No nonono, it’s just that, ah, those engines are redundant, they are not all running! It’s not a ‘shop, honest!

Two things David:

[pedantic mode on]

A metric horsepower is defined as lifting 75 kg up 1 meter in 1 second.

I am not in a position to, you know, actually examine the now empty bottle in question, but it appears to be just gold and silver (and a bit of leather band) and maybe some tiny diamonds.

US$ 1,300,000 gets you about 30 kilo. At 19.2 kg/liter density for gold, that’s 1.5 liter. So, even if that bottle were solid gold, assuming typical 0.7 liter capacity, it would cover only half of the 1.3 mil.

Speaking of photos, of course this one of mine is worth millions!

Welp, it’s what the article said, even though I sorta knew it didn’t make sense.

Well, at least the pre-nuclear age steel bit is real and, if you’re in the business of building certain ultrasentive equipment, an absolute necessity.

Nahh, I’ll give then that. Distilled water tastes like, well, nothing really.

There’s a strong disconnect here between “I will sell it for [monetary value]” and “The market deems it worth [monetary value]”. I could decide my artsy photos from 10 years ago, which I have quite a lot, are now worth millions, but that doesn’t make it so.

The point is not the tire tech, it’s the liability tech. Plus that the F1 was a 1138 kg car whereas the Veyron has a kerb weight of 1888 kg and the Chiron almost hits two metric ton (1996 kg). Tire heat generation increases with car weight, so temperature management is a lot more difficult compared to the nineties.

Sorry, no, fuck that sideways, no lube!

What, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion? C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?

“Falcon Heavy is planned to be the most powerful rocket ever made when it hopefully launches in January 2018"

Way back when ABS was a disputed topic in Formula 1 (in 1994 it got banned, together with traction control, launch control and active suspension) it was explained that the (then) sophisticated traction control in an F1 car would allow the rear wheels a controlled 10% slip for optimum launch traction. Static friction…

Question: How does this affect internet users in, say, the EU?

Remember how there was talk that Trump was actually encouraged by the Clintons to run for president? Imagine this as a long con. Think of it as true for a moment, that him actually becoming president was seen as a means for a large part of the GOP base to change allegiance. It would be the best, most daring, most…

As others mentioned: no evidence of a supersonic shockwave? No claim to breaking the speed of sound barrier.

Keep in mind that, for a range extender, you can optimise for a very narrow rpm band, a specific engine load and constant engine operation. Quite different from having to design an engine that has to drive a car, rather than charge a battery.