Mars is right next to the asteroid belt, where there are plenty of icy asteroids we can slow down and smack Mars with. Which we should be able to do starting in 20 years or so.

They don’t have to be giant world killer asteroids. But if they’re the size of a house, you’d have to dump thousands of them. Aiming for the…

We should stop talking about “Dyson spheres” and talk about more practical structures like Ringworlds. Which would be millions of times easier to build.

Also, we’re most likely to find Dyson Spheres or Ringworlds around white dwarf stars, which last trillions of years before they’re too cold. And those will be real…

The answer is, if aliens are building technological megastructures, the only limitation that matters is the technology we have to view distant objects. We don’t have the resolution in our equipment at this time to actually see or detect such structures, only to infer its existence.

If you want to imagine that an…

Many people who own Teslas, live in LA’s hillside communities. Where the roads are as curvy as The Snake, are steeper, and are often off-camber, and have a house on the outside of the curve.

What the rest of us call “fun”, is part of some person’s commute, and is on a road that is no where near safe enough to have…

That system sounds ridiculous. If you’re going to go with a performance torque converter, maybe consider a performance electronic CVT?

Remember when it was common in gearhead circles to consider ALL electric cars, slow, wimpy economobiles?

Any time governments partner with private companies for a basic service, it ends in tears and scandals within a few years.

Electric motorcycle for fun is also possible, but I’d still wait a couple years on that.

According to the fancy GE commercials, trains and cleaner and more efficient powerplants are a big part of their work.

The problem is, the more established the industry, the greater the lag time of replacing and updating equipment. All of those things are being addressed, but the cycle time for equipment obsolescence…

Industrial and agricultural emissions can’t be significantly cut according to whom? The industries affected only claim they can’t be cut. And it’s fair to say that some can’t be cut yet, because we need a battery slightly larger than a diesel tank, to be able to use the power they currently use. That’s about 8 years…

And converting most of our powerplants to natural gas.

It’s true. I could live with a 100 mile vehicle. The farthest I drive in my sales calls is about 40 miles. My wife could also get away with it, with a 52 mile round trip commute.

However, let’s take a single part of a single freeway: I-405 in Los Angeles. Parts of it handle 379,000 vehicles a day. That’s just one…

That is one of the most Wal-Mart-customer stories I’ve ever heard.

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So, if you run a stop sign when you’re sober and kill someone, no charges are filed because it was “just an accident” (“I was completely sober and hit her car anyway, and that is not as bad as being drunk and hitting her car”). But if you do the same thing and you’re drunk, it’s usually “vehicular homicide” or…

Maybe price. It’s like when the Focus ST was compared with the FRS/BRZ. Very different cars with very different purposes with the only thing in common being that they are an enormous good time to drive. In my case, the M2 is just not practical. The RS is, for the most part.

Lost truck retread.

It was definitely a “pull over to the shoulder, catch a breath, and examine my life choices” moment.

But I have another “lost load” tale that is a lot more harrowing, and caused me to draw on my account in the “good luck bank” for a decade. But it’s a longer story.

Is driver’s ed still available in high schools? I was under the impression that it wasn’t, and I think that’s the big problem.

The laws that don’t hold people who “lose their loads” responsible in any way once the debris hits the highway and stops moving, does not encourage securing loads properly.

I was riding behind one of those glass trucks where they have the glass hanging off the side. I kept my distance. The truck hit a bump in the…

Someone saw Foodfight! and decided “I can make a better, dirtier version of that!”