Wen it comes to aviation accidents. No fire 99% of the time means no fuel. Which explains how an F16 ends up in a warehouse.

6" is pretty high. There are some stock cars which couldn’t clear that.

Though it doesn’t seem to be widely in the news, the picture of where he ultimately got pulled over just makes the whole story.

Tom, is $899 for a Document Fee, then an additional $433 for License/Title fee, typical? That seems pretty high to me, but I don’t buy new cars all that often. Almost $1350 on top of tax, delivery, and then the car itself seems insane; regardless if you’re getting $9k off...

I’ve been thinking about this swap for a couple years now. Knowing it’s “only” 40 hours of labor and 30k makes me think it’s a no brainer for anyone with a 430 or Scud. 

Large damaging hailstones are more dense than ice cubes made in a fridge.

It saves fuel and increases payload capacity to do it this way. It starts out with all three at full throttle. (Because the first few seconds are when it weighs the most.) But once some fuel has been used, and the rocket has less mass, they throttle down the center booster, so it can save fuel for later. The sides…

Since they took a simple tailgate and made it overly complicated, why not keep going down the road of over complicating and now add a hitch sensor and some motors to auto-retract when a hitch is detected? Also, make sure you can control it with an app on your phone.

Allahgorithms.

Probably one of the most overengineered worthless “options” I’ve seen.

I believe it’s Skip that is incorporating a bike lock into their scooters to prevent theft and to get people to keep them upright against street signs and trees. I saw that on every electric scooter I found in San Francisco a few weeks ago.

The whole idea is to have the center one continue after the side ones drop away. “Dropping weight while firing” is rockets 101. If they just dropped all 3 at the same time, it would be better to just design a 3 times wider rocket with 3 times the engine. (“Staging events”, or “Dropping stuff away” is always risky and…

They don’t. The side boosters are throttled harder than the center core and disconnect earlier in the flight. The center core continues downrange (further, faster, higher) and there isn’t enough fuel to scrub that amount of speed and return back to land.

Actually, in this case an actual crime worth investigating occurred

I hope their paperwork is in order even if they’re taking the scooters off private property—the formalized arrangements familiar from car towing would seem applicable—rather than public property. They would seem to be on shaky ground, even if many view it as the Lord’s work.

Some time ago my wife and I came to the conclusion that the time/cost saving benefits of flying are actually a lot more marginal than we’d realised. We live in Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, which is 9 to 10 hours from Sydney by road, and 1 hour by plane. Melbourne is similarly 9 to 10 hours by road, 1 hour by…

reach zero by 2050,” that “goals must span all organizations and businesses, and cover the full supply chain,...

Or perhaps extend the EV tax credit to fuel efficient compact cars (also include used cars). If the ultimate goal is to reduce carbon footprint, make it available for everyone, especially the working class. Give them an incentive to own a small fuel efficient vehicle.

If the goal is to further technology, they are…

But but then only the poors will get it. What do the politicians have to gain from it anymore, if they or their rich buddies, can’t get a nice piece of government money anymore?!

I guess my counterpoint to this (and other comments about how we should trust the human brain over a computer) is that human brains are pretty “buggy” and tend to “freak out” in alarming ways as well. We fall for optical illusions; forget things alarmingly easily; get distracted, tired, or drunk; and learn all sorts…