I like how this robot, from Boston Dynamics, walks like a drunk southie and stacks boxes for a living.

If you have the Husky man’s ear, tell him we need a dealership in DC/Balt region.

Or best 2 car garage!

I think it’s not only entirely possible but I would highly suspect the Pentagon and other countries defense departments have these sorts of metrics. I think, though, you have to look at a variety of factors, such as:

It also depends a lot on where a ship is hit. If it punches through berthing spaces you may or may not have some dead sailors (depending on if everyone is already at battle stations) but that could limit it. However, you take out a magazine, a fuel tank, or blow a hole into a machinery space and it’s going to be a lot…

I’ve done 180-something on a motorcycle - and I can tell you that at those speeds you get the hyper-space/warp drive/shit flying at your face/reality bending effects like you see in the movies. I wouldn’t call it terrifying, but it is nerve wracking.

We had a guy on the boat keep like 8 huge bottles of mouthwash in his rack. I always thought he really liked having clean teeth.

This is awful news. Sorry to hear about it.

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. As an engineer, I have a little bit of background in this sort of thing. Actually, I deal with ducted fans quite often (vaneaxial type), but never in thrust type applications (mostly HVAC) - so I’m only familiar with their operation in a closed system. But we see similar…

Basically yes.

Ducted fans are common (airliner turbo fan engines are a type of ducted fan), but none are really used in a purely lift application like this.

what’s an africa?

I know, I’m being (mostly) facetious. Although I’ve heard Budapest is quite nice.

Geography isn’t one of my strengths.

That’s what really makes the video for me, the glorious mullet. That and he has no shirt, and flip-flops. It’s so white trash I can’t get over it.

Came here to post this.

I see one with diplomatic tags in McLean VA somewhat regularly.

Also a UMD grad. This is very much true.

I wanted to elaborate more on this yesterday but didn’t have the time to. The problem with GM is that each business used to be a mostly seperate entity - Chevy was the entry level, working mans car, Cadillac was their flagship luxury car, Pontiac was the performance and racing division, etc. Each developed their own…