That’s because you’re a peon and not rich and well connected.

I really miss lock down F1, it was all business and none of this BS.

keep the app installed on their phone it harvests so much data

It’s honestly a beautiful car on the inside with all the technology and luxury one would expect and more. I was on the team that worked on the interior products and “WOW” seats, where you have massage functions and over 30 ways to adjust. If you ever get a chance to sit in one, or even drive it then give it a shot.…

I could’ve told you that by looking at my facebook feed.

The fire extinguishing is for a fuel related fire, but if the oil system gets breached then the oil gets to places that one cannot apply extinguishing material - as others have posted, this is particularly true outside the engine proper and includes the nacelle and fan housing where fuel normally is not.

Considering they have different ounces and gallons, it’s nice to see the confirmation that the year is the same

I think you and Torch sound like a perfect Odd Couple. I’d watch that show.

Also, ‘fly farting over an ice cube’ garnered my chuckle of the day. 

But apart from that, it was good yeah?

for a year in England for 12 months

I was going to say - “What did you expect? It’s a Renault.”

Same thing...

Damnit, until you came along we could imagine it was a work of unrecognized genius, safe in the knowledge that we’d never encounter a real Avantime owner. It was Schrodinger’s car, now it’s just another terrible French attempt at luxury.

so basically it was French

From this post, not only did I learn that the Avantime was an exercise in horrible everything, but also I realized every gate agent and flight attendant I’ve heard refer to rolling carry-on suitcases has incorrectly called them roller-boards instead of roll-aboards. It never occured to me that it didn’t make any sense.

That’s absolutely and fantastically nice of you. But, maybe I’m too paranoid but, if I was the crew of a plane and somebody brought a box of hand-made chocolate to distribute to the crew, I would probably not eat them, out of fear that they’re poisoned or something.  I’m even surprised that they let you bring it to…

Fortunately iOS has adblockers!  Never browse Gizmodo without an adblocker :) 

It’s really important to remember that Giant Sequoias are not only fire-adapted trees living in a fire-adapted ecosystem (that we’ve removed fire from for near-on a century now), but in order to reproduce, Giant Sequoias REQUIRE fire.  This whole “fire is bad” thing is entirely a human (specifically European…

asked me to rough-out a yard or 4 inches on the ground

The issue is always going to be latency, not speed. Think of the satellite as a mirror for Internet: You ask for a web page, it’s sent to the satellite 22,000 miles away (or 600-700 mikes for LEOs). That request is reflected to an earth station where the web site is called up. Once received, it is sent back to the…

You’re not going to want to be doing any serious gaming or providing streaming services out of your house. But any casual gaming and regular internet usage will be fine.