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SpaceX Starship Moon mission risks and rewards [BE A HERO?] #dearmoon · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the space news pod.
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We're here with Neil again over there, every kind of break this
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time. And in today's episode, we're
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going to talk about deer bone. And kind of, I guess how crazy
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it is basically, we've been talking about this for last
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couple days and like part here where the holes part into it.
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We're not gonna, We're Not Gonna, you know, we're not going
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to sugarcoat. This is sounds Nuts, yours away,
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perhaps we should introduce. What dear moon is first.
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Well, yeah, that's a good idea, crazy part, but it's also crazy.
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So, here's the here. Hold on, let me, let me share my
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screen here real quick and we can show you what dear moon is.
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So this is a dear Moon website. And basically, the goal of dear
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moon is to fly, I guess nine crew members.
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From Earth Leonardtown? Yeah.
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Neither tenant from Earth around the Moon and back and they're
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not astronauts. They're just regular people.
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Yeah, well I, as I understand it, the be 88 non astronauts and
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and one or two crew members which are getting sort of
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running the thing. Yeah.
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Oh, that's good. Yeah, we need.
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Yeah, this is what about somebody up there?
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Yeah, cuz I if I were to go, I wouldn't know what I was doing.
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You would get training though? Before you get up there.
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So that would be nice. You got a little bit of training
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absolutely but they want to go in 2023 which for me they
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haven't even successfully launched and landed of early
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prototype rocket of Starship. Yeah.
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So in as 2021 right now it's March 20 21.
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Yeah, we're at SN 11 Accord of the way into the 2021.
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Yeah. Yeah it's coming up pretty fast.
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Yeah. Well, you know, but you know
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what SpaceX is made making remarkable progress down, and
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Boca Chica. They want to get to orbit by
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July 1st. Internal memos said they want to
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get to orbit by July 1st. Yeah, that's the internal Target
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if they make it by July 1st. Awesome.
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Like that would be insane, but even after that, they've got to
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prove that they can do it over and over and over right with no
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complications. They have to have like 100
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flights of this thing before people get into it.
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Yes. What I'm thinking I would think
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a hundred flights without error. Yeah you know like you can't
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have ninety nine flights of problems in the one that worked,
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you can write your last. Yeah.
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And that number 99 Works than they're like, all right people
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get in there, right? Yeah.
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Crew members, dear Moon, you're up next?
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Yeah, no, that's that wouldn't work.
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So yeah. To a couple years from now.
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Twenty twenty-three. It's MZ and he's finding the
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thing. So I'm Z is funding this thing.
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He's an artist and he's a billionaire.
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So he has a ton of money, he's funding everybody to go like
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every for the whole mission. Everybody seats the whole
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launch, the whole ship everything.
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He's basically giving them money to develop Starship right now,
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so he can take this trip with a bunch of people.
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Yeah, I wonder how far behind Starship would be if it didn't
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have This guaranteed money sitting there.
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True, you know, to get at the time, bfr off the ground and now
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Starship that it turned into butts like think about that.
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They, well, you can see it. You can look down at Boca Chica,
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ins and see the progress that they've made.
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And and how much they've had to build and how much they still
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have to build to create a Starship to create a orbital
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vehicle, and that takes a lot of money.
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Yeah, it's billions of dollars, you know, possibly hundreds of
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billions of dollars. By the time.
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Dear moon is in the air, you know.
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So, you know, the initial funding of it from MZ.
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You know, he's made his fortune through I think is fashion,
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right? I think it's fashion.
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Like, I think he had a Chic clothing clothing brand or
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something. I'm not exactly.
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It might have been. I can't, I can't quite remember,
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to be honest with you. Yeah, I can't either the top of
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my head, honey. He he Started out as a
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skateboarder and he worked his way into.
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I thought it was a media company personally but he'll maybe it
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could be wrong. Yeah, he was a skater.
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That's why I was like, oh, this dude skates.
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That's rad like, that's cool. He's the homie.
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So yeah, when I tweeted him a couple times and I was like, you
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know, F when I saw two, dear Moon thing I was like, hey,
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that's skate in the Starship. You know, I never got an answer
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but I'd assume flying to the Moon.
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You're not going to have an extra skateboard laying around
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floating around in a Starship, so yeah.
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Well, maybe create your own Gravity by spinning around the
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inside of the. Oh, yeah.
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It's just looped is continuous loop the whole time.
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Yeah. Hey, why keep me Keep Me fit and
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healthy The Whole Trailer. You can you can pay for your
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trip by doing that scientific study.
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Yeah. Right.
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That makes sense. I can probably get some
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sponsorships for that. You know, there's got to be
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somebody, that'll pay for that for sure.
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So in just one is paying for this video, look at that.
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He exact, I don't think they need advertisement.
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But yeah, I think they're good, but just recently Neil and I
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actually have applied to do the dear moon mission and that's
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kind of where this whole conversation started from is
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like, hey, man, would you actually go like what?
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Like, I don't know. Would you go?
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I don't know. And then, yeah.
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So I got to be up front and say I really don't know, like I was
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a little bit more Confirm confirmative on that.
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I would say no, I would not go. Yeah, it depends on where I'm
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at, you know, like been in a couple years who knows what's
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going to happen. But right now like I got I got
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like nowhere else to be so I might as well be in a Starship
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going to the Moon, you know, might as well take my camera
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with me, I'll make a make a Blog about it.
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Some of the put on the channel That might be kind of cool.
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Say that I would love to go. I think it's either one thing in
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the world that I don't know, not in the world but outside the
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world that I would love to be like being on Starship, 45, plus
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days, and almost six days, going around the moon, and that whole
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experience sign me up, I told they want to do it.
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My heart wants to do this so bad, but my head gets in the way
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and he says, this is the most dangerous thing anybody has ever
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done. Yep.
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Yep. That's yeah.
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That's the other thing too. Like, do you want to go out like
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this? Like do you want to go out like
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just trying out this experimental rocket?
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Do you want to be that guy that, you know.
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Hey, from your hometown. Do you want to go out as a hero?
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Like you'll be remembered forever.
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Regardless of what happens when the Starship, right?
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Do you want to be that guy? You want to be the guy that's
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like, all right, we're ready for takeoff and that's something
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catastrophic happens. And you remembered for the
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failure of this ship and, you know, your mourn forever for it,
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or do you want to be a hero and come back to the ticker-tape
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parade and be the first crew of civilians to go around.
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The moon and back. So definitely historical event
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definitely. Yeah, these names will be
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remembered forever, you know, it's just like the the Apollo 11
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astronauts who died on the launch pad, just like Neil
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Armstrong and Buzz and the other guy Michael Collins, I believe.
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But you know, it on Apollo 11 like it's, it's huge and they'll
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be remembered forever for sure. Yeah.
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And you know, the Them is that they might be remembered one way
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and you might be remembered the other way.
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This is dangerous. There's a reason that, you know,
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going back to the original Apollo and Gemini and Mercury
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missions. These guys were test pilots.
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They were already crazy. Yeah, they're already
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risk-takers. They're already ready to give
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their life to to progress the the program.
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You know, and unfortunately some of them did parish and what
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other ones made it. Yeah.
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And we remember them. It's now you're asking for
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regular people to do that. Yeah.
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And take on that role. It's really interesting.
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It is an interesting concept because if think about it like
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I've always looked up to astronauts as Heroes you know.
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So why are they Heroes and wire regular people not Heroes?
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Like, regular people who go to their office job every day or,
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you know, they have, they have three kids, they have a family,
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you know, they have their sedan in their driveway, the white
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picket fence all that stuff. Why are those people?
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Not Heroes but the astronauts are, but now these regular
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people can go to the Moon. Yeah.
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And become astronauts become Heroes.
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Like the astronauts. It's like this.
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This weird Universe we're just stuck in it a couple years.
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Yeah, you know, it's it's an amazing thing.
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I wonder, you know, We're talking about sending people to
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do on to the moon and Starship and in my head it kind of is
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like this is the very first manned mission anywhere by
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Starship and it's not going to be obviously, they're going to
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send up SpaceX astronauts first. You know they have to prove that
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this is a thing that works and it proved that they can get to
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have to do that many many times before this happens.
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So at that time maybe it'll be very safe.
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Yeah. I mean they will have to some
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people orbit. They're going to have to do the
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whole whatever. They've done with Falcon 9 and
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crew. Dragon got to do that again.
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They might have to dock with the ISS.
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You know, in between now and the diarmuid project.
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So if they do that that'll be insane.
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That would be so cool. Could you imagine?
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Could you imagine like so cool like 10 people in a Starship
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Just Like pack them in there and then throw them into the ISS
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like here you go. Yeah.
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Like key to mine Starship is. This is sing a song.
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Yeah and it's basically like launch again, is s every time
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you launch a Starship so you have enough room.
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I mean the people that are in the Starship can literally just
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stay in the Starship. They don't have to go into the
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ISS of course you live in. You know for sure you could just
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live in there you know and then come back to earth and do that
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whole thing. But Six-Day trip around the Moon
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then they have living quarters is no other way to get around
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it. Yeah so yeah it'll be it'll be
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interesting to see what happens in the next year.
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If they do get to orbit by July first.
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Yeah, you know it then they have the whole rest of the year to
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perfect not even perfected. Just like iterate on that until
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the next year after that, where they can, but it takes so long
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to make something human flight ready?
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Oh, yeah, you know, there's all sorts of things.
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All sorts of red tape that you have to go through in order to
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make it work. So yeah.
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How does that? Yes, not just the red tape.
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It's all the engineering issues to, right?
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Yep. Obviously I We both watch SpaceX
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with interest on a daily basis. We're trying to figure out what
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they're doing and how they're doing it and and what's coming
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up the sheer volume of engineering tasks that go
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through my head that they have solve.
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Is it makes me You know, stressed stressed, there's just
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so much that has to be solved before this thing happens and
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I'm yeah yeah. And the so they've already
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succeeded with this with Falcon. You know, plenty of times
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they've had 10 years of a building and iterating Falcon 9
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to where it is right now and they can launch star.
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Like 60 Sterling said, like successfully every time they've
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launched numerous humans to the eye.
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ISS and they're going to be launching more next year, this
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year, and next year, and the year, after that, when does that
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switch over to Starship, you know how much time is it going
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to take them? Some people are saying it's
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going to take to like 20, 30 to get the Starship ready for just
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a human capable flight. Yeah, ten years ish.
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Well, 88 years ish, probably one and a half when it happened.
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Right? Exactly.
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You know, I mean is it going to At the end of 20 23, it'll be
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the end of 2013. That'll be like December 29th,
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December 30th. They'll be like, wow, we got to
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have these extra couple days to fine-tune some more.
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Some stuff there would be a delay that we scrubbed.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So that, you know, we're talking about this last night, but what
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about the, the idea that Starship might like, the dear
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Moon thing might not happen. You know what happens if like
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down the lion there Tessa missing out and everyone just
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kind of like this is dangerous. We don't want to do this
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anymore. This is sketchy.
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Like it looks cool and it's a good idea, man.
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I gave you all this money to develop this thing.
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Just keep the money. I just don't want to go to the
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Moon. It sounds really scary.
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Like, what? I mean, there's there's got to
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be something the contract where they MZ can.
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Just back out, there's got to be.
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It has to be for sure. It was going to be And the other
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side too. Right.
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Yeah they sex is got to get to a point where it can say, nope,
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we're not doing this. We're not risking it that badly.
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Let's put it off for a couple of years or let's revisit this
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later. Yeah, I would think that is
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pretty open-ended just because of all the ifs and ands and buts
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for sure. Yeah.
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But I mean, think about the implications of what this is,
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right? If they're pushing and Ilan, you
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know is pushing for 2023. There's a lot of implications
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They're that they're that much closer to Mars.
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Yeah, you know 2024 I guess the end of 24 it will be another
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Mars window. Yep.
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For launching. So that's huge to and you know
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that's on anyone's head and bring whether he's sending
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people or whether he's sending robots and set up equipment.
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You know what's on his head. So having this rocket ready for
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2023 and having it human flight capable by then is is massive.
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I mean, I think I think that's why they're shooting for it's so
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early because they want they want to send stuff to Mars.
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They have to do some tests with this thing.
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And they're probably going to send, you know, before they send
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the people to the Moon, they'll probably send a just a regular
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Starship do some cardio, possibly, just like some cargo
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to plop down out of the moon or whatever.
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Even just even just orbit the moon or something, start with
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the move. Just some tests, you know, some
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science experiments. That see what happens to
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something as it goes around. Men, but they have to there's
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going to be a probably a few of those.
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I'm assuming, probably not going to be one.
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It's not going to be like the SLS.
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It's not going to be like, SLS like hey, here's Jane Rocky.
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What are you guys? Get at the top of it?
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Like we got one shot at this. We got.
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Here we go. Yeah, let's just see if this
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works. That's man.
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That's another thing that I'm like, the dear Moon thing.
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I feel like it could be sketchy, but the SLS thing, I'm like,
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man. And it just feels sketchy to me
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and I love it. I think it's an awesome rocket
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but it just feels like it's just people get into that thing too
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soon. You know, because it's not
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really going to be tested tested.
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You know, that the second flight that people get into it was it
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the first flight? It's not not very many that's
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for sure. Yeah.
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It's not any, you know, if they can do two flights like it,
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there everything is being poured into this.
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Yes, sort of one thing. It's pretty crazy.
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That That's got to that point. Yeah, it but that's, that's the
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old-school rocket building, right?
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That's you. Got it Pour all kinds of money
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into into one. Perfect thing.
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You have as much testing as you can to get that thing, perfect.
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And you launch it and hope that you got everything right?
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The others didn't make any mistakes.
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And then there's the SpaceX way of doing things, which is blow
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everything up, a bunch of times. Learn as you go learn, as you
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learn from those, hopefully. We learn from blowing everything
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up and, you know, SNES and honest and 10, probably not
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sm11. I'm going to give it an 80%
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chance of Landing, but I think, you know, the just iterative
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process of SpaceX, I think it's possible.
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So, like, as we're seeing it, I think it's possible that they
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could do the dear Mom thing in 2023, but it's going to be like,
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that's fast, man. Like that's really fast 2023
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part. That gets me.
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I think. Yeah, having it that fast makes
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me say. I truly believe they will launch
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the rocket and we were talking about this before the show will
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build launch the rocket. It'll get to orbit.
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It'll go around the Moon. It'll come home and it's the
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last 10 minutes that whole Six-Day period that scare the
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heck out of me. Yeah, let me let me show
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everybody that because that is the scary part.
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This is the this is the orbit, right?
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Here. Yeah, yeah, I can go through
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sections, one two. So ones launch tubes, the
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separation three, you're in orbit for, you're on your way to
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the moon five. You begin your fly by the moon.
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And this is the real exciting part of your flying through the
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moon, and then a loon. You're at the other side of the
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moon, you're as far away from Earth.
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Is anybody's ever been seven, earthrise.
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That'll be beautiful without ya, through that big window.
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And you know, what will be pointed right at them, right at
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Earth and then you're on your way back and then from 5 days,
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22 hours, 43 minutes to five days, 23 hours and one minute,
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twenty a little less than 20 minutes is the most frightening
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part of this entire thing. And it always is, right?
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It always is for any that party. Want their ending?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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But that's We have yet to show that.
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That's this whole flip belly flop.
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Flip and land is going to work. Yeah, you know, you saw SN 10,
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land, it landed hard Atlanta, very hard.
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Yeah, we don't have any legs yet.
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I mean, I don't want to get too technical with this podcast
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we're doing today, but that's the most frightening part for
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me. This is the re-entry and
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Landing, okay? Yeah, I yeah, totally the
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launch. They can launch the thing.
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They've already shown that they can launch the thing.
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You know, what's beyond one goes up this year, began to probably
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goes up this year, you know, by July, hopefully be in one being.
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Three will be go up this year, for sure.
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Yeah, one of those is going to orbit in July by July 1st.
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Yeah. Hopefully, you know, but the but
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the launch. Yeah.
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Launch the the orbit, the park orbit or hear everything
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mid-course Corrections. It seemed like Probably kind of
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sketchy that the mid-course correction.
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I'd be kind of scared because it's correction as, you know, if
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they miss, if they miss, you're going to Mars or somewhere,
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that's you. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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You're going someplace else? Yeah.
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I like, but you know what I mean?
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They did in the 60s. Yeah. 70s.
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I'm sure they can do it now. Yeah, we'll be I'm doubly fine
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with that. Yeah, you know I'll say will be
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fine because if I do go on the flight obviously we will the
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crew and myself will be fine. When When we go on this flight,
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no doubt over and make sure everybody's safe.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how it works.
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But there's already been. So there's already been somebody
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picked, right? And we know Damien chazelle, is
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that who it is Chasm chisel? Something like that?
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Yeah, address the H DZ e, LL e, and also director Emily invited
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him last year. He has not said, yes.
23:13
Yes, No, he has a wife and family so he's thinking about
23:19
it. See ya.
23:21
Theoretically one of the one of the eight spots could be taken
23:24
already. Yeah.
23:25
So in be a year and has an answer yet two years instead of
23:29
thing. Yeah.
23:31
So yeah. All the road map.
23:35
Here's a road map to by the way, let me show you this stuff to
23:39
the roadmap is pre-registration by March 14th. 8:00 initial
23:47
screening. All right, step 2, we did that.
23:50
Neil. And I did that we already sent
23:51
in our our pre screenings here, our initial screening.
23:55
So next is an assignment. Don't know what that is.
23:59
I guess we have to do homework. Yeah, I guess.
24:02
I don't know. Then there's an online interview
24:05
maybe assignment might have something to do with the art
24:07
side of it, right? He's always wanted to take
24:09
artists up there as opposed to just regular people.
24:12
I think. Yeah, it's interesting that you
24:14
sort of opened it up to the planet when right from the
24:17
beginning it was I want to take artists, I want them to make
24:20
something up there. Yeah, the world can benefit
24:23
from, you know, that was his original goal, but then opening
24:27
it up to the World At Large. Is interesting.
24:31
I'm not sure how that works but maybe the assignment has
24:33
something to bring it back to the art.
24:36
Like what will you do? Yeah.
24:38
How are you? Cannot review their, how you
24:40
contribute? How we you better the universe
24:42
and life when you get back? Yeah, I think mess - yeah, I'm
24:47
going to be the do the be the Devil's Advocate advocate here.
24:51
And I think know, artists wanted to go know what?
24:54
No, I just wanted to go and he's just like, no one wants to go.
24:57
So maybe this maybe the director.
24:59
Really. Yes.
24:59
It was. You know, one of his one of his
25:02
his shoe-ins and said no, yeah I get it, I get it, open this up
25:09
to the rest of the world but maybe but also maybe the artists
25:15
are everybody, you know, and there's so many artists out
25:18
there that he doesn't know, you know.
25:20
And who's to say, who's an artist?
25:23
Who's not an artist and everybody, everybody, everybody
25:25
is an artist, right? Everybody can be an artist.
25:27
We just some people don't have the, they don't feel like they
25:31
can. Would be.
25:31
Or they have never had the opportunity to show those skills
25:35
or but in there, it's in everyone of us.
25:39
Yep, exactly. And maybe that's why you open it
25:43
up that, you know maybe it wasn't that everybody said no,
25:48
all the artists. He's like, hey do you want to go
25:49
on this cool thing with me we're going to be this really scary
25:53
Mission and we might all perish but do you want to like gonna go
25:57
hang out for like five days, five and half days?
26:00
Some That will fly around the Moon together.
26:02
Then everyone's like, dude, you're crazy.
26:04
He was like, well, they probably started off with.
26:07
Hey, do you want to hang out with me for six days?
26:10
Yeah, yeah. That'll be awesome.
26:12
Be great. Oh, by the way, you could
26:15
perish. Yeah.
26:17
Oh, do you want? Oh.
26:18
Do you wanna hang out with me for six days while we fly around
26:21
the moon in an untested spaceship?
26:25
But they're all like, what? But after our assignment
26:31
Whatever that is, we'll have an online interview and then we
26:34
have a final interview in medical check-up of late.
26:36
May of twenty Twenty-One. That's really fast, that's
26:39
really fast. Yeah, so we might get chosen, we
26:43
might be the chosen ones and we might get to step five by May.
26:47
That's where they're like, wait what?
26:51
That's only. That's a couple months to be
26:53
serious about this, right? By the time you get to the
26:56
assignment. You pretty much got a I would
27:00
imagine your your s again shape that point, right?
27:03
Yeah. Like your they don't want to be
27:05
interviewing and giving assignments certainly
27:07
interviewing they want interview a million people.
27:11
Yeah. Only to find out that, you know.
27:13
999,999, five of them don't want to go.
27:18
Yeah, and you're left with five people.
27:20
Yep. So you've gotta by the time that
27:25
the online interview comes around.
27:26
You got to be pretty. Assure that you're going to do
27:28
this? Yeah like yeah I think.
27:33
Yeah. I mean really fast process to
27:36
from now till May? Yeah.
27:39
A couple months. Yeah.
27:40
It's a little down. I don't know how many they've
27:42
gotten I know it was in hundreds of thousands after only a few
27:44
hours. Yeah patience let's see. 10 K.
27:50
MZ says we've received about 1 million pre-registrations from
27:54
all 249 countries and areas in the world.
27:57
At HTML for the selection. Process will be sent out soon.
28:00
So over a million people have applied to this and we could be
28:06
the lucky few people in a million out of there.
28:10
I got it right? Yeah but yeah I mean you got to
28:13
you know when I'm down a million people 28.
28:16
Yeah who wants yeah you got to ask some serious questions off
28:22
of fast in that process. Yeah yes it's not it's not fair
28:26
now the This is a this is a life changer.
28:29
Like you're not it's not going to be like oh cool will give you
28:32
like here take a hundred thousand dollars a year.
28:35
Here's full benefits, you know here's a company car.
28:39
No one gets things to yourself and two and a half my
28:45
weaknesses. Are that I care too much.
28:48
My strength has said, I care too much.
28:50
I'm sometimes I'm too prepared. Yeah, I just get to, uh, you
28:54
know, one of my weaknesses that I get here.
28:56
Early. She'd never go home on time.
28:59
Yeah, I'm always here till 10:00 at night.
29:02
That's a weakness if you ask me, but yeah, that's good.
29:06
That's coming like probably, you know, the assignments probably
29:09
gonna be in a couple weeks, whatever that is.
29:12
And then the online interview is going to be, after they check
29:14
out the assignment and I gotta get in shape, like I gotta get
29:18
some weights, I got to get ripped and I gotta go on a diet.
29:21
I gotta go, you know, being a medic.
29:23
Why do you have to be in shape? You're just going to be floating
29:25
around for six days. Yeah, that's true.
29:27
Maybe I'll put that in my, you know, the assignment or the
29:29
online interview. Dude, I'm going to be floating
29:31
around. Who cares.
29:34
Who cares? How much I weigh?
29:35
I'm not going to weigh anything and again the space.
29:38
That's so I'll just be in this tube the whole time, you know,
29:43
no big deal and we did it. We did a poll on Twitter as well
29:47
and I'll show you guys that we did.
29:49
It's really quick poll today about who would go to Mars or
29:53
who to go to the dear Moon project, would you fly to the
29:56
moon in a Asics Starship and two years.
29:58
Hashtag Dee Ramone. Check out our Twitter at space
30:01
news pod by the way and we got 25 votes. 72 percent said yes.
30:07
28% said no, it's yeah. I have it up for a day, one more
30:13
day. So we're going to see how this
30:14
goes and then I'll report back on Twitter and Discord and let
30:18
everybody know how this goes but it's it's interesting to see,
30:22
you know, 72% people said yeah I'll go yeah I mean it's not
30:26
very scientific at this Point but you know seven hundred and
30:29
twenty thousand people out of the million said, yep.
30:32
So yeah. Yeah exactly.
30:35
So I mean it seems like people are into it, they seem like they
30:42
but those are also just random people on Twitter.
30:45
It doesn't there's no science and those are people that are
30:54
very interested, generally very interested in science.
30:57
Space. Yep.
30:59
But I mean you're going to get that with the dermal people to I
31:02
think so. Yeah, very difficult.
31:07
I wonder how many of them actually thought about it yet,
31:09
you know? Like that's that's kind of the
31:11
impetus to this podcast we're doing right now is we actually
31:15
sat down with thought about it? Yeah, what does it mean to go on
31:20
this Mission? Yeah.
31:21
Nothing. I want nothing more in the world
31:23
than to go on this mission, go around the moon and see the moon
31:26
and And experience the whole thing.
31:28
Like that's a dream come true for me but I'm not going.
31:36
Yes. Yeah, too dangerous, they really
31:38
super dangerous. Yeah, so that's the got people
31:41
going to family. I've got friends.
31:43
I've got ya kinds of things to think about.
31:46
Yeah, you know, that's it's too much for me.
31:49
Yeah. And that that breaks it down
31:51
into like there's so much more to think about than just I'm
31:56
going to be a legend, you know, like a lot of people think like
32:00
this is my way out like this is, maybe this is my stepping stone
32:03
to superstardom, like maybe I get a TV deal.
32:06
Maybe I got a book deal. Maybe I get paid to do this like
32:09
millions of dollars immediately because you're probably going to
32:11
be like you're going to be super famous.
32:13
After this, your life is going to completely change like you
32:18
will have no privacy. You'll have to move away from
32:20
where you are right now, because you're not going to be in a
32:22
private place anymore. You won't be able to walk down
32:25
the street without people knowing who you.
32:26
Are you won't be able to go into restaurants without people
32:30
talking to you, you won't be able to drive your own car
32:32
probably because you know people will be following you around.
32:36
Like Paparazzi will be following you around.
32:38
It's going to be dangerous, driving me around and be fine.
32:40
Yeah, there you go. You get free test.
32:42
Maybe I'll do it for free car. I don't know, just for the car.
32:46
Hey Ilan. If you're watching this, if I do
32:48
this thing, can I get a free Tesla?
32:50
Any Model. Model S because I just watched I
32:54
just finished watching last week.
32:56
Armageddon, nice. Just basically the same story.
33:01
Yeah. You know, a group of people a
33:04
people are chosen to save the planet.
33:07
Okay. That part's.
33:08
Not really, but, you know, non astronauts are sent up in space,
33:13
shuttles, souped-up, space, shuttles, to save the planet and
33:17
the chance and not coming back. Yeah, you know that the one with
33:21
Bruce Willis. Yep.
33:22
Okay, yeah. That's so cooler.
33:25
Yeah. Spoiler alert that movie.
33:30
I remember. Yeah.
33:31
That was the what was the Deep Impact?
33:34
That was the other one, right? That was that the same time?
33:36
Yeah. It was like the same like
33:37
better. Yeah, our weekend's better and
33:39
that's the one with the Aerosmith theme song, right?
33:42
Yeah. Don't want to miss a thing or
33:43
whatever. That's right.
33:45
Yes. Classic but yeah.
33:49
Absolutely. But it's very similar and that
33:52
came up before the sort of In fact that they were sending out
33:56
these emails out, watch that before that happens.
33:59
So interesting timing, but yes, and yeah, they went up there to
34:03
save the planet. I think that's a noble, cause
34:05
I'm not. So sure about just going around
34:07
to see the moon. Yeah, it's, I don't think that's
34:10
such a noble cause that I'm going to risk my family for it,
34:12
alright? Right.
34:13
And risk. Everything because you never
34:16
know what's on the other side, you know, like that's the deck
34:18
CX cassette existential crisis, right?
34:22
It's like, what's after this. So would you just Go around this
34:25
moon is like see something cool and then you're not here, the
34:27
next day ever again and everyone that you loved and that loved
34:31
you is you know like sad that you're gone.
34:34
But also like you're a superhero now because you did this crazy
34:36
thing, but also like if you do succeed if this does work, it's
34:43
going to be insane. I don't know.
34:45
I'm not sure I'm not entirely sold on on being a superhero, if
34:49
it doesn't work. Yeah.
34:53
Like we're not going up to Blow up an asteroid here and save the
34:56
planet. We're going up to on a on a
34:59
cruise around the Moon Drew and and leaving people behind.
35:05
It's in my mind is selfish, right?
35:08
Yes. It's selfish to go up there and
35:10
risk, everything for the chance to see this.
35:14
And if it fails, I don't think the internet and Twitter is
35:18
going to see these peoples Heroes.
35:22
Maybe not gonna see them as as Stooges, maybe.
35:25
Yeah. I mean if they come home maybe
35:29
maybe it'll be heroes if I don't I don't see the internet as as
35:34
being very Forgiving plus the news cycle.
35:37
Now, like this will probably cycle out of the news in a week,
35:40
if something bad happens, even if something good happens, that
35:44
a probably cycle out of the news in a week, like, you're not
35:46
going to, you know, maybe you might get a couple interviews on
35:48
National Television a couple times after that, you know, make
35:52
a little bit of scratch on a side from all those little, you
35:55
know, side gigs that you get like, endorsing like a used car
35:59
dealership. You be able to go to comic
36:02
conventions? Yeah.
36:04
BS far there. Forever forever.
36:06
Yeah, it'd be Comic-Con hero that way you want to be.
36:10
That's what you have to ask yourself.
36:12
People on the internet. You do you want to be a Comic
36:14
Con hero. Hashtag dear Moon know, and like
36:19
we're having fun and we're like were joking about it but it's
36:21
also like there's some deep conversation you have with
36:23
yourself in order to like to really think about this because
36:27
I have thought about it. I thought about like how how
36:29
much this would affect you know like if this were successful and
36:34
I were Become you know, somebody of importance in the world's
36:39
view for a month or whatever. How much we want money, would I
36:44
make how set with my family? My friends, everybody I love,
36:48
would how much money could I just give them?
36:51
And just be like, everyone's rich, like, you know, how, how
36:54
great would that be? But also, if I don't come back,
36:58
that would suck because I do, I want to do other cool stuff.
37:01
Like, like I got other stuff I want to do, man.
37:04
So it's like, do you do all that?
37:05
Other cool stuff before you go on dear moon like do I have to
37:07
push this all like all the fun stuff that I ever wanted to do
37:10
until like a year and a half. There's another conversation
37:13
there but yeah what happens if you don't come back and and you
37:17
know religion and that sort of thing gets in the way of you
37:20
know another life and and all that stuff.
37:23
Let's not get there. Yeah that's enough.
37:25
You're not going to worry too much about what you didn't do if
37:27
you don't make it back. That's true, that's true.
37:30
I mean there's got yeah, so but if you do make it back, what are
37:34
the consequences Consequences, other than you're rich, you
37:38
know. There's yeah funds, there's tons
37:40
of stuff certainly there. They're probably trying to weed
37:43
out the people that are going up, just to be rich.
37:45
Yeah, I hope so. I really like because if they're
37:48
just going up, you know, if they just have like influencers, you
37:51
know, people with selfie sticks the whole time.
37:53
Like just being idiots at a Starship Just because they know
37:57
that they're going to be internet famous, you know, get
38:00
those guys out of there. I know that if I didn't have any
38:03
family. And commitments and pretty
38:07
lonely guy. I'm here, I'd go for sure.
38:10
Everything I possibly could into this application.
38:13
Yep. But as it stands.
38:16
Yeah. And you make those like
38:18
everybody makes those choices, you know.
38:20
So it's like I am single. I got a YouTube channel, that's
38:25
my job. I got friends that I love, I got
38:28
family that I love but would they be like hey we'll your
38:33
crazy for doing? This probably, but they also
38:35
know that I was, you know, I have a skateboarder and I've
38:38
always liked done, stupid stuff, my whole life.
38:41
So they'd be like, it's kind of normal actually, like, I guess
38:44
this is what you wanted ever since you're a little kid.
38:46
So not a big deal like this. Get on that rocket, buddy.
38:51
If you like, see you next week. Yeah, they'll be like, can you
38:53
come, like, are we gonna be able to see the launch?
38:56
I'll be like, I don't know. I have to talk to somebody.
38:58
I don't know how this works. So right, you'll get me in
39:01
right? Yeah.
39:02
Right, exactly. Give me a seat.
39:04
Good launch. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
39:05
That's well who's going to run the channel when I'm in space?
39:08
I can't run it from up there. So why not?
39:10
Yeah why couldn't you just hold out your phone and and and shoot
39:14
some podcast. We're going to have some
39:16
starlink internet up there. Something it's got to be.
39:20
Yeah. So we could do some live streams
39:22
from the Starship. I've figured we were too worried
39:25
about the channel. I fear the head if I'm a
39:27
Starship Captain. I would appear the captain and
39:31
the captain. Yep, I made it.
39:33
I have I've arrived people, I'm the privileged Elite captain and
39:42
you're rich, and I'm rich, and everyone that I know is Rich.
39:46
So while everyone that I care about is Rich that everyone I
39:48
know because I know a lot of people, but so my answer is
39:54
maybe my answer is a strong. Maybe.
39:57
I think I could do. I think I could probably be
39:58
swayed in the way of like, yeah, I do it.
40:02
Yeah, how come It am I to it? We'll see when I do the
40:06
interview thing, whatever the next what is the next thing the
40:09
assignment? See what the assignment is?
40:11
Then I'll be like, that's what's going to that's what where it's
40:13
going to be my Tipping Point. It's like, what is this?
40:16
You have to make it through a process to get to the
40:17
assignment. I think they're making a cut off
40:20
right here. They're probably gone to 10,000
40:22
or something. I would think, dude, I'm a
40:23
skateboarder man to be an MC. We're going to we're going to
40:26
rip it up, bro. Get I'm in it's easy.
40:30
It's a Brotherhood. You got this, not bad.
40:34
Guy. Yeah, not that guy anybody.
40:35
But that guy I've seen his podcasts like.
40:38
Now as I've seen a show about skateboarding for six days.
40:44
Yeah like to did you Tre flip a set of stairs and 1994 but I
40:50
did. All right, especially yeah.
40:53
Sorry, yeah, exactly. That's exactly what's going to
40:56
happen. Yeah.
40:58
So you know, the other side of this is the risk to SpaceX.
41:03
Yeah, we talked about this, the other day, if something goes
41:07
wrong and they lose this crew, that's some pretty negative
41:11
publicity. It's huge.
41:13
Yeah. And that's something that, you
41:17
know, has to be taken into account, as far as elon's
41:20
concern. Yeah.
41:23
It's a huge, huge risk. I mean, they've already taken
41:26
risks from, you know, for the Falcon flights, you know, the
41:32
crew Dragon family. It's a huge risk, but those are
41:34
astronauts. Those are great professionals.
41:37
Yes. They've been doing this their
41:38
whole life. Yeah.
41:40
So in this is what they wanted to do with her life.
41:42
Like most people that are going on a Starship, probably weren't
41:45
like a couple years ago. They weren't like, you know
41:47
what? I'm going to be a Starship
41:49
astronaut artist. You know, they weren't they
41:52
weren't saying that there was no such thing.
41:55
So in a year and a half or two years, everyone's going to
41:58
become an astronaut you know, it takes a lifetime to become an
42:02
astronaut. Let you know to like be really
42:05
great at school, go to the Air Force or go to, you know,
42:09
whatever and then become an astronaut like you.
42:12
That's a whole process are the best of the best.
42:14
Yep. You know these guys are smart
42:16
physically fit. Multi multi talented in that's
42:22
to fix everything and do run every science.
42:24
Experiment on the ISS you've got to be able to learn a lot of
42:27
stuff and retain it. So that's it.
42:30
I'm out. I'm done.
42:32
I can't do that. That's exactly the point.
42:35
Yes, these aren't our astronauts going up.
42:37
They said right, regular people, right.
42:39
And the, the couple astronauts that'll be like running the show
42:42
up there, you know, probably going to be very seasoned
42:44
veterans and grizzled vets from The from probably NASA or, you
42:50
know, retired, NASA astronauts, or in the process of becoming
42:54
the next as NASA astronauts or something.
42:57
But the men and women that do it for a living, you know, those
43:00
are the people that will be freeing us around the Moon and
43:03
back like we're just going to be like it's going to be like we're
43:05
going to, you know, like a Delta flight or something.
43:09
Yeah, you know, like an American Airlines flight, we're just
43:11
going to be sitting in back in coach.
43:13
And how are you on wants to do see until right?
43:16
Not coach though hope he wants it first class.
43:18
Gasps. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:23
It's, it's an interesting thought for many, many reasons.
43:28
Yeah, but I mean, it's an interesting that you're maybe
43:32
strong. Maybe I'm a strong.
43:33
Maybe I am. The other I had to think about
43:35
it a lot the last couple days and I was like, nope.
43:40
And then I was like, little baby.
43:42
I was like well that'd be kind of cool.
43:43
Actually this is like little kid will ya would look at me and go
43:48
like you dumb, stupid idiot. Get on that stupid ship right
43:53
now. You know, and that guy would be
43:55
like what are you waiting for? This is your, this is what you
43:57
wanted when you were a little kid and of course everyone's
43:59
dreams and wants change as they grow older but it's also like
44:04
well you only live once hashtag Yolo or whatever the children
44:07
say nowadays so Yeah, the Moon is always captured my interest
44:15
like that. I was born during the Apollo 11
44:17
Mission. My name is Neil a video on that
44:22
on that mission to X. So, in the moon's, always had a
44:26
very special part for me, and this is, as I said earlier, this
44:29
is my dream come true. I would love to go.
44:32
But it's not just about me. Yep.
44:34
It's not just about. Yeah, exactly.
44:36
But you did do this. So you can at least, you know,
44:44
pretend you can at least tell you I made it.
44:47
I'm an astronaut. That's your number.
44:48
That's your flight. Number over here and see you
44:51
made it. You did it straight out of
44:55
Canada. So, yeah, man, I'm a hard hard,
45:01
maybe. And you Our a know, right?
45:05
So that we can come up with gotta be hard.
45:06
No, I'm okay. Wants to say yes.
45:08
Yep. But your mind is like, nope.
45:10
Okay. So yeah, I guess, I guess we're
45:16
good. Are you good?
45:17
I'm good. Yeah, that's cool station.
45:19
That was good. I'd like I like the dear Moon
45:21
thing and I hope everybody out there enjoyed it.
45:24
And if you did, give us a thumbs up.
45:26
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so the thumbs up. Give us a like and all that
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stuff and thanks to the crew, space pod, we're growing and
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doing cool stuff. Check out the Discord.
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Check out our we have twitch Channel.
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What else? We have a Twitter, a space news
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about. Everything's a space news pot.
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So, just search for a space new spot and check us out, all the
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socials except for Instagram, the space news pod.