Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Not even pretending
This video of a drone peeking at the SpaceX assembly plant...
... is astonishing even by Elon's standards.
Note especially the unfinished "rocket" sitting there WITH ITS TOP OPEN to the dust stirred up by the UNPAVED roads.
Nobody leaves an unfinished item OPEN like that. No competent contractor would leave a hole or a roof untarped during construction. A housewife always puts a lid on a container to keep ants and mice out.
Crucial difference: Roofers and housewives aren't trying to build a precisely calibrated rocket that can carry astronauts millions of miles and then hit a barge. They aren't operating under NASA and OSHA and EPA regulations.
QUESTION: Is Elon operating under NASA and OSHA and EPA and California regulations? We already know that the SEC gives him a free pass. Apparently NASA and OSHA and EPA and California are also letting him get away with shit that no plumber or housewife would think of doing.
The place immediately reminded me of ABANDONED industrial facilities that I explored back in the '70s. Leftover trailers scattered around, buildings and unfinished projects open to the sky.
Update: 50 mph winds blew the "finished" rocket over. Maybe it can't hit a barge, but it can sure as hell hit a building! Oh well. I'm sure it will do a much better job of handling the 200 mph jet stream crosswinds in the upper atmosphere.
¶ 1:20 AM 
