The rocket was still aloft above the pad when the cutoff happened and came crashing down to the surface.

Yikes, what phone provider do you have? I was sort of surprised that I even had a good data connection when I got off a cruise ship and went into the jungle in Honduras

Absolutely. And they use the rocket launch window as a cover for any noise made while creating a secret Boring Company tunnel under the Rio Grande!

Definitely somebody got lazy. But I’ll bet it wasn’t SpaceX proper. Nor do I think they’ll get anywhere close to $15 million out of the lawsuit

If you want to broadcast an emergency to the American people, it’s far easier and more effective to do it by phone.

So maybe not an “honest” mistake, but not with extraordinary malicious intent, was my point. The foreman, probably working for some 3rd party local construction contractor, probably thought they could slip in, build the houses, and slip out before anyone noticed the ground on an abandoned lot being trampled. If being…

It would be interesting to know what the land is actually worth. It’s a 0.37 acre lot that until these houses started popping up was literally miles from anything in the Texas desert. Because of SpaceX the value has surely shot up since you can see the Starship launch pad 4 miles away on the horizon.

Thanks to another commenter, I was able to snag this shot from Google Maps and highlight their plot. Basically, they have a thin slice of land in the middle of a what is now a sub-development. It seems like it could’ve been an honest mistake by the construction company that assumed the land owned in the middle was…

Thanks! I was getting close but wasn’t there yet. I had even seen “HOLE HOLDINGS, LLC” come up but didn’t realize Cards Against Humanity was using a shell corporation for it.

Does anybody know the parcel number or have a map or anything? I would be curious to see where the land actually was compared to where SpaceX’s operations are located in the area.

Indeed they were! At least to some sort of cellular connection with GPS. For GM, it’s OnStar, which has been around since 1996. My 2009 Pontiac G8 includes “Remote Ignition Block” in which authorities can ping the car to disable the ignition. My mom’s 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix even had a cell phone integrated into the…

You think Melon Musk is paying me to say that a 2009 Pontiac has the same feature as a new Tesla?

Or really a very large number of cars made since the 1990s, not a Tesla-specific thing. My 2009 Pontiac has the ability to be remotely disabled. Quite likely your daily driver does too.

Most manufacturers don’t distinguish between vertical load and tongue weight limits. Usually tongue weight limit is 10% of towing capacity. So an F150 has about 700-1000lbs tongue weight limit.

I never said we for sure would. But we won’t in anyone’s life time if we don’t start developing the technology. We happen to live in the period of time when development is seriously ramping up.

You can’t just fly a rocket to Mars without first mastering Earth’s orbit, nor can you safely put people on Mars without first mastering satellite communication networks. If getting to Mars was easy, we would’ve done it in the 1960s.

Imagine how much worse it would be if Tesla was instead not a fully electric car company. And imagine how much worse it would be for SpaceX if they were discarding the booster rockets into the sea like every other rocket company.

Neom is a region, maybe more like a state or a metro area rather than a single place. So does it have a boring suburb? sure. You could say the same about NYC, that it’s supposed to be this metropolis but then only show a picture of White Plains or something.

Here we go, found this on TorqueNews. Looks like it does have some sort of sandwich on the front, and then just electric on the back.

I think you would be shocked to find out that’s not the case. Only 5% of ICE car fires are the result of a collision. You’re much much much more likely to have an ICE car catch on fire when parked.