Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim.

I really wish media outlets could just quote Elon Musk being insane, then point out the hazard faced by doing experimental rocketry in protected areas. You wouldn’t do this in the grand canyon, so don’t do it in Hawaii.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency that oversees air and space travel in the US, announced in May that it had given Elon Musk permission to detonate rocket ships from his company SpaceX over these protected waters.

False. It’d be nice if professional journalists could cite their sources. I think they’re referring to this. The goal isn’t to blow up more rockets, but the wording here implies that. This is permission to detonate rockets the same way planes are permitted to crash into buildings.

There’s a story to be told about an FAA that excuses environmental damages due to a failure in US governance. You could talk about how space exploration research has been historically a public endeavour, and that the turn to privatization is troublesome from both an economic and security standpoint. But instead, we get this rage bait.

I changed the topic title to the article lede, since the original article title is pure rage/clickbait.

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