You must be around some shitty dealers, because I bought mine a year ago with no mark up and the other 3 people I know who got one in the last year also paid no mark ups. The trick is to just order one instead of trying to find one on the lot.

Surprising the werewolf turnout was so low, it was a full moon last night. Unless, that’s the problem and all the responsible werewolves were at home chained up to keep from rampaging.

Yeah, really only works if they nail #1, essentially the same thing that happened with SpaceX. 

There are really only 2 ways that Tesla gets anywhere close to the claims (and they’ll be at least 3-5years behind “Musk-time”):

It’s due to the latitudes. They started with the higher latitudes and are working towards the equator. This was due to a combination of ease of launch, availability of orbits, and potential customer base locations/applications.

Tesla Semi + self-driving + police livery = budget optimus prime

I believe they were actually stabbed and not shot as previously reported.

Collisions of neutron stars produce many of the heavier elements on the periodic table (most of the stuff after iron), so better understanding how they work could help us learn more about the origins of many of the materials around us.

The article uses a “sports stadium” as a comparison because they are big, so their energy usage seems like it would be too. However, we’re really just talking about some lighting, it’s not like the sports teams are electrically powered.

The sonic boom is a double boom, so you get two in quick succession at every location (a bada-boom).

At least the SpaceX satellites are in a much lower orbit so that they don’t persist as long (many months vs many years).

Comets have 2 tails, one is a dust tail from sunlight pushing the dust particles and the other is an ion tail from the solar winds. They separate because the solar winds move more slowly than the sunlight which makes each impact the debris at slightly different angles.

Road wear is proportional to vehicle weight raised to the fourth power. The answer is for freight companies to provide better working conditions and pay to retain more workers and end the “shortage”.

Sounds like the light is diffused so it’ll scatter after being reflected (so bright white but not shiny metallic). So, bright but without any glare.

I looked up the orbit of the craft since I was originally confused about what would eclipse the Sun for 8hrs, turns out it was Mars. The craft has a highly elliptical orbit with a 72hr period, over time the orbit shifts and eventually the far, slow part ends up on the night side of the planet. This was the inevitable…

EyeBreakThings has the right idea. The Earth orbits the Sun at nearly 30km/s or over 60,000mph, so if you can make the asteroid slow down by about 1/3rd of a second it will miss the Earth entirely.

The SLS was originally supposed to launch in 2016...

The chess programs are so good they don’t need any prior data to destroy human players anymore. Stockfish and Alpha Go Zero are beyond human level and are how players at the top of the human game can cheat.

This also avoids the hassles of meeting varying rules and restrictions for convertibles, plus you can fit a set of track tires and tools of the back of an 86 while the Miata require a tire trailer or tow vehicle.

She pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 5 yrs of supervised probation and had to pay the family of the rapist $150k. She probably would have been able to avoid all charges by arguing an affirmative defense at trial, but that’s a big risk since she was facing 1st degree murder charges. The judge in this…