I really thought this was the right answer back when Better Place tried it:

I don’t understand how battery swap trucks are not already in use for fixed point to point shipping by Walmart etc. You completely remove the downtime for charging, so you can preserve the battery life by charging at the best rate. Your range limit is now basically doubled, because you can instantly get a full…

I thought for sure that battery swapping would win out for internal company use at places like Wal-Mart, or Amazon etc.   Those trucks need huge packs that take a long time to charge.   The company owns both ends of the route.  I figured they’d want a system where the driver could pull up, take a break while a local…

Skinned a muppet you say?

I do love how jezebel likes to censor any replies that differ from their party line on trans participation in sports.

The things that you list where women can compete with men are not sports, they’re activities.   I guarantee that no martial arts have women competitive with men.   Equestrian events are already gender neutral, but most people consider the horses the actual athletes.

“Perhaps we should move away from “men” and “women” competitions, and instead look at something like weight classes.”

I wish I could tell you more. I was a lowly peon who didn’t get to travel to secure sites. I met the guy, and got to listen to our guys quizzing and teasing him about his project at lunch. That group also used to play some sort early online racing game that they kept building custom rigs for, and wearing depends so…

What’s her name?

Back in the 90's I worked at a company that build research radar systems. One of the DoD engineers we worked with supposedly had been “rescuing” materials from projects and repurposing them on his rally car.

Honest question.  Why is this nice news, and not just “news” at best?

It’s clearly based on Ethan of Athos.

Yes, but he typed “weary”.  Which is waaay closer to “wary” than “leery”.

I’m betting on “wary”

Other coverage I saw portrayed this as the standard “AI exploits the limits” scenario.   They predefined a bunch of constraints on the AI, and so it of course stayed right at those limits the entire time.  Max G for the entire engagement.

Yeah, the only advantage I can see of using planes is that the opponent is not sure if there is a human inside or not.  If you can get the AI/remote control reliable it makes more sense to put it into dedicated drones/missiles.   Most likely a drone armed with missiles and a suicide bomb that you only use as a last…

There literally is lawsuit out there claiming it was stolen from an obscure polish tv show:

Don’t you mean zepplins?