No need to rip up the interstates, just tunnel beneath them. Or get the railroads involved - they're already in the business and already have miles and miles of fairly straight routes available.
Of course, this might not be all that feasible with today's tunneling technology. Maybe a new company could find an opportunity here . . .
[I know - that answer is Boring.]
Less than 5% are recycled, according to this article: A Look At The Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Industry, and the lithium is indeed destroyed.
OTOH, the article also suggests that the economics involved may be leading to a surge in the recycling rates.
Good analogy - and as you may recall, the Serenity did have a 'pedestrian' bounce off its windshield.
Just ask Saint Jobs.
Bitch.
Wait - did you miss the use of the singular form of 'second' instead of the [correct] plural form?
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From a cutting engineer's POV, it is more accurate to say that the track spacing is dependent upon the volume, not the other way around - dynamically adjusting the spacing was part of his job. Nothing new here.
But there was another issue: pre-echo, a phenomena caused by the cutting stylus distorting the thin wall between the current groove and the one cut just before. This would transfer a faint copy of the outside of the fresh groove onto the inside of the prior groove. This is most often heard at the start of a track, where a faint copy of the music is heard precisely one revolution (about 2 seconds) before it starts in earnest.
Pre-echo is prevented by spacing the grooves widely enough such that the wall between the grooves doesn't deform. Laser cutting would eliminate that inter-grooval pressure, allowing the grooves to be more tightly packed. I suspect that that is where the capacity boost comes from.
From the Fine Summary:
"The electrified road is divided into 50m sections, with an individual section powered only when a vehicle is above it. When a vehicle stops, the current is disconnected."
Having a pool party? Check the batteries (duh!) and then strap a band on to any child not authorized to use the pool.
And the downside is?
(Adding a simply keyed wristband to prevent removal would be a sensible next step).
Because this allows others to use the pool without setting off the alarm.
Anecdote: My brother had a pool party, well attended, and happened to notice something wrong - a small body descending into the water.
He dove in and emerged moments with a toddler who was choking and crying a bit, but was otherwise no worse for wear.
Yes, a toddler can fall unnoticed into a populated swimming pool.
Nonsense. Why dump asphalt when the two roads converge in a few hundred feet? And where is the X on the other side?
Not really - the logical place to "cross over" is at the very nearby intersection. Also, note there is no corresponding 'X' on the other side of the bridges.
But no reason one could not implement the same thing in a grill that was a chain driven burger sliding system.
Flippy does have one advantage - it uses infrared vision in order to judge when to flip and when to serve, meaning that variations in meat density or grill heat shouldn't matter.
Do you seriously think microwaving a burger for 11 seconds actually cooks the meat in some way?
Yes.
The burgers exit the boiler fully cooked
What is "fully cooked"? Is a rare burger "fully cooked"? Or does it have to be medium? Or well?
The microwaving is just to boost the temperature after they are taken out,
Boosting the temperature boosts how done it is - doneness is a measure of temperature, not time. (That's why meat thermometers are bracketed into Rare/Medium/Well Done zones.)
Because the first class seats are more comfortable than the seats in the terminal, and the drinks are free while the peons file into their steerage class seats.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
