I believe that was a russian contraption, but I could be wrong. Seems like a good idea. You could use an existing system with all the advantages it offers, and when that system is not available, any tube will do.

"the most powerful crawler crane in the world of conventional design"

I'd like to to argue numbers, but I've probably done enough work dodging.

I'd love to see those numbers.

Rocket inefficiencies become really apparent at long ranges, because you have to carry a lot of fuel. If you are trying to go 25-50 miles it shouldn't be that big of a deal.

You could potentially load them from the very same cannon. Maybe even use the very same autoloader.

It wouldn't be a cruise missile. It would be a small rocket motor that would accelerate the very same round to the top of its arc, where it would glide to target exactly the same way. The round with its rocket motor should be about the same size as the round and its associate propellant.

I don't understand what the advantage of firing a guided round from a gun, rather than accelerating it via a rocket motor, thus turning it into surface fired missile (it doesn't seem right to compare this to a tomahawk, as that weapon is a generation older, and has a different intended use).

I have a difficult time with the suspension of disbelief required for most superhero movies. The typical story involved some teenager/young adult suddenly discovering that he/she can lift a building, or shoot lasers from their toes, or some other extra ordinary power. Ok, cool, I'm on board. The universe is a weird…

Ah. you might be able to make a sanitary argument as well. But neither are worth the pixels they are written on

I don't follow.

Yep, there will always be a type of behavior that should be both abhorrent and legal at the same time. Anytime we criminalize it, we aren't progressing as a society, we are regressing toward childhood.

You do realize that "advancing culture beyond sexism" is a type of morality right? If you feel that sexism is wrong, that's a moral value. It's a perfectly fine moral value, but it still is one.

If there is one thing that will secure us permanent moral high ground, surely waterboarding women and children is it.

'Cause you seem to know stuff.

I'm in complete agreement. EV's are getting good enough to make a satisfactory (or even ideal) second vehicle for many people. But they still have to go before they make a good only one.

If that's the case, why don't they lower the rate for the truck in the articles? From what I understood it never travels fully weighted.

Is it practical to swap the springs for something with a lighter rate? Would that make the setup run better when unloaded?

I'm with you, at least with VAT, less sure about the wisdom a gas tax (likely to generate too variable a revenue to work well) However, given our politics we are mostly likely to end up with a bullshit VAT and gas tax system in addition to our bullshit income tax system

If we are going to outlaw everything americans don't like, can we start with the taxes themselves?