I read as the army requested a gun with 1k mile range and the writer figured it would have to be huge and stationary. I don’t think a stationary gun is a good idea, as it makes it a rather easy target.

it’s Harsh, not hard mistress. If you want a really good description of tungsten rods from space, check out peter f. hamilton. You also have demonic possessions, and space zombies. It’s a good time.

Because to generate enough velocity, you need a stupidly big gun. It’s expensive, difficult to manufacture, and may have to be stationary, which will make it useless.

That is correct 

Tungsten. It has much hotter melting point, so re entry is a breeze, and it's much heavier so carries way more energy. 

It doesn’t need to be a rail gun. With orbital velocities, you don’t need to accelerate the projectile, just release and guide.

Im guessing they mean projectiles that can glide to target. It would need to have wings that can pop up, and the whole thing would have to survive a launch, but if they can get that, admittedly difficult, problem solved, you would need a glide ration of 10-20 for an altitude of 50-100 miles to achieve required range

You think BMW will have a good resale value? Is there a brand that depreciates more, or faster than BMW?

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What?

I think they are counting on the chargers being placed somewhere where their technicians can regularly maintain them. We wont see those at the local gas station where god knows what solvents will slowly eat away the insulation.

As far as I can tell they just wanted the smallest looking charging station possible, so they went and hid all the stuff they could somewhere else. All so that their customers wouldn’t have to listen to fans hum, or be offended by the sight of big rectangular transformers.

It’s not an investment in the financial sense. It’s that as a feather, it becomes more status worthy when it sits unused. Status symbols work best when they are useless.

Not until the sun burns out and the universe dies, clearly, but it would take some enormous disruption to change this.

Battery costs are all about economies of scale and Tesla has more battery manufacturing capacity than everyone else combined.

Other manufacturers are going to have a hard time making cars much cheaper while they have to pay more for batteries.

They arrested the white trucks driver. If the driver and the owner was one in the same, there would be no story.

Are they bulleyproof or otherwise secure, or just really fancy? 

My thoughts exactly. Security hardware can get really expensive really quickly. 

Look, if you have no temperature scale of any kind, and you build one of the very first thermometers, then recording what it says for a year and marking the lowest point at 0 and the highest at 100 makes a fair bit of sense.