They built the A-10 to meet those specs in the first place. They did not make the F-35 to meet those specs. They made the F-35 for air to air combat with whatever latest fighter the Russians and Chinese have, with more flexible takeoff and landing options.

Defense Secretary Carter has lost a considerable amount of my respect over his military spending priorities and sales efforts on behalf of the military industrial complex.

Anyone who looks at the specs and cost of an A-10, and the specs and cost of any F-35 variant, and thinks the F-35 is a proper replacement for the…

Got one of these the last time it was $30. Excellent little speaker for that money, a bit thin on bass. The batteries last a fairly long time and it’s built really tough.

Got one of these the last time it was $30. Excellent little speaker for that money, a bit thin on bass. The…

The needs of the air force are different from the needs of the Army and Marines. The Air Force A-10s and their pilots should be transferred to the Marines and Army, and completely taken out of Air Force inventory.

Based on everything we know right now, you may never be able to punch a button and travel through “hyperspace,”

The turbo version will have more low end torque and a wider powerband.

There is no almost about it. There is a mitochondrial Eve, and a Y-Chromosome Adam. Though they lived tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands, apart. Gene lines have crossed and recrossed numerous times since then.

The problem with the ash samples and their analysis, is that overall biomatter recovered fairly quickly. But quickly in these geologic terms, could be 200 years. It would only take 2 years of worldwide global winter to kill off most of the people. A blink of the eye that might not be easily discernible in the geologic…

Boxter/Cayman-esque BEV RWD sports coup with a 300 mile range. Or you can burn it a lot faster using its 550 hp through a three speed sequential gear box.

The bottom spec version of any inexpensive car is always boring and uninspiring. The steering isn’t too bad, for an electric rack. It was compromised by the FWD (much more so than my Focus ST). And of course you didn’t have the turbo, so it would have been a slug.

If you have a house, you are the perfect target market for the Leaf or Focus Electric pure BEVs. Either of those minus current incentives, comes to around $22,500. Charging on your home power is cheap, cheaper if you have solar panels. Few miles driven per week is perfect for cars with a range of under 100 miles.

First,…

If you trade up your cars every two to three years, the CPO BMW is your better choice for driving fun. If you keep it much longer than that, it will often become a money pit. I’d pick the AWD Fusion with the turbo engine. I’ve only driven the FWD version, but it had a nice balance to it for a big sedan. Also I think…

It also depends on whether you’re comparing apples to apples. Are we talking apartment vs single family home? Because renting a single family home is generally going to be something like mortgage + insurance + taxes + some profit as your monthly rent.

No one ever goes to jail if they’re sober when they kill someone. Especially if they’re rich.

Every night there are reports on the news about hit and run drivers killing someone in our area. They don’t even report on all of the ones that just resulted in injuries like broken legs. 30,000 people are killed every year, and hundreds of thousands are injured.

We are holding these machines up to much much higher…

Well, most of the scientists are saying just that. They’re pretty much saying that even if it does work, it can’t work.

You can knock a lot off the cost of goods sold when you don’t have to support the weight of 50 or more levels of management, a whole lot of that sitting on top of companies that could produce cars and trucks without having to carry the very expensive management load of General Motors.

You know what you have never heard…

A $10K to $15K difference in MSRP was the price point they were looking for. Overshot it by about $25,000.

Good use for them. Solves a major problem in society. Never read the story though. I can see a tragically comic punch line to that story, though. Please tell me it’s called “Taking out the Trash”.

These days, every advanced technology must be measured by the metric “But can you make a hoverboard with it?”

Shouldn’t be very difficult to accomplish. Half the world are women.