Given that fire departments are still addressing EV fires by putting huge amounts of water on them, I’d say the answer is clearly “not”.

His blog is awesome. It’s where I learned about the really wonderful book “Ignition!” that is a fantastic read. (Quoted in that piece, actually, and available both in print and as a free PDF on the Web.)

Well, you never know what can cause an inexhaustible fire....

We definitely are in need of new solutions for fighting these kinds of fires. Although this is not quite so nasty as chlorine trifluoride, this reminds me of the title of Derek Lowe’s fantastic piece on that chemical, “Sand Won’t Save You This Time”:

“Traditionally, Europe isn’t an ideal location for a rocket launch because of its distance from the equator.”

I don’t know which is cheaper, but they should do *something*. Any solution that works would be a lot better than the f***-all they’re doing currently.

“carried a Palm Pilot in middle school”

Yeah, we believed it less *before* his “refutation”.  :-D

Eternity, since it will break down before it even leaves Chechnya.  :-D

That’s how it started, but then the Internet’s gotta Internet, so some guys started trying to one-up each other about it.

I fly Delta a lot, since my local airport is MSP, one of their hubs. They have a notoriously ancient fleet, so they still don’t have flight maps on a lot of their flights.

FedEx would do their damndest, but when it absolutely, positively has to get there . . . send it with a courier.

I’m kinda weird, maybe, but I like that low frequency rumble.

He looked at the Siennas too. :-) Oh, he was so close to getting a Sienna when our last minivan was showing its age, but it was a Dodge Caravan with stow-and-go in the middle row, and that’s really really really hard to give up once you’ve had it.

It’s a very close contender, and he’s looked at it. But the deal-breaker (besides the fact that our T&C is still running well, and it’s very nice not having a car loan — plus, it being an older vehicle, the taxes are low) is that the middle row is not stow-and-go. It’s hard to get around that, since the battery pack…

What my husband keeps saying is that he wants is a hybrid version of the Chrysler Town & Country, or something equivalent. He loves the economy of a hybrid, the reassurance of a gas engine in remote areas, and the convenience of being able to transform the interior between passenger-carrying and cargo-carrying with…

Glasgow ice cream trucks?

That sounds wonderfully adorable.

Very important to mention the stick houses. The difference in housing construction material is completely overlooked in this piece (although I admit I didn’t watch the video to see if it’s covered there). European houses are much more commonly made of brick or cinder block, while American homes are almost universally…

Hah!  The designation comes from the service operating the vehicle, not whether it’s a rotorcraft.  So it’d stay Marine One as long as it was a USMC Osprey.  What I’m more curious about is whether they give Navy One designations if the Navy flies the prez anywhere.