FACTOIDS

Bluetooth is named after the Danish king Harald Blatand (meaning blue tooth).

According to the Bluetooth brand requirements, the term "Bluetooth" must always be used as an adjective. Furthermore, when the term "Bluetooth" is used to denote the corresponding technology, the term "wireless" must be inserted between the Bluetooth and the terminology.

 

right hand?

 

Toyota's origin goes back to a power loom Sakichi Toyoda invented.

(So the seat upholstrey should be more than satisfactory.)

 

"It took only eight brush strokes to write Toyota, and eight was a lucky number, since the
Japanese character for eight suggested growth. Toyoda required ten strokes, and the character
for ten was not fortuitous.

 

The current Toyota symbol that looks like a cowboy in a big hat, but is actually three elipses depicting the heart of the customer, the heart of the product, and the ever-expanding technological advancements and boundless opportunities that lie ahead.

(OK, I will stop this line of thought -- have always wondered about all of this and, after all, it is Friday night and I am bored. :lol: )

 

So who "won"? :huh:

 

Aye, 'tis.

 

A conventional (non-nuclear) US Navy Aircraft Carrier is over that two and a half times more energy efficient at moving weight over a distance than a Prius.

Car: 2004/05 Prius
2,890 pounds
60 miles per gallon
173,400 pounds/mile/gallon

Carrier: USS John F. Kennedy
164,000,000 pounds (82,000 tons)
310 gallons per mile. (17 feet per gallon)
529,032 pounds/mile/gallon
Minus 13 percent Fuel Energy Density adjustment.
460,257 adjusted pounds/mile/gallon.

460,257 / 173,400 = 2.654

Of course my math is very rough and probably moronic :huh: . . . but it was fun anyway. (corrections welcome).

17-feet-per-gallon
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid939.php
JFK
http://www.aviationexplorer.com/aircraft_carriers.htm
Fuel Energy Density
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~wright/fuel_energy.html

[The JFK weighs 55,033 times more than a Prius. Nimitz Class carriers weigh 67,128 Prii]

 

That's only because they're diesels. And the Prius has a better turning radius and stopping distance. Imagine the Watt hours you could rackup with regen braking on one of those bad boys. 17 ft/gal that is incedible.

 

Brutal Bunny Hills! :angry:

And 100% of the skiers and snow boarders who break a leg do so on their last run of the day!