This is what I do at parties.
More like “The SLS has nothing to do with ‘send humans and heavy equipment’ into space and everything to do with sending pork to favored contractors.”
Shh! If you keep saying things like this, you are going to interrupt the fantasy that we will be sending humans to Mars within the lifetimes of the people reading this article. It surprises me how many people cling to that myth as if they can’t go on living without it.
Because building a rocket like this exposes the lie that you can take old off the shelf gear and bolt it together in a different shape to easily build a new vehicle. All they’ve gained from using old STS parts is a shared visual heritage and a choke point in the design process where they’re stuck with certain bits of…
Yep. Dogs were first into space.
Darnit, you beat me to it... but I was going to expand on that:
Picture of the trail without the extreme wide angle gopro camera lens.
“Amazon even added a new inverted, white-on-black reading mode...”
You’re right. No one has ever spent a fortune “maintaining” their German car.
or watch all sorts of shit get stolen. Back when iPod touches were worth money, my brother bought one to take overseas. He had sense to bring the touch with him but left box in his luggage. When he arrived at location, box was gone out of his suitcase. This was out of JFK, but Newark and JFK are both notorious for…
do we need to explain perspective? just because it LOOKS almost as big as the car, that is because the car is further away
Your lack of Orlando disturbs me.
I am pretty sure based on the photo that we could get Miami, and Ft Lauderdale, and maybe even jacksonville all in there.
If we were really trying to get the moon to solve our problems.
I just skimmed this, but I’m intrigued by the idea of putting Philadelphia inside a hole on the moon.
As a former dyno design engineer, you are totally correct. This approach is especially important for chassis dynos, where there are tons of influences on results (try letting 2psi out of your tires between runs!) and wacky estimates for crank power and torque, loosely based on numbers generated at the tires.
The only true way to measure horsepower accurately is by putting your car in a tug-of-war against a team of actual horses, and counting how many horses it takes to break even.
I’m sure the Bloomington High Flyers Trapeze Troupe knows what they’re doing.
She looks way too happy at the end to have bottomed out. That would have been a 20+ foot fall directly onto the tailbone.