Starship Asterisk*

geckzilla wrote:
I always walk around with my mouth open in case a piece of chocolate falls in. So far, no luck.

Willy Wonka: The waterfall is most important. Mixes the chocolate. Churns it up, makes it light and frothy. By the way, no other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall, my dear children, and you can take that to the bank.

::scratches head:: how did that get into this thread

Elon Musk, SpaceX, tube trains, chocolate tube boys. Art never stored his crayons in the box when he was a kid. The yellow went into the fruit basket with the bananas, the red went into his Radio Flyer, the green went in the rose bush out front, and so on.

Ah... and the brown/burnt sienna went into the X-rocket ship. Now it makes sense. ...

Beyond wrote:

geckzilla wrote:
Elon Musk, SpaceX, tube trains, chocolate tube boys. Art never stored his crayons in the box when he was a kid. The yellow went into the fruit basket with the bananas, the red went into his Radio Flyer, the green went in the rose bush out front, and so on.

Ah... and the brown/burnt sienna went into the X-rocket ship. Now it makes sense. ...

But what if SpaceX in Los Angeles County was actually based at the airport and is secretly known as SpaceX-LAX

Elon Musk and Willy Wonka might then be one in the same person and
the first commercial passengers into space could depart on a glass elevator.

neufer wrote:But what if SpaceX in Los Angeles County was actually based at the airport and is secretly known as SpaceX-LAX

Wow! What a segue into a 7th planet joke ... No, I'd better not. Alas, i should retain at least a modicum of decorum.