One of the things I love about SpaceX, their landing platforms are named after Culture Ships:

One of my favorite authors! Both for his Culture-based sci-fi and his fiction (which is totally genius, Fearsum Endjinn!). Not to mention the Wasp Factory, the Hydrogen Sonata, Excession, the Bridge, etc. Fantastic stuff. I have all of his work, hardbound, and a paperback review copy from Oct 2007 of a Steep Approach…

Worse I was ever caught for was three times the limit.

Sure, I could have gone with a Rolls-Royce, but I need some proper aircooled flat-six exhaust notes when I’m soaring high above all of you plebs.

Not sure if you’re aware of it, but the most common small aircraft engine is the air-cooled Lycoming flat 6, which shares more than a few design similarities with Porsche.

You forgot the “hit stuff and go flying” part, which is the best part of dirt biking.

I was once hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere, and got dropped off at an intersection near a maximum security state jail. I stood there for a good hour until I got picked up, meantime I had prison wardens driving by and looking me up and down.

DeTomaso Pantera GTS. Someday...

I’m also not a chemist.

Those may or may not have been terrible people, but they were certainly terrible salespeople.

Hey stupid GM auto execs, BROADS SHOULD BE TREATED FAIRLY AT CAR DEALERSHIPS!!!! Why? Profits would go up, engines would run smoother, cars would magically cost $3,000 less if you losers would just treat these tarts like real customers. I wish the filthy lying left shared the tremendous respect I have for all dames…

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You mean movies about the moon that ignore the fact it has 17% the gravity? 

Next from Elon Musk: The Sinking Company. 

Pretty much all new fobs use rolling codes that change every x number of seconds. The problem here is that the passive fobs constantly emit the codes so you don’t have to press the button as you walk up to the car. Thieves get near the fob and use repeater devices that echo the code while amplifying the signal so it…

Most do, few don’t. Some use better Cryptography schemes than others. It’s the ones with poor cryptographic functions in their fobs/body modules that are the low hanging fruit. Sadly OEMs are used to designing one part and using it for years, even decades. This kind of tech has a much shorter shelf life and the…

It might be time to start making wheel locks a standard part of car ownership, huh?

Good one!  I worked in a warehouse in high school. I became pretty competent at hand truck racing.

This! My mate was a SAAB tragic - his first car was a 900 Turbo which was gorgeous. We took it on a backroad expedition for my first drive of his baby, but the floppy body and insane amounts of turbo lag were such a letdown, that I never took him up on the offer of another drive.

i love my 05 9-5 . iv also owned a 04 a 03 and a 99 . you gotta spend some time in the 9-5 live with it to understand . also i crack up at people talking about torque steer , like am i driving my fwd car differently , cause torque steer has only been a issue once. when i first got one and floored it now i know it does…