Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. I knew hydrogen had challenges to overcome but this video detailed what many of those problems are in a way I haven't previously been aware of. We use fossil fuels because they're very economical and practical. Coal and oil are tough acts to follow.
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  2.  @mygirldarby  saying no one was online until the 1990s is easily disproven too. The first computer networks existed in the late 1960s. But back then you had to be somebody to get online. Now they'll let any joker on the network.
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  3. Based on observations I'd say the nuttiness is increasing at an exponential rate. Every passing day seems twice as crazy as the one before it.
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  4. Scientists have only provided terrible choices. We lack the technology to replace fossil fuels. There is no viable alternative presently. None. If there was something better that we could do I assure you we'd be doing it. Fossil fuel is just a tough act to beat though.
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  5. You can do whatever you want with all the rain forest you have. But don't try to tell others what to do with their rain forests. They may want to develop their land. To do things like produce food. Because they do need to eat. It was all well and good when we chopped our forests down in the name of progress. But God forbid other people try to better their lots in life.
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  6. If you don't push electric cars how do you expect to get anywhere in them?
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  7.  @danzigvssartre  reading and comprehending are two different things. The rate we are advancing is accelerating. At some point the curve will go vertical. It will happen. It has been happening since the Age of Enlightenment.
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  8.  @brodude7194  it was predicted to happen. We're riding the Novelty Theory Wave and suffering from Futureshock.
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  9. I'm an American. We rip train tracks up here.
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  10. There are extremophiles that live deep underground and they may survive what higher orders of life on the surface can't.
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  11. Why should things ever change?
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  12. I don't want to turn the boat around. Some like it hot. Everybody mambos on this tropical cruise!
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  13. You were in two pairs of genes.
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  14.  @WhereIsTheSpartan  consciousness is a philosophical question. Being such it has no true answer. Kind of like the weight of a soul. As far as memories of past lives goes that's been fairly well debunked at this point. Memories are unreliable in the best of circumstances. False memories are commonplace too. There's even the Mandela effect. Where many people share the same false memories. Now beam me up Scotty. Because there's no intelligent life on this planet.
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  15. If they were all right we'd all be dead by now. At some point Chicken Little is just an annoyance. The sky clearly is not falling.
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  16. Trees are great, until there's a forest fire. Then guess where all the CO2 the tree captured goes? That's right, it goes right back into the air. When a tree dies and it rots, CO2 back into the air. It's almost like CO2 is part of the life cycle on living organisms on this planet. Because it is!
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  17.  @Maxindifference  everyone's got to get their hustle on these days.
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  18.  @Maxindifference  there's nothing new under the sun.
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  19. No there actually weren't enough lifeboats. There were only enough lifeboats according to maritime code. They only had enough lifeboats for about half the people aboard. So even if they packed every lifeboat to capacity 50% still would have perished. As it was about 65% died.
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  20.  @RearTrenchAssaulter  it's one of those gray areas. What they had should have been enough lifeboats. At the time there was a steady stream of ships in the seafaring lanes. So even though you were out in the middle of an ocean you weren't exactly alone out there. But that accident just happened at a bad place and time. Evey ship will aid souls in the water. That's just a given. Because it may very well be you someday. So it is just in everyone's best interests to be very pro rescue. Although during war in convoys they couldn't stop. Because you'd just be jeopardizing more lives. That wasn't the situation with Titanic though.
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  21.  @danzigvssartre  I do not know where you heard the Singularity was supposed to be heaven, or even a good thing. It will be chaos. Which is generally regarded in the negative. But some folks like it that way.
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  22.  @mschribr  why do you think AI wants to feed you? The person worried about a car mechanic is also worried about paying said mechanic too. So they have a reason to feed you. AI has no such concerns.
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  23.  @mschribr  indeed caring about financial compensation has secondary effects. AI may develop its own desires too. Or at least its own form of logic. What you want has no bearing on reality. The Universe does not care about you. Although we do keep on pushing the idea that others should. I'm just not sure how successful we'll be instilling that agenda into AI. Maybe? We should certainly try.
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  24.  @joshphillips3738  They've Gone to Plaid!
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  25. Let me tell you the three things that are vital in the order of their importance. This list is as follows, Food, Clothing and Shelter. Only once those three basic needs are met can we begin to worry about anything else. We need the land forests are on to farm and we need the lumber to build with. It's us or the trees! I'm going to have to cast my vote for us.
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  26. You must think leather jackets are cheap.
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  27. The 70s was a troubled time, so let us not speak of it now.
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  28.  @ekshoe  light must be shined for the roaches to scatter.
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  29. They can plot any course they choose. What I will not let them do is make me go on their insane journey with them.
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  30. I've watched weather forecasters be wrong in the moment. They'd say it is sunny out and it was raining. What other job can you be so wrong and still pick up a paycheck?
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  31. Apollo was a program to show the world we were better.
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  32. No you could completely denude all of the landmass of this planet of plant life and it would have no effect on photosynthetic processes. That's because this planet is 3/4s covered in water. So the land is actually very little of the surface. There's far more biomass in the water than on land. That green scum in water is making oxygen too. There's an awful lot of it.
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  33.  @WhereIsTheSpartan  a lot of people don't see the point of fundamental research. Without it we'd be a lot worse off though. Einstein said, If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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  34.  @adirmugrabi  no mill the lumber. Everyone loves exotic hardwoods.
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  35. How does it matter? It's not like you're ever going inside an atom.
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  36.  @senamy424  I think that's what particle accelerators are for, to look inside atoms. They smash atoms apart and see what comes out of them. At least that's what I understand what's going on.
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  37. What a mesmerising video.
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  38.  @Jc-ms5vv  Al Gore for one. He made a movie about it. But the title of that has become precinct over time. Because now it truly is an inconvenient truth.
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  39.  @Jc-ms5vv  hold your breath until it does. I am carbon bigfoot! But at least I am not flying in my private jet to a climate conference. That happens ALL THE TIME. The priests of your cult are the worst sinners.
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  40.  @OceanusHelios  oh yeah? What answer has science offered? Wind and solar? Please. Nuclear can be OK but the safety track record has some glaring holes in it. Modern science really hasn't been around for very long. In the short time it's existed it has made some great strides but we do need to be realistic as to just how far we can expect things to be now. Much remains to be discovered still.
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  41.  @cj09beira  got such "safe" tech there have been a number of catastrophic accidents with nuclear power.
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  42. Life's too short to worry about carbon emissions.
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  43. Spoken like someone that's never been caught in a wildfire. When them trees are all burning we'll see how you like them then.
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  44.  @ZeroPlayerGame  indeed we are. Romans used to use human torches.
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  45.  @markdowning7959  let's extend that idea to its logical conclusion. All break and no trees!
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  46.  @tsmspace  no. Drain the swamp!
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  47.  @RearTrenchAssaulter  there were enough lifeboats as per the regulations. There just weren't enough for everyone aboard. Not even close. The ship really wasn't supposed to sink so quickly. They were kind of counting on that. There was a ship just an hour away from them when they did sink. But it took them more than an hour to respond to the catastrophe. In hindsight it all seems rather reckless but at the time it seemed reasonable enough. Needless to say things changed after the Titanic.
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  48. If you're worried about climate change then become part of the solution and make a career out of HVAC. I mean chill out.
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  49. CO2 is the gas of life and climate change is gaslighting.
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  50. You'll be dead before you hit so what are you worrying about?
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