He's right.
Plus - he's a doctor so has a right to a fucking opinion about medicine.
Unlike most of the tools in Congress that think it's cool to coerce people to inject poison into their children and themselves.
by definition….
at 200mph, 50 miles is 15 minutes of flight time.
I could be wrong but NASA plane crashing at Ellington is not all that close to an Amazon cargo plane going to IAH but crashing in bay.
Like I said, could be wrong but saying it's
"not far" gives the unknowing an impression that it is right fucking next door and it ain't.
If you live in TX, you know that people have the impression that shit is way smaller than it is.
If we were talking Baytown and Pasadena…but we aren't. It's across the bay.
I will concede on the electronics issue with the caveat that I still think it's unlikely
I was triggered because of a long standing issue when discussing distance in TX with people outside of the state
I once had an airline agent suggest I should be willing to take a flight that got me "close by" to Austin….she suggested San Antonio - a mere 110 miles away. I laughed and told her to check her fucking map and that I wanted my hotel voucher and my $200 check that they owed me for bumping me off of the last flight out of Gainesville for the day.
They gave it to me. Right then.