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dinoroo t1_jeezeb4 wrote

Oh they have enough trucks for $40k, remember they actually have to add features to sell the other trucks. Those $40k were barebones and battery. They just literally do not want to sell at that price point. They’d rather sell one $90k truck versus four $40k trucks. Doesn’t really make sense to limit the visibility of your brand new model and revenue stream on the streets.

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dinoroo t1_jeerv1u wrote

Same my mortgage is $875 a month. I just can not justify spending that if more on a vehicle and this was going to be a farm truck, which for me, means I would put maybe 1000 miles a month on it max. Even generally using it, it would probably last forever, I still can’t justify that cost.

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dinoroo t1_jedvuvu wrote

The base price of the Lightning Pro was $40k and some people actually got it for that much. Then they increaee the price twice to around $55k and said no more Pros are available for 2022 and 2023, conveniently only leaving the higher trims with not many added features. You basically pay $80k for the same truck the Pro is.

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dinoroo t1_j7qcc19 wrote

Reply to comment by dietrich14 in Thunder Thunder by Rainsdrop

And every episode of Power Rangers but in the very first episode they say they are required to use minimal force first or something like that.

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dinoroo t1_j77r7rr wrote

Thats what the Artemis Project is all about. Practice makes perfect. You can actually go ahead and trace human technological advancement right back to the Stone Age. It’s not just going to stop. Humanity will have an every growing need for energy for its growing civilization. It’s not going to get all of that on Earth.

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dinoroo t1_j77m5cc wrote

The point would be relieving the stress humanity places on Earth. Better to bring life to a dead world than continue killing the only know source of life in the Universe. Setting up on Mars, you can literally do no wrong and we do have the technology currently to allow it.

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dinoroo t1_j76puo3 wrote

I’m readying Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mara Trilogy and it has rekindled my interest in the colonization of Mars and brings to light not only the physical challenges of terraforming a planet but also the political challenges of humans fighting over new land, resources and ideals on another planet.

Realistically any colonization of Mars would be carried out through “paraterraforming” aka dome cities or underground cities. And that is how colonization also starts in Robinson’s novels.

People who think it can never happen or is not possible or ignoring all the trends of human history where humans constantly expand and adapt their surrounding to themselves.

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