There’s a severe lack of understanding of sliding friction vs. static/rolling friction in this thread. Once those cars (all four of them!) hit that ice spot (or steeper grade) and started sliding backwards quickly (indicating steep grade), they really were screwed, just like the tow operator said. While rolling, there…

AH no.. Hitting the gas would not have helped. Only a set of true winter tires or a set of chains would that slowed the Land Rover Down. And just to be extra clear Winter tires have the mountain-snow flake symbol on the side. Mud-Sand-Off Road tires do not do well on ice.

No, you get both the “touchscreen” option (the official way of shifting), and the lower, never-shown, “touch light” options. Very dumb.

Though, to be fair, you could always use the Beta option of letting the car decide which way to move you. That’s always fun:

Yes. In SC it's capped at $300 a year, not sure about NC. Our roads are terrible, especially in rural areas. On the bright side we have really low gas prices. I'm not sure it's worth the trade-off but they don't ask me.

I mean, none of that sounds uncommon for what happens to shared property in a divorce. If the genders were reversed, we wouldn’t see any problem with a lesser-earning woman making a claim for all or part of a marital asset like the house. The law pretty much says that it doesn’t matter if one spouse makes the money…

Why are fire departments using water to extinguish battery fires? Wouldn’t that be something they’d teach on Day 1 of firefighting school?

Imagine knowing you are going to burn to death, because you cannot open a door beside you. Before you argue there is a manual release, think about the situation and literally being on fire. Think you will find that lever? I’m not a Tesla fanboy, or hater, but that’s just awful.

You cannot truly be stupid enough to think that people who don’t like Kanye are giving Trump a pass. 

Dude, no one thinks Kanye is speaking for the black community. No one.

It’s probably not aliens but I do think this sort of thing happens fairly frequently in the age of homebrew drones, and they’re just leaning into publicizing it after the Chinese balloon and to distract from the situation in Ohio.

Why would our allies (as it were) call us out since they’re probably privy to the information gathered.

Just wait until they find out about the A-12, SR-71, and U-2 programs.

not to mention that there’s series like The Big Bang Theory where one of the main characters wears a Flash shirt regularly. It’s a pretty well known symbol. 

...because we did such a bangup job detecting the first, larger one?

My RV has multiple antennas. Including one for two-way satellite communication. It ALSO has large solar panels that quite certainly _could_ power “active intelligence collection sensors.” Am I living in a Chinese spy balloon?

Whatever they lied about has already been discovered. Hence the lying to the FBI indictments. Read the Mueller report for yourself. How many people were charged with anything close to “collusion with Russia”? ZERO!

“So, is this poster for a movie called Worlds Collide?”

Why should we believe anything coming from the FBI or the State Department?

And what communications would they be intercepting exactly? If US military communications can be easily intercepted and decrypted by a balloon, then there are surely some bigger questions that need asking, amirite?

Also to be fair, if you think we weren’t pointing the biggest, noisiest, baddest assed EMR generators we had at that thing while it was anywhere near a sensitive location, I’d like to talk to you about investing in my new NFT launch (hashtag definitely_not_a_rug_pull).

oh, well, if the FBI says they found new evidence that our major geopolitical rival has been spying on us, it’s definitely true and not a blatant attempt at manufacturing consent for the coming war with China that the government and military are clearly and openly salivating over.