Safety is a big factor but one that is pretty easy to plan for for those who want the speed. Like if you wanna go 60km/h plus on what is basically an electric dirtbike you can just wear a full face dirtbike helmet and gear. It’s still a very good point you make since I don’t wanna put on all that gear for a quick trip to get groceries.

I think for me one of the other huge factors in taking it slow on a bike or with personal transport in general is energy. The energy required to overcome wind resistance also scales with velocity squared. So going 1.4x as fast should require about double the battery capacity. Actually more than double, since the slower you go, the more significant your own pedal power is. I don’t have an e-bike yet, but even without the battery, I can ride so much farther if I take it easy and average like… 15km/h instead of trying for 20.

I thought so. I think I’m bothered by it because the post is about something completely unrelated. This sounds like good news, potentially a sign of increasing food security and nutritional quality, and maybe decreased stress during adolescence along with other factors. And the title instead centers a horrible man and his horrible actions, and the comments don’t actually knowledge these young women either other than as sexual objects.

This post + comments make me uncomfortable. What’s with the implication with trump in the title? And the comments, being horny in response to just a chart about a single physical characteristic smells of fetishization.

Did he kom at least?

I’m pretty sure “Americans haven’t forgotten how…” is just a polite way of telling us we really really should know this.

I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the F-35 does have a MAWS (missile approach warning system) that is designed to detect a missile approaching the plane. These don’t require the missile to be radar guided, they typically instead detect the IR signature of the exhaust plume of the missile’s rocket motor. Also, and AIM-9 should easily be detectable by the radar onboard the F-35, and from the video it looks like the missile approached from the front of the plane which is the perfect position to be detected by the radar. Either the radar was off and the missile approached from a blindspot of the MAWS, or something else really went wrong since the F-35 was just flying in a straight line and not dropping flares (it was flying like the pilot wasn’t aware that a missile was approaching)

Ya know I was thinking about this earlier in the conflict. At the time I thought it was just cope on my part and dismissed it.

Polymarket

I think I understand what you mean by not big hits, but the hit on the F-35 alone seems pretty huge. Even if it wasn’t shot down. If should at least force a change of tactics in the air over Iran. They will have to be more cautious.

What’s most interesting to me is that the plane is flying perfectly straight assuming the video is real. It’s not making defensive moves, and it’s not dropping flares. It seems like maybe they didn’t know that the missile was coming. The F-35’s radar and optical suite should be able to detect an incoming missile. I’m really curious what system the iranians used to achieve this.

Between this and the F-35 I’m suddenly in a great mood

The only evidence I’ve seen so far that it landed safely is a claim by the U.S. airforce. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the hit was real since both sides have confirmed it, but nothing else yet because it looks like the U.S. is lying about losses.

Edit: Okay Iran claims to have only “severely damaged” it. If it was shot down over Iran I’d think that they’d know and would be spreading the word already so maybe it did manage to RTB. There have been many cases in the past of airplanes getting hit by a missile and surviving. It depends on where the missile exploded relative to the plane, how damaging the warhead of the missile is, how robust the plane is to damage, and a good bit of luck.

Thanks! I’m not sure how much the fire snake can maneuver but it otherwise sounds like a slightly larger, longer range version.

Do you know if any countries other than US have developed their own APKWS equivalent? I’d think that with all the drone shenanigans that’s been going on for the past few years would’ve demonstrated the need for a low cost and low performance A2A system like this.

I hope so

Uptiers how I loathe ye

I’m speechless, they’re shooting down drones with MICAs??? Those are very expensive missiles (I’ve seen numbers all over the places but all seem to agree it’s upwards of $1M per missile) and are close to the highest levels of overkill for shooting down drones that I can imagine. These are mean to be used against high value targets like fighter jets, bombers, tankers, and AWACS planes. Not little $20k (less than that apparently) drones.

I thought the Iranian active radar guided A2A missile was called the Fakour-90, or is Sejjil a nickname?

The 13th nonetheless.

I’m not the right person to analyze how realistic this hope I’m getting is. If you want to be brought back down to reality I find this is all that’s necessary to think about:

All the more reason to find ways to resist the USA though, nothing is lost yet. And I remain optimistic about Iran and the broader resistance in West Asia, though I don’t know enough for that to be educated optimism.

With gas prices headed where they’re headed where I live, I should probably look into an e-bike finally. I love my regular bike, and I can travel a good distance with it. But for hauling heavy stuff longer distances or in the mountains, a cargo e-bike would let me leave my car at home all the time.