Elon Musk Destroys Everything

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I am not sure If this is the right place to post It. Sure It is fun to mock the ugliest car of the World, but It is a Little scary.

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Cool, but what would magnets like that do to the vehicle?

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Because it’s such low-quality steel…

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Slightly out of date, but the fundamentals still stand. And it shows that Paul was years ahead of a lot of people both on Starship as a system and Leon as a person.
(There are short updates on the various test flights on Paul’s YouTube channel.)

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Even if that author is correct that Starship is fundamentally flawed and they’ll never get it to work, I wonder if smart people (not Musk) could find a good constructive use for the Super Heavy Booster, which after a few amusing initial failures seems to be working more or less as intended. Could it be repurposed as the first stage of a more conventional heavy-lift rocket like the Saturn V? The future of the SLS rocket is not looking good (and that was true even before Musk took over the government) so someone is going to need to come up with an alternative if we want to have that kind of launch capability.

Then again, none of this is a high priority to me considering everything else going on so I’m not going to sweat it if the US loses the ability to send up astronauts for a while if that’s the price we pay for deposing Musk from power.

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Whoa - you certainly wouldn’t want to spill chlorine bleach on it, then!

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Especially not from a battery powered squirt gun with a range outside the security camera’s activation zone.

Especially not that.

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Most good tableware (flatware) is made from 304 (aka 18/8) stainless, which has excellent corrosion resistance. If Leon chose 301, it was probably for better strength, but 301 rusts more easily. 301, 304, and 316 are non-magnetic when annealed but become harder and slightly magnetic when cold worked.

Funny things go on, though. Years ago we bought a set of Dansk tableware (knives, forks, and spoons) that was on sale. The spoons and forks are completely non-magnetic, while the knives are strongly magnetic.These are not kitchen or steak knives, just table knives meant for cutting soft foods and spreading butter, out of the same box as the other utensils. I don’t know why this should be the case. :person_shrugging:

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“Desperate times …”?

I don’t have a problem with people who bought the cars before all of this (waves around), but the wankpanzer owners, especially any that have been bought recently? That’s another issue.

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I was noticing the same thing. The spoons and forks I mentioned earlier are 18/10, and only lightly magnetic. That surprised me.

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Like if you were coming from a trip to the grocery store in the parking lot, and tripped, or something.

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Looks like that’s probably not what happened.

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Lipstick on the windscreen?

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From David Pakman; deliveries of the wankpanzer have been suspended.

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Hmm, either insurance fraud, MAGAt false flag, or one of the car batteries went off? I can’t imagine that the dealer doesn’t have surveillance video.

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