This is John Batchel, a conversation with Bob Zimmerman about SpaceX, but it's about where

SpaceX is in Texas. Bocachika, Texas is the name of the nearby town that is cooperating with

SpaceX. Nonetheless, there's a construction of something called Starbase.

And the surprising thing about Starbase is that it has an amazing future,

second century, third century since the beginning.

All of Texas does, I can see that being a platform for low Earth orbit,

the Earth-moon system, and beyond the Earth Earth system in the 22nd and 23rd century. But right now, there's a new town called Starbase.

And what if they held an election and nobody showed up? Here's Bob to explain why.

More of this tonight.

Well, it's a real town, but it's where Boca Cheka is located, where SpaceX is, and it's a star ship's super heavy launch.

And everybody there is pretty much an engineer.

And so they created the town to smooth out some of the

bureaucracy having to do with closing beaches and doing launches so that the people who live in the

town can determine when to launch. And since they're all SpaceX employees, they're going to work in

that favor. And what is it? last year they elected a mayor and two

commissioners to run the town, which isn't really a lot, but it mostly has to do with closing beaches.

The mayor is a SpaceX executive who's in charge of test and launch for the company. So he's

directly involved in making sure beaches are closed when they don't want to launch. The other two commissioners, one is a wife of an employee, and the other

one is in their environmental health and safety division, which means they're mainly there

to make sure SpaceX is meeting, I think, government regulations for safety, which means

their priorities aren't as high intense engineering.

So there was going to be an election.

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