... Once again, we have achieved Low Earth Orbit and oh yeah ... still can't land ... hoo ray

Do we really want read a head line about Bezos getting his rocket up? Just sayin’

If we were able to find any well trained 2nd or 3rd generation Nazi Engineer Proteges still around would we be able to we use H-1 B Visas to get them in … instead of human trafficking and or smuggling them in like last time? Just askin’

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… and Musk’s stuff just blows up … SpaceX's Starship spacecraft destroyed in mega rocket launch - CBS News

Seriously, what is it with these two? … Saturn V - 12 out of 13 launches were successful … several of them actually got us to the Moon and Back.

Lets all chant together Wernher, Wernher, Wernher

Instead of

To the Moon and Back

Blow You Up to The Moon and Back

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Of course, everyone “knows” the whole Apollo thing was staged by Stanley Kubrick on a sound stage in Nevada, or New Mexico, or London, or wherever…

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… but of course … Heeeee!

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A repeat I know, I know but…

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… can’t hear Tom Lehrer often enough. :slight_smile:

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, and they just keep on exploding

So, between 10 and 100M per launch … lets just say 55M average for a launch. Maybe its time for DOGE to take a look at where Elon is getting all this cash to simply blow up in the sky.

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“Just a reminder, the folk who live on these islands make an average of under $30,000, and SpaceX, despite being headed by the richest man on Earth, expects them to clean up after its mess.”

Yep, Musk is the “richest man on Earth”… and I can attest to this as he regularly rents out my
“summer home” and sprawling 1100 acre estate on the rim of Olympus Mons…

Wish I had these people’s ignorance and they had feathers up their butts…

We’d all be tickled :slight_smile: