the clickbaity headline reeks of “nutrition health” tik tok: “did you know salt contains chlorine, a poison used for cleaning swimming pools? do you really want to put that in your body?”

The fuselage skin is not really 1mm thick, that’s the thinnest chem milled section, which accounts for maybe 30% of the entire area. The skin panels are either 2 or 2.2mm (0.080" or 0.090" in freedom units) thick, where they are riveted to other fuselage components like stringers and frame cleats, the 1mm (0.040" or…

The structural integrity comes from being pressurised, which is why 1mm thick aluminium is perfectly adequate. Try standing on an un-opened can of Coke, which is pressurised. Now try standing on an opened can. You get the picture. 

Aerospace and nuclear (my industry) are polar opposite when it comes to throwing material at problems. I saw that recently where I worked with an aerospace company that designed a fixture. They were concerned that the fixture weighed 750 lbs, which seemed insane to them. My design would have been 2900 lbs and I had…

He likely knows how tariffs work. What he’s counting on is American’s NOT knowing how tariffs work.

Hyundai in Alabama and recent child labor law reductions in Arkansas have been doing their best to prove that true.

There’s a HUGE difference between calling for backup and calling for a deputy. What would’ve happened if one of the backup units had an accident and killed someone? Or showed up on scene and shot someone accidentally?

Hungry Harry ~ “I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he order six shakes or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one…

Dipshit needs to just learn how to call corporate. There is a website and everything.

“They take them out of a box and they assemble them.”

You’re all missing the point. It’s not “so easy a child could do it,” he’s laying the groundwork for his child labor initiatives...

It’s called Project 2025. Republicans have never been quiet about their determination to dismantle government oversight so for-profit companies get free reign and their determination to treat their watered-down version of the bible as the new constitution.

No, it wasn’t a white Chrysler LeBaron and she traded in a Dodge Daytona not an MG.

I tried very hard to convince my mom to buy me a 7th gen Celica for my first car because I once rode in the back seat of one slammed on cut springs with blown out shocks bouncing on the bump stops with the loudest “fart can” in the world, and for some reason I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Not saying the…

Did your mom changed her name from Kitty to Karen ?

So many.

I loved that Bubble Taurus because of Mark Martin

To be fair, the Taurus SHO is still really, really cool to me and I always get stoked when I see one out in the wild.

1st Gear: This is all an attempt by Musk to have Tesla valued as a tech company rather than a car company. Unfortunately for him, investors are getting a bit tired of waiting on autonomy. This was his big chance to show his plans on how to do that, and instead we got more vague plans and two new vehicles! (Oddly…

It is a hardware problem. The reason Waymo works and Tesla doesn’t is that the car simply doesn’t see objects it would with Lidar.