re: car idea
note: rules lawyering about what exactly counts as a "piston engine" is allowed and encouraged. however, the more it resembles a normal car engine the more bonus points you get.
There's a lot of bonus points; you can actually lose the race and still win if your fuel is cursed enough or your engine seems impossible enough. conversely, you can just barely squeak past the Problematicness Requirements with your Crude Oil car, win the race, and still lose to the Random Fragments Of Unexploded WWII Ordnance team that barely makes it across the finish line
re: car idea
safety tip: next time you seize an illegal shipment of ammonium nitrate, don't just throw it in some warehouse to blow up and level half your city years later. instead, mix it with diesel and start a state funded racing team!
re: car idea
introducing the Problematic Fuels Only Racing League! the rules are simple:
re: car idea
ammonium perchlorate powered car. replace the fuel injectors with magazines full of tiny replica space shuttle SRBs
food, gross piss question
imagine you have a garden. you have several lettuce plants, but there's one in particular where all the neighborhood dogs come by and piss on it. this happens at least once a day, throughout the plant's entire life from the moment it first sprouted. it's time to harvest! do you:
just put some hepa filters on the nozzle part it'll be fine. maybe a heatsink on the tube going to the turbine. what do you mean it'll blow up? obviously you have to build it pretty strong, c'mon guys i'm not the engineer here
also, we waste so much effort keeping nuclear power plant reactions under control. why not just
someone's gonna crash a boat into the Barcelona World Trade Center and the blockchain's gonna fork over the resulting debate
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