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From Kratos's site: https://www.kratosdefense.com/products/uav/air/turbines Kratos has begun the first engine tests at its X-58 test facility. The newly commission…

Not when their ticket prices and passenger volume are similar to first class. Go to their site and scroll down until you see the picture of the seating and tell me that isn't first class. https:…

It sounds like marketing fluff, which I think alot of their site is, but this is a real thing. As soon as you start flying faster than sound you have to do extra work on the intake for your engine you…

I would agree that the big three didn't think they could make it work, be that for technical reasons, money reasons, limited market reasons, etc. the end result is the same. Where I would disagre…

If you take into account cost-per-moved-amount-of-cargo trains are dramatically cheaper, even including infrastructure. The only reason we don't use/develop them more is social/politica…

Flying faster is fundamentally less efficient and thus worse for the environment.

From wiki: "On June 3, 2021, United Airlines announced they had signed an agreement to purchase 15 Overture aircraft with an additional 35 options, expecting to start passenger flights by 2029.[1…

TIL general aviation = non-commercial civilian aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_aviation …

Based on what? It got hammered in covid but is back in a big way now.

I'm not going to say 100db isn't loud but db is a logarithmic scale, so even 110 down to 100 isn't a 9% reduction but an order of magnitude drop. Literally the difference between a jack…

Lazyness. I've been under a car dozens of times with them, never had an issue, but know it's not the best practice and try to use jackstands... but it's just so much quicker!

I would say they were closer to the problem but not necessarily the physics of them. And that doesn't really have anything to do with why their solutions were simple and robust, they just didn&#x…

Just to clarify, his party won more votes than any other party in the elections but did not win 51%+ (which I don't believe has happened in recent history in the Netherlands if ever?). So saying …

I don't. Our ability to understand problems and validate our solutions for them before even a single part is made is so much more advanced today (in the mechanical engineering world) it would be …

Has anyone found good options that are between stapled together cardboard with cheap foam that will fail in a couple years or $5000 and up designer brands? I love buying high quality goods that will l…

In the US alot of peoples first experience with Ikea is buying the cheapest desk, couch, bookcase, etc. for a dorm room or first apartment. And those are largely trash that won't survive a move, …

I think most engineers from back then would be astounded with the engineering of today, not underwhelmed.

The story is wonderful but the website is an even funner find. Talk about a throwback with lots of oddball connections.

Brave New World but the magic box is selecting the class before you are even born in that case.

Weird, I have it installed but maybe it could be installed then but not now.

The government does things people don't want, those people vote for politicians that say they won't do those things, and the response should be to ban them... and somehow that isn't the…

Very easy and solid as a daily driver. I have a Pixel 6a that I've been running it on from when I got it (≈1.5 years), I've never needed to debug anything. My banking apps have worked withou…

But it wasn't an engineer, nor any one person, that made all the decisions that lead to this failure. It was company culture, driven from the top down, to cut costs. Who is accountable for that? …

This is not how companies work. Engineers at Boeing didn't have a design labeled "not-good-enough-but-cheap" and another labelled "more-skookum-but-is-expensive" and because t…

This makes me want to write a post, "If programmers had to work like mechanical engineers". There is much overlap, dealing with changing requirements, fickle clients, struggles with realitie…

I do not but if you have a STEM club at a local school or a nearby university with a mechanical engineering program they would be able to tell you (assuming one exists).

It depends on what you are looking for. I found looking at the BIFL subreddit, sites that cater more towards industry (McMaster Carr as an example), and companies based in Europe (Fjallraven as an exa…

This isn't just product reviews. Try searching any question and more than likely multiple results on the first page will be "articles" with some title like "So you want to know abo…

Having tried multiple times to move away from Gmaps on Android, all the OSM based apps I've tried are barely usable at best (sadly).

If you find any better (particularly opensource) novel music discovery methods can you post about them? I use Spotify solely for its discovery and radio features and find them only ok. Would love to f…