There is more profit in larger vehicles. That’s the start. And buyers are willing to put up 40% more in price to get 60-90% more in carrying capacity.

Having looked at a large number of stocks and their performance over the last 10 years there is literally nothing but gamblers in the stock market. Almost all stock prices went up starting with the real-estate bailout as a huge amount of money went into the economy; it got a second boost from Covid relief spending;…

They did not capture and convert the heat in this experiment to produce electricity. That other systems do has nothing to do with this.

“ a fusion energy experiment has finally produced more energy than expended”

They take 1 to 1.5 miles to stop from 55-60mph. Each car has its own brakes, but the amount of energy the brakes can take out is limited so heavier cars take more distance than lightly loaded cars.

The locomotive is the safety device. Normally it is sufficient.

Honda Flat.

The key is that fortune, aka chance, had nothing to do with blocking the path with a concrete beam. It had everything to do with being stupid and careless.

What cratered the stock price was Ethiopia lying that their pilots had followed the updated procedure.

How do you feel about the training to the Emergency AD that Ethiopian did (not do)?

Yup - my 1980s Ford leaked axle lubricant into the drum brakes from the factory, only caused one crash. It was in the second year when the heater core started leaking. Around that time the rear view mirror dropped off. Later on the windshield leaked because they used a sealant that was mainly tar allowing the glass…

New movie: “Slow and Calm: Continental Drift” It’s about the journey of a small mammal dodging dinosaurs and reaching for a moon landing just 250Million years later.

This. Not one person was employed in the design and building of that aircraft. They bought no homes, had no children, funded no schools. They didn’t buy food, cars, or clothes. The parts for that plane just appeared in thin air, assembled by no one. There were no workers at the stores, the schools, the hospitals, the…

It looks cluttered with unnecessary visual cues. It looks more to be a demonstration of manufacturing capability to line up all the surface features, but it leaves it more difficult to maintain the outside surface. That rear tail light area is going to require boxes of q-tips to clean.

It would have cost you nothing to keep that information all for yourself.

A bunch of people got crushed to death when a warehouse collapsed from a tornado and rather than building it back with a safe room they said “f’ it, labor is cheaper than losing a few square feet of floor space. Besides, that stuff rinsed right off.”

I do miss unsuckDCmetro on Twitter who passed away earlier this year. He would have had a field day pointing out that the likely result will be to cut 10% of the bus routes to make up for this loss and continue trimming as ridership falls until Metro doesn’t have a single bus or rail car and still gets millions of…

It did not help that Ethiopian made an initial report that was false. Not to worry - the President of Ethiopian airline is also the President of Ethiopia. He was to busy to see if his pilots had read the updated instructions (issued 5 months earlier along with a detailed preliminary accident report) because he was…

Recall when they used the highbeams at reduced output as the DRLs to avoid burning out the low beams?

No - a submersible.