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About a year ago I checked out (on Google Maps) a satellite view of the sleepy little gulf coast community of Boca Chica, TX where Space X has their new launch facility. While the satellite image at that time was probably a couple years old it was just a sleepy little coastal village with a couple dozen homes and nothing more. ]
About 2 years ago, before they started really resting the Starships, a local guy drove down there and basically drove through the gates, right up to a short fence. He could nearly reach over and touch one of the starships sitting there waiting for testing.

The point of his article was that right *then*, you could basically stand next to history because SpaceX was so lasse faire about everything. He mentioned that once the first starship was going to be tested, everything would change, they'd become very by-the-books, and you'd never have that opportunity again.
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