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Are you a professionally accredited asshole, or just an exceptionally gifted amateur?

Tomorrow’s Jalopnik headline: Volvo buys Bangbus, renames it Bangtruck

Technical term is actually “A Clusterfuck of Cruise Missiles”

I can’t wait to see/hear/read more on this, from subject matter experts. At a glance, as a semi-educated amateur, I have to observe that design of that sword implies a single-edged blade - something definitely very uncommon for the Norse cultures. So either the find is “out of place/time” or it’s an interesting

Well, to be honest I think you got caught in something of a trap with discussing engine sizes.

That’s pretty much exactly how reaction wheels work. RWs are not unusual for attitude control in spacecraft, especially for very precise control and minute adjustments.

Unfortunately, weight and mass aren’t the same thing. Creating weightless conditions - “zeroing gravity” in common parlance - doesn’t mean eliminating mass. This in turn means you still need sufficient thrust to move it, and sufficient directional thrust to maneuver it, counter inertia etc.

Easily.

In short-term, depending on the market, I can see renting being potentially cheaper than owning. That doesn’t make it better. Consider the following:

That’s pretty funny in how authoritatively wrong you are; I travel weekly inside USA; I fly monthly internationally. I always try to book bulkhead seats and, at least with United, the online “seat picker” allows me to choose bulkhead seats almost every time. I’m not talking about “lucky”. I’m talking about ~80%