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-Places like this don't exist...
The proximity to the beach, the wildlife refuge.
-Boca Chica did not change for a lot of years
until SpaceX came in,
and then it's changed drastically.
-Our first thoughts were,
what's going to happen to us?
I'm guessing that Elon Musk makes the big decisions.
-The people that are fans see him as a visionary,
and there's truth to that.
I see him as a ruthless businessman.
-Musk sold his first computer program at the age of 12,
and he hasn't stopped selling since.
-Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set for an electrifying payday.
-His other high profile company, SpaceX.
-While some say colonizing other planets is a pipe dream,
the SpaceX CEO has a very different outlook.
-Who's got our back? No one.
All the politicians, they love SpaceX.
It means money in their pockets.
-It feels like sort of total domination of the area.
I mean, like this is happening.
When you have a corporation telling you,
"Accept the offer or else,"
it was definitely a threat.
-"This is the offer, you take it."
-There's a few people here
that probably would rather die than sell.
-There are a few still out there that don't want to leave.
I would sure encourage these people to truly consider,
"Is this worth it?"
-We knew that we were totally screwed.
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-I was aware of Elon Musk, and I'd seen him on 60 Minutes,
and he seemed sort of interesting.
And then next thing you know,
he wants to come to Boca Chica,
and I'm like... like... like, there's got to be some...
Are you kidding me?
I mean, this is just a tiny little neighborhood
in the middle of a national wildlife refuge.
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I just went bananas. It's, like, I was, you know,
getting in touch with whatever environmental groups I could
about, you know, everything that I could think of.
I mean, birding and stargazing and, you know, who knows what.
And I just kept hoping something would happen
to keep this from going forward.
But I guess they'd been working on the relationships
with the politicians back in 2011.
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-I used to head up the economic development division
here in Brownsville, Texas.
It's a group that back in its day
used to recruit the companies into town.
By far, the most exciting project
that I had personally worked on was SpaceX.
The initial communication with the company
was almost 10 years ago.
And I remember that because I was at a parking lot
of a Chuck E. Cheese for one of my son's birthdays.
And, you know, I got... I got the phone call
from then Governor Rick Perry's Chief of Staff.
Two weeks later, we were already meeting with Elon Musk.
And, you know, he starts talking about interplanetary travel
and what have you, and he kind of paused
and, you know, put his hand on his chin
and he asked, you know, "Do you know why I'm doing this?"
And then he proceeds to say,
"Humanity can no longer sustain itself on this planet.
I'm going to be part of the solution
and help and save humanity by colonizing Mars."
And we're there like...
"Right, this was a nice trip.
I'm going to get fired.
"How am I going to come back to Brownsville, Texas,
one of the poorest communities in the nation,
communicate that we should use our hard-earned tax dollars
to incentivize a company
and have them come in, build rockets
and launch them into space.
And then we met with County Judge Carlos Cascos.
And at first he was kind of like, "Really?
This is a project that you have?"
But then he started looking at the economics behind it.
We were in competition with several other good communities.
Puerto Rico was one, of course.
I think Alabama was another one.
I believe Florida was another one.
Our incentives were, we're below
what other areas were were offering.
But I believe that Elon Musk saw this area as an opportunity.
-The path of the rocket needs to be one
that is safe for the people below it.
And you also want to launch eastward
with the Earth's rotation.
Because when no rocket is launched off of a coast,
it has to get launched over a large body of water.
In case of some catastrophic event,
it just falls into the water.
So there's times when that area
will have to be shut down for rocket operations.
-Mr. Oliveira, who is a state representative,
introduced legislation to give counties the authority
to specifically close Highway 4 to Boca Chica Beach
for SpaceX launches.
-Some high-level staff members from SpaceX approached me
and asked for my support.
And of course, the more I heard about it,
the more excited I got about it.
Immediately he was going to create 600 jobs
with an average salary of $55,000 a year.
That may not seem like a lot of money in some areas,
but when you're one of the poorest counties in the nation,
it does mean a lot.
-The biggest problem under Texas law
is all Texas beaches are open beaches.
They normally cannot be closed.
SpaceX justifiably required
that the beach be closed about 12 hours before the launch
and then 12 hours after the launch.
And that had only been done one time in the history of Texas,
and it was for a Brad Pitt movie,
and it was done in Galveston.
It was done illegally in Galveston
because they violated the law.
They just... Nobody bothered to enforce it.
I got to know Elon Musk very well.
We had to go before the House Appropriations Committee
to get some tentative funding.
-We're talking about something
that's that's really the big leagues here.
This would be kind of
a commercial version of Cape Canaveral,
so it would be an historical first in the world.
It would be of very great significance,
both to the local economy, as well as to the world, really.
-That room was very impressed and receptive
with his vision.
-Brownsville officials say they're one step closer
to getting SpaceX to build a launch site in the Valley.
They say support from State Rep. René Oliveira,
who filed a bill yesterday supporting the project,
will go a long way.
-After a lot of negotiations,
a lot of hard work, a lot of give and take,
we finally signed it
and approved by the commission on a 4-1 vote...
-That would allow the temporary closure
of Boca Chica Beach for the launches.
And Brownsville officials say this sends a message to SpaceX
that they are wanted here in Cameron County.
-It brought joy to my heart.
I said, "This is going to happen.
This isn't a dream anymore.
It's not a childhood fantasy about space travel.
It is real."
-A rebirth of sorts in industry for the city of Brownsville
as they win the bid to house SpaceX
and bring hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars
in salaries right here to Valley.
-Everybody that wanted to be somebody
was was at the groundbreaking.
Governor Perry came down,
Elon Musk and other other dignitaries.
The mood was electric.
It was one of the biggest economic opportunities
that the area had ever seen.
And it put us on the map.
-Long-term goal is to create
the technology necessary to establish a base on Mars.
So it could very well be that the first person
that departs for another planet could depart from this location.
[ Applause ]
-I still get goose bumps just, you know,
thinking about when he said that.
And I'm like...
"I keep my job, right?"
-The Boca Chica Beach area,
a lot of it is owned by the state,
Texas Parks and Wildlife, and then you have pockets
here and there where it's owned by private parties.
That's how you ended up with that little subdivision
out there, the Boca Chica village.
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I remember driving in,
and it was it was a little eerie because it was abandoned
and there was just a handful of families living out there.
-The few people that live out there,
you have no wastewater, no freshwater.
It's got to be, at least by modern standards, a hard life.
-A lot of these folks are retirees.
They've been there for decades.
I can tell you that when I was there,
there was no discussion
regarding what are we going to do about this community.
-Come here.
No! Come here.
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So the house was built in 65.
My mother-in-law and father-in-law
originally bought it, and it's been in the family
for at least 40 years.
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And this is where we get our water...
A big old water tank.
And they come about once a month and fill the tanks.
[ Barking ]
All right.
Puppy is my watchdog.
I'm a high-school secretary at a small town in Iowa.
I prefer to come in the summer, which is when I can come
because I work at a school so we have the summer off.
My husband is a farmer and he likes to fish.
So being close to the beach, that's a plus.
I just like to sit on the beach.
So that's my draw... To sit and enjoy the waves
and the sand between your toes.
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I don't know. For us, this little bit of nothing here
is probably the only vacation home we'll ever have.
So eventually it'll be retirement, you know,
but... I know it's not much, but.
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-Oh!
Yeah, I've been here in Boca Chica Beach
since 1982.
It's almost 30 years now,
This has been a part of my life, my whole life, actually,
because when we were little,
my parents used to bring us here to the beach.
I bought two houses here because I have two sons.
So I figure that when I die,
one of my sons can have a house each,
and then they would always keep their roots here.
Here I am surrounded by water.
There's a bird sanctuary here. We see tons of birds.
Like one time, there was like 200 or 300 blue buntings.
They're iridescent blue.
And then they all came and landed on a tree
and it looked like a Christmas tree
decorated with blue buntings.
It's a wildlife refuge.
There is no... no other place like this.
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-So this is probably the most undeveloped beach in Texas.
The only thing you see here are occasional garbage cans.
There's no bathroom, there's no store,
there's no... no nothing.
There are several species of terns,
several species of plovers.
In the wetland areas, you'll have curlews, dowagers
and all kinds of shorebirds.
Of course, you get brown pelicans
coming over us right now.
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Most of the public and the politicians
are so enamored by the space program
that they probably think it's great.
And even Elon Musk said it's not a problem if things blow off.
There's nothing... There's nothing out here.
There is a lot out here. But it's... it's subtle.
It's not in plain sight.
It has none of the majesty of, you know,
the Redwoods or Yosemite or the Grand Tetons.
But it has more plant and animal species
than any of those by far.
It's not even close.
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[ Trash clunks ]
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-I have a Facebook page, "SpaceX Boca Chica,"
that is a documentation for the progress of SpaceX.
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Before SpaceX got here, there was no traffic
except for local fishermen.
There was more bird life,
more pilots walking around.
I was a sunrise photographer.
It's all about getting right out of bed and down to the beach.
Yeah, it was... it was the funnest place I'd ever lived.
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One morning, I looked out my bedroom window
and I said, "Wow, it's happening."
I realized there's no stopping this.
And once you realize there's no stopping it,
then you make Plan B.
And Plan B was to get the camera out.
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-September of 2019, um,
we all got these...
These sort of ridiculous letters saying, um,
"Here's the appraisal that we did on your house."
It was just what we were all calling a drive-by appraisal,
but we're offering you a three times offer
of that ridiculously low appraisal.
And then you have two weeks from the date of the letter
to decide.
-I get this big package from FedEx,
and it's a 65-page offer to buy the house.
So I decided, since I am retired, to read it.
And I read it.
And as I read along the contract, the offer,
I kept getting more insulted about it.
One of the things he said was that Brownsville
had the most uneducated people.
That insulted me because my family...
I have teachers in the family,
I have lawyers in the family.
I have never, never seen such a huge stack of papers
to make us such a small offer,
and a threatening, bully-type offer.
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-They were willing to pay three times
what their appraiser from the road said it was worth.
So that gives us $150,000.
What are you going to do with it?
You can't go buy a house a mile and a half from the beach
for that nowhere.
So, of course, we rejected them.
Got kind of a nasty voicemail from their Realtor.
Let me see if I can find it here.
Somewhere, somewhere in this mess it's here.
-Hey, this is Elizabeth over at JLL.
SpaceX is riding me because they want to have...
all the offers in, and they said
that if they don't hear back from people,
they will assume that they are no longer interested.
This worries me because that three times value
will be off the table,
and you won't be able to get anything close to that offer
should the county step in and proceed with eminent domain.
Thanks, bye.
-You know, when you go through eminent domain, it's because
there's a government purpose.
I didn't believe... Still don't believe...
It would be appropriate
to to use eminent domain for for a private company,
regardless of what it is.
I think... I don't think that that's...
I don't think that that's right.
-The state has the power to take property,
but I've never wanted to invoke that,
never thought about invoking it
and was never asked by SpaceX to invoke it.
So to their credit, they've accepted them as neighbors.
Whether they can live with each other,
we'll see as time passes.
-An exciting announcement expected this week
about ongoing developments for SpaceX.
The company is planning a presentation
on the future of its operations,
including the future of the Starship right here
near Boca Chica Beach tomorrow, September the 28th.
-Elon Musk planned a big event here and invited us to go.
And I think my curiosity got the best of me,
and a lot of the other neighbors were going to go.
So I decided to go.
-They wanted the villagers to all go as a group,
stuck us in a bus, and took us over there.
-When we got there, they led us to this roped-off area
that was kind of at the front to where we would be able
to see him at the podium.
-The critical thing that we need to focus on, I think,
is the fastest path to a self-sustaining city on Mars.
-We had just got it in this buyout letter just days before,
and it had some pretty unfriendly language.
And I think Elon wanted
to smooth that unfriendly language down.
He wanted to see us sell.
-I mean, I think the actual danger to Boca Chica Village
is low, but it's not... It's not tiny.
So therefore, and we want super tiny risk,
so it'd probably have a time
it would be better to buy out the villagers,
and we've made an offer to that effect.
Yeah.
-I got some great pictures, and I was ready to go home
and they said a special visitor wants to meet you.
-And it's like, well, of course
we know who they're talking about.
I mean, by the time he came, it was ridiculously late.
I want to say it was like 11:30,
and we were there for hours.
So, you know, he comes in with his entourage and comes up
and we were pretty harsh,
you know, started asking him questions about everything
and, you know, all about these buyouts and appraisals.
-It was a very tense moment of number one,
why did you leave us sitting up here when we're priority?
Number two is what's this letter all about?!
You know, what do you mean?
You're going to give us three times offer or else?
-He didn't say a whole lot.
He did a lot of telling the woman
that he was treating as his assistant,
kind of like if we would say something, he'd tell, you know,
he'd say something to her, like, "Look into that."
They just let us talk.
It's not going to change anything.
And it didn't.
-So when I told him you all happened
right out my bedroom window,
that's when I started documenting on Facebook.
And he goes, "Well, I've seen your page.
And it's nice because I like it.
And I was flattered.
He got very quiet and he just barely leaned over
towards me and said, "You don't want to live there."
And... that's when the light bulb went off in my head.
It wasn't a question of if, it was a question of when.
They're getting ready to extend the boundaries
across the field here to the new acquired properties.
This is going to be a parking lot, I think.
That's my guess.
There has been tons of freight going down to the launchpad.
There's been freight all night long on the road,
and there's been a pile-driving over here.
Very noisy this morning.
Well, they're moving into the neighborhood,
They bought the village homes,
except for about five of them, the last I heard.
So they're coming over to the next lot...
and those... only one lot left
between this property and SpaceX's, so...
out my bedroom window,
literally came almost to the window
before we got moved out.
So we lasted longer than I thought we would.
Even though I'm moving,
I still take care of my garden.
And the wife of the senior engineer
that's going to be moving in here,
I think wanted this house especially
because it had a landscaped,
beautification, curbside appeal.
They told us we should sell
because it's not going to be recognizable in six months,
and if you're not out of here soon,
you're going to be sorry you're not.
So they were right.
So I love all you guys.
It's been a real, real joy
to be neighbors with SpaceX up until now
and bringing you [voice breaking] the future.
It's been a real joy.
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-And it was abundantly clear
that, you know, we weren't part of this at all.
I mean, it was kind of like the old Western movies...
you know, what is it when, like, the Indians surround the Cowboys
or I don't know which way it goes,
but that's that's the way it felt.
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From the get-go, it's been kind of...
not... you know, like they don't need to tell us anything.
You know, they establish relationships with the people
that they needed to have in their corner.
And, you know,
we were just something to sort of be dealt with
as far as I'm concerned.
Almost like a bug you'd just shoe off somebody's arm.
-I don't believe that Cameron County
reached out to these folks.
I don't know if anyone ever anticipated that SpaceX
was going to want to acquire them.
That was never a discussion, to my knowledge.
So obviously, they... they weren't happy about it.
Their Shangri-La was was being basically ruptured.
But I think Spock said, "Watch that
the good of the many is better
than the good of the few," or something like that.
-The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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I wish we could have made it better for them.
But just like you couldn't stand in the way
of train tracks coming into the West...
you can't stop these things either.
[ Machinery, engines whirring ]
-This is the new home.
This is SpaceX still in my backyard.
That's the production complex and the launch pad
still in the haze.
Just couldn't move too far away yet, you know.
Okay, let's roll.
Some people like to run these stop signs,
but I kind of like them.
Gives me a chance to say hi to everybody.
Never lived in civilization before.
I've always been a wilderness girl.
Well, there's a road closure today,
tomorrow and Wednesday,
and I'm heading out to SpaceX's compound
to film for my Facebook page.
I come out here about three times a week.
I like to get out before the road closure.
Yes, we're in!
This is the checkpoint and it's opened.
I cooperated in the sale of my property,
so they gave us benefits, perks.
They call us influencers.
What Elon said he wanted me to do
was to do what I have always done,
but just do it from the street.
So I said, you know, that's not a bad deal.
Not a bad deal.
This place used to be pristine.
It was very quiet back here just yesterday.
Oh.
One minute.
[ Construction equipment rumbling ]
I'm just going to film the expansion
and make sure it gets respected.
I'll put it in my video. Okay.
- Thank you. - Thanks.
You got any suggestions where I can go to the bathroom now?
- I don't know. - I don't either.
[ Laughs ] Thanks.
Yeah, we got to stay on the county side.
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-Just got back down here yesterday,
and the first thing I noticed is, like, you can tell,
they've been using the side of our house for a driveway.
When I first seen it, it was just like, what the heck?
I parked my jeep in the way so they couldn't go that way.
It's very frustrating.
But they just, like, while we're gone.
It's like you never know what you're going to see
when you come back down.
This time it was the trees, and they just disappeared.
And like, so this is our view now.
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This is not acceptable.
I mean, the yard was never glorious before that,
but now it's like... demolished.
But they can cut all the trees down they want.
We'll still be here.
-Sometimes our neighbors are our best friends
and sometimes our neighbors are a big pain
that we have to live with.
And SpaceX comes with,
you know, its blessings and curses for them.
I would sure encourage these people
because I think they're good people to...
to truly consider, "Is this worth it?"
-Back in December, my rental house was broken in
by one of SpaceX's employees, one or two.
I went over there and somebody had broken into the house
and broken the door locks and broken the window.
Threw a brick in.
The brick was still there and the glass was still there
and they were living there.
They had it set up. So I guess the owner came in.
They would climb on a stool, then on a dresser
and then up into the attic and hide.
So I called the sheriff's department.
It took me about five months,
but SpaceX did end up paying for the damage.
The employees have been really kind of weird.
Even if you try and be friendly, wave to them,
they don't wave back.
They made me feel like I was an intruder.
And actually, they're the intruders.
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-So this is an alert we would get from SpaceX
that the sheriff would deliver
regarding an upcoming testing event,
and it just says, "Alert, potential risk
to health and safety. Action required.
To residents or occupants of Boca Chica Village,
SpaceX will conduct spaceflight activities.
There is a risk that a malfunction
of the SpaceX vehicle during these activities
will create an overpressure event that can break windows.
At a minimum, you must exit your home or structure to avoid
or minimize the risk of injury."
It started May 3rd.
So May 3rd, May 4th,
I guess through the 6th.
And it was like 12, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19...
You know, and sometimes it would be 12 hours at a time.
It was 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. And when they started that,
they came and knocked on the door
at 6:00 a.m. to deliver this.
I don't think they just decided at 5:30 in the morning
that they were going to do this.
They certainly could have told us before.
The way they handled all this
was like harass the people that are here
so they won't want to be here.
I mean, so, you know, it's all by design.
-I have one of my bedrooms boarded up
because, you know, they blow in every test.
Every rocket they test, they've blown it up.
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The explosion was so loud
that all the windows rattled, of course.
The explosion before that broke my kitchen window.
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This last one left me kind of deaf
for about a half-hour, 45 minutes.
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I call that my bunker because that's where I go
when they're going to do the testing.
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I went from my nice peaceful vacation home to a war zone.
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-SpaceX has turned out to be a larger threat
than... than we we first realized.
There have been multiple explosions, at least two fires.
There was an explosion that then caused over 100-acre brushfire
on wildlife refuge land.
What SpaceX is doing now is very different
than what they said they would do back in 2013-14.
Starship is going to be the largest rocket
ever made in the United States,
and that's being developed and tested here.
That's a much different thing
than having a launch every one or two months.
Their appetite for taking over more and more of this area
just seems kind of unstoppable.
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-I read what people write to me from all over the world.
And it makes you cry.
The hope that they see... Another building going up.
And the dreams that they have...
That's our old house.
Yeah, so totally consumed.
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This is our old house.
If it looked like my old house,
I'd probably feel pretty bad.
But now that it's been converted into an industrial zone,
it doesn't have much of an appeal.
So you're looking right at the front door,
the house was all tiled floor throughout
with a big great room and for the small square footage,
it felt like a very big house.
You can, you know, just go down to the beach
and have a party with people you didn't even know.
[ Laughs ] It was easy.
That house was rocking. [ Laughs ]
That was just a rocking house.
We howled with the coyotes.
It's corporate America.
It's going to come to your front door soon, too.
It's not just us.
The people that sold to SpaceX that aren't the holdouts,
we walk around with chump change in our pocket.
I'm one of the chump changers, and that's what you got to do
when corporate America takes over your front yard.
And in our case, our backyard and our side yard and our house.
So if you want to do something and it's not on the up-and-up,
come to Texas, you can get her done.
-Did you guys hear anything yet?
Did you hear any change in access?
Did you see my letter that gives me exclusive to have access
to all special events and closures?
-I was told today by SpaceX, okay...
-That's Alma. Alma is local.
I'm dealing with Hawthorne, California.
And this was a negotiated...
-Let me go out there and make... SpaceX,
and I'll come back and let you know, okay?
-And I printed out to Elon to help me.
He's got my phone number also. - Okay.
-But they said he's off of Twitter right now.
- Let me go out there and check. - Okay. Thanks.
When I sold my property,
I didn't want any interruption to what I was doing.
One of the main things that I wanted to make sure of
is that the access to being able to film, like Boca Chica Maria.
I wanted that to continue even during the road closures.
And they assured me that there would be no interruption
to what I ever did before.
I'm supposed to continue doing what I do
because I cooperated fully with the sale of my property.
So that cooperation has definitely not paid off today.
-We were under a lot of pressure.
It was like basically, "Take this or else."
And then you're going, "What's the 'or else'?"
It was definitely a threat.
I sold the house,
and then immediately regretted it.
Holidays hit and sometime after the holidays,
I was looking for an attorney.
We talked about what it takes to unwind a sale in Texas.
And, you know, there's... There's three elements.
And I had two of them.
One was under duress and fraudulently induced
because they were telling us from way back
that it wasn't safe for us to be here.
And they made it seem as if they were going to just,
you know, bulldoze the houses
and no one was going to live here.
Some of the houses that sold
have SpaceX employees living in them,
and we'll see them jog up and down the street.
And I've seen a couple of people with a dog
and, you know, they're just, you know, living here.
If I have to give up everything and they get to ruin
this amazing area, it's like, you know...
I'd actually like to go to court with them.
I would like SpaceX to have to answer to someone
for what they've done.
This is this is Georgie.
This is Georgie.
I know.
I just thought I'd stop by and see how you're doing.
That I don't go? Well, we'll see.
That's kind of been depressing me, actually,
because it's like, you know,
how do you replace this, you know? So...
She's my best friend.
She's fighting back
because everybody here sold under duress.
The way they made their offers and bullied us
and made me feel like I had a gun pointed at my head.
This is America.
And in America, we don't do business like that.
I says, "In America, when a house goes up for sale,
the buyer and the seller both walk away happy
or there is no transaction made."
And that's why I have resisted selling to SpaceX,
even though they threatened with eminent domain.
I still refused. My question is,
why should I give up my dream
for Elon to accomplish his dream?
It is no longer the Boca Chica Village
Boca Chica Beach that we always knew,
but I still love it and I still intend to stay here,
unless they kick me out forcefully.
-Elon Musk is the seventh wealthiest person
in the world now.
If he wants to offer them $5 million for, you know...
At some point someone is going to take the money.
I just don't think that they realize
the commitment that some of these people
that have lived there for decades have, in my opinion.
-I know there's like, people look at it and say,
"Oh, it's like a little cardboard box.
Why would they just not get rid of it?"
You know, but somebody who worked all their life
and saved up for it, you know,
and then they just want... Somebody scoops in and says,
"I want you guys all to leave," you know?
I mean, he knew we were here,
and I don't know if he, Mr. Musk,
just thought that we wouldn't care, you know,
like we would be easy to get rid of.
I kind of just think he thinks money can buy everything,
and we should be glad we were getting the three times
and we should just go, but...
no, money can't buy everything, so...
here we are.
-Four, three, two, one.
-There it goes, there it goes.
It's going, it's going. It's going.
-A major test for the hopper rocket in Boca Chica
was a huge success.
-It's just phenomenal, and it's just the beginning.
-Elon Musk's SpaceX won a multibillion-dollar contract
with the Department of Defense.
-The SN5 now up in the air.
-It's part of an economic necessity for our area.
It's part of the future of mankind and of humanity.
We can't stop it for a few people.
We have to... have to look... Look to space
for the future of humanity.
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-I have no interest in going to Mars.
It's not even safe to go to Mars.
Apparently if people go to Mars,
they probably won't make it back okay.
I mean, they may not make it back alive
and they probably won't be okay if they come back.
So if they want to just go live on Mars, that's fine.
I hope Elon's the first one to go.
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