They kept trying things like this, though it never made any sense. There’s no good reason to push against the air, when pushing against the ground is an option.
Unless you need to go faster than the traction with the ground would allow. You’d just need the fan to be more of a compressor and inject some fuel into the airstream.
Oh man could you imagine that thing ramming your asshole at full speed?
Sploooosh.
Only one downvote. Hrm…HRMMMMMMMMMMM…
yeah i could have trimmed the gif better
I regret complaining that she only did NSFW memes (she didn’t).
But it did bite her in the ass, didn’t it?
i hope she eventually got laid. but we’ll miss her hornyposting
She posted that she did get laid, a day or so before she left.
She complained that she hardly got the dude to wear a condom, but it went well apparently.
ah, i missed the end of the drama
The last thing to go through your mind will be your own ass. Something kinda like those old Nickelodeon Inside Out Boy cartoons.
This is my favorite comment in quite a while lol thanks for that!
Yes, I did assume that fuel efficiency was an important criterion.
Imagine being a pedestrian, and the guy behind the wheel is
textingtelegraphing while drivingBased on the prop size this car has, I’m assuming that that train wasn’t going far?
style is a good reason
I’ve always loved the look of what early 1930s thought the future would look like.
I’ve always HATED what the late 1930s brought.
Hot take on the late 30’s there
I’ve always HATED what the late 1930s brought.
What you hate:
The “Golden Age” of Cinema (1939): This is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The release of The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind pushed the technical boundaries of Technicolor and defined modern storytelling.
The Invention of Nylon (1935/1938): Wallace Carothers at DuPont created the first truly synthetic fiber. It fundamentally changed the textile industry and later became critical for manufacturing parachutes and medical supplies.
The First Modern Jet Engine (1937): Sir Frank Whittle in the UK successfully tested the first prototype. This was a massive engineering leap that eventually led to the era of commercial flight.
The Discovery of Nuclear Fission (1938): Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn’s discovery opened the door to understanding atomic energy, which eventually provided a path toward carbon-free power.
The Modern Helicopter (1939): Igor Sikorsky designed and flew the VS-300, the first viable helicopter to use the single main rotor and tail rotor configuration that we still use today.
The Ballpoint Pen (1938): László Bíró patented the first commercially successful version. It was a huge “quality of life” improvement, finally replacing the messy, leaking fountain pens of the era.
The Clinical Use of Penicillin (1939): While it was discovered years earlier, 1939 was when Howard Florey and Ernst Chain figured out how to actually purify and isolate it for medical use, effectively starting the antibiotic era.
The First Electronic Digital Computer (1937–1939): John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry began building the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer). It was the first to use binary math and electronic switching, the very foundation of the device you’re using right now.
You hate all of that? ;-)
EDIT: PLEASE CONSULT THE WEIRD CONSTRUCTS OF PUNCTUATION CALLED “EMOTICONS” THAT INDICATE SOMETHING IS MEANT AS A BIT OF SILLY HUMOUR AND TRY CALMING THE FUCK DOWN A BIT.
To be fair, the dude you responded to was talking about his appreciation of the aesthetic, not progress. People are allowed to have their opinion of what they like or not. Even if they’re wrong.
That’s your opinion about what they were referring to. I certainly read it as referencing the events leading up to and including the start of WWII, and I think that’s a very reasonable interpretation.
Sir, specifically the individual in question is referencing the dawn of modern fascism. Though I appreciate you enthusiasm for the genuinely positive contributions to art and science that occurred during the period, it wasn’t necessarily an invitation to be pedantic about it.
Who the fuck understands jokes and humour anymore? Maybe we should invent a system of indicating when a post is using such a thing. Perhaps an odd construct made of punctuation marks.
Jesus christ chill the fuck out.
Well there’s a good reason to stand behind the yellow line…
Hey! How come the yellow line is so stupidly far away from the tra…thunk! Ribbbbugeeebuuurriiiriruroooo splarrrrdpft!
Hey! Guys stand behind the fucking yellow line!
230 km/h is pretty damn fast though. Our trains in Canada can still only wish they got that fast :(
In many cases the reason for that is the rails themselves, not the engine. I don’t know is that’s the case in Canada
Now that you mention it, I do think that’s the case here. I’ve been on ones that get up to 180km/h but it’s only on a few long stretches of rail
Yup that’s a classic symptom of inadequate rail
Bro I got bad news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard
Did you reply to the correct comment?
Well its old news but yes, a steam engine from '38 is dunking on his canadian trains
But from your article it was only run at service speeds lower than OP’s service speed. OP was listing the service speed, not the engine’s potential max speed.
Ohhhhhhhhh, the propellor is at the rear like a submarine. I thought i was looking at the front like an airplane.
EDIT: also i could’ve just read your title. Doh
Hey some airplanes have it in the back too!
It’s really an era of engineering when they just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.
Am in engineering today. Is pretty much the same as it was then. We just have a pretty extensive list at this point of things we know throwing at a wall, will absolutely in no way, stick.
Still, that doesn’t always stop things like the Cybertruck from happening.
We also have to investigate intensity that any of the stuff we want to throw at the wall is not already patented…
Or people trying to make a vacuum train, or solar roadways. I hate the latter in particular cause you could just put up solar above the road with an awning or whatever you want to call it which would have the bonus of lowering the heat island effect.
possibly might be easier to get snow off them if angled and maybe specialized wiper robots or such. Don’t have to drop ice and such. heck could likely set them to heat themselves to like 35 or something.
