I figured. Pretty much everyone that's serious uses pre-preg and that usually requires refrigeration.

I hope that happens. The tag could be “Congratulations Mr. iNvDrZiM on COTD. This lovely lady will bring you your Lada as soon as she has shaved off all her body hair.”

I assume also that this machine uses pre-preg which tends to have higher performance and usually requires refrigeration to keep it’s shelf life.

While this type of tech has been around for a while, this is the first one I’ve seen on the end of a multi axis robot. That being said, automating the layup process is only part of dealing with composites being expensive. There are still cores, bonding, curing, mold release, and designing the molds themselves.

Audi, Horch, DKW, and Wanderer were merged into Auto Union. As others have said, pretty interesting history. Part of it has to do with Porsche (the guy, before he started the company) convincing Hitler to sponsor 2 Grand Prix teams rather than just Mercedes, or so I’ve read.

They probably don't realize that it's worth more than their Lexus.

I’ve met a few and they usually look like meathead Rob Lowe. The competition guys look like your run of the mill hillbillies that you find at most drag racing events.

InB4 the people who don’t understand chemistry or combustion: yes, Diesel engines smoke when they’re under high power, this is different from rolling coal, get over it.

It is no secret that Donald Trump loves aviation attention.

Sean, hopefully this doesn’t get buried in the grey but I’ve already got a problem with my anti-virus software. I had been using Bitdefender 2015, which they’ve stated they’re ready for W10, but the installer gets partway through the installation and crashes. Seems like it’s on Bitdefender’s end since they have a…

Trucks and busses are regulated under the EPA. Basically everything engine powered in U.S. jurisdiction is subject to EPA emissions regulation (based on manufacture date, of course). Truck regulations are more inline with light duty regulations when compared to aircraft.

With that kind of development, I have a hard time agreeing with a blanket statement like “military autonomous robots are bad.” Offensive combat bots, sure lets discuss the moral implications but surveillance and utility? C’mon.

It’s CSI (Las Vegas) Season 4 Episode 22 “No More Bets” IMDb notes that the premise of the episode was based on Shannon and Thorp

Delta-v wise, it doesn’t take that much more velocity change to get into Mars orbit from Earth. Especially if you can aerobrake when you get there. It’s actually fairly comparable to going to the moon. Habitation is probably the biggest issue. You need a vessel that can support a fairly big crew for several months…

There was a CSI episode about the shoe computer. Almost exactly the same device. I believe the quote from the episode was “you can land a probe on mars if you know the initial conditions”

That was something that I was curious about too. Are they requesting a ban on autonomous decision making for targets or straight up autonomous ban. If it’s straight up autonomous ban, we missed the opportunity to stop that when self guided munitions were developed.

There’s good CGI and bad CGI. Game of Thrones does a great job of it with filling in the background of scenes, keeping shooting costs down. The same can be said for Fury Road where the stunts by themselves were impressive but they used CGI to fill in the blank edges. Core to the story CGI like Terminator 2 and The…

My “of course” would have been 80s full size van:

If only the knew the true danger of nuclear power, dihydrogen monoxide.