I just don’t think the Rank and file Republicans want to deal with him any more.

Had. During WWII, Port Cargill, in Savage, MN, built ships that were then floated down the Minnesota River and then down the Mississippi. And back during WWI, there were naval vessels built in Duluth-Superior. But that was a long time ago, and I’m not aware of any naval shipbuilding in Minnesota since then.

Well, I suppose if you had a big enough chunk.....

Oh, a lot of foreign agents are pumping money into him. That’s how investing works, and it really should be no surprise to anyone. They’ll invest on promises as long as the promises keep making them money as well — either because they can still either sell the stock the investment bought them, or because they can…

He’s as good a businessman as Trump is, which is to say, he’s a terrible businessman. Musk has been railroaded out of businesses before because of how bad he is. Both men are often surrounded by others who work to shield them from the consequences of their terrible business decisions. Trump has generally been…

Wouldn’t that have been the Falcon 1?

Precision duplication of human movements has been a thing robots can do for quite a long time now. It’s why the Da Vinci is allowed to do delicate things to people’s insides.

This doesn’t even appear to be an automaton.  Better terms would be “mechanical Turk” or “anthropomorphic waldo”.

I suppose the idea is that the stealth units can catch people violating traffic laws because they won’t realize it’s a cop they’re cutting off as they blow the red light. Which is dumb; it’s better to have obviously marked cop cars, since there’s research proving that the presence of marked cop cars are a traffic…

These all-black squad cars remind me of Hotblack Deziato’s sundiving spaceship from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, about which Zaphod had this to say:

Some here in Minnesota do that too, but it only makes sense if you’re using it on the regular — specifically, they’re doing it because either they have so many cars they need multi-level storage in the first place (i.e. they can’t fit them all on one lot) or they want to be fancy to appeal to pricier customers. You’re…

That’s a good idea.  What would it take to transport the cars to those parking garages?  Do they have enough drivers/car transporters/etc?  Are the roads clear?  I’m sure the owners of the ramps would be happy to rent out the space (assuming their lawyers can draw up an agreement indemnifying them against any losses…

It’s easy to say “lack of prior planning”, but where do you build indoor storage for this many cars? That’s an awful lot of real estate to have to maintain and pay taxes on for fifty years in order to use for three days.

That’s mostly because a couple of generations ago, we downsized our rail infrastructure to a staggering degree rather than continuing to grow it alongside our population. Drive through middle America and every small town has an abandoned passenger railway station. Many mid-sized and larger cities have buried streetcar…

It is certainly something!  :-)  I gotta give Tesla props for scaling up their manufacturing very rapidly.  That’s been very impressive.  However, they have also demonstrated a tendency to overpromise and underdeliver, and that makes me want to see the proof before trusting in the pudding.

Oh my lord.

“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 now demand to be chauffeured by Robert Picardo.

My guess is to be able to carry consumables -- range extension is about more than just carrying more batteries for the rover, after all.  It’s also about carrying more oxygen for the crew.

Well ya know, if you let criminals go free, you’re just sending a message that we don’t care anymore.  Or something.