{"id":8839,"date":"2021-01-21T01:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2021-01-21T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:20:45","slug":"spacex-bought-two-former-valaris-oil-rigs-to-build-floating-launchpads-for-its-starship-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX bought two former Valaris oil rigs to build floating launchpads for its Starship rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/19\/spacex-bought-former-valaris-oil-rigs-to-build-starship-launchpads.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/106826349-1611077100209-ensco_8500_series.png?v=1611077161\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX bought two deepwater oil rigs last year and is converting them into floating launchpads for its Starship rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/19\/spacex-bought-former-valaris-oil-rigs-to-build-starship-launchpads.html\">SpaceX bought two former Valaris oil rigs to build floating launchpads for its Starship rocket<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Say what you want about Elon Mush, he sure knows how to find bargains.\u00a0 He also bought the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont, CA, for a steal ($42 million for the biggest auto plant in California, probably worth a $B or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX bought two deepwater oil rigs last year and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[484,140,74,274],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elon","tag-paul","tag-space","tag-spacex","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}