For the same price as an Anker, you can get a 15,000 mAh jump starter which you can charge your laptop with as well as having 2 2.1 amp USB ports:

A Scion FRS. It struggled on the uphills on the Malibu canyons when I was given a chance to drive one. The Focus ST won. Would have been a different decision if the FRS had a turbo.

Well that escalated quickly. I guess the time for dicking around has ended.

Well it makes sense, that the Earth’s original composition reflects the composition of extraterrestrial impactors. There’s also the composition of whatever big rock hit the Earth and left us the moon. And the loss of original water due to that impact. Kind of hard to say, “This is the source of the Earth’s water” when…

There are all sorts of relativistic effects to test besides time vs proximity to a gravity well. They can test velocity vs time, and the speed of light vs time vs gravity wells and velocity, and the linearity of light vs the above.

I’ve seen an autonomous Google mapping car in my neighborhood that did just fine with crazy traffic and construction zones and people who just ignore lights and cross the street any old time.

UPS has been trying to get me to move more of my company’s shipping their way.

I can imagine Google and Tesla working with whatever, but Apple Cars will only network with other Apple Cars.

Will these cars be rugged libertarian individualists, each attempting to optimize its own trip? Or will they be part of a socialist collective networked together and sharing information for the benifit of all?

I never let anyone drive my car or ride my motorcycle. In California, the owner is responsible for accidents, NOT the driver. And I’ve seen what happens when you let a friend drive your car and they get in an accident.

You could get a few hundred shots with super low mass projectiles. Say something about the size of a grain of sand. You might not have much mass, but you’d have a really high velocity with a practical power supply size. You might have to have something like the Gattling gun concept with multiple banks of capacitors…

I’m not sure which is more technologically difficult, bombing a planet with comets or building a giant 8000 mile diameter active sunshade. We’re already 10 years too late to reduce carbon enough to stop catastrophic ocean rise and heating without solar radiation remediation. Catastrophic for us and maybe polar bears,…

It’s all an improvement, but it’s still a Lambo, and thus still a silly thing. The question is, will you still be interested in it in 20 years when you can afford it if it hasn’t been wrecked yet.

20 years it will be possible. Politically? Are you kidding? But then again, every manufacturer is pushing for autonomous cars, and may integrated in normal cars like the Eyesight system on Subarus and whatever robotic craziness Tesla and Mercedes are up to. Retrofit kits could follow with anything that has electronic…

Venus has a much thicker atmosphere. It receives a lot more solar radiation. And long before we get to a major runaway, we’ll find it more economically prudent to step up to a type 1 civilization and create a space based solar radiation remediation system.

Not exactly true. Terraforming Mars would include bombardment with water containing asteroids or redirected comets. This would not be a very useful means to re-terraforming Earth.

You do realize that this was exactly the point, don’t you? You aren’t supposed to look at those bones of animals that were trapped in the pits, and just see bones. The sculpture is there to tell you, as a child, and to never forget, that fossils belonged to once living animals. And for mammoths, the loss was…

We don’t need inferior genes to get more stupid. We just need much quicker acting inferior memes.

From their handicapped plates that they only have for preferential parking, to never signalling, to never looking when they change lanes, to using emergency lanes to pass traffic, to taking up multiple parking spaces, to every behavior that says “I’m entitled and you are now, and a ticket doesn’t matter to me at all…

The technologies to protect against high power short circuits have been around for a very long time. They call those technologies “fuses” and “circuit breakers”. There are more sophisticated modern circuit protection technologies that monitor, gate and shut off power flow.