Plasma actuators are used to make very minor adjustments to boundary layer flow, to enhance the performance of things that are already aerodynamic. You can’t ionize the air around you and expect it’s going to remove the big sucking cavity that forms behind a boxy truck.

Too late. Lawyering is going to be one of the first white collar jobs to get automated away. A huge amount of that profession is the behind the scenes research that is too boring to make it to televised court dramas, and the first round of that is already being automated.

Of course they do. The Grand Prix was in the right lane to get off at the next exit. They were both exiting the highway. The right lane is where you drive when you’re about to exit the highway.  

Well, you could double it anyway...

Redundant Orthogonally Aligned Divots?

Who the fuck stands up? Smearing shit on your ass and whatnot?

After I started putting my stack of damn cards in my suitcase about a year ago, I have not received another since. Clearly they make my bombs clothes invisible to the scanner.

Open it up, push the latch back down into position, close it back up, and within three minutes it’s working again. You do need a T5, and a phillips, and you need to slice open the pads to get at the screws. Why do they always hide those under the pads...

Open it up, push the latch back down into position, close it back up, and within three minutes it’s working again.…

Not to mention the fact that the contacts on the old mice loved to corrode and fail.

Not to mention the fact that the contacts on the old mice loved to corrode and fail.

I was doing some work just south of Toledo about a year ago, and had a Nissan Sentra (I think) rental car. I had just exited Dayton northbound and the car pulled hard right, with severe buffeting. It would do this off and on for a few seconds at a time. I figured I was about to lose an axle bearing, and was on edge…

If I indicate to people around me what I am about to do on the highway, odds are not insignificant one of them is going to be a jackass and will change their behavior to block me from doing so. If I instead wait until I take action to signal to people around me, presumably I have ensured there is sufficient room and…

Sounds quite similar to how red/green navigation beacons function.

Give me five!

In order to disperse, it has to accelerate to the speed of your vehicle. If that sheet of ice impacts your windshield from a dead stop, you have the deflection of the sheet and your windshield combined to accelerate it up to your velocity. If you consider that deflection may only be a couple of inches, then that…

You cannot target a projectile during re-entry, because it’s a reinforced, temperature-resistant, ablative vehicle, sheathed in a protective, obscuring, light-diffusing plasma. Target speed be damned, you simply cannot pump enough power through the atmosphere to have any effect.

“Laziness” doesn’t seem to be an issue at the Tesla plant. Working 60-70 hours a week leads me to believe they need to hire more people.

And... it’s locked.

What you plan on doing to the 400hp car to make it accelerate as slowly as the 100hp car.

Would your mod include several tons of ballast, or just the removal of all the low gears?

C’mon, everyone liked the morphing Viper...