Tesla delivers a Powerpack system to SpaceX’s new spaceport in Texas
I could have told you the area had poor "soil" by looking at the satellite image: oceans, bays, sand, swamps, bushes (i.e., no vegetation that stands up past shrub level, which basically just sits on the ground and doesn't ever stand up, because it can't); almost no real land. So, building out there is like building oil platforms in the ocean: lots of piers and probably some sort of accommodation for shifting seas and sands underneath ("soils", using their ignorant sounding nomenclature). Also, there's some aspects of it that are like building a boat, lest the sand and seas swallow you whole (the sand or seas goes into you, sinking you; if you have a boat-like bowl under the buildings with pumps to move blown sand and water back out of the bowl, then the buildings will continue to "float" above the sand and seas; of course, the building would have to be made sea worthy).
You essentially have to "sail" your boat (building) to the desired destination (right where you're at relative to more solid land structures, I suppose, in this need to be right next to a contentious border and have property rights drawn on certain property lines, which from that point of view, would be considered "stationary", but I doubt the winds, oceans, seas and beaches see it that way).
If you are ever in an area that has no trees, you have to ask yourself: why? There's a reason for that. It means they can't grow there for some reason. The reason is clear: there is no solid land that can withstand holding an upright structure with nothing more than roots as anchors. Also look around at how many humans live there, build structures there, and ask yourself the same question. You will come up with the same conclusion. Look at the roads and the sink holes formed by rain. If you happen to see cows, ask a local farmer what they do every time they see their cows. You will probably hear them say "count them". That's because I'm guessing a certain # are eaten by sink holes all the time.
That SpaceX facility will have all sorts of sink holes to hide bodies in, and they could just blame it on "the people over there" over the border a few miles away. I wouldn't want to work there, unless security was very tight and they counted their employees regularly to make sure none of them disappeared into sink holes or anyplace else, and stopped anyone from disappearing.
It's a great place to put things that no one wants to live near, like big rockets. Also, if you can figure out a way to get solar to "stand still" (i.e., sail, float, constantly correct its position (using an obvious method I'm going to censor because I want to do it), etc.) long enough to last 3 decades, it can use up some of that damned useless
land area and provide us clean energy.
Salt. Anti-salt construction and practices necessary.
I just got a Google Street View image:
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It makes me feel like I'm sinking and will drown: there is no up. In fact, the road itself is merely a bunch of imported dirt, with the surrounding areas all just swamp, sand, sea.
