That would be the case if the surface were curved, but I don’t think it’s true for a straight slope because you aren’t being accelerated toward a central point. If you went barreling down a flat piece of road and hit the 45 degree slope you would have a momentary, massive normal force, but once you were on the slope…

The input from the sun is 1000 watts per square meter.  Actual panels are good for about 15% of that, or 150 watts.  Even the NASA-grade ones that cost millions to produce are only good for around 300.

It’s actually “pedantical”, actually.

I don’t understand this mentality...yes it’s an expense but “rediculously wealthy” is getting silly.  Here’s one example:  say you make 75k.  Presumably at one point you were making and living on 50k.  Do that, and the extra 15k (post-tax) should cover the kid.  Rinse and repeat as you move up the ladder.

Yeah having Vin Diesel nerd out on video game fight combos, Jason Statham want cooler looking karate moves, and The Rock call people what he’s been calling them for decades all seems pretty mild. They have brands built on being badasses so of course they’re going to want to protect that.

Well it’s more the fact that its diesel counterpart matches it in power, while doubling its torque.

But we didn’t replace 279 conventional bombers with 279 nukes, we replaced them with 1 nuke.  Actually, we replaced 279 bombers in this multi-day bombing campaign, followed by 279 more in next month’s and 279 more in the next’s, with 1 nuke on 1 plane on 1 pass.  That was the entire point.

It’s the vastly different standard applied. Trump calling people mean names while avoiding another pointless conflict makes him a danger to world peace, but had the election gone the other way, then our newest war in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, or a dozen other Somaliastans would’ve been a humanitarian intervention…

But she wouldn’t have called her endless regime-changing war a “war”, but a “humanitarian intervention”, a “moral imperative”, or an “obligation to the global community”.

He’s guilty of not following our alternative choice: an immediate forever war in Syria/Lebanon/Libya/South Sudan/etc, described as a “humanitarian intervention”.

Why is it even the slightest bit worse to be told you’ve been exploded to death by one of several thousand 10-ton bombs than a single 10 kiloton nuke?

Agree, I’m all for putting plenty of tire out back to handle the power, but think you should turn around and match it up front.  Why not have “excess” braking and turning grip?

The most amazing thing about this car is that it weighs 3000 lbs, with a V10, AWD, all-wheel steering, after 6 years of potential model bloat.

I honestly can’t tell, the last few “real cars for real people” could pass for groanworthy ironic parody, I suppose...

Worst case ontario, you’ve added lightness

Are you really digging up 2011 articles to REEEEEE at 8 years later?

Thank you for your boring but reasonable answer. The last couple of these I’ve seen have had truly awful suggestions...I don’t know if they’re trying to help people or just out-hipster each other.

I’m assuming he’s rounding 370Z to 350Z.  The former improved on a lot of fronts, but I can’t really argue it as a separate model vs. facelift.

You know what you did.  Nobody on God’s green earth means “up front but ackchyually behind the wheels” when they say mid-engine.

2002 was the change to the big ass and the impressive-for-a-midsize 3.5?  Can’t believe it was that long ago