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SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas
SpaceX is reportedly shifting its work on prototypes of its next-gen "Starship" launch vehicle from Los Angeles to Texas. The news comes less than a week after the aerospace company announced its plans to lay off 10% of its 6,000-person workforce to tackle its more ambitious projects. An anonymous reader shares the report from Space.com: In a statement, SpaceX said it was now planning to build prototypes of its Starship vehicle, the upper stage of its next-generation reusable launch system, at its site in South Texas originally designed to serve as a launch site. An initial prototype version of that vehicle has been taking shape in recent weeks at the site in advance of 'hopper' tests that could begin in the next one to two months. A shift to South Texas, industry sources said, could be a way to reduce expenses, given the lower cost of living there versus the Los Angeles area. However, that region of Texas has a much smaller workforce, particularly in aerospace, compared to Southern California.
Yeah, when your workers need to make enough to buy a million dollar house that would go for $250k in Texas California seems pretty expensive doesn't it...
Buy a house? No, no, no . . . that's not the plan at all.
SpaceX employees will be given cheap options as beta testers to rent a Tesla Model Mobile Home M, or a Tesla Model Trailer Park Trailer T.
The Boring Company will dig big underground trailer parks.
The future of humanity is electric, and underground. It will prepare us for life on Mars.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Tolerant liberals on display once again.
Next up, we will call a bunch of high school kids racists and bigots because they wore red hats. Oh wait.
Good riddance. We don't need low class thugs or middle class nobodies. They can't and won't understand our values of beauty and internationalism. In our kinder, gentler liberal future society we cannot allow those deplorable inferior brutes to exist.