Shouldn't you folks be trying to steal technical information on how to reinforce concrete?

One bad data point was discovered. Isn't it possible that there might be more?

The Pentagon's $600 toilet seat was outed as cover for black project funding. Do you really thing that they were hiding their entire Area 51 budget in nothing other than invoices for plumbing parts?

Time to subpoena some client scientists e-mails.

Rwanda

Tell that to the folks on ISS who ride back and forth on Soyuz all the time. A couple of people went up to ISS from Russia just one week ago.

To be fair, at the moment, future ISS launches from Russia won't be possible because of some launch pad damage incurred by a recent launch, but Russia still has the capability of launching crewed rockets into space from other pads. They just can't send any to ISS right now because its orbital inclination is incompatible with the locations of those other pads while staying within the fuel capacity limits of their rockets.

What are you talking about? On average, engines last 150k to 200k miles in the U.S., complete with CAFE standards.

And the main goal of the current CAFE standards was to push hybrids and electric vehicles. Manufacturers rigging the game by trying to make pure ICE cars with ridiculous mileage is an unanticipated negative side effect, mostly because the folks coming up with the rules did not expect automakers to be so stupid that they would do something like that.

For the most part, oil change schedules are set so that car dealers can make money off of mandatory service so that you keep your warranty. In reality, if you periodically change your filter, use a filter with a smaller pore size, and use synthetic oil, there's at least potentially no need to change the oil at all, at least within the typical lifetime of a passenger car.

Semi goes 1 million miles without an oil change.

The problem is not the CAFE standards per se. The problem is that they are trying to meet them by playing tricks instead of with actual design changes. And even though they come with thinner engine oil, 90% of people will put standard oil into the cars at the first change. So they get higher MPG for the first 5,000 miles, and then the same as they did before the CAFE standards.

I suppose that in theory, you could argue that the standards are flawed for not requiring normal oil weights during testing, but that's about it.

The correct way to hit the MPG targets is to use more electric drive trains. If you make your cars hybrids, you can improve the efficiency of the electric drive train and find ways to engineer the vehicles to weigh less by using more modern materials, and you won't have to work too hard to hit the standards.

Better yet, push actual EVs, which typically have an eMPG of 100+. If just one-third of your vehicles get 130 eMPG and the rest get 30 MPG, you're averaging about 53 MPG already.

What the hell good is that? Maybe for training. But eventually Kohler is going to want to provide a diagnostic service based upon this training. And then they will have to know who's poop they are looking at.

I wonder if one can still do this with all the technology integration.

The same telematics are involved with the adverts for optional features as are needed for collecting the monthly fees allowing your car to start.

I am. Trapped in the body of a man.

We would certainly be at a disadvantage if Russia was able to copy rockets that constantly blew up shortly after launch.

Google however was the first to make a bunch of open-source fonts.

What about SIL? They released a few fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic under the SIL Open Font License before Google Fonts existed - and, in fact, Google uses their licence for some fonts.

Hey! I know! For every Ford Super Duty sold, just throw in a 10-speed bicycle.

What's the fleet average of 20 MPG and infinity?

New hardware. You don't think Microsofthas financial ties to system manufacturers?

Tell that to Fred Meyer. It turns out that they will probably be rewarded for closing stores in high crime areas, passing the savings on to their wealthier and less likely to shoplift, suburban customers.