And the reality is that most of us only buy a new phone once every two years so really, double most of this.

I don’t think this level of performance justifies the doors or the interior.

It’s the Welfare Queen thing all over again, really. If a system is not 100% perfect in using taxpayer money and there are non-virtuous individuals using government programs, the programs themselves are clearly not worth it and should be scrapped. I mean, who cares if a program is 99% successful; if that 1% is wasting …

Exactly. As if the cost of a phone plan would cover premiums—let alone prescriptions and co-pays.

Or to put it another way,

The last medical statement I got was for $500 for one procedure. As long as I don’t need any other medical care for the next two years, his analogy totally works.

Too many Gotdamn Aerospace Engineers on Jalopnik. What do think this is Scientific American?

Yea, it’s commonly known in the industry as chopped fiber bulk molding compound (BMC)... Basically resin with lots of chopped up carbon pressed into a mold, or extruded. Of course “FORGED CARBON” sounds way cooler.

Huh. Never heard of that before, but it’s interesting. Not really sure why one would call that a forging but what do I know, I’m only an aerospace engineer.

I was three paragraphs in before I realized that the answer to “How to punch a puncher” was not “join a union.”

For a bleeding heart, commie, pinko liberal, you sure can write about boxing.

Rob’s documented how he’s made his money

Wait, what? Jealous?
The project is nowhere near running, much less driving.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s an ambitious goal, but it doesn’t even fire, much less drive.

Can we collectively stop referring to his expensive pile of parts (the four -rotor car) like it’s a realized project?

I went to an ACE elementary school, it is barely education. Dinosaurs and man, morality in math, earth is 6000 years old... all the old favorites.

I now have a sudden need to train a classroom full of children to answer that same question with “GRAD SCHOOL AND HELL!”

Yeah, well...he can afford good steak but then he has the life cooked out of it and then puts ketchup on it. Being able to afford the finer things does not make one actually appreciate them nor understand their purpose.

I assume it’s like those rich guys with terrible toupees (or terrible comb overs). They think they look great and no one around them will tell them any different.

A guy who has earned $48 million over the past 11 years and wants to do something moderately funny?

Now he only has 24, 999,995 dollars left over!