I’d rather call it an ‘early adopter tax’ than a markup. It was a damn expensive early adopter tax, too, since the Plaid base price is $90K.

I think that Starlink, while having over six thousand satellites in orbit, is really not a big problem in terms of space debris. Yeah, that’s a lot of damned satellites, but they’re also short-lived. Part of the reason Starlink can even come close to competing with terrestrial broadband is that the satellites are low…

I don’t think a slight whiff of hypocrisy is a problem for them if it means even more money.

From 2003, the white Stig appeared on our screens with touring car racer Ben Collins playing the man behind the mask for seven years. However, Collins elected to burst his own bubble when he wanted to release a book about his career and time at ‘Top Gear,’ so he was soon kicked off the show.

“The CEO said it is a topic that has already been raised with dealers; the importance of not jacking prices higher than the recommended sticker price”

Though 80 people getting a 100% discount from 2% at the time, by my math, goes to 2500 vehicle sales, and let’s say they were $50k each on average, that’s $163 million in sales, in exchange for the $16m in free Roadsters, or about a 10% pseudo-marketing budget. Which I think is about what Polestar pays as a rate for…

35 years of Toyota only experience. The dealer takes him cars that don’t work right and lets him fix it.  He hasn’t replaced anything that wasn’t 100% broken, but it seems like there is one item that is hiding another and that is hiding another and... he could write a book of gremlims he has found on that van.

Cygnus is well within the payload capabilities of Falcon 9. The mass and diameter are less than that of Dragon 2. I have heard, but could not find a source to confirm, that some simulation work has already been done to validate it on a Falcon 9 booster. Given that Cygnus had been pre-validated for Atlas V, before that…

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