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Many years ago I was hot-rodding a bit and as I entered a right-hand turn at about 80mph there was a deer in the exact middle of the road. If I turned to more to the right the deer, who was pointing towards the right was likely to step in front of me and that would be it. I did a quick jink...

Sadly, John Oliver is an optimist! Brian

Probably needs a mask given the more than 52M that had to be killed due to the bird flu. There may be a few that are profiting from the outbreak, there always is, but the rest of us are paying the price for conditions that make the flu race through the coops. The industry cheeps out on how...

I didn't have a dog in the fight but picked Argentina to win. Turned out to be a great game, but the only footage of it I've seen is like a 4:57 clip -- I guess it could not be more than five minutes. I'm hoping they post the full game soon. Mbappe gets the golden boot and deserved it, but...

While 38C or even 40C is not uncommon in many places in the world closer to the equator, if your typical hot day in England is, say, high 20's getting up to the high 30's is going to be unpleasant. In Phoenix (2020), there were 145 days where the temperature exceeded 100F (37.8C) and 53 days...

Been at 38C for most of July here in Utah. I am not a fan of high temps and I loathe the period from early June through late August. Dashcams don't last long here... Brian

I remember seeing some time ago a report that indicated the worst areas for potholes was not the northern most places, even though they were generally the coldest, but somewhat further south where temps went through the freezing point more frequently. Further north it stays freezing and further...

Well while everyone is happily quibbling with each other let me add my note of support to the Ukrainian people in their valiant effort to prevent a little man with a little man complex from conquering a Democratic nation. If that little man succeeds the people in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and...

Good hunting!

The picture makes it abundantly clear that none of them were wearing any form of hearing protection -- you could hardly have a better angle to determine this. Additionally the guy throwing the skeet looks a little too close and somewhat in front of the girl with the shotgun, that's not just bad...

Once again Country Hick insists on pushing bull**** and posts obvious fake news sources to justify the bull**** he pushes. Country Hick can't seem to go very long without posting utter nonsense and passing it off as science fact. In this day we are to believe that truth and science are wrong...

So they must have found the Flux Capacitor and a source for 1.45 jigawatts... Brian

You're a sick man Gibson, has anyone ever told you that! ;) Brian

The pic about gasoline having enough calories for 34-56.5 years is nonsense -- a 'food calorie' is actually 1000 calories or a kilocalorie so divide there numbers by 1000. Brian

Range is going to be affected by a number of factors including: weight of bike and rider, elevation gain/loss, speed, road/dirt conditions, aggressiveness of riding (kind of related to speed), battery capacity and charge level, temperature (cold means less range), gearing and tire type. For an...

Yeah, pretty near what I was talking about but I'd want an even bigger battery as mentioned in my prior. The one listed here uses 18650 cells and I'd use about the same number of 21700 cells with about 50% more capacity as the 18650's. Such a bike in the 50kg range would get as much as 200km...

I thinking about getting an offroad capable e-bike with a big battery (3.3KWhr) capable of 150+km per charge. Perhaps something midway between a mountain bike and a motocross motorcycle. Imagine a full suspension MtBike but a little beafier to handle the additional weight of the rider and the...

1/6000 of a second seems impossibly fast. If the max motion was just 25mm it would be moving at an average speed of 150m/sec or 540kph and the peak speed might be twice that. I'm thinking there estimate is off by a factor of ten or so. It would be nice to see a real slo-mo video so you could...

Some things you can not un-see! Brian

You know what the screaming news paper headlines will be if Arnold is ever diagnosed with cancer ... IT IS A TUMOR Brian