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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 14:32:42 GMT
I wish I knew the answer. For some reason I spent half the day yesterday watching Cybertruck videos. Weird looking finger print magnet. The doors look dirty at all times. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 31, 2024 16:32:48 GMT
I didn't mean to sound so dismissive, but really, a truck stacked with big batteries and big motors out-drags a Porsche?
Which would you really like to drive? On twisty roads?
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 16:56:42 GMT
Oh for sure the Porsche 911 (lower to the ground + looks funner to drive and sounds better.)
I thought of it today also that for sure I would not be able to turn into my own driveway in the Cybertruck.
I learned few things yesterday but here's one that stood out to me:
There were only ever 2000 Lamborghini Countaches ever made. There were less than 500 Bugatti Veyrons ever made. There are already 2 million pre-orders for this Cybertruck.
I guess what's interesting about that is that each of the 3 cars mentioned is an iconic niche vehicle only for very wealthy consumers not really looking for a daily driver vehicle but something to add to a collection yet Cybertruck apparently will be mass produced.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 31, 2024 17:04:03 GMT
I didn't mean to sound so dismissive, but really, a truck stacked with big batteries and big motors out-drags a Porsche? Which would you really like to drive? On twisty roads? I'd like to drive the big truck and make all of the pretentious Porsche drivers look like twats on the motorways, never mind the twisty roads, I'd have my TVR Griffith for those.  |
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 17:23:21 GMT
I may be pretentious Paul but I've earned that right if I'm driving a Porsche 911.
Though, let's be honest, the Porsche 918 Spyder wouldn't only turn heads it would get them nodding in approval.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 31, 2024 17:28:13 GMT
I'd like to drive the big truck and make all of the pretentious Porsche drivers look like twats on the motorways ...and on the twisties, where most of the driving fun is to be had, the truck would be too large and too heavy to make any kind of headway. By the way, I know some Porsche drivers who are not pretentious. They are car enthusiasts first and foremost. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 17:37:48 GMT
Martin I could be wrong because I don't know know enough about performance and handling, but this guy reviewing this truck talks about "Steer-by-wire" in the Cybertruck and he has it as a remarkable ability to steer which changes from street to highway on its own using sensors but in both cases it involves the back tires turning slightly as well. He says because of this feature you can drive it like a smaller car. Though I don't know about how it would handle constant twisting in a road.
Could you watch 3:46 to 6:20 here? He explain it perfectly here and says it was difficult returning to a Ford F150 style of steering afterwards.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 31, 2024 18:01:50 GMT
I'd like to drive the big truck and make all of the pretentious Porsche drivers look like twats on the motorways ...and on the twisties, where most of the driving fun is to be had, the truck would be too large and too heavy to make any kind of headway. By the way, I know some Porsche drivers who are not pretentious. They are car enthusiasts first and foremost. Gat away. You'll be telling me you know some wild and crazy Volvo drivers next, or considerate BMW owners. |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Apr 14, 2024 18:46:29 GMT
You filthy rich (Bastards)!!
I can't manage a complete viewing of his videos, normally. His presentation gets on me wick:
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Post by MartinT on Apr 14, 2024 19:19:37 GMT
What a wanker. Who among us here is "filthy rich"?
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 15, 2024 8:21:37 GMT
Seen him before, not for long before turning off
Annoying
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Post by Mr Whippy on Apr 15, 2024 18:08:33 GMT
Can't quite follow his logic. If, for example, you can't hear the difference between say a £200 amplifier and a £1000 amplifier, you have £200 hearing, and so buying the £1000 amplifier would be a waste of money. Fair enough. But what if a group do the comparison and all can't hear a difference, does that mean they all have £200 hearing - or is it simply because there's no discernable difference between the two amps?
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Post by rfan8312 on May 27, 2024 15:02:59 GMT
I know it may not be real but it blows me away to think that this could possibly be what a T-Rex sounded like.
It's fascinating to me that we humans live on a planet that we are quite sure was once dominated by beasts. And here we are now. The beasts are mostly tamed and we're all just prancing around with our iPhones.
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Post by MartinT on May 27, 2024 15:21:41 GMT
Now we are the beasts.
Earth will find a way to get rid of us eventually.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 27, 2024 15:45:32 GMT
I think so too but I also think that is our mission if we want to survive. Our only hope is to leave this place, finally let it have some peace while we take the next step.
Which is too bad. We are creatures who come from paradise/earth. Seems we want to destroy paradise, then probably go live in misery in space for a while and then hopefully recreate a new paradise somewhere and maybe appreciate it the 2nd time around.
We're like children. Not happy at home and run away only to discover it wasnt so bad at mom and dad's house.
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Post by MartinT on May 27, 2024 16:10:14 GMT
Well, indeed. And space is harsh, far harsher than virtually all the SF we have ever created. Compared with life in a cramped spaceship for any length of time, a slum will seem like paradise. And death will be sudden and brutal. You can make a mistake in your home and get away with it. Not in space.
Far better to try to save our planet, but that will require a different kind of governance.
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Post by Slinger on May 27, 2024 16:14:30 GMT
An old Dave Brock/Hawkwind track from their second album, 1970's In Search Of Space, this is the re-recorded version from their 2018 acoustic album, "Road To Utopia". In case you wondered, the string and horn arrangements are by (believe it or not) Mike Batt, who also contributed piano, and co-produced the album. Clapton (a teenage friend of Brock's prior to his rise to fame) turns up on one track too; Lemmy's "The Watcher".
It just seemed appropriate somehow.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 27, 2024 16:52:20 GMT
I think if we set out into space we are surrounded by death on all sides and death will try to creep in. All we'll be doing is fighting off death every second of the day.
The real challenge could be surviving each other in confined spaces when the first ones to crack become a real problem and even by eliminating them the rest of us are still a problem and trying not to crack. Out there every internal problem that anyone has will be every one else's problem too.
Yet here, in paradise, if we don't like something we can walk away and remove ourselves from situations.
Maybe the best possible outcome is that our brightest minds will find a way for humans to co-exist with this planet the same way they figured out how to get us all flying around the planet in airplanes and bullet trains.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 16, 2024 21:18:29 GMT
A test film featuring Cliff Richard And The Shadows which was recorded by Gerry Anderson and provided to the puppeteers to choreograph the band’s appearance in the 1966 feature film “Thunderbirds Are Go”. An absolute rarity, the film was found in the collection of a retired cameraman - Decent quality.
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