Low Earth orbit is within 200mi of the surface of the Earth. The speed of light is 640,000,000mph; it takes light 0.00112 seconds to travel 200mi or just over 1 millisecond. It only takes light 0.146s to travel the circumference of the Earth (which is also about the distance to geostationary orbit).

Indeed, I can pay local, state, and federal taxes online in under an hour.

It is unconscionable that voter registration, renewal, and address changes cannot be done online in all 50 states.

All my friends are from autocross or the track, they only drive fast on course and have excellent car control. I don’t put up with childish antics in the car and as a track instructor and the chair of my SCCA region’s Street Survival program I’m more than qualified to critique from the right seat.

They should be able to get better performance at higher altitudes as long as they keep the batteries and motors cool (dry ice between runs maybe). The reduced drag might help knock of a tenth or two.

They don’t have to care about the midwest because there aren’t many people there. The states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, both Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri combined have nearly the same number of people as the New York Metro area (23 million), or about 7% of the US population.

The US Civil War was as old to our grandparents as World War II is to us (1865 to 1940 was 75 years and 1940 to 2015 is the same 75 year interval). My 94 year old grandfather was born closer to the assassination of Lincoln than today.

All the official corner stations for Laguna are approved for safety by multiple sanctioning bodies, so if this happened at an official corner station it really isn’t anyone’s fault (the sanction bodies and the track will have to reevaluate the positioning of the corner stations and barriers). If the barriers or corner…

The c5 Corvette was the last real Corvette, and they've only gotten worse since, said no one ever. 

He had to write an apology letter to his friends about getting drunk and angry enough to ruin a dice game during an outing (while reminding them to keep the details of the events secret, even from their spouses).

He had to write an apology letter to his friends about getting drunk and angry enough to ruin a dice game during an outing (while reminding them to keep the details of the events secret, even from their spouses).

I was a Junior in HS during 9/11, on the day my AP US History (Civil War to Present) teacher refused to turn on the radio/TV so that we could find out what was going on.

I’m a high school physics teacher in Texas, today a Junior (16 year old) asked me if the US had been in any wars since WWII.

I hope "sexy rape survivor" becomes a trendy costume this year.  /s

I don’t know anyone who’s blown an NA motor who didn’t raise the redline well past 8k rpm. With aero can slicks you’ll want a baffled pan, but that’s true with any platform. You’ll have fuel starvation issues due to the tank design way before you have oil issues (there’s an $80 drop in part that helps but doesn’t…

The BRZ’s 2.0L started out with 200hp and in 2017 was bumped to 205hp.

There should be a follow up march a couple of months latter so it can be a March march.

Except that the whole job of the judiciary committee is to conduct these hearings and ask the witnesses questions.

This is the only solution to the bus driver shortage that has been raging across the country for the last 25 years. How else are we supposed to recruit new bus drivers if we don’t train them when they’re young?

Indigo was made up by Newton so that the spectrum had seven colors because he was into alchemy (same reason the musical scale has 7 parts).