"Motors" - revving up again

ACCURATE

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/visions-of-nuclear-powered-cars-captivated-cold-war-america-but-the-technology-never-really-worked-180985437/

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That pesky thing hovers over my neighborhood for a couple days at least once every fall. It is much louder than you might imagine, and well, annoying. :woman_shrugging:

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The one we met was up high enough to not be loud. Just flashy AF.

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Well, fuck.

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Hambledon (noun)
The sound of a single-engined aircraft flying by, heard while lying in a summer field in England, which somehow concentrates the silence and sense of space and timelessness and leaves one with the feeling of something or other.
(Adams, Lloyd - The Deeper Meaning of Liff, 1990)

I get that from airships.

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Persuading your gullible sister that the sound of a burner on a hot air balloon is a dragon – priceless.

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I think I just saw one of those.

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Perfect for delivering a pope.

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there’s no OTA patching your way out of faulty drive inverter MOSFETs

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Big-Baby Musk car that must be babied—or else.

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Dangerous. That tire is so close to those nails!

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That one from BoingBoing (2023). Your post re the blimp? I am diminsihed.

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Aww, I only ever intend to delight others with my stories!

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The sound of a single-engine aircraft reminds me of middle school, afternoons spent doing boring mathematics assignments in a trailer, and watching the second hand tick slowly around the clock. The sound (dopplering?) overhead was a welcome distraction…

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No problem. :blush:

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