Elon Musk: First Person to lose a Trillion Dollar bet.

You mean Jeff Bezos?

Ah, sorry, wrong rocket company failure. I was trying to allude to the deal in which Elon Musk gets a trillion dollar contract payout if SpaceX establishes a colony on mars.

... the fuck is "crater-sized"? 0.5mm? 1.5km?

About half a giraffe

It’s like a dent sized dent.

A small dent the size of a large dent

To expand on this, the Blue Moon lander family is building up a huge manifest. In roughly this order, I count 7ish missions:

• Mk1 Pathfinder: land on the moon 2026
• Mk1: land Viper rover 2027
• Mk2 Pathfinder: Artemis 3 docking target 2027
• Mk1: land Lunar Outpost crew rover for A4
• Mk1: land Astrolab crew rover for A4
• Mk2: uncrewed demo landing
• Mk2: crewed lunar landing for Artemis... 6?

That is an obscene amount of hardware for Blue, which was already going to be a huge challenge, but further delaying the launch of Mk1 Pathfinder makes things even worse for the future vehicles.

Jeffery can pay for a new pad.

Some things take a long time regardless of how much money you have.

Both the investigation and the rebuild of the pad will take a very long time with no real way to safely speed that up.

Move fast and break things vs move slow and break things

Trump will pay for it with your debt.