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.

[moz@fosstodon.org]

@sundogplanets I thought hey were building something more like a soil-stabilised concrete boat?

Viz, it's floating in semi-fluid soil rather than being anchored to any kind of foundation (just how far down is the bedrock?)

[ali@river.geek.nz]

@sundogplanets Im just gonna leave this here....

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

I have been wondering if any of the proposed launch pads will ever be completed; let alone used to launch anything.

Since pouring the concrete and vibrating it to get the bubbles out is already a big task if trying to build on sand.

There's a reason Canaveral was built on coquina and limestone.

[roblosricos@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

i don't understand your use of the phrase "has lost their grip on reality..."

lost? like, they USED to have such a grip? i just don't understand what you're implying...

[jappel@wandering.shop]

@sundogplanets And that’s before the coming innundation, and the rise of wet-bulb temps to the point at which human bodies can’t cool themselves multiple times a year.

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@sundogplanets ... So, they built a launch platorm that will bury itself in the mud, and cause who knows what damage to the surrounding ecosystems in the process, and possibly set of some landslides or similar in a radious around it?

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

Move fast, and break things*

*Things include, but are not limited to: rockets, launch pads, coastal wetlands, the atmosphere, the night sky, Low Earth orbit.

[elerahelizabeth@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets but we know the star quarterback to the football team (not including me) and we are so caught up in some pop star's love life- I know this. And if you really want to have yourself set straight on the important things- catch up on anything plastic. Autism caused by vaccines? Meh. Try ingesting and breathing in and drinking micro plastics for about 60 years... Please, don't kill the messenger(s).

[galacticstone@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I lived in Louisiana for 10 years. It's one of the most right-wing places on Earth. They're getting what they voted for. I feel sympathy only for the poor animals and plants that are stuck there. You couldn't pay me to move back there.

[medeavanamonde@beige.party]

@sundogplanets
At the Mythic Level Elon thinks he’s a Hero in a Heinlein Novel

[somevegancheeseisok@mastodon.social]

@jappel @sundogplanets that's only a problem for the poors and the outdoors. People who live in boxes and have money to pay for electricity and AC will be fine, especially if they have the money for very large boxes.

[jfmezei@cosocial.ca]

@sundogplanets Louisiana is like Hyperloop. Just some fictional investment promise to get favours from the regime but with no intention to actually do anything except drive value of land up.

Possible orbital inclinations are even more resticted than from Boca Chica. And lndings on descending node would pass over Dallas/Forth Worth who won't likely be too happy with potential for debris if something goes wrong.

[softwaretheron@mas.to]

@davidtheeviloverlord @sundogplanets
And their own staff. Their safety record is, um, not great.

[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.