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Elon Musk Weekly News Update: Tesla, SpaceX, X, Neuralink, and More · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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  This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads, the
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  Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company, and Neurolink.
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  I'm your. Host Will Walden How is Tik
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  Tok's uncertain future in the United States fueling
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  competition in social media right now?
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  Also, what makes Blue Skies decentralized model a unique
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  approach in video? And can X and Blue Sky truly
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  attract Tik Tok's user base by mimicking its short form video
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  format? Now, X has unveiled a new
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  vertical video feed added to their X United States app.
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  It's accessible via a dedicated video tab in the bottom
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  navigation. Bar and it's very.
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  Similar to TikTok in some ways, there's a continuous scroll
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  through short form videos. Similar also to YouTube and
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  Instagram and all the other short form TikTok style video
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  platforms out there right now and it integrates into Axis
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  video first multimedia approach. They've had live video for a
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  while. They used to have live video a
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  long time ago too. When I was doing my space news
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  pod channel on YouTube. I specifically went over to
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  Twitter when it was Twitter to do their live video streaming.
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  You couldn't make any money on it.
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  It wasn't like it is now where it's all monetized.
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  You could get things called stars, I believe, and you could
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  earn stars, which then turned into something which we didn't
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  know what it was, but it was kind of like magical fairy dust.
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  Nobody really got any money from it, but you could become popular
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  if you did a bunch of live stuff on Twitter at that point.
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  But you know, because it was. There's always a video.
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  It's called Periscope back then, but now short form video has
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  taken over. TikTok is in the dumps because
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  of the new administration and because of the Supreme Court.
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  But are they going to come back? Well, Apple's App Store has
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  kicked them off. We don't think they're going to
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  go back in the App Store because why would they risk it?
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  Also, Android App Store out of there too.
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  There's huge, huge penalties if you break the law.
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  And Apple and Google would both, the Google Play Store would both
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  see huge fines for this. So the these new additions to X
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  aim to attract Tik Tok's user base during its period of
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  uncertainty. So even if they could capture
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  some of that millions of followers, that's a plus for X
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  right now. But here's another thing Blue
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  Sky the kind of direct competitor to X especially it's
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  it was what Twitter used to be. Blue Sky now features a vertical
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  video feed under the Explore tab.
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  Users can swipe through trending videos, pin feeds to their home
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  screen, or create targeted feeds based on specific hashtags.
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  So when you do that, you don't have to worry about an
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  algorithm. Videos are capped at 59 seconds,
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  so under one minute. And it's built on blue skies.
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  Decentralized AT protocol enabling developer
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  customization. It's customizable and user
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  driver driven video experience tailored to individual
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  preferences as opposed to them feeding you a bunch of stuff
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  like TikTok used to do. Now TikTok faces unscrutiny or
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  scrutiny now and uncertainty in the United States over data
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  security concerns and ties to its Chinese parent company.
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  Excuse me, it's kind of late here so if I stumble a little
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  bit, that's why Chinese parent company byte dance.
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  US ban narrowly avoided in the past, but future restrictions
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  remain possible in the coming months.
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  You know, platforms like X and Blue Sky are responding to Tik
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  Tok's ban by basically mimicking TikTok features that other
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  people might want to use. If you don't think you'll ever
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  be. I mean, the, the App Store is
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  you can't download the apps anymore.
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  You can't download TikTok anymore.
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  And if X can get some of that user base because they do
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  something very similar to TikTok, it's not the same.
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  It won't feel the same, and Blue Skies doesn't feel the same
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  either, but it is. Vertical.
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  Short form video. So some people might move over
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  social media giants accelerating their roll out of short form
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  video features increases competition.
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  It's not just TikTok against Instagram anymore YouTube shorts
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  jumped in X, of course, a little bit late in blue sky a little
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  bit late too. But X and blue sky positioning
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  themselves as alternatives for TikTok users that haven't
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  migrated over to YouTube shorts at this point.
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  But YouTube Shorts is kind of like the graveyard for TikTok
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  videos. So the short form video tools
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  becoming central to platform development is key for people to
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  move to these platforms. Cap cut is huge on TikTok.
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  What is X offer? They don't offer anything like
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  that. Now that does Blue Sky, YouTube
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  has the YouTube app which you can record in and you know they
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  don't have anything like cap cut though, so you can record and do
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  some very simple editing, but X and Blue Sky don't have anything
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  compared to what TikTok has. Companies adapting to the
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  potential absence of a major player like TikTok are going to
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  see a short burst in new users when users cannot download
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  TikTok. So we'll see how that works out
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  for them. Blue Sky is built on the AT
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  protocol. The AT protocol, which allows
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  developers to create custom video and content feeds.
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  Independent tools like Grey's Social and Skyfeed are being
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  developed to enhance video capabilities.
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  So not only is this open, unlike Elon Musk's X, which we all
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  love, but you can have independent tools attached
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  directly to an app that you use. You don't have to use Blue Sky
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  because it's on the app protocol.
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  There's more analytics, blending of text and video on Blue Sky
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  and personalized user experiences.
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  You can personalize everything on Blue Sky.
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  So Speaking of decentralization, it fosters innovation and
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  diverse use cases now. So what we were talking about
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  before, the developers can develop on top of the platform,
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  unlike X where you can't because it's owned by Elon Musk.
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  It's a closed garden. You know, it's kind of a kind of
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  a mood point, but also a little bit funny is that?
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  Elon. Musk is a bastion for free
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  speech and. It.
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  Oh so I think of software as speech.
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  I'm a web developer by trade. Check out my website
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  willwalden.com if you need any help or any work done.
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  And also, I believe in open source, I believe in open source
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  software. And I'm sure Twitter and X have
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  used parts of open source software.
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  I believe language is code and code is language.
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  So I don't understand why Elon Musk hasn't opened up X to, I
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  mean, there there's an API, but he charges for it.
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  It costs money. So that's not free speech in my,
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  in my own opinion, if you have to charge for something that's
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  not free anymore. So think about that.
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  So is Blue Sky doing free speech better than X?
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  Just think about it for a second.
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  I don't know. I don't know.
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  It's a, it's an interesting topic to think about though.
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  So integration of vertical video on X though, it's part of the
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  larger multimedia ecosystem that Elon is building.
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  So he's building an everything app.
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  It's similar to Facebook in many regards.
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  Facebook has Reels, Facebook has a news feed, Facebook has
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  favorites, Facebook has Live. They've had it for a while.
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  They had payment integrations and Elon Musk.
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  A lot of. People are thinking that he's
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  just copying Zuck, you know, and that's, that's an opinion from
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  some people because Facebook kind of has everything already.
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  And Elon is trying to make something that's similar to
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  Facebook. And he says it's going to be
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  more than that where you can hail an Uber or hail a Tesla,
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  things like that, which is going to be very cool when it does
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  happen. So then let's go back to the
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  integration of this vertical video.
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  And I'm not a Elon hater, by the way.
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  I love, I love the the companies that he's built.
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  So I'm just putting some points about the apps and the way that
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  things are structured just so we can think about this together.
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  It's seamless navigation though on the X app bottom bar, super
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  easy. Tap it real quick.
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  I don't like things in the top bar.
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  I don't know about you or like on the sidebar or anything like
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  that in your apps. Put it at the bottom where my
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  thumbs already at because if I have to reach over, I have a
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  kind of, I have a bigger phone with iPhone Pro Max and it's
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  like kind of a big phone. So if I have to reach like up,
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  the phone gets a little floppy in my hand.
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  So at the bottom is perfect spot for that.
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  It's focused on simplicity. The the interface is very
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  simple. So it's really easy to pick up
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  and use. And it's going to be a
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  comprehensive content platform in the future.
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  Because of vertical video, we had horizontal video.
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  You can upload as long a video as you want to as long as you
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  pay for it. So think about that too.
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  If you have to pay to speak freely through video on a
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  platform, is that still free speech platform?
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  I just like to think about these things sometimes I like to think
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  about them, but I want you to think about them too.
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  So that's why I bring them up. It's not about heat, not I'm not
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  hating on anybody. But so.
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  Far they both had a positive reaction.
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  Many users appreciate the added functionality and the TikTok
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  like experience on X Suggestions for improvement from a bunch of
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  users. Extended video length limits and
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  editing features. That's one of the big ones.
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  The editing features, TikTok has a lot of those which these other
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  apps don't have yet. But this is version A1.
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  So in the near future probably going to get some extended video
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  lengths maybe and some TikTok like editing features as well.
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  So let me know if you've. Used these app in the comments
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  on whatever podcast platform that you're listening on right
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  now. I'd like to hear what you think
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  about it. I'm a big proponent of XI love
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  free speech. I think it's a great thing I
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  love short form video. You'll find me some mornings
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  when I wake up earlier than the wife.
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  Then I'm just scrolling through Tiktok or skipping through some
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  YouTube Shorts and you'll hear me talk about them here and
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  there. So I'm a huge proponent of short
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  form video and I can't wait to dig into all the short form
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  video that I can find on X and also Blue Sky and check out our
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  Discord. If you want some other
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  information, we can continue this conversation over there.
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  And there's a link in the show notes for you.
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  Also, I'm going to leave a link to my Venmo because I'm going to
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  try to fund this podcast with no ads in the future.
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  If I can get a good user base of people helping me out through
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  Venmo, I will cut off all ads to the whole show.
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  You'll never hear an ad again if we can start getting user base,
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  a monthly user base of people that donate through Venmo.
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  So I'm going to leave my Venmo in the description below.
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  Please take a second. A one dollar, $5, whatever you
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  can do would really help out. If you're a fan of the show and
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  you've been listening for a long time, I would appreciate some
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  help. Some insiders have tipped me off
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  to a few things that have happened with Starship in the
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  past. Now whether that's IFT one
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  through IFT 7, I can't tell you this because this person needs
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  to be hidden. They weren't supposed to tell
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  anybody this, but they told me this.
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  So some of the things that have happened to Starship during the
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  flights that could have gone horribly wrong, but luckily they
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  didn't in these circumstances for some of this stuff.
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  So I have to be very vague here because I'm kind of protecting
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  somebody. This is an insider that's
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  telling me things that have gone wrong with some starships.
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  OK, so you know there's a booster on Starship.
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  There's a giant booster. It's about 250 feet tall and the
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  ship itself is about 150 ish feet tall.
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  So the whole thing is about 400 feet tall.
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  The booster is the part of the bottom, if you're not familiar,
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  and the top part is called Starship.
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  So in between there there is what's it called?
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  There's a, there's a, a, a stage in between there too.
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  And the stage in between there the it's so it's a hot staging.
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  So when the booster in the top stage separate, this part kind
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  of takes all the energy from the top stage when it kicks off and
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  it pushes it to the side and the hot staging ring.
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  Flies off into. You know, into the abyss, but
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  the booster would come back at land eventually in one of these
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  flights. But I can't tell you which one
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  this is for. I mean, this isn't the one.
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  That that actually landed, so I'll let.
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  You speculate all you want. So there's a thing, and I'm
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  looking over here because this is where my information is here.
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  During the separation of the Starship from a Super Heavy
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  booster, unexpected harmonic vibrations developed in the
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  interstage connection points. So everything's moving around,
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  everything's shaking. It's a very violent place
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  between the booster and the ship at all times during the flight.
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  Now the oscillations caused a three second delay in a clean
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  separation. So if you go back and you.
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  Watch some of this footage and I can't show you the footage, but
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  if you watch some of the footage, you'll see there might
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  be a little bit of a delay and they might not even show it on
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  the camera. I've looked through a lot of the
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  footage here and I couldn't find the exact time that they were
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  talking about, but there was a three second delay between the
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  clean separation, which forced the flight computer to adjust
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  the vehicle's trajectory just enough to compensate for the
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  altered flight path. So what this is telling us is
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  that all systems, even if they go awry, the systems that are in
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  place to fix these things, they're there and they work.
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  So that was number one of about, I think I have 5 things here.
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  Yeah, five things that they sent me.
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  And these are for past launches. And like I said before, I can't
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  tell you which one it is because you can might be able to track
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  it to who this person is. There's a methane header tank
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  pressure anomaly as well. Header tank maintaining pressure
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  for the Raptor engines. Methane supply experienced micro
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  fluctuations causing brief thrust instability.
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  Flight computer constantly adjusted the engine mixture
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  ratio to maintain stable combustion, reducing overall
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  efficiency by about 4% for this one flight.
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  So that again, it means that there wasn't an explosion,
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  nothing blew up during this time during the methane header tank
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  anomaly, but it did reduce overall efficiency by about. 4%.
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  And that could be a big deal if you're sending cargo for
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  somebody else into orbit. And if that 4% keeps you away
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  from the orbit that you need to go to, or makes the Starship
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  itself actually push harder and maybe not get you to the orbit
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  that you need to get to, because that 4% is a huge deal.
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  Four out of a. 100 is a pretty big deal.
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  It's not huge, but it's 4% nonetheless.
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  And there's been problems throughout all of these flights
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  with the heat shield of the Starship.
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  We've seen these things blow up, we've seen the meltdown, we've
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  seen them burn to a crisp. There's been heat shield
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  problems since day one with this thing.
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  And it's impossible to get this absolutely perfect because mind
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  you, this is about seven flights in at this point.
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  At the time of this video, it's seven flights in, so seven
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  flights of an experimental rocket, and they're still
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  figuring out the. Heat.
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  Shield tiles. And it's OK, it's still a still
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  not a production vehicle yet. So they're still learning and
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  they're still working on the heat Shields.
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  Now, before I go any further with this, I want to ask you if
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  you're subscribed yet because I've noticed when I look back at
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  the stats that only like like 10% of you are subscribed to the
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  show when you watch the video. So that means about 90% of you
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  just come for this one video. So if you can do me a favor and
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  click the like and the subscribe button to help out the channel,
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  I would really appreciate it because not only do you get my
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  content, but you get content that's similar to this that will
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  be in your feed. So let's go on to the.
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  Next with the heat. Shield So several tiles on the
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  windward side of Starship showed unexpected thermal gradient
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  patterns during re entry, with localized hotspots reaching
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  1800°C instead of around 1500 ish.
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  While still within safety margins, requires the vehicle to
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  adjust its re entry angle by an additional .7°.
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  This could be a big deal in the future if SpaceX was going to
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  land these rockets at .7° could mean that they might not be able
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  to land the rocket back at Star Base or back at Kennedy Space
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  Center because they're off target.
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  So that could be a big deal in the future when Spacex's
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  Starship is trying to land. Now, .7° could also, depending
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  on where it is in the flight, could send it over land and over
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  people and over a scary place. If it does blow up, if it does
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  have a Rudd, a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
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  And if that's the case, it could shatter, it could blow up, and
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  it could just spray the whole area with a molten steel.
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  Imagine that you're just hanging out with your friends in your
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  backyard and you see the bright lights in the sky.
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  That's cool, but it's all shards of super hot, super sharp steel.
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  That's kind of dangerous and I don't know which flight this is
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  for Remind, I'm reminding you this now, but that did happen in
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  a past flight of a Starship. Now let's go on to the grid fin
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  actuator desynchronization. Now I'm going to go tell you
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  this again, this is from an actual person that's very close
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  to Starship's production. Want to let you know this.
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  And one of the four grid fins on Super Heavy experienced A50
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  millisecond lag. And that's doesn't.
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  Seem to be a lot right? But it's in this hydraulic
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  response time creating a asymmetric aerodynamic control
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  during descent boosters flight computer compensates by
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  adjusting the remaining grid fins positions more
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  aggressively. So that's one of the reasons why
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  they have all. Those grid fins if.
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  One is a failure, then the other ones can take up the slack.
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  SpaceX thought everything. It's redundancy ma'am.
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  It was built like that on purpose.
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  Not only is it for the drag and to maneuver the rocket and the
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  the booster back end, but also in case one fails, the other
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  ones can pick up the slack. They thought of everything.
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  Now the last one we have here is the communication array phase
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  lock error. High band, high bandwidth
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  communication system experiences intermittent phase lock errors
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  due to unexpected ionization in the plasma field around the
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  vehicle during RE entry. So think of whatever starships
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  were coming back in that were molten.
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  Hot. Reduces data transmission rates
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  to ground stations by about 60%. For about 45 seconds and that's
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  through critical telemetry, yeah, or though it says critical
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  telemetry remains unaffected. So 45 seconds of data
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  transmission had was missing during this flight.
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  So it could be something where they miss a really important
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  piece of data if they want to use this flight as a a building
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  block for the next flights and they would.
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  Just not have that data for the next ones.
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  So those are five things that no one's ever published before and
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  no one's ever seen before. And the reason why I have these,
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  and I'll tell you this, the reason why I have these is
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  because I spent about a year down at Starbase and I know
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  some. People that are down in that
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  area. That's all I got to say that's.
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  All I'm going to say so. I'd be very bland about
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  everything. I can't tell you everything
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  that's happening. But I can tell you like because
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  of these things, and it hasn't shown really in Spacex's
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  Starship launches and the reentries that any of this has
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  made a huge impact on the actual flights other than maybe the
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  heat shield. That might have been a thing.
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  Grid fan was fixed. Methane tank, methane header
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  tank, pressure anomaly, That might have been a thing, but
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  overall efficiency was down by 4%.
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  It's a pretty big deal eventually.
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  But yeah, they might be able to, you know, fix that up.
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  So I don't know if they fix that up or what flight that was for.
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  They didn't tell me which flight these were for, by the way,
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  because they didn't want to be tracked back.
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  So let me know in the comments what you think about this.
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  really great at. President Trump's inauguration
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  last night, Elon Musk and also President Trump both highlighted
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  that they want to send humans to the surface of Mars within the
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  next 4 years. Now Elon Musk has broad
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  ambitions, grand ambitions to send people to the Red Planet
• 23:31
  and he has since starting SpaceX.
• 23:34
  The first thing that he wanted to do when he first started
• 23:36
  SpaceX was build a rocket, or buy a rocket, I should say, from
• 23:41
  Russia, that would send just a plant to inspire people to visit
• 23:47
  the planet of Mars. But that didn't go through.
• 23:50
  And then he started his own space company, SpaceX, and we
• 23:53
  all know the history of that. Now they're building a Starship
• 23:55
  down a star base in Boca Chica. Star Base, Texas.
• 23:59
  And The thing is massive, 400 feet tall.
• 24:03
  It is built specifically. To go to Mars, it is built
• 24:08
  specifically to go to the moon. It's a deep space rocket.
• 24:13
  Now. It's also a low Earth orbit
• 24:15
  rocket, which will see it sending star link satellites to
• 24:20
  Earth orbit. So SpaceX can make trillions of
• 24:23
  dollars from the broadband satellites, but that will fund
• 24:31
  future Starship development. Now, President Trump wants this
• 24:36
  to happen in his four year term. Elon Musk has stated numerous
• 24:41
  times, back in 2022 actually, Elon has said that he wants to
• 24:46
  put boots on the surface of Mars by 2029.
• 24:51
  Is this a realistic goal for Elon?
• 24:53
  Is this a realistic goal for SpaceX?
• 24:55
  And also, is this a realistic goal for humanity?
• 24:57
  Now, the furthest that we've been out in space is the moon.
• 25:04
  12 people have stood on the moon, have done science on the
• 25:07
  moon, have dug holes in the moon, driven Rovers, played golf
• 25:12
  and jumped around, fallen over things that humans do on the
• 25:16
  moon. But we're going to be going back
• 25:19
  there for the Artemis missions. And NASA thinks the Artemis
• 25:22
  missions are an important factor for us as humanity to get to
• 25:28
  Mars now. If that's the case.
• 25:33
  You know, NASA wants to send people to the moon in 2028.
• 25:39
  Probably 20-30 ish probably is the best bet that we're going to
• 25:43
  be sending people back to the moon due to budget constraints,
• 25:49
  scheduling. I mean, so let's just, let's
• 25:52
  break this down a little bit. They're making space suits.
• 25:55
  Axiom is making space suits for this.
• 25:58
  Other companies are making the the lunar outpost, which will be
• 26:03
  orbiting the lunar orbiter, which will be orbiting the moon.
• 26:08
  And they have to have a Lander, right?
• 26:10
  So they have to have people that land on the moon, but they also
• 26:13
  have to have a big rocket to launch those people to the
• 26:16
  moon's orbit where they will, that'll be on the SLS rocket.
• 26:21
  They'll be going to the moon's orbit from the SLS and joining
• 26:27
  up with Spacex's Starship in the orbit.
• 26:31
  And then SpaceX will lower them down to the surface of the moon
• 26:35
  where they do science discovery, all the things that we did
• 26:40
  before on the moon. They'll be doing them again.
• 26:43
  And there's a buggy that's that's going to be built as
• 26:47
  well. And it's in the process of being
• 26:48
  built right now, which will be pretty cool for people to move
• 26:51
  around on the moon. But what is?
• 26:53
  That How does that translate into Mars?
• 26:57
  One of the things was we have to get people to Mars and get them
• 27:01
  home, right? So one of the things that we're
• 27:05
  going to be doing on the moon is trying to make in situ fuel for
• 27:10
  a Lander. And in order to do that, you
• 27:14
  have to use ice, make it into hydrogen, make some liquid
• 27:20
  oxygen, and therefore you make that out of the ice.
• 27:24
  You may have a a production facility up there where you make
• 27:28
  that into some rocket fuel and you get back into the moon's
• 27:31
  orbit and launch yourself back towards Earth.
• 27:34
  Is that realistic for people to do that within the time frame
• 27:41
  that Elon and Trump are in office?
• 27:44
  That's four years. From now, right now it's
• 27:46
  20252029 is when Elon wants to send people to Mars.
• 27:52
  And if we don't have the ability to do in situ fuel on the moon,
• 27:59
  there's no way as of right now that Elon and his crew have
• 28:03
  planned or at least published in any way how they would get
• 28:08
  people back from the surface of Mars.
• 28:12
  Now they're still testing Starship.
• 28:14
  They just launched Flight 7 with a block 2 Starship on top of a
• 28:20
  booster. The booster made it back to
• 28:22
  starbase totally fine, landed on the chopstick arms and can be
• 28:26
  refurbished. Not reflown yet.
• 28:28
  We don't think of this one's going to refly but the ship
• 28:32
  itself. The Starship deteriorated.
• 28:37
  It blew up over the Indian Ocean.
• 28:39
  There is debris scattered for hundreds of miles.
• 28:44
  Now The thing is Starship doesn't have an eject mechanism
• 28:48
  either. And this isn't even the people
• 28:51
  Starship yet. This is the cargo Starship which
• 28:54
  is specifically designed to just launch Starlink satellites into
• 28:59
  orbit. So going for and I'm not a hater
• 29:03
  here. I want this to be known that I'm
• 29:05
  not a hater of SpaceX. I've spent over a year or about
• 29:09
  a year down at star base as an on the ground reporter on the
• 29:14
  side of the road filming Starship.
• 29:16
  I'm a huge fan of space exploration.
• 29:18
  I'm a huge fan of SpaceX. So don't get me wrong here.
• 29:23
  So when they're building these Starships.
• 29:26
  And they will build them. Relative.
• 29:29
  I mean, as far as rocket go, rockets go, they built them
• 29:32
  extremely fast. They could build, you know,
• 29:36
  tens, 1520 of them in a year. How many launches?
• 29:41
  Can they do a year? Well, that depends on how many
• 29:44
  accidents they have along the way.
• 29:47
  So because of this incident report that needs to be done
• 29:50
  because this Starship blew up, it's going to possibly set them
• 29:54
  back a few months and every few months that they're set back.
• 29:57
  Even though the. Rockets are ready.
• 29:59
  You know, pretty soon the Rockets will be ready.
• 30:02
  To fly, Elon Musk said about four weeks between the last
• 30:06
  flight, the Flight 7 and Flight A, He said about a a month
• 30:10
  before the next hardware is ready.
• 30:12
  And I believe him. It'll be about a month before
• 30:14
  they get all the the testing done.
• 30:17
  And they're in there tested, most of it.
• 30:19
  The boosters been tested, the ship's been tested already.
• 30:22
  So they're going to continue testing and move him down to the
• 30:25
  launch tower as soon as possible.
• 30:27
  Now, the FAA and the incident report, this is for current
• 30:30
  events. So we have to really think about
• 30:32
  what's happening right now and then think about what could
• 30:36
  happen for the next six months to a year before anything
• 30:43
  happens with Artemis or even getting star links into orbit.
• 30:49
  The Block 2 Starship, there was a leak of some sort and it
• 30:54
  exploded. Elon thought, thinks they can
• 30:57
  fix it out. There's going to be a fire
• 30:58
  suppression systems added, There's going to be venting
• 31:01
  added. So there's a possibility that
• 31:03
  they fix this for the next flight.
• 31:05
  But if they don't, that would push them back a few more months
• 31:08
  too. And also, this incident report
• 31:11
  is something that SpaceX does. So SpaceX figures out what
• 31:17
  happened to the Starship, exactly what happened to the
• 31:19
  Starship. No guessing.
• 31:21
  They figure out everything in fine minute detail.
• 31:24
  They report it to the FAA, and if the FAA is OK with the result
• 31:31
  of that investigation, then the FAA will allow them to fly
• 31:36
  Starships again. Could the FAA put a lot of
• 31:40
  pressure on Starship and on Elon Musk and SpaceX?
• 31:43
  Yes, they could. With the Trump administration
• 31:47
  trying to, I wouldn't say dismantle these operations, but
• 31:54
  kind of tone it down a little bit so they can allow these
• 31:58
  launches to happen at a faster pace.
• 32:00
  The FAA might have to step back a little bit.
• 32:03
  And it depends on, you know, if there's executive orders issued
• 32:07
  or if Elon and company, because Elon's really close with the
• 32:11
  president. Elon has doge, Elon has in his
• 32:15
  pocket right now the the most wealthy person in the world is
• 32:22
  right next to the president. So back door deals going on,
• 32:28
  they talk a lot. And I'm not, you know, it's not
• 32:30
  conspiracy stuff here. This is just what happens to
• 32:32
  people. You know, it's a job.
• 32:34
  So when people talk to other people and Elon's like, hey, do
• 32:38
  you want to be the person that sends people to Mars?
• 32:41
  Do you want to be the president while humans set foot on Mars?
• 32:45
  This will go down in history for the rest of humanity.
• 32:48
  How can we get this done? How can we get these people to
• 32:52
  Mars on your term? Four years.
• 32:54
  They have four years to build a ship.
• 32:57
  They can send people to Mars and they can survive everything from
• 33:03
  the Earth. All the way to Mars.
• 33:07
  Can you build that ship? I believe SpaceX could do it.
• 33:11
  Is it going to take a lot of time?
• 33:12
  Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 33:14
  It's going to take a lot of time.
• 33:16
  Can they send an uncrewed cargo mission within the next few
• 33:20
  years? Possibly.
• 33:21
  There's a window for them to open up travel in 2026, but if
• 33:27
  they miss that deadline in 2026 to send anything to Mars and
• 33:30
  Elon wants to send cargo in a, you know, to the, to orbit Mars
• 33:35
  or possibly a few Starships to land on Mars, the next launch
• 33:40
  window is in late 2028 into early 2029.
• 33:44
  And if they miss that window, it's another 26 months.
• 33:49
  So if they don't do this, this is a rapid iteration of
• 33:53
  Starship. 4 years of building this thing.
• 33:56
  It's been about 10:00-ish years. I'm gonna this broad spectrum
• 34:01
  here. 10:00-ish years of them from the very beginning of like
• 34:05
  the planning stages of Starship until now.
• 34:08
  Now we see physical starships launching, We see physical
• 34:12
  starships blowing up. We also see the booster not
• 34:15
  landing properly. We, you know, and this is early,
• 34:18
  early development right now too. So I'm not throwing any shade at
• 34:21
  these guys and the the fact that we're still in early development
• 34:26
  means if. They have a. 100 launches in a
• 34:28
  year, which Good Shotwell said they have to do in order to be
• 34:33
  safe. You know, they want to do
• 34:35
  thousands of launches to be safe in order for people to be inside
• 34:40
  of a Starship. They haven't even launched a
• 34:41
  human Starship yet. They don't.
• 34:44
  They can't even get the cargo Starship right, which isn't a
• 34:47
  bad thing because we all know it's iterative design and we
• 34:52
  just have to take that into consideration.
• 34:54
  Do I want them to do it? Absolutely.
• 34:56
  I want them to launch uncrewed ships.
• 35:00
  In 2026, I want them anything they could send anything.
• 35:04
  It doesn't have to come back, you know, it doesn't have to
• 35:07
  come back to Earth because if they don't figure that part out,
• 35:10
  the coming back to Earth. But if they figure out how to.
• 35:13
  Launch and land something on Mars.
• 35:16
  It took NASA decades to figure out how to launch and land
• 35:19
  something on Mars successfully in the way they did it.
• 35:23
  If you remember, they did it in numerous ways.
• 35:26
  If it was a small Lander, they surrounded it with basically
• 35:30
  Lander bubble wrap. You know, the, there was a Rover
• 35:34
  and it had balloons around it and as it fell into, onto the
• 35:38
  surface of Mars, it bounced and the, the balloons deflated
• 35:43
  basically when they came to a stop.
• 35:46
  And also the Seven minutes of terror, which is one of the
• 35:51
  Rovers that had a sky crane. So it was a hovering sky crane
• 35:57
  that dropped the Rover from chains basically, and lowered it
• 36:02
  down to the surface of Mars. Now can.
• 36:04
  You get a 40. Story building.
• 36:06
  Actually, it's a 25 story building.
• 36:10
  This is about 200 plus feet tall to land vertically on the
• 36:16
  surface of Mars. With no landing.
• 36:19
  Gear because right now Starship doesn't have landing.
• 36:22
  Gear. What they want to do is make an
• 36:26
  in situ landing pad for Starship to land.
• 36:30
  There's no landing gear right now.
• 36:32
  We haven't seen any landing gear other than the Moon variant, the
• 36:36
  lunar variant of Starship, and we haven't seen any indication
• 36:41
  that the Mars Starship would have any landing gear.
• 36:45
  So how are they going to do this by 2029?
• 36:47
  Because they're not going to build another.
• 36:48
  They're not going to build a tower on Mars, of course.
• 36:53
  Could they build a land? Could they send things in this
• 36:55
  first cargo mission or the 1st cargo missions to make an
• 36:59
  institute landing area for Starship on Mars?
• 37:03
  Could they just land on the rocky surface of Mars?
• 37:07
  And there's the. Possibility.
• 37:09
  But how do they do that without damaging the rocket itself or
• 37:13
  the engines? Because imagine those Raptor
• 37:16
  engines floating down to the surface of Mars, and as it's
• 37:18
  floating down, it's kicking up rocks and dust and debris, and
• 37:24
  those could kick up and destroy one of the engines.
• 37:27
  Those astronauts are stranded there forever.
• 37:30
  They would likely die on Mars. There's no coming back.
• 37:34
  There's no rescue missions. When you go to Mars, you have to
• 37:37
  wait for the next launch window. And if you can't make it for the
• 37:41
  26 months, watch the movie The Martian.
• 37:46
  That's very similar to what would happen.
• 37:47
  You'd have to use whatever tools you have available to you, or
• 37:51
  you have to use whatever food is available to you to grow more
• 37:55
  food. But if you can do uncrewed
• 37:58
  starships beforehand, you could make that a possibility now.
• 38:04
  There's so many logistics to do. Could they send people around
• 38:08
  Mars in the time that Trump is in office?
• 38:13
  4 years for people to fly around Mars.
• 38:17
  Remember the first flights around the moon weren't
• 38:21
  spectacular. There were just people in pods
• 38:25
  flying around the moon. The pods themselves flew around
• 38:28
  the moon. Just to see if it.
• 38:30
  Would work. Their test pilots, these people,
• 38:34
  their test pilots, the first people to fly around the moon.
• 38:43
  It's going to be a whole different situation then what
• 38:51
  happens in Mars at Mars 20th. It takes months to get to Mars,
• 38:55
  6 to 9 months to get to Mars, and therefore 6 to 9 months to
• 39:02
  get to Mars. And you also will do a fly by.
• 39:06
  You probably have a crew member or five crew members with you,
• 39:10
  four or five crew members with you.
• 39:11
  It's going to be a it's going to be a long trip.
• 39:16
  And could you imagine, just think about this, you go on a
• 39:19
  road trip with your family and you're gone for, you know, maybe
• 39:22
  it takes you a day or two, a day or two and you know, you get to
• 39:26
  your destination and by that time you're exhausted, right?
• 39:29
  Like you get to the destination after two or three days of
• 39:31
  driving in a car, you're bored, you're exhausted and you just
• 39:35
  want to chill for a little bit. You know, you're excited though,
• 39:37
  right? But imagine doing that for nine
• 39:40
  months. This like staying in your room,
• 39:43
  your bedroom. Because it's not going to be a
• 39:44
  big space. But think about that, like,
• 39:48
  could you do it yourself? Astronauts do it on the
• 39:51
  International Space Station all the time.
• 39:52
  They spent about a year up there.
• 39:54
  So could they spend nine months to get there and then nine
• 39:58
  months to get home? That's, you know, over two
• 40:01
  years. You know, it's around 2 years.
• 40:06
  So yeah, it's going to be a, it's going to be a tough one,
• 40:11
  like a year and a half in flight.
• 40:15
  To go to Mars. And then you'd probably park in
• 40:18
  an orbit, either A, around the moon or B, around Earth when you
• 40:23
  come back. So you'd have to park in the
• 40:26
  orbit. And then because they're not
• 40:28
  going to have landing gear, they're not going to have any
• 40:30
  way for these people to land Starship unless they figure out
• 40:34
  a way for it to flip to the flip maneuver and land on the surface
• 40:38
  on the chopsticks, which they're working on.
• 40:41
  Elon says he wants to do it in the next few flights.
• 40:45
  So if they can figure that out and they can use a very dumped
• 40:48
  down version of a Starship to go to Mars with just a few
• 40:51
  portholes, you know, because what we see from the renders
• 40:55
  are. Huge.
• 40:56
  Windows on the nose cone. But that's not going to happen
• 41:00
  for the first flight. There's no way they have.
• 41:02
  They don't know how to do the technology for that yet.
• 41:05
  They're still working on that. They're working on all of this
• 41:07
  behind the scenes, but it hasn't been tested and it won't be
• 41:11
  tested. At least if they're going to be
• 41:12
  flying in within four years. They have to test this for the
• 41:16
  2026 flight. So in about a year, they have to
• 41:21
  be able to fly a full Starship with Windows.
• 41:25
  You know the full, the full thing where people will fly in
• 41:29
  it to Mars in order to test it just to send cargo there.
• 41:35
  And then by 2029 20 late 20/28/2020 9:00 they have to
• 41:40
  have a full rocket ready to go. Now, mind you, they can send
• 41:44
  things like the window is a window where it's the fastest to
• 41:48
  get there, right? They can send things before and
• 41:51
  after take a little bit longer to get there, but they could do
• 41:55
  it. They could possibly do it.
• 41:57
  So it takes nine months to get there at the fastest, 6-9 months
• 42:00
  the fastest time. And if it's not the fastest time
• 42:04
  or in the fastest window, that could be, you know, a year to
• 42:06
  get there. And that's, you know, that's
• 42:08
  still something that they should test for.
• 42:10
  And if they can launch, you know, they have two launch
• 42:14
  towers at Starbase, pretty soon they're going to be the second
• 42:18
  tower will be a fully operational.
• 42:20
  And when that's fully operational, they will be able
• 42:22
  to launch two rockets, I'm assuming not simultaneously, but
• 42:28
  within a specific launch window of each other, probably within
• 42:31
  24 hours of each other. So they'll be able to crank
• 42:34
  these things out at a phenomenal rate, have two or three launches
• 42:40
  per week at the best. I mean, that would be, that
• 42:47
  would be remarkable if they got to that point.
• 42:50
  Making the Raptor engines, that's their choke point.
• 42:54
  If they can reuse the engines, you know they're going to be
• 42:56
  able to reuse the boosters. Once they get that nailed and
• 42:58
  they can reuse every single booster, then it'll be just
• 43:02
  making ships and engines. So the boosters will be fine for
• 43:06
  10 flights and making more ships is the, you know, is the would
• 43:11
  be the choke point at that at that time.
• 43:13
  Because having the the engines being reusable and the booster
• 43:17
  be reusable, and eventually the Starship being reusable, the top
• 43:21
  part that will be clutch in doing the testing that they need
• 43:25
  in order to fly people to Mars. Now are they going to get to
• 43:29
  that in the next year so they can ship a cargo ship to the
• 43:34
  surface of Mars or around Mars orbit?
• 43:37
  That's a wait and see kind of thing.
• 43:39
  They've caught 2. Boosters, the first one they
• 43:42
  caught and they were they said that they were telemetry was off
• 43:47
  and their systems were off like some of their systems were like
• 43:50
  a little bit acting a little bit wonky.
• 43:53
  So when they landed the first one, it wasn't 100% precise.
• 43:59
  They landed it, but they didn't land it super precise.
• 44:02
  The second one after that, the one after that, they had a ditch
• 44:05
  it into the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump is going to call the
• 44:08
  Gulf of America, apparently. And then the third one, they
• 44:12
  landed it on the on the booster catch arms.
• 44:15
  And then that's the one that the Starship blew up over the over
• 44:19
  the Indian Ocean. So there was definitely
• 44:22
  precedent. That the Starship booster, his
• 44:26
  land, the Super Heavy booster has landed twice and that is
• 44:30
  huge as far as reusability goes. Now, if they can nail that
• 44:36
  within the next, you know, if they nail every single one for
• 44:39
  the next 10 flights and they start reusing boosters after the
• 44:43
  fourth attempt of landing, a successful attempt at landing, I
• 44:48
  believe they can start reusing these things after 10 flights.
• 44:53
  You know, I, I. Don't see a reason why not.
• 44:55
  As long as the engines are intact, they can refurbish the
• 44:58
  booster, They could reuse it, they could re fly it.
• 45:01
  And then once they start catching starships too, there's
• 45:06
  a possibility that they can just reuse the same Starship.
• 45:10
  They wouldn't reuse the same Starship in order to go to Mars,
• 45:14
  of course, because they need kind of like, I mean, a flight
• 45:17
  tested Starship is a, a, a tested Starship.
• 45:21
  It's like it's a test drive for a car.
• 45:24
  You don't get a car off the lot without testing it and testing
• 45:28
  it. You have to drive it a little
• 45:29
  bit unless it's, you know, a higher end car.
• 45:32
  But you get they do have to do tests before you fly a rocket to
• 45:38
  Mars. So a flight tested rocket and a
• 45:40
  flight tested booster might be better than a brand new one
• 45:43
  that's never been tested before. And that's what they found out
• 45:46
  with Falcon 9. Is that the flight proven
• 45:49
  boosters work just as good as a brand new one.
• 45:54
  And they're kind of hesitant. They're like, I don't know, like
• 45:57
  an untested booster, We don't know if it's going to work.
• 46:00
  So the Starship, the tested Starship is probably going to be
• 46:04
  their first flight to Mars. But I want to, I want to say
• 46:08
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• 46:49
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• 46:53
  with the Trump administration coming into play that there's a
• 46:56
  possibility they could like they could just throw all everything
• 47:01
  at Starship. Like not government funding, but
• 47:04
  they could push, you know, government agencies to just let
• 47:09
  Elon and SpaceX do what they got to do, you know, relax some
• 47:13
  government stuff. So Elon can launch 100 rockets
• 47:19
  in a year from Starbase and also they're going to start building,
• 47:24
  they are building the infrastructure at Kennedy Space
• 47:28
  Center to launch more rockets. So if they could launch two
• 47:31
  starships from Starbase and then two starships from Kennedy Space
• 47:34
  Center. Even I mean.
• 47:35
  Even one Starship from Kennedy Space Center, so only have one
• 47:38
  tower there to begin with. Three rockets in a day.
• 47:43
  The FAA is going to be really busy.
• 47:45
  That's all I got to say. The government agencies have got
• 47:48
  to step it up. So Elon is ready to take the
• 47:51
  next step. Is humanity ready to?
• 47:53
  Take the next step. I don't know.
• 47:55
  That's a question we all have to ask ourselves.
• 48:01
  So I have to be very vague here because I'm kind of protecting
• 48:04
  somebody. This is an insider that's
• 48:06
  telling me things that have gone wrong with some Starships.
• 48:10
  Some insiders have tipped me off to a few things that have
• 48:12
  happened with Starship in the past.
• 48:14
  Now, whether that's IFT one through IFT 7, I can't tell you
• 48:18
  this because this person needs to be hidden.
• 48:23
  They weren't supposed to tell anybody this, but they told me
• 48:26
  this. So some of the things that have
• 48:28
  happened to Starship during the flights that could have gone
• 48:31
  horribly wrong, Luckily they didn't in these circumstances
• 48:35
  for some of this stuff. OK, so you know, there's a
• 48:39
  booster on Starship. There's a giant booster.
• 48:42
  It's about 250 feet tall and the ship itself is about 100 and. 50
• 48:46
  ish feet. Tall.
• 48:47
  So the whole thing is about 400 feet tall.
• 48:50
  The booster is the part of the bottom, if you're not familiar,
• 48:52
  and the top part is called Starship.
• 48:55
  So in between there is the hot staging.
• 48:58
  So when the booster in the top stage separate this part kind of
• 49:03
  takes all the energy from the top stage when it kicks off and
• 49:07
  it pushes it to the side and the hostaging ring flies off into,
• 49:12
  you know, into the abyss. But the booster would come back
• 49:16
  and land eventually and one of these flights, but I can't tell
• 49:19
  you which one this is for. I mean, this isn't the one that
• 49:22
  that actually landed. So I'll let you speculate all
• 49:25
  you want. So there's a thing, and I'm
• 49:28
  looking over here because this is where my information is here.
• 49:31
  During the separation of the Starship from a Super Heavy
• 49:33
  booster, unexpected harmonic vibrations developed in the
• 49:38
  interstage connection points. So everything's moving around,
• 49:42
  everything's shaking. It's a very violent place
• 49:45
  between the booster and the ship at all times during the flight.
• 49:49
  Now the oscillations caused a three second delay in a clean
• 49:54
  separation. So if you.
• 49:56
  Go back and you watch some of this footage and I can't show
• 49:59
  you the footage, but if you watch some of the footage,
• 50:01
  you'll see there might be a little bit of a delay and they
• 50:04
  might not even show it on the camera.
• 50:06
  I've looked through a lot of the footage here and I couldn't find
• 50:09
  the exact time that they were talking about, but there was a
• 50:13
  three second delay between the clean separation which forced
• 50:17
  the flight computer to adjust the vehicle's trajectory just
• 50:21
  enough to compensate. For the altered flight path.
• 50:26
  So what this is telling us is that all systems, even if they
• 50:31
  go awry, the systems that are in place to fix these things,
• 50:36
  they're there and they work. So that was number one of about,
• 50:41
  I think I have 5 things here. Yeah, five things that they sent
• 50:44
  me. And these are for past launches.
• 50:47
  And like I said before, I can't tell you which one it is because
• 50:51
  you can might be able to. Track it to who this person is.
• 50:55
  There's a methane header tank pressure anomaly as well.
• 50:59
  Header tank maintaining pressure for the Raptor engines.
• 51:01
  Methane supply experienced micro fluctuations causing brief
• 51:08
  thrust instability. Flight Computer constantly
• 51:11
  adjusted the engine mixture ratio to maintain stable
• 51:16
  combustion, reducing overall efficiency by about 4% for this
• 51:21
  one flight, so that again it means that there wasn't an
• 51:26
  explosion. Nothing blew up during this time
• 51:30
  during the methane header tank anomaly, but it did reduce
• 51:35
  overall efficiency by about. 4%. And that could be a big deal if
• 51:40
  you're sending cargo for somebody else into orbit and if
• 51:43
  that 4% keeps you away from the orbit that you need to go to.
• 51:49
  Or makes the Starship itself actually push harder and maybe
• 51:53
  not get you to the orbit that you need to get to because that
• 51:55
  4% is a huge deal. Four out of a. 100 is a pretty
• 51:58
  big deal. It's not huge, but it's 4%
• 52:02
  nonetheless. And there's been problems
• 52:07
  throughout all of these flights with the heat shield of the
• 52:11
  Starship. We've seen these things blow up,
• 52:13
  we've seen the meltdown, we've seen them burn to a crisp.
• 52:19
  There's been heat shield problems since day one with this
• 52:23
  thing. And it's impossible to get this
• 52:26
  absolutely perfect because mind you, this is about seven flights
• 52:31
  in at this point. At the time of this video, it's
• 52:33
  seven flights in, so seven flights of an experimental
• 52:36
  rocket. And they're still figuring out
• 52:37
  the heat shield tiles and it's OK.
• 52:41
  It's still a still not a production vehicle yet.
• 52:45
  So they're still learning and they're still.
• 52:47
  Working on the heat. Shields.
• 52:49
  Now, before I go any further with this, I want to ask you if
• 52:52
  you're subscribed yet because I've noticed when I look back at
• 52:55
  the stats that only like like 10% of you are subscribed to the
• 53:00
  show when you watch the video. So that means about 90% of you
• 53:04
  just come for this one video. So if you could do me a favor
• 53:07
  and click the like and the subscribe button to help out the
• 53:10
  channel, I would really appreciate it because not only
• 53:12
  do you get my content, but you get content that's similar to
• 53:15
  this. That will be in your feed.
• 53:17
  So let's go on to the next with the heat shield.
• 53:19
  So several tiles on the windward side of Starship showed
• 53:24
  unexpected thermal gradient patterns during RE entry.
• 53:28
  With localized hotspots. Reaching 1800°C instead of
• 53:32
  around. 1500 ish. While still within safety
• 53:36
  margins, requires the vehicle to adjust its re entry angle.
• 53:39
  By an additional. .7° This could be a big.
• 53:44
  Deal in the future. If SpaceX was going to land
• 53:48
  these rockets at .7°. Could mean that.
• 53:52
  They might not be able to land the rocket back at Starbase or
• 53:56
  back at Kennedy Space Center because they're off target, so
• 54:00
  that could be a big deal in the future when Spacex's Starship is
• 54:05
  trying to land. Now .7° could also, depending on
• 54:11
  where it is in the flight, could send it.
• 54:13
  Over land and over people and over.
• 54:15
  A scary place if it does blow up, if it does have a Rudd, a
• 54:20
  rapid unscheduled disassembly. And if that's the case, it could
• 54:25
  shatter, it could blow up, and it could just spray the whole
• 54:29
  area with a molten steel. Imagine that you're just hanging
• 54:34
  out with your friends in your backyard and you see the bright
• 54:38
  lights in the sky. That's cool, but it's all shards
• 54:41
  of super hot, super sharp steel. That's kind of dangerous.
• 54:46
  And I don't know which flight this is for remind, I'm
• 54:49
  reminding you this now, but that did happen in a past flight of a
• 54:54
  Starship. Now let's go on to the grid fin
• 54:58
  actuator desynchronization. Now I'm going to go tell you
• 55:02
  this again, this is from an actual person that's very close
• 55:07
  to Starship's production. Want to let you know this and
• 55:11
  one of the four grid fins on Super Heavy experienced A50
• 55:15
  millisecond lag. And that's doesn't seem to be a
• 55:19
  lot, right? But it's in this hydraulic
• 55:21
  response time creating a asymmetric aerodynamic control
• 55:27
  during descent boosters flight computer compensates by
• 55:30
  adjusting the remaining grid fins positions more
• 55:32
  aggressively. So that's one of the reasons why
• 55:35
  they have all those grid fins. If one is a failure, then the
• 55:38
  other ones can take up the slack.
• 55:42
  SpaceX thought of everything. It's redundancy, ma'am.
• 55:45
  It was built like that on purpose.
• 55:48
  Not only is it for the drag and to maneuver the rocket and the
• 55:51
  the booster back end, but also in case one fails, the other
• 55:56
  ones can. Pick up the slack, they thought
• 55:57
  of everything. How low are Tesla's prices
• 56:02
  dropping for the Model Y, and also what's driving these new
• 56:06
  discounts? And is it worth holding out for
• 56:09
  the updated Model Y known as Juniper?
• 56:12
  Also, Cybertruck is seeing some price cuts just months after its
• 56:16
  launch. Let's unpack these details and
• 56:18
  explore what this means for Tesla, and, more importantly,
• 56:22
  what it means for you, the customer.
• 56:25
  Tesla is rolling out significant discounts on select Model Y
• 56:28
  inventory vehicles in the United States, fueling interest among
• 56:32
  buyers seeking lower prices for one of the most popular electric
• 56:36
  vehicles on the market. The discounts arrive as Tesla
• 56:39
  prepares to release the anticipated Juniper update to
• 56:42
  the Model Y later this year. And the current discounts make
• 56:45
  some Model Y configurations cheaper than ever, a move likely
• 56:49
  intended to clear existing inventory before the updated
• 56:52
  model debuts. Now, the model wise importance
• 56:55
  to Tesla cannot be overstated. According to Kelley Blue Book,
• 56:59
  the Model Y was the best selling electric vehicle in the United
• 57:02
  States in 2024, far outpacing as competitors.
• 57:06
  When combined with the Model 3, Tesla's two most accessible
• 57:09
  vehicles accounted for over 40% of the US electric vehicle
• 57:14
  market last year. Now the dominance has solidified
• 57:16
  Tesla's leadership in the EV sector, but it's also created
• 57:19
  challenges as competitors like Ford, Rivian, and Lucid Motors
• 57:24
  continue to narrow this gap. Current discounts of the Model Y
• 57:27
  inventory are particularly noteworthy for their pricing,
• 57:30
  which in some cases brings the vehicles cost below $40,000.
• 57:35
  This price includes the $7500 federal EV tax credit, which
• 57:39
  applies to many Tesla models and, for example, a long range
• 57:43
  all-wheel drive Model Y in Stealth Gray available through
• 57:46
  Tesla's inventory. Page is listed at. $38,570
• 57:50
  before taxes and fees is nearly $2000 less than the same model
• 57:55
  order directly from Tesla's build to order system where it's
• 57:58
  priced at $40,490.00. These inventory specific
• 58:03
  discounts effectively reduce the cost of the all-wheel drive
• 58:07
  Model Y to levels typically associated with Tesla's lower
• 58:11
  priced rear wheel drive variant. Buyers looking for an all-wheel
• 58:15
  drive Model Y which offers better handling and performance
• 58:18
  may find this an attractive opportunity, especially with
• 58:21
  Tesla Straightforward ordering online which makes the deals
• 58:25
  really easy to spot. Go check them out right now at
• 58:28
  tesla.com. Now, leasing options are also
• 58:30
  more affordable for discounted Model Y inventory.
• 58:33
  A standard lease for an all-wheel drive Model Y is
• 58:36
  around $399 per month before taxes and fees.
• 58:40
  However, discounts on inventory vehicles allow Tesla to offer
• 58:44
  slightly reduced monthly payments, with some leases
• 58:47
  dropping to about $10 less $385 per month.
• 58:51
  But this may seem like a small difference, though.
• 58:53
  Over a typical three-year lease term, it adds up to meaningful
• 58:56
  savings for cost conscious customers.
• 59:00
  Now. It's essential, however, for
• 59:02
  potential buyers to understand that these discounts apply to
• 59:04
  the current version of the Model Y, which Tesla first launched in
• 59:08
  March of 2020. And while the vehicle remains a
• 59:11
  top seller, it's no longer Tesla's newest design.
• 59:15
  It's been updated. There's a Model Y called the
• 59:18
  Juniper, which is announced earlier this month in China and
• 59:21
  is expected to bring notable improvements when it arrives in
• 59:24
  the United States, though the exact timing remains unclear.
• 59:30
  The Juniper update is widely believed to include both
• 59:33
  interior and exterior design enhancements, similar to the
• 59:36
  changes Tesla made to the Model 3 in 2023.
• 59:39
  And while many details remain speculative, analysts suggest
• 59:42
  that the updated version will appeal primarily to returning
• 59:45
  Tesla customers rather than first time buyers.
• 59:49
  Many customers for the update will be returning Tesla owners.
• 59:53
  This suggests that the discounts on the current Model Y are
• 59:55
  likely aimed at enticing new customers into the Tesla
• 59:58
  ecosystem before the refresh model arrives.
• 1:00:02
  Now, beyond the Model 3, Tesla's also slashing prices on the
• 1:00:05
  recently launched Cybertruck, the electric pickup that has
• 1:00:09
  drawn equal parts fascination and criticism since its
• 1:00:12
  unveiling. The Cybertruck, which first
• 1:00:15
  rolled off production lines in late 2023, has faced numerous
• 1:00:18
  challenges including delays, production bottlenecks and
• 1:00:21
  criticisms of its unconventional design, and also its tow hitch
• 1:00:25
  being ripped off on some YouTube videos.
• 1:00:29
  Now, Tesla's website now lists discounts of up to $1600 on new
• 1:00:33
  Cybertrucks configurations, bringing the starting price of
• 1:00:35
  the vehicle to $72,000, and there are $72,890.00 and demo
• 1:00:42
  units. Vehicles used for test drives or
• 1:00:43
  display purposes are also seeing steep price reductions, with
• 1:00:48
  discounts reaching as much as $3410 off.
• 1:00:52
  Even with these markdowns, though, the Cyber Truck remains
• 1:00:56
  far more expensive than initially promised.
• 1:00:58
  Elon Musk said there was going to be around $40,000, but the
• 1:01:04
  figures been abandoned and the production costs have soared.
• 1:01:08
  So $80,000 ish is what you're going to get a cyber truck for,
• 1:01:12
  so about double the price. So report suggests that Tesla is
• 1:01:16
  grappling with significant production challenges at a Sciga
• 1:01:19
  factory in Texas where the cyber truck is built.
• 1:01:22
  And some Tesla employees have even been reassigned from the
• 1:01:26
  cyber truck assembly line to focus on manufacturing the Model
• 1:01:29
  Y, Tesla's top selling vehicle. It's important for the Model Y
• 1:01:34
  to continue to grow in this, the biggest part of Tesla's bottom
• 1:01:38
  line, especially as the company navigates increasing competition
• 1:01:42
  in the coming years. Now, the cyber truck hasn't been
• 1:01:46
  a smooth launch since. Since it launched, vehicle has
• 1:01:49
  faced criticism for the exterior.
• 1:01:51
  Of course, it's weird looking on the road is big, is bulky, it's
• 1:01:56
  angular, and it's been prone to rust and spotting.
• 1:02:01
  In December, Tesla recalled 70,000 Cyber Trucks due to
• 1:02:05
  issues with the tire pressure monitor system, marking the 7th
• 1:02:08
  recall for the sharp edged electric pickup.
• 1:02:11
  And But despite these setbacks, the Cyber Truck remains a
• 1:02:13
  cornerstone of the product lineup, even as its polarizing
• 1:02:17
  design continues to divide public opinion.
• 1:02:22
  Now, price wars within the EV market have added another layer
• 1:02:28
  for Tesla. Legacy automakers Ford, General
• 1:02:31
  Motors and Rivian also and Lucid, the new guys have been
• 1:02:35
  aggressively competing on price to capture market share.
• 1:02:38
  For Tesla, which is historically positioned itself as a premium
• 1:02:42
  vehicle, these market dynamics have necessitated more frequent
• 1:02:46
  price adjustments. This counts on the Y and the
• 1:02:48
  cyber truck also raised questions about demand for
• 1:02:51
  Tesla's vehicles. And while Tesla has consistently
• 1:02:53
  ranked among the top selling EV brands, the company has faced
• 1:02:57
  slowing sales growth in recent quarters, especially in regions
• 1:03:00
  like China and Europe. And lists have speculated that
• 1:03:03
  these price reductions may be a strategic response to waning
• 1:03:06
  demand as Tesla seeks to maintain its competitive edge.
• 1:03:10
  But for potential buyers, the question of whether to take
• 1:03:13
  advantage of current discounts. Or wait for new.
• 1:03:16
  Models remains central consideration right now.
• 1:03:20
  While the current Model Y offers excellent value with its reduced
• 1:03:23
  price, the upcoming Juniper update may sway some customers
• 1:03:27
  to wait for the latest features and design improvements.
• 1:03:31
  Meanwhile, the Cyber Trucks price cuts could make the pickup
• 1:03:35
  a more attractive option for those willing to overlook its
• 1:03:38
  design and production hiccups. It's a weird looking truck
• 1:03:41
  compared to other vehicles on the road, but some people love
• 1:03:44
  it, and Tesla's strategy will likely hinge on how well the
• 1:03:48
  company can balance its existing product lineup with its plans
• 1:03:52
  for innovation and expansion. The Model I and the Cyber Truck
• 1:03:56
  are two different aspects of Tesla's approach.
• 1:03:59
  The former is a proven volume seller and the letter as a bold
• 1:04:03
  statement and an experiment that will redefined electric vehicles
• 1:04:08
  for the future. Now if you want my take on this,
• 1:04:12
  you can go to Discord. We have a Discord.
• 1:04:14
  You can check it out in a link in the show notes.
• 1:04:16
  But I'm going to give you a little taste here.
• 1:04:18
  Let's talk about this in the Discord because we can have a
• 1:04:20
  bigger conversation about this. I am a big fan of the Model.
• 1:04:24
  Yi almost pulled the trigger out of Model Y just about six months
• 1:04:29
  ago and I held off. I don't know why, but I held off
• 1:04:33
  on it. I currently am looking into the
• 1:04:37
  Juniper. I'm waiting for the Juniper to
• 1:04:39
  come through and I've seen all the improvements to the Model Y
• 1:04:43
  and I will pick up a Juniper when they launch.
• 1:04:46
  It's going to be a great car for a family.
• 1:04:49
  I have a family now and the the cyber truck, which we talked
• 1:04:53
  about in this episode, not so great for me.
• 1:04:56
  It's a big car. I have a small child, you know,
• 1:04:59
  large vehicle, very impractical for that.
• 1:05:02
  But it's a statement. It's a fashion piece, if you
• 1:05:04
  will. You show up at any place with
• 1:05:06
  that truck and people are going to look at you.
• 1:05:09
  And I'm OK with that. But the Model Y seems to fit my
• 1:05:11
  style a little bit more. I like a coupe and I like a
• 1:05:14
  sedan, and the Model Y is. That's a great vehicle for the
• 1:05:20
  price. If you get an older model
• 1:05:21
  vehicle, Model Y, that's a great deal there right now.
• 1:05:26
  So check out Tesla's website for any deals you can get.
• 1:05:30
  Just keep checking back everyday.
• 1:05:32
  They might post something new. And I know when I was looking
• 1:05:34
  for mine, there were deals going on where I could have gotten
• 1:05:38
  probably, I was, I think it's about 2500 to 3000 off when I
• 1:05:43
  was going to buy mine and I just didn't pull the trigger.
• 1:05:46
  I, I, there's something going on and I've heard about the
• 1:05:49
  Juniper. I heard they were going to
• 1:05:50
  refresh the Model Y. So I just had to, I waited a few
• 1:05:53
  months and then by that time I was also going to pull the
• 1:05:56
  trigger and I stopped and I stopped myself and I was like,
• 1:05:59
  there's got something new is going to happen.
• 1:06:01
  The refresh is going to happen. So I got to wait, I thought.
• 1:06:04
  I thought it was either going. To be that or like the $25,000
• 1:06:07
  test so that we've all been hearing about.
• 1:06:09
  So I just held, I hold, hold, hold and then now the Juniper's
• 1:06:14
  coming out. So that will be my next vehicle.
• 1:06:17
  That's my plan. So if you want more information,
• 1:06:21
  go to the Discord link in the description or show notes.
• 1:06:24
  Also thank you so much for all the continued.
• 1:06:27
  Support. There's.
• 1:06:29
  Some subject matter in this episode that might not be OK for
• 1:06:33
  some people. It's about Elon Musk and his
• 1:06:36
  recent Nazi esque salutes and his arm movements, arm motions,
• 1:06:43
  whatever you want to call them. That's what this episode is
• 1:06:46
  about. So if you have a problem with
• 1:06:47
  that, if it's going to make you upset, you don't need to listen
• 1:06:50
  to this. There's there's not a lot going
• 1:06:53
  on here reporting the news about Anti Defamation League and also
• 1:07:00
  Tesla, some social media stuff and how the public's little bit
• 1:07:03
  divided. So if that's going to offend
• 1:07:05
  you, just, you know, just just take that into consideration
• 1:07:08
  before you listen to this episode.
• 1:07:11
  So Elon Musk was standing at a podium bearing the seal of the
• 1:07:14
  United States president back on Monday.
• 1:07:18
  And it was captured twice, raising his arm in a way that
• 1:07:21
  some interpreted as resembling the Nazi salute.
• 1:07:26
  This gesture, which is widely recognized as a symbol of heat
• 1:07:30
  and historical atrocities, was called out by scholars,
• 1:07:33
  journalists, and human rights organizations.
• 1:07:36
  But despite the backlash, neither Musk nor his company,
• 1:07:39
  Tesla, has faced any apparent financial repercussions for this
• 1:07:45
  controversy. Musk responded to the
• 1:07:47
  accusations with characteristic defiance, laughing off claims
• 1:07:51
  that he intentionally made a salute like that.
• 1:07:53
  He called the controversy dirty tricks and sarcastically thanked
• 1:07:57
  the Anti Defamation League of the ADL for initially defending
• 1:08:01
  him. The ADL had stated that the
• 1:08:03
  gesture was likely just an awkward moment rather than an
• 1:08:06
  intentional salute. However, the billionaire's
• 1:08:10
  nonchalant dismissal of the criticism at a feud of the fire
• 1:08:13
  for those already scrutinizing his associations with far right
• 1:08:17
  ideologies. This isn't the first time that
• 1:08:19
  Elon Musk has faced accusations of engaging with controversial
• 1:08:22
  or extremist viewpoints. Musk has been under scrutiny for
• 1:08:26
  what critics call a growing alignment with far right
• 1:08:29
  circles. Notably, the publicity endorsed
• 1:08:33
  Germany's hard right Alternative Fiora Deutschland Afd party
• 1:08:39
  whose policies have been condemned by numerous human
• 1:08:41
  rights organizations. Now on X, Musk has allowed the
• 1:08:45
  proliferation of Nazi related and anti-Semitic content after
• 1:08:49
  he took over and often amplifies such accounts or failed to
• 1:08:54
  enforce moderation policies against them.
• 1:08:56
  It's the free speech platform of course, so he's not going to
• 1:09:00
  stop them doing what they do. And it one particularly
• 1:09:03
  controversial incident, Musk replied to an anti-Semitic post
• 1:09:06
  calling it the actual truth. Now, just so you know, I am anti
• 1:09:12
  Nazi, Any sort of racism, any sort of Nazi, people can suck it
• 1:09:22
  go away. But I wanted to let you all know
• 1:09:25
  that we're going to talk about this stuff a little bit more.
• 1:09:29
  And following backlash over this incident, Musk offered a public
• 1:09:33
  apology, describing it as literally the worst and dumbest
• 1:09:36
  post I've ever done. He subsequently visited
• 1:09:39
  Auschwitz, a symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate contrition.
• 1:09:43
  Yet critics argue that Musk's actions, including his dismissal
• 1:09:46
  of concerns over the alleged Nazi salute, suggest a pattern
• 1:09:51
  of courting controversy while showing limited accountability.
• 1:09:55
  We all know Elon Musk is a troll.
• 1:09:57
  But despite the public outrage and growing concern about Musk's
• 1:10:00
  behavior, Tesla's financial performance remains unaffected
• 1:10:05
  on Tuesday. Tesla's stock.
• 1:10:07
  Closed virtually unchanged, signaling investors apparent
• 1:10:11
  indifference to the controversy. They either just didn't see it
• 1:10:14
  or they don't care. And analysts note that since
• 1:10:16
  Donald Trump's election, Tesla shares have surged 65%,
• 1:10:21
  outperforming competitors and the broader market.
• 1:10:24
  Observer suggests that Musk's close ties to the Trump
• 1:10:27
  administration may shield him from the potential fallout of
• 1:10:31
  his divisive actions. The Musk's association with far
• 1:10:35
  right ideologies has also drawn criticisms from within those
• 1:10:38
  very circle Steve Bannon, a polarizing figure of all right
• 1:10:42
  politics, is openly called Musk evil and demanded his removal
• 1:10:46
  from the White House, where Musk holds an influential advisory
• 1:10:49
  role. However, analysts suggest that
• 1:10:51
  Musk's perceived ability to appeal to ban his base, whether
• 1:10:55
  intensely or inadvertently, may insulate him from these attacks.
• 1:11:00
  Now. The EDL, which initially
• 1:11:02
  defended Musk after his gesture, later issued a sharp
• 1:11:05
  condemnation. The organization criticized
• 1:11:07
  Musk's decision to make jokes about Nazis on X, labeling his
• 1:11:11
  remarks inappropriate and offensive.
• 1:11:14
  They emphasize the unique historical and moral gravity of
• 1:11:17
  the Holocaust, stating it is never acceptable to make light
• 1:11:20
  of a singularly evil chapter in human history.
• 1:11:25
  Now, social media platforms and communities have been quick to
• 1:11:28
  react to Musk's actions. Reddit saw a surge in
• 1:11:32
  conversations and debates about whether to limit A or ban links
• 1:11:36
  to X. Several subreddits, including
• 1:11:39
  our Christianity Our New Jersey, have already enacted bans on X
• 1:11:44
  related content. This also includes our slash
• 1:11:47
  Godzilla citing Musk's controversial gestures as a
• 1:11:50
  tipping point, and moderators of other subreddits such as R slash
• 1:11:54
  RVA and R slash NBA are actively discussing similar measures.
• 1:11:58
  While some have opted to restrict X content by allowing
• 1:12:01
  screenshots instead of direct links to reduce traffic to
• 1:12:04
  Musk's platform. Now, one Reddit user wrote on
• 1:12:10
  the R/D and D subreddit. Given Musk's actions on Monday,
• 1:12:14
  it may be time to rethink how we engage with the platform.
• 1:12:18
  The user went on to criticize Musk's history of amplifying
• 1:12:21
  harmful rhetoric and interacting with accounts promoting Nasi
• 1:12:24
  ideology and raising broader concerns about X's role in
• 1:12:28
  spreading hate speech and extremism.
• 1:12:31
  But not all Reddit users agree with the bans.
• 1:12:34
  Some pointed out the perceived inconsistency in signaling out
• 1:12:37
  of X while allowing content from platforms like Meta, which
• 1:12:41
  recently ended its fact checking program, or True Social, a site
• 1:12:44
  often associated with right wing misinformation.
• 1:12:47
  However, others defended the bans, arguing the collective
• 1:12:50
  action was one of the few tools left for communities to take a
• 1:12:54
  stand against harmful behavior. Tech CE OS Reddit, for its part,
• 1:12:59
  allows subreddit moderators significant autonomy and setting
• 1:13:02
  and enforcing their rules. Platform does not have a blanket
• 1:13:05
  policy on banning links to specific websites, leaving
• 1:13:08
  decisions up to individual subreddit communities.
• 1:13:11
  Now this decentralized moderation system, according to
• 1:13:14
  Derek Powersack, author of Designed for Community, is one
• 1:13:18
  of the few remaining examples of collective online action.
• 1:13:22
  In a Blue Sky post, he said Reddit's structure actually
• 1:13:25
  gives moderators a bit of power, which is increasingly rare in
• 1:13:29
  online spaces. And while Musk's defenders
• 1:13:32
  argued that his gestures and online behavior are being
• 1:13:34
  exaggerated or misinterpreted, critics view them as part of a
• 1:13:37
  broader pattern of behavior that normalizes hate and
• 1:13:40
  anti-Semitism. Video clips of Musk's alleged
• 1:13:43
  salute have been widely shared on social media on every
• 1:13:47
  platform, often juxtaposed with images of neo Nazis performing
• 1:13:51
  identical gestures, including Hitler.
• 1:13:53
  And for many, this visual comparison leaves little room
• 1:13:56
  for doubt about the seriousness of the accusations.
• 1:14:00
  Despite the criticism, though, Musk dominance in technology,
• 1:14:04
  social media, and business remains largely intact.
• 1:14:07
  And unaffected, his ability to retain public support and
• 1:14:11
  investor confidence in Tesla shows that he has a unique
• 1:14:14
  position as both a polarizing and influential figure.
• 1:14:19
  When it comes down to it, people that are investing in companies,
• 1:14:22
  they want to make money and there might not be a moral
• 1:14:27
  threshold for some people. Some, and I'm just speaking from
• 1:14:32
  direct experience with some people that have invested with
• 1:14:36
  Tesla, some people have taken out some of their money, but
• 1:14:41
  also you have to think somebody else is going to buy that stock
• 1:14:44
  anyway. So why would you do that?
• 1:14:47
  Why wouldn't you just make the money?
• 1:14:49
  So those are some questions you have to think about, like, do
• 1:14:52
  you want to support this guy and until you know exactly what he
• 1:14:55
  was thinking or are you going to have a knee jerk reaction, pull
• 1:15:00
  all your money out, lose a bunch of money that you and your
• 1:15:02
  family could use. That's where some people are
• 1:15:04
  coming from. So just think about that too.
• 1:15:06
  And when making these decisions. Now Tesla, well, it's bolstered
• 1:15:11
  by its market performance, shows no signs of losing momentum,
• 1:15:15
  though it's going up, up, up, even as these controversies
• 1:15:18
  surrounding Elon continue to pile up.
• 1:15:22
  Now he has ties to Donald Trump, and his apparent appeal to right
• 1:15:26
  wing factions pose critical questions about the role of tech
• 1:15:29
  leaders and CE OS and shaping public discourse.
• 1:15:32
  He has a lot of power. For now, Musk remains defiant,
• 1:15:35
  brushing off backlash while continuing to consolidate his
• 1:15:38
  influence across industries and political lines.
• 1:15:42
  So Musk's gestures, the Nazi salute, social media policies
• 1:15:47
  and political alliances show that there's a deepening divide
• 1:15:50
  between his critics and his supporters.
• 1:15:52
  Though whether this divided will eventually impact Musk's public
• 1:15:56
  standing, his financial empire or political ambitions remain
• 1:16:01
  uncertain. And everybody has to make their
• 1:16:03
  own choice. So you know, before you invest,
• 1:16:09
  make sure you know who the leaders of the companies are
• 1:16:11
  that you're investing. In.
• 1:16:13
  It's important, you know, work with your work, with your
• 1:16:16
  morals. Here, if you're going to invest
• 1:16:17
  in something, so that's up to you.
• 1:16:19
  Whatever your morals are, I'm not here to tell you right or
• 1:16:21
  wrong. But some people, they pulled
• 1:16:24
  out, some people they put money in.
• 1:16:27
  It's up to them now if you've been listening to the show.
• 1:16:30
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