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Starbase Red Flag FIRE Warning 🔥🚩 · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi everybody. Welcome back to the space news
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  pod, and welcome to 2022. Happy New Year, everybody and
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  let's get into the starship talk right now.
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  So SpaceX Starship is having an incredible year this year.
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  If everything goes well for it, but right now let's talk about
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  the something is happening currently actually here in Boca
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  Chica, there is a weather watch, that's pretty interesting.
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  It also could be harmful to SpaceX Starbase because SpaceX
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  Starbase down by the gulf. Cameron County is where it's at
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  and Camera County, just had a weather.
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  Advisory, it is a firewatch. So let me tell you about this
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  fire. Watch it happened today and I
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  was down there earlier today. The wind was absolutely insane.
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  35, 40 miles an hour, I could barely get out of my car.
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  My car door would barely open. The wind was pushing me in, and
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  I had to really lean into it to get out.
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  Is incredible. How forceful this wind is?
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  And it's also dry right now. So anything that's dry and
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  windy, it's very hazardous. So the National Weather Service
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  put out a fire warning. So we have to watch for a fire
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  for any fires around Starbase today and it's affecting Cameron
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  County. So this is about the wins 30 to
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  40 miles, an hour. It was insane.
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  Like I said before, humidity, 15 to 35 percent pretty low,
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  humidity for Azaria impacts any fires that develop will likely
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  spread rapidly so any fires that happen near Starbase.
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  If there are any fires down there they could spread rapidly.
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  I know it's the gulf is very wet down there but there are dry
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  areas in that area and where SpaceX, it's a Starbase, it's
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  basically dry, you know, everything around it is dry
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  except for the water in the gulf and inlets and stuff, but the
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  impacts any fires that develop will likely Spread rapidly.
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  That's because the wind outdoor burning is not recommended at
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  this time. SpaceX uses a lot of welding.
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  A lot of people aren't at Starbase today, so luckily a lot
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  of people are on vacation, they're out of town, visiting
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  relatives, their stay at home, they're being safe and so
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  Starbase hopefully we'll be safe all day.
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  That's until 6:00 p.m. today on the 2nd of January Red Flag
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  shortly in general. These conditions include
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  sustained. 20-foot, Winds of 25 mph or greater humidity.
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  Ranging from below 25% to below. 45% of the coast each lasting
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  for two hours longer. And cured fuel.
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  So humidity. Very big factor in this usually
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  pretty humid down here. We're right now.
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  It's not that bad. It's really not that bad.
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  So just we're going to keep our eye on it and hopefully
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  everything's going to be good here in Cameron County and Boca
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  Chica. And SpaceX is Starbase.
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  So I'll let you know, if anything else pops up with that.
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  So that was the first thing of intrigue for today for Starbase
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  and Starship. Now, let's move on to the test
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  schedule. Of Starship, which will be
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  happening starting in January, fourth Tuesday, coming up coming
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  in hot on Tuesday, the test schedules coming and that's from
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  10 a.m. till 6 p.m. so 10. A.m. till 6 p.m. all day long,
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  eight hour, test range for Starship.
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  What are they going to be doing? Just recently Starship did a
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  static fire test. It looked like it was
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  successful, there's a little bit of weirdness going on with one
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  of the manhole covers. It looked like there's a
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  possible leak there a cryogenically.
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  So it's possible something's going on with that.
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  They need a little time to fix it up.
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  So January 2nd is today and then January 4th is when they start
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  the test schedule and then after that the first, sorry, the
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  fourth is when they start to test schedule on Tuesday, fifth,
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  and then the sixth. So Tuesday Wednesday and
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  Thursday from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. we'll see.
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  What happens there with the SpaceX Starship test schedule,
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  going forward, possibly another static fire, but first and
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  foremost if there is a leak that manhole and the side of
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  Starship, they have to fix that first.
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  So this could be possibly another cryogenic test.
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  Make sure there's no leaks. Make sure nothing's going on but
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  we'll see what happens in. Hopefully if there was a leak,
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  they fixed it, they can do a cryo test and get back right.
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  To a static fire testing schedule again, make sure
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  everything works again. Do a full wet dress, get it
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  ready for the possible launch for the orbital, flight, test
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  later on in 2022. So what happened the other day
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  booster for was moved off the platform, move down beside
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  Starship and the other booster that's on the site.
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  So why did they do that while they may be doing work?
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  Work the orbital launch Tower the olet or they could be
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  working on parts of the booster. That just need to be closer to
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  the ground. I'm not sure.
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  I don't know what they're going to do with this thing at that
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  point so they moved it over. We got some footage of it.
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  The other day when it was moving after it was lifted and it was
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  put into a spot next to like I said before the other booster
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  and Starship so it's down on the ground again and we saw it
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  moving on our live stream and I'm going to point up there.
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  That means that there's a link up there for our live stream and
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  it's it about a minute and a half in somewhere like that, but
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  you can see there's chapters on that video.
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  So it moves a little bit, you can hear it, you can see it, it
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  goes behind the fuel tanks and then you can't see it anymore,
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  but I drove past a little bit later and it's safe and secure
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  in the launch Site Area. So we'll see if they do testing
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  with booster too. We'll see what happens in the
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  near future. We have a couple days coming up,
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  like I said the test schedule a couple days in the future and
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  what is next for Starship? Well, after the boosting
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  schedule happens, next three days if they do a cryogenic test
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  to test that possible leak. That's great.
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  If they do a test for static fire possible, maybe they might
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  do an ignition test on it again. That's a possibility, too.
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  Now, do they move booster down off the test and to get rid of
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  it? Some people have said, maybe
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  they don't want to fly booster for Because there's upgrades to
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  booster five. So why would they just kind of
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  use this old technology and not move forward with booster five
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  when booster for is kind of you know it's old by this point
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  right booster 5. It's out there right now.
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  It's by as 16 and S15 to start today.
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  It's just hanging out back there doing nothing.
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  Could they move booster for during this test schedule?
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  Did they move it back to the production site down the road
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  and then move? Who's 25 down to the launch site
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  for testing that's a possibility.
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  We'll see. We'll see what happens.
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  So those are that's speculative of course but it is a
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  possibility going forward because if they have all this
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  time between now and the end of February, why wouldn't they
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  move? Booster 5 into place a booster
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  for do a fit test with ship 20 and make sure ship 20 fits on
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  booster for or booster 5. And then they move forward with
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  a testing schedule. Just like they did with rooster
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  for in ship 20, be a ship 20. Looks like it's ready to roll.
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  Looks pretty close, you know, if that if that leak is figured out
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  then ship 20, if it meets with booster five properly booster
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  five could be tested, of course, have to put the Raptors on the
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  booster, but that doesn't take that long, you know, a couple
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  days at the most, take them off for put them on five.
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  And then they're there in a really good spot.
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  So that's a possibility that's possibly.
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  What's next for SpaceX, Starship 20 and booster for, and possibly
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  five. So, let me know what you think
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  in the comments also, happy New Year, happy 2022.
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  Had a great 2021 want to say. Thanks to everybody who
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  pod. Really appreciate it.
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  Love you guys. And I'll see you next time.
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  Thanks for watching. Bye.