I borrowed the writing below from a Facebook group. Next up I will try to repost an epic rant from Chris Titus, American comedian. This one was written by Mike Poirier. No, I have no idea who he is, but he strikes me as a pretty smart guy.
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At least it works half the time. Out of the 8 Starship rocket launches so far, 4 have been successful. "Unfortunately this happened last time too, so we have some practice at this now,” SpaceX flight commentator Dan Huot said.
In January a SpaceX rocket launched from Texas exploded over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Fiery shards of debris literally broke the sound barrier as they screamed towards the earth, creating sonic booms that terrified people below and rattled the walls of their homes. According to seismic data, the rumbling was comparable to a small earthquake. Islanders are still picking up the random pieces of wreckage that were left scattered over their neighborhoods and beaches. The FAA also closed airports when that rocket exploded, then they grounded Starship launches.
Two weeks ago, SpaceX engineer Ted Malaska showed up at FAA headquarters with a directive from Musk to start immediate work on a program to deploy 1000s of Starlink satellites terminals to support a new revamped national air traffic system. He told them they had 18 months to get the project done and anyone in the way would be reported to Musk and risked being fired.
The conflicts of interests are obvious, with DOGE able to now undermine the same agency that regulates Musk's SpaceX, and retaliate against it from within the government. It's corruption in broad daylight. But even were it not for the ethical issues, it's not even a practical or workable solution. Starlink can work to connect remote FAA facilities, but it doesn’t have the bandwidth yet or reliability to support a robust nationwide communications network. SpaceX has no business overhauling the working system we already have, and should not be trusted to safeguard the 2.9 million passengers flying overhead every day. That's up to 5000 planes in the air at once during peak hours, going every which way. That's a lot of lives at stake. It's certainly not something to let the Ketamine Clown tinker with.
“As a backup layer or alternative connectivity provider, Starlink makes sense,” Kim Burke, a government affairs analyst at the consultancy Quilty Space, told Forbes. “But SpaceX spearheading a total overhaul of the FAA’s terrestrial networks? Not a chance.” And that was BEFORE another Starship blew up.
Some guys just buy a sports car when they have their midlife crisis but Musk is out here lobbing 400 foot phalli at Mars all day long and using us to bankroll it. He shouldn't be allowed to play sandbox with our country just because he has a disgusting amount of money. He has zero business being involved with our government. I'm not even going to start digging into the damage and theft from the corny DOGE puppet show that has people so enthralled and fooled. It's just more theater, and they're not even trying that hard anymore because their base is just that gullible.
If I had to guess what Elon is doing right now I'd guess he's probably deep in a K-hole, manically tweet-trolling the libs, or desperately trying to breed one more influencer in his own personal Führerbunker, the Banyan Cottage at Mar-a-Lago. Maybe all at the same time. Maybe he's contemplating his getaway: self-exile to Russia or possibly a rocketship to Mars. Elon is smart enough to recognize that this situation ultimately cannot be unf*cked and this is spiralling out of control. The wheels are really coming off now. His rockets are crashing. Tesla is crashing. Planes are crashing. The illusion of competency is collapsing too. This house of cards cannot hold much longer. Wherever we go from here, we're going there fast and it's bound to be exciting. - Mike Poirier
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