Even funner fact: They actually DO have a wet weather tire. And a windshield wiper. And a rear flashing red light. Tested in Xfinity series the past couple years and used in the Cup series for the first time this year at COTA. It turned out to be a disaster, though, really. I think they hope was instead of a light rain killing the race, they could run wet weather tires. Instead, it rained fairly hard, and the problem wasn't traction. The problem was the drivers couldn't fucking see. So, they ran into each other.
Ahh... so they've upgraded recently! I remember the race in Quebec: I also laughed when all the "super grippy" shoes that the crews were wearing were super slippery, so you saw a ton of pit crews sliding all over as well.
They did it in 2008 https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/nationwide/news/story?id=3516393 And in 1997 https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19971126-1997-11-26-9711260009-story.html So I feel like we are due a rain race at any time now.
Just finished wiring up the Airstream with the Starlink... it's working better than I was expecting. Now have an HDMI switch to go between XBox, PS5, Switch, AppleTV, and blu-ray player... and the 3 TV's in the Airstream, iPad, laptop, and phone, all streaming online content... had amazing performance.
Yeah, that was the lowest speed/throughput, but the best ping time. I was seeing upwards of twice that throughput at about 45ms ping.
It was calling out specific servers. That ping time was for a server in Chicago. I was getting 45ms ping times for a Shaw server in Winnipeg.
Fuck me, i dont even get that through my wired internet. Man it sucks being the end of the line in the middle of no where.
Those are so nice and modern. No wonder it’s the top-rated one, it looks like a movie star trailer on the inside. People expect retro and it’s more akin to Stringer Bell’s apartment.
This was the view I had from the Queen sized master cabin in the front as I was wiring up the AppleTV for the 3 TV's. Again, it doesn't suck.
it occurred to me that with the frequency of these space launches now, and how they're broadcast, just law of averages at some point we are going to witness a catastrophic failure live. Hopefully it won't result in loss of life and the emergency escape rocket systems work as designed, but there's a non-zero chance that this will happen eventually right? If not even probable? I would really hate to be watching one of these with my boys and have to explain why the rocket ship just went boom