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Comment Re: Yes (Score 1) 370

And why is that ? Low center of gravity ? Torque ? 4WD ? I see them more and more in the mountains where I live and I know they are extremely popular in Norway (not the warmest climate...). I don't think having a huge acceleration is a good thing on snow !

Comment Re:Yes (Score 3, Interesting) 370

Same. I live in the mountains, where there's snow half the year. When I go down the main road, I stick it in 3rd and don't touch the accelerator or brakes for 15 minutes. I don't care about vintage or 'sport' anything, it's just safe and convenient.
And same thing when going up on very slippery road, you don't want a sudden shift change that make you lose traction.
But yeah, EVs will get rid of that, oh well, I'll see when I get there.

Comment Re:To Make Beer Taste Even Better.... (Score 2) 80

Taste is subjective.

Obviously, you personally ought to stick to drinking Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers. Meanwhile, you should let the hundreds of millions of people who think beer tastes just fine (hops and all) enjoy their beverage of choice.

Pro tip: Most beers balance the bitterness with an appropriate amount of malt sweetness to create a pleasing overall effect for the average taster. This is similar to the way many mixed drinks balance sourness (another evolutionary poison alarm bell, OMG!) with sweetness.

Comment Re:Stop listening to customers, start losing them. (Score 1) 55

Well, perhaps start making some hardware people could like or get excited about besides the bland crap that keeps coming out. Even Alienware got boring after being bought by Dell.

Given that the one big "exciting" thing that all the PC makers are touting these days is adding some kind of AI chip, I'll stick with cheap and boring.

Comment Re:And Now (Score 4, Informative) 56

The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.

There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.

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