Seeing people doubt the technological genius and humanitarian nature of Elon Musk, but have you considered that earlier this year he launched the largest rocket ever off a flat slab, hurling chunks of concrete thousands of feet in every direction, destroying his launch site and a wildlife preserve?
https://blog.esghound.com/p/photos-from-the-spacex-debris-field
@maxkennerly Worse, SpaceX engineers were originally planning on a conventional flame trench and water cascade system (as is used for the much less powerful Falcon 9 pads at Cape Canaveral) but this was personally nixed by Musk because it would take longer to build and he decided it wasn’t necessary after communing with the spirit of his genius.
“There’s never time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over.”
Max Kennerly
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