Yeah, yeah, I’m GREAT, I know.
on March 11, 2020 at 12:01 ami’m pretty sure saying “i will manslaughter you” is by definition not manslaughter
(yes i realize what the actual joke is, i wrote it, but i still think this tangent idea is funny)
i’m pretty sure saying “i will manslaughter you” is by definition not manslaughter
(yes i realize what the actual joke is, i wrote it, but i still think this tangent idea is funny)
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better manslaughter than mans laughter!
wait no
Barely 42 km/L? Joe’s got loads of time to transplant
Tee hee. Hybrids that get 100 mpg. That’s funny.
Not sayin that hybrids aren’t great. I have one. Getting 45 mpg sometimes is fucking sweet. But 100? Pfft, I wish. Get me some nanites while you’re at it.
Reasons the Shortpacked universe was probably better than ours pre-Soggies, #27:
– Alien technology clearly led to incredible innovations in transportation.
Particularly faster ways to leave people stranded in the Amazon jungles?
Plug-in hybrids can kinda hit those numbers, if you just look at gallons and ignore watts. My Volt says it’s getting 168 MPG so far this week since I used a quart of gas on the highway yesterday. On just gas alone, it gets about 45 MPG, and electric gets 4.5 miles per kilowatt, or roughly 120 MPGe. (Or to put it another way, charging it costs the same per mile as if gas was $1.65/gallon.) It’s a small-ish car and that’s not for everyone, but it’s one hell of a commuter.
45MPG isn’t that remarkable, is it? My Diesel gets around 55mpg and my wife’s boring regular petrol car usually get above 40mpg. Are US cars that much more inefficient? Or is it because they tend to be bigger?
The US has different gallons, doesn’t it?
I looked it up (which, yes, I could have done before posting) and a US gallon is about 3.7 litres, while an Imperial gallon is about 4.5 litres. I had a go at trying to work out what that made UC’s mileage in Imperial, and then remembered that I’m dyscalculic.
Per this conversion, which I am too lazy to verify, 40MPG Imperial would be about 33MPG US. Which would be good but not truly astonishing petrol mileage, yeah; US cars don’t always run that high but the smaller modern ones do. And UC’s proposed new mileage would be ~121MPG Imperial.
Just play No Man’s Sky, I have about 13,000 nanites at present.
Units received.
So that’s why Ultra Car has a different car body type in Shortpacked then.
At some point, Joe needs to install Asimov’s Three Laws onto that clunker.
That’s assuming UC lets him. That’s why Asimov’s laws are built into their brains before they have bodies.
I mean, except for that whole “zeroth law” thing…but that was only robot so I’m sure it will be fine. Things done for the “greater good” always work out, right?