I did all that, except for the sexual harassment.

Some jobs are all other duties as required. I learned that in the Army, having spent a good percentage of my time there not doing my job, but something else.

>new novel antenna

Department of redundancy department calling.

It happens all the time, just few hit the news.

The good thing about FindMy is that governments can't use it to track anyone. The encryption is set up so that only a device authorized by a user has the keys to decrypt the location of his device. Although finding happens using Apple's servers, they don't have the keys to decrypt the location.

You can't really design something for both and be optimal for both.

If anything is begging to be electrified, it's final leg shipping. Daily routes aren't long, and they can charge overnight. And by that I mean vehicles designed from the ground up to be electric so they can take advantage of the technology, not whatever it is the USPS bought.

>Falcon Heavy is not powerful enough for this mission.

I thought he was talking about going around the moon in general. Going around the moon with this payload does require more power.

Don’t need to. Anyone with a sufficiently powerful rocket can recreate this 50+ year-old accomplishment. They want to prove they can do it with 100% reusability.

SpaceX already has the ability to do that with Falcon Heavy. They’re just shooting beyond that for a fully reusable trip around the moon.

They achieved what we already achieved over fifty years ago with that ancient technology. How’s that?

It puts out water. How is that bad?

BMW is trying liquid hydrogen in a test car.

Compressed hydrogen takes up way too much space. Liquid hydrogen is much more dense, but it must be heavily insulated and allowed to boil off, which means you constantly lose your fuel and of course you can never park your car indoors.

Would we consider crows dropping nuts on roads so cars can run over them to be tool use? They're not wielding the tools themselves, but they understand the process of drop the nut, wait for cars, nut is cracked for them, eat the yummy insides.

Does driving large military trucks count? Stop and go is hell on trucks. You spend fuel accelerating tons of load, and then you wear your brakes decelerating. Electric trucks spend charge accelerating and then regain about 70% of it decelerating. This isn’t a huge advantage for long haulers, but those who drive in or near cities in heavy traffic benefit.

Truckers especially worry about total cost, of which fuel is only a part. Oil changes, etc., cost money, as does the regular replacement of wearable parts like brakes. Electrics have little maintenance, you mainly need to replace tires just like in a diesel truck.

Primatene Mist is OTC epinephrine. It was also out of OTC for years because the government banned CFCs so one company got the patent on alternatives, so all the OTC ones had to come off the shelves.

Imagine not wasting a large amount of your fuel during all that horrible London traffic.

It's horses for courses. Pepsi bought a bunch of the Teslas for their short-haul delivery.

Battery weight is a problem, but electric motors are also a lot lighter than diesels plus all the attendant plumbing and hardware. You don't even need that couple hundred pounds of drive shaft. Electrics are also far more efficient than diesels. This doesn't matter as much on long hauls, but regenerative braking provides a lot of charge with a heavy load.

This engineer did the math for the Tesla, and it checks out.

Aside from what was mentioned, a big problem with rockets is gravity loss. They don't just have to accelerate to get to the speed they want, they also have to accelerate an extra 9.8 m/s2 to overcome gravity every second they're in the air. Think about it, just for a rocket to hover like a Falcon 9 requires 9.8 m/s2 of acceleration. That's a lot of wasted fuel.

Let's say you want to jump to a ledge twenty feet up. It requires a lot of power to accelerate enough to overcome gravity to get that high, so much that nobody can do it.

Or you can just walk up the steps much more slowly. In the end your potential energy is still higher, and you are going marginally faster around the Earth due to your higher elevation.

The engineering was always sound, it's only matter of finding materials strong enough.

Looks fun, but I am not going to take the time to relearn Palm script (and I was quite fast back in the day).

He fronted Tesla stock for that, not SpaceX.

SpaceX ran lean, and like many tech startups they loaded their compensation packages with stock to retain employees instead of paying more cash that they couldn't afford. At some point you have to allow those employees to cash out, which they can't just do on their own with a private company.

We are about to see a whole lot of SpaceX millionaires, and we're talking engineers and such, not just executives (of which there are few anyway).