The radiator would quite obviously be external to the cooled chamber. The volume of the cooled chamber increases as the cube, but the radiator would not be on the interior of the structure. Plus, radiators are typically using folded 2D shapes in order to maximize the surface area, although in this case, a large sail…

Oh, I know they thought of it, and for now, given the size of the river and budget, it’s not feasible (using cooled containment). But I do think it’s feasible, given a sufficiently large rover. Like I said, it would be much bigger than even the largest rivers ever landed on Mars or the moon, but volume scales with the…

For a first Rover, this sort of (very cool!) automata / steampunk might be useful. Eventually, though, I think we’ll need to use active cooling if we want to do more in-depth exploration.

“the ship has tits. Space titties”

Your silhouette for class 5 looks a lot like Colonial One from Battlestar Galactica.

Are you kidding me? Beating a discriminatory DMV and forcing them to give my my plate, and $150K (which they had to pay him) seems like a fantastic thing to do in retirement.

Hahahaha, there are multiple ways to interpret that!!!

Forcing the Kentucky DMV to do the right thing, and stop being bigoted against the non-religious, seems like something worthwhile to me.

Wow, well, I don’t know where you live and work, but I’m betting it’s not in the Pacific Northwest. Are you in the Bible belt or something?

As someone with a degree in mechanical engineering, which required three semesters of physics, not to mention dynamics, fluid mechanics, and other fun subjects, there is NOTHING in the laws of physics (“high school” or otherwise) that preclude vehicle fleets from achieving that target. The Toyota Prius, a hybrid, is…

I've been saying for three years, that the reason Trump's reign of cruelty and maliciousness hasn't been worse is that he's comically inept and appoints stupid lackeys. This is example #263

No, they really aren't. Full stop.

It (“Left Behind”) has a 1% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Meaning the producer probably voted. On the other hand, Highlander 2 has a 0% tomatometer rating. I love the title of the Highlander II page: "There should have been only one" Hahaha

This is one of only two movies I’ve ever paid to see in the theater, and then walked out before it was over. The other being “Left Behind” which I foolishly didn’t google before walking in (and didn’t realize what it was actually about).

“A lot of traditional automakers would kill to have an EV program with the level of development and interior technology that Faraday is offering.”

I really like Kristen's repeated looks of shock, lol. You two really need to go junkyard-diving again in the summer, though, the snow was basically hiding 80% of everything!

I also have this bag, in brown, which I got on Amazon for $36 last summer. It’s a good laptop backpack, and it’s been to half a dozen states, the UK and Canada so far (work travel). Six months or so of constant use, and nothing’s broken, and I still like it. I really like the extra zipper compartment on the inside of…

I also have this bag, in brown, which I got on Amazon for $36 last summer. It’s a good laptop backpack, and it’s…

I ran into this last summer. I had never paid MSRP for a car, much less over that, but the Kia dealers in the Portland, Oregon area that had one of the few Telluride SX’s were all asking for a markup, in some cases, $5k over MSRP. I ended up finding a dealer in Washington state, in Puyallup, willing to sell an SX…

I wonder if anyone has looked into importing Soviet-era farm tractors from the late 1980s or 1990s even (so, post-Soviet era, but generally based on Soviet era designs). They were generally legacy designs, but some were produced up until the early 2000s, and didn’t have all of the electronics and digital systems. So,…

I love stories like this. I wish I could somehow get back the games I wrote on my commodore 64 in the late 1980s. Venus Lander III (blatant rip-off of Lunar Lander, but after I put it on all the school’s C-64 floppy disks, and people were playing it all the time, I got in trouble), and my assorted text-adventure…