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Friday, July 16, 2021

CONTEXT: Federal Aviation Administration vs. SpaceX—Crab Mentality and the Road to the Stars

What is crab mentality?

In any sane world, the only thing an aviation regulator should have to say about a tower fixed to the ground is whether it has the prescribed anti-collision warning lights and is properly marked on aeronautical charts. But ours is not a sane world, or at least not in these crazy years we're enduring. As I've been saying for some time, “Elon, time to emigrate—again.”

Here are some headlines from the Crazy Years, as described in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Methuselah's Children:

BABY BILL BREAKS BANK 2-year toddler youngest winner $1,000,000 TV jackpot White House phones congrats

COURT ORDERS STATEHOUSE SOLD Colorado Supreme Bench Rules State Old Age Pension Has First Lien All State Property

N.Y. YOUTH MEET DEMANDS UPPER LIMIT ON FRANCHISE

“U.S. BIRTH RATE ‘TOP SECRET!' ”—DEFENSE SEC

CAROLINA CONGRESSMAN COPS BEAUTY CROWN “Available for draft for President” she announces while starting tour to show her qualifications

IOWA RAISES VOTING AGE TO FORTY-ONE Rioting on Des Moines Campus

EARTH-EATING FAD MOVES WEST: CHICAGO PARSON EATS CLAY SANDWICH IN PULPIT “Back to simple things,” he advises flock.

LOS ANGELES HI-SCHOOL MOB DEFIES SCHOOL BOARD “Higher Pay, Shorter hours, no Homework—We Demand Our Right to Elect Teachers, Coaches.”

SUICIDE RATE UP NINTH SUCCESSIVE YEAR AEC Denies Fall-Out to Blame

Posted at July 16, 2021 11:47