Bigger rooms, bigger TVs. I grew up in Europe before moving to the US and living rooms were much smaller than typical US living rooms. A 50" TV is pretty much the minimum around here.

Guess I got lucky. My Samsung DLP (HLN series) is from 2004. 11,000 hours on the original bulb and still works fine. Haven't had a single problem with this TV.

Eeh, no. Top fuel engines make 1,000 hp per liter. Nissans made 100. That's, you know, a factor of 10.

Top fuel FTW.

Robotics today is where computers were in the 1960's. Back then computers were built for specific tasks, but were not intended to do stuff they weren't specifically designed for. It took the general purpose computers of the 70's and 80's to start the computer revolution. Same thing is needed in robotics. A general purpose robot platform; modular, upgradable and programmable. I'd love to have a robot for all the boring everyday tasks like cleaning, unloading the dishwasher, make my morning coffee and so on.

My Roomba works great, but I'm a minimalist (lots of open space). I've been amazed at the battery life, it still works fine after hundreds of cycles. I have not had to replace anything in the 3 years I've had it.

Why ignore interstellar space? It's not empty by far. Use a ram-scoop and feed the hydrogen into your (fusion) reactor. At 0.9x c your ram-scoop will collect quite a lot of hydrogen.

I've done some tech updates to my '71 Corvette. The 4-speed manual tranny is upgraded to a modern 5-speed with overdrive. The engine has aluminum heads, full roller valve train and EFI. The ECU sits behind the passenger dash and has a RS232 connector so I can calibrate fuel and ignition timing timing from a netbook sitting in the passenger seat. And yes, I pull over before piddling with the netbook. It has data logging so I don't have to watch it while driving.

The industry can call it what they want. As far as I'm concerned: 3 pedals = manual. 2 pedals = automatic.

My point is both religions have some scary rules and if the people who write laws are true believers, and base laws on their religious beliefs, the results can be frightening.

Doesn't the Bible have the same provision?

Wish I had mod points. You, my good Sir, hit the proverbial nail straight on the head.

That's why they make kits to put 5 or 6 speed transmission in them. I got annoyed at buzzing along at 3000+ rpm. The 5 speed cut 1000 rpm off that. Much more relaxing.

Depending on the rear gears you probably would want to keep it around 70 mph or so. Without overdrive these cars get noisy and thirsty at higher speeds.

Unless it has really steep (high numerically) rear gears and you keep it at 70 mph it should easily give you 15-18 mpg, even with the 455 engine.

If it only gets 10 mpg highway there's something wrong. 10 mpg city is normal. My 1971 Corvette with a 454 got 15 mpg highway stock. Now with a 5-speed manual (overdrive) and EFI it gets 21 mph highway.