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Musk reminds me of the salesmen I work with who's standard response to customers is "Yes, of course our engineers can do that, it will work first time and every time & you don't need any backup redundancy and it will cost you almost nothing"
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London Transport is dreadful. But better than this joke
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@infinitysalinity7981 No scientists have said phosphene proves there is life. They have said that it's there, they've ruled out some of the other mechanisms which could produce it and one known source for it on earth is life so it's worth investigating. Neil Degrasse Tyson has said it's an exciting hint that there may be life and that there's enough data to make it worth further investigation
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@infinitysalinity7981 They haven't ruled out life as a mechanism for producing the gas because there is no way to do so. They've ruled out other methods because they know the chemistry of the atmosphere could not produce enough. I mean they haven't ruled out a giant crystal meth lab (which also produces phosphene) because, how would you rule it out? We know it's incredibly unlikely though. At 3:10 in the video, that is not a scientist saying that it is definitely life and could not be anything else. After the mistake announcing life found on Mars, no scientist would be stupid enough to say there's life on another planet without absolute, indisputable evidence because they're setting themselves up for extreme ridicule and the end of their career. I've looked and cannot find any first hand claim from Kaku that there's irrefutable proof that aliens are contacting us. He certainly said he believes they are trying but not that they definitely are.
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It's basically using the same principles as the 1954 Rolls Royce flying bedstead which was used to develop the Harrier jet. Very far from the first use of this technology.
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If they burn 10x the fossil fuels of airliners, there is no way they'll get approval for use in most of the world.
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@asharak84 No, it uses ten times as much fuel and cannot (as claimed) carry 10x as many passengers. Early flights will only carry 100 people. 1000 passengers is wildly optimistic, it just won't happen even if only because there isn't that level of demand
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@asharak84 The demand isn't there for 1000 people per flight. There aren't currently 5 aircraft on the same route at the same time all full. I don't think they'd get the CAA approvals for these rockets without the systems redundancies. Systems redundancy is a big thing in approvals for new aircraft, there cannot be a single point failure which is fatal. It's all a nice idea but ultimately doomed. Musk doesn't like to work within regulations for anything and that's not going to work well with aviation.
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@user-RCST the demand wouldn't be there for electric cars if it wasn't for the large government grants and tax breaks for them in most countries. In the UK they are still only a tiny proportion of total car sales.
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@user-RCST there's a very large one in the UK and all of Europe. A £5000 grant plus zero company car tax or road tax yet electric cars make only 6% of new car sales and that's all electric cars, not just Tesla, they're one of the less popular EV cars here because of high cost and low quality and poor reliability.
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@user-RCST just about every major manufacturer is making EV cars in big numbers now and heavily invested in them. Demand is increasing as they get cheaper and better and there's more choices from Japanese and European manufacturers. I won't buy one for a long time because I enjoy driving and prefer the character of a really good petrol engine to a soulless but fast electric motor.
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@user-RCST Ill take my screaming supercharger and wailing V8 over any battery powered car. Jaguar, Volvo and BMW are all winning awards for their electric cars over Tesla and they are much more common over here. Nissan have by far the most common electric car in Europe.
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@user-RCST Yes I've heard electric cars on full acceleration. It's subjective but to me a V8, V12, V6 or inline 5 sounds much better. Tesla don't sell well here because of their reputation for poor customer service, lack of parts availability and poor interior quality. Basically the same reasons US cars have never done well in Europe. Tesla have come bottom in reliability surveys, below even Jaguar and Alfa Romeo. The Nissan Leaf may be dull but at least it'll keep working. I'll probably buy an electric car in a couple years as my second car but it'll probably be either Jaguar or BMW.
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@user-RCST Only if they vastly improve quality and service. There's no waiting lists for cars so it's not supply of vehicles stopping people buying them. You can currently have any model of Tesla within a week.
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A strategy which has been well tested by cartels
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The hyper loop could be vastly improved in they replaced the cars with a much longer vehicle which holds many more people. It could use a rail to provide it's electricity so that it never needs charging. It could also run at much faster. People could get on and off at a series of stations.
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