Linear actuators still have a quoted force. Torque is just force in a rotating frame.

Of course there is. Military assault rifles are tightly controlled under several pieces of federal legislation covering automatic weapons. Since the AWB expired in 2004, the highly nebulous “assault weapon” is largely only covered under state and local legislation. The difference between “assault rifle” and “assault…

Not at all, just an asshole who likes terminology to be used correctly.

Rubio has come under heavy criticism for his apparent unwillingness to put much (or any) of the blame for the shooting at the feet of the ready availability of the assault rifles that were used to commit it.

Even their aerospike design really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. NASA was experimenting with a linear aerospike because they were building a spaceplane. The rectangular engine could be sized to match the dimensions of their flattened lifting body. A linear aerospike is less efficient in wetted area and base bleed…

A balloon is stable with payload at the bottom because it’s buoyant in the atmosphere. Lift is always upwards, opposite gravity, so your center of mass will always shift below your center of lift. There is a misconception that rockets behave in the same fashion, and that if you put your engines on the top of your…

To be fair, that’s the same company that thought you could passively stabilize a rocket by making it a tractor.

ISS is at 51 degrees, because the Russians take a huge payload deficit launching anywhere lower than that.

Bad weather happens at altitude too, and you still need a rocket about half as large for a given payload. That’s going to be an expensive rocket, so if you intend to be competitive, that rocket is going to have to be recoverable. You can’t recover something if there’s poor weather.

Difference is, that thing’s empty, and it’s also actively pressurized during horizontal transport to prevent buckling.

The only noise from a solenoid would be if you let the piston impact an endstop without some sort of damper.

I thought the GXPs were all manuals.

The V2 would have to go to England.

Jumping into a rotor sounds like a pretty horrible way to go.

We do have a lot of them, but they’re not cheap to operate. They’re about 20% more costly per flight hour than the B-1, due to maintenance of those eight ancient engines.

There’s nothing particularly cutting edge about fiber, unless you have a rack of equipment running a couple TBps down the line. Most AV equipment from the late 90s onward has had an optical interconnect. You don’t need the speed, you don’t need the range, you definitely don’t need the isolation unless you’ve horribly…

Why the hell would they have optical signalling within a car?

No it isn’t. All cars sold in the US from 2008 onwards were required to support CAN per the OBD-II spec.

Acute reactions to glyphosate require a pretty significant dose, much higher than you’re going to get from ingesting the refined product of crops that were sprayed weeks ago. More likely, you just have a wheat allergy. Allergies tend to be far more selective than reacting to all proteins in the very large gluten…

We all still have roasted peanuts on planes, unless a passenger specifically notifies the airline of a severe allergy that prevents them from even being in the vicinity, or the airline in question is being exceedingly cheap.