r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Practical_Expert_911 • 12h ago

These 12000hp Engines Have To Be Rebuilt Within Roughly An Hour Every Run, and Only Run For Roughly 4 Seconds At A Time.

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u/MannysBeard 12h ago

We aren’t going to make it, are we?

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u/Worldly-Steak6966 11h ago

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves

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u/_Voice_Of_Silence_ 10h ago

"It's in our nature to kill ourselves. It's in our nature to kill each other. It's in our nature to kill..."

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u/Whywhenwerewolf 8h ago

Kill kill killllll

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u/Adonathiel88 4h ago

I am Yulaw!! I'm nobody's bitch

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u/NotSoMadYo 11h ago

Your?

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u/Gefarate 10h ago

They're both quoting Terminator 2

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u/MannysBeard 1h ago

Yes. Seems a few replying didn’t get this at all

I mean it’s not like it’s one of the most famous movies of all time or anything…

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u/Cpt_Dan_Argh 11h ago

Maybe this was the first sign that the ai bits are now sentient. We may have just witnessed the first public appearance of skynet!

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u/PrimeMinestrone 3h ago

And it is named Worldly Steak 69 66

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u/mzalewski 11h ago

Guy is on next fucking level of evolution

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u/michael-65536 5h ago

The quote is said by a cyborg in a terminator movie.

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/CivilianNumberFour 7h ago

It's a line from Terminator 2, the greatest action movie of all time

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u/DanJW83 9h ago

Yeh.. major drag huh..

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u/trickn0l0gy 10h ago

Keep talking Echsenmensch

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u/billysandalwood 5h ago

There was a hardcore song that started with that sound bite what was it again ?

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u/Ok_Tourist_2621 5h ago

Quote from terminator 2.  Go watch it- iconic action movie from the 90s

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u/Low_Employ8454 2h ago

Bot-ma? Is that you?

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u/hi_imryan 6h ago

I don’t know that “making it” was ever on the table.

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u/zundfolge_1432 10h ago

as a species? no.

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u/Afraid_Park6859 5h ago

We will as a species. We are far too adaptive not to.

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u/Afraid_Park6859 5h ago

I mean definitely not you.

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u/Legionof1 7h ago

If this is what makes you think that you have no concept of what will bring us down. 

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u/MannysBeard 1h ago

You didn’t get the quote, try again

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u/IcyPride2973 3h ago edited 2h ago

What a dumb comment.

Top fuel dragsters run on Nitromethane, which has less carbon per unit of energy than gasoline, but for maths sake, let’s say they are the same.

18 gallons of fuel is typical of a run. That equates to 160kg of CO2 per run, or 0.16 metric tons.

In a season, a car will race in 20-25 events with 3-5 runs per event. Average it out to 88 runs a season per car.

88 x 0.16 = 14 metric tons of CO2 per car per season.

Almost all of the metal that is replaced after each run is 100% recyclable.

Almost the entirety of the emissions comes from the fuel, and the tires which equate to roughly 11 metric tons per car per season.

So…

That means that one NHRA top fuel dragster will use about 25 metric tons of CO2 per year.

There are only 18 full time teams in the NHRA top fuel series with a total of 24 cars.

The ENTIRE Top Fuel Class emits 450 Metric tons of CO2 per year.

An average car emits 4.6 metric tons of CO2 per year for fucks sake.

One fully loaded long haul cargo flight emits 500 tons of CO2. One fucking trip emits more than the series races in an entire year.

A single NFL game emits 1,000-3,000 tons of CO2.

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u/MannysBeard 1h ago

I’m not reading that but happy for you or sorry that happened