Elon Musk’s dream of going to Mars failed when the second Starship rocket in 2 months blew up over the Caribbean diverting airplanes throughout the area and offering some spectacular fireworks and lots of detritus falling in the ocean. You have to wonder if Musk was minding the store instead of blowing up the federal government, he’d have better luck. Musk’s philosophy behind building these starships, which he has on an accelerated schedule in order to meet his deadline of sending a manned mission to Mars by 2030, is something he calls “rapid iterative development” the goal being to build prototypes quickly and put them on the launchpad with a willingness to blow them up. Sound familiar? Unfortunately for us, a willingness to blow up government doesn’t just destroy a hunk of metal, it destroys tens of thousands of lives. Not that he cares about that. As he told podcaster Joe Rogan last week, “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” As it happens Musk had already had what one would usually describe as a bit of a humiliation when President Trump called him in before the cabinet and issued an edict that the agency heads were to do the “cutting” not Musk and his DOGE team. This almost certainly came at the best of lawyers who are dealing with several lawsuits that argue Musk has no legal authority to be ordering…