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SpaceX Starship Testing Update · Elon Musk Podcast

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There's some incredible testing happening at Starbase Texas.
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And coming up on the 10th of March, between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
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there's a not Mars scheduled. So this is basically so boats
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and planes, don't go in this region.
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So SpaceX can test their booster or ship, 25 or whatever.
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They got to be testing down there and there's a possibility
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that they're going to be testing booster 7:00 so don't worry
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about that. They already did the 31 engine
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static fire, now there's possible 33 engine static fire.
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Coming up but possibly also ship 25 could get a test.
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But also, there's other ships that are hanging out ship. 26 is
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hanging out down there to there could be a possible test of that
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too. We don't know.
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Nobody really knows at this point except for people that
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work at SpaceX more than likely, it's going to be a booster test
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or ship 25 test. Now, booster 7 already did the
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31 engine static fire test. Two of the engines of the 33
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engines didn't work. Right?
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So That a possibility that the FAA said, well you need to get
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all these engines to work. We need to make sure that
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everything works right before you do the orbital, flight, test
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SpaceX, and Elon Musk. So why don't you just do another
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test for us? Why don't you do the 3300,
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static fire test, it could be in the fááá's.
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Best interest more than likely in Space.
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X is best interest to because if they have two engines that are
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faulty, we know that SpaceX could make it an orbit with only
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31 engines because Elon Musk said.
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So he said So right on Twitter, he said, hey, we can still make
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it orbit with only 31 engines, but why risk it right?
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This is the most important mission of SpaceX.
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It's except for maybe Falcon one when they many made.
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Sure that Falcon one was perfect, fine, made it, orbit
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did US thing that was super important to.
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But I think this is the most important mission for SpaceX
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ever, right? So if you, if you mess this up
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in any way, this is going to mess up the future.
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Of SpaceX, right? So if they see if the FAA sees
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the SpaceX messed up the launch because they didn't go through
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the proper things and go third full 33 engine static fire.
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Then then they only got 31 done and then something happens
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during the launch. FAA is going to be like, hey we
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told you that we needed 33 engines to do this and you just
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went 31 and then you went up. Not cool.
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So SpaceX possibly more than likely doing another static.
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Fire down in Boca Chica Texas on the 10th.
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Okay, so we got that taken care of.
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Now, let's move on to this. So, this is from 2020 when I
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know it's a little bit of time ago, right?
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So this is another not more that bring safety information bolt in
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for 2021, it's something similar.
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Right. So it has similar wording.
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Static fire test of the facility located south of Brownsville
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Texas, but this one says, static fire, right?
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And this one does not say static fire, but it does say u.s.
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portion. This water is portion of the
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hazard area, SpaceX identified susceptible to potential
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hazards, including blast pressure.
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Debris, gaseous leaks, and fires during the test.
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The reason they do fires is because everything is flammable
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at SpaceX. It Starbase like every like all
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the there's there's gas, there's all sorts of things running
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through spacex's Starbase and these tests could possibly make
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a fire. We've seen it before, we've seen
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it happen. A few times when they do,
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they're static, fire tests and Something goes weird in the
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fire. Catches the brush around it on
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fire and SpaceX goes I that's cool.
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That's part of this part of the deal so we have the 33 engine
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static fire possibly coming up. Now this is another one this is
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from December 7th 2020. See how far this one goes out.
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The other one goes out to like right here.
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Like right about here. You can see my cursor here and
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this one, it reaches out, this is for a hop test.
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So this is from December 7. 20 is the Hop test in this shows
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between this and this, there would be a full Corridor of the
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whole Gulf, if SpaceX was going to be doing an orbital flight
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test, it would be this but then whoop super far across the gulf
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we'd be able to see the channel for this whole test, right?
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And the here it says, blast pressure debris, gaseous leaks
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and fires during launches during launches, right?
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So this one doesn't say during launches so this is possibly
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During the tests, you know, it says during the test here.
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So there's a possibility in fires during the test.
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This is a possibility of they're just covering their bases here
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but in this could be a blanket statement but in the other ones
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they said you know certain things.
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So what we're looking at here is SpaceX, testing something on the
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ground, they're not going to fly it.
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They're not going to fly this thing that they're going to be
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testing the 10th of March. Okay, so let's just make sure
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make sure that's out there. Now we don't have any
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information about the Road closures as well.
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Nothing is been posted yet. We don't know what it is.
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It's a couple days away and there's no road closures posted
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so we don't know if this is going to be legit or if SpaceX
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made a mistake and hasn't told Cameron County yet.
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We don't really know what's going on in the background, but
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within the next few days, we should see some road closures
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happening because by the time this video is posted, it'll be
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the 7th and on the 7th and only give me a couple.
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Of days to get this road closure in the way in there.
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And people the public are privy to the road closures.
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So you gotta tell the people about the road closures before
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you do some testing, because if somebody just happens to drive
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down there and sees that there's a road closure there, like man,
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I can't go to the beach. I want to go to the beach today,
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but I can't, because I guess there's a road closure.
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So this alerts the public that there's some testing down there.
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The public can't go down to the beach.
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You can't go have fun in the sun with your friends and family.
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But this is impossible. You know, I just refresh this
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before this before I start recording this, I'm going to do
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it again and if it changes it didn't change anything.
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I was gonna see if it does if it didn't change anything.
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Okay, so we're good, we're good with that.
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So road closures don't know yet. So is this going to be a test?
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Or is this going to be one of those things where SpaceX just
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kind of Emily? Yeah.
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Yeah. We just posted this and in hopes
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that we could get a testing run in time.
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So that was posted. What was this post at the One
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was posted March 3rd, right? So March 3rd, couple days ago
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and they're probably in the, in the, in the phases of, hey, we
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got this thing to test and let's just do not, Mar will tell the
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Coast Guard. Hey, what's going on?
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And that's pretty much it for the testing going on down there
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at Starbase. Now, we have a another cool
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in this is this is Wayne strowman right so Wayne strowman
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hit me up on Twitter. It's a didn't a son schedule.
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NASA WB, 57 flight placeholder for March 11, Only three
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possible Starship launch. So NASA has this calendar for
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the WB, 57 aircraft and the WB, 57 aircraft images, spaceflights
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sometimes. So basically, this this aircraft
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can fly to a place where either a spacecraft is either entering
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or leaving the atmosphere or does other flights and does
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other things for NOAA and other, you know, other other
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organizations out there So this is there any news on a projected
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orbital launch date for Starbase Boca Chica?
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We don't have any sort of information about them Ilan,
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says March when shut will said March.
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Another representative for SpaceX said.
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Hopefully March they have everything in place for a March
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launch but they also said that in 2021 about September of 2021.
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They also said about June and July of 2021, that they're going
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to be ready for a launch within the month.
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That's what they said. It was something like that in
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2021. I'm not calling anybody out
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here. I'm just saying these things
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have happened before. Where people have said yeah
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we're ready and then we know the FAA got involved and there was
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an environmental assessment that postponed SpaceX for a long time
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but ship 24 and 24, 7420 ship 420 didn't launch during that
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time. And if it were ready to go to
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orbit after the environmental assessment, why didn't they just
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send it to Orbit. So let me know in the comments,
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this is the conversation. We're going to have here.
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Let me know in the comments. What you think happened to ship
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420 if it was ready to go to orbit, why didn't they just send
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it? And I know the Raptor ones are
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outdated that point and some of the systems in the starship were
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outdated. So did they just wait because
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the new systems would give them better data?
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Or was it just maybe they weren't?
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I don't know. Let me know.
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This is a funny one. Is this?
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This is a tricky one here, because as a reporter and
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somebody who lives by this stuff and like loves this stuff.
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It's fun to speculate, right? So let me know what you think in
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the comments. I have my own ideas.
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I think what happened is that the hardware was ready possibly
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to go. But they had different data in
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mind because they had upgraded systems, right?
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So the new booster, new ship, everything's upgraded.
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So why not just move forward with a different test?
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That's what I think. Let me know in the comments what
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you think. So this W B-47 aircraft.
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Is it going to be Imaging Starship, right?
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So we have a calendar here of the WB 47, it was on March 11th,
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that WB 47 was going to be Imaging.
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Starship is said something along the lines of Starship launch
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placeholder. Something like that on the 11th.
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So it's not there anymore. It's gone.
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And where did it go? We don't know, because it's not
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there anymore. Check, April, there's nothing.
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I checked this little bit earlier.
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So if this changed, I apologize, but I, we will get into it and
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I'll be super surprise april-may.
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No placeholders for Starship yet.
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June, but also remember that the placeholder may not be there
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because the FAA hasn't even said anything about Starship yet.
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They haven't even said that. It's okay for Starship to launch
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yet. So, why would the WB?
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Ian actually have a, you know, a flight time, you know, and just
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a placeholder for a certain day if the FAA didn't even tell them
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that it's okay to launch yet, right?
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So I think what they did before is they said, okay, we need this
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plane for Imaging and NASA's going to use the data for
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upcoming Artemis missions and upcoming missions for human
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space flight. So they had something in there
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just in their books. Just in case this did happen on
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the 11th of March. And we'll find out about that
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later, right? So we're going to find out when
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the FAA says, it's okay for SpaceX to launch.
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Well, I'll know them because SpaceX will tweet it immediately
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Ilan will tweet it immediately their sources behind the scenes
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that may leak it. So, we'll know about that and
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then they may have to Bri book The WB 57 and it looks like
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March. Yeah, not too bad.
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Not too bad, 322 18 April not super booked second week you
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know first week of April here first.
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The eighth, not super booked, there's some Noah stuff going
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on. They have some Imaging
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placeholder stuff. The Imaging placeholders, excuse
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me could be for something else too.
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So we'll see. April May made looks pretty
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booked in June, you know? It's getting in there.
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June little bit less. So March now we don't see
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anything here. So, So there's a possibility
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Space X just goes, okay, we're just going to wait for the FAA
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and not booked anything quite yet, but also speculate all you
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want the comments. And if you do anything to
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speculate about, just just leave a comment of an emoji of a
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rocket for the rocket launch of the Starship program.
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Now, this is another cool thing that I ran into, okay?
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Jared isaacman, we've all heard of Jared eyes of an right as all
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these cool missions with SpaceX st.
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Jude makes a bunch of money pays for these Flights is an
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adventurer, cool, dude. Jared, isaacman is awesome and
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the New York Times posted the Hubble Space Telescope is known
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for recording on spying images of the cosmos.
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But thousands of satellites launched by private companies
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like SpaceX or photobombing. These images with streaks and
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light curves that can be impossible to remove Jared.
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I submit said starlink is not the problem.
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Starlink will connect previously, disconnected
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communities all over the world sticking to free Lon, good for
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him. It is a Big step to solving many
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worldly challenges or Globe challenges.
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The problem is Hubble's, orbit is decaying but good news, there
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is a solution. Jared.
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Isaacman is going to be doing the Polaris program and if
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you're not aware with the players program is SpaceX Jared
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in the players program are all working together to do testing
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of a external Space Walk for Jared and his crew for one of
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the Polaris program missions. Players Dawn.
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All right, so this is gonna be the first extra vehicular
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activity since 70s, I think sixties or seventies, Huge deal
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right for the first private whenever, so this is a huge,
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huge deal. Now, Jarrod is saying, the
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problem is Hubble's, orbit is decaying but good news, there is
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a solution dot dot dot. So these dots mean maybe Jared
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has a solution by nudging. The Hubble with one of the
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Polaris program Dragon capsules. That's what they're using for
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the first 2 or the dragon capsules.
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And then they're going to be using a Starship for the third
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one. So the Polaris program may be in
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work, like working on a solution to nudge Hubble up and Jared has
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talked about this before, and he said that is a possibility.
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There is a solution, though. That's the thing.
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He says there is a solution. Yeah, push it up.
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Come on cheer. Please do this.
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We need Hubble. I know.
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James Webb is immaculate. An amazing of it.
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Like the new Photos. The new imagery from James Webb
15:49
is absolutely stunning, but we still need Hubble so Jared
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please. If you can save that, I think it
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would be amazing and you would be a hero to so many people.
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Not only that, but think of the future of humanity without
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Hubble, What was it like before Hubble and it's like pretty
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humble past like what's going on after Hubble?
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We don't know, it probably wouldn't be that good wouldn't
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be as good as with Hubble. So Jared has a solution.
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Hopefully for this and maybe docking the a Dragon capsule
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with Hubble and give it a little nudge, raise it up a little bit.
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The orbit is decaying. Push it up.
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That would be freaking sweet Jared hit me up, dude, that
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would be, I would be. I would love to talk to you
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about this. So I'm just putting it out there
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in the universe and I think it'd be really awesome.
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So, yeah, Jared, that's cool as hell.
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So yeah, that's about it. That's all we got today.
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I think I haven't something else, but I'm not sure what it
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is. Oh yeah, NASA.
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Oh, this is what I want to show you this too.
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So there's a, the NASA WB, 57 Pilot, cool, cool, Twitter
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account, the followed, by the way, They posted sort of a
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flight plan. Here's a 50x view of the flight
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profile to image the crew to Landing off the coast of
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Pensacola from the NASA WB 57. So this is basically what they
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do. This is their flight plan for
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this and I have to go this. What?
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So you get you can see it taking off over there.
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I can't make it any bigger, unfortunately, that you can see
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it. It kind of circles around the
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area where it lands, watch this, it circles around a bunch of
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times. And images.
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The area is like, right. Going to circle around.
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There we go. So cool and then just takes a
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bunch of images and then it flies away.
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Yeah. And then their job is done and
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the pilot is done and they did their job successfully, they got
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the profile, the image of the profile of the flight profile.
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So very cool, that's how it works.
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So that's similar to how it might work for a Starship
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launch, right? So imagine this side over here
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as the Starship launch from Boca Chica Texas, and then it
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launches all the way across the Gulf of Mexico kind of orbital
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sort of and then it splashes down off the coast of Hawaii and
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when it splashes down off, the coast of Kauai will see the
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circle again, with Adobe B-57 NASA.
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WB 57 Pilot would be awesome to talk to you too and just hang
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out and, you know, talk about flying that thing and seeing all
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these cool missions. But how cool would it be if we
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actually get Imaging from the WB 57?
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From NASA to show everybody, not me, but I'm just saying, like
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everybody in general, like, open source images to see what
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happens to Starship when it lands because I mean I'm sure
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SpaceX will have cameras out there.
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But will SpaceX have all the cameras and will they have an
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aerial view? And will this be equipped with
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the livestream? Probably not.
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I mean they have they have functional cameras in there for
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a reason and the reason is because we need this data You
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know, SpaceX needs to stay tuned, Assamese this data for
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upcoming flight tests. So the all the data they could
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SpaceX can get SpaceX, needs it. So the W be 57 is going to be
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there. When SpaceX lands this craft off
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the coast of Hawaii and lands in the water and then they need to
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image it to see what happens to it after it lands.
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You know, if we could do it like a soft splash down, that would
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be great and if the WB 57 can fly around near it and take
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photos as its splashing down. Be great because you could
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analyze that data, you can see exactly what happens.
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And of course, there are sensors in the ship itself, but there's
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nothing like seeing it and seeing the data correlating, the
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data with the actual visuals to see what actually happens.
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So w57 not booked yet, but hopefully will be booked in the
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future. So I think that's it for today.
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I have one more Greg Scott, new construction.
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The SpaceX is Burps Road, 39b Blue, Ridge, and on Tuesdays
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flyover chapstick Chopsticks and track are being built.
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While item other items are being installed.
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So, check this out. This is cool Chopsticks.
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I'm going to blow this up a little bit.
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Greg Scott has a patreon to. I'll show you that in a second.
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Open. A new tab.
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You can see it a chopsticks. at Nasa, at Kennedy, Space Center,
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Chopsticks are on in, this is an upgraded Tower from the one in
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Brownsville or sorry, Boca Chica But it looks like it's coming
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along and sooner than later, we're going to be seeing
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possibly hundreds of launches from here before they actually
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put somebody inside of this thing.
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So inside of the Starship. So this is a cool thing.
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So now they're going to have to be, they're going to have to do
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some tests with these. I was down there at Boca Chica
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when they were testing the first arms.
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You know, when they were doing all the tests at Starbase and
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they were opening the arms or close them.
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The arms, I filmed the Our for like an hour, and I didn't
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realize the arms were moving because they were testing them,
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so slowly, and I went back the later that day to check out the
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footage and I sped it up, I just scrub and through and I was
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like, whoa, the arms are moving up and I basically just had my
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camera on a tripod for an hour filming everything.
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I didn't realize it because they were going so slow.
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So we're probably not going to see like really any big test
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from these arms for a while but it's really great to know that
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they're actually there. So Greg.
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You have a patreon I'm sure don't you I thought you did all
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you at patreon.com slash Greg Scott underscore photo.
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There it is. Greg Scott photo go to Greg's
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patreon, help them out, great photographer.
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Does some really cool stuff? Three bucks a month to join,
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five dollars a month to join most popular donor contribution,
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help them out, does great work. So Greg, good job catching
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those. In those catch arms and the
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Chopsticks, of course, as everybody else calls them.
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So that's about it. Greg good job, but that's I
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think that's it for. Now let's go back to Jarrod is a
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man because he's an inspiration for everybody out there.
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Hubble cool SpaceX, Starship, let's go with this test.
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Hopefully 33 engine. Static fire, sick sick.
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Let's do it. I would be stoked.
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Let me know in the comments. What you think is going to
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happen for the Starship testing? It is going to be thirty.
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Three engines is going to be 31 inches again.
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Is it going to be for engine 17? Who knows is going to be shipped
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25? Maybe but we're going to see in
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the coming couple days, hopefully, what's going on?
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And if they change the road closures, let's see if they did
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nothing. They haven't posted any road
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closures yet. So there we go.
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No updates on SpaceX about the road closures, possibly 3300.
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Static Fire coming up on the 10th.
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We got a couple days left. Left.
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promote a video here, right? Like there's a video, I'm
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supposed to go like there's a video over there and then
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everyone's supposed to click it and then I get more watch time.
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And then YouTube's like, hey let's promote this guy because
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he's been doing it for four years.
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That's what YouTube says. It's been doing it for four
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years. Anyway, thanks again guys, I
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appreciate you. Take care of yourself and each
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other again. Bye-bye.