Hasn’t that ship already sailed?

I’ll be the asshole so you don’t have to be!

You have looked at this problem with a much more holistic vision than I have. Congratulations!

Isn’t it great to know that this kinda crazy knows no national borders?

Don’t worry, the grammar police are here! This is side-by-side drifting. Tandem drifting would be if they attached the front of one car to the back of the other. Oh, well, their English is better than my (non-existent) Russian.

Well, some people HAVE proposed colonizing the atmosphere of Venus with giant gasbags. This idea is more for the surface, so we’ll file your plan away, and when we have the Venusian atmospheric colonization competition, you may come and collect your $15k!

(Also posted elsewhere) While I generally agree with you that Sanders does not attract voters to the polls the way some of his supporters say, it should be pointed out that 2016 and 2020 numbers aren’t comparable, as 2016 was a 2-horse race, while this year on Super Tuesday, there were 4 viable candidates to split the…

While I generally agree with you that Sanders does not attract voters to the polls the way some of his supporters say, it should be pointed out that 2016 and 2020 numbers aren’t comparable, as 2016 was a 2-horse race, while this year on Super Tuesday, there were 4 viable candidates to split the vote.

You’re being dense for the sake of being dense. It burned out from ‘72 to ‘74, which is exactly what Bradley said and what I said.

Huh? First off, I wasn’t even responding to you - I hadn’t even seen your reply until I went through after looking at your response to me. Although, I was responding to someone else who was trying to make a similar point. But you seem to support my point - it only took 2 years of one factory team spending cubic…

No he’s not. It died out within 2 years of one factory - Porsche - going all-out no-holds-barred with the 917-10 and 917-30 in 1972 and 1973. Prior to then, it was a fun place for Chevy big block sportscars with chassis that were mostly in parity with each other (the Chaparral being the one exception, and they were…

Just speculating - the DPi and LMP2 monocoques may undergo FAI-mandated testing that validates them, while this does not, so a rollcage is required? There may not even be a protocol to structure/impact test and qualify a GT3 car without a rollcage.

Group C, along with IMSA GTP priced itself out of existence, and both of those groups had effective engine regulations (fuel limitation in Group C, sliding weight/displacement scales for different kinds of engines in IMSA, which were BoP’d). Can Am was killed when one manufacturer (Porsche) truly went no holds barred…

Your chart stopped in an interesting place (and the source is not exactly lamestream liburul media ). . .

To be honest, the terms of unconditional surrender included the removal of the emperor prior to then, but Japan tried to hold out for a negotiated surrender that included many terms other than just this (and we ended up letting the emperor remain on his throne, albeit in a token role). If anything, the Soviet entry…

Part of the problem was that, if this demonstration failed to prompt the Japanese to surrender, it would have have cost one core, and they were very rare. Maybe the Americans overestimated how intensely the Japanese would have fought on, but the evidence at the time was that they would fight to the bitter end. It’s…

There are so many aspects of the decision to use the bomb that are debatable, but many of them are so post-hoc - the American impression of the time, based on the evidence of the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, was that any non-nuclear end to the war would be bloody in an unprecedented manner for both Japan and the…

The quote you used was from 1911. Truman was a Missourian. He certainly had periods in his early life where he was racist, but there is some evidence that he grew from his roots over his life, particularly when faced with the awesome responsiblity of the presidency. He was the man who desegrated the US Army, and the…

The rupture was due to a fluid hammer effect, and was actually outward in nature, caused by the shock of the rubber hitting the tank. The initial impact did not actually puncture the tank. A kevlar liner would help with that, and was installed. See section 1.16.27.2 of the following:

It was put back into service after that accident. While the Continental maintenance screwup was the immediate cause, no airplane’s fuel tank should rupture if a tire shreds, and the Concorde was modified with fuel tank liners to prevent that. The real reason that they retired was because Airbus decided not to continue…