Are you saying there’s no guarantee they’ll disintegrate on reentry, or that there’s no guarantee they’ll come back down at all?

We are the dumbest nation on earth.

I’ve never gotten into SpaceX’s financials, but it does seem like they would need a lot more customers before they could come close to turning a profit on Starlink. The 4m customers they have so far gets them around $500m a year, and they must be spending many times that each year. Though the hardware isn’t free, so…

I think that Starlink, while having over six thousand satellites in orbit, is really not a big problem in terms of space debris. Yeah, that’s a lot of damned satellites, but they’re also short-lived. Part of the reason Starlink can even come close to competing with terrestrial broadband is that the satellites are low…

I kind of expected to see these everywhere in Asheville, but at $70k...who is going to buy these? Especially with a lot of captions on these photos saying, ‘yeah, I expected better.’

I do want to say NP on this. But it smells funny, even through the screen.

My grandmother had a pace car Corvette like the one in the leading image. I really wanted it for a while, but now I know as great as it looks it would be awful to drive.

I was going to argue with the claim in the first paragraph that 27k units is a ‘sales success.’ But, at an average transaction price of $116k, that’s $3.1B.

The original Ford Taurus. It was so different and so ‘futuristic.’ It represented the future I wanted, as a kid. Rounded, yet sharp and ‘aerodynamic.’

I fine male in a similar place. All of those stickers and interior crap can be removed easily.

I have a love/hate relationship with motorcycles and their riders. I mean, except for Harleys. I kind of universally hate them. Even though most of their riders are usually taking it easy and not being dicks, the bikes are still intentionally obnoxious, which tends to negate the good behavior.

Goddammit. That song is near perfection and you had to go and do that to it.

Musk is a despicable human being, but I roll my eyes every time I see this claim that this is any kind of bait and switch. Your get points for not claiming that new customers are suckered into a contract, though. I’ve seen that one.

I am cool with everything in this car except for those taillights. That screen is kind of odd in there. It reminds me a bit of the fiberglass monstrosities in the early 200os. But that can be changed.

I live in Asheville. Our airspace has been filthy with helicopters of all types for a week and a half. We have search and rescue, medivac, blackhawks, and chinooks carrying hummvees. They are a constant presence.

Oh now isn’t that charming?

Oh, cool. A police department known for harassing people for just walking on a sidewalk spending way too much money on something showy and useless, and pretending it’s a great idea.

See, I’m a dad. So that’s actually a benefit I didn’t think of.

I think it’s cool, but I read ‘marine grade vinyl,’ and hear, ‘the same shit used in over-priced pontoon boats.’

Oh good. My son is getting close to driving age. This is perfect.