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Yes its a side by side two seater. There is no such thing as a racing glider. Any glider can race under the class system in gliders.
Either way, the Taurus is never going to be a record setter, side by side has a high drag penalty.

Correction, the Taurus is a self launching glider, not a motor glider. It does claim a 41:1 glider ratio. There is still no way it would set any records for distance, due to,its poor high speed glide.
In gliding, a glider with a retractable propeller of a folding prop is referred to as self launching.

Such motor gliders do not do six hundred mile gliding flights. The beast of them gets just over 30:1 glide angle. Most do not even have a retractable undercarriage.
Nearly every long flight is done in a glider above 40:1, usually at least 42:1. The best modern gliders that set the records are between 60-70:1 glide ratios.
A major factor is the speed at which best glide is achieved. Motor gliders are usually around 55kts and lucky to be 10:1 at 100kts, whereas ballasted glider only or self launching gliders can still get better than 30:1 at 100kts.
Motor gliders are basically a bit better than normal light aircraft.

The gold standard for laminar flow aircraft is gliders. Modern gliders can achieve laminar flow up to 95% of chord on the bottom surface, and around 40% on the top surface. Any waviness across the direction of the airflow of more than .004 inch can cause the boundary layer to detach, and form a separation bubble, at the rear of which the flow re attaches as turbulent flow. The bubble has a sluggish internal vortex.

  Modern gliders place a spanwise turbulator on the bottom surface to force the turbulent transition before a bubble forms, either by mechanical strips of blowing air from small holes fed by a NACA duct.
The air sees the bubble as though it were a bump on the the surface, with the associated drag penalty.

Laminar flow is assisted by the acceleration of the airflow from the stagnation point on the leading edge to the point of maximum thickness of the airfoil. When the flow starts to decelerate, laminar flow is easily lost.
Turbulent flow thereafter has increased drag known as scrubbing drag on the surface, and the friction between the surrounding air and the turbulent flow.
A simple way to look at it is view a wing from the front at a zero angle of attack. The part of the surface you can see can support laminar flow.

Placing chordwise grooves may help to promote laminar flow a bit further, however surface contaminants will quickly render any gains moot. The flow is so easily disturbed that Splattered bugs on the leading edge can rob up to 30% of the drag reduction, so those same gliders have mechanical bug wipers that can clean the leading edge in flight.

Composite wings have a much better chance of laminar flow, in practice metal wing in service required frequent resurfacing to maintain laminar flow. Those with rivets, suck as the much vaunted P51 laminar wing rarely achieved laminar flow to any great extent doe to surface imperfections.

Further info and diagrams here: https://eaglepubs.erau.edu/int...

Does a DoS attack count as prevention?

Shannon-Hartley's theory-- Capacity Limit: As noise approaches infinity relative to signal, capacity approaches zero, meaning reliable communication becomes impossible without increasing power.

So, DoS attacks effectively prevent communication.

Is AI slop a DoS attack? It sure as heck feels that way...

I just bought a used 2021 Hyundai Kona EV, low mileage, for a great price (US$22K). The major factor in the choice was it has nearly all physical buttons and rotary controls.
Very happy so far, range in the city is about 500km (300Miles) and long term average consumption is 11.8kwh/100km (6miles per kwh). Battery at 50,00km has no detectable deterioration.
Being retired, nearly all of my trips are no more than 4-5 miles, a use case modern ICE engines do not like at all.
Still got a turbo MX5 for fun drives!

One of the other products in this vein that works well is Konnected's "Blaq"

With RATGDO (or the one or two other things that do the same thing), you can:
- View status of door
- Open/Close door (this includes positioning it to some position, like 5% up, or 50%, etc)
- 'Lock/Unlock' the RF side. RF stuff is relatively insecure, so being able to 'lock' it is helpful

And you can do all of this without cloud, without paying subscriptions, and without worrying about the vendor going "poof" (open source is cool that way) and leaving you stranded, and without requiring an app (the device serves a basic webpage that you can access from your LAN (or IoT lan)).

You can use it with (local!) home automation like Home Assistant too.,

A few fine examples out of literal thousands of his sharpness, energy and persistance.

“Think of it, magnets,” Trump said at a January 2024 rally in Mason City, Iowa. “Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

“First they say, ‘Sir, how do you do it? How do you wake up in the morning and put on your pants?’” Trump mused. “And I say, ‘Well, I don’t think about it too much.’ I don’t want to think about it because if I think about it too much maybe I won’t want to do it, but I love it because we’re going to do something for this country that’s never been done before.”

“So many mistakes were made” ahead of the Civil War, Trump said. “See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died. So many people died.”

Trump went on to suggest that concerns about his legacy might have prevented Lincoln from embracing the lessons of The Art of the Deal.

“Abraham Lincoln, of course, if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was,” Trump said. “He would’ve been president, but he would’ve been president, and he would have been — he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln.”

I don’t need anybody’s money. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s money. I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich, I’ll show you that in a second. And by the way, I’m not even saying that in a braggadocios that’s the kind that’s the kind of thinking you need for this country.”

No, it was ~45% democrat and ~55% republican from what I've read.

You can always choose to go live in some other successful society where no one has any requirement to pay for the common good.
Admittedly I'm unaware of any such, and they may not exist, because the game-theory of such a society causes it to collapse rather quickly.

There are plenty of places in the capital cities, where 90% of us live.