10 minute drive (where I live) is typically 6-10 miles. Average walking speed is 3mph so you're talking over 2hrs. I had to do it once on a tractor and it sucked, and that was doing 10-14mph.

No, we're a bunch of dipshit players who just assume it's locked.

The DM describes some fancy heavy door. Someone tries to listen through the door. Barbarian tries to bash it open but rolls a nat 1 and stubs his toe taking 2 damage. Rogue tries to pick it, rolls a 3 and ends up locking the door. Cleric doesn't even realize there's a door there. Lack of skill continues ad nauseum for 20 minutes.

You are if dad says you are. Totally legal if your parents are with in my state.

A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.

That has to be it. They got drawn in by the beautiful shade of blue they make and gave everybody the experience of welding for 12 hours using only safety squints and a t-shirt.

And for everyone that doesn't know, UVC radiation is the bad kind of radiation (ionizing).

So, as I understand it, a boat (ship) operating in displacement mode is going to be the most efficient, up until that speed. Past that most of the additional power you put in is going into just shoving water out of the way that really doesn't want to, rather than fighting friction. Also it's where the entirety of your ship is trying to climb its own bow wave, so you're trying to push the whole boat up hill.

If you want to go faster than hull speed you need to have a different hull design like a semi-displacement or planing hull. These are a lot less fuel efficient than displacement hulls as well as some other dosadvantages with weight and bad weather, but if you want to go fast they are your only option.

TL;DR: it's sort-of a max speed. It's probably better to describe it as, the speed at which you need to go back to the drawing board for that vehicle.

if it’s a sailboat the wind will be behind them.

Sailboats are fastest when sailing across the wind, called a "Beam Reach"

Like the other person said this is a roll-on-roll-off cargo boat meaning it transports automobiles and cargo trailers. But I believe this specific one only does new cars.

As far as being aerodynamic, on a normal boat having things like biminis up can make docking difficult but with sail boats in general, a draggy top can hurt upwind performance. Meaning if you have some sleek aero superstructure then you might be able to sail 30° from the wind, but a bunch of biminis, a big square pilot house, etc might push you to 45° from the wind.

As an example, this boat might do 45° from the wind and exposed containers might push it to 55°, but that's still better than a lot of old ships which had terrible up wind performance.

There is a different one that's a retrofitted container ship with smaller sails. They do take up the space of a few containers but not many as far as I remember.

Edit: also every spec in this is just an example.

It looks like a garage with a house attached to it rather than the other way round.

My dream house is 80% garage/workshop.

But yeah, this one looks strange. I think because the garage juts out forward.

It's a Ducati 912, it weighs 429lbs and that's on the heavy side of sport bikes.

Even the Boss Hoss which has a V8 from a Corvette is only 1100lbs.

Plastic that isn't in the sun doesn't tend to degrade beyond recognition.

Gee, how did I know it'd be the guy who made a virus to cure his severe lactose intolerance, infected himself with it and then gorged on dairy products to test it.

In this case, "mad scientist" is absolutely on point.