I like the way you think, you can have a spot in my O’neil cylinder (colony). And I promise it’ll be on one of the good ones and won’t be used in a “colony drop”.

Asteroids are best for the heavy elements, especially metals. Iron, Nickel, Palladium, Iridium, Platinum, and Gold those types of elements are easy and abundant. Rare Earth’s aren’t any more abundant in asteroids than Earth’s crust (the heavy stuff sank deep into the Earth’s interior and were only replenished from…

We only do it for people who can pay for it. Need is irrelevant without funds, and we do have commercial scale desalination plants in places like Australia, Spain, and Israel.

Asteroid mining for Lithium sounds like a bad idea (it is too cheap and abundant on Earth to ever be worth harvesting from asteroids). Of course, if you are building stuff in space, using local materials is always cheaper.

We won’t be able to fuse He, requires much higher temperatures than H (and if we did, we’d use the triple alpha process which yields Carbon). Lithium is used as a fusion precursor (fuel) in hydrogen bombs. Lithium as degrades at high temperatures, which is the main reason it is less abundant than it would otherwise…

If lithium prices go high enough, we can obtain it from sea water and mundane mineral deposits. Lithium is relatively common, just not in high concentrations or economically viable forms.

Then why did the Republican Party nominate him to be their candidate? He is literally representing the Republican Party.

That’s pretty good braking data, for most cars the limiting factor are the tires. Recent use of “low rolling resistance” tires as standard equipment has resulted in an increase in stopping distances. With my sticky tires I can stop from 60mph in under 100' (I’ve also recorded 1.4g’s of lateral acceleration, so we…

Your dealership should refill it everytime they inspect the muffler bearings. Both are specialty jobs that require special certifications.

I see the “work” the local trucks do. They park in the high school parking lot (poorly), and in front of the suburban McMansions. You would decry their detestable disuse as much as I do if you were here.

It is actually a Limited model and came fully loaded with all the available options. However, I bought it after the new model year came out so it was orphaned and I was able to negotiate a substantial discount from the dealer (it was the end of their sales month and fiscal quarter, so they were highly motivated to…

I did race my WRX, over the first 3 years of ownership I averaged 26mpg (including autox and all forms of driving over nearly 50k miles). After deciding that I could do without a 4 door sedan and realizing that tracking the WRX would be more trouble than it was worth I traded it in for a BRZ, which is cheaper to run…

I would love a rational debate, you did not provide one.

I think we are in agreement then. My issue is solely with people who use the extra big trucks as cars. The header image was of a truck in town on a paved road without a trailer. The videos show a much more rural setting with a clear agrarian vibe. My only rebuke was that you claimed to not remember seeing an F450 used…

We were talking about Canada (Alberta is in Canada), you made the claim that I do not know what I’m talking about (which was the usage of trucks for commercial purposes citing a specific example from Canada). Where you are from has no bearing on the topic.

The F450 has an empty curb weight of over 8,000lb. It cannot brake or turn as well as a car (because physics). The speed limits are the same for the truck, which often have braking distances nearly double that of a car. If I stop for a yellow light and the lady behind me is in a giant truck, she will hit me (I always…

I bet that guy trailered that terrible car with an unnecessarily big pickup.

You seem to be validating my position for me, thanks.

I live in the DFW Metroplex (Dallas, TX). People used to use pickups for work, but then Regan became President. I spend most of my time in the suburbs and the city, and there are trucks everywhere. The old ones pull lawn equipment and building supplies. The new ones go to soccer practice and Starbucks.

Everyone knows that the WRX’s will all blow their own headgaskets soon enough. You don’t have to regulate them off the road, just wait for them to self-destruct.