It is estimated that currently each starship launch is cost around $90 million, and should be around $10 million once the program is more mature.

Source

For comparison each SLS launch is estimated to be around $4.1 billions. This cost not include development.

So a Starship launch is around 40 to 400 time cheaper than the SLS for similar capacity in LEO.

The live was such a rollercoaster of emotions.

The moment the fin started to melt I thought this was the end of it, but it still hold on, and hold on. Then the image disappeared do I though that was it, but no it continued after that, we get the image back.

I start to think that it might be able to crash on water, maybe not in one piece but it would be a big improvement comparef to the last launch, especially since they already soft landed the booster.

And then it get a few km away from water level and at the last minute it DOES THE BELLY FLOP AND SOFT LAND ON WATER !

I had absolutely zero hope of that happening !

Is it really a drop in the bucket b when we take the value per vehicle ?

If we compare Ford to BYD for example.

In 2023 Ford sold around 2 millions cars and BYD around 3 millions.

For Ford only 72 608 cars out of these 2 millions were EV (3.6%) For BYD it’s was almost 1.6 million EV (53.3%)

In 2023 Ford got $9.2 billions from the US government to produce EV, so around $126 000 per EV sold in 2023.

$126 000*1 600 000 = $2 trillions ! So unless BYD received more than $2 trillions dollars from the Chinese government in 2023 it means that each EV sold by Ford is more subsidized than an EV sold by BYD.

This is not an analysis, I took huge shortcuts in this comment and might have done mistakes in the calculations.

The argument of China subsidizing EV is always coming back but I would be curious to know the comparison with the US.

The US are subsidizing EV too I would not be surprised if the amount of subsidy per EV produced is much higher for US manufacturers than China.

Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.

For these people cilantro taste awful.

On the other hand the engineers building the CERN had to include a system that compensate for the land tides due to the moon and sun gravity.

I was thinking exactly that yesterday, I looked for a way to have few web apps without using ferdium.

I understand you’re argument but I disagree. If the goal is to use FreeCAD then yeah, it’s probably better to start as a beginner.

If the goal is design parts using CAD then Onshape is a much better option in my opinion.

I would definitely recommend Onshape, this is what I use.

It’s great that FreeCAD exist but I would not recommend it for a beginner in CAD, there is a very steep learning curve before being able to create anything in it.

No,

There is all the backup of all my family pictures in the drives.

If something happens to me I want to make due that they will have access to it.

I bought a MG4, I’m extremely happy with this car and I hope the arrival of Chinese EV will lower the price of all EVs.

This is why coworking spaces exist.

I don’t know in other countries but it is working quite well in France, you can get a subscription to the closest working space and have a desk, meeting rooms … To work remotely.

I like that it gives a separation between home and work but without long commute.

I think you meant 5/64 of a hamburger.

I was told that the concept of decimal is too hard to understand compared to fractions.

There is a graphic novel called “Dungeon” in which a duck (Herbert) is working as a handyman in a dungeon (cleaning the dead adventurers, rearming the traps, feeding the gouls …)

This is exactly the kind of characters we can find in the serie. The disillusioned manager stuck in this dungeon job.

It’s a real story!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/

At the beginning of the 20th century Henry Ford’s electrical engineers had issues they could not solve with a gigantic generator. Henry Ford called Steimmetz, a genius mathematician working for GE to help them.

When he arrive at the factory he spent 2 days and night listening to the generator and scribbling on his notebook.

After that he asked for a ladder, climbed on it, put a chalk mark on a specific spot and explain to the engineers that they needed to remove the plate and replace sixteen windings behind the plate. After that the generator worked perfectly and Ford received a $10 000 bill.

Ford asked for an itemized bill and Steinmetz sent this

• Making chalk mark on generator $1.
• Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

Have you ever heard about the blob?

It’s a giant single cell intelligent organism that can move, learn, remember things, solve problems and teach others.

Neither an animal, plant or fungus the blob favorite snack is oatmeal but it hate coffee.

The amount of banger songs that are lost to history.

Someone needs to change something, this is exactly the purpose of opening an IT ticket.

Your bank are allowing you to use characters ? Mine only allows numbers for the password, it has to be 8 number, no less, no more.

Better than recyclable, glass is reusable.

You can just send the bottle back to the factory, the factory washes it and refill it.