I like the car quite a bit (I drive a lesser version of the IS myself), but more than 17k for a non-collectible car with that many miles on it is an automatic CP from me.

Good lord you’re working hard at being intentionally ignorant.

Nice straw man you’ve built there. Your post goes entirely too far in the other direction. Other than being rockets built by SpaceX, Falcon and Starship have very little similarity.

Because Starship and Falcon are two very different technologies.

Rocket Scientists: “You are going to need to do years of research and careful preparation to pull this off. You’ll need billions and billions in funding and years and maybe even decades of delays are inevitable.”

Ha. I wrote about my very similar ownership experience with a 2005.5 Jetta. The dealership experience was similarly miserable.

2005.5 MkV Volkwagen Jetta. Scared me off of VAG products for life, I think.

LOL.

The lunar version will not be exactly the same as this one. Right now, the plan is to use extending Falcon-style legs that can self level on an unprepared surface. They will also not use the Raptors for the final landing burn. They will use Raptors to begin the descent and to scrub some speed higher up, but the final…

Standing near a window while criticizing the government is far safer in the US, at least.

I would agree with this review. This was the most fun set I’ve ever put together. I liked this even more than the Saturn V. With the Saturn, the innovative techniques used to hide the studs were fun, but there was also a fair bit of repetition involved because it is essentially a large tube. This one had all the…

But pumping profits into growth is a positive sign. That’s what Amazon did for a very long time. They’re building new factories in Berlin, Texas, and still expanding the gigafactory in Nevada, not to mention China, etc.

I hope that this is true. But it’s also true that it’s being designed to have two very different use-cases, and that brings its own set of challenges. Hopefully, they are surmountable ones.

Agreed. I went into that knowing nothing about it. I didn’t even intend to watch, really.

True. Also, the idea behind the Gateway is that constant resupply missions will be arriving carrying fuel and supplies. Presumably, that would include a fuel ferry version of Starship. A Lunar Starship parked at the Gateway could just top off before every descent/ascent.

But we can already see how increased mass and complexity has made it harder to land Spaceship than it is to land the Falcon9.

The lander legs are independently adjustable, so it can land and sit upright on uneven surfaces.

Also other than some very early drawings showing a ‘skycrane’ from a small door towards the top there has been no mention or seemingly questioning about the ability of this lander to carry cargo. That cargo also seems to be limited to fairly small size. Not drastically different from the early landers, but a…

I believe the thought process is that landing only needs a small amount of fuel kept in insulated header tanks.

Not all of them. My grandparents went the RV for a number of years and would travel the country in the winter to escape the cold. My grandfather was all about quality and solid construction (he was a retired pipefitter) and so they got an old Greyhound bus that had been converted into a luxury motor home. Being a…