Also drove in Ireland. You get about 2 minutes to get used to driving a RHD car before encountering a two-lane roundabout WITH traffic lights. Once you survive the trial-by-roundabout to get out of the airport, everything gets much easier. I especially loved the roundabouts that were nothing more than a sign beside…

Tire on tire contact. The front part of the Yaris tire is going down. The back part of the tire that it hit is going up. The combination made the Yaris act like it was running up a moving escalator.

I hadn’t considered the propellant difference between SSME and Raptor. That’s a very good point. And I’ve even read Ignition! Doesn’t mean I can do the math off the top of my head though.

That’s actually pretty good for a sea-level impulse. The SSME was/is 366 seconds at sea-level and 452 seconds in vacuum. As SonOfSisyphus pointed out, this engine could be tuned for atmospheric operation and only meant to power the first stage.

As a former 951 owner who took the car to the track, I can say without reservation that they handle great. The car has a nearly 50/50 weight balance. The steering is very neutral. The car also has a big moment of inertia, so when it spins, it doesn’t spin fast. Whether you consider that a positive or a negative…

Wait, let me get this straight. You drove through a Texas rainstorm with nearly bald tires that could hydroplane at any time. On top of that, should you need to make any sudden life-or-death steering corrections, you have no power steering AND the control arms are shot.

I regret that I have but one star to give.

Now all we need is a ship designed to lift other ships off the ocean floor. Oh wait, we already have one.

That’s why you get there on Thursday (I think it’s Thursday) and watch them drive down to Carmel for lunch. IIRC, all of the cars at Pebble Beach are required to get on and off the lawn under their own power. There is a tour of Pebble Beach invitees that drives their cars down from Seattle for the Concours.

I have owned my current DD for just shy of 7 years. It has nearly 120k miles on it. 120,000 miles divided by 61000 hours is a bit under 2 mph.

That’s great and all, but if the cars had a 2-second following distance before the merge, now they have a 1-second following distance. Everyone has to slow down to get back to a 2-second following distance. This will happen no matter how well the drivers merge. And thus, traffic jams are born.

I once had a tire blow out 40 miles east of Ft. Stockton. I learned many things that day.

Easy. Make the poles retract into the floor like a bollard. When someone gets derezzed, just drop all of the poles that their wall is wrapped around. Also, if the starting anchor point is a winch, you might be able to pull all of their derezzed wall out of the arena and then put the poles back up so the remaining…

There’s an implied meter that needs to be added on. 170cm = 67" But I do agree that the people that made the chart did a really piss-poor job of it. Would adding a few extra 1s to it really have cost that much?

The left size is centimeters, the right side in inches. So she’s gone from 5'5 1/2“ to 5' 6" then back to 5' 5 1/2" and finally to 5' 7". Could be posture, could be shoes.

You need to watch the commentary track for Ronin. All of the actors were sent to a performance driving school. All of the chase scenes were filmed with the actual actors in the cars (but not driving). If the car was supposed to be RHD, they found a LHD version and put a fake steering wheel in the “driver’s” side for…

Back when drivers could steer with one hand...

I had the same thing happen to me. Idiot tire shop also didn’t change the valve stems, so I woke up the next day to a brand new flat tire thanks to a busted valve stem. I happened to have a 6' steel fence post laying around. Without that, I don’t know what I would have done to get the flat off.

You get a star for beating me to the punch by 1 minute.