I know this is an old post and nobody will probably read this, but I can’t overstate how important that actually is. My Grandmother went too far when her Dr told her to cut back on salt and ended up in the hospital due to lack of sodium, where she had a stroke that was effectively the beginning of the end for her.…

It is possible to do just that, it’s just not as cost-effective as a rocket with current technology. Once you get past ~100k ft(18 miles) it becomes very difficult to continue to generate lift, it’s much easier to just power through most of the lower atmosphere in a vertical ascent, then lay the rocket over and pick…

That’s not why solid fuel is used in boosters. Solid fuel is used in boosters because boosters are generally expendable and solid fuel rockets are much cheaper to make, since they lack the extensive engine plumbing needed for liquid fuel. In the case of the Shuttle’s boosters, it was far cheaper to make a solid fuel…

I can schedule my sick leave as regular time off or get paid off for not using it. I’ll call out if I can’t function. Until then I’ll med up and warn people away.

You wouldn’t be changing the load on the engine. The engine is not there to be the prime mover, it is there to be a range extender.
 The engine’s load would be constant(well mostly, maybe some slight variation to account for changing the charge rate to avoid damaging the battery). Your powerflow goes engine…

Because if you read the remainder of the article you will discover they are referring to hybrid in the way that a diesel-electric train or the i3 REX is a hybrid. There will be no connection between the ICE and the wheels. It will drive a generator only. A variable compression engine would be wasted in that…

My company just finally last year managed to get it’s billing system off one based on terminals. When I first started they had a DOS window that was emulating the terminals(it would remind you to clean your spoolers when you logged in). They had recently built a GUI on top of it that they were starting to move people…

I had an second-gen X1 as a loaner for 4 weeks. I expected to hate it, but it was actually pretty good. My only complaints about it were the stock tires gave up a little too early and I felt too far off the ground. But overall it handled surprisingly well. As long as I had a weekend car I would consider it as a DD.

That was the 1st gen X1, the current X1 is based on the same UKL platform as the X2 and the Mini.

He looked a awful lot like he was trying to toe-tap on his way down. He certainly didn’t land in a manner that would allow him to not fall down.

They do get tested as well, you just need to dig a little more for them. Here is a McLaren F1:

I’d like to recommend that you also take a good hard look at the spoke pattern on your winter rims. Avoid ones with a ton of really closely spaced spokes. I made that mistake on my current set of tires and now I have to spend an extra 10-20 minutes cleaning out the accumulated snow from inside the rim before I can…

Yeah, but that’s happening on pavement on a road you are legally allowed on. The fine print on your insurance policy likely specifically states it doesn’t cover you off road.

I would love for them to be on it within 5 seconds. I’d take anything inside of 90 seconds as acceptable. The problem is they aren’t. It’s a pretty regular occurrence that I get stuck at a pump for 5+ minutes waiting for the attendant to start pumping gas, then another 5 minutes for them to take the nozzle out. …

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to wait in line at a pump when I lived in MD for 31 years. I’ve lived in NJ for 3 years and it’s at least every 5th fillup. And god forbid I need to get gas on the turnpike, that’s nearly 50/50 that I’ll get stuck in a line, and there is literally no predicting…

Pretty sure the insurance agent is going to look at this and see “offroading on land they didn’t own or have permission to use” and just start foaming at the mouth over the denial of insurance claim and the massive rate hike they can throw at him.

It’s kind of amazing that ZF makes what are arguably the best(8HP) and worst(9HP) automatic transmissions in the world right now.

or possibly the invade poland mode.

I live in NJ and I actually hate that I can’t pump my own gas. Even on cold days like today. Before I lived in NJ I lived in MD and I can count on one hand the number of times there was a line at any pump. In NJ it seems like that is an every other fill-up occurrence. Filling up your tank goes from a 5-10 minute…

For most people, sure. Not everyone has obvious signs of labor or a long protracted labor. There are reports of a woman who woke up in the middle of the night to find her child’s head crowning and had a baby in her hands less than 2 minutes later. There are many examples of rather large women never knowing they…