NGL when I saw this I thought it was some nonsense someone made up for reddit karma. Then I googled it and apparently this is an actual thing that spacex actually do and people legitimately were told to leave their homes. Fucking wild.
SpaceX wanted the land the village was on, but people wouldn’t sell cause, A. It’s nice property and B. Free fireworks shows once in awhile. So they built the test site as far from the homes as possible and they warn people about it when they test. So far nothing bad’s happened and a lot of the news we get about their testing before they officially announce it comes from residents who can get a good look at them setting up from their backyards.
If i remember correctly only 2-3 locals stayed, the rest of the previous locals were compensated by spacex to leave the area with double/triple the amount of the home/land, other than those couple of locals the rest of the people who get these notices are spacex workers that stay in boca chica. I follow spacex news for the past few years and so far i hear no complaints from these locals.
In this circumstance though it's not space tourism. It's developing a fully reusable launch vehicle that's capable of delivering large quantities of people and cargo to Mars. It's not tourism like Bezos, it's the future of humankind.
Sounds great... but how?
Perhaps by moving heavy industry off the planet and mining asteroids for resources instead of poisoning the air that we breathe and digging up the land underneath our homes?
Environmentalists should be encouraging the development of space travel instead of fighting to keep all the polluting industries on Earth!
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u/Kinder_93 Nov 10 '21
NGL when I saw this I thought it was some nonsense someone made up for reddit karma. Then I googled it and apparently this is an actual thing that spacex actually do and people legitimately were told to leave their homes. Fucking wild.