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| Elon Musk wins vote to create his own city in Texas as part of ambitious plan to colonize Mars |
| 2025-05-04 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk has won a vote to create his own Texas city as part of his ambitious pledge to colonize Mars. The SpaceX boss will turn his company's headquarters at Boca Chica - at the southern tip of the Lone Star State - into a city named Starbase. Residents voted 173 to 4 to incorporate Starbase as a city, Bloomberg reported. Most of the voters who live there are Musk's employees at SpaceX, which he relocated to Texas over California's new gender identity laws earlier this year. The vote also appointed the city's first mayor Bobby Peden and two city commissioners - Jenna Petrzelka and Jordan Buss. All three are current and former SpaceX employees. Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars. Musk first floated the idea of Starbase in 2021 and approval of the new city was all but certain. Most of the 283 eligible voters in the area are Starbase workers. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Marching Morons |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-04 18:21 |
| #1 Someone help me here. What was the name of that 1970's SciFi, where the elites started a Space Mass Travel shame, telling people they were colonizing a like Earth planet 20 + travel years away. Only to dump them along the way to reduce earth population? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-05-04 18:13 |