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Starship Quick Release Has Been Added to Orbital Launch Tower · 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 and
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  today's episode is going to be packed with Starship and
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  Starbase stuff also a little bit of Apple stuff too, which is
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  kind of weird thing, but it might be a future.
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  Starlink Apple combination. Maybe let's see what's going on
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  with that. But first and foremost, of
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  course, Course, we have to start with the road closures.
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  How many times have I said that? The road closure is for Starbase
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  because that's when we know something is going to be
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  happening at the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
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  So, let's take a look at these road closures real quick.
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  Let's do some Starbase news right off the bat Tuesday.
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  That's today. They move some GSE tanks around
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  today. The small hobby style.
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  GSE tank is out of there. Another GSE tanks coming in,
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  they're moving stuff around. Today, which is really awesome.
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  But they also have another primary date, September 1st 2021
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  and I will make sure to keep you up to date with what's going to
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  be happening with Starbase on Wednesday, September 1st.
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  It's the first that means tomorrow after tomorrow.
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  That's for four days. Four days until I take my trip
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  to a book, a ticket to the Starbase facility and live
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  there. I'm going to live At Starbase
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  because that's kind of weird but I'll be living nearby and I'll
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  be able to bring you coverage of Starbase every single day with
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  this camera that lens. But also I have this big honkin
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  lens 600. Mm.
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  I'll be able to do some cool stuff with it.
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  So yeah, thank you everybody who supported me through this whole
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  journey if you want to continue supporting, there's a link up
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  there inside where it is up there somewhere somewhere around
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  here. It also the description for the
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  GoFundMe and it helps every little Helps gas food lodging on
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  the way down that stuff like super helpful and also gas to
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  get to, and from Starbase, like, it gets expensive over over
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  time. So, thank you, everybody, for
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  all of your support for, you know, the Starbase trip.
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  Now, I should say move, not trip, it's a move.
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  Now, I'm always on Twitter, right?
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  And I came across this really cool tweet from the guy that
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  found it, Twitter. Which it's like, you don't think
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  about this. Like, how many important people
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  have been to Starbase? Right?
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  How many important people have probably been like got around
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  there like, hey, this is kind of cool, you know, and this they
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  never post anything about it. Or they're just like on vacation
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  nearby and like, hey, I want to go see that SpaceX thing that's
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  going on and they stop by and you know, they go down highway
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  four of the like, whoa, this is cool.
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  But how many of them get a first-hand experience?
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  So Jack, the guy that founded Twitter, Went to Starbase
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  grateful for Elon Musk and at SpaceX heart emoji.
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  Look at this Starship. Look.
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  So this is the thing that I noticed about this like he was
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  right under the Starship to it, which is really insane.
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  Look at this. You can still see a few.
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  This is just posted like a day ago.
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  But look at you can still see the markings at the top of the
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  Starship with the heat tiles. Very cool.
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  But look at how complete the tiles are now compared to just a
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  few days ago. Like this is full on almost
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  ready to fly. That is crazy.
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  That's crazy. So Jack on Twitter said that and
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  then he Lon, this is another cool thing.
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  Speaking of famous people that was not the right to eat.
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  So he poses something else. You know that said, thanks for
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  coming and speaking of famous people, you know, it's pretty
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  famous. That's what I was going to say,
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  but I don't have the one ready. So you might there's a little
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  emote down there, they don't want to show you.
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  So anyway Ilan said, thanks for coming and yeah, that's pretty.
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  Cool. That Jack what Starbase like how
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  interesting is that? That super famous people.
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  Interesting people get to go hang out.
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  Now another interesting thing, A very, very interesting thing,
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  the quick disconnect arms for Starship launch.
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  Peter butter, Philip button. Sorry, I was gonna say Peter.
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  What I say, Peter Phillip out button, fill up on Twitter
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  lifting the quick disconnect arm this morning, August 29th, a
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  couple days ago. We'll look at this lift.
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  Look at all these amazing photos from Phillip doing great work.
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  So all these lifting this quick disconnect arm this morning.
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  Sweet. But look at how massive these
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  things are. That is insane.
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  Like, what cool photos do? Like, that's a, that's a really
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  great shot. Thanks, Phillip, you're doing
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  now. That's amazing.
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  This is where they're going. Hydraulic ram was installed the
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  other day / night. They have been working on the
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  hinges for ages. Now, these are from a while
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  back. So ocean cam is down there
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  almost every day. Almost every proud pretty much
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  every day on the side of the road, getting shots of Starbase
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  and Starship, but I'm going to show you what Paul has done
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  quick disconnect on the tower. Paul has done a few images of
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  the quick disconnect like that doesn't look real because it's
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  so gigantic. And there's a, there's a person
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  over here person for scale. I'm going to zoom in on this one
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  for you because there's a guy right over there.
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  There's a person And then the mass of just the quick
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  disconnect arms, zoom out a little bit.
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  That is a giant piece of machinery and that's installed.
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  On the tower now. Absolutely insane.
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  We're expecting the FAA to clear the tower, we're not expecting
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  them to say you know. Like it's not cool that you have
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  this Tower here because there's out there's been kind of a
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  little murmuring little Rumblings that SpaceX may have
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  to disassemble the tower before the launch if the FAA doesn't
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  approve it but there's no long-distance communication,
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  there's no big antennas, you know, anything like that.
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  That could contribute to that. Right now.
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  So the risk, there are communication capabilities on
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  the tower, of course, but it's not powerful.
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  So we're thinking the FAA is going to be cool with it and the
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  tower will pass so environmental study still have to do that, of
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  course. So we're just waiting for that
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  to happen in the near future. So Paul at Ocean cam Obe
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  traveler on. On Twitter and Paul's YouTube,
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  I'll link it down in the description below.
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  I'll link all these Twitter's and stuff in the description
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  below because they're all amazing, amazing people.
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  Now, just one more thing the flaps.
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  So remember the tiles that were talking about a little bit
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  earlier with Jack. Now, the flaps Philip button, of
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  course, again, check this out. These flaps morning flap tiles,
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  not sure why. DM uploading is stalled Twitter
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  sense. Things out of order sometimes.
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  X. Look at the beautiful work
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  though. Like okay, look at how they
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  wrap. Around that that doesn't like,
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  that looks amazing. And as you can see, some of
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  these still have the markings on them.
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  But look at the amazing shot that he got.
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  And look at the detail of the craftsmanship of these tiles.
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  Like this is just a Prototype 2. So the detail coming around from
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  like like where it attaches at the top here, those kind of
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  rectangular tiles, and then they Cascade out into the hextech,
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  hex tiles. Absolutely beautiful.
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  And as you can see, there's some that are kind of like, not quite
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  there yet. And there are some that are kind
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  of off kilter But what a great shot.
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  Like what an amazing shot. So Phillip you're doing great
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  stuff. Really great shot there and I
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  got one more thing. Okay, this is from Apple Hub and
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  this kind of what I've been hoping for, for a while.
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  Starlink SpaceX is satellite internet company.
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  I would love to use it with my phone.
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  Like I would love to sign up for Starling can be able to use it?
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  Instead of my mobile provider at any given time and this is a
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  tweet from Apple Hub, check this out, this is a sort of a tech
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  thing. According to analysts the
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  upcoming phone iPhone 13 series will feature low earth, orbit,
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  Satellite, Communication connectivity, which will allow
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  users to make calls and send messages when cell signal is not
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  available. So, take this with a grain of
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  salt. We don't know exactly what this
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  is for, we don't know exactly if this is for starlink or if it's
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  for another Aurelio said light constellation where apples
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  working with another company, we're not sure yet.
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  So you know take all this with a grain of salt but it possibly
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  could happen in the future. Let's see if there's any more
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  information here. The new iPhone will utilize a
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  custom version of the Qualcomm x60.
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  Baseband modem chip. Support for communications over
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  satellite. So instead of your iPhone just
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  connecting to AT&T Verizon Etc, possibly, it could link up with
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  starlink how cool is that if you're out in the middle of
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  nowhere, throughout the middle of the desert someplace, and you
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  like, you know, like whatever one of those old movies from the
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  from the early Hollywood days where somebody's stranded out in
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  the desert and they're like, I'm not going to make it like in
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  there, like, so hopefully somebody can come save me.
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  But now you can just be like, oh yeah, Oh hey, hey Mom.
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  Oh yeah, I'm out the desert. I need some help.
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  Can you please? Oh wait, hold on, let me text
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  you, you're busy. I know.
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  So possibly in the future star link in apple working together
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  SpaceX and apple working together to provide a Leo
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  Satellite Communication connectivity from your phone to
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  start link. We'll see what happens.
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  I don't think this is powerful enough to do it quite yet so
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  maybe a future iteration could be a thing.
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  NG so let me know in the comments what you think about
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  Elon and apple working together, that's about it for today.
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  Everybody thanks so much. Bye bye.