mmmm... tasty beer...

I'm going to go a bit nostalgic here and say the Portage Lake Lift Bridge in Houghton, MI:

Only if it has whale penis leather.

I forget who said it so I'm going off of memory, "the electric car was invented by someone who hated driving so badly that they wanted everyone else to share their hatred and developed a car so awful that everyone would hate driving it just as bad."

I'm kind of surprised by the support. Yesterday a coworker sent me the SAE spec for determining deflections on tapered and multi-leaf springs which I need for determining axle articulations.

Full disclosure Torch: I am an engineer and... these are the kinds of things I'm occasionally excited about.

Further proof that GoPro makes everything cooler.

COTD, or week, or month, of all time. Zac, you may post this as soon as you are ready.

Those machines were amazing feats of engineering (as were many other things coming from Germany during that time) and have absolutely nothing to do with nazi ideology or the horrific things that happened back then.

I just get a little misty thinking about Rudi Caracciola and Bernd Rosemeyer going toe-to-toe and driving these things in anger.

Neutral: Do You Take Public Transit?

Also, the swanky semi truck cabs are for line haul trucks that never go off road. I would be surprised if there was a severe service truck that had a swanky cab.

+1

I'm going to need a priest, a rabbi, and an atheist...

Must've glanced over that part. Sorry.

That's not how the testing works. They are tested in a wind tunnel at a predefined/regulated temperature and ram air speed with the engine fluids having pass/fail limits. If you fail the test you have to go back to redesign the cooling system or de-rate the engine if there isn't enough time or money to redesign. And…

On a cooling test, 2 degrees is enough to go from marginal (and acceptable) to a failure without dispute.

Tethers Unlimited is also working to develop a rocket engine that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which it would then use as fuel. That's right - a rocket that runs on water.

Even the drone industry is skeptical. Michael Toscano, president & CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said in a statement, "We are reviewing the decision very carefully and we have also been in touch with the FAA to discuss its implications and the agency's response." He added, "Our…

By comparison, the demands of outer space are much less than that of undersea (pressure wise, no pun intended). For spacewalks astronauts pre-breath pure oxygen and space suits are only pressurized to the oxygen atmospheric partial pressure, about 4.7 psi. When going to another planet with atmosphere, it becomes even…