/sci/ - Science & Math

Can one of you Reddit kids of Space Flight General explain like I am 5 why super genius Elon didn't look at a simple map(picrel) and choose a less population dense area to launch and blow up the largest rockets ever built? I am sure there is some logistical advantage to setting up shop next to a sea turtle nesting grounds that I am just not seeing here. I really want to be part of the Elon cock sucking fan club but it's hard to understand. Explain why a steel plate with some tap water in it isn't going to melt to slag and fling molten steel into the eyes of baby sea turtles as they scream for a merciful death. You know instead of making a huge facility in the desert with ZERO FUCKING PEOPLE OR SEA TURTLES around. Then you could dig the biggest flame trench in history to match your biggest rocket in history. Maybe just take all the existing tech built up over decades and upsize it. Keep it simple.

TL;DR explain why Elon is so smart and I am so dumb, I want to be a clapping seal like all of you!

>CLAP
TWO MORE MONTHS!
>CLAP CLAP CLAP
TWO MORE YEARS!
>CLAP
TWO MORE DECADES TILL MARS!!