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It's useless anyway. Musk himself said the rocket version would be illegal on public roads. And if it's a normal EV weight (plus the weight of the rocket system) then one of the 5 second stunts it did probably drains the rocket fuel.

Karoline Leavitt was no dummy. She was confident and articulate and a very good press secretary for the Trump administration if you only judge her performance on those terms. It’s a pity she was batting for the wrong side and mostly spreading fact free propaganda, but she did it well.

And not their intellect - at least not that of his preferred (mostly blond) choices. That leads some to believe that blonds are not intellectually gifted. Obviously not always true but convenient to the christofashist view that females are lesser than males.

Sure. That one aspect raises another energy requirement of non ground vehicles. Land vehicles can stop without expending energy. Air vehicles require extra energy to stop or turn. So apart from a very great amount of energy to levitate, even more energy is needed to stop and to turn. Historically, this energy requirement has hampered every previous attempt at flying (even our aeroplanes). Has Mr musk found a new great lightweight energy source? If not, the magical levitating car is just a PR exercise, probably aimed at raising money.

Without friction, as on ice, you have NO control whatever as to where it ends up. It will go where Inertia and gravity sends it. Have you driven Much in the high Country in winter or a frosted road in the Morning? Even worse on a Motorbike. Nev

We all know that heavier than air vehicles are real. Haven't all of us here broken free from the bonds of earth in a plane? The thing that prevents general transport a la The Jestsons is how does one quickly stop a moving vehicle the is in an almost fritionless environment. Our ground vehicles can be stopped because their rotating wheels can be made to stop rotating by brake systems. It's not the friction between the tyre and the surface that stops a ground vehicle. It is the wheel no longer turning on its attachment to teh vehicle.

Giving Blonds a bad name is not fair. T Rump seems to note their Lips and Legs and skin colour Most. Nev

Got your attention though hasn't it? Nev

I thought I'd get at least one. The Sportster has been one of Harleys best Handling bikes and often used in desert Racing. The frames don't flex and never tankslap. . The 1000 cc Iron Sportster engine Makes 63HP standard. That's better than any Vincent except the one built to order.(black Lightning.) The best of the others is 55 HP.. I've had my 81 model from new. Nev

On the money there. No practical use in real world transporting humans around. No mention of the vast amount of energy required for VTOL. No mention of what powers the thrustors which seemed to have blue flames, and I call BS on his claim that it uses compressed air - where is that stored? No mention of range regardless of its power source. Claimed to weigh 300kg - well that ain't a battery EV. And I can't see compressed air propolsion giving all that power. Finally no chance it will go into production - unless he is just trying to prove Darwin's Theory. The average DkHd would remove themself from the gene pool with one of these.

The latest Blond Barbie in the tRump administration has continued the trend of giving blonds a bad name.

The latest Fox News poll shows that corruption is an even bigger concern for voters than the economy at 88% disapproval. That's pretty extraordinary, especially for Fox. Trump has replaced the Washington political swamp with the New York real estate swamp.

So its trully terrible then.

I call a big fat bullshit to almost everthing Musk says and does. I dont see his flying car as anything but hyper marketing that will be nothing like the car that is on sale. The acceleration is technically possible but highly suspect. Some hyper electric cars can do a sub 2 sec claimed to 100, the worlds fastest is 1 sec and thats a special electric hyper go cart of small size and massive short term power. Its drivers report a very scary drive and G block would be a thing if not for the very short drive time. This is more that F1 acceleration. Anything under 3 secs is extreme acceleration and requires great skill to safely use and the right conditions. My BMW bike is capable of 2.6 sec to 100kmh and that feels extreme and keeps rocketing once you get past that. 80kmh overtaking can easily be 160 if passing a truck in mere seconds, any car capable of that type acceleration would be deadly in most hands. We absolutely do not need more cars like Musk is pushing. On to the flying claims- absolute bullshit. The "car" that had rockets and apparently suction fans seems fake. Yes, the fans are possible as they are proven on the Mcmurty Sperling, but thats a track dedicated single seater and relies on pressure gradient to suck it to a surface. It has no rockets, and as soon a ground\surface contact is lost, so is the suction. I would think the flying one is a 200-300kg dummy made of carbon with thrusters and fans or even a electromagnet on the track it climbs and clings to. It falls and moves to smoothly in the video to be realistic. Or a hidden arm not seen on camera, I am sure his AI could hide the arm. I think its just a big bullshit campaign to push share prices and way overpromise as per normal. I await years of promises, lost money and then followed by claims that the FAA banned it because it could "really Fly".

AI gave me the 3.54 G figure and that was to 80Kph . What "G" you can stand depends on the direction you are accelerating. If you were Prone you could take about 4 times as much. Nev

"You're Fired" is his favourite saying. Every Person who works for Trump ends up regretting it. It will NEVER be Trumps Fault. Nev

I hope that my reasoning is correct, bit if one goes from zero kph to 96.5606 kph in 0.81 seconds, that is an acceleration of 12G. Humand black out around 8G.

Guess she didn't make it to the second episode of The Apprentice.

Red, I wish you wouldn't post links in this format. Too often one cannot watch them to the end because FB butts in.

That RE still has the twisty single down tube frame they always had. Would have trouble with just the extra weight of the Vee motor. Very FEW of these specials are "sorted". Nev

My Father used to say "There's a Fine line between Genius and Madness" I think that applies with this Bloke. That rate of acceleration would average 3.54 "G"s NO practical use whatever but it is a noteworthy achievement.

She "Lost it" when being interviewed Publicly.. Not fit for Purpose (like her Boss). Nev

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Sacked his new press secretary Katie Zacharia after 5 days on the job.

Yeah- I'd be saying to Tesla shareholders - This is the guy you want to pay a trillion dollars? Some immature idiot who never grew up and spends your money designing rocket cars for other rich idiots?