Elon Musk tonight on overregulation:

[Elderberry]

Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerritt

Elon Musk tonight on overregulation:

"I got a bunch of nutty stories. SpaceX had to do this study to see if Starship would hit a shark. And I'm like... it's a big ocean. There are a lot of sharks! It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely. So we said, 'Fine, we’ll do the analysis. Can you give us the shark data?' They were like, 'No, we can’t give you the shark data.'

Well, then, okay, we’re in a bit of a quandary. How do we solve this shark probability issue? They said, 'Well, we could give it to our western division, but we don’t trust them.' I’m like, 'Am I in a comedy sketch here?!'

Eventually, we got the data and could run the analysis to say, 'Yeah, the sharks are going to be fine.' But they wouldn’t let us proceed with the launch until we did this crazy shark analysis.

Then we thought, 'Okay, now we’re done.' But then they said, 'What about whales?'

When you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percent of the surface area do you see as whale? If Starship did hit a whale, honestly, it’s like the whale had it coming, cause the odds are... so low. It’s like Final Destination: Whale Edition.

And then they said, 'What if the rocket goes underwater, then explodes, and the whales have hearing damage?' This is real!

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1847846282410258876

[Elderberry]

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal

🚨🇺🇸 ELON: OVERREGULATION IS STOPPING US FROM GETTING ANYTHING DONE

"SpaceX can build a rocket faster than the government can move paperwork, and it’s getting worse every year.

SpaceX got fined $140,000 for dumping drinking water on the ground at Starbase to cool the launch pad.

It rains so much there that roads get flooded, but the EPA said they wouldn’t process future applications until we paid those fines.

We just got held for ransom, basically.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. SpaceX had to do a study to see if Starship would hit a shark. It’s a big ocean with a lot of sharks, but we had to do the analysis.

Then it was, ‘What about whales?’ It goes on and on.

We’ve got to stop this madness, or we won’t be able to get anything done."

Source: @America

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1847860294305141050

[PeteS in CA]

The chances that regulocrats know a damn thing about what they regulate are very low, and that they care whether their regs are doable are vanishingly low.

[AL]

Love to see Trump take a lesson from Milei (sp?) of Argentina and cut the federal budget in half first year.  Half again second year.  Hopefully, states would follow the lead.  Start moving agencies out of DC and spread them out in central US.  Wishful thinking I know.