They’ve been doggedly heading down this road for decades. Even their boom in the 90s and early 00s was more in spite of Harley management than because of it.

The best part of that line is that it came out before Ben Swolo. It made the shirtless scene really funny. 

Was it really most people? I remember government contractors saying things to that effect. But i seem to remember space journalists being pretty skeptical that boeing could deliver on time and on budget. 

*Casts side eye at SLS...*

I can’t imagine that India has actually managed to implement widespread testing though. Unless there’s some magic pill that India is taking to allow them to not get infected, India will get hit really hard.

The real reason that Hyperloop is viable and Amtrak is not is because...Amtrak. A government-created chimaera that has all the bloat and inefficiency of a government monopoly with none of the advantages in primacy of bureaucracy. Break up Amtrak, kill the subsidies for rail freight, and then lets see who’s really…

The real problem was just money, and a NIH for the US. All the other issues were solvable engineering problems. There was nothing wrong with the concept, it was a superior design for its use case. But like a lot of things, it was born at the wrong time, in the wrong place. Now helicopters are so entrenched that it…

The only thing that’s really going to help with microplastics is getting a handful of Asian countries to clean up their rivers:

I think there are a lot of us who are hoping he does just that.

The Pagani would actually be a car that might be worth tuning the exhaust to sound like this.

The shuttle was super sized at the request of the Air Force (that is to say, not NASA) specifically for the purpose of carrying monster spy satellites. It had fuck all to do with space, and everything to do with politics. This greatly increased the cost to fly, and greatly decreased the safety. The X-37B is small…

The abandonment of Apollo in favor of the space shuttle (and its thinly veiled mission of deploying satellites to spy on the Russians) is one of the great travesties of the Nixon administration.

I'm not so sure. I think it may be more of an image thing. Alfa and BMW both have sub $100k cars that are all carbon fiber.

I think the ls series fits pretty well actually. People have also put the Audi v8 in them.

That was supercharged, not naturally aspirated.

For the lazy, this is what they look like on a road course:

Dang the thunder roadster is almost exactly what I was thinking. I’ve got to look those up. That’s got to be some of the most amazing racing happening. Literally the only thing I might change would be thinner tires.

I think they should make a series with front mounted literbike engines, but otherwise like formula v. I think they'd be a hoot to drive, they'd sound amazing, and they'd be fun to watch.

IIRC the limiting factor for nuclear reactors is mostly shielding. The Soviet TOPAZ reactors were roughly 700lbs, which is about the same mass as lion batteries (albeit only producing 5 kw continuous). But given that that was only a prototype, and built in the 80's by the soviets, I think it’s plausible that a greatly…

Reading is hard. Your comment illustrates what is wrong with Ford. It's simply an example of a much larger problem. The fact that you took that to mean I care about your opinion at all just demonstrates that, for whatever reason, you don't learn. You're incorrigible, and therefore irrelevant.