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iospace posted:*words* I really hope this thread produces another newsworthy $TSLA tidbit. godspeed, iospace
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prisoner of waffles posted:I really hope this thread produces another newsworthy $TSLA tidbit. godspeed, iospace This is just the info I've gleaned from the thread. It's entirely possible that Tesla owned the tracks and ripped them up in a fit of pique, as well.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:26
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See, the real dumb thing, and I mentioned this before, is Tesla wants to hit production targets. It appears they're doing this by making the car and calling it done the moment it rolls of the line, regardless of state and rework needed. Who needs trains to ship your product when over 80% of it needs to go back! 
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Sep 12, 2018 17:37
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iospace posted:This is a very recent development, given Google Maps shows that the tracks are in place as recent as this year on both satellite and map views (2018). how can you tell when google imagery is from?
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Sep 12, 2018 17:40
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Cocoa Crispies posted:how can you tell when google imagery is from? it's a watermark in the bottom corner iirc, and there's also some like "historical" mode where you can see older versions on a timeline (at least in google earth)
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Sep 12, 2018 17:42
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Cocoa Crispies posted:how can you tell when google imagery is from? It says imagery is from 2018 on the bottom right corner (as pointed out). One would assume map data would be updated before satellite imagery, which only updates as fast as the satellite swings overhead. Which is in a polar orbit, if you guys are wondering.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:43
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the photos are taken from planes, not satellites, so its even more infrequent than an orbital period
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iospace posted:Which is in a polar orbit, if you guys are wondering. sun-synchronous or gtfo 
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Sep 12, 2018 17:47
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google maps imagery is from the summer of 2016 here's what it looked like as of april of this year  the dirt pile appears to have replaced the industrial spur in march of last year but more notably it looks like they sold half of their parking lot to developers sometime near march 2016 (which contained most of their other spur) which is when they started converting their container storage to more parking https://i.imgur.com/grL4Xzk.mp4 (gif starts in 2014)
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pseudorandom name posted:the photos are taken from planes, not satellites, so its even more infrequent than an orbital period you're right but if you zoom all the way out they use "live" satellite data now, it even shows clouds n' poo poo it's neat
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:google maps imagery is from the summer of 2016 im the fraction of a second when the thing in the middle turns into a lake and a giant dirt pile and then back into a parking lot
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Sep 12, 2018 17:50
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oh that's the loop point, it didn't seem like that at all because it freezes on a different frame, weird
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and yeah all the stuff that does daily orbital passes like eosdis (that's available to the public) is way too low to resolve something like a building
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Here's my thoughts on the two spurs now that I think about it some more: I think the southern, closer to factory spur, was used to load up cars from that factory. The northern, further away spur, was used as a delivery point for cars which didn't come from that factory and then would be loaded on to truck based carriers and delivered to dealers. It would make sense to set it up like that, and I'm sure UP liked it, because it meant they could unload the racks, then shuffle them over to the loading facility without much distance between the two. Tesla, with no practical need for the northern spur, likely sold it off. That's fine. Ripping out the southern spur is going to really bite them in the rear end down the line. For what it's worth, the 9/2/2016 imagery has the southern spur intact, but the northern one gone. The loading ramps are still there. The 3/11/2017 imagery has the crossover road being paved, and the rail gone. e: They built the tent factory over the loving spur 
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qirex posted:in popular culture I call this "magic smart powers" where characters in books/tv/movies who are smart are capable of literally anything elon musk was able to build this in a tent! with a box of scraps!
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I'm pretty sure I'm right in regards to the purpose of the two spurs now. The northern spur was used by GM/Toyota to unload cars that weren't made in Fremont, then the empty racks were shuffled to the southern spur to be loaded with new cars. The cars that were unloaded are then distributed to dealers in the Bay Area. The presence of car carriers on the northern side of the property all but confirms that. From a logistics standpoint, that makes sense, because you're effectively filling the racks up right after you empty them. Tesla, not having a second factory and as diverse of a product line, sold off the old distribution lot and ripped the northern spur up first. A little shortsighted, but I can't entirely fault them here.  (image dated 8/31/2008) I'm still curious as to why they ripped up the southern spur, there has to be a reason as to why beyond "well, we need the space for the TENT FACTORY" iospace fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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iospace posted:
it looks so...orderly.
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President Beep posted:it looks so...orderly. It's like some kinda established industry where they aren't building cars in tents
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So yeah, the long and short of it, Tesla is banking on their self-driving semis to be able to save the day, or else someone bites on Hyperloop at this point. Or it's a massive scam. YOU DECIDE
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iospace posted:I'm pretty sure I'm right in regards to the purpose of the two spurs now. The northern spur was used by GM/Toyota to unload cars that weren't made in Fremont, then the empty racks were shuffled to the southern spur to be loaded with new cars. The cars that were unloaded are then distributed to dealers in the Bay Area. The presence of car carriers on the northern side of the property all but confirms that. musk used the rails as skids for the tent assembly line and then dig a tunnel underneath it so they could return the skids
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endlessmonotony posted:Equating all autistic people with Musk's ridiculous bullshit is rather offensive, don't you think? reminder that Chris Chan is a trans woman and much of her irrational behavior is a result of kiwi farms stalking and harrassing her for the grave crime of being weird online.
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Sep 12, 2018 20:18
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what in the living gently caress is a spur
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Sep 12, 2018 20:19
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they're what you grow outta your bones to dodge the draft
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GenJoe posted:what in the living gently caress is a spur small pieces of bone that prevent you getting sent to 'nam e: f,b
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:they're what you grow outta your bones to dodge the draft lmao
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:they're what you grow outta your bones to dodge the draft
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Real talk: it's a bit of rail that ends at a business to allow the railroad company to make deliveries
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who usually owns those things? is it pretty much like a driveway (owned by the business), only for trains?
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jit bull transpile posted:reminder that Chris Chan is a trans woman and much of her irrational behavior is a result of kiwi farms stalking and harrassing her for the grave crime of being weird online. whoa, last i heard he was a guy who loved blue hedgehogs but hated black humans being weird online tho, that checks out
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President Beep posted:who usually owns those things? is it pretty much like a driveway (owned by the business), only for trains? Yes, but I don't know who exactly owned the Tesla spurs
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iospace posted:So yeah, the long and short of it, Tesla is banking on their self-driving semis to be able to save the day, or else someone bites on Hyperloop at this point. well that's one way to force your investors to go along with your hare-brained schemes
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:whoa, last i heard he was a guy who loved blue hedgehogs but hated black humans hating black humans and homosexuals and premarital sex
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i found out only a few months ago that she was a trans woman. kinda weird how the internet stalkers who talk about her all the time kinda ignore that part, huh?
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prisoner of waffles posted:ahh, but if only it could be turned into a car analogy Smart people are like fast cars - they can be good, or they can be a Tesla, and either way they're driven by vanity.
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:whoa, last i heard he was a guy who loved blue hedgehogs but hated black humans tbf the 4chan psychological warfare started well before she came out as a woman, when she was just an autistic person who was way, way too into i can't imagine that being trans has made it any easier though
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reminder that there are/were two goons who met irl based on their shared love of stalking chris-chan and later got married same ones that had the anecdote about keeping a cold pizza under the bed for midnight snacking iirc
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Sagebrush posted:same ones that had the anecdote about keeping a cold pizza under the bed for midnight snacking iirc 
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Sagebrush posted:same ones that had the anecdote about keeping a cold pizza under the bed for midnight snacking iirc gross
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Sagebrush posted:reminder that there are/were two goons who met irl based on their shared love of stalking chris-chan and later got married loving hell. the internet is a toilet
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