Oct 22, 2016
Oct 21, 2016
Oct 17, 2016
Oct 15, 2016
Paul Elio's automobile
Like a continuation of the aptera design, but boxier and only a single seater: elio motors.
Interesting article at greencarreports.com timeline as to how and why the Aptera company closed. Essentially they tried to pursue the green DOE loans but were unable to get the funding necessary as a car, redesigned and ran out of cash. They think if they had stuck with a privately funded approach, they would have been successful.
Oct 13, 2016
deus-ex-geology
What's deus-ex-geology?
When a chasm had just miraculously opened up in the several feet between the two of them.
Oct 10, 2016
Whilest we have Freedom, Jefferson
"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We are destined to be a barrier against the returns of ignorance and barbarism."
Thomas Jefferson, Adams-Jefferson Letters
We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring them the precious blessing of liberty. Let them spend theirs in shewing that it is the great parent of science and of virtue; and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Willard
Oct 9, 2016
Oct 1, 2016
Star Size Comparison 2
I love the science museum-style vangelis music
Though I wish they showed a parsec