Agree with Hubert, it was further away than you thought. I was in Fremont, quite close to SF and had no idea what I was looking at at the time. I watched it move “slowly” like an aircraft.

Ion drives have reaction mass, of course. It’s the only thing that can make you move in space. They are “ions” :-). Because they are charged particles, they can be accelerated to very high velocities by an electrical field.

Isn’t that the inertial drive in the Grey Lensman series? Long, long time since I read them. If an object has no mass, then any force applied accelerates it to the speed of light. Weight is what a mass feels in a gravitational field.

You’re now claiming that you’re not victim blaming, but instead arguing that if he wasn’t there, he wouldn’t have been hit by the car. That’s true, of course. But not exactly a value add to the discussion.

That is victim blaming of the highest order. If someone brake-checks into you on the highway because you’re three miles an hour over the speed limit, reflect on that.

It’s not like forcing someone onto the battlefield. She has a disability that renders her incapable of doing her job. It’s more like someone with one leg arguing that they should be allowed to join the infantry. There are many other career choices out there that are not impacted by her disability. (I apologize to…

More than that, according to this history of the 2nd amendment, it was largely because of slavery, and the fear of slave uprisings, that the 2nd amendment exists at all.

Lane hogging is way worse in CA (where I live) than in the UK (where I’m from). Nevertheless: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ro…

I told my dad that when I was 17 and learning to drive. He told me to stop being such an old woman. He was right. You’re being an old woman. If you’re not overtaking, get out of the way.

Wait. Wolverine’s dead?

From the Chicago Times article:

I think using somebody else's turn signals as a warning so they can put their foot to close the gap is endemic to all of California. That, combined with the fact that everyone wants to sit in the outside lane, bugs the hell out of me. If you maneuver in to the overtaking lane anyway, causing them to brake hard,…

I used to dock at full speed on the old BBC Micro version. You didn't have to brake - just get in the door and it would transition to the station interface. However, missing, or not being aligned with the entrance, was instant death.

Seeing this game (the original Elite) come in the door at the store I worked in was…

It's pretty frustrating debating issues of science with people willfully ignorant of science. It's doubly frustrating being expected to be respectful of their entirely irrational points of view, unsupported by any evidence.

As a Brit that lives in this part of California...lane discipline here is nonexistent. I've driven Tahoe to Los Gatos and had the right hand lane almost entirely to myself the whole way. Saves a lot of time.

I used to like this thread, back before it was popular.

Best chart I've seen on the topic. Where did you get it from?

Seriously? First time you meet a girl, you should instantly know whether you want a relationship with her, and ask her out right away?

...so much clearer text. Better movie experience (also, N7 is 16:9...iPad Mini is 4:3). So not sure how those "screen real estate" comparisons are relevant to the real world.

Nexus 7 has way more pixels - 1280x800. Much higher pixel density.