There is no acceleration without thrust. You’re confusing momentum with acceleration. While he’s holding it the thrust provided by the ships exhaust is accelerating it. Once he lets go that force is no longer being transferred to the object by his hand. I think what we have here is a fundamental flaw in your…

I don’t have any special knowledge of this unit, but I would expect that the blade has been carefully weighted to balance it. If I were designing it, I would have thinned out (or hollowed, if possible) the large side to get it close to balanced, then would have left some provision for manually fine tuning.

Fair point. I think it would still prove to be a huge advantage once you have any shielding down. Of course, it may even be that you couldn’t teleport that deep into an object the size of the DS, but surely putting a sizable bomb anywhere inside the station would cause massive damage.

Oh yeah, slightly oversquared engines.

nothing, I said stroke may not exceed a 1/4 inch over bore. I gave no minimum criteria, but I’ll calculate something based on a bore of 3.5 inches since that is fairly common and give a minimum stroke. first let’s do a maximum and since displacement based on my suggestion =pi*(bore/2)^2*(bore+1/4)*# of cylinders the…

Perfect engine = (current engine + 20% more power)

It is. That ambulance is made of cantdentium.

Here is a vehicle that will make 5000 horsepower all day long. Sadly it is “track only”.

no it wont. you can build a faraday cage pretty easily.

Yeah, if only fuel costs were important to trucking companies...

After the nuclear blast, probably in bottle caps

When the UPS guys at the sorting center get replaced by robots they’ll need another way of damaging your package.

Boring.

... weird old hot rodder’s tricks that seem too strange, too goofy to be true.

I think your vision of what neural networks and machines can do, is about 10 years out of date. The goal in neural network research, has been to get past rigid instruction/result programming, and replace that with learning and improvisational ability. Vision has been the weakness of automation, understanding what is…

And when they do that, do they suffer reprisals from other cops for doing so.

All I know is that police unions would freak out over this and fight it as hard as they could, so that’s how I know it’s a good idea.

...does that mean he’s not coming on then?

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that got old quick.

I think I speak for all of us when I say thank fucking god.