So, we’re talking about a space creeper that’s DESIGNED to spend it’s life looking up other satellites’ skirts and we’re concerned that it’s behaving “erratically?”

Well, if your sense of justice requires getting rid of the one guy who can make the system work (or half the guys who make/harvest your food), good luck in life.

+1 for “hoist your fart”

Maybe go with a magneto then?

I’m guessing the idea is that this thing will take off like a quad-rotor drone, then rotate a couple rotors forward for forward flight. Maybe they’re hoping it would require less maintenance than a helicopter? There’s a mechanic’s saying that a helicopter is a bunch of expensive parts flying in tight formation.

I would say that WWII US TDs lived on the right face, the M-10 halfway down, the M18 down by mobility and the M36 up by firepower.

I think it’s a little more complicated than that. The Sherman’s primary purpose was not to fight tanks, but the armor people always accepted that it would have to at times. The thought was that tank destroyers would be better at it, and would leave the tanks free to exploit breakthroughs and support infantry. British…

Not so much in WWII. Only American tanks had any sort of stabilization system, and then only in the vertical axis. Early-war British tanks had the 2-pounder gun which the gunner could move with his shoulder to aim while moving, but it probably wasn’t very accurate. Everybody else just accepted that they had to stop to…

So you’re saying the captain should have been more PC so she didn’t hurt his delicate fee-fees?

I’mI’m not aware of any research showing that babies are carcinogenic, but they are definitely implicated in a variety of psychological disorders.

In Portland you’ve got the dangerous combo of people who stop even though they have the right of way, and the Portland tendency to go forward or stop when other pepper do, rather than looking fur themselves. So I once had a guy who stopped to let me make a left turn; I waited till traffic in the other lane was clear…

Yeah,I got T-boned a couple of years ago when some idiot in the right lane stopped to let some other idiot make an illegal left turn. Idiot #2 just blithely pulled out, figuring she had right of way somehow over people in the left lane. On the other hand, my insurance squeezed her for the deductible.

Plus larger, taller SUVs are more dangerous to drivers of normal-sized cars in an accident, and big SUVs seems to enhance peoples’ asshole tendancies. My favorite is the west-coast habit of driving giant SUVs down the wrong side of narrow residential streets.

That had more to do with the fuel and navigation situation—the only place they could reach to land was China, and finding airfields in a huge, primitive country with 1940s navigational equipment is problematic. No airplane does well in a cow field landing.

In the end, you can go back there to work and live as slaves, or you can die as free men here on Bear Porn Hill. WOLVERINES!

So your solution is to get more lawyers involved and regulate safety and emissions through litigation? What makes you think that that will be more efficient or less disruptive than regulation by a specialist agency? And more to the point, has it ever worked, and what are the tradeoffs one would have to live with in…

Stewart actually had trouble with McAughey because she has the same ability to feel shame as a psychopath. Everything just slid off her, and he wasn’t prepared for that. She’s the perfect Trump surrogate.

Do you even know any women? It’s not that uncommon for women to make some comment or other about their business, but that’s basically never a call to yell ‘Show us yer tits!’. Unless what you’re really trying to say is, ‘Look at me! I'm an asshole!'

I don’t know if you’ve won the internets with this, but I do feel like you’ve won all the Jalopniks.

Well, if the pool moves slightly with temperature variation, is the pool going to move uniformly, or will the center lane elongate more/less than the edges? What is the substrate doing with temperature changes, and does that effect the shape of the pool, knocking it out of perfect square? And does it always return to…