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  • xkcd: Car Size

    From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 12 16:05:21 2025
    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes
    for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167:_Car_Size

    Lynn


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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Thu Nov 13 07:29:30 2025
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes
    for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Remeinds me of an Alan Dean Foster story, was it "Why Johnny Can't
    Speed"?
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  • From Dave Van Domelen@3:633/10 to All on Thu Nov 13 13:37:21 2025
    In article <10f41cq$2039k$1@dont-email.me>,
    Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes
    for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Remeinds me of an Alan Dean Foster story, was it "Why Johnny Can't
    Speed"?

    Yes, one of the stories that inspired the Car Wars tabletop game.

    Dave Van Domelen, notes that sub-subgenre was well-represented in 1970s
    SF magazines.


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  • From Paul S Person@3:633/10 to All on Thu Nov 13 09:17:44 2025
    On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:05:21 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes
    for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167:_Car_Size

    I've always thought that panels/bumbers with shaped charges designed
    to blow up the other vehicle were the obvious answer.

    Note that I don't drive. I don't even use a vehicle unless I need to
    get someplace far far away. I walk everywhere I go.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/10 to All on Thu Nov 13 17:37:48 2025
    On 11/13/2025 9:17 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:05:21 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes
    for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167:_Car_Size

    I've always thought that panels/bumbers with shaped charges designed
    to blow up the other vehicle were the obvious answer.

    Note that I don't drive. I don't even use a vehicle unless I need to
    get someplace far far away. I walk everywhere I go.

    So no armor plating to protect you from the vehicles you are walking
    alongside of when their shaped charges go off. :P

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Paul S Person@3:633/10 to All on Fri Nov 14 09:13:08 2025
    On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:37:48 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

    On 11/13/2025 9:17 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:05:21 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch
    spikes
    for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167:_Car_Size

    I've always thought that panels/bumbers with shaped charges designed
    to blow up the other vehicle were the obvious answer.

    Note that I don't drive. I don't even use a vehicle unless I need to
    get someplace far far away. I walk everywhere I go.

    So no armor plating to protect you from the vehicles you are walking >alongside of when their shaped charges go off. :P

    I don't walk down the middle of the street. And if some vehicle does
    set another vehicle's charges off, that vehicle will shield me.

    The actual problem is, of course, that this would be very illegal.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/10 to All on Fri Nov 14 17:58:09 2025
    On 11/14/2025 9:13 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:37:48 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

    On 11/13/2025 9:17 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:05:21 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    xkcd: Car Size
    https://www.xkcd.com/3167/

    Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes >>>> for their lug nuts on their wheels now.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167:_Car_Size

    I've always thought that panels/bumbers with shaped charges designed
    to blow up the other vehicle were the obvious answer.

    Note that I don't drive. I don't even use a vehicle unless I need to
    get someplace far far away. I walk everywhere I go.

    So no armor plating to protect you from the vehicles you are walking
    alongside of when their shaped charges go off. :P

    I don't walk down the middle of the street. And if some vehicle does
    set another vehicle's charges off, that vehicle will shield me.

    The actual problem is, of course, that this would be very illegal.

    Only for now....

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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