Back in the day I worked for Lockheed Martin. They don't usually insure satellites or rockets...way too much risk. The only insurance is sometimes they build a backup bird or "proof of concept" that they can then send up.
-Sean On Friday, September 2, 2016, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering how (or if) they insure something like a satellite. > > "Let's see, you have a $200 million payload sitting on a stack of > explosives....your insurance premium will be $220 mil please. " > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > To: [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > Sent: 9/2/2016 11:22:24 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Stock > > > I shorted Sprint a few years ago and made some good money. > > Sitting on TSLA watching it drop. I hope it goes to $150 or lower today. > > Funny how people are like a flock of turkeys in a turkey confinement > facility. > You walk into one of those, clap your hands and the place erupts. > That rocket failure was a handclap in the turkey barn. And if I eat it, > you can all experience shadenfreude... > > > Got my whopping $350 dividend check from WFC and then dumped WFC > yesterday. > > *From:* CBB - Jay Fuller > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Sent:* Friday, September 2, 2016 9:13 AM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Stock > > > Is anyone playing the Sprint game? I bought in at $2.34 back in 2009 for > 175 shares. > Sold some of that 5.63 back in 2011, it mus have split cause now i have > 325 after just > buying 175 more... > > current trading price? $6.27 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chuck McCown <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Sent:* Friday, September 02, 2016 9:38 AM > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Stock > > The short term thing is how I work TSLA. Hopefully it will drop into the > $190s today and I will hold it for a few months. Get it back up in the > $240s. > > I just hate seeing Wells returning the lowest of my portfolio. I have > some nice index funds and others that are doing about 9%. > > > *From:* Travis Johnson <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Sent:* Friday, September 02, 2016 8:01 AM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Stock > > Wells Fargo is paying a 3.0% dividend right now... Tesla pays nothing. > Tesla is also highly overrated according to everyone in the stock market. > If it's a short-term thing, you may do OK... long term, you have to factor > in the 3% you were making on Wells ($1,500/year) and compound that into the > value. > > Wells is still one of Warren Buffet's biggest holdings. > > Travis > > > On 9/1/2016 5:55 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > I am buying Tesla in the morning.� Just dumped 1000 shares of Wells > Fargo to do it.� > > >
