This 26.5 min. YouTube video is overwhelming in the amount of activity that Spacex is doing to “Make the machines that make the rockets and launches”.
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2023-10-03 Perseverance Mars Rover Hi Res Image
Mars 2020 Rover AKA Perseverance in High Resolution and detailed. Full Resolution link ( No Facebook Compress ) below https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/jpegPIA23312.jpg Excellent closeup image. It looks like 10 or mor kg of Kapton tape wrapped around the cables. But the worker is putting in red and blue cables that are not covered in Kapton. So it
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2023-09-17 Hydrogen-powered Airplanes
Three or so different aircraft pilot developments explained. Mostly fuel cell. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/hydrogen-powered-planes-almost-ready-for-takeoff/
2023-09-15 Weed Zapping Autonomous Robot Vehicles
No more herbicides – weed killing chemicals! https://www.facebook.com/reel/304491815480199?mibextid=9drbnH
2023-09-10 Elon Musk Biography Reveals Internal Tesla Battle…
Walter Isaacson got to know Steve Jobs, now he publishes Elon Musk’s biography. I just watched Sunday Morning’s interview of Isaacson and found a few more odd things about Musk. Elon Musk Biography Reveals Internal Tesla Battle Regarding $25,000 Car & Robotaxis Watch More here. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/walter-isaacson-on-the-volatile-elon-musk/
2023-09-02 Swiss Solar Panels In Train Tracks
Switzerland is rolling out solar panels between the rails of the train tracks. That’s a creative use of the otherwise unused space. But I wonder how they hook them up to the grid? Short YouTube video.
2023-08-13 Tesla Too Big To Fail Even With Elon’s Antics
An Op-Ed; at the end she said: “”It’s another strength that will uphold Tesla in times of Elon’s antics, which may serve, again and again, to be little more than a puerile distraction.”” Op-Ed: Tesla Is Too Established Now To Fail — Even With Elon’s Antics
2023-07-23 I Was Into Rockets When I Was A Kid
I joined the Reaction Research Society when I was a teenager. It’s a rocket club, still going strong: rrs.org. We went out to the Mojave desert to launch homemade rockets. Some went up to a mile high, some exploded on the launch pad. They used a mixture of powdered zinc and sulfur, which burns very
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2023-06-24 Tesla Cyber Rodeo, 9000 Ton Gigapress, Etc.
This is a short tour of the gigafactory Texas during the Cyber Rodeo public event, 15 thousand visitors. Shows robotic arms on the assembly lines. QR codes in a stripe on the floor to guide the autonomous transporters. A few seconds of Arc Attack’s presentation. Very up close shots of the 9000 long tonne Gigapress.
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2022-04-02 Climate Deniers Use Scare Tactics, Lies On Social Media
This article is about the copy and paste of climate change deniers’ boilerplate lies and scare tactics, mostly from Big Oil and fossil fuel shills. Even use of pseudoscience. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/a-cut-and-paste-attack-on-electric-vehicle-batteries-and-renewables-is-spanning-the-globe-but-is-it-right
