Please show me where you can buy a $35,000 Tesla Model 3 that is brand new.

It’s an entry-level luxury vehicle that happens to be electric.  $40k sounds about right.

“Deep breaths there buddy.”

everyman already drives a 50k truck so why the hell not.  

Are you saying my coworker didn’t buy the $35,000 standard Model 3 a couple weeks ago, by calling?

Elon explains their choice at length in their Starship update posted on the weekend.

An airliner has a pump to compress outside air for use by the people inside. Then it lets out an equal amount of old air, to keep the pressure constant. There is supplemental oxygen systems, but they are only used in emergencies, and are nothing more than a tank and pressure regulator. There is no CO2 scrubbing,…

A shuttle is defined by being limited to earth orbit, and a capsule is a vehicle lacking any significant self-propulsion ability. I would say it’s an honest-to-god spacecraft. The only other vehicle to earth this distinction IMO was the apollo command and service modules put together.

That’s a good point, though, to be fair, an airliner is a much simpler life support setup than a spaceship, and is expected to run for hours, not months at a time.

Those aren’t fins per se. those are flaps that serve as massive air brakes, used to slow down the craft on reentry, as the craft is re-entering the atmosphere with its underside pointed into the direction of motion, rather than its nose. the shuttle used its underside in a similar manner but also had to use the…

The original design had 3 fins to match Buck Rodgers rockets. Stainless steel was used because of its increased strength at cryogenic temperatures and high melting point (the tanks are very cold to keep the methane liquid, stainless steel actually gets stronger at low temps while aluminum and carbon fiber/composites…

It’s partially better reliability (Soviet quality control was pretty ass), but a big part is better computers.

Testing a rocket of this size is a bit dangerous, and Canaveral is a bit crowded. If you were another launch company with a Canaveral lease (ie. ULA, NGIS, Blue Origin, Firefly, or Relativity), would you want SpaceX having their prototype hovering around, deliberately testing the corners of the envelope until it…

The Starhopper and booster landings show they have throttleable rockets and control well in hand.

More like a shuttle. But while the shuttle was kinda like a glider, Starship just falls with style, but since it can control its fall it isn’t very capsule like.

If your penis has wings, seek medical attention.

It is the southern most point in the US, land was cheap, and Texas doesn’t believe in zoning.

Even accounting for their aggressive overprovisioning they’re way behind Tesla in efficiency. It also makes sense to do it Tesla’s way and allow for occasional charges to 100% for road trips when you need that range since that causes only minimal wear if you’re doing it once or twice a year when you take a long road…

Two things come to mind reading this article; and these are just my opinion.

Wait, I’m confused. You were originally talking about the Taycan and VW sent you an E-tron diagram? Isn’t the E-tron inherently inferior because it’s not built on a dedicated EV-platform, whereas the Taycan is and therefore should’ve addressed these issues from the getgo...?