Comments by "" (@mina86) on "Real Engineering" channel.

California: ‘Let’s go carbon-free!’ Also California: ‘Let’s close down a carbon-free plant which supplies 15% of our power.’
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@hieronymusnervig8712 , in space water and any liquid boils at any temperature.
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Silly question: if shipping contributes less than 2% of greenhouse gas emission, why should I even care about it? Even if we drop that to zero, pretty much nothing will change.
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@MrKanilammit , ‘Any unit of measurement can be a base 10 unit’ – and yet, colonial units aren’t. That’s why metric system is better. Could there be a system even better than metric? Probably, but that’s besides the point.
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@bramvanduijn8086 , ‘Air transport is about as much as sea transport, and it would be a quick win, but it would require a huge disruption since it basically destroys most of the aviation industry.’ Aviation is what actually annoys me. More specifically, when there’s some climate summit or what not, bunch of people meet to discuss it and inevitably there will be some journalist with a gotcha question of how the participant got to the place. And then the person being asked panics not wanting to admit they’ve flown. Meanwhile, there’s a very simple answer: ‘Yeah, I’ve flown and it doesn’t matter because aviation contributes less than 2% of greenhouse gasses so at the moment we have bigger fishes to fry’.
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@hydrochloricacid2146 , issue is that the opposite happens. People end up with a warped view of reality and point at the small fish letting the big fish go.
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Real Engineering, while I agree that unsubscribing from a channel because someone you dislike supports that channel is… weird¹, I recommend you try to understand issues at hand rather than automatically labelling people as ‘toxic’. I can wholeheartedly recommend ‘The Red Pill’ documentary (and Cassie Jaye’s YouTube channel) if you don’t know where to start. Osiano Isekenegbe, the problem isn’t what Anita did. The problem is that Hank later decided that he should apologise to her and using passive-aggressive tone threaten her critics. Also, do you include Boogie in the label shitlord? Because she abused him as well. ¹ I’d say something about smoking but I don’t want to invoke Godwin’s law.
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@bramvanduijn8086 , that’s not a good counter. Sampling bias doesn’t matter. If you accept that flying is bad than flying is bad. It doesn’t matter that you and everyone around you had to do it because the summit is far away; that’s not a valid excuse.
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@jamesday7339 , yes, but if Germany reduces it’s emissions, whatever they did will have some applications for other countries. Just to be clear, I’m not criticising shipping industry for doing it or saying they shouldn’t be doing it. I just kinda don’t care and would rather hear of a way to reduce beef consumption around the world.
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@jamesday7339 , nope. Agriculture was just an example of an industry that contributes ten times more than shipping and as such I’m much more curious what is/can be done in that sector.
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‘Easily used for typing on screen’ – we’re still talking about phones, right?
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1:28 – the lines in the background not aligning with ticks on the graph is rather annoying. The percentages also do not seem correct. Decrease from over 80 to below 75 is not 2.6%. It’s more like 7%.
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‘The US uses the "metric system" where it matters.’ – Tell that to Mars Climate Orbiter. ;) ‘Mostly, people who don't like US customary units are people who are bad at math’ – Right, like scientists and engineers… ‘Most people in the United States are perfectly fluent in both systems.’ – A centithread above where Americans argue that F is better than C proves you wrong.
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@Mishn0 , your comment does not follow from mine. I never said anything about one system being better than the other. ‘That's the absolute worst argument for the "metric system". I use quotes because it just means "measuring system" and all systems of measurement are metric systems.’ – nope. Metric system is a system of measurements based on the metre. Hence *metric*.
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@Mishn0 , alas that’s a definition of a noun ‘metric. What you should be looking for is a definition of an *adjective*. Here you go: metric, adjective 1. Relating to or based on the metre as a unit of length. ‘all measurements are given in metric form’ 1.1. Relating to or using the metric system. And also definition of ‘metric system’: metric system, noun The decimal measuring system based on the metre, litre, and gram as units of length, capacity, and weight or mass. The system was first proposed by the French astronomer and mathematician Gabriel Mouton (1618–94) in 1670 and was standardized in Republican France in the 1790s. ‘In the metric system, the base unit of weight is the gram; in the avoirdupois system, it's the pound.’ ‘Would you care to compare the success rates of metric based space agencies to the non-metric based space agency for Mars missions?’ – not particularly since I don’t really care about that comparison since it doesn’t prove anything.
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With respect to Brian’s skills, 8:28 is the best part of the entire video. Everything else pales in comparison.
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It’s important to remember though that many of the kamikaze ‘volunteers’ were forced either directly or through peer pressure.
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@antoncigur3727 , ‘Ambient air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, acute and chronic respiratory diseases.’ You’re argument has already been brought up and it’s based on cherry picking data. Nuclear power is one of the safest if you take indirect causes of deaths and looking at singular disasters is akin to arguing that flying is more dangerous per mile than driving because many people die in plane crashes but few in car crashes.
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@antoncigur3727 , Three Mile Island meltdown? The one where there were no deaths? That’s the incident you want me to justify? And yes, my argument has been made, but the difference is you’re demonstrates availability bias and relies on cherry picked data.
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@antoncigur3727 , ‘ So no casualities no problem, is this your argument?’ – no, it isn’t. Read it again.
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@messedup5424 , well, CCP doesn’t give a single fuck about regular people so it’s not really a good example of anything I don’t think.
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@messedup5424 , you referred to nuclear being scary in your previous comment. That's not an argument about efficiency but about people's emotions. That's why I've pointed out CCP doesn't care about people's emotions.
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