I had this happen with a big truck (2002 Freightliner XL Classic Condo) with 59,000 lbs behind me (trailer and cargo) on a winding up and down 2 lane in CA...I’d just recently been through company safety lane at a terminal, and they replaced the seals on one drive axle but apparently didn’t do it right...two days…

The Russians “played ball” in the 80's mainly for two reasons...they were breaking the bank with their quagmire in Afghanistan, and they seriously believed Reagan was more than a bit unbalanced and might just actually take advantage of that and provoke a confrontation. They were fairly convinced of that.

Seemed a bit weird to me when first reported, but then seemed like at least some amount of thought had gone into how it could work...I could see it as a large capacity people-hauler on major streets with a lot of lanes and nice straight, relatively high speed runs...just as kind of a cross-town feeder for smaller…

Just to get your range assumption in line, even though it doesn’t matter much to this conversation...truck drivers plan trips at 50 mph...because by the time you do bathroom breaks, fueling, scales, traffic jams, accident gawk blocks, and every other impedance to free-running, that’s what you end up with, almost…

This will be SO confusing to those people who just HAVE to swoop into the open left lane at the red light, so they don’t have to be behind the semi, and then can’t even seem to out-accelerate a loaded semi when the light goes green....

PS, check out how the second rider to pass the ghost bike looks at it as he goes by...hilarious! “WTF? Where did that come from?” LOL

As a teen living in the NE corner of CO, there were nuke missile silos all over the area, on into Nebraska...years later, when they were decommissioned, me and some other guys had the opportunity to explore one. Pretty fucking cool.

“Should I push it over?”...LOL...I knew where that was headed...motorcyclists, for people who can sometimes master the complex physics of riding on two wheels, seem to often forget the basic “action-reaction” aspect...in moments like this...or when trying to kick cars, etc. It often ends as it did for that guy. What…

Here’s another good one I hadn’t seen...

Seriously, never? I’ve always shown people several videos....when on the subject of regaining control of a bike....that they tend to self-correct and go on quite happily, once free of the clumsy efforts of the meatsack on their back...there’s one vid in particular that’s GREAT...this bike is running around ,…

They make me want to vomit. That said, they compliment the car perfectly.

I guess I’m a little weird...I have a very active inner monologue or whatever its called. Basically I’m talking to myself, in my brain. I can have endless conversations, take up point and counterpoint and argue with myself about something, or even, assume the persona of someone I know well, and take their side and…

I’ve been tormenting folks with this kind of reality check for quite a while now...especially people my own age or older, when they start talking about how fast their 60's muscle car was...nah, dude....unless you had the freakin’ top of the line bad boy with every performance option (you didn’t), that old tank did the…

I don’t know why this just came to mind, but when lasers first came about, some techies in the KGB realized that you could bounce one at an angle off a window to a sensitive detector someplace else, and thus read the vibrations of the glass pane...and use a type of transducer to change that signal back to sound...so…

I remember stressing over how to get the stereo out of my ‘97 Lumina...couldn’t find any relevant hardware, seemed like...then I realized there was like three screws in the bottom that were well hidden, and the rest was just a matter of Velcro and plastic tabs...and pop, there’s the entire dash surround in your hands.

That’s just to make it easier to tear it apart when you have to so you can fix stuff that breaks...come on, that was a positive feature...

Well really more like to deaden road/wind noise, and provide some aspect of insulation from external temps...but yeah it has to be able to move in the correct way to reproduce sound you want and not sound you don’t. Speaker cones, however, are also suspended in cushions, so there’s something there to work with...

When you say not exactly new, it’s even more than you think...I remember reading Pop Sci or Pop Mech maybe thirty years ago where they showed similar home systems, that could use walls, tabletops, lamps, etc to make your whole living room into a speaker. It’s a natural thought to have, as you pointed out sound is…

Well they were built in about 5 different countries by at least half a dozen different companies under license, each with it’s own variants and systems and engines, etc. I’m sure all ours were built in Europe...They were also built Nigeria so that seems like the logical source for theirs. I’d bet dollars to donuts…

Like the spray idea, was kinda thinking that because I’d always misted the condenser while charging A/C systems, makes temps and pressures drop fast and far. Did you just shoot water? You got me wondering...I know there’s methanol in washer fluid...might work well too...but above 10k might evap too quick