Here we go again. Another SpaceX Starship test vehicle just exploded in Texas, in what the company blandly called a “major anomaly.” No casualties, but once again, Elon Musk is playing high-stakes roulette with military-grade technology—and our national treasure trove of silver is going up in smoke with every blast.
This isn’t just about one rocket. This is a pattern. Falcon Heavy drops flaming scrap over Florida. A Starship spins off and craters into the Indian Ocean. Now a late-night launch pad detonation in South Texas. But despite the failures, Musk’s operation is still riding high on billions in government funding—with his Space Force contract alone topping $5.9 billion.
If you think the problem ends with a few shredded rockets, you haven’t been paying attention.
The Monarch
It's Time for the President to Protect American National Security and Drop Elon.
The Silver Cost of a Starship Launch
You know what else explodes every time Elon’s stainless steel skyscrapers turn into space confetti? Roughly half a metric ton of silver.
SpaceX explosion no. 37
— Ton Aarts (@ton_aarts) June 19, 2025
It's now really 37 times (!) a SpaceX rocket blew up / burned down
(From the guy running a car company that burned alive 137+ people in a Tesla so far) pic.twitter.com/3LBHeHmVan
Public Sentiment Speaks Volumes.
Waste of taxpayer money. Defund SpaceX. pic.twitter.com/dYRGtpGK13
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) June 19, 2025
Taxpayers are not having it anymore.
According to detailed aerospace estimates, a single Starship + Super Heavy booster stack built to military specifications carries around 480 kilograms of silver. That’s over 16,900 troy ounces per launch, embedded in batteries, wiring, shielding, fasteners, engine valves, and avionics.
Estimated Silver Per Launch
| Component | Silver Content |
|---|---|
| Starship Upper Stage | ~230 kg |
| Super Heavy Booster | ~250 kg |
| Total Per Launch | ~480 kg |
SILVERWARS
What’s that silver doing?
- Batteries: Silver-zinc cells with ~160 kg per vehicle
- Wiring & Harnesses: Silver-plated copper in EMI-shielded military-grade cables
- Engine Components: Plated fasteners and LOX turbopumps
- Thermal & EMI Coatings: Silver-lined insulation, shielding, and tapes
SILVERWARS
This is the most critical industrial metal on the planet. We use silver for missiles, radars, sensors, nuclear command systems, and yes, the semiconductors needed for actual defense—not Musk’s exploding toy show.
And if you think Elon’s the only one burning through our silver? Think again. His Starship fleet has already consumed over 10 metric tons of silver under mil-spec assumptions.
The DOGE Department and China’s Backdoor
It gets worse. Because when the Starships aren’t exploding, they’re beaming classified telemetry across a web of dual-use commercial and military payloads.
Elon Musk’s companies, including SpaceX and Tesla, are knee-deep in data-sharing dependencies that reek of national security rot. You want to know how a nation sells its secrets without a formal leak? It lets a tech oligarch with global contracts, including those with China, plug into every layer of infrastructure.
Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway
National Security and Data Leaks Go Both Ways. When Will the US's Data Be Leaked to China?
And let’s not forget the bizarrely underregulated DOGE Department—a joke-turned-internal term for a set of crypto-aligned satellite systems, telecom APIs, and encrypted routing schemes used within SpaceX networks. The same Musk who pumped DOGE on Twitter is now running a semi-autonomous interlink that shares backbone protocols with Tesla’s Chinese manufacturing chains.
You think that’s a coincidence?
With this infrastructure, any "civilian" satellite can be piggybacked with intelligence-gathering systems. He’s effectively privatized orbital surveillance while being the sole launch provider for Pentagon satellites. And you trust that with a guy whose factory apps have Chinese SDKs? Good luck with that.
Anviksha More
Michelle Toh
Spying and Leaking Go Hand in Hand
Elon’s Government Addiction
SpaceX’s entire survival depends on government funding, period. In 2024 alone:
- $5.9B from the U.S. Space Force
- $22B in total government contracts
- Additional subsidies across NASA, FAA, and DoD programs
Paresh Dave
Elon is already posturing for more money from the government. Call it a hunch, but statements like this sound like, "I will need another $100 billion to redesign this rocket and the US taxpayer would love to pay for that."
This is not just a public-private partnership. It’s a subsidy pipeline that props up one man’s private empire while he trashes U.S. infrastructure and trolls sitting presidents.
Just this June, Trump publicly threatened to pull Musk’s subsidies, calling out the bloat and waste:
"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts." —Trump on Truth Social
And Musk? He responded by threatening to decommission the Dragon spacecraft—then backtracked hours later like a kid caught lying about homework.
This is the guy we're trusting with national defense?
The National Security Red Line
Every Starship explosion isn’t just an engineering setback—it’s a national security risk. Each detonation scatters precision alloys, rare materials, and proprietary sensor hardware across oceans and remote test sites. That’s material we don’t get back. That’s tech we can’t verify hasn’t been intercepted or reverse-engineered by adversaries.
And the silver? Gone. Literally vaporized. Half a million dollars worth per launch, torched in the name of R&D with no accountability.
Total Silver Lost in Starship Program (to date)
| Asset Type | Estimated Silver Use |
| Starship Upper Stages (×30) | ~6,900 kg |
| Super Heavy Boosters (×14) | ~3,500 kg |
| Ground Support Systems | ~20 kg |
| TOTAL | ~10,420 kg |
If we don’t act, this number will double or triple as Musk pushes for full Mars-fleet expansion.
Cut Him Off
It’s time to shut off the spigot. Elon Musk should not have unrestricted access to national silver reserves, Pentagon satellites, or classified aerospace architecture while he plays billionaire messiah on X and pumps Dogecoin in the same breath as launching spy satellites.
He’s built a monopoly on launch infrastructure using taxpayer money. Now he’s torching our critical materials while angling for even more funding, even more control, and probably one more PR stunt involving Mars.
We don’t need more rockets. We need oversight.
Cut the funding. Cut the launch contracts. Cut the DOGE-laced telemetry.
Before the next detonation turns silver into smoke—and our secrets into leverage for the next regime willing to cut a check.
