Yep. That’s definitely Spain. I recognize it from the million hours of Rat Patrol I watched as a kid.

This is how I learned that the first step in jump-starting a vehicle is to determine which battery post is which polarity on both vehicles involved in the jump. That way, it doesn’t matter which color clamp you put on the post, as long as you use the same color/polarity combo on both vehicles. I only make that point…

If they had increased ticket prices by $1, they’d have a nice chunk of change to get started after only one year.

They eventually do (see the USS Olympia in Philadelphia, probably the second oldest surviving USN warship after the USS Constitution). They just don’t have the same problems so quickly, since they have hulls that are at least several inches thick. The armor belt on the Iowa is over a foot thick at 307mm.

You can see it from the Walt Whitman Bridge while crossing westbound.

Nope. Droughts in the past 40 years have moved the fresh/salt water transition line as far north as the Ben Franklin Bridge twice in the time United States has been docked in Philadelphia. Usually the line moves up and down the river over an area of about a mile along the Chester river banks.

Philadelphia really is a hell where famous ships go to die.

Ahem. What? You’re not happy those dam photos were of those dam idiots in their dam speedboat at the top of the dam dam? Dam! Let’s just hope the next time they pay some dam attention so they don’t drift away in the dam current.

He’s probably been inputting questionable substances into himself again. So he probably meant “All MY inputs are wrong”. Bonkers and drugs rarely make for a perfect match.

Not really worth the article. My sister owns a 1990's Buick sedan with the battery mounted underneath the back seat. Annoying AF because it is a bench seat and the entire lower half of the seat needs to be removed to access it.

And once again, off-road electric vehicles fail at a single important point. And that point is an ability to recharge itself in the middle of nowhere. You’d think they’d at least have the sense to add some sort of solar recharge system to these things. Especially since Toyota more than half a decade ago started adding…

Shame the guy in the hot seat wasn’t a smarmy bastard quick enough to point out that legally no one owns any part of the moon and thus the US would be in violation if it attempted such a thing and why hasn’t this smart ass politician done the legwork to get the permission from all the signatory parties of the treaty…

Yep. The grade is actually at the maximum two ways. The rails cannot be raised any further because the “steel on steel” traction limits combined with a lack of distance to the next bridge, and there are parallel roads on both sides of the tracks, so the underpass cannot be cut any deeper without having to permanently c…

The only thing she won’t cop to is the fact she was inspired by a post on Instagram.

So.... That wasn’t simply a bad choice by the ad agency to illustrate “how spacious” the cabin was?

When did this section of the law get repealed? I had a 1994 Taurus LX with a speedometer that went all the way to 140 mph/225 kph from the factory.

I used to be a night manager at a 7-11 like 25 years ago (all of a half mile from my house at that). They closed up shop in southwest NJ. I can easily rattle off a list of like 30 Wawa locations within a 10 mile drive of me. In that same service area remain a mere 4 7-11 locations.

Wasn’t ever going to work because the tire wasn’t high enough off the ground, so the bottom was never going to seat properly due to being partially compressed. Yes, there was too much fuel used, but if the tire could seat properly, that wouldn’t have mattered because there would not have been enough oxygen to burn it…

Unfortunately, this is the eventual fate of all museum ships. Maintenance is inevitably deferred to the point that there is no way to afford to save the vessel. In Philadelphia, PA rests the USS Olympia, probably the second oldest USN ship still afloat, being the better part of 130 years old. Not a dime spent on…

That last paragraph may have been an attempt at humor, but riddle me this: Are automatic flush toilets simply repurposing early back-up collision warning sensors for automobiles, or are those sensors in automobiles simply a repurposing of the auto-flush sensors in those toilets?