"I built a launch pad, but it sank into the swamp..."

Here in the UK, on the line of the very early railway line between Liverpool and Manchester, there is a boggy area called Chat Moss. When they first built the railway line, they laid down rafts of wood and filled in with stone, until it stopped sinking. So, it worked for them....

Incidentally, the M62 motorway also runs over the area, and that section of it has a rather undulating surface.

Maybe the boring company can run a tunnel from Louisiana to the tip of Texas. I'm sure the soil is appropriate and it definitely won't leak and flood, killing thousands

If New Madrid blows up hard enough to break the Louisiana coast, we've got bigger problems than a pissant launchpad.
If it hits that hard, the only way to get across the Mississippi involves going to Illinois.

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

ketamine ken needs a nest on another sphere
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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!

Every year he reliably produces fireworks well in advance of July

Reusable rockets, non reusable launch pads.

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

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

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.

The most expensive fireworks company ever.