> the state

tell me you don't know how state legal systems work without telling me you don't know how state legal systems work

I feel like this is basically a scifi version of The Irony of Fate

because a star is very large and gives off its own light while an asteroid is very small and reflects a mere fraction of the light that reaches it

Calling it a "Race Against Musk" implies that he actually has anything to do with it besides acting as a figurehead.

A better description would be a "race against Gwynne Shotwell and team."