Niven and Pournelle wrote an Orion-type ship into their novel, “Footfall”. The description of lift-off was, “God was knocking, and He wanted in bad.”

Helicopter.

"I bought a Cadillac"

Really, so that steady-state fuel economy is just bunk? Of course we can build transmissions to handle it, but it's no-where near as efficient. A bonus, on trains, is more weight is good. More weight in the locomotive means it can pull more because of something called "gravity"

With American car companies, anything is possible. The novel way to return the gasoline back to the earth without any side effects like power.

Jezebel is the other way.

It makes it eazier for the csi techs

Florida = stupid people videos

If China were to dump US bonds today, it would destroy China. Yes there would be a serious economic impact in the U.S. and would require all Americans to tighten their belts for a long time, possibly years. But China would lose their single biggest goods purchaser (plus any allies for can convince/strongarm to follow…

Because of this, the chances of your resale value being affected are slim, as is the possibility of all the songs you bought through either iTunes or Google Play becoming useless when you choose a car.

"Who is this fucking guy photoshopping his Chevrolet next to our headquarters?"

Just stating the obvious, in case someone missed it:

Export version of F-16A orignally for Iran? I believe that version came with rollup windows and the targeting system involved a sharpie and windex. You just kind of drew the crosshairs on the glass and hoped for the best.

Whether we approve or disapprove the Israeli state politics, we all have to admit that Israeli armed forces is the most amazing, well-organized and efficient military force of the last 50 years. This aircraft is a great example of that.

I don't think so. When you consider the size of the country, its population, economy, its enemies, etc. and you add to that the extreme efficiency of their military (escape of the missile boats from Cherbourg, Six day war, Yom Kippur War, Operations Entebbe, Opera, Orchard.....) and the fact that many other nations…

Boohoo tanks and planes and ships aren't cars wahhhhh. You have a scroll wheel, do you not? Scroll on down for cars.

Or just because most Americans are as adventurous as a pile of vanilla pudding. We're doing just fine in Texas. No major outbreaks of firey death.

The IAF is about as good as it gets. Their pilots are highly trained and effective in their missions. Pretty cool rescue there.

That's the dumbest thing I've heard this weekend!