In many ways, the spectacular Super Heavy Booster catch at the SpaceX facility was more significant than when the Berlin Wall came down. Much more important, politically, scientifically, and philosophically. It was an awesome display of what human minds can achieve when unleashed, and to say the least, the door to human colonization of space was just kicked wide open. On an even larger scale, the pages of Karl Marx might as well have been burnt as the most inefficient system of government management ever created. Capitalism was and will always be the means of managing people and their finances for the future as this incredible event occurred just a few weeks away from the 2024 election, where essentially those are the two choices: abundant capitalism from a sovereign American market or global communism ran by the United Nations. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, gets it. I was probably the first person in the world, including himself, to see Musk turn hard to Republican elected officials as he had in the past been an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama and Biden. I chronicled his change by the kind of books he was reading and pointed it out well before he seemed to have figured it out. Communism doesn’t work, and it was overt communism that had been holding back this fantastic event of the launch of Starship 5 from Boca Chica, Texas, and the Starbase there with FAA permits that were holding everything up with massive government bureaucracy. Once they finally had their permit, under tremendous public pressure, the FAA had no choice really; the SpaceX team launched, for the first time in all history, the largest vehicle ever to go into space and have controlled landings in two different locations precisely over their targets, all automated and coming off without a problem. The countdown to launch was exact and on point, and we saw what routine spaceflights over the coming years would look like.
America has a choice to make that is very positive: elect President Trump and get a whole lot more toward a massively expanding economy as what people saw from SpaceX on October 13th, 2024. As I watched the Super Heavy Booster carry Starship into space to land in the Indian Ocean about an hour later, the giant thing the size of a skyscraper turned around and landed back at the same pad it had just launched from. It returned to earth to be captured by the Megazilla chopsticks at the launch pad precisely and smoothly. I first thought that we needed to work out the property rights issue that would arise as we settled into space. The world is getting ready to go through a gold rush similar to what America experienced during westward expansion, and the governing principle will have to be flamboyant capitalism to pull it all off. One of the very first things that the new Trump administration will have to do is protect property rights on the Moon and other celestial bodies. It will have to be American economic standards that the rest of the world will have to live up to because we will be the first to arrive and set up colonies. Starship will make moving into space a practical reality and an economy that will quickly outperform anything ever done on earth, including coal, oil, railroads, shipping, and telecommunications. We are talking about trillions and trillions of dollars of economic value. But it’s not about making money that matters; it’s expanding human intellect, and the only way to do that is to embrace capitalism and human expansion into space. A lot is about to change for the better because of what SpaceX did. The personal journey that Elon Musk has made politically, out of necessity, is one that the rest of the world will now have to embrace—especially communist China.
While the FAA and other government regulatory agencies were trying to protect environmental concerns in the cooling system of SpaceX launches, and California announced a ban of any Elon Musk launch into space from their state entirely due to his political beliefs, China is plotting to carry their communist nation into space with very aggressive plans. So, America must be the first to enter these vast realms and establish the ground rules. The moon needs to be viewed as another continent in our neighborhood that is about the size of Africa, and humans will inevitably go there and use it as a staging platform for expansion into the solar system. All the typical political models of the past are suddenly irrelevant, which is evident behind the Trump campaign in America. So many people have come together under Trump, including Elon Musk, that a new direction for the entire world has just unfolded, and the proof of what is possible was just shown by the Super Heavy rocket that landed precisely at a spaceport like something from a science fiction concept. Only this wasn’t fiction; it was fact. Over one hundred years of science fiction and fantasy were being engineered into reality, and an explosion of intellect was thrust onto the world stage. All past philosophies, except vivacious capitalism, would be inappropriate for embracing these massive changes.
I’ve been a fan of SpaceX for a long time now, and I cheer them on with each launch. They have achieved some new and fantastic engineering breakthroughs. But I did not expect that Super Heavy Booster to return to the launch pad to be captured like that. And to answer everyone catching up, why do they have to capture that rocket with the chopsticks? Well, that’s because the Super Heavy Rocket weighs 250 tons, and it would add too much weight to the craft to have legs on it like they do their Falcon rockets. (the Falcon rockets are named after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, by the way, which demonstrates what impact science fiction can have on making it into science reality) The chopsticks on Mechazilla (also named after the massive mechanical monster in Godzilla movies) are a means to take that pressure away from the Super Heavy craft and place it back on its launch stand to be refueled and relaunched within hours. See what’s going on here? The new Giga factory for Starship there at the Spaceport in Texas is planning to build 1000 Star Ships per year, and launches will go up every day, several times a day, to take massive amounts of payload and people into space to live as a routine part of human existence. Fueled by science fiction books and movies, the imaginations of many brilliant people have found a home under Elon Musk, and now they need an economic system that can unleash their vast potential. And communism was never going to be it. The pressure of performance under the upcoming Trump administration will change the world for the better in ways that most aren’t ready for. But what SpaceX did on Sunday, the 13th of October, was life-changing. I would say it was more significant than the moon landing because of what it does to the economy of space. No longer would countries control the realm of space, but it would be the laws of economic reality, imagination, and ambition. The human race demands autonomy and freedom to think, contemplate, and invent. And Starship by SpaceX is the means to achieve the greatness of the human race under the potential of capitalism for thousands of years in the future. And it all starts with a proven concept, which SpaceX has done. Now, it needs a political system that can make it happen, and that comes with the election of President Trump.
Rich Hoffman
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