Kudos to the Blue Origin folks. That was solid gold Hollywood level pyrotechnics!

Two thumbs way up!

The mushroom cloud was a nice touch too - nothing says high drama like a nice mushroom cloud.

My grandkids would both be yelling - "Ooh! Do it again!"

[what is everybody looking at me like that for? too soon?]

He was also being, IMHO, extra cute with the amount of gold he 'requisitioned': 303 bars, 1 kg each, comes out to 666.6 pounds of gold. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.

So basically what you are saying is that the Mythbusters could have gotten at least as good a result, if not better result, by only having dimples on the car at the point of air flow separation? Like a ring of dimples around the whole car just in front of the front doors? And a second ring around the max curve of the grill area? [Just a 'for instance' - I have no idea if those are the correct areas. IINALAFE].

That's nothing new. In my day we did it with the "Magic 8-Ball". Occasionally it hallucinated, but most of the time it was dead on.

Pilots actually are pretty much geniuses. Especially military ones (and most civilian ones at airlines are retired military ones). 10-100 times more people apply to be pilots than are needed, so the weeding out process is brutal and swift. Must have perfect vision, great physical ability and stamina (and no serious injuries ever - worked with a guy that was washed out of being a pilot for a knee injury - that still healed perfectly, but yet disqualified him). On top of that, they need to understand aeronautics, do heavy math, and the best ones can instinctively solve math problem in seconds that would take the rest of us hours.

So all in all a pretty exceptional bunch. Not an idiot among them.

Negative. The most important statement in science is "That's strange ....".

Pretty sure he meant 2 1/2 feet thick. I had the same thought when I saw it, but the poster just mis-typed.

That sounds awesome. Do you have any references for that? I tried just now, but am not getting any hits on that from Google.

IIRC, Joby opened a school for pilots a year ago. I don't think they wouldn't have not thought of that.

I hope that some of your questions point out that there may be 2 or even 3 distinct things wrong with you. As a few decades in my industry have shown, some of the most intractable problems are actually multiple problems that affect each other - once we identified that, things got a whole lot easier.

It is rare for multiple things to go kerfluey (that's the technical term) at once, but it does happen.

Good luck! Hope you get past it.

To be fair to Pelosi, that's not a high bar to clear. I'm no genius investor by any means (I make plenty of missteps), but even I make most professional investors look like amateurs.

Seriously though, this is something of a gray area:

"Yes, states can regulate areas already regulated by the federal government, provided the state regulation does not conflict with federal law. Under the Constitutionâ(TM)s Supremacy Clause, federal law takes precedence, but states often share concurrent powers (e.g., taxation) or set stricter standards than the federal minimum.

Key points on state vs. federal regulation:
1) Preemption: If a federal law conflicts with a state law, the federal law overrides (preempts) the state law.

2)Stricter State Standards: States can often impose stricter regulations, such as higher minimum wages, stricter environmental standards, or stricter gun laws, than federal regulations.

3) Areas of Sole Federal Authority: States generally cannot regulate areas designated strictly for the federal government, such as foreign policy, interstate commerce, or declaring war.

4) Dual Regulatory Systems: In many areas, such as banking or environmental protection, both state and federal agencies regulate simultaneously, with federal rules acting as a floor.

If a state law is deemed to conflict with federal law, the state law may be deemed unconstitutional or inapplicable. "
2) and 4) above may be the best bet (pun intended) for pushing the courts - NY may not be able to ban prediction markets, but may be able to tax them at the same rate (total coincidence!) as those that provide gambling. Also, NY may regulate prediction markets within the state to enforce a 21 year old minimum age to use them.

I could see one or both of those making it through. Outright banning, maybe not because of 1) above. I see 3) as being pretty hard to win by, for the fed that is, but I can see them trying that too.

Betcha I get first post!

We'll be 18 months into production by next year!

Exactly - they are selling less than 4% of the company at a valuation of 1.5 trillion. 4% of 1.5 trillion is ~70 billion. That's what they are expecting to raise.