Actually, my Neato cleans the house faster than I can because it does it and I don't have to. I have nice clean carpets and it took zero amount of my time.

Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff...

I gotta admit, this is something that annoys me.

When the ISS was first started, one of the modules was going to contain a set of centrifuges for experiments on different amounts of G forces. You could stick mice in there and have them live for 6 months in 1/6G or 1/8G or 1G or 2G or whatever and see what issues they had. It never got off the ground. So all we can do is sit around and go, "Gosh, I don't know how we'll react in different G levels."

Which seems kind of important.

First, for travel. If we're going to have some sort of spinning thing to create "artificial gravity", how fast does it need to spin? Do we need 1G? Can we get by with 0.5G? Do we need to spend all our time in 1G? Can we, say, sleep in 1G for eight hours and work in 0G for 16 hours? Or vice-versa? How would that affect the design of spacecraft, if we had a zero G bunkhouse and 1G working environment (versus having to have room for beds and the working environment all spinning around)

Second, for long-term habitation. Working in a shirt-sleeve environment in 1/6G might be a problem. The solution, though, might be to walk around in a 1000 lb. (on Earth) spacesuit for a few hours. But, again, just because your muscles are getting the workout doesn't mean your heart is necessarily having to work as hard to pump blood in 1/6G. How does that affect things?

We had a lab ready to go to at least try to figure some of that stuff out. Let's get that up there while we still have an ISS where we can research this stuff...

Assuming that...

1. Factory workers get paid enough to go out for lunch.
2. Factory workers are given enough time to go to lunch.

Most of the people I know who do assembly-type work are paid very little and have a 30 minute lunch break.

Oh that huge manatee!

...a record that will follow you throughout the rest of your life.

My Web goes to 11...

But not in May...

No, but you can put enough noise in the spectrum that GPS uses so that the signal can't get through.

"Yes, it's wonderful, isn't it!"

(From Deities)

So the new follow-up to the Mazda RX-8 may be really tiny...

...and stop trying to turn everything into a sequel/trilogy/franchise. There are some great stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end and that's it. I don't need to see what happened afterward, what happened before, this character's backstory, that character's backstory, etc.

Heck, recent example, I saw "Free Guy" and thought it was a pretty fun movie. It had a nice happy ending. Done. Now they're talking about a sequel. Frankly, I'm fine with, "...and they lived happily ever after. The End."

Keep in mind that Tesla got their start by taking a Lotus Elise and turning it into an electric roadster. Don't get me wrong--they did a lot of R&D to get things working well. They didn't just throw in some batteries and an electric motor and say "Done." But they didn't start by designing their own cars and building their own batteries.

Hey, now! If it was good enough for COBOL...

I suppose it depends on how you define "specific."

If a game takes place in the ruins of New York City in PUBG and someone else had the same idea of it taking place in the ruins of New York City, I'm not sure there's a case here. On the other hand, the action in both games takes place in the ruins of Gaguraroth, they might have something...