I am not so worried about the patents. Vertically landing a rocket has been described in the TinTin comic ''Objectif Lune...
I'm not a patent attorney either, but I'm fairly sure that works of fiction are not eligible to be considered prior works.
If you have to ask (for your money back) you can't afford it.
What if you're just asking for your money back as a matter of principle?
Congress basically refused to allow him to close it.
It's a military base and he is the Commander in Chief, is he not? How does he not have the authority to close the base?
"night owl" people are more likely to be psychopaths than early risers.
If you stop waking us up at ungodly hours of the morning, maybe we wouldn't be so stressed out. Did you ever think of that Mr Be-at-work-at-Nine-or-you're-fired?
If I were Musk, I'd put up my own space station...
I believe SpaceX has partnered with Bigelow Aerospace, which already has two space stations in orbit.
Apple was a bit naughty by pushing an album we didn't ask for, but that's all it is: well-intended spam.
Well intentioned spam is still spam.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"