I always thought the problem wasn't that it'd fail if hit repeatedly (because as someone else pointed out, if you stack shots on a single point, regardless of caliber, something's getting through), but that its structure didn't allow for servicing. With conventional armor, I think it's easier to replace the plates because they're larger and designed to slide in and out. I don't think you can do that with Dragon Skin, and that plus cost made it unsuitable for large-scale adoption.
This is just based on what I remember reading and my own theorizing, so don't take it to the bank. Basically, I think it's a good idea that just needed a trip back to the drawing board and some additional thinking behind it.
I'm thinking professionally AND personally. I've never lost my wallet. I've never lost my phone. I've never lost my keys. Maybe it's generational (I was born in '74, which I guess makes me an X-er), but what happened to the idea of being responsible (nay, careful) with important things? We got that drummed into our heads before we broke out of high school. It just seems to me that people who are 10-15 years younger than me can't keep their shit straight and it doesn't do them any favors when we look at them and we can't figure out why they're in their mid-20s and still walking around like they're going to class.
Oh, God, I've turned into That Guy. Now get the fuck off my lawn.
(Incidentally, being That Guy still doesn't make me wrong.)
The McLaren also didn't have to have the step-down because the overall body is lower anyway.
"They are just as fallible as we are."
Fuck that shit. I'm not carrying a messenger bag with a few thousand dollars worth of gear in it (not all personally owned, either) while I get so drunk I can't remember how to form sentences. I don't even get that...why would you do something so stupid? Lock it in your trunk or leave it at home, or...just don't be an idiot.
This kid would have been drummed out of our company the first time he did it, let alone given more chances to prove he wasn't trustworthy.
OK, yeah, university. I always tended to think in terms of individual colleges, but that's just my personal quirk. I slummed around St. John's for about 6 weeks in summer '96 & '97, so at least it was quiet then, but I admit I never saw chess played. Beer pong, though...yep.
God, I miss it.
10 Forward reminded me of the "common rooms" that I'd see in colleges in Oxford U.K....they had their own little bars but they were mostly quiet with tables & places to sit and chat and play chess.
Contamination can be dealt with. The impact of an asteroid half a klick across can't be cleaned up so well.
That girl is tiny, too, though...either that or the camera's doing some weird perspective thing.
Yeah, Red sure has it going on, and in the least kitschy outfit at that.
Whoa...good follow-up, I hadn't heard the rest of the story. I didn't remember there being mention of the Crown Vic being involved in a race as well.
No. Blanks come in a variety of pressures, so that when you see, say, Kate Beckinsale two-handing a pair of H&Ks without her arms flying all over, you can assume she's firing 1/4-powered blanks. I remember Bruce Campbell talking about firing a full-power blank from a sniper rifle while filming an episode of Burn Notice and how loud it echoed. Plus, blank-firing firearms may have barrel blockers or may just not be specced to handle actual firing pressures.
So you might be able to fire one live round in that fake pistol, but you'll wish you hadn't.
This reminds me of a true horror story out of Washington DC from several years ago. There was a crowd of people who thought they had a big four-lane road to themselves late-late one night and they were using it for drag racing. Dozens of people standing in the road, watching cars face off...when a guy in a Crown Vic (who was either sleepy or'd been drinking a bit, although his BAC was below limits) hit the crowd at 50+ mph. Killed several, including by dismemberment. The Crown Vic was white and there were visible blood sprays across the hood and roof in the newspaper photos I saw.
Doesn't he look like he's about to whap the guy with it?
Alternatively, he looks like Jerome holding up the mirror for Morris Day during a Time performance.
Why not? There was a trip to a resort in Costa Rica included!
Seconded.
And add to that the Corvette-chest hair-medallions connection.
I get what you're doing. Sorry...not playing along.
I once shot a tick that I saw stalking me (no, really...it was honestly coming for me).
And then (unrelated) the day that we brought our third son home from the hospital, we had gotten him dressed in a sleeper suit, put him in his crib, and my mother in law and I were admiring him when a tick crawled out from under him and started working its way up his leg. I was ready to set the room aflame after I got it off of him, just in case there were more.
Geez, you're right. And the standard wheels on the SX are so good-looking. This is just weird...WTF, Kia, you were doing so well?
They don't do it like NASCAR does. Besides, McLaren+Mercedes don't count because that's the chassis+engine...of COURSE that gets mentioned.
That'd be like criticizing Tony Stewart for referring to his car as a Chevrolet.
I have yet to see an American woman not get very interested in F1 after I showed her a picture of Jenson Button. So there's that.
