"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, January 2, 1909."
Essentially correct, and still true today. They might look nicer and be more comfortable now, but practical top speed has barely increased since.
Hmmm, my current car cruises comfortably at 130+ mph and a past one topped out around 180 mph. Not sure a 1909 vehicle even makes 100 mph reliably, although they did exist, as the top speed set in 1909 was roughly 120mph. Wonder what the gas mileage was, not to mention the teeth loosening adrenaline rush.
"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." - The New York Times, January 13, 1920"
Incorrect obviously, but only marginal improvements in efficiency have been made since the 1960's.
TBH, there's not much you can do to increase the efficiency of the most efficient simple chemical fuel combo in existence. In a thrust based concept, if you're using all the energy available as thrust, you're done.
Taser. It's effective and non lethal. Gun nuts always forget about tasers because of their blood lust.
Untrue - Taser's can still be lethal.
Barring Anguirel's post, this is not true for everyone. I've seen people drift while chewing gum, talking to people, looking in the rearview mirror, etc. Some people literally cannot do 2 things at once, with one of those being breathing.
For these types of people, a conversation with a passenger is no different than talking on the phone, or even having kids in the car. They will be distracted in all cases if there's anything at all that can catch their attention.
Other people, however, will tune a conversation out when driving conditions warrant it. They fall outside that distracted group. Part of this is realizing that no phone conversation requires catching everything the first time, and that asking for clarification or repetition is valid, since you're taking the call while driving in the first place.
obviously you don't stream, so you don't know the fuck you're talking about.
Nice projection, if you'd read and comprehended even what was in these 2 posts much less , you'd note that I am quite aware of what's on streaming services. In fact, I used several since they first came out and they all had crap quality and that includes the "better" premium services, including Vudu, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
here's the deal, honky:
Nice ad-hominem,
1)streaming services carry different movies, and all have some "diamond in the roughs"
Almost all available on disks of some sort
2) movies are changing all the time, so you never know what new thing could be available
Funny, the selection of disk based movies seems only to grow and is always available, plus the quality is far superior in all ways. (And yes, that's a side argument for another day - the quality of streaming is abysmal unless you're running it yourself, like I do. A 3 Mbps streaming service has nowhere near the picture quality of a 35Mbps BD or 12+ MBps OTA HD stream, nor the typically 5 Mbps for DVDs, and the differences are painfully obvious on anything above a 40" screen)
3) the UI of each service makes it hard to find new good stuff, let alone compare to other services.
The real problem here is that all of these services are generally somewhat bad at suggesting movies, unless someone has personally added a suggestion list that you happen to agree with. How on earth is a 3rd party going to make a better suggestion list out of the limited data available from the primary service? They can't.
you should check it out yourself, go to canistream.it and click through the top movies on each service. you'll see that a lot jumps out at you and it's really easy to do.
I have no need to check yet another service for "top movies" as those are well known and advertised. So this service does nothing for me. Running through the next month's releases available from any of the many sources including official ones takes < 15 min once a month, and I'm done.
after you do that, return here and kiss my ass for being a jerk.
I count 7 failures on your part without a single valid point. I'm sure you've had lots of practice puckering.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.