Latest / Elon Musk Podcast / Elon Musk's SpaceX Starbase Environmental Assessment 1 Step Closer to Approval

Transcript

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starbase Environmental Assessment 1 Step Closer to Approval · Elon Musk Podcast

0:00
How you doing today? Here we go.
0:02
Let's get this party started. I know the countdown says seven
0:05
minutes and fifty some odd seconds, but let's not wait any
0:08
longer. Let's get in, let's jump in.
0:12
How's everyone doing today? Hope you have a great day.
0:16
Hope you're having a great Monday.
0:17
It is May the 2nd 2022 and we're going to be talking about Elon
0:22
musk's SpaceX Starbase today and we're hoping hoping all the
0:27
things will go through and the fááá's.
0:31
Environmental assessment will be handled within the next.
0:35
Month. Maybe, let's see, let's see
0:38
though. Because, you never know because
0:40
the FAA is there they're going to probably delay it like seven
0:45
or eight different times, you never know.
0:47
It could happen, you know, sometime in the next month or it
0:50
could happen the next year, who knows with the FAA.
0:53
But we did get one step closer and I'll talk about that.
0:55
And it's just a second, Deb's. What's up egress?
0:58
Your spats, your space pants, put on your space pants,
1:01
everybody. This is the, this is our little
1:05
icon. We're working on new icons to,
1:07
for all the other people that have become members of the show
1:10
of the show of the show of the Channel show.
1:14
So, working on new new emotes, new icons, things like that.
1:17
So we can give you guys a little little something for helping
1:21
out. And also there's a few other
1:23
things to four members that we're working on that are just
1:26
going to be like members only content.
1:28
That's just going to be exclusive to member.
1:30
So if you want to just become a member and help out and it's,
1:34
you know, it helps out with Basically bills to get down to
1:36
Starbase bills of your trips to Florida bills for stuff.
1:40
Like, in a lie, gas money, basically gas money to get
1:42
anywhere because I love to be on the road.
1:44
I love to travel and I love to shoot video and photos of
1:48
launches and all that stuff. So, here we go.
1:51
Let's, let's talk about this environmental assessment, a
1:53
little bit today. Elon, and SpaceX have been going
1:58
through a lot of trouble with the FAA.
2:02
There's 18,000 pages of Comments, that people have
2:09
submitted to the FAA and so Ilan and Starbase can get approval
2:16
for the environmental assessment.
2:19
Basically, that you have to look into Boca Chica where starbases
2:23
and Elon wants to launch from there, wants to add a another
2:26
large facility, another Tower there and a bunch of other stuff
2:29
too parking lots and things like that.
2:32
And you know the the FAA has to approve all this stuff because
2:37
there's environmental impacts for anything you will ever do as
2:42
far as building. So if you're going to build a
2:44
house you know someplace or if you're going to put in a
2:47
driveway, you're going to put in a new garage, something like
2:50
that. Then there's going to be an
2:52
environmental impact no matter what you do, right?
2:55
So it could be as small as that or adding a fence to your
2:58
property, it seems small, right? So adding a little little white
3:01
picket fence around your house is seems like a small thing, but
3:04
those things do impact the environment.
3:05
I meant could impact. Whoa, Deb's.
3:07
Thanks for the super chats. Appreciate that.
3:10
So they just come up on the screen.
3:14
So when, you know, when you get anything done to your property,
3:21
including things like SpaceX, you know they have gigantic
3:24
Rockets. I'm about 25 miles away from
3:27
there. I go down there all the time, I
3:30
see this giant Rockets, I see the building stuff and the, the
3:35
amount of trucks that go in there.
3:36
Go in and out of that. Place is ridiculous every day.
3:40
It's a construction site. Think of it like a think of it
3:44
like a port, right. So think of it as like a port
3:50
for ships and there's always trucks come in and out delivery
3:53
trucks Etc and they're always coming in and out and Audrey.
3:58
Holy cow. Wow, thank you so much, Andre,
4:01
appreciate that. It's going to be a lot of gas.
4:03
Money to get to the launch is how you doing, man?
4:06
Two launches, and to start base back and forth.
4:11
So, thank you, Deb's, and Andre for your help, I really do
4:14
appreciate it. It means a lot.
4:16
I can't give you 20 rockets, and that's kind of an absurd amount
4:19
of rocket launches for these Starships.
4:22
But I usually do per dollar donated, I usually give you a
4:26
Starship per dollar. So I thank you for that, but I
4:31
can't give you 20 Starships. That's just it.
4:33
A ridiculous amount of Starships.
4:36
So thank you. Thank you so much.
4:38
Andre, I really do appreciate it.
4:39
I hope you're doing great and I gotta I gotta cut you off
4:42
though, unfortunately. Here we go, get one more landing
4:45
and then we'll cut you off. So it's fun to do these.
4:52
And then like all of a sudden a rocket appears, you know, I'm
4:55
looking at my monitor is over here and I'm like, okay, I
4:57
disguise Super Chat and things. Just go crazy, right?
5:01
So you know, there's tons of tons of construction going on
5:06
down there. There's things happening in all
5:11
the time all the time day and night.
5:13
There's there's new people coming into the area.
5:16
There's new trucks coming in the area from outside, the area, you
5:20
know, they could be from hundreds of miles away and the
5:27
fact that All that stuff comes into the area but also they have
5:30
to build it up because more and more constructions going on down
5:33
there and they want to be able to launch starships.
5:37
It akkadian swear, it's two or three a week, right?
5:40
And that is ridiculous, you know?
5:42
Like that's a that's a crazy amount of launches per week,
5:45
they want to have to launch Towers.
5:47
They want, there's all sorts of infrastructure that they have to
5:49
build down there. A new, they're going to build a
5:51
little pond in order to make this all work that's going to
5:55
probably feed into the noise suppression.
5:58
System at some point and you know they have to get the
6:04
environmental approval from the FAA and Jeff Francis.
6:07
Thank you so much for another Super Chat.
6:09
Wow! Thanks guys, I really do
6:11
appreciate it. It's it means a the world to me
6:13
that you guys are helping support, the shampoo the channel
6:15
and helping to support the show. So thank you so much for that.
6:20
Jeff, that's amazing. Now I'm going to give you a
6:23
couple more of these and then we'll move on to the next thing
6:25
which is this. Email that I got the other day.
6:29
You know this is kind of a like we had a we had to talk about
6:32
this the other day but we didn't really go into it too much.
6:35
It was kind of a short thing after a 9 hour stream.
6:39
So so I was kind of exhausted. I was like it's over thank God
6:46
not that got the streams or but thank God.
6:47
We have the information, you know that we have now?
6:50
So there we go, one more Landing Jeff and there you go.
6:54
So I want to talk about a little more.
6:56
Get your guys. Your input on it.
6:59
And just just have a discussion about it because I think there's
7:02
a lot of discussion that can be had about these things and you
7:07
know what, when the time frame is going to happen and things
7:10
like that. So the FAA send me an email, the
7:14
other day when they did all the things for Starbase when they
7:18
send out all. The all the emails for Starbase
7:20
the FAA is updating the release date for SpaceX Starship.
7:23
Super heavy, final, programmatic environmental assessment that
7:26
Peña and the Frederick Infrastructure permitting
7:28
dashboard, the end, the project website, the FAA plans to issue
7:32
the final pa pe a on May 31st. So basically, so if there's
7:40
anything that can be damaged by starbases activities, by SpaceX
7:45
is activities at Starbase Boca Chica.
7:49
They have to look into this every little thing.
7:52
So they had 18,000 comments. Okay.
7:57
And I would love somebody to do the math.
8:01
So many people have done different math, right?
8:05
Different math. Everybody has different math for
8:07
this. They're like a person sits down
8:09
and they can read five of these per day and do comments and I'm
8:12
like, okay cool and then they do all the math and they figure out
8:15
that okay, that would only take 20 days or you know, whatever
8:17
the math is. So you think so you think okay
8:22
so that would only take 20 days but there's also the other
8:25
factors To it as well. So, I mentioned a few of these
8:29
things on Twitter, the other day, you know, and I made a poll
8:33
on Twitter, and it was pretty, pretty sort of one way or the
8:37
other. Like, either you're like, well,
8:38
just get a little bit more time. They're not ready.
8:40
Anyway, or the FAA is a corrupt organization, you know, in
8:44
there, they go into some detail about that and how with x amount
8:49
of employees they could have got this done in two weeks or
8:51
whatever. And I have to remind people that
8:54
people are people as well. Math is right there.
8:59
So let's see. Okay and see Davis if they have
9:01
10 full-time employees, I think they can easily average one
9:03
page, every 15 minutes per person, 40 pages per hour, 40
9:08
hours a week, eleven point two, five weeks is 18,000 pages.
9:13
So it would have only taken them around.
9:16
Let's just say three months to get this, done to read all those
9:18
pages and get all that stuff done.
9:21
So 10 full-time employees but to those, I have to Kind of step
9:28
back a little bit from that. The 10 full-time employees are
9:32
the only doing that and this is this is the thing that got a lot
9:36
of people on Twitter. It's like, are they only doing
9:39
that part of it, right? So, are they looking only at
9:42
these pages that 18,000 pages? And that's it?
9:46
Or do they have weird meetings? You know, does your Ma's, does
9:51
your boss, come over to your your desk, tap you on the
9:53
shoulder and be like, hey man, how's it going?
9:56
There goes 10 minutes of your life, there goes, 10 minutes of
9:58
this thing and also they have to write, you know, they have to
10:05
write a response to every one of these.
10:07
So if that includes the the response but also other meetings
10:11
that happen, you have your lunch break.
10:13
You have the Rando that always comes over to your data show is
10:18
brought to you by backblaze, I use back place to back up my
10:21
podcast, my video files, all of my writing stuff and all my
10:25
Photos. And you get unlimited computer
10:27
backup for Macs and PCs for just $7 a month.
10:30
You can backup your own documents photos videos.
10:33
Drawings projects, all of your data and access your backed up
10:37
data from anywhere in the world using the web app and you can
10:40
access the files on your mobile to iOS Android apps all covered.
10:44
And this is the cool part. This is my favorite part.
10:46
You can restore it by mail, a hard drive will come to your
10:48
house with all your data shipped to your door.
10:51
I could come to your business to and you can restore return
10:54
refund program. So you can buy a hard drive
10:57
restore, send the hard drive back within 30 days and get a
11:00
full refund. So basically they ship you this
11:03
hard drive and then you ship it back and you don't ever pay for
11:06
it which is the perfect program for somebody who has huge files.
11:09
You don't want to waste days and days, downloading terabytes and
11:13
teraflops of data. And if you're worried about
11:15
accidentally, deleting your files to bucks extra month, you
11:18
can increase your retention history to one year, and I use
11:22
it for all of my video. Files comes in super handy, so,
11:25
Seven dollars plus two dollars, nine dollars a month and you get
11:28
everything backed up. He's a mind for up to a year.
11:31
And if you use the URL back, place.com slash Ilan, you get a
11:36
fully featured 15-day. No credit card required, free
11:41
trial, check it out, play with it.
11:43
Start protecting yourself from potential, bad times, back your
11:46
stuff up. It's recommended by the New York
11:48
Times ink, macworld PC World. Life wire wire to Tom's guide
11:53
and I defied mac and more and it's recently.
11:55
Been listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under be lze.
11:59
So you know they're legit back plays is committed more than
12:02
ever to bring an easy and affordable data storage that you
12:04
can trust don't be that person that forgot to back up their
12:07
important files. We've got your back sign up for
12:10
a free 15 day trial no credit card required go there sign up.
12:15
I you within its really powerful in is really easy to use so go
12:19
to back place.com slash Ilan. Back plays.com Ilan.
12:25
Backblaze.com Ilan, Askins leg. Hey buddy, what's going on
12:30
brother? You know and talks to you.
12:33
You don't want them to but he's there.
12:34
Anyway. You know, it's that guy that
12:36
like these cool dude and he's like, he's just trying to, you
12:40
know, have a good day but you're really like, you want to work on
12:43
this stuff but he's not allowing you to because he talking to
12:46
you. So the like all those things
12:50
have to be factored in as well. So if it is 10 full-time
12:53
employees, 15 minutes per Page and it's about 18,000 Pages
12:58
11.25. Our so let's Spirit to fight 25
13:01
weeks. That's three issues months.
13:05
So it's the, the the other stuff that goes along with the to.
13:09
So it could be four months, you know, just to get all this stuff
13:11
done. Let's just, let's just like kind
13:13
of if there's other things to do.
13:16
Like, you might have to pick up your kids from daycare.
13:18
You might, somebody might get sick.
13:21
Somebody might go really. Somebody might be really slow to
13:26
You know, there's there's so many other factors that go into
13:31
it as well and plus there's interoffice Communications from
13:36
the FAA with the other the other areas here.
13:39
So the FAA doesn't work alone with this.
13:41
You know they have Department of Commerce National or Oceanic
13:45
Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Department of Commerce, Noah
13:49
Department of interior fish and wildlife service.
13:52
So they don't work just alone. So they have to talk to these
13:54
other. Agencies within the government
13:58
in anybody that sent an email to anybody in the government, it is
14:04
expected of a response within any amount of reasonable time,
14:10
knows, how horrible that is. Anything you want done anything
14:14
you need done. If you've ever worked with the
14:16
government agency at all. I've contracted with government
14:20
agencies through my work. Like, I'm a coder.
14:23
So I've worked with government agencies.
14:25
Aziz we worked on their websites and things and the amount of
14:29
time it takes for them to just email me back like, hey, would
14:32
you like this to be done? You know, would you like this or
14:36
this? I give them a really quick.
14:38
Like would you like a or b? And then, you know, usually end
14:44
in like a high like a fast-paced web development environment,
14:51
everybody's working together? Everyone's on slack, everyone's
14:53
like doing all their things together.
14:55
At the same time, it happens almost instantly, right?
14:58
Hey, do you want a or b? And then somebody look at them
15:00
be like oh, a real quick. So getting you have to email
15:06
somebody in the in the government, you can't just slap
15:09
them, you know? It doesn't.
15:11
Like that. So those people working
15:13
together, Could take, you know, you send them an email and say,
15:18
hey is this kind of work? Hey, could you take a look at
15:21
this one? Because I'm not sure about this
15:23
one. You know, those things could
15:25
take extra you know, extra months.
15:28
You know, an extra month just did just for the communication.
15:31
I don't know. So this stuff that's happening.
15:34
You know, if they were robots and they could just sit down and
15:38
do the thing and just go through it, that would be the perfect
15:42
scenario. But it's Always like hey you
15:46
know, somebody has got sick, you know, or some, he's got food
15:49
poisoning or, you know, my dog's my dog needs to go to the baby's
15:56
my to the dog babysitter or whatever.
15:58
So I have to leave a little bit early today or whatever it is
16:01
you know. There's there's all the other
16:04
human factors involved too and I'm not giving him excuses.
16:07
I'm just saying like that's just how it is and that's unfortunate
16:11
for us who really want. SpaceX to launch a Starship.
16:15
But the good thing is they got one more thing done, right?
16:19
So all this stuff, like let's just look down here, this is a
16:21
graph down here that shows what has been completed and what
16:25
needs to be completed, permitting, time table right
16:27
here. And I'm sure some of you have
16:29
seen this. Most of you probably have
16:30
permitting time table below displays data is reported by
16:34
agencies dates, for environmental review and
16:37
permitting processes actions that are in paused or planned.
16:39
Status are subject to change are not indicative of Of of projects
16:43
final schedule. And I like this, too.
16:47
That are in pause or plant status are subject to change in
16:49
are not indicative of the projects final schedule.
16:52
So I have to say that, it's like a disclaimer permission
16:55
information about extension, select an action from the time
16:57
table below, blah, blah blah, right?
17:00
So all these things, these ones have been done, the
17:03
magnuson-stevens fishery conservation and management act
17:06
section 305 essential fish. Habitat consultation is done
17:09
Endangered Species Act consultation is done okay so
17:13
that one's done the endangered species consultation act
17:16
complete We don't know the results of it, it could be a
17:20
no-go, you know. These things could be, it could
17:22
be a no-go. It doesn't mean that the
17:24
complete, doesn't mean it's good.
17:27
It just means that it's that paperwork has been completed.
17:31
So does that mean that it's a go from The Endangered Species Act
17:36
consultation? Noah nmfs, we do now will we
17:41
won't know until they release it and they're supposed to release
17:43
this next 5:30 Sorry the beginning of next month will get
17:48
the the information from them and to this month beginning of
17:52
next month. So this all ends if 5:30 20:22
17:56
but they did complete the other day for 21 should have done for
18:03
20, that would have been sick. Dude, The Endangered Species
18:08
Act, scowl station DOI FWS. So Endangered Species Act,
18:13
there's danger Turtles down. There's a, there's a danger of
18:15
bird species Probably other endangered things down there
18:18
that I'm not aware of because the place is massive, and it's
18:22
swampy in, it's hot, and it's just like, there's so much stuff
18:27
going on there, so many birds. Like I see, hundreds of birds
18:30
want to go down there and I see all sorts of wildlife all the
18:33
time. And that gives you go out by the
18:38
beach, you'll see gulls and all sorts of things, but it in some
18:40
turtles and stuff sometimes. But there are endangered
18:43
turtles, they go there to to nest and I think they only go
18:46
there to Ness. It's like one other place.
18:49
What's there? And what other place, so SpaceX
18:51
can work with the FAA and the endangered species.
18:58
What are they called? Like this, the no excetera if
19:02
they can work with them to kind of mitigate that, like, say, if,
19:05
if they find out that the turtles are coming into Nest,
19:08
don't launch anything? Don't do any major things.
19:12
Whether it's testing cryo, tests, pressure test, status,
19:16
Fires, any launches, they don't want to do that.
19:20
I want to move any like, heavy machinery down by the beach,
19:22
because it happens at Boca Chica.
19:25
And it also happens, South Padre Island.
19:27
So they nest at those two places somewhere in between they could
19:30
find a different spot. And then, if they could work
19:32
with the, the fish and wildlife organization that they could
19:38
possibly mitigate that, that could be a mitigation strategy
19:40
for SpaceX. So once this all goes through,
19:44
whether it's good or bad SpaceX, we'll also again start working
19:48
with, you know, the work with the FAA and all of these other
19:53
agencies to make sure that they're they stay on task with
19:56
these things because it's not going to be cut and dry.
19:59
It's not going to be. Everything is complete SpaceX
20:01
gets to build whatever they want to whenever they want to.
20:04
They have a they have a plan. They have to stick with this
20:06
plan and these people are going to oversee kind of that they're
20:09
sticking to the plan. So in the future SpaceX will be
20:13
working on just getting I'm getting the Starbase facility
20:21
bigger and better. Of course, but first and
20:23
foremost, they have to launch these things.
20:26
They have to launch have to do an orbital launch of Starship
20:30
and you know the it's that is a big big task right there.
20:36
And SpaceX has a ton of ton of work to do still before.
20:59
SpaceX still has a bunch of work to do too.
21:02
So there's there's a ton of work for Starbase employees.
21:08
People down in Boca Chica to get boosters ready to get Starships.
21:12
Ready to get stage 0. Ready, that's one of the major
21:17
things that SpaceX has been doing recently is working on
21:20
stage zero. They had a router, a water
21:22
Deluge test the other night. Basically, floods the launch
21:29
stage zero area with water. So when a Starship launches the
21:36
launched noise from the engines, doesn't affect the surrounding
21:41
area. So that's one thing that this
21:44
whole environmental permitting processes for as well is that
21:50
they have to make sure that none of that water interacts with the
21:54
environment. In a bad way.
21:57
So SpaceX will be working with them to get that done to get to
22:00
work on that and you know workers are there day and night
22:05
24/7 all the time. So the vehicles coming in the
22:09
vehicles going out all that stuff really does impact the
22:12
environment down there not in a bad way so to speak but in a way
22:16
that and we are were waiting for them to kind of figure it all
22:23
out passing with your live video is gone.
22:26
We are seeing Clips. Yes.
22:27
I know I posted that up that's supposed to be like that.
22:30
I know I'm not supposed to be on there.
22:33
So yeah, let's take a second. I'm going to take a second and
22:36
take a look through the chat real quick so we can talk about
22:40
these things. So let me add myself back in
22:44
here, too. So, let's see here.
22:49
We got Andre. Everyone's doing great.
22:52
Thank you, man. I really do appreciate you
22:54
stopping by and hanging out. It means a lot to your stopping
22:59
by again. Let me put myself down here in
23:05
the corner. Put baby in the corner over
23:08
here. There we go.
23:10
Hey, there we go. I'm a hanging out by this
23:13
booster. Yeah, so everything is
23:18
everything is good if you have 10 full-time employees, okay?
23:20
So you did that math is right there.
23:24
Shares a screen, share your calculator.
23:26
Oh yeah, I didn't do that. I was totally bad with that one
23:32
comment could be a full line or a whole essay rate.
23:35
That's exactly. That's that's part of the thing,
23:37
right? So these comments that go into
23:39
the FAA that have been submitted to the FAA.
23:42
The fact that it could literally be like a small line, it could
23:47
just be something really, really easy, really, really quick.
23:52
And it could also be something really massive.
23:56
It could be a whole front page or I mean, I don't know how
24:00
long, what's the, what's the cutoff for the pages?
24:03
But I mean, it could be a full page.
24:04
So the the fact that somebody has to go through every single
24:09
one of those lines has to approve.
24:11
Every single, one of those lines has to write out something about
24:14
every single one of those lines. Like This person thinks ABC XYZ,
24:21
whatever they have to find out, like, what what's going on there
24:24
and they have to write a response, you know.
24:26
It can't be yes or no. It has to be like a thorough
24:29
response. I'm assuming so 18,000 Pages,
24:32
they read them all, it takes weeks to read them all, takes
24:35
months to read them all, and then from there, they have to
24:38
write it out. Have to do all the other
24:40
paperwork, submitted to somebody who's probably in charge of it
24:43
as well. So somebody whoever is in charge
24:46
of That part of the process, then they have to approve it and
24:52
then send it on up because it's the government.
24:54
You have to have a bunch of red tape, right?
24:55
Let's just that's just how it works.
24:57
It's just how the system works and it's unfortunate but that's
25:01
why checks and balances are there.
25:02
And also I believe the FAA is doing this on purpose as in
25:07
they're doing this to make sure that they do it right.
25:12
You know they do it right the first time because if they don't
25:14
do it right, the first time SpaceX Is going to sue them into
25:19
Oblivion. So so if they can't launch from
25:22
Starbase SpaceX, might have a legal foot to stand on and may
25:28
just go wild, like set the lawyers Berserker mode, and go
25:33
after the FAA and the government.
25:34
So if that's the case, this will be hooked up in court for a
25:39
long, long time. So that the fact that SpaceX is
25:43
working really diligently on this as well with you.
25:47
FAA that's important. But also the fááá themselves and
25:51
the other institutions, you know, the section 106 review,
25:56
still working on it. That's the section 106.
25:59
Like, that's the only thing left and then there's the
26:01
environmental assessment. And that's it.
26:03
We're pretty close. We have three done out of 5, in
26:06
its really, really close to being done.
26:09
So there's a possibility that the FAA and section 106 review
26:14
could be done in the next couple weeks, you know, they Could be
26:17
done in the next couple weeks. They could release this early.
26:20
They have a they have a end date of 5:30, but it could be less
26:25
than that. They could also push it out a
26:26
little bit further. They could if they need another
26:28
15 days to go through all the Other response.
26:31
The other other responses, there's a possibility that they
26:35
keep going on with this. So yeah, it's a lot but I'm sure
26:41
like Deb said, there's probably probably some people that are
26:43
like go SpaceX and then for that one.
26:47
You're like that's a yes, check that off.
26:51
Or there's somebody probably that's like, you know, writing
26:53
an essay like Deb says about, you know, a couple pages about
26:58
how the Environmental. Acts of Starship and SpaceX are
27:02
destroying the environment. And, you know, they don't want,
27:05
you know, giant giant Rockets down there and also there's
27:09
probably those in between to the people that don't really know
27:12
how to communicate how they feel about this and the people that
27:16
aren't really good at showing the facts of things so then you
27:23
have to take that into consideration like is that a yes
27:25
or is that a? No and then you might have to
27:28
bring in other people and it could be Could be a whole
27:30
process for that one. So yeah, there's there's all the
27:33
in-betweens. I wish it were.
27:35
I wish people were robots for this thing, these things.
27:37
Or if I wish it were like, okay, we're going to leave this up to
27:40
comment but the comments going to be yes or no, that's it.
27:45
You know, like those are the only things like you can't argue
27:47
you can just say yes or no. We want this here that would
27:49
have been. It would have been done so much
27:51
earlier but unfortunately, you know, well, I guess and
27:54
fortunately to the system takes a while to get through.
27:58
So On average, 15 minutes I think is fair and see Davis.
28:04
I agree reading in 15 minutes, like, that's not too bad.
28:08
So like you have a book, right? Have a couple pages in a book.
28:10
Get through them pretty quick, but then you have to decide for
28:13
people that aren't good writers, you know.
28:16
So I always take the, I take the, the most, the easiest path,
28:22
right? So you take the easiest path,
28:24
which is okay, you know, 15 minutes per page.
28:28
That sounds pretty good. That sounds pretty fair in.
28:30
See, I agree with you but then you have to think there's got to
28:34
be those ones that are just going to take you an hour to
28:37
figure out, you know. But then there's other ones that
28:40
take you a second or two. You like go SpaceX.
28:43
Okay yes. And then there's the the person
28:44
that writes a novel, you know, you're like oh come on man.
28:47
I don't know what any of this stuff means.
28:50
Like they re something, they're going through everything and
28:54
they're like, oh man, I have no idea.
28:56
I have no idea what this person is talking about.
28:58
I Then you got to call somebody else over and be like, hey, do
29:02
you know what they're talking about?
29:03
Because I don't know what you're talking about.
29:05
So those are the things that we have to take into consideration
29:08
with the fááá's Peña of Starbase.
29:11
It's a, it's a, it's a tough one.
29:14
It's a really long process. It happens for every rocket
29:18
facility to like Starbase isn't unique with this.
29:22
You know, every other rocket company does building any sort
29:25
of Spaceport whether it's You know, blue origin or it's Virgin
29:32
Galactic anybody that's building a space port.
29:35
You have to go through government regulations and you
29:37
have to go through the environmental assessment.
29:39
Sometimes it takes a couple days, you know, like sometimes
29:43
it's just like well there's really nothing there, you know,
29:47
a couple couple Gophers maybe underneath but whatever they'll
29:51
just move like once they hear the rumble of the truck still
29:53
move but also you know NASA isn't it?
29:58
It's in a swamp. A environmental swamp so you
30:03
know that place has been cleared.
30:05
So I'm assuming they're going to clear Starbase.
30:08
It's just that this has never been done before.
30:12
This gigantic rocket has never flown before.
30:15
The technology is not proven, this is a research and
30:19
development project. This isn't a tried trued,
30:24
trusted, NASA, space shuttle, you know, it's not like that.
30:29
It's not it's not a rocket that's flown a hundred times.
30:32
It's not a falcon 9 or a falcon heavy even this is a rocket
30:36
that's never flown. The boosters never really been
30:40
static fired yet. It's been tested with cryo, it's
30:44
been pressure tested but it's never static.
30:46
Fired a full static. Fire test, never so the fact
30:51
that they're waiting on the environmental assessment is
30:54
fine. Like that's fine.
30:55
They still have a lot of work to do like a ton of work to do the
30:58
boosters. Not Even ready, the ship isn't
31:01
even ready is still in pieces. So you know, SpaceX still needs
31:06
to build those things. And unfortunately, you know
31:09
whether it's booster for, which I loved the 420 idea.
31:13
I think that think that was awesome.
31:15
I thought it would be funny because I'm 12, but the fact
31:20
that some people were like, hey, booster for ship 20 were ready
31:25
to go. Really, how do you know, are you
31:30
an engineer at SpaceX? And if you are, please show me
31:33
credentials because I think that would be amazing.
31:36
I think it would have been amazing at booster foreign ship
31:38
20 were able to fly, but there's a possibility.
31:42
Ilan said he wanted them to fly but there's a possibility that
31:44
they just looked at him and we're like, let's just wait for
31:47
Raptor to Because raptor1 seems kind of sketchy, you know,
31:53
raptor1, it's okay. But, you know, if we do, if we
31:57
do launch raptor1 and something happens to it, we could just
32:02
wipe out all of Starbase. Even though Ilan has said, okay
32:06
it's not the explosions of this isn't going to be like a bomb.
32:09
It's going to be like like a fireball more than anything.
32:13
So The fact that something could happen to Steve 0.
32:19
Something there's like all over the place, there's wires,
32:23
there's pipes, there's a lot like Electronics, all over the
32:27
place down there, like all over State 0 and the, the fact that
32:35
you got to think about that stuff too.
32:36
Could that possibly have happened to SpaceX during this
32:42
launch, you know? Like if they launch for 20,
32:45
Couldn't have destroyed most of Starbase, you know, or some of
32:52
Starbase, you know, it could just set them back months, you
32:54
know, if they launch 420 of raptor1 wasn't ready.
32:57
So there's a possibility that that could have happened.
33:00
Holy cow Jr. More, thank you so much.
33:03
I approve the launch, go ahead and light it up.
33:05
There you go. You get your launch buddy.
33:07
There you go. J are get a bunch of Starship
33:09
launches. So if you think about it, it
33:12
makes sense, though, it makes sense if Stir for ship, 20
33:16
weren't ready to go. This is okay, like this, this
33:19
FAA kind of slowed everything down the booster 7 and ship 24
33:26
if that's going to actually if those two are going to actually
33:29
fly because the pipe and booster seven looks like it was crushed
33:33
and are they going to fix it? I'm going to try to go down a
33:36
little bit later today and see what they're going to do on it.
33:39
I have an appointment a little bit so I gotta actually got to
33:42
take off in like 5 or 10 minutes but the I would love to go down
33:46
there today and see what booster sevens up to.
33:48
So that would be really cool Jr. Again thank you for that.
33:52
It's really helpful. Getting gas money to go to
33:56
launches and getting gas money to get to Starbase.
34:00
Super cool. Thank you so much.
34:02
Really does help with all of that stuff.
34:05
So thank you. Thank you, thank you.
34:07
There we go. Jr.
34:08
Thank you. So let's see where we going to
34:13
scroll up a little bit. I don't want to miss anything
34:14
passing. Nguyen.
34:15
What's up and Dirty? Dancing reference?
34:18
Exactly. Yeah I want to put my baby in
34:20
the corner. Yeah.
34:25
Pat swindall said it's funny because cape canaveral's in the
34:27
middle of what? Any other time we would call a
34:29
nature. Preserve.
34:30
Yeah. And at that time, it was too.
34:31
They had to go through environmental environmental
34:34
checks down there to before they before they started building
34:37
that, of course they said okay let's do this because it's a
34:39
government sort of, you know, it's a more of a Department of
34:46
Defense thing, you know, who gets to the moon faster,
34:49
Russia's launching you know people Space you know thing
34:54
satellites, you know all that stuff in the beginning you know,
34:57
the Space Race kind of thing. So but they were like, let's get
35:00
this done fast and they push it through.
35:02
Now, do we have that sort of threat?
35:04
Now, not as much, you know, not as much they're still, you know,
35:07
they're still throwing things going on, but not as much as it
35:10
was. People, were scared.
35:12
They got the funding, they pushed it through.
35:14
It took a while though, it didn't take, you know, there
35:18
were probably postponements but the thing is back then we didn't
35:21
know about it. Nobody really knew about it
35:24
unless you really paying attention to it, because the
35:29
speed of information is so much more acute now than it was back
35:36
then. So, I don't know what the actual
35:38
numbers are for. And the time frame was for the
35:42
initial basically, groundbreaking of NASA compared
35:46
to what the like when their environmental assessment
35:51
started, but they had Pad 1 and if not they were disliking it,
35:54
whatever you know it. Let's do it.
36:01
Let's see. How are we doing here?
36:03
Who else is here, Briana? What's up, Daniel?
36:06
How you doing there? If there are any questions about
36:09
the FAA method of work, Jeff who could throw his toys?
36:13
The print, I can't. Yeah, exactly.
36:17
My humble opinion. Jeff Francis says, I believe
36:20
that it's being put off to to NASA.
36:21
Can't get Their ship ready? I don't know.
36:25
I wish I wish I had information. So that's the other thing, too.
36:29
I wish that I wish that when you said things like that, not
36:33
calling you on a particular, but I'm just saying like if somebody
36:36
says that, they say, well if the FAA is postponing Starship, it's
36:41
because of this. And I want to be logical about
36:44
this and I want to be pragmatic about it as well.
36:47
Is there a chance that the SLS and, you know, there's Um sort
36:52
of, you know people higher up and saying, hey just give us a
36:58
week or two. We got to get back out there
37:00
before SpaceX does. I mean there's jerks everywhere
37:04
right? There's everyone every single
37:07
place you're going to work there's going to be one person
37:11
that's kind of a jerk. So that person may have been
37:14
like, hey guess what man? We got this isolettes project
37:17
going on. Could you slow them down a
37:19
little bit and then Corruption collusion.
37:25
You know if anybody ever finds out about it that person's going
37:29
to prison forever you know like those those things sue the FAA
37:33
sue the government you know SpaceX would go nuts and I'm
37:37
sure they would they would make a lot of money from that.
37:42
So the government get billions of dollars for it.
37:45
But if you think about it like this NASA has contracted SpaceX
37:49
to use, Starship to get to the moon for the hls program.
37:54
So, why would NASA in that sense?
37:57
Try to hinder SpaceX from building the Rockets.
38:01
It's going to send people to the moon.
38:03
Now, it's going to set take people down to the Moon.
38:06
I don't think they would. I don't think, I don't think
38:08
that would be a good enough reason because our Rock, Rocket
38:12
is better than your rocket or like get this done faster or
38:15
whatever. I don't think that's a good
38:17
enough. Reason for him to do it, a good
38:20
enough reason would be you know you going to make millions of
38:22
dollars from this, you know something like that.
38:24
It's usually about money or power, right ID.
38:28
Some any sort of corruption is usually about money or power.
38:30
So the fact that if somebody would say that and say, hey,
38:36
slow these guys down because our rocket is a competitor.
38:39
Well, SLS isn't a competitor though.
38:42
SLS is there working in tandem with SpaceX?
38:45
They're working together. So is that really a competitor?
38:48
And I don't think there's any beating of the chest between
38:51
Starship and Artemis program. I think everyone works together
38:56
pretty well SpaceX and NASA have been working together well for
38:59
the last 10 years so I don't think it would ever change the
39:03
relationship and if it did. Somebody would know about it.
39:07
That's not us and somebody would be lawyer and up right now and
39:11
some stuff would happen. So like some really Intense
39:17
legal action would happen and we'd be privy to it because the
39:20
new cycle that goes in before is really fast, so that you have to
39:27
think about it in a really logical sense, like, would the
39:32
would this benefit anybody? If SpaceX were to slow down,
39:37
probably other rocket manufacturers, you know, but
39:41
they're not really on the same level, right?
39:43
So, something like blue origin, their billing there.
39:45
Giant rocket SLS isn't a competitor blue Origins, a
39:49
competitor, but blue origin and SpaceX kind of have the same
39:53
goal at the end. You know, millions of people
39:56
working and living in space. Like those are the things that
39:59
SpaceX blue origin are working on.
40:02
Are they competitive probably, you know, but they're also, you
40:05
know, they're they're engineers and their their Space Geeks like
40:08
everybody else. It's like I go down to Starbase
40:10
and I film But I don't think it's competitive.
40:13
Other people have other channels, they're better than
40:15
mine, you know? So I'm not competitive with
40:18
them. I just go down there and hang
40:19
out, you know, I got on there and hang out and I'm like,
40:22
whatever. Cool.
40:24
I like I want to see. I'm excited to see their
40:27
footage. You know what I'm saying?
40:28
So I think other Engineers from what I've seen.
40:32
I follow a bunch of Engineers on Twitter and I follow a bunch of
40:34
Engineers on Reddit and stuff. From what I've seen is that NASA
40:38
Engineers are super excited about Starship.
40:41
Hip and SpaceX Engineers are also excited.
40:44
About what NASA is doing was with SLS.
40:47
So would they what people have chosen to do one of the other?
40:53
Yeah of course like of course do I want to work for SpaceX?
40:58
It seems grueling and horrible you know it some points like do
41:01
it. It's going to be 100 degrees
41:03
today literally it's going to be maybe not 100 but it's going to
41:06
be let's find out. I'm gonna look at my phone, its
41:08
87 degrees right now in Brownsville high of 90.
41:13
There's a wind advisory today. Let's see what the wind advisory
41:17
says. So these are the people that are
41:20
working outside at SpaceX today. This is for them, 25 to 30 miles
41:25
an hour with occasional gusts of 40 miles an hour as surveys.
41:29
It's 90 degrees outside, plus the humidity.
41:33
So it's about 100 degrees today. So people out there working at
41:37
SpaceX, like I don't know if you want to work on a rocket, I'd
41:42
probably want to be in an air-conditioned rocket building,
41:44
like the vibe, you know, the Vehicle Assembly Building would
41:47
be a way better place to work than on a Starship.
41:51
You're not out in the, the crazy Texas heat.
41:53
So some people are probably like, hey, it's cool that you're
41:55
working on a Starship, but you know what?
41:58
I got air conditioning. So there's probably, you know,
42:01
there's there's back and forth, right?
42:04
Yeah. It's it's a, it's a, it's a
42:07
tough task for anybody to pick up and do the Starship thing.
42:13
So I don't think they're competing.
42:14
I don't think, I don't think SpaceX and NASA are really
42:17
competing, I Working together and I think they're working well
42:20
together I can take a look at the poll to did.
42:25
You find crew for team in the thumbnail?
42:28
60 percent said. Yes.
42:29
Okay, cool. So the crew for our team, I put
42:33
them in every thumbnail and I want to, I always kind of show
42:38
them off at some point. I got to find them real quick, a
42:41
defending the thumbnail, so I can show you guys because it is,
42:45
it's silly. Like, every time I do it, it's
42:46
it just makes me laugh. Ittle bit.
42:48
So I keep them on there until they come home.
42:51
And today's thumbnail, I want to show you guys this before I take
42:54
off. So we've been doing this for
42:56
about an hour now, so I have to go and do an appointment thing,
42:59
t-there's, a new TFR for Starship to for SpaceX down here
43:03
at Starbase. So let's see, I want to show you
43:05
this TFR. There we go, there we go to FR
43:10
real quick just so you guys know that it's happening, but it's
43:13
really no big deal. They're just renewing.
43:15
Their TFR up to 10,000 feet down.
43:18
Starbase. And here we go.
43:19
This is the TFR itself, April, 28 2022.
43:24
So it's basically from May 1st to May. 31st 2022, does it not
43:29
mean they're launching their not launching at this time, but they
43:32
do have a keep out Zone around the rocket and around Starbase
43:37
and airspace definition on the Brownsville Vortec blah blah
43:41
blah. All this stuff to nautical mile
43:42
radius around Starbase infected they met first At 10001 UTC up
43:51
until May 31st. So no Pilots May operate an
43:55
aircraft in the areas covered by the no Tam except as described
43:59
the described. So supporting space apps Etc.
44:02
So basically drones things like that but if you look at it you
44:06
know you have a little little Starship there, I like how it
44:11
looks like a Starship kind of to Right there.
44:14
That's right. On the right on the coast there
44:16
and basically don't fly your plane in there.
44:18
Don't fly your things in there. It's up to 10,000 feet.
44:21
So just want to show you guys that because that's pretty cool
44:24
that they renewed that every monthly dinner every every time
44:28
this thing, they need to renew it.
44:33
Every every time it was that word, I can think of it.
44:37
Anyway, let's look at this. Look at the, let's look at the
44:41
thumbnail. Okay, so crew Or I put the crew
44:45
that just went up to the space station on the thumbnail.
44:48
Every time they go up and honor of them.
44:50
And also be to make myself laugh every time.
44:52
So, I want to show you guys this before we go, as you can see,
44:56
Starship, beautiful, beautiful, absolutely gorgeous font.
45:02
Starship. And then we have a picture.
45:04
I took of fully stacked Starship, booster for ship 20.
45:09
And then if you go over here you can see the little sign right
45:11
down here. There's a sign Boca Chica down
45:15
here in the bottom, right. You can kind of see it.
45:17
And that's if you if you, if you drive down Highway 4 and on the
45:21
right side after you pass the launch site, there's the dunes,
45:26
and then there's the there's the the gulf right there just Beach.
45:30
So you can walk up on the dunes A little bit is a little bench
45:33
and little sign that says welcome to Starbase live.
45:40
Something live live here tomorrow today or something like
45:43
that. And then we have over here on
45:45
top of the GSA tanks, we have crew for just hanging out.
45:51
So yeah, I think I think it's a I think it's a funny thing that
45:56
I like to do so. So if you found it,
46:00
congratulations, you don't. Anything.
46:02
There's no, there's no Prize or anything, but I thought it was
46:04
kind of funny. I like to do it.
46:06
I like to show everybody where they are at the end of the show.
46:08
So thanks everybody for checking that out and trying to find like
46:12
I want that to be sort of like an Easter egg for everybody, you
46:14
know. So it's as fun.
46:17
So thanks everybody for watching.
46:19
I really do appreciate. You means a lot to me really
46:22
means a lot to me. I just want to have this
46:24
discussion because I know there's a there's a lot of
46:27
misconceptions out there and misinformation out there about
46:31
like why this is happening. Inning and how this is happening
46:34
and things around that. So I want to sort of just open
46:38
it up a little bit for you guys and there's going to be more
46:42
Blue Man Group on top of the tanks.
46:44
Yeah, there's gonna there's going to be more information
46:46
about the FAA and the environmental assessment as the
46:51
time goes on. So it's going to be happening
46:52
throughout the last you know, the next month or so.
46:55
And when we get to inform any more information for you, I'll
46:59
make sure to post it here and on Twitter.
47:01
So, Make sure to subscribe to the show.
47:03
Of course, become a member, if you can Super Chat.
47:05
Really helpful Jr. More.
47:07
Thank you for the super chat today.
47:09
I don't know if I'm going to catch everybody because I'm a
47:10
little. Let me scroll up, Jeff Francis,
47:12
Andre thank you so much. Welcome back, Andre Deb's as
47:15
well. Deb's put on our space pants
47:17
today. If you want your own space pants
47:19
like this, you can become a member of the show.
47:22
This hit the icon at the bottom of the chat and you can become.
47:25
Remember the show or hit the member button?
47:27
I think that's like the join button or whatever.
47:29
Think you can do that, too. So thank you so much for the gas
47:32
US money everybody for launches and Starbase I want to go to a
47:37
rocket launch in Florida. So that's my, that's my plan.
47:41
I'm hoping to get to a rocket launch in Florida in June but
47:44
we'll see. What if that works that would be
47:47
really cool like a falcon 9 that would be really cool.
47:51
So either it's going to be starlink or it's going to be
47:53
another SpaceX launch but there's two in the beginning of
47:56
June that I'm looking at so I'm hoping to you know do a
48:01
fundraiser for those And then take the trip from here to
48:04
Florida and I have some other stuff in the future as well that
48:07
I have to tell you guys about, but that will be another
48:09
episode. So thanks everybody.
48:12
I really appreciate everybody. And thank you so much for
48:15
becoming part of this community. You're amazing.
48:19
Thanks for the 78 likes. Appreciate you.
48:23
You can't become a member because your mom won't allow it.
48:26
That's okay. You can just hit the like
48:27
button. That's it's free.
48:29
It's easy. You know, leave a comment, leave
48:31
a something. Like that, that helps just as
48:33
much. So all those things, all those
48:36
things Charlie, how are we one? Step closer one quick thing.
48:40
The Endangered Species Act consultation is complete.
48:44
So that part right here, just because you have that, that
48:47
question, right here, this thing is going to be been completed so
48:51
that was, you know, it happened a couple days ago, so it's not
48:57
to let you know about it and then that's The Endangered
48:59
Species Act consultation DOI. S.
49:03
So that's done one step closer. One more, check, mark complete.
49:08
So thank you everybody for tuning in today.
49:11
And here's our ending screen. I'm going to make a cooler
49:14
ending screen like the best ending screen you've ever seen
49:16
but right now we're going to go to this.
49:20
Thank you to these people who have been part of the show in
49:24
the past, present and future, and have helped out tremendously
49:28
by being it. Yes Pam those Rockets Kenya and
49:31
chat. That'll be awesome.
49:32
I want to see as many Rockets as I can W.
49:35
Amazing. The Spam The Living heck out of
49:38
them. But if I can spam 20, yeah, I
49:42
can spam a, I'll approve all Spam as well so it can go
49:46
through. So you can get your chats up
49:48
there. Dave stencil David borucki, Peru
49:54
Chi David Little John William County, you know, Virginia Gary,
49:57
Debs Mick, tonic Fox gaming, everybody who's super chatted
50:02
today. Thank you so much again again,
50:05
Jr. More Jeff Francis Andre Debs.
50:11
Thank you so much. Deb's with the spam coming in
50:15
hot been reek. Thank you.
50:18
Coming in hot. Oh yeah, passing wind.
50:23
Yes. Deb's is great.
50:25
Passing wind says nice. Nice.
50:29
We should start a span of you should definitely start like a
50:33
Like an emote spam thing, like a rocket spam or something.
50:37
Every time we go live. I think it'll be fun.
50:41
I know if you guys will get blocked though, space are
50:43
SpaceX. YouTube is kind of iffy about
50:47
spamming so we'll see. Thanks guys.
50:53
Appreciate you, take care and I'll see you next time, Monday,
50:56
Wednesday and Friday at noon CST And other content as well.
51:01
Take care.