Helmet laws interfere with natural selection. Riding without a helmet is its own punishment.

My guess is that if they’d actually tried to get permits, the authorities might have insisted on something more substantial than a snow fence between the car and the spectators.

And this is why the “Eggshell Skull Rule” is a thing.

Extra “it” at the end aside, nice ad hominem there.

That really looked like training munition - if not, that’s a hell of a lot of kerosene burned to drop two tiny bombs.

LOL! Yeah, that’s the Gawker motto. Never proof, never correct!

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.