I agree with you 100% in debunking this crap, but one thing the Horten brothers did get right that Northrop failed at was to make a decently safe flying wing in the days before fly-by-wire. Horten wings always had the CoG further forward, with more wing sweep, than Northrop’s and this increase in wing area behind the…

One thing that the Hortens seem to have done better than Northrop was stability though. They had been at the flying wing game longer, starting with gliders, and had figured out that they needed a fairly percentage of wing area behind the center of gravity, something that doesn’t appear to have occurred to Northrop.…

Surprise! I’m taking you for a date in a street-legal tractor.

I had an ‘84 Civic S with a 12 valve, carbureted CVCC engine. It was remarkably reliable and I had it from about the 100,000 mile to 170 or 180,000 miles. Good little engine.

Try owning one and having it stop idling.

Uh, the reason that American V-8s have that sound you like so much is because of poor exhaust scavenging. And the reason they are so smooth is because they have a metric fuckton of balance weights on their cranks. This makes them slower to rev than many other configurations. If you go to a flat crank v8, you get…

I always thought it was ‘I got a shotgun/ and you ain’t got one.’

See, there were people there, but he infected some of them with smallpox and shot the rest. But that’s kind of an embarrassing thing to admit to an interviewer, so he’s going with the old ‘unsettled continent’ line.

Well, there was nobody around once the Europeans got done killing 95% of the locals, so maybe a technical point for your student?

Hmm? Sydney Morning Herald white people?

I would love to see zombie Ed Heinemann take over procurement. Anybody who wanted to keep stuffing extra capabilities/equipment into aircraft that they didn’t need would just get his brain eaten.

GODDAMMIT, what idiot signed off on that rivet job!?!?!?!?!?

Not sure that the security team would have diplomatic immunity.

ABOMINATION!!!! UNCLEAN!!! DESIGNATED HITTER!!!

Off topic, but are Courtney Stodden’s boobs now a collective apocalyptic savior? Asking for a friend.

Anybody want to donate to my kickstarter to build a giant cannon and launch this guy into space?

I say Victorian contraceptives/childbirth or GTFO. Although I was finding the get ups mildly kinky. Sigh.

Wouldn’t it have been awesome if the other team got wind of it, and did a vulva formation, which then engulfed the cock?

so are they fining themself $5000, paid to themselves? Can I do that for my next speeding ticket?

So many cock-n-ball exploding stars for you.