Actually, no, the TSA has always been ass. I’d expect it to get worse no matter who is in the oval office. Because it was created to be a bandaid on a zit where the bleeding wound was elsewhere.

Easy there cowboy. You left your SJW unzipped.

CO does. CO2 doesn’t. A lack of O2 will kill you but CO2 won’t unless it’s at such a concentration it’s displaced the O2.

Only if the car is electric. Every eternal combustion engine will eventually kill you if its left idling in an enclosed space.

Um no. In an enclosed garage for half an hour? Probably still gonna happen. Clean air standards don’t change the fact that it’s still carbon monoxide/dioxide leaving the exhaust pipe. That’s how combustion works.

i drive thousands of miles a year in my car because i hate flying, and i see truck drivers do dumb shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME. my favorite is the move where they are behind another truck, and that truck is going too slow for them, so they jerk into the passing lane, knowing full well they dont’ have room, almost cause…

A lot of people weigh their truck/trailer combination to make sure they are safe/ have the correct tongue weight/ havent exceeded any listed capacities. I have no idea if this weigh station had a “Tractor Trailers Only” sign or whatever, but if they didnt I dont see what is wrong with this, as someone else pointed…

My take? Trucker in the front was probably having a shitty day, saw the pickup/camper parked all the way at the end the lane making his U-turn even more difficult. Probably decided to the spook the pickup driver to teach him a lesson (what? I am not exactly sure, but then Im not a trucker so) and scare him by…

The Navy’s main concern right now is biocorrosion. the inorganic non-biologically induced type of corrosion you are thinking of is easily mitigated with sacrificial zinc anodes and paint. I’m also the Ph.D. mentioned at the start of the article.

Great article David. I hope this raises the awareness of a growing problem in not just the Air Force, but also the Naval and Marine industries, pipelines and nuclear power plants. BTW, in case you don’t know, I’m the Ph.D. mentioned above. Let me share some pictures with you guys so you can get an idea of what…

Ages ago, when I studied electronics (at technician level then) they told us that the stuff looking like lacquer solidified all over the military circuit boards was there to prevent fungi from eating the whole board. I took it to be the typical parroted lore that instructors would spew w/o thinking. Much, much later I…

Corrosion in a salt fog environment is a totally different thing than the microbial corrosion being discussed here. The environmental corrosion the NAVY is most concerned about is due to galvanic potential differences and the moisture and salt in the air literally turning your structure into a battery causing ions to…

These suckers are expensive as is. Giant ovens coming in at a billion dollars is going to be far cheaper than Ti.

Uh nope you have the beginning of a suspension geometry problem. Commonly known in the jeep world as death wobble. There's probably a bolt or two on the front end that's loose and has rounded out the hole it's in. Nothing short of an actual car sized hole In the road should move a 7500 lbs truck like that

This probably has nothing to do with the fact that elephants live in warm weather, low elevation places and need a lot of food. You’re right. Taking an animal completely out of its element and asking it to cross a mountain is such a great parallel.

Too big is too big. Modern full sized trucks (even half tons) can’t deal with trails that were established by mules followed by tiny WWII surplus Willy’s.

We don’t even let autonomous robots drive our cars yet, we’re sure as hell not gonna let them fly around armed to teeth with the latest weaponry. As far as remote control aircraft, we’re stuck on the thorny problems of signal lag, signal jamming and poor situational awareness. A manned aircraft could kill drones all…

A human brain is still vastly superior at problem solving than AI would be in this realm. When looking at individual combat techniques, I’m sure an AI would win over a human in every category. But if an AI isn’t programmed to handle every scenario, and it isn’t programmed to learn from previous scenarios, there will…

I’m sorry, but your argument is wrong from start to finish. First, there is a manned aircraft that can clearly outmatch an F16 and F16 — the F22. Air combat performance isn’t just about how much G an aircraft can pull. It is also about how much energy it loses in a turn, how quickly it can accelerate at what altitude,…