[extropy-chat] now that's fuel efficiency

[Al Brooks]

--- Alan Eliasen <eliasen at mindspring.com> wrote:
Yes, I was being hard on Detroit, they have to keep
their prices affordable while paying high salaries to
their workers.
Anyhow, though heavy vehicles are fuel gulpers they do
offer more protection in accidents. I got sideswiped
by an 18 wheeler once while driving a Lincoln; could
have been killed had I been driving a lighter vehicle.

  
>Considering that the thruster has a thrust of a
> whopping 70 millinewtons,
> (that's the force exerted by about 7 U.S. dollar
> bills, or about 7 raisins,
> sitting in earth's gravity) a 2000-lb car could go
> from 0 to 60 mph in ... 4
> days?  If you eliminate all sources of friction,
> that is.  That's probably the
> guy who was in front of me in traffic tonight.



		
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