Don’t forget the raging arguments between actual engineers and the Ketamine-rager-in-Chief until he overrode them and commenced the speed run of dev.

Given the dept of most stations, you’re into constant soil temps. Probably not exactly an easy retro fit in the ‘space’ underneath NYC, but literally just circulating the air through pipes in the surrounding soil/rock would have a pretty cheap and constant cooling effect.

*Hell’s sewage outlet

Sadly no, there were no little girls passing by so the experts didn’t consider that option ;-)

Tell me your the machinist without telling me your the machinist ;-)

sure, control surfaces are basically useless. But the upward airflow would encounter more resistance on the horizontal/flat sections of the tail and wings. There are no such horizontal/flat sections at the nose.

I hope God does.  Soon.  In Person.

That would basically be The Purge.   

Ah, I hadn’t watched the video so didn’t know about the spin.

Calling it now. Gov’t will ban sale of US cars to China...based on the software.

yeah, they won’t have normal control. Center of gravity is a good point. Basic physics say that if the top or 2nd from the bottom plane is falling straight down, there’s more rear side surface area impacting the upward air flow (underside of wings elevators).

A question for the aero inclined engineers. When a stall happens at altitude, as it transitions to vertical descent - wouldn’t elevators at the rear induce nose down attitude? Not from flow ‘over’ them but from flow coming up from below. Just seems like there would be less aerodynamic shape/more drag in the rear than…

This seems like it.   Fscking kinja  (insert image of Christine)

Yeah, double edged sword. *Lots* of construction zones aren’t ‘consistent’ and hey, things move.

Agreed, it’s ‘nice’ to see honesty like that. A few years ago Virginia made some noise by giving them road approval...but specifically wouldn’t allow them to be ‘motorcycles’ for HOV lanes.

And conceptually doubly so here. The ‘boat’ aspect, assuming it actually exists, would similarly hinder traction by having less weight to the ground.

this is my thought. Another thing is car batteries are *massively* oversized for home use. So you’d put even less ‘wear’ on it than it was intended for, hopefully lasting even longer.

They / Their

A significant question is chemistry.   The LiFePo type (used in about 1/2 of Tesla’s now I think)  is significantly less prone to fires than the LI type current in wide scale use.