I was using the 4 megabit the article noted. 300 miles of laser through turbulent air is quite different than 140 million miles filled with space dust and other objects (space is not empty, so you can’t assume line of sight will always be available). 200 gigabit is theory. 4 megabit is practice. When 200 gigabit…

Fair, but your second point still stands, as does mine - it just makes the huge numbers smaller. 31,250,000 isn’t any more feasible than 250,000,000.

For all the self glorification he desires (and insists upon), Mr. “Art of the Deal” is basically constantly giving more than he’s getting. If he feels the Heritage Foundation helped get him into office, he’ll throw as much of Project 2025 as he can at us. A lot of it is already in his “day 1" plans, from his Agenda 47…

Petabyte per second absolutely does mean the duration of the trip per packet has to be short - it also means you have to be able to send a massive amount of data in the stream. Latency would be atrocious as well, at any speed at or slower than light. You’re talking a ping of 22m22s. That’s 1342000ms - roughly…

It’s adorable how Elon Musk keeps trying to re-create trains and buses, but worse...

Rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist...

Having driven both, LA is somehow way worse, with way more lanes of freeway. It’s the population, no doubt. LA proper has fewer people, but it has millions more trying to get in and out of it every day for work. Plus, Seattle’s scenery is nicer.

I’ve driven that road! Such a nice driving road, but yeah... zero room for error in a few places, and definitely rock/mud slide country, under the right conditions...

Yeah it completely ends the issue, from everything I’ve heard. Indy mechanics pretty much always recommend it. Dealerships are a bit more constrained in what they can recommend without a customer request...

They should use MLS gaskets, but as far as I remember (my current scooby is an FB, so admittedly I haven’t kept up) Subaru never issued a TSB or anything for the paper ones, and paper would still be the OE replacement part. Someone in the know should be able to request them, but without prompting from corporate, the…

They weren’t reformulated for the EJ25, people just noticed they can use the steel ones from the WRX on the NA engines as well. That’s an upgrade rarely done by those who’re the sort to enjoy an automatic transmission - it’s enthusiast knowledge.

Clean shell for a swap, but the price is too high for that.

I had those kind of vented windows on a Geo Storm wagon. They actually work surprisingly well for allowing airflow, aside from either needing someone in the back seat, or to open the trunk to open them quickly yourself...

My Sundance was my first car, too. It wasn’t completely terrible in a crash - but I did find out the hard way the airbag was small enough that even with it fully inflated I could tap my forehead on the steering wheel.

I saw one too, also bizarrely clean. Gotta wonder who saves those, and why...

The Plymouth Sundance. It was the least interesting of the two nameplates slapped on that car. Gutless, boring to look at, uncomfortable to ride in, handled like an old mattress, and just in every way the worst offering of its era. I haven’t seen a more miserable bucket of bolts since.

$4,999 too much. These were awful.

Only NP if that $2500 is coming to me, for the displeasure of owning it.

With our insurance rates, I’m surprised Michigan isn’t on this list...

On a cross country road trip, amenities and comfort are really what I look for. My Crosstrek took me from Detroit to California and back twice, two of those drives pulling a trailer, and 3 pets in the cabin with me. That class of vehicle is pretty ideal, by my reckoning. Good enough gas mileage, roomy and comfy enough…