On an article YOU chose to click on because something inside you broke.

LOL you people are triggered.
The point is
1) other people will get mad; I don’t really care
2) the material is flagrantly divisive, even here, in this left-wing audience
3) it is going to show up on a car blog, which, on the principle of the fact, to me is: 
4) funny

Don’t get your panties in a twist, friend. :)

Calexit!
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I just find it hilarious this political hand-grenade is gonna be emblazoned all over a car blog.

Perhaps. :)
Some EMP fallout’s better than the genuine article.

Sexless & joyless, too.
It’s so sad how accurate Demolition Man is as a prediction of the social-justice infused world.

A hp/ton or per-pound metric would be more useful.
200hp in a pickup or luxobarge is going to be hideously slow, but can start to be quite the little dart in a <3000lb coupe.

http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/youngadult/brain.html
If you want a cutoff, hilariously, insurance companies got it right all along, and science has only caught up in the last few decades.

A fully-mature brain is about 25. (individuals can vary) And it’s your risk-taking, planning, executive functions of the brain which…

I think a temperament / personality assessment is of more use, in this vein.
Impulsive? Poor or limited ability to empathize? (which is amplified by being in a car) Risk-taking behavior?

The psychological profile of people known to fly a car or truck off a public highway at triple-digit speeds is often the SAME person.…

Safeguard/Sprint used what’s colloquially known as “neutron bombs.”

In reality, the neutron bomb of armchair-lore — killing people through direct radiation and very little destructive explosive force — is a crock of shit.
The enhanced radiation warheads had a higher ratio of neutron radiation which was meant to fry…

That’s why this article is infuriating.

We had a fully-functioning ABM shield already; we threw it away (>$5B 1975 dollars; $22B now) and the conclusion of this poorly-written article would set us on the path to repeat the same, expensive mistake.

What drives me the most up the wall is we’re in the perfect, political environment to rapidly make the ICBM & other ballistic missiles obsolete.
To actually render impotent a weapon of war whose raison d’etre is mass-killing beyond the worst 2 industrial world-wars could mete.

The President wants to revitalize the…

It’s really a matter of if you can hit a delivery bus before it’s discarding cargo.
If you can do that, decoys are null & void.

But for decoys: they’re in space where it’s a vacuum and extremely cold. Nuclear warheads,’ highly-enriched payloads are going to glow relatively hot next to any completely-inert decoy. The…

At Patriots’ inception, the ABM Treaty still stood, and it couldn’t have so much capability as to be a true ABM option.
Fast forward to today, and no such compunction has held PAC-3 back, and it’s performance is adequate against scud-like targets.

·The 1st anti-ballistic missile, skin-to-skin intercept was in 1962.
This feat wasn’t a 60's analogue to the GDM against an ICBM-speed target, but the feat was also accomplished with vacuum-tube, analogue computers which required a large room to house:

I just knew by this thread title I was going to have some highly-enriched, weapons-grade bullshit to sink my teeth into.

Smaller carriers start to sacrifice so much.
*If you have a ramp and not a proper catapult, you have neutered fighters, with lower launch weights, shorter reach, etc.
*If you don’t have a large-enough crew compliment on the smaller ship, fighting fires, and damage, could mean otherwise-survivable attacks put the ship…

If only Gulf War 2 doesn’t happen, maybe we have both.

Files story under: one of the millions of reasons Donald Trump will be re-elected in 2020 

Better to be judged by 12 than plowed into the side of a mountain.