Why would you want to keep your engine running anyway?

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I live in Northern Alaska. It often stays below -30°F(-34°C) for weeks at a time, sometimes reaching below -55°F(-48°C). Rarely does anyone so their engine below 0°F (-17°C) here at the pumps.

I can see many reasons to do so, your vehicle is an easy theft target, wasting fuel, pollution, a super rare chance of combustion from fuel vapors, etc. But there is no definitive YOU HAVE TO moreso than why you can't legally cross the road when the red hand says you can't, even though you see no cars and it probably will be fine.

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I looked it up I had the 270 right but it's 270 newton's which is about a 90 pound draw weight

>Mama says stupid is as stupid does.

Hey, I heard you invested in some sort of a fruit company, how is it working out for you?

> Because that would mean that renaming an executable to an .jpg and having someone open it in said software, executes the file.

This couldn't happen, an exe file can't just run when loaded by a piece of software it would have to be explicitly interpreted as an executable program which Windows does to files named .exe but which some random image viewer wouldn't if you renamed it to jpeg.

Instead if would just check the file contents against the image formats it knows, and then give up when it doesn't find a match.

Your bones are constantly being broken down and built up! For an archer, that’s a lot of force on the skeleton in a very asymmetric way, meaning there’s tell tale differences in their bones.

https://kriii.com/english-bowmen/

Any decent application that open a file will check if it is in correct format by checking some predefined markers in them. For example every bmp file starts with BM, pngs start with PNG, JPEG and variant contain some text like JFIF inside of them, the they continue with specific information like format version etc. this kind of information is not limited to image files btw, exe files start with MZ for example, zip files with PK, rar files with RAR

It's what you can't see that you need to worry about. The vapour from transfering gasoline drops down below your car and will end up all around your engine bay, a spark could easily occur in this area (from a shorting ignition wire) igniting the fuel vapour and potentially the fuel going into the tank, and the fuel in the tank. Should this happen you will have an extremely bad day.

With the engine switched off there's no electricity going around in your engine bay and so no real chance for sparks. Accidents will always happen, but prevention can reduce the frequency by a huge amount, and that means lives saved or at least not destroyed.

Still. A 600 lb block that’s barely moving still has a lot of momentum to it

In ELI5 terms, does a draw weight of 50 lbs mean I need to be able to lift up a 50 lbs bag of sand with one hand?

What does deformed mean here? I thought bones were pretty rigid and arrow shooters would only gain more muscle? I could imagine the muscle being unequal when comparing both halves of the body.

Why wouldn't you? You're not using it to go anywhere.

Something people had neglected to mention. For many file formats (especially image file), inside the file, there will be a header, a piece of data that tells you information about the file, including explicitly what format it is. So the application can tell easily what file format it is in despite the wrong extension name.

Many file formats have what is literally called a "Magic Number" at the very beginning of the file. If the program sees that magic number, they know it is that file format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures

A couple of decades ago when I was in high school, I had an old beater Chevy Cavalier. The starter died on it and my dad thought it important I change it myself (something I definitely agree with now.)

Except he saved a few bucks by buying a rebuilt one figuring it was fine as they had a lifetime warranty on them. We learned after I put in the 5th one why that warranty was so critical.

Point is: I never actually trusted that car to start. So I always parked on a hill and when I couldn’t, I left the engine running. So I probably filled that tank for two solid years with the engine running. There were occasionally signs but really, no one ever said a word to me. And I miraculously lived to tell the tale.

(Once we put in an OEM starter I never had a problem again.)

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I'm not gonna lie, he seemed kind of serious.

Not entirely true…

The gas gauge doesn’t always act properly when the car is on for the fueling…often takes 15-20 minutes of driving to adapt…

Is it as simple as not wanting those pumping gas to breathe exhaust fumes?

Pretty sure these stop starts designed their starters to handle the load

Manage a full serve station…It’s STILL a fairly common occurrence…Literally happened yesterday…

Still is today. Especially at truck stops.