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Starship Catch Arms Update [SpaceX Tank Tracks] · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody. Welcome back to the space news
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  pod. This is a show about SpaceX NASA
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  and space flight. I'm your host will Walden.
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  And in this episode we're going to be taking a look at the CRS
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  23 launch. There's some isolated views that
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  NASA released on their website. One, take a look at those real
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  quick but also I got to tell you guys this because it's pretty
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  funny. I got attacked, not attacked,
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  Like, there's a window over there and like three wasps flew
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  in here the same time, and I don't have much room.
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  So right before I started this, I had a can of raid that I was
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  defending myself with it, is back there and I almost left it
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  up there before I started filming.
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  So that's super important and very space sex-based just like
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  today's episode. So what I'll let you know, the
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  kind of working conditions I've been in for the last couple of
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  years while I've been doing A show like Hornets wasps bees.
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  I get baths in here at night. I don't I live basically in a
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  place that's like super dangerous.
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  I guess. I don't know.
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  It's it's hilarious but also I don't want to get stung.
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  So I had like a can of raid it up there.
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  Anyway, that has nothing to do with SpaceX.
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  I just want to let you guys know that that's not going to happen
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  when I'm in Texas. I might have little lizards, I
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  don't know. We'll see, but I'll be there.
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  I'm starting on Sunday and nobody told me why didn't
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  anybody tell me that? It's Labor Day weekend this
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  weekend. I didn't know that and I guess
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  everyone's going to be traveling, including myself.
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  So I'm gonna get myself a few days, extra to kind of like,
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  first day, 8 to 9 hours. S 8, to 9 hours third day,
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  around the same. Seven to eight to nine hours,
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  somewhere around there. And I'm going to get there on
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  the fifth day, early in the morning, check into my new
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  apartment, which is the studio. As well.
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  And yeah, I'm gonna go check some stuff out after that.
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  So maybe maybe on the 10th the 10th is when I get there.
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  Maybe we'll get a little bit of footage.
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  I'm not sure. We'll see what happens.
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  See, what time I get there, but it would be kind of cool even to
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  go there. Like, go to space X star base
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  and just be like, this is cool. We did it, everybody.
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  So we'll see what happens. But other than that, guess what
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  there are today? Guess what's happening?
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  This new road closures, by the way, I don't know if you know
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  this but this road closures between 8 a.m. and noon today.
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  Here are some stair base News. 8 a.m. to noon p.m. today
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  intermittent closures been canceled.
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  This one isn't for today but the one for tomorrow, September 2nd,
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  Then I going to be doing static fires or anything like that
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  because they can't yet, so they're just going to be moving
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  stuff around TSE tanks, Etc. They're going to be moving heavy
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  machinery around, probably lifting some stuff, getting
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  some, some crane action. I don't know.
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  I don't know what they're going to be doing today or tomorrow on
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  September 2nd, but I'll be around to tell you what happened
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  and as it happens, if we have a live stream, the stream lately
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  has been super foggy. So I haven't been able to put it
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  up so I apologize for that. Can't do anything about it but
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  this is cool. I want to show you guys this
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  other cool thing. So you know there's there's a
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  TFR which is a flight restriction Zone around SpaceX
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  Starbase means basically don't fly your plane here.
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  Don't walk over here. Don't hang out here while we're
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  doing space-based flights and static fires and stuff like
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  that. But SpaceX has had a A
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  5,000-foot TFR in place for a little while now because they
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  didn't expect to launch anything.
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  So they just updated that for September first, I want to show
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  you this. This is the new TFR.
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  Right here for Brownsville Texas.
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  It's near Brownsville Texas. Basically, it's Starbase August
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  1st. 2021 is the issue date, but it's for September 1st through
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  September 30th space, operations area, space operations.
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  But the important part is down here.
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  For an altitude, from the surface up to including 1,000 or
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  10,000 feet. That's a high flight for
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  Starship. All right.
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  So, any tfrs that were in place before, for 5,000 feet are all
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  gone and now they raised it to 10,000 feet.
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  So, it looks like SpaceX is getting ready to fly Starship.
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  This is kind of like, this is an indicator that Starship Beep
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  will be flying in the near future.
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  We're not sure exactly when A month, maybe?
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  Who knows? I'm not exactly sure.
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  But SpaceX has this in place. Here's the actual TFR image.
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  There's a little Starship little circle around.
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  It used to have a big Square remember that but this is more
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  confined more defined and I like that it doesn't even look like.
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  Okay so it doesn't look very technical like this doesn't look
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  like a technical drawing which is kind of funny too.
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  Maybe it's like, look at this. Look, look at those lines that
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  go into Starship. I'm going to show you.
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  This is kind of fun. I noticed this last night I was
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  like, dude come on but they're not.
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  It doesn't look like they're spaced properly.
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  It looks like somebody just kind of like Drew this on with
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  Microsoft Paint kind of cool but 10,000 feet launched a Starship.
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  Come on, that'll be awesome. So anyway I want to show you
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  this other thing to want to show you.
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  This other thing, there's a CRS, 23 launch happened.
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  The other day, successful launch of a scarcity crew Dragon, but a
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  cargo Dragon, the top of Falcon 9 the went to the International
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  Space Station docked, everything's cool, right?
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  But I want to show you these isolated views from that launch.
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  There's some this one in particular is super cool.
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  This is Is. From the launch, the liftoff
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  from the Falcons view looking down at the pad.
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  So if you're strapped down the side of a falcon 9 is what would
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  happen to you. Chamber pressure is phenomenal,
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  phenomenal. Not just nominal, it's
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  phenomenal. But this is like going through
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  clouds going through kind of seishin going through the
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  environment, then it clears that it just looks, it looks amazing.
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  You can see the condensation buildup on the camera.
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  But you can scrub through this. This is all available on nests.
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  It's images that nasa.gov and there is beautiful views.
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  Look at this, Look at it right there.
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  Watch this one's really cool too.
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  Watch this. This is a really cool one.
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  Or go Dragon takes flight. Continuing a busy year of
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  deliveries to approve seven aboard, the International Space
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  Station. 15 seconds of that were.
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  There you go? That's pretty amazing Max Q
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  coming up. My favorite part of a flight,
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  let me know in the comments. What your favorite part of a
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  flight is because mine's Max Q because once you get past Max Q,
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  it's usually easy sailing after that.
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  It's easy going after Max Q that's the scary part of the
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  flight for me. So that's like all the tension
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  is like gone after Mexico. For me, I'm like, okay, this is
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  cool. We can just fly to wherever
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  we're going to fly to. I want to show you another thing
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  because SpaceX has a bunch of cranes.
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  Bunch of heavy lift operations going on.
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  A Starbase in. They have you know at the bottom
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  of these cranes they have these big tank tracks right?
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  So Chris from NASA, space flight.
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  Posted this after Max at Max nine, nine, zero seven, eight,
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  two, six four, six zero Max. How do you remember that to
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  login, by the way at Tesla Rowdy team?
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  Hey, I just saw this on the German Autobahn this morning.
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  It's coming from Austria. In might be heading to Hamburg
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  or Rotterdam. Port looks like a part of the
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  future transport vehicle for getting Starship to the launch
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  pad. And you notice this, it has the
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  SpaceX logo emblazoned on the side.
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  It's painted black. So there's been speculation.
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  About this. What is this for?
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  Is this for a track for a crane, or is this a track for the catch
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  arms for Starship? Because usually it's for
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  something like this, you know, it's for a giant crane like
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  this. But can they use this, or this
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  kind of thing? You know, can they use this
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  crane tread? The catch Starship or the
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  booster. Speculation goes wild people on
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  Twitter, went nuts, even here right here.
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  Elon Musk tank. Treads on the arms.
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  Tank treads, huh? Actually you know what?
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  I'm going to take that back. Let me know in the comments.
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  If you think these tank armor, these tank treads are going to
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  be the arms, the catch arm treads for the tower because I
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  wish it weren't the case, but I'm guessing it's probably just
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  for a tower or for a, for a crane.
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  This is for a Libra, crawler crane with a SpaceX logo, so it
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  might be kind of cool. Like maybe they're just going to
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  put these tracks on the crane and there, you know, just has a
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  Cool SpaceX logo on it, like maybe customize your crane
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  people, I don't know, but let me know what you think.
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  It might be over engineered for a catch arm, but it also might
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  be able to do the job really. Well, I do.
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  It's like, it's all kind of up in the air right now.
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  Could they take this and use it for a catcher?
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  I don't know. Let me know in the comments, so
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  take back the other one. So let me know in the comments.
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  What you think about this? Do you think this is for the
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  catch arm, or do you think it's for a crane?
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  I don't know. None of us really know at this
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  point, so we'll see. But usually they just lift, you
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  know, lift up starships and boosters with a crane.
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  Could this be flycatcher? I don't know.
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  That's about it. Thanks everybody.
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  A few more days until I leave for Starbase.
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  Let's see, Wednesday today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
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  Sunday, Sunday morning, I have four days until I leave for
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  Starbase. Bass.
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  So stoked. I'll see you guys tomorrow with
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  more videos about Starbase and Starship.
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  Take care. Bye.
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  Bye.