Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

  1. Starving to death isn't so bad.
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  2. The big problem with the Moon is Lunar regolith. You see with no water to wear it down Lunar dust is sharp. Just in the brief visits that we've had on the Moon so far Moon dust tore our technology up. In a matter of hours it can start making seals in space suits fail.
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  3. If you think we can make concrete on the Moon then you just don't know what concrete is. Even if we brought concrete with us from Earth we couldn't even get it to set on the Moon. BTW the Moon is subject to solar wind. So yeah there's dust blowing around on the Moon even with no air for it to blow in. Astronauts saw a haze while they were on the Moon. That haze was Moon dust. We theorize it is caused by the sun charging dust particles and them repelling. Any human activity on the surface of the Moon will put even more dust into the space around the Moon too. You should see how much dust we kicked up running Lunar Rovers on the surface of the Moon. What goes up must come down. It just comes down 6 times slower on the Moon. It still comes down though.
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  4.  @jeffersonclippership2588  I'm doing pretty good the way things are now. Civilization collapsing will not make anything better for me. So I hope things hold together for a couple more decades.
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  5. Most people could probably teach their children everything they know in just a few minutes. Because they know that little.
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  6. I was talking to some chicken growers today. They're good people. The county I live in produces the most chicken in the country. Chickens are farmed like any other crop. You don't care when people kill baby beans. Life eats life.
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  7. What is scary is how little English teachers have affected the world.
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  8. Make Ukraine Russia again!
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  9.  @pain002  my gas is pretty expansive.
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  10. Get woke. Go broke.
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  11.  @jeffersonclippership2588  my world definitely revolves around me. In fact from my perspective I am precisely at the center of the Universe.
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  12. Good. All the more meat for me!
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  13.  @jsl151850b  before settlers moved west they'd burn their own houses down so they could salvage the nails to bring with them. Because back then every nail was handmade by a blacksmith. No one had made a machine that made nails yet.
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  14.  @siconey7228  what innocent people? Japanese school children were making balloon bombs that were launched against the USA. There were absolutely no innocent Japanese. Not one. All Japanese citizens were engaged in the war effort. Japanese mothers would have thrown their babies at American soldiers if they had the chance! And yes we did choose Hiroshima to showcase the devastating effects of the weapon. It worked, didn't it? You're still here, aren't you? If there was any doubt someone else may have used nuclear weapons. 70 years on everyone still knows. One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole life.
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  15. Go to hell.
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  16. You obviously know nothing about the aerospace industry. That market thrives on fuck ups. Just look at the James Webb telescope. There contractors have fucked up to the tune of 8.2 billion dollars and counting.
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  17. You clearly did not understand this video.
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  18. Robots have replaced astronauts. Where have you been the past 40 years?
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  19. Speak for yourself. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Kill all humans!
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  20. I like my machines all natural.
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  21. Civilization did not even exist until 10,000 years ago. That earliest civilization barely qualified as being civilized too.
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  22. You have to realize that every project balloons to many times the estimated cost. A case in point when initially imagined the Webb telescope was supposed to cost 500 million dollars. We've already spent 8.8 billion dollars and it still is not enough. The new estimate is 9.66 billion which is an addition of more than the initial figure. It will probably go up from there again too. This one piece of equipment will end up with a 10 billion dollar price tag. So there's no way we're going to build a base on the Moon for twice that. We couldn't put a Porta-Potty on the Moon for less than 20 billion. One Johnny on the Spot does not a Moon base make either.
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  23. +TheDavemarz were you standing next to me while I watched the WTC collapse? Because if you were I can't say as I can recall you. The world may just be a lot more dangerous than you realize. We spend a half a trillion dollars on our military every year so we don't have to sacrifice our youth instead. Now maybe it isn't a good deal, but it is what we've decided to do. What you need to ask yourself is how would you feel if you were wearing the uniform or your children were? Freedom is priceless. So it is worth whatever we have to invest in it.
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  24. do not assume you know US interests better than we do. Defending our country means attacking those who oppose us wherever they are. When Barbary pirates were impressing our sailors you'd better believe we were justified landing on the shores of Tripoli. When Saddam Insane began to conquer the Middle East you'd better believe it was our business to stop him too. When the commie plague was spreading across the planet we opposed that as well. Might makes right!
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  25.  @Kins-td6bv  dropping those nuclear weapons ended the greatest war in human history. Millions would have died if they were not used. So dropping the bombs not only caused peace but saved many lives. No large war has been fought since the introduction of nuclear weapons either. Facts.
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  26.  @miguelpadeiro762  what does Trump have to do with it? The last time I checked your boy Joe was in office now. Kiev was the capital of Russia for 400 years. And that's a fact!
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  27. Everyone always thinks they're going to survive. Someone else will be in the 99% that don't. It's typical psychology. The ones that die fast will be the lucky ones.
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  28. Try twice your high estimate. a 50 Mt yield has a 2.3 km fireball. They say 2 km in this video.
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  29. Perpetuate the patriarchy? Your social credit score will reflect your wrong think!
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  30. You can have all the talent in the world but without resources no achievement will be realized. Any survivors will be expending all of their effort just sustaining themselves. They will not have the wherewithal to put anything together.
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  31. Anyone capable of traveling interstellar distances is going to be far more advanced than we are. We'd be like chimpanzees attacking US Marines.
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  32.  @miketurd6497  or they may just love it. We are extremely sensitive to the effects of ionizing hard radiation ourselves. Muons, mesons and positrons oh my.
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  33. Praise KEK!
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  34. We have currency to facilitate commerce. It is easier to exchange currency for goods and services than anything else. Otherwise say you are a wheat farmer, you would have to find people that need wheat to be able to conduct business. It would be very inconvenient and inefficient for you to run around looking for people that want your goods for you to do any business. But everyone accepting currency simplifies things. That way you can sell the baker 10 tons of wheat and have cash for all your other needs.
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  35. I don't give a flying what people's true passions are. The only people I want to see pursue theirs are those motivated enough to do it on their own too. The rest can go hang.
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  36. Oh but I do hope for the best with people. The best is not letting the best get dragged down by the lowest common denominators either. Down with mediocrity! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16
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  37. Basic income is not going to happen. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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  38. No. Now it is every man for himself! I don't need to outrun the machines, I just need to outrun you.
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  39. Based on the size of the fireball mentioned about 40 Mt.
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  40.  @squamish4244  in a modern nuclear war against soft civilian targets they'd use high altitude EMP bursts to disrupt infrastructure. Because people are assholes. In a couple days they'd all tear each other apart when the food ran out. Expect the casualty rate after 3 weeks to exceed 90% due to general confusion. That's modern nuclear war against a technologically advanced adversary. Our civilization is a house of cards. Knock one card out and it all collapses.
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  41. Traffic backups happen after on ramps. What I'm saying is there's a delay between cause and effect.
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  42. Vegans are insufferable fools. Eating meat is what caused us to evolve brains. There's a reason herbivores are at the bottom of the food chain.
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  43. Having a bomb is only half of the equation. You have to deliver the bomb on target too. Which is not an easy thing to do. We monitor ports of entry for those kinds of things. It is not easy to hide a nuclear weapon in a shipment of fruits.
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  44.  @bomen330  we have enough coal to power civilization for another 100 years so from your perspective we do have an infinite supply. Because you'll be dead long before we run out. What we do not have is an infinite amount of intelligence though.
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  45. With a 2 km fireball a pretty large one. A 50 Mt weapon has a 2.3 km fireball. So I'd say about 40 Mt? Which is far larger than any bomb in the US arsenal now. Obviously this is a commie attack.
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  46. As well we should be. So screw you too!
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  47. Don't worry about nuclear winter. Worry about the fallout. Cobalt salted bombs will exterminate all life on this planet. Even the cockroaches! Even without those doomsday devices we have a large enough stockpile of thermonuclear weapons to fry this whole planet many times over. A full nuclear exchange will leave this planet a lifeless cinder in space.
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  48. They sneak in a little tube steak?
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  49. We can make own own weapons of mass destruction by ourselves. Thank you very much. The Space Age was an outgrowth of ICBM technology. In fact if the Soviets were not lagging the US in bomber tech none of it would have ever happened. We were flying the B-52 three years before Sputnik made it into space.
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  50. For a 2 km fireball it had to have been a 40 Mt explosion. Which is far larger than strategic weapons are.
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