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Wet indeed. The Pequannock police range is next to a retention basin--no way to drain water from that--and it has been under 6 feet of water for weeks on end. Benches & tables submerged, target trailer half under water. We don't know what kind of a mess we're going to find if it ever dries out enough to use.

No, it's too expensive to put small-mesh fence around cattle. Cattle-size animals get cattle size fences, which won't keep out coyote-sized predators.

Note to self: never let Maksim borrow one of my guns or optics.

And, perhaps, just a cursory read :-) the first article describes a planned increase in battery production, not capacity. They want to make lots more batteries, but the tech is still Lithium ion. The second article is consistent with what I wrote above. Na and Mg cathodes, and solid anodes are some of those theoretical advances being actively worked on, and they will likely give jumps in performance just like NiCad and Li tech did before them. But those improvements will be useful, not global-economy-altering spectacular.

Unfortunately, it’s not. Battery technology has always been the limiting factor. Battery tech mostly improves in a slow, linear fashion, punctuated by occasional leaps forward when new chemistry is developed (like the jumps to NiCad and then lithium). But the next few theoretical advances are already known, along with the energy density to be expected, and getting those into production will still only be incremental improvements on what we have now. fortunately, there is low hanging fruit for the electric car companies to pluck. There are a LOT of cars and small trucks that are never driven more than 50 miles from home, and electric works just fine for them. But there are a LOT that routinely drive long distances, and those will be burning fossil fuel for a long time to come.

If that is a Glock pen, I assume you have to throw away all of the internals and replace them with aftermarket parts so that the action isn’t all heavy and gritty.

I think those in rural areas would come through in MUCH better shape than those in cities. Better prepared, less dependent on the grid and government services in the first place, lower population density competing for resources. And they grow the food.

Murphy's approval ratings (considering both positive and negative ratings) after one year in office are lower than Christie's and Corzine's were at the same point. Murphy's approval ratings And Corzine set the bar pretty low...

The governor is getting aroused just thinking about how much he can spend on new publics work projects, building desalinization plants for our freshwater reservoirs, lakes, and rivers.

And that was only so the kids could get first tracks.

Well, that’s not counting the 3” of salt the state has already put down.

Others here can better answer your questions, so I’ll just add that Tenafly runs some nice low-key action matches. I also get up there occasionally, and there are usually one or two revolver shooters in the mix.

I included the “many” in the 50% that I don’t think will have electric cars in 20 years. I’m assuming that costs will fall fairly rapidly during that time, which is usually true for emerging technologies as they become more widely adopted, and I think falling costs will gradually eliminate the need for subsidies to make electric cars cost competitive. But clearly there are some performance specs that electrics can’t match (range, time to refuel/recharge)

I see a majority of cars being electric in 20 years, but then the rate of adoption will tail off, as everyone for whom electric is a good fit will have one, and the technology won’t have advanced to the point where electric can fully replace internal combustion for everyone else. It’s likely to be a very long time before battery technology will approach the energy density of gas or diesel, and for a lot of applications, that matters.

It’s probably annoying when someone points out the degree is Ph.D., and ‘molecular chemistry’ isn’t a discipline in which one can earn one. :-)

It's been recently shown that prions can also transmit Alzheimers, or more accurately, amyloid disease (which could be either a cause, or symptom, of Alzheimers). It's not transmitted by casual contact, but no one expected it to be transmissible at all. Amyloid disease is transmissible

Bit of movie trivia here...when filming 'In The Line of Fire' in the early 90's, they needed flashback footage showing Clint's character as a much younger man in the 60's. So they took footage from Dirty Harry (filmed in the 70's) and digitally slimmed down his tie and lapels, and gave him a shorter haircut, to make it look like footage from the 60's.

It’s being discussed a lot on the pilot boards. Possibly icing, possible disorientation, leading to loss of control followed by exceeding the maximum speed at which the airframe could maintain structural integrity. That seems to be the preferred hypotheses, Anyway. NTSB preliminary report should be out in a day or so, but they rarely identify a cause. The final report probably will, but it won’t be out for months.

It’s enforced at the time of change of occupancy, so I don’t believe the insurance company can avoid paying if you have battery operated smoke detectors before that. I don’t even know if insurance companies would avoid paying out if you don’t have functional detectors at all. Maybe they could, but I’m not sure they would. It would be a potential PR nightmare. I could see them refusing payment if your meth lab exploded and burned down your house, but not because you used the wrong kind of battery in your smoke detector.

It is probably true, and the way you make it not true is to find a safe place to build one or more small fires outside, and every time you have an extinguisher that has expired or is reading a sufficiently low pressure that you will have to service or replace it, you bring every family member outside, explain how to properly use the extinguisher, and then have them extinguish a fire. It’s kinda fun, it prepares them to react appropriately, and it doesn’t cost anything since the extinguisher needed service or replacement anyway.

Newtons and pounds are the correct units of force in the SI and English systems. Kilo is a mass unit, like the English system ‘slug’, the latter rarely encountered since English system users tend to confuse mass and force. And don’t get me started on the English system leading to confusion between mass and volume.

When I needed to checker some custom carved grips for target pistols, i bought a checkering kit and taught myself by checkering the interior drawer sides of my desk in the college dorm.

I stand corrected. Maybe I've just owned too many old houses with oddball systems.

Molon Labe The fee structure for certifying compliance whenever there is a change of occupancy is pretty steep; up to $161. And while hard-wired AC-powered fire alarm systems with battery backup are acceptable, it looks like the interconnected, monitored systems from SimpliSafe and other vendors don't qualify as compliant because they run off of replaceable lithium batteries. All of the hardwired systems I'm familiar with are DC powered, run off of a transformer, but I presume that is what NJ meant when they said AC powered. They've never been much on getting the language right in legal docs. Seasonal rentals are exempt. Properties that are occupied only intermittently have the greatest need for 10 year alarms, but the plutocrats who put this requirement in place tend to own a lot of rental properties, and it would inconvenience them. Oh, and the fire extinguisher you are now required to have wall-mounted in your kitchen now has to be recertified at an approved facility every year.

I've heard of the oil consumption issues, so I know it's a concern. But my 2016 Outback has never, over 65,000 miles, required addition of a single quart of oil in between scheduled (6000 mile) oil changes. Just one data point, I know. My wife likes the Rav4's...she has had three of them, and all have been reliable. And, not being full-time AWD, they are a little less fussy about the tires matching precisely (which can, on a Subaru, force replacement of all 4 tires when one fails). Only oddity with her Rav4's...the white pearl 2009 and 2012 Ravs that she handed down to her girls both now have the paint peeling off in great big sheets. All paint is gone from the roof of one, most from the other, and both are now shedding big swatches of paint from the quarter panels.