AFAICT the current administration is currently trying to figure out how to force the quartering of ICE agents in citizens homes, just so they can break all the amendments

That negligible difference is actually a fairly large one once the physics of inertia and impacts gets into play. The energy, and therefore the damage, is exponential based on velocity. That ≈6.6km/hr difference increases damage by a lot more than you may suspect, and pedestrians don't generally wear helmets and pads to protect themselves from impacts.

Are you saying that these e-motos aren't necessary in NYC? What does the elevation change have to do with these illegal devices that are giving legitimate e-bikes a bad name?

It's a problem far outside of the US, because carbrains are using these e-motos to ban actual e-bikes everywhere. Not just NYC, California has a similar tech backed lobby that is trying to outlaw E-bikes, as does London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Also a fair number of the illegal e-motos are manufactured in the US, UK, EU and SK, so China or any other country doesn't come into this argument.

The fact that people are conflating two different products worldwide because of big business interests is a problem.

Aren't they all? I've yet to meet one that wants to be anywhere near a human, and I've got 'Disney Princess Syndrome,' to the point that multiple hummingbirds and squirrels have asked me for help.

Edit: didn't realize it was a pup/calf/whatever we call a baby opossum

They're trying to make it illegal to protest

It can be solved in space, sure. Just spin the craft at the right speed. You can't be strapped into a centrifuge all the time planetside, and be very productive.

I'm pretty sure we need the gravity to be close to 1 G because we have had issues bringing astronauts back from the ISS, and no one has been on the ISS for as long as a round trip to Mars would currently take. It also does weird things to fetuses, so you couldn't have a self sustaining colony.

I saw STIV in the theater. I was 6. Whales are cool.

I think they are rat whiskers, considering he wrote "rattero" on them, meaning thief or rat.

Mars is too small to build a colony there for anything other than to say we did it. Venus is a much easier option to eventually put humans on. Venus just really needs a few comets worth of ice, and some cyanobacteria. Might need some temporary shades as well to get the temperature down so the process can start.

You're ignoring the problem that can't be solved with current tech. Gravity. Humans don't do well in low gravity environments, and Mars is 1/3 the mass, and therefore 1/3 the gravity of Earth.

Venus would be much easier to get into habitable and self sustaining conditions. Venus just needs a few comets worth of ice and some cyanobacteria.