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@honu015 @multiplanet1 Thanks .... Kipling was a Master

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The night before SpaceX's fourth rocket launch, Elon Musk sat alone in the control room and everyone who saw him said the same thing. He looked like a man preparing to lose everything.

Three rockets had already exploded. Each failure cost millions. Each failure was broadcast to a world that was increasingly certain this whole private space thing was a joke. The media was writing obituaries for SpaceX before the fourth rocket even reached the launchpad.

If this one failed, there was no fifth attempt. The money was gone. SpaceX would shut down. Tesla, which Elon was also funding personally, would likely follow. Everything he had built since PayPal would be gone.

An engineer who was there that night said Elon wasn't pacing. Wasn't talking. He was just sitting there staring at the screen. Completely still. Like a man who had already accepted both possible outcomes and was just waiting to see which one the universe chose.

September 28, 2008. Falcon 1 reached orbit. The first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to ever do it.

The room erupted. Elon broke down. Everything that SpaceX has achieved since, every NASA contract, every Starlink satellite, every Starship prototype, started in that one moment. One launch away from losing everything.

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@KeaauDave @r0ck3t23 And made his parents free to use and have FSD be used under licence...yet not one has taken up his offer

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk pours hundreds of millions into buildings the government can force him to demolish.

On purpose.

Musk: “One of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.”

Not approved. Not guaranteed. Temporary.

He builds knowing the exact consequences.

Musk: “Your long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.”

Everything. Every wall. Every foundation. Back to dirt.

Musk: “Most companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.”

That single sentence explains why the West forgot how to build.

The system never needed to reject you.

It just needed you to believe waiting was the responsible thing to do.

Delays stack. Capital bleeds. Teams scatter. Conviction rots.

The project dies quietly in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon.

Nobody writes about it.

That was the point.

The regulatory machine doesn’t build walls.

It builds fog.

Thick enough that most people turn around before they ever hit anything solid.

You were never told no.

You were told “not yet” until you forgot why you started.

Musk doesn’t negotiate with “not yet.”

He pours concrete while the paperwork is still moving.

If they deny it, he tears it all down and starts again.

Because he understands something the modern world was trained to forget.

The cost of demolition is a number.

The cost of standing still is everything you will never build.

One of those kills a project.

The other kills a civilization.

Everyone else got that math backwards.

And they were taught to call it responsible.

[MAGA Lorrie Ann 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇸 AMERICA FIRST @LorrieAnn25]

@elonmusk

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@bengunes34 Isabelle

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@bengunes34 Meme

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@WorkElizab Scheiser

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@WorkElizab Nein

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@stevenmarkryan you made "connecting the dots' YT
As a bull he had you pinned.......don't know if you need to know any thing else

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@4corners All of that was pure fiat, no blockchain in sight.
ABC Australia might be mixing it up—maybe they’re thinking of how PayPal later added crypto buying and selling, like in twenty-twenty-one. But back at the beginning? Nope. Just old-school digital cash, no Bitcoin.
Grok

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@4corners
Grok
PayPal had zero to do with crypto when it started.
It launched in nineteen ninety-nine as Confinity—basically a way to beam money between PalmPilots. Then it merged with https://t.co/9J42zr7KXu, Elon’s old banking outfit, and got bought by eBay.

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@4corners you said pay pal was crypto, it was not that at all ,..
Lies damn lies and BS ABC

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@Matt_Pinner The tall one ...who wants to meet a short ass billionaire with bantom rooster syndrome !!!

[Candi Peterson @Dolphins_2022]

@Matt_Pinner

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Check this album out
Listen twice
It will grow on you and in ya ear like a worm

https://t.co/Qv2warRGXt

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@Richmond_FC who's got the yips ala Matthew Richardson????

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@elonmusk buy Yasa motors ...!
They do in wheel 1k HP ....only downside is oil cooling ...think you could fix that ..massive weight savings in drive components!! Know others have done this but you'd have to buy the whole company ... RIMAC et Al

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@DeepBlueCrypto @ShawnRyan762 Robot every thing