Comments on: Bahamas allows SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 landings inside Bahamian waters

By: Mike Borgelt

Mike Borgelt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:03:12 +0000

When the French Secret Service bombed the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. Popcorn time.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:29:29 +0000

The eco-pirates all seem to be based on the US west coast and target pretty much exclusively whalers and illegal trawlers so I don't think any messing with SpaceX's drone ships off the Bahamas is in the cards. It does appear that even the eco-pirates have some sense of self-preservation as I am aware of no instances in which any of their vessels have interfered with any of the prolific illegal fishing done by the world's #1 violator, the PRC.

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:26:05 +0000

Surprised the Bahamians aren’t selling F9 landings as attractions; they are expecting 19 more. People used to pay good money to watch above-ground nuke tests from Las Vegas. According to an official press release from 19 February, the Bahamians seem quite pleased with the activity. And, as Robert noted, ignorant middle-class White people have no problem appropriating another culture to advance their agenda, and satisfy their White-Saviour complex.

https://www.bahamas.com/pressroom/the-bahamas-makes-giant-leap-into-space-welcoming-first-international-spacex-landing

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:23:56 +0000

They would have sunk every vessel

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:41:04 +0000

They should thank their lucky stars that it’s NOT the chicoms they’re dealing with.

By: Steve White

Steve White — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:58:04 +0000

Jeff Wright’s thought about Sea Shepard (and similar notorious, goofy, foolish, progressive slactivist groups) must be considered seriously. There is elsewhere in the news today a court ruling stopping, for now, the effort of one such group of slactivists trying to use federal habeas corpus to have elephants freed from a zoo (we do not know if the elephants agree). There are goofy slactivists who try all sorts of things that even more specious than this, so we must consider that certain foolish people will try to shut down SpaceX by claiming that the ocean landings violate the rights of the local squid, or some such thing.

As we see certain federal district court judges make rulings that are at variance with established law but totally in line with efforts to bring down the current president, we must ask what will happen when the judges are no longer constrained.

And Sea Shepard generally doesn’t obey the law in the first place.

As our host has documented, space exploration can be halted in lots of ways, from the thousand paper cuts of denying a UK space port to FAA meddling in ways that make clear their lack of technical expertise to judges who would curry favor with the slactivists.

SpaceX had better get to the moon — I don’t know how much more time they’ll have.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:23:03 +0000

I can just see the Sea Shepard’s attack Musk’s barges post Trump.