Thank you for this, Burke! This crossed my mind yesterday at the Gold medal tie (I hadn’t seen the men’s butterfly tie until you posted this) and thought it was really strange they weren’t using a more precise system. I find it pretty amazing that they’ve taken into account the affect tolerances in construction and…

Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.

“Because he is all parents”

Was he arrested? If so I hope he won’t serve any time because he is all parents.

Not really. He’s burning insane amounts of fuel to get to that level of power. You can push 1000 horsepower out of almost any engine if you construct it from materials durable enough to survive it, but doing so requires insanely high RPM that eats through fuel at a rate comparable to a rocket. He’s using a gas-turbine…

Please don’t reccommend me novels. Books are like heroin. Before you know it, you withdraw from social life and piss away 300 euros at a second-hand bookstore in one day.

Look, she’s got an earpiece in feeding her questions, and then she has this guy next to her shouting and breaking her concentration, and then there are about a hundred people shoving each other - it’s funny, but it’s not THAT weird.

Simple really...

Oh, he’s building to it. I guarantee, he’ll be all normal and “hey guys, that’s awesome!” but as soon as Richards pops up, he’ll be all...

This looks so fucking comfortable.

Mind. Blown. If I didn’t drink while watching Mad Men, it’s possible I would have picked up on this more.

Howard Stark was the name of Iron Mans dad long before Iron Man the movie.

I guess if Favreau wants to say he drew inspiration from Musk he can, but Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were inspired by Howard Hughes.