Actually, you might be surprised how peppy they are when you learn how they drive. Mine didn't seem all that quick until I'd driven it for a while.
A lot of it is probably just learning to work the hybrid system and CVT to best advantage, as they react *very* differently than a manual tranny and standard gas-engine car.
The other thing is that the Prius definitely doesn't "feel" as quick as it is. Toyota engineered this car to feel smooth, and with the CVT you don't get the shifts that people associate with speed, but when you know how to keep the ICE in its optimal range it does just fine.
Airplanes on the other hand have high initial cost, high repairs and maintenance costs, but are designed for decades of service, not just a few years.
Well, it's not just design, but that high maintenance that allows this. Even the best maintained passenger car is no where near the standards of a poorly maintained private plane.
Pretty much every component on an aircraft has a rated lifespan and is replaced long before it might fail. As a result the airframe itself is probably the only original part when an aircraft is in service long enough.
I'm not sure if it's 20 years or 40 years before you get to that point, as I'm not an A&P ("Airframe and Powerplant" the main cert for Aircraft mechanics).
The bottom line is that if you wanted to put this level of maintenance into a car - serious inspections of components at set intervals, replacing major components as they "time-out" rather than waiting for a failure or sign of failure, etc - You'd probably get this kind of life out of a car.
Basically it boils down to economics, airplanes are expensive and the consequence of a minor failure can be pretty dire, so it's worthwhile to drop a LOT of money maintaining them. Cars are cheap, and you don't fall out of the air if the alternator dies, so it isn't worth spending more than the cost of the car to keep them going.
To look at it another way: Big rigs get something in between (preemptive component replacement, etc) and they generally last somewhere in the millions of miles...
Maybe your definition of persecution differs from mine, but I can't find a way to make it OK with my definition. No matter if it's for an action or a belief.
On that note: Worshiping is an action, declaring that you believe something is an action. If it wasn't for actions no one would know about the belief. Really, religious persecution is because of actions.
If you don't like that version, think of it the other way. Being gay is a belief that your attracted to and want to spend your life with the same sex rather than the opposite one. The actions come out of the belief. So from that perspective they're being persecuted for their beliefs.
I won't presume to know your mind, but this sounds an awful lot like you're trying to justify your own prejudices. Gay people just want to live their lives like anyone else.
They are not hurting you, why do you care if they have equal rights?
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Actually, you might be surprised how peppy they are when you learn how they drive. Mine didn't seem all that quick until I'd driven it for a while. A lot of it is probably just learning to work the hybrid system and CVT to best advantage, as they react *very* differently than a manual tranny and standard gas-engine car. The other thing is that the Prius definitely doesn't "feel" as quick as it is. Toyota engineered this car to feel smooth, and with the CVT you don't get the shifts that people associate with speed, but when you know how to keep the ICE in its optimal range it does just fine.
Airplanes on the other hand have high initial cost, high repairs and maintenance costs, but are designed for decades of service, not just a few years. Well, it's not just design, but that high maintenance that allows this. Even the best maintained passenger car is no where near the standards of a poorly maintained private plane. Pretty much every component on an aircraft has a rated lifespan and is replaced long before it might fail. As a result the airframe itself is probably the only original part when an aircraft is in service long enough. I'm not sure if it's 20 years or 40 years before you get to that point, as I'm not an A&P ("Airframe and Powerplant" the main cert for Aircraft mechanics). The bottom line is that if you wanted to put this level of maintenance into a car - serious inspections of components at set intervals, replacing major components as they "time-out" rather than waiting for a failure or sign of failure, etc - You'd probably get this kind of life out of a car. Basically it boils down to economics, airplanes are expensive and the consequence of a minor failure can be pretty dire, so it's worthwhile to drop a LOT of money maintaining them. Cars are cheap, and you don't fall out of the air if the alternator dies, so it isn't worth spending more than the cost of the car to keep them going. To look at it another way: Big rigs get something in between (preemptive component replacement, etc) and they generally last somewhere in the millions of miles...
Maybe your definition of persecution differs from mine, but I can't find a way to make it OK with my definition. No matter if it's for an action or a belief.
On that note: Worshiping is an action, declaring that you believe something is an action. If it wasn't for actions no one would know about the belief. Really, religious persecution is because of actions.
If you don't like that version, think of it the other way. Being gay is a belief that your attracted to and want to spend your life with the same sex rather than the opposite one. The actions come out of the belief. So from that perspective they're being persecuted for their beliefs.
I won't presume to know your mind, but this sounds an awful lot like you're trying to justify your own prejudices. Gay people just want to live their lives like anyone else.
They are not hurting you, why do you care if they have equal rights?