They do, but they have been know to be incorrectly installed and go into a feedback loop.

Crappy drum brakes and overpowered engines. Non-radial tires.

How are we even alive?

Sorry, Bi-Directional Amplifier. A signal booster.

http://www.wilsonelectronics.c...

It sounds like it could have been a BDA gone into a regeneration loop. Not that uncommon.

True, but cars were much more dangerous back then. Looking at you old Fury III with bench seats, 383 and no belts.

Got an 8" Turbo Pascal disk hanging on the wall of my office.

Well, anything by them but specifically the Model 500 telephone set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

63 years old and still works just like it came out of the factory. The only maintenance is a bit of cleaning with soapy water and tapping the microphone against something hard every few years to pack the carbon granules.

Also remarkable is that it will still work on just about any phone system in the world. That's a long lasting communication standard.

Another great line of products were pre-1990 Motorola two way radios. They were build almost as well as the WE stuff.

But then there are the stars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Kassahun Tsegie was born in 1970 in Ethiopia. His mother died in a tuberculosis epidemic when he was three years old. He and his elder sister, were subsequently adopted by Ann Marie and Lennart Samuelsson, a homemaker.

Hell, give me that on a ball of rice with some wasabi, let me dip it in soy, I'll eat it. Google knows that I've eaten worse and stranger, and paid good money for it.

The opposite of "Heads down, bums up."

But Washington State has laws on who can sell weed and what the tax is.

Then we could put steam vents at 90 degree angles and spin the earth faster. The increased spin could then be used to generate power off of the magnetic field of the Van Allen belt.

Profit!

Yes, we become a world of programmers and gamers. The whole is is our mothers' basement.

For this to work we'd may need to have a "hindmost" central world that was almost all arcologies. Nothing we need to worry about soon. I mean, I've been to Montana.

A mini Dyson Sphere around the earth?