correct, but you still negotiate the purchase via a dealer, or at least that’s how BMW does it. As I understand it the car is basically just set up as a custom order but instead of being loaded straight onto a car carrier, it’s picked up by the owner at the factory in Germany. After that it still gets loaded onto the…

I always thought that was a terrible place for it. It’s completely out of view when you are driving the car and I’d bet quite a few people don’t even know it’s there.

probably so they don’t end up with blanks on the cars that don’t have the heated steering wheel.

Virtually all of your acceleration in a rocket is done horizontal to the ground(or close to horizontal). Remember, just to orbit the rocket needs to be going 17,000 mph relative to the ground. Rockets only travel in the vertical direction during the early stages to get through the more dense lower atmosphere faster.

Sorry I 100% missed that. The article showed up in my feed and I didn’t see the date on it.

Bringing a lawsuit against someone does not make him guilty. Neither does settling it. There are plenty of reasons to settle a lawsuit where you did nothing wrong. One may be that you go to the other party and basically say “this never happened, you know it never happened, and if this proceeds to court you will be…

It may not be. I6's suffer from a little bit of cam whip(thats where the cam is essentially wobbling due to it’s length), I8's went out of favor because of this and packaging issues. I’d imagine an I12 would have a nasty amount of cam whip and would have to be kept a fairly low RPM lest it rip itself apart.

Why would a cruise missile carrier get any closer to the battlefield than any of those other aircraft? It actually would easily be able to sit much farther back than any ELINT, tanker, or AWACS plane. And on what planet do you live on where a plane isn’t a target simply because it doesn’t carry weapons. If given a…

Well, in this particular case, the better, more durable stealth coatings already exist, we put them on the F-35, and they are basically the one part of the F-35 that is working as intended. It would actually be pretty difficult to build a plane more complex than a B-2, and we have much more experience with stealth…

The airframe can already carry 300,000lbs, it doesn’t need strengthening to handle a bomb load bigger than a B-52's. I did note that it would lose some payload to racks and whatnot, but even if it loses half its payload, it is still carrying 2x a B-52. And all the concepts for a combat 747 I’ve seen are for missile…

The B-2 has a per-hour flight cost of $135k. Add to that it has to be stored in a special hanger, its stealth coating can be damaged by rain and is highly labor-intensive. On top of that, we only have 20 of them, so their use is limited and a lose of one plane represents losing 5% of the entire fleet. The B-21 should…

We already do that with the 707(granted not too many still flying), DC-10(same), 767 and 747, and that’s just in the US inventory. Other countries are using Airbus passenger airframes in military usage plus whatever the Russians are using. They are used in tanker, radar and C&C roles. In a shooting war passenger…

747-8F: 300,000lbs payload

I am not even remotely a jeep guy. You might have picked that up from my name, which tells you exactly what I drive, which is about the polar opposite of a jeep. I just think it’s dumb to upcharge $1k+ to get A/C.

That may be true, but the article is refuting the second half of the tweet, which is that the move was banned because she was the only one that could land it. The move was banned long before she was doing one-footed backflips. Nobody is disputing that she is the only one that landed it in competition, or that she…

I am somewhat famous(maybe infamous) for just repeating my question over and over again when I get an answer that isn’t related to my question. Also for asking what the customer’s actual problem is, because half the time I just get a list of things they think are wrong, but I don’t get what the customer actually…

I have very little sympathy for a guy that refuses to provide any information on the part he actually needs. And giving him the most common would still have failed with the same end result.

Being an idiot that thinks they know everything is not unique to Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Xer’s, Gen Yer’s or any other demographic. It transcends all barriers and can be found across the spectrum from all ages, races, creeds, political beliefs etc. And if for some reason you believe that that label only applies…

1992 Toyota Camry. At the time my choices were the Camry or a ‘97 740Li. I went with the Camry.

The i3 has a manual hood release behind a removable panel directly below the electronic frunk release button. The i8 has a backup manual door releases on it’s electronic doors. Both have backup manual releases for the charger door and the chargers themselves in the event they won’t release. Virtually any car that has…