Elon Trashes the Heavens to Make a Buck

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Elon Musk, the rich man currently responsible for the on-going destruction of Twitter and Tesla, has now also turned his megalomaniac attention to destroying the environment.  Last week another of Musk's enterprises, SpaceX, tried to launch the largest rocket ever manufactured on Earth into space from a launch site along the Texas Gulf Coast.  The chances of the rocket launching successfully were slim to begin with, and Musk had posted an alert on Twitter before the flight saying that the large rocket designed to carry the Starship Spacecraft  beyond the Earth's atmosphere was powered by thirty-three engines and was the equivalent of a "box of grenades" - and was not likely to reach orbit on the initial launch try, but instead might even explode.

Musk and his people also told the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other agencies that if something did happen - such as an explosion - they expected that debris would be contained in a 700-acre area around the launch site.

And then it blew up, of course it did.  

Not only did the rocket and space craft blow up shortly after launch, it destroyed the launch facility sending chunks of concrete flying in all directions and blasting a crater in the ground.    Windows were broken and buildings sustained damage in a town six miles away.  Sand and an ash-like particulate matter rained down from the sky and spread over a much larger area than SpaceX had publicly anticipated,  the noise from the explosion was prolonged and horrendous, and the well-being of area residents and even wildlife suddenly became a primary concern.  (One very rare species of sea turtle nests on beaches close to the launch site.)

A few days before all of that horror was released in the skies over Texas, SpaceX fouled some more of the atmosphere around the planet that is the home for all of humanity.   A "spiral" resembling another universe was seen in the northern lights high above Anchorage, Alaska.  And while the sudden appearance of a mystery spiral in the night sky spawned romantic speculation about the mysteries of the universe,  the romanticism quickly faded when it was learned that the apparition in the heavens was actually just the result of an excess fuel dump by a SpaceX rocket that had been launched from California a few hours earlier.

Get over it you Earth-bound weaklings!  He is the great and powerful Elon and he can blow up and dump whatever He damn well pleases wherever He damn well pleases -  and you and your damn turtles can suck it up and like it - or not - because Elon doesn't care!  While you are scurrying about trying to find clean air to breath or safe water to drink, Elon is lunching with other rich guys and chattering about the evils of government overreach and strategies for securing government money to help finance their next ventures that will make them even  richer and the rest of us less safe.

With great wealth comes great power and great access  - and apparently not one damned iota of responsibility!