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  • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
    It's too bad they are unreliable and expensive.
    I don't know about unreliable anymore - they had some initial quality issues with the early models that their warranty has supposedly addressed.

    Definitely not a working man's car though, and won't be until they've got a model that costs less than $30,000.

    Questions I have that remain to be answered:

    1. As more people own electric cars, what will the impact to the overall grid be, and with the country still largely reliant on coal plants, what is the actual environmental offset? Also, how much bigger does my electric bill get if I'm plugging one of these things in every night?

    2. Will we reach a point where enough people switch to electric cars, that the demand for gas drops to the point where it's still more economical to buy a gasoline-powered vehicle?

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    • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

      Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
      I don't know about unreliable anymore - they had some initial quality issues with the early models that their warranty has supposedly addressed.

      Definitely not a working man's car though, and won't be until they've got a model that costs less than $30,000.

      Questions I have that remain to be answered:

      1. As more people own electric cars, what will the impact to the overall grid be, and with the country still largely reliant on coal plants, what is the actual environmental offset? Also, how much bigger does my electric bill get if I'm plugging one of these things in every night?

      2. Will we reach a point where enough people switch to electric cars, that the demand for gas drops to the point where it's still more economical to buy a gasoline-powered vehicle?
      Convert the amount of energy in the total amount of gas used every day in the US, convert to kwh, its staggering.
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      • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

        Another SETI candidate.
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        • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

          For those of us who watched parents slip into darkness, this is interesting
          http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-a7218481.html
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          • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

            SpaceX rocket blows up on pad.

            NASA says SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred Thursday morning. The test, considered routine, was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

            Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes.
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            • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

              Something went BOOM! on the SpaceX pad down at the Cape this morning.
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              • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                I guess it's clear why they do a static test firing before attaching the payload.

                edit: nevermind, it's still unclear whether the payload was attached.
                Last edited by GrinCDXX; 09-01-2016, 09:31 AM.

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                • Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
                  I guess it's clear why they do a static test firing before attaching the payload.

                  edit: nevermind, it's still unclear whether the payload was attached.
                  It was. It's gone.
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                  • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    It was. It's gone.
                    That's unfortunate. The customer, Spacecom, had just been bought by a Chinese company. But, the terms of the sale specified that it was pending the successful entry into service of Amos-6...the payload that just got blowed up.

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                    • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                      Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
                      Amos-6...the payload that just got blowed up.
                      Meh, it was just some creepy Israeli surveillance satellite. Good riddance*.

                      * Amos, though, is actually pretty cool. He's a SJW who didn't give a fig for ritual and Jewish law and said you were right with the lord as long as you weren't being a d-ck.
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                      • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                        When they blow up, they blow up real good.

                        http://www.space.com/33938-spacex-ro...tic-video.html
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                        • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                          Originally posted by joecct View Post
                          When they blow up, they blow up real good.

                          http://www.space.com/33938-spacex-ro...tic-video.html
                          Wow. I was expecting something, but not something that big and total.
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                            Fun with exoplanets.
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                            • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                              Originally posted by joecct View Post
                              When they blow up, they blow up real good.

                              http://www.space.com/33938-spacex-ro...tic-video.html
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                              • Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                                Andrea Martin had a healthy pair of lungs, cute and vulnerable like.
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