This competes with other hopeful technologies, which also claim similar benefits: Magnesium-ion and Dual Carbon, and honorable mention to possible improvements in supercapacitors that might make them competitive with the other new technologies.

I would debate about the “know something about cars” aspect. Rather, enthusiasts know what they know, and try to fit all the round pegs in square holes.

That car was extremely useful, in a way that no other car available at the time for anywhere near the low price, could be. Especially in a manual. The rear seats easily pulled out, yielding a large floor surface unimpeded by the rear seats, which was relevant to our interests...yet the car was only 168 inches long.…

And your keyed paint? Because that will happen to you, guaranteed.

However, the gasoline car you buy today will never get cleaner. The electric car you get will get cleaner year after year, especially if you can get the Republicans out of state offices, the House and the Senate. Even if not, many plants will likely be converted to natural gas.

I agree. I want Daylight Savings Time all year round.

For every level of driving skill, there’s a rear/mid engine Porsche that will try to kill you if you don’t know how to drive a Porsche. Especially with unexpected lift off oversteer in turns.

Which came first?

No. The activity to build it, still no. Think of all the mass of the rock beneath, for miles down. That building would be a flyspeck.

Who would propose a 2 mile tall building in San Francisco?

I can’t find a flaw in this list.

Very conservative timeframe on most of those predictions involving autonomous cars. But mostly

Sadly, it is an unwritten rule that science fiction movies can never be raised to the same status as any serious film. There are a few SF films that should be in your list as equals, that just rolled out of your head, but are not if you came out of a film school.

But you are defending the driver. By pointing out the biker broke the laws, you are saying in some way that he and his innocent passenger deserved what happened to them. Because if nothing at all had happened, they would have totally gotten away with these minor infractions, and that is intolerable to you.

Correction, it’s 2015, not 1995.

That is because Apple has a sweet relationship with art schools, and students are repeatedly told that “Macs are better for artists”. Which was true enough from 1992 to 1996, but beyond that it’s a myth.

I know people who work on Cintiqs for their employers, who are buying these to use at home for work and their own projects, because the stylus is so good.

Butterfly effect. Messing with time produces grievous unintended consequences.

I keep telling you guys. Fate will never allow us to drop carbon enough to reverse global warming. The frozen methane is already melting, forest fires are going to be more common. It’s going to come down to solar infrared radiation remediation, or space sunglasses.