Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Into the Shadows" channel.

  1. You're a special kind of goofy, ain't you? I got your local customs for ya right here.
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  2. Krakatoa East of Java is an incredibly inaccurate movie about the event. Being as Krakatoa is actually west of Java.
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  3. It was never a war. It was a reprisal campaign against Al Qaeda terrorists. But leave it to our military to suffer from terminal mission creep. Of course they'd like to expand goals. It means more power for them.
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  4.  @rosequartz2290  who's leading America now?
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  5.  @delphicdescant  we use subs. They're not going to get destroyed by a first strike. People don't even know where they are. Which is kind of why we use them. The Russians use mobile launchers for the same reason. When your country spans 12 time zones that's a lot of space to hide things in. Silos are a thing of the past. No one uses them anymore. As far as radiation being sensationalized goes ionizing radiation is very toxic. Just look at what happened in the Goiânia accident. That was just 93 grams of material. It left 4 people dead before it could be contained. So I do not think the lethality of nuclear contamination can be overstated. Radiation poisoning is very bad. In a total exchange we cannot count on a diffusion solution then either. There will just be too much radiation everywhere. That's the problem. The effects of radiation are cumulative. Too high a dose in too short a time has adverse effects.
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  6. This video didn't age well.
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  7. I sense a huge disturbance in the Force.
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  8. Make Lunatic Asylums Great Again.
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  9. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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  10.  @jcgrx2251  Mars is pretty radioactive now. The whole Universe is. Earth just has a magnetosphere to keep from getting bombarded by the radioactivity. Which is one big reason why we can survive here.
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  11.  @myahsoodinim8570  that's why they're all starving now. It's the only crop they can produce. You're not going to turn Afghanistan into the breadbasket of the middle east.
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  12.  @myahsoodinim8570  I suppose we'll see. The place needs food.
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  13. Their actions? How about the people popping the pills?
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  14. I think the problem is actually with Strontium-90.
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  15. Our position around the Sun has nothing to do with the climate. The Earth wobbles on its axis and that causes seasonal changes. The axis tilts about 2.4°
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  16.  @luthermoore2969  the axis pivots between 22 and 24 degrees with a 2 degree change. The angle that light hits a sphere has a large impact on the amount of energy the object receives. Distance matters less. There's nothing between us and the Sun.
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  17.  @luthermoore2969  if you understood it then you wouldn't be saying the things you're saying. Because you're saying a lot of nonsensical things. The Earth's axis does not change 24 degrees for instance. It only changes 2 degrees. The axis is off all of the time. Sometimes it's just more off than others though.
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  18.  @luthermoore2969  the tilt is anywhere from 21 to 24 degrees.
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  19. A total nuclear war will kill everyone everywhere. We have enough bombs to irradiate the entire planet many times over. You only have to blow it up once though.
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  20. @@free_balloons we did want to send certain individuals to paradise. Free them from their mortal troubles.
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  21. @@free_balloons it was always going to be a clown show. What we wanted to do was nigh on impossible. But at the same time we couldn't just not do it. We did have to make an effort to do something in the wake of the attack. I think all in all our response was as best as can be expected considering the circumstances. Still, it is amazing how misunderstood it all was. Because people are dumb.
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  22. @@free_balloons it was a very vague situation. We only ever had a vague idea who we were after or where they might be. The details needed to be filled in as we went along. It took 20 years before it was clear we were done.
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  23. @@free_balloons what precisely is inaccurate about it? This is an era I lived through and remember well. Everything that was said, and done.
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  24. @@free_balloons it sounds to me like you can't see the woods for the trees. Do try to gain some perspective someday. Try to see the bigger picture. The one you're just a single pixel in.
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  25. In a full nuclear exchange nothing will survive. Not a single microbe around a vent in the bottom of the ocean.
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  26. We nuked the first satellite we put into orbit and there's still a band of fallout in space around the planet today from it. All of that was entirely accidental, of course. Well, we intentionally detonated the bomb in space. No one knew it'd have all of those effects though.
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  27. They'll do it. Those people higher up are idiots. You got Millie Vanilli trying to understand white rage and you think they got something on the ball? It's the dull ones that get promoted.
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  28. There's a Pink Floyd song about it called, Comfortably Numb. In it there's lyrics, When I was a child I had a fever, My hands felt like two balloons.
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  29. Get your booster!
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  30. We didn't invade. We were invited by the Taliban. The Taliban were not allies of Al Qaeda.
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  31. How do you know?
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  32.  @doctornochu3092  the trouble is the US never invaded. Our forces were there at the behest of whatever passed for a government in the region. We were never there to conquer the land. All we wanted was certain individuals of interest to us. Those that may have been involved in the attack on our nation or affiliated with them. We weren't about to just let it go. Someone did have to pay.
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  33.  @granmabern5283  they did not beg us for help. But at the same time they did play us for fools. They didn't really have to beg us. We always try to "help". Not that it always works out positively. People don't even have to ask. Let alone beg. When we show up we're going to be throwing money and resources around. I can guarantee that. The Afghans knew that too. They just figured all they had to do was suck us in and they'd profit somehow. Americans are going to American. We're predictable, if nothing else. So they were more than happy when we showed up. Even if they didn't act it. Here comes rich ole Uncle Sap. In the end confused and betrayed is a good way to describe the situation we found ourselves in there.
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  34. @Alle Warten Auf Das Licht how so? The climate is nature.
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  35. @Alle Warten Auf Das Licht this is not my first day on the Internet.
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  36. @Alle Warten Auf Das Licht I do not deny that there is climate. I am just skeptical about anthropogenic climate change. It does seem that those pushing that narrative have motive to do so. That's the inconvenient truth there. Beyond that even if we are changing the climate there's literally nothing we can do about it. Green energy is not something we can practically do. We need to do what we're doing. It's why we're doing it. Because it's what we can do. If you think any different then that's just because you're a low information idiot. Many are unfortunately.
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  37.  @leeneufeld4140  no that's clearly your logic because nothing I said would lead to that. But sure whatever.
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  38. Russia makes a lot of claims. They're usually lies. Once they claimed they'd made nukes they could launch from tanks thinking that was impossible to do and it should scare the west if we believed them. We did believe them and promptly did what the Russians thought was impossible to do. We made nukes we could launch from tanks.
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  39. The wind still blows over Missouri. So you'll get fallout just the same. I remember when Chernobyl blew up. They tracked the cloud around the world 3 times. After that folks got bored. Someone probably kept on tracking it but it wasn't on the news anymore. We're all contaminated now from the nuclear testing that went on decades ago. The whole world is contaminated.
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  40. Can drinking beer make you smarter? It made Bud Wiser.
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  41. Hard work is its own reward.
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  42. It is a my bat and my ball weapon. If we can't play my way then no one's playing deal.
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  43. There's no way to counteract radiation. Well, you can get far enough away from the source.
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  44.  @gwenking7700  it means what it says. That even those deemed aberrant are not necessarily wrong.
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  45. If there's ever an all out nuclear war it will be a total extinction event for the entire planet. All life will die. It is technically impossible for us to build any shelter from the fallout where we could survive long enough for the radiation level to decrease to safe levels. The experiments conducted to do that sort of thing have all failed. Staying alive be hard.
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  46.  @delphicdescant  it is possible that you simply do not fully appreciate the threat nuclear war poses. That would be down to a lack of knowledge or understanding. It is a topic that we don't really deal with in our day to day existence. Yet there are still facts out there if one seeks them out. Suffice to say in a total nuclear exchange this planet will be lifeless. You need to accept that as a fact. One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. 14,000 nuclear bombs and it's game over. But things are better today than they were. We used to have 70,000 nukes.
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  47.  @megapet777  some say Russia put nukes under a mountain that has a lot of cobalt in it. Russia has the deadman. The deadman is a network of sensors around Moscow that will launch nukes if they're tripped. Supposedly there's humans in the loop now. But at one point it was fully automated.
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  48.  @jackpowin7903  that may keep you alive for a little while. Humanity is currently incapable of making a closed system we can survive in though. Even the ISS relies on resupply missions. Which you in your underground bunker will not have. Nor will anyone else for that matter. But let's say you could stay underground for the rest of your natural life. The surface will be devastated for tens of thousands of years. So you have that to look forward to. Still want to go in the bunker?
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  49. What do you call a piece of sandpaper in Afghanistan? A map.
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  50. Some people did some things.
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