Try Googling “French Revolution”

Bubblegum.

Clearly was a green shell.

They do. They’re enclosed in a sacrificial sabot for the length of the rail, but once they’re out, the sabot opens up and the tungsten round is off to the races.

They sure do. at mach 5 no less 

Oh, I’m laughing so hard in New Zealand right now... 80 lbs of ammunition? So, you’re an American but you live in a relatively quiet neighbourhood?

I’ve got a tungsten wedding ring like the person above.

Lead is the better value, pound-for-pound.

Fun fact: gold has about the same density as tungsten, 19.3 kg/L.

pro drivers race on simulators all the time. This is nothing new to them. he’s not sitting there with a dualshock in his hands

Um, it’s not a humblebrag if he’s talking about SOMEONE ELSE’S cars.

Compared to a modern one, an e34 is about as complicated as a hammer, and Alpina probably bought most of the bits off the shelf anyway. I doubt there were little German elves building turbochargers in the corner of the workshop.

The badge is worth about $50K, evidently. <shrug>

Fun fact: If you try a pogo IRL, you will chip your board and/or get nutted.

mX Æ A-12 grancoupe xdrive

Relevant:

Damn. I was betting on Scott.

I have a friend who eats shrimp tails, and I have no evidence but I’m now convinced he does this too, and I’m just going to wildly assume he also eats peanut shells.

I always surprise myself that Kylie Minogue still exists, but good lord she's pretty perfect. My mind is perpetually in a state of lust for her ever since seeing "Can't Get You Out of My Head." Helps that her pop songs are actually rather enjoyable to listen to, as if a woman fronted New Order.

Sort of related, but Spielberg's War of the World's (which I really like) worked best when it was the scenes of Cruise's character stuck in a panicked crowd and just how scary a mob of people can be.  For all of the stuff with the aliens, the scene where they drove their car into the place by the Ferry and get…