More likely, it’s a tour to raise PR for the final sale. Costs them more up-front, but they’ll easily make it back at the auction. And doing it gratis widens how far it will be shown, increasing the pool of potential buyers.

You forgot the H-II orbital rocket, also made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (technically not Mitsubishi Motors, which makes the cars). A million pounds of thrust at liftoff, and up to sixteen tons into low Earth orbit - not the biggest rocket around, but one of the biggest made by a single nation (that isn’t America,…

If you don’t care about range so long as it’s over 50 miles, then yeah, better aerodynamics will just save you a few pennies on your power bill (electricity may be dirt-cheap compared to gas but it’s not totally free. A “full tank” for a Model 3 costs ~$2.). It doesn’t really help you, but it’s not like it hurts.

Aerodynamics are arguably more important on a BEV. The electricity itself is cheap, but battery capacity is expensive. Any decrease in drag is a corresponding increase in range.

Okay, I’m getting a lot of replies that make similar points, just gonna reply to myself instead of each one individually:

There are two problems with Stadia.

Wing loading is basically how much force the wings are under. It’s a measure of pressure (pounds/square foot, or kilograms per square meter in science units). For most aircraft it’s simply total weight divided by wing area, but blended-wing and flying-vee stuff gets a bit tricky.

The Spruce Goose held the record for heaviest flown aircraft until 1952, when the B-52 Stratofortress first took flight, and the record for largest wingspan until April of this year, when Stratolaunch made its first test flight. This was mostly because of the wood construction, the wings needed to be big to spread the…

It’s a good idea in theory, but I think people underestimate just how much power is in these things.

Even that kind of undersells it.

Rule 115.2: Only permanents are legal targets for spells and abilities, unless a spell or ability (a) specifies that it can target an object in another zone or a player, or (b) targets an object that can’t exist on the battlefield, such as a spell or ability.

The “Truth in Lending Act” excuse doesn’t even sound good. To a layperson, it sounds like “the numbers we’re going to give you are lies and if we write them down you can use them as evidence”. If you’re going to make up an excuse, at least make it one that doesn’t make you sound like sleaze.

Not reliability - battery life and thermal performance.

eMMC is almost always on a separate chip. I did some quick searching, “automotive grade” 64GB eMMC chips cost $60-70 for single, $50 for large lots. (“Automotive grade” seems to mean a -40C to 105C temperature range, but not high write endurance - none with that temperature range were SLC, just MLC or TLC. Cheaper and…

In theory, generating hydrogen from electricity and water, then using it to run a fuel cell, is about as efficient as using that electricity to charge and discharge a battery. Electrolysis is nice and direct, and fuel cells are amazingly efficient, thermodynamically. It’s still less efficient than a battery (iirc like…

There’s only so much space in a car, and a fuel cell big enough to power a car can only be so small. With the space needed for the cell and the hydrogen tanks, you would probably get less range than if you’d just crammed in more batteries instead. And range extension only works if you can actually find a refill…

Some friends and I did a whole format of nonstandard wins. Simple ruleset - Modern card pool, no banlist, but “you lose for having 0 or less life” and “you lose for having ten or more poison counters” state-based effects didn’t happen. The best deck was definitely Maze’s End, with Primeval Titan you could get land…

Crash safety was never the biggest safety issue with hydrogen. Sure, it goes up easily, but it explodes with more of a fwoosh than a bang. Most people on the Hindenburg survived.

Nah. Put 300 cards in it, then play Battle of Wits.

Oh, there’s far more ways to win or lose Magic than just life totals and mill, and mill is hardly the most dishonorable type of deck, once you venture outside of Standard.