Oh that brings back memories.

Yeah, always with the windows down.  Of course, we kids would be left in the car like that too sometimes.  :-P  This was before the days when that would get CPS called.

The weird thing is that leaving your dog in the car was considered perfectly normal back in the days before people referred to their pets as “fur babies”, and nobody called the cops to bust open the window and charge the owner with neglect for leaving the dog in there. So, I’m not entirely sure the assumptions in this…

I stand corrected: I thought it didn’t, since Starliner wasn’t expected to be doing any long-duration free-flying operations.  That’s a relief (pun intended).  ;-)

Unluckily for him, the name is already taken twice over.  Car-X is an auto repair chain, and CarX is a racing simulator game.

It’s legal, mostly because I think nobody thought anyone would be dumb enough to try and make their car look like the automotive version of Wonder Woman’s airplane on the road.

Accurately put, and much better than the article. There’s no indication yet that Starliner won’t be able to bring them home. The problem is that since Starliner keeps it propulsion in the expendable service module, they can’t study it after the mission. That’s a significant difference from Dragon, which retains all of…

I’d prefer to fly by lines attached to migratory birds, like the Little Prince. Perhaps I would find myself on Asteroid B612, where I could find out whether or not the sheep has eaten the rose.  ;-)

Yes, they can. The FAA can revoke type certificates, and they can order groundings, which doesn’t halt production but it does mean they cannot legally fly the aircraft within US airspace, which makes deliveries effectively impossible.

Well, the second half of the roller coaster was the proper response. The first half was what caused the response, and it doesn’t seem as if that part was intentional, given that Southwest has already been willing to publicly call it pilot error in pushing the yoke forward.

It won’t create a solid shell, or anything, but the impact risk is certainly rising. Not so much of a risk to things launching from the ground as a risk to things that will be orbiting at similar altitudes; launch is an instantaneous risk, whereas residing in orbit creates a very long-term cumulative buildup of risk…

I was going to post this:

I’m reminded of when I was working for Greentree Financial in the mid 90s. The CEO was getting a pay package that was a fraction of what Musk just got approved — as it was calculated as a percentage of the company’s reported profits, during the fat years, he was pulling in $200 million, which was quite extraordinary…

Oh my lord, he reacted to an entirely, 100% deserved negative review by cold-calling you and then *threatening* you? Definitely tops anything I’ve ever experienced (which mostly can be summarized as run-of-the-mill sexism; most service departments have treated me like a normal person, but some of act like because I…

“According to a recent study into the four privateer astronauts aboard the 2021 Inspiration4"

Bingo. One of the #1 strategies of the con artist is to stall you and put you off and just plain drag things out until you give up, and an experienced one like this dealership will stonewall until the heat death of the universe.

Well, I don’t know if I’d go quite THAT far.....

That logo caught my eye too!  It’s a lovely design choice.  An excellent call to their long tradition, without becoming ostentatious.

A big part of the problem is that Tesla repair work is artificially inflated in price, to the point where even minor damage can result in a car being declared totaled by insurance since it’s cheaper to replace the car than to pay Tesla’s mechanics to fix it. On the plus side, this has resulted in surprising resale…

Same!