Considering the pickup EV has been an enormous commercial flop, only selling barely a fraction of Musk’s promised 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks a year, there’s a good chance Tesla is using the mercurial CEO’s other venture to boost the numbers ahead of the end of an otherwise disastrous year.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      It’s actually cheaper from the surface of the Earth to leave the solar system entirely than it is to cancel out enough of Earth’s orbital velocity to crash into the sun. Logically it should be cheaper to throw them into some star other than Sol. Isn’t that weird?

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        Imagine some advanced alien race orbiting VY Canis Major get a random DRADIS contact and fly out to make first contact with another species and a fuckpile of cyberattacks go hurtling past them and slam into their sun.

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        Science sure is weird, but wonderful. We should calculate the trajectory and send it into the Andromeda galaxy gor shits and giggles.

        Also, aren’t we slowly converging into the Andromeda?