Why add the complexity though? Dragon is reusable. Parachutes are cheap, simple, and stupid-well understood.

Because the shuttle was a really good idea, after all - expensive, extremely hard to maintain, marginal safety rating, no way of really aborting a failed launch, complex... Yeah, that’s the idea. Gliders have problems.

Eh. That’s what the wife’s car (35i X3) is for :D  Also does a great job of handling the “aww hell, 3' of snow again” days (about 10 per year).  

I buy a new car every 4 years, give or take a year (2004 SVT Focus, 2007 Nissan Frontier, 2013 ZL1, 2016 Wrangler).  Every one had a manual transmission.  About 75% of the used cars I buy have manual transmissions.  CPO (dailys) - 50/50. 

6'1, 235 lbs almost all muscle.  :)  You make it work if you really want it to work.  I drive a 99 Miata right now - have to take off my shoes, but it works.  :D  Shaq drove a Testarossa. 

I don’t know.  It’s high on my personal list of options for next year (either I buy a Bronco or a small fun car and keep the M as a daily, or I buy a Porsche and a cheaper winter beater), but somehow I ALWAYS forget it. 

I love the ZF8, but it’s not a stick - and all the others have sticks as an option (have the ZF on my M550 daily).  Sadly, 2 + AWD = auto only. 

I want a 2 door WRX; don’t need 4 doors, don’t need the hatch, but love the rest.  Ah well.  I’d do the Toyobaru but at 7000 ft, it’s...  well, REALLY bloody slow.  Fingers crossed for 200HP Turbo for the next generation. 

You know, I was about to say that “I really wish we still had cars like these. And no, the Toyobaru doesn’t count - it’s the replacement for the Celica, maybe. WRX and Mini are really all that is left, and the WRX is 4 door only. MAYBE the Civic SI.”

Did that too.  Never again, and you’ve got me on the years.  Needed cigarettes.  Quit smoking not long after that.  

Lots of westminsters - not sure if you’re talking the one in CO (used to live over there for a while), but if you are, ROFL ROFL.

Outskirts, wife’s family still does, back there every year for 20 years it seems.  Shit transit, but at least it exists - and sometimes works >_<  Sometimes. 

Agreed. I used to live in Park Hill. Wife lived on Cheesman park. Been all over this city - but self-sufficient doesn’t mean “has enough to keep you from going bored”, etc.

EXACTLY. Can/want/will are different things, and just because SimCity says “you have food close enough” doesn’t mean that irrational beings (humans) are happy with that. We need solutions for this - including better mass transit, designed road systems, walking/biking paths, etc.

I am and I’m not. Just because I can walk there doesn’t mean I want to walk there, or that what I want is within that walking distance. In Paris, effectively the ~entire city~ is in walking distance - it’s that dense. In Denver, it is not - yes, there’s a grocery store within walking distance (or at least a real…

America doesn’t have a 5 year plan, never mind 50 year...  :p 

So you’re going to what, demolish the american cities and suburbs and start over? Because retrofitting htem to walking when you have a 20+ mile diameter region to cover is not sane. Paris is 47 square miles. Denver is 154 square miles. Los Angeles is FIVE HUNDRED square miles. Different worlds there, built in…

Mass Transit.  Oh you sweet summer child.  You assume any given city has usable/reasonable/sane mass transit.  Sadly, most don’t, at least in the US - and if they do, chances are they’re in utterly crap shape and unusable.  

I know folks that “have a place” out in El Paso county that use that to get around it, but that’s not sane for most folks.  And if you get caught...  yeah.  

No pass with CEL now at all (or any error light).  Engine must be newer than the car (not vice-versa).  If you find an idiot that just plugs in the OBD connector now you might get away with it, but it’s measured against the STOCK engine - so if that 2.7 blows more than the 2.0T would, you’re gonna have problems. …