It's Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist I Mike Pesca.

Progress.

For it to take flight, there is a cost.

Here is the power broker, Robert Moses, speaking in 1953 about his plans ultimately

realized to build more civic infrastructure than any single person since the days of the Roman

emperors.

If you try to please everybody, you're not going to accomplish anything.

There must be people who are discomoted,ienced or call it what you will on the old theory

But you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs

Elon Musk the world's current most transformative force, what Moses was to his city in his time,

also endorses the concept of breaking some eggs.

But in Musk's case, those who he discomoted, love that word, were not

urban dwellers or whole neighborhoods, but birds. Several species of birds who live or lived near the launch site of his SpaceX rockets in Boca Chica Texas.

The New York Times over the weekend ran a front page story, their lead story in fact over news of the French election and machinations to remove Joe Biden.

The lead story was about the birds who have been killed by rocket launches. Nine nests have been

destroyed by the take-offs and occasional explosions of the Starship and other

SpaceX spacecraft. The author of the story is Eric Lipton here in a

Times video he describes what his reporting characterizes as the broken

promises of SpaceX from its initial approvals in Texas until today.

So the FAA in 2014 issued an environmental review of the Falcon 9 Plan and approved the project,

but it was shortly after that approval that SpaceX radically changed the plan

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