Maybe you could activate and operate whatever non-automatic emergency fire equipment on the floor you got to?

Because their short-term performance doesn’t matter anymore. Mccown is better and was the right pick while playoffs were still a remote possibility, but he only has a couple more years left in the league thanks to his age.

Autonomous cars build risk maps of the world, defined as “how risky is it at position (x,y,z)?”. The moment a jaywalker is sensed by the lidar, they’d probably map the area around him as highly risky and non-passable, and the high-level route planner would start slowing down or changing lanes.

Once when they detected a saturn V upper stage, it was because they’d detected titanium-based paint via spectroscopy. The reflected light spectrum was very unlikely to be from a natural object. Maybe that’s what has happened here. If it appears to be pure aluminum, then it’s probably not an asteroid.

Very good and/or terrifying youtube video on asteroid discovery:

We can’t be sure, but you can use statistics to estimate pretty accurately how many objects you haven’t discovered based on your technology, scanning rate, and discovery rate. It’s quite possible that as far as large asteroids go, scientists are close to sure that nothing dangerous is coming in that time period.

Investing in the stock market has a positive expected return in the mathematical sense over a huge variety of time windows. Even brainless non-skilled investing* where you just stick it in a broad-based mutual fund is expected to create positive returns of 5-6% per year in the long term.

The main advantage of a plane is that they are air-breathing, not so much the wings. Oxygen is really heavy, and sucking it in from the atmosphere massively increases your system’s mass efficiency, since it doesn’t have to carry the oxygen for the atmospheric portion of flight.

My life seems so much more normal now that I’ve read that [at least] two other people also had to search through trash after tossing out a retainer.

Did it at a fast-food restaurant once. Put the (brand-new, multi-hundred-dollar) retainer on the tray->tray contents get tossed in trash->OH SHIT.

Depends on the level of motorsport. If you’re a good mechanic, many LeMons or ChumpCar teams would probably trade a shift or two in return for an engine or transmission rebuild.

The issue for RB I think is that the engine rules make it _much_ more difficult to catch back up. You get no out-of-competition testing, you get limited chances to develop the internal components, and if you have reliability issues, you get even less running since if it blows up at a race, that’s 2+ hours of running…

I’ve done some facebook marketing. The product I was trying to sell wasn’t really well-adapted to it (plus getting “likes” for a page is nearly worthless thanks to spammers), but the targeting possibilities are just nuts, even compared to adwords.

Math-wise it all works out. Since your engine generates negative energy, you’d have to crank it yourself. As you went backwards, it’d generate diesel fuel out of the energy of your cranking!

It’s particularly stupid for a libertarian to oppose such testing and enforcement, since pollution (aka externalities) is supposed to be one of the rare things they believe a government-like body is supposed to police.

Depends on whether the delete was simply removing them from the inbox, or actually doing an on-disk delete. Quite possibly you could implement an email database where the DB row representing a given email simply gets marked as “do not show to user”, with all the data retained.

The real chemtrails.

From reading up on the An-2, it looks like a very common usage of the plane is as a small (12 passenger) passenger plane. So likely for that reason.

As a total aviation outsider, my guess was that it might prevent a mistake/missed checklist item or let them focus a bit more during high-workload periods as they navigate through weather/terrain as magnox suggested, or just repeated normal checklists over the lifetime of the unit. Over the course of thousands of…

What do you think the cost is of an average go-around? Airlines have to put up passengers in hotels, hand out vouchers, burn more fuel, put more hours on the airframe, etc.