Clearly they *have* those tools available, since they’ve already removed most of the fasteners. They’re having trouble with two fasteners that are jammed.

There are options available....

Pretty sure that getting the canister hot enough to be malleable would risk the integrity of the samples. I’m sure they start to degrade at a much lower level, especially when they are looking at the atomic level. 

I’m guessing they have to be sterilized somehow to be in there and maybe it’s hard to get a good grip with the clean box gloves on or something.

So nobody thought to apply a bit of WD-40?

This is what happens when you use screws from Harbor Freight.

Need a bigger hammer.

Did they try pounding it upside down on the counter a few times? Or maybe running some hot water over the lid?

Tap it on the edge of the counter a few times.

I know these people are leagues beyond my understanding, that I myself have defended them for accounting for contingencies on top of contingencies so there clearly are many somethings I am unaware of in this situation...

FTFY

People act like everyone is rich. These people buying $100k EVs make up the tiniest percentage of people that exist in the US.  Most people arent buying brand new cars and buy used.  The majority are the most underrepresented people out there and if they made smaller EVs people would buy them.  

Doesn’t matter if we use plutonium to power cars one day. Cars are very often a status symbol, and as such you will get ostentatious monsters to satisfy the buyers with the deep pockets. The only way to stop this is to require all EVs to look like priuses no matter the size lol

Welcome to, I don’t know, what LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE HAS BEEN SAYING FOR A DECADE. Electric cars are great, but the introduce as many problems as they solve. We need to stop ignoring those issues in our quest to transition everyone and everything to electric. Hiding or glossing over problems isn’t the way to gain…

I agree with this in theory, but EVs are expensive. If you need one vehicle to replace them all, an SUV that can fit the whole family makes more sense than a small car.

Why do people keep assuming that acceleration limits range? Electric motors aren’t like gas motors. You don’t lose economy from going for a bigger motor. There’s very little cost to overpowering an electric car compared to a gas car, which is why automakers are making EVs powerful. 

GOD. THIS.

You can’t have it both ways. A Silverado that weighs 8000 lbs? Given the GVW and capabilities of the ICE powered Silverado, where did the surprise part come in that the amount of batteries needed to match the ICE performance makes the vehicle heavy? It’s elementary.

If you reduce the weight of an EV to the same weight as its ICE model, it would have a range of 30 miles. Who the fuck would buy an EV or ICE car with a range of 30 miles?

Thank high ranking politicians and high paid execs. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/