I feel like this doesn’t get brought up often enough.

Lost in all of this is the fact that the Golden State Warriors once blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals, the championship series in American professional basketball.

I picked up a 2008 Jetta for next to nothing from a lady who had let it sit after “the brakes started making a noise” and just bought a new car. The VW had 50k miles on it, so I figured it would be stupid NOT to give her $1,000 for it.

I’ve been an automotive machinist since the late 70's. You got it-once carbs went away, the need for the 80k rebuild did too. Plus better oil-better materials-and actual engineering rather than crappy redo’s of the same engines designed in the 50's. The need for our work is down 75% compared to when I started. It’s…

I am the 300th like for this comment! Do I win something?

Back in the time of carbureted engines, gas washing the oil out of the cylinders was a real and frequent occurrence. Between that, the much looser tolerances in manufacturing (leading to increased piston slap, poorer lubrication from weaker oil pressures, etc.), poorer-quality oils, and weaker alloys, power loss was…

In Russia Lada drive you (and your broke-down M5).

i think it has to do with carburated engines. The moving parts wear out over time, making it perform slightly less consistent. While electronically injected engines can adjust according to their lambda sensor.

I’ve always been under the impression a car that sits is worse than one that is driven.

This is the most Russian thing I’ve seen all week.

A car sitting in a garage makes 0 horsepower.

Red herring argument. Probably works in your less intelligent, entitled crowd.

This is from the same guy who calls his cruise control system “Autopilot.”

Keep in mind that SpaceX has already demonstrated reliably firing 27 engines at the same time, with Falcon Heavy. So this is only a little more than that.

Note also that the N1 didn’t use gimbaling engines for control. It used a system of differential thrust. e.g. it throttled different fixed engines to provide pitch and yaw controls.

It’s partially better reliability (Soviet quality control was pretty ass), but a big part is better computers.

They had all kinds of issues - vibration, cavitation, uneven build quality etc. Single engine rockets had huge problems with that back then, much less 30 engine rockets. It was a system too complex for where rocketry was at that point in history and they didn’t have the resources to build enough test articles to work…

Don’t forget the replicators.

It is not a starship until he adds the warp drive, inertial dampening, and artificial gravity. Until then it is, at best, just a spaceship.