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I'm glad my fellow Jalops all but took the words right out of my IT-desk-jobbing-mouth, but allow me to beat a dead horse; Why is GM over-complicating this? What's wrong with a nice barcode? This process is something I know GM already does on the line, but with some other method of tracking the engine throughout

Would be delighted if they could finish this movie and tastefully/respectfully work in Paul's untimely death. If done properly, could pay a nice tribute to him and would be a fitting end to the series. Key word here is "respectfully."

A small embedded computer — think Raspberry Pi type of thing, in a weatherproof box — that manages all the cubbies would note which cubby got a package, confirm that the address on the package matched the cubby's owner, and then send an email or text to the registered owner of the cubby. The owner could then either

I'd like to think the plastic boxes are returnable. Why not leave the empty box in your cubby-thing when you're done, then the next time the drone shows up to deliver to someone else, it can bring yours back so it's not empty-handed! (That is, if cost for added weight on return trip doesn't exceed cost of little box.)

Came here to post this. Well done!

That's nuts! I rallycross a MKII GTI that weighs 2200. Can't imagine a prod car with full interior being that light. So rad.

And yet the Saturn V itself never resulted in a fatality. (The Apollo 1 astronauts were tragically killed, but that was due to a failure in the command capsule oxygen system). The Soviet system was infamous for poor quality work, and when you get thirty engines in one single stage, place them all right next to each

Yeah, I guess to me the car seemed slower than the truck did fast. I think I would have enjoyed it more had I watched it from your this-truck-is-freakishly-fast point of view.

I have accepted it for what it is (and I don't like it.)

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Duel reminds me of those scenes where someone is running down the tracks away from an approaching train; JUST TAKE THREE STEPS TO THE LEFT! Duel was 90min of exactly that. Surely if you put the hammer down (even in that pathetic Valiant) you could shake the truck! Right? Turn down some dirt road and lose him maybe?

Not that I condone this sort of behavior at all, but wouldn't it make a bit more sense to do this on a nice motorcycle? Well... "sense" is used loosely here.

This is pretty interesting, but I get it. Back when we had lunar missions, the Command Module needed something to do while in orbit around the moon, waiting for Lunar EVAs to be completed, so one whole bay of the Service Module was dedicated to various experiments; the most unsuccessful of which was the mass

I like to pull the, "Take a look at the sort of environmental impact necessary to produce your car" card. Used cars FTW.

What good is a car in storage? Dust it off! Put it to work! I've seen two rally-AEs out west, what a hoot! They look like a total blast.

Do it! You in STL? The STL rally crowd is pretty tight-knit. Hell I'm building a car right now! Let me know if you have any questions. rte7x9 [at] gmail [dot] com

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Started scrolling down to immediately post this! Beat me to it!

Sweet! I bet I can even get my friends Mark and John to take you for a spin in their Bug!

Nice one, Raph! You really need to come rally! This is my buddy Matt Conte and I at 100 Acre Wood this year. I think he picked up the car for $1600 with a logbook. Had to put new safety gear in it, but otherwise it's a tank!

The name changed in 2008 to Missouri University of Science and Technology. I'd say it's 50/50 between people calling it UMR or MST, although most just call it 'Rolla.'