Elon musk $20 billion dollar futuristic city
If you are looking forward to a future full with awesome technology and living in a city
that has it’s own space launch unit, look no further as on march 2nd 2021 elon musk
tweeted “what better name for a city than starbase” he later went on to tweet that
he’s thinking of building a city in texas and in a another tweet he was seen with his
girlfriend grimmes and their son X Ash A 12 under the caption, starbase texas.
Now elon hasn’t made serious intentions regarding building a city in texas his one
liner tweets appear to look like he’s at the very least considering it. We know elon
intends to create a settlement on mars using the star ship currently being built at boca
chica, a town in texas which is surrounded by methane rich oil wells, with no portable
water supply and largely disserted as most of it’s inhabitants abandoned the town after
a hurricane in 1967.
Most of boca chica’s inhabitants today are spaceX employee’s, so starbase might just
be a private city for spaceX workers to do whatever space engineers do. But for boca
chica to become star base, all it’s inhabitants would have to sign a petition to create a
new city and send it to the local county judge and badabing badaboong star base will officially
become a city, with it’s own legislation and law enforcement. However, the county judge
of the local area of Cameron county where boca chica is situated, judge eddie Trevino
said “ if spaceX and elon musk would like to pursue down this path, they musk abide
by all state incorporation statutes. Cameron county will process any inappropriate petitions
in conformity with applicable law” so he was basically telling elon and spaceX not
to get ahead of themselves. In trying to build a new city elon might have to face a strong
legal battle with judge Trevino but we all know who would if that was ever the case because
nothing stops elon he just doesn’t know when to quit and he never loses.
Musk intends to use the boca chica spaceX facility to test launch rockets and eventually
launch rockets with human passengers to mars and star base might play a key role. So far,
the spaceX south texas launch site, also known as the boca chica launch site, is a private
production facility and also serves as a sort of space port constructed by spaceX , it’s
purpose is to provide spaceX with an exclusive launch site to better accommodate it’s launches
and to meet tight launch windows.
Initially, the site was intented to support the falcon 9 launch program and in addition
it was to launch the falcon heavy program as well as a variety of reusable sub orbital
launch vehicles however in in late 2019, spaceX announced a change of plan, saying that the
saying the boca chica would be used exclusively for SpaceX's next-generation space craft,
the starship. Which is interesting because the star ship is designed to carry cargo and
people to mars so this ties with the star base idea of being a sort of mars space port
as elon pointed out in one of his tweets “ from thence mars and hence the stars”
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