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From what I see in Germany, this project will be drowned to death in meetings to prepare meetings to define policies even before the first rivet is ordered to be produced.


Well don't worry, we have a fully stacked Starship waiting up to half a year for a Fish & Wildlife survey. Take your time.


As it should be. Musk's "To Mars!" shouldn't just get to say "fuck Earth, we have grander plans".


Zander was saying "Forward to Mars!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Zander but he didn't have the technology yet.


Some local fish and wildlife is not the same as Earth.


How many “Fuck local fish and wildlife”’s does it take to get to an unacceptable level of destruction for Musk’s profit, I mean, mission?

We can survive six months of an environmental impact study.


The attitude proceeds from the same presupposition, which doesn’t seem—using planetary ecology as a yardstick—to have much keeping it in check.


Whar else is Earth but not those (and others)?


Sometimes I think Germany was infected with the sabotage manual [1] and some people believed it was the right way to do things.

[1] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simple_Sabotage_Fi...


Don't forget armies of lawyers spamming hundreds of lawsuits at each and every step no matter how small.

Can't buy a screw without every single other company that might sell screws filing lawsuits. Repeat this for every part, every service, etc. The only winners are the legal parasite class who are very powerful in Germany. This kind of problem isn't unique to Germany of course, but they exemplify it. And if you try to cut through this BS then German people get spooked; I think due to their history they prefer being bogged down in legal BS and are prone to be suspicious of any attempt to cut through red tape. I don't think this will change until the collective psyche of Germany heals.


Sigh. I wish you were wrong.




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