Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Joe Scott" channel.

@NewMateo "it comes down to 2 different approaches to make fusion happen" - the statement is not wrong, if "Hellion" even works, it uses magnetic containment just like tokamaks, just in a different way.
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As Sassa pointed out, it sems dubious, how such supposedly advanced technology is seldom heard about. I liked their recent video, but I also felt there is a strong taste of "too good to be true" to it.
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@roberthesser6402 Yes, he saw "some machine" and light flashes, that's about it, plus an explanation from "Helion" people, what supposedly is going on. Do I want it to be true? Yes! Am I certain it really works? No!
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@NewMateo It is keeping a toroid (basially a donut) of plasma on each side by a magnetic field, and only then let's them collide. Supposedly. IF it works.
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Yeah, that 1949 "revolution" - Commies backstabbing Nationalists, who were weaker, since, unlike Maoists, they were actually fighting against Japanese invaders.
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War is not necessary for progress, competition is. It's just a war is an extreme form of competition.
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No, I would not like to live in one of those, my ideal height is 2nd floor - not too close to the eye level of people passing by, but not to high either.
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I live in a really stable region, so I've experienced an earthquake only once, it was around magnitude 4 a couple of hundred kilometres away from my hometown. Back then my workplace was in an old factory building, just next to a railway. Chair below me and whole floor shook a bit, like there was REALLY heavy freight train passing by, unusually heavy one, so I looked outside a window and.. there was no train at all.
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Uh yes, the augmented reality... Imagine seeing the world like a Terminator, but in colour, at the same time a device tracking your eye movement adjusts your advertisement content accordingly. Like if a man looks a fraction of a second longer at a curves of ladies, he will get more of those annoying dating service adds, or if those are not feminine curves he is looking at, a content aimed at gay community will appear (which may come as a surprise to some 🤣), or a device will silently contact police, if the person hangs out around schools too much and suspiciously looks at kids.
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P.S. And of course the porn industry will love this - both for filming POV movies and for delivering them to end user (potential pun is accidental, but might be intended) through VR / AR devices.
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I wonder, are there excursions in these buildings, allowing people to climb by stairs all the way up? I'm not into sports, and the highest I've ever got on one day were 4x24 floors - 2 times on two 24 floor buildings up and down by stairs and then again one time up to the top of each of them - 96 floors, 3,2m every floor, thus it's mere 307,2 meters total - not even 1/3 of these monsters under construction.
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Both mom and dad of my first girlfriend died of cancer, and so did she. We were not together for two decades at that point, so I only found out about that a couple years later, and only because she was a very special person - her close friends dedicated a whole article to her in local newspaper. So young! Well... relatively speaking. And I'm still around. Now I;m suspecting my mom might have worried about my thyroid so much not only because of Chernobyl (we live in Eastern Europe), but also because some auto-immune issues run in our family - for my mom it's enough to take additional vitamin D for her thyroid, but in my case MS has already crippled me and I got difficulties walking. On the upside - MS noticeably lessens chances to get Alzheimer's, so I may become paralyzed, but likely I will not be senile.
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Why do you have that retarded presidential system in the first place? Parliamentary one with proportional representation would allow much more nuanced approach, where multiple parties with various agendas can be elected and then form alliances based on their common goals. It also prevents too much power being concentrated in one hands. And it somewhat indirectly prevents corruption, as one can bribe donate to both parties in bipartisan system, while it's much harder, nearly impossible, in a system with many dozens of political parties, which... I guess is exactly the reason bipartisan system is here to stay - it's much more comfy for lobbyists. P.S. Being very small my country conveniently has exactly 100 seats in a single house parliament. There is also a lower limit cut-off - those who get less than N percent of votes don't get elected at all, this number can vary by country (some don't have such limit), we have 5% threshold. Local constituencies are represented, as we got multiple stages of power: local (municipal or county); national parliament (which also elects government and a president) and Europarliament.
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I don't think you will lose any subscribers (not a lot at least), as jingles are not exactly know for fancying educational content in general and for entertainment in particular.
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Supposedly Friedrich Zander was the first, who proposed the idea of a space plane. I happen to live in a few minute walk from the house where he used to live and work in late XIX to early XX century. Zander is not as famous as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, but also one of the pioneers of space travel theory. Besides a lot or even the most of his work was not done here in Riga, but in Moscow in 1920s, where he also lodged a patent for a winged rocket in 1924.
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Shocked the world? Really? Hardly did. The only reaction from specialists was: WTF he did this, which was completely unnecessary?! Ethical norms in China not being implied is not big news either, just look at the numbers of organ transplants done in PRC, which has become a big business, where do all those "donors" come from?
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I almost got lost as a kid, but it was a place, where a pedestrian walk was nearby, so: 1) there were people around; 2) visibility on that straight path was good in both directions, thus relatively soon I and my parents saw each other. But it's scary, how easy it was - just run around a small grow of bushes, lose direction or/and the sense of how much distance I've run, and that's it - in less than a minute a kid can be gone.
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Also note, that current "extreme ultraviolet" isn't ultraviolet at all, they are already in the X-ray range, but first attempts to use X-rays were a failure, so for marketing purposes they named it differently the next time, which is where we are right now.
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