses and smoke. How hard is it to figure this out before you start bending metal?
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  5948. I'm interested in how one "throttles" a solid rocket motor. Also, the idiot in the USAF who ran his mouth about how this new missile will allow them to reduce the already-scarce number of F-22's should be fired for blurting that dumb idea out.
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  5949. To be fair, they didn't think many people were going to read it anyway.
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  5950.  @Playsinvain  Why don't you learn basic hermetics!
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  5951. The last version of Windows that actually worked decent.
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  5952. While they were all dirtbags, photos and video of Himmler make my skin crawl more than any of the others, even Hitler. The purest personification of evil in those bespectacled eyes.
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  5953. There is also the geopolitical angle to factor in: this thing is a giant target that is really easy to disable or destroy in the event of a conflict with any space power, and that club is ever-growing.
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  5954. 9:05 What's with the suds in the fuel?
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  5955. "McBlacklist" lol wouldn't be surprised if that's a real thing
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  5956. Great video. Not far from me is a working example of an old Wurlitzer "band organ" from the 1920s, which is like an entire marching band that fits into a machine the size of a large closet and uses punched paper rolls. They used to be seen in parks on merry-go-rounds and stuff, and they almost always have a creepy circus clown-like face to them, with the cymbals making up the eyes and the "teeth" being vanes that open and close to control volume. I have heard it play marching band versions of Michael Jackson tunes, so someone is still making paper rolls for it. Amazing machines Wurlitzer made back in the old days. Electromechanical stuff is simple when you look at how it works, but so are many electronic circuits. Designing them from scratch is a whole different ball of wax. You could tinker, using your own experience until you figure it out, or you could use control theory math to do it professionally, which I imagine is how Wurlitzer engineers did it (at least for any new designed parts they hadn't used before).
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  5957. Peace through strength.
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  5958. That Rorsat program was yet another brilliant nuclear power idea by the Soviets, same geniuses who would bring us Chernobyl a decade later. If you look up that Canada incident, you'll find that only a small percentage of the reactor core material was recovered by the clean up crews, since it is scattered over hundreds of miles of wilderness. That to me qualifies as a serious nuclear accident. Think about that if you are ever hiking the NW Territories and run across a strange piece of metal laying in the woods and there is no life around it for several meters. Probably a good idea to stay away from it.
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  5959. If I find out a band I like is using a backing track, I instantly lose a bit of respect for them. Period. Especially if they are faking it and trying to hide that fact. In the case in question, a band that becomes helpless without a laptop holds no interest for me. You have a drum set? Guitars and bass? You mean you can't play anything at all? No backup plan? Seriously? That just comes off as lame to me. Ashlee Simpson had no excuse, either. In her case there was an actual band on stage with her. Call an audible and roll with it. Those guys know how to play, right? You know how to sing, right? It's SNL, you only need to know ONE song to get through to the commercial break, for cryin' out loud, but instead she and her band choked on the goal line and here we are 18 years later still talking about it. If you're a musician, be a freaking musician and remember that all that technology is an addon, not the main show.
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  5960. I believe that there is not one source for The Hum. There have been stories where people have tracked down the source of the hum in their local area. In one instance, it turned out to be big air conditioner units at a server farm out in a sparsely populated suburban area. I think in Windsor they traced it to an industrial plant. Where I live there is a military airfield a few miles awy where they operate helicopters and turboprop engines all night long sometimes, and you can hear the low frequencies anywhere in your home (which don't bother me as I am accustomed to aircraft noises). The creepier ones are the ones with no apparent explanation, such as the Taos Hum, which was the first one I heard about, which is out in the New Mexico desert.
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  5961. When I was a kid I was into science and aerospace stuff. But museums with stupid interactive stuff that was dumbed down to Sesame Street levels never held much interest for me; I liked going to museums where there were real jets and rockets to look at, and of course airshows where I could hear the thunder of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine in a P-51 at full throttle during the takeoff roll.
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  5962. How would that work regarding range safety, given that there is occupied land to the immediately to the east and west of Britain?
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  5963. An entire society bent over backwards for integration over 6 decades, changed the way they raise their kids, changed institutions, and these people now want to go back.
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  5964. Hitch a Ride loses points in my book for the stupid handclaps, one of those things that really annoys me.
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  5965. I knew Rush would be in here somewhere!
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  5966.  Zoomer Waffen  Looks like we found the nazi.
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  5967.  @neighdolfhorstler3158  I have my own list, but I can't speak for everyone else.
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  5968. The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3.
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  5969.  @ellisbirt  Good.
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  5970. There is a movie about this called Men Behind the Sun. A few scenes are on youtube. Nightmare fuel.
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  5971. As an aside, I've said this before, the 747 is an absolutely beautiful airplane. That's all.
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  5972. Super cool.
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  5973. Someone is an obvious Boards of Canada fan.
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  5974.  tommy aronson  ULA are not "morons". They (Lockheed Martin and Boeing) built two very reliable launchers to the requirements set forth by their customer, the USAF, and those launchers work very well, and build upon 6 decades of experience. If the USAF wanted a fancy launcher that lands itself like Falcon 9, they'd have asked for it.
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  5975. What Is and What Should Never Be was the song that sold me on JPJ as a bass god when I was growing up.
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  5976. And don't ever let me catch any of you guys in America!
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  5977. Or the cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2012, where the captain abandoned his ship and left his passengers to their fate to save his own skin. The tapes of the Italian coast guard yelling at him and his officers over the radio to get back on their ship and do their duty is sickening.
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  5978. British: "We've shot you down, now let's get a beer." Japanese: "We've shot you down, now we will vivisect you alive and eat your liver."
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  5979. 30 years? That isn't that long. Tool puts out a new album like once every 30 years or so, by 2100 Tool will have like 2 more albums out.
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  5980. None of those NASA people shown here have the slightest idea how to build or operate a spacecraft. They are just parasites.
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  5981. I'm sure the CCP has nothing but good intentions for these poor downtrodden citizens of a nation founded by guys like Washington and Jefferson, and China would never repress them. /sarc
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  5982. This looks like the kind of job Ellen Ripley might have been offered if she hadn't gone with the Marines to LV-426 and she needed more money than you could make driving power loaders.
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  5983. Light has momentum but no mass, and I can't understand that, either, so sure.
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  5984. A fond 90s memory
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  5985.  @BeardofBeesPool  Yep. I'm still pretty handy with a map and a compass, always have been.
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  5986. Once years ago I had a friend who worked in the US Capitol and she got me a visitor pass and I rode on one of those underground systems. Didn't look anything like that, though. What I rode on looked like it was from the 1930s, with art deco styling and, I think, brass fittings on the driver's control panel. Hard to remember exactly.
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  5987. Gurkhas
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  5988.  @RingwayManchester  You know putting that up on the screen will be taken as a challenge by someone.
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  5989.  @RingwayManchester  Well, it doesn't specify if it's an upper or lower speed limit so...
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  5990. Drach, in New Jersey just across the river beyond those trees is where I grew up. When this ship was brought back into service in the 80s I wanted to serve aboard her but missed the chance. Fortunately she is home where she belongs in the South Jersey / Philly area and getting the attention she deserves. I so appreciate you making this video and others with Ryan.
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  5991. During the 9/11 attacks in the US, the USAF scrambled F-16s from Andrews AFB outside Washington. With NO weapons loaded, no missiles and not even cannon shells. They had orders to find the missing 4th jet and, if it could not be forced to land, to ram it with their Falcons and hope to be lucky enough to eject. Fortunately 9/11 was not a real attack by armed enemy bombers. Makes me wonder how the hell the DoD was planning to defend the capitol if it had been a bomber attack. Vigilance and readiness are so easily neglected.
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  5992.  @ARGONUAT  wut
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  5993. Followed by insane rage of the post-9/11 variety
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  5994. 74 Jailbreak is one of my favorites.
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  5995. Using a Pinto for weird experiments: that's a bold move, Cotton.
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  5996. I, for one, welcome our new microwave-wielding overlords.
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  5997. I think Britain was fortunate that they did not scrimp when it came to submarines, since the power of subs for area denial turned out to be a huge advantage. After the loss of the General Belgrano the Argentine navy was basically forced to stay in port and taken out of the equation (except of course for their well-trained air crews), allowing the Royal Navy and the landing force a lot more breathing room to operate. This must have been exceptionally stinging to the Argentine naval planners; here they were with a fairly capable fleet, including a CATOBAR carrier, engaged in a war with a major power, and that entire fleet is useless, jeopardized by its lack of solid antisubmarine warfare capability. Huge miscalculation on the part of the Argentines, and equally huge fortune on the part of the British due to their decision to keep a worthy submarine force operating.
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  5998. The A-6 is regarded by some as the best naval bomber ever built. All weather, night time capability with a bomb load comparable to a B-17, and the later models had advanced avionics upgrades as well. The only reason the US Navy isn't still using them is because they wanted to save money for the F-35. Northrop Grumman was on the verge of building new ones in the early 2000's. Yes, I know the RN used the Buccaneer, not the A-6, but I was comparing what the RN had in 1982 to what the USN had in 1982. In the early 80s Phantoms were the naval interceptor of choice before the F-14 replaced them. Regarding the Sea Harrier, I am a big fan of the Harrier family of jets; the USMC has used them extensively in combat for decades now, but a force based on Harriers alone is a bit thin. They lack the speed and firepower of a Phantom and the payload and survivability of a Buccaneer or an Intruder. When the USMC uses them, it's within the context of a force that included Tomcats, Hornets, Intruders, etc. And USMC Harriers are optimized for ground attack/close air support. Argentine fighter pilots were at the edge of their range when they went up against Harriers, and the RN pilots used this to their advantage. But with a CATOBAR carrier and Phantoms, the RN could've had more influence over the airspace closer to shore and made life more difficult for the Super Etendard's and other Argentine aircraft.
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  5999. Nancy Wilson, gotta love her! Some of my favorites are Farewell to Kings by Rush, Under the Milky Way by The Church.
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  6000. Did the ear training vid get taken down? I stopped halfway through it last night and now I don't see it...
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  6001. 4:56 I am your host, Deiter. Now is time on Sprockets when we build rockets.
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  6002. I can only imagine if I were a sailor that morning how pissed off I would be at those sons of bitches attacking my ship out of the blue like that, seeing my buddies getting bombed and strafed. I'd be throwing as much lead downrange as I could melting the barrels on those god damned guns. The Japanese definitely made a poor decision to start that fking war.
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  6003.  @sinthariasinestra9777  Wow, who invited you to the thread? Don't you have a swastika to sew onto an armband or something?
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  6004. A devil's bargain: it has killed many people with illness but saved unknown numbers of people from fire. Like mercury, a material that is very useful but sadly really toxic.
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  6005. Another great one, Rick, keep up the good work.
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  6006. This is shocking news. Who knew somebody still uses pagers in 2024?
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  6007. Of course we all want to drive something nice and roomy and which is also a status symbol. But, no, it is not the consumer's fault that trucks and cars have gone this route. It's squarely the fault of government and lobbyists, pushing all these fuel and safety regulations on the manufacturers. Lots of us want to buy a smaller, simple S-10 or Ranger with a 6 cylinder and no electronic garbage all over it, but we can't. Maybe a station wagon will do the trick? Sorry, can't buy those anymore, either. I'd like to buy a mid-80s F-150 work truck, with maybe A/C as the only luxury, but good luck finding one in decent shape these days. Electric trucks? Only reason those even exist is because government threatens and incentivizes manufacturers to build that garbage. It's even worse when you consider that the Rivian and Cybertruck are physically hideous offenses to the eye.
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  6008. This series is fantastic, so many things about these songs I never noticed before buried in the mixes and compositions. The female vocals on this track are one of those things, now I will never listen to this song again without hearing them.
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  6009. A refuellable Centaur with unlimited restarts? Wow, could've used that decades ago. I'm old enough to remember the "space tug" upper stage for the Space Shuttle that was going to be able to move things between LEO and GEO, effectively extending the Shuttle's operational capabilities vastly. An idea that got delayed and then finally canned after Challenger's loss IIRC. Lots of great ideas for STS went that way, in fact.
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  6010. Truk >>>rekt
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  6011. The original Atlas missile designed in the 1950s had a stainless steel fuselage which is also the main propellant tank. The steel is so thin that the missile has to be pressurized or else it will crumple like a beer can under its own weight. While it didn't serve long as a weapon, this low mass design allowed the Atlas to have a very long life as a space launch vehicle, with the final stainless tank Atlas launching in the mid-2000's before being replaced by the more conventionally designed Atlas V. The original Atlas was right on the edge of being single stage-to-orbit. The later Atlas II designs had a stretched stainless steel main fuselage and all used an upper stage, usually the Centaur, a version of which is still used with the Atlas V today. After the teething pains (aka "explosions") common to early space age endeavors, the Atlas went on to have a remarkably high reliability.
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  6012. I always hated that modulation part. Not that this was ever my favorite song to begin with, but that lame key change was such a tired trope in pop rock music and it always felt like the producer or writer didn't know where else to go with the song. An example of a key change that doesn't sound lame to me would be Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders, where the modulation happens over an extended held vibrato vocal by Chrissie Hynde that is amazing and makes you not really notice the key change.
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  6013. ​ @Jon.A.Scholt The West benefits from a thriving civilian tech market that feeds back into the defense sector. The Internet was "invented" by the US Defense Department, for example, but only because companies like IBM and Bell Labs made it possible, and afterward it was the free market that made the Net the monster tech it is today. The transistor wssn't invented by some government scientist, it came from Bell Labs. That is why the US and the Free World were so far ahead of backwards communist hellscapes like the USSR and North Korea. Western Civilization forgets the benefits of the free market at its peril.
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  6014. My family had the wall mount version from the That 70s Show clip. Same color, even.
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  6015. Will be cool to finally see humans flying on Atlas again after 50 years.
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  6016. The ISS crew sees an eclipse of the sun by the earth every 90 minutes. Seeing it from the moon is the same thing only from farther away.
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  6017. Isn't it mostly Jimi's sister that heads the estate?
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  6018. Weezer not blockers? Cool.
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  6019. And remember, if you are up and coming and manage to make some money, you'll get sued for copyright infringement by somebody with way more money and lawyers than you could ever imagine, who made all their money in the 70s when a band could actually make a living. So stop trying and give up now! Enjoy waiting tables meanwhile lol
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  6020. So who was the jackass responsible for canceling production of the F-22?
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  6021. Timely video as I'll be visiting the area in the near future.
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  6022. ...when you can meet up with Alan Parsons and tell him how he butchered one of his own works.
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  6023. Clare Torry did The Great Gig in the Sky in two takes. I would like to see Billie Eilish pull that off and give me something to cheer about. She and other modern singers have lots of talent but I feel this tech is holding them back.
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  6024. I never knew the orbiters were plumbed for extra fuel tanks interesting.
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  6025.  @newsguy5241  Yes, yes! Let the butthurt flow through you.
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  6026.  @champagnegascogne9755  They did bring back Bonhomme Richard and then those idiot dock workers burned it out.
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  6027. A Bridge Too Far is a great movie. It was used as the basis for a great computer game in the 90s called Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, which is a sim of Operation Market Garden. I have fought over that bridge in the game so many times, and thankfully it still runs on Windows 10 so I am still fighting.
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  6028. My OCD kicks in whenever someone mentions "geology" with respect to any planet other than Earth...now back to your scheduled commenting.
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  6029. I'm not interested in being fair.
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  6030. This reminds me of the old SNL skit "It's Pat"
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  6031. The concept of dropping things from orbit is problematic since it's very hard to tell that apart from a FOBS, which has treaty implications.
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  6032. Would be awesome if that monster that tried to eat the Millennium Falcon in ESB jumps out and eats DART.
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  6033. Sounds like the Demon Core nonsense that earned two cocky young men horrible deaths.
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  6034. Couple of years ago I was in Vermont and visited the American Precision Museum in Windsor. It was okay, there were some cool old machines there and so on, but it could've been better. If they had had material like what you've got in your vids it would've made it a better experience. You should contact them or other museums and see about collaborating with them somehow.
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  6035. ​ @semilog643 I bet you thought Musk was cool before he bought Twitter and your masters commanded you to start hating him.
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  6036. Cool, but there's no such thing as "yacht rock".
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  6037.  @ShaunHensley  I agree with Rick: there is not.
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  6038.  @philipmccracken697  So should I listen to you or to Rick?
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  6039. Sweet blue P bass.
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  6040. IIRC US bombers on recon flights routinely did make it through. LeMay was, against Ike's wishes, sending B-47s into Soviet airspace to test Soviet defenses and scare the Soviets. Soviet fighters would scramble but the bombers would already be heading away at altitudes and airspeeds the MiGs didn't have the legs to catch.
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  6041. Love the photos and footage in these videos, Drach. What's up with the bow of that submarine at 37:11? Some kind of sonar array?
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  6042. The US kept their knowledge of it a secret and then brought it up after the Gary Powers U2 shootdown to embarrass the Soviets, who were getting all self-righteous about how the US was spying on them. "Yeah, okay, you caught us spying on you. But here's solid proof you do it too, so STFU Khruschev and have some more vodka."
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  6043. @ I am only talking about Superheavy boosters.
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  6044.  @sirmalus5153  I imagine that an adult Siberian tiger might be one earth animal that could hold his own in a fight with a Xeno. Even if he wins, the xeno's gonna be walking funny when it's over. Tigers are terrifying.
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  6045.  @JohnSmith-eo5sp  Defense noted.
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  6046.  @Markle2k  No you didn't, your memory is wrong.
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  6047. I remember back in like 2005 before Trump was even in politics Rosie picked a public fight with him and he humiliated her, mainly by just dismissing her as a loser and moving on with his life. At the time he was just another celebrity with a hit TV show and not a polarizing political figure, and it was hilarious because I never like Rosie to begin with.
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  6048.  @c4fishfood  No, the Columbia event that occurred with the seats installed occurred just as STS-1 was lifting off.
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  6049.  @c4fishfood  No, I have it right. On STS-1 the body flap moved and Young said that if he knew it, he would've ejected. The re-entry accident happened years later and there were no ejection seats on the spacecraft.
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  6050. Why did they remake this? Dunno. Why did they remake Roadhouse? And is this really worse than NuRoadhouse?
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  6051. I almost slept through it, watched, couldn't believe what I was seeing. Amazing work by SpaceX engineers! Sometimes I was I were around to see the early Saturn V launches but at least I get to see this happen.
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  6052. The A-7, the F-8's ugly sister.
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  6053. Nowadays fighter pilots get the cool names. Maverick, Iceman, Merlin, Viper, Jester...
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  6054.  @skydiverclassc2031  lol yes!
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  6055. The fact-to-snark ratio is perfect here.
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  6056.  @ZGryphon  Where I live, the library was like yours originally, but they built an ugly new building and in addition to replacing the books, put politically charged pseudoscience type posters and exhibits around to brainwash the next generation.
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  6057. Florida Man cannot into parking garage
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  6058. Interesting interview. The thing about AI is that I don't think replicants are true AI, in the sense that the intelligence is designed and built; they are artificial humans, but being biologically human, their brains function much like natural ones do. Basically, the builders build the body, complete with brain, and the mind is just an emergent property of that body.
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  6059. Gimme Shelter is one of the greatest songs in rock and roll history. Sweet Emotion's guitar riff sounds kind of lame without the rest of the band, amazing how a mix changes everything. Paperback Writer's riff is an incredible piece of rock. Love the sound of that Linkin Park and Chevelle stuff. Love the fact that James Hetfield has made this list; underrated rhythm player. Layla starts off as an awesome song, until the vocals and the lame key change, yuck. As for that last, magic 21st sound, LOVE ALEX LIFESON!
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  6060. Not to second guess Capt. Moody, but wargaming this out: what if he had decided against descending to extend his glide distance? Would he have made it over the mountains and been able to glide to an airfield?
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  6061. Imagine what Richthofen could do with a jet like the F-104. Or an F-16.
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  6062. If I were one of those boaters I'd have been a total convert after that. Gettings sucked by water into a deep hole is nightmare fuel, right up there with driving off a downed bridge in the dark.
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  6063. Oh boy, new Metallica, this'll be fun reading the comments. Metallica fans are like Philadelphia sports fans. We love this band and hate them at the same time, and always wish for them to do better.
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  6064.  @1pcfred  Jersey shore mosquitos are so big they steal babies from carriages.
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  6065. 5:17 that sky looks like Gozer the Gozerian from Ghostbusters is coming.
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  6066. Nowadays people would all be out there with their smart phones trying to shoot video up close.
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  6067. I like the way you pronounce Bormann's last name, "Bore-Man". I always pronounced it "Bore-men".
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  6068. I remember reading about this back in the 80s. In the case of Shuttle missions, there were a few plans to rescue the astronaut if he got out of control and couldn't return to the ship on his own, up to and including using the shuttle's thrusters to just go scoop him up in the payload bay.
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  6069.  @Skyprince27  No, the CSM main engine was also a single point failure. That's why the Apollo 13 accident was so dangerous: if it had happened after they had entered lunar orbit they'd not have had enough delta-V to reach home and would've perished. The heat shield was another single point failure. Any given aircraft or spacecraft has a number of failure modes for which survival is almost impossible.
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  6070.  @Skyprince27  So Bruce McCandless was stupid?
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  6071.  @Skyprince27  Oh, you had friends who worked in blah blah blah. There are any number of parts on a jetliner which, if they fail, everyone probably dies. Fortunately, these are very sturdy parts and unlikely to fail, which is why flying is so safe. For a spacecraft such as Apollo, where every ounce of performance must be wringed out of the system, the number of single point failures is going to be much higher and more risk must be accepted.
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  6072.  @Skyprince27  Wow, sorry you can't handle a discussion and immediately go to name calling. I won't block you. I like you.
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  6073.  @JMurph2015  You are correct, but there are still a few, particularly some airframe parts, but they are so sturdy as to not need redundancy. Jetliners are very safe.
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  6074.  @ronaldgarrison8478  75 m/s is the maximum delta-V, which is the total change in velocity. You'd only be going that fast if you pointed in one direction and fired the jets until the tanks run dry. Most of the time you'd be using the unit you would just be speeding up, stopping, speeding up, stopping, rotating, etc. The more delta-V your jetpack has, the more times you have move around in different directions. If you're working outside that's a good thing, and more delta-V means more safety, because your ability to fly back to the ship or station if you get detached is increased.
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  6075. Star Trek was made in the 1960s, and definitely not in a vacuum. It was a product of its time for sure.
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  6076. I believe there is footage of them doing this. Pretty sure I've seen film of it somewhere.
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  6077. When I was about 10 or 12 I had toy Star Trek Communicators, which were actually walkie talkies that operated on, if I recall, CB channel 14 I think? Me and my friends used to play with them around the neighborhood. One day, while listening to one in my room, me and my buddy heard a hooker at a nearby truck stop trying to drum up business. Learned a lot of fancy new grownup words and concepts that day, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intended use of Star Trek toys lol.
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  6078. When I was growing up I remember seeing these grainy black and white photos of Soviet jets like this, jets most Westerners would never get to see in person, and wonder about them. They always looked so low tech compared to equivalent role US or British or French aircraft. The more I learn about them, the more convinced I am that my instinct was correct. The Su-15 is not a bad-looking airplane from a distance, with its clean lines and all, but these photos of it up close reveal what looks to me like sloppy workmanship, and the reports of its shortcomings don't bode well for trying to defend against an actual USAF bomber raid.
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  6079. Please don't correct the miswording in the title. It has a ring to it.
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  6080. Paul Chambers was a bass god.
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  6081. Paul, you should do a video on the Chrysler SERV, a VTOL launch vehicle that was submitted by Chrysler as an alternate space shuttle design. It's one of my favorite "what-ifs" in space history.
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  6082. Or a magic wand, like in Harry Potter.
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  6083. That footage of the F-8 Crusader doing that funky chicken dance right above the pavement is pretty anxiety-inducing stuff.
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  6084. That 3D photo at 2:15 is cool. If you pause the video and go to full screen, you can get the 3D effect by crossing your eyes and focusing on the capitol dome in the distance.
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  6085. The funny thing is I'm an American and thanks to watching's Scott Manley vids I had started pronouncing it mee-thane.
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  6086.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  Your statement is so silly it really makes me wonder if you're trolling.
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  6087.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  Don't forget to like your own post.
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  6088. Amazing that WWII era subs served into the 1970s, since submarine technology and design has changed so radically since the 1940s.
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  6089. That photo at 30:25 is pretty awesome. Not just the guy yelling, but also the pile of spent shell casings on the deck.
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  6090. This is why you don't practice pointing weapons at ships carrying presidents. LOL you'd think that wouldn't need to be explained to Navy officers. It's like pointing shoulder-fired surface to air missiles at Air Force One just to practice tracking and aiming; I imagine that sort of thing is frowned upon.
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  6091. I don't think Hetfield gets enough love as a guitarist, it wasn't until I saw him playing his riffs during an interview that I really started paying attention to it and noticed how he plays thrash rhythm parts so tight and makes it look effortless, and of course the riffs he comes up with are almost at Iommi levels of catchy ear candy.
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  6092. That bit about social justice near the end is the best explanation for why the concept is evil that I've heard yet.
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  6093.  @hithere7382  I remember seeing people use that around me in the early 2000s and never knew what it was called, then somewhere along the line it seemed to go away, maybe when smart phones became a thing?
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  6094.  @Jah_Rastafari_ORIG  Yes! Nextel, now I remember. Funny that such a useful feature isn't common now.
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  6095.  @jonc4403  Cool. Let me know when your ham radio fits inside your phone so you don't have to carry it around or get a government permission slip to use it.
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  6096. The fact that your bowties and eyeglass frames match is a bit distracting but it's a good look.
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  6097. This manned stage was supposed to reach altitudes equivalent to low earth orbit on a transatlantic trajectory and transition to winged glider flight. That sounds like a fairly high-G reentry, which would come with a lot of atmospheric heating. I wonder what they intended to use as a heat shield. Silica tiles and the types of exotic metals to be used on the X-20 didn't exist back then.
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  6098. "Increase Mather", "Cotton Mather", who the hell names their kids this? THG you should do some kind of video on the history of naming customs or something.
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  6099. We laugh as if this stuff is ancient history, but thanks to the darker side of the internet you can actually see video of witches being burned alive in Africa in modern times. And of course IS and AQ and actual governments still do this kind of shit in the Arab world. You know they actually crucify people in Saudi Arabia? Outside your comfy little air-conditioned, internet-connected home, the world is still a nasty place with no shortage of cruel-hearted assholes.
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  6100. Unlikely for two reasons: 1. Being this is the first launch of a new launch vehicle, China would be wrecking their reputation by deliberately crashing it. 2. The probability of electronics in a delicate sarellite surviving the high speed crash of a vehicle fully loaded with rocket fuel is very low.
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  6101. @KEM boy there's one in every crowd.
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  6102. Immediately established Dredd's character. A guy with whom you do not fuck.
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  6103. RIP Columbia
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  6104. That whole backstory to Gates' career with Paul Allen and Microsoft is remarkably similar to the story of Mark Zuckerberg as told in the film "The Social Network". Privileged nerd teams up with buddy, drops out of wealthy college and starts a tech company. Becomes hugely wealthy and successful, alienates his buddy and becomes a lonely creepy egotistical James Bond villain that wants to control the whole world.
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  6105.  @EFCasual  Which is what, exactly?
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  6106.  @EFCasual  You know the whole "dictator is a good idea" thing is a joke, right?
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  6107.  @EFCasual  Of course you are. Pro-dictatorship types are disturbingly more common these days. Well, see you on the field some day, sweetheart.
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  6108. Hainbach has all the coolest music gear, AND all the coolest test equipment, known to man. He's got nothing to be jealous about.
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  6109. This is pure gold, Rick, you are contributing to music history with these interviews.
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  6110. How much you wanna bet if he had confessed the videotape where he asked for a lawyer would've mysteriously gone missing?
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  6111.  @maverator  yeah okay
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  6112. Yet another reason to love Stevie.
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  6113. When I see a Beato vid with "rant" in the title I click thumbs up even before the vid starts. I don't even care about U2, aside from a few songs I like, but Rick's strong opinions are always worth a watch.
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  6114. Paper can't melt steel!
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  6115. Love prog-era Genesis. I think that Phil Collins' and the band's huge success with pop tunes in the 80s really obscures how freaking good he really is on drums, plus the fact that he can sing like that while playing, that's Geddy Lee level singer/player skills. Unfortunately everyone just remembers In the Air Tonight, which, while admittedly a cool-sounding drum tune, isn't nearly as badass as his 70s stuff.
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  6116. Speaking of Geddy Lee...eagerly awaiting the next Rush tune in this series!
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  6117. I like the fins on the first stage. Fins just look right on a rocket. Saturn V has fins. As God and von Braun intended.
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  6118. 1:00 "There is no opposition to our landing, sit, should we dock the ship and offload the troops so they can keep dry?" "Nah. Make them get their socks and boots soaked through. They're Marines, they're used to being miserable for no good reason."
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  6119. Ironic that a fire engine was the spark.
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  6120. Cool vid, thanks for putting the fingering diagrams up, to.
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  6121. What a shame the Pink Floyd are blockers. I learned an awful lot by studying that band's music. My pick for favorite Gilmour solo would probably be Dogs. Not my favorite PF song, maybe, but that solo is crushing. I love how Gilmour is never a shredder, it's all just taking his time and squeezing emotion out of his instrument.
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  6122. They look like 80s Republicans. Which is why the Left hates them. If you're a leftist, you look at those people and see Patrick Bateman. If you're not a leftist, you see a bunch of well-dressed people celebrating.
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  6123. People were caught looting the dead. In Texas. I'm guessing that did not end well for them folks.
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  6124. Beautiful photos. I give props for the JWST joke.
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  6125. Any food could be sold with the line: "Prevents premature death." Technically true, eating it will keep you from starving to death after all.
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  6126. Movies I would not want to watch aboard a spacecraft: Alien Aliens The Thing (1982) Event Horizon IIRC, when he wrote 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke mentioned that the crew of the Leonov watched Alien on their way to Jupiter and immediately regretted it.
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  6127.  @scottmanley  Nice. One of the greatest horror films ever in my opinion.
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  6128. Somewhere, maybe on Drachinifel's channel, the issue of nuclear power was discussed, and it really made sense why the RN didn't go that route. While the RN has nuclear powered subs, they would need a huge upgrade in infrastructure to build the higher powered systems needed for large surface ships, and unless you're building a sustained fleet over decades the way the US Navy has done, it doesn't really pay to spend all that money. The rest of your fleet is using fuel oil, so it's simpler to go that route. There's also the decommissioning cost to consider: It's extremely expensive for the USN to decommission a nuclear carrier, due the fact that the nuclear power plant has to be removed from the ship and handled properly and carefully before being dismantled and discarded as nuclear waste. It will take years for Enterprise to be dismantled and lots of cash. Then there's the fact that when you're finished with a nuclear ship you can't just sell it to India or Australia or somebody like you would a oil burner. Britain has a commonwealth and former colonies who might be in the market for a used carrier someday, and buying a Nimitz class nuke is not an option for a million reasons. So fuel oil is the most practical way to go.
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  6129.  @davidhouseman4328  Something the RN might consider would be to buy used Harriers from the USMC as they are replaced by F-35s. They are well-maintained and already set up to operate aboard ships. Would give the RN a backup airframe to use in the event the F-35 fleet gets grounded for some problem.
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  6130.  @davidhouseman4328  No, you didn't. The AV-8B Harrier II flown by the USMC is license-built in St. Louis, Missouri, by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), and was a joint design improvement over the original Harrier by MD and whoever Hawker was merged with. The USMC has never bought second-hand Harriers from anyone; the old AV-8As were built by Hawker bran new and exported to the US. Why your government gave up on funding what was one of the greatest British contributions to post-war jet fighter tech isn't something I can speak knowledgeably about, but it probably is related to why they decided to do without carriers for so long.
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  6131. Outstanding work, Drach.
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  6132. 2:20 The bodies of that tank crew were stuck in that tank for three years before being removed. Yikes.
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  6133.  @josephc.9520  The Luftwaffe was the organization used to carry out the ruling party's attack on UK civilians, and it was led by Goering, the regime's number 2. It's hard to cheer on someone's tech achievements knowing full well they intend to use them against you and yours.
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  6134. That Napolean Dynamite reference was everything here.
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  6135. So an LED printer passed off as a laser printer, that's like the legend about what you're really eating when you order calamari at a bar. (Hint: you might be better off not knowing)
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  6136. I was taught about it in school.
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  6137.  @Chris-hx3om  How does this make you feel?
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  6138. The ancients were smart, they knew prog rock would be invented someday and that capes would be needed.
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  6139. Does this have a fancy name, like the Pythagorean Battleship Theorem or something lol?
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  6140. Their best option would've been to sue for peace or surrender, especially given what was coming in B-29's. Once you have to resort to suicide attacks, it's time to reconsider your whole plan.
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  6141. Fuck that guy.
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  6142. I would think having a prosthetic leg would be a drawback for a spy, as it makes you stand out in any crowd.
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  6143. Beck, Bogart and Appice
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  6144. 4:25 that ring looks like ice that formed around an umbilical port fitting of some sort and is only now starting to thaw and break free.
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  6145. A phone-based method of communication certainly seems less secure than using a radio broadcast, anyone who dials a number is risking detection. Even if you use a pay phone the call can be traced to that particular phone. And besides, where I live I haven't seen a functioning pay phone in several years, the ones I do see are abandoned and vandalized. When I think of spies using phones I think more along the lines of the 70s film Three Days of the Condor, where spies call only in emergencies.
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  6146. Is that you in the background, Rick?
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  6147. How did early battleship spotter planes communicate with their ships? Voice radio comms, Morse code, or some other method?
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  6148. By tomorrow morning some lower court judge will order the administration to reverse the decision and spend even more money on SLS.
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  6149. Bill Buckley was great.
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  6150. When he played Creep...man, been a long time since I listened to that album. Lot of old memories came back.
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  6151. 8:02 That is not the Walt Whitman Bridge, it's the Commodore Barry Bridge. 8:19 looks like Walt Whitman.
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  6152. Never clicked so fast.
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  6153. Canceling SOFIA for JWST? Fail. JWST is a giant money sink that will probably fail to deploy properly after it's been launched, while SOFIA is a fine example of a working observatory. (Also it's a fine example of the kind of quality Boeing used to put out.)
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  6154. Thinking about it, it's interesting to note that pop/rock originally came from a combination of country and blues back in the 50s, and modern country is once again starting to fill the gap created by the kind of subpar musicality seen in modern pop. A lot of these country songs sound more like pop songs with twang than actual country to me.
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  6155. I love these technical SM vids.
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  6156. "Like a bubble bath, except a lot more grim."
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  6157. Westinghouse type brakes are also used on some trucks. They will fail if you use up the air stored in the compressed air reservoirs faster than you replenish it. That's how you get runaways, and why there are runaway truck ramps on roads with big hills. A competent operator will not let this happen. Also, the brakes can fail if you foolishly close the wrong valves, as happened in the similar 1953 crash of a Pennsylvania Railroad train into Union Station in Washington DC.
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  6158.  @LoRdLoSs1337  Yes, but they also use compressed air stored in reservoirs to engage the brakes and push the shoes against the wheels. Those reservoirs are replenished by the same air which disengages the brakes. So a sudden loss of air pressure in the train pipe will cause the brakes to engage, but repeatedly using the brakes hard without giving them time to replenish will result in a loss of braking action.
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  6159.  @LoRdLoSs1337  I haven't done the math, but I think that compressed air can apply a lot more pressure than springs. Just a guess.
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  6160. I don't necessarily get all the technical recording stuff, but I can listen to a well-played Bonham drum part all day lone, his drum parts are like awesome little songs all by themselves.
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  6161. THG, another great little museum is DeBence Antique Music World in Franklin, PA. Also, check out the band Compressorhead, which is made up entirely of robots playing real rock instruments and does covers of stuff like Motorhead's Ace of Spades and so on.
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  6162. Christina Ricci really needs to star in a Wednesday Addams as a grown up film.
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  6163. Hope they apply all the lessons learned to the next generation of helicopter drones. Make the nav system bulletproof, and take measures to avoid prop strikes at any cost. Just one accidental contact and the rotor is shot for good, no way to fix it. Great mission, Ingenuity people, you all deserve a raise.
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  6164. 1:00 you're welcome
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  6165.  @bigwoody4704  Only the Silverplate birds were nuclear-capable.
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  6166.  @alfnoakes392  Yep.
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  6167. @crush537 It's Anakin Skywalker
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  6168.  @MidlifeRenaissanceMan  Like Netflix used to do, send you a new tower in the mail. NetTower.
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  6169. In Soviet Russia, ejection seat activates you
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  6170. The funny thing is the movie "Alien", despite its tagline has tons of sounds external to the spacecraft.
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  6171. You cared enough to watch the vid and post a troll comment.
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  6172. Cool. Now let's explore the Film Event Horizon and discuss the possibility of using a small black hole to open a portal to hell.
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  6173. They brought spiders aboard Skylab back in the 70s. My theory: they let Skylab burn up because the spiders were gaining superpowers.
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  6174. It also has a NATO designation: 7.62 x 63 mm
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  6175. Too bad it's on Apple, so I'll likely never see it.
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  6176. Every time a comet comes by it's cloudy where I live :-(
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  6177. Maybe your next video could be an ad for a brand of new Jeep tires, since yours look as bald as Yule Brenner.
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  6178. Calling Isaac Arthur...
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  6179. So the knot may be all but fail proof, but you're still bending it around the carabiners on your harness.
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  6180. I'm sure the Norks are just trying to protect their population from right wing mis/disinformation, so, you know, I guess that makes it okay to employ censorship. In the long run, eliminating a few hardcore violators will benefit the State in the Workers' Paradise.
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  6181. You could do a follow up video on the contention between the US and UK regarding nuclear technology following the war. The US government decided not to share nuclear weapons info with the UK, even though many of the scientists on the Manhattan Project were Brits (and even though the USSR already knew everything). The UK's lax security checks had allowed several Soviet spies to slip through the cracks, which was part of the issue, bet there was a lot of geopolitics going on after the war. This led the UK to eventually develop its own nuclear weapons, and the rush to do so indirectly led to the Windscale nuclear accident.
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  6182.  @maryeckel9682  I don't recommend any of that stuff.
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  6183. "That's a different number in kilograms." I like the cut of your jib.
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  6184. This channel scratches an itch no other does.
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  6185.  @markn2904  There isn't a USA example. Even if you claim you are the lost son of JFK nobody would care because the US is not an hierarchical monarchy. But if you go back to the colonial pre-USA days you have the Cromwell phase of British history, when there was no king for a while. There was some craziness there to be sure.
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  6186. "Have you considered a career cleaning toilets? No? Well, maybe you should look into it."
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  6187. Allie Fox from the film Mosquito Coast is one of my favorite complex bad guys.
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  6188. Has Chicago ever NOT been corrupt and crime-ridden?
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  6189.  @JohnDoe-pv2iu  She probably agreed to donate to his reelection campaign all was lovey dovey lol
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  6190. My aunt was an operator for Bell Telephone back in the 60s. I wonder how many sad sack customers like this she had to deal with on the job.
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  6191. Awesome book.
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  6192. The first part of this video is like a who's who of psychos and stupid dangerous animals.
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  6193. By watching the top edge of the window I can break the illusion, and restore some semblance of sanity to my poor brain after watching this.
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  6194. I started shooting film just as digital was taking over, so for me film has never gone away. Kodak went bankrupt but they still make Kodak film and chemicals (but no paper). If you're into chemical photography you know where on line to look for film and stuff; Freestyle, B&H, Adorama, etc. Lots of small companies making film and paper, many in former East Block nations. Ilford is a big company. Fujifilm still makes film, too, and until recently they still made a top notch medium format camera. It's a shame you didn't really go into how the chemistry works and you also missed out on the reason a lot of us use film: printing your own photos in a darkroom on light sensitive paper! To me that's half the artistry, especially in black and white where you can do all kinds of crazy things.
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  6195. This vid fires off ads faster than a Bren gun fires bullets.
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  6196.  @banjoplayingbison2275  Duke Ellington's Take the A-Train
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  6197. I was waiting to hear that the shop owner got charged. Glad he didn't.
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  6198. Every time you said "96" the top of your hair got a bit more messed up.
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  6199. Yeah, I remember model kits with that paint job were in every store for many years. I think it also helped that aesthetically, the F-16 is just one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built, from the side profile it just looks like the perfect shape.
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  6200. In the early stages, comrades, we crapflood information space to make the public mistrustful of everything. Then we offer a solution: allow us to take charge and censor all speech to filter out "disinformation". We appeal to the public's thirst for "experts" to tell them what to believe. Once we have acheived control over speech we are in charge for good.
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  6201. The US has always tested long range missiles in the Pacific, there is nothing new about that. And Guam is US territory, so that makes it America's backyard, not China's.
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  6202. I remember all of these nasty and highly public DC-10 accidents when I was a child back then, and I remember my dad, who worked for Delta Airlines, saying he was glad Delta decided to buy the L1011.
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  6203. "Losers always whine about their best." I don't like The Rock that much, but I did love Connery's performance in it.
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  6204. SO how long does radium glow? If you find one of these old watches today will it still be visible in the dark? Nowadays the thing the military likes to use is tritium, which when used for glow-in-the-dark compass dials, gun sites, etc., it a lot safer because it's a tiny amount of gas causing phosphorus to glow. If the capsule gets damaged the tritium dissipates quickly in the atmosphere.
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  6205. In astronaut Mike Mullane's book Riding Rockets, he talks about a payload specialist who flew on an early Space Shuttle flight that put everyone on edge. When the guy was training he found out that you can open the side cabin hatch while you're in space, and nothing would stop you from killing the whole crew in seconds, and he kept dwelling on it. After that the mission commander was given a lock and key, and as soon as the vehicle reached orbit the commander would go lock the hatch and leave it locked until everyone was strapped back in until landing, for the rest of the Shuttle program.
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  6206. The remarks about the parachute concerns, indeed this whole episode, is why being involved in manned spaceflight is a whole different ball of wax from unmanned. If your uber expensive Mars probe fails because somebody used the wrong units, it sucks, you feel huge disappointment, money and time was wasted, maybe you even get chewed out for it, but then you find a new program and get back to work. But go watch the videos of faces of the people in Mission Control during the Challenger or Columbia accidents, and read about how some of those involved never got over the guilt and stress of those awful days. It's a serious responsibility to work on systems like this.
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  6207.  @empty5013  Vsauce
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  6208.  @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491  pork ever stormcloud digit digit digit
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  6209. There is a much more plausible novel called "Moonfall" by Jack McDevitt, in which the moon gets struck by a comet and some fragments fall to Earth and wreck some stuff. I wonder if they stole the name from that book.
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  6210. Saxophone in new metal sounds like a weird King Crimson thing.
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  6211. He had it all wrong: the result of overpopulation is endless insufferable remakes of movies that are already good and don't need a "reboot".
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  6212. QuaDrachill
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  6213. I remember as a youngin', listening to the radio in Philly at midnight, Jan 1st, 1984, when the DJ spun up the first two tracks of the new Van Halen album: 1984, followed by Jump. Oh, the buzz that followed in the halls of high schools over the next few weeks, "Did you hear the new VH? What's up with the synths?!" A woman DJ on the radio station, 94.1 WYSP IIRC, she even said out loud on the air, "Congratulations, guys. Now you sound just like everyone else!" Synths on a VH album was a HUGE deal at the time. Fortunately, for those of us who bought the album, it was still a solid heavy guitar rock album. The whole thing with DLR's acrimonious exit afterwards still sucks to this day; the band was at the top of their game when he left.
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  6214. Led Zeppelin famously got sued for ripping off The Killing Floor by Howlin' Wolf when they released The Lemon Song. I think it's a similar phenomenon: The Lemon Song is fantastic but it never would've existed if they had not lifted it from Wolf. If only they'd have been smart or responsible enough to credit Wolf from the outset.
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  6215. The Air Force removed the last tail guns from the B-52 some years ago; it was still there into the 90s at least, and in Vietnam there were, I think, two MiG kills by B-52 tail gunners. Somewhere out there is a B-52 with a MiG kill painted on the side, which is pretty badass for a jet age bomber.
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  6216.  @gort8203  True, but it's not wrong that at least some in the Navy historically preferred redundancy in engines. That was a factor why the Navy preferred the XF-17 design over the F-16.
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  6217.  @jedibusiness789  "Viper" yeah that's another thing. The Air Force has a bad habit of picking unpopular names for their jets and the pilots have to make up a good nickname. The Navy seems to get good names from jump.
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  6218. I appreciate your willingness to go out on a limb with your educated guesses about the functions in front of such a huge audience, and also the large amount of work you must have put into this video, not just disassembling and reassembling the device, but actually going to the trouble to trace solder runs from pin to pin, which is no small headache considering you have to keep it all straight as you flip the board over from component side to trace side. Good on you.
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  6219. Yeah thanks for reminding us all.
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  6220. Nice tie-in to the recent Bell Labs video.
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  6221. HMS Decoy, huh? I guess it's better than HMS Deadmeat.
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  6222. ​ @williamromine5715 Probably helped by a common language and maritime tradition.
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  6223. If I were Textron's leadership I would totally rebrand ULA as Cessna and put the old school Cessna logo on future rockets.
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  6224. About the laughing on those shows: about 20 years ago I was in LA and happened to get free tickets to see Bill Maher's show get filmed. When you get through the metal detectors, they tell you that when the "laugh" and "applause" signs light up, you either do it or get kicked out. If you heckle, you get kicked out. You are meant to be part of the show. The shows are also pre-recorded, so if they didn't like the laughing they wouldn't air it.
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  6225. The "only"? YouTube alone has quite a few good history channels. Mark Felton for example.
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  6226. Really cool, I didn't realize that show was even still on, I quit watching it when that Neegan guy showed up a long time ago. What's with the leather vest? Was that your producer's idea?
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  6227.  @RickBeato  Ah, yes, I should've figured that out.
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  6228. Would nice for the US cruiser Olympia to have her very own drydock to live in.
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  6229. No love for Take Off by Geddy Lee and the McKenzie Brothers?
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  6230.  @tommcdermott9875  Let's discuss your childhood. Try not to be irritable.
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  6231.  @tommcdermott9875  You're showing signs of aggression. Who hurt you?
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  6232.  @tommcdermott9875  Your feelings are focused on slavery.
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  6233.  @tommcdermott9875  We're talking about you here. Now relax, and tell us why you gave your own comment a like.
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  6234. 14:43 isn't that guy compromising the gauge blocks by handling them with his greasy fingers?
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  6235. Being Senator makes you more respectful...lol wut.
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  6236. I saw BoC open up for Rush on the Power Windows tour in 1986, great band and great show. My favorite BoC song is Veteran of the Psychic Wars from the Heavy Metal movie soundtrack. Reaper's a great song, can't believe that SNL skit is over 20 years ago now.
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  6237.  @appropinquo3236  Studies were done looking at using Saturn hardware as part of the STS booster system. There's a ton of documentation out there about the development of STS if you dig for it.
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  6238. Absolute savage comment.
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  6239. 40:53 notice the cop car says Camden County. The Camden City PD was disbanded some years ago for being too corrupt, so the county sheriff had to take over policing the town.
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  6240. I hope Jerry sees this vid or hears it on the radio and is angry about it. Because Matt's movie is funnier than anything Jerry has done recently, mainly because Matt didn't play it safe.
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  6241.  @larrybremer4930  Fine. Not gonna argue.
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  6242. Looks like a guy in a protective suit climbing out of a manhole, probably taking sample from the sewer under the street.
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  6243. I read that when I was growing up, great story.
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  6244. Adam, did you ever watch Secret Life of Machines? Tim Hunkin has brought the show back to life on his youtube channel recently.
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  6245. Possible Drachism of the Day: "...she took the rather unsupportive act of exploding violently"
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  6246. "The impact crater happened to be on the side of uh, a grabbin'" What was that last word?
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  6247. While it's hilarious that Nishino may have shot up the refinery because he was literally butthurt, if it's true that he did so against orders and for personal grievance shows an amazing arrogance and lack of discipline.
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  6248. There is a documentary about this on YT somewhere, I think it was made by the local historical society or something, and they interview a woman who witnessed the whole thing from her car while sitting in traffic waiting to cross the bridge. Pretty harrowing stuff.
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  6249. The problem is they didn't serve the cows a side of fava beans and a good chianti.
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  6250. 20:20 you missed an opportunity to parody Blair Witch....
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  6251. I was under the impression that it was illegal for you to listen to air traffic comms after watching your previous videos. "Transmissions not meant for you" and so on. Am I wrong?
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  6252. As a followup to this, you should talk about one of the CVA Essex carriers. My dad served on CVA-38 Shangri-La. He told me that the CVS was considered lower class to CVA duty, which was natural given the ship he served on, and I am guessing it's because the CVA's were hosting Crusaders and Skyhawks as well as Skyraiders. He was an aviation bosun's mate and worked on the steam catapults and arresting gear and had some crazy stories to tell.
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  6253. I'd like to see an astronaut pointing lasers at the ground to see if it's visible here.
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  6254.  @Rigel_Chiokis  DaVinci's machine drawing was human-powered, just like the wax wings of Icarus. Splitting hairs here.
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  6255.  @7177YT  That is absolutely false BS fed to you by fake intellectuals.
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  6256. Also in the 70s and 80s my dad was kind of into the UFO stuff, but he wasn't hardcore. He also wasn't into radio. But his best friend was a hardcore UFO nut. I always enjoyed watching In Search Of as a little kid and later on X-Files. Love the idea of flying saucers and stuff. They make for great stories even though I don't believe in it.
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  6257.  @flashgordon6670 Oh dear.
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  6258. Navigation apps have definitely made people forget basic map reading skills and lose their sense of direction.
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  6259. So I have to say this, I always liked this song, but that main riff always made me think of the theme song for the TV show The Munsters.
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  6260.  @beastslayer9153  Just one, I agree. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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  6261. Man, that thumbnail image. Dave Grohl's not lookin' too good there.
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  6262. These are some of the finest comments on youtube right here.
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  6263. My thoughts? The sooner we become a multi-planet species the better. You can't uninvent these damn things and they're not going away, and while each individual device may be extremely safe (which may or may not be true, how safe are Pakistani weapons? Does anyone know?), that tiny percentage chance of unwanted detonation starts to add up when you have thousands of them laying around. And yet here we all are, stuck in this planet-seized lifeboat orbiting the sun with these things, and nowhere to run or hide to truly get away from the threat. Just manage it as best we can and keep the crazies in their cages.
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  6264. Noonan wasn't a pretty young woman so he gets ignored by the media both at the time and especially today. Just an average white guy.
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  6265. So NASA might not actually advance or launch anything of note, but at least it will be loyal to the Party.
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  6266.  @harvey1954  Right, but they were supposed to be demoralizing allied troops, and instead they were just running a radio station for entertainment. That's more than enough to get you killed.
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  6267. It's good to hear the caretaker's cat was also rescued.
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  6268. This
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  6269. 40 watts really isn't that much power. Makes me curious how this fictional weapon works lol.
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  6270.  @xureality  Also, IIRC, Techmoan found that those records with their skinnier grooves tended to be harder to keep clean as any dirt would stick in the tiny grooves.
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  6271.  @dougbrowning82  I think they did make 78 rpm records in vinyl at one time, didn't they? I have an old record player with a 78 setting but I can't play shellac records on it because it has a modern diamond needle cartridge. I assumed the 78 setting was for vinyl 78s, but I've never seen any.
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  6272.  @dougbrowning82  Doing a little searching it seems there were some 78 rpms made with microgrooves on vinyl rather than shellac, some as recently as 2011 with a Beach Boys special release. I can't find any for sale yet, though.
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  6273.  @dougbrowning82  I am guessing the higher speed makes for higher fidelity, same as it works with 45 rpms and faster tape recordings. Would love to check it out if I can find one. Would finally give my old Garrard record player an excuse to use its 78 rpm setting.
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  6274.  @01chippe  Guess I'll have to look those up.
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  6275. And the award for worst band name of the decade goes to... Hoobastank! Come on up and collect your reward, Hoobastank.
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  6276. I'm waiting to see how many people write in later complaining about how they broke their amps lol.
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  6277.  @phillipbrewster6058  Do you have a reference or a link for this? I've got to read that.
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  6278. As a child of the 80s it still feels weird to see NATO forces flying MiGs and Sukhoi jets. I'd hate to be a Ukrainian pilot flying a Flanker over friendly AA troops looking to shoot down Russian Flankers, which look the same from a distance.
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  6279. 1:53 1 or 2-hour suborbital flights? Did they send them halfway to the moon or something?
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  6280. Starliner actually works though, albeit with expensive bugs. It's not a bad design, it's bad management and QC issues.
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  6281.  @demeon3738  Do it.
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  6282. Red Green approves.
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  6283. How are people seeing the number of dislikes on these videos? I thought they were all hidden now.
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  6284. Thriller was Toto? Wow, never knew that!
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  6285. Cool. Except for EVH's solo I never really thought about who played the music on that album, although I knew it was some famous studio cats.
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  6286. I agree with you, but there will always be some killjoy to get in your face and tell you you really didn't get to space and that Europeans do it better because metric or whatever. Haters are everywhere, ignore them.
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  6287. I had some hipster freinds from NYC who referred to Hoboken as "so bridge and tunnel". Hipsters lol.
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  6288. He'd be a miniature poodle, yapping away in Freddy's mom's pocketbook.
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  6289. Someone set us up the Mun!
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  6290. I think I need to wrap a wet towel around my head after watching this to cool off my smooth brain.
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  6291. "Told it was a s**ide mission." Volunteers anyway. Good men.
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  6292. My dad served on USS Shangri La in the 60s. He told me that during an exercise they kicked her in the ass so hard she briefly made 38 kts. Essex class carriers are not supposed to go that fast. Everything was shaking and paint was cracking off the bulkheads, and when it was over there was damage that had to be repaired.
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  6293. Although not as obviously bad as the Chernobyl and Fukushima and other high profile incidents, these "nuke factory" accidents sent a chill down my back even worse, because they are so little known by the public. Rarely do they get big media coverage or publicized in movies, other than the odd film such as Silkwood. Plutonium dust is so stupidly toxic and dangerous if mishandled, and these guys were not paying attention to the conditions that led to the fire, to the condition of the filtration system, nor did they have a solid plan in place in case of a fire, which never should've started in the place. And using water on plutonium seems really dumb. I'm not a nuclear engineer but I do know enough to be scared of THAT. I have some friends living in that area and I've driven past the site a few times. It's such beautiful countryside and creepy to think what lays in that soil.
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  6294.  @Istandby666  Aliens, huh? Tell us more, bro.
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  6295. Why did Lisa Loeb have only one hit? God we loved her back then. Did she not single-handedly make glasses cool?
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  6296. "We all agree should've been built." I don't agree. Reagan administration made the right call.
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  6297. Likeable as he was, I always thought TR's emphasis on manhood was a bit overdone. I always thought the most real "badass" US president was Andrew Jackson, who would literally fight you at the drop of a hat, and was tough enough to back it up. Gotta give TR props, though, IIRC he took a bullet while giving a speech and refused to leave the podium for medical attention until his speech was finished, speaking for 90 minutes while bleeding.
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  6298. Never heard this before, this story of horrible savagery and callousness. How quickly an army of soldiers becomes a mob of filthy monsters with absolutely no empathy for helpless victims nor any sense of restraint in their cruelty. It's awful how someone you knew as a good guy can be transformed into such a beast. I am not one of those misanthropes who proudly and idiotically declares his hatred for his own species, but I freely admit that there are times when people really suck.
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  6299. I spent all day on the battleship North Carolina, probably about 5 hours. Almost got lost deep inside.
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  6300.  @Richard-bq3ni  Wow, thanks for the link, that's cool stuff.
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  6301. The first Richard Parker mentioned here was a first rate fool. Refusing to follow a simple order to square away his bed gear was a sign of greater stupidity, and allowing himself to be a pawn of mutineers was the confirmation of idiocy. Poor discipline and low intelligence often go hand in hand.
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  6302. I love these kinds of videos, it's the video equivalent of a well-written article from Flying or Air & Space Smithsonian magazine.
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  6303.  @RoganGunn  That's not a Khan reference, it's a reference to the episode where the transporter splits Kirk into a good Kirk and an evil Kirk.
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  6304.  @RoganGunn  Oh yeah I see it now.
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  6305. Which squadron and shop did you wind up in?
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  6306. Yes, hits are a must, because streaming music singles is where the money is at today. Back when album sales made money, it was different, because while a record needs at least one or two hit songs on it, there is room for 4 or 5 songs to take a chance on. Oftentimes they sucked but many of them later became hits. It's almost as if the music business is back in the 1950s when singles were sold on 45 rpm records before LP albums became bigger. But at least the 45s each came with a B side track that didn't have to sound like an instant hit.
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  6307.  @D-One  So not liking music you think he should like is racist now. That'll make him like it.
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  6308. 13:28 OMG that Jerrold button box thing, I completely forgot those things ever existed, huge flashback right there. God how I am glad I don't have to use that ever again.
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  6309. It's also where David Hahn, aka "The Radioactive Boy Scout", got his thorium supply when attempting to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's garden shed.
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  6310. A 25 pound lobster?! TWENTY FIVE POUNDS?! Wow...
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  6311. Well, SpaceX did launch a Tesla car into solar orbit, so it checks out.
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  6312. Patton got an epic film made about him, so it works out.
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  6313.  @josiahferguson6194  Thanks. From that link it was Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Marion Riley, who survived, and it's a still from a movie camera film he was shooting. Also, that article links to a youtube video of the film.
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  6314. 3:01 of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXcnUtMT4A&NR=1
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  6315. And lately we see young people out in the streets with hammer and sickle emblems burning stuff, assaulting people and chanting "death to America" and it makes me sick to think of what these unknown soldiers died for and how these people show such disrespect for their own inheritance.
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  6316. Drach, wonderful video! Looking forward to more, and hopefully, to your eventual visit to the US.
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  6317.  @Justin.Martyr  Ask your mom.
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  6318. Sending out an S U S!
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  6319. Correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding was that Apollo's use of a lifting reentry upon return from the Moon was required in order to be survivable; a ballistic reentry at translunar velocity would either destroy the heat shield and/or kill the crew by excessive Gs. For a LEO mission, ballistic reentry was a fallback option, say, from a Skylab mission.
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  6320. During the blooper footage at the end I was waiting for you to Do It Live Bill O'Reilly style.
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  6321. That dig on Austin tho lol
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  6322. Maybe you could roast coffee in zero-G by achieving orbit and then using a solar lens for heat, like a big magnifier. The sun should pretty intense at that altitude.
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  6323. House of the Rising Sun by The Animals Sweet Home Alabama by Lynard Skynard Elevation by Television almost any song by Chuck Berry
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  6324. Girl mullets are called femullets.
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  6325. I'm trying to keep an open mind. But it's really really hard sometimes.
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  6326. This video is more proof that cats run the internetz and Thoughty2 is working for them.
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  6327. America is so backwards. They'll never invent supersonic jets, transistors, or land a man on the moon because they use those old imperial units.
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  6328.  @bfc3057  A sense of humor is worth a lot, though. Try it on for size.
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  6329. He mentions early fax machines in the beginning. IF interested, search youtube for "Secret Life of Machines Fax" for an awesome TV show which I miss very much.
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  6330. If the US Navy had totally screwed up its response to Japan (catastrophic losses at Coral Sea, Midway, and other places), would the Royal Navy have eventually been able to win in the Pacific?
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  6331. Drach is in MythBusters mode today!
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  6332.  @goodun2974  Fine, then, stick with coal.
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  6333.  @goodun2974  As opposed to what? A druid priestess?
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  6334.  @goodun2974  Those things are all built by engineers.
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  6335. I don't think car accidents would be the main danger; these power units would likely be nearly indestructible bricks of shielding material with the nuclear parts inside and be built to withstand all manner of collisions and fires. I think the bigger danger would be having hundreds of thousands of these things scatter around the world, in garages and junkyards, unaccounted for, and having grease monkeys and tinkerers cracking them open to play with them, resulting in orphaned radioactive sources popping up in random places causing lots of radiation injuries and deaths. This happens today with old X-ray machines and other hospital gear containing isotopes from time to time, and those are far less numerous and mostly tracked.
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  6336. My main confusion is seeing that Pioneer apparently makes not only hi fi gear but also HVAC equipment, and that they stole Pepsi's corporate logo.
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  6337. This is what we wanted, right? Robots do all the work while we walk around cities of crystal spires wearing togas and philosophizing, playing music on harps, and having casual sex. That's what advanced civilizations in Star Trek always looked like.
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  6338. Imagine if Swift joined an actual rock band.
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  6339. Sounds like an Imperial code.
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  6340. You should do a vid like this for best bass albums to get inspiration. I grew up playing bass and didn't really learn how to play guitar at all until I was in my 40s (so yeah, I still suck at guitar), but I can tell you which albums inspired me to play bass. Fragile by Yes, Led Zeppelin II, Powerslave by Iron Maiden, and almost anything ever made by Rush. Geddy Lee is the reason I started playing music. The first song I ever learned end to end on the bass was Distant Early Warning by Rush. In the 80s hair metal era every kid wanted to play guitar or drums, but if you were a half decent bass player you were in high demand. Once I played some Rush in front of my friends while hanging out one day, my name got spread around and I got phone calls from kids I didn't know in other high schools asking me to try out for their bands. Also, before I forget: 1990, so young! ;-)
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  6341. If you think talking about cold fusion may impact your career, I can think of a few other subjects you might want to avoid (-cough-vaccines-cough-)
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  6342. I wonder if the lady who called in the gas smell to ConEd managed to get out of the building in time.
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  6343.  @dogtown1971  How does that make you feel?
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  6344. When your poor choice of words for your title dominates the comments instead of the very interesting content.
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  6345. Meanwhile, over on the space side of Boeing, how's that nifty Starliner doing, huh? Should be on your 3rd or 4th manned flight by now, right? Hello? I think they hung up on me.
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  6346.  @GH-oi2jf  Have you actually been paying attention to the Starliner program? It's a huge cockup driven by poor quality control, mainly of the flight software. It's not behind because people are being cautious, it's behind because people aren't doing their jobs.
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  6347. I think I agree with you in principle, Kyle, but people have been conditioned to fear radiation and anything with the word "nuclear" in it, and the politicians thus act accordingly. And consider that if they didn't evacuate, at least temporarily, and some new problem develops with the plant that causes a real radiation hazard, the politicians would never live that down. TV reporters doing what you did at the beginning of this vid, filming themselves with chirping Geiger counters on the evening news, would ensure that fear drives decisions. In the immediate wake of a nuclear accident, possible future anxiety and depression is merely a hypothetical threat while the meltdown is an immediate one.
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  6348.  @stolearovigor281  wut?
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  6349. Geddy Lee vs. Chris Squire! Also, I love that you're lounging on the couch for this video, still wearing the Beato Black uniform lol.
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  6350.  @tinafoster8665  The Japanese "corporate"?
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  6351. I feel bad for the truckers, there's nothing they can do in this situation, the one guy even pulled over and stopped because he knew what was coming. Even worse if you own your own truck.
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  6352. I visited an industrial facility once that employed Pinkerton security guards. Maybe the Pinkertons were scary in the old days, but the ones I saw were fat, lazy, and sleepy. Times change I guess.
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  6353. Because the Constitution is not respected as it once was. We pick and choose which parts we believe in based on which candidate we want to see elected (not that elections are meaningful anymore) and swamp creatures see the Constitution as a barrier to enacting their schemes. So we all pay it lip service while blowing it off.
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  6354. I think it's because you know some spy or sleeper cell out there is listening to it, and they could be your next door neoghbors. Cold War paranoia, Twilight Zone style.
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  6355. 4:55 RM you need to charge that Bearcat!
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  6356. Every time you show a picture of the PSFS building I hear the WMMR station ID in my head.
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  6357. Show us a trick.
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  6358. The weird thing is that it's the Americans who are still flying Harriers off of ships. Until the USMC finishes transitioning to the F-35 anyway.
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  6359. Scott, you should tell us about that massive record collection you have there, and play that Stratocaster for us sometime!
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  6360.  @ChristopherPhillips  He does. Take a dive through his channel videos.
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  6361. Government bullshit. Does every astronaut with a handheld camera need to get a NOAA license, too? How about passengers on space tourist flights? Government has the power to tell you not to take pictures of a planet from space? Bullshit.
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  6362. Awesome, best explanation I've seen or read anywhere. Now, for some craziness, off to Bionerd's channel!
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  6363. Wannabe astronauts out there cutting their legs off now...
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  6364. You spin a great yarn, Drach. Well done.
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  6365. Funny, but obviously untrue. Certain discoveries were only possible with massive funding due to the cost of the equipment and infrastructure involved. You can't build particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, and orbiting telescopes without a decent budget.
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  6366. "Lock out, tag out" is the safety system you're looking for.
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  6367. Scott, maybe you could look into the other training simulator, the "LEMS" or Lunar Excursion Module Simulator, which they have at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Langley, VA. I can't find much info on it but I think it was tethered to a big crane so that the pilot can't roll it over. I've seen it up close. The pilot stands up inside the tiny booth of a cockpit and it's not as big as the LLTV.
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  6368.  @shawnmiller4781  Not sure, maybe. The museum is on a street near the water.
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  6369.  @shawnmiller4781  Oh okay, I see what you mean now.
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  6370. Microsleep, or as we call it sometimes, "doing touch and goes".
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  6371.  @MakerInMotion  No kidding, Sherlock, so answer my question: why did MD's QA take a downturn?
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  6372.  @MacFinn-wp2vn  I don't think that was it. It was more of a straight history book and I think it was just called "Old Ironsides" which makes it almost impossible to look up. But yes, I had a great uncle who served in the Navy in WWII, and I myself served in the Corps in Desert Storm, and later aboard USS Nassau LHA-4. I'll look up the book you mentioned. Semper FI, brother.
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  6373. Awesome. I always thought dragsters are the ultimate race car. Nothing fancy, just get to the end of the track before anyone else, and be as loud and badass as you need to be to get it done. I also think of the RS-25 rocket engine used on the Space Shuttle as being like a dragster engine: it only runs for a brief time, runs at maximum performance pushing the limits of engineering, and has to be torn down after every flight as a result.
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  6374. Now we just need to combine a rail accident with a building collapse and a nuclear meltdown and we'll have the perfect PD video.
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  6375. I saw that video before years ago. I remember what he said about soloing: "Embellish the melody!" That stuck with me.
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  6376. @andredeketeleastutecomplex  That's not how your mom spells it.
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  6377. Any clime and place! If the US has to fight a war on the moon, Marines will find a way to be there. Semper Fidelis.
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  6378. Links in the description are always appreciated, since I have all that cards and other crap turned off by default. I hate those things.
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  6379. Chiba is coincidentally the opening setting of William Gibson's Nueromancer.
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  6380.  @cythefox7510  Metro: we dare you to ride!
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  6381. So, today I learned that a Hitler honorably served in the United States Navy. This channel never fails to fascinate me.
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  6382.  @thomosburn8740 Techmoan has them all.
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  6383. This is like the transporter accident in Star Trek TMP. "Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long. Fortunately."
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  6384. I don't know much about salvage law, but if the commander (Soapy) of the vessel in question (the Harrier) is still with his ship, is that really a valid claim? Isn't this the equivalent of giving a boat a tow when its engine is broke?
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  6385.  @InventorZahran  And some "experts" say that studying Bach is racist, or something...
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  6386.  @robin_holden  No, it's Bach. Broadly, Western music.
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  6387. Excellent topic choice. More science history, please! James Burke's got nothing on you.
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  6388. Deach, what are those fin-like objects on the ship's bottom? What are they called and what is their purpose?
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  6389. Houston: "Remember, you're not allowed to eat the cookies. The fresh, yummy-smelling cookies you've just baked after breathing canned air and eating meat-flavored toothpaste for 5 months, you MAY NOT eat them. Yeah?" ISS crew: "Um...Right. Okay." Houston: "Good. Now, how many cookies did you bake, exactly?" ISS crew: "20 cookies...no wait, 10. We baked 10 cookies. Only ten. Honest."
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  6390. So if the former colonial power has the right of intervention in a crisis, does that mean that Her Majesty's forces will swoop in to help the Americans when the communists seize power there?
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  6391.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I bet. We got our cat a bell collar once when I was growing up. Once. She made her displeasure very clear.
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  6392. Not much I can say about how awesome EVH was that hasn't been said. I will say, as a bassist who knows only a bit about guitar, that I did not know about the tempered tuning thing, that's really cool to learn! Back in the 80s playing in bands, usually I would tune my bass to a pitch tone generator at home (it is a stop watch that also makes an electronic tone), and the guitarists would tune to my bass since basses stay in tune longer than guitars. The lead guitarist in my band back then was really talented but I don't remember if he ever tempered his instrument or not, if so he never pointed it out to me.
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  6393. Actually, Kyle, I did send you a letter, but it got there so fast it didn't fit in your house.
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  6394. Isn't "major key with sad lyrics" how many Cure songs work, too?
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  6395. The US tried to do the same thing in WWII with old B-17 bombers. Loaded them with explosives, flew them toward a target and then bailed out, after which time the primitive cruise missile would be radio-controlled by a pilot in another B-17. It was an attempt to take out hard targets like sub pens and V-2 launch sites, and it was pretty much a failure. President Kennedy's brother was killed in one of the failed missions.
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  6396. For Halloween Scott should go as Captain Ramius from Hunt For Red October.
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  6397. Mark Felton as the next James Bond?
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  6398. The Space Shuttle also used paper covers over the orbiter's thruster nozzles to keep out birds and bugs, which fell off at launch. There was also a constant problem with birds, especially woodpeckers, going after the sides of the external tank and pecking at the foam insulation. All sorts of things were tried to discourage the birds, like fake owls and balloons and so on.
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  6399. Okay, okay, YouTube algorithm, you keep telling me to watch this. Hope you're happy now.
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  6400. ​ @Silver_Prussian  Absolutely false. In the days before GPS, they made a navigational error and strayed over Soviet airspace. The fighter pilot who intercepted the jet (KAL 007) reported that he saw the rows of windows and identified it as a civilian 747, and that she was flying with her navigation and anticollision strobe lights on, but he followed orders and killed those passengers anyway. Then the USSR lied about it and tried to cover it up. Of course you know all this and are just being a commie troll.
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  6401.  @Silver_Prussian  "Absolutely false. In the days before GPS, they made a navigational error and strayed over Soviet airspace. The fighter pilot who intercepted the jet (KAL 007) reported that he saw the rows of windows and identified it as a civilian 747, and that she was flying with her navigation and anticollision strobe lights on, but he followed orders and killed those passengers anyway. Then the USSR lied about it and tried to cover it up. Of course you know all this and are just being a commie troll."
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  6402.  @Silver_Prussian  Absolutely false. In the days before GPS, they made a navigational error and strayed over Soviet airspace. The fighter pilot who intercepted the jet (KAL 007) reported that he saw the rows of windows and identified it as a civilian 747, and that she was flying with her navigation and anticollision strobe lights on, but he followed orders and killed those passengers anyway. Then the USSR lied about it and tried to cover it up. Of course you know all this and are just being a commie troll.
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  6403. If Amos Burton finds out about this Watson guy, Watson will find out what "that guy" means.
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  6404. I was waiting for him to tear one apart through the magic of buying two of them.
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  6405. Flying in a balloon or airship over Jupiter might sound cool at first, but imagine the awful death you'd experience if you fell off the platform. May as well just open your helmet as soon as you lose your hold.
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  6406. So Nickelback is good because Rick Astley has finally joined them? Nice!
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  6407. I never knew SW played the drums, wow, sick beats!
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  6408.  @ryanwebb6356  If you got the balls to. Their cover of Satisfaction is perhaps the greatest cover ever made, and they play it super tight live. Devo is no joke.
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  6409. Let's face it, in this situation I would take my cellphone off of airplane mode and dial 911.
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  6410.  @reasonerenlightened2456  Typical communist, can't even spell Marx correctly.
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  6411. I just want to put in a word for the guy who had to go out on that beech and disarm that mine. Amazing courage.
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  6412. STS was imperfect, expensive, and yes, it was dangerous. But it was the first of its kind and it represented several bold technological leaps. And while we like to think of the Apollo-Saturn system as being safer, let's not forget that it killed 3 crewmen even before its first flight, nearly killed three more in Apollo 13, had its share of technical problems, and only flew a handful of times, compared to STS's 133 successful flights and 2 failures, so it doesn't have a large enough sample size to declare it superior. Spaceflight is dangerous. Space Shuttle scared me every time it flew, along with thrilling me, and I'm glad it's retired, but you have to give it credit where credit's due. The ISS is built, the Hubble is still in service along with many other payloads, and future spaceplanes will benefit from the lessons learned.
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  6413. Actually lots of people are dreaming of using something pretty like it. Starting with the unmanned vehicles, the X-37 is using shuttle tech and it's in active service with the USAF, so it's more than just a dream. Buran was an example of a shuttle-like side-stacked vehicle that avoided the foam and solid booster issue, so at least in concept it was safer. VentureStar was another spaceplane idea that would've avoided boosters and external tanks altogether. Then there is the British Skylon project, which may or may not ever fly, but it's prompting some advanced engine and airframe research. Had Congress the willpower to go with a "Shuttle 2.0" instead of the SLS, NASA may have been able to solve problems that STS couldn't, such as debris strikes, reusable first stage, and crew bailout options during launch. As for the SRBs, they worked fine as long as you paid attention to the engineers who told you not use them in freezing weather, and after the post-Challenger redesign, that quit being such a problem as well. There was also the idea of swapping them to kerolox LRBs, which would return and land at the launch base after separation, but no money was ever allocated for it. It would've made boost-phase aborts possible and increased the performance of the whole system.
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  6414.  @8bviews91  spam
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  6415. Aren't the tires on the Apollo Lunar rovers basically fancy metal springs?
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  6416. Wow, a Grumman Cat I haven't heard of! I like the hint at the end, even if it is a General Dynamics competitor, and not a much more famous member of the Cat family.
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  6417. That Capehart guy's face looks like knuckles find it attractive.
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  6418. Grey Sleet is now my rock musician stage name.
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  6419. We often wish we could un-invent things, but not only it that impossible, it's even worse: once you realize a thing is possible, someone somewhere is going to do it. So your only choice is to do it first. The Soviets got most of their information from British traitor scientists working on the Manhattan Project after sloppy background investigations by the British government, but even without them the USSR would've gotten around to it sooner or later. The Nazis and Imperial Japanese both had nuclear programs but didn't take them very seriously; had they made through the war intact they likely would've gotten around to it sooner or later, too. Once the science is out there, it's going to come to light like it or not.
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  6420. Polemic
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  6421. Good video, but it gets a thumbs down for pineapple on pizza.
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  6422. If The Wire had gone on long enough we'd have seen Amos Burton's crew in action before he left town and made his way to a spot on the crew of the Roci.
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  6423. Whenever I see a nuclear-hardened structure like that surrounded by ordinary buildings or bucolic scenery it always creeps me out a little, knowing what that structure is supposed to withstand and that nothing else in the vicinity is protected in the event it is ever put to the test.
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  6424. This channel is like Disney World for music lovers. And while old farts from the Eagles are busy blocking you from almost even mentioning their band's name, here's Misha helping you out and no doubt making more fans for his band. I definitely plan on checking out more Periphery now, seems like another reason blockers are stupid.
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  6425. Great video. I used to have a deck of cards from Delta Airlines, back in the 70s and 80s when airlines had stuff like that. Wish I still had it. I also had a WWII deck that has silhouettes of Japanese ships on them to train sailors to identify enemy ships.
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  6426. Okay, but this video is incomplete, due to the lack of La Cucaracha horns and the Dixie horn from The Dukes of Hazzard.
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  6427. That photo at 2:04 reminds me of those crazy iconic photos of guys building the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers a hundred years ago. Tough men getting big stuff done.
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  6428.  @cherriberri8373  If you are going to dock with or grapple with it, you need to do it before it loses attitude control completely. Once it starts tumbling there may be no safe way to physically contact it.
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  6429. This is an amazing and thrilling story.
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  6430. People died in crashes after driving a fast car at high speeds, so the car is cursed. Right. People died from lung cancer after smoking lots of cigarettes, so I guess there is a curse on tobacco, too. Yeah, that sounds like good science.
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  6431. 11:30 Love that photo (or is it a painting?). The bleak industrial landscape. Where did you find that?
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  6432. The "Spear of Destiny" sounds like a crock of shit to begin with.
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  6433.  @crhu319  Shot what into space around Venus? LM Aquarius? The Aquarius was on the same trajectory as the command module Odyssey it was docked to. This trajectory was a return from the moon to reenter the earth's atmosphere. The crew stayed in Aquarius until the last minute to save battery power in Odyssey and then jettisoned Aquarius, leaving her to be destroyed upon reentry. There was no physical possibility of preventing that from happening.
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  6434. "I don't need your business." Us: "Okay." "No, wait, you're supposed to get angry and buy a ticket anyway!"
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  6435. Boca Chica is not supposed to be a long term launch site anyway, so there is the question of how much money do they want to blow improving it when eventually all the action will be at Cape Canaveral.
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  6436. "The girl with the surgical tattoo" LMAO
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  6437. ​ @thisandthat1701 you are a banana. A great big red banana. With a tinfoil beanie cap.
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  6438.  @robertpatrick3350  Whatever you call that deep, almost black, blue color of the SR-71 is the fastest jet color. (Also a Lockheed creation, BTW)
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  6439. Yeah, no. Actually, the distances, time scales, and staggering energy levels involved in the heavens above us does scare me. And makes me a little sad. There is simply so much universe out there for us to see that even with Dr. Who levels of fantasy technology we simply won't even scratch the surface.
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  6440. Scenarios like that are what Marines are supposed to be there for.
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  6441. Anyone who has been issued one of these medals need not take out his or her wallet to pay for drinks if I'm in the vicinity. Least I can do. Semper Fidelis.
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  6442. That film is so inaccurate in terms of dates and names etc.
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  6443.  @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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  6444. 8:53 I am disappoint...
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  6445. While it's a decent song as written, I don't like the production, and John's voice sounds weird and perhaps even a bit auto-tuned. If Ringo and Paul are okay with it, than it's okay of course, but just wait until they are out of the picture and watch the record company start mining their old tapes for more money via AI trickery like this.
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  6446. TANSTAAFL
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  6447.  @underwaterdick  Exactly.
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  6448.  @Colt45hatchback  I remember those foam 2D gliders, I think I had a Zero as well. Fuck that hobby shop owner.
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  6449. Back in the 80s and 90s the joke was that if you saw a teenager with a pager he was probably a drug dealer lol.
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  6450. Drach, these collabs with Ops Room are fantastic.
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  6451. Another great Drach vid. I knew there were training carriers up until 1991, but I never knew there were coal-fired paddlewheelers!
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  6452.  @robbannstrom  He has an idea you don't like, so you decide to be rude and insulting.
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  6453. 25:55 Lol at the guy maintaining the high-tech Sparrow missile with, of all things, a hammer.
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  6454. The US used to have this, it was called the A-1 Skyraider.
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  6455. The door problem reminds me of the early shuttle flight where the crew couldn't get the payload bay doors to close due to thermal expansion. The solution was to rotate the vehicle to a different sun angle and let the structure change temperature a bit.
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  6456. Since the 2020 riots DC is now getting worse again, some nights it's like a Mad Max movie there, carjackings through the roof. Baltimore, meanwhile, has gotten even worse. The Inner Harbor is now scary in broad daylight, with drugged out wackjobs wandering around like zombies, even though it seems there are cop cars all around.
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  6457. Devin is now the patriarchy!
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  6458. Everything in China is named "heavenly XXXXXX"
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  6459. Never thought about this before, but it's true. Though I wonder, is he better-known than J. S. Bach?
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  6460. XP was one of, if not the, best versions of Windows. Too bad MS stopped supporting it and gave us all these junk versions.
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  6461. Most of the awful pop songs you use as examples needed to fade out before they began.
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  6462. Putting it in a higher orbit absolutely does not remove the need for station keeping maneuvers, since the solar radiation pressure on a 16 km^2 array is going to have a very large effect on the orbit eccentricity in a surprisingly short period of time.
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  6463. 7 is the correct answer.
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  6464.  @saundby  Did you work for them before they merged with Rocketdyne?
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  6465. One thing you didn't mention as a drawback with window units was the tendency of people to drop them out the window every once in a while. When you're balancing that heavy sucker on the window sill, make sure you don't let go of it until you get it secured, or else it's going for a ride. And heaven help any poor schmuck walking under your bedroom window when you screw this up.
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  6466. Let's see how that works out for you.
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  6467. Did Carl Sagan steal your stuff?!
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  6468. This is what happens when you try to fly without Kaylee in the engine room.
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  6469. Everything about the Saturn program was astounding, awesome, massive, and literally earth-shaking. Great video, and great shirt!
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  6470. Did you make this up?
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  6471. I'm going to need to be convinced that human pilots, likely former fighter pilots, are any more dangerous than an unthinking bot programmed by a millennial neckbeard sitting at his computer covered in Cheeto dust who thinks flying KSP makes him good at space stuff. Boeing and Airbus aircraft have killed people because of software combined with aircraft design flaws or system failures. In at least a few cases, had a trained human pilot not been relying on automation the accidents could've been avoided.
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  6472. This is fascinating stuff, I knew about Conqueror's attack on the Gen. Belgrano but I wasn't aware of all the other submarine operations and antisubmarine attacks. This naval campaign had a huge influence on naval strategy and tactics in the decade that followed and is still studied today. As far as I know this was the first time anti-ship missiles had been used and it was pretty big wakeup call to the world's navies. I think the importance of antisubmarine capability is also a major lesson learned here. Also, never underestimate a brave pilot determined to press his attack.
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  6473. That photo at 3:57 looks amazing, like it was shot yesterday.
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  6474.  @AnotherPointOfView944  Von Braun looked up to Robert Goddard as one of his heroes.
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  6475. Anything on the French and Indian War is appreciated, a hugely interesting time in a wild country, with a lot of interesting people. One of my favorite movies was Last of the Mohicans, and it was my favorite period to study in history when I was growing up. It's fascinating to know that both the US and Canadian armies have Ranger regiments, who share a common lineage dating back to Rogers' Rangers in the 1750s. (The Confederate army also had Ranger units with similar common heritage). I supposed Canadians pay the F&I War more attention in school and so on, but in the US it's pretty much overshadowed by the Revolution and the later Civil War, but it was a huge influence in shaping modern North America.
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  6476. Little known fact: those wheelbarrows all had dash cams and were paying techno music during the races.
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  6477. We just don't see giant rock stars today like we did in the 70s and 80s. There are a small handful of pop superstars, your Beyonces and your Adeles, but pop rock stars? I think the Police would be successful in the sense that they'd have a strong following and an internet presence, but I don't think any rock band gets to be the huge mainstream force they used to become anymore. There are a ton of really good rock bands out there with large fanbases but they will never get radio airplay and they don't make lots of money from music sales anymore. Think of Dead Meadow, Screaming Females, and countless others. You have to be part of their scene or a really big music fan willing to dig around to find out about them.
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  6478. 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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  6479.  @neezduts69420  ok
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  6480. I used to be a pretty hardcore gamer back in the 90s but ever since then gaming has become mostly MMO which holds no interest for me. Old school games were mostly standalone and didn't usually require an internet connection. Glad to see this. I agree about the old TIE Fighter game from Lucasarts being an amazing game.
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  6481. This is a great video. Two things amaze me about this device: how they managed to build sophisticated electronic devices that withstand the forces, and even more so, how they managed to keep it a secret for so long, with so many people involved and troops in the field using it.
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  6482. That business about the Chinese communists trying to recruit her is not without precedent. A few recent spy cases involved this, and then there is the case of Hsue-shen Tsien, the American rocket scientist who got marginalized during the 1950s Red Scare and went to China. A brilliant man who is now regarded as the father of the Chinese space program. That was a stupid move by the US government.
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  6483. In an abort scenario it's a good idea to keep everything as simple as possible. Capsules, Russian, Chinese, and American, are usually designed so that if you do nothing, it will settle into a heat shield forward attitude, making it inherently safe. You just need to rotate it to cancel out any lift, and just let it hurtle through the sky until the altimeter senses you are low enough to open the chute. This is the simplest way to get the crew safely back to the surface even if the autopilot electronics all fail, if there is no way to tell what your attitude is, if the crew is already unconscious, etc. Just get the thing back to the ground in one piece.
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  6484. Even in the 80s AC was a dump. The casinos put a facade on the dump, but it wasn't even a good one. Casinos are sleezy nasty places that attract organized crime, drugs and hookers, and they are designed to take money from old people who would roll up in busses and blow all their money on slots. If you wanted a place to take your kids down the shore you went to Wildwood or the like. Wildwood was kind of seedy, too, sometimes, but the amusement piers, videogame arcades, pizza joints, all made it a fun place to go for a Saturday or a weekend.
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  6485. Listen to your mom: if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your pie hole shut.
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  6486. Now I'm hungry for pork chops.
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  6487. The problem with projects like this is it's such a high stakes gamble, it drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price, which makes the stakes higher, which drives up the price....anyway, the damn thing better work.
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  6488. 6:11 is that Alec Baldwin before he was fat?
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  6489. This kind of old retro-tech stuff is what drew me to this channel in the first place. Well done.
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  6490. GPS was designed, funded, and built specifically by the USAF for use by the US military; no need to act like this is new information. It was used to great effect to monkey stomp the Iraqi army in 1991 and was a huge game changer for the whole world at the time. In the early days they even deliberately muddied up the signal so that civilians could not get the same accuracy as the military, before giving up on that and just letting the general public use it as you do today with your phone or car. But while it's used to target weapons, it is not a weapons system in any way, rather it's a navigational system.
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  6491. Not only is the C-130 a 1950s design, it's also still in production. Lockheed Martin is building brand new ones. The civilian version did a loop at an airshow a couple of years ago, amazingly. Now if only Boeing were smart enough to restart DC-3 production...
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  6492. I was very young then but I do actually recall this getting a blurb on the news back then.
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  6493. You could always bring back zeppelins and try to find a solution to the vertical wind problems that stopped service to the Empire State Building's roof. I'm having trouble seeing Uber's "skyport" system working. For starters, the vehicles would still be expensive and they'd have to be pretty small, a lot smaller than a V-22, which has a large ground footprint. Then there is the problem of having aircraft flying around an urban area, possibly near skyscrapers. Besides the obvious collision and crash risk, they will be noisy, even if they are electric (which has range problems of its own). Best of luck to them, though.
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  6494. I used to have a spotter scope that was used at a gun range to spot bullet holes in the distant targets so you could score yourself, and also for watching wildlife, and it also doubled as a nice scope that you could keep in your car. It even had a mount that you clipped onto the edge of your car window so you could use your car as a tripod of sorts. Plus the image went through a prism and was non-reversed. They maybe aren't the best for astronomy, but they're better than that Vivitar and actually useful for terrestrial observing as well.
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  6495.  @CombinationK  Then how come we are watching his videos instead of yours, wet blanket?
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  6496. 10:30 Good to have the presence of mind to hang on to your soda cup while helping to free survivors.
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  6497. I witnessed an HVAC guy do the funky chicken dance when he stuck his finger in the wrong spot while servicing my heat pump. Glad I was there, had he passed out or gotten stuck he'd have been in a tight spot if he were alone.
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  6498. These old photos and films are great.
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  6499. What about Planet P? Why Me?
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  6500. When I saw the title I thought this might be about the guitar solo in Freewill by Rush, which is really a guitar, bass, and drum solo at the same time.
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  6501. I'm gonna have to watch this again at least once before my brain can properly visualize this.
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  6502. Gold plated TOSLINK connectors. Audiophiles lol.
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  6503. Rick, I grew up in the 80s and never much cared for this band, and this song was played to death on the radio, but halfway through this video I am suddenly waking up to it, thanks for the eye-opener! (Now how do I get my band to cover this...)
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  6504. Cool, I like the sun shining in across the panel as you rolled the spacecraft. I used to fly Mercury missions in Orbiter a few years back, I should load that up again and have some fun.
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  6505. Imagine how much funnier SNL would be if they ditched the wokeness and hired this crew.
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  6506. Won't be near any of those places this time, Drach, but here's wishing you a happy trip.
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  6507. There was a guy I read about a few years ago who was collecting that uranium kitchenware. I think he got a visit from the FBI one day when everyone was all jittery after 9/11 but he wasn't doing anything illegal. I'm pretty sure you can still buy a can of uranium ore from science lab supply companies, basically a box of rocks from areas where natural uranium is common.
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  6508. So then, Epstein didn't kill Patton, either.
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  6509. So let me get this straight: this woman correctly stated that Barham was sunk, so that makes her a "fraud"? LOL government. Imprisoning people for guessing secrets nobody even knew were secrets.
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  6510. Funny about the ZIP+4; it's been so long since I bothered to use the extra 4 I had to think really hard to remember it. Kind of like how the government tried to switch the US to metric in the 70s and Americans just blew it off until they finally took down those stupid speed limit signs and gave up. Also, Mr. Zip reminds of Mr. Saladfingers, hits a little too close.
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  6511. Back in the 90s I used to play a combat flight sim on the PC called "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe" by LucasArts. Ran on DOS on my old 80386/40MHz machine, and if you played the German side you eventually received almost all of these awards, and they were all explained in the highly detailed instruction manual (boy those days are gone in gaming!). Much of my detailed WWII knowledge comes from 1990s PC games such as "Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic" and "Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far".
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  6512. Communists. What a lovely bunch of guys, the way they treat their liberators.
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  6513. 3:15 lol that guy with the rocket launcher posing for the photo.
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  6514. You should get a downvote just for that seasonings greetings joke. You really should. But I upvoted you anyway for some reason. Also, I have a bubble light nightlight that looks like Uncle Sam's star=spangled top hat. Guess that'll have to turn up in my next music video or something now.
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  6515. I'm watching this on Thursday night at 11 PM EDT, and 3950 kHz LSB is pretty active at the moment. I need my mag loop antenna to pick up some of the signals. They're not talking UFOs at the moment, though, talking instead about current truck prices.
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  6516. So when it comes to speech, New Zealand is to Australia what Canada is to the US?
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  6517. ​ @insertnamehere5809 Larson has relearned the old lesson that you can rarely go wrong by just shutting the fuck up.
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  6518. It's nice to see a video about thorium that doesn't come off like an infomercial. Seems like they were everywhere a few years back and it made me quit taking thorium seriously.
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  6519.  @tellyknessis6229  In general Volkswagens were good cars until the early 1990s, especially the older air cooled ones. Vintage Beetles, Fastbacks, and Squarebacks. The early 90s water-cooled Fox was probably the last true well made cheap VW.
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  6520.  @briancrawford8751  I'll have to check to see where mine was made. Sinclair was a British company though, and I'm pretty sure the Sinclair machines (not the Timex license builds) were made in the UK at least initially. Not sure if Mr. Sinclair himself is still alive at this point.
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  6521.  @cs-rj8ru  Fair enough. I drove a 79 Sirocco that had a water-cooled 1.6L motor in it and if hadn't been destroyed in a wreck I might still driving it today. It was a great car, manual everything, and when stuff did need maintenance I was usually able to do it myself. My dad had a 73 Beetle which he took good care of and it was a solid reliable car; he regretted selling it. Now I drive a 15 year old Chevy pickup with almost 270k miles on it, which is one of the best made vehicles I've ever driven. Standards have gone way up in the last 30 years.
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  6522. I just can't imagine somebody as active as Scott blowing his spare time on video games.
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  6523.  @scottmanley  I don't know where you find the time! I waste mine watching too much youtube lol.
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  6524. I love this channel.
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  6525. My dad used to hate the stock "busy office phones ringing" sound effect you'd hear in every movie or TV show that featured a police station or a newsroom. Also, when a phone rings several times before a character picks it up, that drove him nuts and still drives me nuts.
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  6526. Reminds me of the funicular at the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania. It takes you from the parking area up to the middle of the Curve where you can watch heavy freight trains screaming up the grade.
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  6527. He says it twice in the video: too slow, not cost-effective, high fuel consumption.
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  6528.  @michaelcollier9368  I use a twook to tune my guitar.
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  6529. Rods over Venus! lol I wonder if I'm the only one that remembers that myth.
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  6530. All it takes is Jane Fonda making another nuclear disaster movie and all this common sense gets lost in the noise.
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  6531. I was in a car museum recently that had several Model T's, and I don't think any of them were black. I remember seeing one that was dark green and another in dark blue. The guy who worked there told me that you could get a T in almost any color you wanted, and the whole black-only thing is largely a myth. Maybe black was cheaper and other colors were a custom option or something, or maybe he was wrong, I don't know.
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  6532. Etta is quite beautiful in that photograph. Thumbs up for the In Search Of... callout
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  6533. I think one or two Rush songs cold at least make honorable mention. Spirit of Radio maybe?
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  6534.  @PRosendo0101  When you read about how Columbia's crew likely died...nevermind. Just don't read it.
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  6535. This is some solid Dark5 here.
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  6536.  @vinny142  Keeping nukes airborne at all times was important to make sure they couldn't all be wiped out on the ground in a first strike; the knowledge of this was a deterrent. All of this is well documented history and is easily accessible information. Anyone who doesn't bother looking it up has no business calling others "complete fucking morons".
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  6537. Bring Amber Lamps!
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  6538. According to Wikipedia the ship was also armed with 12 42-pounder carronades.
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  6539. What about the Bloop?
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  6540. Drachism of the Day: "Bipedal attack dogs that made up the majority of RN destroyer captains" USN responds: "Oh, you have those too, huh?"
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  6541. Turbine powered land vehicles never seem to work out except in rare cases like the M1 Abrams tank. Even then it's a fuel hog. I think Jay Leno has a turbine powered car in his collection. Putting turbojets on a locomotive just seems like the worst idea. Noisy, smoky, hard to maintain, and worse of all, can't use them going backwards, a major fail for a railroad locomotive in an age when diesel electrics and external power electrics can run fine in either direction.
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  6542. Maybe you should force us at gunpoint. You know, for our own good.
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  6543.  @emmata98  Well, then, while you're forcing us to change our units, maybe you can force us to give up our right to self defense, too. You seem to have it all figured out.
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  6544.  @emmata98  As long as it's metric self-defense it's okay, though.
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  6545. So how many soldiers in pup kink masks can it carry?
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  6546. In the miniseries Band of Brothers, the American pathfinders are briefly preparing to depart a British airfield with their mohawk haircuts and war paint, and Ambrose talks about them in his book on D-Day as well. I always thought the war paint was a nice touch; as if the Germans wouldn't already think these men were crazy enough.
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  6547. Massachusetts has an official state sandwich. As if that weren't bad enough, it's called a "fluffer nutter". Massachusetts, explain yourselves.
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  6548. It has to be pointy so that if the warhead doesn't work you can at least use it as a long range bayonet.
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  6549. 90125 is an underrated album. Older prog Yes fans disliked it for obvious reasons and it was never going to be as popular as the fresher 80s acts like Michael Jackson and so on, but if you get past the radio-played-to-death Owner of a Lonely Heart and listen to the deeper cuts like City of Love, Leave It, and Hearts, that album is like a fluffy pink and blue pastel cloud-enshrouded 80s time machine of happiness.
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  6550. It makes me a little sad that the concept of VHF and UHF stations will be lost on people in the future. Growing up in the 80s all the cartoons after school came on the local UHF station and it's where I saw many anime shows, on a TV set that was also a piece of furniture, with a heavy wooden cabinet and a bunch of tubes inside that took a minute to warm up. No remote control, just a couple of big clunky tuning knobs, one that clicked between VHF channels and the other which was more like a radio tuner for UHF tuning. And if the TV broke down, and you couldn't figure out which tube was bad, you'd actually get a television repairman to come to your house and fix it. He had an ultimate set of tools. He could fix it.
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  6551. Io, what a place. And somewhere down there Mau's lab is doing horrible things with the protomolecule.
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  6552. Wednesday Rum Ration? Pausing video, be right back, gonna get me some Captain Morgan Silver Spiced to sit this one through!
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  6553. The one enemy Nelson could not defeat: bureaucrats.
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  6554. 1:25 that is not the USS Essex of the 1960s; that is a photo of the current USS Essex, LHD-2, commissioned in the 1990s. The Essex of the 1960s was CV-9, an Essex-class carrier launched in 1942 and decommissioned in 1969.
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  6555. Don't drink rocket fuel...especially if it's elements from a nuclear thermal rocket reactor.
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  6556. Just a guy doin' his job.
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  6557. Hoaxers incoming, brace for impact! 😄
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  6558. B-52 + Mark Felton = auto click! I didn't know about this. The US presence in Thailand during the war is rarely, if ever mentioned in war films. And war films, unfortunately, are the main source of historical "education" in the US nowadays, unless you decide to teach yourself.
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  6559. I get all my space news from Scott Manley's channel. Fewer ads to deal with here than on actual news sites.
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  6560. That photo at 16:57 is epic. The Phantom with its fangs out. "We have 2 Phantoms. You guys have 28 MiGs. Looks like you need to go back to Egypt and get some more MiGs."
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  6561.  @francescozampognaro2544  Yep sure is.
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  6562. Stopped the vid at 30 seconds. Dislike narration, sorry. The cool music and lack of narration force the viewer to pay attention and make these so much more engaging. Hopefully this is not permanent.
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  6563.  @TheGranicd  An Arab army equipped with shit Soviet equipment and trained to shit Soviet doctrine.
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  6564. Slow as it is, it still beats having to rewrite an entire page after a mistake. Have you ever run across any other font daisy wheels for it? And are daisy wheel printers going to be the next hipster retro-tech comeback?
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  6565. Chalk up another major win for Beato interviews. So refreshing to see an interviewer who does his homework and knows who and what he's talking about.
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  6566.  @TVdinnermasterchef  So they don't have fire doors then? Is that what you're saying?
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  6567.  @uzlonewolf  Yeah thanks, but I wanted to hear it from the guy I responded to.
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  6568. I always associated "illegal" radio/TV receiver use as something they enforce in countries like North Korea, where listening to the wrong station can get you into jail or worse. Sad that this is a thing in "free" countries as well, but not really surprising.
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  6569.  @fungo6631  How does that make you feel?
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  6570. I went to school in the US with a classmate of Polish decent whose name was Piasecki and he pronounced his name the anglicized way: PIE-ah-SEK-ee
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  6571. Apollo 11 dropping the space race mic on the Moon. Nice.
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  6572.  @christiandauz3742  My Republican friend took my Democrat friend's gerbil, stuck it in a sock, and smashed it against the furniture.
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  6573. Does anyone else have the robotic outro memorized and speak along with it aloud at the end of every video? I hope that never goes away, love the intro, too.
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  6574. Look it up. It's on Wikipedia and there are old news articles. I was living in the general area at the time and it was also the news in Philadelphia and Wilmington, a big scandal.
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  6575. We take bridges for granted, but they need looking after.
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  6576. So Pennsylvanians, did he pronounce Wilkes-Barre correctly? ;-) 8:25
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  6577. Why is being sick in the cramped Soyuz better than being sick inside the Mir? Or is it because they'd be sick while trying to dock when they really need to be sharp?
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  6578.  @winkus8586  Oh, did I miss something? Did the US military fire a Russian missile yesterday?
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  6579.  @winkus8586  Wut
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  6580.  @SPrince-t9u  I see. So then, the US went over to Russia and launched a Russian missile yesterday. Got it.
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  6581. Another home run, Rick, keep up the good work! And if you ever do this for a jazz tune, consider some Dave Brubeck.
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  6582. HMS Conqueror licks her chops.
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  6583.  @EvertG8086  Twist it anyway you want. Shutting people down is censorship. No matter how wrong they are.
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  6584.  @havanadaurcy1321  I will debate you if I'm in the mood, but I will never condone the government, or any organization working with the government, in censoring or shadow banning you. Censoring wrong info doesn't keep people from believing it, it only reinforces it. Liberals, actual liberals, used to understand this instinctively. It's why for decades the ACLU defended neo-Nazis' right to freedom of speech, even though they couldn't be farther apart ideologically. Your mocking of the word "freedom" shows your true colors with regard to the concept.
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  6585.  @pomonabill220  No, free speech is never wrong. The only people who oppose free speech are communists, fascists, and other totalitarians who can't bring themselves to understand the concept of human liberty and individual rights. I will never apologize for sticking up for the fundamental right of any person to believe, think, pray, and speak as he wishes, even if it's wrong.
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  6586. I don't spend any time on reddit, so this is the first I'm hearing about all these crazy wars going on over there. That explains what I see happening to one of my friends who spends all his free time on it, and is now a w0ke lunatic. I guess I'm not missing anything.
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  6587. Part of it is Herbie, part of it is just the design. So many cars are designed to look tough or angry, the Beetle was designed to look cheerful. The bumper and headlights look like a happy smiley face.
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  6588.  @archangelgaming8077 I wasn't talking about shiey
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  6589.  @snoopdogg64 She what?
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  6590.  @snoopdogg64 Bionerd23 I think is who I was talking about. Looks like the guy who brought her up deleted his post.
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  6591. Do they use battleaxes or something?
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  6592. Honestly this is not that big of a deal, for cryin' out loud.
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  6593. Must be nice to be where it's cool enough to wear a sweatshirt outside. Cheers.
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  6594. YouTube's censorship bots work in mysterious ways. I miss freedom of speech.
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  6595. The fact is that with the virus restrictions it's not realistic to expect progress on this program to continue apace. It's not national security related so there's no need for engineers to go to work full time on it right now.
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  6596. Would be funny if the Iranians named a ship "Squeaky Fromme"
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  6597. He is smart, within his swim lane of astrophysics. But he's arrogant and enjoys the media spotlight and being invited to cocktail parties by his woke colleagues.
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  6598. Fighting over Toledo. SMH
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  6599. I think it's a sign that aeronautic technology plateaued around the middle of the last century to some degree, at least when it came to large utility aircraft that don't require stealth and stay subsonic. The C-5, C-130, B-52, Tu-95, these are all large airframes that don't have to do anything particularly fancy other than carry large amounts of stuff long distances and in some cases, drop that stuff. Even modern jetliners all started looking the same as early as the late 70s. As long as they don't stress the airframes too much by pulling hard Gs or flying low level too often, they can avoid metal fatigue for many decades. And because they are big airplanes they are pretty easily upgrade with new avionics and other subsystems. That said, C-130 is still in production and new ones are rolling off the line today, much improved versions at the beginning of their service lives, while the last B-52 was built in the 60s.
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  6600.  @lavrentivs9891  Musk's engineers are employed by Musk.
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  6601.  @lavrentivs9891  Cry him a river.
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  6602. "We've been trained to call them electric engines because the FAA doesn't know how to certify motors." Yet another sterling example of FAA competence.
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  6603. This interview is awesome.
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  6604. The Earth is so metal.
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  6605. I'm one of those older fans you mentioned who stopped giving a shit after Jar Jar Abrams's lousy 2009 film, and like you said, I didn't even know most of these shows even existed. A friend told me to watch Picard season 3, and while it was nice for the 'member berries it had its flaws, too, and in any case wasn't enough for me to start caring. I grew up watching TOS reruns on UHF TV channels, and while I liked TNG, DS9, and even Voyager, as far as I'm concerned everything after Wrath of Khan is fanfic.
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  6606. Rickenbacker still matters. For starters, they very aggressively take legal action against clones, and their instruments, especially their basses have a distinctive sound and look cool. Plus, once you get used to their quirks you always want one in your collection.
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  6607.  @jacquesmertens3369 Read the pinned comment at the top. Pretty sure it's about you lol. Cheers!
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  6608. Romulan plasma torpedo. From the TOS episode Balance of Terror.
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  6609. Hardware wise it seems possible, the question is whether the flight software is there to pull it off.
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  6610. The Americans don't think a nuclear jet is impossible. Just decided it was very stupid and dangerous, which is why they never actually flew one.
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  6611. 6:35 If you look carefully, you may catch a glimpse of the Arc of the Covenant in the pile of stuff in the background somewhere...
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  6612. Happy 249th birthday, Marines! BTW, at the USMC museum in Virginia there is a photo exhibit by Matthew Modine. Kubrick let him shoot still photos with a twin lens reflex camera in between shooting scenes and the photos are amazing.
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  6613. Why quit when you "retire"? Some people only start their channel after they retire. There's a retired guy named Joe Van Cleave who makes videos about weird photography and typewriter collecting stuff. He doesn't have a schedule; he just does it for fun. And if internet videos are not a job, you can't really retire from it, can you?
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  6614. lol
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  6615.  @mmcbey1401  The Russians already know, the only thing you'd be hiding this from is the citizens the Navy is supposed to be protecting.
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  6616. It amazes me that the chimney pipe is a piece of plastic.
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  6617. 8:31 is that the RTG in the upper middle, with the white cooling fins?
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  6618. Thundar the Barbarian! Featuring Ookla the Mok! And his fantastic Sun Sword.
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  6619. You're pronouncing analogue wrong, it's anal-low-GOO
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  6620. The Planck second is one tick of the clock in the Matrix's CPU.
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  6621.  @trex2621  "Real" solar is just as big a scam.
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  6622.  @bobsagget823  Did your mommy let you use the computer today little one?
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  6623. In before the Metheny takedown!
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  6624. Saw your testimony, Rick. You clean up nice!
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  6625. 8:45 That's a bold move, reaching over that fan with the blades so close to your pants. Could've made for a hilarious out take.
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  6626. I knew about Scout from one of those kids' books about aerospace when I was little, I had no idea they were still operating them into the 90s.
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  6627. Perfect Albums, hmm... Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd; no comment necessary Grace Under Pressure by Rush; every song kills, a complete theme sonically throughout. Not the "favorite" Rush album, but to me the most complete Fragile by Yes (also maybe Close to the Edge); the band had the best lineup and on top of their game Need to think of some others...
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  6628.  Gallant Zodiac  Wow, what a load of horseshit.
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  6629. Anything Kelly Johnson was involved in was worth a look. This aircraft is the spiritual Lockheed ancestor of the F-104, the SR-71, and the F-22.
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  6630. Drachism badges? Sure, why not.
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  6631. I have never been able to keep track of who hates who in that part of the world.
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  6632. Dude, you Brits need to fix that shit day before yesterday.
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  6633.  @adamc1713  Yeah, that's true, but the fact is that STS really was kind of dangerous. When it was designed the idea was to limit it to a catastrophic accident about once every 1000 flights or so, which is totally unacceptable by commercial aviation standards, and that turned out to be wildly optimistic. The actual accident rate was about 1 in 60, with almost no hope for crew survival or rescue during most of the flight. Now that may be acceptable for a test plane with test pilots, like an X-15 type program, but for a vehicle that is to be the core of the nation's space access and which risks 7 people at a time, that's too much to ask. Especially since the Shuttle had a huge public profile and had the emotions of millions of Americans (and quite a few American friends and partners) riding on it, watching 7 people die live on TV is unsustainable. Would've been better had, say the USAF operated it and kept it mostly hush hush, SR-71 style. I'm just rambling now, of course, the real world did not and does not work that way. Friend of mine worked on the Challenger mission that failed. To this day he still feels guilty even though he had no part in the mistakes that caused it. That's a heavy load to bear.
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  6634. Launching from water sounds like a good idea. Anyone remember Sea Launch? Surprised no one else has set up a similar program.
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  6635. Is it coercive to tell someone to voluntarily take an experimental injection or else lose their job and career? Good thing we don't do that these days.
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  6636. Back in the day Matt Cameron: insists on keeping snare sound producers don't like Lars: Write that down, write that down!
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  6637. Drach, "Schenectady" is a reference to the city of Schenectady, New York, and is pronounced ske-NECK-ta-dee. Great video as always, cheers!
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  6638. Savage
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  6639. 4:08 so nuclear bombs do cause superpower mutations, only in satellites not people.
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  6640.  @justaskin8523  Lack of sense of humor is also a sign of weakness on the Internet!
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  6641. 34:10 There was an episode of the 1970s TV series "Baa Baa Blacksheep" which featured a radar-equipped Corsair. I don't remember the plot, but I remember a scene in which they were flying a night mission, and Pappy Boyington was in formation with the radar bird, and could see the pilot's face illuminated by the radar scope in his cockpit.
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  6642. 1:54 the Soviets put a bombardier canopy on the nose of a passenger jetliner? Were they planning on a little sport bombing during the trip?
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  6643. I guess that makes sense to some degree.
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  6644. @Wolfman Actually, no space missions at all would be even cheaper and safer. No need to know anything about rocks on Mars or whatever. Why take any risks at all? Let's spend all our money on alcohol and entertainment instead.
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  6645.  @5Andysalive  And that's only because Stalin didn't get around to imposing his own measurement system.
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  6646. Before 2016 I used to read all sorts of left biased media, such as The Atlantic, 3 Quarks Daily, the Washington Post, etc. You knew the bias was there but the articles were still mostly truthful and on the subjects of art and culture usually interesting. Comment sections were free and open. Then, as the election approached, and certainly after Trump won, all these absolutely crazy comments and articles started showing up talking about how racist Trump was, often using foul language, which was very rare prior to this, and never backed up by facts. Comment sections started becoming restricted, with logons required, and then came the censorship. Just like that, in a very small period of time, the Left completely lost their minds and went hardcore into totalitarian speech controls, and they've only doubled down in the years since. Wouldn't surprise me if youtube deletes this comment silently as they've done so many times lately.
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  6647.  @southerncharity7928  Explain.
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  6648. Turbine spinup sounds are always good.
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  6649.  @HM2SGT  Yes, I am aware of how celestial navigation works, and it's not arrogance, it's mathematical truth. GPS is accurate to within a few feet. Celestial navigation is not.
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  6650. Well, knowing this certainly makes it easier to write a hit song now. The hell with originality.
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  6651. Also John Paul Jones.
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  6652.  @curioussavagery802  Should've stuck with your original post instead of deleting it. Tell us how you really feel.
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  6653. Mouth watering intensifies
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  6654. Adding guitar is cool, but it doesn't change the fact that these tunes are still utterly predictable, familiar chord progressions we've heard a million times before, and equally telegraphed melodies. Add in the overproduction and the purposely annoying vocals (Probably autotuned to boot) and you've got a nice example of modern pop music's doldrums. If you're going to be that predictable, at least play some old school 12 bar blues. Given how Tool's recent comeback release scored attention with the younger crowd I think there's plenty of untapped demand out there for something different.
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  6655. Nothing of substance has changed.
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  6656. I don't think I can pick up the creepy Russian signals in the US, haven't been able so far, anyway.
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  6657.  @Dwigt_Rortugal  Exactly correct.
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  6658.  @TheREALJosephTurner  Yeah, where I live hanging a large antenna outdoors is not an option, unfortunately.
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  6659.  @jeffkardosjr.3825  Not really, property's just too small and the HOA sucks. I use a magnetic loop while sitting on my deck and it works pretty well.
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  6660. The reactor building at Fort Belvoir is still there on the bank of the Potomac River, clearly visible on google maps. Not sure what the Army plans to do with it, but it was defueled 40 years ago or so.
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  6661. Today I found out that Joe Satriani is a Rick Beato fan like the rest of us.
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  6662. For a big telescope, dispense with the Starship entirely and just build a Starship-derived expendable upper stage for the Starship booster. Get the maximum size mirror up there.
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  6663. This was your first demo? Wow. Compare that to the garbage I've seen bands try to push out there sounds like they used a cellphone in a concrete basement. This is actually good. If you look it up there is a demo Motley Crue made of songs on their first album. It's pretty primitive and garage rock compared to this.
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  6664. The only one I disagree with here is Die Hard 2. All the rest I loved. Predator 2 especially got a bad rap for no good reason. I was glad Arnold wasn't in it; that made the movie about the Predator instead of the leading man.
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  6665.  @thewokefindergeneral7631  Just wanted to say your username is based.
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  6666.  @chez_jn  Bandcamp is where I look for new bands, and even really old famous bands often post there.
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  6667. I dig the 1970s sitcom intro! Also the changeup in outro music.
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  6668. Terrible you can't do what amounts to a movie review. If network TV was like youtube there'd have never been Siskel and Ebert.
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  6669. There was an episode of the X-Files where Cigarette Smoking Man was shown in his younger days as an Army SF guy or sniper being recruited to assassinate President Kennedy by some shadowy government organization. After discussing it with them to make sure they had a patsy (Oswald of course) and a plan to get away with it, he nonchalantly agreed on the spot. To kill his own head of state. It was treated as if this sort of thing was routine, and it wasn't too hard to accept it as plausible. Later on, of course, CSM would be in charge of said shadowy organization, and would ensure that the Buffalo Bills never win a Superbowl.
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  6670. I think Proton is maybe the least ugly Soviet/Russian design. The ones that work, like Soyuz, are hideous, and so are the ones that don't like N-1, aka The Inverted Snow Cone of Fail.
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  6671. Plot twist: the invasion succeeded a long time ago and none of us are real humans, we are all just descendants of pod people.
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  6672. They should paint bombers in that shirt pattern to dazzle attacking fighter pilots.
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  6673. 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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  6674.  @jamesbehrje4279  Hoping for a plane to crash because you don't like the politician is aboard is pretty straightforward. Even for "guys like me", whatever that means.
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  6675.  @pilotrt  Funny you mention that. When I was growing up there were lots of Canadian tourists at the Jersey shore. so many in fact, that campgrounds, gas stations, and other establishments would often fly the maple leaf flag alongside the stars and stripes.
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  6676. Imagine putting all that money and effort into censoring speech.
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  6677. Careful what you ask for. The next comet you see could do us all in. 2020 ain't over yet.
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  6678. 14:19 Holmes vs. Norton one of the greatest fights ever.
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  6679. This woman must be protected at all costs.
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  6680. Anyone else sipping actual rum while watching this?
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  6681. 9:08 no, he did NOT have a "fully functional nuclear reactor". What he had was a pile of radioactive garbage that was a health hazard. If it was an actual fission reactor it would've given him a lethal dose the moment it went critical and he likely would've been found dead a few feet away from it by the next victim, who would then be found dead shortly thereafter, and so on...this video greatly understates the difficulty in building a functioning fission reactor. Yeah, Hahn was doing stupid dangerous shit, but he didn't actually succeed, and your video is grossly inaccurate in that regard.
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  6682.  yeoldebiggetee  Your
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  6683. There used to be a US Navy 1950s training video on youtube explaining how an electromechanical fire control computer worked. I think it was on Jeff Quitney's excellent channel, which got taken down, but not sure. I'll see if I can find it...found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
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  6684. I try not to be a potty mouth on Rick's channel, but this is bullshit. Litigation destroys creativity and makes innovators risk-averse, not just in music but in lots of fields. Lawsuits killed sampling in hip hop, making it financially impossible for a young low-budget artist to do what guys like Chuck D did back in the day. I guess if you're Taylor Swift or Beyoncé you can afford lawyers to fight when your same-as-everyone-else's 4-chord progression lands you in court, but for the little guys out there, tough luck.
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  6685. Spinning objects: the reason Explorer 1 transitioned to the lowest energy state was because the energy was dissipated through heat. The flexing of the metal antennae creates heat, which radiates into space slowly over hours and days. When you do the math it winds up spinning around the lowest energy axis. To make it easy though, just think of it this way: if your satellite is shaped like a frisbee and spins like one, it will be stable. If your satellite is shaped like a telephone pole and you try to spin it longways it will end up tumbling end over end.
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  6686. Best cover ever? Devo's cover of the Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction". Look up their performance of it on Saturday Night Live. Devo owned it.
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  6687.  @Rathbone_fan_account  No but unfortunately, Professor Epstein did kill himself...with his new drive.
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  6688. Plainly, have you ever read "The Dead Hand" by David Hoffman? I recommend it for anyone who likes scary nuclear stupidity stories.
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  6689. I thought in Snoopy's imaginary story the Red Baron shot Snoopy down, and he had to survive behind enemy lines?
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  6690. My senior drill instructor at the Island only came up to my chin. But he could do one-arm pullups while laughing in your face and could knock you through a wall if you opened your pie hole. When he was pissed off, which was often, the whites of his eyes would show like a rabid pit bull and he was lightning fast, crossing from the far side of the room to your face instantly. He was among a handful of the scariest people I ever knew, most of them Marines. God help the poor enemy soldier who found himself face to face with that guy.
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  6691. Showrunner: "Go watch something else" Me: Okay.
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  6692.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  Hey, you shall not disrespect our beloved Sportsball Team, don't you know that Sportsball is important enough to start drunken brawls and riots over? You must be one of that other city's Sportsball fans! You probably wear the wrong color shirt, and therefore need to be taught a lesson in a barfight!
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  6693. Oh man, you played a tiny Supertramp clip, lucky if this doesn't get taken down. Supertramp are notorious blockers!
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  6694. So this thing would've been a flying supersonic Aegis destroyer. Cool by me.
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  6695.  @ralfie8801  All I know is what I read in the history books (aka Wikipedia), same as everyone else, sorry.
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  6696. And now in Ukraine this is happening again. However that ends the inhabitants will be finding munitions for decades.
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  6697. Mark Hammill's face has been crooked ever since the car crash he was in after the first Star Wars film in 1977, you can see it in Empire Strikes Back. I think he had some reconstructive surgery and they did the best they could, but as he ages it starts to show more prominently.
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  6698. American destroyer captains in WWII were crazy and fearless. USS Johnston and her sister ship destroyers took on a force of Japanese battleships and punched way above their weight class. Johnston's action alone, commanded by Ernest Evans, is legendary, right up there with Constitution's battles or Nelson at Trafalgar. Charging into battleship fire repeatedly and actually defeating the Japanese cruiser Kumano, she took multiple hits from battleship shells and kept fighting until she was sinking. Capt. Evans, shot through the hand, abandoned the blown-up bridge and stood on the stern, shouting orders down an open hatch to sailors below who were steering the ship's rudder manually. Evans was lost during the evacuation and never seen again. He is legend.
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  6699. What you said about Geddy Lee and Rush -> truth
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  6700. The carrier battles get all the spotlight, but the surface gun battles of the Pacific I find the most interesting.
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  6701. Something else cool about 1960s tech: your car would just run and didn't require a software update or an internet connection, and if a light in the dash burned out you could replace it for a few bucks instead of paying $600 to replace the entire instrument unit. On the downside, the engine and transmission would need a rebuild every 120k miles or so and the body would rust out in 5 years, but most maintenance could be done in your driveway without a computerized diagnostic machine at least. And of course, you could hotrod it a lot easier.
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  6702. 59:55 cool photo of Patton, wonder what's going on there. There's a guy with captain's bars on his helmet and all the troops around him have Thompsons, not rifles, are they his security detail, or some kind of commando squad?
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  6703. I thank Bugs Bunny for teaching me all the lines to this film.
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  6704. "Entrumped" is now officially a word. And it's okay to get emotional. America, and Philadelphia, are great places worth saving.
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  6705. 14:40 I've seen imported 1970s British cars sitting in tall grass with less rust than that!
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  6706. The best aviation history channel.
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  6707.  @jimdennis2451  It's a Lockheed Electra at heart, after all.
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  6708.  arthurmorgan8978 If the employees have a 401K retirement plan than the shareholders are often also the victims. The fact is that stuff like this isn't the result of some "bad guys" waking up one morning to commit a crime, it's because the whole town, or the whole society even, just didn't understand the risks they were taking decades ago and by the time they find out it's too late to reverse the damage. The parents of the kids being poisoned were all in on the mining business, because it was their livelihood and because it was feeding those very same children. Besides, the guys who were running the company back in the 40s or 50s are all dead and gone now.
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  6709. ​ @chief6541  Then maybe attack a Tesla or some other temper tantrum?
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  6710. 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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  6711.  @DavidGarcia-nx2gj  See: Blue Origin
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  6712. I watch Techmoan as well, so it's even worse. Add to that list nixie tubes, DAT cassette players, vertical record players, a Seeburg background music system from a 1970s K-Mart...
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  6713. Bill Ward is the main one missing from this list, in my opinion. War Pigs is basically Ward in beast mode surrounded by awesome music as he destroys his kit, especially the live in Paris version. Also glad you included Ringo on here, he is so much better than he gets credit for, A Day in the Life is some great drum playing.
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  6714. If I wanted to ship goods to orbit cheap I'd call SpaceX. If I wanted to fly myself to orbit and live to tell the tale, I'd probably call Boeing and spend the extra cash.
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  6715.  @jackkevillemedia  Go right for the ad hominem. I like your style.
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  6716. I can't wait until "flex" stops
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  6717. I remember when Lorde's song Royals came out, I was thinking, "this girl has a great voice. Too bad the music is computer crap. Imagine how good this'd be if she had a good band backing her." And that pretty much sums up modern mainstream for me. Some of these artists have talent but it's wasted on this garbage.
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  6718. I knew spaceships were made from wood, learned it playing Spelljammer back in the day ;-)
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  6719. 6:14 that's how farmers actually dress while working on farms in the UK.
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  6720. Yamato rebuilt with the Wave Motion Gun.
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  6721. Would've been interesting if that Liberator was able to engage in aerial combat with that Condor. I imagine bomber vs. bomber combat as being like starship combat in Star Trek.
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  6722. "Because only Spartan women give birth to real men." great comeback, fucking humiliated that guy.
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  6723. This looks pretty cool, but I'm distrustful of anything that needs an app to work.
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  6724.  @BeachsideHank  Oh wow, you stalked my profile. Smooth move.
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  6725.  @BeachsideHank  Nope, don't care enough. Looks like you won the Internet tonight. Go celebrate.
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  6726.  @BeachsideHank  So how'd it go?
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  6727. Trolling the Kelvin pedants > bonus points for you
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  6728. If you could hear it, you'd hear the Universe screaming.
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  6729. 2:14 What is that equipment the Japanese infantry are wearing on their back with the hose attached? Is that an external filter for a gas mask?
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  6730. At least they got a cute bunny photo. Happy Easter everyone!
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  6731. Her dad must be proud of his little girl after seeing that clip.
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  6732. Also, there are still Americans today who feel the Constitutional convention was a fraud and a betrayal of the revolution. Most of these people are hardcore libertarian history nerds, some are even maybe a bit nuts, but the idea is still out there.
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  6733. When Scott Manley and Curious Droid each drop a nuclear video on the same day.
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  6734. It's interesting that many people seem more bothered by the fact they don't know the source rather than the sound itself. I hear a low frequency noise often when in bed at night, but I know it's an airfield a couple of miles away where helicopters are always operating. Doesn't bother me.
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  6735. Now you have to team up with Adam Jones and Tool's rhythm section to make an epic video like Adam did!
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  6736.  @ronfullerton3162  Years ago I had a big Aimor boom box with dual cassette deck and a 4 band radio, including two SW bands. It had dual rabbit ear antennae, and a phono preamp, was one of the nicest boomboxes you could get in the 80s. I wish I still had it, besides sounding great with music it was also the best SW radio I ever had.
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  6737. Watching him weld without eye protection hurts my eyes through youtube...
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  6738.  @Faye_Liu  Jealous
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  6739. That business about not wanting to take risk is also why movies suck and all you get is an endless parade of remakes, reboots, sequels, and superhero shit.
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  6740. The blame was split between the driver, the IDOT, and the school district. Of those three, which one do you think suffered the most damage and actually felt bad over it? Then come the reptile lawyers to sue the railroad, who had nothing to do with how road intersections are designed. I hope that poor lady was able to find some peace later on, she was set up to fail that morning.
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  6741. What did Buran use, and how did it compare to the Rockwell Shuttle?
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  6742. 1:25 is the guy on the right the actor who plays the Congressman in The Manchurian Candidate?
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  6743.  @DuRoehre90210  Well, one American life certainly means more to me than the opinion of some commie or islamofascist jackoff on the internet, that's for sure.
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  6744. Deliberately being cowards. I have less respect for those people than I do for a tual criminals. The fact that we as a society have to take such weak people seriously is crazy.
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  6745. That's a stylish coat you're wearing, Drach.
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  6746.  @kassios  I shouldn't have to be an expert to know I am reading something authentic. This kind of fake stuff, coupled with deep faked video and audio, is going to cause wars and get a lot of people killed eventually.
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  6747. Snakes as weapons. Awesome. I think the US Navy should develop a family of snake weapons. Ballistic serpent weapons. The SM-3 missile with the Mk-I cluster snake warhead.
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  6748. No rules? Build the Mammoth Car from Speed Racer!
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  6749. Wow, have there really been 29 of these so far? Time really flies! Great job, Rick.
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  6750. The Space Shuttle hoped to do a launch every two weeks, not reuse the same orbiter every two weeks, just have a new mission on the pad every two weeks. Closest they got was almost once per month, right before Challenger wrecked. Reusing the same rocket in two weeks is pretty awesome.
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  6751. Whenever people wonder why we need really big Saturn V launchers I always think of Skylab and how launching things that big requires a really big launcher. ISS is much bigger, with more interior space and lots more mass, but because the modules had to be small enough to fit on Shuttle or current Russian launchers none of them have that cavernous open space inside. Had we gone on to develop the reuse of the shuttle external tanks as orbital modules we could've had stations that would dwarf Skylab's interior.
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  6752. "I am so sorry I made this film! Boo hoo hoo!"
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  6753. Unless I hear from friends that this film is really, actually, good, I have no plans to see it. Sorry, but I grew up watching Christopher Reeve* in Superman: The Movie and 98% of all recent movies suck anyway, so if the studio wants my money, they're going to have to work hard for it.
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  6754.  @chiefscheider  I always get that wrong, sorry.
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  6755. 5:44 how did that airplane not show up in an Indiana Jones movie?
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  6756. When I was in college there were a handful of professors who I had great respect for, and a whole lot of mediocre ones. I wish Dr. Sowell had been one of my professors, and I didn't even study economics.
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  6757. DENIED!
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  6758. L1011 is a beautiful jet, a comfortable ride, love the engine sound. But I think my favorite is the 727. Flew on lots of those back in the day. Not very roomy, and kind of noisy, especially in the tail area, but it's the good noise. Mainly I love the look of the 727, it just looks like it's fast with that wing sweep and the T-tail. Delta's paint job back in the 80s and 90s was also way better than today's and it looks awesome on 727's and L1011's.
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  6759. This show, these characters, and whatever it was it spun off from, I've never heard of any of this shit. Doesn't look like I'm missing anything.
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  6760. 11:18 you can actually see the 16" shell exiting the barrel. Awesome photo.
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  6761. We are fascinated by serial killers because we don't know what makes humans tick and wonder why some of us malfunction when it comes to morality. A serial killer is an insidious monster that looks and acts like a normal human on the outside but behind the eyes is broken in the worst possible way.
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  6762. Drach, a humble suggestion if I may, when you use the tabletop models to describe sailing ship battles, could you include an arrow to show the wind direction, please? That would make it easier to envision the maneuvers. On the whole, another great video, riveting.
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  6763. Was there a previous civilization in the distant past? H P Lovecraft knew...
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  6764.  Coldern Ice  No shit Sherlock. Welcome to the class, "Lack of Sense of Humor: A Guide to Dying Alone"
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  6765. I love the Drinker and all his fans in the comment section. Makes me feel there is yet hope.
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  6766. THG, where did you get the NASA footage and animation for use in your video?
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  6767.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Thanks!
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  6768.  @kazioo2  Always gotta be one...
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  6769.  @PerfectInterview  still an Atlas
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  6770.  @lancelotlake7609  still Atlas
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  6771.  @marcoav313  Canceled? No.
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  6772.  @JarrodFLif3r  Still Atlas
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  6773.  @JarrodFLif3r  Yep. Atlas with a Russian engine. Personally, I wish they'd have found an American replacement engine and kept the Atlas program alive, but what can you do.
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  6774.  @JarrodFLif3r  Well, that was the 90s, when the Americans and Russians were friends for a while. Too bad that didn't last; now we can't use their engines anymore.
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  6775. Coastal artillery is pretty fascinating history that doesn't get much buzz. In the US the Army was responsible for coastal artillery. I guess if you count antiship missile batteries you could say that coastal artillery still exists in some places.
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  6776. Strange, I got no ads this time.
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  6777.  @kimdawcatgirl  Jake from State Farm? She sounds...hideous!
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  6778. Vanguard 1 is so cute, I want to adopt it.
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  6779.  @AdmiralBlackstar  Terminal velocity should be reached from a much lower altitude. But the other thing to consider is horizontal velocity. A jetliner is going a few hundred miles per hour while a hovering helicopter is basically zero. So the phone won't just hit the ground vertically, it will also be bouncing and skidding for a while with a good deal of speed.
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  6780. That BMW joke tho...
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  6781. It took me all of two whole days to see the whole museum in Dayton, and I feel like I could've easily spent an extra day. I was dead tired from being on my feet the whole time, too. It is truly amazing the size of the place and the number of exhibits. I think it's bigger than the Smithsonian's two museums in the DC area put together.
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  6782. Dead puppies aren't much fun.
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  6783. Studebaker and Packard were once big car makers in the US. I went to a car museum in LA once and they had some old Packard roadster type cars from the 30s that were beautiful.
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  6784. When I was in college we had this one women professor who was kind of overweight and looked a bit like Cathy Bates, and she was also kind of a bitch. My buddy started calling her Misery. "Dude, we got class with Misery in 15 minutes." Used to crack me up.
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  6785. 1:45 when the guy reaches into the jacket with his right hand to draw the second blade, I thought he was drawing a pistol. Was surprised the cop didn't shoot him at that moment. That cop tried every which way from Sunday not to kill this guy. My guess is when he left home that day with those machetes, he probably figured he wasn't coming back.
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  6786. 1:17 Penn State?
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  6787. The photos of Type II U-Boats look like they should be painted yellow and Ringo should be on the conning tower.
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  6788.  @tominiowa2513  The Beatles. Duh.
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  6789. Mmm, strawberry milkshakes....
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  6790. It's all good. Just make sure you always have two working computers and back your stuff up. That way when one computer crashes your youtube career doesn't get put on pause until you sort it out.
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  6791. 15:17 Do I detect a bit of fan boy squee there? ;-) Awesome video, Rick! Hopefully you could score some more interviews like this (Alex Lifeson...hint hint) and start a new series, "What Makes This Interview Great"!
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  6792. Smooth-headed Fact Boy
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  6793. The US Congress has the power to issue letters of marque to this day. It was briefly suggested as a means to contract out the hunting of Bin Laden and his ilk after 9/11, but of course it wasn't taken seriously. Pity. I'd love to see Dog the Bounty Hunter tangle with the tangos.
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  6794. The naked engines look cool, one of the reasons the Saturn V looks cool.
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  6795.  @neilbuckley1613  Yeah, rattlesnakes are native to America and the rattlesnake was an early symbol of the USA. Maybe the Royal Navy captured a USN ship and kept the name, like they did with USS President?
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  6796. My takeaway from this is that serving on submarines is a good way to get killed.
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  6797.  @havyn88  Oh boy, you must be fun at parties.
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  6798. ​ @thoughtlesskills SpaceX has been launching the most national security payloads lately, which benefits the public. And your description of a Tesla as a "trash car" belies your political disposition. A year ago people like you loved Teslas. The car's design hasn't changed, only the alignment of the company's founder, so why trash the car? Illogical, but then again what should we expect from the likes of those who vandalize and smear feces on cars owned by innocent people. Immature behavior.
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  6799. Even when it is due to foreign government activity (Wuhan) the US government lies about it.
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  6800.  @lairdcummings9092  my comment about a particular bio lab in China got deleted. Nice job, youtube, sellkng out to the government
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  6801.  @lairdcummings9092  Funny how my comment about a recent virulogical event got deleted.
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  6802. According to Eric Cartmann you evacuate your bowels when you carc, so the soul is crap.
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  6803.  classicmicroscopy9498.  Let's not underestimate the value of a good Walmart Greeter, now. Ever walk into a Walmart and not get a proper greeting? Feels awful, right? But then you see that pudgy guy sitting there in his Walmart shirt with a big smile and suddenly your day is gonna be A-ok!
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  6804. Scratch that: keep making your own documentaries, but keep the sweater!
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  6805.  @macrick  No, I mean the instrument panel.
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  6806.  @keepermovin5906  :-D
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  6807.  @j.f.fisher5318  I know all about them and they have nothing to do with this.
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  6808. Science and engineering aside, the other problem with this is that it makes wings and propellers hideous. A world in which all fluid dynamic surfaces look like a Gaudi design is an awful thing to contemplate.
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  6809. Can you review the US Navy's rigid airships?
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  6810.  @billballbuster7186 McDonnel Douglas merged with Boeing and kept Boeing's name, but it's arguable who ate who.
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  6811. Memory banks unloading Bytes break into bits Unit One's in trouble and it's Scared out of its wits Guidance systems breakdown A struggle to exist To resist A pulse of dying power In a clenching plastic fist (a figurative fist, of course) It replays each of its days A hundred years of routines (okay, 15 really) Bows its head and prays To the mother of all machines All machines 1001001 SOS 1001001 In distress 1001001
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  6812.  @jonseilim4321  You trust a communist dictatorship, guess you fucked up in life choices.
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  6813. I am a sworn Mattress Police Inspector. You think this is funny, punk? This is no joking matter. Go ahead and take your chances with that tag. Do ya feel lucky?
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  6814.  @geraldmartsy2165  One accident does not a failed design make. Seems like it's working pretty well now. Besides, Rutan is an aircraft designer, he didn't build the engine.
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  6815.  @scottmanley  And the guy I want piloting it is Marco Ramius. "Some things in here don't react well to bullets."
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  6816.  @geraldmartsy2165  Okay, well fine, then it still turned out to be a good idea.
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  6817. I wonder if any of the old DEW sites can be visited...would be a cool field trip.
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  6818. I often pause these vids to look up locations in google maps when THG mentions them. I immediately looked up 129 Spring St. in Manhattan, and looked at the indoor photos. Sure enough, there's that well, right against the wall on the sales floor next to the cash register! It's like 6 feet tall so you can't just walk up and look down into it, and it looks like it has some sort of planks covering the top, but I wonder if the store's owner or employees ever climb up and look down into that creepy hole where that poor woman's body was found. Just being in that shop in broad daylight with people walking around looking at clothes next to that thing seems creepy enough. https://www.google.com/maps/place/COS/@40.7239954,-74.0004869,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNoBgnokbTM6HwxIuQxFLoNwcNmko9Y6hpJ3pAl!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNoBgnokbTM6HwxIuQxFLoNwcNmko9Y6hpJ3pAl%3Dw203-h114-k-no!7i5312!8i2988!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x89c2598c5e51e2f3:0xce2f3449f490f818!2sSoHo,+New+York,+NY!3b1!8m2!3d40.723301!4d-74.0029883!3m4!1s0x89c2598ea0e79733:0xbf80e2cfade1daaa!8m2!3d40.7239953!4d-74.0004871
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  6819. This is very cool, would love to see it in a museum. But I can imagine future nuclear power schools using a software simulation on a computer screen instead of building such an expensive and maintenance intensive machine. Sad to see Germany becoming so backwards.
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  6820. Isn't Tempus Fugit by Yes in Dorian?
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  6821.  @AREA_50.1  Cold gas thrusters do not produce fire though; they are literally just gas released through a nozzle, usually nitrogen. You may be thinking of monopropellant thrusters, which use a single fluid as fuel, fed through a catalyst bed that causes it to ignite and burn in the combustion chamber before passing though the rocket nozzle.
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  6822.  @AREA_50.1  Also, thanks for the sub :-)
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  6823. And to think Kimmel used to be on "The Man Show". What a pathetic punk.
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  6824. What kind of dork worries about back seat belts?
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  6825. The KGB school was shown in the movie Red Sparrow.
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  6826. If steam engines were cheaper and easier to run and maintain then diesel electrics wouldn't have replaced them. The Pennsylvania Railroad was the last big American rail company to hold out and was building new steam engines into the 1950s, partly because their biggest customer was the coal industry that fueled their engines. But the math just didn't work out. Steam takes too many man hours to run and maintain, and the infrastructure costs for things like water supplies and so on are too high. Compare that with the fact that 1 or 2 guys can operate a whole lash-up of 3 or 4 diesel electrics by themselves, even more now with wireless control, without water stops, and steam loses hard from an economics standpoint.
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  6827.  @gnrl1628  That's quite simply incorrect. The Pennsylvania RR had its own laboratory constantly developing steam locomotion well into the 1950s and their final machines were among the most efficient ever built. They just couldn't compete with diesel electric for the reasons I stated above.
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  6828. I'm disappointed, I thought it might have been some kind of variable geometry wizardry with an aerodynamic reason, like adjustable winglets or something. How boring it's just to save space like a naval fighter.
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  6829. If it makes you feel better we Marines appreciate them and out them to good use. It pains me to see the Harrier finally facing the end of its service life in the next few years, but it's been around a long time and seen lots of combat as both the Sea Harrier and the AV-8B Harrier II, so I'd say the US and UK got their money's worth.
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  6830. "Ikea style gun carriages" Lol I wonder what the name in the Ikea catalog is for those?
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  6831. Alex Lifeson
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  6832. This reminds me of all the confusion after President Reagan was shot. If I recall correctly the extent of the danger he was in wasn't revealed until much later, and the decision to drive him straight to the hospital instead of to the White House saved his life. Meanwhile, at the White House, there was a lot of confusion as to who was in charge of the nuclear forces, with Secretary of State Haig claiming to be in charge until Vice President Bush could arrive. Some officials were worries that the assassination attempt was a precursor to a Soviet surprise attack.
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  6833. too soon
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  6834. @mrpitv Didn't know you were the author, it looks like the kind of stuff you see on History Channel or something. Which I guess you can take as a complement, since it does look rather professional. Anti-nuclear hysteria always equates nuclear power with the A-bomb, which drives me nuts. Nuclear power (and explosives) are just physics, part of the physical world like burning wood or metabolism.
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  6835. Yes.
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  6836. Interesting video, but doesn't quite live up to the thumbnail hype lol.
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  6837. Split the difference and go with three engines. Lockheed Martin can bring back the L-1011!
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  6838. 45 min to cool the brakes before even taxiing, yikes!
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  6839. So wind sounds like...wind. Shocker.
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  6840. As if anything's really going to change. Cue the next woke movie ruiner.
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  6841. Flying an unmanned booster from Boca Chica to Cape Canaveral would also involve flying over populated areas between Flordia's west and east coasts, which would be risky and likely illegal.
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  6842. You mentioned turning Yamato into a space battleship. You really should do a 5-min guide on Yamato's rebuilding and refitting with Iscandar wave motion technology and her service in the Star Force.
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  6843.  @chemplay866  Do what?
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  6844. If they're going after years-old videos, Rick, you'd best be ready to move to a different platform before YouTube nukes your account. I'm so ready to kick google to the curb in any way possible. These big tech companies have the big record companies' backs and you don't count for anything in their eyes.
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  6845. Overdosing people with radiation? Protomolecule has entered the chat.
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  6846.  @bocahdongo7769  "Space shuttle engine already reach the moon anyway" What in heaven's name are you even talking about?
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  6847. 24:15 Those old 4-pipers were kind of pretty.
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  6848. How would we know if you're crazy, Rick? We've never heard the song before.
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  6849. Missing the point. The tapes are the original. A digital copy of the original is just a copy, even if it's a really good copy.
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  6850.  @powertuber4.068  Still a duplicate.
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  6851. Plutonium used in RTGs for electrical power is not the same isotope used in bombs, so it won't "blow up". RTGs are also sealed and made quite tough, so it probably won't ever "leak". It will just generate waste heat for a dozens of years until the plutonium decays to the point where it doesn't give off so much heat. It's nasty stuff, but if it's buried under tons of rock and ice in an inaccessible region it's not really much of a threat.
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  6852. I can't understand why companies with the right to use the word "Bell" in their name don't do it. "Verizon" is such a stupid word, almost sounds like a drug brand name. Bell Telephone is a very old brand name that still carries a lot of weight, if for nothing else its association with the man who invented the telephone, and that blue bell logo is also very iconic. It was on the side of every phone booth Clark Kent ducked into.
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  6853. Great, yet another thing to worry about.
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  6854. I'm okay with a space movie race. The sooner that becomes a thing the better.
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  6855. Man, 22,000 casualties for one stinking dockyard. WWII was a butcher shop.
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  6856. Microwave transformers are scary dangerous.
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  6857. "Arecibo, when it's up and running again." Oh, are we being optimistic tonight?
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  6858. Dylan is better than the algorithm used to block youtube uploads.
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  6859.  @trolleriffic  Maybe, dunno
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  6860. 13:35 Harrier!
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  6861.  @TheTriumfAnt  Oh, I see. Years ago I was in England, in Portsmouth. Me and a buddy went into a diner type place and got beef sandwiches I think, and when we asked for ketchup the lady and two younger girls there looked at us like we were from the planet Mars, had no idea what we were talking about lol. When I said it was made from tomatoes she offered me some tomato sauce. No thanks!
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  6862.  @stevedietrich8936  Same video he mentions a Concorde intercept as well. As for the Tu-144, it was a total piece of shit deathtrap, which was noisy and uncomfortable to fly in when it wasn't killing you.
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  6863. In the military they teach you that if you can smell a chemical agent it's probably too late and you need to seek treatment.
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  6864. Foul language makes you feel cool in front of your trendy leftist friends.
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  6865.  @robertschmidt740  I will have to check that out if I'm ever in that area.
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  6866.  @davisdf3064  Nuclear lightbulb is specifically the closed cycle design. Open cycle design is nightmare fuel for anyone testing it on the surface of any planet humans wish to live on.
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  6867. Just here to comment positively on the attractiveness of the reporter in this piece. That's about the limit of my brain, sorry.
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  6868. Funny, I just watched an Isaac Arthur video about the Fermi Paradox. Old Dr. Fermi sure was a bright and influential fellow.
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  6869.  @dongurudebro4579  Like the 'Verse from Firefly.
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  6870. Great interview, Rick!
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  6871. "Rumor has it the Free French have already turned you down. If those wine-lovers and cheese-eaters have found that kind of nerve, of course the Royal Navy has its reputation to consider."
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  6872. Isn't Django Reinhardt the reason Tony Iommi didn't give up guitar after his industrial accident?
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  6873. Just remember to thoroughly test your ship's computer before going to sleep, lest you wind up like the 3 poor bastards on HAL-9000's Discovery.
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  6874.  @chargedx5768  Ah yes, that incident set up by the FBI where the Capitol police are seen holding doors open and waving people into the building so they could be entrapped, charged with trespassing, held for years in solitary, and then after a show trial sentenced to ridiculously long prison terms. Also, one unarmed woman was shot in the face and killed by a Capitol policeman who was a known screwup and went unpunished, while the false rumor that cops had been killed by protesters was spread maliciously.
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  6875. While I wish them the best of luck and hope they achieve their goals in a timely manner, this thing looks like hot garbage. A big shiny trash can with rocket engines. Waiting for Oscar the Grouch to pop his head out. I certainly hope the final design will at least look the part.
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  6876. Is this the first RM video with no radio stuff in it?
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  6877.  @carlosnavarro-cj2jv  Do those emojis make you feel smarter?
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  6878. Now I wish my dishwasher had a window in the side. Along with all my other appliances.
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  6879. 2:52 Does China also use APAS docking systems? Are they compatible with US and Russian equipment?
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  6880. Philadelphia "The Quaker City", an old name that still gets used sometimes. Quakers are still there but vastly outnumbered these days I'd guess.
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  6881.  @angelarch5352  If we are lucky, we can retrieve the Defiant before she fades away.
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  6882. Bach's Prelude is to cellists what Stairway to Heaven or Smoke on the Water are to guitarists.
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  6883. Oddly enough, miniature tornados occur on the planet Mars. Dust devils, really.
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  6884. I don't come to this channel looking for good science; I come here to get creeped out to the tune of good music. I'm well aware that most of these things are debunked, explainable, or just bullshit stories. But they're great stories nonetheless. Keep it up, Dark5. You're carrying on in the tradition of stuff like In Search Of... and X-Files.
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  6885.  @cmdraftbrn  He's not dead, he's just resting.
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  6886. Thank God WMTSG is back!
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  6887. And this would be the first time an Atlas booster is used for manned flight since the Mercury days! The Atlas program is over 60 years old at this point, in the 1950s who'da thunk we'd still be flying something called an "Atlas" today? And that the old Centaur would still be the upper stage?
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  6888. A friend of mine was noting that all satellites look a 6th grader's science fair project, now we know why.
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  6889. Again, a great video and another great breakdown. I appreciate the production that went into this song, despite the fact that I've never connected with this song or this band at all.
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  6890. I just want a robot that will clean my house and do my laundry and not spy on me.
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  6891. I remember being about 11 or 12 when my dad took me to an airshow and I got to see a P-51 take off at full throttle. I will never forget that sound or the vibration in my chest. I was in the viewing stands a fair distance from the runway but that thunder was right in your face. There is nothing like a Merlin engine off its leash.
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  6892. You just know one of those moon caves has a monolith in it.
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  6893. That butane heating method seemed a bit too scary for my blood. Cool idea, though.
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  6894. That captain should've bought a lottery ticket while his luck was up.
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  6895. The Germans also used smart weapons in WWII, particularly for antishipping strikes.
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  6896. The State of California has entered the chat
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  6897. Gotta love how youtube puts a fact check banner on a Mark Felton video, as if they know better than he does.
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  6898. Don't forget the famous Killdozer incident of 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
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  6899. That CTRL+SHIFT+ESC trick is something I wish I'd known about for the last 25 years.
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  6900. If you are hearing this, you are part of the Resistance...
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  6901.  @lukewarmwater6412  Flex Tape!
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  6902. Ok, great, you have stealth and all that network tech and shoot missiles at targets behind you and the production jets have limitations removed. But it's still not clear to me: can the F-35 handle itself in a guns-only one on one fight with an F-16 or can't it? How about a MiG-29 or one of the fancy Flanker variants? It may be a moot point if you honestly think it'll never happen, but it's still the question we're asking, so what's the deal? (Note: my money is on the F-35 in any real fight, let's be real here.)
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  6903.  @Whiskey11Gaming  Sounds just like the 60s going into Vietnam when they thought they'd never have to dogfight again. Until they did.
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  6904. Somehow I pictured Gene Simmons buying the station and broadcasting only Kiss tunes 24/7.
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  6905. At least Alex Jones' SW radio show was interesting in a Coast-to-Coast AM kind of way, but that's gone now too.
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  6906. We need a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk type of wealthy patron with a keen interest in history to set up a means of preserving ships like this. I've been aboard Olympia and she is a beautiful ship. Sometimes I imagine what modern US Navy ships would look like in that white and tan paint job. Imagine a Nimitz class carrier and Burke destroyers steaming in formation dressed up like that.
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  6907. I didn't know about the 1950s ASAT program, but I will make an educated guess that it used a nuclear warhead. Because 1950s. Will have to look that up...
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  6908. I guess when they recommissioned the Iowa class in the 80s and put Tomahawks and Sea Sparrows on them they could've redesignated them as "BBG"...
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  6909. 4:15 is that a Bell 222 helicopter? (aka Airwolf)
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  6910. The oil was to prevent arcing when a switch is open or closed. Arcing can weld the switch contacts together, and at a minimum it will erode the contacts. There's nothing particularly terrifying about this, at least not any more terrifying than modern high voltage equipment is. IIRC though, the oil contained lots of dioxins which were later linked to cancer for people who spent time in contact with it.
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  6911. I love this thread.
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  6912. Kilofeet is not cursed at all, makes perfect sense. 1000 ft. HUD symbology in fighter planes displays altitude in kilofeet sometimes. Maybe the instruments in SS1 and SS2 do too.
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  6913. Who is John Galt?
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  6914. Dr. Emil Schaffhausen pay you a visit?
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  6915. So the USA and China will each launch missions to push the rock in opposite directions like two tugboats fighting, while Russia promises to launch an elaborate mission that doesn't get off the drawing board.
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  6916. I think for great sound you picked the wrong Tool album. Lateralus is fantastic, maybe Tool's best, but Fear Inoculum, to me, is unbelievably well-mixed and engineered. Since it came out I have given it a listen every few months in headphones and it just sounds so amazing.
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  6917. I have watched a few of your videos and generally like them, but your t-shirt is highly offensive.
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  6918. Pardon out radio waves. Sorry for spoiling your communist dictatorship party.
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  6919. The best singer in Fleetwood Mac. And the best songwriter, too. Stevie and Lindsey get all the attention, but Christine was what was up.
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  6920. I love how in Rick and Morty that was made into a videogame, where Morty had to simulate an entire lifetime as a different man and see how long he could go before he died, and comes out of it minutes later and traumatized lol.
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  6921. Even before that the Americans were less than happy with the UK's lack of security vetting for the British scientists on the Manhattan Project who turned out to be Soviet spies. That said, it was a dumb idea by Congress to cut the UK off IMO.
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  6922. Wing turrets look so cool.
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  6923.  @damianb8322  If the Germans had actually won the war and totally kicked the allies out of Europe, they'd have gotten around to dealing with the Swiss sooner or later.
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  6924. Not only could we send petite women, we could also find small women with no legs, since legs are kind of useless in freefall.
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  6925. I hate the environment.
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  6926. On the one hand we have the James Bond Villain, Elon Musk. Owns his own rocket company, is a bit eccentric, cool cars, and an exotic accent common to Bond villains. On the other hand we have Lex Luthor, aka Jeff Bezos. Super wealthy, also runs his own space program, behind the scenes is very involved in politics while trying to look like a good guy in public, and of course he is bald, like any self-respecting Lex Luthor would be. What we don't see yet is a 007 or a Clark Kent to bring things into balance...
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  6927. It makes you sigh to think about how, even after a century or two of experience with hurricanes, idiots can still build entire subdivisions below grade in places like New Orleans, and then are shocked when the inevitable happens.
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  6928. Then there's the fact that Gibson headstocks will snap off very easily if the guitar falls over. My buddy's SG has the same headstock design and he has already glued it back together at least once. When it comes to guitars I'm a bassist who plays guitar poorly, but I prefer Strats. I have to say though, I've got nothing against Les Pauls, they sure are pretty and in the right hands they sound great, too.
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  6929. Great video. Any time you want to spend lots of time on tech corporate history it's fine with me, I'm guaranteed to watch. LGR's Tech Tales is another example.
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  6930. Even so, no US presence in the Philippines and no Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor means the US entry into the war is delayed, giving the Japanese Empire time to finish many of its campaigns in the WestPac and denies the US the massive propaganda coup handed to them by the surprise attack at Pearl. It also has implications for the European theater as well, since US entry there will also be delayed.
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  6931. The USN should've lined up and shot the guys in BuOrd responsible for that torpedo fiasco. They got a lot of guys killed.
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  6932. I have a couple of the ordinary oil lamps in my living room, mostly as decoration, but they do come in handy when the power goes out. They are almost bright enough to read with. I put oil in them years ago and they get used seldom enough I've only used a fraction of it. If I had little kids or something running around the house I don't think I'd trust them though.
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  6933. This reminds of "Radioactive Boy Scout" David Hahn, the kid who tried to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's Michigan garden shed back in the 1990s. He actually knew what he was doing was dangerous but had no common sense. He was known for having radiation burns on his skin, and a photo of him taken after an arrest in the late 2000's showed him with weird marks al over his face. He died a few years ago, ironically from a drug overdose or something unrelated to radiation. Read the book about him, it's fascinating. He was at once both pretty clever and a complete idiot.
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  6934. I always thought everyone knew about this, and just didn't bother with it. I had a buddy who used to burn mp3 CDs all the time to use in his car and on his boat, and I had friends who would burn each other CDs and pass them around.
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  6935. 6:08 pesky fly.
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  6936.  @andyheater  They're all over YouTube, and the ones that belong to NASA are public domain so you should be able to download them if you search NASA's website or maybe even write to them.
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  6937. Great video. As an American, glad you're on our side. I think the Vulcan was a fantastic aircraft that the Soviets could never really match in technical sophistication, and more importantly, I think more highly of RAF training and tactics than I do of Soviet. I'm guessing these exercise results drove the development of the F-106 interceptor.
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  6938. I can imagine some jerk wanting to put stuff like this in his secret little nazi collection as a motive, but I don't see how possessing Himler's or Hedrich's sword would make one wealthy since you could never sell it. Even if it was a secret sale it'd be a huge risk to have it traced back to the seller, wouldn't it?
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  6939. PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA?! Reported! Unsubscribed!
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  6940.  @Br3ttM  Cool story, bro, but we'd still like a video from Scott Manley.
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  6941. Everything that happens in a communist dictatorship is staged.
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  6942. 13:01 The guy on the far right with the dark glasses working on the bomb is Louis Slotin, who later killed himself accidentally with the Demon Core.
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  6943. Imagine if Ark Royal had lasted a few more years, we might have seen Phantoms chasing down Super Etendard's off the coast of Argentina.
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  6944. "Hence the name: Minuteman" Of course, the name was a tribute to the Minutemen militia of the American War for Independence.
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  6945. The solution is obvious: the next Japanese lander should be a transforming mecha-style robot of some sort that can land in any orientation, stand itself up, and draw its sword for great justice! Wouldn't that be sexual?
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  6946. I know this one is a bit obscure for many viewers, but might I suggest Sir Henry Simmerson from the Sharp's Rifles films (starring Sean Bean as the protagonist)?
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  6947. I think that was the Dragon capsule testing it's launch escape system. Basically small rockets designed to fire you off the top of the launch vehicle in case of emergency.
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  6948. For the love of God, Rick, when are you going to put these musical pieces together into an album and put it up for sale? Come on, man!
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  6949. I have a constant feeling of being the subject of a Dark5 video. Everywhere I go I see a red circle around my left elbow. I'm worried about my left elbow...
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  6950. Will this thing turn up in the next Terminator movie?
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  6951.  @gabedarrett1301  Over this explody pile of stainless steel? Yepper.
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  6952.  @Hamachingo  Shuttle never "bellyflopped", it flew aerodynamically at a high AoA gradually decreasing AoA until it was subsonic, by which time the commander was piloting it. Starship is more similar in some ways to the DC-3 shuttle design proposed by Max Faget, although after pitching over it would've landed on a runway as well.
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  6953. Soon as I saw the title of this vid, I knew what to expect from the comments. SMDH
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  6954.  @marcuslang6153  I don't know, ask the Iraqi army?
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  6955. She went between the two lower power lines but grazed the upper line. I think in a game of wireball that counts as a double, no?
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  6956.  @BlackWestCoast  It should be a metal song
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  6957. The five subjects in this video are BS kind of stuff that we joke about and laugh off in the daylight, but presented here in this vid, with this awesome music, watched at night, suddenly become nightmare fuel. Well done, Dark5.
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  6958.  @Kevin_Kennelly  Two men enter, one man leaves! Dying time's here, bust the deal, spin the wheel!
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  6959. I miss the days when rock radio was decent, but aside from that I couldn't care less about what's popular. Taylor who? I have technology that allows me to find absolutely killer rock and jazz bands from all around the world at any time. Not just music from the 70s or 90s, but current modern bands that you'll never hear on radio or see at a Stupor Bowl halftime show. I wish some of these great modern bands could become stars and get rewarded for their good work but they do exist at least and I try to support them by paying for downloads and the occasional record, and if they come through my area I make an effort to go see them live.
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  6960.  @quisqueyanguy120  Also yes.
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  6961. That was cool as hell! For your next song, maybe Limelight by Rush? Although I kind of want Alex Lifeson to be your next special guest, so maybe not Rush. But yeah. Rush.
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  6962.  @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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  6963. Some pirate radio is cool. Then there's this jerk.
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  6964. For fans of Star Blazers (the American edit of the anime Space Battleship Yamato) a woman named Nova was one of the main characters on the spaceship.
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  6965. I live close enough to work, and don't have to drive on a major highway, that I would absolutely drive that thing to work a few times a month if I had it in my garage. Would I take it up Pike's Peak? No. Would I try to drive it 45 miles down a high-speed freeway on bald tires? Hell no. But for going around the block to get groceries it would work. Even more fun would be taking through the McDonalds drive-thru.
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  6966. Okay, so, did Jamie build that flaming spinning robot or not? Because I didn't hear any reason for him not to...
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  6967.  @Receipt  Kennedy is on your state's ballot because the Harris team wants him on the ballot. Kennedy himself tried to get off every ballot and he supports Trump now.
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  6968.  @gasfiltered  If your neighbor went back to England his family would tell him he sounds like an American, I'd wager. I grew up in the Northeast and moved to North Carolina for a few years; my family all told me my accent changed, but Carolinians all told me I still sounded like a Yankee.
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  6969. When they found an island with "gorillas" on it I immediately thought King Kong
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  6970. Over the years I've heard music snobs take shots at Cliff Williams for his simple bass lines, but it's evident when you analyze it like this that Cliff knows exactly what he's doing and has a good reason for it, because it's completely effective. Also, you mentioned the vocals, they are so important. To this day fans are still divided into the Scott camp and the Johnson camp, both were great singers for this band. When Axl Rose took over as touring singer recently it was a HUGE deal for fans, Axl is surely talented and can hit all the notes (and for once actually did his job without being a giant douche), but to sing for AC/DC is to tread on sacred ground. The standard to which you will be held is very high.
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  6971. pineapple pineapple pineapple NO NO NO
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  6972. That right there is why Mr. Browning's machine gun is still in service so many decades later.
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  6973. "Just look at what's happening with the protests." LOL that's a good thing?
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  6974. Anybody looking for simple, kickass garage rock check out an old band called Dead Moon.
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  6975. I'm sure he'll get there.
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  6976. I don't bother arguing with moon hoaxers anymore. I either ignore them or I just get them spun up and insult them. Trying to convince them that the landings were real is like trying to teach a dog math.
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  6977. They exist because even though their military sucks, they have lots and lots of nuclear warheads, and only a fraction of them have to function.
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  6978. BTW I've never heard anyone pronounce the word Tarawa the way you do here; the US Navy has had two ships named Tarawa, and I knew some guys who served aboard the most recent one, LHA-1, who pronounced the name with emphasis on the first syllable. "TAR-a-wa" Every Marine or sailor I've talked to pronounced it this way.
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  6979. 9:05 someone please tell me where that is I want to go there
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  6980. Hate to say it, but because of what REM was doing at that time, especially this song, I hated that band with a passion. I hate the lyrics, the strings, that stupid mandolin. I didn't appreciate REM until later when I went back and explored their earlier 80s stuff, which I find much more enjoyable. (That mandolin...yuck, kill me now...Alex Lifeson had an unholy infatuation with that instrument in the 90s/00s which brought Rush down a few pegs for me as well, and Rush is my favorite band)
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  6981. Not applicable in this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-29)
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  6982.  @markobaran  So you're saying that if the government spends more money on woke Sesame Street in Iraq, Starship will work better? Makes sense.
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  6983. I miss the grilled stuffed burrito, but the quesarito is like crack so it's all good.
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  6984.  @greenchilaquiles  Why you no good...! Were we co-located I'd challenge you to a Taco Bell-off!
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  6985. So will Don Henley go after those guys, or only small time youtubers who quote 10 seconds of his music?
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  6986.  @billwilson3609  I think I read somewhere that the Hessian POWs were often sent to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which had, and still has, a large German-speaking population. Lots of Amish farms out there today.
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  6987.  @connycontainer9459  nice try at rationalizing evil
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  6988. I did some reading up on US coastal defense a while back and found it pretty interesting. The US operated coastal dense artillery until about the 1950s when the US Coastal Artillery Corps was disestablished, and from then until the 1970s Nike missile batteries were the main means of ground-based defense, mainly against Soviet bombers. Apparently the proliferation of reliable and numerous ICBMs made these missile batteries "obsolete", and so now the US has absolutely no fixed defenses against attacking ships or aircraft. What prompted me to look into it was when I read that F-16 jets scrambled from Andrews air field near DC on Sept. 11, 2001, were completely unarmed, no missiles or even cannon shells. Seems like a dumb way to defend your capitol city to assume the only threat is from doomsday missiles.
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  6989. Video of that tallboy bomb going off (no sound for some reason): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv5KeeBvNOE
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  6990.  @Cryptkeeper1999  What would you like it to mean? Which meaning are you hunting for so you can own him?
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  6991. The test "pilots" judgement must be called into question here.
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  6992.  @countzero1136  Strange; that's the third Atari reference I've seen today...
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  6993. Those in the Philadelphia area know the Commodore Barry Bridge over the Delaware River south of the city, which carries US Rt. 322.
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  6994. When I was growing up, I would wake up and watch Saturday morning cartoons. Now I wake up and watch Saturday morning PD disaster videos. Is that weird?
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  6995.  @mrillis9259  Yes. Yes I would.
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  6996. Pretty sure that's how every dead criminal's day starts.
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  6997. So if the fog had been thick enough for them to not see the iceberg until it was too late to avoid hitting it square on, would they have had time to close enough hatches and stem the flooding forward? Also, had the fog been so thick, I am guessing they would've been going slower to begin with?
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  6998. What's also interesting is the connection between public phones and the origins of hacking in the 1970s. Jobs and Wozniak, before they started Apple Computers, used to hack pay phones for the hell of it, and built gadgets to assist them in this.
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  6999. Whenever I hear SRV I get blown away not just by the guitar but by that awesome Double Trouble rhythm section of drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon, those guys have killer groove.
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  7000. In 1975 the tanker Corinthos was involved in a collision near Marcus Hook, PA, on the Delaware River. I was a little kid at the time and lived a few miles away on the New Jersey side. I remember the house shaking, and my dad watching the news on TV. The two ships were burning furiously and one's deck had lifted up and draped over the side like a canvas sheet. It apparently busted out windows in Marcus Hook and there was a big firefighting effort. It was huge, but almost nobody remembers it now. Would make a good THG episode, history deserves to be remembered.
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  7001. Do they have power loaders aboard the ISS? You know, just in case...you never know what ships coming up from the surface will bring.
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  7002. A lot of old truss bridges in rural Pennsylvania had that singing metal decking, used to love driving over them with my grandfather. A lot of those old pretty bridges are gone now, replaced with ugly cheap concrete things.
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  7003. Finally! The Pink Floyd on my favorite music teaching channel!
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  7004. "Astronauts are heavily screened". Sure, but you still get the odd Lisa Nowak, driving across country in a diaper with trash bags, duct tape, and pepper spray so she can "just talk to" her lover's other woman.
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  7005. That image at 3:45 would make an awesome metal album cover.
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  7006. Rolling Stone? Oh, yeah, the magazine whose staff said Rush sucked. Not fit to line my parakeet's cage with.
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  7007.  @1maico1  Interesting, thanks.
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  7008. Purple was huge in the US when I was growing up.
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  7009. The article I read about the Falcon 9 core said that they didn't "lose" it, they fished it out of the water after it fell over. So it sounds like it's damaged and contaminated with seawater but not "lost".
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  7010. That wheel thing at 33:00 looks like something from Mythbusters with all those rockets all over it.
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  7011. In before takedown! Next time you have Tim on, Rick, let's hear that sweet-looking Ric he's got there.
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  7012. 2 days ago a 4 year old in Philadelphia was killed after being impaled by glass from a picture frame that fell off the wall and shattered.
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  7013. You forgot to show us how the locomotive works through the miracle of buying two of them.
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  7014.  @liamroggenkamp  Lomgstreet was an oddball in the CSA, being a Republican.
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  7015. About the anti-Jewish protesters wearing masks to hide their identities: in at least one southern state wearing a mask in public is against the law, because of klan activity in the past. Seems to apply to these creeps for exactly the same reason.
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  7016. Amazing anything at all can live in that filth.
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  7017. The problem with Jimmy Page keeping the tapes is hinted at in what you said about the condition they were in when he brought them to the studio, in a crumbling box, in need of protection against decay. Of course it's a good thing he didn't trust UMG to store them, keeping them in his attic was doing them no good in the longer term. Another few decades and they'll likely be damaged as well. When Jimmy passes away, what then? Will someone in his family take care of them? The problem with UMG isn't that they had a fire; no matter how well you try to preserve something accidents can happen. The bigger problem is that they were keeping all the eggs in one basket. If what you said earlier was true about them losing old celluloid films, keeping anything valuable in the same facility with that awful flammable stuff is a huge mistake. Even in a fireproof room that film can spontaneously combust if the conditions are right; preserving it requires a separate, expensively equipped facility. UMG is negligent, dishonest, and deserve to have daylights sued out of them.
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  7018. This is not a new conspiracy theory, I first heard of it on youtube at least 5 or 6 years ago, and chances are it goes back a lot farther.
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  7019. As far as cheaping out impacting battles, wouldn't the US crushing the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay be a prime example? Spain didn't spend the money and their navy got humiliated.
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  7020. You wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that speech. Plenty of bad guys will attest to that. The ones who survived, anyway.
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  7021. My grand daddy was a horse Marine Everything he wore was Marine Corps green Liked his steaks three inches thick Picked his teeth with the guide on stick
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  7022. That Atlas V was capability wasted on BO junk. That's why they through the Centaur into escape velocity just for the hell of it.
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  7023. I don't really know why I'm watching this. I will NEVER do this. But for some reason it's interesting.
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  7024. 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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  7025. A few years back Lockheed Martin demo'd the civilian version of the new C-130 at an airshow and actually did a full loop. The modern Hercs are beasts.
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  7026. So my take on this: The IJN wanted to call them battleships, and so the USN pulled Kirishima's punk card and got to say, "See that, USS Washington thoroughly pummeled a 'battleship'!". For propaganda purposes, it suited the IJN to call them BBs, right up until Kirishima was destroyed, at which point it suited the USN to call them BBs.
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  7027. For some reason the thought of grizzled combat veteran Hitler making fun of dorky-looking Himler makes me laugh. Reminds me of a Dr. Evil scene from Austin Powers or something.
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  7028. Boeing did this in the past with the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, which is a development of the B-29. It's worth noting that in order to make a passenger version they had to make the fuselage a lot wider for cabin space and comfort, and even after all the changes it was still basically a commercial flop. It was a maintenance hog and expensive to operate compared to other dedicated passenger propliners of the era, such as the more famous (and way better-looking) Lockheed Constellation. In addition, the 377 was built when the B-29/B-50 production line was still open and the tech was still fairly young. The last B-52 was built in the mid-1960s, the production line is all gone, and the guys who built it are all retired or passed on, so building brand new airframes would cost a fortune, in addition to shoehorning passenger requirements into it and getting it certified for service. Operating it would cost a fortune, too, since passenger plane tech has advanced so far since the 60s, nobody wants to buy 4-engine ultramodern jets anymore, why would they want to buy a jet with 8 old school low-bypass engines?
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  7029. About that lo-fi midrange effect: this song always made me feel nostalgic, even when I was too young to know what the word "nostalgia" meant, and it's because of that mid range filtering on the guitar. It sounds like you're listening to an old AM radio, because AM radio is filtered to preserve bandwidth on those low carrier frequencies, and sound always make it feel like you're listening to a memory from your childhood. Pink Floyd did the same trick on the intro to "Wish You Were Here", where the radio is being tuned down the dial and Gilmour's electric guitar comes in midrange filtered right before the acoustic starts. Brad Delp was just amazing, wonder how he could take a breath on those long notes, and his voice was beautiful. Was a sad day when we heard he had passed away.
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  7030.  @jliller  You need food more than you need health care. So let's nationalize all farming, food production, distribution. Worked great in the USSR. Added benefit, when people resist, you can starve them to death to show 'em who's boss. I for one welcome our new Stalinistic overlords.
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  7031. ​ @anastassiosperakis2869 I'm a racist white guy, when I need a surgeon I only want a guy with an Indian accent. I'm racist against myself.
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  7032. Youtube censored my comment here.
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  7033. 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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  7034.  @brianm6117  Almost, what really happened at the end of Sopranos wa
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  7035.  @michaelfrank2266 Creators keep uploading, we keep watching, YT keeps making money. Works for them.
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  7036.  @kargaroc386  Yes, that was another one.
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  7037.  @Mike-oz4cv  Don't argue with me, argue with the Douglas engineers.
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  7038.  @44R0Ndin  Don't bother trying to explain this using actual science; as soon as the word gets out that they are "bathing us in microwaves" there will arise a protest movement made up of people who don't understand or care about logic. Same as the antinuclear people and the people who complain about cellphone towers, high tension power lines, and so on.
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  7039. Best shirt yet, gonna tell us where to get it please?
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  7040. Well, I bet if those F-89s had used the Genie nuke they'd bagged that pesky Hellcat.
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  7041. Schrodinger's particle science is both nonsense and not nonsense at the same time, until Sabine's videos are observed.
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  7042. That would be Fort Billings, I presume? There is a park there, next to an oil refinery, the neighborhood is called Billingsport.
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  7043.  @tredogzs  You hate Musk and you want the whole world to know. How does that make you feel?
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  7044.  @Anonnonner9546  The Marines bought the F-35B specifically for the CAS role, because that is the primary purpose of Marine aviation. The gun on the F-35 is a 4-barrel version of the 5-barrel gun on the Harrier which is what the F-35 is replacing, and the Harrier has used its gun a fair amount in air-to-ground strafing. PGMs are expensive and scarce, cannon shells are cheap and plentiful. And if you're afraid to send your expensive jet into harm's way to protect your troops on the ground, Marine aviation is not for you.
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  7045. 25:35 that photo, my god what an awesome shot. Anyone know what ship that is? And did the poor photographer live after getting his camera blasted upside his face?
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  7046. The earlier generation of jetliners have great style. I always thought the 727 is just gorgeous, still sleek and futuristic even after the end of its service life.
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  7047. You need to relax, you're so worked up you're about to force your lute!
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  7048. Whenever I hear air raid sirens I expect to hear Black Sabbath bust out War Pigs immediately.
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  7049. This stuff makes my skin crawl to be honest. Even worse that it often fools me, makes me not want to trust anything anymore.
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  7050. Re: "X" vs. "Twitter", I just split the difference and call it "Xitter". You may pronounce that as you see fit.
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  7051. I don't know what this guy's talking about, all my stuff is top notch! Really! 😉
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  7052. From a technical standpoint, this isn't hard to do, and in fact by now we should've had one or two missions sitting "in the hangar" in case of something like this, since we've been worrying about it and putting it in the public conscience for about 30 years or so now. But politics, bureaucracy, etc. will probably bog everything down as it gets talked to death and likely by the time they determine whether it's going to hit it will be too late to get a mission up in time. Or they'll try, and it'll be a Starliner-style SNAFU where whoever is doing the launching embarrasses themselves and faceplants. Meanwhile, in the target area, they'll drag their feet evacuating... Okay, reading what I just wrote, I guess I am way more jaded than I thought I am. I will stand by my first sentence, though: we know how to do this stuff, and we should be ready by now, for at least a limited number of scenarios.
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  7053.  @imaginary_friend7300  A ready-to-go rocket and payload that can be sent to the pad within a reasonably short period of time. Kind of like the Apollo-Saturn IB rescue mission that was kept ready during Skylab missions.
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  7054. You're right, it's an editorial.
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  7055. "Scalpal McDoctorface" I'm dyin' over here.
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  7056. 8:55 Not familiar with KSP here, so question: pausing the vid at 8:55 the velocity appears to read 2183.2 m/s. That is not even close to LEO speed, in either inertial or earth fixed coordinates. What's the deal here? Is Scott foisting off a suborbital hop as an orbital insertion here, or am I not reading this right?
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  7057.  @scottmanley  Interesting. I'm an old Orbiter user, which is a very realistic model. I've simulated all the Apollo missions, recreating each maneuver and trying to get the orbital parameters as close to historical as possible and I've always been pretty close, right down to splashdown time.
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  7058. That outro solo is fantastic.
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  7059. How about the best 1-chord song: Sabotage by the Beastie Boys?
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  7060. @Nic Berry IN this video Scott says he sees no such docking system.
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  7061. The Brits are smart; they let the US take over duty as leader of the English-speaking world and stay close friends with them. Benefits with fewer costs. Instead of a "British Empire", it's now known as the "Anglosphere".
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  7062. Freaking Air Force. For starters, the USAF has never made close air support a main priority. The A-10 was meant to be used for interdiction behind enemy lines, shooting up tanks and other vehicles behind the front, CAS was not its primary mission. And here we are in 2020 and the USAF has been trying to find an excuse to retire the A-10 for at least 30 years now, because it's not a cool pointy-nosed supersonic jet fighter. So why get in the Army's way when they are trying to find the best gear to support their troops? Inter-service political BS, that's why.
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  7063.  @hoponpop3330  Auto and defense mixed all the time going back to WWII
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  7064. The first one back in the 90s was the only one worth watching in a movie theater. I quit watching halfway through the second film and never looked back. But if it makes them money, good on them I guess.
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  7065. Every video or article I have seen about thorium fission power has been a thinly veiled sketchy-looking infomercial. The factual stuff I have read seems to indicate that thorium is no magic bullet solution to anything, comes with its own set of problems, and you can't use it to make plutonium, which is a downside if that's what you want to do (or a benefit if it's your adversary who's using it).
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  7066.  @SeatBill  TLDR
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  7067. Art manifestos are usually pretty fun. That's all I got.
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  7068. Looks the UMG fire 11 years ago burned down the wrong UMG building.
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  7069. Probability of collision math is a weird thing. In reality, the probability this object will hit the earth is either zero or one. We just don't know which one yet, so we come up with probability numbers to score how confident we are at our guesswork.
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  7070.  @Menaceblue3  Cornfields, soybean fields, tomatoes, lately lots of wineries, and as always lots of Italian restaurants. If you don't like New Jersey, good, stay out, nobody wanted you here anyway.
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  7071. The US uses both systems. Metric in the military, science, and engineering, and English ("Standard American English, SAE, or whatever) for everyday things like weather and driving. Once you get used to it, it's not that hard to convert in your head between the two. Also, the UK still uses old fashioned units like miles and stone and so forth. And aviation and maritime fields still use nautical miles and fathoms. In addition to the difficulty of switching over, old-fashioned units are part of a nation's culture and history. Sam Clemens' pen name "Mark Twain" refers to a river depth of two fathoms. I guess he could've called himself "About Four Meters Deep" but that's not a very romantic pen name...
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  7072. 3:40 "I'm not sure you understand how drydocks work."
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  7073. Just wanted to say the 747 is still the most beautiful jetliner. I've had the pleasure of riding on a few and it's super comfortable, and you can feel the immense power at takeoff thrust. I will always love that design.
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  7074. July 4th Barbecuing is canceled this year. Racist. Sorry :-/
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  7075. Andromeda Strain vibes, anyone?
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  7076.  @reaperking2121  They are funded by tax money, don't kid yourself.
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  7077. I read about this incident on Wikipedia a while back. Astounding what people are willing to get violent about, or foolishly allow themselves to be led into by political "leaders". I have always hated crowds because riots start off as crowds. And people who deliberately get involved in riots are basically giant retards looking for trouble.
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  7078. I don't know if they still do, but MREs used to have these things called "oatmeal bars" which we sometimes called "sharpening stones" and joked you could use one to sharpen your bayonet. Damn things were harder than your teeth, but once you broke it up it tasted okay. I bet those freaking things last forever.
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  7079. So when I don't go see this, will that make me racist? Misogynist? Which kind of "toxic" fan will I be this time for staying home and rewatching a Sergio Leone film?
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  7080. I've spoken to sailors who served on the Iowa class battleships in the 80s, and it seems pretty clear that they could go faster than 33 knots when they were kicked in the ass. My dad served on the Essex class carrier Shangri-La in the 60s and he told me they got her up to 38 kts during a drill one time. He said she couldn't keep it up for very long, and that there was damage to the ship from vibration, but she could do it in an emergency. So I believe the Iowa sailors' stories about those battleships and the general build quality of US Navy warships in the 1940s.
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  7081. You're doing it wrong. It's "1001001, in distress!"
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  7082. Plainly Difficult did a good video on this too. While obviously the manufacturer bares a huge responsibility for the poor software testing and QA, something needs to be said about the operators' procedural discipline or lack thereof. Blowing off error messages without knowledge of why you are getting them is fine when it's your buggy home PC you are playing with, but when you are operating machines that can kill people, this is unacceptable. It's similar to the space business: when astronauts got computer errors during the Apollo 11 landing, they checked with people who knew exactly what the implications of those errors were before committing to a landing. And speaking of spaceflight code, the code used in the Space Shuttle flight computers is thought to be among the most error-free, best configuration-controlled code in history, and was one of the finest achievements of that program. It was expensive, and it was worth it, because whatever else was wrong with the Shuttle, the flight software was never an issue. The medical industry should take a lesson from that.
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  7083. Wider gauge railroads had been built before, way back in the mid 19th century. They are problematic as they require wider turns, wider rights of way, and make it harder to doubletrack. Transferring freight between cars of different gauges was inefficient and time consuming. Some freight cars could be lifted off their trucks with a crane and laid onto another set of trucks, which is another problem, and dual-gauge railways were also an imperfect solution. When you look at the enormous size of trains and rail equipment used in North America today, it seems that sticking to standard gauge was a good compromise that has lasted well over a century.
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  7084. So did it have a kickstand for when you shut down at day's end?
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  7085. Used to be a guy had a channel he would upload all these old government films to, great channel but youtube fucked him over and took it down. Anyone remember that guy? I think he moved to another platform but I don't know what to search on.
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  7086. Years ago I read the book "Tarawa: Story of a Battle" by Robert Sherrod, and recommend it to those who wish to learn more about this battle. This was basically the first real test of the US Marines using their amphibious doctrine developed between the wars under the leadership of John Lejeune, in which they developed tactics, techniques, and equipment for assaulting defended shorelines. Lejeune and his contemporaries had foreseen the coming war with Japan and its island-hopping warfare, and had worked hard to get the Marine Corps ready for when the day came. Tarawa was the first real hard opposed landing and a lot of hard lessons were learned that day by the Marines and Navy, which would later be applied on future landings by both the Marines and the Army.
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  7087. Can't wait for that SVT vid!
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  7088. Yet another outstanding video, can't wait until you get to the more modern, and crazier, designs for flying aircraft carriers!
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  7089. @Just Looking FFS you totally can't comprehend what I wrote? Can I make it simpler for you? Want me to type slower maybe?
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  7090. @RCAvhstape (Cont.) The irrational fear that's drummed up around nuclear power retards progress in the same way that fear of Frankenstein hurts progress in biological science. Instead of being afraid of it, we should find ways to use it right. Maybe not in cars, though, I would like to see the design before rejecting it out of hand. And, I guess I apologize for the profanity.
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  7091. I got my bottle of Silver Spiced Captain Morgan here. What's your excuse?
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  7092.  @xszl  Well I don't know how it is in Europe, particularly in that region of Europe, but where I live in the US most people don't have SW radios, and if there is a disaster they will mostly tune into the normal AM/FM stations. SW radios are mostly for radio enthusiasts like me, and even people who have radios with SW bands often don't think about using that band. The number of strong SW stations in North America isn't very high. Maybe they are more dense in Eastern Europe?
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  7093. What is that grungy tune you're playing along to in this vid? Sounds cool.
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  7094. For aggressive exploration of the Solar system, nuclear power is really the only realistic option. And right now, "nuclear" means "fission". If fusion ever becomes practical, that makes it easier, but for right now fission power, be it nuclear thermal or nuclear electric, is what we have to work with. We need to get over the political objections, get to work to make these things as safe and reliable as possible, and start building and flying them. It doesn't have to be NASA or some other government, it can be private/commercial or whatever, but it has to be. If humans are going to get beyond the moon with enough numbers and mass to make it worthwhile, this is the way to go.
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  7095.  @sid2112  What a country!
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  7096. The Soyuz system is a proven design, but even the best, longest-running design can still become unreliable if you are suffering quality control problems in manufacturing and assembly. The Russians need to get their act back together. Factory workers drilling random holes in space vehicles is a bad omen when you're climbing up a launch tower to get in the cockpit. To paraphrase Han Solo, "Launching rockets into space ain't like dusting crops, boy..."
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  7097. This "journalist" clown writes for things like The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and he lives in NYC, so basically he's the kind of hipster douche that makes the rest of the USA despise New York City. The insufferable New Yorkers ruin it for the decent and kind ones, as usual.
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  7098. I know, I was thinking we might get a guest BASS.
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  7099. I always thought the Air Force's policy on disclosing the presence of nuclear weapons, while normally a good idea, was way too rigid and prone to putting a lot of civilians needlessly at risk. The Titan silo explosion was another time where pig-headed idiot AF officers decided to put local Americans at extreme risk by not giving the police and firefighters sufficient information. This is something that never seems to reach the White House or Congress fast enough to prompt them to take action and direct the Air Force to change its policy in order to safeguard American civilians.
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  7100. ​@chrishoppner150Oh yeah, and Charlize Theron was not only super hot, she was also unhinged crazy evil as the Queen. That mirror was lying to her. She carried that film for sure.
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  7101. This is an interesting video, and as always I wonder at the things you get aggravated about. I couldn't care less if some people dislike switched outlets, sounds like a "them" problem.
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  7102.  @TheAverageWazoo  yep yep
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  7103. Best Beato rant in a long time. And very on point. Love the thumbnail.
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  7104. A tale from the days when you could issue your own currency and not have a federal SWAT team break down your door at 4 AM and drag you off to a dungeon.
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  7105. 14:08 What is that thing landing in the background supposed to be? Looks like some sort of variant of the XB-70 Valkyrie.
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  7106. 7:38 Ira Einhorn? Isn't he the environmentalist hippy wackjob who murdered his girlfriend?
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  7107. That business of using all those high tech tools to try to find the leak; I can't remember which sci fi book I read it in but they used balloons to find it the same way these guys used tea leaves.
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  7108. Hold down bolts stolen from Boeing.
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  7109. I like how the thumbnail is less "clickbait" than "click command"
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  7110. Gibson Guitars has entered the chat...
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  7111.  @jamesaustralian9829  video game =/= real war
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  7112. wut
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  7113. Driving in heavy fog sucks. If you go too fast, you may run into someone in front of you, and if you slow to a sane speed, the crazy people behind you may hit you. I used to have this dilemma driving through the mountains of Pennsylvania at night on US Rt. 322 west of Harrisburg. Could barely see over the hood of my truck so naturally slowed down to 40 mph and sure enough idiots blew by me at 65 like they were on their way to collect free money or something.
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  7114.  @tiorio9551  The Wizard by Blocker Sabbath
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  7115.  @drapala97  Into the Void starts with guitar.
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  7116.  @pavelslama5543  HIs meters that read "Oh shit!" when they go off scale high, and his computer screens that say, "U F*d up!"
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  7117. I see a few books on that shelf that I also own, including the PK Dick collection and Mike Collins' memoir.
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  7118. "War to end all wars" was just a propaganda slogan to get people to support...the war. And if you didn't support it, President Wilson would jail you.
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  7119.  @TedBronson1918  Sedition Act of 1918
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  7120. That photograph at 3:20 is awesome. Try making a photo like that on your smartphone without using lots of software filters today.
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  7121. I've ridden in military transports and I don't recall seeing any "seats", only nylon strap webbing facing sideways. In a bad crash we were all gonners no doubt. But since there were pallets full of 500 lb bombs in front of my knees I figure I wouldn't feel a thing.
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  7122.  @grantsmythe8625  Among the fruits of his experiments was life extension.
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  7123. Sure. You first.
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  7124. @Don Kuppa Ridiculous.
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  7125. Well I for one got really sick of it all over the radio growing up and honestly don't care if I never hear it again. But I'll listen when Rick wants to talk about it.
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  7126. Enterprise (orbital vehicle OV-101) was not an "extra" orbiter, nor was she a "mockup". She was built to fly in space, but was rolled out early without being fitted up for space flight in order to get the approach and landing tests (ALT) completed on schedule. The plan was to send her back the factory after the ALT and fit her up for spaceflight, but during the ALT Rockwell engineers decided a design change in the airframe was needed which would require spending lots of time and money disassembling parts of Enterprise's airframe and sending subassemblies back to subcontractors. NASA asked for a cheaper option, and found it: structural test article STA-099 was in early construction and could be finished as an orbital vehicle. So STA-099 was redesignated OV-099 and given the name Challenger. Enterprise spent the rest of her service doing fit checks, etc. at the never-used launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base and was used to assist in the accident investigations of Challenger and Columbia, and is currently at the Intrepid Museum in NY City. So Enterprise is a real spacecraft, but an unfinished spacecraft with fake or substitute subsystems.
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  7127.  @pomonabill220  I bet they weren't laughing. Scared people vote. And I don't think they're all stupid, some are just misinformed and they'd been lied to in the past about things like tobacco and leaded gasoline. The telecom companies don't get trust for free.
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  7128. Nixon's history as VP is well known in the US, especially his run for president against Kennedy in 1960, in which Kennedy had mastered the art of looking good on television during the debate, while Nixon appeared on screen unprepared to deal with hot lights and cameras, with sweat all over his face, and got owned as a result. It's a famous moment in political and television history.
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  7129. This remind me of today's Cajun Navy. Someday in the future they will deserve to be remembered also. Also reminds me of the civilian boats in the movie Dunkirk. Nothing like taking your unarmed sailboat out to patrol in a sea infested with U-boats.
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  7130. ​​ @jwst8 Along with the fact that they shadow censor every other comment. Remember when we were told a good society believes in freedom of speech?
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  7131.  richard mccann  GET BACK ON YOUR MEDS AND QUIT USING ALL CAPS YOU DOUCHE CANOE
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  7132.  @brucekives2194  So it's like the digital version of crosstalk?
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  7133. As in, "Rick will beat you if you pronounce his name wrong"?
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  7134. I think I have a mild case, seems to vary in intensity based on fatigue or something, not sure. I'm surprised it's not worse. Generally I don't abuse my ears, but I occasionally like my music loud, and have played in loud bands. In a prior life I worked around jet engines and firearms. Always wore protection , but one time somebody fired a rifle next to my face with no warning, and my left ear rang hard for a day or so, and I don't think that did me any good. These days I do not go anywhere where there is loud music without earplugs, whether it's me playing or another band. I even wear hearing protection when using the vacuum cleaner around the house, because it's loud and irritating.
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  7135. Search his channel. I think he has done a video about this before.
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  7136. "Quad cortex...flamjammer into the MIDI throttlespammer....outbound messages microlooper granular stereo...retinal thoughts create 88 mind explosion algorithms" lol yeah I got all that clear alright.
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  7137.  @AlexConnor_  The Navy actually destroyed the spare gun barrels in the 90s, IIRC.
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  7138. FAFO at work
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  7139.  @shaunsandow2073  Sometimes it is needed.
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  7140.  @ccoder4953  The Golden Age of Aviation was the 1930s.
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  7141. The Shuttle SRBs are gimbaled.
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  7142. Had mass transit ever been overfunded?
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  7143. If it weren't for these reviews like Drinker and Nerdrotic, I'd never even know these shows exist. I quit caring about Star Wars after episode 8. Aside from Rogue One, there hasn't been anything Star Wars worth a damn since 1983.
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  7144. This is why when you buy a house in a nice new development you need to do some research into the area. I have little sympathy for those why buy a house next to an airport and then complain about the noise. Buy a house next to a rocket engine and nuclear test site? Maybe not the best investment? As for the city wanting to turn this into parkland, ha ha, "Hey, hon, let's take the kids out to play in the toxic sandbox."
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  7145. "(Do this today.)"
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  7146. We can do without the corny sexual innuendo, the rest of the Internet is big enough to take care of that.
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  7147. Ya know, I was living a perfectly happy life, watching movies that happen to have telephones, and you just HAD to come along with this video and wreck it. What has been heard cannot be unheard!
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  7148. 6:29 I thought that guy's truck was gonna get crunched.
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  7149.  @veramae4098  I know right? Same as Finland!
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  7150. So was the targeted German HQ at la Caine found due to codebreaking or due to signals intelligence sensing all the radio transmissions in the area, or both? 4:50 seems to indicate the latter. Codebreaking would certainly be useful in confirming the signals intel, though. It seems foolish for the Germans not to isolate their antennas from the rest of their people and equipment, though.
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  7151. It's been a couple of years since I've watched a Thoughty2 video. What the fuck's up with that mustache?
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  7152. These were foisted upon us by political policy makers, as opposed to economy driven innovation, so it's no wonder they suck. I still have a few around my house, such as in the bathroom lights, which will be there until they fail. But I and lots of people I knew resented being essentially forced to buy these pieces of crap, and to add insult to injury we were also admonished for not disposing of them properly, so lots of people just said fuck it and threw them in the trash. You want to force us to use this crap? Fine, you can come to my house and pick up the dead ones, right then? No? Fine off to the landfill they go then. They never worked right with my porch lamp timer and they gave off a harsh light in the living room which was unbearable. They only ones I thought were cool were the colored ones they'd sell around Halloween, I still have a bunch of those in a drawer I pull out for holidays and will miss them when they fail, but I imagine there are LED versions of those around somewhere.
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  7153.  @genebohannon8820  Shiny.
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  7154.  @ericliang4744  The melody was written by Desmond, but the tune is a Dave Brubeck Quartet tune. Desmond thought the track would be kind of a filler track to allow Morello a drum solo, but it accidentally became a huge hit, one of the biggest in jazz history.
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  7155.  @MyRackley  It's a song by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (not Dave Brubeck), written by Desmond. It's not on a Desmond solo album. Desmond didn't write the piano riff or the drum solo. Not too hard to understand.
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  7156. Though he used it, the "diversity" thing has been around a long longer than Obama. I remember being in college in the early 90s and some trollop trying to get me to join her "Diversity Club".
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  7157. I always think of Dana Dulaney's portrayal of Josephine in the movie Tombstone, when she first sees Earp at a distance and says, "I like it. I want one."
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  7158. Stalin was a tasteless pig who likely had no interest in fine swords or the like. Too busy thinking about how many more of his own citizens he was going to murder.
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  7159.  @iggyblitz8739  Ask The Burbydurb.
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  7160. Jerry Pournelle's CoDominion books do a pretty good job of portraying physics-based space combat, to the point where The Expanse almost looks like a copy. These kind of hard sci fi stories always involve a few magic future technologies that make them plausible, mainly the super high thrust, high specific impulse propulsion systems that allow the ships to stay under high accelerations for long periods of time without running out of fuel. Robert Heinlein called this a "torch drive". It allows transiting the Solar System in days or weeks instead of years, and makes for exciting combat encounters where the characters are as likely to die from acceleration injuries as they are from weapons fire. In a sense, the sub light impulse drive in Star Trek is a torch drive, but matters less because it is overshadowed by so many more magic technologies on that show that take beyond the realm of "hard" sci fi, especially the warp drive, transporters, magic gravity, etc.
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  7161. I like how you don't take off your coat while doing messy work. That's dedication.
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  7162. 5:20 "If they'd let a hacker near it" I'm picturing the scene from the first Mission Impossible movie where Tom Cruise is hanging from a cable to hack into an air gapped computer in a high security facility inside CIA HQ.
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  7163. This takes place in 1988. If Donnie had lived a few years longer he would've started a band that would've led the alternative rock scene into the mainstream and blown away Nirvana.
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  7164. As suggested in the video title, I like the name "hypercruiser". I propose that the modern US Navy get to work building a guided missile hypercruiser at once.
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  7165. Sunbeam is still around, any reason why they can't reissue this model? Maybe with some minor upgrades for safety compliance? Why did they stop making them?
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  7166. Looked this up. The airplane was repaired and stayed in service for 12 more years. It's currently sitting in a storage hangar in Tijuana and reportedly in poor condition. I have to say that the 747 is one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built and it will be a sad day when the last one lands for good.
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  7167. ​ @jasonm9336 Oh no, the Bananagate Scandal is upon us!
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  7168.  @BennyHesp  My comment about bananagate got deleted for no reason.
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  7169. Ward Carrol recently did an interview on his channel with a 100 year old B-17 pilot, who seems remarkably healthy for his age; you'd think he was like 80.
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  7170. I wonder how well it models things. I'd think that one aircraft with the dorsal intake would have problems at high angles of attack. Been tried in real life. Works nice for stealth bombers, for fighters, not so much?
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  7171. In the town where I grew up there was at least one streetlamp that would switch off when a car hit it with high beams just right. I'm guessing that particular lamp was either wired differently or it's control unit was faulty.
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  7172. 11:40 cue awesome Ozzy song
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  7173. I couldn't care less about the stupid environment, but I like saving money, so this seems cool.
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  7174. This band was so talented. Kurt, of course, but Krist is underrated as well, he looked like a know-nothing punk rocker what with his antics (like knocking himself out with his own bass), but his lines are solid, and of course Dave Grohl behind the drums, (WHERE HE BELONGS). Lightning in a bottle. I have seen a lot of music snobs over the years who hate Nirvana for whatever reasons, the one I hear most is that Nirvana had no talent and thus made talentless music popular, killing the wonderful melodic hard rock and guitar solos of the 80s. Well, I was in high school in the 80s and I can tell you that hair metal, MTV, and commercial garbage was killing rock and roll. The phony nature and schlock factor of it was so obvious. I was into prog rock, but there was nothing progressive about the commercial MTV stuff on the radio. Nirvana was a huge shot in the arm for rock and roll. Here was a real band, who put it all out there, with something that was kind of punk but so much more. When this came on the radio you cranked your car stereo to ear bleed levels. And as Rick points out, hidden under that punk aesthetic was sophistication, and yes, guitar solos for anyone who cares to actually pay attention. The last great rock revolution happened in 1991. Can't happen today with the changes to the industry brought on by technology, no one rock band can be this big today. Radio is pretty dead and the internet dilutes fan bases across lots of genres and regions.
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  7175. 3:03 the guy on the right looks like Donald Sutherland "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes.
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  7176. Never underestimate the ability of Momma Bear to not give a fuck.
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  7177. So if you can't train sharks, how do you get them to use the frikkin' lasers?
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  7178. Whoppers are indeed disgusting. I think you need to get some help for your daughter, Matt, there must be something wrong with her taste buds.
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  7179. I prefer music and no narration.
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  7180. I wonder if this would be more effective than just firing a few bursts from an MG-42 from the shoulder. ( I assume this is possible; I've seen Marines fire an M-60 from the shoulder in a demo).
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  7181.  @frostedbutts4340  An MG-42 puts out a high rate of fire, and while its caliber is pretty small compared to the Fliegerfaust, scoring a few rifle size hits vs. no hits at all with this contraption seems a better outcome. There is the additional fact that every German infantry unit were equipped with machine guns all the time, which are highly effective in infantry combat, whereas the Fliegerfaust is heavy and of limited usefulness in any role other than anti-aircraft.
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  7182.  @dougrobinson8602  Just wait.
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  7183. The most impactful statement Rick makes here is, "Nobody cares." Of course there will always be a small minority of music fans who care, but the average public doesn't give a damn about real vs. fake music, or art, or anything else. Musicians, who have always had a hard time getting paid, and even harder lately, will now be utterly worthless. Making real music will now be as much a monetarily worthless hobby as fingerpainting. There will still be a handful of megastars needed to keep around to be trotted on stage at events like the Superbowl halftime or whatever, your Taylor Swift types, etc., but holograms may kill that gig as well. Wait until individual tavern owners can use AI to generate their own music, then there will be no need to ever hire a live band or pay an ASCAP/BMI fee again. Music will be as worthless as trying to sell snow to penguins.
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  7184. It's amazing how the 80s keep coming back.
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  7185. The album that song is on, After the Snow, is one of the best kept secrets of the 80s. My girlfriend got me to listen to the whole record one day and she was right about it, fantastic album. Too bad they are only known for the one song.
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  7186.  @TIMMEH19991  I read that they turned it down because the cost of retrofitting the fleet would've been more than just burning more fuel for a few decades.
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  7187.  @TIMMEH19991  Besides, a B-52 without 8 engines just seems wrong somehow. Like Jaret Leto as the Joker, it just ain't right.
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  7188. Good old Uncle Joe, gotta watch out for him.
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  7189. Things that make me happy I have a day job career that I like.
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  7190. This is a lot of stuff I didn't know before, fascinating. I love the footage of the C-47 making low pass snatch runs.
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  7191. Maybe if NYC just passed a few more laws it'll fix the problem.
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  7192.  @MrEvan312  lol that sounds like a Dave Chapelle Show sketch
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  7193. 51:50 I remember seeing that accident on the news when it happened.
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  7194. Today I learned a new thing existed: radium scrotal straps.
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  7195. That'll use the Vera engine. And the fairing will look like a wool hat with ear flaps.
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  7196. I've heard Americans from New England do that, too. President Kennedy used to say "Cuber" when he was talking about Cuba.
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  7197.  @wickedcoolname399  I think you have the most New England username on YouTube.
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  7198. This was 39 years ago.
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  7199. In Mexico.
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  7200. Whatever you do, don't watch videos about cave explorers getting into trouble. That's phobia city right there.
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  7201. ​ @LastGoatKnight It's not a bomber, it's an attack plane, hence the cannons.
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  7202. 1:18 that shot of the 747 mothership is beautiful.
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  7203. I actually tried not to laugh at these people and just couldn't do it, my sides are splitting. Honestly though, as funny as this is, when the afterglow of the election victory wears off, we need to figure out how to reduce the insanity in this country. These people may be funny, but enough of them put together can do real damage. Not only that, but these are our fellow citizens, many of them are family or friends, and we just can't have all this delusional crazy around us if we are to keep our country. This level of crazy is really scary.
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  7204.  @babayada2015  Scott linked to his video on the subject.
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  7205. I watched the whole thing and when I went to comment it suddenly disappeared, weird.
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  7206. 6:10 one can imagine Bourdin got all the love and attention he craved...in prison.
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  7207.  @jacktattis  Why the hate for the USN?
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  7208.  @jacktattis  In what way did I "dis" the RN?
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  7209. Good thing Stalin did this There is no way the USSR could've won the war unless they abuse and humiliate their POWs. Also good that they kept their prisoners for a decade after the prisoners' government had been toppled, just to make sure. Stalin was a good dictator.
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  7210.  @theodorekell  AS an added bonus he managed to murder a good 30 million+ of his own citizens. He was a great dictator.
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  7211.  @pakoti96  He's explained this a million times: blockers. No, wait, nevermind, what I meant to say was, Rick just hates your favorite music. Feel the indignity.
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  7212. Eh. It's NASA, what do you expect? Back in 2006/2007 when the Constellation program was the Next Big Thing I remember telling my fellow space fans that the whole thing was going to get canceled the moment the current president left office and the next administration came in, just as George H. W. Bush's Mars program got canned the moment he left office in 1992. Sure enough, the new administration decided they had All Better Ideas and all that money spent on the Ares launch vehicles was flushed straight down the F'ing toilet. But wait, there's more! NASA had enough money to build and launch a single Ares I rocket with a dummy upper stage and ballast payload. Ares had already been canceled but they had to spend (waste) the money so they launched this rocket successfully, despite it having no future whatsoever. As an engineer I can't imagine working on that program knowing your work was all pointless. At least you got a paycheck out of it I guess, like getting paid to paint rocks.
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  7213.  @scottmanley  I don't understand what wasting money on Ares I has to do with contracting SpaceX to build something.
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  7214.  @scottmanley  Except for the money they blew on that launch. That got spent on launching ballast into the sea.
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  7215. You keep saying the passengers are surrounded by the engines, but the diagrams and models clearly show that the engines were well aft of the cabin. As far as being noisy, I can't imagine it would be any noisier than sitting in the back of a Boeing 727, where you actually are surrounded by three engines. I did so many times and while it was louder in the back row than it was up front, it wasn't unbearable by any means.
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  7216. I think the biggest flaw in the design was in the accessibility of the engines for maintenance and the limitations on engine upgrades imposed by their placement. To swap out an engine it looks like you might have to remove the entire tail section, and to access the upper units you'd need to climb to the top. And because the air inlet is fixed in size and there is little room for bigger engines, upgrades would be difficult, which is why the 727 and other tail-mounted jetliners are phasing out of service: no way to install a high bypass turbofan.
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  7217. Usually I hate everything on these lists, but I have to say that Sabrina Carpenter stuff is giving off some 90s Lillith Fair vibes, and that's not a bad thing.
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  7218. Never mind all the political BS, I've taken many long-distance rides on Amtrak and even when it's way behind schedule it's almost always a fun ride. And I want to complement any Amtrak employees reading this: you all have always been extremely polite, professional, and helpful. The difference between how Amtrak treats me and how airlines treat me is pretty stark. Amtrak treats passengers the way airlines used to treat us before 9/11, not like inconvenient potential criminals, but like actual humans who paid for a ticket. That goes a long way in my book. I've had station agents help me out when I lost a ticket once, and another time they suggested I change my booking to save some time without me even asking. The porters and car attendants were always good guys, and the wait staff in the dining car are always great. Everyone from the conductor on down seems to be proud of being railroaders, too, which is cool.
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  7219.  @LHyoutube  Your mom uses emojis
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  7220.  @LHyoutube  More emojis plz
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  7221. I would watch a video with a musician on Rick's channel ANYN FREAKING DAY over one on some jackass channel like Jimmy Kimmel. Rick's channel is where it's at for music fans, those talk show clowns are for losers.
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  7222. Honestly, pop music from 20 years ago isn't all that far off from today's pop music, which shows how much it is stagnating. In the 1980s 20 years was an eternity; Michael Jackson didn't sound like anything from the 60s. From the 50s to the 90s popular music went through tremendous change. Now everybody "writes" the same beats on the same software and the market isn't really made up of "listeners" anymore, just people looking for something to play in the background while they do something else.
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  7223.  @albertseabra9226  STOP YELLING AT US
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  7224.  @albertseabra9226  lol no biggie
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  7225. The cool thing is that the Nighthawk started life as a black project, and now it's gone back to being a secret program. And it looks the part.
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  7226. I trawl youtube looking for videos about retro tech like that, Jeff Quitney's channel is a great source. Also, the computer museum in Mountain View, CA, has a youtube channel where they actually restore these old computers and run them and write new code for them and stuff. Beautiful.
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  7227. 48:01 what is that cloud of green shit underneath that ferry boat?
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  7228. Always good to see PD getting back to the subject that made me subscribe: radiation!
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  7229. The courage and honor of those men is beyond description. And as much as I love Japan today and respect their culture and society, the stories of how the Imperials treated their prisoners and conquered civilians makes me sick to my stomach and fills my heart with anger, that such people could be so cruel and heartless.
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  7230. When you shoot pool with Chuck Norris.
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  7231. Drachism of the day candidate: "This is a dumb idea, and whoever came up with this idea is also dumb."
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  7232. There are parts of WWII that seem so pointless. If the allies had just contained Tirpitz, the Germans would've surrendered or scuttled her at the end of the war and all those airmen and sailors wouldn't have been killed. Then again, if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon...
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  7233. So the Germans also created the roots of Skynet. Amazing.
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  7234. 4:24 That PRR illustration shows the site of the modern day 30th St. Station in Philadelphia, looking towards the southwest, with the Schuylkill River in the foreground. Interesting to compare this view with what it looks like today on google maps.
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  7235.  @shorttimer874  137, actually. It might be the one that's at the USAF Museum in Dayton, where I saw it a few months ago and got to walk through it.
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  7236. 10:10 Gotta love those old photos. Those look like some tough dudes living in a tough world. Even that kid looks like he could handle himself in a scrap.
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  7237. There is an access hatch on her right shin for some reason.
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  7238. Because it's a black and white film of a guy speaking in a German accent?
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  7239. why do all Soviet pilots look at least 20 years older than their Western counterparts?
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  7240. Okay, 15:47 answers my question. I would age quickly too if I had to fly stuff like that every day.
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  7241. I thought I saw in a documentary that Grumman workers claimed they had hidden things like photos and autographs and stuff underneath the insulation blankets on the LM descent stages, which, if true, would mean the photos are quite well protected from dust and UV rays. If it is true, though, it's terrible quality control and discipline by Grumman. Generally, when a spacecraft is built, every step of the assembly is documented and even photographed so as to aid in troubleshooting if a problem pops up during the mission, at least so I've heard in the US.
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  7242.  Peter Rogan  So it's kind of like Pennsylvania German (aka "Pennsylvania Dutch") that is spoken by Amish and Mennonite peoples, then? I have spoken to many Amish people and they speak English that sounds like they are from a Philadelphia suburb (they are, after all), but when you hear them talk to each other they speak a dialect of German that sounds kinds of countryish even to non-German speakers.
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  7243.  Peter Rogan  Yeah. Even now there are places in South Carolina, for example, where it's almost impossible for me to understand the locals when they talk to each other.
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  7244.  Peter Rogan  Yes, there is a good BBC documentary out there about the English language and they spend some time on those SC islands discussing that dialect.
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  7245. I've seen an AN-2 up close parked outside at an airfield. What a crude and ugly machine. Like a poster child for East Block engineering.
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  7246. Halsey, despite his errors, was a tough and scary guy.
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  7247. That funding shell game the Navy was playing in the pre-WWI days is why the frigate Constellation is a museum ship in Baltimore today. For decades it was claimed that this ship was the original USS Constellation of Joshua Humphries fame, but anyone who knew what they were talking about could take one look at the ship's design and tell you something wasn't right with that claim. The stern is round instead of transom, for example. Turns out the Navy was playing the old shell game, asking for funds to "maintain" the previous Constellation while actually using the money to build a new ship, possibly with a few parts from the old one thrown in to make it "the same ship". In the end it got us a unique museum ship from an often overlooked time period (ca 1850), though, so no complaints from me.
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  7248. THE STAPLER WAS RED NOT ORANGE!
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  7249. I really want to find out how mail sorting machines work, especially in the days before any kind of AI existed to help read the random crappy handwriting of the senders.
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  7250.  @InLoveWithCities  Which big capitalist corporation was responsible for Chernobyl? Or how about Mayak?
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  7251. "You can't use words like 'retarded' or 'illegal alien', you must use doublespeak, it's required by our rules. We will add more words you must substitute doublespeak for at any moment without notice."
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  7252. I've heard Mike described as "the John Paul Jones of REM", the band's talented secret weapon. Gotta love his bass playing.
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  7253. We all agree that Nickelback sucks. Right?
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  7254. Classic Beato Rant. Blocking, autotune, and crap songwriting by committee all covered. Only thing it needs is a dig at Apple, though I bet the autotune software runs on a Mac lol.
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  7255. After living through the late unpleasantness these past two years, the importance of canned foods has been highlighted. Canned foods are fine tasting and keep for years without needing refrigeration. Anti-can snobbery is just stupid.
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  7256.  @agauld3212  I'm gonna have to remember that one lol
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  7257. 1984 cult classic film: Night of the Comet
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  7258. Imagine Dragons is "alternative" now? WTF?
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  7259. Another virus scare? Just in time for the 2024 election season.
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  7260. On a related note, that photo makes me nostalgic for the Space Shuttle. Warts and all it remains the coolest thing ever flown so far.
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  7261. Top 10 times James Hetfield ends a sentence with "____ya".
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  7262. Tunn Tavern in Philadelphia is where the Continental Congress was convened when they passed the act that created the "Continental Marines" in 1775. The colonies were in rebellion but had not yet declared independence. When the war was over in the 1780s, the Continental Marines were disbanded, along with the rest of the rebel forces. In the 1790s Congress then created the modern organization named The United States Marine Corps, along with the US Navy. Both the Navy and Marine Corps count the births of their "Continental" versions as the beginning of their histories.
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  7263. Back in the 70s and 80s in a small town in Pennsylvania my grandfather used to listen to his Bearcat scanner all the time. No point in that nowadays unfortunately.
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  7264. ​ @GardenGuy1942 He flew your mom last night.
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  7265. So I'll honest, I prefer the disaster, nuclear, and industrial accident vids the most. Some of these "dark side of science / humans are awful" vids are harder for me to watch, despite them being well-made.
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  7266. Obviously reverse video. If you look at the street you can see the cars going backwards as well.
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  7267. It was a stupid idea and pony kink guy is an irresponsible knucklehead. Especially the part where he ghosted without telling everyone it was fake. My mom used to tell me not to do stupid things in front of my brother or my friends, because "monkey see, monkey do". The world is full of attention-seeking monkeys willing to eat Tide Pods because they saw someone else do it. Worse, it can cause authorities to waste time investigating, which may even be a crime.
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  7268. My dad served aboard the carrier USS Shang-ri La in the Med in the 60s. He said he loved it and it was beautiful, except that Naples was a dump and one day the Israeli and Egyptian air forces started shooting at each other in the sky above the ship.
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  7269. Need to plant a bomb in the laptop. Thief doesn't reset the timer after a half hour, boom. Just kidding. Sort of.
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  7270. Dan Brown has entered the chat.
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  7271. 5.7 gigawatts is also enough to power 4 flux capacitors, with power to spare.
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  7272. Low lighting on this vid...hiding in the shadows so the Blockers can't find you, Rick? ;-)
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  7273. Drachism of the Day: "a strong tendency to cosplay as U-Boats"
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  7274.  @JohnLnyc  I'm well aware of that.
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  7275. More safety shit to make overcomplicated cars even more complicated? No thanks. I miss my 1970s Volkswagon. Dependable and easy to work on without all this computer shit.
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  7276. I remember when this happened. The guys who did it cracked me up. They made the cops and the media look stupid and showed what a bunch of nervous reactionaries we all became after 9/11. Of course you have to realize that Leviathan not only has no sense of humor, but also simply can't tolerate being mocked, so these guys were going to get prosecuted for something the moment the cops got involved; glad the charges got dismissed.
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  7277. Not at all shocked to find out you are a wargamer. I used to be, still have most of my minis in storage. Fantasy, American War for Independence, modern tanks, and Starfleet Battles, but my favorite was BattleTech. Used to use my dad's entire basement floor as a "planet" that had to be defended from a force of BattleMechs dropped from orbit.
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  7278.  @arieldahl  South Africa was known for its fine artillery pieces, though. Fine.
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  7279. I love the heaviness Rick gets out of a Telecaster
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  7280. After all the money and effort put into building it, it seems odd that they didn't use it for Space Shuttle and now Artemis. Assuming this exists at both LC-39A and LC-39B, it could be used for Falcon 9 Dragon crews and ground techs as well. The construction, using shock springs under the deck, sounds like how they built the nuclear-hardened ICBM control capsules and also the buildings inside Cheyenne Mountain.
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  7281. Drones are very annoying. It's surprising more people don't throw rocks at them.
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  7282.  @glennhighcoveexploresstuff  You think people don't throw rocks at motorcycles? lol
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  7283.  @glennhighcoveexploresstuff  In the US teenagers drop rocks off of overpasses. Quit being a drama queen.
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  7284.  @glennhighcoveexploresstuff  Yeah, sure, I'll drop whatever I'm doing and go dig up a bunch of stats to argue with some muppet over a flippant internet comment that has zero impact on anything. Just sit there by your keyboard and keep hitting refresh until I get back to you lol.
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  7285.  @glennhighcoveexploresstuff  HA ha take care, buddy.
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  7286. So it's like building a ship in a bottle, except if it's wrong two people die.
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  7287. That's part of the reason for that beehive of AAA seen on the "as sunk" configuration. The other part being a modern dive bomber pilot screaming out of the cloud deck with his hair on fire.
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  7288. Wait...did you say, "snow"? That sounds rather unpleasant.
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  7289.  @martinjohnston6685  Coconado!
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  7290. Bach is the best. And that part about the bass player not being able to hide holds for all genres. I was taught when playing rock or jazz that if the bass player sucks it makes the whole band suck.
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  7291. They copied the space shuttle (albeit with huge changes in the overall system design) just for the sake of copying and it was a huge waste of money right as the USSR was on the edge of collapse. They generally sucked at innovating and were always playing catchup to the West.
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  7292. This guy was always an asshole but I still like some of his art. I like cubism and other art of that era in general. Too bad such talent was wasted on such a POS.
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  7293. This is awesome. Makes me think of that band called Compressorhead which is a bunch of robots programmed to play guitar, bass, and drums. The robots are just machines taking in what is presumably MIDI signals but they have actual robots fingers and hands and feet to play real instruments. Also, those old Wurlitzer paper roll machines you see at carnivals that play real instruments mechanically.
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  7294.  @Wannes_  Interesting. A really confusing system.
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  7295. That bio threat is already here, we made it through round one.
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  7296. The problem with DLR vs. Sammy is that Eddie wanted to do a different style of music and Dave didn't, nor was he really the right guy for the job anymore. Sammy's singing style was better for that pop sound Eddie wanted, plus Sammy is a decent guitar player, which added a dimension to the band. I always liked Sammy but I like him more before and after he was in VH.
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  7297. NOAA's emblem looks like the USMC emblem with an extra anchor. How does one join the NOAA Corps? Get hired like a regular government job?
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  7298. I was on it many years ago as a kid in the back seat, listening to my parents complain about the never-ending string of toll booths.
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  7299. The bird must've been exhausted from struggling.
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  7300. Why does everything we see in every Scott Manley video look like it's "right out of KSP" or is "the most Kerbal thing I've ever seen"?
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  7301.  @ariaspes3842  No US launches have failed in the last two months.
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  7302.  @Makoto778  Very interesting info, thanks. My understanding is that low pressure was desired for Skylab to reduce leakage.
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  7303. 5:00 that hatchback version is actually not completely ugly and even looks useful.
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