lancemantis posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfWxeszXEI&t=74s

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/apwestregion/status/958128337464913920

Cat Face Joe posted:

mighty gently caress just build a goddamn TRAIN

Sagebrush posted:

no resident of missouri can fit inside a hyperloop tube anyway

ate all the Oreos posted:

here's how loving stupid and naive i am: i read that and initially went "oh so they can keep track of who's doing too many repetitive movements and prevent injury, neat"

Schadenboner posted:

Couldn't an uber hold two (or more) passengers for at least some of the trips, reducing the total number of cars?

Actually: that could work for any of them, some sort of "car-pool" arrangement?

atomicthumbs posted:

the hood of a brand new sixty thousand dollar car (incl options and fees)

atomicthumbs posted:

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/960914661456494592

Schadenboner posted:

I always wondered if it was possible to make the bagel equivalent of jelly doughnuts (although it might have to be a bialy then, unless the filling was in a ring in the bagel I suppose?) .

Einstein/Caribou Coffee has filled bagel bites but they aren't the same, they aren't even filled to order.

FMguru posted:

lol our idiot president just told the stock market that it made a huge mistake by going down instead of going up

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/961253168968622086

also people in rural america are killing themselves more often

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

that actually sounds like a great feature both ways. if someone didn't message me back i wouldn't want to continue to see them in search results anyway.


dang yeah you really could do a Pentagon Wars style film about the Space Shuttle, right down to the mass/size problems and the feature creep

air force general all "we want the vehicle to be able to take off, do a single polar orbit, and then land back at the same place it took off from"
"but... sir, we'll need to put huge wings on the orbiter in order to do that. it'll eat a huge chunk out of the payload capacity!"
"we're thinkin', maybe we could hang one o' them keyhole sats out the barn door, take a picture of some russkie naval yard, and get the film back in hours! hell! one of the boys even suggested we could snatch a russkie spy job and see what the hell they been lookin' at!"
"we just wanted a space truck so congress would let us keep going to space "
"shoot, son, nobody's sayin' you can't go to space! just, you know, make it a little bigger or somethin'. what in tarnation you spendin' all that money for anyhow?"


with bonus scenes of the OMB literally advocating for setting NASA's budget at a permanent fixed dollar amount and letting inflation strangle the agency


(what the hell happened to the smiley where the guy in a cowboy hat was chomping a cigar?)

FMguru posted:

the sr71 owns because it does everything the opposite of how other planes work

- the fuel is specially formulated not to burn
- the skin is not smooth, but zigzag rough like cardboard
- to conserve gas, fly it as fast as possible
- the airframe gets stronger with wear and use

just an amazing bit of engineering, all done with slide rules in the early 1960s

they still really dont know what the maximum speed was on those things. every pilot had a personal max speed but they all think they could have gotten another 20 or 50 or 75 km/hr out of the thing if they had to. same with max altitude

infernal machines posted:

don't they fantasize him as iron man? like, broken, but handsome

NyetscapeNavigator posted:

haveblue posted:

nah they’re spinning it as “we wanted to burn every drop of fuel in the final stage, we had more than we expected because reasons”

the mission was to lose the car in deep space so it’s never seen again and by that metric it’s a success

The Leck posted:

i was just talking about this startup with coworkers last week, and the general consensus was “food isn’t always great at restaurants, so health inspections are bullshit regulations strangling small business”

lancemantis posted:

you see, it will be such a valuable thing that people will gladly do whatever it takes for a ticket, much like old colonialism

there will probably even be financing offered, perhaps with some number of years of employment for the financier at the destination, a kind of indentureship

Sagebrush posted:

broke: "You would think that after being on the receiving end of numerous attacks I would wise up, but I couldn't. I refused to. I felt I should say something, even though I knew what the result would be. ... I learned how not to be. One thing I loathe is a man who will strike a woman. There's never an excuse for that."

woke: "If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy. I will never be happy without having someone ... no one on the pillow next to you. F--. How do you make yourself happy in a situation like that?"

the onion posted:

FREMONT, CA—Calling his profound feelings of emptiness “almost too painful to bear,” Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and a variety of other tech and infrastructure firms, reportedly offered $1.2 billion in grants Wednesday to any project that could make him feel complete. “Even after all I’ve accomplished in this world, there is still a gaping hole inside of me that no amount of innovation or entrepreneurship has been able to fill,” said Musk, who added that he would consider funding any initiative, in any industry, at any scale that might begin to close the ever-widening chasm at the core of his being. “If you can prove that your venture will give me any measure of wholeness—anything, anything at all—my money is yours. All I ask in return is to feel some sense of purpose in this bleak and pointless existence.” Musk went on to offer an additional $1.2 billion to anyone who could show him the meaning of what people often refer to as “love.”

infernal machines posted:

tech startup dares the FDA to gently caress them all the way up.

"biohacking"

quote:

“Did you have an ethical commission?” someone in the crowd asked, wondering whether the experiment that was about to take place had undergone any sort of formal review.

“No,” Traywick answered.

He added: “We label everything ‘not for human consumption,’” shortly before baring his black boxer briefs and injecting his own leg.

CommunistPancake posted:

Sagebrush posted:

this reminds me of how the F-35 was designed with some kind of innovative new project management strategy called Concurrent Development that is meant to save time and money and basically it means you start production on the aircraft before the development is finished. e.g. you to manufacture the wings when the design is finished and then you start to work on the engine while the wings are ramping up production and so on. if you need to make changes later bc the engine couldn't make the power you want and you need bigger wings or w/e then you just go back afterwards and retrofit the modified parts to the old airframes. easy!

if you're thinking "but wouldn't that be likely to make things cost more and take longer?" then you are smarter than the entire pentagon

infernal machines posted:

people just won't stop hitting blameless self-driving vehicles: tori edition

infernal machines posted:

turns out manufacturing is a mature process that doesn't take well to "disruption"

infernal machines posted:

tbf, from the reports it sounds like the tesla model 3 line may be exactly this

cinci zoo sniper posted:

don’t worry, stormys lawyer on msnbc is saying that they have trumps dick pictures

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

Also, if there's a tape of trump in a diaper watching a large black man gently caress his wife, he's done for

Ferdinand the Bull posted:

Can’t wait to see all those two-year deferred sentences and stern warnings when justice finally comes.

Relevant Tangent posted:

kill all marketers

Bhodi posted:

pretty sure id hit them too, tbh there's basically a quarter second of visibility

how much of that is the contrast of the recording though

Midjack posted:

is this actually him? he went super reclusive and talked about living a low technology life for years.