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

  1. I actually tought about another issue - a fuel tank right ahead of the cocpit, that engulfed a pilot in flames when hit.
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  2. I don't see here any of those "..but we had the technology 50 years ago!" Weird. Maybe it's because in this case it's way too obvious "Apollo" missions took insane risks and that old tech was not and is not suited for long term colonisation of our natural satellite.
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  3. At 1:48 an d several times after that, those are not MiG-21, but some variant of Su-17 ground attack plane.
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  4. Near East also needs forests, it actually had them in historic times, but they were list to both human activity and climate change. I believe it would also make that region a less shitty place. I've been thinking of it for a couple of years, since I read about forests that were once there. Then I googled and found, I'm not alone in this, the idea has been in the air for many years.
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  5. It's not claustrophobic to those, who have no claustrophobia. My thing in those is trying not to fall asleep.
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  6. Fuel also has another big advantage besides power density, that batteries don't have - it gets spent, which means aircraft gets lighter and lighter during the flight. So, IMO, batteries are not the answer, we got to find a way to turn either electricity produced or renewables (or both) into some form of fuel. Hydrogen... it seems as an obvious choice - produce electricity, use it to produce hydrogen out of water, but storing hydrogen, especially for a long time, is a pain in a particular body feature and a whole set of problems in it's own, thus very unlikely hydrogen is the answer. Maybe another provisional option to save fuel and diminish pollution would be use of electrically powered assisted take-off systems for civilian aircraft. Big not carrier type catapults - too complicated, too much investment into airport infrastructure. Maybe some sort of electric tug planes that would take regular planes to cruise altitude near airport and then leave. P.S. Also - restrict flights for overweight persons! Give discounts to midg.. vertically challenged persons! XD
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  7. The most anti-green grreen party in the world.
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