I think Ned went out with the Groundhog Day movie. Nobody wants to name a kid after the life insurance salesman.

I would think bribery and favors would be a problem for an appointed position, too.

Most bollards are fixed. He’s talking about bollards that raise and lower on command.

I really enjoyed “Webbed” which puts you as a spider in a forest rendered as a 2D platform puzzle game.

I looked it up, and it’s a Michigan State Police thing that dates back to the 40's. It’s basically just a stop sign they can light up when the situation doesn’t call for the full flashy light thing. It’s apparently not used much now, but kept for tradition.

True, but the chance of bumping into them would be rather high if they started a million years ago, which isn’t much time compared to the age of the universe.

I think that’s why doing it when energy is cheaper is important. It will use more total energy, but at a time when it doesn’t cost as much. It also assumes your house has enough thermal mass to retain the coolness for a while. Many houses do not.

Somebody calculated that if you make rather conservative assumptions of no FTL, only colonizing very nearby stars, and only sending a colony once every few thousand years, (things even we should be able to accomplish in that time frame,) a civilization should be able to completely colonize an entire galaxy in a few…

That’s an index finger, not middle.

Not child related, but when I booked my honeymoon flight, (months in advance, because I plan ahead.) I selected seats next to each other, of course. But then they changed the flight four times between booking and flight, and we got separated. It’s not always as simple as “do it ahead of time.”

If it tips over you just buy a new one. Just another quarter million.

Also, none of the launches studied here are from methane, which burns much cleaner than RP1.

95% sounds right. I was trying to make a conservative guess. Hence the “or more.” Just making the point that gas stations that serve suburban commuters will see less advantage to support EV charging than a station on major freeway routes.

I think Superchargers already comply with the power level for NEVI, so they just need to give them CCS cables and a way for the public to pay. (Current Superchargers are automatically paid through your car’s Tesla account, so they need to add a credit card interface.)

There’s nothing stopping a gas station from adding a few chargers in the back. They just have to actually want to, and beef up their utility connection.

They’ll just increase the item price to cover shipping.

Not sure about Walmart specifically, but some other large retailers will require a fixed price for a length of time, perhaps for a full year or even two. So they might not be able to recoup those extra fuel costs for quite a while.

I had never considered cart etiquette from that perspective.

Depends if it’s on a subfloor, or a slab. A slab crack could indicate something happening in the ground under your house, such as water movement. (broken pipe?)

The details are in the article. The sign said 0.699 per gallon. The gas pump said 0.699 per gallon. The receipt said 0.699 per gallon. If I fill up my 12 gallon tank, the receipt would say total $8.39. If my credit card bill says $83.88 for the same transaction, I’m doing a chargeback, and I can send that receipt to…