It doesn’t need to be fancy, but I’d like to at least be able to tell the state’s plates apart a little.  Something at least slightly distinctive would be nice.  Otherwise how am I gonna be able to play license plate bingo when on road trips?  ;-)

Here’s something that puzzles me: this current trend for (legal, state-issued) black plates. You get them from the DMV, same as the regular plates, the vanity plates, and the special plates you can get that have your alma mater on them or some pretty wildlife picture or “support our troops” or whatnot. Only difference…

And yet, three did. (Well, currently anyway. They did get sent to the hospital, so that is subject to change.) It may have helped that this was a landing, not a takeoff. Less fuel means less fire.

My fridge does hold magnets. I’ve always assumed that was because the stainless was super thin, so the magnets were actually sticking to whatever was under the stainless, but after reading other comments I’m thinking maybe it’s more down to the grade of stainless used.

It probably depends on where you put the magnet. Although much was made of the Cybertruck having an “exoskeleton” of stainless steel, this isn’t entirely true. Much of its load is actually distributed by regular steel underneath the stainless steel exterior, and that’s what the magnet is actually sticking to.

I like to play Pokemon Go while I’m a passenger (my husband calls it “Pogo Radar” because I can tell him if there’s an interesting raid we can stop for), and it does detect your speed and pops up a little message warning you not to play it while driving (which is a scary thought) which you then have to dismiss. You…

I don’t know much about firearms; I was thinking more about smart munitions, which have to decide when to arm, when to release, what is an acceptable target, what are the appropriate parameters for fuzing, etc. But the same principle would absolutely apply. I understand Sig Sauer is currently facing a wrongful death la…

Yeah, I totally go make five-figure purchases specifically to tell the world I’m upset with a corporation’s CEO!

It would be lovely if he manages to save it, because this is a historic and lovely ship.  However, I am not particularly optimistic.

Patent trolls.

I think it might indeed be admissible in a lot of states.  If you’re in a one-party state, only one party needs to consent to the recording, and you can be the party consenting.

Gotta be 3. The fact that she had him pay money into her *own* account, and accepted the payment without verifying that it actually went through or providing a receipt (which she would have had to do if it were a real fee), is a pretty serious tell.

I thought about including Buran, but it’s kind of in the same bucket as Dream Chaser, since it never became operational. It made one unmanned test flight and then was mothballed. The final insult came decades later when the roof of its assembly hall collapsed, crushing the orbital test article, still stacked on top of…

I sooooo want to see that thing fly finally!

As a heavy sleeper myself, I completely believe that part to be plausible, especially with alcoholic assistance.  :-)

*ba-dum-pish*

Same. Just show up and take a car.  Of course, you *do* see an actual human when you leave the lot, and that’s why they look at your id and offer you upgrades like a transponder for the tollways.

Actually, as I look at it a little closer, it’s not a copy of the X-37B. It’s got a lot in common, but it’s also got a lot that’s different. For instance, this has a vertical stabilizer, like the Space Shuttle did. The X-37 doesn’t. But unlike *either* vehicle, it has extremely oversized winglets — so large they’re…

How exactly do you propose stopping them? It’s not like the external shape of the X-37 is particularly obscure.

There’s not one specific shape that is exactly perfect for a spaceplane. As it happens there have been only two orbital spaceplanes so far, and one was based on the design of the other. It’s tempting to conclude that this must be the only reasonable shape for a spaceplane, but this would not be accurate.