there's a lot of emotional language in this article and words like "could", "maybe", "probably" etc. Also, the author mentions making snide remarks about Musk and obviously has other motivations. The concerns on noise may be valid but i'll wait for more actual facts before passing judgement.
The greatest advancement in space flight since Apollo is more important than Musk's culture war BS.
Think of it this way: if Musk had drank the "woke" brand kool-aid instead of the right-wing kool-aid the far right would be bashing his rocket program instead. They'd probably find some way to link rockets and space flight to trans people or something. The far-right and far-left cults only care about your loyalty to the cause. If you are on their team everything you do is good, and if you are not on their team everything you do is bad.
The first generation to grow up on Mars will learn in school about this eccentric billionaire weirdo who helped kick the space program forward by founding a company, and that's about it. All the rest of this stuff will be forgotten.
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