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People are already designing some air taxis and such that are all electric, so you could technically say we're already there.

Per Google gasoline is about 12,000 Wh/Kg, after your engine it's 4,500.

Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 12:07 am Is it a Q ship with all those guidance radars and CIWS visible?

Looks more to me as a testbed for on unmanned surface vessel????

It's all containerized and as I understand it can be folded up to disappear.

A quick look at Google shows coins like dimes and nickels weren't much different in weight than older coins. This isn't surprising considering their role as actual currency. More modern ounce coins, even the "trade unit" types, are more collectable and inflation hedge/savings than cash to ...

https://youtu.be/52ZXpjfE0vk?si=Ad4ACLeeSxDGUMyt
Apparently it's a thing. This guy has a thing about thinking cartoons will reunify the peninsula in peace and love but aside from that it looks like a decent review. I haven't used the link to watch any of the subs yet.

Makes me think of the dwarves riding rams in the last Hobbit movie.

Let's just genetically engineer a ridable version of everything.

Everyone is doing a commentary on it.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/10 ... flight-11/

X has been crazy about the condition it was in at the end.

Nuts that it has holes that big.

First time I saw this thread I thought I was gonna see pictures of a church someone saw on a road trip, not a church TAKING a road trip!

Definitely weren't any car guys involved.

A Short History of Machine Tools was 80 or so. I wouldn't mind adding these to my collection but I don't have splurge money right now.

Reminds me of this one:
https://youtu.be/EriZ9ruZq1E?si=lfQ3kOd7DrEkO7MA

How long did the .25 take to get it's reputation as anemic?

Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:39 pm Maybe its one that pops into existence and pops out again.....

Quantum planet, name it after the cat...

Just found out someone on one of my less frequent boards passed away a couple weeks ago suddenly. I'd had the thought but not the time to meet up since he was actually local to me, but it never happened. I've had the thought for a meetup from this forum for a while, never got around to doing it. The...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 11:55 pm On a slightly related note, I'm wondering how many Starlink satellites have a national security addon.

As I recall there's a separate version that's being used to make a different constellation.

They're putting his dog in!?

https://x.com/i/grok/share/AOAypOGiJthtjkpdmHdVMDiA8

Apparently that's what I get without a lot of work, can't just paste it here so I don't know of everyone can go over and see it.

What does the board think of its analysis?

Make a s-tank but made of titanium. :D Actually this sort of the question I can in here to ask. How much weight could be saved if we dropped the turret and used an autoloader with only a 2-3 man crew? Which now that I think about it is basically an S-Tank. Not enough. The 105mm gun is too big for t...

Wires or conduit? I can't imagine a modern system would use cables from the 80s (I would think it'd be based on modern Ethernet or fiber optic stuff), so I'd think it would be less the actual wiring as being able to actually replace it.