1st: Whether Rivian can or not will still be an open question until it actually does; still, Rivian is on the right trajectory.

Unless you are Trump’s lawyers. (See Rudy Giuliani).

People are buying Rivian expecting it to follow Tesla’s trajectory. Tesla’s share price hasn’t made sense for years but it continues to go up.

The stock market is partying like it’s 1999.

1st Gear: Once again, the stock market is just nonsense hand waving. It’s absolute gibberish to say Rivian, a company with no revenue or products, is worth nearly as much as Volkswagen, one of the most successful car companies in the world.

A rocket needs to be traveling around 20,000MPH to reach orbit....That’s not the important part.

Gosh, I hope they’ve got some engineers to think about these things. You should let them know before they run through the whole $35 million without hearing your concerns.

I think the Eastern Europeans already have this figured out.

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…

These things are pretty insane due to the heat shielding / g-forces / and vibrations the module has to survive. This thing is at max velocity when it’s at min altitude, where the atmosphere is thickest. It’s going to need some massive ablative heat shield to make it through the first 10k feet of atmosphere.

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

1st Gear: No surprise there. It’s a sellers market.

Imagine the press that they’d get if the company car burned down the CEO’s house.

“and I’d think that’s true of pretty much everyone who owes a meaningful amount.”

With billionaires I think it’s safe to assume they are paying as few taxes as possible

PA stopped issuing plate registration stickers around 2017 or so, and now rely on electronic records. The old stickers are troublesome to scrape away even if you’re inclined to do so, but there’s no requirement even to try.

A good time for “Hi Siri. Please start recording everything.”

“Some police officers feel these stops are an effective way to uncover illegal drugs and weapons,”

Bored cops who are looking for an excuse to break up their day by being a jackass to their fellow citizen.

“I suspect the first thing I’d get if I moved to a city that didn’t have a subway like New York’s would be an e-bike. The second thing would probably be a surgery bill from getting doored by a parked car.”