It's ok, I forgive you. Go have a good time. We will just sit here waiting to here from you. It's just you never call, you don't write us anymore. I see how this is....Go, have a good time with your friends.

I'm not.

Thanks for the welcome Audi... drinks are on me...

Trust me, when the green flag drops, the gloves are coming off between Porsche and Audi...and they had both better beware of Toyota, too. Should be the most competitive LMP1 race at Le Mans in a long time.

Blowing past the vintage Porsche tractor on the roadway is a nice, subtle dig.

The old Porsche tractor is a nice touch. I wonder how many people will get that.

(Full Disclosure: Mate and I are attending the 24 Hours of Le Mans thanks to Audi. No bias on teams from us, but there will be a lot of coverage next week and a fun little event beforehand that you'll enjoy. More to come...)

This "theory" is a bit of a stretch; North American Aviation/Rockwell had proposed a 6-man Apollo variant as far back as 1967 at the start of the Apollo Applications Program (AAP), which became Skylab. The author of Marooned almost certainly knew of these proposals.

Stop. Mentioning. Asperger. Asperger does not make you unable to see the difference between good and evil. It is NOT an excuse. (Not personal to you, more of a general thing)

It's not THAT baffling when you take into account the fact that this particular decision was made by Brian Barnhart...

Maybe you should read first and stop making assumptions. Also, calling someone an idiot because of inept comprehension shows your true nature.

Look at the rest of the list. All performance cars, where power is king. Trucks are a different application, where you have to worry about things like being able to apply a large amount of force while the vehicle is standing still (e.g., pulling stumps) or otherwise at lower engine speeds. If you're pulling 10,000lbs…

Torque is not force applied. It's torque. Force is force. Power is power. They all have very specific definitions in the context of engines, the fact that they have different meanings outside of the engineering world doesn't really matter here.

Power isn't fictional at all. Guess what's accelerating faster if they're geared such that they're at the same speed in your example?

Other way around. Power is a more fundamental quantity for an engine, torque follows from power and the geometry associated with the engine.

In order to get a 1000kg car to 30m/s, you need to add 900kJ. To do so in 3 seconds, you need an average of 300kW.

I enjoy poking the bear. The bear that isn't an engineer and hasn't spent the last 8 years of their life making a living out of thermodynamics.

10.) Ram 2500 Cummins

Because cameras are the only thing they've allowed to technologically advance on the track in the past 22 years.