Designing a vehicle to survive re-entry is bloody difficult. If the missile is even slightly aerodynamically compromised by minor damage, it won’t survive.

Good question. My uneducated guess is that, given the extreme relative speeds, even using the fastest available onboard computer, the CPU clock cycles would be too far apart to be able to reliably ignite the explosive during the miniscule window of time when the ABM and target are in close proximity. Love to hear an…

*Please* could you stop contributing to the completely false idea that Iran has nuclear weapons, it’s the new birtherism, except much more dangerous.

Sorry if this has already been asked but can someone explain why German cars are on the agenda in a NATO summit?

Why can’t I get Trump and Melania out of my head?

Very exciting. By 2020, BMW could be producing 20,000-30,000 sketches of electric vehicles annually. 

In a country with so many talented, intelligent people, it is unfortunate that when the post of Transportation Secretary came up, this was the only person who was qualified and available.

According to Navigant, Uber’s strategy is on a par with Tesla’s. Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha!

More fossil fuel funded propaganda I’m afraid. If you had critical faculties and an internet connection you could find out in less than a minute that lithium is highly recyclable.

Putin doesn’t think in terms of long term strategy. He’s constantly adapting and improvising - it’s an incredibly effective way of keeping his electorate and his opposition permanently disoriented. There are some really good article about his techniques in the Atlantic.

“Is there a way..... to conduct a coordinated nuclear strike... in such a way... that it will kill the entire population of North Korea...... without inflicting casualties...... on China, South Korea, or Japan?” said Trump, slowly.

Sorry but Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons (unless you belief that the IAEA is part of the Axis of Evil).

So basically they’ve designed two seriously compromised vehicles in order to spare the passengers the agony of walking several metres from a ground transport to an air transport.

F1 teams should stay above politics. Sad.

The US defence budget is entirely dictated by domestic political contingencies, and obviously way out of proportion to what’s functionally necessary. As a European, I’m slightly baffled about the calls for other NATO countries to pay more. If other NATO countries start paying more, does that mean Trump can/will cut…

Is there any rationale besides nostalgia? Isn’t this basically a minivan without a crumple zone?

Isn’t a microbus basically a minivan without a crumple zone?

That’ll be the limbic system.

He really is extraordinarily self assured for someone with no discernable skills.

No matter how many people point out that you’re factually wrong, you just keep going, don’t you?