I can move to Arizona, sure. (And so could you; at a lower latitude, you’ll have less impact from the changing daylight to annoy you at midsummer and midwinter.)
I can move to Arizona, sure. (And so could you; at a lower latitude, you’ll have less impact from the changing daylight to annoy you at midsummer and midwinter.)
I bet I can guess what time period you were born.
You know that some people with psychiatric disorders have died at some point since the introduction of leaded gasoline, yeah? So it’s not half the country.
Also, since this is science, you’re welcome to conduct your own peer-reviewed study to back up your hypothesis.
How is the sun being up that early, when hardly anyone is awake, not a giant waste of sunlight?
You’ve already been given a whole bunch of fun facts, but here’s the big one: The graph of lead exposure due to its continued use in motor fuels virtually mirrors the rise and decline of violent crime in the United States.
CFC refrigerants were invented to replace ammonia which was killing people.
Depends on if you mean Thomas Midgley Jr. or Carl Lowig. Lowig invented the chemical, but Midgley Jr. made it into a fuel additive.
We know for a fact now that Midgley Jr. claimed publicly that there was no alternative, but privately knew that ethanol was at least one alternative.
Yeah. I think the number is 500,000 children are still exposed to leaded fuel fumes daily because of Avgas
Came here to say that : 30 years later, general aviation still burns leaded fuel (100LL).
History apparently includes many such unintentional monsters. Fritz Haber invented the process that gave us nitrate fertilizer, which can be argued has saved probably hundreds of millions of lives in regards to increasing food production and warding off starvation.
Accidentally? More like indifferently. We knew damn well that lead was highly poisonous for centuries.
Airborne lead that can be directly aspirated and also ends up on every surface, soil, food—everything—is far worse than lead exposure from plumbing. In normal conditions, lead pipes quickly develop a protective scale that prevents lead from leaching into the water.
Fun fact (okay, maybe not so fun): Thomas Midgely, who played a key role in developing leaded gasoline, also invented Freon and many other harmful CFCs. It is very likely that no other single person has had such a long-lasting and deleterious effect on the environment.
I guess we should hurry up and FINALLY ban the shit that keeps flying over my house then, eh FAA?
I didn’t think the leopard would eat *MY* face!
Funny enough, I don’t even notice them anymore, as big as they are, they kind of just blend in now. it was interesting for exactly 2 seconds when I was behind one last year, and then quickly faded.
That... Almost works? It’s certainly the least-hideous Cybertruck I’ve seen to date, which both is and is not saying something.
People working for a man who routinely fucks people over suddenly shocked to find themselves being fucked over.
It’s the finishing details on that concept that make it look good. The production car looks like they got 90% done with it and fired the design team. The tail lights, in particular, are appalling. If you saw those half-assed Harbor Freight looking things on a 1997 Silverado with a flat-bed cobbled together from 2x4…
Best example yet that pairs nicely with the (Inc)El Camino.