There’s a decent pile of evidence that women become disinterested in computer science quite early (grades 4-6). By having panels composed of women (even artificially), there’s a chance that Google can indicate to a grade 5 girl who is trying to learn programming “hey, there’s lots of women that like programming…

Ars Technica has a former-Navy writer that served on the Iowas who has put up some really excellent articles in the last couple months. Foxtrot Alpha should get him on staff :)

If you take a peek on google maps, the submerged Arizona is about 500ft in front of the very-not-submerged USS Missouri. If you’re hitting the Arizona, you’re awful close to hitting the shore or the Missouri.

San Antonio’s chart is just nuts. They’re basically right at the top for 16 years straight. Most other teams have golden years (or droughts) that only last for a couple years before going back to average.

I think both sides are right here.

Part of the idea of the factory is that by manufacturing at such a huge scale, they’ll drop prices for batteries hence drop prices for cars, and therefore create much more demand for the cars. They’re basically taking an enormous risk (partially funded by the Nevada taxpayer/gambler) that by scaling up, prices will…

Sounds like the bigwigs are meeting in a trailer right now for an on-the-fly rule change to improve safety.

Launches with an Atlas V (US rocket, Russian engines).

Controlled re-entry and landing on a runway, which is a key capability for something you’re doing materials tests with. You want to analyze the materials later in a lab.

As another person noted, this is too small for people. It has no life support system, and its payload capacity is too small to add one and still have space for people.

If you get to the point where this activates, you were going to have an accident. Period. Much better for you from an insurance perspective to get rear-ended (means the guy following was following too close) than to rear-end another car or punt a pedestrian.

Fuelly.org is a great place to go to get driver’s reports.

It’s not a fuel issue - the problem is that even running just 1/9 engines, the rocket is so light at this point that it accelerates upwards at more than 1G. Translation: they can’t hover. They can’t come down at a steady pace. They have to light the motor at exactly the right time and hit zero velocity at zero…

Arguably the boomer subs are sufficient to provide a deterrent - they’re not going to be taken out in a first strike, and will always provide a 2nd-strike capability. A sub doesn’t need to be on high alert and launch in a rush because it doesn’t need to beat a 30-minute clock ticking towards a nuke hitting it.

Think of it this way: at the 9 o’clock position, if they moved the wheel surface 1 centimeter, the rope might only get pulled in 0.1 centimeters. That would be a 10:1 advantage.

The distance is easy for the 2nd explosion - just count how long it takes for the shockwave to arrive. I counted about 6 seconds, so it’d be about 2km from the cameraman.

Come on little thruster, you can do it!

The center of gravity is actually pretty low. There's nearly zero fuel left at that point, and nine 630kg engines right at the bottom. Everything above the engines is made pretty much as light as possible.

I loved the 2008 cars, especially the McLaren. So purposeful, with every curve and extrusion molded to produce more downforce.

By having the pot in the middle you have already disrespected the game, since the pot is not in the rules :-)