lol knockout gas. Didn’t work out well for the Russians when they tried that in a hostage situation - wrong dose either doesn’t knock them out, or kills them. Maybe though some kind of sedative residue applied to drink glasses could potentially be used...

Average first time baby labor is 18 hours... sub-4 hour births are in precipitous labor territory and very rare for first timers. Rare enough I can’t find a good statistic on first babies that go through it.  A birthing class and a doula are two great resources to combat anxieties like this.

My wife and I had this talk... I travel for work (usually about 4 hours away, max) and as a sort of freelancer, if I don’t go, I don’t get paid and possibly other issues like client moving to someone else.

Not to be all cynical, but with only 9 having been sold, it is likely less costly to just replace than to try to facilitate the logistics of that kind of repair.

Think about the personality types that auto dealers are made of. I’m not surprised at all that when confronting a shady failing dealership owner about fraud they bring in some security.

I’m kind of surprised #metoo hasn’t caught up him with yet. I know at least one young lady he’s pressed his unsolicited erect penis to and it wasn’t surprising news to anyone in that circle at the time.

Austin summer...heat + traffic + too small roads + people on drugs = wild times on the road. I wish I had a video from the other day of Red Mercedes Guy who ran a red light several seconds into the green, narrowly missing an accident and giving everyone the finger as he did so.

Newer planes are more apt to use composite materials that are pretty ugly unpainted - that’s one of the main reasons American switched.

Is that a test rig of the Honda engine?

I’m the same. I watched it regularly for awhile, then got busy and missed a bunch of episodes and realized later that I just didn’t miss it or catch up on them. Now I’ll check it out every once in awhile but I just don’t find myself enjoying it. Sort of a show of last resort.

The “gas will go up!” argument is dumb. Crossovers get better mileage than their sedan counterparts did 10 years ago and engine tech keeps on improving (see Mazda’s almost-not-quite-HCCI engine). Eventually they’ll all be hybrid or electric and it will all be moot.

That sounds just like their buyer base. Kind of seems obvious to get rid of the other models when you think about it that way. Typical sedan buyers just aren’t interested in the American brands any more than truck buyers are interested in BMW. Sure Honda/Toyota/Nissan offer trucks, but their sales are paltry…

I should clarify; nobody made more gun type bombs beyond these early versions. There were some early artillery shells made that way that remained in the stockpile for awhile because implosion devices were difficult to scale down at first.

Again, it seems you’re the one not all that informed and are yet being kind of a dick. Plutonium’s critical mass can be achieved in several ways and the way it’s done in implosion weapons is by compressing it (along with neutron reflectors and other methods of boost). This allows a high measure of safety against…

Nobody uses a gun type weapon. The first dropped on Hiroshima was that kind - which was the first test of it btw, the Trinity gadget was an implosion test - and then no more were made because they’re not efficient and sort of dangerous because they can be accidentally set off.

Nukes are set off by compressing a plutonium sphere using shaped charges that detonate in a very specific way with precise timing. This test was probably to make sure those charges don’t go off in a violent crash. Early weapons had explosives that were somewhat sensitive and some did go off in crash accidents - but no…

One of my great-great-something aunts drove one of these. She was from a wealthy family in Kansas and known for her sassy streak. It was the only one in town and she’d give children joyrides in it.

Also the market competitor for them was likely plush carriages. For many wealthy people that would be what they expected. Fast open top cars would be for enthusiasts.

If it wasn’t just a holdover from the 727 rules, it probably had to do with temperature and airflow. The front has less cargo in the way of airflow so it would stay warmer.

This is just not true either. Some 727's from a long time ago had part of a cargo hold where heat could be turned down to an unsafe level, but that was it. No commercial airline plane since has anything like that because of changes in air packs.