I've owned two of them, a '71 and a '76. At 36-50HP (depending on year) they don't have nearly enough power to be dangerous on-throttle in a turn, and to be completely honest, the later-model ones (after they changed from the swingaxle design to the CV-based design in '69 or '70) aren't even that twitchy in trail-braking through a turn. I only spun mine once, and that was when I was really coming into a turn with way too much speed.

During WWII, VW produced a number of jeep-like vehicles for the German army (they were the inspiration for the Type 181 aka "Thing" in later years) and some of the later Kübelsitzwagens were built with AWD. These were quite popular with the Afrika Korps in Tunisia.



Ok, but if the universe is both finite and expanding, then what lies beyond it? What space is it expanding into?

This is the kind of thing that honestly keeps me up at night.

 

But what if once you reached that end, you found out there was another sidewalk, and when you reached the end, another one, and another, and another.

Just because you reach the end of our local universe, doesn't mean it's the end of the universe.

 

The mega-universe obviously. Which is infinite.

 

What exactly is a "local universe"? Everything contained in our "universe" is considered a universe. Anything we find the further out we go is just more of our universe. Unless you somehow found a way to some kind of parallel universe, separate from our own.

 

We are located in our local universe. Which is inside a mega-universe. OBVIOUSLY! Can we just make this a thread or what.

 

Me too Joe, me too. My best guess would be nothing lies beyond it. No matter, no space or time, just nothing. I'd love to see that leading edge of expansion, I bet there is some mind exploding **** going on out there.

 

Says who?

And yes, a thread relating to space would easily fill my day and night here.

 

I remember the first night I thought about this is college very well.

 

Yeah, somebody make this into a thread ASAP. I'll bring the "Through the Wormhole w/ Morgan Freeman" episodes.

Also: theoretical time travel. OOO YAY

 

Says me! There really is no right or wrong answer...

 

It's Lupus. It's never Lupus here so maybe it is there.

 

Well, there is a right answer, we just don't have it. But there are good and bad hypotheses relating to this sort of discussion.

 

If you are insinuating that my (not really mine, someones) hypotheses is bad, please elaborate.

 

 

No, I am not. I'm just saying there are well informed guesses, and there are way out of left field guesses. Could the way out of left field guess be the actual truth, sure. But there is probably a better chance that the well informed, much discussed and researched guess is correct. Meaning a hypothesis that magical pink ponies created the universe with glitter and plastic forks, is what I would consider a "bad hypothesis". Where as a hypothesis coming from a well educated scientist who has devoted his life to research, is probably considered a "good hypothesis".

In short, there is a correct answer out of the nearly infinite wrongs. There are also good and bad hypotheses relating to the workings of the universe.

If this thread is named anything but "Space, the final frontier" you all should be killed.

 

:brain malfunction cant compute infinity: brain made for finitive surroundings, no survival benefit to compute the infinite.

As in, the human eye only sees a small part of the light spectrum.

Bring survival benefit (hard), wait two million years (boring), get answers.

Or just get really really cool supertelescopes, have stable psyche.
Edit: and hope that the border to nothingress radiates

 

Finally, a picture.

 

Freedom of speech does not protect people spreading rumors that Lil' Wayne is in the building:



**** is worse than yelling fire in a crowded building.

 

 

You miss the point of the image, and therefor you fail.


Edit: on a side note, I regret posting that picture.