I can (fortunately) only imagine!

Oh, great, now I can’t either!

Those US sales numbers are so low they might as well not exist (in the US). Time to shut down even offering it in the US.

Hear! Hear!

This and the story about ChatGPT makes me want to buy a new car less and less. A lot of things I don’t want in a car, and this ranks right up there. If I want to play games (I don’t), I can use my phone or laptop, and if wanted to use ChatGPT or Google, I can use my damn phone (or laptop) too.

Yes, I know: Bandaids and duct tape throughout the “development” and production of that POS.

God, it is looking horrible. That first video somehow reveals just how poor the rear view is.

Sigh.

It’s a Boeing - if no corner’s are cut, it isn’t going.

Boeing having had a free run with “self-certification” for decades is coming home to roost. It’s one thing after another. Who could have known self-certification would lead to cutting corners?

I hope he is worse. Musk is a POS excuse for a human being.

What makes you think Musk wouldn’t do that if he could? He’s a psycopath. An unintelligent one, but still.

That’s okay, and you’re right. Per person or per “pound of cargo”, an aircraft is immensely better for the environment (not anywhere close to rail or shipping in fuel consumption per pound carried, but still).

The funny thing is about “valuable resources” on other planets, the moon, and comets is that once that valuable resource comes to earth, the sheer amount of it will lower the price of it. And you would only go to the trouble to go mining on a celestial body if there was enough of it to make it worth it. It’s a catch…

He still has to hit the milestone (towards “Moonshot”) to be able to refuel in orbit. That will never happen unless NASA takes over wholesale.

If I were a kid in 2024, I probably wouldn’t care much about cars. Especially not super and hyper cars. I honestly think the kids of today have it right: Trying to improve the world for the better, and owning a super car or whatever, is not something they are aiming for or dreaming about.

There wouldn’t be 1 million people launching all at the same time. It would be at minimum an S-curve with a slow ramp.

They failed to be able to make the geometry work, so half-assed a fully electric version, and “close to what every other ev does” is not close enough when they leave out the most basic of things: Mechanical fail safe.

Yes, as I said:

The Super Heavy Booster holds 3400 tons of propellant alone. That is a ridiculous amount of pollution. The speed you need to get even into low earth orbit is ridiculously fast, using a shit ton of fuel.  People thinking that rockets can compete with aircraft in the “cargo” vs “fuel consumption” game are delusional.