Damn. That would be the Empire Builder. Service daily from Chicago to Seattle/Portland. I suppose service was late that day, since they would’ve been obliged to stop and find out what the hell happened. Poor engineer probably thought he’d just killed a man.

The homeowner, maybe? Because damn..... I saw this clip on the news this morning and was all set to blame the driver, but now that I’ve seen the location, yeah, that’s an accident waiting to happen. I’m amazed nobody’s (apparently) been killed yet. If I lived there, I would a 100000% move the driveway. If I didn’t own…

Classic. :)

Crossing all fingers and toes!

There are some really terribly tasteless puns in the comments here.

I liked her character. It was a very interesting (if rather somber) take on what unexpected immortality would do to a person.

:D :D :D

NEVER!!!!

she would “do anything to get a good grade”

That’s what I thought immediately too, but I have been educated in this comment thread. Apparently stainless steel requires atmospheric oxygen to allow it to form the chromium surface layer that inhibits serious rust formation. Rust spots will form anywhere raw iron disrupts the chromium layer, but also anywhere…

This is something I have learned from this thread. You folks have really been an education for the non-metallurgically-educated among us. Thank you!

I wonder how long it will take before they start realizing that the exoskeleton concept was a bad idea, since they’ll all be insta-totalled by the slightest amount of damage.

Maybe they should’ve taken a page out of the classic American Airlines livery and made them out of aircraft aluminum if they wanted the unpainted look.  Would be a hell of a lot more expensive, of course.

Oh wow. So they’ve, ahem, painted themselves into a corner with their design choices?

I’m wondering how those Cybertrucks that went Christmas tree picking are faring.

They’re apparently also warning people against using paper towels, due to FOD risk.  I’m guessing folks were twisting up the corner of the towel and poking it into the connectors, and then bits of paper were getting left behind.

Truth.

* pushes glasses up nose*

In addition to the excellent responses already given, there are a few other challenges with soft-landing on the Moon that are not present with hitting a target with an AGM-114:

A couple of points need to be made: