xkcd presents "What If?"

[robkelk]

I'd prefer using Science as the link instead.

I try to avoid using the punchline...

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"We don’t care how it works—we just want to know if we can break it."

(Pretty much sums up the entire blog, doesn't it? So have an alternate quote: "The average car on the road weighs a hair over 4,000 lbs, so we have 850 billion pounds of car (plus around 30 billion pounds of driver) to throw around.")
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012