I’ll try to explain it for you in simple terms:

Then you have to be the guy who shows up on Sunday morning in front of Starbucks with either a boring regular M3 that nobody cares about OR you have to show up in a Miata and be prepared to spend all morning talking about how much more fun it really is to drive a true sports car while everyone just thinks you’re…

Anyone putting a luxury option package on a M3 CS isn’t interested in a hot-rodded Miata. They’re shopping it against the top AMG and Porsches. Its a status thing. Someone looking for top performance wouldn’t want a useless package that adds weight.

Left-field choice, but: Porsche Boxster or Cayman with PDK.

This series would be much more entertaining if we learned what past entrants actually ended up buying

I directed the film, and own the car. Ask me anything :)

I figured it would be so the computers ran cooler.

Kind of unrelated but... Why do gaming laptops look like this? Surely the fact that someone is adult enough to drop four figures on tech signifies that they have grown out of vents, LEDs and pointy plastic

*“...and the best radar money can buy...”

Generally everyone who’s actually ON watch is qualified. And those quals are no joke. There are usually two officers on watch on the bridge - the OOD and a Junior OOD (who is training to be OOD). You’ve also got a Quartermaster of the Watch doing manual navigation as well as a Boatswainmate of the Watch driving the…

Yeah, but the OOD will have at least passed through quals for the position, and should easily have recognized a CBDR (constant bearing decreasing range) situation in time to get out of the way, alert the sleeping captain (as is required if within a certain range) and at least sound general quarters before impact.

I think it was an overtaking collision seeing as the containership had damage to one side and not directly to the bow, except where it cut deeply into the Fitzgerald. If it was a direct t-bone I think the Navy ship would not be floating.

Git outta here with your real world experience and first hand knowledge and jump to conclusion like a normal internet commenter.

More binoculars than NASCAR stands:

Left hand down a bit?

There could have been a spider on the wheel. Fuck spiders.

It will be interesting to see how this story unfolds. I have sailed on both naval and merchant ships, and especially at night the erratic maneuvering and relatively poor navigation lighting systems of naval ships can be quite confusing on the bridge of a merchant ship that only has one guy trying to run collision…

It appears as though a third edition may be necessary.

Very fishy to me. As a Navy veteran, I can tell you that on top of all the highest technological radar and early warning equipment, our ships have more people on deck with binoculars than the stands at a NASCAR event. I honestly can’t see any legit reason this could happen.