I was under the impression that this is true of most cars. The drivetrain alone out of my car is probably worth more than the car itself.

Up until I was too old to join, my fallback was the Air Force or the Navy. Probably Air Force as I can more carefully craft my career to avoid being deployed somewhere shitty.

I swear he looks like he was ripped right out of the Hunger games as a Capital City extra.

Maybe, and I’m just spitballing here, NASA isn’t the government agency that you should be taking money from. The US defense budget blows through NASA’s budget every 10 days.

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.

Ddid they detect enriched uranium, which is a lump of uranium that is about 80% U-235 and 20% U-238, or did they just detect a particle of U-235? Enriched uranium is a compound of both U-238 and U-235, if it’s a single particle of U-235, it’s not enriched, it’s just a particle of U-235.

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…