By Jo Nova

Even as Elon Musk rescues astronauts abandoned in space, activists set fire to random Tesla’s.

Are these the same people who think we should ban gas stoves to save the world?

It’s possible some indoctrinated teens want to save the world from fascists —  or maybe the Blob strikes back — I mean, we have to ask who benefits from the circus distraction of anti-Musk confected hate? Obviously the millionaires in Congress with their hand in the jar benefit from a decoy story. “Look, a squirrel”! Those with something to hide would like it if Musk can be bullied, coerced or harassed into leaving DOGE alone.  There might be some very nervous people in the Halls of Power who are afraid he’ll get the code crackers into the FBI and find the Epstein files, or the grants they arranged for their girlfriend.

Elon Musk speaking on Hannity, Fox News talks

“I always thought that democrats were supposed to be the party of  empathy and caring and yet they are burning down cars, Firebombing dealerships.  Firing bullets into dealerships. Smashing up the Tesla’s. Tesla is a peaceful company. We’ve never done anything  harmful. Only done productive things.

 I think we just have a deranged  — there is some kind of mental illness going on because this doesn’t make any sense. I think there are larger forces at work.  Who is funding and who’s coordinating it — because this is  crazy.  I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Quite a few Australians may have missed this, especially if they watch the ABC.

There are so many ways it could have gone badly wrong yesterday:

Musk on how he built Space X:

Musk: In the beginning we didn’t  actually know anything about rockets.  The first three missions failed … and we almost ran out of money and just barely made it with the fourth launch.  If it didn’t succeed we would’ve  failed as a company. I was not a very good chief Engineer in the beginning but i did learn over time and i think  we’ve gotten at this point to where it’s very reliable and we  are going to be able to take astronauts to mars.  We want to take anyone who wants to go to Mars and ultimately build a  Self-sustaining civilization on Mars.

On all the things that could have gone wrong:

When i see the rocket i see a  list of all the things that are wrong and all the ways it could  go wrong and potentially fail.  The dragon could fail separate from the rocket.  There could be an engine failure  on the spacecraft itself.  When it’s coming back it’s coming in so fast it’s a blazing  meteor and if anything happens  to the heat shield, the whole craft is going to incinerate. It’s remarkable that humans can actually go all the way to orbit and come back from orbit given the immense amounts of energy that is required to get to orbit.  And the amount of energy that must be dissipated on —  upon return.  It all has to work.

The Falcon 9 lifts off with 7 million pounds of thrust…