American trucks and their owners are such a fucking joke. They put these giant cartoon pickup bodies on little wheels with street tires, give them ground clearance that still gives them obstacle-clearing capability similar to a car, waste tons of bed space on big bulging fenders and then most of them don't get used for anything a compact or mid-sized car couldn't do.
The only sensible American pickups are some of the "compact" ones like the newer Ranger, which aren't even primarily aimed at the US market.
Also, do keep in mind that safety is relative - '80s cars were mostly small and light, SUVs were only just beginning to trigger the safety arms race at the time.
Yep the CRX weighs about 1600lbs, it's one of the lightest production cars...ever. The new "lightweight" Toyota FR-S is close to 2700lbs. The legendarily ultra-light Lotus Elise? The first-gen was about 1600lbs, but the latest model is over 2500lbs.
I'd tell you to get a Yaris but it's $3k over budget new and the things don't depreciate. Small size, simple and reliable, 40-50MPG, good interior space and not hard on the eyes as modern cars go. Mazda2s are similar, only $2k over budget new and they handle better than the Yaris, but I haven't tried the interior myself.
How can they simultaneously be deathtraps and for pussies? I drive small cars and I like to think of myself as a death-defying badass by today's standards.
You can just buy a similar Japanese or German bike for a half to a third of the cost and get a similar product without dumping the cost of an economy car into the biggest PR operation this side of Apple.
It's good for us in the long term, it decreases the amount of fossil carbon released into the atmosphere, reserves more fossil fuel for future availability, and makes us consider alternative energy sources.
True but an extreme outlier case. Corvettes are unusually good on gas thanks to their good aerodynamics and overdrive gear, and Miatas are unusually bad on gas with average aerodynamics (or horrible if you drop the top) and a close-ratio gearbox.
I was thinking that making the orbit non-circular enough that it intersects with the atmosphere could be the most efficient way to deorbit in some cases.
I know a guy, who's a slashdotter actually, who would smoke immediately before and after 1~2 hour meetings. And some heavy-ass cigarettes too, the scent was almost as strong as cigar smoke. And sometimes you'd be near him, he'd cough, and that same smell would suddenly come up again
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Nothing too freakish about it, considering that it's a diesel.
American trucks and their owners are such a fucking joke. They put these giant cartoon pickup bodies on little wheels with street tires, give them ground clearance that still gives them obstacle-clearing capability similar to a car, waste tons of bed space on big bulging fenders and then most of them don't get used for anything a compact or mid-sized car couldn't do.
The only sensible American pickups are some of the "compact" ones like the newer Ranger, which aren't even primarily aimed at the US market.
I know guys who would drive something like a Miata or CRX and tow a utility trailer those two times per year.
Or smaller! Half-width cars could double the "bandwidth" of roads and drastically cut wind resistance, improving efficiency.
Also, do keep in mind that safety is relative - '80s cars were mostly small and light, SUVs were only just beginning to trigger the safety arms race at the time.
Yep the CRX weighs about 1600lbs, it's one of the lightest production cars...ever. The new "lightweight" Toyota FR-S is close to 2700lbs. The legendarily ultra-light Lotus Elise? The first-gen was about 1600lbs, but the latest model is over 2500lbs.
I'd tell you to get a Yaris but it's $3k over budget new and the things don't depreciate. Small size, simple and reliable, 40-50MPG, good interior space and not hard on the eyes as modern cars go. Mazda2s are similar, only $2k over budget new and they handle better than the Yaris, but I haven't tried the interior myself.
How can they simultaneously be deathtraps and for pussies? I drive small cars and I like to think of myself as a death-defying badass by today's standards.
You can just buy a similar Japanese or German bike for a half to a third of the cost and get a similar product without dumping the cost of an economy car into the biggest PR operation this side of Apple.
Yep Stephen Chu showed everyone that long-term thinking is political suicide.
It's good for us in the long term, it decreases the amount of fossil carbon released into the atmosphere, reserves more fossil fuel for future availability, and makes us consider alternative energy sources.
Sounds good, American cars are too big anyways, maybe if they stop making them so damn huge I'll consider buying one.
True but an extreme outlier case. Corvettes are unusually good on gas thanks to their good aerodynamics and overdrive gear, and Miatas are unusually bad on gas with average aerodynamics (or horrible if you drop the top) and a close-ratio gearbox.
If this is legitimate devil science, the universe has ways of shutting the whole thing down ;-)
That only makes computers cooler IMO! \m/
LMFAO!! XD
Ow my sides...
I was thinking that making the orbit non-circular enough that it intersects with the atmosphere could be the most efficient way to deorbit in some cases.
I know a guy, who's a slashdotter actually, who would smoke immediately before and after 1~2 hour meetings. And some heavy-ass cigarettes too, the scent was almost as strong as cigar smoke. And sometimes you'd be near him, he'd cough, and that same smell would suddenly come up again
This is your brain on cigarettes.
...Or about 10x the cost per gig of a hard drive.
All of these are taken into account in the price of a gallon of gas or kWh of electricity.
Not entirely. Part of the price of gas is in the US' military budget.
How soon before you have to pass through one to go into a government building?
This is already required at some courthouses in the US, they were there before they were in airports IIRC.
Butt-bombs are relatively small. Instead imagine a skinny guy who is turned into an explosive hambeast through surgery.
We're going through the Gilded Age and McCarthyism for the second time now, how many times does history have to repeat itself until we learn?
Finally, a second reason to be glad if you don't have an abnormally large schlong :-P (the first being "sometimes it just won't fit")