HS2 was cancelled because bri-ish people knew the project was unfeasable. In addition to sending all of HS2's money to Ukraine.

It's F40PH Friday post some F40PH.
https://youtu.be/GYkJJR_eMws?feature=shared

I've just bought my first car after living my entire adult life (mid 30s) without one. AMA

Space transportation general. Since spaceflight is increasing exponentially, since we are up to at least a launch per week and since we are days away from an industry revolutionizing fully reusable
super heavy lift launch vehicle.

Upcoming launches:

>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2024-launch-schedule/

SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:
>https://x.com/SpaceX

Upcoming NASA operations:

>https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/

SpaceX Mars goal

>https://youtu.be/921VbEMAwwY

>https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/

Starbase 24/7 streams

>https://www.youtube.com/live/mhJRzQsLZGg

>https://www.youtube.com/live/60YnbafD6vY

Starbase tour

>https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw

>https://youtu.be/SA8ZBJWo73E

>https://youtu.be/9Zlnbs-NBUI

>https://youtu.be/3Ux6B3bvO0w

Thoughts?

I am not willing to move to the northeast or Chicago because of crime and how expensive it is but I am gonna move to eastern Europe

Was old London Bridge peak /n/?

You’ve got walking, cycling, ferries, barges, housing, commerce all in the same space.

So we can all agree helmets are a meme, right? It's just a placebo to make you feel safe (and for cars to feel you are sturdier). It's even more useless if you will be riding on a bicycle exclusive lane. It also attends against the inherent freedom of using a bicycle.

Bicycles is worse than mopeds and scooters.
The need to fully straighten your leg when pedaling requires you to raise the saddle high, which leads to a too high center of gravity, which makes the bike less controllable and easier to fall on.
This also makes it difficult to climb onto a bike - on a scooter I can instantly stand up and sit down, on a moped you just have to lift your leg a little, on a bicycle I have to move the pedal to the desired position, stand on it and lift the other leg very high to finally sit down. With a rear rack, the process of getting on turns into hell. A telescopic dropper makes this easier, but firstly, it is not enough, and secondly, they are unreliable, have backlash, the switch takes up space on the steering wheel and needs to be pressed every time.
Very low efficiency relative to the energy expended by a human(not the transmission), which could be spent on a more useful thing.
Pedaling is an absolutely unnatural physical activity for a human that leads to problems with deer, if you want to lead an active lifestyle - go to the gym or hiking.
Bicycle parts are less reliable, break faster than scooters and mopeds, because absolutely everything is brought in for the sake of less weight. At the same time they are much more expensive. This is very clearly expressed in the example of dual suspension bicycles.This is very much true for shock absorbers, tires and transmission. A full-suspension bike is ridiculously expensive, expensive 12-speed transimission and shimano chains that have a resource tens of times shorter than a gearbox with a motorcycle chain or even a CVT with belt
Most digusting is road cyclists with narrow tires, rigid fork and frame, agressive high seating position, AERODYNAMIC clothing. Sane person does not mind spending extra liters of gasoline or watts of electricity on better grip with the road due to thicker tires and soft shock absorbers, on greater air resistance while riding in his favorite loose clothing.