The Cressida was an extremely well-built car by 1980s standards, and a pretty good car even through our jaded 21st-century eyes (which view vehicles that get scrapped before 200,000 miles as suspiciously crappy and/or abused). We've seen ..
Posts from ‘March, 2014’
The mystery of flight MH370: How on earth, with all our technology …
With dedicated, land-based tracking networks, vehicles and devices can be tracked to within a few centimeters. Even in the absence of GPS or radio tracking, inertial guidance (dead reckoning) has been accurate enough …
Special relativity creates its own optical illusion – io9
Time turning into something that can be stretched out, depending on your particular point of view, is odd enough. Just to confuse people even more, there are things like length contraction. The person in the car will see the car ..
Ideas: Peak Oil/coal/gas vs Global Warming
There is even this weird TV commercial of an energy supplier (RWE). …