SpaceX & X Moving To Texas

If you've been to Austin any time in the last 3-4 years and driven on Highway 45/130 (yeah, it's the one with the tolls), you may have noticed this incredible monstrosity of a building that feels like it's a literal mile long.

If you haven't been there to see it, or are living under a rock, that is the massive Tesla Giga Texas building. It's the manufacturing hub for the Tesla Model Y, as well as the home of the ever-popular Cybertruck.

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It's such a massive building that it literally has it's own exit and street name off the highway.

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I remember when this was being built, it was a huge deal. Some were happy about it because the amount of jobs it was going to create, and many were wildly upset that Elon was building this crazy building in Austin.

Well to those of you who weren't happy about Elon building a Tesla paradise, get ready for more. Elon is preparing to move everything he owns into Texas. Musk took to X on Tuesday and announced that both SpaceX as well as X would soon be moving out of California, and its destination is Texas.

SpaceX will be headed to Starbase, just outside of Brownsville, while X will join the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin.

So why has Elon decided to move everything into Texas? One of the reasons many are claiming is that he's doing it for the tax breaks Texas provides. As you all know, we don't have a state tax here meaning we all have to pay less in taxes.

However, that's not the reason he stated. Recently, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed a law banning public schools from outing transgender students to their parents. This was Elon's response to that once the news came out.

Not long after that, he announced X would also be moving out of the California. As the news of the moves hit, Texas Governor Greg Abbott proceeded to post to X in what appeared to be a celebratory post.

So ready or not, here comes Elon and everything he owns. I wonder if the X will be capitalized permanently the way Gov. Abbott posted it on X.

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Can You Guess These Towns From Their Satellite Photos?

I'm always down for a good brain challenge. This one however got the best of me.

It's always a fun time looking up address or cities and seeing them from a satellite point of view. You start pointing out landmarks and things you recognize.

One thing you don't account for however is something looking bigger or smaller than you seemed to think it was. So we started grabbing a bunch of these satellite pictures of cities and towns around Amarillo.

As we looked at them, we thought to ourselves, "how fun would this be to actually have to GUESS what these places are?". So away we went.

Go ahead and try to see how many you can guess correctly!

Gallery Credit: Sarah Clark

Source: Screw California! SpaceX and X Will Now Call Texas Home.

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