The 3-body problem (a sci-fi) book articulates how critical a stable environment is for long term survival and growth. The oil + auto lobby managed to change the rules back and forth, so there won't be any investment or growth in the EV sector. US will lose the entire auto segment because it is so far behind and the gap will accelerate. Its a shame an entire sector with millions of jobs and lots of additional opportunities (the battery sector) is gone. EV batteries would have bootstrapped and made utility scale batteries feasible with economies of scale.
The arguments against EVs in the U.S. are both weird and funny. Meanwhile, many other countries have figured out that promoting the switch from ICE to EVs, is the better option for the future of humanity. Not to mention, China will use America's temporary insanity against it, to become the dominate force in EVs for the next decade or more.
College is for partying. It is the right age to party, raging hormones and all that. Frats, sororities. It is the most fun/$. Escape out of parents control. Do what you want with whoever you want. Anybody looking for education is looking at the wrong place, most everything is available to self-learn.
>The first reason for doing this that seems to come up is abundant access to power in space. This really isn't the case. You basically have two options: solar and nuclear.
I guess that rules our any funding from US govt or Saudi money. Unless someone figures out a way to use fossil fuels to run the data centers! It has to be private equity or a new data center coin offering. Offered to the public and take away the pain and suffering of carrying their current paper currency. We need a new messiah (SBF + Musk + WeWork guy) to craft this narrative.
> The most important thing being cheap is that access to the Space become possible for way more people with creativity. Not just a few people with academic titles but people with practical engineering and scientific mastery (that certainly run circles around them on real projects).
Agreed! Real estate is incredibly cheap in space until Saudi money and private equity figure out a way to make it a scarce resource. Also, we can build massive single suburban homes in space! No need to build vertical and public transit. Just give everyone a rocketship to travel to the nearest space McDs drive through!
When driving in harsh, raking light, the car perceives shadows of trees and telephone polls as barriers and either brakes hard or, worse, pulls to one side. I was driving a few days ago on a country road under these conditions and the car twice tried to pull me into oncoming traffic. Since Musk's genius decision to do away with radar / lidar, the car has no way of rectifying this problem with its solely visual orientation:https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-will-never-fix-t...
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