@Lahjik: Engineering and technical mastery certainly, but the levels of cost and danger you are advocating would destroy the sport.

@Lahjik: Yea, thats concrete, not asphault, and its not 110F air temps with 150F surface temps.

@Sprzout: The Space Shuttle keeps cool enough not cook astronauts ...so controlling propellant temperatures is not an issue: thermal tile + insulation. There is nothing mandating that fuel tanks share structure with the skin of a craft.

@Lahjik: Air race acrobatic craft are completely different. Aircraft are always in free air and generally never close to other aircraft. F1 aero has interactions with the road, cars in front and behind, massive differences in fuel load over the course of the race changing ride height(and thus how the aero interacts…

@They call me MISTER Scroggs!:

@fuchikoma:

@Straight6er: Reduced bro Edition:

@Lahjik: Several reasons.

the Griffon from Bubblegum Crisis (1988) driven by Gibson, a man obsessed by road rage against some bike gangs.

To me, Tyner's experience illustrates just how poorly thought out and poorly trained TSA procedures and staff are. People like Tyner need to continue to stress the system until they get it right.

@sufreak: This is passive, and thus assumes your boss will actively look for the "good employees". Doesn't really happen.

Congrats!

@ThunderSi: And your point taken as well. ^_^

@ghs235: Yea, so intro to physics is just that, an intro. You ever wonder where that coefficient of friction comes from? The contact materials, contact area, pressure, temperature, relative velocity btwn the contacting components, etc. Then you throw in the fact that mu is not necessarily constant with pressure,…

@ThunderSi: Its not the color of the rotor thats the problem. Its the fact that they painted over the friction surfaces as well... don't want to be a passenger during that break-in.

@allenparkpete: I am with you, but like Kelsey will compare it to FSAE in that we'd always have a more "optimistic" weight estimate during the design phase than what ends up rolling onto the scales.

To me a Hack involves defeating or repurposing a "system"(whether it be social or hardware) for one's benefit. If you consider an act of desperation like robbing a bank to be a "system" then its a hack. I say no.

Removed my comment after seeing domhnall's comment on Japanese invention law.

@Eternal: If Sony is anything like the vast majority of corporations in the US, he signed an agreement that gives Sony all the rights to any inventions made while employed there.

@abates25: Yet he still mounts the plate frame...basically highlighting the lack of a plate...