Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1. True, they also failed to mention CAPTOR mines. A nice blanket of those, originally intended for the GIUK gap would do nicely in the Black Sea and in the strait along the Taiwanese coast.
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  2. We have two primary deployment modes. Airborne mode, with somewhat limited assets deployable and while granted, it's an impressive capability, a full army it is not. Then, there's marine transportation mode, which can take weeks to get shiploads of angry men and angrier equipment.
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  3. BTW, Omar Bradley said it best. "Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics".
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  4. Only because the soldier didn't stick around to hear the rest of the sentence. I'm going to die... Of old age. ;)
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  5.  @poppinmycollar423  well, it was a true total war, entire economies entirely dedicated to the war effort. But, Dresden and Hamburg were small potatoes compared to the US incendiary bombing of Tokyo. That campaign killed more than both atomic bombings. Wikipedia has a good article on the Tokyo firebombing, complete with pictures of the devastation. Always remember the wise words of warning: People in grass houses shouldn't smoke bones. I'll just get my hat...
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  6. Keeping deterrence measures secret blunts any deterrence one hoped for. Indeed, keeping deterrence secret was part of the punchline for Doctor Strangelove.
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  7. Me: It's been tried before. Many times, all failed, good luck to you!
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  8. Moons can and will rob a planet of its rotational velocity, causing tidal locking in the moon and slowing of rotation of the planet. More importantly, a planet would have to form and survive a red giant environment, rife with protons blasting out of the star, beta radiation and x-rays at an insane rate, as the planet slows in the cloud of the expanding planetary nebula and hence, heating even more. Life, yeah, nope, just ain't happening.
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  9.  @saywhatnowcomon3426  it was an asteroid that became a meteoroid, which then turned into a meteorite upon impact. Each name has a specific definition. It started school bus size, blew apart as a meteoroid, the fragments landed and became by definition of landing, meteorites. It didn't need to be much larger or hold together a tad longer and it may well have smashed the entire city, just from its blast wave. As it was, dozens of buildings were damaged, some quite badly, thousands of windows were shattered and around 1500 needed treatment for injuries (mostly from flying broken glass).
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  10. Given the list and how toxic foods are on earth, I guess everyone should've stayed on the battlestar. Kidney beans, when rehydrated one has to toss the water or their toxin accumulates. Fava beans dissolve red blood cells in those with a common enzyme deficiency. Cassava contains cyanide. Just to name a few. Sugar is so toxic, it's as poisonous as salt, for the same reason - literally. Yep, confronting Cylons is safer. Or remember toxicology 101, the dose makes the poison. Now, excuse me, got some potatoes that are turning green, gotta peel them...
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  11.  @paxhumana2015  tactics are how one operates, logistics are movements and distribution of men, equipment and supplies. Without logistics, one's best tactics are impossible. For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost...
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  12. Corn was offered, but the British refused it.
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  13. One problem with the scenario. The US and Russia retain the lion's share of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, currently capped at 3000 or so each. China has hundreds of warheads, not thousands, wisely choosing to retain a minimum necessary to ensure deterrence. Given that military targets take six or more warheads to neutralize, that's not leaving a lot of anything to strike civilian population centers. The economic havoc would still be significant, but the death toll from warheads and current cleaner bombs fallout is minimal. Basically, any major exchange is putting the exchanging powers at the bottom rung of global power, due to the military and economic attrition. The worst of the fallout, assuming a few ground bursts, a few days, the next worse two weeks and as noted, Hiroshima and Nagasaki rapidly recovered. Basically, the weapons are far more trouble than they're worth.
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  14. Laughable, given the current confirmed and ratified treaties that limit each side to 3k warheads each. Not a lot of equalizing going on with that paltry number, given that it takes multiple warheads to neutralize a military target.
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  15. So, you deny the entire history of this planet? The dinosaurs disappeared at the same time a layer of iridium coated the earth. There are few places to find iridium, traces in some rare earth deposits, the core of the earth and in metallic asteroids and meteorites. There are other layers, all corresponding with impact craters that date to that same strata.
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