That’s what I’m expecting. In the event they do try to go offroad, they’re going to get stuck, and one of these offroading groups is going to come have to pull them out, and then chide them for being dumbasses. They’re either going to learn the proper way to do things, or they’re just going to refrain in the future.

I had no visible damage, but I was pretty muddled for a few minutes afterwards.

While I’ve never driven an Accord, that tends to be my typical behavior when I get rental cars that have somewhere between half to a third of the power I’m used to.

You’re going to have to explain that one.

why all the rotating?

Don’t forget the Shuttle.

The Cobra was possible on the non-vectoring Su-27.

I’m holding out for the pot-bellied elephant...

I don’t think we hear about the people who have trained support animals, because those animals behave and aren’t so memorable.

The P3 has a 100' wingspan, so if you’re 50' away from a camera in the fuselage, then you’re right off the wingtip.

One of the J-8s (81194), piloted by Lt. Cdr. Wang Wei

It’s a violent maneuver that may allow you to bring your guns around and fire at an enemy, but it probably won’t because you don’t have anywhere near the control of your airframe needed to actually line your guns up on target to fire, and now you’ve just burned all your energy and made yourself a sitting target for…

Of course you do. It’s an inland sea. Someone owns that land you’re flying over, and that someone is a country other than the US. The US military just happens to be friendly with those nations, and they allow overflight.

I’d say the driver was a tank destroyer.

If your power demands are sufficiently low that you don’t need the turbo, then yes, the reduced displacement is going to be a benefit. If you actually need the power, then for that brief duration you need that power, the turbo engine is less efficient than a larger displacement NA engine.

Unrelated question, what occupation would this Amtrak employee have were they in Oregon?

It also boosts charge temperature and density, which in turn increases tendency for preignition, requiring the ECU to adjust to compensate and reduce fuel economy in the process. More boost is always a good thing on a diesel, but it comes with consequences in a gasoline.

I haven’t watched the video. Is that what Larry did?

The scales are much too large for “average sea level” to matter. It’s just under 1Gm for the SOI, and around 1.5Gm for Earth-Sun L1. By comparison, geostationary is around 36Mm and Lunar orbit is 380Mm.

Simplified 2-body orbital models have a “sphere of influence”, but that is really only accurate if you’re crossing that boundary at significant speed. For real world physics, you’ve got things like the L1 Lagrange point which is a quasi-stable location where the pull of the Sun, pull of the Earth, and orbital momentum…