No, Dirka’s statement of disagreement is distinctly different than a person actively flouting the law based on flawed logic and misunderstanding. Dirka disagrees with the law and the Supreme Court’s decision on DUI checkpoints, but isn’t proposing that people refuse to comply with them. Pretty big difference. The…

Good luck with getting out of the grays. Is there a lottery or something? I’m out of the grays on Gizmodo (lucky timing with an admin getting me out), but I’m sure I’ll be in the grays forever here. Ah well.

As to your point, I agree. The US military would be a great place to use carbon neutral fuels, assuming that we…

I think that refers to the rocket powered part of its’ journey, before it unfurls the solar sail.

He could have caused a huge fire with massive destruction. He deserves jail time. I’ve watched a few videos that have absolutely convinced me it was a staged stunt for views. I don’t know if jail time is a possibility, but I hope it is. If he filed an insurance claim for the crash he could be looking at fraud charges. 

My technique for stupidly big styrofoam packing material is to bust it into pieces that will fit in a large garbage bag and pour about 4 ounces of acetone into the bag, tie the top tight and set it outside for a day. The acetone eventually melts the styrene down into a chunk that’s easy to fit in my garbage can. It’s…

There are starch based packing foam materials available now. Not sure they’re safe to use as animal feed, but they do compost.

Better manufacturers have switched to molded paper pulp packaging. I think it’s likely heavier (costs more to ship) and costs more to produce, but can be recycled or even composted. The best way to get manufacturers to ditch styrofoam is to ban it’s import and manufacture where possible. That and maybe publicly shaming…

The person responsible should be forced to drive that abomination for the rest of their lives. It’s an affront to Jaguar and cars in general. They should probably be referred for a mental health evaluation as taste that awful is surely an indication of something horrifying lurking below. No fucking dice, no fucking…

It’s a slippery slope I’m sure. I didn’t recognize Renée Zellweger when I saw her after her “rework” or whatever you’d call it. She literally looks like someone else. I get not wanting to look like your body is falling apart slowly, but to look like someone else entirely? Whatever floats your boat I suppose.

It’s designed to lift 220,462 US pounds as cargo, I imagine it’s going to be quite heavy itself. I also think the catching mechanism is likely an insurance policy against a catastrophic landing failure. 

It sounds like you should look into how ketamine works to help folks with addiction. It’s definitely a new paradigm for those that think “all drugs are bad!”. Also as per the article ketamine treatment is medically supervised by trained medical professionals.

The most abused drug on the planet is widely available…

I noticed the same improper description. It’s definitely not a hallucinogen in the sense that LSD or psilocybin is.  It feels like we’re slowly making progress on this ridiculous “war on drugs”. 

Ketamine isn’t a painkiller or even remotely like opiates.

I was wondering if it would make us easier to find. A bubble in space seems likely to be more visible. In other words it could attract the attention of et’s (is that the right term?) and since the space inside the bubble is pretty empty we’d be easier to spot. The denser bubble surface would also seem to have the…

Also, this is worth checking out to get a perspective of the local bubble’s appearance: https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/local-bubble-star-formation/visuals?authuser=0

(posted in the article too).

I imagine it looks vaguely like the first illustration. The matter on the outer surface of the bubble would likely be brighter (denser at the least) than surrounding space.

It would definitely change appearance from different distances and your consideration of a viewing distance of few 1000 lighter years away…

Life is short and often difficult. Maybe you should try and lighten up a bit. There are plenty of things to be genuinely upset about. A few lighthearted jokes shouldn’t be among them.

I’m shocked at the number of people that feel like you about that movie. I thought it was horrible. One of the most formulaic and unoriginal movies I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe I had my hopes set too high, but man I hated that movie. 

There’s an example in a nearby “big city” for half the price of this one, no dice. And why Oregon plates if it’s a California car?

You’re giving off a strong anti-vaxxer vibe.

Nature gave us smallpox, polio, influenza etc. that have decimated us throughout time and brought untold suffering to countless people. Nature also gave us (some of us anyway) clever and curious minds capable of taking simple tools and creating more powerful tools.

If…