A 50-foot bronze Prometheus is going up in the dirt outside SpaceX's Starbase & SpaceX had nothing to do with it. It's the work of Atelier Missor, a foundry outside Paris run by two brothers who cast the thing in sections, shipped it across the Atlantic & are assembling it themselves on private land near the Starbase entrance. They're paying for it. Elon Musk didn't commission it. Their stated ambition is reviving monumental classical sculpture in the West, they've done Hercules, Joan of Arc, Napoleon & their website's actual position is that "gigantic titanium statues will lead us to a beautiful future." When someone at a San Francisco fundraiser joked they should do a gold Trump next, the answer was no: they don't sculpt living people. The founder's own comparison is the Statue of Liberty. The French built that one to celebrate liberty. He says this is the same impulse at smaller scale, aimed at the people building rockets. Prometheus is an inspired choice for a launch site. He stole fire from the gods and handed it to humanity & now he'll stand with a torch raised beside a place that sends actual fire into the sky. Though the myth doesn't end at the gift. Zeus chained him to a rock & sent an eagle to eat his liver, every day, forever, for the crime of giving people something they weren't supposed to have. Bold monument for a company that flies experimental rockets over a beach.