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Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, not impossible people build stellarator type Fusion reactors with large freeform metal parts in that tolerance region that are exposed to liquid helium.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does not change the fact that all materials expand when temperature rises and contract when temperature cools. Plus different materials have different temperature expansion coefficients.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most. Water, for example, takes up more volume in spaces when frozen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, water is weird like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So does the stellarator. What's the argument here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

just define a temperature :D