Fellow MoDOT fan! I saw them rework I-70 along Cool Valley for “safety” reasons. Over the several years it took I spent what would have been 20 years of traffic jams, saw several cars overturned, and a spectacular bridge collision because the effectively lowered the Hanley overpass before they finally lowered I-70W…

Right... could be titled: Start-up is in the money-losing phase... can they make it to profitability?

“Is this hell?”

The thing that has soured me on US drivers ever learning how to zipper merge is all the idiots coming up a freeway onramp into solid, slow-moving traffic who ignore the lane marker disappearing (which should tell you that there isn’t a separate lane any more), continue up the merge as if it was still a separate lane…

“Is this hell?”

“Nope, just Oregon.”

{everyone completing the Oregon Trail}

Thanks to their financing from a Saudi Arabian sovereign fund:

People with government security clearances face the same problem. Seek mental health care and you’ll lose your clearance and thus lose your career. It’s an awful thing to do to people.

I’m going to say “No Dolphin” as it has flipper writ large upon it. Yeah I know we all go on about why they can’t clean it before listing it but this is a whole new level of shiny. It’s trying too hard and covering up too much. 

In college, my fraternity house used to get these boxes full of Axe body spray samples. Someone would take one, tape the spray button down, and throw it in someone’s room while yelling “Axe bomb” as it sprayed all over the victim’s room. This car looks like it needs a “Lysol bomb” or two thrown inside.

All-weather tires are a game-changer here in Denver where it could 60F on Monday, and a foot of snow on Tuesday, and back to 60F on Wednesday.

Wood is indeed renewable and biodegradable; it’s a fantastic building material in so many ways. But there is a serious problem when the demand outstrips the supply. You are absolutely right that trees absorb CO2 for years before they are processed, but that stops as soon as they are cut down, and when they biodegrade,…

I’ve gotten to know poeple that make chambers for pressure treating wood through my job. This story isn’t that old..

Winter tires are better in cold temperatures, even if it’s dry pavement or raining, let alone the actual snow/ice question.  

The US has enough iron ore and zinc to make utility poles that last much longer than wooden poles. In the long run, metal poles are less expensive just as underground utilities are less expensive...

“Required” is definitely subjective and/or situational. As for reccommended, I’d say in the 40-60 or 60-80 inches annually range.

We can. We just choose not to.

Another honorable mention should go to Virgin Atlantic Flight 8. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner caught a massive jet stream that propelled its ground speed to 801 mph.

The best winter tires are the tires that’s on your damn car.

Plus we have god alone knows how much waste plastic we struggle to recycle all of, we could look into some alternate uses of that material. Or even just bury the lines now.

One of those reasons is the 787 (and some other new’ish planes like the A350) have lower cabin altitudes (higher pressure) than older planes. The 787 simulates a 6,000-foot altitude in the cabin, and with higher humidity, so people feel less dehydrated and less fatigued, than older aircraft which could run up to 8,000…