You’re zoomed in too far on your image for your point to be held or refuted. If you zoom out enough to see the city as a whole, the only portion of that stretch of I-70 that is at all “duplicated” is that alternate route on yours, which requires I-70 to be there to be of any use. To make the same trip without I-70…

If only I had the money to run for office, while still keeping my bills paid...

Ugh... a bit too familiar with organizations like that in my own city’s non-profit/planning landscape. Even Ditch the Ditch is formed around shady, misrepresented data (See this link for details). It’s only because they massaged and cherry picked the data that a zip code in Denver is “more polluted” than this zipcode…

I understand that, but when a freeway sees literally over a million people rushing one way in the morning, and back in the evening, every weekend day during the ski season - a boulevard and traffic circles are going to make the issue worse, not better. I-70 in Denver, if it was just a freeway that people took to and…

Just drove through Denver on I-70 on the way back from a ski trip, and I’ve got to roll my eyes at that one. Now, I don’t agree that Denver needs to widen it. It gets congested with Denver residents flocking to the mountains to ski on winter weekends (but more lanes isn’t going to fix that), but if you eliminate that…

These things are pretty capable, and for its miles this thing is ridiculously clean. Hard to say it isn’t NP, even if I’m not really a crossover/SUV buyer...

I saw the pilot have trouble keeping it straight and level from the recoil, and saw that problem get worse the more shots he fired, yes.

How about we agree to call each other clueless and go about our days? You lack the experience to know why, on a platform like this, the amount of weight lost from enough ammo to be useful is actually a problem, and you apparently lack the military experience to understand the most important part of my post, as well.…

Except there are a lot of design considerations that need to be made, not the least of which is how a shifting center of gravity from greater or fewer rounds in the magazine than initial design affect the fight characteristics of the craft. With a gyro and some software, a multirotor craft can adapt to these without…

There are lots of examples of self-stabilizing multirotors at this point. It wouldn’t be too difficult to implement for something like this.

To be fair, fixed wing R/C, other than hotliners and slope gliders, tends to have a pretty similar flight time to that - it just has the advantage of being able to use fewer cells to save some weight. Even then, my 3D planes, even the foamies where I don’t care about crash damage, tend to have my battery timer set…

Lift from the wings, and airspeed. There are racing quads that with no additional load can get up to near as makes no difference 100mph. There are nearly supersonic fixed wing R/C planes. The multirotor platform would be better though, for exactly the reasons you suggest, against ground targets. An ideal platform…

Realistically, multiple shots wouldn’t be possible on a reliable enough basis for this to reach production. The thing practically slows to its stall speed from just 2 or 3 shells being fired. Combine that with a totally bogus “40 minute” flight time (even without the shotgun firing, and the weight of the firearm,…

Having flown a metric shit ton of electric model airplanes, I’m calling BS on the 40 minute flight time. There simply isn’t enough space in this thing for the size of batteries it would take to accomplish that with this heavy an airframe, that large of motors, and that diameter and pitch of propellers.

I partied with a bunch of them back before the tea party made it too annoying to speak to the GOP. There are a disturbing number among the racially terrified, well to-do, nouveau riche set - and unlike the progressives, they’re almost all active in their party’s politics already. It’s that last bit that scares me.…

Retasking major corporations puts a hit on profits, which takes a pretty big chunk out of the next few quarterly bonus checks. Those checks are all they really care about. They know they would still rake in money hand over fist if they backed solar, wind, tidal, whatever - but then they’d fall behind the capital gains…

I’ve heard more than a few people on the inside of my state’s GOP, and some at the federal level, speak as if the GOP has become a death cult (their words, not mine), who is so sure we’re living in the end times, that they would deliberately bring about the end of the world, so that they could see the sinners judged,…

Ouch. That’s harsh. In 2 years though, I’d hope you could work something out with the manufacturer. I know VW, for example, has mechanic’s bays in many of their corporate offices. Surely someone at corporate could arrange for it to be fixed, or at least force a dealership’s hand in doing so...

Why wouldn’t you take it back to them, to make them fix the noise? There’s no way the fix should make that much noise...

If only he’d have used a digital torque wrench, he could’ve avoided them being 1.5 lb/ft off, and the resulting spin.