Would it be OK if they had a set of golf clubs in the back?

That, and it’s cheaper and less painful than penis extension surgery.

There’s someone at work with star wars stick figures, and the characters chosen have incestuous implications.

You’ll be able to see a little more forward in the adjacent lanes, but unless the road curves, you will not be able to see what is happening downrange.

To be fair, neither are people.

Maybe she meant [the surface of] Mars as opposed to orbit around it?

The InSight is attached to the Atlas 5 rocket, which is so powerful that it can get that velocity itself.

People talk about it all the time. They don’t talk about it here because it has nothing to do with this rocket and this mission.

I kept expecting him to hop onto one of those bikes, and then he just walks away...

I think I have a movie for you.

Even the diesels switched to EFI by the early 90s.

The camera was shielded.

This would take out pretty much any turbine, but GA piston aircraft still use some pretty ancient tech. Carbureted engines are still commonly sold.

If it’s mid-80s or newer, it’s fuel injected, and susceptible.

A halon system displaces oxygen, preventing fuel from combusting. A battery contains all the chemicals it needs to burn within itself. Halon does nothing. That said, they’re using hard cells, not the bag cells you see lighting up frequently in videos, and one cell damaged in a crash will not easily damage adjacent…

Are they bumping up the cooling? I was under the impressions Teslas (like many modern high performance non-super cars) would overheat and go into a “limp” mode if you ran it hard on the track.

Being in charge of a vehicle...

They have a frozen pizza facility about 10mi from me.

This is what you get when your designers have no concept of basic physics.

It is? I thought it was feet.