They might be dead regarding your car but still have a charge.
Deep cycle car batteries a few times and they truly are dead.
You can read that on wikipedia btw. or make a pilot or sailing license, it is one of the basics you learn in the first lessons: how to take care about the battery as you need it for the radio etc.
Obviously I have not,
But I have been in the Alpes at greater hights in a T-shirt.
The temperature is irrelevant (because it is air temperature), relevant is sun and wind.
As long as you are walking and carrying something it does not really matter
The parent is just an idiot, or one of the most unhealthy persons on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
And various incidents after WWII when the "royals of Hawaii" invited guests to celebrations and got visited by the police explaining to them "you are not royal!"
I'm only foggy and blurred (why is that written with two R's?) at early morning after a long night with to much alc.
No idea what you exactly want to say.
However:
* first someone established the theory
* then it was interesting enough that minimum 3 groups on the planet tried to build a devise according to that theory
* the three groups we know about are the scientists who dared to report: "the theory works!"
Now -- especially
But two or three crackpots claim they have a warp drive, and everybody is lining up for their tickets for Alpha Centauri.
The story is about the fact that this kind of drive is not a warp drive (as it was falsely reported in other news) but a very low thrust impulse drive. You will never beat the speed of light with it. However if you have 'enough' energy you can accelerate as long as you want, like with an ion or plasma drive but without the need of "fuel".
"Alcubierre drives" are "warp drives", not "thrusters".
And why would he not be independent? Everyone who works on something without being in the same team of someone else is independent by definition.
Well, I get your point.
However for me the word "push" is completely wrong, as it implies you need a medium to push against.
Once people believed rockets would not work in space. Because: there is no medium to push against.
but explicitly excluding passengers taken expressly for monetary reward
That is ofc an exception as you need a special driving license anyway.
However if I decide to deliver parcels in a private car, I'm insured. And so are "third parties" as you name them.
My point was not my cargo
Good hint, perhaps I should check what that says.
anything hazardous
For that you need an extra license anyway
or high value etc would certainly not be covered by standard insurance.
Of course it is.
What does the insurance care if I have a gold bar or 10 diamonds in my trunk?
If they "store" money for you in an account and enable you to transfer money to other accounts/banks: they are a bank.
No idea where you get your definition of a bank from.
Oh: you might be an american
In Europe Pay Pal is a bank, bank laws apply to them, otherwise they could not even hold accounts with other peoples money.
Normal car insurances in Europe cover commercial use.
Driving from home to work is, surprisingly, commercial, wow, a no brainer.
If I use my car to drive myself around or deliver Pizza or urgent mail or medicals: same insurance!
What the hell would be the difference for me or my car for what I use it regarding my liability towards anyone I (might) harm?
The driving license is split into two tests: theory and practical. Theory is about laws and rules, you have to pass a multiple choice test.
Failure rate is pretty high, something around 35 - 50%
Practice tests vary greatly from driving school to driving school.
However there are ofc the MUST PASS tests: parking, U turning on a road, never pass a red light or stop sign, never take the right of way of another car or threaten a pedestrian.
Ofc the judge will also try to figure your general attention/awareness to the traffic etc.
But I guess failures are far below 50%
OTOH I heard about a record in the USA where a woman needed something like 30+ attempts for the practical driving license.
20 years ago you had to make an so called "Idiots test" if you failed more than 3 times in any of the theory or practical tests.
However those got abolished for ordinary driving licenses, but not if you got caught 2x drunk (pretty low limit in most nations) while driving.
This was germany
The taxi lobby
But you do know every taxi driver simply can work for Uber instead?
There is no taxi lobby.
something being actually thrust away from the device is the next likely explanation
Yes, exactly
Obviously the drive generates "thrust" by "thrusting" something away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
They don't prove any such thing.
Of course they have, I suggest to google.
All they prove is that a bunch of questionable researchers claimed to measure a marginally significant effect
Your way of wording this is: libel.
What you consider marginal is your thing, others might disagree.
, and have been hyping the fuck out of it.
They don't. If they would you would know the names of the scientists and you and we would see them in TV regularly.
There actually is no hype.
Scientific openness is not equivalent credulously accepting the claims of every whacko and charlatain who makes a claim, just because it "hasn't been disproven".
How do you come to the idea that this is happening here?
We do know things about the world. Nothing is absolute in science, but some things come very, very close. Conservation of momentum is one of those.
Yes, it is. And the drive conserves momentum quite fine. Why do you claim it does not, when all the theories about how it works clearly state: it does???
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