I say we practice...first toss some asteroids of low value into Jupiter or the Sun, then, we shoot for specific zones on Mars or the Moon, after a few of those, we should be able to reliably target a spot in the desert or a reasonably accessible, yet uninhabited, part of Canada or Russia. If we develop the tech to…

Pay special attention to the choice of venue: US Northern District Court of Alabama. No doubt, they’ve been shopping around for a sympathetic court for a while now.

TSA has been adding, subtracting, and reinstating items on this list on a pretty fluid basis basically since TSA was created. There were points where the rules changed so fast and often that things you could carry on at the beginning of your trip were no longer allowed by your return...not to mention any of these…

Exactly.  Even at slow speeds (construction, ice, etc.) there’s often less than a car length between riders in the thru lane.  I’m convinced we’d save alot more lives and accident damage if we spent more time and resources pushing for better space cushions ...education, enforcement, dashboard tech, etc.

Zipper mergers work on paper just fine, but on a real road, most drivers don’t leave nearly enough space between cars. I’m totally convinced we could up speed limits on highways across the board, if only we could trust people to not follow too closely.

I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the redacted chemical in the EPA doc cited. They’re literally referring to chemicals from previous research....so why is it secret? I could understand the oil companies not wanting to disclose their “secret sauce” of fracking chemicals, however misguided that may be, but this…

We’re addicted, but I take exception to the “cheap” part. We’ve subsidized the exploration, extraction and processing, we’re paying for the wars to secure oil and gas fields, the spills, the air pollution, the floating microplastics, the chemicals in our groundwater, the unrecyclable “recyclables” etc. Our economy has…

They didn’t mention a currency or what sort of internet connectivity was involved...so are they *sure* it was a crypto mining operation? or that it was *only* crypto mining? I’m just saying, Ukrainian cyber criminals have other lucrative schemes they could apply that level of computing power to, if the perps are even U…

Throughout the terraforming video, I kept thinking “this has way too many steps” and “why are they moving so much material around?”

Gotta put a plug in for CURLING. As somebody not particularly athletic, I attended a beginners’ open house at a friend’s curling club a couple years ago and was pleasantly surprised to see 1) I’m not terrible at it, 2) I’m not the oldest to try my hand, by far, and 3) It’s kinda fun...oh, and there’s usually plenty of…

Yeah, we need a multipronged approach: figuring out how to make the products last longer (right to repair?) or create them with modular/interchangeable components, getting better at recycling or repurposing components, and manufacturing methods that make them easier to recycle/reclaim at end of life. There are also…

China’s lax environmental regulations and poor worker safety protections should be looked at as a form of government subsidy. Any other country in the world would be working on improvements in either/both areas, and cutting into margins in the process.

The mRNA novel feature is actually that we don’t need to acquire or grow and maintain millions of chicken eggs (or pigs, or horses or cows, depending on the particular vaccine) it’s assembled, and because it only needs instructions for specific spike proteins, it can be a much smaller strand of genetic material,…

Immunity is never perfect, see the people who’ve had COVID, and then caught it again, or people who get the flu more than once a season, shingles after recovery from chickenpox, etc. Also vaccinations you received as a child, you might be surprised to learn, don’t necessarily protect you for a lifetime, as was once…

Feudalism had its own horrors, but the manor system seems like it would be poised for a comeback. A large fairly self-sufficient estate with a main house and grounds, surrounded by farms, forests, and smaller homes for the workers and their families. A collection of rights-of-way, leases and land trusts ensure tenants…

Insurance companies need to start giving drivers discounts for using a dashcam. Improper lane change isn’t supposed to be an arrestable offense in the first place, so there wouldn’t have been a reason to get her out of the car.

This could finally be the weak link in the chain here: Trump (&Co’s) total disdain for the little guy, including those dedicated poll workers, election judges, and other local-level folks who make the whole election process work. I get the effect of threatening an elected official with bad press, or campaigning for his…

The real story is these schmoes showed up en masse with homemade shields, used at least one incendiary device, and then rode away in the cargo compartments of rental trucks, but the Philly PD didn’t intervene.

Maybe I’ve been misled, but I thought a hairpin turn was nearly 180 degrees?

IIRC there’s a law about making money off a criminal act. Maybe DOJ or DC can use that to go after whoever is making these “Babbitt Hero” products, and unravel some of the QaNut financial structure in the process....just a thought.