Current spacecraft velocity relative to earth is 3697 kph according to the latest spacecraft status display.

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They might have launghed then, but they're not laughing now.

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

Driver response time doesn't increase at all. The rest of stopping distance is determined by physics and doesn't increase much, at least not in good conditions where any old tire and any sufficiently strong brake is going to perform about the same. It CAN decrease a lot in bad conditions, whcih is also where most of the technology is useful, but most speed limits are set for good conditions with a law that says you should decrease your speed appropriately. Driving around at the speed that's reasonable for the worst possible conditions would really drive people nuts.

Not murdering people isn't a law either. It's a general characteristic of a social species (with a legal basis, because people are dumb and cannot take advice).

It's easy enough to go the other way. Pickups and SUVs are the most popular vehicles among American boomers, generation X and millennials. The Zs seem to like smaller cars, but they're also 14-29 so we'll see if that commitment hangs on when most of them have been bending over to stick kids in car seats for a while.

boomers have all the power right now in the U.S.

You guys insist on forgetting you're a democracy, for a little longer anyway. You don't command 49% of the vote by only appealing to a single generation, particularly when it's the second smallest one.

Blaming dead people is completely unproductive.

Blaming people is unproductive. Almost as unproductive as just blaming people who aren't you. Human beings have an enormous capacity to ignore big remote problems in favour of their small proximate problems. When you were born doesn't have much to do with that. Solutions have to recognize and address that basic fact. "Oh woe is me, the boomers are awful, if only poor us who are 80% of the eligble voters weren't so dominated by them" doesn't do anything but piss off the old flower power hippies driving around in their Cadillacs.

If it works in both Pythons and mice then that suggests it's an awfully old mechanism that's got a good chance of being active in humans too. A much better chance than if it was only seen in mice.

Just switch to dark mode.

You know Biden and Trump are the same generation, right? So are Obama (although he's on the edge), Bush Jr and Clinton.

Solar panels are mostly made out of silicon and glass, which are in turn made out of stuff that's everywhere. It gets everywhere too. You also need a conductor, which isn't as common but you've got a few choices and between them they're pretty well distributed.

I'm not sure that's quite the argument you think it is.

Don't forget that Chewbacca, a wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk lives on Endor.

The funny thing about having your polity run by religious fanatics is that one of their top priorities is to make more religious fanatics.

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