More important question: when is a “planned design” worthy of a writeup?

Is this their first model that is not utterly and irredeemably ugly?
I’m not saying it’s a great design but it is a step forward from previous crimes against design they have committed.

Why do people see a nice photo and immediately claim it’s photoshopped?

You beat me to it.

I’m sorry, are you claiming he invested in a space startup and got lucky? Nobody gets rich from space. nobody. it’s a losing game. or was, until Musk came along.

I’m seeing KИ. A russian brand?

And also, every NASA hardware ever was designed and built by a private sector company. The shuttle was made by Rockwell. The Apollo Lunar Module was built by Grumman. Boeing Built the Saturn-V’s first stage, and so on.
What’s new here (since the commercial crew program) is that NASA is letting the private sector come…

If you’re talking about the DC-x, it was initially designed by Macdonnell Douglas for the DOD and only later transferred to NASA. it was similar to SpaceX’s grasshopper test vehicle but never got any further than that. This would be like saying the Boeing 787 is only repeating what the Wright Flyer did.

Not that I think this will ever happen but the plan was for about 1000 people per flight, not 12 (yes it sounds ridiculous, I know). And you can’t just rely on the word “rocket” to claim this is more enviromentally destructive than an airliner flight. it depends on the way the methane fuel is produced (it can be…

yes all existing currency work on trust.

if that were so what’s the point of buying $1B worth of BTC and then taking steps that would bring the value of their invetment *down*? sounds like the opposite of a pump and dump, if anything. they entire thing is baffling.

Haven’t seen the entire thing yet but it can’t be worse than Trump hosting in 2015. 

Look, if Musk says his son’s name is “X AE A-12" on twitter, then it must be true. Musk is not known for ever joking on twitter.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos, CASC and ISRO all have talented engineers. None of them had been able to replicate what Spacex has done routinely for five years. Almost none have even tried. There were many elecric car startups as well as private launch startups in the early 2000's. Only SpaceX and…

That would be wrong to assume. Musk *is* brilliant - as a systems engineer/optimizer and businessman. He’s already achieved things that were considered impossible by the established space industry. That does not make him brilliant in every field though, or a very deep thinker. 

I’m really disappointed with Musk. I’m such a huge SpaceX fan and it’s just so sad seeing this guy unable to correctly interpret clearly marked graphs and make asinine observations on things he clearely knows so little about. When even a soccer manager (Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp) has more sense than you when…

For a website or a phone OS, sure. For cars? Car’s badges are 3D real-world objects. It makes sense for the print/online identity to also use the same badge, and almost all carmakers / marques, in fact, do.

Teslas use an AC motor connected to the batteries through an inverter.

Tesla is named thus because they use an AC motor (invented by Tesla).
But Tesla had nothing to do with hydrogen fuel cells. I read the Wikipedia article to see who invented the fuel cell and while it wasn’t any one person’s invention, and its evolution took more than a century, one name stuck out: Francis Thomas Bacon.…

Exactly. a mobile art instillation at best, shaped like a Buck Rogers rocketship.