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Comment Re:It's bad enough people get experimented on (Score 2) 34

They're also safer than human drivers because they drive slower. Human-driven trucks usually drive the speed limit, which is 75 mph on the Texas portion of I-45. A self-driving truck will go slower to minimize fuel consumption, so 55 mph. A truck going 75 has nearly twice the kinetic energy.

And also because when the signage on the long uphill grade clearly requires that trucks must keep to the right lane, the robot ruck that can climb at eleven miles an hour won't tie up miles of traffic vainly trying to pass a truck doing 10.99 mph.

Comment Re:This is what Ignorance looks like. (Score 2) 117

Houston has one of the worst geographical advantages - see the Los Angeles style smog.

It's also subject to hurricanes and Biblical flooding. Furthermore, the specially modified 747 used to transport Shutltes from place to place is already a museum piece at the same place that Texas wants to place the Shuttle. It would have to be de-mothballed and made operational again just for thiis one job.

Comment US fertility is not evenly distributed (Score 5, Interesting) 317

We hear so much these days about young urban hipsters deciding not to have children because the world as they see it appears to be coming to an end. But when I visited Iowa this month, I was impressed by by seeing babies everywhere. So if children represent optimism about the future, look at these differences among states:

https://worldpopulationreview....

Now consider the effects, long-term, of these differentials on our culture and politics.

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