The problem is that many times one cannot stop 100 yards away, where it is already too bright and just wait a few hours while the police get their crap together and there may be no turn-off, though that may not work as cops have used that as an excuse for an aggressive pursuit on the grounds of avoiding them.

One way is to put on a conductive paint, then electroplate with copper to get a uniform coating and then plate over that.

With a small rocket it will make a small change to an already circular orbit, a change that won’t be enough to escape the gravity of the Earth. It takes a huge amount to remove the orbital speed that it gained simply from being launched from Earth to have an orbit to get anywhere near the Sun.

The article it links to says that the aluminum oxide particles act as an active chemical surface to make the chlorine in the atmosphere more effective at destroying ozone. It’s a direction I did not expect it to take; I assumed the aluminum oxide was the problem, not that it was an enabler to an existing one. 

Space is big. the surface area of the earth is 4*pi*r^2. At r=4000 miles, that gives 201,061,929 square miles or an average of one satellite getting 4000 square miles to itself. Avoiding them is just a matter of timing, but then all launches are a matter of timing, such as to match orbits with the International Space…

“500 times more toxic than diesel exhaust and has no known safe level of exposure.” It is also released at 1 millionth the rate, so the net population effect is microscopic.

Perhaps emergency vehicle operators could go back to not using blinding amounts of light so one could actually judge where the vehicle is and see if there is anything or anyone near it. It doesn’t take much light in the dark to see something flashing, but when the light is bright enough to read a book while still 100…

Sandra “Sandy” Schultz-Peters, 66, of Myrtle Beach, died of injuries sustained upon being struck by a vehicle while on the beach, according to the Horry County Coroner’s Office.

Biking on soft sand seems like a no-go, but small buggies and ATVs seem ideal for this. There are certainly parallel streets if there is a need to move stretchers and other bulky or even heavy items rapidly to respond, but patrolling with limited visibility vehicles on a beach crowded with people who might be sleeping…

When a limb is pinned and obviously crushed that makes sense., but if it compressing the ribs so they cannot breath, then might as well chance it.

Had about $1200 in damages to a car to get the cheap factory radio. That radio was retained by one screw from the bottom, but they used a crowbar jammed into the dash instead. Then, instead of cutting the harness or just unplugging the radio, they yanked it loose damaging a lot of the other wiring in the dash.

I notice that the invoice misspelled “vacuum” as “vavuum.”

Regular air is ~80% nitrogen, so going after the remaining 20% isn’t likely to make much difference. Since the oxygen is a heavier molecule it tends to slow the speed of sound, so less oxygen would make the sound a tiny bit more squeaky, the way helium does to voices when inhaled.

She lost use of the car when the transmission failed, which happened before the car was sold. She was aware she had exceeded the 12,000 mile repair warranty and did not take it to a repair shop. The dealer wasn’t going to repair it no matter how long it was on his lot, and return it to her, not for less than a repair…

In a civil suit she gets to recover the damages. She had the car while she was paying for it and likely no longer has loan payments and doesn’t have the car. It’s a crappy situation, but there doesn’t look to be a great deal of financial harm to recover. Even 30% of not much isn’t much. Given that the car had…

In a nearly ideal situation, one would have an area divided into rough hexagons such that the travel from the border to the center is 15 minutes. At the center would be the services. In addition, there needs to be a population large enough in each hexagon to support these services.

The buyer has to register the car that they will drive and prove they have insurance for it and, sometimes, that it meets safety and pollution control requirements.

The loan company owns it until the loan is paid off. The car is registered to her, but it isn’t titled to her.

They keep the title until the loan is paid or they make a cash sale. What motive would many people have with a clear title and a fat loan to pay off the loan?

Good luck with that. Because she had a contract and business arrangement this is a civil matter for breaching the contract. Police won’t touch it because the DA/Prosecutor is rusty on his contract law and doesn’t want to spend time reading micro-print and won’t have authority to bring a case that the civil courts…