I'm seeing it more as a disincentive as well. Considering I'm currently on such a medication, not something I'd really support.

Yeah, can't figure out where they got that from. It's not five-bladed either, as the ones in the photos at the link are six-blade.

I am aware, and the lightrail here is awesome (wish I lived and worked somewhere it made sense). However, didn't someone just get run over just last week? But yes, their fenced, dedicated, local lines are ftw. The problem is our long distance lines, that are crap.

True, but I was responding more to the first part of the comment, relating to the 80 km/hr trains. As far as commuter, it can work, but the problem there is back to my first guess, that of a lack of dedicated, protected right of way. You can make it work, but it means taking away from someone else, most likely road…

I have two guesses - lack of dedicated, protected right-of-way, and we have much more distance to cover.

Excellent checklist, I'll definitely be taking it with me.

Ehh, I grew up in the frozen North, so the sun and I pretty well leave each other alone.

Hadn't thought of checking them out at night, I'll definitely be doing that.

Propping up broken furniture?

Good call, I have been planning on biking, and there are some good hills in the area.

Hey, all. I'm looking to start a new job soon, and am looking for apartments. What sorts of things do you recommend looking for, or avoiding? Any tips in general?

That's what I was thinking.

Anyone else who's studied aircraft dynamics - does that look like a really fast dutch roll to you

As I understand, most of the U.S.' drones use props, including the Predator.

Apparently my pictures are failing to link, oh well. It was awesome anyway.

Speaking of interesting things at Udvar-Hazy, I was walking around once, and happened to see something under a blue tarp in the corner. Being curious, I wandered over, and recognized the window pattern - it was SpaceShipOne! I snapped at the photos, and went to ask at the front desk, and after a bit of hemming and…

I know it's nothing new to manufacturing, it's just costly. Also, if you look at the way the top of the part has cutouts, and then the vertical support has cutouts, you wouldn't be able to pull apart the halves of a two-part mold. As far as CNC, heck, I could program a CNC mill to make that, it would take at least 3…

Okay, just so you know, the engineers are still asking "what if" on these parts. It's not like they're putting on a blindfold and hitting the "Design and Build Me an Airplane" button. They take unusual stresses into account in these parts. Also, if the plane enters 'free-fall', as in falling vertically, while still…

I'm pretty sure this process makes for a stronger material than molding likely would. Also, if you take a look at the top part, you wouldn't be able to make a simple (2 sided, like your plastic parts are made from) mold for this part, you'd have to make a super complex one that would have to be destroyed to be…

Actually, 3D printing of metals has gotten up there, it just costs a butt-ton to build a machine capable of producing parts of that quality - you have to have the metal composition exactly right, the laser strength exactly right, super fine control (which this looks to have, seeing the finished parts). This is pretty…