Lifetime earnings is something like $3 million for the average American

Question for the peanut gallery: how big a supersonic plane would be needed to make the LA to Beijing/Tokyo (or whatever) flight? It seems to me that transpacific flight is where the real money is. 5 hours to 2 hours isn’t that big a deal. 15 hours to six hours is.

I wish it was just one....

Me too. Instead I work with humans that I can’t turn my back to.

Something something wish he was eaten by a cheetah (not really, but I don’t like him)

Except Trump has never made a product worth buying. Musk may be the Music Man, but he’s managed to get funding for rockets that land themselves and a seven seat, AWD electric sports coupe. Trump made Trump casino.

I’d rather be in close contact with a cheetah than a wolf

No reason to be afraid unless you’ve got kids in the car. Cheetahs don’t see humans as prey (too big).

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Do you say Shuhvrholet? What about Cadeeyak?

Just not in English.

Porsche’s confirmation = marketing by fueling the fire.

If you don’t roll your “r”s you’re doin’ it wrong

If this was true, then Cadillac would be Cadeeyak, you would be required to make a French gutteral r to pronounce “Renault”, and British people would be forever banned from pronouncing anything in French or Italian. Ever.

Technically Folksvagen.

Any autogyro types know if you could add a small(ish) electric motor to the main rotor just to “maintain” a safe rotational speed (i.e. it only kicks in if the rotor dips below a safe descent rpm)

Necessary and sufficient conditions. The Continental name, RWD (or rear-biased AWD), suicide doors and a V8 are all necessary conditions. I can’t believe that they let the car out of the drawing room without those things.

x1000. They put lipstick on a Taurus and tried to market it as a Mercedes. It didn’t work for Acura, and it won’t work for Lincoln. Nothing says “we were just trying to cut corners on engineering and production costs” like a FWD luxo-barge.

Two things:

That war didn’t happen doesn’t mean that MAD is why it didn’t happen. Herman Kahn’s work is the theory I was thinking of earlier