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[TheShuttleExperience]

Having discovered slow and comfortable driving. So I can drive 100 Km more per tank content (700 Km instead of 600 before), and in turn I get about 50 Euro more a month. Also, I arrive more relaxed at work and back home after work. But the fuel use is still decreasing as shown on the display.

 

[Urwumpe]

Having discovered slow and comfortable driving. So I can drive 100 Km more per tank content (700 Km instead of 600 before), and in turn I get about 50 Euro more a month. Also, I arrive more relaxed at work and back home after work. But the fuel use is still decreasing as shown on the display.

Increasing your "fuel level" only works with BEV. But yes, driving merely 120 km/h maximum on the Autobahn is a HUGE difference in fuel consumption, when having 150 km/h for comparison....

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Increasing your "fuel level" only works with BEV. But yes, driving merely 120 km/h maximum on the Autobahn is a HUGE difference in fuel consumption, when having 150 km/h for comparison....

Well, in my case it‘s 90-100 Km/h to previously 180 Km/h. Huge dfference indeed. I went from 180 Euro to 130 Euro per month, or from 3 tank contents down to a little bit more than 2. The computed range is pretty accurate.

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, in my case it‘s 90-100 Km/h to previously 180 Km/h. Huge dfference indeed. I went from 180 Euro to 130 Euro per month, or from 3 tank contents down to a little bit more than 2. The computed range is pretty accurate.

Yeah, thats the big advantage there. I really hope to get the conditions for a BEV soon, right now I lack the option to charge them at home. But maybe I go two wheeled instead.

 

[steph]

Two wheeled electric? I've been considering one myself, I've seen some nice models, besides the classical e-bikes. And since I still plan on switching to motorbike, it may as well be an electric one at first. At least for the pure two-wheeled stuff, in France I'd need an A permit, but there are three-wheeled scooters ( two front wheels) that can be driven with the B. Of course, there are also those chopper trikes that can be driven with the B, but somehow I doubt they have electric versions ?

 

[jedidia]

In a shocking twist, the abysmal Netflix show "another life" apparently got a second season, since a second season just popped up in my list. For general reference of the quality of the show, imagine the ST: Voyager episode "Threshold", and then basically an entire series at that level of writing. Except all the characters suck too, because they were designed by the same stooges that wrote the script.
It wouldn't be so baffling if they wouldn't have cancelled perfectly good shows like sense8.

Seriously, Netflix, you're one hell of a software company, but sometimes I can't help but think that where your core business is concerned, you have no idea what you're doing...

 

[Urwumpe]

Seriously, Netflix, you're one hell of a software company, but sometimes I can't help but think that where your core business is concerned, you have no idea what you're doing...

Well, the current last season of "Sex Education" was much too short for our taste here, but there is lots of "Money Heist" left to be watched and a new season of "Ragnarok" about to come...

I just think there are some many people who love trash too much.

 

[jedidia]

I just think there are some many people who love trash too much.

There's different kinds of trash: Trash all around, and proud of it, which can be fun (Hello there, Sharknado...). There's brilliant trash with awful production values but clever writing and lots of love, often turning low production budget into a virtue, which is almost always fun to watch (Ion Tyche is probably my favourite of these). And then there's presumptuous trash, that doesn't look like trash because it's got a budget, and doesn't know it's trash because the writers have the self-reflection of a black-body. And there's just never anything enjoyable in that... And that show definitely is that. here's shows that go between these and are occasionally even good, of course, but this one... It was the last thing I ever expected to see a second season off (see as in learning that there was a second season. I'm certainly not watching it!)

 

[Urwumpe]

Yeah, the rather low-budget look of Ion Tichy also allowed a lot of fun beyond the story.

 

[Linguofreak]

1 megaton tnt = 4.2 petajoules, therefore:

1 tnt = 4.6 MJ/kg = 4.6 km^2/s^2

root-tnt = sqrt(tnt) = 2.1 km/s

1 root-tnt-second = 2.1 km

1 km/root-tnt = .47 s

radius of Earth = 3000 root-tnt-seconds

1 AU = 2.2 root-tnt-years

Solar orbital velocity at 1 AU ~= 14 roots-tnt

Frequency of AC current in the US: 28 roots-tnt/km

2010 Prius combined EPA gas milage = 50 mpg = 98 square megahertz per tnt

 

[MaxBuzz]

I no longer remember watching something other than thrillers and horrors of my own free will
By the way, soon in the west of Halloween, my girlfriend grew up not far from the Kola superdeep well and strange events took place there ?

 

[jedidia]

2010 Prius combined EPA gas milage = 50 mpg = 98 square megahertz per tnt

And just like that, you ended up on a watchlist for stating the mileage of a Prius! ?‍

 

[Thunder Chicken]

CBD oil + beer = nap time.

 

[Linguofreak]

And just like that, you ended up on a watchlist for stating the mileage of a Prius! ?‍

Actually the energy content of TNT and gasoline aren't that different (though gasoline cheats by using oxidizer present in the environment).

Gas milage makes for some fun dimensional analysis anyways. It's an inverse area (miles/gallon -> length/length^3), so "traditionally" the simplest way to state it would be in square kilodiopters.

 

[Linguofreak]

Interestingly, the inverse area actually has a physical interpretation: if you draw out the volume of fuel you burn in a trip into a tube whose length equals the trip distance, the cross sectional area of the tube is your gallons/mile fuel efficiency. Flip that to miles per gallon, and you've got your square diopter figure, which is how many of those cross sections will fit in a square meter.

 

[Urwumpe]

I like the Texas Lasso Docking technique.

 

[Arvil]

Yaahoooo!
I think that was under consideration on Gemini 9A when the Agena got screwed up.

 

[Notebook]

Well, pigs aren't flying but they are helping.

The pigs helping to keep the skies safe

A team of 20 at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is part of a range of measures being used to reduce bird-strikes.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Linguofreak]

It's always hard to distinguish accents in languages other than your own, but...

...I'd encountered bits of Schwyzerdütsch in my college years: several classmates had grown up in Switzerland, and sometimes the dialects of different regions of the German speaking world were discussed in class. But the classmates that spoke Swiss German were all either Americans that had learned German Standard German first, or Swiss that had emigrated to the US at a young enough age to speak English with no detectable accent, and then taken German as a "foreign" language in high school / college, so they spoke Standard German with about the same accent taught in class.

And then on Youtube today, I came across a video with a Swiss guy speaking Swiss Standard German, and... wow. It's not that the accent was impenetrable: I could understand every word, but it was so different that my conscious mind took a few seconds to realize that my Wernicke's area was successfully parsing it. One part of my brain was delivering meaning before another part flipped the "I know this language" bit on, and there was something in there that kept trying to flip that bit back off. Your brain is like a B-36: a collection of parts flying in loose formation, and when the illusion that it isn't is broken, the experience is quite surreal.

It's kind of a different twist on an experience I had in high school: We were watching a movie in German class, and a character, out of the blue, started speaking in English. My mind took absolutely no notice for about the first sentence: I'd understood what was being said in German, I still understood what was being said, nothing to see here. Then my brain did a huge double-take.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Gas milage makes for some fun dimensional analysis anyways. It's an inverse area (miles/gallon -> length/length^3), so "traditionally" the simplest way to state it would be in square kilodiopters.

Part of me wants to put this into a homework assignment for my engineering students, but another part of me doesn't want to die by being lynched by a mob.