I want to know how you get insured for that kind of event. The snow fence in front of the crowd might not completely stop that car if something went wrong...

26 of which ares stuffed in those huge banana magazines...

The video also shows the two Riverine Command Creaft...

I want to take something like a MKIV Supra, S13/14, Honda S2000, or even an AE86 and do an LS swap.

$335 in taxpayer incentives

So how many million dollars dollars is the engine alone?

Back when Sport Compact drag racing was a thing, I used to cover all the NHRASC and NDRA races. A lot of guys in the sportsman classes ran stock axles on purpose, as a sort of “fuse.” You can change a half shaft in the pits pretty quickly, but a busted transmission is another story.

Half the price of an F-35.

Each Super Hornet costs about $52 million dollars,

It’s a crying shame that GoPro had the “first mover” advantage in the action camera market, so now they’re the industry standard despite a miserable physical form factor, bad industrial design, and a user interface that actively hates you.

Commonality is great in terms of simplifying maintenance and logistics, but by concentrating capabilities in fewer and fewer platforms, you lose the “hybrid vigor” naval aviation used to have. Not every job requires a Hornet/Super Hornet, and the F-35 is turning out to be a solid-gold hammer when we could really use a…

...the lack of VIN numbers means you won’t be able to rock a Kammback on public roads.

You didn’t mention that they actually did successful ground tests of the nuclear ramjet engine. That might be the most fascinating part - miles and miles of oil well casing pipe to store compressed air, and an enormous furnace to heat it, to simulate the pressure and temperature of inlet air during low level…

You have NO idea. It was a rare treat as a kid to visit there with the folks - Back in the day before there were convenience stores on every corner and grocery stores stayed open late, it was the go-to source for cigarettes or milk in a pinch.

Hell, we have one in San Diego.

You keep trying to apply a standard of reasonableness and proportionality to this. There wasn’t one. He was probably just a guy who had one too many setbacks, and the hotel staff were unlucky enough to trigger the dam break.

Never said otherwise. But in his mind, the people getting hurt deserved it.

Most definitely not a “dazzle” paint job. Here’s a real example:

Except it’s not fifteen minutes on the phone - it’s another set of idiots reading from a script telling you they can’t help you, wasting your time and making you feel small, just like the idiots behind the desk who said the charge didn’t go through when it did. It’s one frustrating set of unhelpful assholes after…

This shouldn’t read “drone”