Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. Yeah it didn't make any sense that it'd be operating in enemy territory alone. So thanks for clearing that anomaly up.
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  2. OK all of the sober troops. Are you happy?
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  3. Well imagine it because that's what you were born for. Cannon fodder!
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  4. Forrest S Stereotyping is so popular because it is also incredibly accurate. It turns out that you can judge plenty of books by their covers. No one has time to read them all either.
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  5. Juan Pena If the media does not stir the pot then they have no soup to eat either.
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  6. sarah cutter Contacted us long ago? Do you regularly try to contact ant hills in your backyard? Why would aliens want to contact us? The nerve of some people, I swear!
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  7. How many stars can you see in the sky during the daytime? The light of our star drowns the ones further way out. That is because it is so much closer to us than any others are.
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  8. thomas brown There is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes something like this, The parents, and teachers of criminals were hanged.
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  9. ***** To not believe in ET is to not believe in probabilities. When chances approach infinity an eventual positive is a foregone conclusion then too. No matter what the odds against achieving a positive outcome are. Our chance pool in this case is the Universe too, which for all intents and purposes is infinite. None of this is to say that I believe we have been visited. Because I doubt we have. But to discount the existence of ET somewhere in the cosmos is not something I am willing to do at this time. We are going to have to examine a lot more data before I am willing to consider that. Although it is somewhat troubling that we have found no evidence yet. That could have dire implications for us too. It may very well be that technological societies are doomed to failure? Our very existence could hinge on finding ET someday though. In any event the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a fundamental problem that we do need to solve.
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  10. We should just setup a base on the sun. We can go at night when it is cooler.
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  11. To be fair he never did say how big the corner was.
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  12. It actually wasn't as exciting then. Because we did not know what was going on. It looked a lot more routine than it really was.
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  13. Fusion is the bear that walks halfway out of his cave every day. Unfortunately at that rate he'll never emerge.
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  14.  @irkhanbasc  that's the dream. It's still a dream. It'll be great if they can crack it. But I'm not putting any stock in it just yet. It may turn out that it's not possible to do. Conditions are too not right on Earth for it to happen. Nothing is impossible but many things remain highly improbable nevertheless.
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  15. Stars are pretty far away. I think the closest one we found that may have a planet orbiting it is 40 light years away? That's really far away. Even at 1% of the speed of light it'd take over a thousand years to reach it. Because you can't immediately accelerate to your top speed. You'd actually reach top speed halfway into the flight and immediately have to start slowing down then. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to stop at your destination. Slowing down takes as much energy as speeding up does. Being in a hurry you had the pedal to the metal the whole trip.
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  16.  @haythamkenway2110  it is going to have to be.
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  17.  @silentkiller4091  That's as long as you feed the reactor enough power to heat 181 kettles. For a net loss of 121.8 kettles of energy.
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  18.  @BernieHolland-w4l  https://youtu.be/Ag1YPk7gD1w?t=162
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  19. No fusion has always been 30 years off. If we're only 10 years off now then we've made significant progress in the past 30 years.
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  20. ***** What about thug brutality? We don't have a video of what happened between Brown and Wilson but I sure wish that we did.
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  21. Rico Negro I'm sure officer Wilson felt the same way too. I bet he expected Brown to stop the first time he shot him.
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  22. Javier Tapia The cop was obviously shooting the corpse on the ground to incriminate himself in the resulting investigation. Duh! All of the eyewitnesses will be coming forth shortly to testify that is exactly what they saw too.
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  23. alan elliot Peanut butter.
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  24. Javier Tapia There is a third possibility that you have not considered yet. You missed me being sarcastic!
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  25. Peter GoInYa Yeah, then there's the ones with real character issues.
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  26. So, what do you think North Korea does with all of their homeless and mentally ill people? Or people they catch pissing on portraits of Kim for that matter?
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  27. If you are willing to survive by eating grass in the hills we could have greater public works projects. Everything is a trade off.
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  28. ***** Who told you that little green men were millions of light years away? They could be much closer than that to us. The only way we can tell for sure is through effective reconnaissance too. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. ***** Well if it is just a quest for knowledge of dubious value, then I am not sure how behind that I am. Confirming the existence of alien intelligence would surely have far reaching ramifications in our society though. I am certain of that. It would quite literally be the largest discovery of all time. No doubt a true watershed moment for our species. A discovery of such magnitude could potentially lead to world peace. It's that big.
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  29. ***** What you're describing applies the the Internet as a whole.
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  30. ***** The only thing I am seeing here that stands no chance is you staying off my block list.
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  31.  @Elliots_M3  what kind of a pussy are you? A little vaporization never hurt anyone. It'll never hurt you!
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  32. We did send them a plane load of Javelin missiles. They're way better than RPG.
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  33. They'll get them with the next shot.
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  34. Just 181 kettles.
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  35.  @Thankful2bCatholic  I'm sure they're working to improve on that. I think that is actually a lot better than what used to be possible. But they're still a long ways off getting fusion into the black.
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  36. I didn't see any tanks. A tank has a turret and a main gun. No turret or main gun, no tank. Those were armored personnel carriers.
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  37. If they were getting a net gain they'd be building these things by the train load. They're getting about 33% of the energy out that they're using. So a loss of 66% Winning!
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  38. I am a big proponent of prehistoric solar power myself. Sometimes called fossil fuel. It's here now and it works!
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  39.  @thehigherman9918  depending on who you believe it's effectively unlimited for us. Unless you're planning on being alive 100 years from now.
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  40. Baldness cures and dick pills are more important.
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  41. The inconvenient truth is climate change is a scam.
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  42. Has Ukraine surrendered yet? Go Russia! сука блять!
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  43. OK how is this our fault? I couldn't even pick Ukraine out on a map. I have a geographic grasp about as good as Pelosi does. Ukraine, Hungary, they're all the same to me. They do say God invented war so Americans can learn geography. Damned foreigners. I hate 'em all equal like.
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  44.  @wokeaf1337  We could do that over 50 years ago.
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  45. Every water molecule has two hydrogen atoms in it. So we have a fair amount of hydrogen. It's actually the most abundant element on Earth.
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  46. We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death
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  47. We really only had to go once. We crushed the Soviet will with the first landing. They knew we'd beaten them then.
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  48. Some things don't scale down well.
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  49. It won't be any different in 20 years. Just like it isn't any different today than it was 20 years ago.
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  50. Nuclear still is not portable in any practical sense. We use fossil fuel because it has an incredible storage density. It's just a tough act to beat.
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  51.  @MrEdnooki  heat is thermal pollution. It skips the middle man and just directly raises the temperature.
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  52.  @shaondash1295  how about we just jail everyone that mints their own currency? Because it is illegal.
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  53. It takes a lot of energy to initiate the process and a lot of energy to contain it. A lot more energy than the reaction produces. But other than that it's great. They're basically trying to train a fish to win the Tour de France. So far there's a few technical snags.
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  54. Fusion energy is a bear walking halfway out of his cave every day. Sure he's making progress but he's never getting out at the rate he's going.
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  55. Let me guess, fusion is just 30 years off? Just like it was 30 years ago.
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  56. People really shouldn't discount coal fired power plants. we already have it, it works, is reliable and has the lowest deaths per kWh of any power source.
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  57. When they can finally reach parity it'll be the ultimate executive desk toy.
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  58.  @Misha-dr9rh  we all saw Back to the Future so we know Mr. Fusion is coming. In the meantime Joe is handing out free crack pipes. So it's all good!
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  59. Clean up in aisle 1.
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  60. We've been able to control fusion for decades. What we can't do is control fusion with less energy than the fusion reaction produces.
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  61. Poland is a NATO member so I don't think Putin is setting a toe on their soil. Article 5 states: An attack on one is an attack on all! Going into Poland would be tantamount to an amphibious landing on Jones Beach. That the USA could not ignore. We'd be there then with bells on. In fact we're there already.
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  62. No waste? Where's the heat go?
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  63. They didn't say it was a net gain of energy. Because it wasn't.
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  64. Yes their super power would be the ability to drop sick burns.
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  65. Membership has its privileges.
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  66.  @michaelclensbury9068  like we couldn't shoot back. We do have some nukes of our own, in case you didn't know. We actually invented the things. You're welcome! We're still the only country that's ever used nukes operationally too. So don't think we wouldn't do it. Because we already have!
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  67.  @michaelclensbury9068  if everyone dies does it really matter? No one's going to miss any of us then. And we'll all be dead. So it won't matter to us. Come on, man everyone dying is peak equity. It just doesn't get any better than that.
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  68. The young people in this video are all smiling because they know they all have long careers ahead of them.
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  69. You don't want to be the Incredible Hulk? What's the matter with you?
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  70. As I understand it making the fuel pellets isn't a particularly easy thing to do. Read they're not cheap.
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  71. It sounded like we'd have a reactor in 20 years 50 years ago too. So everything old is new again!
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  72.  @mrknowhere6457  war has always been our species greatest achievement. Just killing in general. War is just organized killing. But to that end we've created great empires and all they've done. Even this Internet we're both on now was a DoD project. The military values coms highly.
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  73. As of now the elites have nothing to fear.
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  74. I don't think we have to worry about that.
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  75.  @pyroromancer  what climate apocalypse? What are you talking about? The sky is not in fact falling Chicken Little. Double of almost nothing is still almost nothing. I know twice as much can sound like a lot. But when it is twice as much of practically zip then it really isn't much at all. If you have one penny and I hand you another penny you still don't have enough money to buy a piece of gum. It costs a nickel! Although when I was a kid you could get two pieces of gum for a penny.
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  76.  @gentlebabarian  you think the cretin news organizations would honor that? The elements in 0:19 they're calling Russian are actually Ukrainian.
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  77. They've been doing stuff like this for 50 years.
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  78.  @yongewok  maybe for them. China claims to have run for 4 times as long. But time may move differently there?
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  79.  @yongewok  I don't know if you can easily finance a major project without doing some PR.
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  80. The fusion reaction is contained in a magnetic bubble. As far as I know magnetism cannot melt.
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  81. I say increase military spending and steal other nations wealth!
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  82. Those soldering irons suck.
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  83. We don't. Magnetism isn't really a material. It's more of a force.
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  84. All our greatest invention was driven by military development.
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  85. They did not generate any energy at all. They lost energy. They lost two thirds of the energy they put into the reactor. Well, they lost all of it really. The energy released was enough to boil that many kettles but they made no attempt to capture it. You didn't see any boiling kettles, did you?
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  86. Our civilization does not have 1,000 years to work on anything. We'll be lucky if we have 100.
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  87.  @Lobos222  people can be alive and lack civilization. Great civilizations need more than participation awards to thrive. There were plenty of people wandering around in the Dark Ages. They still weren't accomplishing anything of note though. The administrative network to do great things simply did not exist then.
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  88.  @MrLoftusjj3  they all look alike to me from where I'm at. They sound alike too.
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  89.  @JonLondrezos  The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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  90.  @pipMcDohl  hey it's still pretty cool looking. If it was modern art I'd call it a win.
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  91.  @JonLondrezos  but it has destabilized society, has made life unfulfilling and have subjected human beings to indignities.
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  92.  @JonLondrezos  heh you're funny. There's social mobility today. It's all downhill too. Except for the privileged few. There's never been a time with a greater wealth disparity than today. The top 0.1% controls 99% of the wealth. The rest of us are scrambling for the remaining 1% And the only way you can get into such a situation is artificially. Things have to be severely cocked up for what's going on to happen. Yeah we're equal alright. Equally worthless in the eyes of the elite. I mean get a clue. Look what's happening in the world now. The Canadian government is just pissing on their own populace. I watched a video of some cops beating an old man up. Yeah things are just great now! It ain't quantity it's quality.
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  93.  @donenzonen  yeah and we were all supposed to be underwater 10 years ago too. I'll believe it when I see it.
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  94.  @Progan666  who said they were breaking even? There's no way they're breaking even. They're maybe at 33% on a good day.
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