NC offers license plate replacement
NC offers license plate replacement
Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive “WTF” letter combination can replace the tags for free.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Tuesday the state Division of Motor Vehicles has notified nearly 10,000 holders of license plates with the letter combination. Officials learned last year the common acronym stands for a vulgar phrase in e-mail and cell phone text messages.
The “WTF-5505″ used on the Web site’s sample plate was the first random letter combination available when DMV switched from blue- to red-lettered plates, officials said. DMV spokeswoman Marge Howell received a sample plate WTF-5506 to use as a prop for news stories about the switch.
Olympic starter’s gun unfair
The Olympics may not be the bastion of pure sporting contest that people might think. Although the pistol used to start sprint events in the Games might make good theatre, it may mean that sprinters in lane 1, nearest the gun, get away from the blocks faster.
Most international athletics competitions use speakers behind each athlete to broadcast the start signal. The Olympics uses this system but also increases the drama of the set-piece by having a starting official, complete with pistol.
But when David Collins and colleagues at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, reviewed reaction-time data for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, they saw a marked effect: runners in lane 1 had an average reaction time of 160 milliseconds, whereas those in lane 2 got away in 171 milliseconds. Sprinters in lane 7 (bizarrely the lane with the slowest average reaction time of the eight lanes) took 185 milliseconds to get off the blocks.
Green fuel from a brown source
Green fuel from a brown source
Experiment powers cars off hydrogen from sewage: ‘This is not something we’re at risk of running out of’
Some California drivers may tool around in poop-powered cars as early as next year.
They can fill up at a sewage treatment facility run by the Orange County Sanitation District, which plans to turn the inflow of excrement and other waste into hydrogen for vehicles that run on fuel-cell systems.
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