As the father of two teenagers, I found this book invaluable. I'm sure other parents here can empathize when I say I shudder at the thought of the increasing presence of huge ships in the lives my children. I certainly remember the strain I caused so long ago for my own parents when I began experimenting with huge…

Something I found via GIS. Wish I could figure out who made it, but I could see something like this as well.

point. They did call him a Jedi though and not a Sith.

I like the idea of the image of Vader being used in the future by the baddies. Neat idea. That said, did the galaxy know he was a Sith? The Jedi did and a few others, but I would imagine that would be something he and Palpatine would have kept out of the press.

Some amazing Bradbury related art, but the guy owned one of the Snow White cels? This Snow White cel? That is a bit of history right there.

Until the pitch limits integrated into the tow rope this is pretty much what I envisioned...

It was good fun racing with them. They were not fast by any stretch, but they were very, very red. That's not a bad thing.

Feels. Massive feels. I was at Vegas in 2011 standing on the pit wall and shed tears when the the field came by three by three. We were at Le Mans in 2013 and walked by the guard rail and the tree at the beginning of the Mulssane Straight on our way back to the train. Even then, my wife and I spent last weekend…

I'm in Lilburn. Super H-Mart for the win.

You just have to live in the right spots. If you want to live north of town you are boned. ITP is just like every other city as far as traffic goes.

Atlanta is a surprisingly cosmopolitan city with vibrant art and technology segments and a bunch of fun things to do. While it has its history, and its issues, it is not the backward hickville that some people make it out to be.

You in Christchurch? Was there last month. Cool place.

while they probably did give it a bit more throttle, you also had the prevailing winds working in your favor heading east.

nope. About even. They operate out of T and that is very close to initial check in and all that. Should actually be an advantage.

Just one data point, but I'm an aerospace engineer, I worked nights for a good long time and made good money doing it. Why was I doing engineering work at night? That is when the planes are on the ground and maintenance can get to them. They fly all day.

I look at it as a mass flow question. Fluiddynamics. What do you have to do when you want to get a lot of mass through a constricted volume? Speed it up. Jack up the speed limits.

I was wondering if they may be using expired materials as well?

True. Mix it up. Also, why does it need to be all male or all female? Why limit it that way?

What would it take? An invite. One degreed, experienced in practical repair, aerospace engineer reporting for duty. Crap, if they dusted off one of the old Gemini capsules I'd be happy to ride that up. I'm getting tired of the risk adverse, one baby step at a time, we may be there in 40 years approach. Lets GO!

kind of bears the crap out of dropping a Honda motor in there doesn't it? Power to weight FTW!