Boy I sure do wish Bridenstine would have words like that for SLS and Boeing or Orion and Lockheed-Martin, who have absorbed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars for a less-capable, more-expensive, non-reusable rocket whose launch date slips into the future by about a year per year.

Very minor correction:

This is definitely a stupid and optional own-goal by the IAAF that was likely facilitated by suitcases of cash and hookers, but it’s not like it’s impossible or unprecedented to hold an endurance athletics event in those kinds of conditions. The Ironman world champs are in Kona, Hawaii every year. Last year it was…

How is a crossover intrinsically more practical? With the raised floor, they rarely have more interior volume than an equivalent wagon. And often, the cheap ones are only FWD, so it’s not like you get snow/mud capability.

This is a highly solvable problem, and once it starts causing a problem the government will move to electricity taxes, or taxes on battery capacity, or some other way of measuring the eventual impact on the roads.

It’d be possible to do the math such that the additional money covers the taxes on it and the car.

One of [the crew] reported that a Japanese submarine had been tracking the Serpens before the explosion.

As little as they pay drivers, it’s not actually enough.

Amazon was always just reinvesting in R&D though. They made money on each sale, they just immediately dumped that money into more employees, more technology, and more growth.

Investing in general is arguably not gambling since the expected return (if you invest in a diversified manner, like an S&P500 index) is positive.  The S&P has averaged like a 5% return since the 80s.

The Ferrari F1 team’s budget may be $500M or so, but that isn’t all input from Ferrari. Sponsorships and prize winnings probably pay for most of it.

MOAB and its brethren are only ~15 tons of explosives. That’s 0.015 kilotons. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 15-20 kilotons. Even if the chemicals used in MOAB are 10x as explosive as TNT (they aren’t), it’s still 100x less powerful than Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

I’m surprised NFL teams haven’t done this with field-goal uprights. They’d probably get a pretty penny for the ad space, as every missed kick or off-the-upright kick will have minutes of replay with the company slogan visible.  They’re pretty skinny, but the space on the outside of the U isn’t gameplay-relevant, so…

The good:
-Drivers will be more at the limit more regularly. There’s been a number of drivers that describe current races as “boring” because they’re driving well below the car’s capability to conserve the tires in order to optimize their race.
-Along with this reg change, there’s talk of massively encouraging ground…

Don’t forget his frequent pirouettes when racing wheel-to-wheel. It seems every time for the last couple years, if he doesn’t manage to hit someone, he spins out in a corner while attacking/defending.  I think there’s been 3 of them by now.

The prius PHV has a 8.8khw battery - compare the cost, weight, and volume of 2.5 square meters of form-fitting extreme-efficiency solar cells to the cost of putting 10% more battery (880 watt-hours is about ~100 18650 batteries, which you can get in bulk for ~$2/ea) in the thing.

I’m all for green-ifying transport (I happily own a Prius!), but 860W is probably the “at noon on the equator” number, and is still only barely more than a horsepower. Imagine leashing two pro cyclists to the front of your car chariot-style- that’s how much power you’re getting.

The sea life that ends up choking on these will be really pleased that they were fashionable.

The sea life that ends up choking on these will be really pleased that they were fashionable.

I’m pretty sure the “flight attendants, do cross check” step in departure/arrival is the flight attendants arming and disarming the evacuation slides. So if you’re on the ground, the slides won’t be active.  And if you don’t have the slides, you’re not jumping out of the doors.

Given that we now know Honda is fully capable of making a competitive engine (as seen with RB/TR this year and last), it sounds like the Honda one is a two-parter:
4a: Dumping Mercedes for Honda
4b: Completely fucking up the relationship with Honda