V=L * di/dt.

+1. The Japanese are the ones the Germans call when they get in over their heads.

Yep. Some farkers will believe everything they hear.

I dunno, it didn’t take that much money in my experience. Just a steak dinner at Outback and a quick stop on the way home for a couple of appletinis.

A bullet hole would easily cause enough drag to destroy the rocket.

The problem is, what if you miss? Or, more specifically, what if you hit the rocket but don’t cause it to blow up? Now you’ve got a big problem. It will be obvious that someone shot the thing, and it will be obvious what direction the shot came from.

I say shut up and let the police work :)

Same here. I had a 968 back in the 1990s, and at one point tried to convince myself to upgrade to a new 993. I still remember how nonplussed I was during the test drive. “There’s something wrong with this clutch pedal,” was one thought -- they were hinged from the floor in those days, which is stupid and wrong -- and…

Yes, that’s the “mutual” part. Having just seen the US use the Bomb, the Soviets had no reason to believe it wouldn’t be used on them eventually. The only way to make that impossible was to make it unthinkable... or at least pointless.

Tell that to the 718 engineers...

It sent a message, all right. “We’re a bunch of barbarians who disregard fundamental diplomatic protocols that even the Stalinists and Nazis respected. We’ll spit on your President once we’re done spitting on our own sidewalks. Sure, a hundred years ago we were living in yurts, driving donkey carts, and smoking opium,…

Valve is privately held by someone who was already most of the way to being a billionaire before the company even opened its doors. We don’t know anything about their total equity, but it’s well into nine figures by now.

In other news, no four-wheeled vehicle equipped with ABS is much better than any other at stopping on snow. The tires matter but the vehicle (and its price tag) don’t.

My mind flashes back to that volvo concept that you weren’t allowed to open the hood on.

“Unstoppable on snow?” Brings back fond memories of my ‘89 Firebird. It was unstoppable on snow, too, unless you started planning the stop 1/2 mile in advance.

Pretty sure the current 911 Turbo S (with the capital ‘T’) will get into the low 2s in the real world. Porsche sandbags their 0-60 times big-time.

Why in the fuck would you even publish something like this?

It’s a properly designed, proper car and not developed on a fraction of the budget by people with immensely less sophisticated processes in place.

Bomb somebody else’s harbor next time, kthxbye

It’s not “odd” at all. Google the term Christian Dominionism.