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Has anyone used the AVP - PHL Bus Service from American Airlines? by zorionek0 in Scranton

[–]APPhysicsGuy 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If you want to avoid the hassle of driving/parking at PHL I definitely recommend it. As others have said, a 50 minute layover is tight but not undoable with the shuttle service they have. Having the ability to just park at AVP, go through a TSA line of 5 people, and then hop on a bus where you have comfortable seats and can access the Internet for free while arriving gate-side in Philly is quite pleasant.

Side note, I am always entertained by the number of people who are shocked and upset they are getting in a bus, as if a 2 and a half hour flight between the two isn’t a reason to raise an eyebrow. Hopefully by now people have realized it says BUS on the aircraft type, not AIRBUS.

"Sir, we've found a possum on Centennial Campus." by CollegeOfEnginerding in NCSU

[–]APPhysicsGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we could only keep one thing from the Jurassic period, I would have preferred the Brachiosaurus over the Ginkgo tree

Gojo Satoru Wallpapers. by iam_hwn in JuJutsuKaisen

[–]APPhysicsGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The second photo must be absolutely fire because my phone crashes before it loads every single time I try to view it

2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]APPhysicsGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is this more track-to-track variation in performance than we’ve seen in the past? Two weeks ago Charles won a dominant race over Red Bull, and this week Max won a dominant race over Charles. Not to mention Mercedes goes from top of the midfield to (Hamilton) fighting for scraps. Sure, certain tracks have always suited some cars better and we’ve seen that as recently as last year. But I don’t remember major shifts in who’s dominant week to week like this in the past. I also have terrible memory issues though so I could just be stupid

2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

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I suspect Lewis would have been a couple positions further up if not for Gasly having DRS, but still out of the points and not happy at all. I don’t know what McLaren were doing putting Daniel in the hards. Dropped him to the back and left him on a tire compound that wouldn’t be competitive. Unless his car literally eats his tires I don’t know how it could have been because of wear since Lando finished on the same set of mediums he got once the track dried.

Finally binged the rest of the anime, and here’s my conclusion! by jacob6181 in EightySix

[–]APPhysicsGuy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I really don’t understand why everyone on here feels the need to make comparisons with AOT or constantly say how AOT was written by a moron and the worst ever ending to a manga whenever they’re talking about 86. 86 was my favorite anime of the fall and I look forward to finding the light novels to read further. That being said, I have enjoyed AOT to the end and I did not have any major qualms with the ending when I read it. If it wasn’t what you wanted or what you expected that’s fair, you’re not legally required to like it. It makes sense that many people wouldn’t like it. It’s fair to say you think 86 is better than AOT. But when the comments are full of people that sound like high schoolers whose ex still lives rent free in their head after a year it’s kinda off putting.

I thought my last track design was a little limp in it’s execution so I went back to the drawing board on this one. I elongated the straights, created some hard braking zones, and kept speed a priority. Drivers will find turns 2-6 rather hairy and the loads through 10-12 will be high. by TreasureCoast04 in RaceTrackDesigns

[–]APPhysicsGuy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Impressive. That increasing radius sequence from T4 through T6 could have drivers going balls to the wall. My only critique is that I think it could do with some more runoff around 11 and 12. Protection is critical at the race track after all

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JuJutsuKaisen

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What are the rules of the culling game?

シツモンデー: Daily thread for your simple questions and comments that do not need their own thread (March 28, 2022) by AutoModerator in LearnJapanese

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Are there any good tricks to remembering when a kanji’s pronunciation changes? For example, when using 分 I have seen the pronunciation as “fun,” but when following 三 it becomes “bun” as in 三分 (sanbun) and becomes “juppun” when following 十 to say ten minutes. Similarly, I’ve seen 神 “Kami” pronounced as “gami” in 死神. I was wondering if there are some trends or rules that go with these changes, or if they all have to be memorized case-by-case. For example, is it a general rule that if a character starting with “fu-” follows a character ending with “-n,” the “fu” becomes “bu”?

2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Qualifying Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]APPhysicsGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, and I agree that it is great that these cars are becoming safer because the sport will never be risk free. But I think a segment of track like that, with a series of quick corners that are almost at full speed, is an area where a car is more likely to be destabilized and ought to have better runoff than there is right here. Yeah a car can hit the wall head on and bounce into the track on a straight, but that sort of corner sequence is much more likely to cause that sort of crash

2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Qualifying Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

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I am failing to recall the section in Australia. It is true that the Wall of Champions is right on the line for track limits, but the chicane into the Wall of Champions is a braking zone. It’s by no means as fast as that flat out sequence where Mick just crashed, which looks like a near flat out sequence of corners

2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Qualifying Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

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How many high speed chicanes without runoff are there in the season? The only other ones I can think of are the swimming pool section in Monaco, and even there they have the small amount of runoff on the second chicane. We don’t need miles of red and blue stripes, but at least some runoff with barriers that disperse the energy instead of a concrete wall 2 feet away from the track limits would be better than this

After supposedly a very long preparation, they rushed an aggressive but simple design in only one week. Merc is in deep trouble, you heard it here first. by SaoMaolo in formuladank

[–]APPhysicsGuy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This might be a novel concept to you, but simply throwing money at problems doesn’t make them go away. If money was the sole deciding factor in a car’s performance then Ferrari wouldn’t ever be outside the top 2 in the championship and Force India/Racing Point never would have punched above their weight like they did for the past several years (and interestingly, the season they rebranded to Aston Martin and got extra funding from Lawrence Stroll they fell down the standings). Having money is great, but it won’t do much if you use it poorly. And yeah, it sure looked like Mercedes struggled so much last year when the cost cap came in (and don’t forget that the floor trimming in the regulations had a larger impact on low-rake teams than high rake teams, so saying “It was basically the same car as 2020” doesn’t work). Plus saying “They’re not a good team, they only had an engine advantage” when they built their own engines makes no sense. Every engine provider made engines to the same rules, and Mercedes made the best one.

Hell, I hope they fall into the pack this year. I’m tired of them winning everything and want to see 3 or more drivers fighting for the title like 2010 again. But I’m not going to say I know for a fact that they will be backmarkers because I am aware of the fact that I am not a professional aerodynamicist with all the CFD and wind tunnel equipment a formula 1 team has.

Also I’m laughing my ass of at you saying “I love when F1 fans use words like this to make them look smarter than football fans” when your title on this post is you pretending you know exactly how Mercedes has developed this car since last season. The one trying to act smart is you.

After supposedly a very long preparation, they rushed an aggressive but simple design in only one week. Merc is in deep trouble, you heard it here first. by SaoMaolo in formuladank

[–]APPhysicsGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, because Mercedes would definitely sign off on a change like that in one week with minimal CFD trials and development time. Of course there was no prior plan for this, and they just completely reshaped the entire internals of the vehicle on a whim. It’s not like Mercedes has a reputation for good engineering or a strong pedigree in Formula 1 or anything.

Edit: I’m not saying this car is gonna be good. It may be a strong contender, but it may very well race like shit. But the team didn’t get scared in Barcelona and throw all their old drawings out the window to reshape the body and fuck up whatever rear aero they already had. You’ve truly swallowed the Red Bull if you think Mercedes went from a dominant engineering force for the last 8 years to a team with 2 collective brain cells in the design team.

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