Apropos of nothing, SpaceX needs the Panama Canal to move its landing ships between the East Coast and West Coast landing sites - ThreadSky

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dfeldman.org • 66 days ago

Apropos of nothing, SpaceX needs the Panama Canal to move its landing ships between the East Coast and West Coast landing sites

Literally just on family WhatsApp asking why he was going after Panama—had Fox told him to… this makes sense.

dfeldman.org•66 days ago

They mostly launch into the Gulf, and most launches don’t need the landing ships, so it’s not all that common

This was 3 years ago

dfeldman.org•66 days ago

The ships are named Of Course I Still Love You and Please Read the Instructions, which admittedly are *great* ship names

dfeldman.org•66 days ago

From Iain Banks novels

dfeldman.org•66 days ago

The manned support ships are Bob, Doug, Meg and Shannon

I’m not sure on that reference

Megan and Shannon are named after the first two women SpaceX put in space. Dunno the other two...

They're named after NASA astronauts that flew on SpaceX's early crewed missions.

llarian.net•66 days ago

It's a pity Musk clearly didn't pick up on any of the actual themes from those novels other than some cute names.

i feel like this was the last opportunity Musk had to remain kind of cool

This skeet was a mediocre palindrome

Is this secretly the reason the orange man wants to take over the Panama Canal?

and, apparently, a container ship

And Trump owes back taxes in Panama and he scammed the new owners of his Trump condos there

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