Nothing like seeing a Porsche 911 GT3 with 40 cars behind it, going 5 mph under in the HOV lane with everyone stuck for miles on the wrong side of the double yellow (in SoCal) when the normal lanes are moving at 10 over. And then seeing a (probably) 70 year old man driving, and a 20 something blonde in the passenger…

The Pantone Pixels people have a prior copyright claim, so Vimeo is clearly in the wrong. The problem Vimeo has now, is that they set a precedent and the Pantone Pixels people can rightfully claim that the more recent movie “Pixels”, infringes on their copyright.

In the 1970s, the solution to many of the pollution problems was a clean exhaust that instead of producing carbon monoxide, would produce “harmless” carbon dioxide. Eliminating carbon dioxide as result of combustion, is very very hard. “Very hard” translates into, “it’s going to take time for alternate technologies…

Ironically, your cheapest source of elemental hydrogen is refineries, which get waste hydrogen in the refining process.

It converts greenhouse gas into fuel, but when you burn that fuel, it becomes a greenhouse gas again. It’s not really helpful ultimately, unless you get ALL the fuel in the world made that way, and you’d at best be maintaining the status quo even when you’ve created a closed, net zero additional tons of carbon dioxide…

Yes. And no. It’s more like a redneck themed Burning Man, because appearances are really deceiving. A lot of people there who look like rednecks, wear a suit and tie during their work week. The Harley big twins have cost well over $10,000 for the last 20 years, and most Harley owners also own a car, SUV or pickup…

Most people I know who go there, ride all the way (not trailering their bikes), and camp. If you don’t camp at the Buffalo Chips campground, you aren’t experiencing Sturgis to its fullest.

It’s going to be filled with captured storm drain water that is not potable. One of the ideas of the river project, is to use plants to clean the water so that during storms it doesn’t create an ocean born plague when the water is released into the ocean. Also, if it succeeds in cleaning the water, it makes it more…

Terraforming Mars requires bombarding it with water heavy impactors: comets or asteroids. Terraforming Mars will definitely destroy it as we know it now. It would probably turn the entire surface molten for a time. But that will have nothing to do with plants.

Replacing the atmosphere of a planet is so far beyond the technological capabilities of our civilization, that by the time we can do that, we can custom create any plant to grow there. Hell, we’ll have the ability to engineer plants that will grow in Mars current atmosphere long before then.

Others believe that the hatch is not a door, and that it’s hatch-ness is a distinct non-door form.

What that illustrates is actually the doppler effect. Unless the motorcycle is approaching the speed of sound, the low frequencies radiate in all directions at the speed of sound which is much much faster than they are traveling, and are reflected off of other vehicles, forward, at the speed of sound.

I always try to wave a sincere “thanks” when people do this. Subject to the conditions at hand, which might require both hands on the bars and full concentration. The people driving pickup trucks up ahead with four wheels on the rear axles, will do the opposite.

The problem VW has, is that “German Engineering” means nothing to Americans anymore. It isn’t worth a premium price for economobiles.

I almost always hear a loud pipe motorcycle before they’re about to pass me. In a lanesplitting state, that’s not insignificant. They’re annoying, but they’ve saved a bunch of bikes from having to take evasive action when I was considering a lane change in my car.

When solar becomes cheap enough to require all roofs on new construction to be constructed of solar panels or roofing tiles (which also have the benefit of being fire retardant), and all roof replacements also being solar, we’ll be getting somewhere. Also, when battery storage also comes down to $25 a kilowatt hour.…

My wife has one. The manual makes all the difference in the world, even with the base engine. The amount of things you can stuff into a PT Cruiser with the rear seats out is mindblowing. Is there any other vehicle under 170 inches in length that you can fit more stuff into?

The broadband RF noise from a typical Tesla coil would disrupt all sorts of radio transmissions. They would definitely have to work with civil authorities on a design that didn’t compromise radio transmission or reception.

These days, it’s not the forms that I resent, it’s that they aren’t on web sites where I can just fill them out and hit “send”. Every form I get is in PDF and is locked (or never had the spaces where data goes, enabled for that), so you can’t fill it out on a computer. Or they’re not designed for that. They’re…

If you slowly sweep a laser across your lawn, sometimes you find spiders that will follow a laser pointer. They’re not as enthusiastic as cats, and get bored even faster, but it can be fun for awhile if you’re really bored. Little jumping spiders seem to be the ones most likely to follow.