When it comes to reflectivity, Curved versus Faceted is a trade-off between getting 10% of the reflection over one wide arc or 100% of the reflection over several narrow arcs.

Lol your screen name was a funny coincidence

I have never seen more insanely fast driving around corners and over blind hills than in the Virgin Islands.

This is not something that you want to experience for the first time in, say, The Virgin Islands.

Volkswagen Engineer 1: Hey Hanz? What if we constructed some sort of chamber, put monkeys in it and then filled it full of poisonous gas?

It’s like the dot-com boom all over again. No business plan? No problem!

Looks like the driver of that Compass needs a better sense of

Parachute science is bullshit. I know cloth and string, but that ain’t science so I can trust it. Been practicing with my models:

A very powerful high speed parachute.

Gravity.

I think he’s confusing the Flat Earth Society with the Flattened Upon Impact with the Earth Society.

Should be simple enough. They’ve already got a tube, and most model rocket engines have a charge at the end to eject the parachute. Just a little wadding and a decent enough chute should be fine. That said, need a way to drop the chute once you land or it’ll just be in the way.

I remember doing this study in high school...I wouldn’t be surprised if the results are completely backwards. Most of the kids that were into drugs and sex said they weren’t because they thought their parents would find out, and everybody else somehow became dick-swinging heroin-addicts that were in love with getting…

Personally, only having three choices makes me unhappy...

More likely that they’ve discovered it simply isn’t a big enough prize to drive the competition and simply extending it further will not produce a positive outcome. They need to abandon the goal or raise the prize, it simply isn’t enough for the costs of the goal.

I imagine it’s probably because there are enough commercial space players out there that a literal moon-shot is no longer a figurative moon-shot. It’s simply going to happen in due course.

This is only true to a degree. Some of my best speeches came from impulse and from the heart. I’m not disagreeing with you necessarily, but when people can share openly and vulnerably, it can be much more impacting than a well-prepared speech.

I do a lot of public speaking. The one thing that I find completely insane of poor public speakers, is that they don’t practice their speech or presentation before giving it. If you want to be a more confident and better public speaker, then practice.

Land on destroyers in high seas, check.