This is something I've always wondered about but never cared about to look into. Thanks Andrew!

Similar reason why dump trucks have trailers with long-ass tongues: weight dispersion. A 2 lane bridge may have a 40 ton rating, so the truck and trailer can’t be on at the same time. Hence the 30 foot tongue.

Good thing Samir wasn’t driving, he doesn’t pay attention to the calls.

64 yr old was British, that was his hard Brexit.

I think the launch failed because they didn’t properly calculate the weight of the massive balls on these guys. 

Sail works like a wing, the wind moves around it creating a low pressure so the boat gets sucked along, not pushed by the wind. You have enough surface area and low enough wetting area, like the AC boat below, it will go faster than then wind speed because there is so much force on the sails.

Q: What did the ocean say to the sailboat?

First things first, this guy is an asshole.

Sadly he died of AIDS moments after the incident.

If only there was someone who had seen the film who could write us an article on whether it goes wrong or in fact lives up to the hype...

Thank god that in America (land/home/free/brave),you’re not forced to go.I’ll give your seat to someone interested in this sort of movie.Cheers!

Based on absolutely nothing but my gut, I would bet a George Washington that the average person has no clue how a combination lock works.

I think plenty of people had the basic idea down, that turning it in a certain way aligns tumblers to open the lock, but the specifics and seeing it in action is completely different for people who don’t study how to open locks.

- now I’m curious WTF happened.

That is savage! Have your star and my nomination for COTD.

DANG. So cold. And yet, not wrong.

The issue, he said, is that the tech quite likely “classified her as something other than a stationary object.”

So...the public can hang out on the portion of the beach that only appears during low tide?

I watched it on my Windows 7 PC in my windowless cubicle.