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Comment Re:Will Ford even exist in 5 years? (Score 1) 131

You could be right about that, bailouts aren't going to save them though, they will just stave off the inevitable. The big US manufacturers have not figured out that they need to move towards software defined cars, that means they have to become more than just integrators of other peoples technology, they need to own the entire technology ecosphere. Jamming someone else's screen into your car and getting them to write the software for it, is no longer a viable long term solution.

Comment Will Ford even exist in 5 years? (Score 2, Interesting) 131

At this point, Ford is so behind Tesla, Rivian and the Chinese, I doubt it will even exist in its current form in 5 years. We are at the bottom of two S curves, one is EV's and the other is self driving cars and Ford is nowhere to be seen in either of those markets. For people that think I'm wrong, ask yourself if you were one of those people who said... Nobody wants a phone that doesn't have keys when the iPhone came out and everyone had Blackberrys.

Comment Re: Color me skeptical, (Score 1) 166

People like you keep shifting the goal posts. 3 years ago they were building tiny wrinkly tin cans with a single engine on them out of tents. Yesterday they launched the largest flying object ever built, reused the booster for its second time all from a fully developed launch facility. Oh, and they built an entire factory which is going to pump out hundreds of these things. People like you said the whole thing was going to fail three years ago and that the goal was impossible. Yet here we are. SpaceX completely redefined fbs space industry with falcon and could have just sat back and banked the billions. But instead they are redefining it again before the competition can even get close to falcon. I cannot even fathom what they will be doing in another 3 years. The pace that that are moving defies belief.

Comment Two issues (Score 0) 224

Europe has two fundamental issues causing thisâ¦. 1) it is well below replacement for population growth and its population is aging. 2) it buries businesses in an avalanche of red tape and regulation. Thatâ(TM)s it. Quite simple really.

Comment Re: Karma's a Bitch (Score -1) 284

Was waiting for the sheep to show up and start bleeting. You know it is possible in this world for some people to think someone is a bit of an idiot and simultaneously marvel at their technological achievements. You should try it some time. Itâ(TM)s amazing what happens when you donâ(TM)t rely on the internet to tell you what your opinion is.

Comment Rising Sea (Score -1) 197

So let me get this straight⦠We will have a global water shortage but also the sea is rising. If only there was a way to combine those two problems with a single solution. Maybe we could pipe water in all the pipes we use for oil and gas at the moment. I wonâ(TM)t be losing sleep over this one, pretty sure we might be able to figure it out.

Comment I just came here for the comments (Score 1) 203

and wasn't disappointed. When Elon said he was going to build the biggest rocket humans have ever made and then catch it with a pair of giant chopsticks, basically the entire worlds said it could not be done and it was all going to fail. Then he does possibly the greatest ever 'hold my beer' moment in human history and all those same people are back arguing over some other ridiculous tiny point or why some other facet of one of his businesses makes him a loser. FFS, can we just stand back for a minute and marvel at the technological achievement and engineering marvel that this man and his team of thousands of exceptional people have achieved today, without it being political or personal.

Comment Re: Cybercab seems OK (Score 2) 251

I guess that is why the cyber truck is the number one selling electric truck and number one selling vehicle over $100k in the US? How is that pump and dump. If you think Tesla is way behind Waymo you have no idea. Tesla fsd can go anywhere. Waymo can go anywhere where they have taught it to go. Also Waymo requires the installation of tens of thousands of dollars worth of complicated sensors. Teslas just use cameras and nothing else. There is a big difference. Also, Waymo has like a few hundred vehicles. Tesla has 2 million vehicles on the road today that with the flick of a switch can be added to its robo taxi fleet. Waymo is a dead man walking.

Comment Imagine if they had the same rules for aircraft. (Score 1) 234

Imagine if every time a plane took off, it needed a launch license. Imagine if you needed to know what fuel tanker you were going to use 6 months in advance when you filed for your launch license and if you needed to change the tanker 9 days before that you would have to cancel your flights because the FAa couldnâ(TM)t get itself together in time.

Comment Re: prioritize (Score 3, Insightful) 302

What a sad outlook on life. There has literally never been a better time to be alive at any point in the entire history of humanity. I firmly believe fantastic things await our childrenâ(TM)s children and that the world will only continue to get better. Imagine if your grand parents thought that after living through the 2nd world war.

Comment The key word is geothetmal (Score 1) 90

The article said the warm water is coming from geothermal activity meaning that the term âreversibleâ(TM) is moot. In other words, me crushing my jeep and buying. Tesla is not going to stop this. Unless we can figure out how to stop geothermal activity miles underground on a massive scale. This is gonna happen and there is nothing any of us can do about it.

Comment We can't model a cup of coffee let alone an ocean (Score 1) 128

We cannot accurately model what happens to a cup of coffee when you pour milk into. Let alone an entire ocean with millions more variables. The reality is that if any of the earths systems were as volatile and unstable as a lot of these models seem to predict, life would have been wiped out on earth millions of years ago.

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