Sometimes I think about my family and relatives, and the way they used to treat me. They always called me a failure, not because I truly was one, but because they never saw what was inside me. They never gave me a chance to speak or express myself.
They never gave me a fair chance in life. To them, I was nothing more than someone they could use whenever they needed something.
Today, through my journey, my life abroad, and everything I’ve been through, I’m proving to all of them that I was never a failure. Everything they said about me and every label they put on me were nothing more than illusions they had created in their own minds.
I’m genuinely happy that I walked away from that family. Sometimes, I even feel as though I never belonged to them from the moment I was born. There were times when I would have faced death a thousand times over rather than return to them, their beliefs, their false religion, and the miserable life they wanted me to live.
I chose my own path, and I knew from the very beginning how difficult it would be. But I kept going because I firmly believed that the path of truth is never an easy one.
Now, after more than ten years abroad, I can finally say this with pride:
I AM NOT A FAILURE, AND I NEVER WILL BE.
Look at me. Watch me closely. Look at how far I’ve come and what I’ve built for myself. Then take a good look at your own lives, and perhaps you’ll finally understand who the real failure is.
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✝️💪 My strength is made perfect in weakness.
SpaceX put a roof on its Starship launch tower, and it's there because of Friday's ship catch.
When Starship comes home, it falls belly-first, then flips upright and fires its Raptors to slow down right next to the tower. That burn can throw exhaust at the top of the tower, which is where the cables that move the chopstick arms run. So the Pad 2 tower got a roof covered in protective cladding. It went on late in construction, and SpaceX plans to add one to the Pad 1 tower too.
The arms changed as well. They're two full truss sections shorter than the originals, because Boosters 12, 14 and 15 were all caught on the inner part of the arms, close to the tower. The outer end never got used. The old ship lifting pins are gone too, since Block 3 ships don't get lifted that way anymore, and Pad 2 uses electromechanical actuators.
Then there's the quick disconnect arm, which is stronger on Pad 2. After a catch, the ship still has leftover super-cold propellant on board. This arm swings in and plugs into the ship so it can be drained before anyone inspects it or flies it again. SpaceX already rehearsed this with Ship 42, the Flight 15 ship, back in September.
Flight 15 is targeting Friday, Nov 13, if the FAA signs off. If it goes to plan, this tower catches its first Starship.
My name is Michael. I only go by The Original Grey Beard Biker™ on X. I am a patriot, and I will always stand with fellow patriots. Those who:
🇺🇸 Believe in America First
🇺🇸 Know the USA is the "Shining City on a Hill"
🇺🇸 Stand for our flag and National Anthem
🇺🇸 Love our military, veterans and all who served
🇺🇸 Want our veterans taken care of before illegal invaders
Who are my fellow PATRIOTS?
DONT TREAD ON ME
Elon Musk explains why SpaceX launches from a spot nobody wanted to live
Getting to orbit isn't really about going up.
Gravity at the space station's altitude is almost the same as on the ground.
The station stays up because it's moving around Earth at about 17,000 miles an hour, circling once roughly every 90 minutes.
So reaching orbit is about how fast you're moving parallel to the surface.
That's where Earth's rotation helps.
At the equator, the ground is already moving at about 1,000 miles an hour, eastward.
So you want to launch east, from an east coast, as far south as possible.
The hard part is finding that coastline empty.
Almost all of Florida is houses wall to wall on the beach. The exception is Cape Canaveral, and that's a government base.
One of the few open spots was right by the border with Mexico.
It was a tough place to build homes. A planned development there got wiped out by a hurricane that left some plots underwater.
And it had to be US soil. Rocket technology counts as advanced weapons technology, so export restrictions rule out launching from another country.
The land nobody could build a home on was exactly what a rocket company needed.
Watch this incredible video. Our living Earth is as incredible as our bodies. It’s been designed to support life. Each level of life form is designed to symbiotically support another form or level of life to make a wonderful collaborative environment.
If I had to pick just one single video on the entire internet for everyone on this platform to STOP and watch all the way through...it's probably this one.
The ultimate explanation of HOW OUR WORLD ACTUALLY WORKS 👇