Whoa, slow down there Maestro, it’s only Monday. Marketing won’t be delivering any specs for this week’s deadline until Thursday at the earliest. (and most likely Friday, after lunch.)

Sales asked marketing about that and they said totally ready. Also somebody has to go down to engineering and tell the guys there what the advertising materials promised at some point, but no rush on that one though.

Computers have been promising us the “paperless office” since the 1960s - it hasn’t happened yet, either.

The first stage of a rocket is a big inefficient bucket of explosion that you have to spend a lot of money reconditioning. A jumbo jet is a hyperefficient air breathing engine that uses a tiny fraction of the fuel.

A rocket engine carries both fuel and oxygen, a jet engine gets oxygen from the air and therefore is much more efficient. (until the air runs out, nothing is perfect)

Maximum dynamic pressure is where the most stress occurs, which is usually at 30-40,000 feet or so depending on the rocket. If you launch from 40,000 feet, you skip all that dense soupy air near sea level.

You can launch from the equator at any time you want, regardless of the weather. Other than that, there’s not much else to call an advantage.

At launching rocket is at sea level pressure for about 5 seconds, though.

Wikipedia as always gives some decent insights: (bolding mine)

Air density at sea level is the most difficult thing for rockets to overcome initially. This bypasses that. It also imparts some lateral velocity.

With smaller payloads at lower earth orbits, launching from a plane at high altitude saves the fuel weight cost of using the first stage of multi-staged rockets to achieve altitude and the second or third to achieve orbital velocity.

I’m not spitting on my $250 lube dispenser!

This video is just loaded with idiots.

One more thing: does this list really matter? It’s considered a prestigious award in the auto industry, but it’s hard to argue how much your average buyer really cars.

3 spokes = 3 = Half Life 3 confirmed

What does being a man have to do with it?

what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have…

It’s 2 grand ya tight ass.

It’s so cheap that it would be hard not to give it a NP. So many different ways to go. Fix it and make a nice daily driver or treat it for the beater that it is....for the money you can’t go wrong.

It is $2k, it drives, and I don’t get tetanus from looking at it. This would be an acceptable first car or a good winter driver.