The Stinger trope as used in popular culture. A name for any postcredits scene. Its often used as a type of Easter Egg for people who stick around for the. Im not scared to say it I love a good Subway sandwich. My dad used to take me to the only Subway in town after we went grocery shopping, and I remember tracking. GameTrailers is your destination to see official trailers first. Powered by IGN, you can expect to see worldfirst exclusive gameplay and the hottest new tra. This Might Be The Weirdest Engine Rolls Royce Ever Made. Rolls Royce is known for a lot of things, but daring technological weirdness generally isnt one of them. Thats why its so surprising that they made an engine that, when described, seems like a string of the most unlikely adjectives you can link together a Wankel with two separate rotors but not a twin rotor Diesel made by Rolls Royce. I didnt even realize Rolls Royce experimented with rotary engines, let alone Diesel rotary engines, but thats exactly what they were doing in the late 1. The goal for these engines wasnt the wildly expensive luxury cars we normally associate the Rolls Royce name with, but actually were for their military vehicles division. An article in the December 1. Autocar describes the engine in detail, and its fascinating. Blockbuster Movies Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg Of The King ' title='2010 Blockbuster Movies Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg Of The King ' />Its a Wankel rotary with two rotors, but the two rotors are not co axial as in a traditional twin rotor engine. Instead, its basically like two siamesed rotary engines, one atop the other, with the lower rotor and combustion chamber significantly larger. This is because the engine is a two stage engine, with the lower, larger rotary engine acting as a compressor for the upper engine, which is the one that actually produces power. The Wankel engine can work in place of a conventional supercharger or turbocharger to compress the air fuel mixture because a rotary engine is inherently a positive displacement machineessentially, that means the intake chamber has a larger volume than the exhaustdischarge chamber, so the mixture within is compressed. In the case of the Rolls Royce Wankel Diesel, the fuel air mixture is first compressed by the lower rotary, and the output of that engine which would be like the exhaust valve of a conventional rotary sends the compressed dieselair mixture to the intake of the smaller upper rotary engine, where its compressed to ignite like a regular diesel engine. Rolls Royce seems to have spent a lot of energy and resources on figuring out how to solve apex seals issues and other technical hurdles, and ended up producing at least four test engines, not counting the modified NSU Wankel they used as a testbed The first RollsRoyce development engine was the R1 which was conceived purely as a research tool. With a compressor stage of 1,1. Theres a long history of Civilization board games, from a 1980 title that kinda inspired the video game series to a number of versions in 2002 and 2010 that have. The classic US stereotype of attempted Iranian ideological indoctrination via chants of Death to America and such has been old hat for quite some time. As noted. RollsRoyce is known for a lot of things, but daring technological weirdness generally isnt one of them. Thats why its so surprising that they made an engine. O. 5lbbhphour. Among other things, it was used to develop the best interporting arrangement between the two stages. The R2 engine was the alternative three stage layout, built but not investigated in detail. R3 refers to a combustion stage only, which is being used as a basic unit to build up a range of engines it has a displacement of 1,2. The remaining engine of which details may be given is the 2R6. This is a military engine formed of two banks of a twostage engine. Each high pressure combustion stage has a displacement of 1,2. The design power is 3. To minds and ears used to gasoline engines, 9. GM Duramax V8 Diesel makes about 3. Starting in 2001 and finishing in 2011, each of the seven main Harry Potter books was put to film. The films star Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert. Diesels need much heavier crankcases to withstand the high compression, so they tend to be heavy. It doesnt seem like the Rolls Royce twin rotor Diesel Wankel actually ever made it into production, even on military vehicles, and I have no idea if Rolls ever had some engineer feverishly planning a Diesel Wankel Silver Shadow, but I really, really like to imagine it. Subways High Tech Redesign Is Bad and Wrong. Im not scared to say it I love a good Subway sandwich. My dad used to take me to the only Subway in town after we went grocery shopping, and I remember tracking my growth based on how much of the toppings I could see over the tall counter. Now, it seems, Subway wants to ruin that experience for future generations. The global chain of faux bodega sandwiches announced a flashy restaurant overhaul on Monday morning. Its called the Fresh Forward design, and currently, its being tested in 1. United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Also, the redesign is bad and wrong. Subways plan to introduce touchscreen ordering kiosks is especially bad and wrong. Among other reasons, Subway is fun because you get to work with a Sandwich Artist to construct a floppy log of meat and veggies before your very eyes. You can see the meatof dubious origin, Id addconveniently laid out on sheets of wax paper. You can inspect the veggiesof dubious age, Im surejust chilling and waiting to be installed on your footlong. Not all Sandwich Artists are cheerful, but hey, at least you two are coming together to create a quick and affordable lunchtime experience. But now, Subway wants to put stupid touchscreen kiosks in its restaurants. Watch Full Head Over Heels 2002. They look like the ones you use to get tickets at the movie theater, except sandwich related. Listen to this. You build your order on a smartphone app or kiosk, send it to a work station which, according to Subway, may be in the backroom and then a faceless human slaps together the ingredients without you, leaving you to pick it up at the counter. Like a zombie The new ordering process reminds me of that Starbucks app that lets you order and pay for your coffee from your phone. Even then, you usually have to speak to a barista to make sure youre picking up the right cup of bean water. This new Subway situation sounds unusually anonymous and, frankly, anti American. The restaurant redesign also includes the addition free wi fi, USB charging ports, whole tomatoes on display, and a huge new logo glowing on the wall, lording over you. Subway calls it a Choice Mark. So presumably, you sit down with your laptop or phone, drink in the free internet all day long, while ordering sandwich after sandwich from an app and picking up your food by a damn kiosk where you can order more food. All the while, the Choice Mark looms over your choice filled experience, celebrating a future free of face to face interactions. I dont feel entirely hopeless. After all, the Subway redesign is still being tested and tweaked. Andas the Choice Mark logo suggestsyoull also be able to choose how you experience Subway. The traditional Sandwich Artist experience with the counter and the meats and the veggies isnt going entirely for now, and you dont have to use the smartphone app if you dont want to. Its the principle of the thing that gets me, though. Here goes another vestige of my 9. Maybe Im being conservative, clinging to the past like this. Maybe, in the future, well get all of our meals from apps and kiosks. Maybe we wont even eat food any more, instead drawing our sustenance from daily transfusions of youthful blood. Maybe Richard Nixons head will be president. Anything is possible, I suppose, even bad things. I want to give the new Subway design a chance and plan to do so next time I visit my hometown, Knoxville, where one of the demo restaurants is already up and running. In the meantime, Im following that signature stink down to my local New York City Subway for one last Spicy Italian, a delicious sandwich that I will watch a human being construct with a limited but distinct sense of artistry. Better do it now, while I still can.