For some reason, I taught a lot of my friends to drive a stick. I had a crappy old manual 1987 Hyundai Excel 4-door hatchback on a salvage title, but this was more than most of my friends had.

Shouldn’t that say “Is obvious, obvious troll is”?

These engines are designed to handle a fan bladeout situation. Look up GP7200 blade out tests on Youtube to see an example.

Ahh, the GP7200. I was on the first flight ever of that engine; literally the first time it powered an aircraft in flight, on a 747 test bed. I’m proud to see that it still kept the passengers safe despite a catastrophic failure. Makes my job have so much more meaning.

Are the drivers of other cars considered a design element? Because it would totally be that.

They were also brought back in Star Trek: Online as a “servitor” race of the Iconians, one of the races they use to destabilize their enemies.

Why is this even a feature? They have auto-opening doors, but the auto-braking safety feature isn’t “always-on” without a complicated set of steps to disable it? Their engineering is great, but some of their decisions are questionable.

The game can be played essentially as a single player game, there’s no requirement to pay with other people off you just want to experience the story. However there are fleets (guilds), chat channels, and various forums. I highly recommend http://reddit.com/r/sto and their associated chat channel and fleets. And…

You can start out with four (five?) separate introductory arcs: Federation, Klingon, Romulan (Federation-allied or Klingon-allied), and Original Series Federation. After different points they all merge into the same story.

That’s why you anyways turn off Zone chat in STO.

My non-XL Pixel is usually at 50-60% battery when I charge it at night, and it has a smaller battery than the XL.

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

It’s not so impossible, I’ve seen it happen several times, and from different angles, when playing paintball.

NACLK9 took me longer than I’d care to admit, but I had to laugh when I got it.

Also, you’re welcome. 😀

Also: you’re welcome.

I appreciate it. It is a team effort of course, and there are also teams of people at the airframers that test the whole airplane before anyone flies on it. I will admit that it is nice feeling that what I do helps so many people, even if mine is just a small part of the whole effort to make engines, and airplanes,…

Yes; it’s not on all 747's, but it was an option for airlines when they purchased the planes. We actually modified the ferry pod into a “#5 position” for testing very small engines (CF34-8C primarily), but generally it’s easier to test engines in the #2 position (inboard engine on the left wing, looking from the…

I’ve flown commercially next to nervous fliers, and hearing of the extensive testing we do with the engines has helped them a bit in the past. Sure, we can’t test for everything or account for all variables, but we sure try.

It is very rare, but it can happen due to various reasons. I am not a pilot - I’m in the cabin running the computers recording the data during test flights - but I’ve heard the stories behind much of what we test for. Like the flight engineer that didn’t notice fuel leaking from one tank to another, flaming out one…