When I was a kid, they destroyed Skylab. Sort of screwed up and ended up bombing Austrilia with it. But anyway, I didn’t understand why they didn’t just keep it up there.

WE SHOULD NUKE IT IN SPACE!!!!!!

Preach, Brother!

My point was that there’s virtually no support, of any kind, short of people who already know everything. There’s no Hayes manual for these things. And no part numbers. And I don’t where to find someone who could help me. So the moment something goes wrong, I’m deeply hosed.

I’m almost certainly done buying new cars. It was fun while it lasted, but I am out. The prices are stupid, and so are the cars today. Interest rates suck to borrow, but are great to save, so my money is better off in the market/bank. If I want a *different* car, there is an endless supply of the sort of cars I…

YOLO indeed. I’m currently reading a bio of Enzo Ferrari, and the number of people who died driving wacky, experimental, Wile E. Coyote machines is staggering.

I always find it a bit sad when cars just sit unmoving in a museum for decades. The best museums USE their cars!

I’ve driven a Model T, which was slightly newer than this, but still over 100 years old at the time. It was more exciting at 20mph than most modern cars at 140.

Can we send him up to handle it personally?

Remember when Superman threw all the nukes into the sun?

I’m not young, and would never want to own one, but the thing I think is fun about them is like cars of this era were all wildly different in how you operate them. Today we have it down, steering wheel, gas, brake, clutch, and gear selector.  Back then they were like YOLO and tried all kinds of wild stuff. Throttle in…

The ISS is in a pretty low orbit. It already experiences air drag pretty much by design. If the station stops being maintained and isn’t reboosted it will literally fall out of the sky all on it’s own.

The issue with this is that you don’t get to pick where it reenters. With Earth being a water world the most likely…

Imagine you push it out into space, and it crashes into a meteor that gets redirected to Earth.

Not possible. The amount of fuel needed to get something out of Earth orbit into deep space is absolutely massive, and for something as big as the ISS (don’t forget, it was sent up in MANY pieces on MANY shuttle flights), simply not happening. To get it to de-orbit all you need is a little nudge to get it lower and…

It’s not the market that makes me hesitate, it’s the vehicles themselves. Most brands are going Tech- and Features-first, Driving-experience later. I like to drive. I like to actually drive. Preferably with a manual transmission, even if it’s stop-and-go traffic 5 days a week (been there, done that, and wouldn’t want…

We should fling the both ISS and Elon into the Sun. Seems to be the most sensible option.

We ended up with a Mach E. After ford dropped the price, and then started offering insane deals on the 2023's, Volvo or Audi couldn’t even get close.

I read somewhere that pushing things out into space is magnitudes more difficult and expensive.  In addition to no longer gaining control over where it will land if its not pushed out far enough.

Best tip is to shop across a few nearby states (unless you’re in the middle of texas) and just grab a friend to drive to get it...

also when looking for cars.... dont just walk into a dealer... they will waste your entire day...