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  • Americans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

    05/04/2024 4:11:17 AM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 125 replies
    https://jalopnik.com ^ | 5/4/24 | By Owen Bellwood
    Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. Drivers across the country are increasingly holding onto their cars for longer than ever, with an increasing number hitting more than 100,000 miles in their cars, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The trend comes as drivers realize the savings to...
  • Asteroid 2017 BS32 will zoom past Earth TONIGHT in fourth close shave of the year

    02/02/2017 8:30:40 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 42 replies
    thesun.co.uk ^ | 2nd February 2017, 9:58 am | MARGI MURPHY
    2017 BS32 is expected to hurtle past at around 8.30pm Thursday. The space rock – estimated to be around 82ft in size ... It was only spotted on Monday by astronomers and is the fourth Near-Earth Asteroid to pass this year... But fear not, these close encounters are more common than you might think and researchers at Nasa are keeping tabs on any strays at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory.