We are becoming mega-Elon Musk fans as he barnstorms the country preaching the evils of big government and the sheer stupidity of its regulations. This one fits our “laugh or cry” category:

SpaceX had to do this study to see if Starship would hit a shark. And I’m like, It’s a big ocean. There’s a lot of sharks. It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely…  well, can you give us the shark data? They’re like, No, we can’t give you the shark data… They said, well, we could give it to our Western division, but we don’t trust them. And I’m like, am I in a comedy sketch here? …

Eventually, I think we got the data and we could run the analysis to say, Yeah, the sharks are going to be fine… And then we thought, Okay, now we’re done. And they said, But what about whales? …

And so we have to do the whale analysis. It’s like, Okay, yeah, the whales will be fine, too. It goes on and on. And then there’s like, well, what if the rocket goes underwater, it then explodes, and then the whales have hearing damage? This is real. This is actually, and we’re like, look, if we could make a rocket go underwater and be a submarine, that would be like a feat of physics we could not accomplish. Okay? This is not how it works.

Anyway, it’s just one crazy thing after another. This is why I’m really feeling the pain of the overregulation. And there’s multiple federal agencies that have overlapping; they’re all doing the same thing, basically. Anyway, we’ve got to stop this madness because we just won’t be able to get anything done.

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We would simply advise Musk that he should inform the government that offshore wind farms kill many times more sharks and whales than falling spaceships and rockets.