It's ridiculous that a petulant billionaire has such power to disrupt and jeopardize United States public air travel safety, it's unbelievable that he's allowed to do this.

Sooner or later there'll be a catastrophe and nothing will really be done about it.

There ought to be a law: beyond $1B, one can only spend their money on fast cars and women.

 

So, NASA gets a pass?

Let me see,

They lost 3 crewmen due to a poorly designed hatch during the Apollo program, and 2 entire shuttle crews, then there are the four pilots killed during the X-Plane program.

Better look out, because there is now a billionaire running that program.

 

There ought to be a law: beyond $1B, one can only spend their money on fast cars and women.

There ought to be a law, Musk is himself held personally and criminally accountable for any deaths SpaceX causes, things would soon settle down.

What kind of society allows this to become a new normal.

 

Musk is himself held personally and criminally accountable for any deaths SpaceX causes,

Yes! And no credit for all the lives he made better.

 

 

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/...d-idea-of-what-a-big-rocket-explosion-can-do/

All of them have, or will soon have, rockets burning methane or liquified natural gas, replacing legacy launch vehicles fueled by kerosene, liquid hydrogen, or solid propellants. There are good technical reasons for making the switch, but until last week, engineers had scant real-world data on the damage that millions of pounds of methane and liquid oxygen would cause if a fully loaded rocket exploded on the launch pad or soon after liftoff.

 

There ought to be a law: beyond $1B, one can only spend their money on fast cars and women.

Booze. Lots and lots of booze.