That's a real problem, people do blindly accept those numbers...

That's the problem of precisely digitizing everything where a rough approximation is more useful.

All the cars of my past pinned on "E" when I still had a full gallon left.

The psychologically-loaded "E" forced my stop to fill the tank.

 

All the cars of my past pinned on "E" when I still had a full gallon left.

Better a gallon left than a load of crud from the tank bottom getting into the engine.

 

 

kv

 

"That'll buff right out."

 

As brave as I think I am -- and as exciting as this would have been -- I'm almost certain I would not have volunteered for this.

These guys had the right stuff.

 

As brave as I think I am -- and as exciting as this would have been -- I'm almost certain I would not have volunteered for this.

These guys had the right stuff.

I bet you've already watched "First Man" ? ... fantastic movie showing the true challenge of being an astronaut in those days.

 

I bet you've already watched "First Man" ?

Nope. Never heard of it. I'll give it a watch.

 

As brave as I think I am -- and as exciting as this would have been -- I'm almost certain I would not have volunteered for this.

These guys had the right stuff.

That is so cool, I remember watching it live as a teen with the family. For that whole hour you could hear a pin drop in the house. Nope, I didn't have the right stuff to volunteer for that.

 

That is so cool, I remember watching it live with the family. For that whole hour you could hear a pin drop in the house. Nope, I didn't have the right stuff to volunteer for that.

Watching this progress, it is obvious every move was choreographed and practiced 1000 times before the actual flight.

 

Watching this progress, it is obvious every move was choreographed and practiced 1000 times before the actual flight.

To the doubters I say: Yes, it's a fake but they faked it on the moon to make it more realistic.

 

 

To the doubters I say: Yes, it's a fake but they faked it on the moon to make it more realistic.

One mistake means instant death at best, or a long, drawn-out suffocation at worst.

So many things had to go right.

 

One mistake means instant death at best, or a long, drawn-out suffocation at worst.

So many things had to go right.

Good practice for the soon to happen Mar's landing fake.

 

 

Shocked... Just to let people know, nuclear carriers and sub go faster than officially published too.

 

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/angela-chao-death-texas-tesla-safety-c435daa0
A Mistake in a Tesla and a Panicked Final Call: The Death of Angela Chao

Within minutes of saying her goodbyes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. It was sinking fast. Could they help her?

Over the next several hours, her friends, then the ranch manager and his wife, and then paramedics, and firefighters and sheriff’s deputies rushed around and tried to break the windows, find an escape hatch or any way to get Chao out of the car. Somehow an executive who made her living on the sea was drowning in a stock pond within sight of her home.
...
A driver has about one minute to get out of a car sinking into water. When vehicles were made with more manual mechanics, a driver could crank down the window to get out, though it would still require a clarity of mind often elusive in an emergency. In newer cars, like the Tesla Model X vehicle, the driver might have seconds to push the button to roll the window down before the water level rises too high. After that, the only mode of exit would be by breaking it, say auto safety experts.

That is terribly difficult underwater and can be even more so when trying to bash through tempered glass or sturdier laminated glass, which most car companies use today. Those are the two types of glass that Tesla may have used in its 2020 Model X, according to company documents. Laminated glass, in particular, is lauded for its safety qualities, such as preventing a driver from being ejected during a crash; however it is nearly impossible to break underwater, according to testing done by the American Automobile Association.

Though she was one of the world’s most powerful women, Angela Chao was little-known outside the world of shipping. She was the youngest of six sisters, four of whom, herself included, attended Harvard Business School. Chao majored in economics at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude in just three years. The school’s Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center for executive education is named after her late mother, who, along with Angela’s 96-year-old father James S.C. Chao, co-founded the Foremost Group shipping company, which carries more than 20 million tons of dry goods a year for companies like Bunge and Cargill.

Chao’s older sister Elaine was U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Bush administration and U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the Trump administration. Elaine Chao is married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).

I have this in the car console.

 

UPS saves the day again.

 

UPS saves the day again.

Yebbut my package got delayed. Again.

(Yes, I have become even more cynical than ever, lately.)

 

What the hell is wrong with drivers and that intersection?