{"id":19477,"date":"2025-07-17T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/inside-elon-musks-plan-to-rain-spacexs-rocket-debris-over-hawaiis-pristine-waters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:37:25","slug":"inside-elon-musks-plan-to-rain-spacexs-rocket-debris-over-hawaiis-pristine-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/inside-elon-musks-plan-to-rain-spacexs-rocket-debris-over-hawaiis-pristine-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Elon Musk\u2019s plan to rain SpaceX\u2019s rocket debris over Hawaii\u2019s pristine waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim<\/p>\n

The north-west Hawaiian<\/a> island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched by the gods. Bisected by the Tropic of Cancer latitude line, it is deep in the Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles from Honolulu. The island\u2019s steep rocky cliffs give way to indigo blue waters dotted with monk seals and stony coral. No humans have lived on Mokumanamana, but it has the world\u2019s highest density of ancient Hawaiian religious sites.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sits as a boundary between what Native Hawaiians refer to as \u2018p\u014d\u2019, the darkness, and \u2018au\u2019, the light,\u201d said William Aila, the former chair of Hawaii\u2019s department of land and natural resources. \u201cWhen a Hawaiian passes, their soul makes its way from wherever it is in the main Hawaiian Islands, up to the North-western Hawaiian Islands. And at that juncture, at p\u014d, they\u2019re met by their ancestors.\u201d As Aila tells it, if a person has been good, they can pass into p\u014d<\/em> and be with their ancestors, who inhabit the Pacific waters west of Mokumanamana.<\/p>\n

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\nTexas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim
\nThe north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched by the gods. Bisected by the Tropic of Cancer latitude line, it is deep in the Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles from Honolulu. The island\u2019s steep rocky cliffs give way to indigo blue waters dotted with monk seals and stony coral. No humans have lived on Mokumanamana, but it has the world\u2019s highest density of ancient Hawaiian religious sites.
\n\u201cIt sits as a boundary between what Native Hawaiians refer to as \u2018p\u014d\u2019, the darkness, and \u2018au\u2019, the light,\u201d said William Aila, the former chair of Hawaii\u2019s department of land and natural resources. \u201cWhen a Hawaiian passes, their soul makes its way from wherever it is in the main Hawaiian Islands, up to the North-western Hawaiian Islands. And at that juncture, at p\u014d, they\u2019re met by their ancestors.\u201d As Aila tells it, if a person has been good, they can pass into p\u014d and be with their ancestors, who inhabit the Pacific waters west of Mokumanamana. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim The north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched by the gods. Bisected by the Tropic of Cancer latitude line, it is deep in the Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles from …<\/p>\n

Inside Elon Musk\u2019s plan to rain SpaceX\u2019s rocket debris over Hawaii\u2019s pristine waters<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}