This has absolutely nothing to do with "competition". This is Trump continuing his assault on "woke" (whatever that means) insttituions of higher learning. Most especially ones on both coasts.

But here's another thing. Caltech has been doing this work for decades. It's well-established and works hand-in-glove with JPL to get things done. Each knows what the other is doing. If this goes through, whomever buys the contract will not have that institutional knowledge unless they pull over people from Caltech. Even then, there will be a disruption as the owner is brought up to speed. How many mistakes and bad decisions do you think will be made, costing taxpayers who knows how many billions of dollars as missions fail?

Where I work we're going through a similar situation. We've been using a supplier for who knows how long. That supplier has been in existence for decades and has a well-established quoting sytem, the web site shows what's available so you can do comparisons, and the people know what they're doing. Everything just works.

Fast forward to last year where we were told we had a new supplier. We were to start using them in July of 2025. We didn't start using them until March of this year, and they do not have a web site which was supposed to be running last month. Getting a quote from them is at least a 24-hour wait. Recently (three weeks ago), a message went out to not use the supplier because of the issues they were having such as not delivering the products quoted and paid for. For now, we're back to using our previous supplier until told otherwise.

If we've having this issue buying products when moving to a new supplier, how difficult do you think moving from Caltech to whomever will be when they're involved with spaceflight?

It really should matter. If we can just decide the text means whatever we want it to mean, what's the point in writing it down?

As clearly shown by the current hacks on the Supreme Court. "Privacy in the 9th Amendment? Never heard of it." "Limited government? What's that?"

You never have to worry about someone turning off access to a book you purchased thirty years ago.

You don't have to find workarounds to get a book. They're available practically everywhere.

Text within a book will never change. Once you have the book, it remains the same forever.

No one can remotely remove access to your books.

The only real benefit to Kindles and the like is you can have multiple books on you at the same time even though you can only read one at a time. Until your power runs out. Which doesn't happen when you have a book.

He ran off to create his own AI as fast as possible. Which is exactly what one does when they're concerned with safety. Do something really fast without any forethought or plan.

Which is why he's created his own AI and is working to integrate it into whatever he touches.

Is that likeTrump promising $2,000 tafiff dividend payments?

Or does this sound like an ICE motorcycle with extra steps?

Here's the thing, if Nvidia was any other company you wouldn't be able to buy the stock for any price. Their numbers keep blowing past even optimistic estimates, their growth keeps climbing, and they can't make their products fast enough. All of this as the (current) industry behemoth in GPUs They even recently announced getting into the quantum side of things.

Will this last forever? No, of course not. No one can. But at the moment there doesn't appear to be a ceiling for them. And yet, every time they release earnings their stock gets dumped becasue people believe this is the time they've hit their peak. When the companies making the chips say they have orders filled through 2027, what would make people think Nvidia has hit is peak?

Nvidia should be at or near $300/share at this point. It's only because of whiny "investors" it's not. When they report on the 20th they will again blow past everything and once again we'll watch them get penalized for doing so.

So they pump water out of the water table below the city, and it flows thru pipes under the city, which are broken, so the water returns to (ultimately) the water table...right?

Eventually. How long is the question. It could take a few years to hundred of years to reach the water table depending on the soil conditions.

Everything you said is perfectly valid except for one thing. It's a Tesla.

So is Musk's status as an illegal immigrant:

Is this the timeline where U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men, Inc is formed?

If that's the case, then why are oil and gas companies being propped up with massive taxpayer subsidies? Such as the current issue where taxpayer money is being used to cancel a project then being used to subsidize the new projects.

This doesn't even take into consideration all the massive subsidies handed out over the last 100 years to oil and gas companies. Burgum is just lying his ass off, just like the rest of the regime.

It's not Niki Haley. It's Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. Just like it's Raphael Cruz.

As both of them would say, we don't use preferred names.

What's one other piece of electronics to go bad over time or have the driver pay an exorbitant amount to have repaired if they're in an accident.

The K.I.S.S. principle is dead.