“Kuzkina’s mother” is an archaic expression Krushchev was famous for reviving and often uttering. Kuzkina is like a hell witch, and invoking Kuzkina’s mother is like threatening to severely fuck your shit up. So the use of “Kuzkina’s mother” was a specific nod to Krushchev. And somehow it got translated to mother’s…

Let’s think about this for a second. If the machine travels about 6.8 mph, that is 10 ft/s. With a 12 foot diameter, it has to melt 1100 cubic feet of rock per second. That rock is going to weigh about 60 tons. Melting 60 tons of rock every second is going to take 50+ Gigawatts of power. So, you would need to fit 150+…

The bigger question: does SpaceX even make money?

Kia Soul would be perfect. Honda Fit is also a good choice(fold those rear seats down). A fixed Golf Sportwagen TDI is perfect if you keep up with the expensive maintenance. As a tall person(6'8" and 280 lbs) I recommend the VW the most for leg room, it’s more comfortable than my Ram. The Fit and the Soul fit me just…

Honda FIt.

They didn’t let you build pneumatics? That blows.

One of these majestic aircraft may have cost $300,000,000 a year to operate, but 50 years since its heyday we’re still marveling at it.

No. The future of NOTHING should involve bus-sized centipedes. Creepy AF when they’re little. Size upgrade did this undulating shape no favors as far as aesthetics. Put these on the road, and I’ll be waiting.

No no no... Can you imagine Ferruccio Lamborghini tweeting Enzo Ferrari bitching about his weak clutches, Ferrari snubbing him, and then a follow-up tweet with pictures of him yanking out a tractor clutch and shoehorning it into his Ferrari?

Rear bumpers are not needed by forward thinkers.

You can, in fact, get helical gut dog gears. The gear-gear interface has nothing to do with how the gears are connected to the driveline. if you could have a theoretical flat surface with a friction factor of 1, that would work as well.

So named for the dog “ears” that protrude from the gears, dog box transmissions are straight cut (as in the photo above), not helical (spiral cut) as in street transmissions. This allows the driver to jam the car from gear to gear, and they are bigger and beefier. Look at how big and beefy those dog ears are.

Yeah, I noticed that too.  Just picturing large men in white shirts, black tie and Jason Statham.  “Problem with the cars, Turkish?”

The Fo Mo Comandos!

I’m very important. I have many leather bound books and my desk smells of rich mahogany. 

Take your pick... all of the Q models sold in the US do this. But notice that they all have fixed lights mounted into the rear bumper below the trunk opening.

We’re talking about climate change here, so CO2 - not CO, particulates and NOx. C’mon man.  They could have focused on improving vehicle fuel economy or accelerating development of alternative fuel or battery powered vehicles.  They did not.

Audi Q5. Maybe the lower lights are active when the tailgate is open?

That’s why there is another set of brake/tail lights on the bumper!

I’m betting on electric linear actuator over hydraulics. The fiberglass bedside isn’t heavy enough to plumb a separate hydro system just for that.