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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

Texas town home to SpaceX renamed 'Starbase'

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Texas town home to SpaceX renamed 'Starbase'

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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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Texas town home to SpaceX renamed 'Starbase' – DW – 05/04/2025
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Residents in the Texan town voted in favor of turning Elon Musk's Starbase into a city. The move separates the town from Cameron County, which previously rejected plans to build more housing for SpaceX employees.

For a nice historical view on company towns in the US -> Un-American and yet, totally American | Company Towns

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  • futatorius@lemm.ee
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    It’ll be a great tourist attraction when Musk is gone and all that’s left are some abandoned buildings, lots of tarnished hype, and tumbleweeds blowing through.

  • RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world
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    Company store only accepts Spacebucks as currency.

    Employees soon to learn what loading sixteen tons means.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldOP
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      DOGE coin even /s

  • Daggity@lemm.ee
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    Hope the residents are able to move before it becomes a Pullman town.

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Good luck selling a house that risks being damaged by falling launch pad debris

      • Etterra@discuss.online
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        Oh I’m sure some cybertruck owner will pay money for it.

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    Aren’t starbases supposed to be, ya know, out in the stars?

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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      Yea, they should just be named Base.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
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        Give it the classy Arabic name for The Base: al-Qaida.

      • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com
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        Terrestrially Tethered Base

      • Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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        This base is outside the environment.

        • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldOP
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          In a regulatory sense it is.

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        deleted by creator

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      yup. should name it starport.

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        Xitport, like Xitter.

        • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          starportie potty

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      Can’t wait for Phony Stark to go to Mars and establish a Starbase there.

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      It’s a Texas thing, you wouldn’t understand.

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    It will be a toxic waste dump in Elon gets done with it.

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    Woo… whatever. Good for them

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    Ultor, Manifest!

    Elon is speed running commander Sopot from Red Faction 2.

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