I’d like to see the next Democratic President nominate a replacement for Neil Gorsuch, with a Democratic controlled House and Senate. The complete bullshit that the Republicans pulled to put him on the bench was inexcusable and should be rectified.

I do not agree that the image of a car is intellectual property, at least as long as it isn’t being misrepresented or claimed to be something else. Now, if the likeness is used as some sort of campaign, advertising, or commercial endeavor then the owner of the car should have the final say in the matter, not the…

Why not? If we did, you could have a car and a wife that will blow their head-gaskets.

If you want to play that game, the top BRZ beat all the FS M3's and would have placed 5th in FS with all the v8 muscle cars. The Camaro is an over-car for the class and was only moved out of FS because owners claimed that they couldn’t keep up with the other FS cars, which last year’s results would argue otherwise.

The Falcon Heavy would win if it were launched sideways (or if the Bugatti had to drive up).

I teach physics, so it’s just job security for me. One of the major issues is that everyday experiences give the false impression that sound is fast, we just don’t deal with big enough distances to notice the ~1,000,000 time difference between the speed of light and sound (in air).

Sonic Booms don’t just happen when an object first exceeds the speed of sound, instead, the pressure waves accumulate along a cone (called the boom carpet) and you hear the boom whenever that wave passes over you.

It’s just an extra 15psi of gauge pressure, so as long as you are 15psi below the burst pressure on the ground, they should be okay (at least until the air heats up and explodes the tire, or liquefies in the cold, or the UV, x-ray, and gama ray light deteriorates it until it ruptures).

Fair enough, I’ve been to both and I rather put the blame on Nebraska.

Spain was neutral in WWI, so they were just about the only ones who would publish news when bad stuff happened (like a global pandemic so bad they had to cancel the war). Since Spanish newspapers were the first, and for some time the only, sources to cover the outbreak it was named the Spanish Flu.

I’m pretty sure that the Emperor is going to unleash a biological weapon on the Klingons that results in the need for the genetic changes that changes them into the TOS Klingons (probably have to incorporate human DNA or something similar to stop the spread).

All you’d have to do is park it for a day or two and look at it from time to time.

No stopping ability is an exaggeration, the first stopping event I’d be able to stop about as well as a pickup truck with a trailer towing my car or maybe a Uhaul box truck.

This is the type of case no one wants to bring to court, for a couple of big reasons:

I’ve got a set of Hawk DTC 70's and they do not work until they are up to temperature. Hell, there are huge disclaimers and warnings that they come with that warn you not to use them on the street for that reason. Admittedly, my light car doesn’t heat up the brakes too fast, especially with ducting and bigger…

Real race pads don’t work on the street. A true track pad is dangerous until it is up to temperature (you’re not keeping them hot under street driving conditions).

The profit is all in the higher end stuff. If you sell something that’s cheaper, you have to sell more of them and there are only so many enthusiasts.

I liked when their only aircraft carrier caught itself on fire, it made me respect and fear the Russian Navy. It was so powerful and advanced that it was even able to destroy itself!

Like all statistics, it depends on how you look at it. I still like the quote and love George Carlin, but I wince whenever I say it because I know it is inaccurate.

That’s a George Carlin bit; however, it doesn’t match up with how statistics and averages work (about 2/3rds of a sample will be within one standard deviation of the mean). So really, about 80% of everyone is either worse or not noticeably better than average.