Comment by hirundo

Elon appears to be building a large ground-locked monument to demonstrate his argument in this tweet:

  Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure. 

  Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars. -- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354862567680847876

The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket. The FAA is standing athwart the most effective effort to move in that direction, yelling Stop. The more fragile our environment is, the more protection it needs, the more important it is for them to get out of the way of projects like this.