Comment Re:So what you're saying is... (Score 2, Informative) 311
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The browser I'm using is AE (Arse Explorer)
You must be working for the TSA.
If only more of them had a clit...
Like this one?
I actually had thought that breaking in a regular car would disengage the engine... until I tried it.
Not a good idea. Disengaging the engine means lower control over the car, as the engine in lower gear actually helps you with braking. The injection system cuts the fuel flow, the engine is decompressing warm air, which slows the car down. Very convenient when going downhill. With the engine disengaged, the only thing that's slowing the car down are the brakes. Leaving the gear in saves fuel, brakes and the engine health as well. Additionally, in critical situations you can hit the gas pedal and accelerate immediately.
The use of things like rotating bearings and electric current (for transmission of energy) might enable a self replicating machine to operate much more efficiently than life.
I'm not so sure about this. Bacteria use something like a rotating bearing for anchoring the flagellum to the cell membrane. For some reason, this evolutionary feature is absent from eukaryotic organisms (their flagella are undulating, not rotating structures). Maybe they are not so much more effective.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.