I’ve been singing that song wrong at karaoke night.

Thank you. Super helpful explanation. Reduction of bending moment at the fuselage hadn’t occurred to me, but seems like a huge benefit.

What’s the reason for the engines being attached to the wing the way they are? I guess I understand shorter fuel line routing, but is there a cabin sound/vibration benefit as well?

Also:

Yeah, but they made the poor choice of not having Connery say “Ejecto Seato, Cuz” when he did it.

Awesomely bad movies are important:

I always enjoy the covers of bad songs more than the original.

Fascinating - they flipped the screen contents back so that it would appear correct, but left all the logos (Sirius, USB, etc.) the wrong way.

Wrangler owners out here like:

Warriors already ran up against that one back in 2010. They can’t reduce you below 5 players, so you bring in the last ejected player to bring the team back up to 5, and you get hit with a T.

Well, a 45MPH sign should set off a light bulb that 102 isn’t appropriate. I agree that if you are driving faster, you should be scanning further out, but that doesn’t necessarily solve the perception/reaction time problem: it can take longer to recognize an avoidable hazard because of that increased distance. A…

Or just don’t be a dipshit and drive at high speeds where these kinds of hazards exist. At high speeds, the visual scan area is much longer because the distances are closing at a faster rate. A person stepping into a crosswalk at 50 feet is much more obvious as a hazard than one stepping into a crosswalk at 500 feet,…

A few weeks back a couple went “chase spotting” with their baby in the car, and then let one of the suspects in the back of the car. Couldn’t believe what I was watching when the cops unloaded the baby.

http://abc7.com/2-arrested-after-leading-chase-through-3-counties/3503511/

I talked to a cop about this once, and he said the reason is that if they are in front of the car, and the dude steps out of the car with a gun and starts shooting at officers, they can’t shoot back, because if they miss, they’ll hit the officers standing on the other side of the car.

Essentially, that scene from…

To the Jeep owners upset that people are making “mall” jokes: go offroading more in your Jeep. Encourage other Jeep owners to do the same. If you are really worried about perception, leave your Jeep dirty after a good weekend out to drive the point home.

People making “Mallhawk” comments: Hassle your friends with Jeeps…

Absolutely, and I want to underscore that the recognition & reaction time at this speed can be significant, and thus stopping distance increases exponentially at these high speeds. Its a factor not only of how quickly your foot makes it to the brake pedal once your brain said “BRAKE!” but the recognition time is much…

But this video has a disclaimer under it if you watch it on YouTube, so that cures everything.

“Today we’ll be playing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with special accompaniment of pistol due to it being an indoor performance. You’ll find hearing protection under your seats.”

Think of it like “Powered By Honda” - the object doesn’t function unless someone reads it.

It always seemed like if the issue was usage and infrastructure that the taxes should be a function of vehicle weight and miles driven, but that the reporting of that info was the biggest hurdle. (Maybe that’s the impetus for California’s e-license plates.)

A lot of cab drivers lease their medallions from others until they can buy their own, which they can then lease out to someone else when they arent driving it. Prior to Uber/Lyft you didn’t really have to pay off the medallion: just use a sublease to service the interest until you were ready to get out of the…