Strangely, my expected answer was wrong.

It is every place I’ve ever worked. Company X is expanding and doing great and has extra money. Company Y is sucking and burning through cash.

Every time I see the term JD Power, I think of Mahk and his JD Powerhammer thing. I wondered if I needed to fill out a missing persons report.

The solution for disposability is on the lifting side. If the price per kg to put stuff into LEO is super cheap, then it starts to make sense to put more robust (heavier) things up there that will last longer.

<checks wallet>

At least my experience with cars under $3500 is that if they aren’t actively trying to murder you, they are a NP.

Now add radiation. A great material for stuff like airliners is Carbon Fiber. It’s very light for how strong it is, so you can design to be low on the fatigue curve, but still super light. Which is why more and more plane parts use it.

I remember there being a debate about sending something up to save it before it got too far gone. I didn’t know the details, but I remember when ISS was built, people were saying “we already had this with Skylab and Mir, we could have added on to them instead of this expensive program.”

It was the cheapest car I found that wasn’t actively trying to murder me.

Oh Lord, I do NOT need Mood Ring style seats. As hot as it is now, there would be ball prints in bright red on my seats every time I got out.

I’d hold out for $25k.  That’s the minimum someone will have to pay me to drive one.

When I was a kid, they destroyed Skylab. Sort of screwed up and ended up bombing Austrilia with it. But anyway, I didn’t understand why they didn’t just keep it up there.

I was talking to an Uber driver.  His first car was a Prius.  He sold it and got a Lexus hybrid.  Said that after 14 hours in a Prius, his back hurt too much.   Given this dude’s commute distance and location, he might be similar in time.

There aren’t right answers that involve a vehicle with wheels that you own. But the best option is

I’m pleasantly surprised by the Fords. Ford has such a reputation of making crappy cars for the first year or two of production before they figure things out. It sounds like the Mach-E and Lightning are boring, perhaps over priced and the like, but boring in a good way by working as advertised. I would assume that…

if you grew up where I did, you would know it can’t be higher than 100% like when I was a kid.

It’s not a single car taking a single person on a trip.

I’ve been in Phoenix once and it was hot, even in January, however, I don’t remember it being humid.

The H-D thing was all from WW2. During WW2, all the armies used motorcycles. The US used Harleys and Indians, but the British had Triumphs, the Germans BMWs and the like. During the war in Europe, American GIs rode motorcycles. Some issued to them, some “borrowed” from their UK hosts and some “acquired” in Europe as…