Arturo de Mojave

@BeastsInJars @crypto_fish123 @realstockfox @blueorigin Yep, looks like it. AST has confirmed they will deorbit it. Too bad

@crypto_fish123 @dacpdx @realstockfox @blueorigin Sure. And I suspect it's toast, but I was just pointing out that "off-nominal" would be wrt that contracted target and not the regulatorily approved band.

NG-3 Update: We have confirmed payload separation. AST SpaceMobile has confirmed the satellite has powered on. The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit. We are currently assessing and will update when we have more detailed information.

@realstockfox @blueorigin The satellite is healthy and communicating. Block 2 bluebirds have a lot of orbital maneuvering capacity, so they may be able to boost it to the correct orbit. Still under evaluation

@blueorigin How much money is that going to cost $ASTS if it’s non operational?

@wholemars when?

Teslas originally sold with HW2 and HW3 will become unsupervised.

@its_The_Dr well its sleek and kind of a gold color... must be that new Cybercab everyone's talking about

Can you guess what kind of car this is? 95 percent will not get it right!

my question is- if the buildings are not economically viable constructions (not surprising considering their age, and built without earthquakes in mind) why not just tear them down and build something modern? why all the talk about seismic upgrade? the buildings are fully depreciated anyway.

A multi-part series on the imminent fall of Portland, due to crumbling real estate, Byzantine laws, usurious penalties and a government hiding the darkest secret Portland holds. Series continues in the comments. Posted on the Corrupted Governor Tina Kotek FB page by Mark Rogers. 1/ "THIS IS THE MAP THAT WILL DESTROY PORTLAND. -By SEP Asset Stabilization LLC EDIT: BELOW IS THE LIVE LINK google.com/maps/d/edit... This is our first part expose concerning the antitrust of Portland City and Multnomah county. This represents 8 billion of POTENTIAL AND IMMINENT LOSS to the city and county. Every blue dot is a brick building that can't be insured(without paying 3 to 10 time premium). Can't be financed or refinanced. Can't be sold at fair market value(10 cents on the dollar seems to be the going rate). And in many cases — can't even be auctioned. There are 1,369 of them. They are scattered across every neighborhood you care about — Parkrose, Old Town, Sandy Boulevard, Division, Alberta, Mississippi, St. Johns, Central Eastside, Montavilla, Lents. The restaurants you eat at. The apartments your neighbors live in. The small businesses that anchor your block. All unreinforced masonry. All under a mandatory seismic retrofit order from the City of Portland. Almost none of them have a funded path to compliance. Retrofit costs run $800,000 to $8,000,000 per building. The buildings are often worth less than the cost of fixing them. No conventional lender will finance a loan where construction cost exceeds collateral value. So the owners are trapped. They can't fix the building. They can't sell the building. They can't insure the building. And when they fall behind on property taxes — because of course they do — Multnomah County forecloses. And here's where it gets ugly. THE COUNTY ISN'T AUCTIONING THESE BUILDINGS. Oregon law requires it. ORS Chapter 275 lays out the foreclosure auction process. The county is supposed to auction tax-foreclosed properties and recover what it can. But what happens when you auction a building that nobody can insure, nobody can finance, and nobody knows how to retrofit? Nobody bids. And if nobody bids, the county is stuck holding a building it can't maintain, can't sell, and can't put back on the tax rolls. The assessed value collapses. The tax revenue disappears. The building rots. The county spent more administering the foreclosure than it will ever recover. So they stopped auctioning them. The county's own budget documents show foreclosure auction revenue collapsing year over year. Their Tax Title program page confirms the last public sale was May 2024. The next one? "Anticipated Spring 2026." We're in Spring 2026 right now. No properties have been posted. No auction has been announced. And the last time they did sell, it was bare land — strips and small parcels sold to adjacent property owners. Not buildings. Not the 1,369 buildings on this map. They are hiding the problem. Instead of auctioning buildings that nobody will buy, the county quietly absorbs the loss. Your tax dollars subsidize the gap between what these buildings owe and what the county can't recover. The county just settled a $3.5 million class action lawsuit for keeping surplus proceeds from the foreclosure sales it DID conduct — money that legally belonged to the original property owners. They were foreclosing on people, selling their buildings, and pocketing the difference."

@xAviation well... cinematic is maybe the word you are looking for. it worked, but not really scalable.

Such a great era when multi-piston aircraft ruled the skies and passengers would sometimes see flames trailing from the Super Constellation during takeoff. 📹: m171562

@airmainengineer the SR-71 used ramjet engines... the F35 engines would come nowhere near the performance required

How do you think the SR-71 with 2 F-35 engines would be? Would you buy it if you were in charge of your country’s air force?✈️

@ThrillaRilla369 Doh! if only i could find that clip of Homer going Gaaahhh...

You just worked a 16 hour shift and you come home to this What do you do?

@airmainengineer was that a gear up?

i need some private lessons from them

If the condition that the conveyor belt exactly match the speed of the wheels is satisfied, then the aircraft cannot attain speed in world frame of reference. But that premise is not possible. The engines produce thrust which results in continuous acceleration per a=F/m, so conveyor speed needs to go to infinity.

We should all get the same answer folks 💪🏼

@airmainengineer struggled? looks like classic short field take-off technique. In this case, maybe not a short field, but performance limited by density altitude. Well executed.

Any guess about why the small plane struggles to takeoff?🛫 With fly_with_bruno

@Oceanbreeze473 Just keep in mind where the energy is, and where it could go.

I would definitely hire a pro, but I’ve heard you can break your jaw messing with your garage door. Is this true?

@mikepat711 The only conclusion i can reach is that the engineers and managers with access to the detailed trial operation data believe it is not ready yet. Will it be by end of April? Maybe

FSD is basically done. Would love to hear more from Tesla about what the deal is with Robotaxi, because it doesn’t feel like the software should be a major bottleneck anymore at this point. Why does everyone think nothing is happening with expansion? What’s the biggest bottleneck?

2 seconds is a minimum following distance. I often find it following at 1 second. I accept this usually in dry conditions, but if road is wet I cancel and bug report it as following to close. Anyone who thinks following at a 1 second distance to the car in front is OK is bonkers

@edgecase411 AGGRESSIVE FOLLOWING? Loool FSD leaves the biggest gaps. It’s so annoying because people keep jumping ahead

Leaked FSD 14.3 telemetry footage. 👀 
Looks like adjustable following distance is coming, possibly in response to recent complaints about aggressive following.

@airmainengineer hope your 337 is in order.

Rate our modification 😂✈️

@Teslarati I don't see it quite as all bad as that, but I would agree more nav errors (being in the wrong lane). I think it is trying to be smarter and given more leash to make decisions independent of Nav but not quite there yet

I’m just going to say it and I know I’ll get some hate for it, but v14.2.2.5 is the worst FSD release since v14. Constantly in the wrong lane, a lot of weird maneuvers, so many additional nav errors, routing, speed control, parking, and that’s just to name a few. v14.3 cannot come soon enough.

@WorkElizab Clearly the house was previously owned by a family of mice. They were equally mystified about what purpose the cavernous and elborately designed spaces outside their front doors was for...

Random covered holes in walls throughout the house, this house was made in the 60s if that helps.

@cabinsmountain Ikea rock wall?

Your thoughts on this?

@Sadie_NC oh wait- somebody's using an umbrella. Definitely not Portland

@Sadie_NC well it's raining, so probably Portland or Seattle

Can you figure out which city this is? Hints are all over in the video. 😳😳