when r/fuckcars thinks they know anything about aviation.

You’ll hit a point where the payload is so poor it isn’t worth operating.

Multiple redundant motors are heavy.

That ain’t gonna happen on a civilian airliner.

Blown wings are basically powered lift. You’re planning on bringing a civilian passenger plane down final approach at a speed it can’t glide at if the power plant fails?

I could see that for a carrier based aircraft where STOL is a factor but no you’re not doing that in airline operations.

Doesn’t really help that during the cooking process, and cheddar re-coagulates and gets kinda hard as the burger cools.

Doesn’t melt as well as American.

Every time I hear of an all electric aircraft of any size, I always wonder what they’re going to do about landing weight.

Every modern transport category jet has a higher takeoff weight than landing weight, because of the simple unavoidable fact that landings are rougher than takeoffs. Taking off, the load gradually comes off of the landing gear, on landing it’s suddenly applied. Jets burn tons, literally tons, of fuel enroute, so they’re considerably lighter on approach. It’s why aircraft have dump valves to jettison fuel overboard in case of forced landing early in the flight.

Batteries don’t get lighter as they’re discharged, so…?

Orion’s Belt is made up of three, or ten, stars, depending on how you count them.

We look up at Orion with the naked eye and see his belt as three “stars”: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Alnitak, the left hand one, is a triple star system, Mintaka on the right, is a six-star system. Only the middle one, Alnilam, is a single star.

Out of all of them, only one, Mintaka B, is smaller than our Sun.

For similar reasons they insist on 3 is “tree” and 5 is “fife.”

When I taught flight school, we flew planes that ran on automotive gasoline. (see also: Rotax 912). Even then paying for fuel ate us alive.

On the US market, the Amiga was basically irrelevant. I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me Commodore did better in the UK than domestically. And Commodore made cool computers.

If anybody flips my table because I forgot to add bay leaves, they’re not getting invited back. Nevertheless I do keep them on hand because they’re not nothing.

It’s one of two objectively correct cheeses for a cheeseburger, the other being provolone if you’re going for kind of a philly thing.

It didn’t used to bother me on CRTs, but I do not want a flat panel blaring large screens of white at me.

Accurate statements of objective historical facts are not hot takes.

The Amiga had…probably the second best computer sound system ever made after the PC Soundblaster, and rather unique graphics performance for the time. It had potential that seldom got realized. Paraphrasing Ashens, most of the time Amiga games were ports from the Atari ST with added music.

Oh and don’t forget how big the 16 bit era of game consoles were. I’m a veteran of the SNES vs Genesis war, chiptune version of Fortunate Son starts to play YOU DON’T KNOW, YOU WEREN’T THERE!

My understanding is, the Amiga failed to find a niche. DOS/Windows PCs were heading toward monopoly, the Atari ST with its built-in MIDI support had a following in the music world, Apple at the time was big in education and desktop publishing and proto-content creation, and Dick Van Dyke had an Amiga.

Isn’t JetSki a trademark? Like either Kawasaki or Yamaha’s brand name for them? Kind of like Polaris and Seadoo (and their snowmobile Skidoo, which my Alaskan college roommate insisted was pronounced “skiDOO” with a short i and not “SKEE do”

Is wheat a vegetable?

I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I’m going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.

I swear I haven’t heard this before the 2020s: “My kitchen needs cleaned.” Not “My kitchen needs to be cleaned”, not “my kitchen needs cleaning.”

Explain to someone ESL that “My kitchen needs cleaned” has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!

Imagine you’re a painter. Painting watercolor landscapes is a hobby of yours. Shenanigans ensue and a partially completed painting ends up kicked through, it’s ruined. That painting wasn’t important, you weren’t going to sell it, nothing depended on it, and you can start again.

Losing progress in a video game is often like that.

That’s such a popular one that there’s a misheard lyrics site named kissthisguy.com