Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites?" video.

  1. You captured nothing you limey pyromaniac. We've certainly pulled your sorry asses out of the fire on more than one occasion now too.
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  2. They burns the White House so good that it still stands to this day.
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  3. Alaska was admitted into the Union in 1948. Japan capitulated in 1945. So your math is a bit off. During WW2 there were only 48 US States.
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  4. Nothing happened immediately in the Aleutian campaign. Well, I suppose the troops were immediately cold. But past that it was a difficult terrain to operate in. My grandfather spent about 6 months up there. He got bayoneted and shot in that time too. But the Japanese probably looked worse.
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  5. You didn't win.
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  6. We still need to know how well they work and we also need to develop better designs. We have certainly made improvements over the first two bombs used in WW2.
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  7. No.
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  8. Why do you think it is just us? It may turn out that technological civilization is an impossibility. It certainly is not working out for us so far. That may be how it always goes though. Which would go a long ways towards solving Fermi's Paradox. We're not finding ET intelligence because they've already wiped themselves out.
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  9. Greed is hardly the exclusive domain of politicians. In fact I'd say that with particular conditioning every human is capable of the trait. Some may even go as far as to say it is our natural state? Technological development is a problem too when we never consider the consequences and long term effects. For every action there is a completely unforeseen reaction. But that never stops us, or even slows us down. A possible future lack of resources you say? How can that ever happen in a finite environment with unlimited growth? Do tell. Why do you think there is only a possibility? The only thing that discredits Malthus today is the limited data that he had to work with. Perhaps you're suffering from the same thing though? But you have the Internet.
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  10. I see the concept of diminishing returns is alien to you. While space exists it is never going to be economically practical to access space. The gravity well that we live at the bottom of isn't getting any shallower. Our civilization will collapse before we make the kinds of significant scientific advances that might make anything along those lines feasible. Oh and Elon Musk is a huckster. The bottom line is if we can't make a go of it here where we've evolved to exist we're not going to make it anywhere. Nature will find the right balance for us if we don't find it for ourselves. Because in the grand scheme of things we are insignificant creatures. Our clever little plans will not serve us so well either. They never have and they never will.
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  11. Yeah a time when men had balls.
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  12. Pearl Harbor is not the continental mainland of the USA. Hawaii wasn't even a state in 1941. Gettysburg was a Civil War battle. The War of 1812 wasn't even a blip on radar. As radar wasn't invented yet.
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  13. You'd prefer dying in a trench, would you?
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  14. No one that did preferred it. Nuclear weapons ended large scale warfare. Which most would agree has been a good thing. Without the nuclear deterrence we probably would have fought a global war about 20 years ago that killed over a billion people. Projecting out from the two world wars that we did fight. Instead that conflict never occurred. Don't think it wouldn't have happened either. If world leaders thought they could have gotten away with it they certainly would have. They knew, and still know that the Sword of Damocles hangs over their heads now too though. We have finally made war too horrible to wage.
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