Damn time machine! I set it for June 19, 2016, and it dropped me off in the middle of May.

Toyota SHOULD lose. They don’t take anything they learn from racing and put it in their cars anymore. At least that’s Porsche’s thing. Where is Toyota’s answer to the Focus ST and VW GTI? Where was its response to the Mazdaspeed 3? Where are the performance versions of its down market cars?

So glad to see the Ford GT…

Every time I hear about racing organizations limiting the fastest car so slower cars will have a chance, I think of this old Kurt Vonnegut short story.

Because what the general public knew about rockets was what this one looked like, and it seemed like a likely design.

Dyson sphere doesn’t have to be that large if you build it around a white dwarf.

Might not be so monstrous if you want to expand your population dramatically, and keep it within a practical economic zone. Especially if you have artificial gravity or can manufacture neutronium and don’t need to spin the thing for…

Yes. If you keep a constant eye on it. But we can’t do that, since other astronomers need to book time on the observational instruments. So you look at it one year, go back to look 5 years later, and it’s gone. Then you have to do a wider field survey to look for a semi-sun, or the output of a ship star engine, or…

What do we call the body’s self repair mechanisms? Or the body’s ability to spot tumors or diseased cells and remove them?

Freedom from diseases caused by something that causes diseases in others, is generally the definition of “immunity”. When you’re immune to bubonic plague, it’s not that you don’t get bubonic…

You could always make the PT into a cargo trailer.

My wife sold her PT Cruiser after almost 10 years, when her gauges had momentary itermittent problems, spaced days or weeks apart. Carmax lowballed us, so I don’t feel too bad. Hope the new owner got a Carmax warranty. Before all that, it was really useful and sometimes fun, since she had a 5 speed.

The PT was replaced…

At 84, it seems like many people’s immune systems lose the ability to fight cancer in general. So if he made it to that age, any number of things might have been the cause. 84 is older than average for passing.

Most people are immune to cancer, many people are immune to most cancers, but that immunity drops sharply…

There could be super efficient Dyson spheres all over the place, that you can’t see because they use every bit of energy. A white dwarf would be a good candidate for that, since it would output a lot of UV that would be more readily convertable and not be so readily converted to heat.

If you were around a white dwarf…

How do you know they aren’t constructing a Ship Star, and when complete the sun becomes an engine that drives them around the galaxy? We’ll be looking there centuries from now, and it won’t be there anymore.

Maybe it’s the artifact of a planet getting destroyed by a Death Star. Destroying something and leaving a lot of debris, is a lot easier than building a gigastructure of some sort.

I’ve been pretty certain for years that our first discovery of advanced alien civilizations would be massive devastation, gamma ray bursts…

Someone should be studying the service people still alive, to figure out “Why?” Their bodies have developed immunity and repair to radioactive damage and resistance to cancer that is not average.

So, I can scratch BMW 3s and Ford Focuses of my list for my next car.

The animals are learning how to open car doors. Next thing you know, they’ll be driving around town in Ubers, to pick up a little snack.

With the loss of medical technology, transportation and fuel, I’d expect about 90 percent of the world’s population to die off in the first year.

People suffer just from minor economic downturns. Nuclear war would be an entire economic collapse. Gigantic holes in food supply, loss of pharmaceutical production, eventual…

What’s unusual about this oxygen, is that it was created outside of star formation. I haven’t read the paper, but I’m assuming outside of the pressures and temperatures you find inside a largish sun? Our oxygen comes from stellar and supernova nucleosynthesis.

This isn’t so much a major source of oxygen in the…

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I think Volkswagen talking about electric vehicles is hysterical 8 years after they told everyone that hybrid cars and electrics were unnecessary.

The Cadillac ELR should have been great. It should have had a more powerful motor than a Volt. It should have had a bigger battery than a Volt. It should have had a larger engine than a Volt. It should have been faster than a Volt. It looked like it should have been faster than a Volt.

It should have been able to stand…