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Junkyard Find: 1986 Toyota Cressida Wagon | The Truth About Cars

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 March 12th, 2014 at 9:12 am. A very rare find indeed. I wonder what sort of customer the Cressida estate attracted? Tired of their Volvo 240/760? Not into a Merc E____? Subaru too weird? Civic Wagon not posh enough? …

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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 

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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 

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Ideas: Peak Oil/coal/gas vs Global Warming

There is even this weird TV commercial of an energy supplier (RWE). One is that people associate it with nuclear weapons and this anti-nuclear movement is a strange relic from the Cold War. Still, I feel much more at ease in a car ( especially if I am driving and I doubt I am an above average driver) than on an aeroplane. The only argument I can think of is, since we're running out of oil, we better find substitutes now, or we'll be in trouble and our cars won't run! …

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