Recent content by Spartan5

Yeah. We just had rivers catching on fire back then. Good times!

It’s great that you are thinking proactively about this. What with that and the impacts on food prices, is it time for a national moratorium on turf fertilization? Possibly sin taxes on meat consumption as well considering that, pound for pound of resource consumption, it’s the most...

They consume it with unnecessarily high performance capabilities as well. Your average grocery getter family sedan has 0-60 times that rivals that of the muscles cars of the 70’s. Why? I guess because that’s what the markets want. That’s what the commercials tell us anyway. What kind of...

Is this the sort of damage that could have been caused by a tar buggy that fell sometime prior to the collapse? I kid… But looking at the planter pictures, imagine if it wasn’t the column under the planter that was punching out. But the column to the left of that area. Wouldn’t the bending...

It is risen!

It’s the trailing edge of the winglet. Same swooshes as on the tail. But at the right scale.

They need to change the company name to Evergrounded. Because right now, the Ever Forward is the Never Movin’.

Is it time to secure some potassium iodide (if we haven’t already)? How much should each individual have on hand?

To settle splitting the hairs of potential hazards and contamination (past and present):

It’s because those are standardized assays. The DOH probably doesn’t have a TDH-JP5. Maybe they should. But it seems pretty academic, doesn’t it? Seems like a non-sequitur when we should be talking about how the tank shouldn’t leak, regardless.

And lest we be distracted by these blatherings about MTBE: Can I get a show of hands from those of us here that want to drink that?

That’s acute toxicity. Not chronic exposure. And per the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Toxicological Profile for Gasoline, probably isn’t accurate anyway. But tell me more about how you’d drink a shot of gasoline once a week because it’s not as acutely toxic as ethanol. Woof...

”Discharging gasoline into the drinking water and environment isn’t the problem. It’s the democrats that added MTBE to it.” That sounds so stupid. How gasoline do you want in your drinking water? With or without MTBE? How much benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene would you like to be...

I 100% appreciate your contributions here. It’s just sometimes I struggle to make sense of it =) Phones are on in the back and in the front = ? What’s the faraday (farads) cage reference? What’s the iPad issue? And what’s this deal about a gsm node? Like the inflight Wi-Fi? What do you...

I often wish Alistair would answer my airplane questions. Until I remember he doesn’t speak American.