A typical news article: Americans are buying Teslas, not EVs, but experts say that’s about to change.

One has to trust those experts. After all they have been right all along.

I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I ( Read more... )

Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid writing in the New York Times on the topic of U.F.O.s.:

We didn’t have a science teacher in my elementary school, and there were limited courses available when I got to high school. But despite my lack of scientific knowledge, or perhaps because of it, I have long been deeply inquisitive. Why does the sun ( Read more... )

From a CNN article on a Chinese rocket falling back to Earth:

After its fuel was spent, the rocket had been left to hurtle through space uncontrolled until Earth's gravity dragged it back to the ground.

Does gravity really do that?

The threat to populated areas of land was not negligible, but fortunately the vast majority of Earth's surface ( Read more... )

How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal, a poetic NYT article on how people were awed by a spectacle of fire in the sky, which turned out to be a SpaceX rocket deorbiting and burning in the atmoshpere ( Read more... )

An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick. He took care to let all his neighbors know about it, and then lay down in his cave to wait for visitors. And when they came to offer him their sympathy, he ate them up one by one.

The Fox came too, but he ( Read more... )

It is often believed that Sysyphus was a king who was forced to forever roll a stone up the mountain slope as a punishment by Zeus for cheating death.

The truth, as is often the case with the Greek myths, is different. In fact, Sysyphus was not a king at all. He was an investor and operator of an early manual gravity energy storage device.


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You cannot swim twice in the same river.
Your other I can.

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As my buddy, Seabreeze Partners’ Doug Kass opines, “Tesla has a shallow moat. Adjusted for the sale of emission credits, Tesla has never been profitable in its 17 years of existence (despite having no competition and no need for advertising.)”In other news, adjusted for the sales of, hm.., everything, Walmart has never been profitable. Surely, ( Read more... )