Big Spaceship Makes Big Boom-Boom!!

Jeeziz you inane drone, if you are serious about space start blowing those billions on a space elevator, not on refining 12th century Chinese technology."Yeah, it does appear to be spinning, but ... everything after clearing the tower was icing on the cake."

Comrade Misfit sums it up:

SpaceX is operating on a Silicon Valley mindset: Get it to "meh, close enough" and then see what happens when they turn the key.