Damn. I looked at the price expecting it to be in the hundreds of thousands to millions range. It’s 159,000. Which is expensive, certainly, but considering the engineering and manufacturing that goes into this machine, I’d say it’s a “bargain”.

LIDAR is far more expensive to implement and include in manufacture.

This was posted on the Catastrophic Failure subbreddit (interestingly, that’s also the site I expect to run my obituary)

Interesting side note: Russian rocket launches do not have range officers.

You’re right, to an extent. The internal and external styling does seem to be taking after Tesla and the outside doesn’t, by any means, look terrible. It’s just the Ford-ness of it.

The box wars!!! lmao

And SpaceX has to grit their teeth and move on because who knows what kind of vengeful tantrum the orange clown might throw on his way out lol

I thought it might for a moment there. It felt like it was crawling towards the sky in those first few seconds but it must’ve just been perspective and the fact that it’s all steel with nothing to really compare it to.

I was watching the livestream with people who aren’t even into nerdy-sciency stuff and even they were just completely awe-struck.

Why all the scorn? Fuck Elon stans, launch was still a major success: it was a proof-of-concept and showed engine reliability is the primary issue. It’s also impressive considering the engines and fuel used are experimental.

I am colorblind, your post is extremely insensitive and I am offended.

Lets put this post in a time-capsule thing to be opened in 57 years. Will we be disappointed or laugh at how low-tech we expected the future to be?

Gotta agree with Bradley on this one. Plagiarism is a pretty fucking serious accusation in journalism. Like, faking your results in a published research paper kind of serious.

There’s a fuck ton of research going into heart-disease and we know why it’s on the rise. As for cigarettes, second hand smoking is prevented through smoking bans in most restaurants and stores. Tobacco lobbying has kept these products on shelves but they all include warnings.

Well, the reason it’s millions there and billions here is that US gov. contractors milk Uncle Sam for every little last drop of taxpayer money. The completion of any major public-infrastructure or defense contract is held for ransom and lawmakers are fine with that: fun fact, US politicians are millionaires, and a lot…

^^ this right here. It’s heartbreaking that we automatically assume something’s up when a government built to serve the people actually does its fcking job by spending billions on its people.

Only the Republican party is capable of convincing an entire segment of the population that a democratic government’s sole purpose is to better the lives of it’s population by paying for shit.

Well except usnews.com ranks Denmark as #2 in the world for quality of life.

When it comes to reading the room, this is the least of CardiB’s fck ups. Try the Armenian Genocide or the Nagorno-Karabakh war. I wouldn’t expect anyone in the US to ever notice. This isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

I’m sorry officer, I didn’t know you were so serious with that whole planes and radar thing...