>> ^rychan:

>> ^AntiClimax:
Veteran truck drivers will freak out the new guys by throwing lit cigarettes in their fuel tanks when they finish filling and more often than not a lit match will snuff out if you drop it in diesel.

Ugh, is that good for your truck? Clogged fuel lines?


It will get stopped by the filter before it could clog the line... and I have a feeling those filters get changed way more often than in a passenger car.

Most jet fuel, even if it was exposed to that spark, wouldn't combust. It's very similar to diesel in that it's hard to ignite without being aerosolized and compressed. Not to say it can't happen, but without those factors the reaction is unlikely to sustain itself even if it did get ignited.

Veteran truck drivers will freak out the new guys by throwing lit cigarettes in their fuel tanks when they finish filling and more often than not a lit match will snuff out if you drop it in diesel.

I think one could argue that most atheists come to be so by reason and intelligence, not the other way around; so neither would really preclude using logic and intelligence. The rub comes when folks discard logic and reason to keep beliefs that don't stand up to them.

One thing I do wonder about, which is particularly pertinent to the result the mythbusters obtained, is compression.



They ultimately found that their two bullets struck the ground within a period shorter than the duration of a normal video frame. Assuming the bullet was successfully released level and at the same instant as their dropped bullet, would the slight increase in air density around the bullet, from compression when travelling at speed, explain the very slightly longer fall time? It appears that once you surpass 220mph, the compressive behaviors of gasses are no longer negligible.

"Its funny because conservatives in USA fail to realise obama is conservative."

I realize that Liberal and Conservative is all relative but by American standards, Obama is *not* a conservative. At all. He's not even a Centrist.

As for protecting the Second Amendment, exercising it and teaching others how to exercise it is protecting it. Sure there are more effectual ways like fighting court battles, but what's the point of having a right if one isn't going to use it?
Granted, the heavy handed political statement was unnecessary but, as Croccydile pointed out, that's more to do with the First Amendment than the second.

The fun of rear engine cars.



I wonder how an MR2 would do on that stretch.

No problem

One wouldn't exist because that entire mass of non-refractive glass would need to be within that little radius to form a black hole. Until that point an event horizon wouldn't exist.