Ok, I looked up their website rather than the article, and they have had the thing up to 43 mph, which is faster than I can go unless I draft a car, and they say it could go faster if it were geared differently (at a lower MPG of course).
I did actually calculate out the CO2 output equivalency of riding a bike is actually about 90 MPG for the average American on the average diet. I doubt that much of what they do to get this kind of mileage can ever have practical use though. I'd be more interested in a practical vehicle that got 100 mpg.
Plus I think I'm a little annoyed that this article made Slashdot because vehicles and numbers like this have been around for years, and I find nothing particularly impressive about this particular one.
These things average about 15 mph and top out at 30. I have better performance than that on my bike (at least when I'm in shape) I would be willing to bet I could very easily out accelerate this thing on my bike as well.
In Michigan we have a lower offense level for driving while visibly impaired, for which you don't have to have.08 to be guilty. It's basically up to the cop to decide if you had too much to drink, which to my scientific side sounds pretty dumb. I want a hard number, I don't like the idea of I had one beer, and I don't know if it's illegal to drive or not, even though it has little to no effect.
Yeah, it does sound like it's difficult to lose weight once you get fat, so you are probably screwed now, I'm sorry. Some people just don't win the genetic lottery. People didn't used to be this fat, but they didn't gain the weight in the first place, it's not like it has suddenly become harder to lose weight. I suspect it's much easier to keep the weight off in the first place, and that's what I plan to do.
I check my weight fairly frequently, not that it has been out of the same 5 pound range for the last 3 years since I lost 5 pounds (not something I was trying to do) while traveling/living in South America for a 6 months. I think that may have come from climbing mountains. Not that you probably have time or the physical conditions to climb mountains, but if you do go up to fairly high altitude, maybe 12 thousand feet or higher, you will lose your appetite while you are there. When I was climbing mountains, I ate maybe 500-1000 calories in a day, and that was somewhat forced. Parents should monitor their children's weight too, it's no good letting a child get fat before they can take responsibility for themselves.
If you are always hungry when you diet anyway, you could try fasting for a week or 2, I've heard (though I've never done it myself for more than a day) that hunger goes away after 3-4 days as long as you aren't eating anything, though it comes back as soon as you do eat something.
That's about half of what 1 terabyte of magnetic storage weighed in 1980, so I guess that in 1980 books still had better information density than magnetic media.
Michigan is more of an average sized state by land area, and it is fairly long from corner to corner, about 650 miles driving distance. Not as long as Montana at about 850, or some of the other states, but it is fairly long. They aren't going to turn the major highways to dirt though, so it's not really a big deal. Plus, I like dirt roads! I think paved roads may be easier to plow too, but I'm not sure. They seem to have more paved roads in northern Michigan where they get more snow.
Well, that is true, but if automation, AI and robotics becomes advanced enough we may able to have a machine do that, but maybe it's just a pipe dream.
That is why we need to get rid of work and make everything a hobby. Then people will be able to do or make what they want and not worry about whether or not it is going to make them enough money to live on.
The person to figure out how to do that will probably change the world more than anyone since Jesus.
Well, normally not, but if you start shipping thousands of boxes full of lead bricks to Alaska in priority mail flat rate boxes, they would put an end to it eventually.
Well, it's still only down (the Dow Jones index) about half as much as during the great depression, 41% now vs. 87% then. Of course it took almost 3 years to hit bottom then, and we are only 13 months into this downturn. At this point in the great depression the Dow Jones index was only down 44%, so I guess this is comparable by some standards. But at least nobody is losing their savings because of bank failures. Oh, and unemployment is 6.5% now, but at the end of 1930 it was 8.7%.
I've read that scholars who actually understand how the years put down in the Bible correspond to real time (skipped generations and such things)put Adam and Eve at around 30-90,000 years ago. The people who claim the Earth is 6000 years old refuse to apply scientific analysis to the Bible (obviously) and just blindly add up the years in all the genealogies to get an erroneous age. Science and religion are only incompatible if you refuse to allow science into religion.
Actually, laws against secretly recording someone are a fairly new idea (try hiding a camcorder from 1993, and what's a webcam?). Most of them have been passed in the last 10-15 years, and only about half or so of the states have these laws. I don't think that there is a federal law along these lines either.
Silverlight sucks, it doesn't even support my cpu, not that I would want to install it anyway. I have an old Athlon from just before they released the Atlon XP with SSE.
I am very glad that businesses here don't need to pay $30,000 a year to play the radio where customers can hear it. It's nice when our government protects us from abusive regulations, even if it doesn't happen very often.
What they really need to do is time someone, cut off their legs, and them give them prosthetics's. That would prove once and for all that they aren't an advantage. Missing 30% of your leg muscle more than makes up for a 30% mechanical advantage.
I would say we in the US ended up with a republic instead of a democracy because it was impractical to gather votes from everybody in a timely fashion when they wrote the constitution. Now that such a thing is becoming possible a true democracy could be a reasonable possibility, and perhaps if they wrote the constitution now they would choose to institute such a government.
I prefer notepad2, at only 540K it has features like color coding for several programing languages, and case converter, for those pesky times you hit caps lock on accident, along with many other great features.
Actually, it isn't something you can buy. At least I don't know of anywhere I can go to buy mp3's of the songs I want with no DRM. If there is someplace like that (besides allofmp3.com) please post a link.
They can make cars that get 500 miles to the gallon, they just can't make a profit on them because they have things like all carbon fiber frames. Basicaly, at $2.50 a gallon, you only save about $20,000 over a quater of a million mile lifetime, which is probably not enough savings to pay for the frame of the car, much less all the other advanced technology.
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Ok, I looked up their website rather than the article, and they have had the thing up to 43 mph, which is faster than I can go unless I draft a car, and they say it could go faster if it were geared differently (at a lower MPG of course).
I did actually calculate out the CO2 output equivalency of riding a bike is actually about 90 MPG for the average American on the average diet. I doubt that much of what they do to get this kind of mileage can ever have practical use though. I'd be more interested in a practical vehicle that got 100 mpg.
Plus I think I'm a little annoyed that this article made Slashdot because vehicles and numbers like this have been around for years, and I find nothing particularly impressive about this particular one.
These things average about 15 mph and top out at 30. I have better performance than that on my bike (at least when I'm in shape) I would be willing to bet I could very easily out accelerate this thing on my bike as well.
Sounds like he has it pretty good, in Northern Michigan I would say that only 1 in 100 women look good enough to date. Stupid obesity.
Because they don't want a "we can brick your device if we feel like it" reputation.
In Michigan we have a lower offense level for driving while visibly impaired, for which you don't have to have .08 to be guilty. It's basically up to the cop to decide if you had too much to drink, which to my scientific side sounds pretty dumb. I want a hard number, I don't like the idea of I had one beer, and I don't know if it's illegal to drive or not, even though it has little to no effect.
Yeah, it does sound like it's difficult to lose weight once you get fat, so you are probably screwed now, I'm sorry. Some people just don't win the genetic lottery. People didn't used to be this fat, but they didn't gain the weight in the first place, it's not like it has suddenly become harder to lose weight. I suspect it's much easier to keep the weight off in the first place, and that's what I plan to do.
I check my weight fairly frequently, not that it has been out of the same 5 pound range for the last 3 years since I lost 5 pounds (not something I was trying to do) while traveling/living in South America for a 6 months. I think that may have come from climbing mountains. Not that you probably have time or the physical conditions to climb mountains, but if you do go up to fairly high altitude, maybe 12 thousand feet or higher, you will lose your appetite while you are there. When I was climbing mountains, I ate maybe 500-1000 calories in a day, and that was somewhat forced. Parents should monitor their children's weight too, it's no good letting a child get fat before they can take responsibility for themselves.
If you are always hungry when you diet anyway, you could try fasting for a week or 2, I've heard (though I've never done it myself for more than a day) that hunger goes away after 3-4 days as long as you aren't eating anything, though it comes back as soon as you do eat something.
That's about half of what 1 terabyte of magnetic storage weighed in 1980, so I guess that in 1980 books still had better information density than magnetic media.
Michigan is more of an average sized state by land area, and it is fairly long from corner to corner, about 650 miles driving distance. Not as long as Montana at about 850, or some of the other states, but it is fairly long. They aren't going to turn the major highways to dirt though, so it's not really a big deal. Plus, I like dirt roads! I think paved roads may be easier to plow too, but I'm not sure. They seem to have more paved roads in northern Michigan where they get more snow.
Well, that is true, but if automation, AI and robotics becomes advanced enough we may able to have a machine do that, but maybe it's just a pipe dream.
That is why we need to get rid of work and make everything a hobby. Then people will be able to do or make what they want and not worry about whether or not it is going to make them enough money to live on. The person to figure out how to do that will probably change the world more than anyone since Jesus.
Well, normally not, but if you start shipping thousands of boxes full of lead bricks to Alaska in priority mail flat rate boxes, they would put an end to it eventually.
Well, it's still only down (the Dow Jones index) about half as much as during the great depression, 41% now vs. 87% then. Of course it took almost 3 years to hit bottom then, and we are only 13 months into this downturn. At this point in the great depression the Dow Jones index was only down 44%, so I guess this is comparable by some standards. But at least nobody is losing their savings because of bank failures. Oh, and unemployment is 6.5% now, but at the end of 1930 it was 8.7%.
I've read that scholars who actually understand how the years put down in the Bible correspond to real time (skipped generations and such things)put Adam and Eve at around 30-90,000 years ago. The people who claim the Earth is 6000 years old refuse to apply scientific analysis to the Bible (obviously) and just blindly add up the years in all the genealogies to get an erroneous age. Science and religion are only incompatible if you refuse to allow science into religion.
I'm sure if this hits someone NASA will be paying out a few million dollars at least, which is still much cheaper than taking it down in the shuttle.
No need to wait for that, just look at their myspace pages.
Actually, laws against secretly recording someone are a fairly new idea (try hiding a camcorder from 1993, and what's a webcam?). Most of them have been passed in the last 10-15 years, and only about half or so of the states have these laws. I don't think that there is a federal law along these lines either.
Silverlight sucks, it doesn't even support my cpu, not that I would want to install it anyway. I have an old Athlon from just before they released the Atlon XP with SSE.
If he's any relation to Heinrich Boll, I'll sight the petition. I hate The Clown.
I haven't even heard of any of the movies mentioned in the summary, so I guess that must mean they are pretty awful.
I am very glad that businesses here don't need to pay $30,000 a year to play the radio where customers can hear it. It's nice when our government protects us from abusive regulations, even if it doesn't happen very often.
What they really need to do is time someone, cut off their legs, and them give them prosthetics's. That would prove once and for all that they aren't an advantage. Missing 30% of your leg muscle more than makes up for a 30% mechanical advantage.
I would say we in the US ended up with a republic instead of a democracy because it was impractical to gather votes from everybody in a timely fashion when they wrote the constitution. Now that such a thing is becoming possible a true democracy could be a reasonable possibility, and perhaps if they wrote the constitution now they would choose to institute such a government.
I prefer notepad2, at only 540K it has features like color coding for several programing languages, and case converter, for those pesky times you hit caps lock on accident, along with many other great features.
Actually, it isn't something you can buy. At least I don't know of anywhere I can go to buy mp3's of the songs I want with no DRM. If there is someplace like that (besides allofmp3.com) please post a link.
They can make cars that get 500 miles to the gallon, they just can't make a profit on them because they have things like all carbon fiber frames. Basicaly, at $2.50 a gallon, you only save about $20,000 over a quater of a million mile lifetime, which is probably not enough savings to pay for the frame of the car, much less all the other advanced technology.