Intents and purposes. NOT intensive purposes.

There is a regime of applicability for treating the coefficient of friction as constant, and the whole NDT NASCAR flub can be handled without adding that particular complication.

Doubling the normal force merely decreases the peak coefficient by about 15%.

Work On The Nut Behind The Wheel Before You Start Fixing Bolts On The Car

To Finish First, First You Must Finish

Mass is important for establishing normal force, and it is important for establishing the requisite centripetal force. Wow, doubly important because it appears twice, right? But—here's where you lost it—one appears in the numerator and one in the denominator, so they cancel out and the rest of the calculation is…

Next on Jalopnik :

I just started a thread on Kickstarter to open a chain of marijuana dispenaries along these new roads. The details don't matter much when you hear the name: The Pot Hole.

This sounds like a great opportunity for a racing series. NASCAR could further improve its Pocono-based environmental credentials by paving the track with this technology, and could likely raise the funds in dogecoin.

One reason might be that Neil deGrasse Tyson is a cosmologist and not a chemical/materials engineer.

She will be back!

I need this for LeMons.

Maybe he had two blowouts...............not a Goodyear for him in General.

Bakersfield has naturally-occuring homes?

They are already whining that they NEED to pipe water from the great lakes to Cali so they can make the unliveable desert they paid far too much for liveable.

Actually, most of my food comes from right here in Vermont...where we're so environmentally-conscious we generate electricity from cow shit. (True story.) Though I recognize that the rest (at least of what's domestic US product) probably comes from California, yes.

Well, since I seriously doubt Californians are going to stop trying to maintain rice paddies and other ridiculous crops in the goddamn desert, maybe this time it'll actually force some kind of serious improvements in desalination so people can have water? ;)