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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Hardball. All right, I'll play.
you can look mine up too while your at it...
No humility there, lol.
Curious, how many singular or dual author citations you got? What would that h-index be, I wonder?
This ain't about you, Ed.
It's about a Tesla Roadster and Starman in space, a successful launch, and all the excitement and inspiration and last but not least science and engineering accomplishment that comes with that.
The visual of Starman in a Tesla Roadster (itself a major innovation of the times) with our Earth Island Blue Marble as backdrop is going to be in the minds of generations for a long, long, long time to come. THAT is a major emphasis here.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Curious, how many singular or dual author citations you got? What would that h-index be, I wonder?
This ain't about you, Ed.
precisely, it's about doing good science and engineering, being a part of a team where everyone contributes...
...not about sending my little red roadster into orbit. Maybe King Missile wrote a related lyric...
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Feb 10, 2018 - 03:54pm PT
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What Elon has done with the Tesla in Space is make space fun and exciting to the average person like it was in the go-go years of Mercury and Apollo.
For most of the past couple of decades we have seen mostly feeds of some boring quasi military guy eat Jello on the Space Station. Hardly a whoopee moment after a couple of hundred times.
In the.end, Elon has shown the watchful aliens that humans can still do silly things.
It's one of our special powers.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Feb 10, 2018 - 04:36pm PT
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What was Elon thinking? A DACA recipient could have been driving that car to college or work.
May be a political statement about having a dummy at the wheel.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 10, 2018 - 04:51pm PT
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Just think for a minute ,that car may outlive our planet and life here ,because of ............
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Feb 10, 2018 - 04:54pm PT
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I'm not so sure about the DACAs...they busted 2 of them smuggling illegals into California this week.
Probably just raising money for college tho.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Feb 10, 2018 - 04:58pm PT
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The Tesla is a little bit for SpaceX fun and excitement.
But the main reason was cross promotion. You couldn't buy that exposure and coolness factor for millions of dollars for Tesla. It was an incredible bargain for that company. 1 used car for all that free marketing. Genius.
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nah000
climber
now/here
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Feb 10, 2018 - 06:57pm PT
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sorry... can’t help myself:
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 14, 2018 - 04:58pm PT
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 14, 2018 - 05:46pm PT
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Everything is perfectly provided on this planet for the living entities to be happy.
Instead, these st00pid gross materialists and their st00pid so-called modern science have mismanaged it all into a self-destructive world.
Now they want to travel by mechanical means to other planets and follow their same st00pid mismanaged methods.
All idiots!
These st00pid destructive clueless modern cavemen, st00pid so-called modern scientists do not know that thousands of years ago people could travel to other planets without mechanical means.
These modern clueless fools will destroy everything in their paths due to their ultimate poor fund of knowledge of life itself ......
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Feb 22, 2018 - 06:08am PT
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Musk is fixing to launch another one of his st00pid rockets from Vandenberg in about ten minutes. 6:17 AM. Look west and up and you should see it.
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 26, 2018 - 02:29pm PT
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The Model 3 is a bona fide POS. The LA Times savaged it last week. Lots of pissed of
Musk Aid drinkers. And Fuggetabout it being reasonably priced. Apparently you can’t get
one for less than $49K, and many run over 60K! Tesla refuses JD Powers from accessing
their data. People are flocking to the Chevy Bolt.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Really Reilly?
https://electrek.co/2018/03/01/gm-cant-take-advantage-tesla-model-3-delays-chevy-bolt-ev/
German automaker tore a M3 apart and had this to say...
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/elektroauto-im-fahrbericht-das-model-ist-teslas-neues-glanzstueck-1.3866854
“Each sub-assembly system was put to the test, but the testers were especially impressed by the power electronics. Compact, expandable, fully integrated, modular, easily accessible, well-protected, reasonably priced and astonishingly clever in many details – that was the verdict of the experts, to which colleagues from other manufacturers also agreed.”
“This minimalism runs through the entire vehicle. There is initially only one engine, only one forward and reverse gear, only one driven pair of wheels, only one cooling circuit for the entire system.”
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So you got proof that the Model 3 caused those Bolt sales to drop? How could it be if Tesla
isn’t producing any? The Model 3 is still an over-priced POS and Musk is a carny hawker.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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That graph has nothing at all to do with model 3 in any way. It is 100% sales of Bolt. To which you say people are flocking to.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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sixth sentence in the first paragraph
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mynameismud
climber
backseat
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know someone that had i3 hated it, traded it in for a bolt. A co-worker just got a Bolt. He bought based on calculations of saving gas since he has a long commute. Turns out his saving were conservative since now on the weekend everyone in the family wants to drive the bolt.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Just saw the model3 here in Vancouver. Four more months and they should be delivering them to us in BC.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan, Former USSR
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Elon Musk is f*#king idiot with a company that has bad reputations among workrs
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