Ace-Garageguy

Just for the record, Boeing's "Starliner" spacecraft has been plagued with technical issues that have prevented it from returning to Earth. The round-trip was supposed to take a week, it's now been over a month, there's no known date when it might be able to make it back, and it looks like one of Mr. Musk's space vehicles might have to save the day...though both Boeing and NASA are understandably trying to play down the idea that astronauts are "stranded".

"Joints" in the above definition of "articulate" used as an adjective describing a jointed thing (and as an adjective in that context, "articulated " would be preferable), doesn't have anything to do with "articulate" used as an adjective as it applies to speech; "articulate" can also be used as a verb meaning "to provide movable joints".

HOKAY...I do have a Merit Vanwall VW-2 F1 builtup from the same series that came in fairly recently. The real car's wheelbase is 89.3" That would be 3.72" in 1/24. I measured the model at 3.688". I'm happy to call a .032" discrepancy, less than 1mm, "close enough". EDIT: Interesting trivia aside is that Frank Costin, responsible for the Lotus XI's aerodynamics, was also the body designer of the English Vanwall F1 cars. Also interesting is that Vandervell switched from Cooper as chassis builder to Colin Chapman (Lotus) later on.

I have one I'd normally be happy to measure to verify the scale, but it's about 2000 miles away, being in the first group I moved to the place out West. I DO recall looking it over carefully when it came in, and it looks good for 1/24. As I said, the XI is a tiny car. Its overall length is only 134", or a little over 5 1/2" in 1/24. Wheelbase is 85", or about 3.5" in 1/24. Width is a hair under 60", or just under 2.5" in 1/24. Tiny, and easy to see why somebody who doesn't know the cars or who's math-challenged might think it was a smaller scale. Of course, one of the reasons the early Loti were so fast with small engines was because of their diminutive size and low weight.

"FIRE!!!" can have different meanings.

AND... I see Model Roundup lists it as "1/43". WRONG. The Lotus XI is just a tiny car. EDIT: Scalemates gets it right: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/merit-lotus-xi--937112 EDIT 2: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235115433-merit-kits-124-lotus-11/ EDIT 3: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235080187-lotus-xi-merit-124/ EDIT 4:

Yes...but some of those Merit kits aren't extremely accurately scaled. EDIT: but they DO look right displayed with other 1/24 scale models.

Towers built of structural steel members usually employ insulation to protect the steel from heat-related deformation and possible collapse in case of fire.

Emergency responses can very often be made unnecessary by conscious thought and responsible behavior.

Thing like a bone with holes in it swimming in your soup might be a rat pelvis, depending on where you're dining tonight.

I'm with Pete. Don't really want to know what it is but a twinge of morbid curiosity is calling me to "cheat" to find it.

Money may not buy happiness, but it sure makes being unhappy more comfortable.

You sound like a pretty good dad to me, trying to teach the kid about saving money for stuff he wants, and taking personal responsibility for fixing stuff he buggers, and generously helping him to achieve his goals. But a few good teeth-kickings from the real world teach a human which side the bread is buttered on and who his friends really are and what matters and what's just shiny useless fluff...maybe...eventually. Sadly, I know people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s who are every bit as clueless, as well as being physically and fiscally helpless, and gullible...easy prey for any smooth talker who comes a-knockin' on the door or calls 'em on the phone or puts up "health" content on YT just to hawk do-nothing supplements and snake oil. How some of these folks survived to adulthood, much less "senior" status is quite beyond my comprehension. Oh wait...it's just because there aren't any predatory beasts these days to eat the terminally stupid and willfully ignorant, and more's the pity.

Kits for DIY brain surgery might solve a lot of problems in the long run.

No disagreement there. My "boomer" generation bears a lot of the responsibility for the dogawful mess the world is in today. I can't really elaborate for possibly running afoul of the board restrictions on "political" speech, but in general, we had it pretty easy compared to previous generations, and a lot of us failed to learn much of what we should have learned and passed on to our offspring...and likewise their offspring learned even less about reality, values, responsibility, and behaving like adults.

Sunshine ain't the same as moonshine.

"Goes to jello in a handbasket" is what happens to a place when most people look the other way, pretend nothing's wrong, and just try to keep their heads down.

Real sorry to hear that, Carl. Hoping it gets better for you.

Easy. It's a BarfCar.

Ad-nauseam means "puke-inducing repetition".

Easier to start from scratch to build that. Nothing there is Mustang or Ford GT.

Fishing for compliments and praise is a large part of what the web is used for.

Fabricated or manipulated evidence is known as "lies".

Treatment for numerous maladies that have been repeatedly PROVEN to be effective, safe, and cheap, are STILL denied by the medical establishment, mainstream media, and social platforms in spite of easily verifiable evidence.