Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Not What You Think" channel.

@thewildcardperson That's the larger tragedy of WWII. People think of the Holocaust, rightly so, but imagine if the work that went into devising those death camps had been put to something more practical. Most of the work that went into getting man to the moon was done on the backs of former Nazi scientists that had been allowed to illegally migrate to the US.
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@mediaisthevirus Sure there is, how many of them were still members of the party afterwards, and how many of them were aware of the extent of it? Dehumanizing people regardless of their personal level of culpability is not helpful.
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@Nexalian_Gamer Beyond the morality of it, if the rats could contract it, there would be significant problems in terms of training and retaining them long enough for it to be worth it. Not to mention the possibility of one of them getting out and spreading it all over the place when there was just a couple of quarantined individuals that needed to be tested.
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@alalalala57 When? His area of expertise is relatively small. He's an astrophysicist. For most other matters, he has to do research to know what he's talking about. I don't see him talking about astrophysics very often and even there he's probably not that good, as the redefinition of planet didn't just make Pluto planetoid, but probably also the Earth and required a vote on a different definition after most of the attending astronomers had gone home.
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People laughed at Douglass Adam's observation that flying is just a matter of falling and missing the ground, but that's more or less exactly what orbiting is.
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That would be tough without relatively small blads and the seats being very far forward. The simplest way of doing it is to just blow the props in the moments before the seat is ejected.
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People need to stop asking him questions about things that he's not qualified to talk about. This is the same logic that leads people to falsely believe that exercise is the best way to burn calories. It's not, nearly all the calories burned during exercise are the result of the body's need to regulate it's own temperature. You burn nearly as many calories sitting in a warm bath or outside on a cold day. The main benefit that comes with exercise is that you're using muscles which maintains muscle tone.
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@Carrancka Yes and apparently his ego has grown to large to remember that. He probably still thinks the Earth is a planet when it may not be due to that asinine hit job they did on Pluto. The Earth arguably hasn't cleared its own orbit, which makes it a planetoid and not a planet.
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@angrodNumenesse English has both a ton of homophones and a ton of words, on top of grammar that relies on a bunch of implicit knowledge. It's a bear of a language, unless you speak a related language.
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The Uranus joke is a bit outdated as that's no longer the proper pronunciation as the world has now standardized without the long a sound.
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@Q.A.a.R.I.S Yes and if you're trading on expertise for credibility, that's a big problem.
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