The SpaceX superfans uprooting their lives for Elon’s Starship
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SpaceX’s Starbase project has inspired fans from around the country to move to a small town in Texas just to live close to the facility. In April 2022, the Verge went down to Brownsville, Texas to meet some of Elon Musk’s most ardent fans and to try and understand the magnetism behind this project.
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The way people devote themselves to Musk is almost creepy, aside from him being a nasty piece of work his projects are rarely what they’re cracked up to be anyway, yet people will gladly shill them even when the problems are blatantly obvious.
This is a great documentary, I would love others like this!
Great storytelling, what a wonderful video.
This community is giving strong phandom energy
Amazing piece. So cool to see the faces and stories of the names you see on the majority of SpaceX content. Really well done.
Great video. These people are insane tho. Elon Musk is a fraud and Mars habitation is impossible.
So many shills in the comments lol
The choice of music is fantastic, makes it feel like a early documentary from the early 60s
I actually moved to RGV last fall partly because of Starbase. Mainly I actually wanted something warm and cheap like Mexico but not actually IN Mexico.
Anyway, the kind of sad thing is if you go on the RGV subreddit I think most people around here (or almost all the ones in the subreddit and the few Lyft drivers I have spoken to) HATE Elon Musk and Starbase. The explanation I got was that it was a big waste of money when there were a lot of problems here on earth.
I am thinking about actually traveling about 80 miles or whatever from McAllen to a launch viewing area when they day comes, but I may just be too lazy and end up watching it on a Youtube livestream anyway. Partly because it also could just turn out to be a big explosion the first time, and also I have work to do so there is a limit to how much time I can take off.
But hopefully I will get out there.
People are so cucked that they think the world’s richest man will be its savior lol. They actually believe that his plan to take humanity to Mars will include them and not his rich buddies. These guys ruined our planet with their greed and now they’re planning to haul ass to be able to do it all over again on another world and the sheep cheer him on.
Seafront wait did that guy just tip his rubbish out in the open (probably and area where it’s meant to go) and yet I see people out clearing that area wtf 😂
Wow very well presented at 1:24 I felt just got immersed into this wow👏
so you meet musk cultist lol
Can’t believe she missed the opportunity to ask the “NASA Spaceflight” guy why his company has the word “NASA” in their name even though they have nothing to do with the actual NASA
“Look at this, it beautiful, why would a want to destroy this?” One second later he dump his waste in a landfill 😛 Fun to see LabPadres operation. And Nasaspaceflight!
A bunch of awkward outcasts that became obsessed with watching a construction site instead of doing something useful. great. Thats a sure way to get to mars.
There is a certain exhilaration when you first drive by Starship. I remember when I lived on the Spacecoast of Florida and drive by the Cidco Rd facility and first saw Starship. Instantly, I felt like I was in a Star Trek Starship manufacturing location and transported to the future. This film does a good job of capturing that feeling. But, you MUST make a trek to Boca Chica if you want to feel those goose bumps for real.
What a bunch of losers
I’m a video editor and this was such a great watch. Really good storytelling, cinematography and pace. Props to all people involved!
If you have some empathy you feel sad for those people. They are in desperate need of purpose in their lives. They have the optical illusion of being part of the adventure when they actually contribute to nothing about it. It is truly sad to watch even if the documentary is very well made or maybe because of it.