I do actually love Wawa. Their breakfast sandwiches are great and, as gas stations go

Fog lights? Front license plate? Extra chrome? The color? Clearance lamps that are way too far inboard to actually be legal, were they actually needed to be legal? Whatever amazing coating they put on the truck to keep it looking pristine even after driving around in a pit of literal cow shit? Seriously, there’s not…

It’s not a hack if it’s something it was designed to do.

Residential roofs are small and varied. There’s plenty of large, flat, easily workable commercial and carpark roofs that should be earlier targets.

I do wonder why we’ve not seen thermoelectric experiments on roadways

It would be pretty tough to replicate real world wear on those materials in a laboratory setting

The other is my 05 Grand Prix. A wheel bearing on the back failed.

But when the double lanes end a thousand feet from the light and you want to make sure you are in front of the douchey flatbiller next to you, 0-60 becomes an important metric.

The perforated visors allow you to see stoplights through them. They block enough sun to keep you from going blind but work in traffic (because of where the roof line is).

Only four gears, and it still couldn’t decide which one it wanted to use when you stomped on the gas.

3.5sq.mi is about 1mi radius, which at 5100mi above the surface would be about 1.5 minutes wide. That’s so small, it’s basically at the resolving limit of the human eye. The Sun is 31 minutes wide. A mirror cannot produce a power greater than the source it is reflecting, so the only way for a mirror to produce more…

And that mirror has to be as proportionally large to you as that lens is to the ant. The Sun is not a coherent light source, so the only way to “focus” Sunlight to be brighter than the Sun is to in fact be larger than the Sun. Your mirror superweapon has to take up a much larger region of the sky than the Sun.

Actually, no, because this site has already condemned the US version of this weapon.

That brings into question people calling it a “scramjet”. Obviously it’s not combusting anything, but even the supersonic (heat exchanger) part is questionable with the reduced temperature and power output caused by a coolant loop rather than direct exposure. To be fair, the video rendering from the unveiling several…

solar mirrors

Of course it wasn’t designed to spew radioactive exhaust. Doing so means your engine is slowly abrading away, which is a bad thing for the continued operation of the missile. It’s just an unavoidable consequence of running an open cycle reactor, and an open cycle reactor is an unavoidable consequence of the power…

So that just means they’ll have to protect the THAAD batteries with C-RAMs?

From the side, or the back, or low in the front, but god that’s an ugly hood...

They’re also the only thing seemingly decent open at 4am.  Of course you’ll spend the next two days on the floor of your bathroom.

Why would above-knee be of any use either? An airbag is to prevent you from crashing into something. The only time your knees would have significantly more upward momentum than the car would be if you were somehow dropped upside down onto your roof. That’s a bad time all around, and there’s not much airbags are going…