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SpaceX's 11th Starship Launch and Elon's Vision for Space · In the Loop AI

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Josh: So just yesterday spacex launched their fully stacked
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Josh: starship which measures almost 500 feet
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Josh: tall it's the largest object that's ever gone to space and two parts went up
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Josh: both parts came down and they both exploded catastrophic explosion and the explosion
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Josh: was gigantic everything that went up came down everything blew up but the point
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Josh: of this mission is that that's actually exactly how it was supposed to go. It was a wild success.
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Josh: These test flights, when SpaceX sends these up, they're not expected to land.
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Josh: In fact, most times they don't. And this is the first time where it actually
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Josh: landed in the right place.
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Josh: So Ijaz, what you're seeing in this video here is the booster that is kind of
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Josh: hovering above ground before falling into the ocean and exploding. So this was amazing.
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Josh: Ijaz, I know you were also watching the launch last night. What were your first
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Josh: impressions? What did you think watching this?
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Ejaaz: My first impressions was, why is this thing
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Ejaaz: exploding josh and i have to be honest for
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Ejaaz: our listeners here um josh i see you're rocking the
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Ejaaz: spacex hoodie let's go you can
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Ejaaz: see that i'm rocking a horse which is pretty much the opposite of a rocket i'm
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Ejaaz: old school i'm old-fashioned and i'm like okay this rocket is cool alon's launched
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Ejaaz: a bunch of spaceships already what's so special about this and after digging
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Ejaaz: under the hood josh this is actually super impressive.
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Ejaaz: I think the one line which kind of like bamboozles me about SpaceX's vision
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Ejaaz: is they're building the infrastructure for space.
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Ejaaz: I think up until, you know, very recently, many people thought of space as like
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Ejaaz: this kind of like cool thing. It's like, yeah, it's a once in a lifetime mission.
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Ejaaz: It's going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But what SpaceX is trying
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Ejaaz: to do is reduce the cost of that to the equivalent of like a bus ride,
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Ejaaz: So that becomes pretty normal to colonize humans outside of Earth.
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Ejaaz: But can you explain why this launch is so important, Josh?
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Josh: Yeah. So Starship Mission, I mean, like you were saying, to back it up,
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Josh: is the intention is to get to Mars.
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Josh: And they're very dead set on getting to Mars. And the problem with getting to
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Josh: Mars is that you need to have a low cost per kilogram to orbit.
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Josh: That's kind of how this thing works is if you can't get mass to orbit,
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Josh: then you can't create a copy of Earth to live on Mars.
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Josh: And the thing with colonizing Mars is that you actually need every single thing
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Josh: that Earth needs in order to be self-sustainable in the case that the planes
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Josh: or the rockets stop coming.
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Josh: So, Ejaz, if you send, let's say, 100 million tons to Mars, but you forget vitamin
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Josh: C, everything dies over a certain period of time.
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Josh: So you really need to be able to deliver every single critical element for life.
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Josh: And that requires a ton, literally metric tons of mass to orbit.
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Josh: And the problem is getting that
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Josh: cost down to as low as humanly possible. So back in the day in this with the
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Josh: space shuttle program, it cost $60,000 per kilogram to orbit.
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Josh: With the new starship, the projection is hopefully going to be as low as $50 per kilogram to orbit.
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Josh: So this is like a huge decrease in how they're able to do this.
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Josh: And the reason they're able to do this is because of rapid reusability.
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Josh: And that's what we saw yesterday. That was the idea of the test yesterday is
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Josh: to test how reusable these rockets are.
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Josh: So we probably should talk about the reason why this test in particular was
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Josh: different than all the others. And it's because of the heat shield.
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Josh: Now, the heat shield is a very critical part of this rocket because the heat
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Josh: shield is the single most challenging part to get right in order for the rocket to relaunch itself.
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Josh: So what we're seeing here is the crux of the heat shield, the way that they've
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Josh: been able to make it work.
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Josh: Because a lot of times, the reason why a rocket can't survive is when it comes
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Josh: back to orbit at 25 000 kilometers per hour uh
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Josh: it's really freaking hot and that's a lot of plasma it's a lot of heat
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Josh: and it just melts everything but what we're seeing here on screen is this
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Josh: thing called the bakery where starship literally bakes
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Josh: 18 000 of these tiles the same way your grandma
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Josh: would they take some ceramic they throw it in an oven they cook
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Josh: it and on the way out comes out these little hexagons they stack
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Josh: 18 000 of them together and it blocks
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Josh: the shields from overheating the problem is again
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Josh: you just the reusability where you need to be able to get this
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Josh: rocket back to earth and then take off rapidly right afterwards and
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Josh: the problem is that they've been falling apart like they've kind of fallen
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Josh: off some of them don't hold some of them
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Josh: can't resist the heat properly so what they did is they invented this thing
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Josh: called the crunch wrap which is such an outrageous name shout out from taco
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Josh: bell yeah we're seeing the crunch wrap supreme literally like the crunch wrap
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Josh: supreme that's where they get the inspiration from and i love this and what
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Josh: we're seeing on screen is oh they were actually able to take these tiles,
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Josh: these little ceramic plates, and they wrap them in this felt material.
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Josh: And the problem when you're going through space really hot is the metal expands
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Josh: and contracts quite a bit.
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Josh: So you need to have space in between the tiles, but that space let a lot of heat in.
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Josh: So what they did is they created this kind of malleable material,
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Josh: which is the felt, and it allows the metal to heat up and expand and condense
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Josh: and shrink while keeping these heat shields all intact. And it was amazing.
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Josh: And what happened on this launch was they lost less than 1% of the heat shield
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Josh: tiles, where in the past, they lost 5% to 10%.
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Josh: So the fact that they got this number down so low is the single probably biggest
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Josh: win of this entire test flight yesterday that we saw was the fact that they
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Josh: have a reusable heat shield. It's never been done before at this scale.
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Ejaaz: Okay, so if I were to summarize what you just said, Josh,
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Ejaaz: you're saying that the reason why Elon is testing out so many of these rockets
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Ejaaz: and blowing all of these up is to come to the ideal rocket architecture that
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Ejaaz: can colonize humanity outside of Earth. Have I got that first part right?
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Josh: Absolutely. Yeah. You got to build something that scales and that can be mass manufactured.
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Ejaaz: Okay, cool. And so to get there, he needs to reduce the cost of taking heavy stuff up, right?
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Ejaaz: Like right now, when it started off with the first rocket from NASA,
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Ejaaz: it was super expensive, hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Ejaaz: Reducing that cost to something much, much cheaper than that is important,
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Ejaaz: but also reusability is important, right? Josh, that's one way to kind of like drive it down.
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Ejaaz: It's like, if I can use the same rocket ship over and over again and not have
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Ejaaz: to reconstruct a new rocket ship every time one comes down and crashes,
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Ejaaz: we should be fine, right? So both of those things kind of are running in parallel.
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Ejaaz: And you're saying one major factor to help us get there are these heat-proof
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Ejaaz: shields or these heat-proof tiles, which are getting built in this SpaceX bakery.
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Ejaaz: That's what we're calling it, right? These countries.
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Ejaaz: Are these things literally made of ceramic, by the way?
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Josh: They're literally made of ceramic. It's so funny. it's just like what you did
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Josh: in like elementary school middle school art class um it's no different than
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Josh: that they put a little coat on the top it's like a little more sophisticated
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Josh: than that but basically they're just baking ceramic taco
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Ejaaz: Okay so where my mind goes to immediately next josh is um with the things that
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Ejaaz: they're taking to space what what kinds of things are they going to be taking
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Ejaaz: to space like i get the the mars thing right and that i still can't quite wrap
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Ejaaz: my head around because i'm like okay you like what materials are you taking that are you
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Ejaaz: bricks to build a house like how do we know if we can even live there but um
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Ejaaz: the most immediate thing that i remember us speaking about a few
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Ejaaz: episodes ago was satellites right and
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Ejaaz: these satellites are part of starlink v3 which is getting
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Ejaaz: um you know their new satellite um structure which is
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Ejaaz: basically going to beam down i think it was like 60 terabits worth of data to
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Ejaaz: earth which is the equivalent of me having like super fast internet cabled internet
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Ejaaz: at home but anywhere i am like wherever i am if i'm on a quaint little mountainside
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Ejaaz: um where i usually won't have reception,
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Ejaaz: Am I getting that right? Is there any other thing that I'm missing in between
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Ejaaz: satellites and building homes on Mars?
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Josh: Well, that's pretty much it.
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Josh: It's satellites, and then the satellites fund the mission to get to Mars.
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Josh: So Starlink is one of the largest cash cows of SpaceX, along with the private
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Josh: missions that they send up on behalf of governments or private industry,
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Josh: where they will take large satellites and they will send them into space.
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Josh: What Starship enables, like you said, it's just much
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Josh: bigger objects into orbit so like you
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Josh: mentioned the starlink v3 has 60 terabits of downlink
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Josh: speed per launch whereas the falcon
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Josh: 9 launches with the starlink v2 or 2.5 that
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Josh: they're at now they only had three terabits per second
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Josh: of downlink so every single one of these starship launches is equivalent
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Josh: to 20 old launches which is
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Josh: just an outrageously large scale at how quickly they're going to improve this
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Josh: network and not only that but the latency comes down the total bandwidth goes
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Josh: way up it has a much further range and yeah we're seeing on screen kind of the
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Josh: difference between them so the version 1.5 fairly small version 2 pretty big
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Josh: version 3 is like gigantic it is dude
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Ejaaz: This is like much bigger 10 times larger than v 1.5.
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Josh: So much larger and it's it's really exciting because version 3 satellites will
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Josh: enable people like me and you to actually be inclined to use the network a lot
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Josh: of people now for starlink the users they're in the middle of nowhere.
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Josh: They're not in very highly populated areas because that's where it kind of works
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Josh: the best. There's not a ton of bandwidth on the network.
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Josh: If you live in the middle of the woods somewhere remote, or if you live in like
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Josh: some super foreign place in a jungle, you use Starlink. It works amazing.
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Josh: But when you apply these high bandwidth satellites, not only can you use them
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Josh: in more densely populated areas, but like we had in our episode a few weeks
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Josh: ago, you could actually go direct to cell.
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Josh: So EJs, if we're going on a hike somewhere in the middle of nowhere,
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Josh: well, now your cell phone could actually get service too, thanks to these new satellites.
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Josh: So it enables this huge unlock in terms of satellites but then also in terms
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Josh: of SpaceX Starlink satellites but then also in terms of private industry there's
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Josh: a lot of telescopes there's a lot of rovers like a lot of these larger objects
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Josh: that want to go to space but have no vehicle to take them there
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Josh: Starship enables that and all of these tests like you were mentioning Starship
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Josh: the test flight 11 last night it's all in an effort to find a flight proven
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Josh: architecture basically create the blueprint that you could then copy and paste
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Josh: and start doing this at scale like we saw with the last Rocket the Falcon 9.
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Ejaaz: Okay, Josh, I want to talk about the spacecraft itself.
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Ejaaz: This thing is huge. What we're seeing is an image of this spacecraft next to some old models.
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Ejaaz: You know, we've got the old school NASA models.
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Ejaaz: And just height-wise, this thing is crazy. And it's super thin.
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Ejaaz: Like if i remember correctly the outer shell of this spacecraft is the thickness
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Ejaaz: of two credit cards put together sorry how is that possible.
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Josh: It's outrageous they use hfs which stands for hard f and steel and he does if
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Josh: you if you that is the scientific name it's hfs i swear to you there's no way
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Ejaaz: That's right i'm gonna look that up.
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Josh: Well it's real and actually you can go outside and see this right now you just
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Josh: because if you go and check out the cyber trucks that are rolling down the road
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Josh: which there are plenty of in the city um they are wrapped with the same exact
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Josh: hfs that is on starship it is just a cold rolled stainless steel that
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Ejaaz: Is super strong you're not lying.
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Josh: It's called hfs um and it's it's
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Josh: remarkably strong strong that's why uh your cyber truck is bulletproof
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Josh: it's because it's made of the same stuff that starships are made of um and
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Josh: a lot of the the complexity comes from actually pressurizing the cabin
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Josh: so that they don't um either collapse under pressure or
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Josh: over expand under pressure but the scale is gigantic it is what we're seeing
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Josh: here is um the starship basically consists of two parts there's the first stage
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Josh: which is at the bottom that's the booster they call that super heavy and then
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Josh: there's the second stage which is the actual ship on top and both of those ones stacked together
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Josh: 394 feet tall so that is equivalent to about 40
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Josh: stories tall so you just if you ever stood on top of a 40-story building you've
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Josh: looked out that is the the view from the top of starship it is unbelievably
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Josh: tall it's 30 taller than the statue of liberty i think it's 60 feet shorter
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Josh: than the great pyramid of giza this thing is like gigantic and yeah you can
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Josh: see here for scale on the video humans
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Ejaaz: People just look tiny yes so so so josh the the super heavy part part one the
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Ejaaz: booster is that primarily to get the ship you know up into the air is that primarily
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Ejaaz: just like fuel and rocket boosters.
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Josh: That's exactly right so the the booster exists literally
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Josh: for its name to boost the ship into earth
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Josh: orbit or low earth orbit at least because earth's atmosphere is
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Josh: super dense it takes a lot of energy to break through it but once
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Josh: you've broken through it and you're in the low earth orbit and going into outer
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Josh: space there's a lot less atmosphere there's a lot less friction against your
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Josh: ship you just need that smaller top part to actually go
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Josh: out into deep space um and this is where
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Josh: the payload is right exactly so the entire
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Josh: booster that whole bottom part that you're seeing it's all fuel
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Josh: 100 of that bottom part is fuel and then
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Josh: most of the top part is actually fuel too like a large percentage of
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Josh: the stack is just fuel and then towards the
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Josh: very top of the bay is about room for 150
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Josh: tons of reusable payload um so it's
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Josh: a lot of fuel and actually one of the interesting things that they're going to
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Josh: start doing with the next version version three of the
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Josh: rocket is they're going to refuel that top part in space
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Josh: so what they'll do is they'll send up two versions of the ship one
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Josh: is a tanker and then one is the actual ship they meet in
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Josh: orbit and they kind of like kiss each other and then one refuels the other and
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Josh: that's how it's able to get out to mars um so it's this really remarkable thing
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Josh: what we're seeing here is the the rendering of the version three and that's
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Josh: that's exactly the kissing that i'm talking about they they have a tanker and
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Josh: then they have the ship and they connect and that's how you refuel it
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Ejaaz: So um this launch that we just watched um that was intentionally exploded is
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Ejaaz: the sign before we move on to this next version that we're seeing on our screens
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Ejaaz: right josh can you tell us like what the major differences are and what we can expect.
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Josh: Yeah so one of the biggest differences this is
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Josh: the thing that i am absolutely obsessed with is the raptor 3 engine so they
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Josh: have a whole new engine architecture that you're using and as a result a lot
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Josh: of things need to change so what you just saw in the past one it was a new fuel
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Josh: tank everything about the outside mostly looks the same everything about the
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Josh: inside is changing so the fuel distribution is changing a lot of the um
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Josh: the telemetry things the grid fins that control the ship are changing but the
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Josh: most notable part is these raptor 3 engines and it is if you go back actually
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Josh: to that image i love this image so much because it shows the three iterations
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Josh: of raptor and it just shows like what what a great company is possible is is
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Josh: capable of doing seems much less
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Ejaaz: Complex than yes.
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Josh: But it's much more powerful too so that raptor 1
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Josh: engine had was so complicated it looks
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Josh: like a bird's nest there's so much stuff going on it's really difficult to understand
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Josh: it has to have its own heat shield built in and it weighed
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Josh: 2 000 kilograms so it's not
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Josh: very reusable it weighs a ton and it
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Josh: is only able to i mean only able to the thrust that you can
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Josh: get out of it is 185 tons raptor 2 looks a lot more elegant and raptor 2 that
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Josh: decreased the weight by 400 kilograms it has some more heat shield built in
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Josh: so there's a little less maintenance before and after each flight to reuse it
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Josh: but still pretty complicated and lifts the thrust up to 230 tons.
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Josh: Now, Raptor 3 looks like you could put that in a museum. It's gorgeous.
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Josh: All of the complexities are embedded inside of the engine. It is much more complex.
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Josh: And yet, it has a record-setting 269 tons of thrust. It weighs 100 kilograms, even less than Raptor 2.
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Josh: And there are no major limitations, meaning it can just go up into orbit,
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Josh: come back down, relight, and go right back again.
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Josh: So it is this unbelievably complex engineering challenge that they took on and
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Josh: that they were able to do.
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Josh: And I think it's a testament to how SpaceX operates. It's just really considering
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Josh: these things from first principles.
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Josh: Like, how can we make an engine the best possible thing using no off-the-shelf
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Josh: parts? All this is custom tooling.
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Josh: And as a result, they got an engine that is way faster. And like,
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Josh: look at this video that's it is so much force that's that's 269 tons of thrust
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Josh: from one single engine um it's it's a marvel
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Ejaaz: This seems like something straight out of a movie josh um like i i feel like
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Ejaaz: if you tell anyone that um how many of these did you say are going to be in
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Ejaaz: the new new ship oh i want to.
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Josh: Say there's 31 to 33 something like that there's a good bit of right
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Ejaaz: Right so if you told me that hey, 33 of these two credit cards worth thick Raptor
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Ejaaz: rockets are going to blast 150 tons and much, much more probably in V3.
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Ejaaz: Up into space, into orbit, I would probably laugh at you. I would be like,
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Ejaaz: this thing is flimsy. I don't know if I could trust this. Why is it wiggling around?
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Ejaaz: There is no other company that is building like this, Josh. And I was trying
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Ejaaz: to think about, you know, other kind of competitors that come even near SpaceX.
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Ejaaz: And I just fall flat every single time. I think Elon and SpaceX and the engineers
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Ejaaz: and what they've built and what they've achieved to date is in a league of their own.
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Josh: Truly. There's nobody who's close. There's a lot of companies who are trying
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Josh: to build interesting things, but there is genuinely no one on Earth who's close
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Josh: in the sense that if SpaceX shuts down tomorrow, we have no space program.
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Josh: We have no easy and affordable way of getting satellites into low Earth orbit.
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Josh: We have no aspirations for becoming multi-planetary species.
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Josh: We have no redundant internet.
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Josh: If we lose connection down on Earth, we have no secondary network to exist in
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Josh: space. So it is very much a monopoly.
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Josh: And you could start to understand why when you see how complex these things
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Josh: are, how big they are at scale.
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Josh: And yeah, I love the image you're showing here because there's also really great culture there too.
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Josh: This is an image from their, I guess, from Starbase, right? Where they take these things off from.
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Ejaaz: It's to get into Starship. Actually, it's the top level.
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Ejaaz: And before you walk in, you see this painting, which is just probably the most
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Ejaaz: inspiring thing ever if you're an astronaut going up in one of these things.
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Josh: And it's this beautifully like hand-painted astronaut holding his hand out,
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Josh: starship in the reflection, standing on Mars.
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Josh: It's really amazing. And one of the funny things is a lot of people just,
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Josh: There's this disconnect between saying we're going to Mars and then actually
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Josh: understanding the downstream effects of getting to Mars.
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Josh: And I think a funny thing that I learned from following SpaceX over the years
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Josh: is that they actually have entire teams dedicated to coming up with life on
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Josh: Mars, meaning like here is everything we need to ship.
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Josh: Here is how the government structure is going to look. Here is how we're going
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Josh: to like distribute supplies. Here is how we're going to build the first base,
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Josh: the second base, the third base.
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Josh: And there are teams that have been doing this for years because they are so
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Josh: certain that their mission will succeed, that they will be able to get life
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Josh: on Mars. And they do have a rough timeline trajectory.
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Josh: I think first moon missions are going for 2028 and then the Mars mission around 2030, I believe.
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Josh: So within the next five years, people will actually, or at least rockets will be on their way to Mars,
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Josh: which is, it's just cool it's a really exciting thing yesterday's launch
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Josh: was amazing progress everything that could have gone right
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Josh: went right um and it was really a step in the right direction because
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Josh: the last couple of launches this is this was launched number
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Josh: 11 they had some serious problems like there
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Josh: was one of the rockets it fully exploded prior
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Josh: to even getting off the launch pad a total detonation destroyed
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Josh: the launch pad they had to rebuild it there was another rocket that um
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Josh: when it tried to get pressurized it totally exploded so there's been a lot of
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Josh: problems along the way last night's flight was amazing everything went about
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Josh: as good as it could have and what we're going to see soon is they're going to
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Josh: try to actually catch the starship rocket which is going to be a really exciting
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Josh: development because once they get that thing caught
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Josh: We're on our way.
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Ejaaz: I really hope this happens in my lifetime. I hope that the cost of travel to
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Ejaaz: get to space is affordable enough that I can go with me, my kids,
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Ejaaz: maybe even my mom and kind of like see what's up and out there,
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Ejaaz: maybe even a colony on a different planet.
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Ejaaz: It's interesting, as we have gone through this conversation,
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Ejaaz: I kind of think as Mars is like the first step to all of this.
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Ejaaz: I remember when I was a kid growing up thinking like Mars was this like really,
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Ejaaz: really far off thing to happen. Definitely not in my lifetime.
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Ejaaz: And now it just seems like, you know, it'll happen and then we're on to the
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Ejaaz: next big kind of planetary jump.
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Ejaaz: Satellites getting out there, moving different types of payloads,
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Ejaaz: whether it's like telescopes that you mentioned earlier. I feel like it's all just phase one.
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Ejaaz: I can't even imagine what comes next. But I know that there's only one company
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Ejaaz: that is doing this. It is SpaceX.
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Ejaaz: They cut the cost of space flight initially down to, what was the falcon 9 um
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Ejaaz: cost cutting josh do you do you remember this they cut it down to like a 12th
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Ejaaz: or like 126 it's it's one of those numbers.
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Josh: It was some outrageously low number yeah of
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Josh: how how low it went relative to others there's also
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Josh: a video you just i'm going to send you that i would love to show
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Josh: because it's just um it's it's awesome to
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Josh: see the effect it has on other people
20:42
Josh: like it's more than just a mission so one of the cool things is
20:45
Josh: is the downstream effects of getting to mars means that we have
20:48
Josh: unlocked a ton of new technology it means that we have um
20:51
Josh: we're able to create food and life on
20:54
Josh: another planet which means we need to have a lot of forms of portable energy a
20:57
Josh: lot better battery technology a lot better agricultural technology
21:01
Josh: but also this video that we're showing on screen it's like what's inspiring
21:04
Josh: the next generation to want to do cool badass stuff like it's
21:07
Josh: it's so fun being able to sit down and watch these launches and
21:10
Josh: and see like these kids just sitting down and like getting super expired
21:13
Josh: because for a long time when children when
21:16
Josh: we're growing up like the thing they wanted to be was an astronaut that
21:19
Josh: was the coolest thing and now the most popular answer is like oh i want to be
21:23
Josh: a tiktoker i want to be an influencer and i really i mean personally i love
21:27
Josh: the idea of people starting to get inspired by seeing things like this to want
21:31
Josh: to do these ambitious things to build rockets to go to outer space to build
21:35
Josh: satellites to give us internet from the stars like it's just
21:38
Josh: More than anything, it's an inspiring mission. And thankfully,
21:41
Josh: they've managed to put an economic engine on it to continue to fund the progress
21:46
Josh: that happens and to continue to work on this mission of getting payload to orbit.
21:50
Ejaaz: Where do I buy this stock? Honestly, I know it's still a private company,
21:55
Ejaaz: but I need to get my hands on this.
21:58
Ejaaz: Makes me very bullish, Elon, if I wasn't already bullish enough on all his other
22:02
Ejaaz: companies, if I wasn't already clear about that on this show.
22:05
Ejaaz: Josh, is there anything else that you need to share with us about this?
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Josh: Well, there's one more forward-looking thing that you actually mentioned this
22:14
Josh: to me a little while ago, is that you're like, well, why can I not get to London in like 20 minutes?
22:20
Josh: And this is very much that answer. It's like, if you are able to really just
22:24
Josh: perfect the reusable rocket ship where you create this, an airplane,
22:28
Josh: but for vertical takeoff and landing.
22:30
Josh: I mean, when we were watching the launch last night, that starship went across the world in an hour.
22:35
Josh: Like it was on the complete other side of the planet in an hour.
22:37
Josh: So if you can create this technology and you can actually really refine it,
22:41
Josh: produce it at scale, and you lower the cost to orbit down to $50 per kilogram,
22:46
Josh: well, I would imagine the cost to low Earth orbit or sub orbit,
22:49
Josh: which takes you up and then over and then into Europe, would probably be not that expensive.
22:53
Josh: And you could basically get anywhere in the world in like 45 minutes or less.
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Ejaaz: So the funny part is, I think you could sell a lot of people on that.
23:01
Ejaaz: I think a lot of people will start talking about sex would be super.
23:04
Ejaaz: But if I told my mom that, like, hey, you could go to Japan.
23:06
Ejaaz: It's been a dream of hers to go to Japan in 20 minutes. She would be down.
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Josh: Yeah. So I think that's an important thing they want to leave people with is
23:14
Josh: it's not only about getting to Mars.
23:16
Josh: It's the second order effects that come from understanding the technology to
23:20
Josh: get to Mars, where we can mass produce these rocket ships.
23:23
Josh: If we have all this new technology, it gets applied to a lot of really interesting
23:26
Josh: industries, like the vertical takeoff landing rockets, where you and your mom
23:30
Josh: can go to Japan for lunch and then come home before dinnertime.
23:32
Josh: And like that's just an easy and normal thing so it leaves a
23:37
Josh: a lot of, I think, optimism and excitement around for, for me.
23:42
Josh: And I think for a lot of people who watch all of these launches,
23:44
Josh: it's just, it's awesome to see there's more coming each as we were talking yesterday.
23:47
Josh: We got to go to Texas, go see one.
23:49
Ejaaz: We're going to go. We are going to go.
23:51
Josh: Let's do it. Cause that'd be a dream. These things are early next year.
23:54
Ejaaz: We're going to have it in the background as Josh and I live stream our updates
23:58
Ejaaz: about it. I cannot wait. I need to get myself a SpaceX hoodie as well.
24:02
Josh: Hell yeah. Yeah. We'll get matching hoodies and also Easter egg for anyone who's
24:06
Josh: near texas um all there's a law in texas where all the beaches are public
24:11
Josh: and starbase where they launch these starships the beach
24:14
Josh: sits right next to the launch pad so you can
24:17
Josh: actually go to the beach and be like less than a mile away from this gigantic
24:20
Josh: rocket ship and really get a great view of it um and just see what it's like
24:23
Josh: up close so when we go that's exactly where we're going and i am i'm really
24:27
Josh: looking forward to seeing one of these in person because my god what what an
24:31
Josh: exciting thing that would be i can't wait well tom cruise of top
24:34
Ejaaz: Gun step aside there is a new cowboy he's a
24:37
Ejaaz: space cowboy in town elon is leading the way on
24:40
Ejaaz: spacex um i cannot wait for the next couple
24:43
Ejaaz: of launches it seems to me that like every new launch gets that much less complex
24:49
Ejaaz: but somehow way more powerful and somehow way more cheaper and i still i know
24:53
Ejaaz: i keep talking about it somehow way more thinner um josh unless there's anything
24:58
Ejaaz: else to say let's um let's round this up.
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Josh: Let's wrap it up that's it so the next launch is going to be version three this
25:05
Josh: was the last launch of version two architecture the whole new the new launch
25:08
Josh: is brand new everything about the internals are going to be new all this new
25:11
Josh: stuff is rolling out we will be here covering it all the way um but until then
25:16
Josh: that's been an episode on spacex starship
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Josh: launch 9 launch 11 launch 11 i'm losing track yeah it's 11 thank you guys for
25:24
Josh: watching as always very much appreciated any final prompts before we go um
25:28
Ejaaz: No but tell us if you enjoyed this space episode um josh and i i i consider
25:33
Ejaaz: myself an amateur when it comes to these things josh is is super enthusiastic
25:37
Ejaaz: and plugged in and i love learning from him but do you guys enjoy learning about
25:41
Ejaaz: this stuff if not is there a different angle that we can cover are there other
25:43
Ejaaz: space companies out there i already know the answer there is not.
25:46
Josh: Let us know let us know well thank you for watching we'll see you guys in the next one