No, the world does not rely on Musk for Starlink. Starlink is every bit the scam that Hyperloop was.

The small pieces of carbon are suspended in epoxy, and instead of a vacuum to draw the epoxy through the weave/around the fibre while removing the air, it is pressed into (around) the fiber cut-offs. The pressure is only used to saturate the carbon.

“forged carbon fibre” is just chopped up carbon bits in epoxy. There is no actual “forging”. Laid up carbon fibre with directional, not cut up, carbon fibre is much, much stronger. With “forged” carbon fibre, the forces are only dealt with by the epoxy, whereas directional fibres/weaves takes the strain in a proper…

Agree. Casting whole underbodies was a bad idea from the get-go. So, of course, Musk thought it was great and easy to do.

Of course he fucks up the Supercharger deal too. As I have been saying since it was made official.

You’d think “Technoking” Musk could make a better design than Chevy could 50 years ago. But no, apparently design and tech haven’t moved on from back then ...

I didn’t just say “very dangerous”. I specifically called this out because it can do 0-60 in less than two seconds, weighs a shit-ton and it is probably shit around corners.

So nothing to dissuade a once-owner of a Fisker to buy a new(ish) one again?

Insanity. Impressive, but pure insanity - even in a straight line. That power will sure be attempted to be put to use in less than ideal circumstances. I may sound like an old fart, but this seems ridiculously dangerous.

Ouch, that will certainly increase premiums for other Fisker owners with at least that insurance company.

He is not intentionally scuppering anything. He’s a narcissist that is utterly incompetent in everything he does, yet he is good at scamming people, and his dad’s part in an emerald mine under Apartheid made sure he has so far always failed upwards.

Well, it certainly is red.

Never heard of the leader in a race “making up the tail end”?

And the incompetent board - all sycophants.

Way, waay too much for an almost 20 year old car aimed at, and probably bought by idiot drivers.

“ANYTHING manufactured will start to have failures over decades,”

Honestly, that’s the first “gaming rig” I’ve seen that would be tolerable to look at in my actual home. I don’t play games, but I could live with having that for my kids.

So tired of the ridiculous defence “Oh,but it’s a 33 yo plane”, implying that you should expect things to fall off of planes at that age. If that is what is to be expected, maybe we should only fly 10 year old planes? Oh, 10 yo boeing planes also have problems. What about a 1 year old plane? Oh, there were two less…

Haha, I forgot about these! They are still being copied as in “real cheap”.

The solution is to stay back behind the idiots on unicycles, not cross into the opposite fucking lane. This is such a simple concept, I can’t believe Waymo, who is supposedly one of the leaders of the pack can’t do such a simple thing properly.