The Republican playbook has never been to make government better. Their goal is to make it worse so they can get more people to agree that it just needs to be privatized.

It’s certainly a good thing that the part of the government that investigates and tries to limit this sort of thing wasn’t one of the first ones cut by musk. /s

I’m not a roller coaster engineer but I’m pretty sure we could achieve the same speed that starting at 500m would give us by adding magnetic launchers for the entire first drop.