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jgdpzkmpfw asked:


I frequently watch The History Channel and am often confounded
by their inaccuracies and out-right spurious claims.
On Modern Marvels today ( re-run) they claimed that more steel in
the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than for automobiles.

Appearing to be an obvious mistake, I estimated the amount of
sheet steel in the the body (only), of an average automobile to be
125 sq ft. and the area of a bottle cap to be 1.544 sq in.
This amounts to 94 bottle caps per sq ft. or approx 12,000 per car
Auto production in the U.S in 2000 was approx 3.37 million.
This amounts to 400 trillion caps per year, or about 4 million caps
per house hold per year.
Even if my estimate of sheet steel use was double the actual number, the bottle cap total is still beyond belief.
Does anyone have any contributing information and or a thought
on this. and would you think that if I posed more of these claims
that it would be a good subject matter to routinely place on this site

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J333 asked:


I just moved into an apartment for the 1st time and I was advised to get rental insurance. I don’t have many valuables with the exception of a laptop and an engagement ring. The rest of my items are the standard furnishings (couch, bed, desk, etc.) I know rental insurance is cheap so I wanted to look into it. Just an FYI that I do not have a car/auto insurance so I can’t just add rental insurance onto existing car insurance.

Also my main concern is that my engagement ring is VERY valuable and I will leave it at home often, so I wanted to make sure it was protected (either at home or if I do wear it out). I also travel often, so that might leave my place open for burglars … or who knows what other issues (fire, etc.)

Please advise, thanks!

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Phil asked:


My car’s got 103,000 miles on it, but it’s still in decent shape. The only problem I’m having is that I’ve got rust in the door panel. I don’t know much about cars/auto repair, but I was thinking that maybe I could use some rust converter on it, then cover it with bondo. Some people agree with me, and some tell me I need to go to a body shop. The rust has eaten through the outside of the panel, and the inside panel (it’s got two layers, which was a surprise to me) is showing. It’s only the outer panel that’s rusted. The hole’s about 2 inches in diameter, and it’s like a quarter inch deep (since the inside layer is intact). I don’t know if it’s worth spending the money to take it to a body shop, since it’s already got over a hundred thousand miles on it. Plus, I’m in college right now, so I don’t have a lot of money to throw at the problem. But, if I’m just going to have to put a bunch more money into it later, then it may be worth taking it to a body shop right now. I don’t have access to any metal working tools, either, so I can’t even really remove the rust properly.

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