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I don't have too much trouble believing the C&D article because it does not state that global warming does not exist, only rationalizes its sources. It doesn't make ANY claims about its impact. Unfortunately 100 years is a drop in the bucket in terms of geological time. In an aeon, some...

What "Surge"? We are in a warming cycle. It is getting warmer. It has been for 5,000 years or so. It is a rather high-and-mighty, anthropocentric idea to believe that we are so much the be-all and end-all that we must be the sole agents of this change. The glaciers retreated millenia before...

Larger vehicles win in an accident. It's simple physics. SUVs are generally safer for their occupant. Saying they "Murder" people in smaller cars is pretty strong, I've got to say. Nobody is getting murdered. I could just as easily say that small cars needless endanger their occupants and...

Oddly enough the millitary is looking into using unmanned solar planes for bombing and surveilance -limitless loiter time and no men at risk. My mistake on typing the "CO2". Not like I can truly type it correctly here anyway. (The "2" should be subscript) I was copying what I saw in print...

Rosh you would try anyone's patience. I'd thank you to not pick at my grammar -I make an effort unlike most forum idiots, but honestly I'm as human as you are. Otherwise it speaks of someone who is running out of rational argument so you resort to trying to discredit me by faulting my usage...

A list of all known bugs of this sort would be nice. If you have it. Gods know you do enough for the Fallout community already, Per. -Slightly Off-topic; are they by any chance fixed in the "un-official" FO2 patch?

Meh. I use a Saitek gamer's keyboard and I move with the arrow keys. WASD makes no sense whatsoever because the keys are not arranged naturally, you have to move your middle finger over to hit the "W" and on me that is excuciatingly painful. Also I have use the arrows since "Castle...

You have a fundamental falsehood: SUVs are NOT basically cars, they are basically trucks, and they behave and should be treated as such. They are EXACTLY the same as the pickup trucks that have populated our roadways for a century with little alarm, excepting for different sheetmetal on the...

Yes, other things beat water vapor on a qualitative scale. But remember that the Germans had the best technology in WWII but we won because we had a deep bench. Back at my humble abode, I have the article and thus the figures: The following is reproduced from Car & Driver Vol. 52 No. 3, Page...

I wasn't talking about SUVs here I was talking about cars that run on "poured" fuel; gas, diesel, Liquid Hydrogen, kerosene, whatever. Down here I was talking about large cars in general, which are safer as they weigh more. This is simple physics backed up by IIHS research. This is not the...

Rosh, you clearly do not know anything about Hybrids. They get there best mileage in the city where they can run with the motor usually off and regain power through regenerative breaking. Most hybrids get much better city mileage than highway. This varies based on how the hybridization is...

Now this may be blindingly obvious but automakers want to make money. Therefor they make the cars that are popular, which they then sell to people to make money. When automakers try to regulate my morality I will leave the country. It's bad enough the government is trying to do it now. Do...

Show me these cars please. There are 50-MPG gas, diesel, and Hybrid cars that are hugely easier to run than electrics and all have massive ranges, like 400-800 miles. The diesels are especially popular in Europe, not because everyone there drives long distances like in America, but because...

The Hybrid car did not bomb because Americans are "Lazy". The Electric car is not feasable. What about a 12-mile range in cold weather is hard to understand? That is an unacceptable range for any vehicle, as is the inability to ever stay anywhere overnight because you are tied to your home...

The electric car is not the solution. They tried it. It failed. Instead of pouring more money into a failed experiment, they put the money elsewhere (Hybrids, Hydrogen, more efficent engines.); GM has made the V8-6-4 work right, they have a Hybrid, and have made much research into Hydrogen...

Yes, but very little of it is put there by us. Read the article. It is very enlightening. You can probably go to a public library or even the book shop and read the article. I'm in a motel room right now and don't have it with me so I can't say any more about this.

The technology itself killed the electric car. Yes GM had the EV1; yes a lot of people raved about it and loved it. Unfortunately There were certain un-avoidable problems revolving around electric cars. First of all the range was short: (according to Richard Porter in his book "Crap Cars"...

And if only we could do anything about global warming. There is an article in the new Car & Driver about how human output is only about 3% of the greenhouse agents in the atmosphere. The most effective greenhouse agent is -get this- Water Vapor. It cannot be eliminated and is responsible for...

Well I took the thread to be simply about fast travel by any means and what should be the "Dodge of the Wasteland". Given the durability of the powerplant in the Fallout-era cars, I'd imagine more than a few would survive in an operable condition, but even since they run off of highly efficient...

A good sharp scalpel works very very well. You might even try one made of obsidian as it can take a monomolecular edge.