Sigh. Once again the secret to a healthy long life, is exercise and diet.

Also, electric assist bicycles are allowing older people to ride again in areas that aren’t flat and have a lot of hills. Or for people who are starting out overweight and would be quickly discouraged. It’s still exercise, but the hills aren’t…

If they blow up satellites that shouldn’t be where they are because they present an impact danger, blowing them up will create shrapnel flying in unplanable trajectories that could guaranty damage to other satellites.

They would need to capture and de-orbit the satellites, which is expensive.

The “Too small to deploy” regulation is archaic, stupid and needs to be replaced with a transponder based tracking system.

Smaller satellites are better for a lot of reasons: lower mass, more satellites can be parked in orbital paths, cheaper launches, greater competition, etc.

None of this excuses Silicon Valley’s…

If you’re not flying first class now, you couldn’t afford “coach” back then.

I like the center console. And a motor per wheel is how all non-economy electric cars will be made. It makes sense in every way. With that set up, you can run the right and left wheels in opposite directions to make nearly impossible parallel parking possible. And traction control that is impossible in any other…

Even as a recent ex-Californian, I resent California being associated with Pittsburgh or Florida. There is institutionalized dumb in that city and state. I think California does its best to discourage institutionalized dumb. Which is why they have so many state colleges and universities.

But I think you might need to…

Jesus fuck. This dude is the Wreck It Ralph of politics. Except for the hands.

Hey, midterm elections are only a few months away.

Seems disappointing. With the same horsepower as a Chevy Bolt, it goes 0-62 in 9.3 seconds, vs the Bolt’s 0-60 in 6.5 seconds. I realize there’s a 2 mph difference, but not 2.8 seconds worth.

Also, I live in sometimes snowy Washington, and want an AWD compact SUV that goes 0-60 in less than 6.5 seconds. Having driven a…

That exact description of weapon I believe is banned by international treaty. Also, since warheads are armored against re-entry heat, the explosion would still have to be pretty close to the warhead. With thin or no atmosphere, the energy would dissipate rapidly. Same as the problem of using a grenade approach to…

Harley sells new bikes to middle aged people. And they have since I can remember. The old crop of middle aged people gets old, and a new crop of middle aged people discover them.

But for Harley, it always comes in waves. There’s a boom-bust cycle which has a lot of people who bought Harleys selling them as they age…

I’ve got 68,000 on mine. It’s 18 years old. I’ve had it since new. My wife has a 2012 Road King she put 32,000 miles on. After losing her old Softail in a high speed 7 vehicle crash at night on I-10 in West LA. And that bike had 65,000 miles that she put on it.

Most of those ads with low miles are dealers. Those…

Ford has needed a Fusion ST for years. Although a Focus Electric ST would be amusing too.

Living in a part of the Puget Sound where we get maybe three days of snow a year, makes it really hard to justify winter tires. Even if I go up to the mountains to snowboard a few days a year. Kind of frustrating, because it’s impossible to justify the cost of winter tires and wheels, and taking up storage space with…

NARF!

2/3 of Americans supporting legalizing pot, means nothing if 1/3 of those stay home, think both parties are the same, or refuse to vote for Democrats because of DNC actions meant to slow down Bernie, when it is election time. Jeff Sessions would never have been approved if Democrats ruled the Senate, for a lot of…

“Destroyed”implies “unrepairable.” Which is not the case with the McLaren. The repair is expensive, but not a huge proportion of the cost of the car.

Your belief that what you’ve learned in economics, holds true in the real world, is laudable. However, other competitors don’t exist. First, most cable companies were given a monopoly in most jurisdictions. The same with hard wired phone operators. Their fiber and cable land lines cost a fortune to install. And it…

I think you’ve hit the crux of the controversy. Parents in Oregon have told their children for years that if they don’t study, they’ll wind up working as a gas station attendant. The gas station attendant is the lowliest form of employed person, and I think a lot of Oregonians think that they are above such a person,…

I would certainly consider buying a used 2014 Chevy Volt for around $14K or less. They’re a pretty good car overall, and they have nice torque for an econo mobile. As the battery wears down, the engine will do more lifting of course if you don’t replace it when the time comes.

What would be nice, is if when these…

Pumps on the West Coast won’t even pump unless you have the nozzle inserted all the way to a rubber vapor recovery flange, or hold the flange back. It’s a pain in the ass for motorcyclists.

I’m not sure I’ve encountered a gas pump since the 80s that would flow, even if triggered, without being inserted into a tank.