Interesting... A bit of research says that it wasn’t the kind of helium-filled blimp you usually think of - it’s a “thermal airship” that’s basically a cross between a hot air balloon and a typical blimp. That would explain the explosion on the ground, when the propane tanks for the lift burner went up.

America’s only mass-produced horizontally-opposed engine...

The most appalling thing about this video is that the chick in the bikini top and white shorts, who I assume is shooting video, points the camera at the ground right at the moment of truth. I am SO glad we aren’t watching that clip instead.

So the dopey thing about the nitrogen fill is that the majority of places that do it only pressurize the mounted tire with nitrogen - the tire is STILL full of horrible nasty air, except now it has a slightly higher percentage of nitrogen in the mix.

The solution?

There are a lot of very uninformed comments here, mostly by people who want this to conform to their particular worldview. Here’s what actually happened, based on the facts that are commonly available.

...it is nothing that the U.S or it allies do every day around the world.

I can’t hear “Nashville Predators” without my brain inserting the word “Sexual” in between.

Fun fact: Coil springs are just torsion bars wound into a circle.

Let’s hope that Hertz can get through this one relatively unscathed.

Because you are wearing shoes? Because it’s the tenth car you have moved that day, and all of them have slightly different pedal layouts, brake feel, and throttle return spring resistance? Because you’re distracted by the two way radio that’s telling you you’re late getting the next car into the hall for the auction,…

Yes, that’s exactly what happens.

...the Ford Modular V8 was weird and had both pushrod and OHC configurations...

You know, I have ALSO heard that women get fewer black eyes if they just keep their damn mouths shut, too.

Stephens said someone had asked her son why he didn’t have a clip in the gun and told him to put it in. “As he put the clip in the gun, that is when the gun went off,” the grieving mother added.

$2.5 million dollars

My dad worked on DASH helicopters during the Vietnam war. They were actually a really smart solution to the question of stand-off antisubmarine weapons delivery. Basically, the sonar operator and the guy remotely flying the DASH worked together to put the radar blip for the helicopter on top of the sonar blip for the…

No, I am assuming that it works like literally every other commodity. If there is a glut on the market, uneconomical production stops - people don’t keep manufacturing it just to throw it away. Are you saying that biodiesel production creates enough byproduct glycerine to meet all other uses, with excess supply left…

So in other words, the commodity cost went down. It’s not a “waste product.”

No, glycerin has a ton of other uses besides running inefficient generators