I would change my master if I remembered it!

I want to play MW2 online so badly. But alas, I suspect it’s still hacked/exploited to complete uselessness.

The wheel has an insane amount of inertia, and therefore actually resists rotating about its head tube. But yes, I’d imagine any steering mistakes would be disastrous. And actually drag typically goes up with velocity squared. But yes, I agree, drag wouldn’t feel like it is slowing you down nearly enough.

250 mph?! That’s insane! On a bike can you even gently touch the brake at that speed without crashing, or do you have to wait till drag (relatively quickly) scrubs off some speed?

The speed limit was 30 kph, or 18 mph. You could be going 50 mph in a camry and stop in that time. This guy was just driving obscenely fast.

“ Crewed missions to the Moon require a lot of resources. That’s part of the reason why humans haven’t landed there since the Apollo 17 mission in 1976.”

“Which means that your seatbelts likely aren’t strong enough for the G-forces induced,”

If you think you need to get rid of the bacteria in your stomach, go on an antibiotic for a bit and see what it does for your gut! Took me weeks to truly recover the last time I went on an antibiotic.

When the new Boston Garden was being built, Fleet Bank and Shawmut Bank were in a fierce bidding war for the naming rights. Shawmut won! Unbeknownst to the bidders, Shawmut and Fleet were about to merge, so it ended up being named the Fleet Center after all.

“and you can thank it for GPS, Google Earth and even the pictures beamed back from the other side of the Solar System.”

I think that a lot more production than you (and I) realize is actually done with almost no numerical control! Yes, it’s ridiculous, but I fear that is the case in many places.

Fair enough! Thank you.

Shouldn’t the device lock after a certain amount of failed attempts? And if so, who cares if it takes 10,000 or 1,000,000 guesses to brute-force the passcode?

How much faster could have American Pharoah run? it looked like to my completely untrained eye that he had the entire race in the bag, and didn’t give it any gas until the final straight. For the entire race prior to that, it seemed like when any horse gained on him he just gave it a tiny bit more to keep them away. I…

I don’t actually agree with a lifetime ban, but the idea is tempting to me. Honestly, a mistake where a kid decides to drive too fast, or do a stupid burnout and ends up wrecking, or is doing some other ridiculous stuff is much more “reasonable” to me. You can “beat” that out of a kid. This was just pure, utter,…

That’s actually why I bought new. For the 15% I’d save off of a brand new car, it didn’t seem worth it to get something that had 3 years and 40,000 miles of someone else’s abuse. Interest rates of course factored in too.

The US has over 6x the murder rate of Sweden, and 30x the population. By american standards, yes, Sweden does not have a problem with gangs.

You watch way too many movies. Even with being shot in the center of mass, a person can continue to attack. A shot in the arm might not even cause an attacker to hesitate for a second. And it’s also obscenely hard to make such a shot.

“In this sense, music can be thought of as a type of legal performance-enhancing drug.”

I usually don’t do this, but...