They’re called effing snakes. DINO would really mean a conservative-leaning Democrat, who could still be principled.

The sword was only in the restored version of Gipsy Danger. But yeah, why punch when you have a pig-sticker available? You wouldn’t be able to use the hand-mounted plasma cannons without ditching the swords, though.

I remember when the head of SUNY Polytechnic, Dr. Kaloyeros, was on the rise, doing his thing at SUNY Albany. He was the only physics professor there with a Porsche. Growing his projects was kinda easy when you get to pay grad students instead of scientists and engineers.

1st gear: I see fuel cells as more part of a range-extender option for electric vehicles, much like the case of the BMW i3 and Chevy Volt. You could have a smaller fuel cell feeding charge into the battery pack at a low, constant rate when needed, rather than building a stack that has the task of being the primary…

I’m okay with the shiny plastic grill insert. It’s not pretending to admit airflow anymore, and it’s a good embellishment on the front end to break up the space.

Isn’t the Skyactiv automatic on the better side of competent? As in shift programming, efficiency and quick shift times? I am a Subaru guy (18 years of Subies), but it would be hard for me to decide between a Forester and a CX-5 2.5 at the moment.

Build the Navy some AIP subs to go along with the LCS. Work on increasing equipment readiness. Don’t waste a lot of money on defense industry dreams. More troops? not so much.

The sound from Inception. That’ll work.

Acura TSX 6MT + Miata for $50k. That’s my suggestion. Why settle for just one?

My friend tore her patellar tendon while doing a spin in ballet. The stress of a seemingly normal move tore the tendon attachment off the bone... and took some bone with it. Now, probably 4 years later, she’s doing some easy ballet and teaching it, but she’ll never perform again. Of course, it didn’t help having shite…

As long as I’ve bypassed 60 mph in those 7.2 seconds, I should be okay. Oops, Prius won’t do that.

I might have to try this. I’m tall enough so I don’t really fit in airplane/car/train seats like normal humans (6'3", but that’s enough). Horseshoe travel pillows usually rest where the headrest contour is curving out, forcing my head to either arch back or do some other unstable thing. Thanks :)

That cobblestone section was BS. Getting hit with a ‘random mechanical failure’ is not how a one stage race should go. Chains, tires, etc. were failing at a too-frequent pace. Of course, you really can’t calibrate the cobblestone bumpiness, you just have to go with it, but... it still sucked!

Instead of a few stations putting out 215 dB and deafening every sea critter in a wide area until the energy disperses via the inverse square law, things could be done better and a more numerous array of 150 dB stations. Yes, it would be more costly, but there is also the opportunity for higher resolution mapping due…

I call it ‘wardriving for Pokemon’. I need an assistant to catch the Pokemon while I drive.

At the end of the clip, I was wondering WTF that guy was doing standing near the cable. Perhaps Darwin was taking a nap that day.

So I figure, this would allow for an outgoing SMS with (hopefully) GPS coordinates? “Help, I’ve broken an axle when I drove into a hole that just so happens to be a snake pit” does you no good without location data, since the communications are only sporadically tw0-way.

Yes! If cats >= 1, then roll_direction = ‘under’; else roll_direction = ‘over’;

I have been seeing a certain type of spam profile lately on Tinder:

Ha! The Air Force only knows what it wants, not what it needs. The Air Force loves the shinies and burning pallets of money to get the shinies. The Marines... now those are people who know what they need, most of the time. If rocks were more cost effective to kill people, Marines would be issued rocks instead of guns.