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I know one person who got a concussion and another who broke their arm while skiing
I know one person who got a concussion and another who broke their arm while skiing
I live in Colorado and used to go skiing a couple times every year as a kid (ie, when my parents were paying for it). It’s pretty fun to go sliding down a scenic mountain at 30 mph, and it’s rewarding to learn and get better. But now that I’m an adult I’ve decided that it’s not really worth it to wake up early on a weekend, drive 2+ hours, freeze my ass off, spend a lot of money, and possibly hurt myself. Speaking of, you definitely want a helmet if you don’t want to end up like Sonny Bono.
There are a few smaller and cheaper ski slopes that aren’t crowded with rich tourists, but they’re the exception. I’ve run into plenty of rich dickheads on the slopes, and lots of loud obnoxious Texans dressed fully in Cowboys gear.
We’ve run across this guy and some of his followers online. I’m not 100% sure if there’s something shady going on, but it sure seems like it. His friends seem really eager to create divisions between leftists. Either he’s kind of an ineffective idiot, or a fed, or both.
This happens in the sci-fi novel A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
One step closer to having street-legal bumper cars
We did a podcast about Sears and their weird libertarian CEO :
As George Carlin said, “Anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac”
Some use copper, which can kill fish when it washes into rivers. Iirc some states have banned copper in brake pads but not all.
You can’t without specialized equipment and specially trained workers. A car built with that kind of precision would cost many millions of dollars.
At my old shop they gave the job of running the EDM to the old dude who regularly fell asleep during his shift.
What I’m saying is that those machines are slow as hell.
The major structure of most cars are made of stamped and spot-welded sheet metal, usually steel. IIRC Teslas are made mostly of aluminum, so some of the parts might be extruded, cast, and/or machined, and they might also be riveted and/or bonded (glued) together. The body shell shouldn’t need to be very precise, maybe +/- .03" at most. On the other hand, the dies that make the body panels are under tremendous pressure and need to be more precise so that they can consistently turn out good parts without wearing down or breaking.
I wonder if he’s inventing arbitrarily rigorous standards as an excuse to delay production again
Depends on what it is. Some things like ball bearings need to be precise in order to work efficiently, but car body panels definitely do not need to be that precise. Pretty much nothing on a car needs to be within 10 microns.
Not so much the cans themselves, it’s mostly the machines used to manufacture the cans that need to be precise so that they can stamp out hundreds of cans per second without tearing or wrinkling the thin aluminum.
Modern day Howard Hughes, it’s not a question of if he’s going to collect his own urine, but when he’s going to start selling it as mineral water.
I used to work for a company that made stamping dies for aluminum cans, and some of those dies had tolerances close to .0004", because the aluminum is very thin and could crack and tear if the dies were not made precisely. The cans themselves are not that precise, they just need to hold beer without exploding. I can’t speak to Legos, but cars absolutely do not need this kind of precision, not even in the bearings. And especially not in the sheet metal body panels.
That information is relevant to zero people because it’s impossible to make anything out of bent sheet metal with a .0004" tolerance. He may as well have asked for a working car made out of cheese.
To be fair, you were sort of forced to move to Colorado