Well, that depends on how the mission plays out. You may be able to mate it with a Falcon 9 to get it off the ground and pair up with another system already launched into orbit aboard a Falcon Heavy.
Remember that Apollo used one big rocket because that was the quickest way to get to the Moon. It wasn't necessarily the best idea...
As I understand it, Orion is sort of the equivalent of the Apollo CM. It was not cancelled.
However, what I believe the administration wants to cancel is part of the SLS (Shuttle Launch System) which would lift the Orion capsule into orbit--sort of the equivalent of the Saturn 1B that was used to launch Apollo capsules into earth orbit for Skylab and Apollo/Soyuz missions.
I believe the heavy-lift version of SLS--sort of analogous to the Saturn 5--is still funded for the asteroid missions.
It reminds me of my old boss's quote.
"Smoking will take years off of my life. But it's the years at the end it will take off. The ones where I'd be lying in a bed wearing an adult diaper. Those aren't the years I'm that interested in living."
It costs less than pretty much anything else you can think of, with the exception of tap water in locations where tap water is common.
I'm not sure I'd call gas "cheap", but I remember when it went down in price back in the '80s.
"Dump the milk, Louise. The cat's getting unleaded from now on!"
"and significant tax revenue for local communities" is true whether or not the factory owns the dealer, as the local branch of a factory-owned dealer likewise pays property, income, and sales tax.
Car dealers take up more property than, say, Tesla showrooms. Figure that a Tesla showroom usually has a few cars on display in the nice, climate-controlled, showroom and a few cars parked in the lot for test drives. You aren't walking into a Tesla showroom and driving out in a brand new Tesla. Since your property tax relates to how much property you have, these showrooms pay less property tax.
I remember there was some local pain when GM closed down Pontiac and Saturn dealerships and, suddenly, some nice property taxes stopped coming in from those dealerships.
The only advantage I can see to it is that it's small enough to work as a one-person bicycle. Various transit systems won't let you bring tandem bikes on trains, the racks on busses are too small for them, and tandem racks can be a nuisance.
That said, I agree. I wouldn't want to ride one for any kind of distance...
what's NHTSA with out the TSA?
New Hampshire.
Live free or die, bitches!
...and most libertarians don't have them because the gub'mint can use them to track you and feed the info to the UN's black helicopters.
The trick to fast acceleration is to push the pedal down about halfway with a full battery. Stomping it to the floor will over-rev the gas engine and you won't get peak torque.
This reminds me of a 1990 Chrysler Lebaron I drove for a bit. If you mashed the accelerator to the floor, the car would think, "He wants to go fast--let's downshift. Oops! We're over-revving, let's shift back up. But he wants to go fast--let's downshift. Oops! We're over-revving. Shift back up."
It would do this three or four times before finally deciding to downshift.
But if you put it about 3/4 of the way down, you got pretty good acceleration.
It's another reason why I dislike automatics.
Why?
Consider "the rock we are on." What makes this rock so interesting? In theory, there are lots of rocks out there like ours. If they're able to get to us, they've certainly been to other rocks and ours isn't all that special.
Consider "Us." I won't go off on humanities foibles, so the only interest in us would be biologically or sociologically. Biologically, they can just show up and take samples. Sociologically, we might be interesting, but introducing themselves would change us--which would sort of negate the observation.
But it seems that most businesspeople these days are sociopathic morons with absolutely no respect for their paying customers [...]
Uh...isn't TuneIn free?
Remember that if the service is free, you are the product.
Didn't you hear? There's a revolution going on.
Personally, I've always thought it would be amusing to hack one of those signs and I've never heard of the game "Watch Dogs."
"Help! I'm trapped in a highway sign factory!" is the most obvious message, but I'm sure I could come up with a bunch of random messages to put in...
[...] And email?! That's just soooo 2012!
More like 2004. if you're in Korea.
One reason for the million dollars worth of insurance is that you may be carrying more than one person. Pick up three or four people, have a heinous accident, and you could end up with a million dollars worth of medical expenses.
Part of the reason for the special license is that cab drivers also have their own rules for where they can pick people up or drop them off and we want to be certain that drivers know those rules. For example, where I live, drivers can't just stop on the street and block traffic to pick up a fare. They have to, at least, pull off the road.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
