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The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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Not in locations where wild cats exist anyway. If wild cats exist in your area, the bird life has already adapted to them over the past millions of years. Obviously, if cats in your region have been introduced by humans, that's an entirely different situation.

Human feeding of cats can increase their population far above the predator-prey limits that existed for millions of years. As they say in ecology: "What you feed succeeds." All felines aren't exactly interchangeable either. Domestic housecats are naturally extant only in the Middle East, but everywhere else they have been introduced by humans.

> Domestic housecats are naturally extant only in the Middle East

That's not really true - in most of europe, the native wild cats and domestic housecats are closely related and interbreed. see e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe to the Caucasus).

Many of the types of domestic cat found across europe were already bred in antiquity as well.

So it's not that clear-cut, and local wildlife has adapted quite well to it.

Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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SpaceX previously tweeted that the launch could occur roughly a week after the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) which still has not happened. In fact the rocket is not even stacked at the moment, so 4/20 is more probable than 4/17 imo.

I believe they have stated or otherwise insinuated that the WDR from January 23rd is sufficient, and they will not be performing another prior to the initial launch. As for the de-stacking of Ship 24 that has occurred only to enable the Flight Termination System (FTS) after which Ship 24 will be restacked. This is in line with an April 17th launch date.

HUH

Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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post #86

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SpaceX previously tweeted that the launch could occur roughly a week after the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) which still has not happened. In fact the rocket is not even stacked at the moment, so 4/20 is more probable than 4/17 imo.

I believe they have stated or otherwise insinuated that the WDR from January 23rd is sufficient, and they will not be performing another prior to the initial launch. As for the de-stacking of Ship 24 that has occurred only to enable the Flight Termination System (FTS) after which Ship 24 will be restacked. This is in line with an April 17th launch date.

HUHHHHHH

Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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Matamoros is INSANELY dangerous. It is impossible to overstate that.

But the best (only) surf in Texas

Matamoros is.. not in Texas?

The Texas side of the border is way safer than Matamoros.

Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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older model s came with free lifetime supercharging. I have mine. I'm tempted to go. S Padre Island isn't going to let you sleep on it in your car, I would guess. Are there campgrounds nearby? Only 2 70kwh superchargers on the island. I will watch that video.

im sharing a room with another HN user. 3 ways would be even cheaper.

so what did you do after the 3 day delay? I ended up not going all the way there from the west coast. I need a one week delay, then I could torture myself with considering it.

Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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April 17 is the anniversary of Apollo 13’s splashdown, if anyone was wondering. Edit: in case anyone wasn't aware of the coolest website on the internet https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/

Yea, but 4/20 is 4/20. I'd put my money on that.

-4 karma? should be +420 for being right

Re: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket

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im sharing a room with another HN user. 3 ways would be even cheaper.

so what did you do after the 3 day delay? I ended up not going all the way there from the west coast. I need a one week delay, then I could torture myself with considering it.

just booked more nights
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