02-07-2019, 07:46 AM
I find it odd that a project like this can begin construction almost immediately through Building Department plan check, permits, etc., while a simple single story wood framed residence take years.
Lotta misconceptions there Tink.
Last set of house plans I ran through county took about a month. Custom home all around, lotta engineering, but damn if you make sure your plans are well done and every issue anticipated and addressed before you submit them it is not hard to get through the process at all. It certainly ain't rocket science.
They guys say 24 launches a year. So where you get 2 a week is a bit of a mystery.
So, what is all the humbug? From what I can tell this proposal is so small, so low impact, when compared to something as normal, and accepted, and already happening, like an airport. These guys could take a plot of land on the end of a runway at ITO and not even be seen, or felt, when compared to all the planes already coming and going.
I saw one clip (on TV) of some lady going on how she and her's have lived on Hawaiian Home Lands all her life and somehow her "plight" was supposed to be important to the discussion. The fricking area being proposed ain't next to anyone. So, what really is the problem?
Those rockets are small. The whole enterprise could bring all sorts of side gigs to our community. I have a friend that does really high end machining of parts for the telescopes on Mauna Kea, right here on island, and imagine we could have satellite builders put up shops here too. Or get some contract to built the rockets themselves. Who knows, but the idea that we would reject the opportunity for this kind of endeavor over some sort of unfounded fear of boogymen in closets doesn't make sense to me.
Lotta misconceptions there Tink.
Last set of house plans I ran through county took about a month. Custom home all around, lotta engineering, but damn if you make sure your plans are well done and every issue anticipated and addressed before you submit them it is not hard to get through the process at all. It certainly ain't rocket science.
They guys say 24 launches a year. So where you get 2 a week is a bit of a mystery.
So, what is all the humbug? From what I can tell this proposal is so small, so low impact, when compared to something as normal, and accepted, and already happening, like an airport. These guys could take a plot of land on the end of a runway at ITO and not even be seen, or felt, when compared to all the planes already coming and going.
I saw one clip (on TV) of some lady going on how she and her's have lived on Hawaiian Home Lands all her life and somehow her "plight" was supposed to be important to the discussion. The fricking area being proposed ain't next to anyone. So, what really is the problem?
Those rockets are small. The whole enterprise could bring all sorts of side gigs to our community. I have a friend that does really high end machining of parts for the telescopes on Mauna Kea, right here on island, and imagine we could have satellite builders put up shops here too. Or get some contract to built the rockets themselves. Who knows, but the idea that we would reject the opportunity for this kind of endeavor over some sort of unfounded fear of boogymen in closets doesn't make sense to me.