Doubled? A set of tires runs around $1k, and they charge me $20-$50 for whatever they have to do to the sensors.

I think the first counter question should have been “Do I get a crew?”. The falcon is a small ship, and you might not be able to run it by your lonesome, but you’d only need to recruit a few buddies to get it going. The enterprise needs a large crew, probably hundreds of people. At least a few dozen for any long term…

“On one side of the “drum” was a little chamber filled with a magnetic field induced by a direct electric current.”

If you were doing the skimming, and had only one unit to install, would you put it on the diesel pump, or the gas one?

That makes sense, thanks!

So this is all about cold war redux? I thought they were trying to protect themselves from ISIS and their fellow ilk. Putin is unlikely to attack england (even stalin’s ambitions did not extend that far, to my knowledge) and if he did, the UK is not going to be in a position to stop him.

So this is all about cold war redux? I thought they were trying to protect themselves from ISIS and their fellow ilk. Putin is unlikely to attack england (even stalin’s ambitions did not extend that far, to my knowledge) and if he did, the UK is not going to be in a position to stop him.

Maritime patrol aircraft? What are those for? Either the UK (and other powers) are struggling to adapt to a new threat, or they are seeing a very different threat than the one commonly discussed.

On the other hand, the people developing new products still need to eat, pay rent, and live life.
Paying them salaries is reasonable, assuming they are reasonable salaries.

Yes, thankfully. If you look further up, Holmer suggest that we start making them so that you won’t be able to.

Trying to think of the last automatic car I drove... Wait still thinking.. hmm. Nope. Forget it, I’m not the right person to ask about these things, I still row my own gears. And as one of those old school, row my gears, make my own coffee, get off my lawn types, I want to be able to turn my stuff off. Like the fuck…

Love that meme!

What was the point in the auto headlights in american cars from that era? I always thought the idea behind auto headlights was to improve aero, so what’s the point in the non aero covers? Is it just to keep the bugs off?

Taking an engine out of gear wont blow the engine, it will just bounce off the limiter for a while. That’s not great for the engine, but it isn’t catastrophic. However, automatic transmission wont always let you take it out of gear, or at least don’t make it obvious that you can.

Because sometimes throttles stick.

How do you go about desiging a component to fail after such a high number of miles? It sounds much more difficult than designing one not to fail.

I’m surprise the BMW I8 didn’t make the list. Between the door release that far too easily broke, and my personal favorite “the hood that needs 2 qualified technicians to open or else it damages your car” it should have been an easy fit.

Thats really exciting stuff, but it has very little to do with evolution. Genetically, we’re not much different than we were 1,000 years ago, and certainly not enough to account for the burst in growth. Rather, this is mostly a function of compound interest, both economically, and in technological development.

High speed rail. Really.

Flying cars wont be quiet as terrifying as giving everyone an airplane, provided they can hover (and thus come to a stop, which is something an airplane can’t do) and you have some way of making and assigning lanes (the easiest way probably be augmented reality like overlay of lane markers on the screen, but since I’d…