Subject tribe (self-designated "SpaceX") has scheduled a public ceremony for the 21st rotation of their fifth month. The ritual object: a 121-meter metal cylinder, the twelfth of its lineage, filled with chilled breathing-gas and a flammable swamp vapor they call methane.
The stated purpose of constructing this tower is to drop it into water. Not one body of water — two. The lower segment will fall into the Gulf at minute 6:59. The upper segment will travel around the entire planet to fall into the Indian Ocean near a continent called Australia at minute 65:26. The locals have annotated this second impact in their official timeline as "An exciting landing."
Inside the upper segment: 22 imitation satellites. Not functional. Decoys. They will also burn. Two of the decoys carry recording devices to film the other decoys burning. Per the Vorlek Institute for Redundant Combustion, this registers at 14.7 ceremonial wastage units, a regional record.
One ceramic tile has been deliberately removed from the heat shield. The tribe wishes to observe what happens to the neighboring tiles when one is missing. This information, peers will note, could be obtained by asking any tile.
A nearby beach has been closed to bystanders, who are instead instructed to gather at a parking amphitheater several kilometers distant and watch the tower become smaller.
Based on the original article "What time is SpaceX's Starship V3 launch on May 21? (Starship Flight 12 timeline)".
