How often do you haul bikes, and how many bikes would you haul when you do? Also, what kind of bikes? If it’s just an occasional rescue/support then a trailer is fine, or I would think 1 sportbike can be made to fit with some kind of weird tailgate replacement

Once people can get a personal benefit and passing the cost on to someone else because it's supposed to be done anyway, there is a tendency for the thing them to think of new reasons why that thing is supposed to happen anyway. It is basically how corruption always starts.

Lots, and very short.

There is a story that during its bankruptcy, someone asked why GM couldn’t just build a corolla. The answer was because they weren’t Toyota. Each company has a rather specific set of capabilities and advantages, and if they can’t easily be transferred over to making a conventional mass market car, they are going to be…

One of the advantages of a floating landing pad is that you can position it where you need it. It’s been used multiple times, but at different locations. Where the far away landing spot need to be depends on many variables, like desired orbit, payload, etc.

In order to land, they have to carry additional fuel, which means less weight they can lift to orbit. For the highest payloads or farthest orbits, they have to forgo the landing and only use the boosters once. Obviously, they figure that’s a trade off worth making.

The point of an update is to generate demand. It lets some people advertise that they have the latest and greatest, and for other people to spend money so they can be more like those people.

The problem is that it looks like a baby hippo.

I like it, but the interior makes me think I got lost in a beehive. The bees are coming!

Who said anything about causation? I said approximate the performance of, which you absolutely can.

Make a list of 20 cars from the same time period with a single exhaust, another for dual, and another for 4. Now average the performance of each group (you hp, or 0-60, or lap times at wherever). It wont be perfect, but you will absolutely see a trend.

Because they have to sell at a premium price to pay for their development and expansion. So they need to position themselves and a premium, luxury product.

Can you imagine if one could approximate the performance of an athlete by counting their anuses?

Horizontal sliding doors are boring. Vertical sliding doors have been done. Diagonal sliding doors are impractical. Call me when you make doors that slide into the 4th dimension.

Yes. But you have to use less efficient engines.

If by good chunk, you mean 4%, then yes. Otherwise, no.

They gained not having to carry a first stage engine. They still have to carry most of the first stage fuel. They can’t use as efficient of a fuel, so they have to carry more of it. And their rocket requires more bracing.

Lawful governments tend to be evil an oppressive to some portion of the population. Completely agreed on the part about the difference and history book.

Let me try one more time, hopefully with less snark.

At 1:59 it was going way faster than 600mph