This reminds me of the Japanese Baseball game with made up American names:

The SRBs (where this o-ring existed) do not see the same cytogenetic, extremely low temps as the main tank. These o-rings would only be exposed to ambient temps.

The boosters were solid fueled, the main engines were liquid fueled. The O-rings didn’t see Cryogenic service.

Here’s the full inspection in Michigan:

Literally do nothing.

Maybe as a side article you could explain the unbelievably lax vehicle inspection routines in the US, for the readers in Europe, and elsewhere, for whom the description of TÜW sounds pretty standard?

I am so happy to say that after this year, Virginia will no longer be the state I have lived the longest in.

I thought of that, too, but wouldn’t the load capacity of a bike tire be insufficient for a car? 

Now we need an article about putting motorcycle tires on cars. I could kind of see a drag racer wannabe setup where you have two bike tires on the front and really wide tires on the back. 

The 1814 Battle of New Orleans is forever memorialized in the 1959 hit novelty song of the same name written by Jimmy Driftwood and sung by Johnny Horton. It was the #1 record of that year, the 1960 Grammy winner for Best Country and Western Recording, and #37 on the all-time Billboard Hot 100 chart, well ahead of…

I said Clay before reading anything. 

I’m fine with one ding and one ding only.

But these days Fiata can be the answer too.

If I am not mistaken, the interior door handles in the DB7 are shared with the NA Miata.

If you’re on the east coast, can I try that out sometime? :)

Lockers are a tricky concept to grasp for a lot of non-offroader types, and do add expense and complexity, but I too wish rear lockers were standard or a low cost option for more vehicles.

That looks like an absolute hoot. Maybe not to drive, but to experience at least. Purple is good too. Purple all the cars!

“Where’s my truck” (truck falls from the sky nearby) Great Stuff!

Congo and Sphere were both better as books than on film. The Andromeda Strain (the original movie) followed the book so closely the book may have been the screenplay. Sadly, in most of those cases you can’t even blame the movie studio for the bad adaptations; Crichton usually had a hand in the screenplays. Crichton…