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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] 55 points 2 years ago

To build it with that accuracy would be physically impossible. Guess he forgot about thermal expansion and contraction. Guess he forgot about the weather...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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.

[-] HeneryHawk 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

True, water is weird like that.

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