....Tesla or whoever should would be nice. They'd have to shave a zero off that price tag though for it to make economic sense for me.
I really like the idea of an electric SUV....high (to navigate my gravel road) and no fiddly bits underneath to catch a rock or something hanging down to cause distress.
Haven't really read it much yet (it's 0400 in the morning and I'm getting ready for work) but as long as the numbers work out let'em go for it. Since "low carbon" is a thing with some they should also factor in the cost of carbon for the steel or aluminum, the oil lubing the bearings, etc. but it could very well be a positive. Certainly that area is DANGED windy!
The GPS beacon is a standard part of the package. It's there because this is a *test*, not an operational bird. You want to collect all the information you can possibly get when you do a launch, and I can tell you from experience the VAST array of testing elements that involved. You measure the the snot out of these things so you can try to tell what went wrong, if something goes wrong.
The GPS beacon is used for data collection, not targeting.
My "basic" news source isn't Fox News, it's Fox Business News. Not all the cable/satellite folks carry it, but I find it to be more reliably conservative and a better source of the factual information rather than the slanted information. For the most part (not always) they do a pretty good job, and they're pretty good about making sure it's obvious when their are opinion pieces on one side or the other.
More broadly I have to listen to what I've got as I'm heading into work. In the canyon where I live I very rarely can get AM radio, so my options are an '80s rock station, George Noory (Coast to Coast), or NPR. I usually switch between NPR and CtC if it's an interesting show, and I certainly the find the terrible NPR bias an interesting source of thought.
Lead in the drinking water (I assume you're loosely referring to Flint, Michigan) all happened under Obama's peeps and EPA stooges. I would have fired a lot of them too if they were involved.
....the FBI abandoning "its four-decade-long practice of tracing bullets to a specific manufacturer's batch through chemical analyses after its method were scientifically debunked."
Sounds me to like they should have stopped trying to make this connection decades ago.
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That's not entirely accurate.....this is perhaps a better analysis of the various metals used in the batteries:
https://electrek.co/2016/11/01...
Ferret
> Adapt. It's 2017, not 1967. When their price tags got down to rational levels, sure.
Until then ICE SUVs are my only real option.
Ferret
That seems a bit of an overreaction.
Ferret
Hopefully it's going to work for them. I'm a bit surprised they have (or are projected to have) that much market demand but good on them!
I'd love to have an electric SUV, once they shave a zero off the pricetag. That'll be a bit.
Ferret
....Tesla or whoever should would be nice. They'd have to shave a zero off that price tag though for it to make economic sense for me.
I really like the idea of an electric SUV....high (to navigate my gravel road) and no fiddly bits underneath to catch a rock or something hanging down to cause distress.
They'll get there, I guess, eventually.
Ferret
Well said sir.
Ferret
....let'em. Most of them don't have any money (see California).
Ferret
So you believe they'll NEVER have to replace a blade or generator?
I'd take money on that. Planned or not planned, things happens, blades have fractures that eventually give way, generators will seize up, etc.
Ferret
Haven't really read it much yet (it's 0400 in the morning and I'm getting ready for work) but as long as the numbers work out let'em go for it. Since "low carbon" is a thing with some they should also factor in the cost of carbon for the steel or aluminum, the oil lubing the bearings, etc. but it could very well be a positive. Certainly that area is DANGED windy!
Ferret
Sorry, non credible source.
Ferret
Um, I don't think the oceans would ever burn ("engulfed in flames") under any circumstances....
Ferret
This is right and appropriate given the explicit power given to the President. Reviewing by SCOTUS is the obvious next step.
Ferret
The GPS beacon is a standard part of the package. It's there because this is a *test*, not an operational bird. You want to collect all the information you can possibly get when you do a launch, and I can tell you from experience the VAST array of testing elements that involved. You measure the the snot out of these things so you can try to tell what went wrong, if something goes wrong.
The GPS beacon is used for data collection, not targeting.
Ferret
Nah, you **can** build a defense system with a 50/50 hit ratio...but better is better of course.
We'll get there. They need to step up the testing IMO.
Ferret
To my fellow MDA peeps--well done.
Ferret
My "basic" news source isn't Fox News, it's Fox Business News. Not all the cable/satellite folks carry it, but I find it to be more reliably conservative and a better source of the factual information rather than the slanted information. For the most part (not always) they do a pretty good job, and they're pretty good about making sure it's obvious when their are opinion pieces on one side or the other.
More broadly I have to listen to what I've got as I'm heading into work. In the canyon where I live I very rarely can get AM radio, so my options are an '80s rock station, George Noory (Coast to Coast), or NPR. I usually switch between NPR and CtC if it's an interesting show, and I certainly the find the terrible NPR bias an interesting source of thought.
Ferret
...at least TRY to come up with an original idea! TRY. You can do it!!!
Ferret
Sorry, I posted the wrong link and for some reason Slashdot won't let me delete it. Here's the REAL status of the Seed Vault as of yesterday evening:
https://www.croptrust.org/our-...
Ferret
Turns out this was mostly over-sensationalizing from a badly translated story:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...
Ferret
Their survey/prediction is a bit optimistic, but something like this will probably happen here eventually.
Ferret
About time.
Harry Reid demanded he resign back in December, for example:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the......
So did the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks later in January, 2017:
http://thehill.com/policy/nati......
It's about time Trump cleaned out that bit of the swamp.
Ferret
Lead in the drinking water (I assume you're loosely referring to Flint, Michigan) all happened under Obama's peeps and EPA stooges. I would have fired a lot of them too if they were involved.
Trump's folks sent $$$ up to Flint to fix things.
Ferret
No special taxes. No subsidies. No kick-backs.
The market will sort it out unless somebody artificially messes up the marketplace.
Ferret
Right there with ya buddy.
Ferret
Did you read this part AT ALL:
....the FBI abandoning "its four-decade-long practice of tracing bullets to a specific manufacturer's batch through chemical analyses after its method were scientifically debunked."
Sounds me to like they should have stopped trying to make this connection decades ago.
Ferret