Boca Chica beach is about a 7 hour, 475 mile drive to the eastern border with LA.
Posted on 02/18/2023 8:45:43 PM PST by Saije
Residents of Elon Musk’s “space city” in southeastern Texas blasted the SpaceX CEO’s treatment of them as he transformed their quiet beach town into his grand Starbase vision, a report said.
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.
“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.”
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In 2012, Musk received bids from states and territories that wanted to host a new SpaceX base, with Florida and Puerto Rico being the two leading candidates before Musk settled on Boca Chica after meeting with Texas officials, according to The Sunday Times.
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In March 2021, Musk claimed that Starbase’s population will “grow by several thousand people over the next year or two” as the company — headquartered in Hawthorne, California — expands its workforce.
To sweeten the deal for prospective residents and local officials, Musk pledged to donate $20 million to schools in Cameron County, which is home to the Boca Chica.
He also said he’d give $10 million toward “downtown revitalization” in Brownsville, where about 29 percent of the population lives in poverty.
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I believe he did.
If he was still a demonrat this story would not see the light of day
damn you and you jobs elon musk!!
If only the NYT had a globe…
Nothing in this excerpt supports the premise of the headline.
Something’s no bueno about big rockets in Boca Chica
What did the residents expect? You’ve got to be pretty dim not to comprehend what is coming when someone says they want to build a major rocket factory and launch pad in your community, including eventually launching rockets to Mars.
Per the article, one or two residents or former residents are quoted and one said:
“He picked Texas because it’s a dirty red state where no one’s going to care what he does in a poor border town,” Flores told the paper.
Flores said she “knew when I saw them putting the launchpad right behind the dune line that it was going to be a disaster for our beach.”
“He has destroyed a pristine paradise in the name of saving animals? Come on,” she said, dismissing the world’s richest man as “just a delusional billionaire.”
“They are destroying an ecosystem that has been there for hundreds of years,” Flores added.”
Boca Chica Beach is.
It's not like he derailed a chemical train and intentionally set it on fire...
-PJ
It is in South Texas, very far from SE.
Please provide a map of the boundaries of SE Texas.
You can’t take 5 seconds to Google it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Texas#/media/File:Texas_Map-SETX.PNG
Boca Chica beach is about a 7 hour, 475 mile drive to the eastern border with LA.
Boca chica blvd Rt 4 runs near brownsville and the water.
Thanks.
IOW bs.
Find the centroid of Texas.
Draw a east/west line through same.
Draw a north/south line through same.
SE Texas now becomes obvious.
So he promised they would grow. They agreed. Now they’re mad that it’s growing? Do I have that right?
The article conveniently forgets to mention that Elon offered to buy every house in Boca Chica village for three times the appraised value. Only a handfull of people refused the offer. They said it wasn’t enough.
Check the dates of when he started building and when he started launching rockets.
So several years later two people decided to complain?
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