Apparently Mars has Burning Man too (2:00–2:07).

According to the video, a Camry gets 429 mpg.

With a meteor shower, maybe SpaceX shouldn’t risk launching their rocket tonight. Bad timing!

“Boom—really, please,” says the 90-year-old queen

Where you contrasted “chemistry” with “memory,” which implies that humans don’t have memory.

But whichever way you look at this, that 50 percent figure is hugely impressive.

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The real meaning of “blackface” is a form of minstrelsy. The problem is that people are now applying the term—and their justified offense at blackface in its original sense—to any form of wearing makeup to look like another person who happens to be a different race. (Incidentally the term also works great as…

Maybe also the fact that they’re driving on the left.

Can someone explain the physics of why it sparks?

“More rockets = more launches.” Not necessarily. Beyond a certain number of rockets, supply will exceed demand. I was asking what the demand was for hundreds of reusable cores.

Thanks, but I was thinking that at 30 new cores a year, in just 10 years he could have close to 300 reusable cores. If they each get a month off between flights, that’s about 3000 core flights a year, or 3 Falcon 9 launches a day.

Thanks. Does anyone know their projected number of flights per year, and estimated downtime per rocket? Ramping up to 30 new rockets a year, in 5 years they could have over 100 rockets. Let’s say downtime is a full month. So they could do over 1000 launches a year, three every day. Will there be that much demand? I…

the company is cranking up Falcon 9 production big time, from six to eight rocket cores per year to over thirty

In the video they say it’s because he does the same move every time.

Thanks, Bla; I understand the motivation to jumpstart the adoption of electric cars. But as long as they don’t raise the price so much that demand drops below production capacity—and right now that’s not close to happening—raising the price will not affect how many of the cars they put on the road. In the meantime,…

All I know is that, generally, leaving gobs of money on the table does not sit well with shareholders, unless there is clear reasoning behind it. I’m simply asking what that reasoning is, because I don’t hear shareholders saying anything.

This has been another edition of: “People Who Spend Their Money Differently Than I Would Are Idiots, and the People Who Collect That Money Are Jerks.”

Garry Kasparov held the title for 15 years (1985 to 2000).

It’s not about greed. Tesla could raise the price a few thousand and they still wouldn’t be able to fulfill all their orders. The then could use the extra income for R&D, charging stations, etc.