Was reading a fairly unremarkable book to my eight year old. There was a getaway scene where the protagonists all piled into a hummer and fired up the “big V6" to get away from the bad guys. This stopped me cold as I talked to uncaring wife and daughter about how a 6 was not “big”in the land of hummers, and they were…

the sychropter has another benefit. Carrying heavy loads or at high speeds the advancing blade is always on top. The weight or speed causes the advancing blades to bend upward most significantly. In a coaxial rotorcraft this puts the rotor “discs” (bowls at this point) in danger of crossing each other causing a…

Anybody other than Tom hear the reliability part of the requirements?

Let’s just take a second to remember physics. The bullet is propelled upward by a contained explosion. This is what gives it it’s speed. When the bullet reaches the apex, that energy has bled off. On it’s fall back to the earth, the round will only reach its terminal velocity. This falls into the same category as the…

I agree it’s not that great of an idea. I’m just saying of all the potentially legitimate concerns the airport isn’t super-high on the list.

Good point.

When you’re in orbit, you’re essentially falling towards the earth. You just happen to be going so fast that you keep missing the ground. That’s all an orbit really is; falling over the horizon. In a suborbital flight, you’re still falling to earth, you just don’t miss. It’s the falling that causes weightlessness, not…

There was also a similar motoGP centered one, whose name escapes me, but was quiet good.

And I apologize if my tone was combative or dismissive, I’ll try for just “informative” next time.

I mean we have 100 years of evidence that this isn’t going to happen.

“Autonomous vehicles that aren’t connected to each other is a bit like gathering together the smartest people in the world but not letting them talk to each other,” Peng wrote in The Conversation last year.

That’s not his idea. I’ve seen that done as far back as the mid 80's. It’s a good idea if you’re rated to weld ASTM pressure vessels. If not it’s safety concern.

Except not really. What about leather, heated seats, USB ports, automatic climate control, push-button start, remote start, premium sound, panoramic sunroofs, etc. These are all things many people expect in their cars these days and they are trickling down into smaller and smaller cars which drives the prices up. 15…

Consumers Banks weren’t willing to take offer 7 year loans a decade ago, why are they willing to now?

My money is on it looking exactly like the new 2018 model, except with pinstripes.

Kristen - I get this as a rant on the ridiculous price of this bike, even though that could probably be said about everything with that badge. But the rest doesn’t add up, as car manufacturers have been producing bicycles for decades. Which makes a lot of sense - great designers for things with wheels, designed for…

So it burned after it was in the IAAI lot? No way it was moved to that location after it burned.

The stairs almost certainly disengaged with the motor, and the weight of several *thousand* pounds of people ran it the wrong way.

Ta-da!

Careful!