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Exactly! Well put. The hypothetical material, dark matter, comes in pretty handy to make the ever-expanding theory work.

Dark Energy.

Dark Matter is the hypothetical stuff we made up to e ...

... but I'm having a terrible time getting my mind wrapped around that bizarre idea.

In Douglas Adam's books there is the bistromatic drive, which uses the fact that numbers written on the check p ...

"And I'm afraid your post does nothing to help the person"

I thought about doing a serious post but I couldn't get past "Where to begin?" A discussion of mechanisms for heat generation and thermal ...

Yup. The real cause of global warming is that the earth has gone beyond it's 3 billion mile oil change. (We should probably change the air filter while we're at it too.)

I'm afraid your post reve ...

Enjoy the good times while they're here.

The bad times will come soon enough regardless of whether you enjoy the good times or not.

Eat meat. Take a trip to macchu pichu. Use one of those pati ...

It's just politics.

They know bush won't do it so they're suggesting it to make him look like a big meanie to the sheeple.

I wouldn't make major life decisions so soon after having all that happen to me.

"If someone was giving away free food in my home town there would be hundreds if not thousands ready to line up."

I think this has less to do with imminent mass starvation than with the modern "gim ...

Huh?

If fewer units are being sold despite screaming demand then there must be a bottleneck in production or supply is being diverted to other markets.

Anyone know the real story?

Well, I'd h ...

Huh?

If fewer units are being sold despite screaming demand then there must be a bottleneck in production or supply is being diverted to other markets.

Anyone know the real story?

I still think vegas has a bright future.

Not as a gambling and tourist mecca but as a closed military/government city.

Think about it. Ample hydro and solar potential. Water from the colorado. ...

And exactly what research is needed? We could start building EVs today using existing technology.

The real issue is that there's no market demand for these vehicles outside of hobbyists.

There are a lot of businesses that buy oil in advance a couple of years out to lock in their costs. Southwest airlines is a notable example. Their counterparties are on the hook to pay whatever is r ...

The power loss in a HVDC system is 3% per 1000km. There's no reason power can't be shipped across the country.

"Cashmere - What are doing here? Deciding who should live and who should die? Ludi is talking about her family ... these are not widgets."

Triage is an ugly thing.