A 2000 miata costs $1500 and a 2000 s2k costs $15000. The Honda is 3-4x better, but not 8-10x. Tires, brakes, and parts are also significantly cheaper on the miata. People don’t love the miata because it is the best, they love it because it is the best for the price.

This set up sounds like an Atwood’s machine (like an elevator), a fast moving rope can very easily leave rope burns. The terrible burn only appears to go across the front of the girl’s neck, which could be consistent with a rope moving quickly through a pulley.

CJ Wilson bought his GT4 from my friend (and now autox co-driver), I’m going to have to forward him this video as well as me in my BRZ getting walked away from at the track by a GT4 on Tuesday.

Yes, that’s what the article was about. Because of the ability to use thinner walled and different diameter tubing using steel they saved more weight than they could with aluminum (strength to weight vs strenth to volume comparison).

Using steel instead of aluminum does not necessarily translate to higher weight. There was an article here about just this not long ago where Caterham was using high strength steel in its frame instead of aluminium because it saved weight and cost.

There is no wall or edge to reach, it’s like walking in a circle or on the surface of a sphere. The “observable universe” has an edge or limit (the CMB I mentioned), but if you moved to a new position it would be in the center of its own observable universe with its own horizon in a shifted position (overall diameter…

In cosmology, the “wall” or “edge” of the Universe is the present and what lies beyond it is the future.

You multiplied instead of dividing. Since the nurple is a bigger unit than the lb-ft, the numbers should get smaller when converting from lb-ft to nurples. Therefore, the beetle makes about 50 nurples.

Snakes eat their prey head first, so either Alfa's explanation is legit or it's a dragon (they eat things whichever way they feel like).

I thought the rear wheel was the driven wheel.

The only advantage this type of engine would have is that it requires no fuel; however, ion propulsion (which is real, in user, and produces millions of times more thrust) requires very little fuel. Also, with proper flight path planning, in space there is very little drag. You could "coast and burn" very effectively.

Wouldn't the next biggest size be a Petafactory, which suffers from two unfortunate associations:

The total change in inertia is constant; however, the specific impulse is lower with as helmet. The padding increases the time between the impact and when your head and brain stop.

Whenever you are talking about anatomy you have to be super specific, that's just the nature of the subject.

I would classify decapitation as neck or spinal trauma, unless the skull was bisected.

Maybe there were signs that the decapitation was performed postmortem, thereby ruling out decapitation as the cod.

I live in Texas and anything less than an F250 dually is considered a small vehicle. Crash the smart into a full sized American vehicle and show us the results, then we can be impressed (or dismayed).

Elon Musk and Tesla Motors process once again that corporations and billionaires don't have to conform to the status quo. Instead of worrying about trademarks or just the bottom line, Mr. Musk has once again put the good of society as whole first.

I only wear my helmet in my car when the event requires (except for the time I kept it on to be funny in traffic). Although I know that I am safer wearing it than not, I do not feel unsafe driving around helmet free.

Could the "men's" qualifier have been omitted simply because the 2 world cups are held on different years? If the women's world cup was going on I could definitely see the omission as pernicious, but with only the men's tournament going on I think the slight is only perceived.