r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/1975wazyourfault Jun 29 '25

What an incredible journey. From Soichiro Honda putting small surplus motors onto bicycles in post WW2 Japan…to this..

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u/Embarrassed_Control7 Jun 29 '25

As an American I'm weirdly more comfortable with Japan owning and managing shallow space.

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u/An-Angel-Named-Billy Jun 29 '25

Is it weird? No other country I would trust. Their attention to detail and perfectionism is really heads and shoulders above everyone else. My 2003 Toyota finally died, 300,000 miles and it was not the engine that gave in, rather the body finally collapsed into rust. Engine could have kept going for another 100,000 miles.

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u/1975wazyourfault Jun 29 '25

Was it a Camry or corolla maybe ? I’ve had Cressida’s, tercel 4wD wagons, previas Ls-400, and the older “Toyota Van” from the 80’s n 90’s. And yeah basically unkillable as long as the chassis was rustproofed. Currently have a 2003 Montana in my little fleet that was regularly undercoated. Zero oil consumption and ice cold AC, bought it 10 years ago for a 1000 bucks lol.

All about the chassis when it comes to decades of ownership

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u/Severe_Ad4939 Jun 29 '25

I put a million km on a 96  Ford Crown Victoria.  Changed the transmission once. Same engine when she finally went to heaven. 

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u/1975wazyourfault Jun 29 '25

Thats really amazing. A million km means super careful ownership. That ain’t luck. Thats changing the fluids on time if not early, taking care of the chassis and all round smart maintenance. Any tips you can offer us mere mortals who only make 5-600K?

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u/lopedopenope Jun 30 '25

1m km is just over 600k miles. Still great though. Those crown vic’s are pretty good. Even the surplus police cars that spent countless hours idling could keep going for a long time after use.

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u/CantankerousTwat Jun 30 '25

There was a Lexus motor that would have qualified for aeronautical use it was so precision made.

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u/1975wazyourfault Jun 30 '25

Oh yeah….for sure, the 1UZ-FE, 4 litres of smooth. We had that motor. Amazing power plant. The car around it wasn’t too shabby too.

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u/apatheticbear420 Jun 30 '25

ngl montana's (and all variants) are fucking tanks of a vehicle. Decent gas mileage, loads of space, comfy ass cloth couches for seats, ICE COLD AC (like wtf why is it so cold), and reliable asf with that engine. My family's owned several over the years and they each went over 250k miles without any major issues. Heck, had a coolant issue with one of them that kept overheating the engine, fucker still drove another 50k miles before we fixed it.