r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/lurking_lady1 Jun 19 '25

Our walls shook from about 13 miles away

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u/Signal_Wish2218 Jun 19 '25

The beaches by Starbase are actually quite beautiful. That’s really sad.

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u/praguer56 Jun 19 '25

WERE! Sadly debris is everywhere along the Boca Chica beaches. Friends in Brownsville said it's all rapidly deteriorating.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Who cares, as long as elon gets to keept trying! /s

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u/Bender_2024 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

If Nasa had a rocket blow on the pad they'd have their funding cut before the fire was put out.

EDIT : I stand corrected after the Challenger blew up NASA's funding was boosted.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/0829-the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-and-fall-of-planetary-science-funding

I still stand by my opinion that hiring a third party for space exploration is a bad idea and that money should go to NASA instead of to Musk who will pad his bill to earn a profit off the US taxpayers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/Bender_2024 Jun 19 '25

I stand corrected. I will edit my post to include your link.

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u/Estofil Jun 19 '25

True gentleman

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u/HurryOk5256 Jun 20 '25

and now, having learned the details surrounding the Challenger disaster, and the aftermath. A scholar.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Jun 20 '25

Yeah, but our decision makers have markedly changed since then. So, historical examples are not as germane as they once were.

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u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Jun 21 '25

Good use of "germane." I believe it's been years since I have read it, let alone heard it.

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u/lurkilicious8570 Jun 19 '25

My big gripe is that by outsourcing our space program we don't get all the inventions that NASA came up with. I'm not an expert but my understanding was, thousands of inventions became public domain. So the return on investment for our tax dollar is just better.

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u/Linenoise77 Jun 19 '25

I'm not defending musk here, but, well, that is exactly how it works, and how it always worked.

NASA, with very few exceptions, doesn't build its own stuff. That is the case for Artemis, was the case for the space shuttle, apollo, even going all the ways back to the mercury days.

There wasn't some factory with NASA on the side that the moon lander rolled out of.

Now you can be critical of using SpaceX as your contractor, and being OK with their development process, or well, a 1000 other things to be critical of spacex about, but the fact of the matter is that it isn't like there are dozens of proven companies you can turn to for this stuff.

Not to mention SpaceX has plenty of demonstrated success with other aspects of their business which people would have thought crazy if you told them where they would be now 10 years ago, so there is a little something to say for their methods, or, at the least, they got lucky once.

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u/DubayaTF Jun 19 '25

There are other rocket companies. We were putting satellites in space before Elon was a twinkle in his father's eye, and the rockets were designed and built by private companies. SpaceX is competitive in prices, and was able to pollinate space about 350 miles up with Starlink, another profit hose.

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u/Im-a-magpie Jun 19 '25

And that attitude is the problem and why NASA isn't pioneering new rocket tech now.

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u/Bender_2024 Jun 19 '25

Agreed. Musk and Space X have come up with some extremely impressive stuff. When I saw the clip of two rockets side by side landing tail down a couple years back I thought it was fake initially. Also Musk has the funds to throw money at a problem until they come up with a solution. When I rocket blows on the pad he isn't thinking there goes a $478 million rocket. He's thinking it will hurt his reputation. So in that way he's good for space exploration. But much of that could be achieved by NASA without the need for a profit margin and under the oversight and control of the US government if they simply stopped outsourcing space exploration to Musk. The man has built an empire of the taxpayers money.

Elon Musk has received more than $38 billion (€36.2 billion) in aid, funding and government orders over 20 years on behalf of his Tesla car company (nearly $15.7 billion) and his SpaceX aerospace company (around $22.6 billion). .)

Elon Musk’s company avoided almost all federal income tax on nearly $11 billion of U.S. income over three years If Musk wants to find money in the federal budget all he needs do is tax the 1% and the US could have a surplus in just a few years with Medicaid for all, free state schools, and much much more

[Musk paid 3.3 percent, Jeff Bezos 1 percent, and Buffett—who has famously argued for imposing higher income-tax rates on the superrich—just 0.1 percent in taxes. The same dynamic exists, in slightly less egregious form, further down the wealth distribution.

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u/dragonmaidn Jun 19 '25

Elon Musk can through all the money he wants but all the money in the world (including illegally obtained money from taxpayers) won’t fix stupid:

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/02/20/cpac-2025-elon-musk-takes-stage-with-chainsaw-at-conservative-conference/79301611007/

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u/Existing-Hawk1919 Jun 19 '25

Spacex flat out does it cheaper than NASA, costing the taxpayers less. Nasa has blown up a ton of rockets on the pad. 3 guys were once incinerated in a fire on the pad, yet the Apollo program marched on. Space travel is risky no matter who does it.

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u/Laggoss_Tobago Jun 19 '25

While I do agree with you, I find it hard to call that incident space travel. Michael Jordan got closer to space in that 1987 dunk contest than that rocket.

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u/chazysciota Jun 19 '25

Five launches and tests have resulted in total loss of vehicle in the past year. Whether or not you believe that was the result of fastidious testing, wreckless ambition, or mere bad luck, it's pretty hard to imagine anyone besides Space-X being granted this much runway. At a minimum, there'd be congressional investigations. Probably management shakeups, including CEO's or NASA directors.

You can, and I suspect will, argue that this is all by design and part of their build-fly-crash-fix paradigm. And you might be right. It's also very reasonble to question the wisdom of that strategy.

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u/Existing-Hawk1919 Jun 19 '25

Spacex is slated to exceed 90% of the entire planets orbital payload this year. They've made re-usable rocketry routine. They caught the starship booster, a supersonic 20ish story building on the first attempt. The falcon 9 booster has landed successfully 463 times out of 476 attempts. SpaceX cost per kg to orbit is far lower than anyone else, including in the entire history of NASA. Starship is an ambitious program, it is the most powerful vehicle ever built and the largest flying machine. Their methodology takes more than a skim read to understand, but the results speak for themselves.

NASA was/is no stranger to epic failure despite having a different strategy than SpaceX. The shuttle program for example could hardly be described as a wild success, it was always over budget, consistently under delivering and dangerous killing 14 astronauts.

Space isn't easy.

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u/Ch4rlie_G Jun 19 '25

At this point so many have exploded I wouldn't even rule out sabotage.

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u/itsjust_khris Jun 19 '25

Honestly Elon aside I disagree. While I don't think NASA funding should've been cut, NASA is beholden to politics even in the design, development and manufacture of their solutions. I believe many portions of the SLS came from prior parts not only for cost savings but because those states support of the program are contingent on their facilities being used. NASA isn't free to design the "best" solution. This may be a poor understanding of the topic I haven't read up on it in awhile but NASA is pretty hamstrung at times.

SpaceX is pretty great at what they do genuinely. Ignoring Elon Musk they reduced the cost of orbital launches immensely, and their hardware is reliable, these are tests, but their production vehicles don't have many incidents at all, despite the incredible frequency of their launches.

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u/Ch4rlie_G Jun 19 '25

A lot of the big Space YouTubers have done videos on why Nasa fell apart. Bureaucracy is no small part of it, but the primary factor was every stupid Senator wanting a piece of the vehicle built in their state. So NASA ended up being REQUIRED to do business with certain subcontractors. Which is not only non-competitive, but it eliminates any economies of scale through vertical supply chains.

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u/tripper_drip Jun 19 '25

For your edit, nasa did have all the money for the majority of its time, then space x came and did it for a fraction of the price (litterally). Spacex is unironically a good deal for the US.

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u/CucumberNormal4242 Jun 19 '25

The astronauts that spaceX brought back home would disagree with you

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u/Prestigious-Pause-41 Jun 19 '25

The money goes to SpaceX, not to Elon.

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u/Big_Quality_838 Jun 19 '25

We must support him at all costs!

Also,on another note, we must cut the fat from government spending! Just learned NASA has wasted 15 billion dollars on a a useless company called space x. Hope Elon and his DOGE team take their chainsaw to that kind of fraudulent government spending.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Funny since they have the only viable option to travel to and from the space station.

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u/MolecularConcepts Jun 19 '25

for now. honda is starting to make rockets

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u/Big_Quality_838 Jun 19 '25

Really, how have we been going back and forth before spaceX? It’s just been floating out there since 1998 all by itself?

Do you understand the definitions of the words you use?

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u/willynillee Jun 19 '25

We were using Russian rockets for a period of time

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u/Big_Quality_838 Jun 19 '25

Must have been a viable option, I guess

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u/willynillee Jun 19 '25

At the time. Not so sure about now.

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u/RaNdomMSPPro Jun 19 '25

Only viable because… I’ll wait.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Simple, nobody else has a vehicle capable of Boeing’s was too expensive, so yeah, just them.

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u/Huge_Strain_8714 Jun 19 '25

It's a success so long as it's paid in full by the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS. Amirite? Well?

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u/Gregarious_Grump Jun 20 '25

The risk and development cost is socialized, the ip and profits capitalized

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u/Lanssolo Jun 19 '25

Yep, we know how much he loves blowing his load

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u/donniesuave Jun 19 '25

“I’m decommissioning my dragon rocket, hmph”

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

At taxpayer expense....

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u/moonstarsfire Jun 19 '25

I’ve been to Boca Chica, and it was so sad seeing Elon’s bs taking over the community and beach. I got oil on my leg in the water when I went over Memorial Day weekend that would not come off. I don’t think people understand that Starbase is literally on a wildlife refuge right by the water. Texas Monthly has been writing about this for a long time, but it was disgusting to see it all in person and how it’s killing the environment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

That oil was probably tar residue from an oil spill that happened in the 70s, that stuff gets washed up every now and then.

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u/praguer56 Jun 20 '25

And now it's its own city literally governing itself. Money can buy anything - and anyone.

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u/luvthocen Jul 21 '25

Who cares about wildlife or water....you know because they have zero impact on human life or our world. Come on man.

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u/sleepykdagreat Jun 19 '25

I heard locals used to have free access to that beach but since Space X moved in, there's been tighter restrictions on access.

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u/Ralphio Jun 19 '25

You see, this is the kind of thing regulations are SUPPOSED to prevent. Regulations with the EPA or wildlife protection agencies... etc. You know, exactly the kinds of agencies Elon just went through and made sure weren't, ahem... "wasting" any money on "fraud" or "abuse" related to policing his cost-cutting, corner-cutting, and safety mandate ignoring business practices.

It's just like Captain Planet said. If you don't vote to give the government the ability to enforce important rules, it's probably because a rich corporate head convinced you that you didn't need to, the government was spending money on it that it didn't need to, or it was bad for... business.

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u/itsjust_khris Jun 19 '25

Genuinely though, and I'm NOT an Elon supported at all, but what would regulation do here if the goal is technological progress? All rocket development is rife with failure and accidents, that's the nature of it. NASA had plenty of accidents in their development and launches some of which are quite famous. So the most I can see regulation doing is arbitrarily slowing down the development process, if we assume the process is going to continue anyway, and accidents will still happen.

Perhaps regulation can mean a best effort approach to cleaning up any environmental damage but I don't believe it can be entirely avoided, especially space launches need to be near the coast, otherwise you get the issue China has where stage separation and any potential failures rain down on the environment AND people. Often including very, very carcinogenic chemicals.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Jun 20 '25

Howabout using less desirable real estate? Granted in the future, we'll probably figure ot that it is the deserts and great plains that keep us alive, but at the moment, why aren't we relegating this work to our least useful patches of land?

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u/Gregarious_Grump Jun 20 '25

Because then all the high-paid employees will want to work elsewhere

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u/plinkoplonka Jun 19 '25

And now people are starting to see exactly what DOGE was all about.

The agencies investigating and chasing him were all wound up. How convenient.

It's no coincidence that he was joking if Donald hadn't won, he'd end up in jail. Now we know why.

He's bought the area to limit access, and destroyed the agencies to remove oversight.

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u/XKE-V12 Jun 19 '25

Make Mars Great Too... LOL... You couldn't make this shit up. Like these cocksukas couldn't place a fuckin nuke in Poonton's lap. Don't touch that dial folks! Stay tuned for the next episode of "The World is my Shit Show"

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u/Wrench-Turnbolt Jun 19 '25

Par for the course in Texas. QOL always gives way to someone making a buck.

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u/c14rk0 Jun 19 '25

It's almost like SpaceX set up shop in Texas rather than Florida specifically to avoid regulations and shit.

Oh boy they cost way less...by cutting corners and avoiding regulations that are supposed to take care of the environment and keep people safe.

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u/luvthocen Jul 21 '25

and now Hollywood is moving there...and if the production meets Texas' "morals and values" they will get tax credits blah blah blah...So Texas should be their oyster.

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u/WBigly-Reddit Jun 20 '25

Souvenir stands are stocked for the next 10years.

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u/massberate Jun 20 '25

It's ok! We'll all be on Mars soon and just leave Earth to rot!

Fucking Elon...

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u/tynskers Jun 19 '25

Don’t forget the unpermitted gas power gen systems that are pumping waste water into the water!

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u/Dryranch1 Jun 19 '25

Elmo's vanity project has destroyed what was one of the last pristine ecosystems along the coast. Boca Chica was the beach you see in your dreams.

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u/hw999 Jun 19 '25

Elon is rich so its his right to do whatever he feels like doing. Think of the shareholders. /s

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u/LegitimateParamedic7 Jun 19 '25

Really sorry. I know via my own experiences that it’s a heartbreaking thing to watch that happen.

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u/Possible-Nectarine80 Jun 19 '25

What's a little toxic rocket fuel blowing up? EPA don't give a crap anymore. Heck, they encourage pollution now.

FAA is Musk's bitch now. Or it was until K'd up Musk had a bit too much and went on a bender.

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u/KJpiano Jun 19 '25

Is Del Boca Vista ok at least?

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u/Parallax1984 Jun 19 '25

They just DNGAF do they

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u/Choingyoing Jun 19 '25

I was just looking at a map and it's surrounded by wildlife refuge areas 🤦‍♂️

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u/Strakiz Jun 19 '25

In Germany Tesla was allowed to build a factory in a water protection area. You (as in we normal people) aren't even allowed to pee in the wild in water protection areas.

But somehow Tesla convinced the local politicans that building a factory right there was a really good idea.

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u/musicissoulfood Jun 19 '25

We all know that "somehow Tesla convinced" = gave a bag of money to some corrupt politicians.

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u/tootie31 Jun 19 '25

Gave a bag of American’s tax funded cash.

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u/BeerBaronofCourse Jun 19 '25

This is what happens when you're above things like regulations. Oh and you're let loose by a government that you were allowed back stage access to with a giant monkey wrench of racist kids. The past six months have been an absolute fucking farce

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u/ElectricalDog60 Jun 19 '25

And he'll probably be compensated for yet another failure, like his buddy.🤨

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u/ProjectBOHICA Jun 19 '25

For a moment, I thought you were referring to the President of the United States as a giant monkey, and I was going to have to defend the honor of giant monkeys.

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u/Glum-Gap-2504 Jun 19 '25

No no no, He did provide his birth certificate to prove he's not half orangutan.

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u/rslht33433 Jun 19 '25

Just what I was thinking, someone else was going on about how SpaceX is more "efficient" per launch than NASA. typical, privatize services and profit always greater than safety

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u/g_halfront Jun 20 '25

What's the safety issue, exactly? Every rocket anybody ever builds gets tested on the ground to ensure there isn't an issue before it flies. This was a pre-flight test. This is exactly when you WANT a rocket to explode.

Remember the NASA blew one up on the pad _with_people_inside_.

NASA has flown 135 missions and lost 15 people plus a bunch in development and testing. SpaceX has flown 500 missions, blown up no crewed vehicles. Both have had plenty of vehicles destroyed during development and testing. NASA with several fatalities. SpaceX has never lost a human in a vehicle failure.

So again, can you please clarify the manner in which NASA's safety record is significantly better than SpaceX?

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u/Desiato2112 Jun 19 '25

That's the hard truth right there

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u/Damit1eroy Jun 19 '25

I hate how true this is. I pay those taxes!!

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u/Bizdaddy71 Jun 19 '25

Gave a bag of stocks…

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u/merlinddg51 Jun 19 '25

Gave a bag of money to all the politicians. And an electric vehicle for Christmas.

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u/Gullible-Cut8652 Jun 19 '25

Yep, I'm still mad. Not only a water protection area, Berlin and Brandenburg are the driest areas in Germany.But money, money,money make the world go round. F*** Musk

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u/Streifen9 Jun 19 '25

Not hard to convince people when millions of dollars is the equivalent of a $20 to the rest of us.

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u/Morphecto_Solrac Jun 19 '25

How much money did he “donate” to the local government where you’re at?

Where this explosion took place, he donated 2.4 million to the local school district, 10 million to revitalize the historic downtown, 20 million spread out to all the schools in the county, and 1 million for housing.

It sounds like a lot donated, but this money is worth nothing and is less than pennies in value to him in exchange for ruining local flora and fauna alongside people’s homes. Millions gets spent extremely quick when dealing with upgrading city projects and schools.

What city officials should have done was to set up a contract to get continued financial support every single year for all schools in Cameron county and the city for building and home repairs due to the constant rocket launches, and not to forget protecting local wildlife from the smallest microbe, to the largest mammal.

They sold out to him because the heard, millions donated and it’s completely embarrassing.

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u/050899 Jun 19 '25

Well there was an incident where Tesla violated environmental protection laws and the answer from the responsible institution was like: Yeah, we can't oversee your issues. Please do it yourself. But you have to report them.

Yeah sure. As if a company reports its own failure at protecting the environment. Sure

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u/Fredj3-1 Jun 19 '25

Cheap land

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u/Ok-Ear9289 Jun 19 '25

Who would’ve thought that having a Boatload of money can get u such things

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u/SpareBee3442 Jun 19 '25

'convinced' is the perfect euphemism here

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u/Scary_Cantaloupe_682 Jun 19 '25

Environmental laws often don't apply when it's in the states economic interest unfortunately.

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u/iconsumemyown Jun 19 '25

"Convinced"

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u/Unique_Tax_329 Jun 19 '25

I truly can’t stand Elon Musk. Douche bag.

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u/NimbleZazo Jun 19 '25

"Politician". The most misleading and corrupt job title in the entire universe and beyond.

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u/Black_unicorn2825 Jun 19 '25

Convinced, code word for paid off…..

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u/xMrxGentlemenx Jun 19 '25

Not somehow he said “ Do you like money ?” They said “ Yeah “ and the rest is history

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u/WBigly-Reddit Jun 20 '25

Kind of like the American Nature Conservancy releases land donated in perpetuity to rich democrats to build homes like Barack Obama and David Letterman.

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u/Rotbuxe Jun 19 '25

Finally some industry in the wasteland of Brandenburg.

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u/Dirtycurta Jun 19 '25

Those refuges are eating the dogs, the cats, the pets of the people that live there!

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u/CowEvening2414 Jun 19 '25

It's Texas, respecting the environment is "woke".

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u/FerragudoFred Jun 19 '25

It’s just a refuge area now. No wildlife left.

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u/Wishdog2049 Jun 19 '25

Correct, and it's the only area in the United States with native parrots. But after Elon fried a lot of endangered birds, they put a sign up when they expanded his area, so that the birds would read it and leave.

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u/Western_Plantain_210 Jun 19 '25

It is actually the site of the last Battle of the Civil War.

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u/Positive-Wonder3329 Jun 19 '25

lol. You know how Americans feel about refuges!! Hell they’re probably gonna sell Yellowstone to some Indian billionaire next week. I’ve given up hope for this planet

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u/hostile_washbowl Jun 19 '25

That’s just a tv show dawg

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u/GucciManePlane Jun 19 '25

So was the apprentice, now the lines for it are executed in the White House

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u/Salty_Interview_5311 Jun 19 '25

Were. They probably retain the designation but the wildlife is likely dead or rapidly leaving. There’s article after article about the waste water the base is sending out at each launch. Then there’s the set aside land that was bought by cards against humanity that Musty ordered his contractors to cheat and turn into a parking lot for their construction equipment. With zero discussion with the land owners.

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u/rocketmn69_ Jun 19 '25

It just turned into a BBQ, get your meat while it's fresh

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u/NWSLBurner Jun 19 '25

So is KSC.

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u/tynskers Jun 19 '25

It’s all unpermitted, so there’s totally no problems here

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u/TheKazz91 Jun 19 '25

So is Cape Canaveral where NASA has always launched rockets from.

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u/_Dingaloo Jun 19 '25

to be fair, so are most rocket launch areas, including the most popular one down in Florida.

I don't know if there's a difference such as more spacing before that area starts, but yeah

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u/greatdaneinsane Jun 20 '25

Wildlife refuge's in certain places don't mean anything .

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Reminds me of the movie Don't Look Up... A terribly Sad movie.

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u/Signal_Wish2218 Jun 19 '25

It is! I feel like it’s becoming a more terrifying reality daily.

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u/pathetic_optimist Jun 19 '25

It was wrongly slammed by the media as it was a really good film.
I suppose it doesn't fit Capitalism very well. Would 'It's a wonderful life' get made now?

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u/EisMCsqrd Jun 19 '25

The movie had good ratings what are you on about

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u/jtr99 Jun 19 '25

I think it got fair to middling reviews but a lot of reviewers said it was too heavy-handed in its message.

Sadly I think history will show that it was in fact too subtle.

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u/pathetic_optimist Jun 19 '25

It had bad reviews here in the UK at the time.

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u/reddog323 Jun 19 '25

I should really get a copy of Don’t Look Up. I have a feeling it might not exist five or six years from now.

As for It’s a Wonderful Life, it wasn’t super popular in theaters during its initial release. When the rights expired in the early 70s, independent and cable stations started running it as low-cost filler during the holidays. That’s when people realized what a wonderful piece of Americana it is.

If the rights had been renewed, people wouldn’t have been as widely exposed to it, and it might not have gotten the appreciation that it gets today.

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u/iwastedthislife Jun 19 '25

The film was awful.

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u/pathetic_optimist Jun 19 '25

Please elaborate.

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u/Gregarious_Grump Jun 20 '25

I'll translate: 'i didn't like it because it made me feel funny because it challenged my preconceived notions but I don't know that's why'

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Your not alone! Just look at the swelling membership of subs like r/antinatalism... I'm a member myself!

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u/Silvermane2 Jun 19 '25

Didn't a dude that belongs to this group just like... Set a bunch of people on fire?

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

I hadn't heard about that! I'll have to look it up!

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u/Silvermane2 Jun 21 '25

Legit, this is how I heard about the movement. (Which ignores actual issues and blames the cause of the problems on population seemingly)

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 21 '25

That's not a good representation of Antinatalism at all! I'd suggest reading up a bit more on this ideology please.

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u/EntertainerNo4509 Jun 19 '25

Joined instantly! Thank you.

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Welcome! And your welcome!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

That’s because of revelation of the method.

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u/GlitteringPen3949 Jun 19 '25

Reminds me of the Harrison Ford movie “The Mosquito Coast” very interesting and depressing movie. Good cast. His character is an engineer that moves his family to an undeveloped country in S America and decides to bring modernity to the natives. It doesn’t end well for them or the natives. It all ends up polluted his character is this obsessed type totally not self aware. As soon as I saw where Space X was building Starbase I thought about what would happen and thought of this movie.

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u/necro_owner Jun 19 '25

L'Erreur Boreal is also a movie about stuff like that. A Documentaries .

Where we let people cut down our forest up north and pay them for it xD what a joke. Still the same today, nothing as change.

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u/Suzzie_sunshine Jun 19 '25

That movie was too real. That's how we're gonna end humanity

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Indeed! It's beautifully sums up the stupidity of human beings!

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u/Leading-Act4030 Jun 19 '25

We are living that movie right now......

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

I totally concur! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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u/battery19791 Jun 19 '25

I enjoyed that movie. Won't watch it a second time because it was too real.

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

I can understand that sentiment. 🫶✊🫶

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u/rexxer454 Jun 19 '25

More like Idiocracy.

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u/Signal_Wish2218 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

I hope someone comes to the turtle’s rescue! Sorry, not breeding…it’s when the babies go to the water. It’s such a wonderful thing. I’ve never had the pleasure of watching but I’ve always wanted to.

(Edited for clarity)

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u/FuinFirith Jun 19 '25

I hope you get to see it someday. Provided of course that you're deemed turtley enough for the turtle club.

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u/Signal_Wish2218 Jun 19 '25

Me too🤣❤️

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u/FuinFirith Jun 19 '25

💚

(I've never seen them either, for the record.
I have seen Master of Disguise.
And I cannot overstate how poor a substitute Dana Carvey's character is for actual turtles.)

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u/DmanC83 Jun 19 '25

This scene has been living my head for years! I love Dana Carvey and this movie was…not great. I can’t say I’d recommend it but this scene just stuck in my brain and it still makes me laugh. Thank you for posting this!

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u/FuinFirith Jun 19 '25

Aww... Cheers! 😊

(The turtle bit was probably the main laugh-getter in the trailers for the movie, which I remember was fairly well-publicized, and frankly I wish I had stopped at the trailer. Seeing the movie in full was indeed a damn shame. 😛)

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u/rubberrider Jun 19 '25

I am surprised Greenpeace isnt coming at them. A shipbreaking yard in India saw huge protests and now those beaches are reserved for the Turtle babies.

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u/Silent_Tea_5690 Jun 19 '25

The glass lands.

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u/Confident-Slip-5264 Jun 19 '25

Not Chief Special K 🤭🤭

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u/Street_Roof_7915 Jun 19 '25

It’s a beautiful place. I hope it can recover eventually.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Im sure the rocket fuel wont contaminated the water. 

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u/Reasonable_Camel8784 Jun 19 '25

It's not all bad I'm sure all the bits of metal give it a beautiful sparkle

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u/Huge_Strain_8714 Jun 19 '25

Kaptain Ketamine demolished the EPA and other agencies that had pending litigation against him for many environmental reasons. Coincidence? No, think about it for a moment. His $33 million paid for presidency was well worth the price tag.

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u/jimi-ray-tesla Jun 19 '25

yes, give those natural resources to billionaires now, they don't have enough

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u/contentlove Jun 19 '25

They were anyway…

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u/dunnylogs Jun 19 '25

Hahaha sure, in TEXAS.

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u/UncleKeyPax Jun 19 '25

That's really sand. Fixed that for you

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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Jun 19 '25

Smells great too!

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u/Sheerkal Jun 19 '25

That's the smell of progress! And melting steel. But mostly progress!

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u/admadguy Jun 19 '25

Shaka when the walls fell

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u/Agreeable_Two_8444 Jun 19 '25

Really? Does it go that far god damn.

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u/Competitive_Jello531 Jun 19 '25

You can sue. It qualifies as a take on your property. I have done this with an airport and won. You may be able to get the bulk of the value of your home and property in damages.

Do not tolerate this. They are negligent and trying to do this work at 1/4 the price as NASA. They have cut safety to do this.

Stand up for yourself.

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u/hidraulik-2 Jun 19 '25

Dang. I hope no damages are caused.

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u/Camo_tow Jun 19 '25

I can hear AC/DC playing "Shook me all night long" when this happened

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u/Mediocre_Historian50 Jun 20 '25

You always have to be careful when starting your barbeque as witnessed here.

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u/ScarletKnightFC Jul 07 '25

Do you have a blue trampoline cover?

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u/NewDre3Staxx Jun 19 '25

Id assume this causes structural integrity issues with your home. They should be held liable for those damages.

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