DISQUS

Isn't this the same technology that's used in the 2000-2006 Honda Insight (manual trans only)? They call it "Lean-Burn" and it is responsible for the 40% efficiency boost of the manual trans Insight over the non-lean burn auto trans models. It was also used in the CVCC models.

Who would put a swimming pool that far forward? That much weight at the bow will seriously affect handling characteristics.

I remember NEC V20 CPUs
I remember Creative Computing magazine

I remember CPM.
I remember 5-1/4" floppies
I remember 10MB hard drives
I remember dot matrix printers
I remember daisy-wheel printers
I remember printer enclosures
I remember wanting an Apple Lisa
I remember "Copy-II-Plus"
I remember X-Tree
I remember "Aldus" Pagemaker
I remember Compuserve and 300 baud modems
I remember making punch card flyswatters

The first linear accelerator was built in 1976. Search for "mass driver" in wikipedia.

JB: If small size is a factor, then why is the picture at a salt flat (in the desert)?

Jason: And Arthur C. Clarke just wrote about communications satellites in 1945. When they finally flew 15 years later, they weren't innovative. The first mass driver prototype was built 30 YEARS ago. This one may be successful, but hardly innovative.

How innovative can it be? Robert Heinlein described such an accelerator in his 1965 novel "The moon is a harsh mistress"

Well, I found the all the clue letters last time, but couldn't descramble the clue, so maybe this time I'll get some *dumb* luck.