Comments on: Is the fate of the independent live streams in Boca Chica uncertain? https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:11:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/#comment-1623564 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:11:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=117915#comment-1623564 Mr. Pratt–
Totally understand the traffic thing!

I used to live in a very nice subdivision literally a block away from our County Fair Grounds. Majority of the time you didn’t know they existed, except every weekend during the Summer & Fall.
-Antique Show Saturdays were very popular, and 2,000 people would descend upon us. The cottage industry was selling bundles of firewood to Campers, discount parking on your front lawn, cans of cold beverages, and the antique shop in your pole-barn that wasn’t really zoned for that purpose, but nobody bothered you.
Everyone (local) knew before they moved to that area, that Stuff would be going on right next door (like’ since 1920…) on a fairly regular basis.
On the upside, all Events had to end by midnight, so no endless parties were tolerated.

]]> By: Mike Borgelt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/#comment-1623560 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:19:09 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=117915#comment-1623560 Some time ago an over zealous security guard removed a livestream camera from BC. When Elon found out he demanded it be re-instated forthwith as he used to look at that feed to find out what was going on.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/#comment-1623551 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:33:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=117915#comment-1623551 I could seen the need to keep military things secret but that could be accommodated pretty easy by all. Either by a volunteer shutdown of the feed on request or by having a remote shut off commanded by Space X.
They could trade this small accommodation with first and better access to Space X interviews and inside news.

So far things have been pretty good for all involved, no need to tank a good functioning relationship.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/#comment-1623545 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:29:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=117915#comment-1623545 Company Towns were vile things….Tennessee Ernie Ford even sang about it. The 1920 coal strike here left deep wounds.

Elon has some good will there–unless he blows it with this foolishness.

]]> By: Robert Pratt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/#comment-1623544 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:19:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=117915#comment-1623544 The one legit complaint though is having many cars and people in a residential street, think your next door neighbor having a giant party, for days on end each time there is a launch scheduled. That would bug me to no end even if it were good folks enjoying the things I enjoy.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/is-the-fate-of-the-independent-live-streams-in-boca-chica-uncertain/#comment-1623542 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:00:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=117915#comment-1623542

. The very nature of SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk, suggests it won’t happen. The company thrives on openness and straight talk. Musk himself is a proven supporter of free speech and competition. It would be shocking if his company suddenly took a different position.

I agree. It would be really foolish, and frankly, ungrateful, to shut down all the live streamer camera operations on the outskirts of Starbase. This has been some of the best PR SpaceX could ask for.

In fact, why….in at least two of Tim Dodd’s tours of Starfactory, we’ve been able to see the NSF stream up live on monitors inside the factory! Clearly there are NSF fans working there.

And, at last check, there are two NSF alums now working for SpaceX, and I think at least one of them is at Starbase.

At bare minimum, I think the old regulars — NSF, Lab Padre in particular — should be left to operate just as they have been, to the extent that Starbase expansion projects permit it.

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