First off, you mean Season 5.

And when The Office gets taken off of Netflix this year, what will they watch? 

I can’t say I see the appeal of settling down in my car for a Stranger Things marathon—but the option will be there for people who spend a lot of time just sitting in unmoving cars.

Seconded. It’s got a year round warm climate, so no road salt, so no frame rust.

Oh it certainly won’t be cheap. Carbon fiber, low unit volume, and testing to verify it doesn’t shatter the windscreen on a strong twist would make sure of that.

Thinking about it, I think you can go with a simple triangular piece of rigid material (CFRP/aluminum/steel), with latch points at the stock door latch, and two additional latch points mounted to the stock door hinge points. The door handle would then have cable to unlatch all three roughly simultaneously.

... this is the first time I’ve ever heard of an MGB’s crash protection. It had that?

Okay, so thinking about it, it could ALSO be a performance upgrade for something like an MGB.

Presumably this car, like a lot of high end sports cars, will have a default ride height that is low enough that potholes and speedbumps will damage the front splitter without raising the front end. This is partly due to the relative fragility of splitters (Small changes in shape can significantly reduce aerodynamic…

... or because it’s Top Gun, and the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (AKA Topgun) flies F/A-18s now?

(this would come in handy when navigating Detroit’s poorly-maintained roads)

... yeah that’s pretty lazy too. At least it’s kinda helpful, I guess, if you’re not from the area? Which, I mean, why would you be reading the SF Chronicle if that’s the case. Unless you just moved there, but then I’d think you’d cut out the middle man and go to Yelp yourself... yeah, that’s pretty bad.

To be fair, the tires were probably worth more than the Lada.

“Person has opinion” articles like the WSJ’s are the laziest form of journalism.

ITER? It will not be a viable electrical production facility. It’s a research/proof of concept reactor intended to help continue to refine tokamak designs. It will almost certainly be a viable ENERGY producer in the sense that it will output more thermal energy than input, and probably at a ratio greater than the…

ITER is designed to run for ~16 minutes at a time, however that’s the production of thermal output. To generate electricity, it would have to be hooked up to a steam loop which cools the fusion chamber, and could be designed to buffer the gap between runs storing the thermal energy in an insulated tank after cooling…

Fusion, despite all the jokes about how it’s “the power source of the future, and always will be”, is actually really close to the point where it’s a reality.

to pledge to have operable, usable nuclear fusion by 2029 or so

I see what you are saying, but counterpoint:

Great Scott!