By far the most complete, nuanced, and informative reply to my post. If I hadn’t been so foolishly trying to, you know, be humorous and all impressionistical, I’d still have been envious of your informative, accurate, literal prose, which is much more at home on Foxtrot Alpha, it would seem, than my offhanded,…

You are entirely and absolutely laughably incorrect. We DO make it work with a hammer. (Not anymore; it’s unbelievably inefficient.) It’s what you make the hammer out of that counts.

Nowhere was I referring to designed nuclear weapons: a fissile device is not, you know, a nuclear weapon built under the auspices of the DoD. But points to you for having references: far more than any of the rest of us bothered with, myself emphatically included.

I don’t think you understand what “nuclear explosion” means, then, but sure, walk happy with the knowledge you have.

I very much appreciate you expanding on, and clarifying, my statements! But for the sake of my pride, please don’t mistake my offhanded, brief, and often very slightly - very slightly - humorous statements as ignorance of the material; I’ve rather a lot of experience in the field, and a very fragile ego.

It’s astonishingly easy to intentionally detonate a fissile device, with materials of sufficient purity. The first man-made nuclear detonation was very nearly accidental, and as a result of storing two non-critical masses (which added up to a critical mass) on opposite sides of a wall, until a safety review was done.…

If you do it with your eyes open, it’s not being taken advantage of, it’s choosing to be generous.

Probably a matter of perspective: I’d say basically the same thing about a full-size pickup: my car is 42 inches shorter and more than a foot narrower than the smallest F-150, and I think of my car as being rather too large.

Shit, I missed that whole paragraph: I was assuming the T-14 was still firing Reflecks, but that’s kinda the whole point of the range increase. Oops. Well, that provides a number of exciting possibilities...

Ha! Yeah, that’s a good point: if your engagement range is greater than the opposition, all that armor starts to become just dead weight. Be interesting to explore as a transitional tactic, but artillery shells have a host of other benefits the T-14's rounds would find difficult to replicate.

Is the T-14 capable of indirect fire, based on information from a spotter? It seems like it’d be trivial to treat its cannon like a mortar, and use spotting and corrections data from, say, satellite, ground drone, or aircraft.

This thing is awesome, but it’s just too much for me. Too big, too heavy, to much space. For people who need an RV and want to get off the beaten path (where that path is very wide, and has sweeping turns), it’s amazing, but I would personally much rather have a real off-roader towing a trailer that I could leave…

That’s right: you get to break the law and drive dangerously because you’re more important than they are, not the other way around! And it’s really, really, really terrible if someone gets to go somewhere faster than you. Keep vigilanteing on, model soldier! Your judgment is the only judgment that matters, and fuck…

They give the drag tires down to 15F? I rode my e30 on summer racing tires at 30F, and still couldn’t safely exceed 25MPH.

And it’s substantially worse where I am, not only because of longer supply lines (I live in a marginally remote area), but also because all non-Premium here includes fucking ethanol, whereas Premium (again, here; elsewhere certainly will be different) is the only grade that doesn’t.

Useful for knowing whether temperatures have dropped below freezing, or have become dangerously hot, both things that can happen over the course of a drive, and which people living in climate-controlled circumstances might not be aware. (I drive a car with no doors, and where I live it’s pretty safe to assume it’s…

Also, a thermistor is a thermometer. It’s one of many types of thermometer. The inclusion of this bizarre and inaccurate characterization makes it all the more clear that this is just a rewrite of the (also deeply misleading) Weather Channel article.

1. It’s appropriate for anyone to wear anything they’d like, and judging someone for the car they put on their shirt is a kind of weirdness humans should probably set aside at some point.

Switches and buttons, for me, personally, all positioned such that I can ideally reach them with my hands on the steering wheel, and absolutely no further than I can touch when strapped down in a five-point harness.

Forget private train cars: just pull all the cars and tracks out, and let everyone drive through the former subway tunnels. Ventilation and fire suppression mechanisms ought to already be in place, anyway; just turn all the subway stations into on/off ramps.