I do think that part of why vehicle complexity is spiraling and repairability is dropping off is because manufacturers don’t care about longevity and especially not anyone who buys used cars and has to deal with fixing them after the warrant expires.

I just don’t also need a slimy middleman involved in that shitty process.

This is another reason why the dealership model needs to keep dying. They do not have your best interests in mind.

So that would be a 70,000 year transfer, but if something meant to go fast like Project Daedalus actually happened in the late 70s, it would be sneaking up on Bernard’s Star right about now.

Nah, I think you’re missing their point.

One of the car memories that lives rent free in my head was having a ton of fun whipping a cheap rental on some winding back roads in Croatia and getting absolutely dusted by the old shitbox in front of us. We finally caught up to the dude at a traffic light and said “hey, we tried, but it’s only 100hp” and he said “that is more than enough, you just don’t know how to drive”.

Hopefully you can disable the virtual gears. It was really weird when some CVT cars did that. EVs doing it is even weirder.

If I didn’t have autopay I’d have creditors bashing down my doors

I found the paper from August 2024 because this article didn’t seem to link any sources

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51856-24/aa51856-24.html

It mentions that SpaceX is trying to mitigate the noise. I wonder if anything has changed in the year+ since then.

Good thing they have a spare Shenzhou on standby. 6 people stuck in a station designed for 3 would get old fast.

I wonder if they’ll have to do an EVA for an inspection.

Agreed. This graph is a few years outdated by now, but:

The Chinese Guowang constellation with satellites at 1100 km could be a problem if anything fails or collides.

The big spike labeled FY-1C is from a Chinese ASAT operation.