“The Flake is covered in 250 carbon fiber pieces, each one connected by carbon nano-tube wires to solenoids. These in turn help the vehicle lay flat or stand up. When the body is laying flat, this decreases drag and increases speed, and when upright, the panels help slow down the vehicle.”
Amazing concept, but it’s hard to imagine a world where this can be affordable enough to make it into production cars; not to mention fixing it when the occasional deer prances in the road.
I hope I live long enough to see this Gundam-esque integration. Talk about awesome.
The anguish of low quality lingers long after the sweetness of low cost is forgotten.
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| — | unknown (via kcmachine) |
If you’re truly “right” in your heart, then you’ll never have a problem engaging in dialogue with those who perceive you to be “wrong”.
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It’s amazing to me that butterflies exist. It’s almost like their sole purpose in life is to display natures beauty.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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| — | Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via chufucious) |
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
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| — | Theodore Roosevelt |
