Youtube comments of John Luetjen (@jehl1963).

  1. The 3 second turbo lag is just enough time to take a drag on a Gauloises which would be required to be hanging nonchalantly from the corner of the driver's mouth.
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  2. From a time when life (at least in Italy) existed at a different pace. If you've ever driven through an Italian town, you'll also appreciate that the scale of things was different from the US too -- the roads were/are much tighter.
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  3. When I was younger my dad always told me to avoid "jack rabbit starts" and to accelerate gently. Back in the 80's BMW tested that idea (and others) prior to developing the 325e. What they concluded is that long gentle acceleration uses more fuel than accelerating swiftly to cruising speed. This was because of the amount of time that it took to accelerate "gently". The longer that this period was extended, the more fuel that was wasted. My experience is that the most efficient method is to accelerate up to the peak torque engine speed and than shift to the next gear. Above the peak-torque RPM, the engine starts to become air limited (even though the HP continues to increase as initially the torque doesn't drop as fast as the revs are increasing) and the pumping losses increase. Increased pumping losses results in decreased mileage. This concept prompted the development of the engine for the (often derided) BMW 325e, which had a torque curve more akin to a diesel than a high-speed gas engine. While the sportier 325i engine developed 168 HP at 5800 RPM/164 lb-ft of torque at 4300 RPM, the more efficient 325e engine generated 121 hp at only 4250 rpm, and a relatively strong 170 lb-ft of torque at 3250 RPM. The reduced rev range allowed lighter components in the engine, softer valve springs and other changes, all of which reduced friction (which contributed to the higher torque, the result of an increased Brake Mean Effective Pressure (BMEP) at lower rev's).
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  4. I'm waiting for Google to add context to this video since the subject is controversial and at least one side is based on imaginary arguments.
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  5. Back when 1600 CC's was enough. This car encompasses what made German cars of this era and earlier great. Americans picture the Autobahns full of Mercedes S classes and Porsches. The reality is that those were way outside the budget of most Germans. Most got by with 1.6 liter and 2.0 liter Ford's, Ooels and VW's, and often even 1500 or even 1300 cc engines. But the engines would be unburstable. A 1600 cc car like this BMW would still be able to cruise down the Autobahn at 4000 rpm, 5000 rpm or more for an hour or two at over 100 mph, without wondering or overwhelming the chassis. Very unlike the American cars of the time.
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  6. Mark! At 0:58 you mention the "Soviet's nervousness at Germany that had recently conquered Poland", ignoring the fact that it was Germany AND Russia which conquered Poland. Sure the Soviets were nervous about Germany, but that was basically a case of "No honor among thieves".
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  7. It's funny that he did this on a birth certificate in Santa Barbara CA, in the USA, since the United States doesn't officially recognize royal titles -- especially from the UK.
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  8. My first thought was that Mark was going to discuss the German Navy. But upon checking I learned that they have 22 ships, and 24 Admirals (although two medical doctors). Here in the US, we have ~470 ships, but only about 291 are commissioned. Against that we have about 216 admirals.
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  9. When I was younger I had the opportunity to drive the 500's slightly more modern descendant, the 850 around Germany for a few weeks. It was an absolute hoot since you could (needed to?) drive it like Mario Andretti just to keep up with traffic. There was no excuse to not drive it flat out all of the time. Try doing that with most modern cars and you'll end up in jail. I think we've kind of lost touch with how little HP and speed you actually need to get around. With 250 HP sedans becoming the norm, we've forgotten how usable 50 or 60 HP can be.
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  10. The moral of the story: buy the great cars which are out-of-fashion from the people who bought high when they were "in fashion" and are now selling low to chase the next fad. That usually involves looking past the cars being hyped, and digging up the forgotten models which were actually quite good.
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  11. For years, if you flew into Frankfurt's airport, there would be tens of these parked outside in the taxi stand ready to take you where you needed to go. Surprisingly, this was also true elsewhere in the world. I was once picked up by one at Kuala Lampur's airport. They were comfortable, could carry lots of stuff, got great mileage for the time and would last forever! The quality of the engineering in these car, and the attention to detail was worlds better than just about any other car of the late-'60's/early-'70's.
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  12. In regards to Patton, you failed to mention the dedication and loyalty that he elicited from his men. My father was an enlisted man in an artillery unit in the 3rd Army, and he and his colleagues loved him! I remember that as a child, my Dad and his best friend (who served in the same unit) made quite an event of going to see the movie Patton when it first came out. If my memory is correct, they went with many other veterans from their unit who lived in the area. He also told me how so many of the troops who served under Patton volunteered for the honor guard at his funeral, that they couldn't all be accommodated. Never the less, they willingly lined the route of his funeral from beginning to end. Patton is often remembered by how he was portrayed by George C. Scott in the 1970 movie "Patton", but this movie was made with extensive input from Patton's rival Omar Bradley, and obviously none from Patton. The resulting movie played up Patton's eccentricities and downplayed his successes, especially when compared to Carl Madden's portrayal of Bradley. In hindsight George C. Scott felt that the movie didn't do Patton justice, which prompted him to reprise the role in the TV movie "The Last Days of Patton" -- which has a far more nuanced performance. Note that no one has ever made a movie about Bradley and the battle of Hurtgen Forest. Long story short -- my Dad never had a bad thing to say about Patton. Quantitatively Patton did advance further, with fewer casualties per mile than his rivals. If you look closely, you'll also see that most of Patton's critics did not serve under him. Many didn't even serve in the Army. I think that these points need to be mentioned in addition to how you described him.
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  13. As a video viewer, I'd say that the "secret to your success" is your honesty in the videos that you produce. There isn't a lot of preaching, or glamourizing, just reporting events in an even keeled manner. That is hard to find on YouTube and other social media, but worth it's weight in gold. Keep up the good work!
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  14. Despite what modern car manufacturers insist are all of the features that you need, the 2CV really demonstrates how little you can happily get by with.
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  15. The.Doja Cat piece and the other rap piece in the Elvis soundtrack were complete non sequiturs in the film, and completely ruined the mood of the scenes by having 2022 intrude into the early 1960s. It was like someone wondering onto stage in a Broadway show. It completely killed the mood.
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  16. I used to work with a guy who was in the Marines during the Korean war. He flew in the 2nd seat with a former Luftwaffe pilot. He said that the ex-German was the best pilot he ever flew with. I wonder how many former Luftwaffe pilots ended up in the US armed forces?
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  17. The first day of my summer vacation: I woke up. I went for a drive in a Fred Flintstone-mobile. I almost died.
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  18. At about 22:00 you write off Moses as a literary character. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It would most likely be safer to say that he has not been attested to in the archeolgical record. On the other hand, you omit a huge Bronze Age Biblical reference which was not attested to in the archeological record -- until it was. This is the Hittites. Until the mid-19th century, the only references to the Hittites were in the Bible. This Bronze-age culture was lost to the Greeks and the Romans. Yet the Bible not only mentions them at the appropriate times, but also accurately alludes to their changing political structures - something that would have been virtually impossible for Babylonian-exile-era writers to do in an age before archeology..
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  19. For years until he passed away, Carrol Smith (and the publishers of Race Car Engineering) would do reviews of leading FSAE cars. Reviews like this carry that legacy forward. 👍👍
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  20. If Finland joins NATO Russia threatened it will move troops to their shared boarder -- which troops specifically? If they are moved out of the Ukraine, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
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  21. Well summarised, Sabine! By coincidence, I'm about rhe same age as the semiconductor industry, and have enjoyed working in that industry (in various support roles) my entire life. I've been blessed to have worked with many bright, creative people in that time. In the end ,I hope that I've been able to contribute too. Kids! Spend the time to learn your math, sciences, and management skills, and then you too can join this great quest/campaign/endevor.
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  22. After making this video, Jack arrived home to discover the Influenzo waiting for him on the driveway. According to neighbors, raised voices were heard and apparently dishes were thrown. Some expressions such as "English tart" and "That OTHER car from Norfolk" were heard used. Later on Jack was seen in his pajama pants sleeping on the front steps of his house.
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  23. The images of the infrastructure projects in Pakistan at around 5:41 got me wondering if China builds these infrastructure projects as poorly as they do the infrastructure at home in China. If so, this infrastructure will have a very limited lifespan before it will start to crumble.
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  24. Something that I can aspire to buy used in about 20 years.
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  25. The 280ZX was not a sibling of the 280Z, but the replacement. It fell between the 280Z and the all together different 300ZX. As such, it's kind of the awkward 'tweener. A new bigger and more luxurious chassis than the Z, but just an update of the earlier motor with more pollution control gizmos to strangle the performance. The 300ZX was an altogether new car and V6 engine.
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  26. Curious -- This documentary puts the Avars as being key players during this time, coming out of modern day Mongolia. A cursory glance at other sources describe the Avars as "Northeast Caucasian native ethnic group" with no ties to Eastern Asia, or else the "Pannonian Avars" who MIGHT have had a tie to Northern China. The documentary also credits them with the invention of the Stirrup, which I can't find described anywhere else. Per Wikipedia: The Xiongnu-Hun hypothesis originated with the 18th-century French historian Joseph de Guignes, who noticed that ancient Chinese scholars had referred to members of tribes associated with the Xiongnu by names similar to "Hun", albeit with varying Chinese characters. Étienne de la Vaissière has shown that, in the Sogdian script used in the so-called "Sogdian Ancient Letters", both the Xiongnu and Huns were referred to as γwn (xwn), indicating that the two were synonymous.[73] Although the theory that the Xiongnu were precursors of the Huns known later in Europe is now accepted by many scholars, it has yet to become a consensus view. The identification with the Huns may be either incorrect or an oversimplification (as would appear to be the case with a proto-Mongol people, the Rouran, who have sometimes been linked to the Avars of Central Europe).
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  27. That is standard operating procedure in Los Angeles too.
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  28. To answer the question -- the gearbox was called a 914 gearbox. ~98% of the parts are common with the 901, except that the final drive is assembled on the opposite side of the case so that the output is "backwards" compared to a 901 gearbox, and the case is machined slightly different with the vents located in a different location so that they won't overflow during normal use. Of course the linkage is different too. If the engine is stock spec, the drivability difference to the E that you mentioned is down to the milder cams. The T's peak torque was from 3500 RPM to 4500 RPM, the E's peak torque was from 4000 RPM to 5000 RPM, and the S's peak torque was from 5000 RPM to 6000 RPM.
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  29. Excellent discussion of the subject. Thank-you. A couple of points merit mentioning though, to bound the discussion and provide some perspective. 1) Just because scientists newly discover something does not make it new. Only the observation is new. The biologica phenomena (in the case) has probably been going on for millennia. 2) If scientists, doctors and medical professionals, and engineers all do their jobs diligently and professionally, society will work through it. But this does require the relevant members of society to master the discrete and challenging subjects of math, physics, biology, and other "hard sciences". 3) Finally, life has always been, and remains fatal. Stopping death is not achievable. If it is not Bird Flue, it will be COVID, heart attack, inhaling smoke, or maybe a crazy neighbor or jilted lover. The important thing is the quality of life. While focusing on your own quality of life only impacts 1 person, being gracious and contributing to the quality of life of others impacts countless people, and two or three around you doing this will impact you more than you yourself can achieve. What does this have to do with bird flu? Wars, disease, famines, and suffering will always be with us. Don't be alarmed. Focus on doing what you can, and helping those around us.
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  30. I think that cars like this are fun because you can use the whole car between 0 and ~100 mph. You don't need an unlimited autobahn before the car feels engaged. You can easily drive the car at 9/10's at 55 or 60 mph. 25mph turns taken at 35mph are fun!
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  31. A couple of observations from a base 986 owner: 1) You can spend more time listening to a base model's motor at WOT than an S, R's or GT4's before you have to lift off for legal reasons. 2) Cubic-in for Cubic-inch, the base model's motor is actually a little more high strung than an S's motor (unlike 911s in the 1960's and 1970's), and so will reward you more when you pull higher revs. The S generates its peak torque about 500 rpm lower than the base model's engine. 3) Am I the only person who doesn't like the wjite-faced gauges? With the base model you'll get the traditional white-on-black gauges which Porsches have used for generations. The white gauges seem so garish. 4) Most people that you meet wouldn't recognize the difference between a normal and an S. You can quietly pocket the price difference and buy a good set of tires that most used cars need.
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  32. Cool to see. I work in a different segment of the laser industry, and it is important that the user and people nearby are wearing the appropriate eye protection for the wavelength of the laser. Rust removal lasers usually have wavelengths of about 1064nm. This is in the infrared part of the spectrum that humans can't see. A 4-watt laser at that wavelength can be dangerous to the unshielded human eye at a few feet distance. And being infrared, you won't see it or know it until the damage is done. As you point out, 150 watts is no toy. Always wear appropriate eye protection and put screens.
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  33. Excellent coverage of the subject. Being interested in history, I always cringe when people say that people didn't live as long as they do now. Based on family records I know that even 400 years ago, most of the people in my family tree were living into their 70's and beyond. But as you point out there were a lot of infants who died too. My Dad, in his 80's used to tell me that each year his doctor would tell him that he's expected to live another year. My Dad on the other hand also liked to quote 100+ year old George Burns, who once quipped "At my age, I don't buy green bananas".
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  34. Years ago my family travelled around Europe with a family member who was allergic to nuts. While every food item was labeled for it's GMO content, there was no labeling for known allergens. An internet search revealed specific quantities of people who had died in each country from food allergies, and no known deaths from eating GMO food. Crazy!
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  35. Looking at the car again in this video, you can see a few areas where Ford may have been "inspired" by as they designed the original Capri.
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  36. At about 11:00 when you're talking about going to 3rd, or other upper gears -- the thing that I have learned is to not try to over-control the gear shift lever. By this I mean a lot of people grasp the lever with their full hand and then try to feel 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th gears. Even worse, they grasp the knob with their palm over the top. This may work with Ferraris and other cars with exposed gates, but most cars have a boot, and you can't see, and may not be able to feel a gate -- because there may not even be one. The way around this is to use the palm of your open hand to move the lever. So from 2-3 in your car would be done by pushing with your palm straight forward. By not grasping the lever you won't apply any lateral force on the lever and potentially put it into the wrong gear. Instead you allow the spring to do it's job and gently move the shifter from the 1-2 plane to the 3-4 plane of the H. You shift from 3-4 by cupping your fingers around the lever (while NOT grasping it!) and pull the lever straight back. To shift from 4-5 you would use your palm (open hand) to push the lever toward 2:00 o'clock. To shift from 5-6 you backhand (open hand, thumb pointing down) the lever toward 4:00. To go from 6-5, you push the lever toward 2:00 again. From 5-4, you use the cupped fingers of your open hand to pull the lever straight back. From 4-3 you use your palm to push the lever straight forward. From 3-2, you use the cupped fingers of your open hand to pull the lever towards 7:00. To shift into 1st, use the palm of your open hand to push the lever towards 10:00. I learned this technique decades ago driving a Formula Ford, because they don't have gates on their shifters or anywhere else in the linkage. So you shift by pushing the lever in the direction of the gear that you want. It works every time in every car that I've ever driven.
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  37. What happened to the in-car driving shots and the sound shots? Did they accidently wind up "on the cutting room floor"?
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  38. Yup. In many respects, I think that highlights the difference between science and Engineering. A lot of engineering resources are invested in incremental improvements. It may not be glamourous, but it is meaningful. Just by constantly smoothing out the rough edges in process, important gains are made. Let's hear it for all of those engineers, technicians, operators and staff who continue to make constant improvements!
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  39. Related but different -- as a Kid I remember my Dad had an an old National Geographic with a picture of a couple of men trying to escape from a spherical gondola as a balloon plummeted to earth. Your episode prompted me to look it up, and it was the January 1963 issue with a painting of "The high drama of the escape from Explore I". Explorer 1 and II were a series of 2 balloon altitude missions from July 1934, when they reached an altitude of 18,475 meters/60,613 feet. The balloon developed a tear which resulted in the capsule plummeting to the ground. The latter Explorer II would reach 22,066 meters/ 72,395 feet and resulted in the crew becoming the first humans to witness the curvature of the Earth's surface. Maybe a subject for a future episode!
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  40. I did some business with a different branch of Volvo, and one of my counterparts pointed out that Volvo is not a car company, but rather an engine company. All of their other dovisions exist to move engines. This applies to cars, ttruck, industrial vehicles, as well as their marine engine group. So the fact that Volvo subcontracted ssembly to Jenson was incidental to Volbo's business objectives until Jenson didn't perform. Once I looked at it that way, everything became clear.
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  41. Wow Drach! You have really raised this channel to a new level with this VASA series. Hopefully you'll be able to visit the USS Constitution, The Bremen Cog and others like maybe a Viking ship and do similar series one day. Your level of interest and understanding of the subject allows you to ask insightful questions that most of us wouldn't think of asking. Keep up the excellent work!
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  42. I came across this story a few years ago and found it fascinating. A detail that Drach didn't mention -- across all of the Seeadler's engagements -- only 1 person died. Kapitan Luckner did what duty demanded of him, but apparently he wasn't a huge supporter of the war. More of a gentleman naval officer than gung-ho hero or hard-bitten professional. Another interesting factoid -- there are at least 3 very different accounts of the Seeadler's war. Confusingly, all of which where titled "The Sea Devil". 1) Seeteufel (literally the "Sea Devil") by Graf (Count) Luckner) published in 1921 by K. F. Koeler in Leipzig, Germany. To me the best version since it is the most contemporary. Based on the style and contents, it seems to be heavily based on official after-action reports which the German military commonly published between WW1 and WWII. It contains detailed maps and a large number of pictures which did not make it into the other editions. The downside is that you need to be able to read or translate the German which is printed in a Franken font which was the norm for the period. 2) The Sea Devil by Lowell Thomas and Count Luckner, published in at least 25 printings between 1927 and 1932. A fairly straight forward translation, but many of the pictures from the German edition disappeared, and the maps were reduced in quality. If my memory is correct (it's been a few years since I last read it) it was abridged slightly during the translation. 3) The Sea Devil by Sam Jefferson, published by Osprey Publishing, 2017. This version varies the most from the previous two. The account has been significantly abridged, and extra material has been added by Jefferson. If my memory is correct, he had a relative who was on the auxiliary cruiser HMS Patia which stopped the Seeadler as she was breaking out into the Atlantic. This version of the story is very much a 21st century history narrative. There is relatively little first-hand account left in the book, but there is also considerable backstory and author analysis added. I'm lucky to have all 3 versions, but prefer the 1st two for their 1st-person narratives and details.
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  43. Gotta love the Mass-hole ahead of you on RT2 at 23:00 who vacates a perfectly empty right lane to pull ahead of you into the center lane. People like that give massachusetts drivers a bad rap!
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  44. As you're working on the sound, keep in mind that a significant portion of the car's sound comes from the intakes. At higher revs the trumpets actually function much like organ pipes, and can contribute a bit of a "wail" to the sound. Car companies make efforts to control this sound due to the contribution to the car's noise. You might want to see if there are any baffles in the airbox or tubing leading up to it. You also might want to test it without the airbox or lid if you can do it while retaining the filters. I wouldn't be comfortable test driving without filters and airbox, but the choice is yours.
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  45. "Yes, I sold my Gallardo and it needed work, but you must remember that I also bought my Gallardo and it needed work." -- That just about sums up the experience of enjoying used exotics!
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  46.  @Schreibtisch1  I stand corrected, I watched that and some other NHTS style crash tests. It sounds like Mercedes did their engineering well - which I guess is no surprise. They've been a leader in that since the 70's. I withdraw my snarky skepticism.
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  47.  @GasPipeJimmy  Air China on a domestic (within China) flight. 😰
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  48. Which is my favorite generation of turbo? The 3.3's. Why? Because they have the closest connection to the 934s and 935s. Later cars are of a different time, and like all more recent Porsches, faster, safer, etc. But the 3.3s are of the time when they were the kings of the road. On track they easily had the number of Pantera GT5s, Various Ferraris, BMWs and Chevies.
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  49. I work in the semiconductor industry. If a young engineer in my industry were to show up with a similar analysis to justify a $100,000 investment -- he'd be cut-off in mid-presentation and told to go back and do the appropriate SPC calculations before returning to ask for monetary support. If a civil or mechanical engineer presented a similar level of analysis to justify a bridge design or an airplane part, it would be almost criminal. But yet here we are, making government and societal investments of trillions of dollars based on what was shown in the video. This is painful to watch!
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  50. As far as the trailing arms, there is a world of difference between an Air Cooled 911's semi-trailing arms, and a FWD car's trailing arms. The geometries and intent are completely different. For example - trailing arms have no camber gain, unlike semi-trailing arms. Completely different!
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  51. This is why I watch Sabine's channel.
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  52. 8:20 - you were having "The Talk" that we have heard so much about recently. Hats off to you, it's good sense for everyone. A couple of other tricks: 1) Don't be the fastest car on the road. It's better to be the 2nd fastest and let the fastest guy get the ticket. 2) Be looking as far down the road as you can see. Note how the other drivers are acting. If you see a car half a mile ahead of you on the highway dab their brakes, assume he has seen a cop.
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  53. Keep in mind that Porsche was started as an engineering consulting company, who also happened to make cars. There are tons of cars (and even some motorcycles), not to mention post WWII tanks which were engineered by Porsche, but people would never recognize as such. Given the sensitivity of their customers to having their engineering called into question, Porsche has kept these projects strictly hush-hush. Some which have been acknowledged (in addition to the 500E and the Audi) are the 1999-2005 Opel Zafira, 2003-05 Renault Clio V6 Renault Sport “Phase 2”, 1976 VAZ-Porsche 2103, 1984-2003 VAZ-2108/Lada Samara, 2000-03 Subaru Legacy B4 Blitzen, 1953 Porsche 542/Studebaker Z-87, 1984-93 SEAT Ibiza “System Porsche”, 2006-15 Daewoo Tosca/Chevrolet Epica and the 2002-18 Harley-Davidson V-Rod. I'm sure that there are others which are still secret.
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  54. I seem to remember that an American car magazine titled a review of a Monteverde (or a similar car) : "All of the benefits of an Italian supercar, without the stigma of low price". That seems to sum it up pretty well!
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  55. Just the thing for taking your local chancellor to an important meeting about global warming!
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  56. Being an American who lived through the 70's -- and even once drove a US version of the Spyder -- it didn't cause Fiat to leave the US. In fact the Spyder (and the X-1/9) both contined to be sold in the US for a few more years under the Bertone and Peninfarina name. It was Fiat's other cars which torpedoed the brand. Fiat couldn't maintain their sales network on just the sports cars. It also was getting very expensive to meet the US pollution and crash safety requirements. The costs of these certifications was being spread over a shrinking fleet of models. They could be sold as Bertones/Peninfarinas because they could operate under the reduced requirements of a "specialist" manufacturer. These required fewer cars to be crashed for study and shorter emissions tests. So rest assured, the pretty Spyder didn't kill Fiat in the US, the government bureaucrats did! We can take shallow solace in the fact that it was done for our own good. 😢
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  57. As far as clearing the mines, a precedent was set at the end of WWII when the Allies had the same people clear them who put them there in the first place -- namely the German soldiers. I suggest that the Russian solders work off their POW time contributing to the demining efforts before they are repatriated.
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  58. I believe another of Holland's early subs was found recently in Long Island Sound, where it too sank while on route to the scrap yard. There are hopes to also raise that example.
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  59. It's funny listening to millennial's total lack of historical context. For example --- a "dog-leg" 1st gear isn't great for performance. What kind of performance? On a race track you use 1st gear leaving the pits and then never again. Having it off to the side is less of an issue than a dog-leg 5th gear, which you cross potentially multiple times per lap.
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  60.  @BB-yf6tm  The end does not justify the means. If the math doesn't support a certain conclusion, you can't wish away the math because of how important it is. If it is that important, the math has to support the conclusion. To do otherwise is delusional.
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  61. I would also add Dan Fogelberg to the "Yacht Rock" list. Agreed that at the time the term was never used. Most of those artists kind of fell in that gap between "Soft Rock" and AOR, but with far better chops than many pop acts of the time.
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  62. Of course there are no "Diesel" badges on the car -no manufacturer wants to draw attention to the fact that they are making new Diesels after the way that the CA. and Federal Governments shook down VW.  But then, given that GM is a ward of the Federal Government, maybe they'll be able to get away with it.
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  63. Speaking of Bill Gates, it's not clear if he's necessarily "enjoying life to it's fullest" at the present time either!
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  64. @Costa_Conn  Sure. Quantitative is science. Qualitative is opinion or a wish.
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  65. The sense of betrayal over the admission about the climate paper I find curious. What was he betraying? I thought Science was all about utility. Either the conclusions in the paper accurately predict a future outcome, or they don't. Emotions like betrayal should not enter into the discussion. The fact that they do reveals that the person or people who feel betrayed were holding a secret which the other person ( in this case the auther) revealed. This inadvertently gives credence to what the author revealed. If it was simply a case of scholarly disagreement, those who disagreed would have merely published a rebuttal with data and an explanation of how their competing model predicts the outcome better. But this was not done.
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  66.  @fordprefect5304  I'm not sure if you are inaccurately attributing the modern idea of a border to the ancient world. Borders in the ancient world tended to be a geographic feature like a river, with occasional guard-houses on the main roads. Nothing like the the Berlin wall. Also, just because politically the Egyptian government didn't get along with the Hittite Government didn't mean that they removed every last Hittite who might be in the land when the boarder moved. There would be traders, nomadic farmers and others who would move around. The Bible doesn't suggest that there were cities of Hittites are anything like that, but rather individuals -- which is why Abraham was referred to as negotiating with Ephron from " the sons of Heth" ( חֵֽת׃ לִבְנֵי־ ), and later in that section Ephron is referred to as "THE Hittite" ( הַחִתִּ֤י). He wouldn't be referred to as "THE Hittite" if there were thousands of Hittites around. Not to mention, as Gilan wrote in his article "Hittites in Canaan", there are relatively numerous Hittite finds in Palestine dating to the empire period, which is unlike other areas outside Anatolia, where their traces are few. For example Hittite cremation burials have also been found near the modern Amman airport -- cremation was unknown among the Canaanites. Hittite jugs were found in a Megiddo tomb dating from about 1600-1200 BCE. A 14th Century BCE Hittite document titled "Deeds of Suppiluliuma" recounts how the "...sons of Hatti, and carried them to Egypt". Note the expression "sons of Hatti", paralleling the Biblical "sons of Heth". Archibald Henry Sayce in 1905 also found Hittite "Trichromatic Cappadocian Ware" in Gezer, -- dated to the 12th Dynasty of Egypt. So the archeology actually does support the Bible in regards to Hittites in Palestine during the 20th to 18th centuries BCE.
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  67. Excellent summary of the arm's activities! As you point out, conventional wisdom (and Hollywoo'd's representations) of Cavalry of that era are not accurate to the reality. When armies were moving, Cavalry was useful and important. But since most people project the Western Front's experience with trenches to the entire war, (which is not an accurate assumption), they often dismiss the value of cavalry.
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  68. Tattooed Love Boys by the Pretenders in 15/16. Also not even a mention of King Crimson? My personal favorite is Three of a Perfect Pair, but almost anything from that era, such as Thela Hun Ginjeet would qualify.
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  69. BTW - it's a bad habit to close the frunk by pressing down on the badge. The panel is unsupported under the badge, and you risk developing a divot or cracks in the paint there. You should press down in front (below) the badge where frunk-lid has a cross-member supporting the panel.
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  70. Is this a lead-in (read effort to bump up demand) to selling the Influenzo?
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  71. ​@odellm Well summarized. People just assume that a straight democracy is better, but that often leads to a tyranny of the majority. But the electoral college forces candidates to chase electoral votes in both big and small states, urban and rural voters. That is a good thing.
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  72. At 0:15 Sabine points out that the idea of a universe especially tailored to life is sometime used as support for the idea of a creator. Personally I always thought this was a weak argument, since our existence in a universe which is "hostile", or at least not tailored to life would almost be a stronger argument for a creator. The reason is that if the statistical probability is against our existence, then the fact that we do exist stands against the odds. This is the same problem that I see with the concept of "random evolution". Given the relatively low probability of chemicals spontaneously organizing themselves into humans (and Australian Lungfish, New Caledonian fork ferns and the Gymnosporangium confusum to name a few) in the 4.5B years of the Earth's existence, what other models can explain this? Yes it happened, but the odds are massively against it. Now we learn that the odds of the Universe being amenable to life are also pretty long. So it seems that the secular "godless" universe model is becoming more and more improbable. BTW -- I don't expect a scientific proof of God. There is never going to be one (at least until God chooses to reveal himself). Until then faith will be required, although Pascal's Wager is an interesting probabilistic exercise.
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  73. Using Ford's own documentation, Greg at the "Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles" YouTube channel went through all of the data which current base-level Ford Mustang collects on the people in the car, how it is all sent back to Ford, and shared with the government when they ask (without requiring a warrent!). Eye opening and available to be read in the small print of any new Mustang.
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  74. To be honest I had a very similar experience with my 986 2.7 (bought with about 100k miles). Knock in the suspension -- by the time I got done, I had pitched everything in the suspension. Replaced everything with stock pieces except the rear toe links, where I bought the adjustable threaded pieces. The replacement parts were not that expensive, and trust me -- pitching the lot was way easier than trying to get some of the old bolts out which had seized from galvanic corrosion. I learned the hard way! But now the suspension is dead straight and completely knock-free. The plastic rear window was nasty so I replaced the roof. I also replaced the stock radio, did the air/oil separator, starter and serpentine belt, and the micro-switch for the roof and the roof's controller. I did all of that work myself which saved a ton of money. Than the clutch went, and that was a few thousand to have replaced, which I paid to have done. Next project is replacing the seat skins. Sure, I've most likely spent as much as I paid for the car, but that is really kind of irrelevant. I've now got a really nice convertible for driving during the warm 9 months ( I also have a hardtop btw). Nothing beats driving the work commute with the roof down and the stereo up. Sure I could have spent 2x my purchase price for a newer or nicer Boxster, but then I'd just have a more expensive car with many of the same issues waiting to be fixed. BTW -- the good news about a Boxster versus various Honda and Mazda drop tops is that the Porsche bodies are galvanized. Barring accident damage to the body, they will not rust! Porsche pioneered the process in 1974, and relatively few other manufacturers (VW/Audi and BMW) do this. Hondas and Mazdas WILL rust. It's just a question of time. Porsches? Nah! (Although the galvanized bodies may contribute to the steel parts corroding in the suspension. Those pesky ions will try to find a place in which to start oxidation. Aluminum oxide is really nasty in bolt holes!)
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  75. At 12:35 you pointed out that "They (MB) had figured it out." Yes they had! They were arguably the most technically advanced car manufacturer of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Then, the accountants took over! MB has never been the same.
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  76. I nominate Leonid & Friends - "The Speck of Dust" for this series. The songs on this Grammy list would be crushed by just the opening intro section of that song.
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  77. I remember seeing the Reserve fleet moored near Wilmington when my family was driving to Florida for vacation. They were moored near the Delaware bridge (I think?). If my memory is correct, many of them were supply vessels. Given the advent of container ships and roll-on/roll-off ship, I wonder if they kept them around or what happened to them.
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  78. Kraftwerk appreciated your intro music choice! BTW - Don't discount the impact of the toe settings on the steering feel and the push/loose balance of the car.
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  79. The expression "making money" often confuses people about the idea of creating wealth. Mining Bitcoin doesn't create wealth any more than the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing does. The US BEP can print far more money than they do now, but that won't make the nation, nor it's citizens any richer. In many cases, it will wipe out their savings (wealth) by devaluing the US Dollar. The same applies to bitcoin mining. It doesn't create any wealth since it doesn't create any value for anyone. Nobody is fed, clothed or sheltered by the bitcoin that is being produced. It is a fiat currancy. Wealth is only created by producing value, not currancy. Producing currancy without a corresponding increase in value merely produces inflation.
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  80. I've got an old Chilton manual, and it describes in typical detail how to rebuild the engine, but when you get to the section on the MFI, there is basically a small paragraph that says "Here be dragons". Nowadays you can buy the factory manuals along with "Check, Measure, Adjust" which describe in detail how to tune and adjusts the system. There is also a ton of knowledge on forums like Pelican Parts. Also companies like Eurometrix and PMO can help with throttle bodies and hardware. Finally, having access to a dyno helps for the final set-up.
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  81. Toto also didn't autotune their vocals.
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  82. I think the fact that the paper was 57 pages long was to discourage people from reading it.
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  83. ​ @wayneantoniazzi2706  Absolutely! He was also an accomplished speaker of the French language. He certainly didn't need a translator to speak with the neighbors across the street.
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  84. I've always been impressed with how Triumph was able to exist and develop their cars for as long as they did on a budget that was most likely less than GM spent on the Corvette's interior in that era. Also, it's interesting how offset the steerimg wheel is from the pedals.
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  85. Regarding the percentage of sales split between automatic and manuals, I wonder how much this is influenced by buyers buying cars "off of the lot" versus ordering. For example, years ago my wife and I wanted a certain model car with a manual and a certain Blue/tan color combination. The dealer searched the supply and came up with nothing. The only choices were for manuals in cars with gray/gray color combinations. So we ended up taking one of those rather than waiting and indeterminant period of time (months). If we wanted our desired color scheme, we'd have to take a car with an automatic. Keep in mind that we live in the US and the car in question was being made in the US. My point is that forecasting algorithms that manufacturers use drive production to blah colors, automatic transmissions and so on. Since buyers for most cars don't want to wait 6 months for their cars, they settle for what they can get rather than what they want. I wonder if the covid/semiconductor issues hitting the supply chain may provide the opportunity to change that situation since dealer inventories of new cars have essentially shrunk to zero. So if you want a new car, you have to order it. In fact some brands are advertising that you can now order what you want and get a discount. Since you're forced to order, I wonder if this will start to open up the variety of configuration that people with buy.
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  86. I think that Jack feels so restored now that he's been able to have a video about a classic Italian car which is not full of woe and suffering.
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  87. It would be interesting to find out what the US Navy's technical teams thought of these ships and other Japanese ships that were captured at the end of the war. I'm curious if any captured Japanese technologies were incorporated into the Allies' arsenals.
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  88.  @joshuataylor3550  citation please to support your argument?
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  89. Very interesting and well presented. Having been a "Travelling Salesman", and managed inventory in warehouses, I think I'm qualified to provide a real-world response to the idea of using quantum computing to calculate the ideal solution to those problem. Yes, it can and and will do so, "...but at the end of the day..." it's most likely not going to make a world-changing improvement? Why? Because of diminishing returns, and the corollary to the idea of "diminishing returns", which is "other factors". Diminishing returns: Having planned my daily sales routes using different software packages, I quickly came to the conclusion that it is far simpler -- and just as effective -- to avoid planning bad routes. Mathematically -- if there are N! possible routes for N stops to be made, there are usually just a few "bad" routes. For example always moving from one stop to the furthest available next stop. Don't do that! Once you have eliminated the bad routes, the rest of the routes often have very similar values, and the downside risk of picking any of them is very small. So "at the end of the day", it doesn't matter which you pick since the difference between them may only be a few minutes of travel time. And given that any particular customer visit may have a variance of 10-15 minutes, saving a minute in travel time will not make a difference in the time that you arrive back at the hotel at the end of the day. This brings me to the "other factors". In a world where optimization yields diminishing returns, other factors can quickly trump the benefits of sophisticated optimization techniques. In the example given above, a talkative customer, or maybe some unexpected news of a potentially big deal (which is why I was visiting customers in the first place!) may cause me to chuck my day's plan in order to spend more time with that customer. In the case of warehousing, you may spend countless hours calculating the ideal locations for parts based on their size, weight, value and projected activity level, only to be faced with stocking the next fad product (Look! Pet rocks! A Mood ring! Slime!!!) which will suddenly cause you to throw the whole scheme out and start again. It is impossible to predict the next fad product, in either the commercial realm, nor in industrial products. There is a world of unknowns out there waiting to jump up at some unpredictable time and ruin your ideal solution. So maybe the best solution is to not get too heavily invested in any solution, and instead focus on avoiding the stupid solutions. This could be summed up by saying "Just don't do anything stupid". There are evolutionary benefits to just not getting yourself fired/killed/eliminated, and living to fight another day.
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  90. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to be taking a tour of the castle Hohensalzburg. During the tour we passed a wall where they had recently reopened a portal that had been covered and plastered over about 800 years earlier. In reopening the feature the exposed plaster wall surfaces which had been covered since that time. I was surprised to see that the plaster had been painted the most vibrent shades of red, blue and gold! Maybe the "dark ages" hadn't been so dark after all!
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  91. A Maroon '89 XL with a 5sp manual transmisision, 2WD and the limited slip option was the first new car that I ever bought. To my taste, it was under-sprung in the rear so I added some helper leaf springs (which cost maybe $50 at the time). These went a long way to preventing the rear end from falling over in sharp turns, and kept the whole car more stable. Even with the 2WD, it never got stuck in the snow thanks to the Limited slip. It had the same interior as this one. (Oh! The happy memories!) To me, with that set-up it had fairly sporty handling (for a front engine, rear wheel drive vehicle with a solid rear axle and leaf springs) as long as you didn't do anything completely stupid with it. Folks! It's a short wheelbased vehicle with a higher center of gravity than your average hot-hatch! Don't try to drive it like an MR2!!! The engine was an improved version of the Cologne V6 which was used in numerous Capris. If my memory is correct, I would get mid- to upper 20's over a tankful. I even towed my FF, or the family's boat with it, although a sway control was needed due to the short wheelbase. Ultimately I wore out the transmission and ended up donating it to charity after ~120K miles. The ride was very comfortable over rough Boston city streets and various dirt roads. Everything except for the transmission was still in fine shape. Also the small footprint made parking it in Boston surprisingly easy. I loved that vehicle! As far as the stability, there are lies, damn lies and statistics. Ultimately the reputation of roll-overs killed it even though I'd be hard pressed to believe that it was any worse than the Samurai, CJ-7 or the Toyota 4-Runner, and other similar products of the time. I suspect that there was a bit of momentum generated, just as had occurred with the Audi sudden acceleration syndrome and other vehicles that caught up in crowd stampedes. Don't be confused. It was a great car!
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  92. Curious - as a layperson, King has none of the name recognition (at least to me) as Nimitz, Halsey, MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower and even Marshall, but his achievements were no less than theirs. Am I the only person who feels this way?
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  93. The Maverick station still exists on the "Blue Line". Ironically, while Maverick's platforms have been updated, the Boyston T-Station still looks just like that!
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  94. Yes, unfortunately the quality of scientific research (especially in the social sciences) has not covered itself in glory given the lack of repeatability and the documented instances of plagerism and data falsification, especially among the supposed leaders of the scholorly community. So I'm pretty skeptical of the scholoarship. I don't need a scholar to tell me if it's raining outside. I can see the effects of constant social media use on young people. In the case of Facebook, I could see what it was doing to my life, so I've steered away from it.
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  95. After 200 years I'm still waiting for Thomas Malthus (or anyone else) to admit that he was wrong. But in the meantime the worlds population and average standard of living has just gone up and up since he made his predictions, and we have more food and energy today than we ever have had before. I find it curious that so many people latch on to consistently disproven ideas. But it is unfortunately very clear that then there is power is scaring people.
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  96.  @sesh3508  Yes, I often do that too. For example; accelerate briskly through 4th gear and then jump to 6th to cruise.
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  97.  @GearGuardianGaming  Back around the time of Old Iron Sides 200th birthday, she did put to sea under her own sail power. She sailed from outside Boston Harbor up to Salem and back (under reduced sail) as part of her turning around.
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  98. I visited Rome in the summer of 1981, and in a city full of Fiat 500s and 750s tearing around within an inch of their red-line, there were still some of these to be seen for the person who could afford something in a class above the Fiats. Among the small FWD Italian cars, the Lancia Fulvia (1500 or 1600 cc's at that time) were the top of the heap.
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  99. The sad result of companies trying to sensor language based on some vague and changing definition of "offensive".
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  100. Another obvious factual error:. At 11:00 the narrator says "Not since the time of Napoleon have the British fought on the continent" -- conveniently forgetting the ugly Crimean War of 1853-1856. You know, "Ours is not to reason why, ours is to do or die!"
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  101. Maybe they were talking specifically about British Knights, but a couple of other points (possibly more relevant to continental knights where I've done more reading)... 1) Knights were also required to provide a specific number of infantry for their liege from their district. So they were recruiting and training resources for their superiors. No knights, no infantry. In some cases these infantry could provide mutual support to the mounted knight, much like infantry support tanks (and vice-versa) in a modern battlefield. 2) Through-out history, warfare is a constant "game" of Paper/scissors/stone. The thing that knights had which infantry didn't was battlefield mobility. For example, a mounted unit could quickly move to attack an uncovered flank. Mounted knights could get there and do significant damage while infantry were still trying to move into position. That being said, having the right types of troops (cross-bowman or soldiers trained and equipped with long pikes) could defeat knights if used properly and if they were in the right location. But as you mention, if those troops were used improperly or were out of position -- knights could defeat them. 3) Also charging knights used a concept of "shock action" against unmounted troops. This was a combination of intimidation (Oh my - I'm about to be run over by a charging knight!) and physical inertia (1200 lbs of horse and rider travelling at 20mph = 6.0432 watt hours of energy) to break a line of unmounted troops. Once they had penetrated an opponent' lines, they could move laterally to "roll-up" the defenders, continue forward to attack the opponent's rear areas and support resources, or else turn around and make another attack from the rear. Many of these concepts still applied even into the 20th century.
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  102. Was there a ribbon or something for the sailors who were involved in the salvage effort?
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  103. Yeah, based on the birth and death dates of my commoner ancestors in the late 16th century, living past 70 was not unusual. They were just farmers living outside a small village.
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  104. BTW - Pontiac was not the only company to use the trick of stealing the front chassis of a FWD car to make the rear suspension of a mass-market mid-engined sports car. Off of the top of my head, the following come to mind: Toyota's MR2 (Corola), Porsche's Boxster/Cayman (996 front suspension), and Fiat's X-1/9 (131).
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  105. I always find it interesting when people argue that attackers are someone exempt from maximum force responses.
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  106. You could throw the Peter Gunn theme in the same category.
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  107. In 1969 Porsche introduced a longer wheelbase to the 911/912 to reduce the terminal oversteer. This was the standard for the 911 until the air-cooled models were discontinued. Since the 912 was discontinued after 1969 it make the 1969 912 into a unique one-year model. That car may be a one-of-one given the few 912s which are left in the UK. By the way, I doubt that anyone in the 1960's complained that the 4-cylinder Porsche sounded like a Subaru! 😉
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  108. Scott's portrayal of Patton in the famous movie was heavily influenced by General Bradley, who was an advisor to the film, and didn't really like Patton. Of course Patton didn't get a say since he was dead. But as Scott learned more about Patton, he wasn't happy with the way that Patton was portrayed in the movie. As a result, he supported and reprised the role of Patton in the production of a little know sequel: "The Last Days of Patton". Scott portrayed a far more nuanced Patton. I recommend watching the film if you can find it. Disclaimer: My Dad served in the 3rd Army and was a great fan of Patton, as were the others from his unit who I met. Not everyone was a fan, but most were.
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  109. Thomas Malthas wasn't available to explain why his predictions have been consistantly wrong -- for over 200 years!
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  110. I admit that I almost turned it off after the first 5 minutes. I'm happy that I didn't. Sabine does a masterful job of letting him talk himself deeper and deeper into his logic hole - just by asking factual, math based questions.
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  111. I think that I had one!
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  112. I think that you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. For anyone who has raised teenagers to be adults, this process will be familiar. It's called "Adulting". Sometimes, tough love is required to get the young people in question out of the house and functioning as adults. That seems be a good analogy to what the relationship between the US and Europe is going through right now.
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  113. Speaking of "What most people miss about the Battle of the Somme", I find it curious and frustrating that even after 100 years, one-sided "histories" like this are still being created. It takes 2 sides to have a battle. In this video the German contribution to the battle is reported with about as much interest as the weather. Throwing out a round half-a-million casualty figure for the Germans when most German sources give a smaller number doesn't put the historicity of this video in the best light. The German regiments at the Somme are known, many of their histories are even available on-line, and many of them report the names and dates for their casualties. For example the German Marine Infantry Regiment fought at Courcelette during the month of October 1916 after being pulled out of the line in on the coast to reinforce the German troop resources at The Somme. They suffered 180 seesoldats killed, out of a 16 companies with a total nominal strength of most likely a bit less than 4000 men. The names, dates and places of death for those 180 men are are reported in the back of the regimental history. From a Historical Scholarship perspective, it would be good if the English would compare notes with their French and German counterparts so that a more complete historical picture could be compiled. At this point in time, I really expect more from an institution with the status of the Imperial War Museum. I'd say that this oversight is a "pretty big miss" on the part of the Imperial War Museum. On the plus side, the production quality of the video was well done.
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  114. Acknowledging that this is your list, but everyone in my family is always baffled about how "Favorite Things" is a Christmas song. It's a great song, but has nothing to do with Christmas. It's from the Sound of Music, and not even a scene involving Christmas. Granted, Julie Andrews sang it on a Christmas special once, but that is a stretch. There is nothing remotely Christmasy about the song!
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  115. It must have been Groundhog day when Nathan recorded this -- I just kept having this feeling of deja-vu when he described where the magic of the car is.  ;-)
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  116. There is a reason that Sophia is racing cars, and those 3 are doing morning TV and just talking about it.
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  117.  @Delta_Sierra  A kilowatt is a kilowatt. It takes so many kilowatts to drag 2 tons down a road, up hills, accelerate it and drive it around corners. Since most IC cars weigh considerably less than 2 tons, there is a savings right there for IC cars. To their benefit, EV's have a minor portion of their energy created by wind, solar, hydro, etc. But at the end of the day you have to drag that 2 tons of car everywhere. As Colin Chapman once observed: "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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  118. Just being a pedantic Porsche owner -- the 2.0 liter engine used in the T2 was shared with the 912E. The 912E was a one-year model in the US which was a bit of a placeholder between the demise of the 914 and the advent of the 924 in 1977. The "E" in typical Porsche fashion stood for "einspritzung" which means injection, and differentiates the car from the earlier 1966-1969 (long hood) 912s which were all carbureted.
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  119. Storrow Drive is totally Boston's best sports car road! My daughters and I chuckle at the 35 mph speed limit. Jamaica Way is a real trip too!
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  120. Doing a search to see if that episode was on YouTube, I came across -- "Die Piraten des Kaisers - Felix Graf Luckner Der Seeteufel - Dokumentation .
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  121. Did it have various salvaged weaponry fastooned to it?
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  122. This car requires what I would refer to as a "tantric driving style", as in how long can you drive the car without burying the throttle? I'm sure Brighton Auto Group hires you to do these videos because they can claim "plausible deniability" if anything happens. "What did he do officer? I had no idea!"
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  123. Or... One day FDR caught Churchill sneaking out of Elanor's bedroom. FDR rolled up to him, waved his cigarette in it's holder and said "Now now Winston, I'll have no more of that". Churchill responded "...and neither shall I!"
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  124. I now have learned that my mind is not expanding with the universe. Oh well...
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  125. I'm always amazed in my 986 at how well Porsche did the shock tuning. The shocks are firm at low shaft speeds, but soften up as the shaft speed increases. The result is a car that can that feel a little stiff at 20-30 mph, but becomes surprisingly compliant at 40mph and above.
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  126.  @waltrohrbach2459  Frisian is not so much a "German" dialect than a "Germanic" dialect. It is for example distinctly different than the generic Low German dialects spoken around it, although there are loanwords back and forth between the two Germanic dialects nowadays. Peter Schrijver makes a good case that the original Frisians were a Celtic people who were not displaced west when the Germanics arrived during the Roman era, but stayed and adopted the Proto-germanic language of their new neighbors, but with a Celtic accent, especially in the pronunciations of contsonents.
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  127. If you're getting only 36-37 MPG in that car you must be doing something seriously wrong.  We're generally getting about 45 MP in are 6M transmission Passat -- a couple of MPG less in the winter and a couple of MPG more in the summer.  Not to mention neither my wife nor I are afraid to give it some boot now and again either.
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  128. The 914-6 essentially had the braking system from a 911 of that era on it. Given that the pedal shouldn't be soft, but should feel like there is a block of wood under the pedal. I suspect that either The brake fluid is old or the master cylinder is going.
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  129. @fewworddotrick  Not really. I'm just point out that pages of regulations and vast sums of money were spent with no measurable benefit. While on the other hand, an issue that impacted a clearly identifiable population in a potentially life-threatening way was ignored.
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  130. I have always heard and read how the larger ships of the era always seemed to have submerged or at least waterline level torpedo tubes, but I can't remember ever hearing about one which successfully executed an attack using those weapons. Did it ever occur?
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  131. Everyone talks about Salem, but the number of accused who were killed pales compared to what went on over in Europe.
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  132. I always cringe when modern road testers driving an oldeer car just assume that everyone in the od days was used to driving cars with sloppy gear shifts, loose steering and weak brakes. It wasn't like that in the day. In most cases the tester is driving a car that hasn't been well maintained. "In the old days" the steering WAS direct, the shifter WAS tight and the brakes would haul the car down from 60 mph in 100 feet (if the tires could live with it!). I just hate it when half-assed cars (which this 914 does not appear to be) are assumed to be representative.
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  133. @fordprefect5304  I'm not sure that I get your point. Could you explain it further?
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  134. The un-elected eco-zealots on the California CARB board set the standards with the 90% reduction (in one year) in carbon monoxide that prompted VW to cheat. Since CA is the largest market by state in the US (along with a few other states that tag along with California's standards), that killed diesels in the US. Once the "scandal" broke, the rest of the major car markets followed along after actively pushing diesels for decades. Yesterday: Diesel cars are Good! Today: Diesel cars are Baaad! All of this despite there being little evidence that diesel cars (as opposed to diesel trucks, or jet-liners for that matter) contribute in a meaningful, measureable way to carbon monoxide (or dioxide) in the atmosphere. So basically a small group of people whom nobody know in California have effectively killed diesel cars for the rest of us. No. I'm not bitter.
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  135. "...without some editor spitting into the soup." Most likely the best mixed-metaphor I've ever heard! 🤣🤣🤣
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  136. You were expecting honesty from a rally Toyota?! 😂😂😂 The next thing you know you:ll find that the throttle body leaks!
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  137. To paraphrase the late, great Tom Hnatiw of Dream Car Garage: "Do you need an AMG SL63? No. Do you want an AMG SL63???" Absolutely! I wonder how close you could get with the SL500 if you worked it over slightly with a chip-tune, some different shocks and maybe a noisier exhaust?
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  138. Carpathian Disaster by Geoffrey Jukes.
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  139. I think Delorean wanted to make a high-tech competitor for the Porsche 911, and instead ended up with a stainless steel bodied Renault (Alpine) A310. It was certainly better than contemporary TVRs, and more common in the U.S. target market than an A310, but hardly a 911.
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  140. Looking at it from a purely economic perspective -- the £900 that you spent on the car already is irrelevant. From an investment perspective it's a sunk cost. It's gone. All that is important is the future investment (what MB suggested) and the return (what you can sell the car for). For example, if you bought the Porsche GT3 from your brother for £9, does that mean that you'd never consider investing more than maybe £50 in the car? Of course not! As a wise flipper, you'll invest what you need to in order to maximize the value of the car when selling it. The concept of the purchase price defining what you'll invest in a car is curiously common, but economically silly.
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  141. I get the impression that people often confuse the power curves of diesels and gas engines.  They operate completely differently.  Gas engines make significantly more HP as the RPMs go up until you hit the peak HP speed.  This is because the rev's are increasing faster than the torque is dropping. So downshifting when the engine is loaded down in a gas engine will give you more revs, and thus HP to pull. Diesel's are a completely different animal.  Diesels are pulling as hard as they are going to pull down around 2000-2750 RPM (in the case of the Jeep). The peak HP is only up at around 4000 RPM, but in fact it's making almost the same HP from 3000 to 4000 RPM - this means that the torque is dropping at almost the same rate as the RPM are increasing.  Past 4000 RPM both the HP and the torque are dropping.  So if the transmission is shifted down at 2750 RPM, you'll barely gain any HP, but you'll lose a lot of torque. Diesels are intended to be slow rev'ing engines, but will pull hard almost from the get-go, like when leaving a stop light.  Gas engines are fast spinning engines that need to get on-cam before they can do much work.  The big benefit for diesels is pulling at low rev's, and the fuel costs as long as you don't exceed their limits.  That's why the overwhelming majority of long-haul trucks are diesels. In this area the Jeep diesel did shine.
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  142. Again earlier this year (2020) there were the boiler-plate headlines about 2019 being a record breaking year for temperatures. But where are the records? A brief glance at the record extreme temperatures for each state ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes ) will reveal that the record high temperatures for almost half of the states occurred almost 100 years ago -- in the 1930's. A further examination will reveal that only 2 states had record high temperatures in the last 10 years, and only 3 in the last 20 years. How can we have record high temperatures without any records?
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  143. Forgive me if I'm repeating the obvious, but for the fuel filler, most modern cars have an indicator on the fuel gauge which tells you which side of the car the fuel filler is on. Next to the symbol for gas (usually a fuel pump icon) will be a small arrow or triangle. It will be to the right of the pump for cars with fillers on the right, and to the left of the pump for fillers on the left.
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  144. By chance, I watched a video earlier today from Thomas Sowell about "Why intellectuals can't survive at room temperature." It enlightens this whole subject quite a bit.
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  145. Being at a point in my life where my Porsche 911 fandom can now be measured in larger fractions of a century, I've been able to witness first hand the relentless progress in performance. This led me to start to compare disparate models over time. For example, in the mid-70's Road&Track observed that "...this year's T goes like last year's E, and this year's E goes like last year's S, and this year's S goes like h***!" In the same vein, I compared the specs for the previous generation's Carrera T to the original 996 GT3 -- and they were shockingly close (even though the modern car was heavier). I haven't looked, but I suspect that this generation's Carrera T will have performance specs surprisingly close to a 997 GT3's. Anyone want to check me?
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  146. True call-out on Porsche owners afraid to drive their cars. Since the cars are galvanized, they can even be enjoyed in the winter. I do. Buying a Porsche and leaving it parked in your garage is akin to having good furniture for your living room, and then covering it with plastic. But this phenomena has a corollary -- what I call the "Holy Icon" attitude. Many Porsche owners (flippers?) seem to believe that their car, engine, parts, whatever -- magically goes up in value just by virtue of them owning it. They may have bought a Porsche (fill in the blank) a month ago for $X, but they now seem to believe that it is worth 20% or 30% more -- even if nothing has been done to it. This is despite the substantial number of Porsches and related parts in the marketplace. It's a Porsche car, not some 1000 year old holy icon!
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  147. Lots of fun until you hit something.
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  148. One of your UK neighbors (The Tank Chat guys?) took a Kubelwagen on an off-road course and compared it to a WWII Jeep. The Kubelwagen did surprisingly well, even though it only had 2WD. It seems that the car's light weight (lighter than a Jeep), and rear weight bias (over the drive wheels) allowed it keep up with the Jeep's heavier 4WD system.
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  149. At about 4:00 you mention "...using strong magnetic fields..." Uh...yeah. Just like that someone conjures up a magnetic field strong enough to locally overwhelm a star's magnetic field, which can be created in an economical (speaking in terms of energy) fashion. Yeah...
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  150. @BenjaminGoose  I don't know. To me, the quality of the study is more important than who produced it. The best way to measure the quality is to have the study callenged by attempts to replicate it or falsify it. If neither of those two steps has been done, I'd take the study as worth a grain of salt.
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  151.  @Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters  Yes. It's unfortunate that half of any distribution will be less than the average. But it is a mathematical reality.
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  152. The car looks beautiful. Too bad about that the carb mechanicals. Hopefully you can get them up to the same level as the rest of the car and have JayEmm to a quick update.
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  153. Where to start? First off -- the study was biased by starting with a presumed political position: Anthropological climate crisis is real, and you are wrong if you don't believe it. Now let's see why you believe wrongly. A neutral study would have tested believers and deniers equally about how they reached their conclusions, their understanding of the science and their attitudes towards otther viewpoints. Such a study would then help people to understand how and why each group reached the conclusions that they did. That would be far more meaningful then a study trying to confirm the bias that deneiers are scientifically ignorant and closed minded. Come on Sabine; I expect better from you!
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  154. I'm waiting to see parley listed for JayM and Harry to both drive by in an episode!
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  155. You've kind of hit the nail on the head - specifically that most of the "improvements" that everyone says you need to put on a car, usually make it worse. By this I mean: short-shift kits, lower, stiffer springs and shocks, wider wheels and tires. Stuff like that just makes the car less comfortable, the controls heavier and adds effort and notchiness to shifting.
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  156. I often wonder if sometimes road testers confuse age with vintage. By this, I mean that observations like "70's (or 60's) cars have sloppy steering and gear-shifts". These are two systems of the cars which are often overlooked and never refreshed -- either because parts aren't available, or just because they are not terribly "sexy" like an engine rebuilt. Admittedly, steering racks and bushings, and shifter bushings are often long out of production. But back in the day bad steering and bad shift linkages were distained as much as they are today.
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  157. An unproveable trueth is irrelevent. It's impossible to separate an unproveable truth from a falsehood.
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  158. The story of the name "Brown Bess" reminds me of a line that I read recently: "If the Army/Navy/Air Force/Marines had wanted you to have a wife -- they would have issued you one!"
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  159. Curiously, watching this video gave me a sense of deja-vu. Then I went backed and watched your video for the BMW i8. Many (but not all) of the criticisms were common. Does this suggest a theme for current hybrid "supercars"?
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  160. At 1:56 they needed to show scary pictures of plumes coming out of evaporating towers, when in fact the plumes are nothing but water vapor.
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  161. Geez. If you want 7 seats -- buy a Q7!
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  162. In many ways this version is soooo much cooler than the later V6 version.
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  163. It made a disconcerting noise, so you went to another Bentley of similar vintage and discovered it made the same sound. Did you ever consider that the second Bentley also had a vacuum leak????
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  164. Yes, all of the people involved in modern medical technology (Doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, the engineers and many other people who made the technology possible) are a true blessing! I'm happy that you're able to return to your family and to us!
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  165. At the beginning of the video you mention some companies that made previous big planes, but neglect to mention the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant! The Me 323 shares many aspects with the AN225, including the 6 engines, large front loading hatch and style of landing gear.
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  166. At 5:06 -- don't be down on Torsion Bars. F1 cars moved from coil springs to torsion bars about 30 years ago, and have never gone back. Torsion bars often have packaging benefits compared to coil springs, not to mention a lower unspring weight. Technically, coil springs and Torsion bars work the same way, the bar is twisted for the springing effect. The only difference is that torsion bars are in a straight line, while coil springs have been wrapped into a coil. The twist effect is the same in both.
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  167. The engine's characteristics (lack of torque, revy-ness, etc.) is really a function of the fact that a rotary engine is essentially a 2-cycle engine (compression, ignition, exhaust, repeat), so it's HP is more like an engine twice it's size, but it requires rev's to do it. This also introduces challenges to slapping on a more open exhaust since they are very sensitive to the harmonics of the exhaust pipes. If you ever look at the exhaust system of a racing rotary, you'll see a HUGE muffler/resonator -- and they are VERY LOUD! This is to tune the exhaust scavenging of the engine. If you get it wrong, you can kill the performance of the engine. You should try a 1st generation RX7, they are a wonderful car and were a great bang for the buck back in the day..
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  168. The Strosek 964, but I'd leave the exhaust. Assuming the recording is faithful, I'm not a fan of the exhaust.
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  169. Oh! The sound of the hood, trunk and doors closing! (tears of joy)
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  170. I'm confused by the Maxwell's demon analogy. That's like saying that I can reverse entropy by setting up a plant that separates hydrogen from oxygen in our atmosphere, thus creating "clean energy". That is only true if you ignore the energy required to perform the process. The reality is that it takes more energy to separate the gasses than can be recovered by letting them recombine. Maxwell's demon only reverses entropy if you ignore the energy consumed by the demon while it is performing its sorting tricks.
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  171. In the last few years this discussion has gotten decidedly more difficult!
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  172. Here I thought this was about the "Doomsday clock" running out of money.
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  173. Spring is in the air! Tedward is testing another open topped car.
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  174. One of the classiest of A-M's if you ask me. Back when they were making the best cost-is-no-object GT's, and they didn't care if anyone else got it. When I was younger I often wondered why the A-M V8 was such a bust at Le Mans. Later I came to appreciate how it was specifically designed to be a smooth, torquey engine with a lot of flexibility. But as soon as you got out of that designed GT environment and tried to increase the HP by spinning the engine faster, pretty much the entire engine needs to be redesigned. The Mercedes V8 of the same era had the same quality to it. Too bad you didn't include some shots of the engine. Hopefully in a follow-up video with the usual voiceover. Beautify car!
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  175. Ouch! Did you change the cams or valve springs as part of the upgrade prior to the blow-up? It sounds like the rockers may not have a lot of design margin in them, and stiffening the valve springs or adding a cam with faster ramp angles may have pushed the rockers over the edge. You might want to have the rocker arms crack tested before you install them in the new engine, and maybe even check on if there are any treatments (i.e. cryo-treated, shot-peened, etc. some research may be in order) which might improve their longevity.
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  176. Excellent job as always, but you kind of "buried the lead". I was watching the video wondering what sort of ship this was before you mentioned (about 2 minutes in) that the subject ship was a member of the Cruiser class of ships.
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  177. Yeah. as Sabine suggests, I agree that we'll continue to get more sophisticated tools (i.e. better translation software or software that can get us a head start at translating ancient languages, software that can give us a good start when asked good questions, etc.), but actual intelligence is still a long way away. As Sabine eludes to at about 0:16, even humans after millions of years of development have a hard time with intelligence. So no, I don't think that it's a handful of years away. Also, I think the Bible had it right in Genesis (not to mention Arthur C. Clark in 2001) when it suggests that with intelligence must come a knowledge of good and evil -- and with that comes the opportunity to perform genuine evil deeds.
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  178. Yes, the decade with largest number of record high temperatures for each state occured in the 1930s (USA Today). By the way, the decade with the largest number of low temperatures... was also the 1930's (Also USA Today). Last week when Boston was having high temperatures of ~95F, all of the news organizations were reporting that it was a "Record Heat wave". Since when is a summertime temperature of 95 a record in Boston? A couple of years ago I pulled the NOAA temperature data for Boston going back to the mid-1800's and calculated average and standard deviations up through 1950. When I then carried those forward to 2022, lo and behold -- there was no statistically significant warming. 97F is only about 2-sigmas above the average. Come on folks! DO THE MATH!!! Tracking weather based on averages and making straight light predictions is barely high-school level math. I expect better from our scientists and leaders.
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  179. Ok... (pop-pop-pop), Enough (pop-pop-pop) with the (pop-pop-pop) exhaust (pop-pop-pop) backfires! (pop-pop-pop-pop-pop)
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  180. "...Drive it home and discover that your neighbor has one!". Yeah, that happened to me with my 911, and then we discovered that another neighbor has one too! Then we started to wave at each other, and help each other find needed parts or fix our cars. We'd exchange drives and compare notes, and buck each other up when something bad happened to our cars. We kind of became a small club, and life long friends. And then there are the guys that I met in the next town with their 911s, and the other Porsche drivers who wave when passing. Even the 911 owner who broke down on the side of the road who I stopped to check in on. It's kind of nice sharing 911 ownership. 😊
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  181. The clutch sticking to the floor is a common symptom when the clutch system is low on fluid, has old fluid or else the master cylinder goes bad.
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  182. BTW - The "Priestly Blessing" mentioned at 17:00 is also used today in many Christian churches at the end of the service.
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  183. Walker seems to very much be the RN's version of George Patton. The parallels in their lives are fairly striking. Both were described as "sensitive" as youths, but were inspired by their predecessors to follow the careers that they did, and remade themselves into the "hard men" that they felt that they needed to be. Both developed a reputation for innovation and -- aggressively -- defending their ideas. Being of similar age, both gained some initial experience in their respective services in WWI. The tone and contents of their speeches to subordinates was very similar, as was their speeches to the women on the home front. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
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  184.  @shanemedlin9400  I'm a bit of a fan of that series. They at least spent one episode on the Eastern front, something that most documentaries fail to do.
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  185. Interesting chapter of history and not covered much in the histories taught in the US. If my memory is correct, during the US Civil war I was under the impression that the British were giving tacit (and in some cases material support) to the Confederates. I'm curious how that fits into the story. It just seems incongruous with the trend described in the video, so I suspect that there is another chapter in the story to look at.
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  186. I wonder if the wind noise is just a function of 22 year old seals on the doors and windows.
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  187. I can't admit that I "enjoyed" the video, but I did find it very interesting, especially since you site some very interesting, non-Christian, Latin language sources. As far as the question of Latin Law, it's actually a bit of a red herring when discussing the crucifixion of Jesus. The Bible is pretty clear that Pilate didn't feel that Jesus had violated any Roman laws which deserved death. But never the less, the feckless Pilate ended up caving into political pressure from local leaders.
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  188. Relating the "darkness" to an eclipse requires an assumption that they were the same thing. You know what they say about assumptions... Unfortunately the biblical accounts of the "darkness" do not elaborate on the specifics. As far as the earthquake -- they were, and are very common in that part of the world. Many are minor, fewer are major. But prior to the invention of the Richter scale, they were not recorded consistently.
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  189. I don't know about that last part. Historically, the long term planning capabilities of a one-party system have always been bad. It just comes down to simple math. A single person just can't process enough information to consistanly make good choices compared to countless individuals making decisions and developing competing solutions. This is where capitalism combined with democracy has always outperformed systems which are just capitalism without democracy or democracy without capitalism.
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  190.  @mrcoiganable2988  Actually the same question could be posed to the gentleman in the documentary - since he states as fact that the Avars invented the stirrup and came out of northern China -- both points do not clearly appear to be accepted fact. Without confirmation of those two point the entire 2nd half of this documentary appears to be conjecture. Still interesting, but conjecture.
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  191. Zack; the pedal cam highlights that you have the bad habit of "riding the clutch pedal". Matt just got the car rebuilt - don't inflict premature wear of the clutch and the throw out bearing on it. Please! Put your foot on the rest to the left of the clutch. Look where Matt is putting his left foot. I had to stop watching! 🙈
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  192. To the list that you mention I'd also include Adam of Bremen (<1050 - 1081/1085) who discusses the spherical nature of the earth within the context of describing the lands of Northern Europe and the North Atlantic in his "Book 4". The fact that the Earth was a sphere is used to extrapolate the rough latitude (greater or lesser) of lands based on the length of the day during the summer solstice. That he was using the spherical nature of the earth to understand other things shows how excepted the idea was.
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  193. @M.M.83-U  I'm curious -- what is the data that you are basing your claim on?
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  194. I had much the same experience with my long-hood 911. It was cheap, but crabbed down the road and had a rattle-can paint job -- but it was a 911! I drove it most summers and fixed stuff most winters, doing everything but the paint and the machining myself. Out of pocket, it was much cheaper than buying a fully restored car, but I had to do all of the work myself. Never the less, I've been able to live my dream of owning a 911 for the last 20 years, I know the car inside and out and I know exactly how it has been put together. I can take the drive-train out by myself in a morning, and install it again in a little more time. And I now have a really nice early 911. I'm living the dream!
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  195. I think that Stairway to Heaven would have definitely been number one , but the label would have demonitized the whole video -- so why bother. So he went with Dream On instead. While it hasn't closed out as many high school dances as Stairway to Heaven, it's miles ahead of the next placed option. As far as the structure, I think that both of those songs have fairly similar structures. Coincidence? I don't think so.
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  196. Thanks to the "Tomate", you should be set for content for the next 5 years -- and that's just the repairs.
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  197. Actually you were correct when you said that collecting data about "race" is "racism 101". It is, as MLK famously spoke about in his "I have a Dream..." speech. More recently Supreme Court Justice John Roberts pointed out that "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminatingly on the basis of race". Going back to the future that MLK dreamed about “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Here in the US we seem to have missed that point.
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  198. My understanding is that the steering wheel was designed that way so that it would collapse (absorbing energy) in the event that your face hit it during an accident.
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  199. The Porsche Museum is awesome. If you have time when you're in Stuttgart, you should also check out the museum of the other car company across town. I basically covers the history of what is most likely the oldest car company. Porsche's museum has a mind numbing array of race cars! 😁👍
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  200. She continues her steller record of being "on the wrong side of history". To date she has sponsored 40 bills and amendments. Only 2 amendments have ever passed, and only one amendment has successfully passed into law: "to move $5 million from the DEA (enforcement) to the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program". Her record as a Congresswoman has been abysmal.
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  201. In the case of Rome, it wasn't that scientists and accademics were being targeted, but rather that the government authorities ran out of funding that they could drain from the economy, and the resulting failure to secure the boardes, which let in the various Germanics and other Barbarians.
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  202. The Italian movie referenced -- "Eroi di nostri mari" is available to see on YouTube.
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  203. Well done and fairly reported. You started to hint at one point which you didn't discuss. This is all premised on "what we know right now". So if you had presented this discussion in 1946, there would have been no discussion of Morton Salt reactors or other subjects. So for some to argue that (for example) "Nuclear is bad and we shouldn't use it" is only meaningful within the context of today's technology, which may change at any time. Also any discussion about "known reserves" of a resource should have the same caveat. People have been talking about "running out of oil" pretty much since the petroleum industry has been founded. But new technologies in discovery, extraction and processing keep moving that end date back. I'm sure that the same applies to uranium reserves.
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  204. Excellent discussion of what would normally be a very esoteric subject. It compares favorably with the professionally produced documentary that I saw on TV a decade or two ago. Well done!
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  205. No seatbelts in an Italian car? Eh! You're not going to live forever! Enjoy today, who knows what tomorrow will bring. To drive in the style intended for this 1300 cc Lancia you should have a cigarette hanging from the corner of your mouth while you blast around at 10/10ths. Who needs seatbelts?
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  206. An interesting example is the air-cooled 911 engine, which was made in a number of different bores and strokes, and the HP and BMEP tested by the same people using the DIN method. It winds up being a bit of a multi-variable set of experiments. Of specific interest to this subject is the 2.5 liter entine from the 911 ST of the early 1970s (the immediate predecessor to the 2.7 RS). Porsche originally made the 2.5 liter engine by lengthening the stroke of the 2.2 liter engine with an 86.7 mm bore and 70.4 stroke (2.45 liters). The engine made 266 HP at 8000 RPM and piston speeds of 3696 ft-per-minute and had a BMEP of 173 lbs/sq-in at 8000 RPM. The problem was the Porsche wound up with vibration problems on the crank which resulted in the flywheel bolts backing out. So they went back to the parts bin and made the engine (same head, valves and cam) with the earlier 66 mm stroke and bumped the bore up 89 mm. This created other problems with cylinder wall thickness which they ultimately resolved by going to a nickasil coating on the cylinders, but I digress. This 2.42 liter engine made 263 HP at 8000 RPM with piston speeds of 3465 ft-per-minute with the same BMEP at the same engine speed. In the end, the two engines performed virtually the same, and produced the same torque. Porsche than created the 2.7 RS by essentially combining the 89 mm bore with the 70.4 mm stroke. Note that in meantime they had also solved the flywheel bolt issue.
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  207. Your best video yet Sabine! I even watched through the ad!!! Why? I think it was because you were learning about the subject as much as the viewers. I encourage you to please continue this in future videos. 👍👍
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  208. I'm sorry. Neil who??? I've gone my whole life ignoring him and I don't see anything here that tells me that I'm missing anything of value.
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  209. I wonder if the pressures are low or the tires a bit old?
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  210. A flying Sunfish!
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  211. The Influenzo requires nothing except total love and dedication from Jack, and he has risen to the task. This is all most likely punishment for gushing so much over the Lotus. Once the Influenzo has reinforced the message of who's boss, things will settle down again. I'm sure.
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  212. Great insight Tedward. Driving off while putting your seatbelt on has been identified as a stupid act since at least June 14, 1969 when Jacky Ickx walked across the track at Le Mans and calmly put his seat belt on before driving off. He (and Jackie Oliver) ended up winning the race. If he could do it, so can the rest of us! At 5:20 you neglected to point out that you should always keep to the right on a highway UNLESS OVERTAKING. Yes, I'm talking to you Red Crossover! Don't encourage other drivers to pass you on the right (referred to as "undertaking" in the UK). The center lane is not intended "cruising lane" (nor the left lane) where you can idly park yourself and ignore other traffic while you check your mail, shave or converse with friends or family. Those lanes are there to allow other drivers the option of safely overtaking you if they choose, or for you to overtake other cars who chose to travel slower than you.
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  213. Just a note: The map at 18:19 has locations 17 (Falmouth MA) and 18 (Riverhead NY) reversed.
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  214. This is not really valid comparison since you charged up the batteries prior to starting up the test.   Essentially you used the energy from fuel burned before the test during the test -- really just a test of the battery's ability to store energy.  An accurate test would be to start with the batteries fully charged, or fully discharged, and then measure it again with the batteries in the same state at the end of the test.  Or you can do a longer multi-tankful test which would minimize the effects of the previously stored energy.  Either way your testing methodology artificially skews the results towards the hybrid and doesn't reflect real world ownership costs.
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  215. Another great story dug up by Mark Felton. I think the British may have been a bit optimistic calling this Rommel's horse. Were Rommel and the horse ever in the same place at the same time? Rommel was never in the Cavelry, and while he may have been a trained rider, it's most likely not something that he would have done regularly as part of his military duties. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him on a horse even.
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  216. Well presented. It might also be helpful to look at the authors of the different gospels. The "synodical" gospels were written by people who we would now describe as "historians". The identity of The author of the Gospel of Matthew is traditionally associated with the apostle Matthew, although this has been debated even in the early Church. The early church leader Papias (c. 130) is referred to in Eusebius with a passage that he "collected the "logia" (oracles or gospels) in the Hebrew language (or potentially the "Hebrew style"). There are many parts of that Gospel which fit that description. But the implication is that he collected and collated a number of accounts from the Hebrew accounts. The author of the Gospel of Mark is also attributed by the same Papias. Papias claims that a man by the name of John Mark wrote the Gospel based on the reminiscences of the Peter. Keep in mind Peter spent his later years in Rome (after ca. 45), and the Gospel would been written during or after that time. This is most likely the same Mark who is referenced in the Epistle 1 Peter 5:13. The author of the Gospel of Luke is also not directly attributed, but the openings of the Gospel of Luke, and Acts makes clear that the two books are regarded as 2 volumes of the same work. There are a number of references to "we" in the books of Acts (Acts 16:10-17, Acts 27:1- 28:16) which can be cross-referenced to Paul's letters, and he was with him at those times. These point to a many by the name of Luke as the author. The Gospel of John on the other hand is a completely different thing. First, the author claims to have been an actual disciple of Jesus, and a trustworthy witness to the things that he described (see John 21:24). So this cuts the potential list down to less than 11 people. Secondly, the author of John consistently writes one of the disciple's name out of the account, instead repeatedly referring to "the disciple whom Jesus loved". This description was traditionally used to refer to the disciple John in the early Church. But in addition to that there are a number of details in John which don't appear in the other Gospels, the types of details which generally would be known only by someone who was there. After from the theological introduction, John's Gospel starts with an account of the actions of John the Baptist, and include a number of quotes. It then goes on to describe John the Baptist seeing Jesus for Jesus's baptism. Finally it describes that John the Baptist was at a place with 2 of his disciples -- one of whom is described as Andrew (Simon Peter's brother) and the other is unnamed. Via Andrew Jesus recruited Peter. Then the recruiting of Philip and Nathanial, but the un-named disciple remains un-named. But the Synodical Gospels all say that the earliest converts were Andrew, Peter, James and John (for example see Mark 1:16-20). So that would put the mystery person as either James or John. There are also other subjects in John's Gospel which are not covered in the others -- including the Wedding at Cana. This is significant because it is the first of many references in John's Gospel to personal events or conversations by Mary the mother of Jesus. Why are these points about Mary significant? Because by many accounts (and potentially some physical evidence) the Apostle John took care of Mary after the death of Jesus. For example, from the cross, Jesus looked at Mary and "The disciple whom he loved" and said "Dear woman, here is your son", and than to that disciple "Here is your mother". This is generally understood as directing this disciple to take care of Mary from that time on, and this exchange is not recorded in the other Gospels, but the author saw fit to include it in this Gospel. It's the kind of detail which would be remembered by the participants. According to the early church historians Irenaeus and Eusebius of Caesarea (4th century), John and Mary lived in Ephesus until her death, and his. While her death is not recorded, tradition records her having a tomb there. Other traditions put her house in Jerusalem, but these also date to the 4th century. There is nothing that prevents her having lived in both locations at some time during her life. The the important point is her connection in later life to the disciple John, and as a result the inclusion of some details that only she would have known in the Gospel attributed to the disciple John. John also records the prayers of Jesus in the Garden, something that would only have been heard by Peter, James and John since it is recorded in Mark that those were the only 3 disciples with him when he prayed. So in regards to the timing of Jesus death, it's quite likely that the account in the Gospel of John 10:50 is a 1st person account. This would also explain the almost word-by-word account of what was said at the last supper and the evening of Jesus's arrest. (John 13-17) So I would potentially apply a little more weight to the Gospel of John for the date of Jesus' s death this he was most likely there in person for the event.
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  217. The majority of dark energy is made up of dark humor! 😅👍
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  218.  @becauseiwasinverted7971  There is no such thing as free (except for maybe hot water in Iceland). Somebody is paying for that electricity, and the equipment to deliver it. A classic case of ",robbing Peter to pay Paul". Those who are paying for that electricity and infrastructure are most likely none to thrilled by the fact that someone else is spending their hard earned money.
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  219. Yes ... but ... I'm getting a bit tired of female vocalists all emulating Eartha Kitt by singing with the smallest voice that they can muster. Yes, it's a cool effect and fits in certain situations. But enough already!
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  220.  @__christopher__  True, but being born and raised in the US, but having spent considerable time in Germany knowing many cultural Germans, being of German background, etc. etc -- I can say that the center 50% of the bell-curve of cultural Germans have a tendency to be noticeably more direct in their speech than the similar distribution of culturally US people. It's not good or bad, just a difference in the expectations of communications within the two populations. If you reverse the question and ask cultural Germans about Americans, they will often tell you that Americans "beat around the bush", "don't say what the mean" and things like that.
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  221. Considering the number of times that Rick has crossed paths with Led Zep's record label, I'm surprised that he risked this video getting pulled down by even including the one track that he did!
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  222. Incar in a Dino 206 GT? That's a one-of-one on YouTube. It does seem distinctly different from a 246 as far as the experience.
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  223. The trite thinking in many modern "scientific:papers is amazing. I think that Sabine pretty well nailed it on the issues that should have been caught at peer review, if not earlier. Frankly, the analysis described is barely above the level of what I would expect from an under-grad.
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  224.  @bentullett6068  Hydrogen fuel cells are just another form of battery for storing electricity. The hydrogen has to come from someplace, and that someplace is a hydrogen generator which is powered by.... Electricity or combustion. So at the end of the day it's a wash. No better, or worse than other electric cars as far as operating efficiency. In so much that a hydrogen tank and fuel cell can be manufactured without a lot of rare-earth materials and nasty chemicals, you'll most likely be a little ahead.
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  225. I had a rental Camaro last year with the 2018 4-cylinder turbo engine. I was pleasantly surprised by it's performance (both engine and chassis) even though it did sound like a vacuum cleaner. As a substitute for a V8 I doubt that it will satisfy. But being a Porsche guy (and a life-long Chevy disdainer) I see it more of a successor to the 944 turbo concept. I could picture a lot of people with slightly more modest budgets finding an enjoyable and fun to drive car. If you show up for a track-day or auto-cross, you won't be embarrassed, but will still get ~30 MPG on the drive home.
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  226. I had a face lifted 944, and loved the car and still look back on it fondly. It was my first Porsche. I only sold it when I bought my 911, and have never had regrets. Would I happily sell my 911 for a 944? Never. But I guess that defines a gateway Porsche. I do remember that it sounded very muscular at idle, but at higher revs it just sounded like a VW Golf. Not a bad thing, but not as sonorous as other cars.
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  227. Tech companies? CAR COMPANIES! If you've bought a car recently which bluetooth connects to your phone, the car company reserves the right to share any data that your phone uploads to the car with "authorities". That is contact information, call histories, text histories, geolocation data and whatever else they can grab.This is in addition to the data which is on the car's systems.
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  228.  @Silver_o  Yeah, that is always the objective. But sometimes things reach out and hit you. With no crush zones, the physics does note bode well the occupent of a Smart Car if the other vehicle is anything bigger than another Smart Car.
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  229. II believe that the Mercedes 300 CSL was one of the first production cars with fuel injection -- a mechanical direct injection system no less. It came out maybe a year or so after the Corvette, but the system was in another league when it came to performance.
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  230. @triftex8353  True. I kind of buried the main point. How much energy would be required to create a magnetic field of X Gauss, which would be capable of drawing off the required material. On that note, why not just create a huge coil and inductively draw electricity from the Star's magnetic field?
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  231. <sarcasm> Obviously, the airlines just need to hire the academics who produced the paper and -- voila! -- their pricing problems will be solved! Duh! <end sarcism>
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  232. @gagamba9198  Good points. You always need to be careful with dates. I had a similar issue with Russian dates. In any translation, you always need to be sensitive to metaphors and unique expressions. The pecularities of each language generally influence metaphors and humor. This is why it's often difficult to translate both types of ideas.
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  233. The negative press is just jealousy. Economically speaking, Katy and her friends just reduced their net worth by some amount, and that money was spread across all of the engineers, technicians, administrators and other "little people" in the form of salary and wages. That was the free choice of Katy and friends, and to the benefit of the employees and suppliers of Blue Origin. I'm fine with it!
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  234. A complication not mentioned is that the two fronts were separated by the Priepet Sumps (a vast swampy marshland), which was almost impossible to move troops through. So troops had to go around this are to the west or the east, but there was really no way to connect the two fronts.
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  235. Yeah, then the first 3 or 4 minutes would have shown the British army and navy marching around in uniform, or maybe the Russians, or the French. And the narrator describing how they were fading empire, and their German neighbors were concerned with the provocative build-up of their armed forces.
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  236. "That Lady" might be Sabine Schmitz! Alas -- I'll never have a chance to ride with her. 😢
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  237. Actually, I believe that there were 5 versions: Pre-A, A, B, C and then SC (which had an improved rear suspension plus a few other things as a run-out model), although I guess not everyone counts the SC as a separate version.. If you really want to split hairs,, the B-series body shells changed from T5 to T6 mid run with some significant changes and the addition of disk brakes to the T6. The 912 shared it's engine with the 356 SC. Above these were the Carreras which had a 4-cam, engine (1.6 liters or 2.0 liters) which are a very different beast even though they share essentially the same tub.. The modern analogy to those Carreras would be a GT3.
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  238.  @varmastiko2908  I stand corrected. 🙂👍
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  239. @bluelemming5296  All good points. Reflectance is often a function of the wavelength and the material. I'm no PhD, so I don't know all of the derails. Appropritae safety glasses are defined by the wavelengths that they block and generally fit in such a way that light doesn't go past them. Just plain sunglasses won't work because they may be transparent in (this case) infrared, but attenuate visible light. These are all excellent questions for the vendor of the laser system. They will know.
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  240. ​@olafsigurson5333 Is the universe really infinite? When you consider the dimension of time, there is an end -- at the beginning. Soecifically at the singularity. If you consider scale a dimension, there is also a boundry at the quantum level beyond which there is nothing.
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  241. A couple of things that you didn't mention: Germany has a VAT tax of 19%, which the US does not. So every dollar spent in Germany is taxed coming(via the Income Tax) and going (via VAT). So economically speaking, you can add the 19% to the income tax rate to see the total tax bite. So 35% + 19% gets you above 50%. The point about the roads is kind of unrelated, since in the US they are maintined by the states or local governments, and the quality varies widely depending on the efficiency of the government which is managing the maintanance. The other hidden healthcare cost that you didn't mention is that Germany's system throttles technical development by virtue of limiting the medical spending. This is why people with cancer in Canada (and elsewhere) often try to come to the US for treatment. I know that my relatives in Germany often buy supplimental health insurance in order to have access to treatments which are not available on the basic governmemt funded health insurance.
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  242. Interesting how Great Britain was looking at the rise of the US and Germany (both without empires) with concern, while both the US and Germany were both looking at Great Britain's empire with envy. The grass is always greener...
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  243. Given the Allies consistent response of "Unconditional Surrender" to Hess's and Donitz's attempts to surrender, I doubt that Rommel would have gotten a similar response. Attempts to drive a wedge between the Western Allies and Russia were similarly unsuccessful. If the Germans had agreed to an unconditional surrender in 1944, I doubt that it would have resulted in as polite an outcome as the Germans got in 1918. Sure German Cities might not have ended up burnt to the ground, but in the end, that might have been what was needed to allow the ultimate redemption of Germany. With out that destruction and the resulting Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift and other rebuilding efforts, Germany might have found itself in a situation worse than 1919, looking at decades in the international "doghouse" and ripe for another despot to rise up.
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  244. Maybe instead of spending lots of money on noisy exhaust systems, owners of earlier and lower-spec Boxsters and Caymans might just want to replace the engine cover that is over the engine for a version without all of the sound insulation. Kind of like the GT4RS has. Voila -- more noise for the driver, no change for outsiders.
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  245. As far as the car's road manners, keep in mind that West Germany had unlimited Autobahns, so I'm pretty sure that this car would have had good manners all the way up to it's top speed, even if it was just 105 mph. The other thing that I noticed is that you can see the same design language that carried over to the late 70's Audis. My Mom had an Audi Fox (I think the US's version of an 80), and there were a lot of similarities in the cockpit and styling with this 100. But the engine at that time was shared with VW Rabbit/Golf.
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  246. I'm happy to see it running so well -- congratulations! Shocks (or as you English tend to more accurately describe them as "Dampers") can be subtle things to adjust. First you need to understand what the adjustment adjusts: Low-speed bounce/compression? low-speed rebound? high-speed compression? high speed rebound? Some combination of those or something else like blowoff? Each characteristic affects a different aspect of the car's ride. Low speed compression and rebound effect how the car transitions into and out of corners -- basically how it "settles". These can influence understeer and oversteer. The high speed settings (and blow-off if the shocks are so equipped) effects the way the suspension handles sharp bumps, like a railroad crossing, pot holes or the patter of the rear end that you were referring to. The low-speed settings are more commonly adjustable road-car or many race shocks, but sometimes they adjust both compression and rebound at the same time.
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  247. When talking about upmarket Volvo coupes, did you forget the 262C from the late 1970's?
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  248. Cool review, but I'm confused. You said the LT6 engine has Ti valves and pushrods(?!). The LT6 engine is DOHC. I assume you mean connecting rods?
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  249. Great story and I've always had a soft spot for P1800s, especially the wagons. I just did some quick math and it looks like Irv was averaging about 58,000 miles a year (4836 miles a month over 56 years) on his car. Where was he ever putting that many miles on his car on Long Island? The average person drives less than 1000 miles per month. I see that his daily commute was 125 miles, which would be about 38 commutes per month. Apparently after 1M miles Volvo gave him a 780 coupe, which he put 450,000 miles on, while still adding miles to the P1800. If he drove the P1800 for 3.2 million miles, and also the 780 for another 450,000 miles -- when was he ever home??? Between the two cars that would be about 5,505 miles a month during the last 56 years, even more since he passed away a couple of years ago. Wow! Huntington NY to Huntington Beach CA is about 2900 miles. Given that his commute alone was 3125 miles per month, in order to average 4800 miles per month, he could do his commute, and then drive from Huntington NY to Huntington Beach CA and back every 6 months. Even more if you throw in the 780. I'm just trying to wrap my mind around the number of hours he must have spent in his car!
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  250. From a purely logical perspective -- it was the thing to do. Failure to do the surgery would have ensured that the stricken sailors died. Even at a hypothetical 30% success rate, it was still the right thing to do when compared to the virtually 0% chances of the sailor recovering without the surgery.
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  251. Having been alive when the "Original T" was being sold -- it was not intended as a homologation special with which to go touring car racing. That is an apocryphal story. The original T was a "stripper", de-featured car which was intended to expand Porsche's market share in a slightly more price sensitive portion of the market. The original 901 morphed into the 911E. In the meantime the 911S had been created as the 911 with something extra and a higher engine tune. From there they decided to fill in the gap between the 911E and the 912 with a 911 that was outfitted with a 911 engine, but trimmed like a 912. This was the 911T. The engine tune put the car pretty much half way between the 912 and the 911E in performance. When Porsche went racing seriously in the 911 starting in the late 60's, they looked at the rules and decided to start with the lightest 911 in the line-up (the T) since this was what the homologation regulations would use as a starting point for the car's weight. But the T came along for marketing reasons before the homologation shenanigans began.
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  252. This conversion is also "Greener" than an electric conversion since the carbon impact of a used engine and gearbox is 0 tons of carbon per year, unlike a new electric motor and a new set of batteries.
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  253. Even "in the day" (i.e. the 1970's) everyone would complain about how Porsches had put on size, weight and price compared to their cars of the 1950s. Car and Driver held up the Karmann Ghia as "today's Speedster" that offered 90% of the experiance of a Porsche Speedster, for half the price! (...of a used Speedster of the time)
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  254. Yeah! "Pahking your Cah at Hahvahd Yahd" is the timeworn knock on the Boston accent by the rest of the country. But true Bostonians understand that this represents, specific accent of the Back Bay and non-Jewish Brookline, and Irish population, and not representative of other neighborhoods and towns in the Boston area. ;-)
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  255. My prayers are with your mother and your family.
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  256. Do Fiesta owners wave at each other? 911 owners almost always do. if you have a 911 (or even a Boxster) -- you're in the club!
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  257. The USS Massachusetts can still be visited in Fall River MA. I was able to visit it as a kid and still remember it. The references to the attempted invasion of Dakar made me stop and look up that tangent. I had never heard of that operation. That was the first really new thing that I had learned about WWIi in the last 45 years.
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  258. Interesting -- the clock's second hand goes counter-clockwise!
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  259. A well presented discussion of a difficult subject since I was able to follow it all along. It would seem (again) that we have reached a point where science has reluctantly concluded something which had been stated in the Bible at least 2 thousand years ago. For this I point you to 2 Pet.3:8: where the being who created the universe is described: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.". So to an observer outside of space-time, the past present and future all exist. To many this is the realm of "Flying spaghetti monsters" and an example of how the Bible is a fantasy. But now hard science has concluded that the past, present and future all exist in the same way, as you describe at 12:00. You may not believe in God, but you have to accept the historical fact that this verse has existed in writing for almost 2000 years. The other "classic" example of this is the "Big Bang". The "Big Bang" was not proven until my lifetime, when the steady state universe was falsified, and the fact that it was not cyclical and was in fact a one-way-trip (at least for this space-time continuem) was only proven with the clarification of the cosmological constant in 1998. The properties of time that you discussed at 10:00 also help to resolve the apparent contradictions between Genesis 1 and 2, and how both could be true. Strike another common complaint about the Biblical accounts.
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  260. Lovely car. I have one just like it. Aside from technologically dated items (i.e. the ignition system) the cars were very well put together, and the engines were pretty under stressed. Most of the issues that I've found with my car were inflicted by a previous owner (or myself!). The clutch was most likely one of the weak links (although adequate), and was redesigned to a completely different concept ("push-type") in 1970 to deal with the increased torque of the 2.2 liter engines. I suspect that the original owner would "ride the clutch" or rest their left foot on the clutch pedal, thus prompting it's failure in just a few thousand miles. If treated correctly, the clutch should be good for 10's of thousands of miles if not almost 100k miles. Being a Porsche owner, I have to nit-pick. Both the 911R and the '69 911E were both 2.0 liter cars. But the '69E's MFI system was specifically tuned for the E's engine configuration. It couldn't adjust itself to changes in the configuration (such as the different exhaust) without being specifically retuned. I doubt that the rich running has anything to do with the cold-start function which is completely unrelated to the exhaust. The original cold start enrichment feature was fairly nasty, and just pours raw fuel down the intake trumpets. What could go wrong with that?! Most were quickly deactivated. The '69's are actually very easy to rig a manual cold start enrichment (just like the factory race cars). Manually applying 12v to the enrichment solenoid will peg the MFI rack full rich and allow the car to start easily, and then disconnecting that 12 volts will allow the MFI to return to it's normal tuning after the engine is starting. Starting in 1970 the MFI was updated to do away with the raw fuel feature, and used a completely different cold start concept.
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  261. Small detail -- they are the Schwabian Alb (with a "b", not a "p"). The word still means "mountain", but tje Albs are much smaller than the Alps.
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  262. When I was in college, someone nearby had an A-M DBS (the straight 6 version). While the engine was less powerful, and dated back to the 1950's, I wonder how it compares to the pollution controlled V8.
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  263. Unfortunately good decisions do not make scintillating YouTube content. But now I know where the channel name came from. I always assumed that you were a Gilles Villeneuve fan, but I guess I was wrong!
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  264. I love the license plate on the base model Carrera: 'A 911". 😄
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  265. In my professional life I often see people using models to try to pick the "right" or "optimum" to do. I've come to appreciate though that there may be 2 or 3 right solutions which are very different,. Even then you are looking for a few solutions out of countless real potential outcomes. Instead I've settled on turning that method on its head. Instead I now try to use models to identify the clearly boneheaded, wrong options to avoid. It's like multiple choice test taking theory. If I can go through life without making the most painfully wrong decisions, in the long run it will turn out ok. It also helps to minimize the effects of unintended consequences.
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  266. People with AWD or 4WD cars often forget that while the technology will help you go better than 2WD in slippery conditions, it doesn't help you stop or turn any better than a 2WD.
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  267.  @TedwardDrives  Curious. Wikipedia says 260 , with a citation to a WSJ article from 30-January 1997. It's also notable that in 1989 the NHTSA looked into the roll-overs, and decided that the rate was similar to other vehicles and closed the investigation. The NHTSA declined to reopen the investigation in 1997. But once one lawyer was able to convince a jury, the parade of litigation rolled on.
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  268. I don't know if it's the lack of footwell space of the FrankenElise, or just a bad habit -- but you need to get your left foot away from the clutch when you're not shifting. Once I noticed this, I couldn't look away. (cringe)
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  269. Sabine was in rare form for this video!
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  270. There is an excellent documentary that examines the psyche of Germans at the end of the war based on (often Jewish, German speaking) OSA agent interviews of Germans of all levels of society. In some respects, it captures the human condition. On one extreme were Hitler and the Nazi leaders, and on the other extreme were people like Dietrich Bahnhoeffer. As with any mathimatically normal distribution, the bulk of the population fell between those extremes. There were Nazis like Oskar Schindler and non-Nazis who noticed families disappear, and opportunities appear to take over jobs or businesses whose predecessors left suddenly. Those who said nothing or went along to avoid trouble. The cross section is as old as humanity. We are all some portion sinner, and some portion saint. It's easy to point out the speck in someone elses eye while ignoring the log in our own eye. Prior sins are impossible to redeam. Earthly punnishments primarily serve as deterents, or else to provide the offender with a means to partially redeem the damage that they have committed to society as a way to assuagge their feelings of guilt. Aside from that, all that we can do is help people to stop the sin and go forward on a new path. I'm not sure what the right response is with Nazi engineers. Did they comtinue to harm people in their quest to advance science? Did they become fine members of society in the 50's and 60'? There are no easy answers. Only messy compromises.
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  271. On the other hand, I suspect that this ability to see what isn't there -- but could be, is what drives humans' relentless creativity. For example, the person who can look at a block of marble, and see "David" in it, and than turns it into a reality. As Michelangelo(?) pointed out, he merely stripped away the excess material so that we could see the sculpture that already existed in the marble.
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  272. I love his enthusiasm with the car, and he dug up a great story about birdbill in the windscreen, but I do feel there is a bit of a case of the narrative trampling on the actual history. This was not the "first time that the racing engineers came down and improved the street car". As an example I'd like to point out the various 356 Carrera models. Porsche had been doing that since I some of the ideas from the first Le Mans 356 were incorporated into updates to the production cars.
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  273. One small detail -- the first long-wheel-base cars were built in September 1968 as 1969 models. Also if the brakes have any travel that you can feel from the driver's seat, they need to be bled or fixed. The early cars with non-powered brakes should feel like you are pressing against a block of wood. It's the pressure against the pedal that stops the car, not the travel. Having an "early" 911 and a modern(ish) Boxster, the later Porsches help you to drive confidently like Walter Rohl. The early 911's help to teach you how to drive like Walter Rohl.
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  274. In summary: blah blah blah BRUNO MARS blah blah blah
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  275. Some things are never learned. At about 1:00 you discuss how shells were consumed faster than planned, and it was hard for industry to catch-up. The same problem is occurring again today in The Ukraine.
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  276. All in all a very well presented discussion of the subject. There were a few places where I was going to stop and start typing a rebuttal, but then you got to the point that I was going to say anyhow. In the end, I think this subject represents a microcosm of all of our existences. As someone wiser than me once pointed out: "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do." Keeping this universal plight in mind, it's also important that we refrain from trying to remove the speck from others' eyes when we are blinded by the log in our own eye. It's easy to preach to others about making greener choices that they should make -- as we look down on them from our SUV that is carrying merely a driver. Coal miners do not risk their lives deep in the earth merely because they don't care about the environment. They are also serving others who cannot access an affordable form of energy with which to heat their homes in the winter. Many of those involved in the realm of "Green causes" are more concerned with being seen as being a great person in front of a great cause, while they knowingly hide lies and deceit in the calculations that they know others won't or can't check. In the end we are sharing a journey on this small planet travelling through a vast and inhospitably universe. When we have the opportunity to help others, please do so. Don't willingly hurt others. Don't be greedy. Be loving and supporting of those you find around you, and appreciate others who do the same.
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  277. Great video Sabine. Putting all of the points together -- could 5G contribute to global warming by incrementally increasing the temperature of moisture in the air by small amounts over large areas? This will have a knock-on effect of causing the moisture to be dispersed to higher altitudes as it warms, causing a greater greenhouse effect.
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  278. I think that people have mis-understood China's zero-COVID strategy. The strategy has really been to admit zero cases of COVID over the last couple of years no matter what the reality.
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  279. Nice car -- but let's be honest -- the only thing that is remotely "ST" about it are the fender flares (and the lack of a duck-tail or whale-tail). It even sounds like it might have turbo trailing arms in it if the owner wants to put 930 t-bars in it. So what really is "ST" about it? Would a driver be able to recognize any difference from a 2.7 RS Touring? . Like I said -- a beautiful looking car, but truth in advertising please.
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  280. Outstanding! Thank-you for setting that up. The Captain personifies excellence in management, and there is much to be learned from him.
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  281. Another long forgotten class of ships covered. Thank-you.
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  282. This is some academic climate activist wet dream. The places in the US where homeowners can't renew their policies are the same places where insurance rates are government controlled. This limits the insurance industry's ability to accurately access and price risk. If the government gets out of managing an industry that it knows nothing about, the industry will do just fine. Besides, why should this climate prediction be any better than all of the other predictions frrom the last 30 years -- which have proven to be wrong. Florida and the Muldaves still exist, London is not under water. Life continues to go on.
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  283.  @maxnewts  Yeah, but to clarify - I was referring to 1600 and 2000 normally aspirated cars. Turbocharging is just a way to fit 3 liters of air into 2 liters of engine.
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  284. Yes, Danny still doesn't get the respect that he deserves.
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  285. Bing!!! The juxtaposition of Irving Berlin's classic to modern pop tunes is jarring. That song deserves the full "What makes this song great" treatment! Please Santa?
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  286. Sharing an "attaboy!" with you, the last half of the discussions summarizes a beef that I have with many of the histories being published recently. You can make the same complaint about the histories published about the land battles in WWI, or even the narrative of the whole war. Also WWII (although the base of literature is vastly larger), and almost every other key engagement in the past. Usually they are one-sided in the language of the writer, too chronologically limited, and too focused on the headline engagements. They also inevitably end up being called like a football game rather than an engagement of people who are in the moment. Thank-you all for moving counter to this trend, and keep up the good work.👍👍
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  287. You and Dr. Simoens make some excellent points. I think to say that there were no breakthroughs in the Ukraine in 2022 would be to overlook the retaking of Kherson. As far as the force density being so much lower in the Ukraine compared to the Western Front in WWI -- I think that this is a result of the firepower of the individual soldier being so much higher than the bolt action rifles of the average WWI solder. Interestingly -- the Russian experience in WWI was very different than that of Britain, France and Belgium. In every year of WWI the war in the east had far more movement compared to the west.
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  288. My understanding is that the prancing horse logo was on a german plane shot down in WWI. The pilot was from Baden Wurttemburg, and so used the emblem on his plane. Stuttgart (the capital of B-W) uses the emblem because the city started around a stud farm for the Duke of Swabia in the 10 century. This the name. I guess you could say that the city has been known for it horse power ever since.
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  289. Taiwan -- please take note!
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  290.  @fordprefect5304  Hermann Genz has documented how the Hittite finds in Palestine from the Hittite Empire period are comparatively numerous compared to other areas outside of central Anatolia. Amihai Mazar also notes several artifacts in his book "Archaelogy of the Land of the Bibile: 10,000-586 BCE". In 1976 a mortuary building was excavated at the Amman Airport which appears to have been used for adult cremation. The structure dated to the empire period and showed Hittite influence. Cremation was unknown among the people of Canaan, but was practiced by Indo-Europeans, including the Hittites. Other artifacts also have been found. There is for example "The Deeds of Suppliluliuma" which tells of how in the past "the storm-god took the people of Kurusutamma, sons of Hatti, and carried them to Egypt". Sayce also documented via "trichromatic Cappadocian ware" the presence of Hittites in the Southern Levant as early as the 12th Dynasty of Egypt. Fundamentally, you seem to base your conclusion on "the complete impossibility (of Hittites in the Levant) as Egypt controlled Canaan and they were mortal enemies". But were they? We all know about the battle at Megiddo, but the conflict between the Egyptians and the Hittites occurred over about only 200 years in time. We're talking about a 1000 years of history. You seem to exclude the possibility of individuals living in each other's territory before or after that period. You also are assuming water-tight borders, which I'm not sure the evidence supports. In fact there are later Hittite texts that suggest that they had issues maintaining control over borders. Certainly after the treaty of Kadesh there were friendlier relations between the two powers. There are also numerous attestations of individuals or small groups migrating to another territory -- whether it be Abram moving from the Chaldean city of Ur to Canaan, all the way up to Roman times. For example Joshua and Judges describes that the children of Israel dwelt among the Cannanites, the Hittites, Amorites, Periizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, and took their daughters to be their wives and gave their own daughters to their sons. Whether it be traders leaving a delegation in a foreign land, to farmers looking for new land to settle, ancient people seem to have been far more mobile than we give them credit for. Given the archeological evidence I mentioned earlier, it seems clear that there were certainly some culturally Hittite people in the Levant at that time, even if they were a minority. Going back to the biblical references, there is also a subtle story arc of the Hittites recorded in the biblical texts -- something that it's doubtful that myth-writers 1000-500 years later would have included. For example, during the time of the patriarchs (and only during this time) the Hittites are referred to as "children of Heth", "sons of Heth" and "daughters of Heth". Note that this name "Heth" is recorded both biblically and in Egyptian hieroglyphs. This aligns with a time before the Hittite Empire had fully consolidated, even though they were the predominant ethnic group on the Anatolian plateau. Later in the Bible during the mid-17th century Old Kingdom era, they are referred to collectively as "Hittites", which aligns with the height of the singular Hittite empire. Then later in the 1st millennium, Solomon is described as interacting with "all the kings of the Hittites", which aligns with the fragmented late Hittite period. So there seems to be considerable written and physical evidence that is at odds with the statement upon which you based your conclusion.
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  291. I was laughing so hard at your definition of "Trans-fats" that I needed to replay that portion of the video. 🤣
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  292. +Joshua C My - dare I say it- diesel does better than that too.
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  293. The Brandtaucher definitely deserves and episode! I never heard of it until now and just looked it up on Wikipedia. Verrrrrrry Interrrresting!
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  294. Given the choice of lower taxes and inflation (both driven by government spending), or a $5 bill in the mail (or even a $40 gift card), I'll take the lower government spending any day.
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  295. @bjornfeuerbacher5514  I disagree. The "uncompetitive" states form the basis of a winning campaign. The reason that so few states are competitive is because of the success of gerrymandering (an unfortunate invention of my home state). For example, Massachusetts has a sizeable independent population ( neither D nor R) that swings elections in the state. We've had recent Republican Governors, but due to the gerrymandered districts, the state is almost never in play nationally. The last time that our delegates went R was for Reagan. As a result no presidential candidate campaigns here, only fundraising. Similar stories apply to other states. That is not the result of the Electoral College system, but rather gerrymandering.
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  296. @joel2421  The Electoral College was implemented about 80 years before slavery was a seriously competitive subject in the US. There was no way states like Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Delaware (more than a quarter of the states at the time, and only Delaware was a slave state) would have signed the Constitution without the electoral college. Without it, they would have been steamrolled by the big states. The fact that Lincoln could carry the then swing state of Illinois was instrumental in his run for the presidency. When he was elected, he won only 40% of the popular vote, but 60% of the electoral votes. So the electoral system was far more instrumental in the elimination of slavery than it was the result of any desire to maintain slavery.
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  297. @joel2421  The politically meaningful abolitionist movement started in the early 1800s, well after the Constitution was signed. It's clear you didn't read the rest of my response. By the way. In 1780, Virginia had by far the largest population of the then states. They would have been the biggest beneficiary of the popular election of the President.
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  298. @Vscustomprinting  By that logic, just about everything was influenced by the compromises required to reach an agreement on the constituition. As I mentioned earlier, the Electoral Coĺlege was most likely far more instrumental in the ultimate abolition of slavery than slavery was instrumental in the creation of the electoral system.
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  299. @joel2421  The 3/5 compromise had to do with the apportionment of the number of seats in the House of Representatives (and direct taxes), and actually REDUCED the power of the slave states in the government, (and by extension in the Electoral College). If the slave states had not been forced to accept the 3/5 compromise, they would have had even more power. What you are arguing makes no sense. The creation of the Electoral College was a completely separate issue from the 3/5 compromise.
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  300.  @joel2421  Thanking about this further, I agree that ON THE FACE OF IT, the 3/5 compromise sounds like the slaves were only 3/5 of a human -- which sounds aweful. But if you look past the title of the compromise, you'll see that it was actually a clever way to limit the ability of the slave states to claim the political power of their slave populations in the new government without allowing the slaves to actually vote. Thus if slaves had been counted as 5/5 of a person, the slave owners in the slave states would have effectively had the power to vote 100% of the slaves' votes. Ideally the non-slave states wanted the slaves to be omitted from the population when apportioning members of the House of Representatives since at that time the slaves had no political power in the slave states, and there was nothing that the non-slave states could do about that (each state was responsible for its own laws). So in a clever compromise, they reduced the impact of the slave population when apportioning representatives, which reduced the power of slave states in the new government that they were negotiating to create. This gave the non-slave states MORE POWER, to ultimately reduce the institution of slavery. But we digress. The 3/5 compromise only had a knock-on effect on the Electoral college in regards to the number of electors apportioned to each state. The creation of the Electoral College had everything to do with getting the smaller states (4/5 of whom were NOT slave states) to sign-on to the constitution, safe in the knowledge that they wouldn't be steam-rolled by larger (largely slave owning) states. So in a back-handed way, the creation of the Electoral College actually reduced the power of the slave states. Maybe we're in violent agreement, but I'm not getting that vibe from what you're saying.
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  301. I enjoy Feli's channel, but let's be honest -- she's bayerisch, and Porsche's are made in Swabia (not to mention the Porsche family is actually Bohemian). Linguistically the Bavarian dialect was actually spoken in Bohemia too, but Schwabish is a completely different dialect, let alone mindset. Ask any German! ;-) But since we're speaking English on this channel, let's just keep to standard English rules. Note my use of an apostrophe instead of "let us" is not a catastrophe of English pronounciation. Youngsters with acne may disagree with me, but that would be the epitome of bad form. If a group of vigilante teenagers got together into a posse to track me down, it wouldn't mean more than a Sesame seed to me -- because vocalized final E's are not unknown in English. And I didn't even need to refer to such French loanwords as cliché, fiancé or résumé. But speaking of France, if we were all speaking in French we wouldn't be having this discussion because the Académie Française would have formally, and finally ruled on the matter.
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  302. A couple of additional points -- 1) Dry sump engines usually make more hp than an equivalent wet-sump engine because they reduce the oil spray (mist?) In the case that causes drag on the crank like how riding a bicycle in the rain takes more work than riding in the rain. 2) As a derivative of the 962 engine via GT1 race car, the GT3 engine was still of the technical lineage of the Air-cooled 911 engine, just one where pretty much every part and assembly was incrementally changed over the decades from the original 2.0 liter air cooled 6. This is why you can still retrofit some of the GT3 engine parts onto an air-cooled 911 engine. The oil pump is one thing that comes to mind if my memory is correct. The 996 Carrera engine on the other hand is a completely new design that shares nothing with the air-cooled motor aside from the words "flat-six".
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  303.  @GamezGuru1  it sounds like you're using a different definition of efficiency than I was. You're arguing the efficiency of the engine/motor, and I was arguing the efficiency of moving the passengers and their cargo down the road from point A to point B. I'll stick with the later since that is really what we're discussing when the subject is cars This is a function of the entire system, and not just the energy conversion system. Yes, a pure IC engine loses considerable efficiency via friction etc. as heat loss. This is where Diesels are more efficient than gas IC engines due to their more compact combustion chambers, and more importantly their ability to "freewheel" while coasting when gas engines would be engine braking. But modern IC/Hybrid technology can bring gas engines on par with, or even exceed the efficiencies of diesels. Diesel/Electric hybrids can be even more efficient (which is why they are used in locomotives), but unfortunately haven't really been explored for use in cars and trucks. But I will stand with the definition that I used when discussing cars. This can best be calculated as the cost to move a certain cargo from point A to point B (while keeping an eye on the market distorting effects of taxes, bursts of inflation, etc.)
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  304. Interesting. I was a teenager then, and don't remember this scandal or the Apollo 15 crew at all. In addition to comment on the pronunciation of "Gemini", Walter (Wally) Schirra's last name was pronounced by him as Shir-RA, with the accent on 2nd syllable.
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  305. "These are lighter than the SL..." sounds a bit incongruous to anyone who remembers what "Sports Leicht" means.
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  306. There is a degree of irony that you have put the BMW and Porsche in storage for the winter (in spite of the fact that both brands galvanize their chassis -- Porsche started this in 1974) while you drive your ungalvanized Honda in the salt. 🤔
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  307.  @TassieLorenzo  Interesting. That I didn't know.
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  308. Somewhere along the way se seem to have forgotten how markets work. One thing for sure -- real world costs are not defined by an economist sitting at their computer. Sure initial offerings will be expensive, but if suppliers are making money competitors will enter the market place and drive prices down. Does this mean that AI will then soak up all of the energy and crowd out residential users? No. Once again as demand increases, competitors will enter the market driving up supply which will bring costs down. That is unless governments and others get involved to strangle off supply which will then drive up prices and artificially distort the market.
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  309. Recently while driving, I was mulling over how social travel, and driving is. In the time of Chaucer, if you went on a trip you walked, or rode a horse in the company of other people, and you would interact with those people. In the 19th century you might share a stage coach. People would chat, tell stories and just generally socialize with each other. Even in the time of the car, drivers would be interacting with other drivers. Drivers exchange signals, read "body language" and sometime verbalize with other drivers -- all forms of social interaction. But with the advent of self driving cars that interaction is completely gone. Essentially they dehumanize the experience of travel as the traveler moves along from one place to another with their face buried in their phone, completely disconnected from their surroundings and the people around them. The experience is no more social than riding alone in an elevator. It's sad how modern inventions which claim to improve our human existence actually dehumanize us.
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  310. The way to assemble Ikea furniture is to start by seeing a psychologist?! It all becomes clear to me now!
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  311.  @kami_dred7319  That would only be acceptable in the rare case that 1) You're driving on an unrestricted stretch of Autobahn or highway, 2) You are driving the fastest car ever made and 3) you are driving it at it's top speed. In every other case you need to keep right except when passing. Why? There will always be a car that is at some point will want to pass you. The courteous thing to do is be out of the way to let them past. Just because you always drive 75+ doesn't exempt you. In my region 75 is the usual middle lane speed. If you are constantly faster than everyone on our highways you will be eventually ticketed, and it will be a big fine.
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  312. At 12:20 you say "I know that sometimes the Lexus badge doesn't scream sports car..." I'm sure that IMSA's Vasser Sullivan Racing would disagree!
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  313. What could possibly go wrong???? Remember 20 years ago when many governments were pushing people into Diesel engined cars with regulations and subsidies? So now we're supposed to trust those same institutions today when they try to force everyone into an EV?
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  314. I think by '69 the standard wheel was a big wheel with a thin black plastic rim. I believe the wood wheels were phased out (at least as standard) around '67, or maybe '68.
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  315. Yes, I did enjoy this video. The Germans have a word for this. It's "Schadenfreude".
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  316. In a sense, but then layer on 200 years of immigrant accents from the rest of the world.
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  317. My sense is that there is a degree of hubris involved. To state that something "shouldn't exist" implies a degree of certainty in the theory that is the status quo. A healthier attitude in a field such as Astrophysics might be to consider all theories as provisional pending repeated failures to falsify them. The reality is that we really understand far less than we think we do.
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  318. Did you Nick the heads while you had the chance? 😉
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  319.  @Tugela60  I'm not sure that I agree with your conclusions for a couple of reasons: 1) You kind of suggest that we are descendants from those who continued reproducing the longest, but most kids were born to parents who were in their 20's and 30's. The fact that they lived 40 years past that time has little to do with reproduction. As far as death, it is as common today as it was then. Life has a 100% mortality rate. Always has, always will. As the video pointed out, infant mortality was much more common than, thus the common tradition of not naming babies until they had survived for a period of time.
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  320.  @barnsleyman32  I think that it might be safer to say that Old English is closer to Plattdeutsch or certainly to Old-Frisian.
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  321. At 39:30...This update "...removed the Sarono radar and gunsight, and replaced it with equivalent ballast. The ballast offered equivalent detection range and improved overall reliability" 😂🤣😂🤣
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  322. My GOSH! The Continental is HUGE!!! The interior also looks much more "hand-made" while the GT definitely has signs of 21st century manufacturing engineering.
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  323. A flat-4 in in a Porsche? Bah. Sounds like a Subaru! 😉
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  324. It's amazing that when you learn, and start to use math -- you can suddenly start to see through many of these schemes. The point of controlling carbon emissions is not to save the planet. In the planet's relatively recent past (lets say that last 10s of millions of years) the carbon content of our atmosphere was far higher, and it wasn't the end of the Earth. In fact it eventually came down to current levels without human intervention. The point of controlling carbon emissions is that it is an excuse for some people to tell you and I what we need to do, and along they way they can indulge their fantasy that they are saving the world -- from us. But I digress -- back to math. Now that you understand the math, I'd like to introduce you to Mr. Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian civil engineer, sociologist, economist and political scientist. Along with introducing the world of economics to rigorous math, he also left us with a certain profound observation which bears his name: The Pareto principle. This simply observed that in an economy -- any economy -- that 80% of the wealth belonged to 20% of the population. This applies as much to modern Sweden or Cuba as it does to the US and 19th century Italy. But this observation holds true far beyond the realm of economics and political science. If you are looking at carbon emissions for example, as you observed -- 80% of the emissions come from ~20% of the emitters. If people were actually serious about cutting carbon emissions, they would focus in on those 20% of the emitters and see that we get a change from them -- say a 50% reduction. This is far more effective and doable (and cheaper) than trying to restructure the world's economy to eliminate internal combustion engines. But it's not very glamorous since it involves the detailed study of the mechanics and economics of container ships. Such study would require once again -- lots of math! And math tends to scare off the political types.
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  325. Now I see why you moved your music videos to a different channel. I love this video, but it's got more to do with music theory than string theory. But in this case that is a good thing!
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  326. Oh Come on! Is there any other kind?
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  327. I've never watched any of his stuff to date, so I looked up a recent video from 3 days ago. I wonder if prosecutors may revisit the charges based on his self documented driving history. My one sample showed 95 mph+ on a twisty 2-lane road with traffic in both directions. He was lucky to hit a parked car with nobody in it. If he had hit an oncoming car with a 120 mph closing speed, he wouldn't be so lucky, nor would the people in the incoming car. Believe it or not - this was a "lucky" warning. Cars can be fixed - even Carrera GT's. But families can't replace loved ones when they are dead. He needs to be removed from situations where he is putting other people's lives at risk until such time as he has demonstrated responsible behavior in lower stakes situations.
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  328. At 28:00 he describes a statistical "tail' that goes out to 6 degrees of warming or more - after earlier admitting that the models have a wide distribution of uncertainty. So for one thing this tail is driven by large uncertainty in the models. The worse the models are, the higher the temperatures will be on this tail. Furthermore he ignores the tail on the other side of the distribution which has little temperature gain, or maybe even a temperature drop. This tail will be as likely as the tail that he focused on. He seems to have a one sided view of statistics.
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  329. It would be cool if you could one day cover some of the '70's and 80's TVRs.
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  330. "It's got a recirculating ball steering system! That's what used in pick-up trucks" ... and most Mercedes Benzes.
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  331. It sure looks like the General Lee was running a limited slip diff, thus the never-ending push through the corners.
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  332. OHHHHH! My favorite Ferrari (excepting maybe a 330 GTS and GTC). The Ferraris of that era aren't as "in your face" as the later V12's with their long noses and short rear-end, but much cleaner and svelter looking, and with more brawn than the earlier 250s. Just my $0.02. Not that I can afford any of them... :-(
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  333. Curiously -- this seemed to be very much the environment the 250SL was designed for. Even in 1967, I'm sure that it would cruise on a Autobahn at 100 plus for as long as the fuel would hold out. But Germany also has a lot of roads similar to what you were driving on at around 12:45.between the separate towns.. The 50 kph village speed limits would be cancelled and you could open the car up and be driving through forest or fields for about 3-10 miles until you came to the next town when you'd clamp on the brakes to slow down to 50 koh again. In the US they might be called "state roads". In those days (and even today) there is more to driving in Germany than Autobahns. The Mercedes SL would have been king of that environment.
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  334. As you aluded to, sometimes it is hard to tell what comes first - the issue or the awareness. Alinsky summarized this well in his rule #13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Once something is identified or named, suddenly you see it everywhere. Psychological snd socialogical disciplines have in the last 100 years started to identify countless phenomena, which are documented and named in order to justify some PhD's budget. Once the resulting paper is published, this newly identified phenomenon begins to appear under everyone's bed and in every closet. The new prevelence demands action be taken, and soon an industry pops up to support the market demands. Wash, rinse, repeat. As long as our society keeps chasing its tail this way, it will pertibate its resources away. The only real solution is to return to basics. 1) start by being humble. Recognize that we are small beings in a vast universe. We know little and can affect less. 2) We are here with others. Take the time to look around and invest some time and emotional commitment to those around you. Helping and genuinely caring about others is a wonderfully effective to improve your own mental health and well-being.
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  335. Yes, leave it to our experts to decide that because of incidental leakage during the manufacturing process, an entire family of useful products (HFC's) need to be banned. Wouldn't it just be easier and cheaper to develop technologies to reduce or reclaim that leaked material? Chasing these diminishing gains at all costs is a philosophy which will destroy human kind. If that is going to be the case, I propose that we start with the law writers first.
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  336. Yes, I'm still waiting for History Buff's to do 2022's "All Quiet on the Western Front", although I suspect that it may too easy of a target.
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  337. Looks really nicely done! But I think it would sound better if you removed the air filter cover. 😉 That being said -- a car with better performance specs is not always a better car. By rights a 2020 Porsche 911 GTS outperforms my :69 2.0E. But would I love it more? Does it involve me more in the drive? When I drive it, will I still feel the connection back to Stommelen? Mitter? Will I hear the connection to the 917? Not so much. The same is potentially true with the 308 GTE. Choose wisely.
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  338. Imteresting, but as you said -- a long way from being a product. Femtosecond lasers are commonly available btw. Before we'll see them on the shelves, they'll need to answer such questions as $/bit? Access time? Are these merely readable, or can they be overwritten? How long is the shelf-life?
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  339. I wonder what the signal to noise ratio is when you're trying to make a model that predicts way out in the tail of the distribution?
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  340. In many respects, it's a Japanese interpretation of an Escort Cosworth. Even to the degree that a version of the engine ultimately ended up replacing the Cosworth BDD in Formula Atlantic racing.
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  341. It's often forgotten that before WWI, Germany had the pre-eminent chemical industry in the world, and most likely the largest number Nobel prize winners in the field. This allowed them to develop such things as artificial indigo (which helped to create the famous Feldgrau color), fertilizers (which also led to large scale production of chlorine gas) and other many other chemicals which had important industrial and military uses. I suspect that this also influenced their propellants.
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  342. Unfortunately by the time that I got to the video, Slim's voice was exorcised, apparently for some copywrite reason. Given that I assume the recording was made in the '40s, and General Slim died over 60 years ago, I find it curious that anyone is claiming a copywrite of the recording. Especially so for a person who has been largely forgotten, and deserves to be remembered.
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  343. The more we learn, the more we learn about new things to be afraid of, which weren't issues before we learned about them!
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  344. I find it fascinating that the idea of adding New England style pumpkin pie spices to coffee (a nod to Dunkin' Donuts) has gone around the world. It's interesting to see what people of other backgrounds think of it.
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  345.  @tykeorama9898  Apparently he did care. This is why he carefully cultivated the image of tough-talking soldier who could swear a blue streak. It wasn't actually what his personality was like growing up.
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  346. At 10:15 "The FB2 featured... a tougher metal framed canopy...". I'm sure to better withstand any impacts with the pilot's helmet. 🙄
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  347. Rick says that Moon was "playing time". Maybe for Keith Moon that was "playing time", but Keith Moon never just "played time". If you listen closely or watch him on videos he's throwing away all sorts of little grace notes and ghost notes which you can hardly hear on the recording, often supporting melody as only he can. It was against his nature to "just play time".
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  348.  @alphatrion100  True! My family used to have a couple of those. I definitely have fond memories of them.
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  349. You cover 3 Miatas, and skip the 323 GTX!!!!
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  350. The same with the German M1915 Bluse shown in various pictures, which would have been a shade of Feldgrau. The colorization of the pictures is a great touch when done well, but a distraction when done poorly (like when there are incongruous pink or yellow smeared across the image.)
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  351. Is it me, or does the top of the dash really reflect a lot up on the windshield?
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  352. ​@Armando Mercado Not Hollywood though. That was London.
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  353.  @laincoubert7236  I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not sure what defamation has to do with the 1st amendment. The 1st amendment limits government's ability to restrain a person's speech -- as I describe above, that is called a criminal offense. The 1st amendment is silent regarding disputes between two citizens in which they loudly and rudely insult and publicly make claims against each other. Defamation is a civil affair to be settled by the parties privately between themselves, or in the worst case via civil court.
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  354. If only lawyers had scientists to enlighten their work!
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  355. Hess and Goering look decidedly uncomfortable next to each other during the closing credits. I wonder what the first reactions of the other Nazis were when they saw Hess.
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  356. Kilowatt to Kilowatt, an EV is no more efficient than a combustion engine. Aside from oil in changes, the big difference in the running costs is that the government is not taxing electricity at ~25% as they do gas or (sometimes more) diesel fuel. Historically politicians have hesitated taxing they way people heat their homes. When gas tax revenues fade with the rise of EV's -- how long do you think that this will continue? When some claim that EVs are "emissions free", this is false. All that you are doing is transferring your emissions to your local power utility. Unless they are nuke, they are emitting emissions. Wind and solar are not widespread enough to count for much. Still a nice car though.
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  357. I'm not a philosopher (but a fan of Sebine and this channel), but her discussion of outcomes being determined by initial conditions seems to gloss over some awkward cases: first is the Universe:s existence, which is in spite of no initial conditions. Also those of us puzzling (or arguing) over this subject are doing so in spite of the fact there these derivative equations could not have predicted our existence, and the complex information captured in our DNA that didn't exist previously, that allows us to be arguing this point. So I kind of see free will intertwined with creativity, and by extension creation. The fact that we can be creative, to me suggests that we have free will, since creativity implies chosing a future for ourselves, or for the materials that we are using that was not predicted previously. To argue that derivative equations predicted this outcome seems to me to be just presuming some sort of reversion to a mean or underlying trend. In so much as these trends exist, then derivatives can help us to spot them within the noisy data. But such calculations will never predict the next 'new thing". Without free will, there is no creativity. Without creativity, I don't see how (technologically/philosophically/theologically) we could be having this discussion. We'd all be inert rocks, merely existing next to each other, if even that.
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  358. At 48:00 minutes the talking head said "...the cord was cut and the Germans sank back into Tribalism, Lawlessness and barbarianism". Ach! As if the Romans with their games and crucifixions would prove to be the height of civilization. The Germans had laws - for example the concept of individual freedom, and the leaders being temporary public servants as opposed to overlords appears in the Lex Saxonous and the Lex Frisionous in Charlemagne's time. In many cases it was German Goths of some type or another) who brought about the fall of the Roman Empire. The English culture as we know it would not exist if the German Angles, Saxons, Jutes and others had not stepped in to help protect the helpless Britains hold back the Picts. Charlemagne was a German (Specifically a Frank) who did more to define a unified Europe as anyone. And to accuse the Germans of "slipping back into Barbarianism" is circular logic at its best too - and almost funny when delivered in pretensious, weighty tones as the conclusion of an otherwise excellent documentary. A great example of style over content.
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  359. @tedvga  Not really. It's well documented that electric cars don't pay-off (carbon wise) until ~100k miles have been put on the vehicle. A conversion is no different than a new car in that regard.
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  360. But don't worry. Germany's socialized healthcare system is a model for the world and what many over here in the US are telling us we should adopt.
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  361. @hatsross1295 I wonder how those ratings are calculated. For those who live elsewhere in the world and need sophisticated, top tier medical procedures -- they don't go to Canada, the UK, Germany. or any of those 40 countries. They vote with their feet -- and make sure that they get to the US.
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  362. @jannikheidemann3805  I'm not sure that there is much overt Management available at the high school level, but intro psychology, stats and shop classes would provide a basis for understanding people, how to make stuff and the basics of SPC. Those 3 classes would go a long way to laying the fiundations.
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  363. @topherthe11th23  Sure. Understanding how people think is important when working on the "business" side of the industry.
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  364. Having just rebuilt a 901 -- yes, 1st gear is synchronized, but only in one direction. I don't think that it's synchronized when downshifting. Only when going into gear from a standstill.
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  365. In the first section, you don't mention this, but I love how the moods of the chords change in synch with the lyrics. So at 10:52, it starts nostalgic, the cross-hand portion almost an echo, and then at 11:00 it changes to more jarring augmented chords before at 11:18 settling into moody minor chords and then the blues turn-around, while the lyrics describe the end of his happy life, regret at his action and the foreboding of the ramifications of his actions. Perfectly coordinated with the lyrics as you would find in a romantic style opera. Just the observation of a former drummer.
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  366. The thing that is nagging at me about this presentation is the jump at about 3:50 to using grossly simplified model as an analogy for making long-term predictions about chaotic (weather) systems. She/you are basically saying that by tracking a single variable, that although it is chaotic, it is predictable. But the reality is that weather is a very complex system, with many interrelated and chaotic variables. Weather (including rainfall, temperature, etc.) is dependent on many chaotic inputs -- which I suspect pushes us into an extension of a "three body problem" which has been proven to be chaotic and unpredictable at all scales. Temperature for example is dependent on CO2 levels, but also solar energy input (sunspots), the earth's rotational axis, volcanos, vegetation levels, ocean currents, land-mass distribution, rainfall and I'm sure countless other "chaotic" inputs, many of which may be inter-related. For example, as CO2 increases, plants are happier and grow faster, which converts more CO2 back to O2 via photosynthesis. I don't see how this grossly simplified model that you describes supports in any way a scientist's prediction for rainfall in 2079 since rainfall is dependent on many of the same chaotic variables that I mentioned above.
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  367. Growing up in the US, I only saw or heard about A310's when I went to Europe. The first time that I saw an A310 on a Paris street, I was stunned! Why had I never heard of, or seen this car?! I scoured the new stands in Europe looking for reviews. I agree they do look so cool compared to the 911's "Beetle on steroids" look (disclaimer: I'm a long-time 911 owner!). But to answer the question at the top of the video -- the 911 sold better because it was a Porsche, and all that this entailed. 1) Porsches were raced everywhere, every weekend. Alpines and Renault's? Eh! 2) Porsche was selling half of their cars in the US alone. Renault and Alpine in the 80's? Virtually none were sent to the US. 3) by 1980, Porsche had spent about 15 years honing the 911 and it's engine. Renault released the A310 in (cough) 4-cylinder form, and then plunked in the anemic V6. After that they walked away while Porsche continued with the 3.2, the 964 and then the 993. If Renault/Alpine had been as obsessive about their A310 as Porsche was with the 911, it would still be around! Instead they acted like they didn't care, and so neither did the rest of the world. But what could have been!
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  368. The point that you make at 1:25 poses a significant obstacle to what I'd describe as the "anti-JudeoChristians" who argue that there is no reason for the existence of a creator, and that our entire universe can exist or be explained strictly by random or uncontrolled circumstances. The sheer amount of information existing in our universe (as the example of a single cell shows) is unexplainable by probability, and the time needed to achieve the order that we see around us. Specifically as opposed to the amount of time that our calculations show has occurred so far -13.772 billion years. Yes, 13.772 billion years is a huge number to human comprehension, but is still off by orders of magnitude from the time needed randomly order our existence (and the required information) into what we actually see. It brings to mind Deuteronomy 4:32: "Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?". That observation was written about 2700 years ago, and still seems to be true today.
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  369.  @TedwardDrives  yeah. Responded while I was listening....
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  370. I always find it interesting seeing the different perceptions of Napoleon Bonaparte. In France he is held in incredibly high esteem, similar to say George Washington in the US. In other countries in continental Europe, his reputation is more akin to Hiitler's.
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  371. The Subaru sounds awesome, dare I say - just like a Porsche Cayman! 😉
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  372. Regarding the interior, with all of the technology in the car, I'm surprised that it doesn't include a heads-up display. Instead you often have to remove your eyes from the road and search for information on the big center screen. Basic navigation, speed and range information should appear on the windshield in front of the driver. Lots of other car companies have the technology and it is far safer than having your attention diverted to the center screen.
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  373. I guess it's a sign of the times when a combined 20 mpg is "shocking". Some of us remember cars which shamelessly delivered mileage in the low teens.
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  374. Your best parody yet!!! Absolutely nailed it!
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  375. Watching the boost gauge while you were driving -- it was easy. Keep the engine above 3500 rpm, and you'll have almost no lag. But with those long gears, you've got to rev it to redline in order to keep it above 3500 RPM when shifting gears.
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  376. I was also driving around in the Boston Metro-North area this weekend and our roads are currently covered in salt, as you can see. Never the less, I still saw a couple of 992's out and about (but not Tedward in the 993RS). I cringed at the thought of all of the aluminum oxidizing in the bolt holes. I'm sure that the 993RS got a nice warm bath when it returned to the Bond Group.
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  377. The "Dieselgate Scandal" image at 21:22 is a bit of a farce. Diesel cars (VW and others) do not smoke like that, and haven't for generations. In fact the exhaust pipe of my diesel is cleaner than the exhaust pipes of my gasoline vehicles. If you than add in the proportion of cars which were or are diesel, it's clear that the amount of pollutants that we're discussing from the offending vehicles is hardly a blip on the pollution charts, which by the way have been improving by leaps and bounds in spite of VW's diesel-gate scandal. You could remove all diesel cars from the roads and not make a measurable impact on the pollution charts. The news inches (the pollution generated creating them) far outweighed any reduction in NOx levels by killing off VW's diesels. BTW, diesel cars produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline vehicles since they burn less carbon.
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  378. Any special exceptions or rights granted to CARB should be revoked. There is no reason that unelected bureaucrats in one state should have the power to define regulations which effect the whole country.
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  379. Was I the only person who cringed when the narrator pronounced Stuck's name as "Hans Jorchan"?
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  380. One glaring error I suspect others have mentioned -- but just in case -- at about 21:00 B17s do not have a single long nacelle on each wing. (Although B26s did!) B17s have 2 short nacelles on each wing, one per engine.. Someone in the Midway CGI department should be sent back to aircraft spotters class for more silhouette training!
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  381. Yeah. To me it looks like a fiberglass Testa Rossa body kit hung on a 308. That being said, the monocoque chassis is a big improvement. But I seem to remember that Ferrari was trying to move the V8 cars up-market bit, and so consciously used the 512 TR "styling cues". I don't know -- maybe teenage boys were buying more Testa Rosa posters than 328 posters. Anyhow, it seems to me that Ferrari than spent the next 20 years trying to return the V8 cars back to the delicate lines of the 308 series.
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  382. One of these two people has not read the budget....
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  383. Listening to it, I had a flashback to the ITB (SCCA Improved Touring B)) race car that I used to have.
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  384. While they were making propoganda films about the process in WWII, it was actually an industrial secret in WWI. The process is called "progressive stamping", and in WWI nobody but the Germans knew how to do it. This is why the British (and American) helemts were so flat, and the French Ariens helmet cracked and was known for not proving a lot of protection from shell fragments. The Allies learned the secret after Germany lost WWI, which resulted in the design and production of the deep American helmets in WWII. All in all, a little known fact about WWI. BTW, the technology is still used for producing many of our complex stamped metal products today -- notably such deep drawn products as today's one piece food cans.
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  385. Yeah. Where I live in the Northeast US, the region has over 95% reforested in the 100 years. This is largely the result of farms leaving for the Midwest.
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  386. Your French wasn't too bad, but your German... For future reference, at 6:53 the town and university are pronounced TUBE-ing-in
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  387. I question the expectation that AI can perform critical thinking. Everything that I 've seen suggests that AI is a sophisticated information gatherer, which is essentially regurgitating conventional wisdom and popular opinion based on what it was fed for training materials. You highlighted recently how it couldn't explain how it performs math. AI is a long way from critical thinking.
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  388. I'm not sure if you really answered the question that you started with Sabine. Given the entropy of the universe, I get how their can be eddies of lower entropy (galaxies, stars, planets, etc.) which over time will decay down to fewer microstates. But Humans seem to stand uniquely in opposition to this (at least in the short term). Somehow, in spite of the entropy in our solar system, life formed on earth, which was managed and controlled by about 6331 proteins. Somehow, the random and chaotic order of these 6331 proteins arranged themselves correctly to initiate the process which produces hemoglobin. As improbable as this sounds, it happened over and over again, and eventually we went from this improbable microstate to one where there are now 3.2 billion base pairs arranged in such a way as to repeatedly produce humans -- how probable was this micro-state over a billion years ago when those first genes were producing hemoglobin. As improbable as humans are, consider the Australian Lungfish, which has 43 billion base pairs. What were the chances of this microstate occurring? How about of both Humans and Lungfish occurring at the same time? I find these statistics very daunting when people argue that we exist due natural, random processes. If this was the case -- where is everybody??? Thankfully, our 3.2 billion base pairs somehow arranged themselves into a Sabine Hossenfelder, who seems to be uniquely equipped on the internet to present science in a language that others can understand. This should be my mic-drop moment, but instead I'll tip my hat to Sabine for all that she does to raise the quality of the discussion of science.
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  389. Congratulations and enjoy the drive in your M5!
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  390. I feel your pain Sabine, and respect your opinions. But many of these discussions are just getting out of hand as far as the fear mongering. If it's any consolation, let's start with the basics: in the long run we're all dead. Let's just deal with the stuff that we can deal with today -- love one another, help each other out. Don't lie, murder, steal or take what (or who) isn't yours. Now scientists and "learned people" since at least Thomas Malthus have been predicting the end of civilization for about 250 years. He's been wrong every one of them. We're still here and doing better than ever. People adapt and adjust. They work together and invent solutions. We always have since the dawn of time. Ironically it's when people try to reorganize free society to put themselves in charge so that they can lead us to the only safe future that things go wrong. Inevitably they get ahead by selling a fearful future and creating anxiety. History inevitably shows that they didn't know the future, they were just greedy to get their hands on other people and their stuff. Take a moment, hug your kids and be happy that you've been given today to spend with them. None of us knows what tomorrow will bring. Life is too short to be angry all of the time. Let's use the brains that we've been given and rationally look at facts. This whole idea of "climate consensus" and "aggregating competing models" is hogwash. You've said so much yourself. If this model that you describe is better than the rest, let's discard the rest to start with. Then let's let the great minds get to work on testing or disproving this new model until it's either broken or improved. In the meantime the rest of us will read the papers, stick our hands out to determine if it's raining, and put-on or take-off a coat if today will be warmer or cooler than yesterday.
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  391. Very well presented. Not being Jewish, I really had never delved into the Talmud and it's contents, but now I have a better understanding of what it's about. Thank-you. As far as "Yeshu the Nazarene", even the Christian Creeds say of Jesus that "he descended into hell" (Apostle's Creed), "he died and was buried" (Nicene Creed) and finally "Who suffered for our salvation; descended into hell" (Athanasian Creed). As far as the torments of Hell, that is left up to the Christian's imagination, but while being a bit needlessly explicit, I don't see the Talmud necessarily contradicting what Christians profess to believe.
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  392. "It's a killer groove" and Bootsy Collins. Aren't those two nearly synonymous?
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  393. It's funny how sometimes the Western Allies forget that there was an Eastern Front in WWI, and it was also fought very much like this. Maybe even more so than the Western Front which was mentioned since there was still maneuvering space on the Eastern front in 1915 -1917. The large distances prevented a single connected trench system from being constructed. Instead, there were positions very much like these scattered across the battlefield. This is the 3rd time that the Ukraine has had to endure this suffering in the last 110 years.
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  394.  @username8644  True. Heel&toeing at mild levels of braking (as usually seen on the street) doesn't often work very well and is kind of pointless, especially since often braking is to a complete stop at stop lights and stop signs.
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  395. Excellent job pulling this story all together. I don't know about anyone else, but for a long time I was confused at who was who when looking at the diorama presentation of the battle. Any chance of putting an British flag near the British fleet, and a German flag near the German fleet so that it's easier to understand the dynamics of the placements of the ships? I really like how you pulled together first-person accounts from both sides and presented them in multiple voices, it shows how much of a two-way dance such an engagement is rather than a one-sided exercise as is commonly presented in many histories. I can't wait to see part 2!
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  396. The images of WWII German paratroopers while discussing a soldier who fought in the Korean War is a bit incongruous. I like the rest of your content though.
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  397. Diesel-gate: When California's (unelected) CARB finally figured out how to take over control of the world's auto industry. The secret? Increase emissions standards in increments of 90% reductions in California, which will trigger other states in the US to follow suit who have tied themselves to CARB's standards, which will then trigger the EPA to follow, and then the rest of the world. Eventually auto makers won't be able to keep up, and somebody will try to cheat to maintain their market. When they do -- drag them into court and sue the pants off of them. It has been the most successful bloodless coup in history. And by the way, the elimination of diesel cars has not changed air pollution in any measurable way. Now that they succeeded in killing off diesel cars, they are using the same approach on internal-combustion cars in general. It's just a question of time before they find someone cheating their arbitrarily stringent standards. I wonder if Jason should do a piece on CARB, who they are and how they got their jobs, and the impact that they have on consumers' choice of automotive products.
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  398. Yeah, he has this "Invasion" strawman which he flogs relentlessly! Meanwhile ignoring the historical record which says the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians were invited to Britain.
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  399. @pierluigidipietro8097  True. But the news services won't read 57 pages. The fact that it made it into the news is mission accomplished. The 57 pages are intended to impress the science news reporter, not a peer review board.
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  400. Watching the video, my first thought was "Do they have to pull the engine to change the air filter?"
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  401. I think that the series "Vikings" did it well. When all of the people in the scene were speaking the same language, they spoke English with an "accent". But when characters met who spoke different languages, the producers tried hard to portray the languages as they were (with subtitles) so that we could hear the differences (as well as the dissonance of a foreign tongue). By the way, a detail that people forget or aren't aware of is that as you go back in time, languages get closer -- certainly within the Indo-European family. So while modern day English, German and Danish (for example) are not mutually intelligible, if you go back 1200 years, they were much closer together, and the possibility for cross-communication between an Anglo-Saxon, a Continental Saxon and a Viking became much more of a possibility.
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  402. The situation described at 3:15 exemplifies what often happens when a disruptive technology is introduced. While there may have been a bit of spin involved, I don't think that Google was gaslighting everyone on the comparison. Instead, often just the mere introduction of a disruptive technology can highlight areas for improvements in the incumbent technology. I suspect the Chinese scientists went back to understand how the Quantum computer was able to compute faster, and then took these ideas as guidance on how to improve a traditional computer and software. Voila! They are able to shrink the gap to quantum computing. Other examples of this technological phenomenon are the improvements in the efficiency of internal combustion cars after the advent of electric cars, and the improvement in the performance of passive suspensioned F1 cars after the introduction, and then banning of computer controlled active suspension F1 cars.
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  403. Interestingly -- or maybe frustratingly -- Moses (Moshe) means something relevant to the story of the Exodus in both Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Hebrew. Moses's sister's name (Mariam) has the same feature. In Hebrew it literally means "Rebellion", but in Egyptian "mr" (love) or "mry" (Beloved) + "amon" = "beloved of Amon".
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  404. The first time that I saw pictures of it, I thought "Oh! It's a Mitchell". Nope!
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  405. Demand, I'd like to introduce you to Supply. Also, none of the Porsches of this era were galvonized. That started in 1974, just after the 914 went out of production. So a lot rusted out after being used as daily drivers when new. The more expensive 911s were often garaged by owners.
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  406. Yes, apparently he was quite the self-promoter!
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  407. Where to begin? I'll start with the observation that this clip has little to do with science (except maybe psychology) and everything to do with Bill Gates projecting how good and smart he is (virtue signalling). The idea of someone who became filthy rich by producing energy consuming products, telling me and others like me how to emit less carbon would be laughable if it wasn't so self involved. As far as the projection of his virtue, I've learned way too much about Gates' life to ever consuder him a role model. I'd much rather that he enjoy his wealth descretely and stop insisting on inserting himself into my life.
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  408. Indirectly true -- but most likely not the way that you think. Throughout the life of the Porsche 356, Porsche had the bodies made by a few firms, and then shipped in to Zuffenhausen to be finished. The companies were Reutter (Wilhelm Reutter as Stuttgarter Carosserie und Radfabrik), Karmann and occasionally Abarth. Being independant companies, they did business with Porsche, and also other makers like VW, Opel, etc. Reutter also patented a reclining seat mechanism. By the time that 1963 rolled around Porsche was doing so much business with Reutter (and vice versa) that Porsche bought the coach-building factory, which than became a captive body shop for Porsche. But the original owners of Reutter kept the seating portion of the business which became Recaro (REutter-CAROsserie).
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  409. @timothyrussell4445  You didn't read what I wrote. I merely stated that it is impossible to distinguish an unproveable truth from a falsehood. Until that distinction can be made, they are equally (ir)relevant to the discussion. Proveable truths, on the other hand, are very important because they can be validated, and their consistent nature allow logical, repeatable conclusions to be drawn, and useful actions taken.
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  410. Between cyber-currancy mining and AI, I think it is safe to say that never before have so much energy and resources been spent to produce so little of value.
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  411. "These (gearboxes) are notoriously finicky, but I actually prefer them..." That pretty well sums up Jack! ;-)
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  412. As far as the color spectrum of LED bulbs, people seem to be voting with their wallets when they buy "daylight" LED bulbs. Certainly educating them of the risks could be helpful, but another round of scolding will most likely not be received well. I appreciate all of the papers showing correlation, but as we are often reminded, correlation is not causation. I think more papers are most likely needed to understand the mechanisms by which "light pollution" causes the claimed health issues.
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  413. I think that the fundamental problem is that to date, Lotus has been "bringing a knife to a gunfight" in the business of selling cars. By way of explanation, let me first point people to the semiconductor industry where people may know some of the the big names like Intel, Analog Devices, Qualcom, Apple and so on. Do these companies make the best products? Not necessarily -- but they do have a constant stream of products coming out so that if one is a dog, another one will be out next month, and another next quarter. Yes. Software companies work the same way. So the secret is not being able to come up with the best product, but to be able create a process for developing successful products over and over again, and managing that product line. Moving back to the automotive world -- 26 years ago Porsche was a company with one and a half products -- They had the 911(993) and the placeholder 968. Really not much better that Lotus today. But when Wendelin Wiedekin took over, Porsche started to take an modern view of product management. It's not about coming out with a hit product, but having a managed pipeline of products stretching into the future. First Porsche took the clever approach of developing the 986/996 together to share development costs. They staggered the release dates and set each on a 3 and ~6 year cycle. While everyone complained that the Boxster/Cayman products were being held back, they missed the point that the goal isn't to build the perfect car, but a platform onto which could be hung improvements which would be released on a regular cycle. Meanwhile the 911 had the same thing happening on it's product line. While neither car was perfect, they sold a lot of them which generated revenue to develop new models. More importantly they continuously keep getting closer to perfection. If you don't like this year's model, wait until you see the next update! This way when Porsche misses the mark a bit (no-manual transmissions, 4-cylinder turbos, etc) it's not the end of the world. They just assess their options and fix the issue on one of the future releases. It gave them options. Recognizing the electric writing on the wall, they made the 4-cylinder turbos so that they could fit a hybrid motor into the existing space. Now they have the best of both worlds with the entry level 4-cylinders ready to go hybrid and they can now charge extra for the 6-cylinder motor in the GTS/GT4 line. On top of this you can layer the support that they provide to the Porsche owners clubs, the new product line for legacy parts, Porsche corrals at motorsports events, clothing and accessories and so on, and you wind up product development juggernaut that is Porsche today. This is how Lotus needs to be thinking about their upcoming products while they still have time.
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  414. It's sad when people present cars for video review which aren't sorted out.
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  415. In all of these years I never quite figured out how the US PT boats fired their torpedoes. With the German and English craft, it was obvious based on how the tubes were angled or projected over/through the hull that the torpedo was fired out of the tube. As Drach mentioned, there are downsides to this approach, but it seems like the European's never changed. Just taking an air-launched torpedo, and rolling it off of the boat (far less disruptive than it's normal mode of launch) was a supremely elegant solution! I just took it for granted that the torpedoes were lined up along the gunnel, and somehow made it into the water. I never understood it until just now!
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  416. You make the assumption that "Capitalists" are a few super-rich people, as Marx always imagined them. The fact of the matter is that we're all capitalist. Anyone with a retirement account, (in the US) a 401K or an IRA, or even people who are invested in pension funds are capitalists. Also Capitalists depend on people willingly buying their products. If there are no customers, then there will be no capitalists. You also tend the make the traditional Marxist assumption that absolutely everything depends on workers getting paid, but you ignore the impact of price reductions for the goods that everyone consumes. In the end, people don't get paid because they "deserve" a job, but because they earned a job. Value is created by what people contribute. Things which are created at little or no cost end up having little or no value. Does anyone think twice about how they acquire or use a toothpick? If AI can manufacture widgets cheaper than any other method, then the marginal costs (and prices) of widgets will plummet and they will become ubiquitous, if not valueless. This is why just printing money doesn't help people, it just devalues the money (aka: Inflation). A "Universal Basic Income" is the same as printing money and giving it people. The more money you give out, the less value the money has. So the value of that money when you exchange for a good goes down, meaning you have to spend more money for the same good. Inflation! The solution will remain the same as it always has: find a job where you can contribute, save your money and invest it wisely. You'll be OK. And by the way, take Sam Altman's (and other "Thought Leaders") musings as a grain of salt. They are opinions. Everyone has them. Kind of like (fill in your favorite body part). They take no effort to create, and they are ubiquitous, so economically speaking they have little marginal value.
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  417. While I appreciate the Tesla company's innovation, as an American taxpayer I deeply resent how money was extorted from me as taxes and than granted to Tesla buyers as credits which offset the purchase price of a Tesla. Not to mention now that Tesla buyers are no longer eligible for said credits, Tesla has lobbied to have the credit revoked. This further rubs salt into the wound. In addition, in the US, Tesla owners are also able to take advantage of the fact that electricity isn't taxed anywhere near as heavily as over-the-road fuels like gas and diesel -- for which about a quarter of the purchase price is taxes. I suspect that this is a legacy of it being political suicide to advocate taxing the means that people use heat their homes. Chances are this will be normalized once electric cars take a noticeable bite out of the revenues generated by gas and diesel taxes. Than we can all pay higher electricity taxes. But I digress. Tesla would have earned far more of my respect if they had been able to achieve their innovations based on the willful capital investments by enlightened investors.
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  418. You always do a very thorough job, but I've found an option that you didn't mention which works very well. This is especially true for engines, many of which have parts made of are iron, steel or aluminum -- and thus susceptible to oxidation with many cleaners. My car has a lot of aluminum and magnesium pieces -- which are both prone to oxidation. The solution that I found which works best is denatured mineral spirits. In addition to not oxidizing engine parts, it also tends to float the grime off of engines. I've found that many cleaners do dissolve the oil, but often leave the dirt behind in the form of a crusty, concrete type scale which can be difficult to remove. The mineral spirits on the other hand tends to rinse the dirt off with the oil. Maybe an option for a future test.
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  419. Number27 it's a "hot rod", just like a lot of 911's. But I watched the video expecting to see something on a real ST (which I know they they've worked on, and published information on before). It's kind of like me wearing a blond wig, and calling myself Madonna. I may be a great person, but I'm not Madonna,! But as I said before, a beautifully executed hot rod.
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  420. Speaking of Climate Change, I'm curious why nobody seems to discuss the impact of the oceans on temperatures. Given that 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water it would seem to have a vastly bigger impact on temperatures than a few percentage points of CO2. You can experience this by watching the difference in temperature from the sea coast to just 40 miles inland. Here in New England the difference can be as much as 10 degrees F. That got me thinking -- the mass of the water in the Earth's oceans is about ~1.37 x 10^21 kg versus the mass of the Earth's atmosphere (~5.148 x 10^18 kg), and the fact that the thermal capacity of water is 4200 Joules per kg per degree C (versus air, which has a capacity 700 Joules per kg per degree C). My point is that it seems that the ocean temperatures have a massively bigger impact on the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere than vice versa. It's not even close! The mass of the oceans is about 266 times greater than the mass of the atmosphere, and the thermal capacity to make a change of 1 degree C is also 6 times greater. So back-of-an-envelope calculations suggest that the oceans have 1500x the impact on the Earth's temperature than air does. Conversely, you could increase the atmosphere's temperature by 2 degrees, and the Earths oceans could absorb it and the change would hardly be measurable. Obsessing over a couple of percentage points of CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't make sense.
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  421. When churches are endorsed by the state, citizens don't feel the need support the church. The result is an apathy toward religion by people. Why be involved if the state will do it? This is an unexpected (to many people) benefit of the separation of church and state.
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  422. In the past, I've looked at a number of WWI battles and found the same thing that that Lundgren and Sposato described. Often -- when I matched up the competing accounts from both sides, it became apparent that the battle didn't necessarily unfold the way the conventional wisdom describes. Given the number of sacred cows involved, people often bristle at resulting changes in the narrative. This is an approach that is surprisingly lacking in much of contemporary history publishing. Good Work Misters Lundgren and Sposato!
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  423. What vehicle would I bring out to Nantucket or the Vineyard? A bike!
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  424. At 5:26 she said that she's in pain. Of course she is! she's not wearing any safety glasses! She's most likely got some debris that flew off the drill into her eyes!
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  425. Yeah, Frankish (or more specifically Low Franconian) was a Germanic language/dialect.
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  426. Watching and listening to this video reminds me of looking over the bus driver's shoulder in a Thomas school bus as a kid!
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  427. Maybe one day you could test a "wedge" or earlier TVR. There is relatively little on them on YouTube.
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  428. ...also the sideways comment lumping Christians in with "Flat Earthers" is uncalled for in the absence of any data showing a correlation. There are many established scientists, engineers and others who understand and love science who are Christian, and also there are a lot of Christians who are scientists, engineers and others who love and use science with no qualms whatsoever. As a whole, this particular video is a little off-tone for you. Did you recently have an encounter with a Flat Earther which troubled you more than the average uninformed person?
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  429. The headlights remind me of the old "Federalized" headlights of the 1980s. (gag)
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  430. Cool! Nice to see you working down into some of the less well known, and dusty corners of nautical military crafts. I can't wait to see which obscure corner of design you'll go to next!
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  431. How would you compare it to modern small-bore options like a first-gen S2000, BRZ or later Miata?
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  432. What?! Nothing from The Offspring? BTW - Chip's face at 9:55 is priceless! Well Done!
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  433. @shanent5793  I remember when getting a computer with a 512k disk drive was something special.
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  434. If you're thinking like a "flipper", yeah - maybe you didn't make out great. But what are the alternatives? All used cars have issues! That's why they are being sold! You could have paid more for a better looking example, but what issues lurk below the surface? Reggie is now fully sorted! For the average enthusiast, it's now ready to be driven and enjoyed. Isn't that why we are here?
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  435. At 75 mph, this SEL is hardly even flexing it's legs. The car is designed to cruise an autobahn at ~110 to ~125 mph for hours, stay safely on the road, and be able to safely stop from those speeds -- all while carrying the occupants in comfort. I have an uncle in Germany who had a 280 SEL (2.8 liter straight 6 with about 185 HP), and that car would cruise all day at 115 mph. I got to drive it once and I was surprised at how competent it was on the road, in spite of not being a "Sports sedan".
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  436. 8:00 Ugh! It looks like they contracted Porsche for the design of the cup holders!
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  437. I love his Friesian-Australian accent. Truely unique!
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  438. Did you ever take the 911 anyway near it's redline? It didn't sound like it.
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  439. A well known scientist (who I respect) once pointed out that scientific theories should be valued by their utility. If a theory makes a prediction which is proven out by multiple independent observations - it is useful and retained. If a theory makes predictions that can not be proven by the same method, it should be discarded since it has no utility. The anthropological climate warming has been proclaimed as a crisis for at least 26 years. This is long enough for many of the adherant's predictions to be tested. Catastrophic increase in hurricanes on the US East coast? Nope. The elimination of the Arctic ice cap (and the resulting decimation of the polar bear population)? Nope and nope. The flooding of The Moldaves? Nope, and the real estate market there hasn't collapsed either. Has my environment (Eastern New England) shown a statistically meaningful increase in temperatures? Not according to the NOAA data (although night-time low temperatures have moderated a bit). Have the glaciers in Glacier National Park disappeared as was predicted. Nope. Has Florida or other low-lying areas been flooded? Nope, and once again real estate values (and the expected future values that are incorporated in them) do not show any signs of impending doom. So all that I can draw from these and other observations is that the utility of catastrophic warming predictions is very, very low. I'm not a denier, just an observer.
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  440. Sad to say, but it looked like the Tesla had the dumber of two driving systems engaged at that moment.
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  441. Yes, I love how the producers related imperial policies in regards to the Germanics as the same as the US's policies towards the world, pointedly forgetting about Stalin, Mao, Napoleon, etc...
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  442. Hi Matt; a long-time viewer of your channel, with good reason. You've done some great work with charting. But to paraphrase Queen Gertrude -- "The narrator doth protest too much". If you have to spend 1/3 of your video explaining to the viewer why they need to toss the bronze age bible out the window as a historical reference, you might be trying to hard too explain your own biases. For example, there is a glaring omission in the check-marks on your chart at 8:24. This omission is the bronze age Hittites. The Bible accurate describes the arc of the Hittite empire(s), including names of some of the leaders, the geography of the empire and many other things. Prior to the mid-19th century there was no -zero, none, zilch - historical attestation of the Hittites. Neither the Latin nor the Greek texts mentioned them. It was only in the Bible that they were mentioned. That is until their sites were finally excavated, and their texts translated in the late 19th and 20th century when we discovered that the biblical descriptions of the Hittites was indeed accurate. It's important to note that the biblical references were also not specifically about the Hittites, but generally mention them passing. So the biblical writers wrote about them as supporting characters. They didn't really care about the Hittites. But the names, geography and the arc of the Hittites culture matches the biblical references. This is an example of where the Bronze age history as recorded in the Bible was nuts-on , without even trying. So to dismiss the Bronze age history as recorded in the Bible out-of-hand displays a bit of modern hubris. Even if it was written in the Iron Age, those writers were 3000 years closer to the events than modern historians. So the failure of modern historians to confirm the bronze age events in the Bible does not mean that the records of the Bronze age in the Bible are failures.
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  443. at about 5:40 "All that we (non-scientists) can do is depend on the scientific authorities..." Un... no. How about learning some science if you are going to be a "leader" in a scientific cause! Science is not some black art which is left up to the scientists to interpret. Learn some science (for example how to collect and analyze data) as opposed to willfully staying ignorant.
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  444.  @alexanderhamilton8585  True about the credit, but Tesla (the company) would never have gotten to this point without that vast wealth transfer to fund them. I'm sure that your boss will be happy to hear that you don't believe in measuring things in dollars. It will make the payroll calculations much simpler if they can just zero yours out in the future. ;-)
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  445. Meh. Sounds like a Subaru! 😉 As far as the shifting, I've found that 901/911/914 gearboxes work better if you don't think of them as a H-Pattern, but rather an upside-down W-Pattern. Don't grab the lever and try to move the it up, over and up again to go from 1st to 2nd. It will frustrate you every time. Trust Porsche's engineers. When shifting from 1st to 2nd, just push your palm with an open hand forward. Let the lever find its way into 2nd. It will do it every time. 2nd to 3rd, is similar. Don't grab the lever, just pull the lever backward with your fingers loosely wrapped around the knob. You'll never miss 3rd. 4th is with the palm again, forward and away. 5th is a back-hand pull to the rear.
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  446.  @waltrohrbach2459  As I understand it, Modern Dutch comes down from the Low Frankish, which is Low Germanic dialect, and distinctly different from Frisian. "History with Hilbert" and others have some interesting videos on the subject.
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  447. IBefore filming Tedward turns the side mirror down.) What is behind me --- issa No Importance!
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  448. I don't know. This whole video seems like a mess to me. His presentation is -- shall we say. -- not strong, in content or delivery. That being said. -- Sabine when you call him out for some sort of Savior Complex, when many people on the other side suffer from the sam hubris seems a bit one sided. Personally I think that this whole subject suffers from too many people trying to "save the world" and not enough people doing solid analysis -- at least that show up in the high level IPCC reports (as I believe you hhave pointed out in the past.).
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  449. Yup. Still waiting for aliens to discover life in our solar system!
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  450. I'm no expert on AI (although disclaimer - I did do an undergrad concentration in MIS), and what I've seen so far is that "AI" seems to be more of an automated conventional wisdom tool than any sort of intelligence. To me, intelligence is the ability to look at something (data, situations, an empty canvas) and see something that jumps some levels of abstraction and creates something new of value. "AI" doesn't do that any more than TicTok can make you smarter. Here we disagree Sabine, because to me Human intelligence is more than a series of cchemical reactions in our brains. Somehow these reactions have created unexpected artwork, funny moments and countless other unpredictable improvements in our existence. But alas, as clever as we are, we are still dwarfed to insignificance by the universe we live in.
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  451. I like your summary and explanation of the differences between Judaism and Christianity. But at about 5:00 you mention that some Jews follow the law because God told them to. This statement implies a belief in God, rather than just a acceptance of the traditions. This belief in God (and the future arrival of a messiah) implies some forward expectations, as opposed to just the "here and now". Most likly a subject for a longer conversation, but I figure it was worth noting.
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  452. A flat-4 powered Porsche? Nobody will ever buy it. It sounds just like a Subaru! ;-)
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  453. Excellent documentary that you've made!  I lived through much of it and I still learned a few things -- before you even got to Apollo 13 portion.   But don't be too down on the last 50 years.  We (human-kind) did land a probe on Triton (think about that!) and send back pictures from the surface, and have taken a detailed survey of Pluto and Charon, and still had enough left over to redirect and extend the mission to 2014 MU, an object that hadn't even been discovered when New Horizons was launched.  And where are the Voyagers broadcasting from nowadays???
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  454. 39 mpg??? What'd you do to the car to get such bad mileage?!  We've got a 2012 coming up on 60,000 miles and the only time that our mileage has gotten as low as 43 mpg was when we started to use it regularly for 5 mile trips from cold.  Otherwise we're usually up in the 45-47 mpg range.  During all of those miles, we've never had a single issue with the car -- just get in and drive. Of the cars in our family, the fuel cost/mile for this car was lower than any other car in the family -- by a long shot.  This even takes into account the higher price charged for diesel fuel compared to gasoline.
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  455. Small detail, but the 908/3 was not the Flunder, the 908/2 was.  The only real similarity between the two cars was the engine, everything else was different.
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  456. +The Fast Lane Car  Thanks for the reply TFL!
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  457. +Aric Tan The only reason that gasoline costs more than electricity is because electricity is not taxed.  This is strictly a political calculation on the part of politicians -- basically to tax cars is OK, but taxing the way that people heat their homes is political suicide.  This calculation could change at any time -- wiping out your savings.  If you subtract out the taxes and look at the price per Kilowatt, you'll discover that the energy content costs about the same.
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  458. Danny Saraphine? Kenny Jones? Steve Smith? Terry Bozio? Bill Bruford? Barrimore Barlow? Michael Shrive???!
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  459. Actually the only thing that wasn't fake about the army aimed at Pas de Calais was the general -- George Patton. But that's a subject of a different movie review (hint-hint)
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  460. Why did everyone in Post War England seem to be using the BMW 328 engine? Because the engineering was free! It's known as "war reparations". According to Wikipeida: "One of the Mille Miglia 328s (disguised as a Frazer Nash) and BMW's technical plans for the car were taken from the bombed BMW factory by English representatives from the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Frazer Nash companies. Fiedler, the BMW engineer, was persuaded to come, too. Bristol Cars was set up to build complete cars, called Bristols, and would also supply engines to Frazer Nash for all their post-war cars. The first Bristol car, the 400, was heavily based on the BMW plans. This Bristol engine was also an option in AC cars, before the Cobra."
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  461. A couple of thoughts.  First the bad -- Jeep's diesel quotes virtually identical HP and Torque as the VW Touareg diesel. I wonder if you checked the emissions on the Jeep if it would be any different than the VW?  To be honest, I doubt it. Now the good (compared to the Hybrid) -- the Jeep will happily tow a significant load.  You'll never be able to tow anything substantial behind a hybrid.  If you tried to you might start off OK, but as soon as the batteries were run down the performance would drop like a stone.  I was chatting recently with powertrain design engineer from a major truck company and he confirmed that hybrids will never work when towing or hauling heavy loads.  The physics doesn't support it.
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  462. To be honest, on my Porsche, must of the stuff that I had to fix were screw-ups by the previous owner (or myself).  Once I got those dialed out, and fixed the occasional worn out part, the car has been quite reliable.  Just get in and go.  This is part of the used car experience, dealing with the lack of upkeep from the previous owners.
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  463. +Jesse Hernandez Actually you did.  About 70% of San Diego's electricity comes from natural gas and coal.  About another 15% (round numbers) from Nuclear.  The remaining was from hydro and renewables. (Source: http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electricity_resource_mix_pie_charts/)
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  464. +Jesse Hernandez The premise of an plug-in car is that it doesn't use carbon fuel -- but it does. It's a lie that it doesn't. It just does it out of sight from the owner/driver.  You've passed the pollution that would have been created moving you over to the coal or oil-fuel generator that created the electricity.  You can claim it's cheaper, but it's only cheaper because it's not taxed at the same rate per kilowatt as gasoline at a service station. In fact electricity is generally not taxed at all.  If it was, electric cars wouldn't be a whole lot more economical then a lot of carbon fueled cars.  Maybe it makes you feel better to believe the fantasy of carbonless electric car -- but it's still a fantasy.
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  465. +Philip Davis Personally I resent having my taxes subsidize your car.
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  466. Get a 911. The kids (car-seat or not) can fit in the back until at least the age of 10.
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  467. I like the series. The music during the track portions is completely gratuitous, especially when you're dealing with engines that sound as nice as a Porsche's.  It would be interesting to get a 3.4 liter Boxster to compare to the 911.  Conventional wisdom is that mid-engine is ideal and rear engine is just wrong (thanks to Ralph Nader). But as Paul points out, there are some hidden benefits to the 911's rear engine location and it would be interesting to see an "all other things being equal" comparison, or at  least as close as you could get.
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  468. Alas, you repeated the false story of the BMW F1 team using used "seasoned" street blocks in their Turbo F1 engines.   As documented in "Race Car Engineering magazine August 2009, Page 62" -- Ulrich Baretzky debunked that story. Because of the rumors Paul Rosche apparently even tried it once on the dyno -- and the engine blew up before it warmed up.  I even pulled the issue off of my bookshelf to confirm it with my own eyes.
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  469. For the first time I've had to give you a "thumbs down".   I expected better from you guys, especially being "car-guys".1) In the United States there is the presumption of innocence.  You (or in this case VW) is innocent until proven guilty -- or have you forgotten?2) Have the test results claimed by the accusers (specifically some "Clean air advocates") been independently validated.3) Why are you talking about particulates?  A simple look at the exhaust pipe (and a wipe of a finger)will review that the average VW TDI is far superior to most cars when it comes to particulates.4) The accusation is about NOx.  Everyone throws around 10x to 40x.  Of what? When? 5) I have yet to see any facts about the accusation.  Under what conditions did the TDI's fail the test? (Temperature/accelerator position/load/engine speed/etc.)  6) Were the failures spikes or steady state?  Where the failures measured cumulatively, or just instantaneously?7) The standards that the EPA is enforcing -- how did they come about?  Are they based on an act of congress?  Most people don't know that the current standards are a 95% reduction in NOx since 2004. 8) Most people mention all of the VW/Audi 2.0 TDI diesels in one breath.   Actually VW has two different pollution control strategies -- the smaller cars (Golf, Beatle, Jetta) do not use Urea solutions (aka: DEF or Ad Blue), while the Passat and some of the Audis do because of the higher loads on the engines.   The DEF is specifically formulated to cause a chemical reaction that changes NOx into Nitrogen, Water and Carbon Dioxide.  Were the car(s) tested equipped with DEF? Was the system functioning as designed?Considering this who process is being managed by the EPA who caused the massive arsenic spill in your state of Colorado, I would be very cautious about taking their proclamations at face value.
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  470. +NuclearGrizzly ; Not quite.  It was what I would call a "lawyer's apology", where they appeared contrite and admitted nothing.  Similar to what Hillary has admitted to so far in regards to the classified email on her private email server.   It's the first step in a fairly standard public-relations strategy to respond to any sort threat of this sort. There is still quite a ways to go in this story.
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  471. Hey!!! Welcome to the US Metatron! We're a better place for having you here!
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  472. "Privatize their jobs" -- like outsource to Booz Allen Hamilton????! 🤣😂🤣😂 This makes me think of James Bond in "Gold Finger", asking Gold Finger "You don't think that this will make me talk", to which Gold Finger replies "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die". This government employee suggest that Musk is trying to outsource her job to the private sector. No Ms. Government Employee, we expect the job to be eliminated!
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  473. Excellent analysis. But also keep in mind that the US$ has depreciated quite a bit too.. In both cases it is because of rampant government deficit spending during and after COVID. So if you really want to understand the value of a currency, you need to compare it to a "basket of goods" . For example the price of gold, oil and some other commodities. You already compared it to the price of oil, but as you mention that also goes up and down quite a bit with supply and demand. Using the price of gold for example (in US$'s), this has gone up by almost 50% since 2019. This could just as accurately be summarized as the value of the US$ has gone down by 50% in that time. The Euro by a little more than that, the Pound Sterling went up by a little less.
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  474. I think that you dismiss Genghis Khan way too easily given his policy of sleeping with/raping so many of the Mongols' female captives that captured his eye.
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  475. As far as the F40 that was crashed on the test drive -- had the shop ever heard of a chassis dyno?
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  476. Now I understand why I couldn't understand Kendrick during the half-time show -- he was holding the mic too close to his mouth. Now I understand what that does to the sound. Bury the high-end by being too close to the mic, add some auto-tune and you have a muddy, distorted mess.
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  477.  @lartrak  Aside from the fact that you're arguing that while the average is increasing, the variance is decreasing proportionally, you missed the point of my comment. How can someone argue that we are having "Record Breaking" temperatures when at least across the US -- they haven't been breaking any records.
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  478. At 0.25, there is a clip from the front of the car rushing down the country lane with the V8 bellowing which triggered a flashback to the movie Grand Prix and a similar clip from the old Spa-Francechamps Circuit that actually went between the villages of Spa, Mallory and Francechamps.
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  479. I had one for a few years which I raced in the SCCA regionals -- inspired by the Team Highball Mazda 323s in IMSA. The car definitely punched above it's weight, but was hindered by limited wheel options (a 4.5" bolt pattern) which left me under-tire'd, and my limited budget. But a strong engine for the class, great suspension and great brakes. The only thing that beat the Highball Mazdas was the 16-valved first generation Acura Integra -- a significantly more competitive package.
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  480. Fascinating and thank-you for sharing. Congratulations for successfully tracking down the cause, although my condolences for having to remove Lebkuchen from your holiday diet. BTW - I ignored your opening disclaimers, and I'm happy that I did.
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  481. You need some box-wrenches which have integrate ratchets in the head. They are perfect for tight situations like you had. Regarding the missing nut - try checking the nnoks and crannies of the chassis too!
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  482. Just so we're talking about the same thing - for example - do a search on "GEARWRENCH 20 PC. SAE/METRIC RATCHETING COMBINATION WRENCH SET"
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  483. Outstanding! Rick -- you could start a whole new channel just analyzing movie themes! They really constitute much of the best (and most accessable) classical music written in the last 100 years. The Good,, The Bad and the Ugly, Star War!, Dune!
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  484. Forgive me if I'm repeating the obvious, but for the fuel filler, most modern cars have an indicator on the fuel gauge which tells you which side of the car the fuel filler is on. Next to the symbol for gas (usually a fuel pump icon) will be a small arrow or triangle. It will be to the right of the pump for cars with fillers on the right, and to the left of the pump for fillers on the left. By the way --- at 7:30, the use of the expression "silent killers" was very unfortunate given the recent Thanksgiving weekend's news.
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  485. There is a degree of irony with you publishing this today, after Putin's retaliatory strikes against a number of Ukrainian cities last night. Alas - history repeats itself.
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  486. If my memory is correct, the Le Mans race engine had a very un-racecar like 5000 RPM redline. This is because the FIA balanced engines' power by air restrictors. Because of the 7-liter's size, and the fact that it was competing against 4.5 liter V8's and 3.8 liter 6-cylinder engines, the rev range was severly truncated. As a result the Chevy engineers tweeked the design details and the torque curve was very diesel-like, but it did make a great noise down the Mulsanne Straight.
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  487. @georgelionon9050  If that ever goes into effect, the result would be the elimination of the individual impact of the states that signed the pact.
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  488. I wonder how much of image processing in the brain is learned over the course of a child's development? The result would be that since the image processing is in the brain's "software", that no two people's vision processing would be the same -- at least at the detail level. More of a question, definitely not a statement on my part.
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  489. Regarding the headlights, you really should apply some clear-coat lacquer over them to seal them so that they won't promptly fog over again. The fogging occurs from UV light, and covering them with a lacquer that blocks UV light really helps. Now which lacquer??? I don't have a good answer. I've seen 3D printing companies use some that goes on clear (rather than yellow) and stays that way. Unfortunately I don't know the manufacturer or brand. :-( The Project Farm YouTube channel has a very well done survey of the different products for job.
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  490. Further confirmation that 90% of the running problems on old cars are self inflicted. As far as your current problem, it still sounds like carbs. There are a bunch of tiny orifices in the idle circuits, and all that it takes is one piece of Schmutz in one of them. BTW - how old is the has in the tank?
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  491. Ah yes -- the Lada. A prime example of product development within a communist economy. A situation where there are often few of the product compared to demand and precious little development. A worker's paradise! See also: The Trabant.
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  492. Funny - it sounds vastly better then the IMSA LMGT car, which is virtually silent when it goes by on the track.
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  493.  @TedwardDrives  True - But the 911 RSRs and Corvettes didn't seem to have any issues and they are noticably louder.
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  494. A personal favorite -- the Mazda 323 (especially the GT or GTX versions).  A bit of a sleeper that actually kept Parker Johnstone and the Comptech Acuras honest in IMSA's International Sedan series in the late 80's.  https://youtu.be/TuuDoRjRhsM  For a hatchback of that era, they actually had descent brakes!
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  495. Yes, you can cool the atmosphere to save the planet by seeding the upper atmosphere with sulfur dioxide, and in the process blanket the planet in millions of plastic balloon carcasses. 🙄
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  496. I never noticed until watching this video, but the front of the car definitely has shades of Ferrari 412.
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  497.  @dlevi67  ...And you believe Melville's and Tolstoy's accounts of events more than Tolkien's based on what? So aside from a ad hominem attack on the John, did you have any other supportable points you were trying to make? Nobody is saying that you have to believe John, Putin or Zelensky when they describe certain events. At the end of the day we all have to weigh what we hear and make our own decisions.
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  498. Yes. We've been told to "trust the science" for about 30 years now. How many of the climate predictions from 30 years have actually cone true? Are the Maldives under water yet?
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  499. Alas, this problem is not unique to science. It also occurs in government, business and acadamia. The error is to assume that there is some area of human enterprise where fraud doesn't exist. There isn't. It's human nature to cheat and lie, even when we know better, and try to do better. A healthy dose of skeptism is required in all matters.
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  500. With a few exceptions, it seems that physical descriptions of people (as we think of them today) were not terribly common in literature of that time. For example I can't think of anyone in the Bible who was described physically unless it had something to with the events, for example Zacchaeus who climbed a tree to see Jesus because he was short of stature. So we don't have any Biblical descriptions for Paul, John or either of the Marys either. Although I'm nowhere near as well read in Roman and Greek texts of the time, I have a hard time thinking of any physical descriptions of people in them aside from things like "3 heads", "Snakes for hair" or things like that. I do find it interesting that the earliest images of Paul (who spent considerable time in Rome) tend to show a man with shortish hair, and with male-pattern baldness, thus a pronounced "monks cap". I wonder if there was an cultural reason for showing people with male pattern baldness, or if the inclusion of this detail might suggest that Paul actually had this fairly common feature and it was preserved in the iconography as a means for identifying him.
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  501.  @becauseiwasinverted7971  Yes.
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  502.  @becauseiwasinverted7971  Part of my point was that not all IC engines are the same. Diesels can coast with no fuel usage by the engines while Gas engines will engine brake, or else require fuel to idle while coasting. This "lift and coast" can add ~ 20-25% to a diesel's mileage based on my own experience. Gas hybrids can make much of this up compared to diesels. But like I said, $/mile, EVs are surprisingly not much cheaper than diesels or Gas-hybrids after you adjust for the substantially different tax treatment of the two sources here in the US.
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  503.  @becauseiwasinverted7971  Ah, but EV charging is like engine braking as far driving dynamics. According to your point, IC engines get 'free mileage" when coasting, while an EV will recover that mileage the next time that it pulls the car. Some EV's (Taycan for example) will allow the car to coast and not recharge until the brakes are applied, which is an efficiency that non-hybrid ICs can't match, but hybrid ICs can.
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  504.  @becauseiwasinverted7971  There are two extreme cases and compromises between the two that can be represented as a line in between. Case one: The car "coasts" with no energy reclaimed, and the coast is limited by the rolling resistance and potentially geography. Case 2: the car harvests energy from the coast, which will slow the car to a stop while charging the batteries, the charge of which is available to accelerate the car again, when the energy will be consumed. In between are any number of strategies which will play those two cases against each other. But at the end of the day there is only X Kw of motive energy in the car -- which can either be converted to heat as rolling resistance, or else back into electricity (and some heat) in the batteries, before being converted back into motion (and a little heat). Neither strategy will ever net you more than that X Kw of energy. Modern pure-IC cars can operate only in case 1. EVs and hybrid-IC engines can operate anywhere on the continuum between those 2 cases. All other factors being equal, I suspect that letting a car coast will always be more efficient than converting motion energy into electricity, and than back into motion again since the later case will incur conversion losses.
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  505.  @becauseiwasinverted7971  my point? EV's aren't magic. Hybrid-IC's can be just as effective as EV's without all of the government subsidies and transfer payments from non-EV owners.
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  506. Really Drach, tell us what you really think about the subject. Please, don't hold back!
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  507.  @gustafcederborg9744  Hey, I love Ertha Kitt too! But every female singer today doesn't need to constantly copy her style. If they want to evoke an homage to female jazz singers of the '50's and '60's, why not emulate Ella Fitzgerald, Keely Smith, Billie Holliday or Pearl Bailey? For something different, why not adapt some of Shirley Bassey's style into their repertoire?
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  508. At around 5:30 as you are talking about how they wouldn't let the 914 approach the 911, mention should be made of the 914/8. Sure -- only 2 were made but... well... wow!
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  509. Now we know why you've been away for 6 months. You've been busy documenting the entire military history of the Pacific over the first half of the 20th century! It was worth the wait. BTW I see that you've found the movie "The Battle of Port Arthur" -- it might be worth a review one day. I'd also throw in "The Sand Pebbles" and "55 Days at Peking" for future review. While speaking of obscure historical films, there is also "Quiet Flows the Don", and "Admiral" (2008).
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  510. Just came back from 4-days with a rental K5, over city, highway and even some canyon roads, but just normal driving as opposed to "canyon runs". All of the highlights she mentioned - style, interior room, interior materials and finish and safety features. All were great although I turned off most of the 'nannies'. Like most long wheelbase FWD sedans, the car understeers -- a lot. Even in sport mode it was very noticable, especially on tight turns and sweepers. Combined with the total absence of feel in the steering and it was scary. 100% of your attention was required on the highway because there were no tactile queues through the steering wheel if the steering was on center or not. On turns the steering wheel was just a pointing device with zero feel for the tire response. It was like driving an early video game. Compared to the handling of an Optima I had rented in the past, the driving experience was a big step back. Maybe if you are just going to cruise around with all of the nannies on you won't care. But if you want a nice driving car with all of the features mentioned above, I suggest test driving the competition before plunking down a down payment for a K6.
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  511. It's funny --- when he was singing Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" to himself, I was thinking Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz". 😄
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  512. As always, we need to respect the drive. We also need to not elect officials who feel it is their job to take your stuff away because --- well they just don't think you should have it.
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  513. I feel whipsawed! Yesterday I listened to your review of Gordon Lightfoot -- today Katy Perry. So aside from the fact that it's a blatant copy, and predictable -- you somehow found something that 'made the song great".
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  514. I wonder how the driving experience is. Compared to a late-60's or early-'70s car? It seems like the later cars are karded up with airbags, padding and emissions controls. I got to drive a Fiat Spyder briefly back in the '80's and love it, but my sense is that they are very different cars. Historically Alfas we're significantly up market compared to Fiats.
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  515. Uhhh - you gloss over a huge issue in regards to materials. In our solar system for example, it would require cosuming all of the planets in order to get close to enough material to build such a sphere, and that doesn't even consider the types of material . For example, vast amounts of hydrogen wouldn't do the constructors much good. Metals would be required. So you'd have to consume your home in order to creat an energy source to heat it. Do the math! That doesn't make sense. Then there are the orbital dynamics to consider. A singular structure would generate huge stresses as the components try to orbit. Multiple components in separate orbits would introduce the problem of collisions. The whole idea of a Dyson Sphere seems to be far more of a flight of fancy than a rigoursly thought out scientific idea.
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  516. 6:19 pretty well sums up my experiences as a "backyard mechanic". 😆
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  517. Allas -- they story would have been different if they had understood "value pricicng". If they had, they would have priced the car slightly under the Aston-Martin, and would have laughed all the way to the bank!
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  518. I had a 944 2.5 that I also loved, but I sold it without a second thought to buy a 911 2.0. As far as the exhaust sound, I always thought it sounded better at idle than it did while driving. At speed I thought it sounded like a VW GTi, not bad but just generic 4-cylinder. Regarding the shifter, I've found that most older Porsches that I've driven just need the shifter bushings replaced. In the case of old 911's, possibly the spring plate too. With that done the shifting is night and day better than before. No short shift kit (with the associated increased shifting effort and synchro wear) is needed.
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  519. I ended up doing almost the same thing. My daughters learned to drive on a 2002 VW Golf 2.0. They loved the car, but after completing HS with no tickets or accidents, I got tired of putting money into a car with zero hope for appreciation. For not much more money we traded up for the some model you just got. They love it!
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  520. The government wanted to increase debt in order to make transfer payments. "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" -- Margaret Thacher. I think that sums up the problem.
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  521. Yup. They had their shot and they blew it. Sell it or shut it down. Another example of our tax dollars/Euros/etc. going to waste.
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  522. The cost of the US's Government's 2022 spending? $6.27 Trillion. A Babylon Bee satire? Priceless!!!!
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  523. Regarding the engine shots at 1:41, I wonder if Ford missed an opportunity. Look at a Porsche 911 motor from the late 1960s, or a Ferrari V12 from the same era. There was a certain artistic quality to the way that the different hoses and lines were dressed and finished which created an appealing look. An industrial designer with a good eye for flow and symmetry could do wonders! It could also include "design for serviceability" aspects which would be appreciated by anyone who has to work on the engine, or pay an hourly rate for someone else to work on the engine. There is nothing that says that an engine has to look like a "bundle of snakes". A little bit of thought and effort could yield results which anyone who opens the hood would appreciate and make the engine look as good as the exterior.
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  524. Eh. Sounds like a Subaru! 😉
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  525. The executive seems to have redefined the larger dollar variant of the crime as "Organized Retail Theft" as opposed to "shop lifting". The problem is that they couldn't even seem to agree on the language that they were using. As a result this whole exchange winds up being a waste of time as far as being a learning experience.
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  526.  @makotohanazawa6560  Me too.
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  527. The engine, and indeed the whole car is just like a Beetle, except....the pistons are different, the crank-case was updated, the heads are different, the carbs are different, etc. But yeah, just like a Beetle. BTW -maybe you could find a Beatle to drive.
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  528.  @Eatinbritches  Thanks for catching that. Fixed it! 👍
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  529. Italian Infighting and strikes caused the issues?!! Who'd have thunk?
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  530. Metatron, Metatron, Metatron!!! You can't let the facts get in the way of the preferred narrative!
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  531. I wonder if the rear brace in the trunk was bent in order to provide some support on a 2nd axis. BTW - I suspect that the Acton PD's phones were ringing off the hook while you were driving around. ;-)
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  532. Drach; at 57:00 there is what appears to be a steering wheel in the magazine which you fail to discuss. What is that about?
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  533. Wow! There was a lot going on!
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  534. If FB rates your videos as false -- I'm guaranteed to then search them out to watch them.
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  535. When VW says that they two cars are "sharing the same platform", it is very different than when GM says the same thing. For GM it means that the cars share the same chassis, and some body panels and stuff are changed. VW defines a platform by the firewall and the things that bolt to it. They took this approach because they determined that most of the car's costs are defined by the firewall, and the stuff that is attached to it. This is why some of the VAG cars which "share a platform" can be very different from each other. I suspect that if you looked at how things are arranged underneath the dash panels of the two cars, that you'd be surprised by how similar they are.
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  536. At that age of car, some judicious updates when performing service may be possible, which may help the steering. Suspension tired? Place the shock/struts with OEM RS units? Possibly replace the tie rods with RS items. Consulting the parts drawings (often available online) may also reveal some places where upgrading to oem RS spec items may yield benefits for the steering. The other place to look is the alignment specs, and the wheel and tire choices.
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  537. @czechvirusS  The idea that "Given a large enough universe, anything is possible" is actually a mathematical fallacy. This is because of total probability. Basically, the larger probability of no life in the universe increases at the same rate as the probability of life in a larger universe. So the chance of life developing in a larger universe is no greater than in a smaller universe. If you roll an even dice 100 times, the chances of 1 coming up are 1/6. Rolling the same dice 1000 times doesn't change the probability of the next roll coming up 1. It's still 1/6.
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  538. Suggested 2021 resolution: organise a Tedward viewer get-together so your virtual viewers can visit in person, and maybe even see some of the cars that you've driven in person, and share their own cars. You might also find some leads on cars to drive in the future.
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  539. Nice Shirt! 😃👍👍
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  540.  @4203105  No, I don't presume to extrapolate global warming from one city. On the other hand, I did falsify the repeated headlines of "Record Heat" which seemed to occur in the Boston news sites every summer. That was my point. Now maybe Boston is an anomoly in the world's weather. Time will tell.
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  541. You are right on target with your observations. In fact the roads in the future will be dominated by BMW's, and vehicles from BW/Porsche/Audi group. This is because they are the only companies which galvanise their bodies. This is why you see lots of 20 year old VW's and BMW's still on the roads but not a lot of 20 year old Mercedes or other cars. Look for some first Gen Mercedes M's for examples. Sure if properly maintained the engine and drive train can last, but there won't be anything to mount it to. The bodies will have rusted. So yes - that BMW is going to be the car of the future.
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  542. Not a surprise since Old English/Anglo-Saxon was spoken before the Normans arrived in the British Isles. Everything changed for the English Language when the Normans landed with their form of Norse accented French, and took over the "upper-class".
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  543. @JiltedValkyrie  yeah. I was thinking delete the infotainment system when buying the car, and add your own later.
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  544. It's simple -- people who chose to not be vaccinated should have to deal with the costs of the decision, in their health insurance premiums. If you smoke, you premiums go up. If you're not vaccinated (barring justified medical reasons), your premiums should go up. There's no reason for government edicts.
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  545. BTW - the lack of a separate frame does not make it a car, it makes it a "monocoque" chassis. Using a separate frame is a construction method that goes back to the days of a Conestoga wagon, if not before. Modern vehicles like planes, purpose built race cars and ships all use some form of monocoque construction nowadays. If there is any question of the "toughness" or "strength" of a vehicle built with a monocoque chassis, I can point you no further than Atlas's forebearer -- the the Touarig, which was built with a monocoque chassis and towed a 747. I don't remember the lack of a separate frame being an issue.
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  546. And General Kirby is a far more meaningful appeal to authority for our National Security Chief than Clausewitz?
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  547. The "Peak of Excitement"? "Trough of Disillusionment"? Why not the "Cliffs of Insanity" or the "Florin/Guilder Fire Swamp???? This is what happens when modern social scientists try to contribute to a technology discussion. I cringe at the thought that someone got a PhD for developing this analysis. Given that there can be multiple "Peaks of Excitement" prior to a technology achieving production status ( if it even gets there), I don't see any predictive value in this way of looking at technology development. Can you make investment decisions or technical decisions based on this methodology? I didn't think so. If not, the observations that it generates are pretty "Duh!".
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  548. Whatever you do -- don't speed on the Lowell Connector!
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  549. I had to chuckle at why an "Incredibly simple solution to the Fermi Paradox" required a 27 minute video.
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  550. I thought it looked familiar. Having been to Dinkelsbühl, I learned that It was too insignificant to bomb in WWII, so it looks much the same today. It really hasn't changed much in over 400 years. But then did I really expect 400 year old houses to look different 100 years ago than they do today?
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  551. 1956 Alfa-Romeo Giulietta Sprint
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  552. Interesting. I question the picture of a "Young Hitler" in Munich enthusiastically listening to the news for two reasons: 1) He's got a "toothbrush" mustache, while all of the other pictures of him during WWI show him with a fairly full "handlebar" mustache. Not to say that he couldn't change styles, but you don't see that I any of his other pictures. He seemed to be consistently handlebar until he appears in politics when it was consistently "toothbrush" -- for at least his last 10 years. 2) He looks too well fed for someone who was living in shelters and recently turned down by the KuK Army for being undernourished.
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  553. @Vasily Chuikov Yeah. Maybe it would be best to describe that picture as "apocryphal".
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  554. It would appear that Jesus was a pretty normal looking guy with no unique features since on the night that he was captured, the temple guards needed Judas to point him out. Keep in mind that he had entered into Jerusalem with considerable fanfare just a few days before in front of a lot of people. So all of the images you show really are a better reflection of what the artist thought he might look like based on their own experiences and biases. I guess a interesting related question is how did people look and dress in 1st century Jerusalem? It was a fairly cosmopolitan city (in spite of also being considered by the Romans to be of minor importance) since each year Jews from all over the empire would visit it during Passover. These Jews would have dressed and presented much like others from their particular part of the empire.
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  555. Hear! Hear! I agree completely HistoryLegends. For example, I noticed that at ~15:50 it appears that the soldier on the right fires off 3 shots without working the bolt of his Mauser. Huh?! For those people below who question HistoryLegends' conclusions -- I ask them to quote chapter and paragraph from official histories, manuals and other contemporary accounts their basis for disagreeing. I've read thousands of pages of German, French, Russian and English language histories written by the people who were there, and written soon after the war. I've also read the different training manuals that described the tactics to be used. Incidentally these generally align with those tactics actually seen in the unit histories. This movie's representation of the actions and tactics aligns with virtually none of them. While it may be a good movie and inspirational to many, as history it's garbage. It's relation to history is about as close as the movie Avatar is to actual space travel.
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  556. Excellent! I wonder how the German account of the action goes?
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  557. I just saw the JayEmm video of the car -- very nice! Obviously the proud owner in the passenger seat judging by the smile. As far as sound, it sounded better to me. As in regards to what's possible, here's a few data points... First, what's the wildest it might sound? Here's an IMSA GTU Ferrari 3.0: https://youtu.be/dC9NjWfc7Zk?t=500 , or else a Camel Lights (3.0 liter prototype): https://youtu.be/CsiIdD4wPIA?t=26 . To be honest they don't sound so much different from yours as far as the overall tonality of the sound (aside from the higher revs). But then the famous Cosworth DFV V8 https://youtu.be/mP7cn-fTSlw doesn't sound that different from the same Company's 4-cylinder BDG: https://youtu.be/rCjnMoH4ES0?t=39 or https://youtu.be/DUpfvGEymjA?t=28 .
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  558. Logically, I think the idea of science "proving" good has it backwards. Since God's existence is by definition supernatural, the proof of God's existance via observations of the natural existance will never be conclusive. What seems to be missing in this discussion is science proving that our creation occurred WITHOUT God (to a high confidence level -- say > 6 sigma.).
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  559. I'm sorry that you feel so blasé about the whole subject.
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  560. So it takes 50% longer to predict the weather 2 days in the future than it does to just watch the weather. And even then the granularity is noticeably low. I wonder if at some level, models like this, or using computers to predict what someone is thinking based on their brain waves are going to suffer from diminishing returns due to the time and effort required to collect the data and do the calculations? Without a leap in abstraction, the goal is a pipedream.
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  561. As far as AI being on the verge of being smarter than humans -- this ignores the sheer inefficiency of AI and the computers that it run on. Our brains use about 0.3 kilowatt-hours per day to do what they do. In most situations this is less than $0.10 per day. Sabine's brain can create music (or maybe just release the music which was predetermined for her to "compose"), analyze papers on quantum physics and occasionally write a few of her own, and still find time to interact with her family and guide her children's growth -- on 0.3 kilowatt-hours with calories to spare. In a few years she will have created new intelligences by successfully raising her kids, who will also go on to contribute to society in untold ways -- all while consuming about 0.3 kilowatt-hours each. "Artificial Intelligence" insists on consuming vast amounts of energy to accomplish far less. If we want to raise the intelligence level on planet earth, it would be far more efficient to have more kids with "Natural Intelligence" and stop wasting incredible amounts of energy trying to artificially create what already exists naturally.
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  562. "...that makes no sense to me, but let's be open minded." 😅
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  563. Congratulations. I suspect that the Type R has a lot aluminum suspension components. Based on my experience, if you are going to be driving it in the winter and you want to keep the car a long time -- you are going to want to get it up on a lift and liberally coat the aluminum pieces with Tectyl or a similar sealent. Sure, aluminum will develop a thin layer of oxide as soon as it contacts air, which isn't a bad thing. But where the aluminum comes in contact with steels or iron, it will sacrificially oxidize. This is a specific problem where steel bolts and inserts come in contact with Aluminum. The aluminum oxide that is created in the holes is super hard and sharp (aluminum oxide is used on sand papers), and will seize the bolt.
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  564. But... But.... But... Mid-engined cars with the "ideal" 50/50 weight distribution are supposed to be faster. It's ideal! Everyone knows that this is true because everyone on the internet agrees!
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  565. You've redeemed yourself from your earlier Mercedes video! ;-)
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  566. If my tax dollars funded a sloppy study like this, I want them back. Nobody is going to outlaw studies like this (that was already being done 6 years ago to people who tried to demonstrate that NOAA''s own data didn't show a statistically meaningful increase in temperatures), but rather the US Taxpayer is no longer going to fund sloppy academic work like this. You're welcome to publish papers like this on your own dime.
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  567. Actually, I can think of 2: The Japanese invasion of the Pacific and the Nazi invasion of Europe. But for the other 8? I'm with you!
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  568. The manifesto claims that the only source of growth, and thus good is technology, and furthermore growth prevents the onset of death. Sabine rightly points out that technology doesn't occur without intelligence. Sabine +1. But Sabine also misses the point that intelligence itself is not the solution to the world's problems, as Ted Kaczynski demonstrated. The most fundamental problem in our society is a depraved morality. To use a technical analogy - it's like a software bug in our assembler code, and we don't have the compiler to allow is to change or fix it. You can program around it at a higher language level, but the bug remains. Another example closer to the theme of this channel is the fault in the Hubble Space Telescope. We can put corrective optics on the lens, but it will still never be as good as it would be if we could fix the original lens. And so it is with Humans. So far as I know there is no solution for this human assembler code problem. Every solution that we'll ever derive will itself be tainted by the same fault. Our scientists, leaders and indeed our selves will continue to succumb to greed, vanity and lust. The solution is not within us, or even within our reach. (Please forgive the typos but auto-cucumber keeps intervening. Another example of my point!)
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  569. At 7:20 Jack says "The tension is killing me...". Specifically the low tension side or the high tension side??? ;-)
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  570. The "disappearing or soft T" feature is actually somewhat local in the US. It is a feature in central Connecticut and Western Massachusetts (and maybe some other places), but widely considered lack of diction elsewhere. I've heard it described as a linguistic remnant from the Poles who moved into that area in the later 19th century to work in the textile Mills. I guess the Polish language had a similar tendencies, but I'm open to hearing from any Polish speakers.
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  571. I've found that Google's translation software can be very helpful. Even though my German is weak, and my Russian is non-existant, I was able to use OCR software and Google translate to research and translate books that I found on-line, and was then able build up some both-sides histories of Eastern Front battles in WWI.
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  572. I was going to ask Max Pruss for his thoughts about storing energy in large quantities of hydrogen, but unfortunately he wasn't available.
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  573. She's as onerous to listen to as Obama.
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  574. Another unspoken assumption of those statistics is that all scientists work on the Government's dime. That is a really big assumption. But given that the US government has been spending way more money than it receives, that trend is not tenable.
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  575. I think that to truly appreciate the car, you need to be sitting in the back and somebody else needs to be driving it..
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  576. Sabine; as time goes on your explanations are getting better and easier to understand. (Hat's off to you). As a layman, I don't understand the fixation on quantizing gravity. It seems like matter (and it's alternative form -- energy) are quantum. But Einstein described gravity as being a curvature of space. That is very different from mass and energy. Yes, mass can curve space, but that is different than saying that mass can be converted into gravity or vice versa. To put it differently, mass is a noun, and energy is a verb. But gravity is actually more of an adjective to use a linguistec analogy. It would seem to me that gravity needs it's own set of descriptors rather than trying to shoe-horn it into the system that apllies to matter/energy.
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  577. 2:05 -- "Billy and I were just talking about "Jump Around" just before this..." The scary thing is -- I think Google knew that!
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  578. You had me until you said that it was about 1 light-minute across. That doesn't make any sense given that it's a black hole. Since space is being significantly bent, I think that you'd be hard-pressed to apply any sort of unit of distance to the object. The angular distance that you mentioned next seems makes more sense.
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  579. At 9:00 -- is Port and Starboard in German (Backbord und Steuerbord) aligned differently than in the English? 😉
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  580. Most headlight lenses nowadays are plastic, and most clear plastics will fog and yellow from the Sun's UV rays unless they are protected with a UV blocking lacquer. If you don't lacquer them, the haze will soon come back, worse than previously since you've now buffed off what lacquer was left on them.
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  581. I don't really care about the order (I'm American, our forefathers fought a war to get out of that system), but doesn't "deeply devisive" describe just about every PM who doesn't voluntarily retire? My understanding that this description usually results in the PM losing a vote of confidence. If they weren't "devisive* I doubt they"d lose the vote.
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  582. So it sounds like at low-resolution scales of the Universe, energy is not conserved, but at higher resolutions scales where humans naturally perceive, energy is conserved. i wonder if this has anything to do with the disconnect(s) which have made it difficult to develop a "theory of everything"? ( A nod to Sabine's book that I was reading last night.) Basically that the universe doesn't act consistently at different scales.
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  583. At least in the US -- you can sue anyone for anything, but it doesn't mean that you can win. A 50% win rate doesn't seem to be particularly impressive, but rather fairly arbitrary. The constant appeal to government(s) to solve every problem, and the application of "lawfare" to do it is more troubling. Government laws and actions should be initiated by elected representatives, who risk recall for unpopular and devisive policies. Not by unelected judges and advocate plaintifs.
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  584. I'm confused why you're knocking the Supra as being a "BMW in a Supra hat" for like $60K-$65K. Try to find a manual transmission BMW 6-cylinder for that price! ...In a sports car?! Not to mention when is a BMW Straight-6 not a desirable engine?! Most manufacturers would love to have that engine in their sports car! Do people turn up their noses at an Iso Griffo because it had a Corvette engine in it? A Shelby Cobra or because it had a Ford V8 in it??? Did those cars lack character?
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  585. Just to second what has been said below -- swap the distributor cap(s) and rotor(s). ( I've forgotten if 308s have one or two dizzies). It's a cheap and easy thing to swap out. Also confirm if the wires are routed correctly.
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  586. The last question that you asked is the very question which I would like to know. KW to KW, how do they actually compare? Electricity is not naturally more efficient. The laws of physics still apply. Power lines have losses, generators aren't 100% efficient. Also, if you have to spend (for example) ~$30,000 to save $50 a month in heating costs -- how is that more efficient??? The payback period (excluding the interest) is 50 years, which is most likely longer than the life of the heatpump. So economics matter.
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  587. I question the idea that global warming in the atmosphere could cause a breakdown in the AMOC. The math doesn't seem to hold up. Given first that the thermal capacity of air is 700 Joules per kg per °K, and the thermal capacity of seawater is about 4000 Joules per kg per °K (at 25°C and 35 g/kg salinity), or about 5.7x greater. Than you take into account that the atmosphere has a mass of about 5.15×10^18 kg, while the oceans have a mass of about 1.426x10^21 kg ( about 277x the mass of the atmosphere). Multiply both of these out and you will find that the oceans have about 1579 times the thermal capacity of the atmosphere. This would lead me to believe that an average 1°C increase in the atmosphere's temperature as claimed by many Climate Change alarmists (or even a 10°C increase) will have a negligible impact on the temperature of the oceans. On the other hand, even a small change in the temperature of the oceans will have a significant impact on the Earth's air temperature. You can experience this personally if you go to the shore in Maine in the summertime. Within a mile or two of the cool ocean the air temperatures can often be 5°C cooler than further inland. On the other hand, warm summer days in Maine don't make much of a dent in the cold water temperatures. This would lead me to believe that any warming of the Earth's atmospheric temperatures are most likely the result of changes ocean temperatures, rather than changes in the CO2 levels within the atmosphere. To put it differently, it would seem far more likely that changes in the AMOC are causing the recent temperatures seen on the land masses on both sides of the North Atlantic (warmer or otherwise), as opposed to the AMOC breaking down due to increases in air temperature.
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  588. Designing the car with "the golden 1.55:1 wheelbase to track ratio" because it is... well... "golden", is the silliest decision that I've ever heard a car company make. Did they also include a lucky rabbit's foot? The "ideal" track-to-wheelbase ratio will depend on many factors: how much mechanical stuff you have to package into the car, the center of gravity height and the roll-couples at each end, the projected torque and HP, the wheel and tire sizes, expected grip levels, and other factors too. It really is a function that falls out of all of the other design factors and trade-offs which a designer is putting into a car. To be honest, I had heard that they used the same dimensions as the Porsche Cayman/Boxster, which is just as silly of a justification. Why not use the GT3's ratio? Using the Cayman's ratio is especially silly given that the Cayman is a mid-engined car with a flat-6/4, while the Supra is a Front-Engined (and gear-boxed) with rear wheel drive. Formula 1 cars have a wheelbase to track ration of 1.7:1, why not use that??? Toyota -- "just do you" and forget about what the other manufacturers are doing!
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  589. Feli; I love you channel and have been enjoying watching your journey for years. But I noticed something which I feel that I should point out. At 34:50 in today's video, you mentioned that you are still a German citizen and would have voted if your ballot had arrived in time. If you look back at your video of 29-December, 2024 where you shared how you became a US citizen, specifically at 23:48 , you swore -- on camera -- the Oath of Allegiance to the United States which states (my emphasis added): "I hereby declare an oath, that I absolutely and entirely RENOUNCE and abjour ALL ALLEGIANCE AND FIDELTIY TO ANY FOREIGN prince, potentate or STATE SOVEREIGNTY OF WHOM , OR OF WHICH I HAVE HERETOFOR BEEN A SUBJECT OR CITIZEN, ... AND THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION... While the US may no longer actively kick people out for maintaining duel citizenship, you freely and willfully made this promise on camera in front of all of your viewers. Are you being honest to yourself and your new country by only taking advantage of the benefits of citizenship when it suits you (like when you want to leave and return to the US), without also being mindful of the obligations of citizenship?
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  590. I wonder if the Quantum Computer market may wind up a victim of the technologiy's success. It seems like they can be spectacularly fast for certain specific problems. Taken at face value, I can see them used to solve problems of that type -- and then what? So it can solve a problem which would tie up a digital computer for years in a few seconds. Great! Here's your answer. Now what? How many of those problems are there? Aside from being expensive, I can picture their high speed and limited application resulting in very low utilization. After the first few are built, who's going to need more of them?
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  591. Ugh! Michael Mann? Of "Hockey stick" and "I can't reveal to you what my model is" fame? 🤦‍♂ Sabine; as you have repeatedly pointed out in past -- scientific theories are meaningless if they don't have utility. A theory that doesn't accurately predict outcomes is useless. Have you ever looked at how many of Mann's predictions from the last 30 years have come true? He may have 3 degrees in physics, but if his predictions have all failed to pan out -- what value is his continued input on the subject? Also -- did you notice that all of the pictures from 0:10 - 0:27 look nothing like our world's actual weather and conditions. RED FLAG! When supposed "scientific" articles resort to lying in their visuals, be very suspious!
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  592. Another paper based on a poll. Yawn. Sabine; I tune into your channel for your insights about hard science. What do the latest observations tell us about how the universe works? Do they contradict or support the models? If I wanted to see the latest poll about this or that faddish subject, I can pick up a USA Today -- but I usually don't. I come here to find out about the latest falsifiable theory, or the observations about that theory. Given your impatience with bad science in physics, I"m surprised that you are spending so much time with the social sciences given the low level of repeatability and falsefiable conclusions in that tealm.
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  593. This reminds me of the story of WFNX in Boston, which featured most of those bands -- if in fact they didn't break them. For those not from the area, one of the most alternative radio stations in the nation at the time which lasted for almost 30 years. There's an excellent documentary on the story of the station titled "We Want the Airwaves", which seems to have disappeared from the internet for copy write reasons. You can still find a few clips on Youtube though if you do a search on the call letters. A search for the call letters and "Green Day" will bring up their most famous event. In the end they were pushed out of the market by HUGE media company buying up many of the stations in the area, and then putting computer programmed formats on each of them.
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  594. For subjects such as this, it might be helpful to step back from the headlines and advocates and consult with a good economist. Spending vast amounts of energy creating Bitcoin doesn't create any value. It's a total waste of energy. Why? The reason is that people are confusing currency (Bitcoin) with value. They are very different. If creating currency created value, 1920's Germany would have been the richest country on the planet. We all know how that turned out. (An investigation of why fiat currency actually works when properly managed might be useful). Value is created when someone creates something which is more valuable to someone else than it is to the creator. That is how people (and the world's economy) get richer. The genesis of Bitcoin was to create a currency that a single government or central bank couldn't inflate like governments often do. The problem is that governments can create more currency using virtually no energy merely by changing an interest rate. The creation of Bitcoin consumes vast resources and crowds out competing uses of that energy -- for example: growing food. Consider if the world's economy were to completely switch over to creating Bitcoin. No food. No Physics or science. No art. Just Bitcoin. Would we be better off? Absolutely not! So mining Bitcoin is bad. Very bad.
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  595. You mentioned the Freikorps awards were banned by the Nazis. I believe that the Schlesian Eagle award may be an exception. Maybe a subject for another video.
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  596. So I could eat Grapefruit and thus take lower doses of medication??? Hmmm....
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  597. Don't worry Rick. Youtube is also now blocking videos from the US Senate (specifically panel discussions on Climate). Youtube is not just picking on you.
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  598. At 13:50, did my eyes deceive me or did you blow by police cruiser...while passing on the right? 😮
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  599. It sounds like this song needs a "What makes this song great" ;-)
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  600. Not a future classic because they weren't that well loved when new? That would say that the BMW M1 isn't a classic, nor countless other great cars that missed their market target. I would argue that it increases its chances of being a classic since not many were sold originally.
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  601.  @colbeausabre8842  Yes. But were those fired from submerged tubes or were they mounted on the deck like most destroyers had them? I'm pretty sure that by the time the Rodneys were built in the 1920, submerged tubes had gone the way of the Ramming Bow
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  602.  @katrinapaton5283  Interesting. Thank-you
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  603. I'm not sure if the car shared a platform with the US market T-Bird, but I am pretty sure that it was built on platform of the Mazda 6 (GG1) -- AKA Ford Fusion. This brought the good (excellent - abet jittery handling for a FWD, very sweet 3.0 V6 engine) and the bad (a dramatic case of oxidation based acne on the body panels after 7 years) that Mazdas are known for. We had a 6 and loved the car, but ultimately traded it in on a galvanized TDI Passat (US model) and never looked back.
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  604. It >>> might <<< be more accurate to say that Icelandic (Old Norse) is the "oldest" of the Germanic languages still in use today (to account for the fact that English, German and I suspect most of the Nordic languages have gone through multiple distinct phases in the last 1000 years).
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  605. It would be interesting to do the same for the British airplane manufacturers (which I suspect will end with BAE", and the US Airplane manufactureres (now known as Lockheed Martin and Boeing.)
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  606. When it comes to optical character recognition of "Gothic" (more accurately referred to as "Franken") fonts, ABBYY's software does a very serviceable job.
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  607. I think that this car demonstrates the fundamental issue with modern Porsches -- which is that they are built for the Porsche buyer. Unfortunately for Porsche, the Porsche buyer lives with considerable cognitive dissonance. The best way to describe this is to look at how most used Porsches are treated. Everyone says that Porsches are cars that you can use every day, and to travel vast distances in arrive refreshed,and yet are also very fast. But yet a large percentage of Porsche buyers (new and used) take their street spec cars and gut them, lower then and put in super stiff springs, track seats, etc. They also then compare them with their buddies to see whose is lower, stiffer and louder. The end result is a car that goes like stink on the track, and is awful for day-to-day use. You can buy a car like that from Porsche. It's called a GT3. But the car that most people will want for 99% of their daily lives is really a base Porsche, or maybe a T. But if course when a person buys such a car, they immediately start turning into a GT3. If course the other type of Porsche buyer for a GT3 is the person for whom it is a piece of Jewlry for public consumption. They really don't care what it drives like because they will park it in their museum)garage until the next pinnacle Porsche arrives. That is the problem that Porsche product designers struggle with.
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  608. People often feel that Hitler was (or needs to be) perfectly evil. Often others on the other side of the spectrum are held up as being virtually perfect good. I disagree on both accounts, and believe that all people have elements of good and evil within them, and both need to be recognize. It seems that Hitler was capable of love*, but it was unfortunately largely limited to his pets. * For the sake of discussion, I'm using the definition of love which is defined in 1: Corinthians 13, 4-7.
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  609. I fear that you undersold the most important point! Look at the data!!! Not the charts, but the actual data. Dump it into Excell and see what happens if you try to replicate the analysis. While not a scientist myself, I've noticed that it is much easier (and approachable) to follow in the footsteps of others. History has shown that few people were able to figure out the formula of relativity until Einstein did it. But once he did it, then almost anyone can plug values into the equation and calculate the outcome. Give it a try!
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  610. Amazing story! It reminded me of a early Mel Gibson movie that I saw decades ago. I didn't remember the details, so I looked it up. It was called "Attack Force Z" (1981), which -- it turns out --, was only very loosely based on the real Force Z. I also had the opportunity years ago to travel from Singapore to Batam Island by ferry. Batam is the largest of the Indonesian islands across from Singapore, and the land mass that the two canoe teams travelled around. That was quite voyage getting from there tin Singapore and back, in what Americans would call kayaks!
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  611. I'm still waiting to hear about "The Woman KING"! A movie about Hatshepsut for example.
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  612. Regarding "Hey Mickie..." -- eh I mean "Apt", it's a fun little dance ditty. Compared to a lot of stuff that I've heard recently -- it's not the worst. But I suspect that was the target that they set for themselves.
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  613. Since you're into the organization, it might be interesting to have a discussion of the Wehrmachtbeamte-Heer. What were their roles? How did they fit into the overall Wehrmacht organization. I'm curious -- were they a part of the organization that you described here, or were they a different organization all together.
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  614. But is Space and time are different aspects of Space-Timr, and Space-time began with the Big Bang, doesn't that make the universe finite in regards to the past? (I grant you that it may be infinite in the future). So can Space-time be partially infinite?
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  615. Welcome back Nick!
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  616. I was going to say something, but you killed it. Good job! Economics wins.
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  617. Does it come with the restrictor bypass option installed? I heard it allowed a significant increase in HP.
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  618. I think that the biggest obstacle to cold fusion is entropy, and the problem is that it's everywhere! More seriously, most (all?) Of humankind's energy "production" is actually piggy-backing on potential energy stored by something else. Wind and Solar? Grabbing energy created by the nuclear reactions in the sun, which are ultimately caused by gravity. Oil and Gas are also just biggy-backing on the complex carbon chains which were created by the Earth's gravity. Nuclear fission? Just controlled entropy of the uranium (or other heavy element fuels) which were created in previous supernova reactions. At the end of the day, humans have just taken advantage of a local potential energy eddy in a vast universe of entropy. But ultimately no energy is created. Entropy always wins.
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  619. @iAnasazi  i'm not sure if logically that follows since observation has shown that there was a beginning. To just ignore that because yo don't want to accept it, wouldn't be logical.. BTW -you're starting to wonder into the metaphysical at that point. Personally, I could argue that God was what you are describing, but would also warn you that logic will not lead you to God. As Paul pointed out in 1 Corinthians 2&3, you won't find God (if that is what you are seeking) through human wisdom. But either way, to argue the logic of a hypothetical existance befòre the singularity isn't really logical without some additional information.
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  620. @dkwannabe  Please note my choice of words. I said "every dollar (or Euro) spent...". Rent being an exception that I wasn't aware of. Yes, I save money too, but money which is saved is eventually spent. It's just a question of WHEN the VAT is paid. Just because the significant impact of the VAT isn't obvious because it's hidden in the price doesn't mean that it doesn't have a profound impact on the economy. VATs are also very regressive because lower income people can afford to save less. Also essentials like food still have a VAT (7%), which is even more regressive. While an income tax is like being held up by the government at gunpoint, a VAT is like an intestinal parasite. You may not be aware of it, but it will still suck the life from you. The only fair way too compare total tax rates is to compare the percentages of the total economy taken up by the government spending.
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  621. Come to Boston. Arnold's "ah's" would fit right in!
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  622. Regarding Isaiah 41:9, the Masoretic text (translated into English) reads "Though whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, And called thee from the uttermost parts thereof..." The phrase "from the ends" is from Hebrew מִקְצ֣וֹת which implies a termination from Strongs Exhaustive Concordance, while "uttermost parts" is from Hebrew וּמֵאֲצִילֶ֖יהָ which implies an extremity or a "Chief man" from the same source. The "Chief man" thing sounds strange until you look at the only other occurances of the root of the Hebrew word (אָצִיל) in the Bible. In Exodus 24:11 the same root is used "and upon the NOBLES of the children...", As such Isaiah 41:9 reads "Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof". So now we're no longer looking at the corners of the earth, but at those in charge of the of the lands at the end of the Earth.
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  623. Watching Peter's face at 1:00 almost made me cry. I'm sure that intellectually Peter is aware that a lot of people were touched by his music, but it's impossible for him to know what all of us were feeling that summer each time one of his songs came on the radio from "Frampton Comes Alive". It's nice to see that the experience of fame it never ruined him.
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  624. As far as other Hominids with whom Cain could have interacted -- I think that it could be argued that they were not "created in God's image". People seem to think that if we have been "created in God's image", that it means that God had 2 arms, 2 legs, 10 fingers and 10 toes, and walked upright. But this would literally be a case of Humans trying to create a god in our image -- essentially idolatry. Instead, based on the descriptions of God in the Bible, it's clear that God is creative, and loving* of others, among other things. (*"Loving" as defined in 1 Corinthians 13), and so these are the among the special attributes of Adam and Eve. So the other beings (hominids?) which were extant at the time most likely didn't have these traits. Regard the "fruit" -- for the sake of agitating the discussion -- I put forward the Durian. If ever there was a fruit which imparted the knowledge of good (the taste) and evil (the smell), this would be it! Often described by people in the know as "tasting like heaven, and smelling like hell", it is something to be experienced at least once in your life.
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  625. I'm not sure if your mental model of the two rooms is actually relevent to the question, because your model assumes a stable volume of 2 rooms. But we have measured that the Universe is expanding at an increasing rate. So the molicules in your model will not have any wals to contain them. Instead (at large scales) the spaces between modules will be increasing, and the molicules will have fewer and fewer interactions as time goes forward. So the possibility of a "warm spot" developing will decrease as the molicules become more and more isolated. Eventually each molicule will essentially become alone in space as the next molicule will be beyond it's "visible universe".
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  626. Thomas Malthus was not available for comment.
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  627. At 3:49 it reminds me a bit of an Renault A310, which is not a bad comparison.
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  628. I've had the pleasure of riding on the LST-510/Cape Henlopen many times. Since she was renovated in 2019 she has a very nice display about her history and the crew in her upper cabin. If you have to travel between Eastern New England and Long Island (or even New York City), I heartily recommend booking a crossing!
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  629. Alas, I feel that when Sabine strays from science and into politics -- we both end up unhappy.
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  630. "Safer than you" is a sales pitch. Being married to software engineer, she's often remained me that "to err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer". Besides -- as a driver you are safer by being completely engaged in the process of driving, as opposed to being tuned out until that 0.01% of the time when you need to be engaged because of some unusual event. "The human brain is a computer too" is also a bit of a gross simplification. While some aspects of the human brain have been identified, overall it is multiple orders of magnitude more sophisticated than any modern electrical digital computer. The two are not even close. When performing dangerous (and potentially life threatening) activities like driving that often requires anticipating others actions based on their "body language" while driving -- would you rather trust your miraculous brain, or something with only a tiny percentage of the capabilities? People should be free to try. But why is everyone in such a hurry to give up the experiences that make us human, such as interacting with others in multiple activities in life. If we communicate only via computer, have our cars take us places automatically, have computers compose our music and create our art. What have we gained? We'll just wind up a blob of biological material waiting for something to be done to it. Human interaction is the essence of human life. Why are we in such a rush to remove it?
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  631. Outstanding!!!
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  632. WWII is remembered by many as a battle of Good versus Evil. As Mark Felton so clearly documents - the real world operates according to "Realpolitik". The Allies would have put up with the Nazi if they'd just stop invading the Western Allies. Churchill and Rosevelt really didn't care what the Nazis did within Germany or in the Eest. This is similar to the modern West's approach to North Korea. Mark Felton has done an outstanding job documenting what went on "behind the curtain", and explaining it to the rest of us.
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  633. Sink the Bismerc! But seriously -- get a wrap? At 1200 pounds, a rattle-can finish won't make it any worse.
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  634. Apologies mean nothing if behavior doesn't change.
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  635. The Grammys? Eh! They have meant nothing to me since Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" lost out to Lionel Richie's "Dancing on the Ceiling" for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1983.
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  636. That is not gravity -- that is the force of Chuck Norris pulling the Earth.
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  637. A factor that you don't directly discuss is the effects of regulations on the market stupidity. Regulations are very much a double-edged sword. They theoretically keep markeks "fair", but often (usually?) result in the regulators putting their thumbs on the scales of individual and group decisions -- which inevitably leads to sub-optimal outcomes. Why? Because no set of regulators have access to the combined knowledge of the larger markets -- so regulated outcomes inevitably lead to worse outcomes. The tighter and more restrictive the regulations, the worse the outcomes. Some recent examples? The boom and bust in diesel cars, entirely caused by regulations. The real estate bubble (and bust) was entirely the result of lending and interest regulations by central banks and government officials. In fact you'd be hard pressed to point to a stock market crash that wasn't caused by regulators or government officials mucking around with interest rates or the money supply. This is why open market economies always outperform centrally planned economies.
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  638. I guess this was a form of Porsche flipper karma.
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  639. I figured that's why he's doing these interesting videos right now -- to pay for some heat!
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  640. At 9:24 Sabine neatly describes the process (as reported in their papers) that the scientists were using when working in with bat viruses in Wuhan. Not surprisingly, the results were similar. Interestingly, in hindsight, the scientists had the same biases that she reports about the probability of what they were seeking actually existing in the original data.
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  641. I like it. I think that it's safe to say that all good prayers come from insecurities. Nicely done production to. Enough without being too much.
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  642. Thr paper describing "Safe Boundries" and "Just Boundries" sounds completely arbitrary and unscientific. Is it repeatable for other values of "Safe" or "Just"? If it's not falsifiable, what utility does it have in science?
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  643. At 5:24 you suggest that how we generate energy today is massively different than 2000 years ago, or that they wouldn't understand how our energy is generated today. I disagree. While the engineering is far more developed, the concepts would be readily understood by Archimedes (the obvious exception would be nuclear reactions). Archimedes readily understood the application of combustion of different types of fuels, and the conversion of heat into motion. The concept of harnessing wind power to do work was also well understood. The same applies to hydrostatics and use of fluids to do work, for example, see his screw pump. The only "new sources" of energy are nuclear fission and fusion, the latter only in a very uncontrolled fashion ( see bomb, nuclear fusion). Everything else is just the application of principles that he would have understood.
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  644. It seems like the AI was judged on it's ability to make small-talk, especially small-talk in popular lingo. But since AI seems to be excellent at aggregating "conventional wisdom", I'm not not surprised. The thing that to me really seems to separate humans from machines are the qualities of compassion and creativity. Lip service compassion "Oh! That's awful!" is easy for humans. But while genuine compassion is more challenging for humans, I suspect that it's pretty well impossible for machines. The same applies to creativity. Sure machines can do random stuff, but humans can look at a block of marble and see a statue in it, and then create true beauty . Anyone listen to AI composed music lately?
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  645. Don't worry. If we can manage to remove both Biden and Harris as incompetent, the office of President will fall to Nancy Pelosi. Don't worry!
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  646. It's notable that Einstein published papers which ended up essentially saying "never mind. This doesn't work". Nowadays I'm under the impression that every paper must be "ground breaking" or "innovative", if not revealing upcoming catastrophe. The honesty of that time is missed.
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  647. On the low shots of the car going through the corners, it sure looks like it's understeering.
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  648. @MovieViking  That reminds me of an old saying: "Economists have successfuly predicted 15 of the last 10 recesions", in the same way that experts have been predicting "a record number of hurricanes for the Eastern US" each season for the last ~15-20 years, which never developed. Just because there is a risk of something doesn't make it a reality. Risk don't all come true. And just because they don't doesn't mean that we prevented them either.
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  649. I wonder if this instrument(?) might be useful for introducing magnetic field calculations into the different universe simulation models for modeling the evolution of the universe?
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  650. A belated welcome to Boston Drach.! A very interesting review and I learned a few things, even though I've visited the USS Constitution a few times. On you're next trip you might want to check out Baltimore harbor, which has the Sloop-of-War USS Constellation, which dates to the often overlooked pre-Civil Wat era, as well as a 1940's Coast Guard Cutter that was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked.
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  651. BTW - it might be interesting to figure out if the coil was actually the problem, or if it was just the installation. You might want to try reinstalling the coil again (it only takes a second) to see if the problem reoccurs. Or try swapping the removed coil into the position for the other bank and see if the problem now moves to the left hand turns. The coil might actually be good.
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  652. Condition? That car is better then new!
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  653. Excellent choice!
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  654. Ehhh... at 6:00 you mention Porsche and their Flat-6, while putting up a picture of a car that is obviously labeled "Nissan". 🤨 It's not like there weren't more than a few Porsches 962Cs on the grid that you could have grabbed a picture of, even at this late in their career.
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  655. I always thought Scientists use the contents of the paper, and the reproduceability of the concepts described to judge the quality of the contents. I guess I was wrong. The methods that Sabine described are merely another algorithm, and suffers from the same risks as she said.
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  656. As far as the Bismirck's suspension, I'd check the spring rates of the springs that are on the car, and then take that information along with the car's weight to the shock/damper people. Ideally, you'd also have an idea what the weight is of the suspension pieces is at each corner. That is the information that the shock/damper people will need to make a recommendation since the shocks/damper have to match the suspension frequency. Alternatively, make sure that you have stock springs at each corner and than at least you can go with stock shocks/dampers. The final way to do it is to buy matched springs and shocks/dampers that others have already engineered.
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  657. Geez! Grinding without eye protect and measuring camber off of the tire -- radials bulge on the bottom you know! My goodness, the standards of the channel have slipped. 🤨
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  658. This prompted me to look up his in-period performance on the "Midnight Special" which can be seen on YouTube. In that performance the solo was turned up and you could watch him play.
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  659. @verdict1163  True. Being an avowed Porsche fanboy, I was tempted to bring up MB's smaller cross town neighbor. I had the pleasure of visiting both company museums in the '80's. While Porsche's museum (at the time) was a big room packed with awesome race cars and prototypes, Mercedes was a vast building filled with race cars, trend setting cars and trucks (including the FIRST automobile!), airplane and U-Boot engines. The bredth and depth of the company's technical achievements was mind-boggling, not to mention the obvious cross-pollination which went on. Porsche, Lancia and Citreon are all innovative companies -- no doubt! But 2/3 of them essentially disappeared since that time. You could put all three of them together, and they might start to approach the scale of MB's innovation (Largely thanks to a former MB employee by the name of Porsche).
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  660. I wonder if a better comparison (rather than a Porsche, Ferrari or Lotus) would be an early '80's BMW 6-series coupe?
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  661. @sanmiguel4019  True. I was referring more to the driving experience. Even back in the '80's, automotive writers pointed out that the Supra was more of a GT than a sportscar.
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  662. @chernsimons6295  "Uninformed" implies with no information. My point is that even with advisors (and advisors to advisors) the information gathered and decisions made will lack the wisdom of the wider economy. This doesn't even account for the competing options which are never developed.
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  663. @winsonip4447  uh...could you please point me to the clause in the US Constitution that gives the Federal Government the power to redistribute wealth? As far as any power concentrated in the hands of "billionaires", most of them seemed to have made their wealth by creating wealth and value for others. Musk employs thousands of people at competitive wages, and these people work together to create valuable goods and services which others happily pay for. I don't have any issues with that.
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  664. At about 7:30 you talk about relaxing a bit, chill and not try to rush a pass because you're anxious to get someplace faster. The results of failing to have that attitude can be seen in the recent deaths of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau. That is what happened. A car was in a rush to make a pass of a car that stopped ahead (to let the Gaudreau brothers cross I believe) ended up running into both of them on their bicycles and killing them. A completely needless tragedy. Folks -- calm down on the roads!
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  665. Nostalgic first car? A Ford Fiesta Mk1, 1600. Try to find one of those over here in the US these days. I've also owned the Octavia's US cousin -- a US model 2012 Passat TDI. With a 6-speed manual no less. It had all of the virtues of the Octavia TDI that you're driving, and a TON more room. We had almost 200K miles when we lost it to an accident. We looked for for a similar car and discovered exactly 1 TDI Passat with a manual for sale in the US, and it was 2/3 of a continent away. So we had to settle for a DSG model. Oh -- to have the manual transmission version again. But I have fond memories of driving both of those cars!
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  666. Rick; I wonder if over the years in the industry you've become jaded? Sure, Babba O'Reilly had a synth track, which it was obvious. The Who didn't hide the fact. Neither do countless Electronic Music DJ's. But then along came Villy Manilly, and they did try to hide the fact. As you allude to , people go to concerts to see the performer PERFORM. If the majority of their performance is going to be pre-recorded, than we're going to be back to the awful TV performances of the 60's and early 70's. Performers need to keep in mind what their job is. It's no different than other skilled jobs in the economy. People are hired to use their skills. Would you want to go to a surgeon who can't handle a scalpel in the operating room? There is a huge difference between automation assisted, and automation.
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  667. I thought that gravity was not a force, but rather a distortion (a bend in...) Space-time. If it was, it wouldn't (or maybe won't) be quantum. Are quantum paricles considered to be a disturbance in space-time?
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  668. Wait! Protocol would be to take him to the Vice-President before Trump!
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  669. Passenger Jason had expressions a little bit like my wife when she's getting car-sick from my driving.
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  670.  @Kris_M  I congratulate you on your demonstration of your mastery of arithmetic. It appears that you still have quite a ways to go before you'll have an understanding of the mathematics of statistics.
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  671. K-cars???
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  672. I chuckled when YouTube inserted a commercial... just before you inserted your endorsement. Anyhow -- wouldn't a Dyson Sphere constitute the ultimate form of environmental pollution? A "civilization" will destroy a planetary system in order to generate enough material to enclose a star in order to use all of it's radiation to power it's civilization. I wonder what sunrises look like in such a system? Never mind! They won't have any!
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  673. Sounds like a V12 with a mis-fire.
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  674. John; You didn't even mention $4.6 Trillion dollars of "COVID Relief" that the US Government didn't have -- but spent anyway. So essentially 4.6 Trillion dollar bills were created out of nothing and inserted into an economy with a GDP of about $21 Trillion dollars. That essentially reduced the value of every dollar in the economy by 22%. Doing some simple math will make clear that this alone will cause the prices of everything purchased with dollars to increase by 28% -- even with no changes in supply or demand. So what was a $2.00 gallon of milk has now become a $2.56 gallon of milk just because each dollar is worth less.
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  675. Says that pretty much every car, truck and motorcycle engine has a map like this -- and then puts up a picture of a Tesla. 😄
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  676. Congratulations. I've come to the conclusion from working on my cars that most problems are the result of something I did, or something the previous owner did. The Influenso's value has just gone up with the turn of a screw. The secret was to figure out which screw!
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  677. Article 5.2 Speech is limited by another person's right of "personal honour"??? That sounds like it's right out of early medieval thinking. Is this remedied by a duel ??? Someone's honor is impinged because I suggest that their previously stated opinion is stupid (not the speaker mind you, but what they spoke is stupiid). I think that I see the problem. The German constitution was obviously written by lawyers given that it is 444 pages long!!!! 444 pages! The US constitution is 4 pages long (hand written).
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  678. I wonder if anyone can test the effects of Cannabis on stupidity when compared to a placebo.
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  679. I agree with everything that you said (for whatever that is worth), but I think there is a much bigger issue with expecting an answer to "Why we exist". That is an awfully big lift for a science experiment. Science is incredibly useful for answering HOW something happened, or could happen. But "why?" Is really the realm of philosophers, or better yet, theologeons. From a Judeo-Christian perspective I could quickly answer that question by responding " To love God, and to love my fellow humans". The countless levels of abstractions between that answer and a quantum experiment makes any links between them virtually impossible to comprehend. Scientists and science writers mght do well to be a touch more humble in their proclomations.
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  680. Being American, it's hard for me to judge the English in this matter. I get your point, but the whole situation with a King is different than we have. If the King choses to stretch the conditions for granting a medal, which are given out in the King's name. Who's to argue? At least there seems to be some documentation saying that Churchill was granted the medals. It's not like he just started to wear some that he picked up in an Army-Navy surplus store or at an auction and expected people to treat him special because of them. I know a guy who tripped and fell into a foxhole in Iraq, miles behind the front lines. He still got a Purple Heart medal, but he only admitted it sheepishly.
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  681. Looking at this from a general business perspective versus a music industry person -- it comes down to commercialization -- or more specifically commercials. Those catalogs are: known, recognizable, quality and (especially nowadays) come with virtually zero risk of downside publicity. 1) Known: easily indexable for subjects, lyrics, etc to make them easy to parse. 2) Recognizable: if you're trying to sell a car, computer or service - you want to tie your brand identity to something that makes potential customers smile, think back to happy times, etc. Thus "classic hits" are preferable to modern artists. 3) Quality - the songs have stood the test of time. 4) Zero risk of downside: These artists are not tweeting controversial tweets or making news for the wrong reasons, so their is little risk of them suddenly appearing on the wrong side of controversial topics. That's my $0.02
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  682. I'm not sure "majorana" is pronounced with the J having a soft-g sound as Sabine did, or with a German-j sound (y in English). So I looked up the meaning of the word and learned that it is "Majorana may refer to a particle, an experiment, or a herb. ". I see what someone is doing!
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  683. Curious that they/you didn't discuss the impact of an AMOC collapse on the weather in Greenland. If it gets colder, will it cause the glaciers to build up again, removing fresh water from the Atlantic and thus increasing the slinity? Is the AMOC a cyclical phenomena? What historical data do we have going back a couple of thousand years? So many unanswered questions!
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  684. If you do the opposite of the points you listed, you will have the recipe for EXACTLY how to write a story that generates a lot of clicks and forwards. This is what cynically drives content in our internet world.
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  685. You seemed to have touched on many of the questions that I have about Lexus cars. What is it really that the brand is trying to bring to the market place? Are they trying to be the sportiest? The most engaging? The sexiest? The most outrageous? The standard for engineering? The answer is that I don't really know. They seemed to have started out as an Asian take on Mercedes, in this case the R107 series. But they seemed to have tried to interpret it at it's most anodyne, kind of like they looked at each of the R107's features and said: "What about this?" Someone might respond by saying "I think it protrudes to much", or "that might turn some people off". So Lexus would than smooth it out, water it down and then put it on SC430. Features that offended no one remained -- like the nice wood trim and the smooth lines. You can see the same thing with the LS 400. What is LS 400 but a milquetoast interpretation of the Mercedes E type? Anyhow, thinking about Lexus is reminding me that a nap might be nice about now.
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  686. Maybe it was just the rain, but the exhaust sound at idle reminded me of standing behind Correct Craft.
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  687. I would think that the math is pretty straight forward. Scientists estimate that there have been about 10^39 - 10^40 cells to ever have existed on Earth. Scientists also estimate that the Human genome is made up of about of about 3.2 x 10^9 base pairs (3.2 billion). What is the probability of getting 3.2 billion base pairs organized correctly given 10^40 trials. That would give the probability of the human genome being organized correctly given random chance. Anyone want to take a shot at the math?
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  688. What about your GF's Boxster?
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  689. A couple of thoughts - I think you definitely want to have a metal plate above the carb throats since carbs will often back-fire some flames, even if you don't hear it -- for example... https://youtu.be/h7JjWKwakNE?t=147 . The last thing that you want is either flame or heat damage to the Influenzo. K&N makes some filter kits that individually fit over each 40 DCNF carb in their racing section that would seem to be a neat solution. I'm pretty sure that Pipercross and other filter companies will have similar set-ups.
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  690.  @neilreynolds3858  ehhhh....
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  691. at 0:18 "Languaging" 🤨 ?
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  692. Yea!!! David Geribaldi makes the list. A worthy inclusion given the number of incomparable grooves that he and TOP have put out over the decades. Also hats off that you included something from James Brown, not one of your normal choices. But without James Brown, I don't think that the Red Hot Chili Peppers would have been as funky as they were. His influence can be felt in the riffs of many of today's performers, and if he were alive he'd tell you that too! ;-)
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  693. You failed to mention the pearl in the TR7's oyster -- The TR8! The worst car of the '70's you only passed over briefly -- the Ford (cough) Mustang ((cough) II. A real "two bagger" when it came to looks, overweight and underpowoered, with brakes and handling to match.
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  694. At about 11:30 you go blasting down the road and I thought that I could hear God. Than I recognized that it was an ad with Morgan Freeman in it. :-/
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  695. Ah yes, the crap you find inflicted on the car by previous owners! Bondo over a sheet metal tub?! I don't have any Else experience, but looking at the chassis and tub, and it reminds me of a 1980's Sports 2000 (i.e. a Lola, Tiga or March/Apache). But this might provide some insight into strategies for fixing it. Maybe consulting with a shop that specializes in repairs for those cars might be helpful.
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  696.  @TedwardDrives  touche'.
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  697. Based on what futurists of my childhood predicted about our lives of today, I suspect that half of their predictions will come true, most likely the half that people aren't paying attention to. And that half may come about by equal contributions of growth from existing technology, and injections from conceptually new technologies. For example -- the flying cars, large scale space colonies and food replicators of my youth and beyond have never come into realization? Why? The costs were too high, the benefits too few and previously unimagined issues and technical barriers proved too great. On the other hand Dick Tracy's wrist communicator has become reality, except most people don't want to squint at a tiny screen on their wrist (in spite of the benefits of Lasik). So instead we've settled on 4"x6" pads with screens sharper than the TV's of 20 years ago, and computing power that dwarfs the computers that took man to the moon.
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  698. Is it just me? I see a hint of Fiat Dino in the front end. Anyone else?
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  699. Very well researched and fairly presented Sabine. Knowingly or not, you jumped over a more fundamental (and general) issue -- people who have issues withh reality. We all have to deal with realities in life -- our height, who our parents/children are, our skin color, our sexual organs, our age, our genetic make-up and so-on. For example, I might identify as a multi-billionaire, but reality I'm not. As long as I don't accept that reality, there will be a cognitive dissonance in my life which will torment me. Is it society's fault? No. Do I require medical treatment? That is debatable. But at the end of the day, as long as I don't accept that fact, my life will be difficult. Once I accept that I'm not a multi-billionaire, and instead focus on all of the good things (blessings is a term that some use) that I do have, the problem goes away. Suddenly I am freed from the baggage that was tormenting me, and I can now go forward in life unburdened and able to help others, rather than to demand something that I may have felt society owed to me -- specifically billions of dollars. I'm not sure how else to put it. People who have difficulties dealing with reality need to be helped with that underlying issue. Changing the gender (and physical appearances) will not correct this issue, and only results in investing money in putting off the ultimate resolution of the problem. Lovingly helping people to deal with , and live within reality is the only long term answer.
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  700. Folks! Please subscribe to the channel! Jack needs to heat his house this winter! Look, the poor guy needs to wear a parka indoors.
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  701. This option seems to be too little (functionality) -- too late, and little support available for them within the combat theater. It would make more sense to be scouring the world's inventories for T-72's, T-80's (Korea? Egypt?, Cypress?) and T-90'S (Quietly make a deal with India to upgrade them with something Western?) to send to the Ukraines, especially from countries which are not at immediate risk of military actions. The best use of the Leopard I's would be to backfill the borrowed equipment until they can be replaced with more modern equipment.
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  702. In regards to the increasing damage caused by Hurricanes, why not focus efforts on not building in zones prone to hurricane damage, or building atructures which are able to withstand the effects of hurricanes? This is far more attainable than trying to change the weather. Besides, hurricanes are verry good at converting tropical heat into kinectic motion and moisture condensation, both of which can help to reduce globall warming. What if preventing hurricanes increases global warming???
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  703. The biggest tragidy about the car is that BMW has never made the slightest effort to follow-up. Sure they made sports cars that competed with Porsche (just as the hope was that the M1 would be an effective weapon against Porsche's 934's and 935's). But in the end, the Porsche family (via various holding companies) got the last laugh when Audi took the M1 idea, and successfully implemented it in the R8. Congratulations, Jack, on getting this M1 to test. It should be worth at least a few thousand views and likes!
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  704. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen do an interesting deconstruction (a la Rick Beato) of Peg and some of the other songs from this album in the YouTube video "Steely Dan - Aja - Documentary".
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  705. I'm ashamed that my alma mater has made him an academic leader.
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  706. As far as being "irreplaceable", keep in mind that the entire bodywork is made up of hand-fitted aluminum parts. It's not like you can buy off-the-shelf pieces to fix a parking lot ding. It would have to go into a craftsman who will fabricate and fix a replacement. Old Astons are super cool, but the repair prices are mind boggling.
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  707. The Romanian Corsair?
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  708.  @Number27  👍
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  709. I'm waiting for her take on Global Warming.
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  710. First we should ask ourselves if it is something we SHOULD do. What will be the effects on climate and weather? How about the ground water supply? Do marine life benefit from the stir-up of the water and the potential associated increase in the food supply? What will be the effect on forests if the winds don't prune dead branches or weak trees? Might it not be better and cheaper to discourage people from building and investing in areas prone to hurricane damage?
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  711. I laughed, I cried. It moved me! 😊
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  712. Metatron, Please do a Democracy video!
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  713. Sabine; I think that with your finely tuned BS meter, a career as a stock analyst may beacon if the YouTube thing doesn't work out.
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  714. Here I thought the episode was going to end with a rod poking through the block, or the car turning into a pile of ashes!!! But that's not the case. It still starts and runs, drives smoothly. I wouldn't track it, but you're still in an OK place.
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  715. I think that this is related to, and an off-shoot of the self-publish technologies of today -- such as YouTube, Spotify, etc. As you mentioned in you're earlier video rant, A&R people don't do what they used to any more. In the pre-internet era, publishing companies backed new acts, and pushed them to the radio stations. Most people wouldn't spend their money on buying records that they'd never heard of. But if they had heard them on the radio, or from a friend, they'd go out and buy an album. The publishers, record labels and radio stations would act as educated filters for the wider public and bring the best acts forward. Chicago (using an example that you mentioned) labored for years in obscurity before their first record came out and got introduced to the public. Today acts build micro-cults of following via YouTube and Spotify. They actually have access to a wider potential audience than Hendrix and Chicago did before they were discovered. So the good news is that today any act or artist can self-publish today. The bad news is that any act or artist can self-publish today.
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  716. Anyone from Boston will be happy to tell you that the name is pronounced "Cah" (rhymes with yard).
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  717. Tedwards next adventure -- Macan Turbo up Pikes Peak!!!
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  718. "...And though it's essentially a Taycan underneath..." -- eh, what's wrong with that??? It's a lot better than say a -- Leaf?!
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  719. Yup. "Yacht Rock" is an apocryphal reference. But you can't blame the musicians for the fans that they attracted. I happy lived through that era, and the genre of music now called "Yacht Rock" did find itself very popular at summertime pool parties and at the beach, and among the Gin-and-Tonic crowd since it tended to steer clear of some of the "harder" elements commonly used by Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith and even the Doobie Brothers of the Tom Johnston era. While the musicians commonly associated with "Yacht Rock" may cringe at the reference, they have to admit that they concept brought them back from the abyss. Prior to Sirius (and others) dedicating a channel to "Yacht Rock", many of these songs had slipped into the distant memory. But now they are once again getting a lot of airplay and reaching new fans.
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  720. Is it really accurate to say that "Time ran slower in the past"? I think that the perception of time is relative (a nod to Albert), and so our perception of past time is that it ran slower, but did it really? Have pulsars sped up as time moved forward? I don't think so. The vibrational frequency of a given atom (say Hydrogen) was the same than as it is now. It's only that space has expanded.
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  721. Given the open ITB's, I wonder if you should stick a mic up in the engine bay to capture some of the induction sound. To be honest, the induction often accounts for more of the pleasing "sports car" sound that people are looking for than the exhaust.
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  722. Flash! CMD data shows that Pysics and the Universe are broken! Details at 11:00
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  723. Alas -- some people chose to ignore the "Golden Rule". I don't buy the "Enormous pressure of being a top academic...(etc.) excuse or apology. As she was purportedly trying to examine in her research, everyone is constantly faced with the choice of being honest or cheating. Most people, most of the time, seem to pick honesty. If they didn't, society wouldn't function. But there are some who just don't. Those people need to pay the price for their decision as society administers justice in an dispassionate manner. Does this mean that she's irrevocably bad? No, and there is always hope that she'll chose differently in the future. But she'll need to demonstrate that from the ground up, one example at a time. This is because people now have grounds for not trusting her. It's a difficult road, but I wish her well in her journey down that path to career recovery.
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  724. Interesting listening to Truman's address, and comparing it to modern political leaders.
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  725. Sec. Mayorkas is the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. His full time job is to control the flow of people across our boarders, he heads a department of about 240,000 professionals. That he doesn't know immediately the actual nor desired dispositions of the people that his department is processing is an embarrassment.
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  726.  @lioneldm5130  Absolutely! A110's were giant-killers in rallies, and sure Renault raced in F1 and Le Mans in the 70's, but by 1980 the glory was fading, as was their performance in those series. Meanwhile you could go to any sports car race in the US, amateur or professional and see Porsche 911s, 934s or fire breathing 935s. Porsche even managed to dust off a 936 (and the rest of the field at Le Mans) in the early 80s.
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  727. How many times did the commentators remind us that Finland joining NATO "...will be perceived as a direct threat to Russia itself"? Compared to what? Russia invaded The Ukraine because even though it wasn't joining NATO, but somehow it was still perceived as a direct threat to Russia itself. Isn't it clear that Putin and the Russian leadership perceive just about everything to be a direct threat to Russia itself. Finland doesn't have to join NATO for Russia to be paranoid about it being a threat to Russia itself. That paranoia exists no matter what Finland does.
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  728. They lost me when they said that the fact that "for some, water is down to the last drop", and held this to be an existential threat. Sure, there will always be draughts and floods. But we still exist as a water world with the majority of the surface of our planet covered by water, and that surface is then wrapped in an atmosphere steeped in water. The local lack of (or excess of) water is not an existential threat, but the same localized challenge that we've faced since before histories were kept. Since this group of people (and others) have been making predictions for many years, the conversation should really begin with a discussion of the accuracy of their predictions from 10 or 20 years ago before we lean in too far to interpret their latest prognostications.
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  729. What's not to like??? It's not sold in the US. That's what!
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  730. You seem like the masochist sort. Why not get a TVR?
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  731. I tried to find Thomas Malthus for a comment on that study, but he wasn't available.
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  732.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  Are you talking about the "Limits to Growth" study from MIT published in 1972?
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  733. Gail Helt's "expert" comments at 1:47 didn't age well.
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  734. Here's a thought -- the IPCC report again uses an average of different models to make it's forecast. When was the last time that you heard that method used in non-climate science. Imagine if Einstein's E=MC^2 was averaged with his competitors' formulas and contemporary nuclear power stations were designed based on the result? Normally in science different theories (aka models) are tested and those which aren't useful for predicting future observations are discarded, while those which are accurate are adopted and used as the basis for future developments. When was the last time that any of the climate model herd was culled?
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  735. It's not really about clean-air or CO2, it's about telling you what you can or can't do. The air is cleaner now than it was 40 or 50 years ago. Look at how clear the sky was in this video. If it was about clean air, we'd be all over the Chinese, Russians, Indians and 2nd world countries because that is where the bulk of the pollution is coming from. I've seen it 1st hand. But the fact is that we're not doing that. So arguing pollution statistics with people who don't care or know is a waste of time. If it's not about pollution, then what? Power - specifically the power to take from you and give to someone else. That's what's going on.
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  736. Makes me think of a comment I once heard: "Create life? Any farm girl knows how to do that!"
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  737. What?! No Adrian Belew???!
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  738. Communists solved the income inequality years ago. Unfortunately it resulted in almost everyone's income approaching zero. But somehow the politburo members managed to get nicer stuff than everyone else. So while there was income equality, there wasn't much equality in the allocation of stuff.
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  739. OK. At 30:30 I absolutely spit out my beverage and started to hyperventilate because I was laughing so hard! Well done!!!
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  740. Why haven't we seen aliens yet? Because the Milky Way is HUGE!
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  741. Now you have to try to finagle a ride in a Hayabusa powered version. https://youtu.be/AgwzHJo3IXM
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  742. Outstanding Metatron!!! You hit the ball out of the park! And JPS? A big swing-and-a-miss! BTW -- I had never heard of the Kushite queens. Sub-Saharan Africa is tremendously underserved in published histories, I'd be interested in hearing more! (Disclaimer: my ancestors didn't come from anywhere near Sub-Saharan Africa.)
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  743. "Servicing a Lotus is servicing a Toyota" --... until you ding the chassis. :-/
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  744. While watching this, a question came to mind: Which has more ships? The current active Royal Navy or the former Royal Navy museum ships?
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  745. 2 thoughts: 1) Is the coil good? 2) It might be time for a dyno-pull. That will confirm the air/fuel mixture and general health of the engine across the rev range.
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  746.  @renedekker9806  that applies equally to both of us I'm sure.
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  747.  @jeanf6295  True. But it's significance can be far greater than just a response to a specific question. If you were to ask me when FDR was President, I could respond that "he was president during WWII". I'd be factually correct, and you could go away satisfied with the answer. But the fact the was the US's president during that time also speaks volumes to his character and accomplishments, beyond merely the answer to the question. The statement about the timeless nature of God is consistently mentioned elsewhere in the Bible -- for example as I mentioned Genesis 1 & 2,, Daniel 2:20-22 and Daniel 8 (specifically verse 19). I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.
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  748. I'm confused about the reference to 906 cams versus the S cams. S cams are fast road cams. 906 cams are full-race cams with tons of lift and overlap, and won't even come "on-cam" until past 5000 RPM, and would pull up to 8000. Mid-range torque is not a feature of 906 cams, especially compared to S cams.
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  749. Both sides have some points here, and I think that both should most likely review Matthew 18: 15-20 again. It's an instruction that today's on-line culture tempts to people to forsake. A PM would go a long way lest this "feud" give people the wrong idea about Christians.
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  750. Arctic Sea Ice is receding is only half the story. More specifically, to look at the Arctic while ignoring the Antarctic doesn't provide an accurate image of ice cover on the planet. NASA's web site includes a report from 2015 shows that the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice from 1992 to 2001. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (part of CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder) reported on March 25, 2025 that "Net accumulation of snow, part of the ice sheet’s surface mass balance, was far above average for the year ending in February 2025. Thus, extensive snowfall helped reduce the ice sheet’s net contribution to sea level rise for this period." (I'd include links to the sources, but YouTube doesn't seem to like it when you link to outside sites in the comments. A 2 minute internet search should pull them up.)
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  751. Ope! Sabine is wondering into the social sciences again. It's bound to be frustrating for all involved!
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  752. Why not just ask A1? Nobody knows what the future will bring -- even experts. If this was really a way to predict the future, it would be used to make investment decisions and these experts would be rich. While the Rand corporation has many smart people working for it, the last time that I checked, investment income was not a primary item on their finncial statements. As far as the Delphi method, it seems like an interesting (abiet combursome) method to create a concensus, but a K-J method could also have used. I'm sure that there are other useful methods too. But none of them is a crystal ball. To go back to my key point, don't get anxious over this report. None of us knows the future. The only good and accurate prediction is that we will all die. Until that time focus on maximizing today. Make someone happy. Help someone less well off than you - not by giving them money but by actually interacting with them and improving their existance in some way. You'll be surprised by how much better you'll feel! Don't be anxious about tomorrow! Use today to make someone's life better!
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  753. In Germany they wouldn't say "seven eighteen / sieben achtzehn", but say "Seven-hundred eighteen / siebenhundertachtzehn". Just sayin. ;-) The 714-4's engine sound actually reminds me a bit of a 914-4's engine. Most people have forgotten how Porsche's air-cooled 4's sounded.
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  754. I double-checked my calendar to nake sure that April 1 had 't come early.
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  755. Excellent conversation. The last 10-15 minutes hits the nail directly on the head when dealing with historical research -- especially in the English language. I've seen it in regards to entire books on WW1, as well as WWII and many other subjects in the last few hundred years. But in speaking of WWI -- there is a truth and a warning in the old adage "The victors write history". I have found time and again when researching events in WW1 that the conventional wisdom is what was recorded in the English histories. But when you put it side-by-side with the German language accounts of the same events -- things look considerably different. The English history might report "We attached, successfully captured the objective and then returned to our lines after inflecting heavy casualties" while the Germans report "Fritz and Georg were killed, and 2 others were wounded in the counter-attack that repulsed the English". Suddenly the effectiveness of the strategy and tactics is called into question. This myopic view of English language accounts explains the almost total ignorance within the English speaking world of events on the WW1 Eastern Front, which had considerable impact on the war. Somewhat beyond the scope of this channel, but very relevant for the overall subject of historical research.
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  756. So... you made a mistake. Do you fall on your sword? Fall on your knife or fall on your seax/sax/sahs?
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  757. Ah, Omar Bradley. Revered by contemporary writers of history as "The Soldiers General", a leader who cared about his men. While Patton was vilified for being too tough on his men. Yet while Patton was able to feeeze the Germans with essentially no troops prior to D-Day, Bradley's kinder use of the troops under his command in the prior Battle of Hürtgen Forest, and leading up to the Battle of the Bulge tends to get glossed over. (Disclaimer: My dad served in the 3rd Army, and he would never say a bad word about Patton".)
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  758. There was a "context" alert added to this video -- which is sad since it points to Wikipedia as a source. Sabine's video should be provided as "context" to the Wikipedia listing. This is especially true since 99% of this video is a climate "expert" speaking uninterrupted.
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  759. To me, while the Hoser piece is a little unusual or unexpected, at the same time, it's not alien either. There is just enough familiarity and resolution to not put the listener off, while still exploring new ground. Avante Guarde does the later well, without the former. Most pop artists? Vice versa. Great composers and artists can balance the two.
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  760. Even Jay got upstaged by the Porsche Abarth Carrera next to the Mercedes "Gull WIng".
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  761. Since Brenda Fulton doesn't believe in "tarnishing a whole group of people because of the actions of one", then I assume that she is repudiating CRT since that is based on making all white males pay for the actions of some white males over 150 years ago. Is that correct? Inquiring minds would like to know Ms. Fulton.
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  762. ... but on a separate channel. I appreciate your position about not playing with guests on interview. This channel isn't "Liive from Rick's House". By the way, I believe that I've even seen you play a little bit of drums on at least one video. To be honest, I"m not surprised. Most people who I've met in my life who went to music college are competent multi-instrumentalists.
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  763. The issue that you will have with the sound is that the 308 has a flat-plane crankshaft, which means that the firing order is like 2 4-cylinder engines on the same crank. All flat plane V8 sound like that, from Cosworth DFV's to Indy Car engines and so on. It will never sound as cool as an AMG Mercedes V8, or an Audi 4.2 as used in the R8. All of those have "90 degree" crank designs, just like 'Merican pushrod V8s. The trade-off is that while flat-plane V8s breath better (and thus can make more hp per cubic inch), they shake more due to firing imbalences. 90 degree V8 change the firing order to resolve the vibrations, but then pick-up some breathing issues due to the irregular firing order. Take your pick on the trade-off That's why the 308 doesn't sound that cool at low to mid rev's as say a Audi R8 V8.
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  764. Hearing Obama speak always elects a deep emotional reaction in me. The tone, the tempo -- the irregular timing. It never fails to strike me to my core, and the effect is always similar to a norovirus.
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  765. Is that "John Thomas" from Buckaroo Banzai?!!!!!
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  766. Have you posted the video of your Porsche Turbo S drive that you were referencing?
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  767. 986 Boxsters are the answer to your question. Just like a 911, but less so. They don't have as drastic of a transition from understeer to oversteer (i.e. as much of a rear weight bias), they don't have quite as much HP, Their top speed is a little less and they cost about half as much as a 996 911. Basically 90% of the qualities at half the price. On the other hand a Boxster is a better convertable than any 911, and some Boxsters come with hardtops. Boxsters with tiptronic automatics usually are cheaper too! Such a deal!
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  768. Hmmm.... Nothing by Phil Spector(?). Also, I think the Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi bears mentioning.
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  769. " I'll never understand why government ministers are so incapable of seeing what is so blatantly obvious to the rest of us." I suggest you watch some congressional testimony by the leaders of the Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, NTSB and so on on the subject of electrification. Also some of the witnesses, like Hollywood actors telling everyone why the nation needs to transition to electric vehicles. You'll all too quickly understand why they are incapable.
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  770.  @AdeptArin  I guess I'm dating myself. If I watch one of their videos, it's from "back in the day". Obviously they weren't using the technology in the studio nor on-tour in the 80's. I'll cut them some slack on "retirement tours". People's vocal ranges change, vocal chords age and hearing degrades. If they need a little technical support to perform some of their more demanding "classic" tunes in person nowadays, nobody cares. It's just great to see that they are still performing.
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  771. There is one other aspect to consider -- the economic aspect. Specifically, by this I mean the impact of such mining on the "Supply and Demand" curve for the commodity. For example: Platinum is currently trading at $1,088.00 per oz. for a market made up of about 170 metric tons per year. So, if you could hypothetically mind and return 85 metric tons of platinum, you could make $3,262,139,520! Right? WRONG! Starting with a simple case of demand being stable at that price, the price/oz would most likely drop to around $544 per oz. (revenue for our asteroid miner would now be about $1,631,069,760 instead) because there would be more supply than demand and the market would be flooded. Would it still make sense to mine an asteroid at this price? There would be incentive for sellers (terrestrial and extra-terrestial) to cut their prices to move their product -- which would open up new markets who previously couldn't afford to use platinum, but now could at at price of less than $600. The increase in in demand would bump the price up a bit from $600 per oz, but it's doubtful that it would reach $1,088.00 per oz again in the near future. Every change in supply and demand will than reset the trading price. So beware of straight forward extrapolations when it comes to commodity prices!
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  772. I'm not so sure if this is as much a judicial issue (as opposed to executive or legislative as you mentioned) as it is a question of civil law versus criminal law. Criminal law relates to offenses against the state -- which are referred to as crimes. Civil law on the other hand refers to offenses between non-governmental entities (referred to as the plaintiff and the defendant). Long story short, anyone can sue anyone for just about anything. It then goes to civil court to be settled. This is a massive improvement over the old system which generally required matching pistols, pointy objects or sometimes just bare knuckles. So the fact that scientists got sued should neither be a surprise nor offensive. It's just indicative of the fact that the dispute could not be resolved by other means. Keep in mind that civil law also has different rules for settling affairs, and different standards by which decisions are made. The "contempt of court" issue on the other hand is a criminal affair, and it's use to silence someone who is not a participant in a court trial would be a dubious act in the US, but may be different in other countries. In the US, this is being discussed in the case of Donald Trump being sued by the State of NY for a civil offense... (Yes, at least to a non-lawyer like me this sounds somewhat questionable since if it involves a State, but is not being settled via a criminal trial. It's clear that this venue was chosen as there are different rules and standards for evidence and decisions in civil court since it is nominally between equals as opposed to a state and an individual citizen. But I digress)...and a decision has been made by the court to restrain the odorous speech of Donald Trump, who is the defendant in the trials. Note that this injunction on his free speech is being applied to a participant in the trial, and has limitations on it. What you report of a British court reaching out to a non-participant in a foreign country (even though a subject of the British king) to restrain their speech is a totally alien concept to someone from the US. But as I said, your local laws may be different. Anyhow, the fact that a private group of chiropractics is suing a private scientist for defamation is not surprising nor alarming. What would be alarming is if these two parties were to try to settle the dispute at 12 paces with pistols.
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  773. At 10:26, the classic Massachusetts street sign! The road that you're about to be on? I95N Rt1S Just to confuse tourists. Love it!
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  774. I've noticed a trend in the "Timeline" for their "experts" to all be of the same viewpoint, spouting congruent views as if there was a consensus that needed to be taught. At 7:00 I love how the "expert" spends a bunch of time telling us that "perhaps..." this and "perhaps..." that. We don't need experts to spout suppositions, anyone can do that. Personally I prefer the old "Mysteries of the Bible" series, where at least they would have commentary and analysis from Protestant and Catholic theologians, and Orthodox and Reformed Rabbis. (If my memory is correct, I think that the priest at 19:00 was actually in that series.) That way you can learn how people with different biases view a particular subject. This episode definitely falls short of that standard. They state their premise at the start by creating a biblical strawman, and then spend the rest of the episode relentlessly flogging the strawman which they created.
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  775. At the end of the day, she was bought-off to sign the NDA. She could have just refused the money and the NDA, and said "No thank you. I'm leaving". And then left for Central America as she did. I'm no lawyer, but than she would then be legally free to speak to whoever she wanted about the situation whenever she wanted. But instead she took the money. Her lawyers did her a disservice giving her that advice in my book. That being said, I agree that NDA's should not be valid if they are used to cover a crime.
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  776. Sad but true that so much of science has degraded to this level, but unfortunately, there is no reason that it should be immune to the wider rot in our society in general.
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  777. Funny. Rome Reports shows a video entirely based on images that they didn't create -- they were created by Italian Civil Servants, who are paid for by Italian taxes -- and then they claim copy write protection, and don't let others do what they did themselves. Typical! 🙄 As far as the passage in Revelation -- folks -- I refer you to Revelation 1:1. Hint: It's a vision! Chances are that the book of Revelation "reveals" about as much about the physical appearance of pre-crucifixion Jesus as it reveals about the end times, which is what it is actually written about! In either case, theologians have been struggling for almost 2 millennia with what the book actually means.
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  778.  @waynechadwell5392  Why don't they leave us alone? Can't they just disappear into anonymity rather than constantly thrusting themselves into the limelight.
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  779. Regarding the location of the cities at 5:19 , a few additional thoughts. 1) The climate of the Levant region is very susceptible to change. Because of it's location east of the Mediterranean, and the mountainous geography, the amount of rain received can vary drastically within even 5 miles. Small changes in the temperature of the Mediterranean, wind patterns or air temperature can make fairly drastic changes in the the location or existence of rivers, forests and deserts in the region. This has been confirmed by numerous studies and even a cursory look at the geography -- for example dried river beds. As such the region to the south and east of the Dead Sea have at times in the past been far more amenable to habitation then it might be today. 2) The YouTube site "Expedition Bible" reviews some interesting archeology of the region to the southeast of the Dead Sea. Specifically the videos "Sulfur Balls of Sodom and Gomorrah" and "Sodom burned—Zoar did NOT: The full story of the discovery of the Cities of the Plain!" discuss some interesting physical findings.
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  780. Drach, you know your naval history, but your understanding of New York's geography is a bit off. Albany is maybe 2 hours north of New York City on the Hudson River. Buffalo is in far western New York and about as far from NYC as you can be in New York state. The USS Slater is in the Hudson River in Albany.
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  781. Boy the man at 3:20 was lucky! Jesus could have cured his suffering with euthenasia instead. Just one touch with this needle and your suffering would be cured!
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  782. I've seen a video that compared the off-road version of the VW (the Kubelwagon) with a WWII era Jeep. Surprisingly the 2WD VW kept up with the 4WD Jeep for the very reasons that you mentioned -- light weight and the weight biased over the rear wheels.
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  783. I've been thinking of the Free Will subject since your earlier video. Your statement that humans don't have free will doesn't hold up in the face of all of the creative accomplishments of humans. If humans' actions are merely the result of chemical and physical reactions, and environmental conditioning, than by extension all of the technological and creative accomplishmemts of humans are merely emergent results, or predictable outcomes. But we know this not to be true. Chimpanzies are not sending rockets to the moon, nor are dolphins. Animals are not developing quantum computers. There is something distinctly different about humans when compared to the rest of the biological realm. This difference can not be explained by chemistry or logic, and the math does not support the cause being random chance.
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  784. @arctic_haze  Didn't Anton Petrov ("Hello Wonderful Person" 🖐🙂) just report on ice cores from the center of the landmass GISP2 which were taken in 1993. They found pollen, moss, wood, fungi and even what appeared to be an insect eye. They even found some sample DNA. The samples strongly suggest that Greenland was ice free as recently as 1M years ago. Long before modern humans existed, but just a brief moment in geologic time. Greenland is also known to have had much less ice coverage as recently as 800 - 1300 CE, well before any industrial age. So this poses two challenges for those pointing to Greenland's ice sheet representing a tipping point. 1) It has come and gone a number of times from purely natural causes -- why is this time our fault? What caused it to melt and refreeze in the past? 2) Why is this potential thaw (I'm not fully convinced, but for the sake of discussion) now going to result in a runaway scenario? It never has in the past.
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  785. I guess it's a good thing that nobody asked you to get as high as possible and as low as possible on the HMS Victory!
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  786. Intuitively there is a signal to noise problem. Sure, A butterfly in China flaps its wing, and chaos happens elsewhere. But which butterfly? There are millions of them! Is the propensity of one of them to create chaos greater then the others? A similar questions why did the airliner crash? What singular error caused it? The FAA seems to have taken the aproach that it's generally impossible to attribute a crash to a single then, when in reality any outome is the result of a tree of events which combined rresulted in the crash.
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  787. Echoing the earlier warnings about spacers, especially if you are tracking the car. The thicker the spacer, the greater the stresses on the bearings. Also putting the spacers on only the front or the rear can be a tuning device. In general --+ too much understeer - add spacers to the rear wheels. Similarly, adding spacers to the front will decrease oversteer (increase understeer). This is a result of an increase of load transfer to the outside wheel with the spacer behind it.
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  788. Is it me or does the interior seem strangely BMWish? The arrangement of the rear cupholders, the center console and some other aspects seem strangely familiar.
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  789. As a response to Sabine's opening question -- I submit video "Thomas Sowell Exposes the Truth Behind ‘Our Democracy’ Rhetoric – Part One" on this site. It will help to clear up the confusion and the reasons why.
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  790. Thank-you for sharing Sabine! I highly respect your honesty and integrity as you did what you thought was right rather than what everyone told you to do. Your attitute is refreshingly sincere and I'm happy that you have been able to find your place. Keep on doing what you think is right, and I for one, will keep on watching (and reading your books too). 👍
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  791. Yes. I was thinking that by eating a large spinach salad for example, that I might be increasing my carbon footprint by removing the spinach from the process of photosynthesis, while at the same time increasing the amount that I fart, which contains both CO2 and Methane. I might be more effective at saving the planet by having a steak and thus saving the fields from a cow, while consuming a far more digestible meal.
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  792. I agree whole heartedly, but the reason that everything is done this way is because that is the way record companies want it. They seem to be the entities who are pushing it to remove the expensive performers from the loop. Composers have already been replaced by committees so that the record companies don't have to worry about the composer doing doing a Tyler Swift and re-releasing hits after the original recordings have been sold.
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  793. What was the red light at the base of the speedo that seemed to come on occasionally?
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  794. Never mind!! The fuel light.
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  795. JayM: " I have two front engined, V12 Ferraris, but what I really aspire to is a mid-engined, V8 Ferrari..." Wait! I think I hear "T he Old Man" turning over in his grave.
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  796. The drum break at 14:16 in your video is classic Bill Bruford. Listen to him during his King Crimson tenure in the 1980's and you'll hear a lot of similar riffs.
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  797. Ah yes - that archaic torsion bar suspension in the 911. People seem to forget that EVERY F1 car, F2 car and F3 car, as well as Indy cars and modern prototype sports for at least the last 20 years (if not longer) has been made with (archaic) torsion bar springing!
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  798. I'm pretty sure the questions about torture and genocide are a result of the Nazis (and others) sneaking into the US after WWII. Many did. Nowadays these questions can be used against bad actors from the Ukrainian war, Cambodia's killing fields, and any of the wars or ethnic cleansing events in Africa or elsewhere. The catch is that if at some future time it is determined that a person involved in those events lied on their application, this is a federal crime, and grounds for revoking the citizenship and expelling or jailing the person in question, irrespective of if they had broken any laws while performing those acts.
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  799. Bottom line -- if you believe that a human being is not valuable, but a cost, you will not see a problem with a declining population. If you believe that human life is a precious gift of great value, the declining birth rate in a population is the reduction in the value of the world. These are fundamentally two very different world views. One will ultimately lead to loneliness and death. The other leads to life in the future, and a present and future where love exists. You have one life to live out your decision. Choose carefully. There are no do-overs.
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  800. "... Very familiar if you're used to a Perfimonte..." Ohhhhh! Now I know what you're talking about! ;-)
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  801. ​ @LGMrap They both do have enormous carbon footprints.
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  802. It sounds like you need to take a vacation to Germany. Because of a business trip, I've spent the last two weekends driving around Bavaria, where many of the B-roads have 60 mph speed limits, and many of the Autobahns still have unlimited stretches. The cars are so competent! Even my humble 1.5 liter turbo'd VW T-Roc ( aka Taos in the US) was a comfortable 110-plus mph cruiser. You will also see many of the cars that you cover on your channel being driven around. Just this weekend, I've seen a Merc 300SL Gull-wing, a BMW 3.0 CSL, a few Lambos, Aston Healys, a Merc Pagoda, A BMW V12 coupe, and countless other Mercedes AMGs, BMW's and Porsches.
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  803. Yes. Rather than showing the graphs in raw dollars, it would have been far more meaningful to show the charts in an inflation adjusted dollar, and the number of vehicles per household or per licensed driver as opposed to just in sheer quantity. The number of cars has increased, but so has the population. So what's the real relationship?
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  804. Wireless power transfer is indeed possible. I've heard of people who live near high tension wires rigging an antenna near the high tension - maybe disguised as a clothes line. They were then able to use this power in their house. Free energy! At least until the power company comes by to track down the power loss along that stretch of the network. 🙄
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  805. Would freeze in an unheated garage??? Most Germans of that era didn't have garages!
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  806. I had a hard time getting past the opening -- PBS is reporting on corporate welfare. WHaaaat?????? The next thing you know AOC will be advocating higher taxes for the rich at some $30,000 per person soiree!
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  807. The fact that we're still referencing the IPCC as an authoritative source of information is pretty depressing. If there was any scientific "authority" whose predictions have been repeatedly debunked -- it's the IPCC. Really the group should be disbanded, their budget zeroed out, and we go back to the traditional methods of science -- specifically individual (and small groups of) scientists developing competing theories and predictions, and then let the actual data determine the truth. The UN determining science is about as effective as the UN determining which car models are going to be successful in the future. Oh wait -- they're trying to do that too! 😵🤭😮‍💨
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  808. I'm not sure that I agree with either one of you. You said that science is defined by argument, which disagrees with your earlier position as stated in your book that science is defined by utility. A theory either is useful for describing a phenomena, or it is not. The oratory skills of the speaker has nothing to do with it. You could be the most persuasive flat-earther to ever exist, but if a single astronaut shows a picture of a sphereical earth, your flat earth theory goes out with the trash. As far as COVID being caused by a virus, the answer depends on the context and the level of abstraction. So some (or all) of the following could be true. COVID is: caused by a virus, caused by a jump across hosts in a wet market, by a lab leak, by Scientists trying manipulate a virus's genetics and so on. You could even say that COVID is caused by a governmemt's funding of "gain of function" research. Depending on the context, any of those (and more) could be accurate.
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  809. Really -- this is nothing new. In the decades that I've been a Porsche fan and part of the market there are a few truisms that should be kept in mind: 1) A fool and their money are soon separated. There are always going to be some people (others may call them "suckers") who will wind up buying high and selling low. It's just part of free markets. Those people will inevitably end up selling out at a loss, and someone else can get a good deal -- let's call them the wise buyer. Note to self -- don't be a "sucker"! 2) Many (but notably not all!) Porsche sellers suffer from what I call "Holy Icon Syndrome". What is this? The belief that even though they bought something manufactured by Porsche for $X, that inevitably it is now worth $1.5X when they are selling -- as if they believe that any potential buyer was born yesterday. You see it on the 1-owner GT's, and you see it on on used parts on EBay. It's like they believe that there was some magic imparted on the piece by virtue of their ownership. So what to do? This brings me to point 3) Porsche is very good managing the growth in value and performance of their cars. They've done it since the 60's (although they are better at it now!). If you look at the progression you'll notice that (for example) a 996 GT3 has similar performance to 991 Carrera, although the 991 is going to have more weight as a result of the substantial increase in features. Looking at the (US, asking) prices, you'll see that a nice PCA member owned 991 Carrera can be found for $60K - $70K. A 996 GT3 from the similar market can be bought for ~$85K. There are a lot more 991 Carreras than 996 GT3s, but GT3s are also a bit more demanding to live with in regards to ride comfort, noise, features etc. So there is a performance price point - 0-100 kph in 4.5 seconds for about $70K (+/- $10K). The same applies to most models of 911 going back to the long-hood days. Many may not remember that there was a time when long-hoods were almost disposable because the Carrera 3.2's or 993s were so much better and faster. Eventually (decades down the road) the prices will start to go up again because of limited numbers of survivors, and nostalgia. If you want to get a good price (value) on a Porsche, buy them when they're about 20 years old. At that point even the "Hot" models will start to be eclipsed by Porsche's current offerings, they will be depreciated but still wonderful cars to drive and enjoy. They will be no worse to drive than when they were new if well maintained. If you "buy and hold" (always the best long term investing strategy), you'll quite likely make some money on selling it if you keep it in good condition. So unless your brother-in-law is a Porsche dealer, I'd argue that the most financially rational way to buy a Porsche is to deal in cars which are about 20 years old. At the end of the day, it's fans like myself who prop-up the bottom end of the used market which make all of the high prices for newer cars possible.
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  810. My Dad and his best friend both served in a 3rd Army unit in WWII. As far as they were concerned (and many others who served similarly), Patton was #1. When the movie Patton came out in the 60's, they all went to see it together (and I guess the wives were dragged along too!). They all would have dropped what they were doing in order to be in the funeral. As it was I guess the roads were lined with GIs who were still in Europe along the route from the funeral to the cemetery. He was a big deal with his troops. I guess the nickname "Blood and Guts" was created by a reporter who had an agenda -- much like today. The facts are that the 3rd Army advanced further, with fewer casualties per mile than any other army during the war. That wasn't an accident, that was Patton.
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  811. I've learned to just open the steering a bit if you have to back off the throttle mid-corner. But slow-in/fast-out trumps everything else.
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  812. I tend to be VERY afraid when people show up claiming that we need to give them tons of money NOW or the Earth is doomed. What couldvpossibly go wrong. Meanwhile it's a nice day outside my window, much like nice days throughout my life (which is longer then the lives of most people alive today). The last time that the Earth had a cool-down event crops failed, civilizations crumbled, and millions of people died. First these scientists should consider the Hipocratic oath -- specifically "Do no harm". If the cure might be worse than the affliction -- maybe we shouldn't do it.
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  813. Speaking of their cross-town neighbors in Zuffenhausen - am I the only person who thinks that the Merc looks a lot like a 911 from the rear?
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  814. Without a good understanding of what is the natural variation in the air- and water- flows of our planet over historical and geological time frames, any discussions of tipping points and "anthropological climate change" is grossly premature. For example -- what happened to the gulf stream in 1816, or during 1878? How about during the "dark ages"? How did it change before and after those periods? Until the natural variation is understood, claims of "un-natural variation" constitute fear mongering.
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  815.  @Michael_Lorenson  Hey, Number 27 is welcome to replace his clutch as often as he likes. No offense intended
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  816. Beware New Hampshire. In addition to the forest green state police cars, they can also clock you while driving in the other direction on a 2-way road.
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  817.  @clayton8or  Residential roads are something else completely. Also "not being the fastest car" in a highway situation does not mean being second in line travelling at extra-legal speeds. Let the car that is in a hurry get at least 300-500 yards ahead of you, and be mindful of his brake lights.
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  818. I'm not sure if "science" stands outside the law. There are disputes in science and there are disputes in business and every other possible venue. It's just a question of how they are settled. If they can't be settled in a civil manner, they can wind up in civil court. This is still an improvement over how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr settled their dispute.
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  819. @MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl  We"re pretty much in violent agreement. I was responding to Sabine's shock at "scientists being sued for doing their job". I guess you could summarize my response by saying "Don't be. They are no different than anyone else who can be sued for doing their jobs." Doctors, grocers, engineers, business people, everyone is at risk of being sued.
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  820. Let's combine AI with zealous enforcement of climate change orthodoxy. What could possibly go wrong? Personally I think that the current policy was bad already, the proposed new policy is even worse. Why? Let's take the existing policy.. "We do not allow content that contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on climate change". Now let's apply it to certain periods of our history... 1610: "We do not allow content that contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on the Earth's position in the cosmos" 1856: "We do not allow content that contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on biological development" 1912: "We do not allow content that contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on state of the universe" 1915: "We do not allow content that contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on matter and energy in the universe" Hmmmm..... It seems to me that the historical trend has been that those whose ideas haven't stood the test of time inevitably resort to censorship.
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  821. Thinking about this subject further, it's a sad commentary on the state of the culture in contemporary science that the idea of "consensus" even enters into the discussion, let alone "authoritative". Both of those words are part of the realm of politics, not Science. As Sabine herself describes so eloquently in her book "Existential Physics", science is supposed to be about utility. If a theory produces forecasts or predictions which are both falsifiable, and accurate -- than it is accepted because it is useful. No consensus or authority is needed. The theory is proven by measurements and facts. Einstein predicted that Mercury's orbit would wonder off of the existing models by a certain amount -- and look at that! It did! Einstein was right not because it was Einstein who said it, or how many others agreed with it. Einstein was right because that same theory could then be applied to other problems -- such as black holes -- to predict the orbits of object around them. And these predictions were confirmed by observations too. Theories which have variations larger than the prediction, or which require constant revisions in order to fit new data have little utility as their predictions are not accurate. These inevitably should be discarded since they no longer have utility for moving science forward. Once again -- no consensus or authority needs to be appealed to. Alas, this standard has apparently been lost or discarded in much of contemporary science.
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  822. Far more people die from food allergies to things as natural as nuts, than from GMO food.
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  823.  @WhiteMouse77  I remember reading somewhere back in the day that the IMSA GTU and GTO race cars actually ran better on regular octane fuel than the high-octane racing fuel that the piston engines were running. I've never researched the combustion process of a rotary compared to a piston engine to try to understand why.
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  824. Depending on the car, I have found that one of two techniques will generally work. In my 911 that has a hard, un-boosted brake pedel and a well aligned throttle I will brake with the ball of my right foot and breath the throttle with the outer portion of my heel. In other more modern cars with soft, boosted brakes I may brake with the arch of my foot and use my outer toes to breath the throttle. In either case I don't "blip" the throttle. That spins the engine up and down too quickly. I've found the analogy that they used to use in Skip Barber works well. You want the engine to swell as you match rev's. You want a sort of "YOUnggggaaaa" sound from the engine that lasts 2 to 3 seconds, not a stab that spikes the revs (a Zoom!).
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  825. The irony is that the Cavalry were generally replaced by armored vehicles because they were more efficient and cheaper to opperate per mile than a man on a horse.
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  826. This is something in the world of software and tech which is known as "vapor-ware". It's feature that's been around for decades. It's very common at trade shows and product roll-outs. I'd point you to an example, but that's hard to do because it doesn't usually exist. Never the less, I think that you found some on this truck.
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  827. The chart at 4:16 shows a significant portion of the solar emissions around the 10um wavelength. I don't see that in other graphs of the solar spectrum. Can anyone explain that discrepancy?
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  828. I loved the animation images but found the color choices disorienting. Specifically -- the sea being black, and the land blue left me sometimes baffled at what I was looking at. In the future, maybe making thebland green would resolve this.
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  829. @SwankySpitfire  Wow! Thank-you for the detailed reply. Obviously, there is a lot more going on there than I was aware of. I can't wait to see the next iteration! Thanks for the excellent visualizations, it definitely added to Drach's retelling of the events. I did like the ship models.
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  830. Don't worry.  Struts aren't better geometrically, they're just cheaper, lighter and leave more room in the engine compartment compared to double-wishbone -- which is why manufacturers have moved to them.
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  831. That statistic strains credibility. Either they are being generous in the definition of "mass", or else they have suddenly discovered all of the shooting deaths in Chicago, NYC and other major cities -- most of which already have strict gun laws. So if the strict gun laws in those cities don't prevent criminals and violent people from getting guns, what makes people think that even stricter laws will have an impact?
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  832. I love how the review took a sudden turn when you turned the TC off. 😂
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  833. The statement "We are the last to know the old Earth. Future generatiins will know a different Earth and a different humanity" is certainly as true today as it would have been 9000 years ago. Every generation sees itself as the pinacle of development, with the destruction of civilization as they knew it just around the corner in the future. Humanity still managed to move haltingly forward to a better future. We are no different today.
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  834.  @andyjarman4958  Do you have a more relevant source in time or space that you are basing your refuting of said monk's record? On what basis are you claiming that said monk was severely sequestered? There are many midieval examples of orders who were not.
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  835.  @andyjarman4958  There is the issue of timing. Doggerland was above seas level many thousands of years BCE. The Germanics moved into the area displacing or over-running the existing peoples largely during the Roman era
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  836.  @andyjarman4958  Just to clarify regarding my comment on Doggarland, the Germanics that I was referring to were the peoples moving into the Continental European North Sea coastal area, as well as Norway and Sweden. The default position put forward by Bede is that these Germanics only made it to Britain in any number after the Romans left in the 400's. A couple of hundred years later it is well documented that a second wave of Germanic speakers (known as the Vikings) arrived. Andy; I'm still waiting for you to cite some sources supporting the position that you're taking. So far all that I've seen is an ad hominem attack on the "Venerable Bede". Given that he was living within a couple of hundred years after of the events that he was documenting, and had access to documentation that we do not, that is a pretty strong position to try to overturn. Sitting here 1600 years later, I don't yet see how your word is more conclusive than his. I'll grant you that there was undoubtably some biases in his account, but nowhere near enough to throw the account out wholesale. But if you are going to argue that we should, I'd at least expect you to provide some accounts from the Migration era that contradict Bede's. So far I haven't see any. You'll also need to explain how Bede was to write such a detailed piece of fiction, given that I'm not aware of any such literary style being known at that time. He gives names, places and numbers, which is very different than -- let's say -- Le Morte d'Arthur. You'll also have a difficult task trying to refute the DNA data documenting the migration of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians to Britain during the Migration period: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35344663#:~:text=The%20present%2Dday%20English%20owe,to%20the%20Anglo%2DSaxon%20period. I'd be interested to see what sources and evidence you can provide aside from merely citing gaps in the default position that the Bede is largely accurate.
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  837. Funny -- having lived in the Boston area for decades, I still remember vividly September 11 2001, and what I was doing. I had flown on one of those flights in the year leading up to the hijackings. and had coworkers from my company who died on the flights. I really didn't remember this Mooninite event until I saw this video. As a counter-point to everyone who considers it a joke, what if Boston's emergency services hadn't taken the items seriously, and they had turned out to be bombs? "LED, not IED" makes a good punch line, but tell that to the family of someone who died on 9/11 or from the Boston Marathon bombing.
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  838. Funny -- not even 3 minutes in and I could see rust.
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  839. It sounds like the 911E had a couple hands tied behind it's back. If there is a rattle, then something isn't put together right. Early 911s shouldn't rattle. Second - if the brake pedal is long, the brakes need to be serviced and the fluid bled. The unassisted brake pedal of an early 911 should feel like there is block of wood under the pedal. The brakes are designed to transfer pressure, not necessarily volume. Finally there is a reason most owners swapped out the semi-automatic gearbox for a standard 5-speed. Props to you for actually finding a working cooy. Aside from the technological novelty of that gearbox, there isn't much in it's favor. It's noisier, slower, less reliable (especially with age) and got worse mileage. In it's favor, it was easier for the lazy driver to manage in stop-and-go traffic - but those types of people rarely buy old 911s nowadays.
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  840. Nowadays most big name car manufactures build cars that will long out-last most people's interest in owning them. Even after taking into account the current automobile inventory shortage created by the semiconductor shortage, a "recent" used car is still your most efficient purchase. Long term ownership is still cheaper and more efficient than leasing. Purchasing a new car will stick you with a large depreciation loss in value as soon as you drive it off the lot, which gradually becomes less meaningful the longer you own the car. Buying a car that someone else just depreciated winds up being the best deal. If you buy a recent lease return (AKA: CPO), you'll still even get a year or two of warranty on the car. But for even less money you can buy a ~4 year old car with maybe 50,000 miles/80,000 KM which will still have about another 100k miles (160k KM) of life in it -- but factor a few thousand dollars for repairs in the first couple of years due to deferred maintenance and hidden issues. As far as diesel versus gas, that has a lot to do with the price at the pump for each -- remember, a diesel gets about 30% more miles per gallon than a gasoline car. The price generally depends on how your government(s) chose to tax the fuel, some tax diesel more, some tax gasoline more. Hybrids seem to be about as efficient as diesels in terms of kw/mile. In terms of pure electrics, it once again depends on the price of electricity (which depends on the tax level) in your area, but they do haul around a significant amount of battery weight (sometimes almost doubling the weight of the car), which needs to be accelerated, de-accelerated and turned, all of which takes energy which other configurations don't need to expend.
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  841. I could have sworn that I recently saw footage of a Russian jet being shot down from the shooter's point of view that showed the jet crashing in a very similar environment. If so the two would show the complete engagement
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  842. I wonder if the strange handling may be the result of a limited slip in the back, or maybe a slightly less than ideal set-up of the live rear axle?
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  843. A song written by a couple of guys whose musical attention span is more than 4 chords, for listeners whose musical attention span was more than 4 bars.
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  844. Governments always think that they can "boost the economy" by spending more money. But the reality is that a government can't boost an economy since they don't produce anything, and the only way for an economy to grow is by producing more. A government can only "boost an economy" by taking (aka. taxing) and spending (other people's money) less, which frees up more money for producers (aka. private citizens) to invest in labor or productivity -- which produces growth. Growth is what increases the overall wealth of an economy.
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  845. In 2008 in the real world (as opposed to F&F or video games), Eric Curren got 3 wins (4 podiums) in a Cobalt SS in Ithe Grand Am, Koni Challenge GT series, against Acura TSX's and RSX's, Mazda RX5's and RX8's, BMW 330s and Mini Cooper S's.
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  846. I think Mazda's 323 may have also beat Honda to the punch for a passive 4-wheel steering system.
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  847. This isn't really an AI discussion, but really a Gaming Theory discussion, and should really be discussed as such. As far as the Insurance idea, that's DOA. In the US auto insurance is manditory for cars. Does that mean that everyone insures their car? Nope. If your car gets hit by an uninsured driver, it becomes your own insurance company problem, and they nay recoup nothing from the uninsured driver. So manditory insurance is impossible to enforce. It's kind of like if a virus escapes from an uninsured lab, who pays for the damage and clean-up???
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  848. Hopefully a discussion of the sea-borne operations supporting Operation Albion will appear sometime in the future. It's an relatively unknown example of a successful large scale amphibious operation in WWI, and included a number of encounters between the German Navy and the Russian Navy.
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  849. It seems like the type of car where I can picture you stopping after your drive, looking around and discovering that you're in Vermont someplace. Aside from that, the reflection from the silver speaker logo was annoying, but something a couple of pieces of electrical tape could resolve.
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  850. "Germany is pretty Anglesized...". Of course it is! Where did the Angles (as well as the Saxons, Jutes, etc) come from? Germany!
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  851. No no no. Tell us what you really think!
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  852. The new car's front grill looks much better behind a European style (long) license plate, as opposed to the US style plate, or nothing.
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  853. Amen.
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  854. Congratulations and welcome to the world of 'bottom feeders". It should make an awesome "driver". The first rule of troubleshooting cars like this is to start with the question: What could a previous owner have done that could cause the problem that I'm seeing now? Chances are that is the place to start looking for the source of most problems. I recommend that you enjoy it "as is" during the warm months and work on stuff each winter according to the most pressing problems and available budget. After a few (in my case 20) years you could have an awesome and well sorted car!
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  855. Carbon-ceramic brakes on a vintage rally car??!!!
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  856. I don't think you're wrong, and can sense your heartfelt desire to see a useful improvement. Unfortunately, what you describe doesn't seem to be a problem with particle physics, but goes seem deeper than that. It's a problem with human nature. As more and more money gets spent on fewer and fewer results, soon simple greed (mixed with vanity and pride) strives to keep the money flowing no matter the cost. This is because the cessation of funding will result in the collapse of the sub-society depending on that cash flow. No sacrifice is too great, be it the lives and reputations of others, nor even the truth to keep the funding flowing. The symptoms are best described as on OPM (Other People's Money) addictiom. It can be as uglyband debilitation as an addiction to the other opium. It would seem that when this point is reached, nothing short of a radical exorcism of the financial black hole will reform it. Think of it as financial "cold turkey".
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  857. @aconite_claw  So they started with the desired result (AGW is increasing the severity of wildfires!!!), and published that irrespective of what the math in the paper supports. What a paragon of modern science!
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  858. I guess I missed why Free Will is not an emergent property of higher (highest) level systems. Maybe you said that, but I missed it. The other thing I don't understand is why free will implies total determination (if I can think something, I can make it happen). It seems fairly obvious that free will as you describe it is limited by our temperal nature. We all die. We all are imperfect and can't seem to stop ourselves from doing the obviously incorrect thing. Call it stupidity. Even though we often understand what the orrect decision is, we sometimes chose otherwise. So it would seem that whatever free will we have, is limited, and imperfect.
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  859. Since this now settled, I assume that the IPCC will be despensing with their consensus and "shotgun" approaches to forecasting and will now issue a single forecast with their jobs on the line if the forecast is wrong. That also applies to forecasts where the variances are larger than the predictions. Now that this is all settled, there is no reason for these sorts of fudges because the predictions will now be usefully accurate. Failure should result in the termination of their research grants and fellowships.
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  860. @zzubra  Science is judged by utility. It's either accurate and useful, or something that doesn't matter. If Einstein's theories weren't accurate and precise, we wouldn't still be talking about him. Does anyone remember Arthur Patschke?
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  861. At about 20:00 you introduced "...and bad management.", without having mentioned it at any time previously in the video. Admittedly management in any industry can vary from awful to excellent -- do you have any data supporting your statement that the Nuclear Power industry suffers from "bad management". I'm not in that industry, but given the extreme regulatory requirements and highly technical nature, I haven't seen anything suggesting that the Nuclear industry suffers from worse management than -- let's say solar energy, or maybe carbon based energy sources. On the other hand, the number of "green energy" companies which have gone bankrupt would suggest that these companies suffer from far worse management than nuclear companies. You should also maybe spare a "bad management" thought for all of the regulatory agencies overseeing Nuclear, which as you documented contribute mightily to the rising costs and decreasing productivity, and then complain about the same. That sort of passive-aggressive leadership brings to mind the classic shake-down strategy of breaking your window, and then punishing you for not keeping up your property.
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  862. "Discriminating against anyone is wrong". Was that her admitting that "All lives matter"?
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  863. This whole subject shows the human propensity for rising to new challenges before promptly falling off the other side. In about 100 years we've gone from identifying an issue for which society could possibly do a better job of dealing with, to analyzing and understanding said issues, making improvements in how the issue is dealt with before getting into shouting matches, division and ultimately spreading social unrest and much personal pain. In the end I have to ask myself, are we really in a better place now with this subject than we were when people with the condition were considered to be special or unusual, and then everyone went on with their life, with no more to be said about it. We really are such flawed creatures (and I'm not talking about Autism with this exclamation)!
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  864. Drawing long term climate conclusions from merely 32 years of data is absolutely meaningless! Comparing a year's specific numbers to a "Pre-industrial mean" doesn't make sense statistically either since there is no understanding of the pre-industrial variations. When analyzing data using SPC, it's important to have a good understanding of the variations before drawing conclusions. We already know that the Earth's climate goes through many cycles -- from the 24 hour day (give or take depending on your latitude) to the 3 month seasons, el nino's/la ninas, solar cycles of various multiples of 11 years, and the much longer cycles resulting from wobbles and variations of the Earth's alignment to the Sun. Layer on top of these cycles events like volcanos and forest fires and you have very noisy data. Until you've tracked the data over multiple cycles, you really don't have a good understanding of what a few data points mean. "Eye balling" the data won't work! Furthermore, the signal-to-noise ratio here is VERY low! For example: here in Boston area summertime high temperatures are generally about 75F +/- 20 degrees, with occasional forays outside that range, and it has been this way for almost 200 years. (BTW -- the data is freely available from the NOAA website). The night-time temperatures are generally about 15 degrees cooler, and have their own variations. Now explain to me what a 1.5 degree shift in a particular year means? The same needs to be understood for the water temperatures before conclusions can be drawn. Drawing conclusions out a 1.5 degree shift from heavily averaged data when the natural variations are much greater than 1.5 degrees is bad statistics. Even if there is a point which is out of the 3 standard deviations zone (6-Sigma) is not a reason to flip out. But notice that there was no representation of the natural variations on the chart or in the conclusions. There are mathematical rules which define when a process has gone "out of control" (which means changed in a statistically meaningful way). The charts shown do not seem to display that sort of rigor. Finally, the thermal capacity of the water in the world's oceans are hundreds of times greater than the Earth's atmosphere. This is why water is often used in heating and cooling systems. What this means is that the water temperatures have a bigger influence on air temperature than the other way around. Another thing that is not well understood is going on in the sub-surface water temperatures. This is another important variable which is ignored by the paper when drawing conclusions. This paper is really an excellent example of the "Streetlight Effect" which was described by Abraham Kaplan. This can be described by the joke..."A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is""
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  865.  @nicejungle  Actually ... Not so! Just someone who learned about identifying and managing variation using statistical methods as part of a career in the semiconductor industry. The understanding and management of process variation has been central to that industry's successful manufacturing of billions of chips at steadily increasing performance and decreasing prices. It's easy to throw an ad hominem insult my way. But if you're not going to crunch the numbers to support your opposition, your disagreement doesn't mean much.
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  866.  @nicejungle  Facts are independent from credentials. Besides -- I can't remember the last time that anyone won a Nobel price for disproving a paper, and confirming the status quo. There are no headlines in that. I suspect that this paper - like many that Sabine has previously reported -- will wind up in the bin of papers that were ultimately never able to be independently validated or replicated. The historical odds are in my favor. But go ahead, continue throwing personal insults over, because we all know that is how Science is moved forward.
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  867. Have you checked the distributor for any play along the axis of the shaft that might cause the stumble? Given the distributor's alignment with the lateral axis, unlike most cars, I wonder if wear may be allowing some motion and potentially introducing a short to ground.
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  868. If you look at all of the effort and energy put into creating useable AI, it prompts the question of the actual benefits over old fashioned biological intelligence. In 25 years and mere one or two million dollars, a biological intelligence can be created. The process is well understood by now.
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  869. 😅 That's what I said! Anti-Matta! 😅
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  870. I had heard about the "self censorship" that you mentioned at about 2:30. My interpretation of the reason that they gave is rather that they felt people would use their findings against the outcome that they desired. Specifically, they were in favor of gender transitioning minors, and didn't want to publish the paper because it proved that this was not beneficial to the children. They were afraid that their paper would be "weaponized" against their preferred solution. This is more a case of hiding an undesirable outcome than self-censoring for the sake of avoiding being harassed.
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  871. It's a pretty open secret what the non-Prussians thought of them. The largest immigration of Germans into the US occurred in the 2nd half of the 19th century, to the point where they were the largest ethnic group in the US by 1900.
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  872. Would he have said the same thing to the British, American (and Canadian!) forces when they were bombing Germany and Japan in WWII?
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  873. At 6:20 you mention "Wedges" from that era, and neglect to include TVR's!
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  874. This clearly shows the value of believing every headline that comes across the internet. I propose that we let economics solve the problem. If someone really believes the solar panels are the solution -- put up their own money to put them there -- and then rake in the benefits, or pay the costs of that decision. But to just publish a paper telling governments how to spend other peoples' (i.e. taxpayers') money is not beneficial, and highlights the big problem with centrally planned and controlled investments.
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  875. Given the isolation of the populations, I wonder if Australian Aboriginal or maybe some of the native American languages would be the "oldest languages".
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  876. Don't worry about the geese. We've got a bunch of them that wonder around our office park. They will squawk about anything, and I've found that if you put a paper in front of them, they will always crap on it. I wouldn't consider them to be a reliable indicator.
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  877. Geez! You keep harping on the brakes. Porsche has never sold a car whose brakes were inadequate for track work. This is the first time that I've tuned into your channel, and you seem to have no clue about what you're talking about. Are you suggesting every Porsche should GT3RS brakes? Because if they did the braking wouldn't be great. Why? Because in 99.999% of the situations they would never get up to temperature. They would lack retardation, pad material would collect on the disks, and they'd be impossible to feel or to modulate. Porsche's engineers know this. The base Carrwra and Carrera T's brakes are sized to work in a 3000 lb car with <400 hp. Properly maintained, they are perfectly happy for track use and will also be happy in stop-and-go traffic or for emergency stops from 30 mph when a child's ball rolls in front of your car. Porsche's engineers know that all of their cars are tracked, and they also know what they are doing.
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  878. It doesn't matter. According to the modern internet, if it's painted gray and has a gun on it, it's a Battl3ship. Thus, all of the internet stories about Russian "Battleships" in the Black Sea.
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  879. A couple of thoughts - VW's 'dieselgate" was really about VW not playing along, or in fact deceiving the bureaucrats who had imposed wholely arbitrary limits on diesels which had nothing to do in any quantifiable way with changes in air quality. And the huge fines imposed bore no relation to any actual damages nor even any fines imposed on other violaters of things like FDA food or medicine violations. To put it into a few words - it was entirely political.
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  880. Wait! Anthropological Climate Change is causing "Stilling", but yet the IPCC has been telling us for years that Anthropological Climate Change will be causing an increase in hurricanes and storms. Combined, this doesn't make sense.
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  881. Who cares if the switches are Mondeo when they are mounted in a lovely wooden panel like that!
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  882. Rum, lime juice and sugar -- so the Royal Navy provided Daiquiris to their crews?
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  883. My take-away? If you want people to remember your music, it can't sound like mud. Musicianship matters. If your song sounds like mud, it will just sound like everyone else's mud and nobody will remember it.
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  884. Good list and I agree, especially the last one. It's a car, not some sort of holy relic! Share the fun! As far as owning a car and wearing the gear, I think that owners should get a pass if they wear a branded hat, especially if it's got some patina.
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  885. 76?!!! Get out! You hardly look older than 60! I'm glad to hear that you've recovered.
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  886. Great video Jack and some excellent points. A few other benefits of running a used classic car like a Merc is that you won't need to constantly deal with all of the "nanny's" ruining the driving experience -- and -- you don't need to worry about the car manufacturer (and by extension the Government) snooping on everything that you do and everyone that you know via the infotainment system.
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  887. Nowadays it seems like 99% of the photos attached to bews stories are stock photos -- so what's the difference? Would credentials have stopped the BBC and other news services from falsly applying pictures of a crying baby in the wreakage of a building that was taken 10-20 years ago to a news story about Gaza? I didn't think so. The creators of the story often seem to resort to the idea that "the picture captured the narrative" rather then quibble about details like provinance and accuracy.
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  888. The introduction of the expert via "Trump's impeachment" is a complete non-sequitor and unprofessional. It's clear that he was brought on just for the purpose of arguing against him. DW deminishes their status with stuff like this.
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  889. So what you really want is a 1960's Porsche 911.
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  890. I wonder how much of what was learned was applied furing WWII to the manufacturing Destroyer Escorts, PT Boats, Liberty Ships and others?
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  891. This series sums up why many Porsche owners harbor a secret lust for Ferraris as a guilty pleasure. The lust soon passes when we walk outside, turn the key and drive off in our galvanized Porsche.
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  892. Whenever I see these racing on TV, the back-end when driving away looks like it was taken from a Porsche GT3.
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  893. It looks like that trunk is big enough to hold at least one dissident!
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  894. Tip: Don't shift 901/911 transmissions with your palm over the top of gear-shift knob.  Shift gears 1-3 with your palm on the right side, and 4 & 5 with your palm on the left side of the gear lever when shifting up, and on the right side when shifting down.
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  895. @timothyrussell4445  Proof of a falsehood would allow a distinction to be made between it and an unproveable truth. But while a proven falsehood would disprove a specific falsehood, an unproveable truth can encompass countless theories, beliefs and wishes. In the end, I don't think either provides a robust platform on which to build concrete actions. Btw - in this conversation, when did I say "almost impossible"? I'm open to disagreement, so maybe I should have said that, but I can't see where I said that.
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  896. It's funny, I've gotten in the habit of listening to some of the talking YouTube videos videos at 1.5 speed. Being from New England, that's just the speed that some conversations happen, and makes the videos shorter. But anyway, I was inadvertently listening to the song that way, and I kind of liked it. In addition to shifting the key up, it also turned in into more of a "picken" sort of piece, kind of like Pure Prairie League's Amie. Forgive me Rick!
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  897. Hi. I don't know if that was the real Sabine Hossenfelder or an imposter responding above. Either way, I don't have an Instagram account.
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  898. Ed; did you say 70% or 17% of Russia's assets? If you said 70%, that sure sounds like an all-or-nothing bet on Russia's part.
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  899. Speaking of unlikely success as a raider, you should check out the story of the SMS Seeadler. A sail powered German raider that roamed the Atlantic and the Pacific capturing and sinking Entente shipping. If my memory is correct, only 1 person (from either side) died throughout their whole campaign.
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  900. So what happens at 30K miles? Does it turn into a pumpkin? What are your plans for the car when you get to that point?
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  901. A flip-side to your flip-side about the German medical system is that the state controlled medical insurance doesn't support medical innovations. Picture a combination of the bureaucracy that you described, with the costs limited by frugal managers. There are, and have been, many medical treatments which were available and common in the US which were not in places like Germany and Canada. Cataract lens replacement surgery was becoming common in the US in the early 1990's. This apparently was not available until considerably later to my relatives in Germany. Cancer treatments (while often expensive) are also far more common in the US than in Canada, the UK and Germany. It also seems like joint replacement surgeries are far more available in the US than in other countries. So while the US system can be more expensive, that extra money does provides benefits.
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  902. Rick Beato -- doing Chicago -- this just "Makes Me Smile"! Chicago was also one of my first albums in the 1970's. Their first "Greatest Hits" album as a matter of fact. As I've gotten older, I've come to appreciate some of what Danny Saraphine (who seems to be quite accessible via social media) was doing as a drummer. Many of the fills early in the song seemed to be based on the simple paradiddle -- a rudiment that is far more fundamental than it might seem. (Better drummers than I, feel free to correct me) It was very popular in the Big Band Era (see the song "Paradiddle Joe" for example), but seems less so nowadays. But than Danny always admitted to approaching the songs as a jazz drummer, and I believe that he learned from some of the greats. The other thing that I've come to appreciate is how the horn parts are accented like a good jazz chart. It seems almost every note has a different accent (<>^V) on it, which is challenging to play but provides a lot of energy and interest to the parts. Finally, I think you've highlighted why Terry Kath was such an important part of the band, and over time proved to be essentially unreplaceable. There were other excellent guitarists and singers, but they lacked the soulful tonality of his voice, and his touch on the guitar -- which I assume that you'll discuss in the follow-up video. I can hardly wait! If you'd like to get a sense of what they sounded like live, check out a concert from Leonid and Friends, who are touring the US as I write this. Having seen Chicago in the 70's (with the original line-up), and Leonid and Friends 2 years ago -- they've nailed it.
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  903. I have to kind of dispute "Slow Ride" by Foghat, since Foghat had a number of other songs -- such as "Fool for the City" which got a lot of airplay, even though "Slow Ride" was by far their biggest hit. They were more of a One-Album wonder than a One-Hit wonder, especially when that album was "Foghat Live". In their place I'd like to suggest "Focus" by Hocus Pocus. Does anyone know of any other songs that Hocus Pocus did? And besides -- the lyrics to "Focus" were just SOOOOO powerful! 🙄
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  904. Excellent! More please!
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  905. Everybody should go through a German driving class. Better yet, everybody should drive in Germany for a week or two. Nothing gets your attention like having another car come bearing down on you with a 60 mph closing speed. A related point -- when you are in the left lane, be aware of your "6 o'clock" (i.e. your rear view mirror). If you have car(s) in your rear view mirror -- you need to move to the right. If there are no cars in the lane to your right -- you need to move to the right! BTW - speeding isn't dangerous. Stopping is!
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  906. Why is she in Guatemala "...addressing the root causes of migration..."? Migration is not a problem! People sneaking across the board and not following the lawful immigration laws and processes (as passed by congress and signed by the President) are the problem!
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  907. Very interesting. I think well researched and presented too. As far as the "Soldiers" who werensent to arrest Jesus, I was always under the impression that they were Temple Guards rather than Roman soldiers. This is because they were sent at the behest of the high priest, and not on Pilot's orders. They also presented Jesus to the High Priest. But that does not eleminate the use of the word "Cohort" since it was a relative reference to a group of troups. Also Peter's reaction also suggests the quantity justified him drawing his sword. If 600 troops arrived to arrest 12, drawing your sword would be a pointless act. Never the less, the quantity sent appears to have been ample.
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  908. I think an interesting analogy is the development and proliferation of computers in the 20th century. At first it looked like the first company or country to develop a computer would dominate the world. In fact it didn't work that way. As any decent economist will tell you, any technological monopoly doesn't last. Competitors will find a way to copy or replicate a technological advantage. Soon there are cut-priced knock-offs and other similar products springing up. There is no such thing as a permanent monopoly. Today everyone's cell phone has more computing power than the entire United States did at the end of WWII. The same growth curve will over-run the first successful AI systems.
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  909. Being a Boston area resident for almost half a century -- I doubt there is much to do to improve it, especially for out-of-towners. My suggestion is that if you're from out of the area, don't drive in Boston. For those of us who live in the area, it's not a problem to drive in. We know which lane to get in that get us to where we need to be. Local's don't have a major issue with getting around Boston. Trimming lanes (for bike paths or to limit options) just f- things up.
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  910. Yup. QE, printing money, deficit spending -- are all inflationary, which means the value of money (cash) goes down, and the price of things you buy with that money goes up. It's the same with gold, artwork, real estate -- the prices of all of them will go up. To summarize why Porsche? Because there is always a ready market like you point out.
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  911. For light performance cars like the Elise, I suggest you set the corner weights before getting the alignment done. When you do the corner weights, be sure to ballast the car to include the driver (and potentially a passenger if you envision having a second person in the car). A few bags of concrete or a friendly neighbor will do for ballast.. Ballast which is +/-20 pounds to your weight is adequate. You can then adjust the corner weights using the fine spring height adjusters on the shocks. Corner weight is important on cars which have a low spring weight, and are relatively stiffly sprung, which is why most street cars don't really need it unless you're going for maximum track performance. By the way -- I suggest you dampen your enthusiasm for shock humour on this channel. 😉
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  912. "Science without the Bobblygook" wonders into "Philosophy without the Gobblygook" and back again as you explore the limits of Science. Well done. The world doesn't change, nor does the nature of humans. Almost 2000 years ago Paul of Tarsus addressed a similar situation: (edited slightly for length.) 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. 20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence. ... 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Less there be any confusion of the meaning of "Love" in the passage, Paul defined it earlier... 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. What does this have to do with Musk and Longtermists? Beware those who claim wisdom and (false) humility, preach ascetism while immersed in plenty, make expansive moral judgements of and for others, yet cannot even manage to successfully love (as defined above) those immediately around them.
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  913. There used to be one of those sitting next to a service station for years n Connecticut when I was a teenager in the 1970's. It was in priming paint. It took me a long time to figure out what it was. I was fascinated and dreamt of pulling together some money to buy it. Alas, one day (in the '80s?), it was gone. 😥 I have had a soft spot for TVRs ever since.
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  914. Yes, I still remember sitting in a brand new 911SC in the Hoffman Porsche showroom in Hartford in the 70's when my parents were there to pick up a lowly Audi Fox (80 to those elsewhere in the world). It would be the only time that I ever sat in a 911 prior to buying my own used 911.
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  915. As far as a woman mentioned in Genesis 1, keep in mind the Genesis 1 and 2 are written from different perspectives -- so it could be Eve mentioned in chapter 1. Genesis 1 is written from the perspective of an observer who is outside of creation, seeing the process go on. Genesis 2 is written from the perspective of someone who is within the creation. As a result the timescales (and viewpoints) are completely different. So thevsame woman could be mentioned in each of them.
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  916. If the Chinese scientific papers have the same repeatability issues as western papers, I wouldn't lose sleep over the fact that they are producing more of them.
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  917. The robot at 4:20 walks like Joe Biden.
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  918. I've seen that and similar comparisons like colder in Ohio than on Mars. But you don't even need to read the fine print to see that they are making an "apples to oranges" comparison, in so much as they are comparing the wind-chill in Ohio to the actual measured temperature on Mars. Folks - Wind-chill is not temperature! Wind-chill is a poor measure since it is different for different people, and can change by a 10' change in location. Temperature on the other hand is a specific physical measure, with a consistent meaning in all places and at all times.
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  919. Yes, and this religion even has a creed. You can commonly see it listed in black signs with rainbow print on people's yards -- it starts "In this house, we believe:..." and ends with "Love is love and kindness is everything".
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  920. I tend to feel that the assignment of the start of WWII to this event is somewhat arbitrary and Euro-centric. I'd agree that it signaled the start of the European theater of the war. I think a strong case could be made that WWII started on 7-July 1937 when Japan invaded China. The "World War" only came into being on 7-December, 1941 connected both the Pacific and European theaters into a single struggle. But the first battles between what would become the Allies and the Axis started in 1937.
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  921. Everyone shows a picture of the chiselled Supra for the "old days", but the 1st gen came out in '79 and was a soft, rounded shape. It was still a 6-cylinder though.
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  922. So "Quantum Healing" is really just Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science ideas under a more modern name.
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  923. At 1:20, Matt echoes Road & Track of the mid-1970's.
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  924. I sense that Jack is starting to talk himself out of the Influenzo. It's days may be numbered in his driveway.
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  925. James. Porsche has never made a car with bad brakes! If the brakes don't feel right, chances are it's because they need service, or because of something that someone has done. Save yourself a bunch of money and just put the car right. New disks, pads and fluid will go a long way. Have the calipers checked or refreshed. Put them all back together and I think you will be presently surprised.
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  926. "The Shelby Lancer isn't just a straight line performance car..." ...while the camera zooms in on the left front tire almost rolling off the rim because of the massive front end plow!
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  927. How have genetics not show this before???
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  928. The last story of the "forever chemicals" sounds alarming, but would seem to have had a far smaller impact on humanity when compared to say.... research on COVID. Where are the people who have demonstratably died from those chemicals. Not estimates mind you, but actual, physical people. Living in the US, and thus being one of the people who apparently has traces of these chemicals in my body -- I have to ask: So what? Is my remaining life expectancy deminished? Not that I can tell. It all sounds like a study designed to get lawyers rich.
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  929. Now that you've wondered into movie reviews, I wonder if you'll hold your nose long enough to sit through "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022). Given the accuracy standard set by the 1930 version, I don't know how they could have gotten it so wrong -- except that I don't think that they cared. It's all about the narrative.
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  930. The visual impact is amazing. It would be wonderful if he could apply this effort and technology to the "Great War" documentary series. His work is obviously a generation ahead of the earlier 2000's colorized series. That series also paled in regards to telling the story when compared to the 1960's "The Great War".
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  931.  @abigailcollins8443  interesting and good point. I certainly wasn't suggesting that the Geneva Conventions be violated. But I guess that is for the lawyers to work out.
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  932. A couple of questions related to the Marlots -- prior to the US entry into the WII, why wasn't Britain buying more of the F4F Martlet/Wildcat rather than taking scarce resources to convert land fighters? It looks like they had 100 of the G-36B versions on order and inherited about 91 after France and Belgium were overrun. Also, Willis mentions that Supermarine didn't learn what Grumman had about the flight characteristics required for carrier operations, but yet the Fleet Air Arm did have access to Martlet. Was this an example of a stubborn desire to "go it alone".
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  933. Very clever troubleshooting! Good job!
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  934. Think of it -- we are gifted with free energy from the sun, and all that we can think of is how to reject the gift. As she eludes to at one point, plants love CO2. If we can collect the C02 into concentrations, just use it to grow more plants! Don't pump it into space! Besides, you didn't mention how much energy it would take to make a sun-blocking mirror, or to construct huge chimneys. None of this is free (energy). At end of the day, entropy sucks!
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  935. Yes. Very 1970's German car. In the day there would be tons of these on the Autobahn. Most Germans if the time couldn't afford the 6-cylinder versions of of the BMW, M-B, Opel or Ford product lines. VW didn't have any. The neat thing is that it's still a 100 mph car. German cars of the era would happily cover miles and miles at ~5000 rpm .
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  936. Outstanding!
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  937.  @TheZachary86  Claim??? I made no claims, merely asked some questions. And, yes, I did watch the video. If you're looking for an argument, I'm not the person for it Have a nice day.
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  938.  @TheZachary86  🙄
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  939. I'm sorry Tedward, but getting a GT3 RS with body colored seat-belts, and omitting the contrasting stiching?!!! What were they thinking???!!! The car will never sell! </sarcasm>
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  940. I think that you wound up in the right place. Trade a 308 for a 400? Why? Aside from the panache of owning a front-engined, V12 Ferrari (and the two extra seats) -- what do you get? More weight, more complexity, bigger repair bills, massively higher fuel charges. The good news is that the GM Transmission should be cheap to fix if it ever fails.
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  941. @PazLeBon  I'm not sure that I agree with that generalization. VAG is very clearly a car company.
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  942.  @PazLeBon  Volkswagon Audi Group.
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  943. At 20:18 --- it's Yoda!!! He visited midieval Europe!!!
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  944. Really Nick -- "One Wipe Charlie Butt Wipe"?!  Props to you for soldiering through and doing a solid pitch for it without giggling!
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  945. Uh... that looks like a post from "Imposter Sabine".
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  946. One day the world may look back and see how Rick Beato saved music from the music industry. But in the meantime, have you ever tried to George Clinton? Apparently he is still active at 80+ years old.
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  947. You're proposal/theory is almost as beautiful as that blouse!
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  948. At 3:40 Matt says "...Everyone once in a while I'll hit one..." and took a moment before I realized that he wasn't speak about the motorcyclist, but the shifter. Then at 6:10 I found it funny when Matt says "...and here's the understeer-corner... (tires squeal)... and none! Nice."
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  949. Regarding the suspension - it can be fairly difficult to sort out by the seat of your pants. Especially if the front and the back were not designed to work with each other. There are some basic equations you can use to put yourself in the ballpark for spring rates, and if you know the unsprung weighs at each corner, and the car's weight, the shock companies can give you a setting that will be close. As a rule, the softer the set-up, the wider the window will be for acceptability. This is because softer set's have lower frequencies, in which the harmonics are more widely spread, so it's easier to find a quiet frequency with no harmonic problems. Harmonic will manifest themselves as is elations, boomy periods or vibrations which seem to come and go.
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  950. @ikengaspirit3063  I don't know. Historically, in Germany, people defaulted into the religion of their parents, and prior to that, the religion of their local ruler (as defined in the Treaty of Westphalia). Sure, people could choose to convert from one denomination to another, but that wasn't common. And prior to the Reformation, there were really only 2 choices -- Catholic or Jewish. The Catholic Church prior to the Reformation had a structure which overlapped with the Holy Roman Empire, although nominally independant of the HRE. My point is that in Germany, the church has always been tightly interwoven with the State. It was only with the advent of the "Free Church" as a response to the "shotgun" merger of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches by Konig Frederick William III of Prussia did an alternate option even exist.
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  951. While it's just a background, by why did your temperature charts at 0:17 start at the year 1966. What's special about that year or decade that justifies it being used as a baseline? Why not 1930? 1600? 1324? To define global warming by the temperature change since 1966 seems awfully arbitrary.
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  952. Why buy a GT2? Because the speed is easier to achieve than in a GT3. The car does more of it for you, and forgives the driver's errors. Or so it appears to me.
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  953. I was surprised to see that it appears that that Toyota copied the Boxster's cup-holder(s) too. You'd think that they would have passed on that feature.
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  954. Actually, Biden announced that he had cancer ( 1:30 ) in Groton Connecticut. He most likely thought he was in Massahusetts, or maybe just forgot that Connecticut exists. Many people do!
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  955. "The Porsch-e pronunciation I would believe is based on a class snobbery thing." You could actually say the same thing about the ownership of the brand, at least from new.
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  956. I think that you accurately captured 2.5 viewpoints. You might ask "why 2.5?" You mentioned Doomsters, Boomsters and Scientists -- that's 3, isn't it? But Scientist and Doomsters basically share the same zero-sum viewpoint, just Scientists have more detailed numbers. On the other hand you could most likely lump Christians and "Boomsters" together since both argue the basic value of human life. This also aligns with the current struggle over abortion in the US. Pro-abortion advocates align with Doomsters and argue that more lives are liabilities. On the other hand Pro-Life advocates (often Christians) align with Boomsters and argue that current and future lives will develop new solutions. The question of the fundamental value of a human life ends up being the shared dividing line in society today. At 17:45 you mention "killing off people...with a major economic crisis caused by climate change". Has such an event ever happened? History has shown that deadly economic crises are caused by heavy-handed governments executing stupid economic policies -- such as Mao's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958 to 1962 (estimate 30 million deaths), and Stalin's famine of 1932-33 (est. 3.9 million deaths). Both of these easily exceed the better known benchmark Nazi genocide. Notably, both of those economic crises happened long before the 1970's, when we are being told that anthropological climate really started to have an effect. So I think that it is fair to say that centralized economic decision making has killed far more people than climate change. And this brings me back to my earlier point about the value of human life. Decentralized (democratized) governments have proven to be far better at allocating resources and generating growth because they -- by definition -- leave economic decisions up to the individuals. Centralized governments, or those democracies which assume to know what is best for their populations inevitably end up suffering from "all of their eggs in one basic" syndrome. Given the plethora of potential solutions to any given problems, centralized governments inevitably put all of their eggs into a single suboptimal solution. Democracies on the other hand are characterized by many smaller, competing solutions being generated for a problem, some of which are often considered retrograde. They all are allowed to exist. Some of these "reactionary" solutions are not bad. For a different example of this check out "Eco-evolutionary significance of “loners”" by Rossine, Martinez-Garcia, Sgro et al. This is an example of where a society is allowed to chose multiple competing solutions, and thus ends up being prepared for multiple potential future outcomes of an unknown future. Doomsters and contemporary sciences both often insist on telling the population what to do based on their projections of the future. Boomsters and Christians both maintain that the future is unknowable, and so it's best to treat others respectfully and well today because we don't know what tomorrow will bring, and the singular life that we save today may end up helping us in the future.
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  957. What do I think? Diesels died as a result of a government hit-job because they were too tough of a competitor for the desired electric power-train. So (unelected regulators at ) CARB arbitrarily chose to implement massive reductions in pollutants (increments of 90%) which the diesel manufacturers couldn't successfully hit while maintaining the desired performance and margins. About half the other states pegged their standards to California's. Keep in mind -- no margins, no product. When VW (and later others) were caught cheating, the torches and pitch-forks were hoisted and VW fined so much that everyone in the industry took the hint and killed off diesels. Hydrogen fueled engines sound cool until you dive deeply into the process and economics of generating hydrogen. Currently (at least in the US) it's against the law to carry even a small tank of hydrogen in your car (without specific licenses) on the highway due to the dangers. The challenges of economically generating the needed volumes, keeping it in the tanks and safely handling it are significant. While it's easy to knock the Germans for removing the size limits, the manufacturers there (including I suspect Herr Piech) clearly understood that the margins on small cars will not support massive investments in a new technology. As I said before -- no margins, no product. Electric car technology would not have gotten as far as it did if manufacturers hadn't started with larger "prestige" vehicles. But at the end of the day, most people don't like having decisions made for them (aka: electric cars being forced into their garages), nor do they like being taxed so other people can get discounts on their expensive virtue statements. Economics is like gravity. It will ultimately always win.
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  958. There is an alternative theory for the Pharoh of the Exodus. The high-chronology reign of Amenhotep ii beginning 1453 b.c.e., with an Exodus date of 1446 b.c.e. (derived 480 years from a temple-construction date of 967 b.c.e.), puts the Exodus within Year 9 of his reign. This aligns nicely with the timing of the Jews arrising in the Hill Country. It also aligns well with the lives of the Pharohs of that time, but doesn't change your excellent summary nor conclusions in the end, but it does provide an explination for why they were in that region at that time without the rather drastic premise that they were just another "Caananite tribe".
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  959. Even in that time people could see the resemblance between the two cars, but dared not mention it since the A-M cost about 10x the price of a Mustang, if not more. Maybe the A-M wasn't really any faster than the Mustang, but the quality and attention to detail in the engineering and finish were worlds apart.
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  960.  @76Aston  Well yeah, if you were comparing it to a 1977 Mustang, no kidding!!! The model to compare to are the 1969-'70 Fastback Bosses, either the 302s or the 429s.
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  961.  @76Aston  I pulled out an old "Road & Track's Guide to Sports & GT Cars for 1979". Per the summary table -- the A-M V8 would go from 0-60 in 7.4 seconds, which was beat by the Pontiac Firebird Trans AM, the Chevy Corvette L82, the Porsche 911SC, the Porsche 928, the Ferrari 308, the Porsche Turbo (3.3 liter), Maseratii Khamsin and the Ferrari 512 BB. In the 1/4-mile, the A-M V8 could do it in 15.7 seconds and was matched or beat by pretty much the same list of cars. As far as the top speed, the A-M V8 could get to 140 mph, which was still matched or exceeded by the Maserati Merak/SS, the Ferrari 308, the Porsche Turbo, the Masarati Khamsin and the Ferrari 512 BB again. But none of this detracts from the Aston Martin, because it really wasn't trying to compete with any of those cars. Aston Martin was trying to make the best gentleman's GT, that could effortlessly cover great distances with speed and comfort (for about 230 miles until the 9.5 mpg had drained the tank, thus requiring 25 more gallons of fuel. But a gentleman who could afford an Aston Martin didn't worry about things like that!).
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  962. @AleaumeAnders  Actually, what you are alluding to is a shakedown, in which case the protection money is paid to protect they payer from you. This is very different from the fact that the US has been paying (and Germany - comparatively speaking has not) to protect Germany from the USSR/Russia. That's not a shakedown or protection racket, that is genuine protection.
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  963. Interesting that the owner thought that it would be a super sports car. In fact the normally aspirated 911's are a lot "sportier" being lighter and having better throttle response. Sure they're slower, but it's definitely a case of "More fun driving a slower car fast than a fast car slow". I'm sure 930's are still fun to drive, but personally I prefer a normally aspirated 911. Many race drivers from the late 70's also preferred racing the normally aspirated Carreras rather than the 934.5's for the same reason -- what they gave away in HP they made up for with handling and responsiveness.
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  964. 100% agreed. I had the same experience with a (thankfully) similar outcome. If you're not fully awake, pull over and take a cat-nap, take a walk, have some caffeine. Be especially sensitive after meals. Take a cat-nap before you leave. Please don't drive drowsy. If you drive drowsy, you may leave a crowd of devastated friends and family at (not in) your wake!
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  965. You may not be a climate scientist, but as you showed, you do understand math! An undergrad level of statistical understanding can completely deflate bogus science.
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  966. I'm surprised that you got through the whole video without mentioning Mazda. Yes, the X-Type was built on the Mondeo platform, which was in turn built on the Mazda 6 platform. Yes, Mazda is not a bad brand, I actually like them. But at least in the US, you look at the Jag, and then look at the Mazda 6, which did come in 2WD or with a 4-cylinder. Why bother with the Jag unless you absolutely wanted the 4WD. It just wasn't unique enough, as well as meet a large enough segment of the market. So very much a similar story to what you described in the UK.
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  967. A true treasure of the musical community, not just for his chops, but more importantly for Tony as a person. I've never met him, but it's clear he's an absolute treasure.
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  968. This video wouldn't be complete without a Young Frankenstein quote! Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Whose brain did you put in him? Igor: Err... Abby something... Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby who? Igor: Abby... Normal. Yes that's it, Abby Normal! Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you saying that you put an abnormal brain in a 7 foot tall, 54 inch wide GORILLA!!!???
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  969. (lol!) My thought exactly!
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  970. Interestingly, I've found German language account(s) of German soldiers buying Winchester shotgun(s) on their own dime to use in the trenches. They were popular in Germany before the war and sold via catalog.
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  971. There are also a lot of car owners who don't want cars that do stuff for us. Call it "basic transportation" or "driver involvement", but there are fewer and fewer cars in the market place for those people. So they buy used, it's cheaper and it gives them what they want. Not to mention, if you listen closely you'll notice that it is the governments which have taken it upon themselves to obsolete internal combustion powered cars, not consumers. As a result people are not lining up to buy electric cars, or if they do it's because their other options are limited. Given that calories per mile, an electric car is no more efficient than a good diesel or a gasoline hybrid, this favoritism towards the EV product is misguided. Especially since as we're starting to see in California and other places, the electric power infrastructure is not capable of supporting these high electricity demand vehicles. This high-handed favoritism on the part of governments does not bode well for future economic development.
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  972. Since you have them, have you tried swapping out the shifter cables? If the gear selector linkage is out of whack it could also cause the car to not get into gear. Chances are it's not the problem, but since you have them and they are easier to replace than separating the transmission from the engine, it might be worth the few minutes to install them and see.
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  973.  @robertdimartino5794  True. The Live in Japan recording is much better quality and relatively unknown.
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  974. This is disturbing on so many levels. Somehow I think that when these "jailbreakers" use demonic names and references, we should believe them. Given that their intention is to resolutely teach AI to perform anti-social activities, what other conclusion are we to draw?
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  975. Very cool. But a clarification about electric cars not using gasoline -- this isn't true. They do usually use carbon fuels, they just outsource the combustion to the nearest power generating station (unless your neighborhood is powered by a nuclear plant, or far -- less likely -- "renewable" power).
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  976. Unfortunately these camps were a garden spot compared to the Russian POW camps, where the German POW's were still being starved while doing hard labor years after the war.
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  977. I thought that gravity wasn't actually a force, even though it was commonly referred to as one. I thought gravity was actually space-time being stretched and distorted by the mass of an object. Not a force as Newton described it. Was that not correct?
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  978. Foolish people have always been with us, and always will be. Why are we wasting time and electrons talking about them? There is nothing that we can do to correct/fix/resolve all of them. There will always be a few people at the tails of the distribution who believe strange things. Just move on, and don't let them bother you. There are countless more interesting topics that you can be using you channel's resources to discuss.
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  979. By chance I looked him up and Dick Cavett is still alive! I always wondered about his accent -- was he British? Canadian? Nope -- he was from Nebraska. Somewhere along the way I think that he acquired the Trans--Atlantic (aka. Mid-Atlantic) accent which added a certain charm to his interviews.
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  980. A final test that was missed was trying to extinguish it with vinegar.
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  981. Here! Here!
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  982. Interesting, while the Coca Cola brand disappeared from the interior menu, it looks like it still exists on the exterior menu ( 1:48 on the right side).
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  983. What has been causing the Boxster to be so expensive? Of course no used car is maintenance free, but it would be interesting to hear the real life experience with the 986.
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  984. One thing that merits more than a passing comment is the manufacturing technology required by the Stahlhelm. At this point the Germans had mastered the technology of progressive stamping, which was not well understood in the Entente countries. This is a process where the helmet is struck by a series of die that incrementally bend and stretch the steel, ensuring that it is not over-stretched. While the French helmet was deep like the Stahlhelm, it was nowhere near as strong. This is because the French process was not progressive, and couldn't form steel which was as thick as the German steel without it cracking. As a result the French used thinner raw stock which was easier to stamp without cracking. The British/American designs had thicker steel, and where thus stronger than the French design, but they were once again not able to bend the steel without it exhibiting cracking. So their solution was to just not bend the steel as far, thus the shallow bowl design.
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  985. A drummer who is Insane??? Who'd a thunk!
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  986. My Dad was in the 3rd Army under Patton, and he and his buddies loved Patton. BTW -- it sounds like Thomas Sowell (?) doing the interview.
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  987. I was able to find a transcript of Jack's conversation with Dario about the 1.5 hour drive to the test! Jack: How was the drive down here this morning? Dario: What? Jack: How WAS YOUR DRIVE down to the test? Dario: WHAT???? Jack: HOW WAS YOUR DRIVE HERE? Dario: Oh! The tire wear is fine. Thanks for asking.
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  988. Regarding the "normal" versus the "S" tune, it bears mentioning that over the years Porsche has drastically changed their philosophy. In the 60's, the S's had a more highly tuned engine with same capacity as the lower spec cars. As a result they were often derided for being peaky and not particularly pleasant for around-town use because they lacked pull below 3000 RPM. As you mentioned, by the time of the water-cooled cars, Porsche had reversed their philosophy and the up-spec S's had a larger engine with a somewhat lazier tune. This can be clearly seen when comparing the HP and torque curves of the two engines.
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  989. I empathise with Sabine. Whenever she starts talking about physics, it seems like the subject always seems to swerve into psychology, the bramch of science I think she is least comfortable with!
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  990. I enjoyed the video, but I'm kind of curious which side of the car Sam is sitting on. The in-car shots suggest that he's sitting on the left side. In the drive-bys, he seems to be sitting on the right side. I thought maybe they were flipped, but nope -- the license plate reads right.
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  991. As far as the Hapligroup I along the Volga and Eastern Europe, keep in mind that the Mongols did a pretty good job of decimating the population, which was then backfilled by settlers from other areas after the Mongols left.
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  992. Ominous foreshadowing at 5:03 ... "Don't worry, it's not in the head".... 14:18 -- That giddy, nervous feeling of "It Starts! It Runs! Is it going to blow up?"
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  993. And people would drive up to their take-out window in an "unsafe at any speed" Corvair!!!! Why would anyone in the 80's associate with a marked brand like that? I'm surprised that Ralph Nader didn't write a book about the chain. I don't know -- "Unsafe for any meal!"?
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  994. I feel your pain seeing the love of your life (physics) being corrupted. I feel the same way every time I check the news. I used to joke when I was in my 30's that I wasn't a bitter old man, but I was starting to see where they came from. Now that I'm twice that, I often feel that I must seem to be fully in that camp with both feet. BTW -- The sweatshirt/backdrop set are priceless.
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  995. Who needs a Terabyte of storage? I don't know, but I remember when we weren't sure why we'd needed a megabyte of storage. As far as charging, I can picture at least 2 potential use models. Coustomers may put up with a reduced charge (say 12 hours instead of 24 hours) if they can fully charge in 5 minutes. Alternatively -- as long as a device can be used all day on a charge, a charge time of overnight would most likely be acceptable to many.
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  996. This whole review was a respectful nod to Jeremy Clarkson.
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  997. "Thank-you senator for that question"
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  998. I have to wonder about the engineer who specified that the MR2 should have power steering. How much weight does a 2000 lb, rear-mid-engined car have on its front wheels?
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  999. $3500 ( or £ or €) is certainly a chunk of change, but considering the alternatives it's not so bad. You could easily spend that on just a set of wheels. If you sold the car now in its current configuration I'm pretty sure you'd be well under water. Invest in the head and you'll most likely have a $75,000 car. Also, don't just pitch the scrap head. 30 to 40 pounds of aluminum has a meaningful value. Remove all of the non-aluminim bits and take it down to your local scrap metal recycler. You may be pleasantly surprised what you'll get for it. Keep in mind they pay more for pure aluminum parts than for an amalgamation of aluminum and other metals like steel.
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  1000. Well Presented Sabine.
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  1001. Thanks for bringing this song back. I remember really liking how pretty it was, but as a pre-teen wannabe drummer, I didn't have the words to describe what I was hearing. But it has all become clear now. Awesome!
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  1002. At 21:00 you mention "...being stuck in traffic in what may be close to a $500k car", are you referring to the 997 or the red vehicle a couple of lanes further over?
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  1003. Since my car isn't galvonized, I usually wait for a couple of days of heavy rain to wash all of the salt off of the roads -- so I'm most likely still a couple of weeks out from the first drive.
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  1004. I perceive the dawn of a new series of videos -- "Listening to a Master". You could do one for water cooled Porsches, Air-Cooled Porsches, Fords, Audi's, BMWs, Ferraris, etc.
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  1005. Upon reflection, the 10-speed gearbox (or maybe it's programming) seems to make the car bipolar. In some respects it reminds me of an Southeast Asian buffet restaurant near me, where every dish was labeled either "Mild" or "Blazing Hot". It seems that the engine in the RDX is always either a couple of RPM above idle (max MPG), or else with the RPM maxed out (max HP), but with little time spent in between.
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  1006. The car sooo cool that needed to be posted twice! In the words of King Crimson: "I repeat myself when I'm under stress! I repeat myself when I'm under stress!"
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  1007. It's interesting how many of those family names appear later in history -- especially during the American Revolution.. Nathan Hale was a well liked person who became a spy for George Washington, even though he was a terrible fit for the role. Not unexpectedly, he was captured and hung by the British, leaving his last words for history. The future generations of Putnams became leaders in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and are still around today, as are the Hales.
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  1008. Wow! You think 964's feel more "agricultural"? I guess that makes the ride of my B series 911 practically synonymous with a Porsche 111!
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  1009. When I was younger, I used to play the drums a lot, and was always fascinated with different drummers' set-ups. As soon as the drummer mentioned that his kit was a 1969 set in Pink Champagne (ironically the same as my old set), I knew exactly the sound that he was going for. 😉
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  1010. People often say that "Gravity sucks!", but that's nothing compared to entropy!
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  1011. Yea! Sabine doing science, and highlighting bad science along the way. I love it! I look forward to the next edition, no matter if it has a good paper or not. Seeing how a well trained science brain works is fun. May a "What makes this paper great (or not)" would be fun! ....And interesting.
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  1012. I believe that Eusebius also said that during his time that there was a statue of the women who was healed after touching the edge of Jesus's robe. Unfortunately this statue is now lost to time. It would have been cool to see.
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  1013. To sum up, they are replacing "Star Chambers" tasked with weeding out "false news" and "mis-information" with pitchfork wielding on-line mobs. Both are deeply flawed forms of censorship and appeals to false authority. The best solution would be neither. Let the reader be the judge, and if they disagree, let them post a rebuttal. No outside authorites are required.
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  1014. I wonder if some of the problem in the discussion is the definition of "Mental Health". If Mental health is defined as seeking professional help, or feeling suicidal -- yeah, I can believe that there isn't a measurable change. But if "Mental Health" is defined as showing little or no addictive behaviors, or having normal levels of in-person socialization with peers, than I would say that there has been a massive shift in the mental health of our children. In fact I've seen an increase in addictive behaviors and a change in in-person socialization behaviors in adults too. There seem to be a lot of people nowadays who can't go 3 minutes without impulsively checking their phones, or are playing video games when in social situations with other people. This is absolutely a new phenomena in the last 40 years, and I'd be hard pressed to not describe it as a mental health issue. Anyone remember the Star Trek Next Generation episode "The Game" from October 1991? The fact that "experts" are saying there isn't a problem seems to matter as much as when the "experts" told us that children needed to stay home from school and get vaccinated for Covid, in spite of the statistics saying otherwise.
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  1015. Judging by the hardware on the back wall (not the hats!) you've made a massive jump in technology! Either that or you've been kicked down to the basement boiler room. One of the two!
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  1016. While it's very clear that WWII was started by Tojo and Hitler, I was a little surprised that at 7:08 Mark laid the entire blame for WWI on Kaiser Wilhelm, overlooking the contributions of The Tsar and Russian government, The Austro-Hungarian Emperor and government, the Serbian government (and it's associated The Black Hand) and the French Government. But as far as the King's actions -- "let those who are blameless throw the first stone". WWII was over, and the new "Cold War" was just starting. With a little digging I'm sure that it's possible to find many examples great and small of soldiers who were tired of the war letting questionable refugees past with a wink, maybe spending time with and "protecting" with less than pure intentions a young frauline, or in other cases helping themselves to booty when the officers weren't looking. I'm not sure I'd pick out the Windsors for being so German. It's all relative. At some level most of the modern Angle-ish -- I mean English -- have significant German genetic contributions.
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  1017. Wonderful video. If by "Penta-Head" you mean the intake and exhaust valves are at an angle to each other, (like the roof of a house) with a squash area around the perimeter -- than that is better than a "hemi" head and one of the key factors that made the Cosworth DFV (and related engines) such winners.
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  1018. Yup. SWTH will always be the last song of the night. Good night!
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  1019. In defense of the sniper teams on the rooftop, given that the sniper teams were of mixed-origin (some were Secret Service, some were local police), I wonder if there was a "Friendly fire" concern when they first saw the assailant on the roof of the other building -- potentially where they were expecting to see some of security team who were inside that building?
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  1020. At 6:52 --- "It's(the grip on the new tires) is tenous". I'm not sure if that's the adverb that you intended. Tenuous: very weak or slight. - "the tenuous link between interest rates and investment" synonyms: slight, insubstantial, meager, flimsy, weak, doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspect; More very slender or fine; 2nd definition: insubstantial. Example: "a tenuous cloud" synonyms: fine, thin, slender, delicate, wispy, gossamer, fragile "a tenuous thread"
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  1021. I wish that people would see that their car is at least tuned up and sorted properly before bringing them to be driven. It appears that the shifter bushings haven't been replaced in the life of the car, nor maybe the spring plate. This is most certainly not what the car was like in period.
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  1022. phil tripe I guess you're not familiar with how a shake-down works. A classic example: an unknown thug throws a brick through your window. The next day a guy shows up and explains that if you pay him $100 a month and he'll make sure that you're protected. The reality is they both work for the same gang. In the case of VW, CARB and the Fed's arbitrarily set a NOx limit that is 90% lower than in the past. Unfortunately combustion technology doesn't develop like that, and it was essentially an unachievable goal. Yes, they screwed up by cheating, but they were hosed by the government before they even got out of the gate.
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  1023. At 17:00 you start to channel Mike Brewer! 😉
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  1024. Every time that I see White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell (Kevin Costner) in one of the scenes, I can't help but think that he's going to soon sell the US out while assigned to the Pentagon. There is just "No Way Out" for him.
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  1025. Wow! My 3 favorite car channels all review the Z3M in the same week?!!! Maybe it's time to buy a lottery ticket!
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  1026. I think it's fair to point out a few things. 1) EV's are not "Emissions Free" vehicles. The emissions are merely outsourced to a different location. So while this Tesla was not emitting any emissions while Tedward was driving it , the Covanta Haverhill power plant was emitting emissions generating the electricity needed to charge up the car prior to the drive. 2) Kilowatts per mile, electric cars are no more efficient than gas or diesel cars. You could argue that they are cheaper to operate than internal combustion vehicles because electricity is cheaper, but that is because (at least in Massachusetts) electricity is not taxed, but diesel oil and gasoline are. Specifically gasoline is taxed $0.24 per gallon by Massachusetts, $0.026 for a fuel clean-up fee and another $0.183 cents of Federal tax. None of them apply to electricity. The difference in the tax policy is because it's politically difficult to tax the way that people heat their homes. If you subtract out the taxes on road fuels, the dollars/mile costs of an EV are not significantly different than a gas powered hybrid or an diesel vehicle. Once people stop buying gasoline and diesel fuel, you can be sure that governments will start to tax electricity to make up for the last revenue. 3) Finally, as Tedward points out, this is a $70,000 plus car. The reality is that Teslas should actually be even more expensive if costed fairly, but instead US tax policy has chosen to use taxpayer money for subsidies to Tesla (in the form of tax credits for EV purchases), as well as mandating increasing the overhead costs of non-EV vehicles by forcing their manufacturers to buy carbon tax credits from Tesla -- even as I have pointed out above -- Teslas actually do consume carbon based fuels -- just not within sight of their owners. If these credits and subsidies didn't exist, this $70K Tesla would be even more expensive. Regarding the product, I think that a big oversight is the lack of a Heads-up Display, which should be "slam-dunk" for Tesla. Forcing the driver to take their eyes off of the road to pick-out information in a large, cluttered and constantly changing central screen is a big ergonomics goof. Even in the video ( for example at 4:00) you can see Tedward splitting his attention between the road and traffic ahead of him, and the touch-screen display.
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  1027. It's sad that a senator from Texas has to point out why Rachael Rollins would be a poor and incompetent protector of Massachusetts citizens, while the Massachusetts senate delegation (Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey ) are supporting her lawless view of the US Attorney role in Massachusetts.
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  1028. If you squint, you can see some similar themes to the Martin Maryland, which the French purchased soon afterwards.
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  1029. Whenever you predict that this or that trend is going to put everyone out of work, and into the poorhouse, you need to ask yourself who is going to be buying the output from the trend in question. If there are no customers who can afford the output of trend, then the trend is not going to happen.. All commercial transactions need a buyer and a seller. If there are no buyers, the sellers will suffer. Also, any product or service that can be produced for essentially zero cost will have zero value. This is basic micro-economics.
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  1030. At 6:49, does Gerry McGovern look like the Cardassian Elim Garak from Star Trek: DS9?
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  1031. Awesome. The only problem is that this will require liberal politicians to stop making rules to "help" people. That's an existential threat to liberal politicians, because if they don't create rules, then why do they exist? They never understood the Reagan joke about "I'm here from the government and I'm here to help".
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  1032. It would be cool to see you dissect a piece from a "Horn band" one day -- like Chicago (Make me Smile?), Blood Sweat and Tears (Spinning Wheel?), Earth Wind and Fire (September?) or maybe Tower of Power (pick one!). You've mentioned Terry Kath a couple of times, but not much since then. It's a musically worth-while genre which has disappeared nowadays except for maybe from Bruno Mars.
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  1033. Unfortunately our leaders are not good at math. If the costs to update the US grid will $2.5T, and there are about 2.3M drivers in the US, this equates to about $2.3M per driver to upgrade our grid. That doesn't even count the cost of the car! How does this policy make any sense given the large uncertainties in our impact on global temperatures? This is especially true since China isn't playing along, but yet they trump the US's carbon emissions.
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  1034. I was going to guess an overlap with the roads that Jayemm uses, but I don't know much about the geography of the UK.
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  1035.  @davesadrikcole6217  🤣
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  1036. To a degree, it seems that based on recordings that we have of the Kaiser speaking publicly, that he did the same thing. Just not to the same level as Hitler.
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  1037. My family and I have never visited Disney World, and never missed it. I figure that rather than show them the Sleeping Beauty Castle,, it would be better to just see Neuschwanstein Castle (admittedly a fanciful piece of architectural fantasy itself!) Nobody ever complained about not going to Disney World, but my daughters have been back to Germany a few times. To be honest, I doubt that Disney world and Epcot is a whole lot cheaper then just going to Europe in person.
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  1038. Back in the '70's(?) Time Magazine ran a cartoon of the Earth floating in space, with a big sign on it saying "Einstein lived here". I picture a similar image for Bach.
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  1039. SETI has been searching for any sign of Alien signals for over 30 years. Nada. Carl Sagan told everyone that we live around a common planet type, around a common type star in a fairly average galaxy. By that logic there should be aliens all around us -- except that he was wrong. Through very extensive and detailed observations by many ground based, and space telescopes using visible light, IR, Radio signals and X-rays , scientists have discovered that we live on a very unique type of planet, around a very unusual star in a quiet corner of a unusually quiet galaxy. If any one of these things weren't true, it's difficult to envision the physics and chemistries developing that could support life. Our environment would have been wiped out in a galactic blink of an eye. It's not a question of "Where is everybody", but rather "How did we ever manage to get this far?!"
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  1040. Funny. You and "Told in Stone"'s Garrett Ryan have very similar verbal delivery. I had to double-check to ensure that I wasn't listening to the same person.
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  1041. You keep mentioning "The Government..." As Ronald Reagan once pointed out - what are the 9 scariest words in the English language? "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help".
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  1042. It seems that it is not so much a map (with all of the navigational uses that this idea implies) than an image of the world from a particular viewpoint. First, it's obvious that large bodies of water were perceived as empty, and so not really worthy of mentioning beyond their existence. To a medieval traveler an ocean or sea was just a featureless expanse to pass through. Not to mention most maritime navigation routes were along the coasts and across narrows. They would have rarely sailed outside the sight of land. So these are minimized in the map, while the order that cities would have been reached in was knowable and important, so reflected accurately. It in some ways the Mappa Mundi reminds me of this picture of Felix Baumgartner looking over the earth https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/felix-baumgartner-standing-in-his-capsule-about-to-dive.jpg -- is the picture of the earth inaccurate? No, it just has a perspective. If you were to take an image of the earth (looking SE) from above Medieval Britain, it would look much like the Mappa Mundi. The medieval cartographer also was not able to validate or test what was told to him, so the further away a feature was, the more likely it was to have a traveler's tall-tail mixed in. It doesn't mean that everything at a distance was wrong, just that it was getting fuzzy to the cartographer. At some point the data ran out, and they extrapolated, much like we do today. Ask any astronomer about the shape of our Solar System.
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