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Elon Musk poised to reclaim title of world’s richest person + SpaceX MASSIVE Test · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Musk, the billionaire, entrepreneur behind SpaceX and
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  Tesla is poised to reclaim the title of the world's richest
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  person, after a surge in Tesla's stock, Price musk is earned
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  forty five billion dollars this year.
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  And on Thursday, Tesla shares Rose for the eighth consecutive
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  day, putting musk within touching distance of overtaking
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  French luxury magnate Bernard arnault in, December are no
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  surpassed musk as the world's richest person, when investors
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  lost confidence and Tesla and grew concerned about musk's
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  focus on Twitter, which he acquired for forty four billion
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  dollars in October of last year. However, Tesla shares have
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  rallied in recent weeks. And if almost doubled since the
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  beginning of the year, reversing most of the 65 percent drop,
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  they suffered in 2022 and on Thursday, the shares climbed by
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  almost five percent. Putting musk's net worth that
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  over one hundred and eighty five billion dollars compared to our
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  nose 187 billion dollars and the rise in Tesla share price comes
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  after the company unveiled better than expected quarterly
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  results last month and other high growth.
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  Stocks have also jumped due to the aspect of lower than
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  expected interest rates. Despite selling a billions of
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  dollars to finance his acquisition of Twitter musk
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  remains Tesla's largest shareholder and is pledged not
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  to sell his shares for approximately two more years.
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  In addition to Teslas, recent success must also announced this
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  week that he will soon present, the third version of Tesla's
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  master plan, which will outline the path to a fully sustainable
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  energy future for Earth. Previous version of the planet
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  have focused on taking electric cars, mainstream autonomous
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  technology, and home energy storage.
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  The company has also cut vehicle prices, while it plans to start
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  manufacturing, its long-awaited cyber truck by the end of the
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  year. Tesla's Rising stock price
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  suggests that investors have Shrugged off concerns about
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  musk's management of Twitter, which had been seen as a
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  distraction in The Social Network experiencing hours of
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  glitches. Earlier this week as it
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  attempted to introduce. Has new features but musk's 13
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  percent stake in Tesla is the largest source of his wealth
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  which is also made up of shares in SpaceX and Twitter.
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  He recently, claimed that Twitter was on a course to
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  profitability after cutting thousands of Staff last year
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  saying that he had to save Twitter.
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  From bankruptcy SpaceX is Starship super heavy, booster, 7
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  conducted a pre-flight. Test a static fire test of 31 of
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  the 33 Raptor engines. Recently, and the hot fire demo
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  started about 4:14 p.m. and lasted for about 10 seconds.
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  It's considered a full duration. Test of these engines musk
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  pointed out in a tweet that the team turned off, one of the
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  engines prior to the mass ignition and one engine stopped
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  itself that only 31 engines fired out of the 33 Ilan said,
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  but still enough engines to reach orbit.
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  So this is a success on spacex's part because they didn't know
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  exactly what was going to be happening during the static fire
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  test, they knew everything down to what was going to happen to
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  the engines, how they were going to fire it, how everything was
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  going to work up until the engines actually static fired.
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  But after that, they had some calculations that they ran, they
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  figured it would work, right? But you never know with
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  rocketry. It's literally the hardest
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  engineering tasks on the face of the earth.
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  And the next step for The rocket possibly orbit SpaceX didn't
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  disclose much information, Beyond what's going to be
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  happening after the static fire of the 33 engines of the Raptor
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  to engines. But we're assuming if everything
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  went right. The next step for booster 7 is
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  to stack the Starship on top of it.
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  This is the physical stuff is happening.
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  Stack the Starship ship on top of it.
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  It's about 160 feet tall meaning that the whole stack ship will
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  be about 400-plus feet tall all together, and they're going to
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  be doing an orbital flight test in March, or April.
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  Now, what happens between now and March or April?
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  Well, they have a deluge system at Starbase, it's just came in
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  from Florida and they're building it out as we speak
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  night and day 24/7. This static fire only lasted 10
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  minutes but they're doing cleanup for the next few hours
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  afterwards and the next few days there, making sure that all the
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  data points have been reached and have been sent out.
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  To the appropriate committees. Well, it may be NASA in.
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  It is most positively the FAA because the FAA will come
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  through this data and make sure that SpaceX is going to have a
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  safe and reliable flight. When they do the orbital, flight
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  test doesn't seem to be a problem with the FAA.
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  Doesn't seem to be a problem with any of these Raptor
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  engines. So, it seems like the FAA is
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  probably going to push this thing, straight through.
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  Now, if you think about it, the Raptors have About 51 or 510
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  thousand pounds of thrust each, the whole rocket fifteen point
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  eight million pounds of thrust in the SLS rocket, the space
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  launch system, masses. Most powerful rocket only has
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  eight point eight million pounds of thrust on liftoff.
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  So SpaceX is Starship is about double that and there's a series
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  of clamps and restraints that held this rock.
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  It down during the Starships static fire test.
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  Now SpaceX has been known to do crazy things at Starbase.
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  They've launched Starships into a suborbital flight and landed
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  them and also exploded them when they landed.
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  But now they're going a little bit more cautious.
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  We have Gwynne. Shotwell who's the CEO of
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  SpaceX? He's also the president of
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  SpaceX said, she didn't expect the pad to have the same issues
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  that they had with the 14. Engine static fire test it
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  because the company performed some work on the pad and she
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  didn't really tell exactly what that was.
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  But she moved from things that we've seen.
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  They've added new reinforced concrete to the pad.
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  And from what we saw from the videos from numerous sources,
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  the blast from behind the launch, Mount shows that there
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  is about a pea, there's a huge mass of smoke that billowed out
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  of this thing and it didn't blow up the launch pad though.
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  And that's a success because every static fire before this,
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  the 11 Edge and static fire and the 14 engine static fire.
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  Rip that thing to shreds in there with concrete, flying for
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  miles, from that pad, all around Starbase, and all around the
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  Boca Chica area. Because it's so powerful, these
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  Rockets are so powerful that it would basically and ignite the
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  concrete, in Placid up into the air.
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  Numerous Birds there's a huge flock of birds in front of this
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  booster right before they blasted it in the environmental
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  study that was happening. Last year, they put a precaution
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  in there saying that we can't control Wildlife.
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  They do their own thing. And this is not going to be a
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  stopper for a SpaceX in the future and locally.
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  Some people had to leave their homes, there's an overpressure
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  noticed. It's handed out to the people of
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  Boca, Chica Village and during the static.
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  Fire test, everybody has to leave the area and if it's a
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  long duration test if there's if they're going to be a couple
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  days they'll put them up in a hotel but this didn't happen to
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  be a long test. It was only 10 seconds and it
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  about 4:00 in the afternoon. Everything was good to go after
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  a 10-second, static fire test, so the FAA, everything looks
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  good, the locals, everything looks good, everyone's back in
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  their homes and now, You just have to wait for the feee to
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  approve SpaceX for the orbital flight test of the Starship.
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  Now, what I was talking about this earlier that the gigantic
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  smoke cloud, that happened during this set afire, test
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  gigantic exhaust, it dissipated pretty easily into the Texas sky
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  and this is a methane as methane fuel in this.
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  There's some carbon dioxide and water vapor and these are the
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  Alex of that. And there is more water vapor
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  than there is methane in the air from these things so it didn't
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  really damage anything in the environment.
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  So this is a partial test. Though this isn't a full test of
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  all 33 Raptor engines so we're not exactly sure what the
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  environmental impact will be or if it will affect any of the
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  clouds nearby or any of the wildlife nearby with any of this
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  carbon dioxide of white water vapor.
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  But the area is wide open, so I believe it's going to dissipate
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  more than it in a closed area. So, we'll see what happens with
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  the first environmental checks after this, with the FAA, if
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  they approve them, then SpaceX should in theory be able to
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  launch this Starship in the next few months.
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  And this is a massive, massive deal because this is literally
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  the most powerful rocket that will ever be built blue origin.
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  Jeff. This is company is building
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  something similar but not quite as big not quite as powerful
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  SpaceX fully reusable blue origin.
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  Kind of wants to make it fully reusable there on that path but
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  they haven't shown anything it to the public that shows that
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  they're on the right path to make it fully reusable.
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  Now SpaceX is c00 Gwynne. Shotwell said something
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  interesting. The other day at a conference.
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  She said, before they fly people, they want to have 100
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  200 plus of these launches of these test launches before they
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  put people in the Starship so they're going to ramp up
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  production of these star chips and they can only do five of
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  these launches per year in Texas, if I'm not mistaken.
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  I may be a little bit off there but I must I think there's five
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  to Fifteen launches per year off to get back to you on that one.
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  So if they need to do hundreds of launches, if they can prove
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  that they can do five successful launches per year, 10 successful
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  launches per year, they may move the production and everything
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  else over to Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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  Where they could have a faster Cadence a faster turnaround for
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  these ships. And once they start catching
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  these on the robotic, Gigantic Mechagodzilla arms on the launch
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  Tower. It's going to be a turnaround
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  time of hours not days and they'll be able to launch
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  numerous Rockets her day if they have flight clearance, because
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  they could possibly have the, the Kennedy Space Center for the
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  whole day. They could sanction off for a
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  24-hour period to have Kennedy Space Center reserved, for
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  launches of the And that's usually how it goes.
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  If there's a Falcon 9 rocket launching from Kennedy Space
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  Center more than likely, it's the only rocket launching that
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  day. So if they have numerous
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  Rockets, they could possibly work with NASA and work with the
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  FAA to get numerous flights per day.
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  And if that's going to happen, they're going to get to 100
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  flights relatively quickly and Artemis 3.
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  That's going to be the first time that people go back to the
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  moon since the Apollo program space.
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  Has to be ready. So they're going to do, hundreds
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  of flights, before that. And in a few years, Artemis to
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  will be going around the moon and coming back with people
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  inside and SpaceX. By that time should have had at
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  least 50 to 100 flights and get ready.
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  Because when people get inside of the Starship and start
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  orbiting the Earth, it's going to be a amazing amazing change
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  in spaceflight Twitter is reportedly making Ends of
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  dollars from just a small number of its most notorious users.
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  According to a recent study by the center for countering
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  digital hate the ccdhh, the report estimates that the social
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  media giant could generate up to 19 million dollars in annual
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  advertising revenue from just 10 accounts that were previously,
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  banned from the platform for promoting hateful content and
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  dangerous conspiracies. The study analyzed the
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  engagement of these 10 accounts, which include prominent figures
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  associated with the extremism. And conspiracy theory groups
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  such as and Route. 8 Andrew Anglin, Robert Malone and the
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  Gateway pundit over 40 day, period in December.
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  And January, the ccda channelize nearly 10,000 tweets, from these
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  accounts and found that they received a combined total of 54
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  million impressions, on an average day.
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  Projecting this average across a year, the accounts could
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  potentially reach nearly 20 billion Impressions to determine
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  the The ad Revenue, these Impressions might generate for
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  Twitter, the ccdhh created three new Twitter accounts that
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  followed only the 10 users named in the report.
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  The authors found that the ads appeared about once every six
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  point seven tweets and using data from analyst firm brand,
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  watch estimated that Twitter ads cost an average of six dollars
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  and 46 cents per 1,000. Impressions.
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  Based on this information to see CDH calculated that the 10
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  accounts could generate up to 19 million dollars.
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  Annual ad revenue and the report highlights the value.
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  That a small number of Highly polarizing accounts can have for
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  a platform like Twitter. It also sheds, light on the
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  potential profits Twitter can make by reinstating even more
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  controversial. Users as the company has
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  recently, announced plans to allow previously ban users to
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  appeal their suspensions. However, Twitter's advertising
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  business has suffered major Lee since the Takeover by Elon Musk
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  with high-profile advertisers pulling back.
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  From the platform and revenue down by as much as 40 percent.
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  According to platformer, the report also notes several
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  instances when ads from prominent advertisers appeared
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  next to offensive and inflammatory posts from the
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  users, in which raised questions about Twitter's commitment to
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  responsible advertising. So, the CCD H report confirms
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  the Twitter is displaying ads. Next to toxic accounts that
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  promote hateful views and falsehoods.
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  Despite the fact that these individuals are well known for
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  their Harmful content and the findings highlight, the need for
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  social media companies to be more accountable and
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  responsible. When it comes to the content,
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  they promote and the ads that they display.
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