Speaking of dangerous immaturity of Elon Musk’s technical teams, remember when Martin Eberhard (inventor and founder of Tesla) had his Roadster taken away from him by Elon Musk and launched into space just to make horrible cruelty into a public spectacle of human and environmental abuse?

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as a close-to-Earth asteroid turned out to be a Tesla electric car that Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched in 2018 as a stupid publicity stunt. Stupid because space junk is space junk.

Intentional cruelty through abuse of laws doesn’t get mentioned enough in the analysis.

There is just a 6% chance that the car…will collide with Earth in the next one million years but that doesn’t excuse the launching of Musk’s sustainability-be-damned Mars-aiming junk, believes Thomas Cheney, a space law academic specializing in the environmental aspects of space governance.

The launch into space of the Roadster “highlights that it was irresponsible of the United States to authorize the launch,” said Cheney, a Vice Chancellors Research Fellow in Law at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Clearance should have been denied. So why wasn’t it? It’s like asking what would Big Balls do, if bypassing normal mandatory clearance and safety requirements?

Davi Ottenheimer, a longtime security operations and compliance manager, says many factors about Coristine’s employment history and online footprint could raise questions about his ability to obtain security clearance.

“Limited real work experience is a risk,” says Ottenheimer, as an example. “Plus his handle is literally Big Balls.”