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To: linMcHlp

Looked up Boca Chica and found this...

Boca Chica was a small, seaside village at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Mexican border with just a few streets before SpaceX moved in, promising to turn the town into a terrestrial terminus for space travelers.

The company broke ground on its launch facility in 2014 and started testing rockets there in 2019. As work on the project progressed, SpaceX gradually bought up most of Boca Chica’s three dozen homes, though a few homeowners held out, according to reports.

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“Creating the city of Starbase, Texas,” Musk tweeted in March 2021. “From thence to Mars. And hence, the stars.” Starbase, he added, “would encompass an “area much larger than Boca Chica.”

“Something could go wrong on Earth,” he said at an event on the Starbase launchpad last year [2022], according to The Sunday Times.

“We are life’s guardians,” he said. “The creatures that we love, they can’t build spaceships but we can bring them with us.”


5 posted on 03/14/2024 12:38:30 AM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: deks

I did not know that. Tx.


6 posted on 03/14/2024 12:41:28 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: deks

There is also a Boca Chica in the FL Keys.


20 posted on 03/14/2024 4:44:33 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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