I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined.

[softwaretheron@mas.to]

@sundogplanets
So the whole thing is just going tip ever so slightly off vertical? Absolutely no way that could stress the launch vehicle in unexpected ways...

[theogrin@chaosfem.tw]

@MedeaVanamonde @sundogplanets

Then this is the most destructive example of an Oedipus Complex that I've ever seen.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@Ali @sundogplanets

The most expensive fireworks company ever.

[ali@river.geek.nz]

@davidtheeviloverlord @sundogplanets oCcUpY mARs

[kensan_oni@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets The Monte Python and the holy Grail castle in the swamp gag in real Life? Ick.

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@MedeaVanamonde @sundogplanets He thinks he's the hero of an Iain M. Banks novel, but if he'd ever actually read one he'd realize he's the villain (and also Banks would have hated him).

[isol@mastodon.au]

@sundogplanets

When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a launch site on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them.

It sank into the swamp.

So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp.

So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.

But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, the strongest launch site in all of America.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@sundogplanets

Well, for the men for who the rules don’t apply, including physics, we’ll find out.

If the ground underneath their launchpads liquefies and renders them useless, at least in someway the damage will be limited though at great cost.

On the other hand, if Elon really intends to convert the rocket engine manufacturing facilities into gasturbine generator facilities, maybe we won’t worry so much about rocket launches

[unixjunk1e@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets tech bros and their planned obsolescence is getting a bit out of hand.

[brucemirken@mas.to]

@sundogplanets So, a typical #ElonMusk enterprise.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@subterfugue @sundogplanets

Psychology has well established than individuals who gain a lot of money attribute that to their own genius rather than being a product of luck and system rigged in favor of wealth consolidation.

It’s very useful to have read The Great Gatsby in high school

[unixjunk1e@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets

Reusable rockets, non reusable launch pads.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@davidtheeviloverlord @Ali @sundogplanets

Every year he reliably produces fireworks well in advance of July

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@sundogplanets I hope that the launch site sinks & that it's really really expensive for SpaceX.

[imrehg@fosstodon.org]

@sundogplanets I think "impossible dangerous things" is that chap's "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice"....

[perrym@newsie.social]

@sundogplanets Has anyone thought about the Strategic Oil Reserves that are located in salt caverns in Louisiana near Texas?

The salt actually dissolves in the oil and leaves a sludge that cannot be refined.

It also thins the walls of the cavern as the salt dissolves.

Those vibrations may be more harmful than ever imagined!

[nanowiz@wehavecookies.social]

@sundogplanets

ketamine ken needs a nest on another sphere
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[mcc@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Actually, a question— does this actually differ from existing launch sites in, say, Florida? I have never been to cape Canaveral specifically but my understanding is that slice of Florida is Louisiana-like levels of wetlandiness.

[jimkreft@social.coop]

@mcc @sundogplanets very different geologically. Both are wetlands, but Florida is a giant finger of limestone sticking into the ocean, whereas southern Louisiana is made of endless layers of mud that the Mississippi has been depositing for millions of years.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets

South Louisiana is sediment loam all the way down.
At least Corpus/Brownsville has some bedrock under 100 feet of sand, and doesn't have saltwater running up the rebar five feet above sea-level.
That doesn't take king tides and post-ElNino surges into account...it'll get worse from there