If you try to boil a crab alive, it will protest and attempt to escape. But if you turn the heat up on the crab gradually, it will boil without ever realizing its peril.
I thought it was a frog, but while it's a good metaphor, in the case of the frog it turns out it's not actually true, the frog will jump out if it gets too hot. I wonder if it's literally true with crabs, I understand they have relatively simple nervous systems so it's possible.
That's nothing you can't design around. F1 cars, the safest in the world, are all-CF and there are plenty of CF-bodied or even all-CF supercars out there that pass crash tests.
That kid you knew in pre-school who, when the square peg didn't fit in the round hole, first tried to force it in until his fingers were bloodied and then finally hammered it in with his forehead? He grew up to be the CEO of Ubisoft.
Look at the FR-S (AKA GT-86), the chassis is built by Subaru and it's a Toyota. If you don't at least find it interesting you're probably a soccer mom:-P
Psst, send me an email, I've learned of a good solution for an affordable and strong transaxle that can work in a mid-longitudinal configuration - much better than a Porsche box.
To make it noob-friendly for folks like the GP whose eyes are probably glazing over at that, detonation AKA pre-ignition is the fuel exploding prematurely (before the spark fires) in the engine cylinder (which is bad for the engine internals), and backfiring is fuel exploding in the exhaust (after it's left the cylinder), which may be acceptable or even intentional on some engine designs.
Keep in mind that backfiring can mean anything from a little shot of flame from the exhaust, which is harmless and can actually be *good* for emissions (better letting burned than unburned fuel escape right?), to the big exhaust explosions the parent mentions which can blow the exhaust open like a banana peel.
Not exactly right. Flex fuel vehicles can measure the amount of ethanol in the fuel and optimize fuel delivery. They *are* designed for it and burn it very efficiently, but you still get worse mileage because ethanol contains less energy and so requires a richer burn.
The denser air also provides more wind resistance.
Fun fact: salt flats racers and supercar manufacturers looking to set a top speed record do it in the hottest time of the day, because the reduced wind resistance more than makes up for the engine power loss.
One of the talk shows on our station is a good ol' boy who talks auto repair. He insists -- vehemently -- that ethanol lowers mileage so much that whatever you saved on emissions, you lose because you're burning more fuel as a result.
Sounds right. The only environmental advantage of E85 is that when you burn it, most of the carbon that comes out of the tailpipe was in the ecosystem already, so you're introducing much less fossil carbon into the environment than you would be if the engine was running on gasoline.
In terms of mileage, pure gasoline will win every time because ethanol just contains less energy. Now in terms of performance, ethanol burns cooler and has a higher octane, so you can get more power out of an engine (especially a high-compression or boosted engine) if you feed it lots of ethanol, mileage be damned.
Shit volcanoes are one thing, but one time I caught some flu-like virus and had aerosol diarrhea. I had to center and level my ass carefully to avoid getting any on the upper rim of the toilet bowl, the spray was that wide. My "gentleman vegetables" were barely out of the line of fire.
I'm convinced it's impossible to satirize libertarians because the threshold between "straight-faced serious" and "Poe's law," which is the butterzone for jokes, is completely nonexistant because the two zones overlap.
The deputies told me that on a slow day, they'll actually cruise the neighborhood with the windows down, sniffing for the smell of burning plastic. Whenever thieves steal telecom cable, they often try to burn off the insulation before scrapping it to get a better price.
When I take my 4x4 for an offroad spin in random places out in the middle of nowhere I often run into big piles of power line insulation.
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If you try to boil a crab alive, it will protest and attempt to escape. But if you turn the heat up on the crab gradually, it will boil without ever realizing its peril.
I thought it was a frog, but while it's a good metaphor, in the case of the frog it turns out it's not actually true, the frog will jump out if it gets too hot. I wonder if it's literally true with crabs, I understand they have relatively simple nervous systems so it's possible.
'sup SharkLaser.
That's nothing you can't design around. F1 cars, the safest in the world, are all-CF and there are plenty of CF-bodied or even all-CF supercars out there that pass crash tests.
That kid you knew in pre-school who, when the square peg didn't fit in the round hole, first tried to force it in until his fingers were bloodied and then finally hammered it in with his forehead? He grew up to be the CEO of Ubisoft.
SciTE is pretty close, they're both Scintilla-based.
Enviropig, Enviropig, does whatever an Enviropig does.
Does he drive a hybrid car?
No, he can't, 'cuz he's just a pig.
Look out! He's an Enviropig!
You think that's bad, wait until you have to modify some page made with Babby's First WYSIWYG HTML Editor.
Yeah this guy's most likely a troll, same guy as SharkLaser and DCTech I'd guess.
Look at the FR-S (AKA GT-86), the chassis is built by Subaru and it's a Toyota. If you don't at least find it interesting you're probably a soccer mom :-P
Psst, send me an email, I've learned of a good solution for an affordable and strong transaxle that can work in a mid-longitudinal configuration - much better than a Porsche box.
To the sportbike crowd, that's an ancient artifact :-P
Materials design - Mostly making carbon fiber chassis that won't kill
LOLWUT? There's no problems with the safety of CF, if anything it's better, the only problem is cost.
Or did you mean killing pedestrians that are hit? That could be a problem...
To make it noob-friendly for folks like the GP whose eyes are probably glazing over at that, detonation AKA pre-ignition is the fuel exploding prematurely (before the spark fires) in the engine cylinder (which is bad for the engine internals), and backfiring is fuel exploding in the exhaust (after it's left the cylinder), which may be acceptable or even intentional on some engine designs.
Keep in mind that backfiring can mean anything from a little shot of flame from the exhaust, which is harmless and can actually be *good* for emissions (better letting burned than unburned fuel escape right?), to the big exhaust explosions the parent mentions which can blow the exhaust open like a banana peel.
whatever replaced lead
Lower compression, higher-revving engines.
Not exactly right. Flex fuel vehicles can measure the amount of ethanol in the fuel and optimize fuel delivery. They *are* designed for it and burn it very efficiently, but you still get worse mileage because ethanol contains less energy and so requires a richer burn.
The denser air also provides more wind resistance.
Fun fact: salt flats racers and supercar manufacturers looking to set a top speed record do it in the hottest time of the day, because the reduced wind resistance more than makes up for the engine power loss.
One of the talk shows on our station is a good ol' boy who talks auto repair. He insists -- vehemently -- that ethanol lowers mileage so much that whatever you saved on emissions, you lose because you're burning more fuel as a result.
Sounds right. The only environmental advantage of E85 is that when you burn it, most of the carbon that comes out of the tailpipe was in the ecosystem already, so you're introducing much less fossil carbon into the environment than you would be if the engine was running on gasoline.
In terms of mileage, pure gasoline will win every time because ethanol just contains less energy. Now in terms of performance, ethanol burns cooler and has a higher octane, so you can get more power out of an engine (especially a high-compression or boosted engine) if you feed it lots of ethanol, mileage be damned.
No that's on purpose. I block scripts, storage, flash and trackers but not all ads, because I want to support the sites I browse.
As if we don't have enough problems from the current evil empire...
You put horns and a tongue on the monster and didn't make them cocks? Big opportunity missed XD
Shit volcanoes are one thing, but one time I caught some flu-like virus and had aerosol diarrhea. I had to center and level my ass carefully to avoid getting any on the upper rim of the toilet bowl, the spray was that wide. My "gentleman vegetables" were barely out of the line of fire.
The other way around would be much better!
I'm convinced it's impossible to satirize libertarians because the threshold between "straight-faced serious" and "Poe's law," which is the butterzone for jokes, is completely nonexistant because the two zones overlap.
The deputies told me that on a slow day, they'll actually cruise the neighborhood with the windows down, sniffing for the smell of burning plastic. Whenever thieves steal telecom cable, they often try to burn off the insulation before scrapping it to get a better price.
When I take my 4x4 for an offroad spin in random places out in the middle of nowhere I often run into big piles of power line insulation.
But then you'd have mutant pigeons.