WHAT GOES up must come down. That was certainly true of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency enthusiastically promoted by Elon Musk. It surged before the weekend after Mr Musk’s latest tweet about it, but slumped after he jokingly called it “a hustle” on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL), a fixture of American TV comedy, which he hosted on May 9th. More gracefully, on May 5th a prototype version of SpaceX’s massive “Starship” rocket—designed to be the biggest since the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon—flew 10km above Boca Chica in Texas, before flying itself back to its launchpad and settling down gently on the ground. It was not
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