I remember the first time I tried braking with my left foot -- long before I knew it was a racing technique -- and screeching to a halt! My high school girlfriend was not amused.

I should just look this up myself, but does it run at full power on 87? My STI can run on 91 instead of 93, but the ECU will retune the engine and I’ll lose power.

Same. It’s probably a rental though.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

I know that with F1 cars, each bolt is machined individually. Do the parts in these things go to those ridiculous lengths?

Adaptive optics means the difference between ground based and space based optical telescopes is very small except for very specific frequency ranges, and there are at least two enormous upcoming ground based telescopes (LSST and GMT) for the simple reason that it’s far cheaper to build a giant mirror on the ground…

And a=F/m so when you increase m to increase F it doesn’t help with your acceleration.

Top fuel dragsters don’t use street tires.

Kind of like how our keyboards are all fucked up, but it’s a relic of typewriter layouts.

Well paying industry jobs for people with a high school diploma are not coming back.

I heard something on NPR this morning about how the current troubles may have saved classical journalism: subscriptions to all the big papers are way up since the election.

Autotune Mark Hamill reading Trump as the Joker?

Squawking propaganda minister Kellyanne Conway

Weren’t those just big V8s? The new one is a twin turbo.

There are many ways to calculate/measure the octane number. AKI (the anti-knock index) is the average of RON (research octane number) and MON (motor octane number), and it’s what we use in the US and Canada. Most of the rest of the world, including China, use RON alone, which is generally a higher number than AKI.…

A 2003 paper I found from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine seems to indicate that China has high standards for fuel quality and 95-octane gas available at pumps, so Chinese Raptor owners should be able to get as much power out of their turbocharged engines as possible.

I love the idea of old folks driving around in powerful hot hatches.