Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "SmarterEveryDay" channel.

  1. psst Destin: AR15 s are now a lot cheaper than mini 14s, especially if you factor good magazines. economy of scale....
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  2. Thy _ Ralvaro I think you could aim for a higher goal in life
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  3. And that is in North Carolina. I would have bet money he was in canukistan.
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  4. Probably not. He puts more prep work into them all the time. If every project takes months of lead time, coordination, and hours of input, he has to fit in family somewhere. If he sacrificed the depth for frequency, I don't think he'd still enjoy what he was making.
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  5. And yet, he will have to withhold it to punish you for using emojis. Look what you've cost us all.
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  6. And he shows that there aren't actually simple things.
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  7. For no particular reason, either. They can't get 6 people in real life to agree what should go on an order of pizza, but apparently they believe that thousands of people have agreed to keep up an elaborate lie for multiple generations, but not talk about the lie, and not make any particularly glaring mistakes along the way.
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  8. Several of the links are dead at the end. "Gyroscopic precession", "...awesome ways..."
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  9. Cool video, but your circle packing model is off. You also need to include circles which intersect like a Venn Diagram. The Lifesaver shot you have is an example. This was discussed in detail by one of the famous pistol exhibition shooters in the early 1900s, and it is a very fun read. He was also one of the pioneers of high speed photography and I would be willing to bet you have seen photos of his bullet cutting a playing card. Like you he was fascinated with how things worked and the limits of what an average human could do with normal tools using careful observation and lots of practice. Audible a book called: "Fancy Revolver shooting" by Ed McGivern. - be sure to get a later printing, since they also include some really fun photos.
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  10. H Weiland I understood the principle. Hence the question. What I wanted to know was his subjective experience of the principle.
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  11. Destin is all about quantifying stuff. And qualitatively tracking stuff, and subjective impressioning the experience of stuff.
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  12. rambokicksass77 The projectile he picked up and the ammo he showed tells you more than how much the mag is curved.
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  13. If only there were some true facts about these guys.
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  14. One of your better ones. I am surprised no one wheelied and rode it unicycle style. Lots of people have that skill.
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  15. In production currently, per patreon
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  16. Eric Taylor I got an email about it yesterday. That's why I was on the video yesterday in the first place.
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  17. +SmarterEveryDay Kinda. I saw greyish green for the grass, but not the other colors you described. Perhaps that's because I had seen similar things before, and was ~expecting the effect?
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  18. Destin- I saw you wisely wore ear plugs. Did the noise seem louder underwater?
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  19. Classy as always Destin. I wish people were as tactful and considerate in the other direction, but I haven't seen it. Despite my channel name, in person, I have put a lot of effort over the years into carefully and respectfully discoursing with people who vilify weapons and their owners. I've won quite a few over via incremental positive experiences, and accurately repeating their ideas and talking points, then following them logically through to conclusion. Have you considered why you felt it necessary to put a disclaimer in that you aren't into glorifying weapons, but not that you aren't into vilifying them? My bet is that you are a lot more likely to experience attack for glorifying them than you are for presenting them in a neutral to slightly negative. Obviously if you gave a pronounced negative, you would get the people on the pole of the spectrum who would react to that.
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  20. Your map is off. We have those in Washington state, as well as black widows. A few different people I know have been bitten. It is pretty bad. From what I understand the venom is quite painful, but the big problem is necrotic flesh and significant muscle loss and motion loss due to rapid atrophy.
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  21. Just wanted to let you know that I already have audible and that I'd wanted it for a long time and I made a point of using your thing when I got it. It's exciting to know that they have some books by Old Staples on there for free.
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  22. R.C. Whitehead admittedly a lot of people don't know a lot to say exactly what you said . I do know people who spent many years in education and not gain much practical knowledge wisdom . However people who have jobs and then go get more education tend to be very knowledgeable and very effective people . They also tend to acquire knowledge that is useful to whatever they're doing .
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  23. Hey! "Smart buddies or people who like guns..." be careful with your phrasing please. There are a lot of people who ascribe to that particular false dichotomy.
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  24. Not sure whether to thank you for this video. I just wanted to mention that I've listened to CS Lewis either reading that book or lecturing off of the content. I definitely think it is better with his voice.
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  25. I know plenty of Bristol Bay commercial fishermen who do all of the stuff you're saying with twin engine or even triple engine jet boats or conventional prop based boats with no computer it's just knowing your thrust vectors and setting your controls the way you want. The computer shortens the training interval it doesn't add a new capability.
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  26. So they are essentially forging plastics by drawing. I hadn't considered that plastics can be forged. I play a bit with PET for a polymer jacketing process for a hobby. I conjecture that my application is not especially critical whether the material has fully thermo set.
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  27. I thought much the same thing
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  28. I learned to use an analog wrist watch when I was very young. And maybe age 10 or 11 my mother gave me a wrist watch with Goofy the Disney character on it and the hands ran backwards. I quickly got used to it. Ever since even though I use analog clocks everyday I have to think about which way it's running. I still wear normal analog wrist watches. But it's no longer intuitive in the same way that it was before.
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  29. And they can manipulate you anyway, because the people you interact with and get your news from are still connected. Adding degrees of separation doesn't take you out of the world that is manipulated.
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  30. Countdown until you see a stolen gif on FB that cuts out 98% of the coolness from this video.
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  31. I think your best point is the one at the 18 minute mark. That's my professional field of expertise. Even in areas where we want the government making rules, the quick and dirty emergency fix is to dictate HOW things are done, not what result you want to get. This is bad lawmaking, and stifles innovation and is most open to exploit. Instead, IF you want a state to make rules, you usually want the rule to dictate the Result, but leave the method open to choice. (easy example. In the 1950s they decided that we needed to see on roads, and dictated round sealed bulb halogen headlights with parabolic reflectors as the method. Those were the best tech at the time. Almost immediately, better headlights were developed in other shapes and using other methods of generating the light. We couldn't sell them here for a decade or two. It would have been better to dictate that drivers must at least be able to see a particular range. Or even dictating lumens at a particular distance in a particular wavelength.) Regulators are most responsive to the needs and considerations of large organizations, because they can pay to staff lawyers and techs to study the issues. They are terrible at responding to the input of large groups of small institutions and individuals. You can pretty much guarantee that if the state makes a law about social media, the law will be designed from the standpoint and interests of the big companies, not their customers. It's a structural thing.
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  32. This seems like a very practical application for something like a Tesla valve. The diamond pattern core tries to do something like that. The original Maxim patent suppressor used curved baffles to try to swirl the gasses, but not really use gas pressure to block gas flow.
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  33. This is kinda how a forlkift do.
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  34. I'm ashamed of whatever sponsor dropped Destin. (Unless they lacked choice in the matter.)
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  35. most arthropods do not have nerves like we do. That spider was probably literally incapable of feeling pain.
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  36. This is one of your better videos Destin. I really like the part around the 15-minute mark where you can see the flow reverse slightly during compression stroke.
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  37. How did I miss that he did video with Jeremy Fielding? He's one of the few people in the internet that comes across as nearly as genuinely nice as Destin. His skills are slightly more accessible to me too.
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  38. I agree with most of this emphatically. However, at 16:30, the assertion of made that we are past gatekeepers. I think that was only briefly true and we are heading into a phase of incredibly powerful gatekeepers who are in denial about their own gatekeeping practices.
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  39. Hey Destin! - It's me, the guy you almost died laughing about on NDQ about having a decline on my $1 patreon.... Anyway, life is moving along, and I'm in a better place. My wife and I want to fund this thing of yours. Or a little bit of it anyway. Thanks for being a guy who makes the world better. We will be putting in a kick on our next family budget cycle.
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  40. I think my favorite part of this video is probably Destin atabout the 32:00 mark. Rather than follow the trend of guys like AvE he very politely asks his camera to focus. What a small but big difference!
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  41. I love your "A Shell in the Pit" waltzes for slowmo, but not the faked slowmo sound. That always feels like trickery, and fits in a blockbuster, but not a video about showing counter intuitive truth.
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  42. Civil war minie bullets went through rifled barrels too. The slower twist rate meant less rpm
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  43. I recognize that your friend uses Lee molds and lube system. You should suggest to him that it's time to try powder coating his bullets. It's a very simple way to polymer jacket your bullets and works way better than the lube system he is using. It also reduces lead exposure. The key is to start with quality powder.
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  44. Alex Josten a device for shoving ions around . And of course as a neat byproduct the ions can . shove the device around .
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  45. It's been well demonstrated that deiseling occurs with ballistic gel. Particularly the clear ballistics brand synthetic gel substitute.
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