“The way the US does things.” Do you pay attention at all? Have you not noticed that the Evil Empire(tm) is back with a vengeance? The unlawful annexation of the Crimea, the unlawful invasion of Georgia, the frequent military incursions by Russian Air and Naval forces into the territory of hits neighbors? The way the…

They’re only scary until you realize that tens of thousands - if not millions - of hipster scumbags would die in a matter of hours.

I don’t think that has anything to do with it. I think the real issue is that China’s economy is in a very fragile state right now. They can’t really afford to prop up the NORK regime with direct aid anymore. They also can’t tolerate the frequent disruption to global markets that the Kim Jong Un’s tantrums cause.…

Yeah, because we’re on the opposite side of the planet from where the nukes are generally going off. China is a few hundred miles away. Radioisotopes would be raining down on them in a matter of hours.

The most British comparison I can think of here...

The best bet for making electric vehicles viable is to make them cheaper. Right now, if you have the money for a Tesla Model S, you might be on the fence about the technology and still choose a similarly priced petrol car. But if it were cheaper - say the price of a Nissan Versa - people would jump on it. Proof? Look…

We actually already have those technologies. We just need to upscale and commercialize them.

The point of a speed “trap” is to generate ticket revenue for local police departments and the courts.

They mostly hate it because it interferes with their Revenue Generation efforts. However, they were quick to jump on the “war on Cops bandwagon” after the execution style murder of two New York cops by Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley in 2014, stating that the killer used Waze (he did not).

Waze has the Morgan Freeman voice. The battle is over.

While it doesn’t have a fancy nickname like Stratofortress, Spirit, or Lancer yet..

Yes, and the 12 year old kid doesn’t have the same concept of “shit costs money” that the body it’s living in does.

I’m suggesting that on this one occasion, they detonated conventional explosives, which is why no atmospheric samples have turned up radioisotopes in ROK, China, Canada or the US. Are you suggesting despotic regimes without the economic resources to develop advanced military hardware would be above just faking it?

People need to face the reality that war on the Korean Peninsula is inevitable.

No offense, but the only thing I have to go on is the word of the Pentagon and the Regime in Pyong-Yang. Both have cause to lie. Even Saddam lied and stated he did have WMD’s - there’s leverage in your enemy believing that you have that capability, and for North Korea, it’s about all the leverage they have.

Fuckit. Whose going to do an LS3 swap on this or a Pontiac 1000?

The standard to be an astronaut is 50 miles. That is the approximate boundary between the mesosphere and the thermosphere. For all intents and purposes, this is the point at which the atmosphere stops being a volume consistently occupied with gasses. So, you’re effectively in space, but still likely to encounter…

Well, there is that whole ‘vacuum’ thing... also the ‘micro metorites made of space junk hurtling at tens of thousand of miles per hour like bullets in all directions’ thing.

The only concerns I saw expressed before hand were by people with absolutely no connection to the program, no inside knowledge, and in a few cases, were in direct competition to Virgin Galactic.

Let’s cut to the chase... sure... they *might* use this in cars. But the medical prosthetic industry will be first to market with a replacement pecker for wounded warriors that replicates the original function, with the VA paying for 150% replacement.