In most jurisdictions, trucks are required by law to stop for the driver to rest every 5 hours or so. You can just charge the vehicle then.
I’ve got shit to do, especially when I’m doing that type of distance.
This is pure cope from a nation that is a long way behind the rest of the world on EV technology. I’ve done some very long road journeys, 900+ km in a day, and having an EV would likely have added at least an hour to that day, even more if I was towing.
The reality: “Nobody stops to fuel their vehicle taking gasoline, gets out, rushes as fast as possible, puts as much fuel in the car as possible, and gets back in the car and drives away,” Cutler said.
This is exactly how I go about my business at a fuel stop. Maybe do a few stretches and check everything on the roof isn’t working it’s way loose, but once the pump clicks off, I’m goneburgers.
Just remember NASA are the ones doing this, not the air force. I don’t think they want to use it as a spy plane, and if they were designing a successor, you’d expect it to be the air force, or someone like DARPA doing this.
Do you know how hard it is to find a concise article about this that isn’t paywalled?
If that was the reason, wouldn’t it be the USAF and not NASA pulling them out of retirement?
If Trump came up with this, we’d have found out about it via Twitter the moment the thought came into his head.
The man tweets everything that comes into his head. If Trump came up with this, he’d have told everyone.
Blackbird didn’t overly the USSR. The U2 did, and they learned the hard way that Soviet missiles went a lot higher than anyone thought.
What’s really funny is the Blackbird was absolutely the cause of more than a few UFO sightings, some that have been confirmed in hindsight.
I think the most likely explanation is something like this, they want data they can’t otherwise get.
Maybe they have done that, they’re just really slow, and not actually any better than what we have?
Terrorism is, by definition, by a non state actor. If a government does it, it’s just a war crime.
That’s my thought as well, they want data for something they’re building.
I’m really hoping it’s NASA doing some really cool science shit, otherwise you’d expect a military organisation to be doing this.
A bomber interceptor is the role that comes to mind for me, a Blackbird could climb to altitude and intercept any bomber aircraft heading to the USA. I suspect the invention of the ICBM put a stop to that though.
Hey, at least it’s not paywalled.
It’s not a fighter, the SR71 is totally unarmed. The SR stands for Stealth Reconnaissance.
Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.
This is a really common, and really stupid argument people make.
Someone will say “an EV isn’t right for me because I do X”
And someone will almost certainly say something stupid that starts with the word “statistically”
I don’t give a fuck about what people do statistically, I care about what I do with my vehicle. And I’m not going to buy a vehicle that does 95% of what my current vehicle does.