Cool, cars are meant to be driven so I appreciate daily drivers. They made a big hit with the styling of the new one. Best in decades in my opinion. I have not driven them but I am sure it is great. By the way, the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY (across from the Corvette Plant) now also has a racetrack so you can run your vette there. I live in Kentucky so I am sure I will check it out before to long.

Doggone!
I always miss stuff like that. Every time someone says "Look at that!" I turn to see and just miss it. There's a warm spring in a bayou where the manatees and the tourists hang out to see them. I tried 4 times before I got lucky and saw them.

wonderful observation, William! . we should be in awe
of the myriad things which we don't know enough about .....
to call ourselves "well informed."

and, by the way, where's Jan? . this subject would be
a favorite of hers! -- j
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the fish gave up the bicycle and went on to motorcycles!!!
I saw one today on a full dress harley!!! -- j
.

Many times this is true. However, a non-random search algorithm is generally even better, but untenable in this example...maybe.

They will butcher. :(

Not VetteGuy but if we're going to virtual wave here, mine is a black 99 coupe set up for wicked autocross - and my "daily driver".

But I am eyeballin the new one really heavilly.

Reminds me if the Queens Puzzle. You can get the solution quicker by trying random things than by trying to tease it out methodically.

I need to apologize. I looked it up and learned that at least in English "alternative" means more than one "other".

I hope that those people work for themselves and work with you. A nitpicker's observation, I agree.

EDIT: added missing word and replaced wrong word

I ended up with the same situation on my 4+3. In my case, I replaced the "digital disco dash" with regular round gauges, and the automatic function ceased to work, so I put a switch on the dash.

Cool. A little randomness to mix things up and find the next "optimum".

I really like the Camaro as well! My 84 corvette had the 4+3...novel idea but I ended up turning off the overdrive and just driving it as a 4 speed unless I got on the interstate.

I probably shoulda put a smiley face on that one - it is intended as tongue-in-cheek ... but with just a sliver of truth as well.

My Vette was an 88 with the 4+3 tranny, but it is gone now. I still have my 78 Camaro Z28 T-top 4-speed, though. Incidentally, I love your idea of the C3 with C4 driveline & suspension. I'm not a purist when it comes to Vettes.

Well I didn't say two alternatives. I think that people have a tendency to follow up on the first thing they find that actually works. My suspicion is that there are far more unexplored options than are usually considered. But, that's just an opinion.

I use that philosophy to encourage people who work for me to think beyond "what's usually done".

I'm no expert. Jbrenner probably knows infinitely more than I do on this subject.

But the article explains that junk DNA is a slang term that is used for "Certain genes, however, seem to defy that origin story. They have no known relatives, and they bear no resemblance to any other gene."

Yes, it could be carelessness and yes it could be arrogance. It not my field and not my word. :)

lol

Explain, please.

Don't tell me that. I already am at a point where I'm having trouble telling a fish from a bicycle.

Honestly, I think that such a statement makes no sense.

Hello, W,

"Every choice that someone made to create a product we use had alternatives that weren't followed."

Of course, that is true. (Except that very often there are many more possibilities, rather than just two alternatives.) But the humans make those choices. They use not only all the test results and calculations, but also their intuitive inclinations, i.e. artistic parts of their personalities. If there are better choices, someone else usually finds them. That is, in my mind, the main reason why innovation and competition within a free trade market are so vitally valuable. This also touches on the fact that almost anything could be made better. But is there a buyer willing to cough up the cost of additional efforts in design and production?

Hello, AJA,

Somehow the name Junk DNA, even after I had heard it many times, sparked an idea I would like to submit to your judgment.

The old expression: "use it loose it", I think, expresses a deep meaning of a property of living matter. Evolution and competition for survival eliminate what is not needed, it seems to me.

So, I think "junk" anything in this contest just reveals our state of ignorance. We do not know the function of something, so we throw it on the junk pile. I smell a bit of arrogance and a bit carelessness. Would you agree?

This is so true when it comes to big picture things like the universe, life, and existence itself. I am 100% with you on that. I consider it a big cop put when people apply this to everything though and say that everything is "gray".

By the way VetteGuy, what kind of corvette do you/have you owned? I have had a 79, 84, 96, and right now I have a 1982 Collectors Edition that I am planning on moddeing out with C4 suspension and a LS2 from a 2007 Corvette with 6 speed auto (Yea, I know that makes a lot of people upset but I like my cars to be daily drivers and for me there is nothing better than the style of the C3 with total modern everything under the skin).

One of my favorite Murphy's Laws of Technology:

"We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything."

I really hope they don't butcher the story. There was plenty of idle (boring) aspects that they could take license with, but there is a ton of meat that strengthens the ending that should be closely adhered to.

I'm re-reading CE now, in preparation for the miniseries on SyFy in December. A true Sci-Fi classic.