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“The company had warned that the rocket’s slowdown from supersonic speeds would set off sonic booms, sending thunderous noises through the area surrounding its South Texas launch facility. The rocket booster stopped firing soon after the tower arms closed around it.”
By “it” they mean the three fragile ecosystems the “spaceport” is in the middle of. Look, I know 98 acres sounds huge. It isn’t. You can walk one side of it in less than 20 minutes.
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Central Park is 843 acres. Kennedy Space Center is 144,000.
SpaceX is 98 acres. You can walk one side of it in less than 20 minutes.
Every time Musk launches a rocket he causes damage to the fragile ecosystems. He doesn’t care that he is doing it either.
He wants to rebrand himself as an ecologically minded individual — that Tesla is about saving the planet.
He is full of shit.
He just cares about making cash.