Despite his Crashtorship®, dude does have a GP2 Championship belt. Boggles the mind, I know.

Depends on how often he crashes, because he brings substantial sponsoring to the tune of tens of million dollars.

They can get rid of Maldonado whenever they want. It’s just that they’d also get rid of the money he brings in at the same time.

It depends on what the specific gravity of the acid it. I work around sulfuric acid (sell and service forklift batteries) and if you get it on you, it just itches. Granted if you leave it on your skin without washing it off it will eventually burn you, but it’s not the skin melting stuff like Nazis in an Indiana Jones…

0.378 US gallons to be precise, powering a motor that was probably about 70% efficient in a period of time when the best ICE engines were struggling to get to 20%. The best today can only crack 30% while the motors powering the Tesla P85D get around 95% efficiency.

We have a winner! But what will happen if $kay wins the COTD...does the internet explode?

Máté, you live under a bridge? :-/

Oxidants happen.

Man, the product planner for this probably had a seizure when he saw the weight distribution. 50/50 this was not!

And that 1,000 lbs of battery could probably hold as much energy as a quarter of a gallon of gas.

We love the BMW New Class coupes around these parts, but did you know there was an electric 1602 as well? Road & Track says BMW built one in 1972 with a 32 kW electric motor and nearly 1,000 pounds of batteries that required swapping out entirely when they were out of juice. Charging? Overrated.

The difference between 150 and 200 decibels is like the difference between listening to a normal conversation three feet away (60 decibels) and listening to a power saw three feet away (110 decibels).

LOGARITHMS! HOW DO THEY WORK?

150 decibels...typical Who concert.

Indeed. 200db, the acoustic energy at the base of a Saturn V rocket isn't even existentially noise, as noise is simply our perception of pressure changes, and you would never perceive that as noise. Instead it is metaphorically one long constant explosion and it's associated shock waves. You wouldn't really get to…

Yup. Apparently the flying crowbar is 1/32 as loud as a Saturn V rocket. Which is still loud enough to rupture your eardrums, but comparing it to a Saturn V rocket is meaningless.

Oh, and deafening them as well — Pluto flying overhead would have been about 150 decibels. To compare, a Saturn V moon rocket at full thrust is 200 decibels. So there's that.

Well that's... ..horrifying.

Though somebody should write it up as a Bond Villain's weapon: "Give me power over the world or I'll unleash my Flying Crowbar of Doom!"

Bonus points if the guy's name is Dr Freeman.

Atomic Annie has always been one of my favorite Cold War weapons. Nuclear Artillery, doesn't get much better than that. Especially considering that the range was ~20 miles.