Imagine living in the mountains of western North Carolina and getting hit by the remnants of a hurricane...and in some ways harder than Florida got hit. What a bizarre turn of events. I feel terrible for the people whose families, lives, livelihoods, communities, etc simply got washed away with little to no warning.

To everyone’s surprise the mule heavy portfolio started paying off.

There’s a reason they use mules/donkeys in places like the Grand Canyon, can carry a decent load a long way on very narrow paths. Not the coolest and fastest but the best for the job at hand. It really sucks, beautiful area, feel bad for the people dealing with the ongoing disaster.

One of my great memories as a kid is sitting in the backseat on the way home the the grandparents while my dad tunes the radio trying to nail WSM to listen to the Grand Ole Opry some 400 miles away. With FM you either have a signal or you don’t. With AM, you have some leeway as it fades in and out. Those 50,000 watts…

Don’t waste your time with these people. They are the same people that didn’t realize that inflation was a possiblity, That a world existed before wifi, they forget the blackout of 2003.

I’m of the firm belief that AM radio is important and to be preserved. Not everyone has a cell phone, not everyone has access to reliable charging and reliable income to pay the monthly bill, but everyone needs access to information on severe weather or other disasters. Plus, as union-hardrolls pointed out, AM radio…

It’s typical for cell phones to become useless in many emergency situations, especially with events like natural disasters. AM has much greater coverage and dependability when it comes to critical information and updates. Not being the mainstream way during regular day to day activity doesn’t mean it’s not a vital…

“Boomers will just have to listen to their local Cornhole, Iowa HS football game some other way.”

AM bands typically are longer wavelengths, which don’t fit into tiny cell phone antennas. To make it more compact a large chunk of ferrite can help, but it doesn’t do it all. The radio reception for tiny receivers use the headphone as the antenna, but that’s not necessarily the right length to be properly tuned.

Technologically, AM radio is probably the cheapest, most robust way to reach the most people quickly.

Yes, it’s awesome to find an AM radio broadcast of Coast to Coast AM during a night drive down a dimly lit country road. It’s the best way to consume tales of sasquatches and alien visitations.

If they want to keep AM for public safety, they can pick one frequency and reserve it across the United States. Clear out 5 KHz of the best spectrum and treat them like the EBS where you can activate it in affected areas via a few 50-100 kW antennas. Use it for regional emergency weather alerts, national security…

Though being mostly... plywood im not shocked.

lmao no. In the follow up video, he gets another ford and drops its rear on concrete several times, dumps weight on it, etc and the truck just keeps trucking, even when the entire frame of the car is bent and then gets bent back. A truck should survive a fairly short drop like that, especially when its unloaded. 

Most manufacturers don’t distinguish between vertical load and tongue weight limits. Usually tongue weight limit is 10% of towing capacity. So an F150 has about 700-1000lbs tongue weight limit.

My guess is it’s the EXACT same hitch setup form the Y just bolted, ok wait lets be real duct taped and gorilla glued to the Cybertruck

My favorite part of this clusterflub is that the designs (Boeing and SpaceX) come with their own, proprietary suits that not interchangeable or compatible. Are the suits backwards compatible with what we have currently? Or are they all different specifications?

Yeah but, like, that costs money.

What’s interesting is that we (thruster designers) knew back in the late 1960's that high temperatures needed to be addressed in thruster design. How do I know? My company blew one up in a test stand while testing it’s performance, in part, for high temperature operation. This was after we had already took high…

At least it can’t fail any worse...