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  1. Teslas that aren't delivered in Silicon Valley are loaded onto rail cars for trans-shipping right near where I live. I can tell you first-hand they are shipping what they said they'll produce. I was also at the Falcon Heavy launch and landing, and a Falcon 9 one at Vandenberg. The guy does what he says he will.

  2. Re:Good grief on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Paid resentful rage actors. Their job is to manipulate social networks for the interest of whoever pays them, whether that is short-sellers, Russia, oil companies, gasoline car manufacturers, the list goes on. For decades there have been PR companies that do not only positive but negative publicity, with the advent of the Internet this just expanded to include paid trolls.

  3. Re:What can Musk offer? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, since the specialist rescue team from the UK can't get them out, it may be that Musk can really help. Precise location and then drilling - and making sure that opening a new hole isn't going to make the water rise or using an airlock to prevent that from happening - are now called for.

  4. The Musk haters are not socialists. They are proxies for the short-sellers. The short-sellers are capitalists, a particular ugly amoral kind, who wish not simply to profit from someone else's misfortune but to cause that misfortune by pushing the stock down with fabricated bad publicity.

  5. Re:WTF was a soccer team doing in a cave? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    is there some Thai Cave Soccer Division or it's just customary for children's soccer teams to go spelunking in underwater cave systems

    I got led into a cave during a river trip down the Stanislaus. This trip was in a low-water year, the Stanislaus is behind the New Melones dam, and it's flooded most of the time - just like this cave. It's just something people do for fun. Sometimes, they don't understand the risk and get in over their heads.

  6. Re:Not sure - Big Flex Pipe? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The soccer coach who led them into this cave for some sort of bonding trip is in there with them. And yes, questions are being asked.

  7. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Getting kids unskilled in SCUBA through a complex path underwater for a whole hour is really chancy. It's not just a 5-minute dip.

  8. What can Musk offer? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The problem here is that Thailand does not necessarily have the world's best cave rescue team, and has to accept charitable help. So, what can Elon Musk provide? 1) Lots and lots of money. Need equipment, it's going to be there. Need to fly a team from the US there, keep them housed and fed, and pay them? Done. 2) Influence. If there's only one expert or piece of equipment in the whole world, and you need it, Musk is a good person to make the connection and sign financial guarantees. 3) Expertise. They really have been drilling a tunnel through LA, and probably do have some equipment for precise location. Whether this works in a wet, natural cave is unknown.

  9. Nice Once, But Ultimately Boring on 500 Intel Drones To Replace Fireworks Above Travis Air Force Base For Fourth of July (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I saw the Intel drone show at Bellagio during CES, twice. It's nice to see for the first time, when one has never seen a drone show. But it's ultimately just 500 color LEDs in the sky and not nearly as visually exciting as a fireworks show. To have it in addition to fireworks makes sense. Replacing the fireworks show? There will be some disappointed kids.

  10. Known for a while now on Investigators Claim They've Discovered D.B. Cooper's Identity (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 2

    Mr. Rackstraw has been the main suspect for a while, based not on anagrams in this letter but the presence of particles of aerospace materials in a tie that he left. The suspect had to have worked where such materials were machined.

  11. Well, at least on MoviePass Parent Files To Raise $1.2 Billion To Stay Afloat (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    These investors are smarter than the ones who shorted Tesla. That's all I can say :-)

  12. Re:I like real names on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    There is an upside. It's nice to know that your influence has made a difference in the world. The notoriety opens a lot of doors when I want to further influence people. It is also nice that people have flown me all over the world to speak and that my consulting rates can be really high because of my known expertise.

  13. Re:I like real names on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I couldn't have pushed that manifesto without being an identifiable figure. Or the whole No-Code International thing about the Morse code test for ham radio licenses (which IMO was as important as Open Source, we got a UN treaty changed and the rules of almost every country on the globe). It happens that I do post on the TrailManorOwners.com forum under my real name.

  14. Re:I like real names on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a chicken-and-egg thing, though. I got the notoriety because I made myself a public figure on the net.

  15. I like real names on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use my real name here, and on Reddit. It's a credibility thing. I did get sued for $3 Million for something I wrote on my personal blog. That person ended up swearing a $300,000 bond for my defense, which should be a warning to others.

  16. Re:"True artificial intelligence" on SpaceX Will Send an AI Robot To Join Astronauts On ISS (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not from SpaceX either. They're just giving it a ride.

  17. No Apple was used. Web browser cut and paste only. Web browsers use Unicode.

  18. A satellite not working is one thing. Satellites are complicated. A payload adapter not releasing? They are relatively simple.

  19. Gosh, I hate Slashdot's handling of Unicode. An Atlas at $177M can lift 4,750-8,900 kg (10,470-19,620 lb) to GTO, while a Falcon Heavy at $130M can lift 26,700 kg (58,900 lb) to GTO.

  20. Note also that an Atlas at $177M can lift 4,750â"8,900 kg (10,470â"19,620 lb) to GTO, while a Falcon Heavy at $130M can lift 26,700 kg (58,900 lb) to GTO.

  21. Re:Reliability compared to ULA on SpaceX Wins $130 Million Air Force Launch Contract, Marking a First For Falcon Heavy (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    This deal is for a national security satellite, though. And it's to ride on Falcon Heavy, which launched once, although the base Falcon 9 rockets are building up a nice heritage. So, it sounds like the government is getting more comfortable with SpaceX. Given the difference in price, maybe they feel they can build a second satellite with what they save.

  22. I still use Paypal. Never had a problem. The 130 Million is cab fare to space for the government's satellite. What's unfair about charging for the ride? ULA would have charged a lot more.

  23. Re:Payload adapter on SpaceX Wins $130 Million Air Force Launch Contract, Marking a First For Falcon Heavy (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spotted the ULA executive!

    No, silly-head. The mission failure was due to Northrup Grumman, not SpaceX. The government said so in their own report. By asking if SpaceX is going to be allowed to make it, I meant that SpaceX would do a better job.

  24. 2019/2020 aren't great but they aren't so bad either. There are 41 flights between them counting this one. Perhaps some won't fly by the end of 2020. Maybe some of the crew ones. And they might start launching their own satellites by the end of 2020.

  25. Payload adapter on SpaceX Wins $130 Million Air Force Launch Contract, Marking a First For Falcon Heavy (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are they going to let SpaceX make the payload adapter this time? The Northrop Grumman one on Zuma resulted in mission failure.