Just after takeoff is the worst time to have a problem. Hopefully they had the minimum crew. Also hopefully it wasn't carrying a nuke and/or it wasn't compromised.

They have maximum crew possible which is 8. All confirmed dead.

I don't think anyone expects Ford to directly pay owners for warranty work and just send them the instructions to do it.

The issue is whether a bonded and insured independent mechanic can be paid out for the warranty work.

> I do think “fully consumed or gated to never backfeed balcony solar at scale” is all i’m referring to, which i naively hope is a smaller regulatory change than backfeeding

I though the point of these systems was you plug them in to your wall socket and they lower your electricity bill. If you want to avoid tieing to the grid you can't have such a simple deployment.

It sounds wrong. It's okay for it's placement to be off by thousands of times it's size?

It doesn't have a nuclear reactor, it has two dozen natural gas turbines.

YASA claims their integrated brake/wheel motor is lighter than comparable (supercar) disc brake systems.

Do they claim enough reliability and peak power capability to delete the mechanical brakes? I know Brembo is working on electric brakes that would eliminate the hydraulic circuits and pistons. I don't know what they plan to do to make sure the electrical side is as robust as the split-diagonal brake system we've been using for 60 years or so.

Having four wheel motors solves any issues that compromise a single unit, but I don't think they've answered how they would mitigate potential system issues that might bring them all down at once.

Though (at least to my knowledge) Zuckerberg doesn't have a history of abusing his authority to make deals that advantage other companies he owns at the expense of Facebook.

E.g. SpaceX buying up large numbers of Cybertrucks Tesla couldn't sell at MSRP, not even negotiating a good fleet sale deal.

Where did that $70B from the metaverse go to?

As far as I know, he lost that value with honest bad decision making.

Probably because there is no plan to develop a commercial plane.

Yeah it's bad when it's abused, so don't abuse it.

But not having operator overloading when dealing with vectors is maddening.

It's Starship that's supposed to do the landing on the moon. If the next few test flights don't go well it won't be ready for Artemis III next year.