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Wounded Bear

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15. He's gonna get more people killed...

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 01:13 PM

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So far, we haven't had any fatalities in space. The lives we have lost have either been at launch or on re-entry. Musk is going to lose people in interstellar space.

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