I saw it this weekend - my first comment coming out was “that movie could _easily_ have been 2/3rds as long without losing a single scene or plot point.”. Saw it on a Friday night in a big city, and there were plenty of seats left in the theatre, so it not making money does not surprise me.

A constant 3G gets you to LEO orbital velocity in 4m25s. Notably, most orbital rockets (including SpaceX’s current fleet) take far longer than that to achieve orbit, indicating a lower average G-load on the way up. As the article noted, the shuttle accelerated at 3G, so it would not be unprecedented.

It’s unlikely they’d hit the 11.6G on the way back down, because the rocket will be business-end-down and can throttle so that it burns off a ton of speed before it hits the thickest part of the atmosphere. Unlike a heatshield, a propulsive reentry lets them pick and choose where they do their deceleration, as long…

My memory says that the NBA has a rule saying players have to be out of HS for a year before they’re eligible to work for the NBA.

The Schumi family did a little thing last week when he hit #68.

Probably not very - the fixed tooling costs are what would kill you, especially on a bespoke engine and the trim bits. The injection molds to do a typical “pretty” headlight run in the 6 figures. And that’s not counting the machine that’ll actually hold the mold together while putting plastic into it.

“What if someone like me had been sitting in that office complex in ...”

It’s about the same as it was on FTA - there’s generally a typo _somewhere_ on every article. But the content is just as good. Putinbots are out in force in the comments.

I can get a 3 ton rental car with 300+ hp for $200, and that can impart a whole lot more energy than 3lbs of explosives. I can even make it a “drone” by putting a brick on the accelerator a distance away from a crowd. Armed drones are a stupid thing to fear.

There’s a video of what it sounds like on a Prius. Note that as soon as he goes over some pebbles, the crunching sound is louder than the noise emitter. These things are barely audible beyond 5km/h.

Absolutely you will. But a noise emitter that cuts out at most city speeds isn’t the cause of any of it. Target actual problems (big truck diesels, pedestrian deaths) before trying to solve small problems (2-watt noise emitters on electric cars). You can’t hear these things over a car radio. So unless you’re also…

Cars are still extremely loud. Stand by a highway or even a city street: almost all the noise you hear is tire and wind noise, not engine noise.

They landed the last Iridium one, so they’ll almost certainly land this one.

You’d probably need a couple degrees below 98 - even at rest, the human body will be producing a couple hundred watts of waste heat it’ll need to shed, and it’s _really_ hard to shed heat when you’re immersed in water.

Sure they will! For a couple months. Then they’ll start it up again, since it is a renewable source of concessions. They’ve been playing this game for decades.

Assuming it doesn’t affect his actual driving ability, I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a bit _more_ attention from top teams than your typical driver of equal talent.

He got it moving a second time, this time only giving it enough throttle to get moving and then coasting in an effort to harvest energy through the car’s hybrid system.

Apparently the way to survive the 24 Hours of Le Mans is to not drive a Toyota.

You can be sure that 1980s jalopnik would have been castigating this thing at the time. 50hp and a plastic body? This thing would have had the driving dynamics of a shopping cart. Though a shopping cart would’ve been safer in a collision.

They’re allowed nowadays, but are a good way to piss off your drivers if the driver being told to pull aside doesn’t feel like it is merited. To paraphrase Lewis one year when the team wanted him to let Rosberg by: “If he’s faster, he can pass me”.