“Second, they were living all over the entire surface of the flaperon, even above the waterline, something that barnacles never do.”

Took the words out of my mouth. I think that in California (where CNG was once pretty big in fleet service—think Crown Vics, not Civics), it’s a visual inspection every three years or 36,000 miles, after any accident above some threshold, and after any vehicle fire... and when the manufacturer’s nameplate  lifetime…

OR - they could fly a 737 Max over the water and the parts will fall off by themselves.

If you really think that’s what’s happening with 5 year olds in preschool you clearly have no first-hand experience with kids of that age.

Did it loop? Movie: 101 minutes. Flight590 minutes, so given malfunctions, enough time to watch it 5 times?

Can really spot the guys here who don’t have kids. Like, yeah...kids are gonna get that stuff eventually. And that’s OK. But you’re not a prude or weirdo religious conservative by avoiding this with kids.

You realize there aren’t just adults on the plane. If I knew it was just adults yeah, tough shit get over it but it’s not unreasonable to not want your 9 year old to see and hear that.

While I agree with you, there are still certain things I would rather not have to describe or define to my 5- and 7-year-old kids at this point in their life. 

“Regulatory barriers” is rapidly becoming the fall guy for every problem at every one of Musk’s companies — and I am rather concerned to see how it is starting to become the fall guy for problems at SpaceX. That company has managed to keep ahead of the burnout curve for an impressively long time, but it does seem that…

I mean…

“Please state the nature of your transportation emergency!”

.067 is pretty high though... Might not be legal limit high, but I know myself and I’m pretty buzzed by .05, let alone .067. If the dude was swerving “putting on a seatbelt” something tells me this guy was driving impaired, which is still illegal. Yes .08 is the legal limit but you can still get a DUI while under .08…

If you take it as read that most investors are basically the boss from Dilbert, the stock market in general (and shit like Tesla in particular) start making sense. Not sense as in the right thing to do, but sense as in, “yep, they’re all idiots doing idiocy.”

It’s almost as if there’s a theme to these grand unveilings.

Nonsense. Of course they’re real and ready to go into widespread service. Why, here’s a picture of one already ferrying famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to a glamorous event:

I bet it’ll have one of these guys.

“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”

“Bill, before we land, did you turn off the parking brake?”

It is not OEM. Look at the door jamb, somebody gave it a quick respray and didn’t bother to mask off the lock striker.

I’m convinced that the Russian bots that are trying to influence our elections are using the NPOND polls as a training ground, because lately we’ve been seeing some voting that really has me concerned. With some of the cars posted in the last few days we should have seen a 100% result either way (yes on the Ford…