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SpaceX share price has already fallen below its opening price and well below what most retail (small time) investors paid for it. I guess they are all now getting a morning-after feeling, or buyers remorse. As a consequence, Musk is no longer a trillionaire, so cue the sobbing violins.

I love to wind them up. Had this phone call yesterday : Scammer : You are entitled to a £700 refund in connection with a past car purchase finance. Can I confirm your name and bank details for the transfer? Me : Wow, good news! I'm John Smith, but just refund me cash. Scammer : We will...

Eventually they will rot and fall, so it is not a good idea to leave them indefinitely. I'm not sure they would have any scrap value, not even as firewood because of the creosote in them. The domestic electrical power poles in my area were all replaced recently. Talking to one of the work guys...

Former wheel/rail interface specialist here. I worked at the Railway Technical Centre at Derby while the APT was being developed. While I have not heard the actual words that the "professor of sustainable transport" said, the idea that we should be mindful that trains heat the rails by friction...

The sadly closed Roggiet/Roggiett Hotel, a couple of hundred yards from Severn Tunnel Junction station. It is spelt "Rogiet" by Ordnance Survey. The sign is a bit faded, but showing I believe a Gooch broad gauge GWR loco. There was a large marshalling yard here until the 1960s.

I hate smartphones (but OK with PCs) but it is increasing difficult to live without them. For example my bank is doing its damnedest to make us use its phone app rather than PC, and has recently "optimised" its website for the phone app and at the same time made it awful on a PC. I suspect they...

Inoperable door handles (interior or exterior) after battery loss have caused numerous deaths and serious injuries in the USA and elsewhere. This is not in principle an EV issue, but Teslas have a particularly bad name for this, seemingly because Elon Musk does not wants "anachronistic" looking...

I saw it happen a few weeks ago : 5th June, at around 10:00

Same at Talerddig.

UK railways certainly have, and if you do have money to spend it could be spent far more effectively on safety in other areas of life. IDK about Boeing, but I worked in an industry with potentially serious danger to the public, and we had a price on life for the purpose of evaluating the...

That is an interesting point of view. However, with car, bike, foot, and train journeys the probability of an accident is more-or-less proportional to the length of the journey, all other things being equal. On the other hand, in the cases of planes and space travel the danger is almost entirely...

From my recollection of news reports at the time, the family did not think he had done anything wrong at all, and believed that the barriers had not come down and the red lights had not shown. However the police concluded from marks in the road that the car had weaved around closed barriers. It...

More prosaically, a lot (most?) of that money from the IPO is going straight into paying off some of SpaceX's existing colossal debts. SpaceX as a company is currently losing about $1 billion per month, mostly it seems on trying to develop Musk's vanity Starship, the giant rocket that is...

Thanks. I did not realise that RAIB do not need to report on every serious event.

Being out in the sticks, the internet speed I get from my landline (fibre to the cabinet) is vastly superior to what I get by mobile signal. That's if I even get a mobile signal. As for spam calls, spammers have moved with the times and I have not had any on my land line for the last three...

A man (the driver) and his grandson were killed on 17 February 2018 when their car was struck by a train at the Barns Green level crossing between Horsham and Billingshurst. The inquest concluded that the driver had weaved round the lowered half barriers...

What a shame they used them to make political points. They should have been references to locations and areas.

I've been reading on other forums etc that this was a stunt by a campaigner. Perhaps the staff laughed because they were joining in the spirit of it, or perhaps they were right to mock it. Unless we were there we cannot tell, but I'm reserving judgement. Stunts to make a point (justified or not)...

A bit OT, but I have been down the Big Pit tour and was surprised that we did not see any coal, and went nowhere near a coal face, just around some service passages near the hoist shaft. Slight correction - we did pass a hopper that happened to be parked with some dusty rubble in it that might...

The reason why she won three elections despite so many people hating her was that opinions about her were (and are still) very polarised. You idolised her or hated her, a bit like figures such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump today. She started a new cultural outlook that was not what she...