They do! Nearly every plane that comes out is bigger, lighter, and more fuel efficient.

1000hp engines? Yay!

Was going to say I noticed the change when OKC got bought by them (because I did, back in 2011 or so), but it just made me realize how very long I’ve been on dating sites and am still single :-(

Agreed. Unless you refer to every other rocket launch as a failure because the first and often second stages “OMG CRASHED” back into the ocean/siberia, this is SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 total mission failure out of 19 launches.

My favourite board game cafe (of the three there are in my 400k-person town) has or at least had a “just show up” night where you end up playing games with random people. That could be a good place to start.

Even without the CME, the returning astronauts might’ve had a lot of long-duration-spaceflight issues. Diving into long beyond-LEO flights without the US or the USSR having a long-duration stay in space first might have been disastrous.

A space-based kinetic energy system cannot have more energy than the rocket that initially launched it. That means you’d have much better luck just dropping the still-half-fueled first stage on your opposition, since that would contain the energy of the unburnt fuel.

Airliner airways is the best.

3500 and counting people on this site just read a story while marginally thinking of the Chevy Cruze. Mission accomplished, and I bet Annalisa Bluhm is extremely pleased.

Yay! The endless people thinking they’re clever and referring to 2010 will make it a tough 10 years until launch, but it’s worth it.

I watched with the members.24h-lemans.com stream, and a couple times when the cars were coming out of the slow zones while showing onboard-cameras, it was just insane seeing the fully-charged LMP1 cars overtake whatever chumps were in front of them. Even when those chumps were the quite-powerful P2 cars.

Good outcome: It turns out all the models crash-test the same, and this is indeed extra bracing to make up for the bigger size.
Bad outcome: It turns out Ford up-armored the only one that was going to get tested.

True! At least the browns existed in 1955, which was also something I forgot to double-check before posting. Or maybe I meant by political affiliation :-)

This. Given the very limited information given (and the demonstrated variation in manual-gearshift patterns), 6 is a perfectly rational answer. Unless the riddle is basically “what is the 2nd-best answer to this diagram, assuming the best answer is 6”. But from the article, I don’t get the impression that “not 6” is…

The engines aren’t used one-per-race. I don’t believe Mercedes have actually switched engines on either driver yet. I think Ferrari just did their first swap, mainly to get the engine upgrades they just produced.

He asked “how is the other car doing on fuel”, but the ‘other’ was pretty short/clipped. You’re not allowed getting data about the other driver like that.

That’s true, but when your bid to supply the engine for the next 100 F35s depends on your engine’s performance on the _previous_ 100 F35s, it aligns everyone’e incentives. The manufacturers would want to supply reliable engines so that they can continue selling them, and so would try harder to do so. As it is, P&W…

On top of the people pointing out “it’s an efficient way to work in a world made for humans”, it should also be pointed out that there were several quadraped robots entered as well. Not surprisingly, it seems that the 4-legged bots didn’t make the “falling over” highlight reel.

To put it another way: It IS a problem when 25-40% of the women I interview for programming positions say “I switched to CS in first year after a mandatory CS course in my initial program made me realize that I loved it”. Clearly there is an enormous well of untapped interest in software development, they’re not…

I’m not arguing that companies should modify their hiring practices. They should always hire the best person for the job. And given that facebook/google’s diversity reports more or less mirror male/female computer science graduation rates, it seems that they are doing that.