I'm going to violate one of my Prime Directives about posting on Musk threads, but there's just no way they'll repair that pad in two months. Even if Musk was

I'm going to violate one of my Prime Directives about posting on Musk threads, but there's just no way they'll repair that pad in two months. Even if Musk was a Stalin-esque Maximum Leader, it couldn't happen. That's not even considering the other regulatory hurdles you might encounter when your planned building expels apartment-sized chunks of concrete at 83 m/s. Of course, regulatory is . . not the primary problem, even if you're of the persuasion that things like safety and the environment don't matter. Some chunks rebounded and almost certainly hit that rocket. Even without "lotto ball concrete debris", Dougherty et al figured out in 1984 that high impulse continuous shock would reflect, resonate, and shake a rocket to bits. It's research related to the "water deluge" system; arguably, the Soviets came to the same conclusion with Energia, based on the N1 work from the decade prior. Minimum safety distance, that's to protect infrastructure that takes a long ass time to put back, and the V2 rocketmen started paying pretty close attention to that even for their suborbital shots. I guess I'm not too sure what got learned here, aside from the fact that Raptor is a pretty great engine, still burning at all after that abuse. Also, Saturn V's S-1C had 13 launches and 13 orbits . . fifty years ago. Why is that? Well, there's lots of reasons, and one of them is the cost of labor. Those big F-1 engines were essentially hand-fitted pieces of welding art, but, counterpoint, computing and other tech would MORE than make up for a surfeit of cheap master welders[1]. Leadership from capital is another. I'm not going to say anything negative about anybody, but let's take a look at one of the maximum leaders from the era: Thornton Wilson. Born on a Missouri dirt farm, ISU BS Aero Engineering, CIT MS in same, NAS award winner, as undergrad he worked on B-47 and B-52, and then kept on working aerospace UNTIL HE DIED. In 1969, the buck stopped with this guy. This is who capital put in charge of the big booster back in the day. How does capital do leadership now? [1] You would think, right? Maybe these computer things aren't actually all that useful, but I don't believe that. More likely, computing has a whole bunch of secondary effects on organizational health that are really, really, really bad, which partly offset the amazing gains.