People need to remember that while flying got off to an early start, enclosed cockpits didn’t happen until about a decade later and pressurized aircraft hulls weren’t even a thing until well into WW2. So this really isn’t that big a deal.

A conspiracy theorist video that the dinosaurs were killed not by an asteroid, but instead it was the first mammals farting.

Had an uncle who camped in his Suburban back in the 80's. And before those slide out extensions on motor homes and trailers became a thing, he built one for his Suburban. It had a base of square stock aluminum tubing that had rails and folding legs that could pull out, then the extension slid out on top of that. And zi…

This is in the running? Link us to your opined list of competitors, please! Some of us are bored and need the entertainment. :D

Strange, considering at least one new article was posted to the Deadspin site today. Are you sure it isn’t simply banned in your neighborhood?

That is a good question. Cruise control has been available in cars since the 1980's. Another question is “how will they adapt to the vastly different signs used in the US and the inevitable graffiti that ends up on many of them?”

On a side note, there is one important fact this story provides: the local FD has started actively training to deal with this type of vehicle fire.

Tell use this, wiseguy, if you know what he’s going to write, then why are you bothering to read it? I swear, it is like all you Tesla fundamentalists have some sort of brain damages that force you to follow a particular course of tirade.

My grandmother used to refer to acts of arson as “the building was struck by Jewish lightning”. Old people work hard to propagate their prejudices.

Teslas are full of explosive fuel as well. Those lithium cells tend to launch like bottle rockets or explode like miniature hand grenades when they catch fire.

And a new mystery angle is revealed for a Deadspin writer. Why is a sports lawyer in FLORIDA representing a car owner in the Philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA suburbs on what will essentially be a warranty or lemon lawsuit?

Because the battery packs can rupture and the individual cells launch themselves once ignited, spreading fire everywhere they land. Where do you think the idea for SpaceX initially came from? Exploding lithium batteries in a Tesla.

Your last sentence explains the problem with the situation. This vehicle would only absorb all that explosive energy so many times before permanent damage cause by each detonation eventually caused it to fail.

The problem here is the idiot who decided the truck was an appropriate place to detonate anything. They are transportation, meant to move the explosives to a far more appropriate location. And I expect this is NOT the first time explosives were detonated in that truck either. More proof of a high ranking idiot. Why?…

Well, at least he’s not all like “She can ride my gearshift anytime, and I’m not talking about the one in my pants!”

Problem is, scientists are in their own special way idiots thanks to the way they insist on attempting to shoehorn things into a single category. Planets are a fine example of this because it is like they don’t even realize they already have multiple categories - inner/outer, terrestrial/gaseous, major/minor ( and…

The issue with BBQ refuse is thin bones that have been cooked. They fracture more easily and very differently, resulting in far sharper shards than would result from a raw bone. About 25 years ago, I learned this lesson when one of our dogs cut his throat from the inside with a rib bone fragment. He survived (barely) a…

What he’s worth and what he has are two very different things, and I’m not even talking about cold hard cash on hand. Consider this: How much of that $170 billion can he spend WITHOUT losing controlling ownership of his companies? I’m guessing that amount is less than the $20 billion he claims is the necessary…

I think a better question would be “why are you incapable of getting anyone else to pay for your writing endeavors so crap like this ends up in a suitable place?”

Busybody reporters, worrying about how this guy decides to spend his post-tax earning, yet not a single look into why it is costing $100,000 PER MAN to send those Guardsmen to the border, when most of them at full time wouldn’t make $10,000 a year from the job.