I’ve been living for the last eight years in a house with no A/C (it had it at one time, but the previous owners took the compressor before walking away from their mortgage). And while it can get pretty hot inside the house during the summer, we manage. Installing a ceiling fan in the kitchen helped quite a bit,…

This is one of the coolest online comments I’ve ever read! Bravo for being a good netizen.

That’s how I want to go.

You’d get almost no yield. You’d die from the prompt critical neutron flux, anybody within about 5 meters of you is in real trouble, but then the rapidly doubling energy flux would fling the two halves apart and end the reaction.

Granted the Little Boy was nothing comparable to the ICBM’s we have in today’s arsenal. In August of 1945 it was state-of-the-art and shared 50% of the credit for convincing the Japanese that an unconditional surrender was in their best interest.

I see you are somewhat knowledgeable about the Demon Core. Those who are still in the dark: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

You are conflating two different kinds of event. It’s relatively easy to bring two subcritical masses together to form a supercritical mass, but you can’t expect to get a large explosion under most circumstances— at most, a “squib blow”, with about the energy of the equivalent mass of high explosive. It’s…

Yeah....don’t do that shit. Ever. You might block a car that is trying to get somewhere, like a hospital. (yeah, yeah. That kind of person should call an ambulance. But emergencies do happen in traffic). Nobody likes shoulder passers, but everyone hates people who enforce traffic themselves.

Little known fact: this is how the Forester was born.

+1 for the no touchscreens. I absolutely hate that the heated seats and rear air controls on my wife’s 2011 Explorer are only located on the touchscreen, meaning it takes multiple presses through different screens to change the cold air blowing full blast on the kids in the back. Not exactly a safe thing while…

Got news for you: I can’t remember the exact number of major/mid-major cities I’ve visited or worked in across the country, because the number is way in the hundreds. In regards to total time spent, NYC is in my top ten.

This wasn’t the only Soviet self-built/home-built sports car. There were several, going back as far as the 1930s.

I can’t keep quiet about this anymore.

You are describing a billboard.

These signs provide a public service and should cost no more than the amount it takes to install and maintain them. The purpose of these signs is to attract travelers to an exit, not to an individual business... hence all the restrictions/qualification around operating hours and…

My younger self used to be ‘that guy’ who didn’t make way for lane changers, tailgated, flashed his lights and then tore past only to end up at the tail of another queue further up the road. The day I figured it out (almost by literally doing the maths e.g. time/distance/speed) and realised that it made only the…

Freeway driving = stress. I don’t know why exactly, maybe it’s the speed, but yeah, surface streets whenever I can.

Usually a plane pulls up to the gate, gets unloaded, loaded, and takes off. There wouldn’t be that much time for the cargo hold to cool down. If the plane just came out of maintenance then I’m guessing it would have been in a heated hangar - unless the maintenance people work outside in the winter. And airlines…