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  1. Must be this tall to ride. on NASA's Rollercoaster For Moon Rocket Escape · · Score: 1

    / Slidetude System: / 'A fixed slide tube made of either metal or hard plastic/fiberglass will extend from the access arm level of the ML tower or FSS / to the existing bunker located on the west side of the pad. / 'The egress route will be across the access arm to the slide tube, down the slide tube to the bunker, and into the bunker. Each / person would enter the tube one at a time from the crew access level on the tower and slide the distance to the bunker.' The first thing that came to mind when I read this was that they could purchase the sections from McDonalds for the slide. It would have to end in a ball-pit in the bunker though.

  2. Re:Why? on Robots With Square Wheels? · · Score: 1

    That's it though, I'm sure many people have thought of this. They just stoped at that point because they realized that there is no point. I know I have seen the concept of a non-circular whee on a non-flat surface before this.

  3. Re:Next up on Robots With Square Wheels? · · Score: 2

    With more sides though, the difference in radial distance is reduced and the moving of the weight would do less. The limiting case would be the circle where shifting the weight does nothing.

  4. Re:Certainly not going to be used in cars on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 1

    Yeah, SAE would have nothing to do with the regulation of this type of paint for law enforcement reasons. That is up to the government, not SAE.

  5. Re:Coming soon... on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 1

    Murphy says "Don't put fragile things like inner-coolers outside of a crush zone." I can't believe they would do that to any car, let alone a classic mustang. What a crime.

  6. Re:Coming soon... on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 1

    If a FWD car needs a rear wing to keep the back wheels in place, then the engineer doesn't know how to properly design/tune a suspension or they are using horrible tires.

  7. Re:And for those of us that don't use this scale.. on Sony Develops Buckyball Fuel Cell · · Score: 2, Informative

    The film is just a barrer where the reaction takes place. The power is proportional to the area and the total energy is proportional to the volume of fuel.

  8. Re:Tallest != Largest on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Height has everything to do with potential energy, at least from the gravity point of view. PE=mgh But having more potential energy has nothing to do with the pressure on the ground. It is a static situation. Potential energy would only come into play if the building were to fall down.