Eh. By that logic they shouldn’t be allowed to sell cars either because the best interest of the dealership, manufacturer and customer are not aligned.

It means they stole his car, but because it involves money being made by a business which in our fantastic hellscape of end-stage capitalism trumps most laws, it’s not going to be prosecuted as such.

I would say cross-shop the TLX with a Lexus ES350. Or if you really want to go upmarket, you can get a 5-year-old LS for that budget.

That was a hell of a car. It's successor, the 200SX SE-R was no slouch either, but you didn't see too many of those.

So, I’m sure you don’t know this because, you know, it requires book-learnin’, but the Civil Rights Act was introduced by a Democratic Congressman, approved by a Democratic-majority House, then by a Democratic-majority Senate, then signed into law by a Democratic president. Yes, the Republicans were indeed leading the…

the issue was a corroded ground wire for the AC resulting in a shutdown of the entire truck’s high voltage system.

What do you think a camera is, if it’s not an optical sensor?

Angry, paranoid and stupid. I’m not being insulting - you have to be stupid to go that far down the Dale Gribble rabbit hole, and the Republicans have been cultivating and nurturing stupidity in their base for at least 50 years and arguably since the 1930s.

I mean, my drone can “spy” on you and it just has a consumer-grade ball camera on it. The capability is there with any drone that carries a camera, it’s the motivation that’s missing.

They weren’t causing problems, but NASA switched to pens when they could out of an abundance of caution that it would be nice if they’d kept through the Shuttle program. ;)

No, it’s not, and had you read further you’d have seen that I outright reject the notion that “cognitive decline” = “just take him out back and shoot him ‘cause he’s useless.”

Anyone remember that old story that people used to tell? The one where NASA spent years and millions of dollars developing a pen that worked in zero-gravity while Russia just used a pencil.

I agree, but this is what happens when almost no one takes elections seriously and even fewer people take primaries seriously.

5 of the lunar insertion burns set the spacecraft on a slingshot trajectory. If they hadn’t fired the service module’s engine on the back side of the moon to drop them into lunar orbit, they’d have just kept going out into the solar system. The 3rd-stage rocket that put them on that trajectory got discarded before…

True! Though if you’re already spending the fuel for escape velocity, it wouldn’t take much more to set the orbit up such that it wouldn’t re-intercept Earth’s orbit in the same place as Earth for a very long time (giving us plenty of opportunity to off ourselves through environmental or nuclear weapon stupidity so it…

The second isn't a concern if you burn at the right time. By doing that, whatever the lowest orbit point is now, is still the lowest orbit point after the burn. It's just the other side of the orbit that's much higher now, so it won't renter (at least, not for a very long time)

You need to slow the ISS down by around 223mph to drop it in the ocean. You need to speed it up by 7,538mph to get it into non-Earth-orbit space. And the ISS is huge, so designing, making and fueling a rocket that could pull it off would blow NASA’s budget for the next several decades.

Not quite. There are Saturn V upper stages from the Apollo program in a solar orbit now, a bunch of crap on the moon and Mars and, of course, the Pioneer and Voyager probes.

You can look the patents up yourself. Here one to get you started: US6255015B1. Take special note of the application filer vs the assignee.

There are actually oilfield uses for batteries. Remote well sites need power, and solar/battery storage can be cheaper/more efficient than field gas generators.