A European mid-size car will do 5 litres/100 km on a motorway, or 6.5 litres/100km in city traffic, which is 140g CO2/km, or 28g/km when full.

The average US car or truck is criminally inefficient. Similar vehicles in Europe have been getting better efficiencies for years. We also have a lover concentration of SUVs and similar.

Sorry, but what is your source for this? Even magnified it’s unreadable.

That’s 2-3 tonnes per person.

Who in their right mind would list something like flatulence (or amnesia, or social phobia, or joint pain) as the official explanation for someone’s death?

Is it more or less adapted to its environment?

Thanks. It will be the small hours of the morning here, but I’ll probably stay up anyway. I like my science living, but this is too interesting to ignore.

Some science, or at least some idea of what the scientists are looking at. This is much more interesting than all that silly flag-waving earlier. Thanks Mika.

Only for some of it.

For those who need to know, that’s 7-8pm UTC.

Pounds. Yeah. Mars Climate Orbiter. [cough]

Ahhh. Thank you. My mistake was in not knowing the difference between EDT and EST.

UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, which is the mean solar time at 0 degrees of longitude.

As opposed to American, finding something to be arrogant about?

Pedantic. True, but pedantic. UTC will do for most practical purposes (anything requiring any worse than nanosecond calibration).

Nope. That would be the time at the Date Line.

Nope. The French invented the SI (credit where it’s due), but it makes more sense than most of the alternatives, which is why most of the world (except Myanmar, Liberia and the US) uses a variant of the SI.

Do you honestly expect everyone to know what time it is everywhere in the world?

I didn’t ask for times to be given in my time zone. I asked for them to be given in UTC - like any scientist would do.

Agreed. No science. Nothing about what they hoped/expected to find. Just how excited they were, with a dose of US nationalism.