Being 50% more efficient doesn’t mean doing twice the work costs less. The bigger the gradient, the more work it’s doing. All that means is an exceptionally hot day won’t cost exceptionally more to cool your house than a cooler day.

Guinness has a little plastic ball in it to make it foam a certain way once opened

Red Bull’s Stealth Party Van built on a Land Rover Defender 130 LWB

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15350937/on-the-ground-like-a-stealth-potato-red-bulls-4x4-party-van-is-insane/

Does the bed have sliders under the corners? I’d look for that first to see if it’s designed to be either truly held up by the length of the beams or if it’s actually already supported by the corners. If it’s just the corners, then you only need risers at the corner. If it’s making full contact with the floor, I’d prefer to continue supporting it almost fully with longer beams, leaving a gap where this stand goes

Pretty sure the downvote count has a limited effect on total karma. It was to counter downvote brigade from silencing people as you said.

To drive a car, a driver must:

• accelerate
• maintain speed
• slow for changing road conditions
• make turns
• maintain lane position
• change lanes
• brake for obstacles
• be aware of surrounding cars
• read road signs and respond
• navigate roads to reach a destination

Cruise control can:

• accelerate at the driver’s input
• maintain speed
• slow at the driver’s input

Autopilot can:

• accelerate
• maintain speed
• slow for changing road conditions
• make turns
• maintain lane position
• change lanes
• brake for obstacles
• be aware of surrounding cars
• read road signs and respond
• navigate roads to reach a destination

Which one sounds like it drives the car on its own? Which one is clearly misunderstood by the average driver due to a reference to a feature in an industry experienced by very few people by comparison?

Does a lower frequency signal travel the same speed? 1hz? I suppose it would be the same because the tether would have immense mass over it’s length. So even though I’m picturing an impractically long tether moving as one solid length to tap slow morse code, the mass would be unfathomably high and therefore inducing significant stretch. That’s without getting into vibration kinetic energy being lost to heat along the way

I’m obviously not genuinely proposing this. It’s just a brain exercise.

Oh, you already know about it. No one else should bother reading then.

It’s not a surprise, it’s just a concern being presented because it’s not a thought for the average person.

What’s the propagation speed of vibrations through carbon nantubes? I’ve done no math or experiments but back up this startup tech 100%. I pull on it at Alpha Centauri, it instantaneously pulls a receiver at Sol. I’d say a vat of liquid nylon with a thread pulled and dragged but that sounds sticky.

Edit /s no one is towing a rope

So… Same deal as transparent aluminum.

Check your local time zones. It’s Dec 11th for many. I think about 8pm Dec 11 for EST Americas

Astronaut Don Pettit is a great person to follow. He has a constant stream of amazing photos from his time on ISS and on Earth, too

Did you use Ctrl + Shift + Esc to directly open Task Manager? If so, you may get different results with Ctrl + Alt + Del and choosing it from the manager. C/S/E asks for the manager, C/A/D demands it. I can’t promise the game won’t still override it but a fun fact either way

Open task manager

Top bar, Options, click Always on Top

Sounds like excel is still doing what it has done for a while. Even though windows can finally (again) treat excel instances separately in the task bar, clicking one brings up the single excel window containing all excel files open. So if I open a 2nd excel file, then x it out, the 1st file is on top now. This doesn’t bug me when it’s the browser or Adobe because those at least clearly present as tabbed items and, more importantly, can be broken out to different windows

so an engine can lift a car

Force = pressure x area

It’s not that big of a feat. Using the very low estimate of 2.5psi from another comment about exhaust pressure, that means it can sustain 2.5 pounds(force) per square inch. To lift half a 5000lb suv the force needed would be 2500lbs. Rearrange the equation to [area = force/pressure] and it becomes [area = 2500lbs/2.5 lbs per square inch] so 1,000 square inches. Divide by 144square inches per square foot (12x12) and you get 6.94 square feet gives you 2500lbs of force from 2.5psi. Then to find that area from a circle, divide by pi and square root the result (rearranging area=pi*r^2 ) and you find that 2.5psi will lift the side of an SUV with a little less than a 3 foot diameter circle. That’s about the size of the lift bags I’ve seen.

And all that while I’m thinking 2.5psi sounds low. Regardless, I doubt an exhaust system would handle anything close to tire pressure before popping off fittings. Plus mufflers have weep holes and fittings tend to leak anyway. They rely on the direction and speed of exhaust gas a fair amount.

Factor error: 33psi is about a typical car tire pressure. Race bicycles are like 120. Please keep 330 away from rubber

Funny you mention motorcycles with gear-driven cams as being exotic. Generally correct, but I happen to own one of the cheapest out there: the Honda VFR. I sought out mine for being the last with the gears before going to a normal drive in 02. It’s a glorious sound.

Anyway, that’s true too, helical gear will need a beefy housing to resist that axial load. That’s more weight. A pair of helicals fastened together could help bring down cost, probably, compared to herringbone, but that’s added complexity. I can’t claim the tech is marketing wank but the video absolutely is

Do you wear jewelry? Do you have a nice watch that tells time just as well as a casio? Does your car feature upgraded wheels or upcharged paint? Have you paid more for fancy curtains when basic ones do the same job? Have you repainted a room just because you wanted a different color? Art, collectibles, novelties? Video game cosmetics are valuable to anyone who wants to express themselves the same as any other real life cosmetic. It can be especially important to young people who don’t have other avenues.

That being said, fortnite is predatory as fuck and is one of the worst offenders for addictive design, FOMO engineering, and maximizing DLC purchases. It’s what the annual sports games wish they could do. It’s what CoD started to do. It’s fueled by social media and by glimpses of random players in each match with the latest skins.