Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Kyle Hill" channel.

I actually visited the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden during a field trip in high school as well. 😊 We got to see the underground storage facility for nuclear waste too. It was very educational.
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As a Swede, we still feel a sense of national shame over the fact that the politicians at the time allowed germans to ship troops and weapons to Norway. Granted, it was a hard decision to make too since the "official neutrality" wasn't really a point of principle but rather to avoid Germany setting it's sights on Sweden too (which was ill equipped to mount a proper defense against the wehrmacht). So a lot of lives were probably saved, but it leaves an extremely bitter aftertaste. One can only hope that the unofficial support extended to Finland during the winter war, the acceptance of large numbers of war refugees and persecuted jews and participation in rebuilding efforts of what had been destroyed in many countries across Europe (since Sweden still had a lot of intact key industries after the war) can make up for it a little bit.
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@BouncyStickman The feeling is mutual. We're all scandinavian brothers when all is said and done. Along with the Danes, Icelanders, the Faroese and (even though they aren't technically Scandinavian) The Finns. A personal dream of mine would be that our countries created a nordic union instead of some being in the EU while others aren't. I believe we would be able to run a much better union together due to many shared cultural values and ideals, whereas the EU is just constant bickering and everyone pulling in different directions.
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Hideo Kojima was extremely prophetic in the game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. We're witnessing the birth of AI's scrubbing the internet of information selected by it's masters.
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@Efeye-s It's not really earthquakes they have in mind but more "man made" disasters (artillery strikes, airstrikes and sometimes even nuclear strikes)
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If you think that's scary, then look up the estimated amount of fissile material in the bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that actually underwent fission during the nuclear explosions. We're talking mere grams of the stuff (so the vast majority of fissile material was just pulverized and scattered) Pretty crazy to think about the amount of energy that such tiny amounts of matter can contain. Amounts the size of a couple of pinches of salt can obliterate entire cities under the right conditions.
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@IzzyIkigai It's not like we could go anywhere within the power plant. It was a guided tour basically.
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I kind of hope that some day, we will have made such advances into rocketry to make space launches cheap enough that we can just send the nuclear waste that require millenia long storage out to space or into the sun to be obliterated far away where there's no chance of it causing trouble for humanity.
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I mean, of course nothing can defy the laws of physics. What they mean when they say this is that something might defy the conventional perception of physics. Like a UFO flying in an atmosphere that would be flat out impossible for any aircraft built on earth to this day. It's not conspiratorial to make the claim that there are areas or applications if physics that we have yet to explore fully and use in a practical application.
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Biologists must've loved it there too. Not many places on earth where you can study living organisms that have lived alongside higher radiation levels than background for 36 years, and see how it affected them. Must be hundreds if not thousands of generations of insects there being bathed in radiation.
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Not a fan of Taylor Lorenz and her doxing of libsoftiktok
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Hmm, when I skeptically interrogate the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility, I get called racist, transphobic, anti-vaxxer and climate denier. It's funny how the mere act of asking questions slaps you with so many mean-spirited ad hominems.
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@spaceageGecko I see your reading comprehension is lacking
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"Why weren't the cameras vaporized"... Uhm, might be surprising to some but... Cameras back then were able to zoom in from far away if you use the correct lenses.
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I don't quite follow. If a kilogram underwent fission, how come the energy released is only from one gram?
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Germany's nuclear phase-out is both lunacy and hypocrisy in equal measure. Shutting down power plants have created a power deficit in Germany, which the politicians see fit to plug with nuclear power from France and Sweden and other European countries. I guess nuclear power is only "dangerous" when it's done in Germany, but perfectly safe when done... "Elsewhere"? 🤔
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@annocraft It doesn't matter because it's never going to be 100 percent. Solar doesn't work at night, and wind only works when it's windy. You will always require an on-demand power source that can be turned on at will. And for that you either have to choose nuclear or fossil fuel power.
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I don't believe we should get rid of nuclear weapons. The point of having them is to not use them. Countries who have them are largely safe from foreign invasions, because nobody wants to risk triggering a nuclear backlash by invading a country with a nuclear weapons program. Nuclear weapons are terrifying, but they're also one of the few things that can safeguard even a small country with a small military defense force from a hostile takeover. Many smaller countries today face military oppression from foreign powers. Ukraine being a prime example of it right now. Ukraine gave up it's nuclear weapons to Russia as a condition for national independence during the break-up of the USSR. But we can all see how well Russia respected that treaty. Had Ukraine have it's own nukes today, I doubt Russia would've been so eagre to invade.
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Insects and arachnids in general have very high strength compared to body weight. The benefit of basically having hydraulic muscles.
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As far as conspiracy theories go, i'd even argue that the moon landing being faked would be more plausible than nuclear bombs being fake. Since there were both means AND motive to fake the moon landing. The U.S has gotten pretty whipped by the USSR during the space race since the soviets were first with putting a satellite into orbit AND achieved the first successful manned space flight. So there was certainly plenty of incentive to one-up the soviets and regain some prestige at the time. But it gets really difficult to disprove the existence and effects of nuclear weapons.
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@stalinzd2580 Jo precis. Sverige ligget ganska mitt på en stor tektonisk platta. Så vibrationerna from jordbävningar märks knappt av här
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@spaceageGecko Really? I wasn't aware that, for example, why it's not advised to treat people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder by giving in to their wishes about having arms or legs amputated, yet for transpeople, somehow permanent and irrevocable surgery is being advised had been such a "hot topic" and "answered to death" by scientists already.
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@spaceageGecko Oh and just fyi, clearly the psychologic and medical fronts do not meet at the same argument anymore since several experts across different countries are rolling back prior recommendations of subjecting children to hormone blockers and surgeries. Because it was evidently an idiotic idea from the start, only promoted by sick and unethical pseudo-scientists like John Money and Helmut Kentler.
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I wonder if one could construct an automated machine that does fractioning on it's own? I'm thinking of a more sophisticated version of a washplant for gold mining. The whole process is about separating dirt, sand and rocks from small flakes and nuggets of gold. So a similar principle where you can just dump shovels or excavator scoops into the machinery and it'll separate out hot particles from the more or less harmless particles.
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@annocraft Furthermore, Germanys imports of electricity ramp up the prices on electricity. How do you justify making life harder for regular people in other countries, just so German politicians can indulge in some sort of anti-nuclear purity spiral? Frankly, all nuclear countries should refuse to sell electricity to germany and let the german power grid collapse.
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@annocraft First of all, the battery packs required do not exist yet. Second: battery technology is still massively flawed due to battery degradation. This strategy will only be viable if battery technology can demonstrate a proven method of continual recharges without battery degradation. Also manufacturing these batteries isn't more enviromentally friendly than burning coal.
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@annocraft Utrecht is not a country the size of Germany. Nuclear power plants run for several decades. Natrium batteries are still just in their infancy and not a proven, practical technology.
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@annocraft Your arguments are dishonest because you appeal to a bunch of technologies and quantities that do not even exist yet. If i were to do the same, I could blow all your batteries, solar panels and wind turbines out of the water by saying "We'll have fusion reactors soon".
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Plenty of electricians have died due to dropping or slipping with a screw driver. So this cause of death is more common and less exotic than most people think.
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But the single worst quest giver
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Also, everyone knows Curie is the best companion. Her cuteness both as a robot are sure to uplift any weary wasteland wanderers spirits.
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