There isn’t anything that is going to accelerate any development by 2 decades. Per https://app.ediscoveryassistant.com/case_law/46498-zunum-aero-inc-v-boeing-co it appears that Zunum had been difficult.

Good point on the legal status of stealing trade secrets.

I am looking forward to finding out what trade secrets they thought they had and why they didn’t file for patent protection for those ideas.

There is almost no chance one employee missed removing chips on 100,000 engines. There is a great chance that all engines, using 0 weight oil are experiencing what happens when 0 weight oil isn’t enough.

It is far more frequent for a cop, all hopped up on adrenaline, to kill a person for holding a phone, or pulling their pants up while begging for their life, than to make a meaningful response to a gunman.

Two versions of these little helpers - the Straglematic you encountered and the door-mounted Ejectomatic that, if the door opened in a crash, would leave the occupant unsecured and ready to be tossed out. 

Eddie the Eagle did better. 

AFAIK everyone prefers a big pipeline with natural gas over having to move literally tons of coal around a power plant and with railcars. That’s true in Texas, famously. Add in the controls required to scrub coal stacks of sulfur and other unwanted pollutants and it would be insane for a power generation company, at…

Make Studebaker great again - not the one that built Avatis, the one that built nearly 500,000 horse drawn wagons over a 7 year stretch and initially built electric cars from 1902 to 1911.

ABS may need to communicate with the ECM/ECU/Whatever is managing the engine. Not sure why and not sure it’s universal, but I had a non-detectable misfire on one ignition coil and the ABS warning light came on to celebrate along with vehicle stability and some other not-an-engine module.

Post that comment to the wire snipper who I was responding to.

The canisters didn’t explode. It was the leaking heavier-than-air gas that had pooled near the floor and up to the foot well where he was sitting that exploded.

A conviction should change how Hollywood deals with fully functional firearms as props. I watched the video of the Stargate guy over the use of the P90 weapon and he had every actor that would handle one go through a gun safety course. Why is that not required for every movie using fully functional firearms?

You found a better one. 

The canisters aren’t what exploded. There was a leak that allowed the propane gas to first pool in the low areas and then build a deeper layer; if it was all propane he would have suffocated, so there must have been some mixing to make the mixture explosive.

Congrats? Car is destroyed. They would have her ID from the dealer for the test drive. Damaging the vehicles of otherwise uninvolved people? 

It doesn’t appear they are bricking it. They just no longer host the service this thing needs in order to operate. More like 3G phones didn’t get bricked in the US - there just aren’t any cell towers that will communicate with it anymore. I’m sure the main cost was having people to keep that service running and…

The explosion pressure can be as low as 10 - 20 psi. 15 psi over-pressure is the equivalent of a dive 33 feet deep in water.

Most clothing is made from dead plant material, hair shaved from animals, or converted petrochemicals. It’s been a while since metal has made up a notable amount of the outfit; the long bow and gun powder ended that long-time fashion trend.