In the great lane-splitting state of California, (and that’s all we’re currently great for beyond geology and geography) I’m able to do this all day long while getting around on the clogged arteries of the Los Angeles freeway system. Mostly with the clutch hand, though. Tickling feet, side-fiving dangling hands,…

So is Futurama. The Planet Express ship runs on Nibbler’s poop.

To be fair, Star Wars is better described as “space opera” or “science fantasy” than purely sci-fi.

How is Harry Potter science fiction? its litterally magic there’s no science to it whatsoever.

That was not reverse. That was a 180 followed by a forward parallel park.

That's whiskey.

I guess it is unfortunate that he is not Scottish, because a punch in the face is a greeting.

Didn’t know Irish people were a race.

Amazing.

Or going down the other side of the continental divide (west on 70, outside of Denver) in a crappy over loaded nissan 240sx with drums in the rear. I started smelling brakes then noticed that I was going 75mph and couldn’t slow down that well so I realized I could let the fronts cool while I use the rears to slow…

Yeah, but I think most kids will be in better shape and would have eaten more than a few pieces of tofu during the whole last week.

Is this British Racing Green or Olive Drab? I associate OD more with military-esque applications, and the shark mouth references the USAF Flying Tigers.

But unlike an elected official, it has zero bearing on your life or the institutions you rely on. So fucking give it a rest.

This is cool and all, and yay for more competition, but unless it’s available in the US someday, I can’t get too interested, much like many Morgans, Caterhams, the BAC Mono, and Ariel Atom unless sold as a kit

You must be new here.

It might actually have more recoil. The recoil in a traditional gun doesn’t really come from the gunpowder, it comes from the gas pushing the mass of the slug at high velocities out the barrel. Both the gun and the slug are pushed by the gas. (Newton’s 3rd law)

I think you are giving the propellant gases of a conventional firearm too much credit. You take a rail-gun and a conventional gun firing the same mass at the same velocity, and they will produce comparable recoil because you are using the same amount of energy to actually accelerate the projectile.

as their sensitive electronics would not be battered by a single explosive charge upon firing.

No, the Traverse looks like this:

Game Wardens regularly use a .22 to euthanize injured deer and plenty have been taken for the table with that humble little round. The trick is to get REAL close and make a headshot, “close” is something that many of today’s hunter do not understand