You have to consider also that at some point, during their development, cars and planes were considered toys for rich people. Also Isaacman’s last mission (Inspiration4) was a fundraiser that donated over $240M to Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital. 

Lol this is the worst take I've ever seen

If by “cribbed from NASA” you mean “taking an experimental napkin drawing and making it commercially viable” then sure, knock yourself out. I love the idea of people observing a retro-propulsive booster landing itself and smugly commenting “ho-hum, science fiction already thought of that a hundred years ago”. We get…

Unless I'm missing something, it just looks like a ton of chips mounted in shallow reflector bowls. I think I'd rather have smaller, lighter, more efficient LED lamps with actual optics, like the SS3 offerings from Diode Dynamics. 

Drop-in LED bulbs are still not a great replacement inside halogen housings. While recent developments have allowed companies to have small, bright LED chips located correctly relative to X & Y, they are still too THICK to correctly mimic a tiny halogen filament. This added thickness pushes the chips outside of the…

The new SS3 pods by Diode Dynamics are even better than BD. They also have SAE compliant fog and auxiliary high beam patterns, making them perfectly street legal when aimed correctly. No covers needed.

Like this car would have been driven any other way. "Yeah a little old lady only drove it to church on Sundays." GTFOH

*immediately overheats and DNFs*

I saved $4K when I bought my CPO 4Runner out of state. Everyone in California wanted me to pay the same or MORE than what they cost new, which eliminated the entire point. I flew to Portland for $200 (which the dealer also offset) and my test drive was my salesman picking me up at the airport. I was in and out in 1…

That "study" was also mostly horseshit. 

Excitement of car weirdos online does not equal sales. 

Flight paths from the Cape are specifically chosen not to fly over land or populated areas (as well as loft them into an intentional orbital inclination). Short answer, there isn't any land to land on. 

They don’t. The side boosters are throttled harder than the center core and disconnect earlier in the flight. The center core continues downrange (further, faster, higher) and there isn’t enough fuel to scrub that amount of speed and return back to land.

“Just when I thought you couldn’t get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!”

Is it too early to recommend COTD? 

This is it. This is the tipping point of the automotive loan debt collapse. People are going to take out 8 year loans to buy these in droves to impress the neighbors. The skies will be torn asunder, babies will wail, hedge fund managers will weep and gnash their teeth.

I think the frame flex would make that untenable. That’s why truck cabs and beds are always separate. Truck frames are too long not to engineer intentional flex into the design, especially while offroading.

I’m not sure what information you're basing your statement off of. 

Sorry, it was meant to be sarcastic. Of course other sovereign nations’ contributions are important, but the bulk of the station’s mass and the cost of getting it to orbit was shouldered by NASA. Like 80+%.

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