Electric cars, space rockets, electronic means of payment in the beginning and now city construction. Elon Musk wants to create a city in the south-central state of Texas called Starbase. And for that he should change the one that already exists, Boca Chica.
On Tuesday, Musk wrote on Twitter: “Creating the city of Starbase, Texas” in what would be an apparent reference to the renaming of the SpaceX development facility house in the village of Boca Chica along the Gulf of Mexico, very close to the southern border.
To soften, he continued with a more poetic line: “From there to Mars and from there to the stars.”
Of course, it’s just a wish: it’s not easy to change the name of a city, thanks to the built-in bureaucratic logic.
In fact, Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. issued a brief statement on Tuesday in response to SpaceX speculation. Treviño said SpaceX has officially approached Cameron County to convert Boca Chica Village to Starbase, Texas. He also warned that in order to move forward, Musk must follow all legal steps “in accordance with applicable state law.”
“If SpaceX and Elon Musk want to follow this path, they must abide by all bylaws. Cameron County will process any appropriate petition in accordance with applicable law,” the judge clarified.
Judge Boca Grande’s response to Musk’s proposal
Boca Chica Village is an unincorporated community in Cameron County that is already famous for launching prototype spacecraft, the next-generation SpaceX spacecraft. If the idea of changing Musk’s name comes true, we could start reading, “SpaceX is launching Starship from Starbase.”
Everything indicates that Musk takes it much more seriously than it seems. And even consider doing something that “far exceeds” the Boca Chica area.
Not only did Musk look up
The second richest man and tycoon in the world is not the only one with space ambitions. In addition to the dispute with Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and CEO of the aerospace company Blue Origin, has now appeared a Japanese businessman with a striking proposal.
Yusaku Maezawa, chosen as the world’s first tourist to orbit the Moon, announced on Wednesday a campaign to find eight crew members with a creative vocation to accompany him on his journey, scheduled for 2023.
Maezawa, founder and CEO of Japan’s largest online business, Zozo (ZozoTown), launched a recruitment campaign whose registration It will run until March 14 to invite everyone who sees themselves as artists to the project, nicknamed “dearMoon”.
The Japanese billionaire announced his space trip in 2018 and then signaled his desire to bring eight artists with him.
As he explained in a video posted on his social networks, Maezawa began to wonder what he meant by the artist and came to the conclusion that “it can be anyone who is anywhere in the world, who does a creative activity.”
The entrepreneur needs only two requirements to sign up for what will be the first private space trip in history, in which he expects this. a total of between 10 and 12 people participate.
The first is “the fact that people believe that this space travel can expand their creativity to do something useful to society” and that, given this, “that you think you can support the rest of the crew“he said in the video.
The space battle is open.
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