LOL, Genghis Khan has way more up his sleeve than you give him credit for. Show me a U.S. president that had about a thousand 1st-generation descendants. 800 years later - today - Genghis has about 15 million descendants. This is based on hard science genetic testing, not historic record, by the way. An average male person living 800 years ago has a bit above 500 descendants living today.
We may not be able to identify his tomb, but sure as heck we can identify his ancestors! It so happens that this guy had about half a thousand children that have descendants that survive today. Rape and pillage he did, allrighty. There's more than ten million of those descendants alive today, by the way. Genetics for the win, I say.
So, obviously if one of them dies in a random accident, you've lost your investment, right? That's why one can't use a word investment here. It simply doesn't work, unless you're literally putting a dollar value on human life, happiness and whatnot. Not every cool thing you do is an investment, nor can it be thought of as being one, even if it costs you real money.
Going back to your dad: to support his position, one'd need to support a zero-sum stance where one says "either I support your low-risk lifestyle in college, or I get to pay some other kid, or maybe even myself". I think that's going full-retard.
I have 10 ton jackstands, and for the life of me I wouldn't know how they could be unreliable. When the car is up on four of those jackstands, there's no reasonable way to tip the jackstands by merely interacting with the car. I've had two people try to push the car in various directions as hard as they could - nothing happened. It wouldn't budge, heck it seemed as if it was comparably glued to the ground. When the car is supported by the suspension, there's a lot of "give" and you can get it moving a bit. On the jackstands it's quite different.
Sure, if you have crappy jackstands then it may not be quite safe.
diving quickly towards the ground and then at the last sec, pulling up enough so their feet skim the ground
That's how a properly executed paragliding flare looks like, I'm afraid. Paragliding is like flying, and certification exams use a lot of terms that would apply in flying a sailplane or a helicopter, although the distances and altitudes involved are of course scaled differently.
For any given car, under certain conditions (pavement type, presence of water on the pavement, head and sidewind speed, fuel octane rating, intake air temperature), there's one speed that gives you maximum gas mileage. This speed is not infinitesimally close to 0 mph. On a clear Californian day with little wind and about 75F IAT, such speed is roughly 48mph on my car. Go any slower, and you are in fact wasting fuel. It's especially bad under 30mph. So, on my car if you were to accelerate to 56mph over 10 miles you'd burn more fuel than simply accelerating to 56mph and covering those 10 miles at 56mph. So, um, you're the idiot.
On older laptops - those that reasonably work well only with XP, I not only install Chrome as the best performing browser, but I also advise people to use it to view PDFs. Note that viewing a PDFs is very different than filling it out etc. A viewer needs to be simple and well performing, and in my experience, even on 10+ year old hardware, Chrome shines there. So, for one, I do welcome this change.
Supposedly she posted verbatim emails. Even without headers, it's not that hard for kleargear to paste a couple lines into their email search box and find exactly who the complainer was...
Yep. So you have some lunar dust on a spacesuit glove, and then you attempt to wipe any transparent surface. Poof, your transparent surface is now a milky surface that you can't see through. That stuff is nasty and will eat through elastomeric seals on, say, rotating shafts, like there was no tomorrow. Lunar dust is the mother of all dusts. It is the reason anyone with any brains should be shorting any lunar colonization/hotel stocks if such become publicly traded. It'll be a sure bet for at least the first decade of permanent Moon inhabitation, if any company can survive that long, that is.
Reminds me of the Oops RadioLab episode where they talk with a guy that killed the oldest thus-far-known tree on Earth (4000+ years old, and yes, that's thousands).
Just read The Apollo Experience Lessons Learned for Constellation Lunar Dust Management. Summary: Moon is a rather impractical place to be, unless: you have a way of washing everything on your way in and all of the exterior equipment is designed to be dust tight in vacuum environment (a nigh impossible feat). The dust will grind everything to a halt. It's that bad. And you better not got any into the shuttles subject to microgravity - both the people and the equipment will be in bad shape after a trip.
failing to secure his cargo (which would include the floor jack and contents of the trunk)
So, obviously, in your car you bungee-cord the floor of the trunk to the lid on the off chance that the floor would decide to give way and drop out of the car? Did you even fucking read what you comment on?!
Car fires are usually secondary. I was in a T-bone, and my car did catch on fire. The battery has shorted to the metal brake lines, and the steel-lined flexible brake lines started glowing due to their relatively high resistance compared to rest of the brake circuit. They promptly burst and both the rubber and the brake fluid caught fire. I popped the hood, shifted the battery a bit to open the circuit, and poured some water on the lines. It doused the flames and that was the end of it. Someone less level-headed would let the fire propagate, possibly setting the whole car on fire. It'd only take I couple of minutes, I imagine, with the source of heat being present (four glowing steel liners heating up the brake fluid!).
Batteries have the capability to release all of their energy almost instantaneously if something goes wrong.
Yes, in a textbook, because no one of a sane mind would ever design an actual battery pack that way. Real car battery packs have active electronics between each of the cells, used for cell isolation and charge balancing. You can short-circuit either the entire pack or sub-sections without safety concerns. You'll likely blow some mosfet transistors open, or some other fusible links.
I'd take a lithium fire in a car any day over a gasoline fire. Thankfully, lithium doesn't flow and spread around like gasoline does. Also, when the fire starts from a localized puncture, you have plenty of time to get out. Like, really plenty. I don't think there's anything wrong at all with Tesla S design. It's simply an electric car, and there's no magic to having a battery that has to be fucking somewhere out of the way. I mean, where the fuck did people expect the battery to go? Let's get real. There's nowhere for it to go but under the floor, and it's a viable trade-off between convenience and susceptibility to road hazards. No matter who'd make the car, it'd be made the same way. Even in a Nissan Leaf that has much less battery capacity, the batteries are still right under your butt.
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LOL, Genghis Khan has way more up his sleeve than you give him credit for. Show me a U.S. president that had about a thousand 1st-generation descendants. 800 years later - today - Genghis has about 15 million descendants. This is based on hard science genetic testing, not historic record, by the way. An average male person living 800 years ago has a bit above 500 descendants living today.
We may not be able to identify his tomb, but sure as heck we can identify his ancestors! It so happens that this guy had about half a thousand children that have descendants that survive today. Rape and pillage he did, allrighty. There's more than ten million of those descendants alive today, by the way. Genetics for the win, I say.
So, obviously if one of them dies in a random accident, you've lost your investment, right? That's why one can't use a word investment here. It simply doesn't work, unless you're literally putting a dollar value on human life, happiness and whatnot. Not every cool thing you do is an investment, nor can it be thought of as being one, even if it costs you real money.
Going back to your dad: to support his position, one'd need to support a zero-sum stance where one says "either I support your low-risk lifestyle in college, or I get to pay some other kid, or maybe even myself". I think that's going full-retard.
I have 10 ton jackstands, and for the life of me I wouldn't know how they could be unreliable. When the car is up on four of those jackstands, there's no reasonable way to tip the jackstands by merely interacting with the car. I've had two people try to push the car in various directions as hard as they could - nothing happened. It wouldn't budge, heck it seemed as if it was comparably glued to the ground. When the car is supported by the suspension, there's a lot of "give" and you can get it moving a bit. On the jackstands it's quite different.
Sure, if you have crappy jackstands then it may not be quite safe.
That's not investment unless he'd expect you to support him financially after you graduate.
diving quickly towards the ground and then at the last sec, pulling up enough so their feet skim the ground
That's how a properly executed paragliding flare looks like, I'm afraid. Paragliding is like flying, and certification exams use a lot of terms that would apply in flying a sailplane or a helicopter, although the distances and altitudes involved are of course scaled differently.
For any given car, under certain conditions (pavement type, presence of water on the pavement, head and sidewind speed, fuel octane rating, intake air temperature), there's one speed that gives you maximum gas mileage. This speed is not infinitesimally close to 0 mph. On a clear Californian day with little wind and about 75F IAT, such speed is roughly 48mph on my car. Go any slower, and you are in fact wasting fuel. It's especially bad under 30mph. So, on my car if you were to accelerate to 56mph over 10 miles you'd burn more fuel than simply accelerating to 56mph and covering those 10 miles at 56mph. So, um, you're the idiot.
Oh, so insurance companies short petroleum stocks? Well, thanks for the inside info, then.
On older laptops - those that reasonably work well only with XP, I not only install Chrome as the best performing browser, but I also advise people to use it to view PDFs. Note that viewing a PDFs is very different than filling it out etc. A viewer needs to be simple and well performing, and in my experience, even on 10+ year old hardware, Chrome shines there. So, for one, I do welcome this change.
What the fuck is wrong with rapid acceleration?! People repeat this stupid mantra over and over like it was a law of nature or something.
ALL TV infomercials are ripoffs. ALL telemarketers are ripoffs and ALL email marketing are ripoffs.
I think I can't but agree :(
Supposedly she posted verbatim emails. Even without headers, it's not that hard for kleargear to paste a couple lines into their email search box and find exactly who the complainer was...
Good for you to have enough savings to buy a house, or even a car.
Yep. So you have some lunar dust on a spacesuit glove, and then you attempt to wipe any transparent surface. Poof, your transparent surface is now a milky surface that you can't see through. That stuff is nasty and will eat through elastomeric seals on, say, rotating shafts, like there was no tomorrow. Lunar dust is the mother of all dusts. It is the reason anyone with any brains should be shorting any lunar colonization/hotel stocks if such become publicly traded. It'll be a sure bet for at least the first decade of permanent Moon inhabitation, if any company can survive that long, that is.
LOLWUT? Any collection effort is an instant drop from say 800 to 750. If it drags on, you'll easily go below 700. For much less than $3500.
Reminds me of the Oops RadioLab episode where they talk with a guy that killed the oldest thus-far-known tree on Earth (4000+ years old, and yes, that's thousands).
So, you agree with my conclusion, then - I mean, the only nitpick you have is a typo. Um, thanks?
Just read The Apollo Experience Lessons Learned for Constellation Lunar Dust Management. Summary: Moon is a rather impractical place to be, unless: you have a way of washing everything on your way in and all of the exterior equipment is designed to be dust tight in vacuum environment (a nigh impossible feat). The dust will grind everything to a halt. It's that bad. And you better not got any into the shuttles subject to microgravity - both the people and the equipment will be in bad shape after a trip.
As a driver you are liable for anything that falls off your vehicle or becomes detached in any way.
At least in the U.S., the case law disagrees with you.
Move it fucking *where*, pretty please? Once you do the engineering on it, you realize there's nowhere else for it to go. Now shut up, mmkay?
failing to secure his cargo (which would include the floor jack and contents of the trunk)
So, obviously, in your car you bungee-cord the floor of the trunk to the lid on the off chance that the floor would decide to give way and drop out of the car? Did you even fucking read what you comment on?!
Car fires are usually secondary. I was in a T-bone, and my car did catch on fire. The battery has shorted to the metal brake lines, and the steel-lined flexible brake lines started glowing due to their relatively high resistance compared to rest of the brake circuit. They promptly burst and both the rubber and the brake fluid caught fire. I popped the hood, shifted the battery a bit to open the circuit, and poured some water on the lines. It doused the flames and that was the end of it. Someone less level-headed would let the fire propagate, possibly setting the whole car on fire. It'd only take I couple of minutes, I imagine, with the source of heat being present (four glowing steel liners heating up the brake fluid!).
Batteries have the capability to release all of their energy almost instantaneously if something goes wrong.
Yes, in a textbook, because no one of a sane mind would ever design an actual battery pack that way. Real car battery packs have active electronics between each of the cells, used for cell isolation and charge balancing. You can short-circuit either the entire pack or sub-sections without safety concerns. You'll likely blow some mosfet transistors open, or some other fusible links.
I'd take a lithium fire in a car any day over a gasoline fire. Thankfully, lithium doesn't flow and spread around like gasoline does. Also, when the fire starts from a localized puncture, you have plenty of time to get out. Like, really plenty. I don't think there's anything wrong at all with Tesla S design. It's simply an electric car, and there's no magic to having a battery that has to be fucking somewhere out of the way. I mean, where the fuck did people expect the battery to go? Let's get real. There's nowhere for it to go but under the floor, and it's a viable trade-off between convenience and susceptibility to road hazards. No matter who'd make the car, it'd be made the same way. Even in a Nissan Leaf that has much less battery capacity, the batteries are still right under your butt.
Never mind that legacy CCTV, as currently deployed, is pretty fucking pathetic. Anyone who has ever looked at the footage will attest to that.