I’m aware. I’m mostly just commenting to point out how shockingly short those first few flights were.

Whatever Branson did or did not do, you can rest assured that if I were ever awarded astronaut wings, you’d never see me without them pinned to my chest.

“The Wright Brothers didn’t fly.”

If that’s the definition we are using, then very few people have ever left the Earth’s atmosphere. Even the ISS requires periodic boosts due to atmospheric drag and it orbits at around 250 miles. The exosphere of Earth’s atmosphere extends all the way up to 6,200 miles.

Why does our Loki know how to take on an Alioth after being in this world for three minutes, and why haven’t the other Lokis ever thought of doing that?

It’s the greatest bit ever. You know it’s coming EVERY time, but you still laugh, EVERY time.

But have you seen the new badge it comes with?! Your arguments are invalid.

Sure, at face value, this seems like the sort of question only a drooling simpleton would ask

I am attending one of these cornfield shows tomorrow night. I can’t wait.

It’s almost like farming out space exploration to private companies isn’t a great idea!

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

The problem is that $25k cars only work at massive scale because the margins are so slim/nonexistent. Niche manufacturers who make electric cars can’t build at that scale, so they need to load the cars with luxury/tech features to justify the price they can be profitable at.