From Toyota develops a new fuel cell hybrid
I have no clue how you switch from an electric motor to an electric supply, or what two drive mechanisms there are that make it a hybrid.

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Yikes, that's really pathetic.

Now I'm wondering what they really meant to say. Is it a gasoline/fuel cell hybrid, or a battery/fuel cell hybrid, or what?

By the way, Honda just announced a new lease program for pure fuel cell cars, which are just going into production now. Lease price is $600/month, and the lessees will be hand-picked by Honda in a few markets in California. (It also has a battery to hold the energy from regenerative braking.)

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Perhaps the fuel cell provides most of the power - like the gas engine does in the Prius - with batteries for regenerative braking/acceleration. Or, it might be like the Chevy Volt where batteries provide most of the power but a supplementary source (gas engine, diesel engine, or fuel cell) allows for extended range. It's hard to tell from the article.

Sweet smell of success: Scratch-’n’-sniff lottery
Yep; that's why I'm gonna play the lottery...who cares about the cost and the odds?

Actually; it does sound like a natural match, but how long is that novelty really going to be worth it?

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Oh; the humanity...

Exploding Beer Kegs Close Interstate

I didn't know beer was hazardous.

And what caused the carbon dioxide to get volatile?

Maybe no humans but how many of the 278 Kegs survived?

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Las Vegas is a dry area right? (not as in "you can't have alcohol", but as in climate). In the few dry areas I've visited (San Diego, Los Angeles) roads had no storm drains and were not graded in a way that water would run off efficiently, so any large amount of liquid on the road is hazardous!

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I question the use of "explode". It may be correct, but if the case was that the gas built up more pressure than the kegs could hold, I'd think "pop" or "burst" would have been a better choice. To me "explode" tends to equal a chemical combustion in a confined space, usually with a fireball. The thing is, I can't see "early morning" being hot enough to raise the pressure, and even if they were capped at sea level, I doubt there would be enough change in pressure to burst them. A bit of explanation there would have been really nice.

At the store, we used to get potato chips (crisps) from Seattle. It was pretty common in the summer to have the whole case filled with popped bags. 4200 foot elevation change combined with 90*+ F temperatures does bad things to small mylar chip bags.

Also this:
Bob McKenzie? In a beer story? Really? That's something I'd like to see a thread on. Ironic names in news stories. Ironic? What's the word I'm looking for?

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She might. You never know.

Hoser?

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Wow; somehow that slipped right by me... Oo-rukukukukukuku
Contrived?
I thought I would dig deeper... Yes; Bob is a public information officer in NDOT.

But; I checked 6 Las Vegas news channels and a couple of papers, and only found the story on FOX. The story on FOX also has a missing video.

If this truly closed a ramp near the airport and university during rush hour (assuming early morning lasted until then) I would have thought it would be a larger story.

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Oh, I don't doubt he's real, I just meant that every so often you see a name in a story or profession that combine to be funny just by the association. The GF has a doctor that I would never have a reason to see named Dr. Fillerup, for example. Or someone names Mason Stone that runs a concrete plant. That sort of thing.

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She might. You never know.

Yeah; I was thinking more about the story being contrived after some sly reporter noticed the name somewhere.

Edit: besides, I'm seeing a lot of reports happening only because of the coincidence.

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Thieves steal cigarettes by cutting past alarm
At least they didn't try cutting the current alarm.

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From an article on a Pew survey on religious beliefs:



Ya think?

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Duh!

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Okay, here's an article about trying to pinpoint the dates in "The Odyssey" via astronomy. It's actually pretty interesting overall, but this sentence confused me:

It seems to me that, technically, the new moon would occur at the same time as the eclipse. However, I'd accept basing the definition of "new moon" on when the moon becomes visible again, putting it at some point soon after the eclipse. But the night before? How would that work?

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Yes; it is, I enjoyed it. Thanks.
I agree it's a rather odd statement.
Considering Homer is a translation, and the article paraphrases it, I don't expect a whole lot of accuracy by the reporter. Maybe it was origionally some form of the moon entering the phase of the new moon.

I thought this line was kind of odd.
Possibly because those details were handed down in the stories for 100 years?

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Not really an unusual story once you hear what is going on...
but I did have to read the headline a few times before I accepted what it said was what I was reading.

Salad dressing runoff floods Ohio homes
Yes; creamy ranch to be specific.

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Oh, that's gotta smell wonderfull. And I thought it was bad when, last night, I opened the 'fridge and had a packet of creamy ranch dressing fall out. Then, in typical Chevy Chase from National Lampoon style, I stepped on it as I moved back to look for where it went. I never knew what a Ranch-Dressing Bomb detonation would look like... but to be honest, I hadn't really wanted to know.

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Money Found On Area Highway?