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Putting in my TWENTY TWO CENTS.... Somebody goin to the rodeo should take some pocket change and figure out exactly how thick the exoskeleton steel is. Stick a Penny and a Dime next to each other and then put that next to an edge of the stainless steel. I'm thinking that's the correct...

I'll bet that Tesla comes up with the right alloy for stainless rims. "If there was something better, we would use it" Is there something better?

I'm worried that with magnets on the inside and outside of the glass being the only thing holding the wiper on... someone could simply walk by, pop it off, and walk away with your wiper. I don't like it in high winds either. Magnets strong enough to prevent these problems lead to other...

Not a single one of you have mentioned Ford's choke point to volume production. Batteries. That is also Tesla's choke point at this time, but for how long? Can Ford buy enough batteries of high enough quality to reach 80,000 vehicles per year? Buying batteries throws away a lot of the profit...

That xJubeir website is run by a man with a passion. When it gets close to an eclipse in a big country, it becomes one of the most visited sites on the internet. He serves many large images and when it gets really hot, he has to pay thousands of euros per month for his web hosting service. If...

A few links. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8 More maps here. Also be sure to check out the Annular Eclipse of October 14, 2023, which passes 100 or so miles south of Austin. https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/october-14-2023 It...

The flip side of this record. Adaption, not Adoption. We are still inching up on "Infrastructure Constraints".

The invention of effective pistols created a period with a lot more assassinations. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination started World War I, is the most famous victim, but hardly the only one. We’re in the start of a new Golden Age of Assassination. Drones will get smaller, more...

Here's the source. https://ourworldindata.org/technology-adoption It's nice, you can click on each technology and see it's graph by itself. Electric Vehicle adoption will be fast, but it won't be a tsunami, because people need to install chargers, and the car makers are somewhat inflexible.

This chart has been used so much over the years that I can't find it's origin. It tells this story. Once a new technology reaches a certain critical mass of adoption, about fifteen percent, everybody wants it. The pace of adoption has increased over time. Electric vehicles outperform ICE in...

I can't read a post by John K without thinking about SPUMCO. Anyway, here's some robots. http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-anime-i-was-aware-of.html

And they have been lying to you for a very, very long time. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

Crissa's skepticism is well warranted. Are these additions even big enough and contiguous enough for an assembly line? If it is, could it be the roadster? I think this line from the article is prescient. "GA4.5 Battery Marriage Tool Improvement." That's what they are trying to do. Bring the...

The gigapress foundation we were talking about ended up getting another 6000 ton press installed on it. That is the third press of that type. Last week a drone shot showed TWO more gigapress foundations being built. Let's hope at least one of those are the 8000 ton variety. After these two, it...

Even though I mostly agree with him.... If Alex Lauer prints another story mentioning CYBRTRK before it is released, he should be forthwith shunned from polite society. Can he resist another clickbait story?

I've seen video taken inside a nascar race car, and there's a curved mirror all the way across the roof.

Why not fold the glass in such a way that it provides a useful mirror with a mirror coating, no electronic display needed.

Since the late 1950's, float glass has been the only way to produce glass if you are aiming for lowest cost in mass production. Float glass is nearly perfectly flat, and it's production speed means the cost is less than half of other methods to produce a windshield, or any other sheet glass...

Yes, Bezos did fly away, barely making it into someone's definition of "space". This makes Bezos the grande wiener of the the billionaire pigs in space race. Sir Richard of Virgin will have to settle for a distant second. For the record, If Elon really wanted to, he could have long ago gone far...

What about Llamas in the fog? Can it see Llamas in the Fog?