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SpaceX Preparing for Starship Launch · Elon Musk Podcast

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  We're going to be talking about Starbase.
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  We're going to be talking a little bit about Falcon Heavy
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  and the upcoming mission on the 26th, and we're also going to be
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  talking about SpaceX and whatever comes to our mind.
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  So first, there's nothing happening at Starbase.
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  No. And no testing happening.
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  Nothing happening at Starbase. There's a bunch of stuff
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  happening at Starbase, but there's no testing, larger
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  testing and like cryogenic testing or things that could
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  close down the roadways for the foreseeable future.
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  Closures were canceled for the 24th and the 25th of this week,
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  so we're going to be moving on hopefully to maybe later this
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  week, I'm 100% sure about that. But they already did some
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  testing on Booster and they've already done a bunch of testing
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  on the ship. So it seems like the next step
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  would be to maybe, I don't even know what the next step would be
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  because they have the whole deluge system they have, the OLM
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  is revamped. There's so many things that
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  could happen and we don't know the procedure for that anymore.
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  And last week we've seen testing on Chip 25, we've seen testing
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  on Boosters 9 and 10. The Orbit launch mount also got
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  tested fully. So we've seen the Dellage
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  system. We've served like the new plane
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  at the bottom. We've seen the quick
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  disconnects, both of them working, the obviously the
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  chopsticks are working because they lifted up Booster 9 to put
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  it on the launch mount. So it seems like it's a fully
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  functional. Stage 0, it looks like it, but
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  yeah, it seems like they're in a spot where they could what they
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  know more now than they did before the first launch.
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  It seems like they've got the processes figured out.
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  They have, They've streamlined a lot of the processes because
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  they need to be able to crank these things out.
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  They want to launch two or three a day at some point.
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  It would be nice to see that they'll be insane.
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  I wouldn't know what to think at that point.
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  Yeah, it's pretty impressive to watch how the last three months,
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  I guess it's been or so since the first one, since the first
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  orbital attempt and all the changes.
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  And they're coming out of this way stronger than they went into
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  it, and it should be really interesting to see.
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  And as is typical with SpaceX, once they do something.
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  Once they know they've got it and they move on to the next
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  thing. So they've already launched this
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  once. It didn't make it to orbit, had
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  some issues. But they were designed once so
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  they know what they're doing and now they're just moving on to
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  what the next stage, whatever that is, fixing the launch
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  mountain and all those things tread looking into the hot fire
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  situation, which I'm not exactly sure how that's going to stand
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  out in the end, but we'll see. Yeah, the separate, the stage
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  separation is going to be the most exciting part.
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  The launch, I think they're going to be Okay.
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  I don't know. We're not 100% sure if they're
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  going to be okay with that one, but the stage separation is
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  going to be wild. But it's going to.
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  If the engineers and everybody at SpaceX thinks that's the way
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  to go, it seems like a really proper way to separate this
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  thing because it is freaking massive.
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  Yeah. Do you know, do you know if
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  Booster 9 and Ship 25 are set up for that?
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  I don't believe they are. I don't believe they're set up
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  for separation. Elon said something about it in
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  a tweet, but I'm not exactly sure what he said about it or
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  what booster or ship will be the first the for a separation like
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  that. It might be they might have
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  already set it up, but I like I've seen all the pictures and
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  the videos and things of the booster I'm sure, but I'm.
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  Pretty sure it's still in development stage, yeah.
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  These two vehicles are designed for it.
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  Yeah. It seems like a new thing where
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  they're like, ooh, that didn't work.
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  Well, they'll probably want to test that at Massey's or
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  something, but want to test the fire on the Dome to make sure
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  that it's not going to melt through or whatever.
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  Yeah, I'm trying to get it. I guess top to you.
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  Yeah, I don't believe that's. I don't think these are set up
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  for it, for sure. Yeah, I don't think so either.
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  Like, you and I were talking before the broadcast started
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  about the massiveness of this rocket and how, like, how big.
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  And I always say it like every time I get online, I'm like,
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  this thing's freaking huge. Yeah, but this shows.
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  Think about how big your car is and how big you are, and then
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  look at the scale of this compared to a vehicle, like just
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  a regular car. It's absolutely massive.
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  So absolutely, so crazy. It's it still blows my mind.
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  Like I like I've seen in person, so I know how big it is.
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  But just even seeing pictures of it, I'm like okay.
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  This reminds me of how big massive it is to think about
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  launching A skyscraper. They're basically launching A
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  skyscraper to orbit and how do they do that 33 Raptor engines
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  and that works like. That's a lot of fuel.
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  That's a lot of awful lot of fuel, awful lot of thrust, and
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  they made it off the pad last time.
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  So the deluge system was tested. We know that.
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  We know the deluge system was tested.
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  Are they going to do you think they're going to do a static
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  fire with the deluge system to test this deluge and the static
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  fire at the same time? Absolutely.
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  Yes, absolutely. Yeah.
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  I was just thinking about that well before we went on as well.
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  Yeah, I think that every static. Fire from a booster.
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  From now on, we'll have the deluge running.
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  Yeah, I think so too. I think it's ongoing testing as
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  well as protection of the launch map.
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  Yeah, and as long as obviously the village system works and it
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  doesn't completely need to rip it apart, I get to the country
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  class, the skip real, real quick.
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  Back to how big this thing is. Rocket Future.
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  Andrew C at the Rocket Future on Twitter, you can see a person.
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  This is the this is like 1/4 of the way up this thing.
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  Yeah, and what a beautiful shot. A great shot, yeah.
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  And I don't even understand how these people have the nerve to
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  get into this lift, for one, because I'm afraid of heights.
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  I'm not sure exactly what ship he's working on.
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  But two, and then they have to do, like, one of the world's
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  most complicated engineering feats.
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  So they have the pressure of, Oh yeah, I'm 150 feet off the
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  ground or whatever. Also, I have to do these things
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  that are crucial to get this thing off the ground and not
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  blow up. So yeah, obviously that's the
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  rocket. My gas in this Booster 10.
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  I don't know why they would be. Have anybody up on one of the
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  retired boosters, if you will. Yeah, my guess is that's Booster
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  10, but I haven't confirmed that.
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  We just saw that picture just before we go on.
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  Yeah, shout out to anybody that that goes up in these things.
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  And shout out to Andrew. See from the Rocket Future for
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  taking beautiful shots repeatedly at Starbase.
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  So at the Rocket future on Twitter, you'll follow him.
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  Awesome dude. And also awesome shots.
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  Booster 9, like we said was lifted up onto the launch mount.
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  What a beautiful shot too. Like how cool is this?
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  Yeah gorgeous. They got the shot from below and
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  also all the stars above in the sky.
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  It's such a cool shot and the lighting on the launch mount it
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  makes it look just illuminated and amazing and chopstick as you
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  said before they work which is great.
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  Apparently they seem to be working fine as can you notice
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  the there's some cladding at the bottom of the launch tower too.
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  See that There's some? It looks like there's some
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  reinforcements at the. For sure, yeah.
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  At the tower, it looks like. Yeah, they figured.
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  All the plan actually was to clad the entire tower in
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  something. Whether it was going to be as
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  protective as this is, I don't know, but to this certainly
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  seems to be productive. I love this shot because it
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  looks like there's camo drawn all over the Starship.
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  Because of the shadows, I didn't even notice.
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  That new Starship saying it looks like it looks really
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  futuristic? Yeah, that's really cool.
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  Yeah, I didn't even notice that. Wow.
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  Yeah. And then there's another one
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  they have from a little bit different angle.
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  But yeah, it's still the Texas night sky, which is absolutely
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  beautiful. That's one thing that I can say
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  about my time down there is that you could see all the stars,
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  everything, because it was 25 miles away from Brownsville and
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  everything else. You could look up and you could
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  see everything. I would spend some nights down
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  there just to get away from the the lights of the city and I
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  would just go to the beach late at night, just hang out, look at
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  the rocket and just just stare up at the stars.
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  I would just lay on. I didn't really lay on the sand
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  because it's you get sand everywhere.
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  And of course it's just like Anakin knows it's everywhere.
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  It gets everywhere and it's coarse, it's coarse.
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  So I lay on my car like late at night, look up at the sky and
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  just like, look over. Oh yeah, there's a big rocket
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  there too. But it's a beautiful place,
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  Yeah. And it's a great place to launch
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  a rocket, too. Yeah, what a great shot, though.
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  We're getting into the beauty of all of this as well because
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  we're like, it's such a cool thing that Starship is going to
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  be capable of in the future, bringing huge loads to space.
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  And it's going to be, it's going to be wild what happens.
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  And I'm not sure whether it's actually going to happen.
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  I don't know if it's actually going to happen, but once
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  they've got this thing down pat and they're launching.
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  Right, left and center. I hope that they put some
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  attention to the aesthetics of it all.
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  Certainly it's beautiful ship, all stainless steel and pretty,
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  but it would be nice if we started seeing that science
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  fiction future at some point right at once.
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  They've got they're launching 100 of these a month or whatever
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  they do want to do, they start to look into it and go.
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  OK, how can we make this not only functional, but look really
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  awesome as well? Because.
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  That's one thing that society's lost, I think, in the last 30
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  years or so is that aesthetics of things.
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  But we're so concerned about making things as cheap as
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  possible that we've we've made it as as industrial as possible
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  as well. It'll be nice to get back to
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  those circles, aesthetic values, up the 50s where you've got the
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  streamlining or shapes and whatnot.
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  It'd be cool to see that come back.
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  I didn't even think about that future.
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  So do you think they would, Do you think they would paint the
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  whole rocket or do you think they would just slap a logo on
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  it? What do you how are you feeling
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  about this? I don't.
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  Know what I'm thinking. I don't know what it is, but
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  maybe the maybe the cladding over some of the plumbing on the
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  booster gets a little bit of a a treatment where it's a little
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  bit smoother or a little more aerodynamics, OK, as opposed to
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  the sort of square bulky look that we've got now.
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  I don't know. I don't know.
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  I'm not responsible for that. If they want me to be
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  responsible for it, I'm available.
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  The moment I hadn't put too much thought into it.
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  Yeah, no, that sounds awesome. But I'm just going back to to,
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  we were discussing them putting the, the cladding up the tower,
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  right? Yeah, it's in all the drawings,
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  but they never did it. Little things like that are even
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  one step closer. Plus, we're talking about
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  Starbase. He wants to build a city there,
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  right? Yeah, that's to support all the
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  the launches in construction. Whatnot's going on down there in
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  development? It'd be nice to see Starbase.
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  Become a little bit more aesthetic than factory.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  I think how be you amazing. Make it a tourist destination
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  right now it is. But it's like you got to really
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  be end of this stuff to go down there.
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  You got to sacrifice a little bit to get down there.
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  Yeah, I think it's something Kennedy Space Center.
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  It's a it's like Disney little bit.
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  People go there just to go see rockets and stuff that are
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  interested in Space Flight and engineering and maybe just like
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  the unknown people are like hey this is a giant rocket or hey,
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  this is what Saturn does or whatever.
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  There's engineering and science all over the place down there.
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  So the I think this would be a really cool thing.
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  Have tours of it when they're not actually launching or when
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  they're not, whether or not testing, have a guided tour of
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  the facility or something like that.
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  I don't know if ITAR would allow that, but you could have a
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  guided tour along the road and show people hey, this is this,
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  Bay does this, we're building this here, blah blah blah.
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  It would also be really cool if they they can even do that on
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  their socials instead of having people down there in person.
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  It would be really neat if Elon did a tour of everything like he
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  did with Tim at the Everyday Astronaut, but he does it like
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  for a produced video for SpaceX, which would be really cool and
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  to show hey, this is what we do here now, but we want to do this
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  here too. That'd be really interesting to
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  see too. Absolutely have a manager or
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  something. It doesn't have to be Elon, but
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  Elon would get the most. Of it has to be Elon.
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  Yeah, one of his clones. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Maybe Gwen could do it.
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  That would be cool. Yeah.
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  Yeah. They're not doing anything
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  right. Yeah, Gwen's not doing anything.
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  She's not. Don't mind coming out and do a
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  tour for regular folk. Yeah, she's not building the
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  future over there. Not at all.
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  Yeah. So the Yeah, so the future
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  starbase looks pretty bright in the next few.
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  I don't know. So they're so we were talking
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  about the processes before and how they've streamlined
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  everything, but do you think they've streamlined it to to a
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  better place where they could launch this in August?
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  I reached out to a few people on face or not on Facebook, but on
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  on YouTube and on Twitter and a little bit on Discord.
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  And here's here's one person, old gamer noob on YouTube said
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  the way the ship was tested with an engine static fire right off
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  the bat, and with the booster now having already been fully
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  filled with cryogenic liquids adventure, they'll unify some
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  tests and make quick work of things.
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  The FAA will be the main hold up this time, I think.
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  So I have to agree that I think the FAA is going to be the last
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  step. Of course I'm going to do Going
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  to show that there it is right there, old gamer noob.
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  Yeah, I I I believe I'm on record several places back when
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  the back when the first launch happened and we saw the damage.
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  I said the weekend of August 19th for a for a launch and I
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  still stand on that. I think we're still go on that.
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  On a go on that if the FAA gave them permission today, I think
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  they could probably attend the launch in a week.
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  I think that they're at that stage, they need to static fire.
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  They've already static fires 25 and they were happy they didn't
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  replace any Raptors and whatnot. Yep, they need to static fire 9.
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  Booster 9 and I think that they could be ready to go right after
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  that as long as everything was just was operating as it was.
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  I think the hold up again will be as you say the FAAI think
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  there was a lot of damage to the the compound as but as well as
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  the a lot of concrete spread over the area around the launch
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  site. So I think that there's some
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  concern there that they'll want to address and get answered and
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  then they're likely doing that already from the day at launch,
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  I'm sure they've been talking to.
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  Yeah, and giving reports on everything they're doing to
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  repair things and whatnot and prevent it from happening again.
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  The future. So I don't think it's going to
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  be as. Long a wait for the FA.
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  To to secure this, but it's just a matter of time.
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  But yeah, I think that's a little less than a month we'll
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  be launching this thing. Wow.
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  Yeah. Stay by it.
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  I stand by it. I think you're pretty right.
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  I'm going to venture to say it's going to be a little bit later
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  maybe. Septemberish, maybe.
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  But Elon, even Elon was like, yeah, middle of August can be
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  ready by the middle of August. And like you said they were
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  talking to, they've been talking to the FA probably an hour, like
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  within hours of the last launch. Within probably minutes.
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  Within the last launch. Like the FAA was probably on the
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  horn. Hey, what just happened, buddy?
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  That just blew everything out there and they had these steps
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  in place before they launched the first one and like they had
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  lots of rockets. Over the years.
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  Lots of rockets over the years that have blown up on the
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  launchpad. Yep.
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  Causing all kinds of damage. Yep.
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  It's just this is just another one.
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  Yeah, and this didn't blow up in launchpad, it blew up the
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  launchpad. Same sort of deal, same kind of
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  damage probably. I would imagine the only
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  difference being that the tanks for all the cryogenic fluid and
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  stuff were a little bit closer at the launch site than they
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  were the Cape, I believe. But so that's probably the big
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  difference here. I think that the.
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  It's just a matter of time to get past these things.
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  But it's happened before. And you know what?
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  They expected it to blow up in the sky, then they expected to
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  get off the launchpad, and the FAA knew that.
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  So it's just a matter of satisfying them and I think that
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  that won't be hard at all. Yeah, I agree with you.
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  I think. I think they like they're
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  showing them all the data that they get as they get it.
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  They're showing them how were they're mitigating the problems
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  that were on the pad and I think they'll just go, it'll break as
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  much as they can, they'll breeze through this and then they'll be
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  ready to launch. Now if the water deliard system
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  and the static fire, static fires work perfectly the first
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  time, they might do like A7 static fire like A7 engine and
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  then a 14 or whatever and then go to 21 and be like can't
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  static fire everything. So now we're going to launch it,
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  then they'll stack it up and do a fill test probably on both the
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  rocket or the ship and the booster maybe like and then
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  launch it up one more time just to make sure all the systems
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  work and then. Yeah.
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  Did they do a static fire with the ship, with ship 24 on top of
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  eight? I don't think so, no.
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  I don't think they did. Yeah, they were just.
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  They don't do. I'm surprised they don't do
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  that, to be honest. I am.
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  But I'm also, I totally understand why they don't,
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  because if they do a static fire again one, it's almost like
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  they're wasting time. I think because they've already
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  done it. They've already tested those
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  engines, and I've already tested all the systems.
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  The only system that they wouldn't be able to test without
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  the ship on top was like, is the ship going to fall off the
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  booster? Yeah.
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  And but that was part of the problem, right?
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  Is that it didn't release, yeah. So is there anything to be seen
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  observed from a static fire and how those lock pins work while
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  at some place I would like to see that and?
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  They did it. They've already launched this
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  once. We talked about this earlier.
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  SpaceX is very happy doing things once, having it work and
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  moving on and saying that's the way we're going to do it every
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  time. Yep.
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  They only they've only really landed one ship successfully.
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  Oh yeah, you're right, they moved on.
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  They immediately move on to say we've done it, we're good.
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  We did it. Move on.
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  Yeah, yeah. And then you're going to need to
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  prove that again. In my mind, but not in their
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  minds. Apparently they've already
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  launched the ship once in their minds.
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  Is everything cool? Let's just go for it.
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  Do they put 25 on top of nine and then statifier and then
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  launch? I don't think.
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  I don't think they need to. Yes, but as opposed to, I'm
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  sorry, as opposed to Statifier 9 on its own.
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  Ooh, OK do they just? Jump to the launch, basically
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  okay. So this is.
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  I think this could be an issue because if they static fire with
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  the ship on top of the booster, could the ship get rattled?
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  Move out of place? They might have to readjust it.
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  That's better point. Which is better than when it's
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  in the air, yeah. I think that's the whole point
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  of static firing with the ship on top is to see that that would
• 19:30
  make sense. Yeah, that would make 100%
• 19:32
  sense. Will SpaceX do that?
• 19:34
  Probably not, because they're just like work last time.
• 19:38
  We didn't do it last time and it seemed to work.
• 19:39
  I don't know I can. I'm leaning more towards them
• 19:43
  not static firing 9 before the ship's on top center, firing it
• 19:47
  once and then launching. Oh like a 20 something odd.
• 19:51
  Engine static fire maybe? Yeah, something like that with
• 19:54
  the ship on top and this. Hey, it didn't fall out saying
• 19:56
  Let. Go, guys, Everything looks cool.
• 19:58
  Let's launch tomorrow. Yep.
• 20:01
  That makes more. Sense, which is the standard
• 20:03
  process for Falcon launch as well, right?
• 20:05
  Yeah. Yeah, they put it on the thing,
• 20:07
  they static fire and then the next day or two they launch.
• 20:10
  Yeah, so the ship would be something like the like a
• 20:14
  fairing or something on a regular on a Falcon rocket.
• 20:17
  Just like the same thing, just a huge fairing.
• 20:20
  It's a second stage, right? Yeah, second stage, gigantic
• 20:23
  second stage. So that would make sense that
• 20:25
  they do that. That's where they want to get
• 20:27
  to. I think that's where you have to
• 20:29
  get to eventually. It's the skips, what like a week
• 20:33
  and a half of testing because they do a static fire, then they
• 20:37
  like have to close down the roads.
• 20:38
  You have to get the data from that static fire, wait about 3
• 20:41
  days or so, refuel it. That makes way more sense.
• 20:46
  Way more sense Will they do it for this one.
• 20:49
  Yeah, but to say if not this one, then the next one, I bet
• 20:53
  they try and do it. Yeah, yeah, I I would love them.
• 20:57
  I didn't even think about that until you just said that.
• 20:59
  So my mind's going crazy, but it seems like they're just Wis.
• 21:03
  Just like straight through all these tests.
• 21:05
  This happened real quick. They already had the booster
• 21:07
  there. The ship.
• 21:08
  Yeah, Everything is being tested at Massey's beforehand.
• 21:11
  Everything's getting ready to roll.
• 21:13
  I don't. Remember when it was that?
• 21:15
  Yeah, I don't remember when it was that my fear went away that
• 21:17
  the ship was going to implode when they're doing a cryo test,
• 21:21
  probably 6-7, maybe not seven, but maybe ship eight.
• 21:26
  That is when I started to think, OK, this thing's going to
• 21:28
  actually not going to implode and it's going to work and.
• 21:31
  I still it boggles my mind that we're talking about four
• 21:34
  millimeters of or five millimeters of stainless steel
• 21:37
  holding all this cryogenic fluid in place.
• 21:40
  Yet at least I feel confident that it's not going to implode
• 21:44
  that of course Speaking of implosions, the test ship set of
• 21:48
  27 that you can see the Dome top Dome of that imploded after the
• 21:52
  last testing. That is interesting.
• 21:55
  Obviously we're testing that to failure.
• 21:57
  They wanted. They wanted that to happen.
• 22:00
  Yeah, I think an implosion is better than an explosion in that
• 22:03
  case. Yep.
• 22:03
  I think they're probably quite happy with the results of that.
• 22:06
  Yep to this. Whatever they were testing,
• 22:08
  yeah. Whatever they were testing.
• 22:10
  New steel or new systems or whatever happened to be, Yeah, I
• 22:15
  think they're yeah. And if they move past that,
• 22:17
  they'll have Ship 28, Ship 29. I don't even know how many ships
• 22:20
  are down there. Now I have I've lost count of
• 22:22
  which ships are down there and what boosters are of like
• 22:26
  readily available because I'm focusing on the ship that's
• 22:29
  going to launch and the other stuff that's happening.
• 22:32
  It's super important. But also like it's off there
• 22:37
  somewhere and I think that's where everybody else is at too,
• 22:39
  is that this is an amazing feat that will happen.
• 22:43
  Like you said, Ship 10, Ship 10 head or not ship 10, but
• 22:47
  booster, they're doing the booster, all sorts of boosters
• 22:50
  and ships and testing everything.
• 22:53
  It's like, how can I keep track of everything?
• 22:55
  Yeah. And I'll just, I'll leave that
• 22:57
  space I have. An Excel spreadsheet.
• 22:59
  To be honest with you, they're probably yeah, yeah, they're
• 23:01
  fine, They're fine. Yeah, I know that they're
• 23:04
  building Ship 30 right now. Believe they're setting that and
• 23:08
  it looks pretty slick, like it's starting to really look like
• 23:13
  they know what they're doing as far as the tiles go and all of
• 23:16
  that. It just happens now.
• 23:18
  And it's got a, it's got the. That would be insane even.
• 23:21
  I think it. We need to keep thinking that
• 23:24
  they're moving forward, right? We need to keep thinking that
• 23:26
  they're thinking, what's the next step?
• 23:28
  This next ship's going to make it orbit.
• 23:30
  So next one after that why don't we throw some startlings up?
• 23:34
  May as well that that makes they have to move forward with the
• 23:37
  starlink program as fast as possible.
• 23:39
  They need to make money and getting eczema.
• 23:42
  What is it like 10 I think at the at this time for the regular
• 23:46
  like? Falcon Money Nine, Yeah, yeah,
• 23:49
  something like that for a Falcon launch.
• 23:50
  Like they're like throwing away money at this point when they
• 23:53
  can get like 20 or 30 in a Starship.
• 23:57
  So does one Starship launch, even if it's an expendable
• 24:00
  Starship, which is probably going to happen for the next 10
• 24:04
  starships, then at least get some star links up there and
• 24:07
  make the money back from the Starship launch?
• 24:09
  Yep. So yeah, make that money back,
• 24:12
  fund Starship and just keep going with it.
• 24:15
  And that's how they're going to fund the Starship program going
• 24:17
  forward is I think with the Star Link launches and they also
• 24:21
  have, they have some customers like at Bay like just ready to
• 24:25
  launch on this thing, it's once it's ready to go.
• 24:29
  Once it's proven, yeah, Once it's proven and they know that
• 24:31
  they can get satellites into orbit, they know they can get
• 24:34
  heavy. They need a heavy lift rocket to
• 24:35
  get some stuff up there. I wonder.
• 24:37
  If we see, I wonder if we start to see satellite companies
• 24:40
  building flat satellites that could be just has dispensed if
• 24:44
  you will as opposed to the traditional box shape.
• 24:48
  Satellite. Whether they start to compress
• 24:49
  them and make them fit out that door, that's a good idea.
• 24:53
  But maybe they can assemble themselves once they're launched
• 24:56
  or something like that. Yeah, like a the solar panels
• 24:59
  rolled out and whatnot, like how the James Webb telescope
• 25:02
  unfurled it. And yeah.
• 25:04
  Exactly like that. It would certainly make
• 25:07
  everything less complicated. And you could put 15 Starlink
• 25:11
  and three regular satellites and this, that and the other just
• 25:15
  stack them. In order in the Starship and
• 25:18
  keep launching about as you need to.
• 25:22
  That'd be incredible. I'm trying to find at this
• 25:24
  point. Remember they had a PES, They
• 25:26
  had a Starship where the front opened like I was trying to find
• 25:30
  that graphic but I can't find. It that was what's in my head,
• 25:32
  I'm thinking. I wonder if that even makes
• 25:34
  sense anymore. I don't Unless you're.
• 25:37
  Perhaps collecting an old satellite to fix it or just to
• 25:40
  get rid of space check or something like that.
• 25:42
  I wonder if that even makes sense anymore, whether the pest
• 25:45
  dispenser is the way the future for that sort of thing, because
• 25:48
  how big of a satellite you really need to launch these days
• 25:51
  with micro everything, right? Yeah, this thing is still going
• 25:55
  to be what's probably 6 meters wide, I would imagine.
• 25:58
  At the very least, Yeah. And who?
• 26:01
  And that's probably. I don't know how tall the pest
• 26:04
  Spencer is, but probably a meter at least, if not more.
• 26:10
  Yeah, so 6 meters by 1 meter and then unfurls to whatever size
• 26:13
  you need. I don't know that you need a set
• 26:15
  weight larger than that these days.
• 26:17
  Yeah, everything's smaller. Now you can.
• 26:19
  We have the world's knowledge. So much in these box satellites
• 26:23
  they're sending up and the yeah, the cube sats and everything.
• 26:25
  Yeah, that's what I meant to say.
• 26:28
  Same thing. They're a box.
• 26:32
  Yeah, so Speaking of satellites, this whole start Starship thing
• 26:38
  is predicated by the Falcon Heavy launch, so there's a
• 26:44
  readiness review happen for a target of Wednesday, July 26th
• 26:48
  for Falcon Heavy's launch of the Hughes Connects Jupiter 3E Star
• 26:53
  14 said. Like why do they make these
• 26:55
  names? You got enough names?
• 26:57
  Come on, man. This kid somebody.
• 27:01
  Short of it, it's a communication satellite.
• 27:03
  Yeah, yeah, it's a communication satellite.
• 27:06
  It's going to be the heaviest geostationary satellite ever
• 27:10
  launched at just over 9 metric tons.
• 27:12
  Wow size. It is probably not.
• 27:15
  No, I don't think they. I don't think they gave us.
• 27:17
  Any sort of size, it fits inside the basically 4 meter wide, I
• 27:23
  guess Probably 5 meter wide faring right?
• 27:25
  Yeah, yeah. So it it's quite large.
• 27:28
  I'm sure it's nine metric tons. The thing is like 9 tons for a
• 27:33
  satellite. What is in there?
• 27:35
  That's and this is supposed to be.
• 27:36
  Graded all new technology, micro technology version of this,
• 27:42
  these types of satellites. This is the obviously the
• 27:45
  state-of-the-art communication satellite.
• 27:48
  Interesting that it's still that big.
• 27:50
  Yeah, not 9 tons. It's so how.
• 27:53
  What? A couple tons for a car?
• 27:56
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Five cars based, yeah.
• 28:00
  Or maybe maybe five cars. That's how much it weighs.
• 28:04
  Like what's in this thing? We don't know.
• 28:06
  Like how much technology can you pack into this thing?
• 28:09
  There's a KA band. It's a KA Band Satellite
• 28:12
  Multispot BMKA Band satellite based on the highly reliable SSL
• 28:17
  1300 space proven platform which provides the flexibility to
• 28:21
  support a Broadway. In your head to you, dude.
• 28:24
  I'm just. I know IT and technology
• 28:26
  advances and I I just know some stuff.
• 28:28
  It features an entirely new architecture architecture based
• 28:32
  on broad range of technology advances, including the mini
• 28:35
  miniaturization of electronics. OK, miniaturization. 9 tons.
• 28:42
  Does that make sense? They're still made of gold.
• 28:44
  Yeah, that features entirely new.
• 28:47
  Architecture best we did look this up.
• 28:49
  Yeah, the KA band is microwave band.
• 28:52
  Microwave range. That's how it's setting.
• 28:54
  Beaming things back and forth to Earth?
• 28:56
  Yep. So that's coming up on the 26th.
• 28:59
  That's going to be a pretty wild launch and they say
• 29:02
  approximately 8 minutes after launch Falcon Heavy side
• 29:05
  boosters will return to Earth and land on landing zones one
• 29:10
  and two. So we're going to take a look at
• 29:11
  how that. Works.
• 29:13
  That's my favorite kind of landing for these.
• 29:15
  Yeah, side by side. So cool, man.
• 29:17
  Amazing. Keep in mind these things are
• 29:19
  seven story buildings, yeah, and they just gently place them back
• 29:24
  onto Earth. And it's so cool.
• 29:26
  I love how the legs open for last second.
• 29:29
  Everything's just so well timed. There's no, they don't cover
• 29:33
  anything. They just come down at a very
• 29:35
  consistent rate and settle down to Earth so beautifully.
• 29:39
  Yeah. I mean target I So I think about
• 29:42
  these landings and then I think about Blue Origins landings and
• 29:47
  I'm always afraid when Blue Origin lands its booster because
• 29:50
  it bounces like these go like these do a little tiny shuffle
• 29:54
  and kind of little tiny sway but Blue Origins kind of like point,
• 29:57
  point point. And you're like and the clever
• 30:00
  like, They're not quite sure. Are we actually going to do
• 30:02
  this? And then instead of gradually,
• 30:06
  slowly, like lowering your booster back, OK, we get to the
• 30:10
  last what, 7 feet or something? Those are.
• 30:13
  I don't know the actual size, but they're probably 1/4 the
• 30:15
  height of this. It's just completely different.
• 30:19
  Yeah. It's so cool, man.
• 30:21
  Like we we are literally living in the future.
• 30:24
  This is insane. This is something.
• 30:27
  Happening. Yeah, this is pretty normal.
• 30:29
  We expect these. Boosters of lands?
• 30:30
  No problem. Tomorrow.
• 30:32
  Yeah, something goes wrong. We'll be like.
• 30:34
  Whoa, yeah, you know, we'll have questions for months.
• 30:39
  But yeah, And as you can see how big they are, you can see the
• 30:43
  architecture around it. These pipes are quite large.
• 30:47
  There's little buildings, there's there's fuel tanks,
• 30:50
  there's some ground systems here.
• 30:52
  All these things are quite large.
• 30:53
  But like you said, it's like a seven story building.
• 30:56
  Huge. It's gigantic.
• 30:57
  Massive, yeah. And they just hover down.
• 31:00
  Maybe you can see the top of the boosters.
• 31:02
  They have the. I forgot what they're called.
• 31:04
  The the engines at the top that put the puff engines.
• 31:09
  What are they called? I can't remember what they're
• 31:10
  called, but why can't I think of that?
• 31:12
  The puff engines, So the little puff puffs at the top there that
• 31:17
  guide them in, I believe. It's called the.
• 31:19
  Yeah, yeah, you can see them guiding them in and they go real
• 31:26
  fast too. Like it's ridiculous how fast
• 31:28
  these systems go as you're landing A7 story building.
• 31:32
  So yeah, absolutely insane. Absolutely crazy that this is
• 31:35
  actually happening again because Falcon heavies gigantic still
• 31:41
  but nine metric tons for a satellite that yeah makes sense.
• 31:46
  I don't know it's it's yeah it's made of lead Thor's hammers in
• 31:50
  there. I.
• 31:53
  Wonder how many more Heavy launches we have.
• 31:57
  Falcon Heavy launches? Yeah, Falcon Heavy launches.
• 32:00
  I wonder how many more there are left.
• 32:01
  Because yeah, I think Starship takes it over.
• 32:04
  It's cheaper, I think, launch Starship than it is Falcon
• 32:07
  Heavy. I think so too.
• 32:08
  I think the usable I think three years.
• 32:13
  I mean I don't think they'll I don't think they'll retire it.
• 32:15
  I think it'll be there for specific use cases, but I don't
• 32:19
  think. I don't think we're going to see
• 32:21
  as many. I think 1 Starship is moon ready
• 32:26
  in the next few years. I think like the low earth orbit
• 32:29
  stuff is going to be no big deal.
• 32:31
  So three years, you're thinking 6 launches, something like that,
• 32:36
  yeah, maybe, yeah, 5-6 launches and then that's it.
• 32:41
  Like, I think unless, like I was saying like there's certain use
• 32:44
  cases for it, but I don't see why Starship wouldn't be able to
• 32:48
  do those use cases as well. Starship.
• 32:50
  Would do everything this thing can do And tent that is more,
• 32:53
  yeah. And is it?
• 32:55
  Maybe if there's something that's not big enough to go into
• 32:58
  a Starship, Something that's like just only needs a fairing
• 33:02
  for a Falcon Heavy. Or a Falcon.
• 33:04
  That's why I say you just pack it in, put it in the best
• 33:08
  dispenser and shoot it out as needed and send some more
• 33:10
  stylics up. SpaceX revolutionized rockets,
• 33:14
  so why wouldn't they revolutionize the delivery
• 33:17
  system as well? And if they're like, hey, if you
• 33:19
  want to launch out of Starship, you have to build your
• 33:21
  architecture for our device. It's like your phone.
• 33:25
  Like, yeah, you're if you're going to build an app for a
• 33:27
  phone, you have to build it according to Apple's procedures.
• 33:30
  So if you're going to build a satellite for our rocket, you
• 33:34
  have to build according to our procedures.
• 33:36
  Yeah. Or you can use the Falcon Heavy.
• 33:38
  But it's going to cost you three times as much.
• 33:40
  Yeah. Planned obsolescence.
• 33:42
  Good job, SpaceX. Good job.
• 33:45
  They did it. Oh man, they did it.
• 33:47
  They're a tech company. They did it.
• 33:50
  Steve Jobs would be proud. I can't wait for Starship to
• 33:54
  have some DLC. Oh yeah, $0.99 DLC is all.
• 34:00
  Right. Your satellite's up there Now.
• 34:02
  In order to launch it, we're going to need. $11 million,
• 34:06
  Yeah, we're going to be the million dollar subscription plan
• 34:08
  per month or you can buy the one year subscription plan for 11
• 34:16
  months. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 34:19
  So I think that's it for today. I think we covered everything we
• 34:22
  want to cover. So what we got out of this is
• 34:25
  that maybe they'll stack a ship on top of the booster and static
• 34:29
  fire it. That's my take away from this is
• 34:32
  that might be a really interesting and exciting thing.
• 34:35
  And we're thinking a month or two for a launch.
• 34:38
  Yep. Yep.
• 34:40
  That'll be absolutely insane. I can't wait.
• 34:42
  I think it's going to be really cool.
• 34:44
  And I can't wait for the just. It's going to be the most
• 34:48
  impressive thing if it actually works.
• 34:51
  Yeah, very cool, man. Yeah, Same here.
• 34:53
  All right, I guess that's it. Bye, everybody.
• 34:55
  I don't have a goodbye screen because we're doing.
• 34:57
  A different platform, Yeah. Thanks, Neil.
• 35:00
  Thank you for continuing to bring all this awesome info to
• 35:03
  all your fans. Yeah, thanks to all the fans.
• 35:05
  And thank you for helping out. And yeah, thanks to everybody
• 35:09
  for spending your time here with me today.
• 35:12
  Take care of yourselves and each other.
• 35:14
  Bye. Bye.