"Test the engines that might blow up catastrophically far far away from the launch pad. So if something like this happens you still have a launch pad.
China is a already doing that. Of course, like you and I, they are also probably dumb. If they were smart, like Donald Trump or Christopher Langan or even Fredo Corleone, they would take their scientific advancements, flush 'em down the ------- and instead involve themselves in forever wars on behalf of a ------ little country the size of New Jersey.
I think an American moon base is still doable, just as long as it is located somewhere on Earth-- perhaps in Gaza, Venezuela or Cuba. In the same vein, I think a colony on The Red Planet is also a distinct possibility-- by declaring in a 3 AM post on Truth Social that Greenland will henceforth be known as Mars would be a good start. Of course we could just bomb it. What has Mars ever done for us anyway? ------- commie planet.
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It's an AI bot. Or at least it acts in the same manner- completely reactive, painfully derivative, but absolutely no self-awareness.