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2022-04-07 Science & Technology

Army Corp of Engr pulls SpaceX expansion of Boca Chica as a functional spaceport

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Posted by 3dc 2022-04-07 02:35|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Musk is now an Enemy of the People. The left will not stop until they crush him.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 04:53|| 2022-04-07 04:53|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Yes, Musk is poised to begin the clean-up of one of the Deep State's premier disinformation, data collection and monitoring platforms. They will attempt to ruin him.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-07 05:33|| 2022-04-07 05:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Sh*tter is a toilet. All Sh*tter users belong face down in a toilet. For good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 05:34|| 2022-04-07 05:34|| Front Page Top

#4 All of them? Conservatives too?

Posted by Lampedusa the Cheap8426 2022-04-07 06:48|| 2022-04-07 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 "Conservatives" on Sh*tter are Conservative Inc. grifters. Down they go.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 06:53|| 2022-04-07 06:53|| Front Page Top

#6 /\MM, Your brush is too broad. I was never a fan of Twitter, avoided it entirely (Facebook as well), UNTIL Musk bought into Twitter. Then I signed up, mainly to support him. And I am definitely conservative.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2022-04-07 07:17|| 2022-04-07 07:17|| Front Page Top

#7 No. No. No. You are wasting your time if you think Musk will suddenly turn Sh*tter into an honest broker. If you have to believe that for your own mental health, more's the pity.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 07:19|| 2022-04-07 07:19|| Front Page Top

#8 If you have conservative instincts, go do something that matters. "Signing up" on Sh*tter ain't it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 07:20|| 2022-04-07 07:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Did you know: Panhandling, nude dancing and burning the US flag is "free speech" according to SCROTUS? You think "signing up" or commenting on Sh*tter is going to advance freedom?

Wise up.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 07:23|| 2022-04-07 07:23|| Front Page Top

#10 No, but I go every now and then to trigger some people.

Posted by Chris 2022-04-07 08:07|| 2022-04-07 08:07|| Front Page Top

#11 If free speech is worth anything (it more valuable than gold), it's defined by where you exercise it. If you are shouting it down a public toilet, you are pissing it away.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 08:14|| 2022-04-07 08:14|| Front Page Top

#12
Could the Biden/DC swamp regime be any more obvious in applying political revenge?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-04-07 08:16|| 2022-04-07 08:16|| Front Page Top

#13 MM, did you forget your coffee this morning? You're a little feisty today.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-07 09:18|| 2022-04-07 09:18|| Front Page Top

#14 I can't stand coffee. I do cold tea. This issue, you bet I'm feisty. Free speech is the whole game. People who believe they are doing it on social media are basically traitors.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 09:21|| 2022-04-07 09:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Twitter is a privately run club. Thing is, it's not committed to entertaining free speech. It's owned and run by people who are invested in the globalist game and thus it empowers select voices only. It makes a shew of being egalitarian and non-partisan, but only to attract users and appear virtuous, like any other company. Musk may not be able to influence the underlying liberal globalist bent of Twitter. The only answer to twitter is that we all evolve more Rantburgs.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-07 09:33|| 2022-04-07 09:33|| Front Page Top

#16 3dc: I can't read that letter, there's something wrong with facebook on my end. Can you summarize?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-07 09:34|| 2022-04-07 09:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Social media is a closed arena. If you believe you are moving anyone to the right by "participating" there, you are a dimwit.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-07 09:38|| 2022-04-07 09:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Thing From Snowy Mountain: Rantburg would not accept the images I took from twitter unless shrunk in size and resolution to where my eyes had trouble reading it. I can try again if you want.

Posted by 3dc 2022-04-07 11:37|| 2022-04-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

#19 Censorship is just one of the problems with Twitter. Musk might loosen that up a bit, but I doubt he can fundamentally transform the platform into something worthwhile.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-04-07 11:38|| 2022-04-07 11:38|| Front Page Top

#20 Thing, I don't currently have OCR software on my platform. Later in the day I will install some and try to OCR the images into text.

Posted by 3dc 2022-04-07 12:01|| 2022-04-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#21 Images had stuff in them that disrupted OCR functions.

Posted by 3dc 2022-04-07 12:26|| 2022-04-07 12:26|| Front Page Top

#22 Thing, I don't currently have OCR software on my platform. Later in the day I will install some and try to OCR the images into text.

Modern professional OCR reading software is very good.

Posted by badanov 2022-04-07 12:30|| 2022-04-07 12:30|| Front Page Top

#23 The Verge has a article with the documents here:
LINK

Posted by 3dc 2022-04-07 12:35|| 2022-04-07 12:35|| Front Page Top

#24 V-flat. The best ocr app. Tiny. Works.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-07 12:36|| 2022-04-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#25 The nit:
The letter cited confusion over SpaceX’s No Action Alternative, given conflicting statements the company has made in public and in response to the Corps. Specifically, in its October analysis about alternatives, SpaceX eliminated the possibility of launching Starship out of Cape Canaveral, Florida — the company’s primary launch site for flying the Falcon 9, according to the Corps. But in February, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mentioned during a public broadcast that the company would move to Cape Canaveral to launch Starship if SpaceX did not receive certain regulatory approval. The Corps noted that moving to Cape Canaveral seemingly works as a No Action Alternative. If SpaceX was serious about that possibility, that would require a much more rigorous analysis, according to the Corps.

As a result of this incomplete information and confusion, the Corps told SpaceX in the new letter that its permit application has been withdrawn. But while SpaceX’s permit is closed for now, it seems like it can easily be reopened again.

Posted by 3dc 2022-04-07 12:41|| 2022-04-07 12:41|| Front Page Top

#26 I spend enough time on Rantburg. You have to get away from the computer, go outside and see the real world once in a while.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-07 13:18|| 2022-04-07 13:18|| Front Page Top

#27 If I was an alt-right conspiracy theorist, I would think that there's a conspiracy by the benevolent federals of trying to stop a crass capitalist.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-04-07 13:27|| 2022-04-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

#28 3dc: I found an explanation of the letter on reddit's spacex subreddit.

Hopefully by the end of the month things will start to get better.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-07 14:13|| 2022-04-07 14:13|| Front Page Top

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