if you say so.. i post an opinion taht these motorsports are wasteful, this is his response to me :

I'm curious: how does being a snotty little piece of shit work out for you in your daily life? Have some respect.

-jcr

so yes.. i am the one who needs to see a shrink? I bet you this person woudl NEVER say such a thing to my face, but has no issues being an aggressive "keyboard warrior".

So, companies like Toyota, GM, Ford, etc trying to advance technology (better fuel economy, etc) are all ties to race car drivers?

perhaps the engeneers tring to make 500mph cars can move to practical design?

curious.. i share my views. you issue insults and i have a problem?

again.. why should i respect her? she drove at very high speeds to beat her own record and died in the process. i'm sure she knew it was one possible outcome and did it anyway.

she was a race car driver, not some air force pilot.

Look - AC comes here to exchange insults instead of having a conversation.. Shocked i tell you, shocked...

Slashdot needs to get rid of the AC system.

at least the overall auto industry accomplished something. People drove to work, sent their kids to school.

Motorsports usually drives around in circles for several hours while people watch and hope they get into accidents?

i dont burn shitloads of jet fuel and risk my life and others to feed my ego, if that is what you are asking.

hard to tell from this post.. you between 10 and 12?

what respect would you like me to have? woman does dangerous thing to feed her ego (beating her own speed record) and dies in the process?

if she was concerned around her family and friends... driving at 500MPH doesnt seem like the best thing to do?

hard to have "empathy" for people who do dangerous things for no real purpose. She wasnt saving babies from a fire, she was trying to beat her own speed record.

Yes, it takes design, knowledge, etc to do this. To your point, you dont just strap a jet engine onto somethign and hope for the best.

Flip side, that doesnt somehow make this a wise decision. She has massive ego trying to beat her own speed record, and dumping a ton of exhost into the atmosphere for no real net-benefit.

Thank you for posting, ppl like you keep others coming back to slashdot.

Where did i say anything about living in caves or make things about me vs her? Reding comprehension issues as i didnt mention anyting about her or myself.

"What exactly did society gain by turning all that jet fuel into noise so she could beat her own record?"

So.. after turning a sh*t ton of jet fuel into noise, how is society better off?

you think Indi 500 and stuff will continue indefinitely? sooner or later the EPA will come for them..

As the world moves more and more to being enviromentally friendly.. it is inevitable that these stupid "sports" will comes to an end. What exactly did society gain by turning all that jet fuel into noise so she could beat her own record?

you are totally correcdt on that one.. Project Orion (using nuclear bombs to power a spacecraft) and NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) are unrelated?

"
Nuclear rockets are already a part of history. Two nuclear propulsion projects, Orion and NERVA, were actively pursued by the United States government during the Cold War, and even got to the point of test flights and engine firings.

Project Orion
Project Orion is the more well known of the two nuclear rocket projects, and has a number of proponents to this day. It is also one of those ideas that, at first, sounds completely insane. Even the most wide-eyed space enthusiasts tend to stutter and cough a bit at the prospect of getting into orbit by having a very real nuclear bomb touch off a hundred meters under their feet.

NERVA
Somewhat more conventional nuclear-powered rockets had been studied in one form or another for over 50 years, going back to the musings of the scientists struggling to build the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos. A program called NERVA (Nuclear Engines for Rocket Vehicle Applications) tested solid-core nuclear rocket concepts from 1961 to 1971, under a joint venture by the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA."

if you want to discuss venezuela and socialism/McCarthism, why not go find a thread on that topic? Isnt this about russia/nuclear reactors?

Orion wasnt buit.. but its nuclear engines which dumped radioactivity into the atmosphere were built.. and run

google - Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA)

perhaps you can outline why you felt a need to post that russia made flying fissino reactors in the first place? Both countries did the exact same thing for the exact same reason.

Same as your post around russia selling floating nuclear power plants.. because this is the first time that has ever been done?

hard to stand there and tell others not to do things which you do as well isnt it?

not sure what you are referring to about venezuela or socialism, your strawman debate is losing me here..