It’s never about the right thing, it’s about what was funny. People post crap to the public truck stop stall wall that is 4chan, on occasion, things they got independently, when they think other people would find it funny. That’s really it. It’s a heavily defaced piece of internet graffiti. That’s 4chan.

Occasionally a…

Yes, well, we frequently get very valuable data from animal testing, making it SOP. Like I said, the lack of primate testing in this case is worrisome, but I also understand the ticking clock and unique circumstances of this particular patient. Basic mammalian survival for a surgical procedure is very important for a…

There is MAD money being thrown at healing the paralyzed, are you kidding?

Consider we use supercomputers to model individual proteins, and only recently got ones powerful enough to model the bigger ones.
Now consider:

I’m comfortable with autonomous vehicle mostly because of my mechanical engineering background (and being personally friends with people working on them). Lo and behold, all that validation testing is done with a physical model driving around a parking lot for hours before anyone ever sits inside. Then it moves on to…

PEG is influencing the behavior of recently (within minutes) severed neurons, not crusty scar tissue that healed over years ago.

Yeah man, that’s certainly less legally and ethically fraught than rats or dogs.

Scar tissue. All of this is predicated on influencing the healing of recently damaged nerves.
....and the fact of the matter is flying an entire research team to wherever a single pet has been hit by a car and potentially has a spinal injury, is not only completely untenable as a concept, it introduces 100000000…

This. He is not only going to die soon, he’s already nearly fully disabled. So the case for quality of life concerns post-surgery is relatively moot.

I recognize allowing the opening for desperate terminal patients being exploited for shitty nonvalidated science for profit is dangerous, but a hugely expensive, hugely…

Would you be comfortable taking medications or undergoing surgical procedures whose only validation was being run through an algorithm?

What about your child, hypothetical or not?

None of those things fall within the approximately 50 pound range you could assume for varying body masses of your pilot.

Additionally, it appears a basic polycrystalline 250W solar panel is about 64.5 x 38.7 inches. Flexible cells are undoubtedly less efficient, but it looks like there is plenty of surface area to…

If I was hollywood celeb levels of rich, I’d totally buy it. Well made leather things are incredibly satisfying to touch and smell.

That’s why you buy a motor to do it for you for less than $50. Add about 30 pounds of batteries and you can go full bore for about 2 hours. (2x25AH 24 v batteries.) Or just use it as assist or initial acceleration or top end.

My work phone is an I-phone, which both I have and my techs in the field have. I just deliberately updated because I am going to annoy the SHIT out of some of my crustier electricians.

Looks like the torque on an FB20 can definitely be improved with a tune:

Now he just has to replace the water with superheated plasma.
Use blanks as propellant to shrink it.


Or he could just put a pilot and flammable fluid in it.

I dunno. As far as I can tell (even from my most adament pro-size equality friends), there appears to be prestige and market value for brands that are unwearable by non slim people. That little shout out that “YES, I AM A SIZE 4 OR LESS, THANK YOU” often gets handwaved away by these same people with “They just fit my…

Yeah but we can’t have people on TV making opening racist and sexist jokes without backlash, so obviously we are in a socialist dystopia.

You must have fun with the “movie box candy” bins that stores put out.

Usually, if you have to ask a person “Did you read the article?” in response to their comment, you already have your answer.