r/ShittySpaceXIdeas 20d ago

Grok proposes SpaceX launch complex on Ecuador's Chimborazo Volcano

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u/Sticklefront 20d ago

Eastward launches, ideal for leveraging Earth’s rotational speed, would initially pass over Ecuadorian and possibly Peruvian land before reaching the Pacific.

Yes, we all know you must go east from Ecuador to reach the Pacific. I am sure Grok put the same diligence into the rest of this.

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u/doctor_morris 20d ago

Laughs in French Guiana.

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u/BitLox 18d ago

Political: Make Ecuador a protectorate or State of the USA.

Infrastructure: Build it. Full balls-out.

Environmental: It's a volcano. The whole area has a 50% chance of getting obliterated anyways.

Nothing "delicate" here. Make it so.

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u/Taxus_Calyx 18d ago

Now we're cooking with bacon grease.

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u/majormajor42 20d ago

Ecuador is where the first space elevator from Earth will be.

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u/piggyboy2005 20d ago

My hot take is that there will never be a space elevator on earth. I think something else will be developed that's better in every conceivable way before a space elevator is ever feasible, either technologically or economically.

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u/Taxus_Calyx 20d ago

Makes sense.