Also, pour one out for Pioneer 10..

Voyager 1 finally calls home, drunk and broke. “Hey guys, sorry, my phone battery like must have died or something. Yeah, I had to borrow this old phone to call you. So like, can you send some money? I’ll give you an address. No, cash would be better, cause like uh, yeah, just send cash. I promise I’ll be home for the…

Voyager 1 is traveling so fast it’s going 10.5 miles per second, so after a couple seconds of communication it’s 23 miles further.

The deer had a name, Jerry, and a wife, Sue, and two fawns whom he adored. And now Jerry’s dead and a billionaire gets away with murder, again. When will the madness end, when its someone you love? Jerry. Say his name. 

It’s unlikely said dimwits were dissuaded from stepping into the street by an unenforced law. Also, in many places there aren’t logically placed crosswalks/signals, forcing people to choose between adding 15-20 minutes to their journey or taking their lives into their hands by jaywalking.

This opinion on national labs sounds like it came from a Youtube video — I’ve known a few people working at national labs, and they do some pretty advanced stuff and never have much $$$ for work.

Unlikely assumption. Back in the 1950s, civic activists called for public racetracks to be built in more areas, claiming that the hot rodders who competed illegally on the street would cease this activity if they were granted access to a place where they could do it legally. You can guess how effective that was.

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No. Statistically, adding pedestrians to intersections causes higher volume and likelihood of a crash, and slows down traffic. Jaywalking actually is the better method. Pedestrians get priority in zones designated like crosswalks, but letting them just cross the road when it’s safe to do so is actually pretty ideal.

Well the first step is to give up on ever being able to afford kids or a house unless you marry rich.

Damn. I’m about to buy my first motorcycle. How do I fast-track my status as an automotive journalist??? Lol.

This is normal for every Government contractor. I work for one, and It isn’t necessarily the fault of the contractor as to why costs are the way they are. The Customer (Government) has requirements for every single thing they buy, and a lot of engineering, testing, and inspections go into whatever they are buying. I…

You can either do what Europe does with Airbus and directly subsidize your favorite aircraft company, or pretend to not do government/industry welfare payments and let your chosen aircraft company just blatantly overcharge you and call it free market capitalism. It is pretty much the same thing, but America has some…

Its California.   They will get a slap on the wrist and finger-wag.  

If your eyes are on the car ahead in this video, I don’t think the majority of drivers are avoiding this collision, with the deer standing parallel to the road, in the middle of the lane. But of course, 80% of people think they are above average drivers...

In fairness, the deer is only relying on vision inputs too.

Recently my wife hit an already killed deer that was laying in the road as she came around a winding curve and it broke off one side of her plastic bumper. When she told me about it she mentioned that my work truck would have gone over it without an issue so we decided that her next vehicle will have higher clearance.…

Ford gifting with $2500 max campaign donations to “both sides” in a district where they have a factory or dumping money into a lobbying firm to push industry standards is certainly a thing...but its not a 70mil check and Jim Farley leaping around like a frog on stage. Optics does matter.

Unaware of is one thing. Purposefully buying a Tesla, Cybertruck, or using Twitter in this day and age is another. You know damn well you’re enriching these guys, regardless of how convoluted the path the money takes.

Remember that if you buy a Tesla, this is where your money is going. Some fascist lunatics may like that idea, but don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s not what buying a Tesla means.