“A mecca for really committed space dorks”: charlie_mccann travels to Texas to meet the Musk mega-fans watching Starship’s take-off..and explosion. For 1843 magazine
hush fell over the crowd that had assembled less than four miles from the launchpad. In the distance stood the Starship. Some 120-metres tall – larger than the Statue of Liberty – it loomed above the coastal Texas flats, a mass of stainless steel interrupting a vast expanse of scrub, cacti and mesquite.is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built, and in 60 seconds SpaceX would, for the first time, attempt to vault it into the sky.
Once the 33 engines ignited, the Starship began to levitate. As it rose higher and higher, one man’s outstretched arms lifted in tandem, as if he were at a rave or a happy-clappy church service. Within ten seconds, the rocket had disappeared beyond the clouds. But its journey through the atmosphere could be traced in the loud crackling that rumbled through the sky and pounded our chests. Spectators began yee-hawing and hugging each other; tears streamed down a few faces.
The successful launch of the Starship meant for Musk’s most ardent acolytes that, all of a sudden, Mars may be within reach Underlying this yearning is a deep pessimism about humanity’s future on Earth. Many think a catastrophe will strike at some point, wiping out. It is not clear what shape this calamity might take – climate change, an asteroid, a world war – but what is certain is that it is coming. Earth is overdue for a collision with a “planet-killer asteroid”, said Felix Schlang, a YouTuber who makes videos about astronomy and space .
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