Is this where I ask why nobody is making a screen adaptation of The Drowned World yet?

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Seriously. Place I work for now is so straight-edge and bougie it’s painful - I’ll take an awkwardly worded invite to the open bar over a sparsely attended “ice cream social on the back deck y’all!” any day.

Challenger is the first thing I remember clearly, since I was well into elementary school. The absolute earliest thing would be Korean Air Lines Flight 007, mainly because my dad came rushing home early from work convinced WWIII was about to start. Good times, that Cold War.

A concept which lived on with Land Rover:

The argument I’ve heard from proponents (long before this election, btw) is that closed primaries actually tend to favor the far right/far left over the center, especially in congressional elections, especially especially in traditionally “safe” states or districts. If Joe Democrat knows that the general election is…

Exactly. Bernie fans - if you want to be taken seriously, put this on your calendar and come back on Inauguration Day and make a stink. Prove you actually give enough of a shit to pay attention six months later, or you’re not worth paying attention to now.

As soon as I saw the pie I was like, “Aw snap, it’s gettin’ all Titus Andronicus up in this bitch”. Almost makes up for losing Margaery.

They should have had a website months ago that would let owners put in a VIN and find out exactly, definitively, what will be happening with their vehicles and when. Dates and $ signs are the only thing VW owners care about at this point. If regulators are dragging their feet on a settlement, VW needs to sweeten the…

Those are the boogeriest booger welds I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been around plenty of farmers with more stick electrodes than sense.

I still give it to Children of Men, but damn

I hate to be a pessimist, but I think the main difference this time is just that it’s an election year, and the perpetrator isn’t white. Even at that I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything meaningful to come out of it.

If I sign up and then loudly UNSUBSCRIBE do you still get your pizza party? I’d hate to deprive someone of a pizza party.

Buy today for $1,200 an ounce, sell in 1960 for $35. So much for cheap hamburgers.

Nope. Again, gravity is a minor player here. The cable won’t fall straight down, because it has enormous velocities attached to it. The lowest parts wouldn’t be moving that fast, but the central node of an Earth-based space elevator is moving at 3km per second. It would only appear to be still because everything is…

An earthbound space elevator would be 100,000km long. Even if the cable only weighs 1 kilogram per meter (which would be impossibly light), that’s 100,000,000kg. Also the speed of the falling cable has more to do with relative orbital velocities than simple gravitational acceleration, and takes place mostly in vacuum,…

You’re describing a tower, not a space elevator. 200 miles is barely low Earth orbit, and would be uselessly low for an elevator. At that altitude you’d need constant and significant fuel (or an impossibly strong structure) to avoid falling back to Earth, and objects launched from it would still need significant…

Wonder if she still does the maintenance herself.

Good well-fitted gloves work fine for fine work. If you can’t find anything at the usual places, try your local welding shop - TIG welding requires very fine control + good protection, so the gloves they sell to TIG welders are usually fantastic, and surprisingly cheap.

Eye protection is huge, and multiple types if you’re doing really dangerous stuff like grinding or cutting metal. I was cutting on a rusty frame member with an angle grinder, and had standard safety glasses on. A fragment flew off, hit my cheek, bounced up UNDER the glasses, and into my cornea. I ended up spending…