run the numbers and they are talking _thousands_ of Gs of centrifugal load

a 300M radius system would put almost 4000Gs to get a projectile to mach 10 or 3430 m/sec (approximate MECO cutoff speed of a Falcon 9 first stage). that would be a centrifuge external diameter on the order of 650 meters, or 2200 feet in…

Just put a red sock in with the whites.

I suspect that this method wouldn’t be suitable for crewed launches, though.

Is it bad I really want to see what a catastrophic failure looks like during the spin cycle?

A Teen Driver Killed A Woman And Plead Guilty.

Pretty much exactly what you said. 

Yah. If you take away the “rah, rah, hate the rich” thing, a sentence of 4 years in jail is the STIFFEST penalty for involuntary manslaughter in Cali. And probation for a first offense is a standard penalty.

The punishment is too light, but this is probably not too far from the mark. We do make a distinction for juveniles and there has to be a line at some point between the two, even if everyone here thinks 17 is too old, and it’s definitely manslaughter, and not “what basically amounts to murder, as the author put it.

The filthy rich and their spawn are not “able to learn and be a better person.” They have been taught their entire lifetime that us poors are nothing of import. We are disposable. We are trash. They think in terms like “I can kill as many people as I like by poisoning their environment and only pay a small fine,” or,…

Keep producing the same poorly assembled cars and they'll be the BlackBerry of EVs.

Consumer Reports and JD Power.

Most reliability ratings. Google it

The stream of articles noting that they haven't yet.

Agree: I’d be looking at the Volvo, or maybe an Audi e-tron. That Audi looks killer.

If Tesla wants to expand it's market share, they're going to have to start caring about build quality.

Doug Demuro was critical of this in his Plaid review as well, and he’s a known fan of Tesla in general and had high remarks of the car otherwise (plus it was brand new so that lady’s criticism doesn’t apply). The people who buy Teslas seem to not really care about this, and the people who do care are likely not going…

Either this attorney thinks everyone is an idiot who will believe this hogwash about “criminal intent” or he’s the only attorney not to have understood a single thing in first year law.

White boys, that is.

Buzzing the cyclists before running them over is the real kicker.